Crossover anime, a daily life that begins with hunting supernatural beings.

"On July 19, 1953, I think I was already dead..."

These words came simultaneously from Sakurai and his right-hand man, the two different voices overlapping to form a response in the infirmary.

Sakurai put the notebook into his shoulder bag and turned around. A mature woman with dark blue skin, her neck broken, and wearing tattered clothes was standing next to him.

"Unforgivable...unforgivable..."

"Unforgivable..."

"I'll kill you... I'll kill you... Unforgivable... Unforgivable..."

The woman repeating the same words in an extremely difficult, intermittent tone was undoubtedly the spirit of Yoshie Shinozaki, Sachiko Shinozaki's mother.

It's both supernatural and spiritual, a very interesting form of expression. Are all the guys here (Tenjin Elementary School) such special guys?

Sakurai became interested after seeing such an interesting form of expression for the first time.

"So, are you going to fight me?"

"If you know you can't possibly defeat me, do you still want to fight me?"

As he raised his hand, the Arakami Fang slashed into his palm, and Sakurai asked softly.

"Unforgivable...unforgivable..."

"Unforgivable...unforgivable..."

"I absolutely must protect her, Xiaoxing. For her... I'd do anything..."

Stiffly and with difficulty, she raised her head and met Sakurai's eyes. Shinozaki Yoshie cursed under her breath, her words filled with venom and intimidation.

She is...

He resented the world, and he resented Sakurai, who wanted to hurt his most important daughter.

The ground began to tremble slightly, and the trembling continued unabated.

Just like an earthquake, what followed...

Sakurai's keen sense of smell detected a rotten, foul, and extremely pungent odor.

The smell is coming from... behind Sakurai!!!

Something seemed to be quietly emerging behind him.

Without the slightest hesitation, Sakurai raised the Aragami Fang, which gleamed with a whoosh, and thrust it backward.

The sharp sound of a sharp object tearing through cloth rang out, followed by a wail filled with resentment and piercing pain.

Sakurai glanced back and saw the dark tentacles made of mist, carrying a faint stench, quickly retract.

They dodged as if they had encountered a wild beast with flames.

Even with Sakurai's keen eyesight, he could only barely make out a tiny shadow.

Immediately afterward, as if she had suffered a great injury, Yoshie Shinozaki suddenly vomited a thick, black liquid with a pungent odor.

After vomiting the mucus, Yoshie Shinozaki changed again. She lowered her head, and her dark eyes, devoid of any whites, revealed resentment towards the living and the sick.

A little black mucus slid from the corner of her half-open mouth and eventually dripped onto the bulge in her chest.

It turned into wisps of white smoke and dissipated into the air.

Her mouth was dark black, and you couldn't see anything inside.

This image of Yoshie Shinozaki reminded Sakurai of Toshio Saeki, whom he had recently defeated.

Do all supernatural beings with human-like appearances look like this?

"I must protect her, I must protect... Xiaoxing, for her... for her..."

"I can do anything!!!"

With a sharp roar and eyes filled with resentment and sorrow, Yoshie Shinozaki, as a mother, would never allow Sakurai to harm her most important daughter.

After her husband died, she...

She's the only one left!!!

"You're such a nuisance."

"But I did feel that motherly love."

Sakurai stepped forward, and the soul flames attached to the Arakami Fang extended to his palm, eventually igniting his right arm.

The invisible flames of the soul shone brightly at this moment.

It illuminated the dimly lit infirmary and also illuminated Yoshie Shinozaki in the darkness.

"However, you have to pay the price for doing something wrong."

"There is no reason why others should suffer the same thing because of one's own tragic experience."

"Perhaps you and Sachiko Shinozaki are innocent, but..."

"Weren't those people you killed innocent?"

The flickering firelight possessed a powerful, awe-inspiring quality.

Sakurai's raised right fist struck Shinozaki Yoshie's body squarely.

Just like ice and snow touched by red-hot iron, Yoshie Shinozaki's body melted away.

Ultimately, it turned into pitch-black mist and merged into the Aragami Fang in Sakurai's hand.

"I'm sorry, but you don't deserve to live here."

After saying those words, Sakurai picked up half a photo of Yoshie Shinozaki from the ground, a photo of her smiling sweetly.

He turned and left the infirmary, which was trembling and on the verge of collapse.

96. The truth hidden in the cracks is about to surface!

After a dizzying moment, Sakurai, having left the infirmary, returned to the corridor of Tenjin Elementary School.

The ceiling wasn't very high, the environment was dilapidated, and the atmosphere was oppressive.

Unlike before, the air was filled with a kind of foul odor, like the strange, stench of a corpse that had fermented and been exposed to the sun and then rained on.

Sakurai squinted in the dark and deep corridor.

After thinking for a moment, he took out the blood-stained notebook from his shoulder bag.

The notebook contains the memories of Yoshie Shinozaki, who has already been killed.

Today is Sachiko's seventh birthday. We decided to go out for dinner together after school. The gift is a plush cat. I wonder if she will be happy?

After a long day of work, while organizing files in the archives on the third floor...

The principal is here...

The notes were stuck together with blood at this point, and no matter how much he rubbed them, he couldn't get them to come apart. In the end, Sakurai skipped this page and turned to the next one.

Xiaoxing is my pride. She would do anything for me. She killed many people and sent many, many children to me because I was lonely.

How should I put it? They killed the child and sent his soul to me.

This kind of thing doesn't make me happy.

Sachiko, let's have a chat.

Let's have a chat.

Sachiko killed countless people and vanished as if she were a ghost, completely erasing their existence.

That child couldn't have single-handedly gathered so many people and killed them.

It's about manipulating that person to commit abduction.

Sachiko...

Stop now!!!

is it?

Did Sachiko Shinozaki kill so many people so that her mother wouldn't be lonely?

It really is...

madness.

Sakurai thought to himself.

The scene of defeating Yoshie Shinozaki just now flashed before his eyes again.

Before this, he had killed countless supernatural beings with similar circumstances.

They coldly and ruthlessly killed them, without distinguishing right from wrong.

Sakurai only adheres to one very basic rule, and that is...

The murderer shall die.

Those who have passed away can never come back alive, and no one can atone for the sins they have committed.

"It's all in vain" is probably the only adjective to describe this situation.

Yoshie Shinozaki was pitiful. After her death, she was alone in the infirmary and could not leave. She loved her daughter dearly and could only endure the loneliness and the fact that she could not correct the mistakes her child made.

Sachiko Shinozaki was even more pitiful. After her important mother passed away, not knowing what to do, she chose to kill her children so that her mother wouldn't be so lonely.

But—

This is a huge mistake.

To involve more people in one's own sadness and despair is like spilling ink into a basin.

In the end, what is gained is not solace for the soul, but more sorrow.

Sachiko Shinozaki, it was your mistake.

I will correct it.

Let me take you to eternal rest.

but...