"Hah!"

The knife easily pierced the erect beast in front of it, stained red with green blood. It seems that it is some kind of peculiar youkai, like an erect wild man, covered in long brown hair, covering the whole body, but the outline of the body can be roughly discerned, not like a hairball.

This creature, or youkai, has no intelligence, and its vitality is quite tenacious. Piercing the chest, it was useless, and the long hair grabbed the blade directly and dragged it towards itself, trying to forcibly snatch the knife away.

"Don't think!"

She let go of her hand and smashed her elbow into the hilt with all her might, and the force that Long Hair wanted to take away the knife turned into a helping hand to dismember herself.

Along the part of the stab, Jing Yue's knife flipped upward, easily cutting her hand and upper body in half, she jumped up and caught her own knife.

The monster didn't spew green blood or make any noise, except for a few brown fingers that landed on the ground.

The body slowly turned into black ashes and fell to the ground.

"It worked..."

Erli withdrew the Jingyue knife and breathed repeatedly, calming the heart that was about to jump out of her throat.

The commission I received from that village before is considered to be completed, and I should be able to get some payment.

More than twenty days have passed since the burial of Hara Kazuzawa, and Elle has chosen to rely on commissions within the village to get paid, most of which are to get rid of the monsters or beasts that often attack the village.

That day, Ellie killed an animal. Not deliberately, but a physical reflex similar to instinct.

It was the constant call for power in her head that drove her body to maintain a pristine sense of killing. The creature turned to ashes, which really startled Ellie, who thought it was the effect of the knife.

But then, when the ashes were gone, I felt an inexplicable sense of pleasure, not only physically, but also spiritually.

The sound of shouting in her head was reflected in Ellie's memory, and it was really unforgettable. But this pleasure immediately alleviated the torture and whipping that this memory gave her, and her body felt lighter.

She probably guessed the question between fast and slow.

It's nothing more than the difference between absolute cruelty and relative cruelty, to see if you really want to be a real demon or a "monster" who wantonly slaughters her kind.

After mixing purple back, she told purple about it seriously. Purple also thought about it for a long time, she knew Erli's difficulties, although the latter was only nine months younger than her, but her nature was still childlike kindness.

After thinking about it, Purple gave Ellie a piece of advice: go kill the youkai, but the ones who often raid the village. If she kills these monsters, the humans in the village will not deliberately be hostile to her, and the powerful monsters will not deliberately trouble her.

So, she disguised herself as an exorcist and began to go to various villages to rid of demons. In this wonderful era, monsters are rampant and beast attacks are not uncommon. Therefore, in every village you visit, you can basically find a commission.

Ellie picked up the fingers that had fallen on the ground and prepared to put them in the space. But the smell of her fingers made her think about it, and she found a few more fallen leaves, wrapped them, and held them in her hands.

After dealing with the monster, you have to take something off it, otherwise the convincing power of just talking about it is too low.

After walking for half an hour, Ellie arrived at a small village.

"The youkai was killed by me, and this is its finger"

Walking to the largest thatched hut, she handed the fingers wrapped in leaves to the old man sitting inside.

The old man hurriedly took it, unfurled the leaves, and saw that it was the hairy monster's finger, and thanked Erlie in fear.

“……

Needless to say... My remuneration. ”

She didn't want to spend too much time here, so she directly asked the old man for the reward for slaying the youkai. He also knew not to delay the time of the exorcist in front of him too much, in case he encountered a monster again and offended the exorcist, and the people in the village were afraid that they would die without a place to bury.

Sad times.

He took half a piece of jerky and a small bag of rice, and left the village. The people of the village came out to see Elle off.

There are many old people, not many young people, and only two children.

Longhair attacks villages every winter, abducting young people and children, then disappears for a year, and then attacks villages in winter. The cavern it was in was filled with human skulls, leaving only the flesh around the eyeball and the eyeball itself.

After walking for a while, Ellie felt that no one was watching her, so she used her magic to crack a gap.

That's right, it's a gap, but it's just a crack, and you can't open the gap at all and see what it looks like inside. This kind of expansion is similar to a signal, an intersital signal that only realm monsters can feel, so the space will only fluctuate for a while, and there will be no change.

The ability to use the realm is easy for Yakumo Murasaki, but for Erli, it is no less than one step to the sky.

First of all, the nature of Yakumo Purple's demonic power is the realm, and the use of it is just an act of thought, and the demon like Erli is just pure magic.

Secondly, the composition of demonic power is different from that of demonic power, and magical power is a completely unfamiliar power system to youkai.

It is up to Elle herself to transform her magic into the nature of her demonic power, and then through her own understanding, into what she looks like in the gaps. It's a hassle and a lot of patience.

Also, she uses the knife as a basis to cast the realm.

The magic on the knife is very strange, it is the same magical nature as Erli, but it is much calmer than her strength, and it is also the source of the terrifying power that Yakumo Zi feels. As if proving to the knife wasn't enough, the magic wasn't returned to Elle herself.

In the end, Aery's magic is very low.

She tends to have a melee mentality, and doesn't value the accumulation of mana itself. In addition, Yakumo Purple has basically exercised his demonic power since he was a child, constantly making it huge. It had only been less than a month since Erri felt her magic.

There is currently only one Yakumo Purple in the realm, so this can be regarded as directly telling Yakumo Purple and the location of Elle.

After a while, Purple came, and Elle handed her the piece of venison and rice, and stepped into the gap together.

After a turn of scenes, the two of them came out of the gap and came to a room.

Yakumo found an abandoned hut and hung it on the mountainside. Because of the collapse, the house was made of stones on two sides, a gable, and a small rock clearing in front of it, and a cliff seven or eight meters ahead.

The house was designed by Ellie's previous memories. Upon entering the door is a mat filled with animal skins and thatch. In front of the mat is a fire kang, similar to the design of a fireplace, capable of cooking things

At the same time, the smoke is discharged from the chimney. Further inside, there are two sets of beds with thatch underneath.

Why is it always thatched? Because the temperature of the stone varies too much.

"I'm back..."

"I'm back."

The two greeted the house and prepared for lunch.

"Leigh? How are you today? ”

Purple took out the jerky and rice and asked about Elle.

She was afraid that Elle would become a murderous monster, not the youkai she imagined to be between good and evil. Now Zizhen takes care of Erli like her own sister, and she is really afraid that the simple Erli will become a vassal of this filthy era.

Luckily, Elle knows her own senses. She will only pick on the monsters who slaughter the villagers, and the rest is usually to help the villagers get rid of some wild beasts. Therefore, the current Erli is still so simple, simple and righteous.

"Not bad, Purple. That long hair is really hard to toss, and if you are not careful, the wound caused to it will heal. ”

She soaked the jerky in water, sprinkled some salt and spices into the jar, and began to cook the broth.

"Fortunately, its weakness was suddenly discovered, which was that its heart would move erratically to stay unharmed. When a knife counterattacked, it slashed right where the heart passed. ”

"Luck?"

"No, I guessed it was going to kill me when it wanted to take the weapon. So I was relieved to move my heart back, and the result was exactly what I calculated. ”

She was like a child showing her grades to her parents, babbling about what it was like to fight. Her fighting instincts are constantly increasing, and she is facing youkai who are usually murderous, so each one is a test of the knife and heart.

Every time she wins a game and turns the opposite monster into ashes, Ellie's instincts and abilities are constantly improving. The reserves of mana can support themselves and adjust to the mana control gap.

"How's that long hair?"

Finally taking advantage of the gap between Erli and taking down the soup can that was boiling on the fire, Yakumo finally interjected.

Hearing this, Ellie's expression showed a slight disgust, and then she took the jar out.

"That's a murderer... And has a habit of being too disgusting.

The human body was only eaten into a skeleton by it, except for the eye.

When I found its nest, the smell made me vomit, it was so bad. ”

As she spoke, she swallowed her saliva to suppress the discomfort in her heart.

After hearing this, Zi was also a little disgusted, so she hurriedly changed the topic.

"How does it feel to solve a commission?"

"Well, that's good."

Ellie divided the food and made two bowls of soup with jerky. The rest was put in a jar and watched in the evening ready to be cooked with rice.

"The people in that village are working so hard... Those old people either have no children or no granddaughters, and most of them are both.

It was fortunate that they had killed the longhair, otherwise they would have attacked the village in a day or two. ”

"Hmm. Well done, Leigh. ”

Ellie smiled shyly, her little white face stained with a hint of red, making her look even more cute.

"When you're done eating, send me around. I'm going to continue looking for a commission, and one less youkai who does all kinds of evil is one. ”

"I see, Leigh. In case something happens, feel like contact me. ”

"yes, I know."