Tokyo: I am the Lord of All Demons!

Araki Makoto, looking displeased, complained, "Wait, which scene did you come from? And all you can say is 'I hate it so much'?"

Then the ghost began to sing: "I~can~say~any~thing~because~I~am~the~King~of~the~City~Legend~"

"Oh, the urban legend of the Demon King, right? So you're Hanako-san?" Araki Makoto tilted his head back slightly and added, "And don't talk like that. It's such a waste of my life to hear you speak a complete sentence!"

"Tch—" Hanako pouted and sat down in front of Makoto Araki.

Araki Makoto frowned and pressed, "You still haven't answered me, are you Oni ​​King Hanako?"

"Yes and no."

Hanako finally spoke normally. She tilted her head, stared at Makoto Araki, and explained:

“My body contains all the ordinary ghosts you summoned before. Calling me Hanako is an understatement; I’m actually a collection of ordinary ghosts. Because I’m a collection of ghosts, I have all their memories, characteristics, and demonic power, but I’m still far from being a Demon King.”

"Oh..." Makoto Araki scratched his head helplessly. No wonder Hanako started scaring people like a normal ghost as soon as she came out. It turns out that this skill of scaring people is engraved in her DNA!

Hanako didn't say anything.

After a brief standoff, Makoto Araki broke the silence, pointing at Hanako and saying, "Then what are you doing here? Shouldn't you be out scaring people? Like hiding in a women's restroom and specifically scaring female students."

Unexpectedly, Hanako smiled sinisterly and replied, "I'm not going."

"Oh, do as you please." Araki Makoto was too lazy to argue with Hanako about this. The two of them were currently in an abandoned shrine.

However, Makoto Araki intends to enter the virtual shrine, also known as the "divine realm," to see how much the shrine has been built.

As he opened the portal and prepared to step into the realm of gods, he deliberately glanced back at Hanako, who was still standing there.

Chapter 85 Free Perspective

Araki Makoto decided to ignore Hanako and enter the realm of the gods alone. He planned to rest there and see how many "fears" he encountered after waking up before making any further plans.

Hanako did not follow them in, but stayed in the human world. She looked a little lost and stood in the same place for a long time before finally deciding to go down the mountain.

Hanako isn't the Demon King yet, but that doesn't stop her from being stronger than "advanced urban legends" from birth. Naturally, she also has her own independent perspective, which allows her to monitor any corner of the earth and any person from a "God's perspective." However, it's not called the God's perspective but rather the Ghost Doll's perspective.

Right now, Makoto Araki doesn't want to monitor anyone. The spirits all have their own perspectives. The only person who has no perspective and is worth monitoring is currently sleeping!

In addition, during the daytime, several urban legends are currently at a standstill, and the public's fear should subside somewhat.

So, I'm going to sleep.

I'll come back tonight.

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Araki Makoto has fallen asleep, and Shimizu Suzune has also fallen asleep. The only people still awake who could cause trouble are Fujita Mino and Morita Jun, the two divine messengers, as well as the head of the Shinto Office.

In fact, neither Fujita Mino nor Morita Jun are people who like to cause trouble. When faced with news interviews, they mostly avoid answering questions and are unwilling to reveal information.

Shingo Kishimoto, the head of the Shinto Office, is completely different. He frequently makes high-profile appearances, and each time he appears, it's like the Prime Minister's Office. First, a temporary podium is set up, and then each interview only reveals a little bit of "information".

This resulted in Tokyo reporters having to chase after this mysterious and cryptic bureau chief day and night for interviews.

In reality, it wasn't that Kishimoto Shingo was trying to create a mystery; he genuinely had no information. When he asked the two divine messengers, Fujita Mino and Morita Jun, they knew nothing.

As for Shimizu Suzune? I can't reach her now; she's probably on Do Not Disturb and asleep.

So, there weren't any major news stories during the day; it was mostly old news that made headlines, but it still made people in Tokyo uneasy.

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[Fear +1]

[Fear +1]

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[Current - Fear: 347000]

It was evening, I don't know what time it was.

Araki Makoto opened his eyes and the first thing he saw was the system panel in front of him that was still scrolling. The number of "fear" had now reached an astonishing 340,000.

With so many "fears", you can buy whatever you want, whether it's props or artifacts. You no longer need to hesitate about which one to buy; now you can have them all.

However, Makoto Araki didn't have that kind of retaliatory spending mentality, so he decided to hold onto his fear and see how things went first.

The first situation to consider is, of course, Shimizu Suzune. This divine messenger has been given a great mission by Makoto Araki: she must train a priestess who can fight against the demons in a short period of time.

Sure enough, when Makoto Araki raised the doll's perspective, the first thing he saw was Suzune Shimizu pondering how to use the "Yata no Kagami" (Eight-Span Mirror). It seemed that she had figured out some tricks and was preparing to use it for "consecration".

From the perspective of the ghost doll, Shimizu Suzune is the first to consecrate the "ritual implements" that were originally in the Yomiyama Shrine, such as the gohei (ceremonial hat), the kagura bell, the paper fan, and the shimenawa (sacred rope). However, these all have one thing in common: they are all ordinary props with no power to ward off evil spirits and are more for decoration.

This cannot be blamed on humans. Their world originally had no ghosts or spirits, so naturally there were no natural enemies to restrain them. It seems only natural that these "magical artifacts" have no effect on ghosts and spirits.

Should I say it or not, Shimizu Suzune is indeed Shimizu Suzune; she mastered the "Yata no Kagami" after only a few minutes of studying it.

She is currently "consecrating" a compass-like magical artifact, continuously infusing it with divine power. The consecration of this magical artifact, a compass for warding off evil, is already showing initial signs of its effectiveness.

It is worth noting that Shimizu Suzune is currently located in the Shinto Hall, and Fujita Mino and Morita Jun are currently supporting her "consecration ceremony".

What about the other officers in the agency?

Of course, it was not allowed. Shimizu Suzune refused the police officers entry, citing the fact that the God-sama had not seen the man.

Of course, Makoto Araki was unaware of Suzune Shimizu's inner thoughts, and even less aware of when he had come up with such a reason.

In Makoto Araki's view, there is no essential difference between humans, regardless of gender; they are all just ants that can be easily crushed, and after being killed, they are all the same—just corpses.

However, if it is a divine messenger, then it is slightly different. At least the divine messenger can act as his tool, bringing false security to this unstable world so that Makoto Araki can continue to cause trouble.

Considering that it was already night, Makoto Araki's perspective would certainly not be limited to the divine messenger. He raised his viewpoint and continued to monitor the other urban legends.

At Kisaragi Station, it's currently impossible to catch anyone. Tokyo's public transportation doesn't operate at night, so it's fair to say that Kisaragi Station avoids the time when it's known to prey on people.

What about Kikuko Yamamura?

She is currently somewhat lost. Having lost her target for revenge, she is now essentially a useless female ghost, with no goals other than imitating human life.

Besides the two of them, there is another female ghost, the Slit-Mouthed Woman. What is she doing now?

She's not doing well right now.

With the cooperation of the police and construction workers, her flesh was mixed into the concrete and then buried deep underground.

The slit-mouthed woman, buried underground, struggled to reconstruct her body, but after a night of work, the efficiency was still extremely low, with less than 2% completed.

This means that if she wants to be fully resurrected, it will be at least several dozen days later, which is something she doesn't want to see.

Because the Slit-Mouthed Woman was eliminated, what Araki Makoto is currently seeing on the panel is actually flesh and blood in concrete, watching it wriggle little by little.

Seeing how hard the Slit-Mouthed Woman was working, Makoto Araki couldn't bear to watch any longer and shifted his perspective to look at other things.

The last remaining female ghost, Hanako the Ghost Doll, is different from the "advanced urban legends" because she offers a free ghost doll perspective rather than a fixed one.

So, once Makoto Araki looked away from Hanako, he couldn't find her anymore and didn't know where she had gone.

However, when Makoto Araki zoomed in and out of the Doll's free view, he suddenly saw a very special red light on the map, which he thought was where Hanako was.

That place really does look like a toilet? Could it really be Hanako?

So, Makoto Araki decided to zoom in with a free perspective and see what Hanako was up to.

Chapter 86 Magical Artifact Test

Hanako is scary.

Just like the urban legend "Hanako in the Toilet," Hanako hid in the girls' restrooms of various schools to scare female victims, and she seemed to enjoy it immensely.

Since it was nighttime, many schools had no teachers or students lingering there, so Hanako could only scare a handful of people.

From the perspective of the ghost doll, Hanako is currently hiding in the private room, waiting for the unlucky ones to open the door and then scare them to death.

Perhaps it was due to the angle, but Makoto Araki didn't feel that Hanako was that scary at all. However, the girls who went to open the door were basically scared half to death, and even the slightly better ones were so scared that they wet their pants.

Perhaps from a different perspective, it might really be terrifying?

However, Makoto Araki is no longer very interested in these slow-burning urban legends. Having already earned hundreds of thousands of "fears," his ambitions have expanded beyond simply scaring a few people.

His goal was the stars and the sea, the kind of fear that could engulf the entire world, but clearly, Hanako, who had not yet hatched into a demon king, did not have the ability to destroy the world.

Before this, Makoto Araki was more concerned about the "Shinto Hall" issue, hoping that humanity could improve its ability to withstand risks as soon as possible, otherwise he would always be hesitant and timid.

Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo.

Shinto Hall.

First Divine Envoy's Office.

Through the joint efforts of the three divine messengers, two ordinary magical artifacts were finally endowed with the property of "consecration," thus theoretically giving them the power to ward off evil.

However, these magical artifacts have not yet been verified, and their strength is unknown. But Shimizu Rinne vaguely felt that the spiritual power of an ordinary peach wood sword was roughly equivalent to the destructive power of a ghost-repelling bean.

However, these magical artifacts are not necessarily better than the exorcising beans. Since they began to be consecrated by the Yata no Kagami, they have been constantly losing spiritual power. It is expected that in the next few weeks, they will lose all their spiritual power and turn back into ordinary magical artifacts.

enough.

Nine o'clock in the evening.

When Shimizu Suzune finished the third peach wood sword, she finally breathed a sigh of relief. She looked up at the two people beside her and said:

"Morita-san, Fujita-chan, could you help me search online for the latest urban legends? I need to test whether these swords can really fight off ghosts."

Yes, these peach wood swords are intended for use as police equipment, but they will need to undergo field testing before being delivered to the police.

"Ok."

"no problem!"

Fujita Mino and Morita Jun agreed almost simultaneously, and the two of them took out their mobile phones and laptops to browse the 2ch urban legend website and various news reports.

Fujita Mino was in charge of browsing 2ch, because there might be "oracles" there, and the power of netizens is enormous, which is helpful in finding urban legends of suitable intensity to test performance.

Jun Morita went to browse Toutiao (a Chinese news and information platform) because she felt that netizens' posts were not very reliable, since the cost of spreading rumors was extremely low, as all you need is a keyboard. She trusted traditional media more.

A moment later, Fujita Mino raised her phone and shouted, "Found her! Hanako in the toilet! Shimizu-san, shall we use this ghost to test her?"

At the same time, Junya Morita, holding a laptop, came over and said, "I've noticed it too, Ms. Hanako! This is indeed the latest and hottest urban legend."