Tokyo: I am the Lord of All Demons!

[Consumption - Fear: 20000]

[Remaining - Fear: 5600]

I'm broke again. Hopefully, I can earn more money with the incense sticks for returning souls. Otherwise, I can only wait for that shrine maiden to start her next broadcast.

The exchange was complete, and Makoto Araki received an incense stick containing a mixture of chrysanthemum spices and shavings of dark wood, as well as a container.

He lit the incense stick, and it immediately began to produce smoke. The smoke did not rise but sank.

The sinking incense quickly flowed along the floor of the room towards the crack in the door. Then, in Makoto Araki's field of vision, there was a new "incense field of vision" similar to the spider's field of vision.

The incense of resurrection also has a low field of vision, and it crawls like a dog. Moreover, Makoto Araki cannot stably control its flow, which feels like being dragged along by a dog while being walked.

The incense, which had been carrying the scent of resurrection, flowed into the well cover and then into the sewer, startling a few small mice in the shadows before continuing to drift away.

After drifting for an unknown period of time, the incense began to rise to the surface, and as a gas, it easily broke through the soil.

Above is a cemetery.

Cough cough... Family members, does anyone understand? This damned incense brought someone to the cemetery in the middle of the night. That's too extreme!

Upon arriving at the cemetery, the destination of the resurrection incense seemed to disappear; it just kept drifting around the cemetery, its purpose unknown.

Because the cemetery was too gloomy, Makoto Araki was unwilling to stare at the tombstones for too long, lest his eyes be defiled.

A moment later, the vision of the Resurrection Incense accelerated, and under the watchful eyes of Araki Makoto, it entered one of the graves.

Before his gaze fell upon the chosen grave, Makoto Araki made a point of glancing at the epitaph to see what it was all about.

Surprisingly, the owner shown on it was a person from the 19th century. Even if this person lived for a hundred years, he would have passed away more than 30 years ago.

No, he's been dead for so long, is there any need for him to become a ghost now? Even if he becomes a vengeful ghost, he probably won't be able to find his enemies, right?

Araki Makoto was thinking about these things when suddenly the vision of the Resurrection Incense went black, and he couldn't see anything anymore.

Oh no, we've lost sight of it. We should have let the little spider follow us.

Araki Makoto's gaze returned to the room, where he noticed that the incense sticks were about to burn out and the sinking gas was gradually fading. However, before that happened, it wasn't too late to send Little Spider to chase after them.

However, embarrassingly, the resurrection fragrance dissipated rapidly during the chase, and by the time the little spider arrived at the graveyard, the resurrection fragrance had been completely lost.

Araki Makoto was wondering which grave the Resurrection Incense had entered when a bolt of lightning suddenly struck the ground not far ahead, and a skeletal, eerie little hand emerged from the soil struck by the lightning.

Judging from the knuckles of the hand, this should be a woman's hand, and she shouldn't be very old.

Yes, very young.

She was still in the prime of her life when she lost her precious life—this was the first thought that came to Kikuko Yamamura when she woke up from her long sleep.

Kikuko Yamamura lowered her head, looking at her hands, which were once as white as jade but now had rotten skin and exposed bones, and a desire for revenge arose within her.

Yes, revenge is necessary!

Kikuko Yamamura knew very well that she had not died of natural causes, illness, or an accident, but had been murdered!

So the question is, who is responsible for my current predicament?

The person primarily responsible is undoubtedly the homeless man who tried to defile her, but she resisted to the death and was accidentally killed by him, who then buried her body there!

The reason this land was chosen was because the person was worried about being exposed, so he buried her in the grave of his grandmother in order to cover his tracks.

The second person responsible was her ex-boyfriend from the bakery. If it weren't for his betrayal that led to their breakup, none of this tragedy would have happened.

It was because of the breakup that Kikuko, a mountain village girl with nowhere to go, chose to sleep on the streets and eventually encountered a homeless man.

Kikuko Yamamura considers her brother to be the third person responsible. If he hadn't imprisoned and abused her, she might not have lost faith and run away from home!

After running away from home, Kikuko Yamamura had no choice but to work in Tokyo to make a living, where she met her ex-boyfriend at a bakery.

Once the three responsible parties are identified, the retaliation plan can be implemented, but there are more important things to do before that.

"Given my current state, I'm afraid I'll be mistaken for a zombie and beaten to death in the street before I can even get my revenge," Kikuko Yamamura said, examining her torso.

It's simply appalling.

Just like her hands, her torso had long since decayed, with only a few pieces of rotting flesh hanging from the empty skeleton. Even she herself found it eerie and terrifying to look at.

"To change the status quo..." Kikuko Yamamura murmured to herself, using her innate demonic arts to summon nearby water, soil, and vegetation to attach to her skeleton.

Soil became flesh, water became blood, grass became hair, and tree bark became skin. These substances adhered to the bones, preparing to construct a body for her and restore her former appearance.

In the short time it takes to eat instant noodles, a stunningly beautiful woman, at least a class beauty, appeared in the cemetery illuminated by the red moon.

This ghostly girl not only appeared in the spider's field of vision, but also in the field of vision of the Resurrection Incense.

That's right, the Soul-Returning Incense Vision. Araki Makoto only then realized that the Soul-Returning Incense Vision, which had just gone black, had lit up again.

However, unlike the Spider's view, the Ghost Girl in the Resurrection Incense's view can only switch between third-person and first-person perspectives, and cannot freely switch the view angle, which means that this view is strongly bound to the Ghost Girl.

The angle doesn't matter.

Araki Makoto thought that since he had the vision of the ghost girl, he might as well remove the monitoring spider and move it to another place to see if he could create some more "fear".

Question...

What should you do first after becoming a ghost? Everyone may have a different answer, but in Makoto Araki's view, the ghost girl is undergoing rehabilitation training.

Chapter 10 Nightmare

midnight.

Yamiyama Shrine.

Girls' dormitory.

Second floor, the first room from the left.

After returning from the old house in Nerima, Shimizu Suzune was not in a good mental state. She felt her heart rate was a little high and tossed and turned in bed until she finally fell asleep in the middle of the night.

However, she didn't sleep well and vaguely felt that she had a dream, and it was a very bizarre nightmare.

In her dream, she somehow found herself in a gloomy cemetery, where thick, black threads emerged from the ground and quickly bound her hands and feet.

Shimizu Suzune tried to struggle, but the futile struggle only attracted more black threads. Before long, she was bound to the ground by the black threads and suspended in mid-air.

After that, Shimizu Rin saw several people crawl out of the grave. They were dressed in tattered clothes, but it was still clear that they were wearing the clothes of priests and shrine maidens.

The priests and shrine maidens approached Shimizu Suzune and complained that they had died tragically and were now wandering as lost ghosts, hoping that the shrine maiden could help them find release.

Shimizu Suzune was terrified, extremely terrified. She had never seen anything like this before. She wanted to escape, but she was firmly suspended in mid-air and couldn't muster any strength at all.

However, the priestesses who had surrounded Shimizu Suzune quickly scattered because a ghost had appeared nearby.

The ghost flashed past and killed the priests and priestesses one by one.

Some heads were severed, some necks were twisted, and some bodies were torn in two by hand, turning the cemetery into a sea of ​​blood in an instant.

The scene was too terrifying for Shimizu Suzune to look at, but at that moment, her foot was suddenly grabbed by a large hand.

Looking down, I saw a priest who looked very young, but his lower body was missing, and I didn't know where it had gone.

"Help, help us..."

After the young priest uttered those words, he was dragged away by the ghost and then torn into several pieces by the ghost's bare hands.

Calm down! This must be a dream! Shimizu Rinne tried to suppress the pounding in her heart. At that moment, she suddenly noticed a red Porsche Cayenne parked less than ten meters away from the Ghost's Killing Field.

That red Cayenne...

It belongs to Fujita Misaki.

what happened?

Shimizu Rinne looked up and, following the headlights of the Cayenne, spotted the familiar old house ahead.

Does this mean that this incident happened in that old house? While Shimizu Suzune was still thinking about this, the ghost that had killed everyone rushed towards her.

"Wait...no!"

Shimizu Rin exclaimed in surprise.

It was this exclamation that woke her from her dream!

"Hoo..." Shimizu Rin took a deep breath and quickly looked at the bedside table to make sure that the beans she had brought back were still there.

Forget it, I'm not going to sleep...

Her subconscious told her in the dream that there might be a new urban legend recently, and one that was even more ferocious than the previous ones, otherwise she wouldn't have such a strange nightmare.

Open your laptop and log in to various urban legend websites to see if there are any new urban legends.

Upon opening it, sure enough, I saw several new posts about urban legends. The most popular one was about a cemetery at the foot of a mountain in Nerima Ward that was suspected of being haunted.

cemetery……

Are you kidding me?

Even if you gave Shimizu Suzune a hundred times the courage, and then gave her a hundred best friends, she still wouldn't dare go to that kind of place!

What's more, after returning from the ghost hunt, my best friend was in a bad mood, probably because she was frightened. Before going to bed, she called me saying that she had no appetite and her hands and feet were cold.

To address this, Shimizu Suzune came up with several solutions for her, such as giving her some porridge or putting on heat packs, and also said many kind words to comfort her, which finally resolved the problem.

However, later, Fujita Misaki called again, telling her best friend that she was very scared and didn't dare to sleep alone, hoping that Shimizu Suzune could come over and sleep with her.

The problem is that it's already 2 a.m., and the shrine has long been under curfew, so it's not convenient to go out now.

Left with no other choice, Fujita Misaki had to sleep with her much younger brother, clutching several exorcism beans in her hand, before finally resolving the matter.

Speaking of exorcism beans, Shimizu Suzune got out of bed and picked up a few before she finally felt her heart rate stabilize.

Without a doubt, these exorcising beans are effective, and quite effective at that.

Looking at the beans in her hand, Shimizu Suzune suddenly had a bold idea: if she could find exorcising beans in the old house, could she find other exorcising tools in other places?

As a shrine maiden, Shimizu Suzune can now confirm that the so-called consecrated items in the shrine are useless against ghosts.

What's actually useful are these exorcising beans that were found by chance in the old house.

So Shimizu Suzune had a new idea: where did these exorcism beans come from?

Was it a gift from heaven?

Or was it a gift from God?

In any case, it can now be confirmed that not only do ghosts and spirits exist in the world, but there are also tools that can subdue them.