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Chapter 161 Demon Sword Onikiri
"Grandpa, is there anything else you need?"

Inside the hot spring hotel, a group of gangsters covered in tattoos smiled like grandsons, attentively serving the bald old man drinks and food.

"Yes, that's very good. I can feel your filial piety."

The bald old man sat crookedly, put down the empty sake bottle in his hand, and showed signs of drunkenness on his face.

belch--

He let out a burp.

He picked up another bottle of sake, tilted his head back, gulped it down, and a moment later, he slumped onto the mat and fell fast asleep.

"grandfather!!"

Gang leader Ishii prepared to step forward and help the old man up.

But then, his confused mind suddenly cleared, and he remembered the whole story.

He took several steps back in fear, gesturing with his eyes to his younger brother who had also regained consciousness.

The younger brothers nodded nervously.

Fearing they might wake the elderly and cause them to fall victim to the attack, they carefully picked up the guns from the ground, retreated to a safe distance, and then pulled the trigger with ruthless expressions.

bang bang-

Gunshots rang out from inside the hotel room.

The old man who had been lying there fast asleep disappeared, and in his place appeared a monster that looked like an octopus.

The bullet embedded itself in the octopus monster's surface muscles, but did not cause any effective damage.

"You grandsons, why are you hitting your grandfather?"

The octopus monster opened and closed its black mouth, giving the gangsters what it thought was a friendly smile.

"Ah-"

The morale of these gang members completely collapsed, and they turned and ran, not even caring about their boss, Ishii.

"Why run away? I don't eat people, and I'm much easier to talk to than those guys outside."

The octopus monster clicked its tongue in disappointment, picked up the bottle with its tentacles, and continued its revelry in the hotel.

On the streets of Kyoto.

A group of children were leaping and bounding through the street, singing eerie yet cheerful songs.

A head with very long and thick hair floated in mid-air, and a gentle breeze blew, revealing countless girl faces mixed together under the scalp.

There were also tall women, pale-faced and dressed in traditional kimonos, wandering through the dark alleyways, holding oil-paper umbrellas.
Demons dance wildly, and a hundred ghosts roam the night!
The gang members who had just rushed out of the hot spring hotel were stunned when they saw this scene.

For a moment, he was stuck, unable to move forward or backward, his body frozen in place.

A gang member who loved watching anime suddenly remembered the identity of the bald old man he had just seen.

He spoke somewhat hesitantly, "Everyone, that monster we just saw seemed to be a Nurarihyon. He likes to go to other people's houses and eat for free without any hesitation, but he doesn't eat people. Maybe we should just go back. It's better to be a subservient person than to be eaten by a monster. It's too dangerous out here."

other people:"."

Are you kidding me?
And at the same time.

While other parts of Kyoto were in chaos due to the appearance of the demons, the Kyoto Police Headquarters remained calm.

As if the demons had automatically designated this place as the territory of the tengu, they tacitly refrained from disturbing it.

Even the giant demon that is causing destruction everywhere is no exception.

This special status and pomp among the yokai made Harada Yoshiya exclaim in his heart that he had made the right choice in worshipping his ancestor.

Just as he was about to flatter this old ancestor again, the Tengu said with a smile:

"Haha, kid, I love hearing what you're saying, but you'd better save your energy and get ready to run for your life."

"what???"

This abrupt remark made Harada Yoshiya's expression freeze, and he quickly asked, "Lord Karasu Tengu, what do you mean by that?!"

Karasu Tengu smiled without saying a word, but simply drew his long, black-sheathed sword from his waist, stuck it in the ground, and gestured for Harada Yoshiya to step forward.

"This"

Knowing that this demon would not need to exert so much effort to kill him, Harada Yoshi did not hesitate and stepped forward to grab the strange blade that exuded endless chilling aura.

boom! !

In an instant, Harada Yoshiya's consciousness seemed to travel through a thousand years, returning to Heian-kyo, where a hundred demons once roamed at night, and seeing the previous owner of this long sword that exuded a chilling ghostly aura.

It was a white-haired youth whose white Onmyoji hunting robes were stained red with the blood of demons, making it impossible to tell whether he was a demon or a human.

One by one, powerful monsters, exuding an aura that terrified Harada Yoshiya, fell at his feet.

Harada Yoshiya even saw a powerful demon with its left arm severed and blood-red horns on its forehead, surrounded by endless blood energy, roaring at the expressionless white-haired man: "Minamoto no Yorimitsu, one day I will slaughter your entire Minamoto clan."

"call!!!"

Harada Yoshi was also startled awake by the sound, and looked at Lord Karasu Tengu in front of him with a pale face.

"Yes."

The tengu looked at him with a wicked smile. "This is the Minamoto clan's most treasured demon sword, Onikiri. I've kept it for you Minamoto for nearly eight hundred years since Yoshitsune entrusted it to me. Now it's time to return it to its rightful owner. Whether you take it or not is up to you, kid, haha."

After saying this, the ghostly figure disappeared back into the white mist, giving the Japanese government no chance to communicate with him. He laughed loudly and vanished from everyone's sight.

At the police station entrance, Harada Yoshiya stared at the demon sword stuck in the ground with a conflicted expression, but dared not pick it up.

Not being stupid, he combined Lord Karasu Tengu's words with the scene he had just seen in his hallucination and knew that picking up the demon sword Onikiri was tantamount to becoming a scapegoat. The hundred demons who had just escaped from Rashomon would probably all be targeting him.

“Sizzle, sizzle.”

But then, not long after the tengu left, a giant spider monster with scarlet eyes appeared on the wall of the police station, which made Harada Yoshiya no longer have to worry.

He chose to die immediately, rather than experience the power of a superhuman before dying.

"Let him die if he wants to."

Before the spider monster could pounce, Harada Yoshiya took a deep breath, reached out again, grabbed the demon sword in front of him, and pulled it out.

boom! !

Instantly, a crimson light enveloped Harada Yoshiya and shot into the sky, attracting the attention of all countries that were watching the situation in Kyoto, Japan.

Under their astonished gazes, most of the demons who had been wreaking havoc throughout Kyoto, with very few exceptions, became agitated and sinister upon seeing the blood-red pillar of light, and without the slightest hesitation, rushed towards the police station.

Among them, the bull demon, whose body was as tall as a skyscraper, was probably the most conspicuous. It turned its head to look at the position where the blood-red pillar of light rose, and spewed out two white breaths from its nostrils. It ignored the annoying iron birds in the sky, moved its huge body, and charged straight towards the police station.

Boom! Boom! !
Instantly, the ground throughout Kyoto trembled violently. Before he could even experience the immense power this demonic sword possessed, seeing this terrifying sight, Harada Yoshiya didn't hesitate, grabbed the demonic sword, and turned to run.

Whoosh, whoosh—

Compared to before, he was now surrounded by layers of blood energy. With the power of the demon sword, his speed far exceeded that of ordinary people. He was so fast that he left afterimages. Under the astonished gazes of the citizens of Kyoto, he quickly swept across the rooftops of wooden buildings and ran towards the less populated suburbs.

"Awesome, so awesome!!"

The feeling of speed filled Harada Yoshiya with excitement, making him forget all his previous concerns.

He only just realized that he was actually someone who enjoyed risking his life.

Holding the demon sword, he felt an overwhelming surge of courage. Even when he noticed a monster blocking his way—a human-headed creature larger than a car—he felt no fear. Images of his father teaching him swordsmanship flashed through his mind, and he drew his sword and slashed fiercely.

Chime! !

A crescent-shaped blood moon suddenly appeared in the gloomy and dark sky above Kyoto.

The incomparably sharp, crescent-shaped crimson sword energy instantly sliced ​​the giant human-headed monster blocking his way in two.

Even the opponent's power seemed to be absorbed by the demon sword Onikiri, and the two halves of the head that had been scattered to the sides quickly became shriveled.

"I've actually become this strong?!"

Harada Yoshiya himself was startled by the power of the sword. He became somewhat complacent, thinking that he might not need to run. Although the demons and monsters chasing him were terrifying, his sword was not necessarily ineffective.

"Alright, today I, Harada Yoshiya, will be the great hero who saves Kyoto and become the idol of countless Japanese girls!!!"

After a moment's thought, perhaps influenced by the demon sword in his hand, Harada Yoshiya actually stopped, holding the demon sword and facing the many demons and monsters that were chasing after him without any fear on his face.

“Boom, boom, boom!!”

With a loud tremor, the seemingly enormous bull demon was the first to catch up.

The other ghosts seemed to realize that Harada Yoshiya was a bit troublesome, so they deliberately let this big, dumb guy go first.

The giant demon's attack was simple: it raised its foot and stomped down on Harada Yoshiya, who was as small as a tiny doll on the ground.

Boom! !

With a deafening roar, a huge footprint appeared on the ground, and the house where Harada Yoshiya had just stood was reduced to ruins.

Meanwhile, Harada Yoshiya had already taken advantage of the situation to leap high into the air. Under the thin moonlight in the sky, he became one with his sword, and the blood aura wrapped around his body grew stronger and stronger. He then swung his sword fiercely towards the neck of the Ushioni.

Chime! !

An even more ferocious crimson sword aura shot into the sky, instantly slicing through the night sky and leaving a clearly visible bloodstain on the bull demon's neck.

"Did it work?!"

In the conference room at the Prime Minister's residence, the cabinet ministers perked up, their eyes glued to the satellite projection on the screen.

Under their somewhat tense gaze, the bull demon, whose defenses were impenetrable even by missiles, had its massive head slid off its neck after being struck by this crimson sword energy, the cut smooth and discernible.

"it is good!!!"

Many people couldn't help but cheer upon seeing this.

But the cheers stopped abruptly the next second.

A brand new head grew back from the bull demon's neck, exactly the same as before, except that the rage on the ugly bull face was even stronger, two white breaths spewed from its nostrils, and its hands, like heavy hammers, slammed down on Harada Yoshiya.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The earth seemed to have been buried with hundreds of tons of explosives, and it suddenly exploded with a huge roar.

Harada Yoshiya narrowly dodged the attack, but a stray pebble grazed his right cheek, instantly extinguishing most of his newly risen confidence.
He leaped and bounded among the surrounding houses, dodging the attacks of the bull demon. At the same time, his gaze swept over the giant Rashomon gate standing in the sky, emitting a faint black light, and on the other side, a big-headed monster of unknown species, which had also been revived under the light of the Rashomon gate. He cursed inwardly, "What's the point of fighting?"

In gaming terms, the opponent is practically backed by the fountain, meaning they can respawn infinitely.

After dodging the fierce attack from the Gyu-oni once again, Harada Yoshiya turned and ran without hesitation.

He planned to lure the ghosts to a sparsely populated place first.

But just as they were about to leave Kyoto, the monsters suddenly stopped, gave Harada Yoshiya a cold look, and then scattered again, wreaking havoc throughout Kyoto.

"Ah this."

Harada Yoshiya stood by the roadside, sword in hand, staring at the scene before him, completely dumbfounded.

At that moment, in the empty air around him, a somewhat cold female voice suddenly rang out.

"They are holding a sacrificial ceremony and will not leave the vicinity of Kyoto."

"who??"

Harada Yoshiya shifted his stance, glancing warily to his left, his demon sword poised to strike at any moment.

Under his gaze, a man and a woman suddenly appeared out of thin air, the man holding a bronze box covered with yellow talismans.

It was Hitaka and Yako who had escaped from Mount Atago.

Seeing the somewhat wary expression on Harada Yoshiya's face, Yako showed him her identification.

"I am Nogami Meiko, Chief of the Third Search Division, Extraordinary Countermeasures Division, Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department."

"That newly established department of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department??"

Harada Yoshiya took the documents with some skepticism and examined them carefully. His expression softened a bit, but he still couldn't understand why the two of them were here, and why they seemed to have appeared out of thin air.

"That's a long story."

With a bitter expression, Flying Eagle sighed and briefly explained their experience to him.

In short, it was incredibly complicated.

In the hidden realm of Mount Atago, after the righteous act of sacrificing his own family failed, the senior Misui Yoshiemon was on the verge of death.

Before he died, he handed them the bronze box that sealed the two Su Nuo fingers, and specifically told them some secrets, instructing them to stop the evil deeds committed by the Rebellious Son Immortal.

One of the points mentioned is that fragments of Rashomon are sealed beneath the Fushimi Inari Shrine in Kyoto.

Once the seal is broken, the hundred demons imprisoned inside will be released.

But that's not the most crucial point.

Most importantly, the senior Misui Kichiemon told them that if the Hundred Demons were released, they must destroy the Rashomon gate connecting to Yomotsu Hirasaka before they complete their sacrificial ritual.

Otherwise, those truly powerful demons would break free from their seals.

Harada Yoshiya: "!!!"

(End of this chapter)