Tokyo: I am the Lord of All Demons!

Fortunately, Ishikawa Risa is a shrine, and with a slight activation of divine power, one can teleport inside.

Upon entering the shrine, Risa Ishikawa found that it was not as stuffy as she had imagined. Although the shrine had no doors or windows, it was not a sealed structure and had holes for ventilation.

There are no facilities in this hall, not even a bed or a chair; it can be described as "bare-bones".

This is understandable, as people do not know what God needs, so they can only leave a spacious place for God.

Risa Ishikawa looked up at the empty main hall, smelled the not-too-suffocating air, and remarked, "This design even takes into account that the gods need to breathe, doesn't it?"

The thought of having to wait there until dark made Risa Ishikawa sleepy, so she simply found a wall and sat down against it.

The waiting time was agonizing. Ishikawa Risa slowly closed her eyes, put the words of the Enchanted Staff aside, and then dozed off in the temple.

Time flies.

Risa Ishikawa had a dream.

I dreamt that I fell into an ice cave, my limbs were frozen into icicles, and I was about to be frozen into an ice sculpture.

This startled her awake.

When I opened my eyes, I was shocked.

She discovered that the temple she was in was surrounded by little devils, dancing and gesturing as if they were around a campfire.

Before him, a pure white girl slowly descended.

She is white.

Her entire body was white.

With white hair, white skin, and even her clothes, she looked as if she had been sculpted from ice and snow.

Risa Ishikawa gasped, instinctively uttering the name of the yokai: "Yuki-onna?"

"Yes, that's right." The other person actually took it personally.

Then, the snow woman sighed and shook her head at Ishikawa Risa: "You shouldn't have come here. This place has long been occupied by us ghosts. It is our unique paradise, the starting point and the end point of the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons."

Her words left Ishikawa Risa somewhat dumbfounded; she hadn't expected this monster to be so shameless.

Isn't this like poisoning someone who usurps another's place?

Did I consent to their occupation of the shrine?

This is Shinto Hall property!

Risa Ishikawa was still indignant. She tried to get up and argue by supporting herself with her hands on the ground, but at that moment, the snow woman's hand turned into an ice blade.

She said with a regretful tone, "So, I'm here to take your life. Be prepared!"

Next, with lightning speed, the Snow Woman reversed her grip on the ice blade and plunged it into Ishikawa Risa's chest cavity.

Caught off guard, Risa Ishikawa's body trembled violently. She hadn't had time to defend against the icy blade, which had frozen her numb.

However, it only caused numbness.

The divine power within Risa Ishikawa was so strong that it directly melted the blade of the icy blade that had penetrated deep into her chest cavity!

As steam rose from her chest, the Snow Woman's pupils dilated wildly! She had never expected her opponent's divine power to be so strong.

Before this, the Snow Woman had been hostile to several police inspectors who wielded magical artifacts and could use divine power, but they were all eventually killed.

This time, the Snow Woman planned to follow the same pattern, thinking that by striking first, she could destroy Ishikawa Risa, the divine messenger girl.

As a result, things turned out this way.

Seeing that the opponent's divine power not only melted the ice blade, but also rapidly healed the wound in her chest, the Snow Woman couldn't help but swallow hard. "You... just who are you...?"

Faced with the other party's panic, Ishikawa Risa calmly introduced herself: "I am the divine messenger of Lord Aragami, Ishikawa Risa, and also the priest of the Aragami Shrine."

"So what?" The Snow Woman was not willing to admit defeat, and she roared.

The next second, the Snow Woman conjured two icy blades again.

Yes, the Snow Woman just realized that although the icy blades could not harm the divine messenger girl's core, they could deplete her divine power.

The Snow Woman currently has the support of the army of hellish imps outside the temple, and theoretically, she is capable of contending with the Divine Messenger Girl.

As for why they didn't run away, the conclusion is that there was no way to escape. If so many hellish imps ran away together, it would inevitably cause chaos, and in the end, the divine messenger girl could only destroy most of the spirits.

Therefore, the Snow Woman decided to take a gamble.

However, as soon as the Snow Woman transformed into a blade, before she could even make a move, the girl from the divine messenger's foot had already pressed against her chest.

The next second, the Snow Woman was kicked away by Risa Ishikawa, flying several meters away. The two icy blades she was holding disappeared instantly, turning into white energy that returned to the Snow Woman's body.

Risa Ishikawa seized the opportunity to get up, gripped the Enmusubi Staff, and charged straight at the fallen Yuki-onna!

Caught off guard, the Yuki-onna was forced to take the direct hit of Ishikawa Risa's ordinary attack using the Enmusubi Staff, resulting in a violent explosion from the collision of divine and demonic power.

With a loud "boom," Ishikawa Risa and Yuki-onna were sent flying backwards like two magnets with the same polarity!

However, since the Snow Woman is a spirit, the momentum after being knocked away was not great. Instead, she quickly adjusted her direction like a kite and pressed down in the opposite direction.

As for Risa Ishikawa, although she was a divine messenger girl, she still had the flesh and blood of an ordinary person, so she had a lot of inertia and it wasn't until she flew a long way that she was able to stop the inertia.

But by now, she had already flown to the temple wall and had no time to avoid the obstacles.

"boom--"

A loud bang.

Risa Ishikawa fell after hitting the wall, but fortunately, the attacks didn't hurt her much.

And just like a roly-poly toy, she kicked her legs and stood up straight, ready for anything.

This was the right move, and like a timely rain, it gave her a chance to see the Snow Woman's deadly attack clearly.

The snow woman opened her arms, about to grab Ishikawa Risa's neck. If she succeeded, she could theoretically snap her neck.

However, the other party is, after all, a powerful divine messenger girl. Can the matter of the Snow Woman really go so smoothly?

That's obviously not going to work.

Risa Ishikawa swiftly summoned the Bond Staff and attacked the Snow Woman's face; this was just a normal attack.

However, the Snow Woman, having just taken a normal attack, was already wary of the Bond Staff and had to dodge.

With her dodge, Ishikawa Risa's attack naturally missed, leaving her no choice but to launch another attack.

However, the Snow Woman was still exceptionally agile due to her ghostly nature, and she easily dodged multiple normal attacks launched by Ishikawa Risa using the Enmusubi Staff.

Dodging continuously wasn't a solution, so the Snow Woman suddenly gathered a cold energy in front of her chest while dodging, and it quickly condensed into an ice core: "Sister, I'm really angry."

鏉ヤ 钖楋纻

In fact, Risa Ishikawa always uses normal attacks because she looks down on the Yuki-onna character.

In her setting, the Snow Woman and the like are completely marginalized characters, and can be defeated by a single divine messenger.

Although Ishikawa Risa is currently the lowest-ranking divine messenger, the divine power within her body is extremely vast.

This means that even if the Snow Woman tries her best, she cannot defeat her.

That's why Ishikawa Risa kept using normal attacks to tease the Yuki-onna, just to see if the Yuki-onna would react strongly.

As a result, a huge ice core quickly condensed on the snow woman's chest, and this ice core became increasingly cold.

According to the script, the Snow Woman is very vulnerable when summoning the Ice Core, and Ishikawa Risa can interrupt the spell by disturbing her at will.

However, Risa Ishikawa refused to do so; she wanted to see just how high the limits of a snow woman really were!

After chanting for more than ten seconds, the Snow Woman began to use the Ice Core to summon a demonic wind in the temple, which swirled continuously along the four walls of the temple.

These evil winds will attack every enemy they encounter, but they cannot harm Ishikawa Risa.

This is because Ishikawa Risa did not move away from the snow woman, but stood relatively close and watched her.

Or rather, to look down on her.

The Snow Woman felt deeply humiliated by this dismissive attitude, and roared in response.

In just that instant, she activated the full power of the ice core.

The ice core exploded directly.

The massive blast wave ripped off the roof of the temple and blew it aside, revealing the starry sky overhead.

Risa Ishikawa looked up and saw that the shockwave was strong, but it didn't have any direct offensive power.

All the attack power was distributed among those few gusts of demonic wind, which were mixed with a large amount of ice shards.

As the Snow Woman clenched her fist, all the icy, demonic winds began to shrink in size and started to approach the divine messenger girl, Ishikawa Risa.

As for Risa Ishikawa, she simply used the Enchanted Staff to summon a very ordinary barrier around herself, nothing more.

As expected, the disparity in strength became apparent at that moment. The Snow Woman's side had to use up almost half of their ice shards to shatter the barrier around Ishikawa Risa. The remaining ice shards pierced her body, instantly turning her into a small, icy hedgehog.

As mentioned earlier, even the Snow Woman couldn't completely deplete Ishikawa Risa's divine power with such a sharp icy blade, so how could she possibly do so with just these remaining ice shards?

To be fair, when those icicles pierced her body, Ishikawa Risa could still feel a stinging pain, like being pricked by fiberglass and unable to pull it out.

Fortunately, the effect of the ice shards on Risa Ishikawa's body was not exactly the same as a fiber optic cable piercing a person's finger. The effect of the ice shards was not that strong, and Risa Ishikawa's body was not that weak because of her divine power.

About a minute later, the ice shards that had pierced Ishikawa Risa's body melted into ice water and flowed down her body.

Because so much water turned from the icicles, Ishikawa Risa was soaked to the bone in an instant.

But none of these are problems.

You must know that Ishikawa Risa is a divine messenger girl, and the divine power in her body is immense; it's just some water.

Under the influence of divine power, the moisture on her body surface was quickly evaporated, restoring her original dryness.

As for the Snow Woman...

Why not launch a surprise attack when she recovers? Because the Snow Woman can't do that.

The ice core we just saw was formed by the Snow Maiden gathering the demonic power of all the hellish imps in the vicinity.

So, despite Ishikawa Risa's seemingly "disheveled" appearance, Yuki-onna's situation is actually the most dire; the battle just now nearly cost her half her life.

What should I do?

There's no other way.

Now, Yuki-onna is so weak that she can barely stand up, let alone launch a sneak attack on Ishikawa Risa.