Chapter 22: Prajna Splitting the Spirit
Hoshikawa Aoi withdrew her weapon and squinted at the male protagonist of the drama just now, who ran out more than ten meters.
"Why did Li Wu avoid it? Do you think I'm really going to cut you? ”
"Your eyes have changed! It's not my fault that I feel this way! ”
He quibbled.
"Hmph, I really have the idea of chopping it now."
"You two don't flirt at this time, focus on the enemy!"
Yuki Akabane threw out a piece of rune paper that had been cut into a humanoid shape, and it grew in the wind, quickly expanding into a paper figure that was taller than a normal person with a naginata in hand.
Then he threw the crowbar in his hand to Li Wu.
"It's not flirting!" "There's no such thing."
The two of them retorted one after another, and rushed towards the grimace who had been sent to the side of the tree with the paper figure god summoned by Miss Miko.
Fujiwara, the earthbound spirit, had cleverly concealed its form, and the tree that had been lush had changed.
The scarlet liquid seeped out of the bark, leaving speckled marks on the tree, which at first glance looked as if the tree itself was shedding blood and tears.
The leaves swayed without wind, like a thousand summer cicadas stuffed into a small box, and their voices were sharp and sobbing.
The distorted grimace had a crack from its forehead to its chin, a bit like a broken Noh mask, the mark of a magical girl's slash.
Li Wu saw that the text on its head was [Prajna Split Spirit].
It opened its mouth and spat out a purple-black mist at the paper figure that rushed first.
Shikikami, who was about to attack with his naginata aloft, touched the smoke, and his movements suddenly slowed down like a decrepit old man.
The white paper was covered with black spots that looked like mold, and they were constantly expanding.
"Be careful, it's the miasma of the plague."
The shrine maiden reminded that one of the remaining two was a magical girl from a professional class, and the other had also experienced several battles since gaining the ability, so she immediately stopped her momentum and decisively switched to long-range mode.
Hoshikawa raised her wand, and the muzzle of the axe's axe shaft lit up with a ball of lightning.
Li Wu directly raised his hand and threw out a fireball.
But neither man's attacks were complete. The ghost face let out a high-pitched scream, and with the scream, purple and white points of light rose around the tree whose painting style had been crooked to the horror set.
The point of light fluttered and danced around the [Prajna Split Spirit], looking like a butterfly, ignoring the ghost aura of Sensen, and even having a sense of beauty and beauty just by looking at the picture
The attack of the two directly hit the dancing group of flying butterflies, they were crushed into pieces like delicate weeds, and the light disappeared, but in the process, the power of both fireballs and magic bullets was also weakened, and after breaking through the defense of the light butterflies, only a little aftermath hit the ghost face, making it add a small crack.
"Hee-hee-hee...... Your attacks are weak and weak...... Yes! ”
He was just halfway through his speech in a small female voice, when he was smeared with a fireball.
Although there were still points of light rising from the perimeter of the tree, they were still guarding the butterflies on its side, but after all, it still needed to replenish the time, so this attack was only half weakened.
The flames of wrath ignited the grimace and turned it into a torch hanging in the air, and it rolled in the air screaming, and the surrounding light butterflies immediately gathered and covered the raging flames with their bodies.
As if they had been diverted, the purple and white light butterflies continued to turn into ashes in the flames, and the fire on the spirit's body gradually weakened.
But now it's like it's rolling around in a coal furnace, and it's all dirty.
"Bastard's Negative Man...... There is a beautiful woman in the air...... Damn vixen...... All your lives will be sucked clean by me! ”
The grimace, visibly annoyed, roared sharply again.
"Hey, is the beautiful woman talking about me? It's not that good. ”
Hoshikawa waved his wand embarrassedly, and once again threw out a spherical magic bullet floating with electric light, blowing up a group of flying butterflies that had just gathered.
"Don't omit the first two words! Who else is a negative man! ”
Li Wu condensed a third fireball, and was about to swing the crowbar to shoot it out when he felt a wave of vertigo.
This time, the agile light butterflies no longer simply flutter around the grimace, but are arranged in a circular track that resembles a nested top and bottom front and back, shimmering with a seductive purple and white light.
When you look at them, it's like looking directly at a kaleidoscope of colorful and bizarre lights, and life and soul seem to be dragged by invisible gravity towards the butterflies as if they have fallen into a hole.
Until you join in and become a part of this gorgeous dance.
Just as all kinds of visions appeared in front of Li Wu's eyes, a sharp sword that connected heaven and earth, with a black dragon wrapped around it, and a cyan flame as wide as the ocean flowing around him, seemed to appear in front of his eyes.
It is the Dharma Aspect known as the King of Kurigara, who is surrounded by a black dragon with a sword.
The blade trembled slightly, and as it emitted a hum, all illusions were fleeting like fragile snow in the sun.
Li Wu stood still again, feeling a slight feeling of weakness coming from his body.
Hoshikawa Aoi on the side had already taken a few steps in the direction of the butterfly group at this time, and she also had a little exhaustion on her face, and stopped firing small magic bullets.
"Be careful, those light butterflies can absorb the essence by looking at the mind of the bewitching mind, they are not monsters, but spirits made of pure life force!"
Yuki Akabane recalled Shikigami from the air, whose black spots had spread all over her body, and closed her eyes in warning.
She then took out two pieces of rune paper from the white sleeves of the witch costume again, and she didn't know how to determine the direction, so she threw them away and accurately pasted them on the backs of Li Wu and the magical girl.
A surge of power flows like a clear spring, and it invigorates people's spirits.
What a wet nurse.
Li Wu felt the pleasure of exhaustion and sighed in his heart.
The illusion was shattered, and with the support of rune paper, even though the points of light around the trees were still rising, their numbers were already significantly decreasing.
Under the interplay of flames and blazing white magic bullets, the dancing butterflies began to rout in the face of the attack of the two.
"Damn...... The world is so bitter, why don't crazy men and women die obediently? ”
The Split Spirits roared and gave up their defenses, flying towards the living, the butterflies that flew behind them like huge wings of light.
"It's too dramatic!"
Li Wu flicked the crowbar and rushed towards the enemy from the left.
A few cracks burst out of the surface of the earth he trampled on, and with the use of this force, he advanced like a cannonball, and the black crowbar was wrapped around the flames that showed explosive power, pulling out a scorching wave of air in the path of the charge.
The magical girl on the other side was obviously holding a giant murder weapon, but it was like a fallen leaf and was like a fallen leaf from the right side to the active attack of the split spirit.
The trajectories of the three directions staggered under the moonlit night, and then the trembling leaves of the trees came to an abrupt end like the chirping of cicadas in autumn.
The wings of light that spread out to the left shattered, and a goblin mask that left a scorching and slashing mark fell to the ground without any spirit.
"It's over."
Li Wu put away the crowbar—and then he found that there was no scabbard or anything like that for him to contain, so he had to carry it awkwardly.
"However, there is no appearance of the negative realm monster as the core like the eyeball last time."
The magic wand in Aoi Hoshikawa's hand turned into a point of light and dissipated, and she frowned, turning to look at the mask that had fallen to the ground and was gradually disappearing.
"In the end, I don't know what the resentful spirit is here." Miss Miko crouched down in front of it, "It's a bit like a ghost, or maybe it's a face aura or a mourning god created by a dead soul's possession......"
"It's a ghost, and I can feel it's a ghost of a ghost."
Li Wu said, and Aoi Hoshikawa next to him immediately explained to Miss Witch with a surprised face that this was his spiritual ability.
The allusion to the Kannyo is from "The Tale of Genji", which tells the story of the hero's wife, Aoi Hime, who had an argument with her lover, and the latter's out-of-body soul brought pain and illness to the former.
Later, it gradually evolved into a ghost that was born of a human soul due to jealousy.
"Does it represent a jealous ghost? It's kind of in line with the content of that weird story. ”
The magical girl had a look of sudden realization.
"Regardless of whether it's a split spirit or not, since we haven't seen the core, it at least means that what we killed is indeed not the ontology." Yuki Akabane was worried, "Where did that body go?" ”
"That's right, classmate Li Wu, where did the ontology go? Tell me the answer with your psychic powers. ”
"I'm sorry, I can't do it."
At that moment, Fujiwara, the Earthbound Spirit, reappeared, rubbing the tree back to its normal form—though he couldn't touch it at all—and turned to look at the trio who were worried about the sudden problem.
"Thank you, get rid of that evil spirit, and now I can live like a dead man in peace, hahaha."
"By the way, Brother Fujiwara, are you sure you've only seen this grimace?"
Li Wu asked at him.
"Uh-yes, what's the problem?"
Realizing that the faces of the three of them were not right, the Earth Bound Spirit stopped telling his own hellish jokes and replied seriously.
"Has anyone stayed here before?"
Yuki suddenly asked another question, and then explained to the other two, "If it is a Phara, according to legend, it should still be able to possess oneself, and the possibility of leaving here by attaching oneself cannot be ruled out." ”
Fujiwara held his forehead and pondered for a while, shook his head and said, "There are not many people here, except for the occasional drag racing people who hold races here, there are basically no pedestrians stopping." ”
"And what about the drag racers you're talking about? Has anyone stayed here, especially by that tree? ”
This time, the earthbound spirit seemed to think of something, and exclaimed, "Ah, last time there was a guy in a strange costume, a black cloak, and a mask, and that guy circled the tree a few times, and then he won the first place in the car race. ”
Black cloak with a mask.
If it weren't for the fact that he had only recently met such a person, Li Wu would definitely not have been able to think of it so quickly,
"Darth Vader!"
"Huh? Planet ○ war? ”
Hoshikawa Aoi looked confused.
"No, I mean I've met this guy."
That [Trainee Necromancer] who passed by when he went out with the light!