"Smack."

The crisp sound of the epaulettes was like raindrops falling into a pool of stagnant water, waking the Minister of War Terauchi Masashi from his silence, and his ears were suddenly able to hear the sounds around him again.

He subconsciously reached out and touched his shoulder, it was a slimy, unsettling touch, at least not like an ordinary droplet.

Withdrawing his right hand and taking a closer look, half of his palm was already red.

Shoyi in the temple trembled slightly, obviously it was cold when he first started, but now he felt that it was red, hotter than fire.

He looked up with a sense of feeling, just in time to meet a face that was sixty percent like him, and that was dead.

The sixty-six-year-old army general's eyes shook violently, and then the whole person became stunned.

The dead was his third son, who had left the army out of a sense of justice and had come to serve in the Metropolitan Police Department, but now he was strangely nailed to the ceiling by a cold saber, and the cold blood rolled down Sen Han's blade, and even some of it had condensed on the blade.

There was an indescribable horror in the eyes that had watched the ocean from the battleship, and his mouth was wide open as if he was shouting something to his father, but he could no longer speak.

Suddenly, Masaki Terauchi felt the sound of something breaking in his head, and everything in front of him spun around.

By the time he regained consciousness, he had been helped by a group of War Department subordinates to sit in a nearby chair.

Alert Director Eizaburo Kamei stood directly in front of him with his head hanging down, his head covered in cold sweat that almost soaked through his uniform.

He didn't expect that someone would be so bold as to dare to attack the Metropolitan Police Department and slaughter the senior cadres of the Metropolitan Police Department!

That's right, it's a massacre. And there are more than 50 killings in one shot, which is not an exaggeration to call it the first major case since the Meiji era!

The entire hall on the second floor is already a doomsday atmosphere at this moment.

In addition to the corpses and beach blood that even the army could not bear to look at, the walls around it were studded with broken saber fragments and bullets, and in addition to this, several inexplicable marks remained on the marble columns, so large and deep that they almost cut one in two.

It is hard to imagine what kind of weapons the enemy is holding to fight the police.

"My lord, the matter of Reiro ......" Kamei Eizaburo was about to explain to the cabinet member who had lost his son, but was stopped by the other party with a gentle wave of his hand.

"I'll talk about it later, now let's talk about the important thing first, I'm going to attack at dawn to give His Majesty an explanation."

Terauchi Masaki's face was expressionless, but his moist eyes revealed his grief.

It's just that as a representative of the military, he is not suitable to express his grief on this occasion, so he can only do business first, "How are the doctors examining, and has the other party left a living mouth?" ”

"Most of the people didn't leave a whole body, they died on the spot, and the enemy didn't intend to leave a living mouth in the first place."

Eizaburo Kamei remembered the appearance of those corpses, and his stomach rolled violently, and something was constantly rising upward.

"Luckily, my assistant was pierced in the chest, but he escaped by avoiding the point, only missing an arm."

Compared to the tragic fate of others, it is indeed lucky to lose only one arm.

"Left and right right?" Terauchi Zhengyi's eyebrows moved slightly.

"The hand with the gun."

Eizaburo Kamei lowered his head.

"......" Terauchi Masaki was silent for a while, "Although the timing is not very good, we don't have much time. Can he speak now? ”

"As a soldier and the highest commander at the time, he had to speak."

Eizaburo Kamei bowed, "I'm going to get the doctor awake and ask him what's going on here." ”

"Wait."

Terauchi Masaki stopped him, then stood up with the back of the chair, his chin tightened into a tough arc, and said unquestionably, "I'll go with you." ”

……

Twenty minutes later.

"Are you sure he says he's a member of the Demon Slayer? Or do you speculate based on your clothes. ”

Masaki Terauchi asked again, "And, he's the only one? With a knife, against fifty-four policemen? ”

Just kidding, that's thirty guns and twenty-four sabers.

Not to mention one person, even if the Shinsengumi were resurrected before the Meiji era, a few people would have to die.

As a result, this guy actually said that this bloody massacre was actually just one person's "masterpiece".

Masaki Terauchi, who returned from studying abroad, felt that this was simply a fantasy.

Either the assistant to the warning director had taken too much anesthetic, or he had a problem with his ears.

"That's right, he said it himself. That swordsman claims to be the Wind Pillar of the Ghost Slayer, the strongest swordsman......"

The assistant superintendent leaned on the zero-hour hospital bed in the duty room, his face was pale due to excessive blood loss, and his expression was full of humiliation and fear.

"He was holding a patrol officer in his hand as a threat, so I ordered the officer with the knife to come forward and take it down."

"I don't know what happened ...... the result"

He gestured with his remaining arm, "He obviously only swung a knife a few meters away, but it set off a gust of wind like a gust of air, and the police officers who approached him were stopped and cut off......"

"Then I ordered everyone to shoot, but that guy used a hostage as a meat shield, and when he got close to us, he couldn't be restrained anymore."

"You've all seen what happened after that."

As he spoke, he lowered his head in some fear, remembering the scene at that time, and his body instinctively trembled.

"All I saw was a bullet from him. If you want me to say, where is the thing that people can do...... That guy is a monster ......"

No wonder there was a young man dressed as a patrol officer with bullet holes all over his body, and now he was finally explained.

When Masaki Terauchi heard this, he suddenly fell silent.

When he talked to Yaoya on the phone in the afternoon, he had already introduced him to the organization of the Demon Slayer.

So the word pillar, he is not unfamiliar, can probably be understood as the meaning of the general.

It's just that when communicating on the phone, the other party promised several times that the ghost killing team would never harm humans, and showed a very willing attitude of cooperating to investigate the truth of the accident, and invited him to Fujixi Mountain to witness the existence of ghosts, but he didn't agree yet.

It turned out that it was less than a few hours before this happened in the evening.

What is this?

He turned his head to look at Eizaburo Kamei, who was standing behind him: "Are all those ghost killers who have been locked up running away?" ”

"Not only the prisoners of the ghost killing team, but all the prisoners in the Metropolitan Police Department have disappeared. According to the police officers who inspected it, the iron bars of the various prisons were violently cut, and the Japanese wheel knife they said was used to kill demons, and they were also taken away, and not a single one was left. ”

Kamei Eizaburo said firmly, "Things should be as he said, yes, it is definitely the ambition of this black-clothed organization wolf, relying on its own individual strength to be so rampant, it must be dealt with seriously." ”

Terauchi Zhengyi couldn't figure it out even more, and asked suspiciously: "Since they have this kind of power, they can secretly rescue people in the middle of the night, why do they have to kill people?" What good is it for them to stand up to the government at this time? ”

Although he had just lost his son, he was keenly aware of the loopholes after being a cabinet member for several years.

"But sir, if I hadn't survived by luck, I don't know who did this."

The assistant superintendent shouted a little nervously, "Didn't you just say that in addition to the people of the ghost killing team, there are other prisoners who have also been released?" I think that's what they're trying to do, just kill all the witnesses and let all the prisoners go, instead of just rescuing the ghost squad, so we don't have any evidence that they did it! ”

"After all, as soon as the guy who claimed to be the wind pillar made a move, he was completely rushing to extinguish his mouth!"

Terauchi Masayi glanced at him unexpectedly, "There is some truth to this statement. ”

The other party said his identity because he didn't intend to stay alive.

Although it cannot be confirmed, judging from the situation at the scene and the confession of this high-ranking police officer, this is the most likely scenario.

Although he spoke on the phone today, he had a good impression of the leader of the ghost killing team, plus there were so many old nobles who swore an oath to vouch for the existence of ghosts......

But when Terauchi Masaki first encountered the Ghost Slayer Team, what he saw was a team member (Onimai Tsuji no Miserable) killing people in the street, coupled with the tragic past of his mysterious daughter-in-law who had been wiped out by the Ghost Slayer Team......

As a result, his first impression of the Ghost Slayer was very bad.

In particular, he lost a disobedient but very responsible and promising son today, and it is very likely that they also did it.

It's so lawless.

Regardless of whether there are ghosts in the world or not, at least this ghost killing team is definitely an extremely dangerous organization!

Especially when they still have such unbelievable power in their hands.

We can't wait and see anymore, we must crack down on the ghost slayer team.

Tomorrow, he was going to ask His Majesty Meiji for orders to prohibit the nobles from shielding this organization anymore, and then he would mobilize the army to investigate it strictly.

But no matter how you check, at least there must be an entry point.

Thinking of this, Terauchi Masaki asked, "In addition to tonight's group of ghost killers, are there any detained ghost killers in the police stations in each district?" “

Kamei Eizaburo shook his head: "No, I brought it here this morning." ”

At this time, the assistant director said loudly: "No, there is another one." ”

Seeing that the two commanders were looking at him, he hurriedly added: "That reserve member named Miyue was locked up in the torture room in the basement before, and he should not have been rescued yet. ”

However, what the three people present did not notice was that in the gap between the cabinet and the wall in this room, there was a disgusting flesh ball eye, silently watching everything that was happening.

……

Infinity City.

The sound of watermelons breaking sounded, and the headless corpses in uniform fell one by one, and the remaining team members sat slumped, shaking like dogs that had just taken a bath.

"We really don't know anything!"

One of the team members cried, "It's because we are very low that we were caught by the police, and we really don't know anything about the news." ”

The hard-mouthed ones were all killed, and only a few of them remained, but they couldn't come up with any news that could satisfy this monster, and it was estimated that the final outcome would be more than lucky.

But at least I hope to die a happy death.

Ghost Dance Tsuji, dressed as a man, stood in another room on higher ground, looking at these team members with a look of contempt and contempt in his eyes.

More than two dozen ghost killers were brought out of the prison, but only one had AB blood, and as a result, he had just finished absorbing the blood, and he completely lost his memory as a human being.

This kind of thing happens from time to time, such as the Zo Woza, whose rate of memory loss is related to the degree of desire to escape reality, and is not under the control of Onimai Tsuji.

There is no way, he can only use the oldest method - torture to extract confessions, to obtain some important information -

Such as the location of the headquarters, the address of the pillar, the location of the Swordsmith's Village, the green seeds, and the strange healing methods.

As a result, even he, the ghost king, couldn't do better than the police. Half an hour passed, and nothing was found.

Looking at the few people who were crying on the ground like slugs, a trace of impatience flashed in Onimai Tsuji's eyes, and his right hand suddenly stretched out, and his fingers turned into five half-meter-thick flesh wrists and feet, directly wrapping the remaining ghost killers in them and swallowing them through the mouthparts in the center of the wrists and feet.

Immediately, the disgusting and terrifying wrists and feet turned back into five slender white fingers, and there was not even a trace of blood.

"Hmph, for the sake of your respect for me, I should feel honored to give you a place to stay."

Hearing the remnants of the terrible screams in his arms, Onimai Tsuji felt that his appetite had improved a lot.

Just as he was about to tell Naruto to dispose of the headless corpses that had been pinched and exploded, another human figure appeared on the floor out of thin air, landing right in the middle of a pile of corpses, and was so frightened that he crawled to the side.

The man had a fierce and mean face, wore a magatama around his neck, and was covered with scars from the beating.

This person is none other than Inatama Tsudake who was arrested on Yoshiwara Flower Street that day.

He didn't know where he had come, as soon as he crawled out of the pile of corpses, he saw the high Onimai Tsuji, just by looking at each other, he felt every cell in his body become paralyzed, and the whole person froze in place.

Then, with the sound of a piano, a paper door automatically opened, and Naruto's figure sat firmly in it.

"My lord, when I was spying on the human you let go, I found this fish that slipped through the net, and he seems to be a member of the Ghost Slayer Team, so maybe he will know something."

Naruto whispered, "I hope he can be of some use to you." ”

It turns out that the assistant superintendent escaped because Onimai Tsuji needed him as a witness to shift the government's target to the Oni Slayer.

In order to make sure that the plan didn't go wrong, he asked Naruto to keep an eye on the guy and monitor the development of things at any time.

Listening to Naruto's words, Onimai Tsuji said noncommittally, "This human being is ridiculously weak, and he can't even reach the level of an ordinary team member, so he can know anything useful." ”

After saying that, he didn't even want to look at Yue Yue again, and turned around coldly, "Eat him and clean up this place." ”

As he looked away, Miyue was finally able to move.

He heard that Onimai Tsuji Muru seemed to be planning to kill him, and he knelt down with a plop.

"Please, please wait a minute, please don't kill me! I'm still useful! ”

Damn, I still have a long way to go in my life, so I don't want to end here!

Even if you become a ghost, it's much better than being eaten!

Yue Yue didn't know that this was the Ghost King, but he could understand that the other party seemed to be probing the secrets of the Ghost Slayer Team, "Although I'm not even an official team member, my cultivator is the former Ming Zhu of the Ghost Slayer Team!" He must have known a lot of news. ”

Onimai Tsuji stopped in his tracks.

"His name is Jigoro Kuwajima, and he retired after breaking his leg when he was young."

Seeing that the other party just stopped, and didn't turn around, he didn't hide it like he did with the police, and he said whatever he knew, "Since then, he has lived in seclusion on Momoyama outside Arakawa Ward!" Also, the current Ming Zhu of the Ghost Slayer Team is also his student, and he often comes to see him! ”

After saying the last bit of information, he gasped violently, waiting for his fate.

This is not the first time he has betrayed his benefactor.

Although the old man said that he had paid off his gambling debts, he gave him food and shelter, took him as an apprentice, and taught him swordsmanship.

But in the end, it's just using him to make him live and die for the ghost killing team.

It can be seen that Naruto, a ghost who can catch him here out of thin air, how can he still have the slightest courage in his heart.

I just hope that I can pick up a life from the ghost like the last time I sacrificed my friends in the temple.

This time, though, he got it right again.

Onimai Tsuji, who hasn't done anything well since noon, sees the appearance of Mt. Tsuji as a turning point.

Finally, I finally got the information of a column.

At this moment, his mood is like a long drought and a rainstorm, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he is happy.

Onimai Tsuji turned around and walked slowly to the end of the room, looking down at Mt. Tsugi from above.

The latter hurriedly buried his head, even if it was stained with the blood of those team members, his back rose and fell violently, and his posture was extremely humble, which was extremely appealing to the appetite of some ghost kings.

Especially since he had just experienced the crisis of dignity that he had just experienced being humiliated by the Immortal River.

This appearance of Miyue satisfied his vanity.

"Want to be a ghost?" He didn't even ask for the name of the Yue.

The latter didn't even think about it, his forehead pressed against the ground, "Yes." ”

Even if he didn't want to, he had no other choice.

Especially as a human being, he has no place in this world, and becoming a ghost is not a bad choice.

"Then you can do something for me." Onimai Tsuji said softly, "That's done, I'll reward you with enough blood, and you're the new sixth of the lower string." ”

Mitsugaku immediately understood, the man in front of him was the ancestor of the ghost, and the ghost dance Tsuji was not miserable!

The oldest and strongest of all the ghosts!

No wonder such a powerful female ghost has to listen to his orders!

As a result, he felt that his future was bright, and there was suddenly less fear and more expectation in his voice.

"Please tell me, I will do it hard."

"It's not an effort, it's a point to be done."

Onimai Tsuji's tone was a little heavier, and Tsugaku's body immediately shook.

"Understand, I'll definitely risk my life to do it!"

"Okay."

Onimai Tsuji nodded in satisfaction, "I'll let Naruto put you back at the Metropolitan Police Department." “

"What you just said to me, you said to those cops."

"Not a word is allowed to be changed."

"Do you understand?"