Why can't humans do it too?

Now, the cherry blossom tree finally instinctively realized that an opportunity had come; it wanted to be reborn and become a complete life.

It has nothing to do with good or evil, nor with likes or dislikes.

Chapter Sixty-One: Street Fighting

These fundamental issues are not yet open to the involvement of either side in the war. For the monsters who have lived peacefully in human society for hundreds of years, today is a day of regaining their courage, even if it comes at a great cost.

With a flourish of his long sword, Nura Rikuo, surrounded by a hundred demons, let out a boastful shout. His body was covered in unusual patterns, undoubtedly indicating that he had been entangled with other yokai.

According to Nurarihyon, after undergoing new training and specializing in the unique nature of the demonic power of Nurarihyon, Rikuo Nurarihyon has temporarily acquired the strength to become the new lord of demons and monsters. All he needs to do now is to build up the prestige he needs most in the upcoming great battle.

"Be careful, Commander!"

"It's okay, it's okay~"

With a hearty wave of his hand, Nura Rikuo watched as his yokai were already engaged in battle with the ancient yokai that kept pouring out. While searching for valuable prey, he glanced out of the corner of his eye at the guy still wearing a black trench coat.

Compared to his confident declaration of war, the vampire duo on the other side were much more lively. With their superior flexibility and strength, they leaped between the monsters' claws, and long knives they pulled out from somewhere were plunged into the monsters' bodies, splitting their carapaces in two.

He landed lightly on the ground, and standing back to back with Kiss-Shot, he naturally felt the gaze that was watching him. He turned his head and smiled, then stretched out his hand and gestured a number—a subtle little competition.

No longer looking like a child, she had regained the appearance of an adult woman. When standing next to Araragi Koyomi, Kiss-Shot was even a head taller than him. As Nura Rikuo became more and more familiar with Araragi Koyomi, he naturally learned some things about this female vampire.

According to her own account, she came to Japan to find a burial place for the dead, but now that she has a new family, she no longer wants to die and eats sweets every day with the determination to get diabetes.

Is it possible for vampires to get diabetes?

Shaking his head, Nura Rikuo stopped thinking about things unrelated to the battle. The vampire duo had already started moving again, and as the head of the Nura family, how could he fall behind?

"Men! Charge with me!!!"

Having uttered such a cry, Nura Rikuo appeared behind a yokai the next second, slashing his long sword as easily as a hot knife through butter, cleaving its body in two.

'one'.

Silently counting in its mind, a huge mouth full of sharp teeth opened behind Nura Rikuo, but when it happily bit down, it found that it did not feel like it had bitten anything at all. It was as if it had only touched the foam on the surface of the water, which was just an illusion.

[A mirage]

puff.

Amidst the splatter of blood, the yokai that had silently launched a sneak attack on Nura Rikuo lost its life and slowly collapsed to the ground.

'two'.

After we win the competition, we'll take advantage of the momentum and invite that guy Li to drink Sanqi wine again.

Rikuo Nura has made his decision.

They are very powerful, but when placed on a map with an entire modern city as the battlefield, the Nura Clan's group of yokai and the vampire duo Araragi Koyomi become less conspicuous ripples. Various other beings reveal their identities and protect the city in various ways, making it a diverse and colorful scene.

The ruins of a building that had been almost completely emptied of everything that could be moved—or more accurately, the ruins of what used to be a building—were transformed after being subjected to several rounds of naval bombardment and the rampage of monsters. This small area resembled Stalingrad in 1942. The buildings were at least halved in half, and the remnants of cement and steel bars were piled up to a height of about two or three stories. Even the ground was leveled and raised several stories high.

Amidst these ruins, a young woman with long red hair... well, a mature woman, was nimbly leaping across the barely usable ground in her high heels. It was hard to imagine that her standard urban office lady uniform could support her in performing such difficult movements; apart from a slight rip in her black stockings below the knees, there wasn't a single flaw.

With a graceful turn in mid-air and a sharp slam of her raised right hand, the rapier she held in her hand emitted an astonishing white light, cleaving the demon that was chasing her in two.

The wound at the cut was as smooth as a mirror, still retaining a faint glow, and not a drop of blood had flowed. However, the monster that crashed to the ground struggled and hissed for a while before finally losing its life.

"Heh... Hey, are you done yet?! It's really pathetic that the Demon King has become such a useless piece of trash. You might as well just stay here and work properly!" The red-haired office lady sneered as she looked at the monster's corpse at her feet and turned her head to provoke in another direction.

boom! ! !

As if in response to her words, amidst the roar of collapsing buildings, accompanied by a rapidly fading, unwilling wail, a burly man, eight feet tall and with an eight-foot waist, raised his hand to disperse the dissipating dust and emerged from the ruins that were now beyond repair.

"...You really do seize every opportunity to attack me," the muscular man's voice was somewhat deep, but when placed on his massive body, it had absolutely no energy.

His torso, hands, and feet were covered in black hair, and his feet had hooves like those of a goat. He also had very sharp horns on his head. If Suer were here, he would probably be very surprised to find that the facial features of this muscular man, who was clearly not human, were very similar to the simple country youth who had worked with him at McDonald's.

"It's suspicious that the Demon King chose to protect this human city instead of retreating! There must be some conspiracy! How can I, as the hero, turn a blind eye!" the red-haired OL said confidently.

"Hey, whatever you want," the muscular man sighed helplessly, squinting at the chaotic scene of demons dancing in the distance. "Even a regular human army would feel a strong sense of fear at a time like this. Well, I can understand, after all, these are inhuman monsters."

"If you can't keep up, go home and rest early, okay?"

"Who do you think I am?"

They snorted at each other, and the next second, the two disappeared from the ruins.

Only when invaded by foreign enemies can one discover just how many extraordinary people live in this small city... or perhaps they are not even human at all, but at this moment most of them choose to stay and protect the world they have become part of.

Is this also a victory?

Chapter Sixty-Two: The Seal is Lifted

"..."

"..."

"... Kikyo?"

For the first time, instead of his usual arrogant and haughty demeanor, the white-haired dog demon looked at the girl in the sailor uniform under the tree with a complicated expression, muttering unconsciously to himself.

The middle school girl has grown up and become a high school girl, but what is more surprising than this increase in age is that Kagome Higurashi is still here even though all the ordinary people in the city have already evacuated.

At first, Kagome Higurashi only applied with the mindset of giving it a try, but she never expected that her grandfather would agree to her request after just one deep look at her, and even help persuade her worried mother.

In the years when the overlap between the two eras became increasingly severe, Kagome Higurashi had been living in her family's shrine. She was naturally familiar with the white-haired yokai nailed to her family's sacred tree, but no matter how she called out to it before, there was no response. If she reached out to touch it by climbing a ladder, she could only pass through the yokai's figure and touch the bark.

Judging from the arrow that pierced the monster's chest and pinned it to a tree, this might be what the book refers to as being sealed away, which is why it appears to be asleep.

Then came the moment when the passage between the two eras truly opened. The front mountain of Higurashi Shrine was no longer safe. Kagome Higurashi simply carried the pink orb, which should have been incredibly precious, to the ancient well and sacred tree on the back mountain, because she knew that the demons had set up protective spells there.

But what she didn't expect was that when the two eras truly intersected and everything was no longer just an untouchable illusion, when she appeared in front of the Sacred Tree this time, the white-haired monster reacted in a new way to her arrival.

He opened his eyes, and the precious jade she held in her arms once again emitted a white light.

The shouts of the monsters chasing up the mountain behind them grew closer and closer. They could smell the scent and sense its presence. All they had to do was touch it to ascend to the position of a great monster and become an object of reverence for the other monsters.

Nervous, Kagome even considered whether to jump directly into the well through the spell, and just then she heard the voice of the white-haired demon.

Big fire.

"What Kikyo? My name is Kagome! Higurashi Kagome!" Higurashi Kagome exclaimed reflexively, looking up before realizing that this was yet another youkai she could communicate with. "Oh, you're awake?"

"...Kikyo...Kagome...Kikyo...Kagome..." The white-haired dog demon muttered these two names repeatedly as if possessed. His ears twitched slightly as he looked in the direction Kagome had just run from. "Looks like you're not exactly safe, Kikyo...Can you pull out this arrow? I can take care of those blind fools for you, you know?"

Except from the very beginning, the white-haired dog demon's gaze remained fixed on the pink orb in Kagome Higurashi's arms, never wavering for a moment.

"I already told you my name is Kagome!" Kagome stomped her foot angrily. Hearing the increasingly loud noise behind her, she gritted her teeth, stuffed the jewel into her pocket, and picked up the ladder she had gotten from the Sacred Tree when she tried to touch the illusion.

Since Suer didn't deal with him, there shouldn't be any problems, right?

Maybe? !

"Hey! Hey! It smells like a person! A sweet and soft person! Hurry up, hurry up!"

"No! You idiot! Look at her! That glowing thing!"

"Oh!!!"

"Is it that one?! It must be that one!"

"Four Soul Jade!!!"

Kagome Higurashi, who was climbing the ladder, hurriedly looked down at her pocket. The hem of her skirt, which contained the Shikon Jewel, was now emitting a dazzling light. It was clearly visible even through the fabric. Without time to think too much, she climbed up even faster. With just a little more effort, she could touch the white-haired demon's body.

But she could already smell the fishy smell coming from behind her. The nauseating odor could make any normal person gag and vomit. There was also a sense of crisis coming from the bottom of her heart, and her skin was stinging slightly.

Without hesitation or further words, finally no longer an illusion, Kagome Higurashi placed her hand on the white-haired demon's shoulder and gripped the arrow shaft with her other hand—pulling it out forcefully!

It sounded like metal tearing through the air, like cloth ripping, followed by a sparse, rain-like patter as something heavy fell to the ground.

Suddenly everything went black. When Kagome regained her senses, she found that the red-robed, white-haired monster had brought her to the ground. The monster's raised hand had five sharp fingernails that gleamed with a cold, silvery light in the sunlight.

Hmm? Why does he have a pink jade pendant in his hand?

Kagome's face suddenly darkened, and she reached into her pocket, only to find it completely empty.

"Thief!!!" The girl angrily reached out to take back her things, but the red-robed, white-haired monster easily dodged her hand.

"Hey, hey, hey, I saved your life, so consider this your reward~", the white-haired demon was still carefully examining the precious jade in his hand, until finally he reluctantly looked away and looked over Kagome Higurashi's shoulder at the distant forest.

"Besides, it doesn't seem to be over yet... Really, what exactly happened?"

Somewhat stiffly, Kagome turned around and saw pairs of eyes, gleaming with a blinding cold light even in daylight, appearing in the woods.

monster.

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These ancient monsters were not a scattered force.

After the war had gone on for some time, both human armies and modern yokai like the Nura Clan came to this conclusion.

"Isn't it the monster you know who's pulling the strings behind the scenes?" Su'er asked, somewhat surprised.

"At least they're not the kind of monsters I know. As you can see, these monsters don't seem to have naturally transformed into monsters at all. Instead, they seem to have devoured each other in some deep mountain forest, and their minds are filled with nothing but killing... In fact, you can even see the limbs of other monsters on the bodies of many of them. They're disgusting and deformed," Yukari Yakumo answered frankly.

“I refuse to lead such monsters. They can’t even be considered monsters; they’re more like moving knives.” Even Yukari Yakumo frowned when she saw these monsters roaming the city.

“It’s like raising a venomous insect,” Xin Ke said abruptly, and Su Er and Yakumo Yukari agreed after a slight pause.

Could there be a more accurate description?