Ibaraki Prefecture.

Near Jiguang Temple, a dark path leading to the back mountain.

A little dim light was swaying in the path.

The simple wooden treasure house was moving along the path in an extremely strange manner.

From the bottom of the cabin, six thighs made of ink extend out, and they move forward smoothly.

This made the whole treasure house look like an absurd and comical beast, and the dim light coming from the room was like a half-open and half-closed one-eyed beast's head, barely illuminating the area ahead.

Ahead was the corner of the dimly lit road, but the giant reptilian treasure house did not turn here, as if it was going to crawl into the depths of the forest.

And just as the hut was about to climb the hill, a powerful motor sound came from behind it.

Two bright lampposts pierced the darkness around them, and where the light hit, thin clouds of dust could be seen flying, and at the same time, the outline of the monstrous treasure house was very clear.

The long-legged cabin did not react to the anomalies in the rear.

It was not sane in the first place, nor was it a strange story, just an ordinary building influenced by the ability of the painter.

Whoa—

The screeching sound of brakes sounded.

The ghost Mazda driven by Toshima Oishi in the [Ghost Acceleration] state appeared.

The scooter of the Kamiya family, the body of the car burned with terrifying black flames, huge, heavy, rough, like a galloping piece of iron, full of blood-pumping violence.

The moment the vehicle slowed down, a figure leaped down from the back door with a large sword as bright as a star.

The figure fell and rose under the light of the bright headlights, and finally descended from the sky and stepped on the roof of the treasure house in front of it.

Rumble!

There was a loud bang.

The treasure house, which was trying to climb the hill, made a squeaky groan, and pressed heavily against the ground, smashing the earth into a dent for a few minutes.

And the thick legs composed of six inks also dissipated at this moment, and the dim light in the wooden house shook violently.

In the sky above the mountains and forests, a round of crescent moon hangs high. Kamiyagawa stood on the roof of the Hundred Treasure House, the bleak moonlight falling on the top of his hair and shoulders, and the glimmer reflected on the blade of the boy in his hand.

His pupils contracted, deep and a little angry, and he stared down to him: "This is it?" Fawn and Tsuru: See this? ”

"Abaaba!"

The little old man's body appeared beside his master and nodded repeatedly.

"Okay."

Kamiya was supposed to be at the Horinji Temple in Kyoto tonight.

Then I suddenly received a report from the little old man, saying that the two eldest ladies of the family were in trouble when they were visiting the summer night festival near Jiguang Temple.

So, Kamiyagawa took a ghost car to Yoshikoji Temple in Ibaraki Prefecture.

Kyoto's Horin-ji Temple is about 500 kilometers away from Yoshiko-ji Temple in Ibaraki Prefecture. The ghost car, which has been upgraded many times at home, is moving at full speed when it enters the [Ghost Acceleration] state, but it will only be there in ten minutes.

In fact, Kamiya's hearse group has mastered the means of land and water transportation.

Within the entire territory of Japan, you can get there quickly no matter where you want to go.

On the way, the scout roughly explained the situation on the Ibaraki side to his master in real time.

So Kamiyagawa roughly grasped the encounter between the deer and Tsurumi -

I don't know where the old thing came from to eat the bear's heart leopard gall, I don't know what to say, I actually want to kidnap his two little apprentices!

The boy cut and waved.

The bright sword light flashed like a star, and although it regained its strength, it still directly lifted the roof of the Treasure House.

Kamiyagawa jumped into the Treasure House.

Through the dim lighting of the room, you can see an extremely long scroll of paintings on the wooden walls.

It stretched out and hung on the wall, covering almost all three walls except the main entrance.

On this scroll, there is no scene or image, only a thick and heavy ink.

From time to time, you can see ink splashing and falling on the scroll.

On this huge scroll, Kamiyagawa keenly glimpsed the breath of the apprentices.

"It seems that the two of them did enter the picture scroll."

Kamiya took out the Amado Bronze Mirror and the mutilated Celestial Tail Feather from the [Mirage Cloth Bag] on his waist.

The combination of these two artifacts can smoothly break any spatial shackles.

It is used to help the apprentices get out of trouble in the picture scroll, which is completely a knife for killing chickens.

However, Kamiyagawa did not do it immediately.

He glanced at the scroll on the wall again, and could clearly feel that the aura of the two apprentices was very strong and steady.

Just now, when he was about to catch up with the Hundred Treasure House, the little old man reported that the eldest ladies had already started a fight with the painter.

And now Kamiya stood between the scrolls that housed the fawn and their pictures.

With his extremely keen perception ability, coupled with some spatial ability stabilization effects provided by the Tiandu Bronze Mirror, he was able to peek more clearly into the battle situation in the thick ink cover in the picture scroll-

The fawn and Tsurumi were inseparable from the painter, and they couldn't tell the difference for a while.

Moreover, the flat battle situation is fought by the apprentices by their own hard power, whether it is Shikijin of Kanoya or Mary blessing on Tsurumi, these are all regarded by Kamiya as part of the apprentices' own strength.

Some of the extra hands that remained with them were not activated.

"Hmmm......"

Kamiyagawa pondered for a moment and pulled out his phone.

On the page of "Strange Tales", a new text notification can be seen -

[Special Event Mission, [Demon Time VIII] has been launched!] ]

[The core requirements of this mission are as follows: Defeat the members of the "Demon Time Organization", and it is not timely. ]

This demon time is any, and it bounced out when Kamiyagawa was approaching the vicinity of Yoshikoji Temple in a ghost car just now.

It is almost certain now that the one who tried to kidnap the apprentices was a non-special member of the Demon Time Organization.

So the fawn and Tsurumi teamed up, and in a short period of time, they were fighting with a member of the Demon Hour.

It's really grown up......

Master expressed some relief.

Kamiyagawa raised his head again, looked at the scroll on the wall again, determined the aura of the apprentices, and judged their battlefield situation, and then instructed the little old man on the side:

"I'm already here anyway, so let's give them a chance to exercise. If things don't quite go right, you can help them and don't let the deer and Tsurumi get hurt. ”

……

In the picture.

The two apprentices of the Kamiya family are still fighting with the painter and the glass.

And this strange space, which was full of twisted darkness, suddenly trembled violently at a certain moment.

This made everyone in it a little unstable.

The painter, who is the owner of the scroll, senses that something is wrong at the first time.

This sudden, violent tremor must have been due to something going on outside.

The painter detached a little consciousness and peered outward, which was enveloped in a glow similar to that of the rising sun, so that he could not distinguish the specific situation at all.

Something absolutely happened.

Tonight's unexpected changes are really one after another.

And the painter who knew that the situation was not right, at this time it was difficult to get out of the scroll.

Tsurumi Aoi, who fought with him, was fierce and abnormal, like a fighting dog with its fangs exposed, and the crimson one-word attack was swift, and every slash was like a storm and waves, which made the painter who blindly defended a little overwhelmed.

What's worse is that the side of "Ruri in the Painting" is completely entangled by another girl and her Shikigami under her.

There is no distraction at all to assist the painter.

Regardless of the girl who doesn't know the details for the time being, just talk about Tsurumi Aoi.

According to the painter's previous investigation of Tsurumi, about three months ago, Tsurumi Aoi was still in a state where he couldn't do magic at all, and his kendo had been stuck at the level of an extraordinary bottleneck, and he couldn't go up or down.

So, what happened during the time when he was in retreat for more than three months and further perfected and broke through the strength of "glass in painting"?

Why did Tsurumi Aoi's strength improve so much?

In the end, the painter still suffers from the loss of information, and he is not the type with outstanding perception in the first place.

According to his previous preparations and plans, as long as the "glass in the painting" breaks through to the level of Aragami, he can completely suppress the blessings of the gods of Jiguang Temple, and it will be absolutely foolproof to take Tsurumi Aoi away.

But what he didn't know was that during the time he was in retreat with "Ruri in the Painting", Tsurumi Aoi had already thrown himself under the door of Kamiyagawa.

Jiguangji hugged the thickest thigh except for the spirit world.

In fact, the painter knew very little about the Kamiya River.

In control of the Demon Time Organization, he simply gathered a group of anti-social "madmen" who could accept extraordinary powers, and provided them with some resources for growth, but in fact, he didn't care about the life or death of these Demon Time members.

He didn't provide them with any information about the countermeasure room at all, and even deliberately led them to fight on their own.

The painter who can't see the light doesn't have a serious background in the strategy room, so naturally he can't get first-hand information about the ghost and god disciples.

And when the painter broke through, it happened to be the gap between Kamiyagawa's trip to Kyoto's Horinji Temple.

Tsurumi Aoi returned to his hometown of Ibaraki.

Therefore, from the perspective of a painter, there is nothing unusual about the granddaughter of the Tsurumi family these days.

From his observations around Jiguang Temple, the only thing worth noting today is -

During the day, there is a cute and cute strange girl who looks harmless to humans and animals and comes to Jiguang Temple to play with Tsurumi Aoi.

That's all.

In order to successfully capture Tsurumi Aoi and turn her into the perfect glass, the painter has been preparing for too long.

Now "Glass in the Painting" has just become an Aragami, and his strength has soared.

The painter didn't want to delay any longer, and if the time dragged on a little longer, the "glass in the painting" would become weak because he couldn't get the faith power that Aragami needed.

Moreover, Tsurumi Aoi is almost 18 years old.

There is just over a year left until the age of 19.

Paranoid and morbid, he just wants to shape Tsurumi Aoi into the "perfect glass" painter in his mind, and he doesn't have much time left.

He had to act.

……

Clang!

The crimson and white blades tore together again, splattering red and white light tearing apart the writhing darkness around them.

The smiling painter retreated a few steps, looking a little embarrassed.

On Tsurumi's side, the aura of the red ghost on the text and the blessing power that Mary attached to her became stronger and stronger, making her more and more brave and tireless.

It's just that if he continues to fight like this, when the painter is physically exhausted, he will lose to Tsurumi Aoi at home.

And the painter, who was already restless because of the completely unknown changes outside, had also realized this at this time, and he put the big wedge in his hand to the side: "The granddaughter of the Tsurumi family, I don't want to hurt you." ”

Tsurumi Aoi doesn't eat this set at all.

Her brow furrowed slightly in disgust, and without saying a word, she continued the pursuit with her knife.

A text clip cleaved with a screaming sound that broke through the air.

On the smiling face in the painter's hand, a cold and strange knife light flashed again, and an illusory grimace exhaled from directly in front of him, blocking the knife.

Then, in the middle of the scroll, the wriggling black became thicker and thicker, overflowing and flowing.

The figure of the painter flickered, and disappeared into the thick snot black, and disappeared.

"These ......"

Tsurumi Aoi narrowed her eyes slightly, sensing that something was wrong.

In the space, the messy black juice instantly covered her ankles, and like melted asphalt, it pulled and hindered her movement......

On the other side of the battlefield –

The fawn's team is playing well.

"Yo Yo!"

The red deer, who roamed flexibly on the battlefield, seized the opportunity and once again summoned the aura of "blind stupidity" and controlled the glass.

"You bad guy who smokes me like a spinning top!"

"Ugh!"

Yamiko and the wolf are flanked back and forth.

The mighty little kappa's smooth skin is covered with a thin layer of flowing water that originates from the small bowl above her head. Yamiko, who is now a D-rank, can control a considerable amount of water as long as she disperses a little kappa saucer water, which can give her a very good battle amplification.

Yamiko jumped on the spot, and it was a heavy punch to the face of the glass.

This punch directly knocked half of Liuli's hideous face down, twisting together like a crumpled ball of paper.

The wolf who attacked the enemy's back with a golden dagger also succeeded at the same time.

By the time it fell back to the ground gracefully and lightly, a big opening had already bloomed on Liuli's back.

However, there was no flesh turned out, and the wound was like a withered piece of paper being cut.

Whew!

The incense burner in Shikanoya's hand drew a sharp arc in the air.

Slammed into Ruri's chest.

The continuous three-way attack, although the glass was briefly awakened from the red deer's control.

But the solid damage still made the ghost in the painting fall to the ground.

The fawn seized the opportunity to raise the muzzle of Glock's gun and poured fire on it.

A full seventeen bullets engraved with Sanskrit were fired, and the first seven or eight of them hit Ruri's body, further shattering her.

But the subsequent bullets did not hit the target again.

It's not because Xiaolu's marksmanship is not accurate, she has practiced shooting well in the countermeasure room, and there is no problem at all in hitting a target that can't move at this distance.

But the problem is that in the process of Shikanoya's victory, the space of the picture scroll suddenly changes.

The glass that fell to the ground was engulfed in the thick black that overflowed, and the wounded body suddenly disintegrated and merged into the environment.

"Huh?"

Knowing that the situation was not right, Shikanoya beckoned the gods to gather back to their side, and quickly converged with the junior sister on the other side, standing side by side.

Then, in the sight of the two girls, in the thick black of the environment, suddenly there were colors tumbling out—

Red, yellow, orange, green, purple......

Countless heavy colors collided like a raging flood.

Rather than simply blending, these colors collide and permeate each other in an almost wild way, as if competing for every inch of space. They tear and entangle each other, sometimes merging into one, sometimes working separately.

Such a strong clash of colors gives people a feeling that it is a bit like those corpse paintings painted by painters.

Intense and abnormal, colorful and dazzling, bizarre, and suffocatingly depressed, with a hideous aura of death.

Kanoya and Tsurumi were in the midst of this "canvas", and their senses seemed to be completely awakened and strengthened, and they felt unspeakable fear and horror beyond their own control. (End of chapter)