Bang –

With a loud bang, the firelight bloomed across the wasteland.

It was the flash of a grenade bursting fire.

Explosives and fragments carry spiritual power and burst out around the autumn leaves.

One, two, three, a salvo, more than twenty shells fell densely on the small area where the autumn leaves were, and for a while, the whole world was like daylight, and the sun in the center of the light was the autumn leaves.

“！！！”

Momiji looked confused.

What is this?

Where did these things come from?

Well? This seems to have been mentioned by Nobunaga before...... Now is not the time to think about that!

The Shadow Hand beside her tried to protect Momiji, but the hot flames and high-speed fragments broke through the Shadow Hand's defenses in an instant, piercing Momiji's clothes.

Momiji was ragged, and she wanted to use the ability of [Twist], but each cannonball was an independent individual, and even if she wanted to twist, she couldn't do it when it was covered by cannonfire.

In that case, I had no choice but to run.

Momiji rushed in one direction, but the next moment, she heard some kind of sharp voice.

In the base of the Soul Slayer, a slender white object flew into the sky.

It's missiles.

“？？？”

Are these humans crazy?

Momiji had barely moved ten meters before the missile caught up with her and exploded.

On the flat ground, a mushroom cloud rose.

Qiao Qiao glanced behind him and mourned for a moment for the red leaves.

From the base, several Soul Killers dressed similarly to Qiao Qiao's, but with slightly different production-ready Hell Frontier armor, flew out.

"Commissar Qiao, leave the rest to us."

It turned out to be Shinki Maki from Shimogamo Shrine, and their armor was dominated by red and white, highlighting elements such as scarlet hakama and white clothes, as well as kagura bells.

And everyone is loaded with a different weapon.

Ryoko Kitagawa, for example, is equipped with a high-power power hammer and an explosion-proof shield that is strong enough to withstand a direct blow from Shiva's dance.

Hashimoto Kotone is a high-powered yang cannon that snipers at a distance of more than five kilometers.

Nanase also controls more than twenty drones equipped with floating cannons, gathering in the direction where Momiji is.

The Soul Removal Tactical Squad, codenamed Duck, is the name of the squad of these shrine maidens today.

"Understood, hard work."

Qiao Qiao saluted them and quickly returned to the base.

He went straight to the command room.

"Put it here."

Professor Taketori saw the girl in Qiao Qiao's arms, his expression changed slightly, and he asked him to put it on the stretcher he had just prepared.

On the other side, in the sunken ground that had been melted by the heat and condensed into a glass-like surface again, Momiji stretched out a hand and tried to crawl out.

She didn't have any clothes on her anymore.

To be precise, most of Momiji's body has been evaporated.

Now, her whole body is burned by flames and spiritual power, and she has changed from the original beauty to a charred person without intact skin.

Momiji, who had only one hand left, gritted his teeth, struggled, cursed, and wanted to escape.

But the muzzle of the black hole hole ...... The muzzle of the gun was aimed at her.

Momiji raised his head.

Several Soul Slayers, dressed in similar armor as Qiao Qiao, were surrounding him.

Farther away, in the sky, numerous drones with artillery mounted on them were also aiming at this side.

"Can I choose to surrender?"

Momiji asked hoarsely.

......

“...... This body is inferred from its bone age and is approximately equal to that of a twenty-year-old female in humans. ”

“...... Internal organs, bones and other characteristics, no different from humans. ”

“...... It's just that this body has no vital signs, and the brain is in a state of inactivation, but strangely, unlike ordinary corpses, she is not decomposed, as if time on it has stood still. ”

“...... What the hell is this? ”

Masaharu Ii looked at the report in his hand, slightly confused.

He looked up at the dead girl across the glass.

In the wards of the base, the corpse that Qiao Qiao picked up from the crack in hell was lying quietly in a separate isolation ward.

The current time is four o'clock in the morning according to human Pacific time.

Have you ever seen hell at four in the morning?

Masaharu Ii didn't sleep all night, and all his attention was on this corpse.

The words "moon reading" on the coffin are reverie.

The automatic door to the observation room opened, and Professor Taketori yawned and held a lollipop in her hand as she approached Masahru Ii and glanced at the report.

"Professor Taketori, do you have any impression of this thing?"

Masaharu Ii asked.

"Well, this one, although I had a guess before, I actually had to look at the inspection report to determine it."

Professor Taketori took apart the lollipop and licked it, it was strawberry-flavored.

"Jing Yi-kun, you know that gods sometimes transform into other forms for various reasons."

She pulled a chair and sat down.

"For example, I have carried out such a transformation process, from a god to a legend, weakening the authority, but retaining the existence, such a process, Jing Yijun, do you know what needs to be prepared?"

Massaharu Ii looked at Professor Taketori thoughtfully.

"Professor, you mean, this is the body that some adult has prepared to transform his state?"

Linked to the words on the coffin, Ii Masaharu suddenly figured out a lot of things.

"It's very possible, even if it's not the moon reading god, it could be a similar existence."

Professor Taketori stuffed the lollipop into his mouth and said slightly slurred.

"The gods will first create a body that can carry their own power, and then carry out various arrangements and transformations, and finally let their will enter that body, and this process may last for decades, even hundreds or even thousands of years, depending on the person of the god itself."

"Then, the gods lose most of their authority, which will return to the planet, and the rest will be contained in the body, walking the earth in the form of legends."

"Of course, during this period, there may also be various accidents, such as being discovered by the enemy, or failing because of their own lack of faith, so that the gods fall, their authority is lost, and their bodies have no masters, and such bodies will soon rot due to the loss of strength."

"There is also a special situation where there is a deviation in the transformation process, resulting in incomplete transformation, either losing his memory and becoming an ordinary person with great power, or turning into a mortal and spending his life."

"This body, probably there was a problem in the transformation process, that's why it's lying here."

Professor Taketori took the lollipop out of his mouth.

"But...... Do you read it monthly...... Was it true that He was on the verge of falling in an ancient war, had to transform his existence, and finally failed? What does the ghost girl Momiji want this body to do? ”

She looked at the wall, and in the cell not far away, the ghost girl Momiji was imprisoned.