In this crossover anime, I fight against the supernatural in my everyday world.

Even Soichiro Yagami, who has made many contributions, probably won't be able to stay in this position any longer.

But at that moment, he had no idea about his future.

"We absolutely have to win."

.........

Ten minutes later, Mai Sakurajima, Rio Futaba, and Miko Yotsuya arrived at the top floor of Kyoto Tower.

Pushing open the door, what appeared before them, besides the panoramic view of Kyoto outside the window, were more than two hundred innocent people huddled together, crouching on the ground with their heads in their hands, as well as a man and a woman who were suspected to be high-level evil spirits, as mentioned by Yagami Soichiro.

The cold wind from high above blew in through the broken gap in the French window.

"welcome."

Upon seeing the arrival of Yotsuya Miko and the others, the man revealed a cruel smile and slowly spoke.

"I've always wanted to experience what it's like to be a psychic."

Its eyes revealed a twisted and ferocious look as it sized up Yotsuya Miko, Sakurajima Mai, and especially Futaba Rio's chest area, and it sneered softly.

"Very good, six snacks to go with the wine. I'll cut them off after I kill you and savor them slowly."

There was not a trace of lust in the man's eyes, only pure cruelty and murderous intent.

"Shuten-dōji..."

The other party's identity is already obvious.

Possessing immense power capable of commanding ordinary evil spirits, devising such a scheme, and displaying such a peculiar fetish for a certain part of a human woman's body...

Only the chief of evil spirits in the legends of the Cherry Blossom Province, Shuten-dōji.

"Have you already guessed who I am? It doesn't matter."

Seeing that his identity had been exposed, Shuten-dōji revealed his true form. His hair gradually grew longer, his face turned into a ferocious red demon, his skin turned blood red, and his body began to grow larger, even tearing his clothes.

Beside it, Prajna's face had also been completely transformed into a demon mask, with sharp teeth extending from its mouth, gleaming with a dangerous, cold light.

Upon seeing the two men suddenly transform into their true forms as evil spirits, the more than two hundred tourists who had been crouching on the ground with their heads in their hands all showed expressions of fear.

"Is this what you want?"

Even at this point, Rio Futaba did not give up gathering information. She looked directly into Shuten-dōji's eyes and slowly spoke.

"All your hard work has been for this day? What's the point?"

"significance?"

Shuten-dōji's face grew increasingly ferocious, and even crimson flames ignited around his fangs.

He drew the long sword from his waist, brandished it twice in the air, and said, word by word.

"Killing, creating fear, all of this is simply because I can, and I enjoy it."

"Knew it..."

Yotsuya Miko drew the Mikazuki Munechika from her waist. The pale gold blade reflected the sunlight. Her white coat, adorned with pale gold patterns, swayed gently in the breeze. Her golden eyes stared emotionlessly at Shuten-dōji and Hannya.

"Despicable beings like you, whatever you do, it's all just to harm humanity. You come up with so many so-called schemes simply because..."

Yotsuya Miko looked directly into Shuten-dōji's eyes and said, word by word.

"You are afraid of the night star."

"Scared? Scared!?"

Shuten-dōji was thoroughly enraged by Yotsuya Miko's simple words, and his face contorted into a ferocious and twisted expression.

"How could I, the mighty Shuten-dōji, be afraid of a mere human?! After I kill you all, it'll be him!"

Just as Shuten-dōji finished speaking, he suddenly heard a man's voice behind him, devoid of any emotion, filled only with pure killing intent.

"Who do you want to kill?"

He turned around and saw a tall person wearing a red Tengu mask and a gorgeous white suit, staring intently at him with brown eyes that held a hint of crimson.

The only thing emanating from the other party was the purest killing intent.

Light Yagami removed his red gloves, his hands transforming into sharp claws like those of a great tengu. His eyes blazed with undisguised, fanatical killing intent as he slowly walked toward Shuten-dōji, who stood there.

"You want to kill him? Then I'll kill you first!"

"clang!"

Light Yagami's claws swung forward, clashing with Shuten-dōji's longsword.

"Go and evacuate the hostages."

Yotsuya Miko said this to Sakurajima Mai and Futaba Rio, and Mikazuki Munechika twirled his sword beautifully in his hand, then walked step by step toward Hannya who was standing there, and said calmly.

“I told you, you would die under my Mikazuki Munechika.”

"is it?"

A sinister smile appeared on Prajna's face as he whispered to those around him.

"Then please take a look at the gifts we have prepared for you."

As soon as it finished speaking, hundreds of evil spirits, densely packed and even overlapping, surged out of the once peaceful stairwell of Kyoto Tower, as if a black tide had swept in.

Shuten-dōji slashed Yagami Light away with a single blow and looked at Yotsuya Miko and the others.

"Now tell me, who will die here today?"

Looking at the hundreds of evil spirits that had formed an encirclement around them and filled the entire hall, Rio Futaba, Miko Yotsuya, Mai Sakurajima, and Light Yagami at the other end of the venue all felt immense pressure.

With so many evil spirits present, there might still be some chance of winning against Shuten-dōji and Hannya.

But don't forget, there are still more than two hundred hostages right in front of you.

If we have to be distracted protecting these hostages...

We absolutely cannot win.

Even if Yotsuya Miko, Sakurajima Mai, and Futaba Rio were subjectively prepared to abandon rescuing the hostages and prioritize killing Shuten-dōji and Hannya, it was impossible for them not to be distracted when they watched innocent humans die tragically in front of them.

"Using innocent lives as leverage..."

Sakurajima Mai stared at Shuten-dōji and Hannya, who were looking on with amusement, as if they were playing cat and mouse, and gritted her teeth.

"What a vicious scheme."

"This is your human weakness."

Shuten-dōji's crimson demon face revealed a smug expression.

“These lowly evil spirits are nothing in our eyes. We wouldn’t even blink if a hundred, a thousand, or ten thousand of them died.”

"As a powerful being, he still regards these weak humans as his own, and is even distracted by their deaths..."

"I've seen far too many of your so-called exorcists; they're utterly boring and weak."

at this time.

Everyone present, including Shuten-dōji and Hannya, simultaneously felt an unusually powerful fluctuation of spiritual energy.

They turned their heads and saw a sight they had never seen before in their lives.

The space seemed to have been torn apart, forcibly opened up by two ghostly hands of completely opposite colors, one pale and one pitch black.

Within that rift lay something they knew all too well: the red moon of the underworld, and the thick black mist accumulated from the deaths of countless evil spirits.

Amidst the almost imperceptible black smoke, a foot slowly stepped out and landed on the ground at the top of Kyoto Tower.

The jet-black mask and the burning hem of the black coat came into the view of Shuten-dōji and Hannya.

"What disgusting creatures."

233 Two evil spirits in fear, a mask falling from the sky.

"Night... 'Masked'!"

Seeing Yoru suddenly appear at this critical moment, Mai Sakurajima was so excited that she almost opened the box for Kyoto's number one butter shooter in front of more than two hundred passersby.

"Thank you for your hard work these past few days."

Hearing Yoru's amused words, Rio Futaba breathed a sigh of relief, crossed her arms, and snorted coldly.

"Hmph, at least that sounds like human speech."

Compared to the excitement and joy shown by Mai Sakurajima, Rio Futaba, Miko Yotsuya, and Light Yagami upon seeing Yosei, Hannya and Shuten-dōji reacted in stark contrast, their bodies even trembling.

They say they're not afraid...

In reality, how could one not be afraid?

If he hadn't been terrified to the extreme, lacking even the courage to fight him head-on, the arrogant and conceited Shuten-dōji wouldn't have gone to such lengths to set a trap, confining Yoru-no-Shi in the inner world.

It was clear that the opponent's power was on a completely different level from that of the other psychics in the Xyz Society!

Shuten-dōji and Hannya exchanged a glance, and without any hesitation, they flashed into the crowd of people who were crouching on the ground with their heads in their hands.

Prajna's chosen target was a little girl.

Shuten-dōji chose the little girl's mother.

They had simultaneously kidnapped a human. Shuten-dōji held his long sword to the young mother's neck, glaring menacingly at Yoru, who had transformed into a "mask" and whose body was still shrouded in thick black aura from the many evil spirits he had slaughtered.

"Take one more step and I'll kill this woman and all these humans!"

"hehe."

Faced with Shuten-dōji's threat, a white smiley face appeared on Yosei's pure black mask.

"Are you kidding your father?"

Immediately afterwards, Ye Xing didn't even glance at Shuten-dōji and Hannya, or the hostages in the hands of the two evil spirits, but instead turned his gaze to Yagami Light, who was standing there.

"How did you come?"

"Your companion...this one..."

Light Yagami pointed to Miko Yotsuya standing there, and after a few seconds of silence, he replied with a smile.

“I didn’t bother to remember her name, but I know everything that’s happened in Kyoto recently. I came here specifically to bring you back from the Otherworld.”