33. Profiteers are fiercer than ghosts
The boy was inexplicably forcibly left behind by a strange caravan. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
It's nighttime, and the mountain road is a little scary.
"That's really ......," the boy lay on the mat provided by the caravan and looked up at the moon.
After calming down and thinking about it, the boy thought of many things.
Speaking of which, this caravan was very strange from the start.
Not to mention the strange reaction of those people, the appearance of a caravan in such a remote place alone is very suspicious in itself.
It stands to reason that demons have been haunting the places so frequently lately that it is impossible for even the most daring businessmen to risk their lives to come out to transport goods.
Also, a caravan actually only brought a dozen guards, and it is estimated that a slightly larger number of monsters will be swallowed. Why do you still have the courage to travel?
Furthermore, why would they choose such a remote mountain road...... If it's for safety, there should be a better way to read it......
The most important thing is...... That ordinary-looking captain can actually suppress a teenager?
The young man's strength he knew best, and he was more than capable of pulling several ox carts, but the fat captain easily imprisoned him.
In this way, there is definitely something wrong with this caravan, at least not as ordinary as it seems on the surface......
[Wait] the teenager noticed something.
He took the map out of his bag and compared it with where he had encountered the caravan during the day.
"Yang is in the direction of the south, and this departure direction is the right one...... But why is the route forward to the southwest? Kyoto should be in the northwest. ”
"Walking like this, it's obvious that it's not a business."
"Not a business......?"
The boy's face changed suddenly.
[Must leave immediately!] The boy grabbed the black knife and ran out without looking back!
Because just now, he remembered a rumor.
The [Ghost Caravan] that haunts the mountains tricks pedestrians into buying disguised spells, and then curses pedestrians to death with a huge amount of resentment. After that, the "parts" on the corpses of pedestrians are collected and continue to be made into spells.
Don't think about it anymore, judging from the bad luck of the teenager, this time it definitely hit the right body.
"Damn...... It's hard stubble! The boy ran through the grove with a black knife.
"Sir, why are you in such a hurry?"
The voice that was absolutely impossible came, and the young man looked solemnly at the bearded fat man in front of him, and said with great certainty: "You are not human. ”
Absolutely not human. Because he appeared out of nowhere under the nose of a teenager.
"Sir, you will be very distressing to me like this." The captain's fat face was still smiling, but the boy looked at the captain solemnly.
[I feel it.] 】
In the field of vision that normal people can't see, the young man can clearly "see" that the captain's body is gradually overflowing with purple-black demonic energy.
The fat captain, who had completely turned into a demon, opened his eyes flashing with scarlet evil energy, looked at the young man and roared, "You actually don't buy anything!" Still thinking about running away!! ”
"I'll give you one last chance! You use your organs to buy my stuff! Otherwise, you will die! With a wave of his hand, the captain stepped out of several clothed skeleton racks, and the sharp-eyed teenager could recognize that this was the outfit of the daytime guard.
The various items that the skeletons hold in their hands are the precious jewels of the day.
But in the perception of teenagers, the things in their hands are unimaginable.
The pearl of the night has become a bloody human head, the gold necklace has become a poisonous snake, the pearl agate has become a variety of poisonous insects, and the porcelain has become a woman's hand.
"As a result, I was nosy and wanted to save a bunch of youkai." The boy laughed to himself.
Behind the demonized captain is the legendary [Ghost Caravan].
Skeletons guard a huge four-legged ugly beast made of human skin. The "cargo" pulled by the ugly beast was a blood-stained wooden coffin.
Inside the coffin, various human organs were placed haphazardly, and the stumps were piled up like a hill in the coffin.
Such a terrifying ghost caravan can almost scare people to death.
But the boy just laughed: "Hahaha! Do you mean let me buy buy buy ”
Captain Ghost's scarlet eyes narrowed into two red lines: "So, you're going to buy it?" ”
"Even if I buy it, if I encounter such a terrible spell, I will be strangled with resentment in an instant. Then you make more spells out of my corpse. It's really a profiteer, and he has no capital to buy and sell. The young man carried the black knife and said with a smile: "My decision is to refuse this forced shopping, how about it?" ”
"Then you will die!" Captain Ghost grinned and floated onto the ugly beast, then continued to merge into the ugly beast's body, and then only showed his face.
The captain, who has turned into a part of the ugly beast, directs the ghost caravan to attack the boy with the only remaining face.
The number of skeletons that had somehow become very large approached the boy with a knife, but the boy didn't see it.
"Just these miscellaneous fish skeletons? You think too much of me. The boy flew out and slashed at the nearest skeleton, scattering the scattered skeletons.
Yes, very weak. The skeletons were so weak that they didn't even have the urge to get the boy to make a move.
But the boy looked solemnly at the huge six-meter-tall ugly beast, the face of the ghost captain on the ugly beast was constantly commanding, and more skeletons kept crawling out of the coffin pulled by the ugly beast.
In the completely endless tug-of-war, almost infinite skeletons poured in like a tide, and the boy could only keep wielding a black knife to clean up the approaching skeletons.
But the teenager is still a human being, and his physical strength is always limited.
Even if it's mowing, endless mowing can be tiring.
"That's the problem...... "The boy slashed at the approaching skeleton with a few swords, taking the moment to look at the ugly beast's face.
Just rip this face off, and this endless tide of skeletons will end.
But for a moment when the boy was stunned, a skeleton behind him silently grabbed a spell and threw it at the boy.
"What! Damn it! The boy flashed sideways with the flying spell, and after being thrown to the ground by the curse that aroused his resentment, the monstrous resentment wrapped around a large number of skeletons like tentacles.
With a crisp cracking sound, the struggling skeletons all stopped struggling and turned to powder.
"Shhhh......h As the boy was shocked by the horror of the spells, more spells flew towards him.
The boy dodged the flying spell in embarrassment: "Damn it......"
These curses, as long as they are touched by humans, are instant death, and teenagers are no exception.
After the boy dodged the spell to a dead end, the ugly beast, which had no motive, suddenly opened its sewn mouth, and a foul smell came from its mouth.
Then, the purple-black demonic aura suddenly erupted!
A large black streamer flew past the boy's right shoulder, and due to the timely dodge, the boy's right shoulder was lifted in its entirety.
"Uh-huh!" Once again, the indescribable pain echoed in the boy's mind.
The temporarily incapacitated boy rolls into the woods and hides in the intricate woods.
Looking at the boy fleeing into the woods, the face of the ugly beast made a voice completely different from that of a human with its distorted mouth.
Disgusting voices formed the skeletons' commands, and the skeletons began to approach the woods.
And the young man who quickly hid in a certain tree, endured the pain, took out a super-large charm from the bag behind his back, and his right shoulder, which had lost more than half of it, slowly grew back in the faint light.
"That's pretty ruthless...... "The boy looked at his regrown shoulders with some self-deprecation.
In these days, it's hard to be a good person.
Also, profiteers are fiercer than ghosts.
The young man clutched his right shoulder, which was still a little painful, and thought: [The only way to solve the ghost caravan now is to destroy that subject, that is, that human face! 】
[Then the tricky question is, I don't have anything to restrain the ghosts at hand, and if I touch it, I will most likely be cursed to death......] The young man touched his right shoulder and thought bitterly.
Wait a minute.
The boy touched his right hand thoughtfully......
[Wait a minute...... My right hand now...... It seems to be a pure aura product! 】
That's right, at that time, the boy lost his right hand during the battle with the moon wolf, and later reinstalled an aura arm by the hand of the onmyoji.
In this world, there must be "aura" in [the most restrained ghostly thing].
Even when facing Prajna at that time, the boy couldn't remember his aura arm.
If you use such a high-purity aura right hand to punch Prajna, you might be able to disperse the demons on the spot and destroy Prajna to ashes......
[Maybe...... Feasible! 】
The boy's right hand was clenched.
[In the next round, I'll completely solve you!!] 】
The skeleton that had been looking for the boy suddenly heard a noise, and the boy who jumped from the tree trampled several skeletons with all his might!
Then the boy kept running in the direction of the ugly beast! All the skeletons that stood in the way were all slashed by the boy's constant slashing!
Later, the boy like the god of wind didn't even use a knife, and directly relied on the huge impact force to blast everything that stood in the way!
Blood is boiling!
Even if the endless skeletons stood in front of the young man, the bones kept hitting the young man's face, and the cold knife-like wind blew all over the young man's body, the young man still felt his blood boiling!
The figure of the boy gradually exceeded the limits of human beings, and there was a faint piercing crackling sound, leaving an afterimage that seemed to scorch the air.
You can already see the huge body of the ugly beast! The teenager instantly converted the huge impact force into a booster force, and kicked his feet with all his might!
There was a bang, and the ground was dented!
At a speed completely unimaginable to the ugly beast, the boy flew out of the forest.
That's right, it just flew out, like a meteor under the moon.
The young man who was about to appear in the afterimage instantly bowed down in the air, dodging the panicked and crazy breath of all the ugly beasts.
Then, the boy's right hand mercilessly penetrated the ugly beast's body, grabbing the face of the ghost captain.
Kicking the body of the ugly beast with both feet, the boy uses the body of the ugly beast as a point of borrowing, exerting all his strength and struggling to pull the human face out with his bare hands!
"Ahhh The boy roared wildly and pulled the ghost captain out of the ugly beast's body!
With the withdrawal of the ghost captain, all the monsters disappeared completely like a fantasy.
The ugly beast is gone, the coffin is gone, the skeleton is gone.
The young man's right hand held high the ghost captain who had lost his demonic power, and there was no trace of emotion in his eyes.
The struggling Oni Captain found himself unable to break free from the boy's arm, and turned back into a human form and begged, "Please let me go!" I'll never do anything bad again! ”
The boy tilted his head, thought for a while, and finally said to the ghost captain, "No. ”
"I don't believe the words of profiteers."
The sound of flesh, muscles, and bones being cut, and the demon's blood completely stained the ground black.
"Profiteers are fiercer than ghosts." The boy said thoughtfully.
The boy threw away the dead body, which had been completely deprived of life, and turned away without hesitation.
The boy's journey is coming to an end, and in this last stretch of distance, will there be an accident?
Even the boy himself can't say for sure, but the boy only needs to know one thing.
I am the messenger of the letter, and I must deliver the letter on time, and all the ghosts who stand in the way will be killed.