A supporting character in a romance anime? I became a god using a rat talisman.

He put away the sealing staff and turned off the flashlight.

Darkness instantly engulfed everything.

In the pitch-black corridor, Kazama Chiba seemed to have given up resisting and stumbled into room 1004, whose door had been blasted away.

"Chiyu! Are you crazy? It's dangerous without light!"

The little creature huddled on his shoulder, its claws gripping his collar tightly.

"That guy is watching us from the shadows! You're just standing there like a sitting duck! Run!"

"Shut up." Kazama Chiba hissed, then quickly shifted her position in the darkness.

He didn't actually hide. A few seconds later, he came out again, stood in the middle of the corridor, hands in his pockets, with his back to the only faint light from the elevator entrance. He was practically a living target.

"Come out."

Kazama Chiba shouted into the void, her voice filled with obvious provocation.

"Didn't you feel great throwing the TV just now? Why are you so quiet now?"

There was a deathly silence all around.

Only his own echo reverberated in the empty corridor.

But Kazama Chiba could feel that sticky, cold malice spreading through the carpet beneath her feet.

Suddenly something seemed to move in the darkness.

It was an extremely subtle sound, like the rustling of fabric. Immediately afterwards, a cold wind blew in from the end of the corridor.

"call--"

Countless black objects fell from the ceiling—all the clutter on the floor—vases, paintings, and even several heavy fire extinguishers. They rained down on the figure standing in the middle of the corridor like a storm.

"Boom—!!!"

A loud bang.

Kazama Chiba didn't even have time to dodge before being completely buried by the pile of trash.

Dust flew everywhere.

The once arrogant figure was now buried under the rubble, with only one hand showing, and he was motionless.

Several seconds later, a low, cold laugh echoed from the darkness, as if the prey had finally been convinced that it was incapable of resisting.

The shadows on the ground began to wriggle.

They gathered together, slowly rose, and finally transformed into a human shape. Its entire body was covered by a tattered black cloak, obscuring its face; only its eerie silhouette swayed in the dim light.

"That's Shadow!"

Xiao Ke had somehow flown to the corner of the ceiling, staring at the terrifying figure, her voice trembling.

"It's the strangest of all the Clow Cards. Wherever there's a shadow, that's its territory. That idiot Chiba... actually got hit..."

The Shadow card slowly floated toward the pile of ruins. It extended a claw made of shadow and reached for the head that was crushed underneath, preparing to enjoy this magical feast filled with despair and fear.

By severing the shadow, one can harvest the soul.

"Watch out, it's about to attack!"

Xiao Ke, who was hiding in the corner, couldn't help but scream.

However, Kazama Chiba, who was trapped under the rubble, simply gave the condescending Grim Reaper the middle finger with disdain.

"Got you now."

Click.

It sounded like a mirror shattering.

The body that was being pressed down did not bleed; instead, it disintegrated into countless fragments in a burst of green light.

It turns out that just a moment after she hid in the room, Kazama Chiba summoned the [Mirror] card substitute using a blind spot.

"Varied……"

The [Shadow] card emitted a roar that sounded like astonishment.

Almost at the same time.

"Wind! Blow him out here!"

The real Kazama Chiba rushed out of the seemingly empty room next door.

He brandished the sealing staff, and the ruby ​​at the top of the staff shone brightly.

A violent gust of air slammed into the back of the [Shadow] card like a heavy hammer.

"Gaaaaaahh ...

The Shadow card let out a scream as its black, mist-like body was blasted into pieces.

But it did not die. As a high-ranking magical creature created by Clow Reed, its vitality was astonishingly tenacious.

In the instant it was severely damaged, it turned into a pool of black water and burrowed into the shadow of the carpet like an eel, sliding away more than ten meters in an instant.

He shrank back, trying to blend back into the shadows of the ground and activate Earth Escape.

"Don't even think about running!"

Kazama Chiyu picked up the flashlight from the ground and shone the beam of light wildly at the dark figure.

The most feared thing for a shadow puppet is strong light; that beam of light must be like boiling oil poured on snow to it.

"It's no use!" Xiao Ke shouted as it flew over. "Ordinary light sources can't hurt it at all! It's afraid of strong light! It's invincible in the dark here!"

Indeed, although the shadow shield was burned, it did not lose its fighting ability. On the contrary, the injury aroused its ferocity.

It gave up trying to escape, and its shadow on the ground suddenly swelled up, turning into countless black tentacles, like a group of crazed pythons, lunging at the human holding the flashlight.

"I know this thing isn't bright enough."

Kazama Chiba rolled and dodged in the corridor while yelling at Kero, who was still giving hindsight advice in his pocket.

"But there aren't even any light bulbs on this floor, where am I supposed to find a bright light for you!"

"To the left! That's a blind spot for the shadows!"

While urging him to take cover, Xiao Ke shouted, "Hurry up and think of something! If the flashlight runs out of power, we're really doomed!"

Kazama Chiba kicked away a tentacle that was trying to wrap around his ankle, and with the help of it, leaped to the doorway.

Seeing the elevator, I had an idea.

He glanced at the billboard still waving its arms in the distance, then at the closed elevator door.

Finally, I decided to take a gamble.

Kazama Chiba dodged the black blade sweeping overhead with a sliding tackle, and then flung the [Wind] card in her hand toward the elevator.

"The wind presses the up key!"

The cyan wind sprite whistled away and crashed precisely into the elevator's up button.

The downward arrow turned red.

one second.

two seconds.

The elevator doors began to slowly slide open to both sides.

at the same time.

Kazama Chiba used himself as bait. He stopped dodging and stood in the middle of the corridor, raising his middle finger at the black shadow that had reformed.

The Shadow card let out an angry roar, transforming into a giant black python that opened its blood-red maw and pounced with an aura of devouring everything.

Nearly.

closer.

Just as that huge mouth was about to bite him.

Kazama Chiba suddenly leaned backward, sliding along the ground towards the elevator entrance.

That was a precisely calculated distance.

The elevator doors are fully open.

The dazzling white light inside the elevator car poured out instantly, like a waterfall of holy light washing over the sinful corridor.

However, when Kazama Chiba slid to the doorway, preparing to lure the monster chasing after her inside, her pupils suddenly contracted to the size of pinpoints.

Because at the very center of that light, right now, stood a girl wearing an eye patch, dressed in a school uniform, holding an umbrella, striking that shameful "Evil King's True Eye" fighting pose.

Little Bird Swims Among Six Flowers.

"Is this the final battleground?!"

As soon as she uttered the line, she saw an enlarged, grotesque black ghost face lunging at her.

Kazama Chiba had no idea why this girl would come up here, and why at this particular time.

But there's no time to think logically right now.

The signboard was already out of control; it stiffened for a moment when it was hit by the light, but the momentum still carried it headfirst into the elevator.

If it were to collide with Rikka, this fragile human girl would be torn to shreds in an instant.

Kazama Chiba originally intended to sidestep and let [Shadow] rush in, but there were already people inside.

He twisted his waist forcefully while gliding, and his whole body rushed into the elevator like a cannonball. He slammed his shoulder into Rikka, sending her and her umbrella flying out of the elevator car and crashing onto the carpet outside.

"Ouch!"

Rikka let out a cry of pain and rolled several times before stopping.

Using the recoil from the impact, Kazama Chiba rolled to the side and clung to the side wall of the carriage.

"grumble--!!!"

The shadow sign rushed in.

But this is its end.