Bang!

The emerald green thunder mixed with the dragon's roar roared and galloped like a swimming dragon.

The muzzle of the [Banshee] burst out with a purple lightning and white rays of gloomy thunder, and the gloomy thunder and the purple blade of the ghost cut reflected each other, and the sound of stirring was like a hundred ghosts crying at night.

The bright boy cut the yang thunder roar, and the mighty thunder illuminated the heavens and the earth.

The three-color thunder can't stop exploding, chasing the clouds and lightning, and the thunder runs for nine days.

Kamiyagawa's swift and decisive battle posture is dazzling and difficult to look at directly.

Now it's not "Lei Gong helps me", he himself is like a thunder god coming to the world.

Qiang ——!

The two ghost-slaying swords hummed until the last of the wailing Earth Gate shrine maidens were cut into pieces.

The red and white pieces of flesh and wet black hair, along with the white clothes and hakama, all fell into the deep pool.

"Ahh

Kamiya's chest rose and fell, and he gasped violently and rapidly.

His condensed pupils scanned all around, his clothes tumbling in the heat and moisture, and the bright red blood and minced flesh slowly trickled down his cheeks and the two blades in his hands.

"These shrine maidens have a lot of grudges, and they are more difficult than you imagined...... However, in the end, it was solved without paying too much price. ”

Kamiyagawa raised his left hand, which was holding the musket, and wiped his face with his cuffs. At this time, there were no enemies left in sight who could still fight.

Take!

Luckily, I'm a bit better!

Look at the deep pool and waterfall again.

The current was no longer as turbulent as it had just been, and the crimson water color slowly receded, leaving only some broken flesh and broken hair, broken red ropes and clothes, which were still floating on the water, and there was a mess as far as the eye could see.

"Winning is winning, but it seems that there are no soul crystals and loot...... What are these shrine maidens? Well-there seems to be something underwater. ”

Kamiyagawa's gaze focused on a point on the surface of the water, and under the deep pool, something seemed to reflect a glimmer of light.

That seemingly faint light can actually penetrate the pool I don't know how deep it is.

Something below is certainly unusual.

Kamiyagawa groped out the [Reins of the Hanged Dead] from the [Mirage Cloth Bag], and with a flick of his wrist, the rough hemp rope "creaked" and stretched towards the water.

About a minute passed.

Below the surface of the water, a strip-like black shadow floated, and the [reins of the hanged dead] dived up like a swimming snake.

On the knot at one end of the hemp rope, a piece of copper lens is tightly tied.

It's roughly a 60-degree fan, but it's not so regular, and the edges are rough and blunt.

Just looking at this appearance, you can tell that it is obviously the same thing as the broken lens on the stone door of the cave.

"I'm going to find the bronze mirror shard."

Kamiya neatly put this bronze mirror into the [Mirage Cloth Bag].

It didn't take much effort to get it, and it seems that the unexplained encounter just now was not in vain.

I didn't know what happened to the large number of earth shrine maidens who died tragically here, but the brave were rewarded!

"That bronze mirror should have broken into many pieces, and I don't know what happened to Hotaru."

……

To the west of the village of Tsuchigomon, there is a pond.

The yin wind called for a roll, blowing the string by the pool to shake more than once.

"Yuri...... Yuri ......"

Toshima Taito, who appeared in front of Onizuka Kirita, seems to be an unconscious evil spirit.

His eyes were round and bloody, and while muttering his lover's name, he rolled up with a strong resentment and attacked the little witch.

"Nono Gu Gu, with three stars on the left and three prisons on the right......" Onizuka Kirita Hotaru lightly and dexterously avoided the oncoming grievances, and a yellow talisman in his hand "Huh" burst, "Kai!" ”

The mantra of the rapid chanting fell, and a dark blue bellflower pentagram bloomed from the feet of Toshima Taito.

Draw the ground directly as a dungeon.

"Ho...... Ho! ”

Toshima in the formation howled and struggled, trying to break through the shackles.

Seeing this, Onizuka unhurriedly gathered his spiritual power between the middle and index fingers of his right hand, and his slender fingers were aimed at the position of the magic circle.

Whoa——!

The dark blue pentagram on the ground shone again, and from the tips of the five star corners, each of them had a chain entangled with words and spirits, and it bound Toshima Taito's limbs and neck.

Bang.

The evil spirits in the circle were dragged to the ground, and the wails and wails became more and more terrible.

The little witch looked at Toshima with a little sympathy in her eyes, but the movement of removing the spirit did not stop.

Another yellow talisman was ignited, and brilliant fireworks burned out at the same time in the fingertips of the onizuka and the pentagram circle, dazzling like flowing lava.

"Yuri...... Yuri! ”

Toshima screamed, but the screams slowly waned as the fire erupted.

After about half a minute, the bloody figure in a leather jacket dissipated in the circle.

Only a few clear spots of light slowly rose by the edge of the pool.

Onizuka seized the opportunity and took out Yuri Sakai's missing person notice.

The Necromancy of Toshima Tide has been retired, and this may be his last chance to channel......

……

"Right in front, right in front!"

Toshima escaped the necro of a villager who was chasing him, and took refuge for a while in the bushes by the side of the road, zigzagling towards the west of the village.

Finally, the vision in front of him widened.

The sight of a tranquil pool of water is surrounded by a ring of strings, on which rusty bells hang and are struck by the steam.

The water in the pond is not too deep, it is about the height of the calf.

At the bottom of the water, which was still relatively clear, Toshima saw a glittering object, shining in the water.

"That, the Tianhu Bronze Mirror, it should be that."

After meeting his lover, Toshima has stronger faith and courage.

He had to leave this hellish place with Yuri.

Toshima cautiously approached the pool.

Bang Bang!

The bells attached to the string rang again, and the sound seemed to be much more poignant.

At a certain moment, the temperature around me plummeted, and the moisture in the air stuck to the skin, freezing cold.

Immediately afterward, in the sight of Toshima Taito, the water of the pond suddenly changed color, and in an instant it became turbid, as if something was violently stirring under the water.

Then, wisps of wet black silk, like dense long worms, crawled from the water to the shore.

"It's ...... What? Hair!? ”

Toshima saw what was spreading out of the water.

That's hair.

It's black hair that pours out like a tide.

The hair gathered more and more, overflowing and churning like a madness. Another graceful but pale human figure tumbled out of it.

It seemed to be a young girl.

The face is completely obscured by black hair, so it is impossible to distinguish.

However, she can be seen wearing a golden crown on her head and a gorgeous red and white dress similar to a shrine maiden's costume. The scarlet hakama of the completely wet white clothes was loosely glued to the pale skin, revealing a large area of watery luster.

The gorgeously dressed shrine maiden rose from her black hair without making a sound.

The long black hair was woven into an impenetrable wall and slammed straight towards Toshima, each strand of hair intertwined with it as sharp as a blade.

This was the last scene that Toshima saw before his death.

"Just a little bit...... I'm just a little bit ......"

"Yuri...... Yuri! ”

The small scream of sorrow let out by the poor man was completely engulfed by the black hair.

……

"Is the shrine maiden with a golden crown on her head and dressed in gorgeous clothes a sacrifice chosen by the Tendo Witch Festival?"

The psychic's perception stopped, and Onizuka looked around again.

Judging from Toshima Taito's last experience before his death, the gorgeously dressed shrine maiden who killed him was definitely extraordinary.

According to Onizuka's current exploration experience, the necromancers wandering in Tuyumen Village are at most about F-level to E-level, and some may be even lower.

But the gorgeously dressed shrine maiden ......

It's hard to say.

Onizuka suspects that the shrine maiden will be an important role in the Tsuchigomon village during her lifetime.

Intuitively, she may have some direct connection with the demise of the village.

If it really happened to Onizuka, I'm afraid there would be a fierce battle with that gorgeously dressed witch.

"Well, the shrine maiden who killed Toshima in the first place doesn't seem to be here now."

Carefully perceiving the surrounding situation, Onizuka can be sure that after the Necromantic of Toshima Tide was retired, there were no other undead here.

Let a sleeping dog lie.

Juqiong Shenzi acted quickly.

She stepped into the cold water with a white foot bag already covered in mud, and successfully found and retrieved the glow under the pool.

The shrine maiden in the costume is not here, but this thing is still there.

It was a fragment of a fan-shaped bronze mirror at an angle of about 60 degrees, consistent with the pattern of the fragment on the stone door of the cave.

Presumably it is the ritual vessel I am looking for now, a part of the Tendo Bronze Mirror.

"Toshima Taito thought until he died that he was only one step away from escaping from the village of Doomon with his lover, no wonder he had such a strong obsession...... But now it seems that what he can almost get is only a small part of the bronze mirror. ”

Thinking like this, Onizuka had mixed feelings in his heart.

But a fragment of the Tendo Bronze Mirror has been found, and there are still important things to be done at the moment.

The next step is to contact Kamiya and talk about each other's experiences.

And go back to the cave and try to fill this piece into the groove of the stone door. The little witch wanted to verify that after the bronze mirror fragments on her side were filled, the space on the Kamiya side would not have the fragments of the mirror position at the same time.

"Go back to the cave first, I don't know what happened to Ah Chuan."

Onizuka Kirita put away the fragments of the Amanoto Bronze Mirror and left the Tsuchigomon Village along the same path.

Crossing the wooden bridge at the entrance to the village, the little witch returned to the forest near the cave once again.

Following the path in her memory, more than ten minutes later, she came to the vicinity of the location where she had encountered the mountaineer's necromancer before.

This means that the cave is not far from the "spawn point".

"Woo-woo-"

At this time, the trees were swept by the wind, and the shade of the trees swayed from side to side, and Onizuka heard a faint sob.

Then, the cry turned into a running pant and a high-pitched scream.

"Come out!"

Onizuka Kirita grabbed a yellow talisman and snorted softly, then turned his gaze sharply to a corner of the jungle.

The yin wind and strange sounds stopped instantly, and the entire forest fell silent, except for the dark shade of the trees that continued to twist and sway.

And in the deeper shadows, Onizuka saw a figure.

In the misty woods, a female figure in a shirt stood in the shade of a tree, standing upright, motionless, except for a black hair fluttering in the wind.

The female spirit stood still in the shadows, and after an unknown amount of time she let out a low moan, like a shout, like a song.

It's sad.

She seems to be calling someone's name.

"Fight ...... Fighting ......"

Onizuka Kirita recognized the other party-

Yuri Sakai.

The little witch didn't act immediately, but just twisted the yellow charm and quietly watched the poor victim.

Until the other party's figure swayed, his black hair fluttered, and he attacked angrily.

“…… Rest in peace. ”

Onizuka's eyebrows drooped, and he sighed softly, but the yellow talisman on his fingertips burst open decisively.

The talisman burned out, and the figure of the unjust soul dissipated synchronously, turning into specks of clear light and ashes in the miasma.

Where she dissipated, an old black-and-white photograph and a few curled and crumpled pieces of manuscript paper were scattered to the floor.

These things seem to come from Yuri Sakai's great-grandfather, a folklorist, Toshiya Sakai.

With the help of these things, Onizuka Kirita may be able to channel again.

Learn more about this eerie village from the perspective of others who have fallen deep into Tsuchigomon Village.

However, before picking up the photos and manuscripts, Onizuka first channeled the little spots of light left behind by Yuri Sakai-

……

"Fighting ......"

Yuri Sakai, who was stranded at Tachibana's house due to illness, came to her senses a little.

Her body was still tired, her limbs were as heavy as lead, and her mind was not clear.

Yuri Sakai couldn't confirm whether the Toshima Tide Fight she had seen earlier was real or a hallucination she had seen during her illness.

However, if Tidou really entered the Tuyumen area in danger, then he should not have returned for a long time.

Yuri Sakai bracked herself up and walked towards the outside of the Tachibana house.

But when she got to the door, she saw it.

I saw the familiar, brown jacket fluttering in the miasma, stained with blood and tattered.

I saw Toshima Taito, who was covered in blood and his body and face were all hideous, and he staggered in a twisted manner.

Yuri Sakai was frightened: "Tito!? ”

No, no, no......

This is not true.

He really is here.

Moreover, he died......

Out of fear and disbelief, Yuri Sakai subconsciously turned around and fled quickly panting, but she didn't run far before she fell to the muddy ground again.

Sakai didn't try to get up from the ground again, holding her head hysterically and screaming, tears welling up in her eyes.

"Yuri, wait for me to come to you, Yuri......"

In Sakai Yuri's vision, which was blurred by tears, there was only a blood-drenched lover, who was expressionless and stretched out his hands to him, staggering and persistently approaching......

"Fighting ......"

Yuri Sakai's lips twitched, but slowly she couldn't make a sound.

Her pupils slowly dilated.

Suffocation, pain.

Hopeless, pitch black. (End of chapter)