Having traversed countless realms, can you possibly be as clever as me?

Her memory stopped after she entered the underground station; the young man had clearly noticed her following him and waved at her mockingly.

"Alala, you can actually see me? But it's a pity I don't have time to play with you, so let this keep you company instead."

Having said that, he threw out seven objects that looked like dolls or figurines, but terrifyingly, these objects instantly transformed into seven grotesque and twisted monsters the moment they hit the ground.

Seeing the twisted souls stuffed into the monstrous bodies, seeing that they were once human, seeing their souls screaming inside those mutated shells, I could no longer ignore it; fear consumed my heart.

This fear caused her soul to briefly radiate light, awakening a power she herself had never understood.

But this temporary awakening of power was far from enough to help her escape. The things she 'created' to protect herself were easily smashed.

She heard a disappointed voice and cried out for help, but the monk turned away with a cold smile.

Despair consumed Miko; she was dying. Dying in Shibuya on Halloween. Dying amidst a pile of rotting jack-o'-lanterns and fallen corpses. Her mother didn't know her daughter and son had just gone out to play and would never return. She was sixteen. She had never done anything in her life...

Just when she was almost in despair and about to give up on everything—

A voice resounded in her heart, as if it had pierced through time and come from an unseen abyss.

That was a name, a precise name, not a erroneous translation by later generations, but the real name she knew in her heart.

But the name points to an existence that is infinitely more terrifying and horrifying than these 'evil spirits'.

But that doesn't matter. If there really is something more terrifying than these monsters in this world, if it really exists—then let it come out.

So she called out that name.

Amidst the cracked air and a vague sense of familiarity that Yotsuya Miko felt, a young man appeared before her.

He seemed to recognize her, and surprisingly uttered her name in confusion. Before she could answer, she fainted completely, overwhelmed by a suffocating sensation as if murky black water was surging into her.

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Jianzi awoke trembling and cold, her golden eyes filled with bewilderment on her exquisite and aloof face.

"Where am I..." Seeing her long, slender, white legs rubbing slightly beneath her short skirt, she murmured as she looked around at her surroundings.

She saw the endless night, the stars hanging in the night sky, and in the distance, the huge, azure water sphere.

Is this the moon? She landed on the moon?!

The intense, even comical, sense of disorientation made Jian Ziteng stand up abruptly. She realized that she was not floating due to the gravity here, and her speech was not affected at all.

"You're finally awake. If you had continued sleeping, I was thinking of freezing you up and burying you here."

The last sound she heard before losing consciousness rang out beside her. Jianzi's body shuddered slightly, and she turned around to see the young man she had last seen in her memory.

He was busy making something, which was not very clear to the child, but it looked like something about the size of an egg or a preserved egg.

"you......"

Before Zigang could even open his mouth and ask a question, Dongjiang gently poked her forehead with his finger.

Tsugumi, too lazy to explain the setting, simply dumped everything Miko should know into her head.

Miko remained in a daze for about ten minutes before recovering. Although the memories in her mind did not belong to this Miko Yotsuya, she accepted them very smoothly.

"Lord Tsugumi..." She looked at the young man before her with awe.

"That's more like it. Even though it's not the same person, I still prefer you calling me that," Tsurugi said with a smile, fiddling with the stone in her hand.

"But I have good news and bad news. Which do you want to hear, Jianzi?"

"...Let's agree on this first."

"The good news is that I've saved your brother from his cyborg state." Tsugumi waved her hand, and Yotsuya Kyosuke appeared in front of Miko, but at this moment he was completely bound, like a patient in a mental hospital.

"The bad news is that I can restore his body and soul, but the changed facts themselves are somewhat difficult to restore with the power that this body currently maintains."

Without further ado, Tsurugi told the whole story.

He took all the cyborgs from Shibuya with him, including the Cursed Spirit Master. His transformation into a passive person seemed somewhat interesting to Tsugumi, but that was all.

Arbitrarily modifying the shape of a soul is considered a relatively advanced technique among demons, but for demons whose existence is equivalent to that of a world, it is never an incomprehensible secret if one is willing to explore it.

The greatest value of the True Man to him was never the technique of transformation through non-action, but rather the source of its creation.

It is itself closely connected with the concept of 'humanity'.

But that's a story for another time; the current problem with these cyborgs is just that.

Their bodies and souls can be restored by Dongjiang, but restoration does not mean that the things that were altered on them never happened.

Their souls were once like clay, arbitrarily modified and subverted by real people through non-action. Even if you mold the clay back, what happened will not change.

Even if their souls and brains are normal, the fact that they can be altered has completely shattered their spirits, making it extremely difficult to repair them.

If Tsurugi could project his power over, it wouldn't be too difficult, but unfortunately he can't. He's still busy rebuilding Paradise, and besides, this cursed spirit's body doesn't allow him to contain Paradise's power for the time being.

It's unlikely he'll be able to before he completes the transformation, but ultimately it doesn't matter; it's just a matter of time.

Seeing her younger brother, Jianzi's eyes instantly reddened, but she didn't cry because she knew that Dongjiang in front of her could save her brother.

As for the issue of revenge...

"Lord Tsugumi, is there anything I can do for you?" Miko Yotsuya knelt before Tsugumi, pleading.

"Just live your life well."

Yotsuya Miko paused for a moment, then a bitter expression appeared on her face. Yes, what could she do?

Faced with an almost omnipotent being, or one who can truly be said to be no different from a god, one's own role is probably meaningless.

“I will take you home. Just take care of yourself. The field I’m working in now no longer requires me to use my magical power independently, so you won’t have any problems.”

Tsugumi looked at Miko Yotsuya, then said with great interest...

"Of course, my subordinates will also be given enough power to protect themselves. Because I really hate those plots where people are kidnapped and threatened for no reason, so do you want to become a demon? Or something else?"

Yotsuya Miko paused for a moment, then said cautiously

"...Can you choose for me?"

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"...Can you choose for me?"

Tsugumi casually tossed two Heroic Spirit cards to her, turning her into a demon would be a permanent solution, but for the time being, he wouldn't use them for some small experiments he was about to conduct.

"Sir, may I ask a question?" Yotsuya Miko asked curiously, looking at the dark stone in his hand.

What exactly do you want to do?

Tsuruga grabbed Miko's hand, and the space around her shifted in the next moment. She found herself on a sea cliff, where the seawater lapped against the shore with a soft rustling sound. Everything was peaceful and ordinary.

"Want to know where that cursed spirit that turned your brother into a cyborg went?" Tsugumi said with a smile, pointing to the beach.

"The answer is, everywhere!"

Seeing that she didn't quite understand the meaning of the Dongjiang dialect, she could vaguely guess that it probably wasn't a pleasant situation...

"However, he is a special cursed spirit; he was born from humanity's fear of humanity itself," Tsugumi said, stroking her chin with interest.

"Although his birth was largely due to the 'gathering spell array' that the old otaku woman Tengen set up for Japan, the fact is that his existence at this stage guarantees his connection with the souls of all humans in Japan."

"The essence of cursed spirits is the condensation of negative emotions in a certain area of ​​human nature. I am very familiar with this, but—what if we try to combine it with the transformation of demons?"

Tsurugi held up the dark, egg-shaped stone in her hand, and said with delight...

"So, this is what I created. Although it has a knock-off name, I call it—Beheilite!"

"It can grant people's wishes, but there are only some minor side effects."

"Don't worry, it's nothing. I won't have any weird ideas about sacrificing my beloved things. Of course, if they twist their own ideas, I can't control them."

Dongjiang paused, then, seeing that Jianzi wasn't there to play the straight man, pursed his lips and finished speaking on his own.

"In short, this thing allows me to accurately find the most 'qualified' souls within Japan."

"Then, I will try to turn them into my demon army."

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580. Legion of Sinners - Man of the Gun

Generally speaking, high-ranking demons in Hell have their own legions.

The same applies to the seventy-two demon gods, and also to the seven demon kings who each govern a domain—Lucifer is an exception, of course.

Although Lucifer was not directly under his own legion, strictly speaking, the entire Hell belonged to his legion.

Legions themselves are not necessarily used for fighting. In fact, the demon lords and Prince Goetia, who have the largest number of legions, do not care about their legions at all and leave them to their own devices.

However, the Legion itself can be seen as a symbol of demonic authority, since a lone demon commander sounds too low-class.

After learning about his reflection in the heavens, Tsurugi felt he should build his own hellish legion—not that he needed it, but rather that a legion could provide some convenience for others when 'creating' his image in other worlds.

Although strictly speaking he does have a legion, the group of little kids he fostered in the Endless Sea and looked after by Leviathan can be considered his legion.

However, Tsugumi felt that she wasn't so cruel as to drive a group of little girls to be her soldiers. Although it had been so long, she didn't know if they were still considered little girls... But in short, Tsugumi wasn't really willing to capture a group of innocent children turned into little devils and make them her army.

In short, Tsugumi felt she should reshape her legion from a different perspective!

"...May I ask you one question? What is your purpose in doing this?" Jianzi couldn't help but ask.

"It's fun!" Tsugumi said matter-of-factly.

Okay, the core reason is actually just that it's fun. Of course, wanting to find a cursed spirit that can precisely create a body that can contain itself and drag down other 'good friends' is also an important reason.

The magical power in this world isn't very useful for combat, but its functional applications are incredibly diverse and well worth studying!

"And what you mean by 'qualified'..."

"It probably leans towards those who are persecuted by life and fate, and those who yearn to make the world a better place," Tsugumi said, stroking her chin.

"To be honest, I don't want to create a bunch of monsters whose minds are filled with eating human souls. There's no point in me having such monsters. But... oh well, I'm just having some fun!"

While he's still busy rebuilding Paradise, he needs to pick a few scumbags over here to vent his anger.

As for overthrowing this country's system or even the world order...

It's okay, at worst we can just put them all into a jar or throw them into the Infinite Tsukuyomi!

What else could she say to Jianzi? She didn't really care how the world changed anymore.

So she was quickly sent back to Earth with her younger brother and the card given to her by Tsugumi, while Tsugumi set her sights on her first target.

......