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

Without the slightest hesitation, Yotsuya Miko directly shouted.

"Open your eyes, Hundred Eyes!"

"Eight feet!"

As the soul materialized into Hyakume, Yasakani simultaneously drew a long sword from his body and handed it to Miko.

"clang!"

Sensing the breeze behind him, Jianzi didn't hesitate at all. He turned around and slashed out with his sword, colliding with a long tongue.

"That's really true."

Looking at the man who had taken off his hood, revealing a face that was still normal but whose expression was distorted and inhuman, Yotsuya Miko gritted her teeth, feeling extremely annoyed.

I didn't even realize it myself.

Yurikawa Hana did indeed encounter an evil spirit.

But the reason she didn't notice anything strange wasn't because she couldn't see it.

Rather, it's because this evil spirit has become one with humanity.

075 Rio Futaba's Awakening

"We were really careless."

Yotsuya Miko stared at the creature with a long tongue, half-evil spirit and half-human, emanating thick black mist. She clenched her silver teeth, her eyes filled with regret and self-reproach.

She knew all along that if a human possessed excessively twisted and evil desires, they would be possessed by evil spirits, or even merge with them.

Even if Yurikawa thought the other party was human and didn't mention this detail.

However, as an exorcist, failing to consider all possibilities was definitely a major mistake.

"Jianzi, is this...this guy a monster?"

Yurikawa was stunned to see a long sword suddenly appear in Yotsuya Miko's hand and clash with the hooded man's long tongue.

Upon hearing her cry, both Miko and Rio Futaba felt a sinking feeling in their hearts.

The long sword is a spiritual object with a physical form, so it's normal for Yurikawa Hana to be able to see it.

But surprisingly, she could also see the long tongue sticking out of the hooded man's mouth.

There is only one explanation.

The evil spirit and the human body have almost completely merged.

By possessing human bodies, evil spirits that were originally invisible gained physical form.

This means that it exploited a loophole in the "see-before-attack" rule.

Since it has merged with the human body, even an ordinary person who sees the body it occupies is essentially seeing its evil spirit part.

simply put.

This half-human, half-evil monster possesses the power of an evil spirit, yet because it has a human body, anyone can recognize its existence.

In other words, it can attack anyone.

"hateful..."

Yotsuya Miko gripped the hilt of her sword tightly with both hands, pointing the sharp, gleaming blade at the humanoid evil spirit before her.

"They're about to attack, Hundred Eyes, Eight Feet!"

Rio Futaba, who originally only intended to gather some information and analyze it along the way, did not expect things to develop to this point.

She didn't panic or panic; instead, she remained calm and composed, stopping Yurikawa Hana who was about to run over, and whispered something to her.

"Retreat a little and hand it over to Jianzi."

"Eh... Fu... Eh?"

Watching Yotsuya Miko skillfully wield her long sword and dodge the monster's long tongue attacks, Yurikawa Hanako felt a mix of panic and a strange, indescribable feeling welled up inside her.

This... seems to be the real Yotsuya Miko?

Such a meeting with a child...

so hot.

Rio Futaba pulled Yurikawa Hana away, taking her nearly ten meters away. Instead of focusing on the battle between Miko and the evil spirit, she first observed the surrounding environment.

This is a street in a residential area, with houses on both sides.

Rio Futaba's gaze swept across the area behind her glasses, carefully observing everything before confirming the most important thing.

At the very least, there were no cameras in her field of vision.

This situation is quite different from previous exorcism operations.

In the past, exorcisms were carried out in relatively remote and gloomy places.

Furthermore, ordinary people cannot see evil spirits. Even with cameras, at most they can only see a girl wielding a long sword, constantly muttering incomprehensible words, slashing at the empty air in front of her.

I'll definitely be seen as having chuunibyou (middle school syndrome).

But this time the target was very special, and even someone like me who doesn't have psychic abilities could clearly observe it.

If a passerby were to do so at this moment, they would see a man with a distorted, demonic face, sticking out a long, dark green tongue, fighting against Yotsuya Miko, who is wielding a long sword.

Although Hyakume and Hachisaku wouldn't be seen, the scene itself was terrifying enough.

Who in their right mind can stick out their tongue four or five meters long and still be able to clash with a sharp long knife?

"Seeing the child, let's retreat first."

Upon hearing Rio Futaba's call, Miko Yotsuya replied without hesitation.

"It's up to you, Hyakume."

"rest assured."

Hyakume, who was originally just providing vision and playing a supporting role, switched positions with the opponent with great tacit understanding after receiving the order from Yotsuya Miko. Without leaving any flaws, he took over the position of the main attacker in the front in an instant.

Yotsuya Miko immediately stepped aside, handed the long sword to Yasakani, and then quickly ran to Yurikawa Hana and Futaba Rio, repeating her classic quote from her first training session with Yohoshi.

"Collapse, retreat, sell, escape!"

"Huh, huh!?"

Before Yurikawa Hana could react, Yotsuya Miko and Futaba Rio grabbed her hands on either side and ran off into the distance.

Eight feet tall, also following behind the three women.

As a qualified exorcist, Yotsuya Miko always kept Yohoshi's teachings in mind.

One sentence in particular is the most important.

If you can't win, just run away.

There are millions of evil spirits in this world.

A professional exorcist would never take any risks and do something as foolish as trading one life for another with an evil spirit.

The term "collapse" refers to the fact that the opponent's strength was somewhat beyond Yotsuya Miko's expectations.

It's hard to say whether I, along with Ba Chi and Bai Mu, could win.

But one thing is certain.

It will be impossible to determine a winner in a short period of time.

The terms "withdraw" and "slip away" refer to making a quick getaway or slipping away.

And that single word, "sell," is the essence of the essence.

The reason why Yotsuya Miko asked Hyakume to stay behind to cover the rear was quite simple.

Bai Mu is the embodiment of her own soul.

When she fought the wild eight-foot-tall man, Hyakume had already dissipated once, and the only negative effect was that her physical and mental strength would be greatly depleted.

Once it has recovered, it can be summoned again.

If the Eight Feet are wiped out, then they are truly gone.

"Huh...huh..."

Yuri Kawana ran, looking out of breath.

"Where are we going...?"

Although Yurikawa Kaname isn't the kind of girl who's particularly good at sports, her physical fitness is actually quite good.

The reason she was so exhausted after running only a few dozen meters was because she had consumed a lot of her life force when she brushed past that half-human, half-evil spirit, which led to her physical exhaustion.

In contrast, consider Rio Futaba.

It's better not to watch it.

Her physical strength is really poor; she's almost at her limit.

Rio Futaba thought to herself that if she had known earlier that joining the Xyz Society as a strategist would involve such physical exertion, she should have trained more regularly.

Despite being exhausted, her brain didn't stop working; in fact, it worked even faster.

The evil spirit merged with the human body, but according to the information provided by Yurikawa Hana, the monster did not attack directly. Instead, it pretended to encounter Yurikawa Hana by chance on her way to and from school every day, in order to absorb her life force and enhance its own power.

This creature possesses intelligence equal to that of humans; it is not an ordinary evil spirit.

This is a residential area.

If a passerby were to witness the true face of the evil spirit, it is self-evident what choice it would make.

Again.

Faced with evil spirits of this level, even if dozens of ordinary people came, they would only be food for the enemy, unable to even fight back.

Taking this into consideration, and in addition to avoiding encountering other evil spirits at this time, which would increase the number of enemies, and also keeping Yotsuya Miko's identity as a psychic under wraps...

In just two seconds, Rio Futaba completed the process from analyzing intelligence to drawing conclusions.

"Yurikawa-kun!"