"What you learned there!"

Uesugi Kiyoshi frowned in disgust.

Refuge is a Buddhist term, and Uesugi Kiyoshi doesn't like Buddhism very much, so he doesn't like it well.

He rubbed his palm, and his mind communicated with the idol in the mirage building, and he didn't think much about it.

Speaking of which, he has not yet acquired a transcendent believer in the true sense of the word—he means this life.

But... He really has the experience of fooling people, so he won't be blind.

The mirage condensed, turning into a ghost fire and floating in the air.

The moonlight suddenly darkened, and there was a faint silver glow blooming behind Uesugi Kiyoshi.

In the dark night, a little fluorescent light up.

It was a star map.

Behind Uesugi Kiyoshi, there seems to be an endless sea of stars shining, which is breathtaking.

This is... Uesugi Kiyoshi's Sea of Gods.

Fujimura Chiba was impressed by this vision, and looked at the sea of stars in amazement, and couldn't help but be attracted by the most shining star in it.

Among Uesugi Kiyoshi's sea of stars, the most dazzling one is, of course, his own life star.

That's the star that represents the Lord of the Hundred Ghosts!

Taking a step forward, the milky white light filled Kiyoshi Uesugi's palm.

Gently covering the back of Fujimura Chiba's head, the restless sarcoma like a snake trembled under his touch, not daring to make any abnormal moves.

The ethereal voice seemed to come from the starry sky, and it hit the depths of Fujimura Chiba's heart.

"Listen to me, and pray as I pray."

“...”

"He is the Lord of Tokyo."

The phantom of the unruly young man with sword eyebrows and star eyes, a kimono and a sharp blade loom in the sea of stars behind Uesugi Kiyoshi.

"He is the uncrowned king of the sword and the life and death."

The blade is unsheathed, and the sword light is horizontally pressed against the starlight.

"He is a refuge for the weak and the good."

"He is the death bell for demons and gods and for evil."

The young man, who was like a god, set his eyes on the already stunned Fujimura Chiba, making her a thrilling, irrepressible feeling of reverence surging madly in the bottom of her heart.

She's now... I just want to kneel down and bow down to the person in front of me... No, at the feet of the gods in front of you.

Chiba Fujimura can be sure just by the trembling sensation coming from the sarcoma at the back of his head that the owner of that majestic and sudden look is probably a... God!

“...”

"He lives forever in the mirror, an eternity above a mirage."

The mirage building rises from the ground, and the ghost ship floats in the air, just like the Qionglou Yuyu in the sky, not like the world.

"He is the one who set off the grand scene of a hundred ghosts walking at night, and slashed all the ghosts..."

"The saint of the sword, the lord of the hundred ghosts!"

As the last sentence was finished, one figure after another suddenly appeared.

It's all very familiar.,Frequent visitors to Uesugi Kiyoshi's Hyakki picture scroll.。

The ghost king of the great rivers and mountains is drunk and singing, one big and one small, the two lords of the barren river are walking against the water, and the demon knife kills? The green lantern snatches the soul? Inujin guards and is on his side, in the snowy sky? Petite girl in blue? Accompanied by the gods.

The lines of each figure made the pressure on Fujimura Chiba's heart a little heavier.

Wait until the Hundred Ghost Scroll unfolds? The phantom of the Hyakki's nocturnal walk bloomed behind Uesugi Kiyoshi.

Fujimura Chiba had already subconsciously knelt on the ground and kowtowed deeply.

"Please... Please redeem me. ”

What is she muttering? But I'm afraid she doesn't know what she's muttering.

And Uesugi Kiyoshi felt it clearly.

A power of faith that is much stronger than that of mortals? Like a trickle, it merges into his sea of stars.

And in the sea of his gods, another star lit up.

"It's finished."

Uesugi Kiyoshi looked at Chiba Fujimura with a steady gaze, and his eyes softened a lot.

Because of this girl's belief in herself? More religious than he thought.

Maybe it was because he saved her? It may also be the light stained with apricots, of course, Uesugi Kiyoshi's attitude and display of force may also play a role.

Uesugi Kiyoshi put his hand away? Smile.

But Fujimura Chiba was still immersed in the shock just now, and did not come back to his senses.

The pressure of the Ghost King? The majesty of the gods, the sharpness of the sword? have left indelible marks in her heart.

After all, she is just a female high school student who lives a difficult life and suffers in dire straits every day.

The phantom of the kingdom of God just now? It was enough to make her heart flutter.

Chiba Fujimura stood for five minutes? The soul has returned.

"Kami Sama!!"

She's so excited - and now she's? I'm afraid I can understand a little bit why that woman took religion as the basis of her life.

Beliefs, gods, for ordinary people, there is a great, incomprehensible attraction.

Of course, the premise is that this god can't be created by those third-rate tricks that swagger and deceive and shatter at the slightest touch.

The shock of the soul just now, the suppression of the life level, and the sense of surrender that is frantically clamoring in the heart are not things that can be faked.

Unlike the scammer that the woman met...

What I encountered...

It's true, Lord God!

The face of the god just now was haunted by the mist, and he couldn't see it really, but his temperament and body shape, and even the eyes of the sword drawn, were exactly the same as the predecessors who saved him in front of him.

Could it be...

Is this the human walk of the gods, or is it the gods themselves?

Messy thoughts filled Chiwa Fujimura's mind, and even Kyoko helped her up, unconsciously.

It was Kiyoshi Uesugi's outstretched palm that interrupted her thoughts.

A small statue appeared in front of her eyes.

"Take it back, Morning and Twilight Prayer, if you feel that you can't control the thing behind your head, pray sincerely, your own power will help you suppress it."

Fujimura Chiba is like a treasure, holding it in the palm of his hand.

"Yes! I see, Kami Sama. ”

Her eyes when she looked at Uesugi Kiyoshi were already full of fanaticism.

Uesugi Kiyoshi was noncommittal about the title of Kamimei-sama, he just raised an eyebrow.

"Okay, now it's time to tell me what's going on with the demonic energy on your body, right?"

"It doesn't look like you were born, what, did you provoke something unclean?"

When Fujimura Chiwa heard this, a complicated hatred flashed in his eyes.

"It's... It's since I was a kid. ”

"From the moment that woman started believing in a cult..."

"She's changed, her former gentleness is gone, she's crazy about dedicating everything to that cult..."

"I don't remember that day..."

"When she came back from a visit, her gaze changed when she looked at me."

"Became cold and excited, irritable and eager to try."

"She kept me in a cage and didn't give me food... He spoke ill of me, whipped me from time to time, and recited strange incantations to me. ”

"I don't know how long it took..."

"I think there's an extra piece of foreign body in the back of my head."

"I can't see it, I can't touch it, but I do exist!"

"It's just..."

"What you see, make me like this, culprit!"