Horror/Fear Anime: Starting with a Tomie Hairstyle.

But in other words, if the mastermind behind this has the ability to resurrect so many tombstone figures, why doesn't he do it himself?

Either he looks down on Jiu Zhiche and is just playing with him, or... he can't come out at all!

A shrine...

Jiuzhi Che focused his mind and concentrated entirely on running.

He was already close to his limit to be able to run for more than ten minutes to evade pursuit.

Suddenly, he saw the corner ahead. He remembered it; it was a winding alley, a good opportunity.

He decisively plunged into the alley, turning left and right, going around in circles!

Corners are useful; people slow down when they turn corners.

Soon, Jiuzhiche shook them off.

Even after darting out of the alley, Jiu Zhiche didn't relax; the place was full of tombstones.

Fortunately, he was intentionally running in the direction of his destination, and he was almost there—the library.

He suspects that the time when the story of the tombstone becoming a Buddha came out was related to the time when the mastermind was behind it. So, could there be any records in the library?

In short, he'll try it out first. If he has no clues and isn't confident he can fight back, he'll choose to run away first.

As for the fate of these townspeople?

Jiuzhiche did not feel guilty.

Even without him, the tombstone man would have emerged sooner or later!

He didn't believe that the mastermind behind all this for so many years would let the people here go after achieving their goal!

Otherwise, how could a tombstone person exist?

Calling the police won't work now; the eerie aura of countless tombstone figures has already blocked the signal magnetic field, and cell phones have no signal at all.

"don't want--"

A voice filled with obvious fear rang out, and Jiu Zhiche paused slightly, looking to his right.

The group of five was cornered by two tombstone men, and the one being choked by the tombstone men was Koizumi's mother.

At this moment, her face turned blue from lack of oxygen. The stone thorns on the tombstone man's hand cut her neck. Seeing that she was taking in less air than she was exhaling, the man who was trembling rushed out and rammed his head into the tombstone man's stomach. Ignoring the pain, he held the tombstone man tightly!

The tombstone figure was knocked and swayed slightly, still clutching Koizumi's mother!

"You guys run! I'll hold them off!"

To Jiuzhi Che's surprise, the man who hit the person was Yoshikawa Tsuyoshi.

Ha, was it because of guilt? Fear? Or the urge to make amends that led him to risk his life to save others?

Unfortunately, with another tombstone figure nearby, the others dared not move easily, all fearing its body covered in stone thorns.

"elder brother!!!"

Yoshikawa Kaori screamed and closed her eyes in fear.

Yoshikawa Takeshi's hand was ripped off by another tombstone man. Their strength was unreasonable; they tore off his hand as easily as tearing off a chicken leg.

Jiuzhiche gave me the feeling of watching a blood-soaked cutscene; it was so easy to tear it apart, and the tear was so thorough.

Like tearing a rag doll.

Just as Yoshikawa Tsuyoshi's head was about to be twisted off, Kyushige Tetsu moved.

He quickly crouched down, took the military knife strapped to his leg, and in a swift movement, cast a purification spell before raising the knife—

The blade pierced precisely into the heart of the man tearing the tombstone!

Its stone thorns collapsed like a sandpile crumbling, and before it could even scream, its entire body disintegrated along with the stone thorns, turning into a shower of stone dust.

It works really well!

The weaknesses seen by the Demon Eye, combined with the purification that eliminated most of their strength, resulted in 1+1>2!

The souls in the tombstone are broken beyond recognition; he can see their decaying, numb state, beyond redemption.

Therefore, he was ruthless when he killed.

Then, Jiuzhiche used Purify and slash again to send the other Tombstone Man away.

Koizumi's mother collapsed to the ground.

"mom!"

Koizumi and his father rushed to help Koizumi's mother.

Yoshikawa Kaori sobbed uncontrollably, her body still weak from shock. Looking at her brother covered in blood, she wondered for a moment if his death would bring her relief.

"Take them with you."

Jiu Zhiche had a cold face, but strangely, he gave people a sense of security.

They helped the injured up and followed Jiu Zhiche.

Koizumi's father then helped Yoshikawa Kaori carry Yoshikawa Tsuyoshi on his back.

"Come in."

After Jiuzhi Che and the others all came in, they closed the library door.

"Disinfect them and stop the bleeding."

Jiuzhiche took out a hemostatic bandage and a small bottle of alcohol from his chest bag, then stopped paying attention and focused his consciousness on the system panel.

He has gained a lot of spirituality through the rituals, more than 400. He almost had a mental breakdown several times and passed away.

Fortunately, I used two spirit orbs and managed to hold on.

However, the focus now is on choosing a template!

A look of anticipation flashed in Jiu Zhiche's eyes.

[Contact with 2 infected demons to gain 1% initial spirituality]

[Deal with 2 infected demons to gain 1% Spirituality]

[Current template selection progress: 100.14%]

[Trigger selection template: "Eternal Youth", "Succubus", "Strong" - choose one]

Jiuzhi Che pondered for a moment, then chose one of them.

Chapter 33 New Template: The Uses of the Silver-Haired Image

The library in Tombstone Town is not large, and the shelves are labeled.

There are different types and different time categories.

It looks like no one has looked at it for a long time.

Perhaps due to their age, these shelves seemed to carry a faint, strange aura in Jiu Zhiche's eyes.

Jiuzhiche had a clear goal and found a framework to label the news.

Do you know when the tradition of turning tombstones into Buddha statues began?

“It was 49 years ago.” Koizumi’s father didn’t know why the young man was asking, but he answered quickly nonetheless.

"How can you be so sure?" Jiu Zhiche calculated the time and then found that year.

"Because that was a tradition that came about two years before I was born, my mother kept saying when I was little that it was scary for a human corpse to become a tombstone, but I don't know why everyone believed this, so it left a very deep impression on me."

Jiuzhi Che nodded slightly, confirming that the time was correct, then that was fine.

However, there were only a couple of newspapers in the news section back then, and because so much time has passed, many of those newspapers are hard to preserve.

Jiuzhi Che glanced through the list and found only one entry that read: "The new chief priest of Shirakawa Shrine, Miyamoto Takeshi, launched a prayer event, and the townspeople cheered and celebrated. However, a fire broke out that day, resulting in 14 deaths and injuries."

Beyond that, there is no further information.

Jiuzhiche moved to the shelf of "Town Chronicles".

At this moment, Yoshikawa Tsuyoshi's face was frighteningly pale. After using up all the remaining bandages, the bleeding had almost stopped, but he was also about to die.

The wounds on his body, inflicted by the thorns, began to worsen rapidly, oozing dark blood.

Koizumi's mother was in better condition, but thorns also began to grow on the wound on her neck.

Jiuzhi Che spared a sliver of attention, oh right, he almost forgot about them.

He walked up to Koizumi's mother and used purification. The polluted aura in her body vanished instantly, and the newly formed stone thorns fell off.

I gave Yoshikawa another purification spell. Surprisingly, he's quite resilient; he's still alive.

"Thank you, thank you!" Koizumi said, crying with gratitude, not knowing how to express it.

Koizumi's father was the same, but he noticed something more. "Are you... looking for something? Why don't you tell me? I grew up in this town, so I know a lot of things."

Why is your shrine abandoned?

While checking the town's records, Jiu Zhiche asked questions. When he saw a book listing the past town mayors, he took it down.

Koizumi's father tried hard to recall: "I heard from my mother that a year before I was born, the priest of that shrine killed many people, so people stopped worshipping the shrine. It was about a year after the tombstone tradition appeared."

Jiuzhi Che turned to the year when the tombstone tradition emerged.

After quickly finishing reading, he flipped to the next year.

The town mayor at the time kept very detailed records and wrote a lot about the shrine, showing that he had great faith in Miyamoto Takeshi. He also wrote that Miyamoto Takeshi had many treasures that he had kept for many years to exorcise evil spirits.

There are divine swords, imperial bells, wooden tokens, and so on.

Then, Jiuzhi Che closed the book.

So that's how it is; it's not complicated.

Years ago, a stranger came to town, and then a fire broke out during a prayer ceremony at the shrine. After that, the stranger began to spread the idea that tombstones could become Buddhas, and the people who had lost their loved ones were so grief-stricken that they believed it.

Over time, more and more people came to believe in this.

Miyamoto Takeshi sensed something was wrong and secretly investigated, discovering that the outsider and the demons were making a deal. The tombstones actually imprisoned souls, and all the souls were eaten by the demons.

Miyamoto Takeshi, wielding the sacred sword that guards the shrine, exhausted himself to seal away the demon.