Chapter 122: Uncapped Idealistic Ability, Yoru's Soul True Body
"Mas... Mask!?"
Seeing Yoru looking exactly like the description in the urban legend, Amano Hina was stunned.
I was discussing him just now, and the protagonist is right in front of me?
This Yoru-san... is the criminal "Mask" who appeared like a ghost in the Kyoto Municipal Kindergarten and invaded the Kyoto City Museum in the urban rumors?
Whoosh...
A sound like a hurricane swept through. The huge bloodshot pupil outside the window retreated a distance, seeming somewhat apprehensive about Yoru, who suddenly changed his appearance and released his aura.
With this retreat, Yui and Amano Hina inside the room finally saw the true appearance of the evil spirit outside the window.
Black unknown liquid dripped continuously from the hair stuck together like seaweed.
The part that was originally the mouth was sewn up with thread, only able to open a gap almost non-existent.
The breathing sound like wind they just heard came from here.
Two huge pupils covered with bloodshot streaks, with a vicious and twisted gaze, locked onto the three people in the room through that small window.
From the appearance, this evil spirit wasn't particularly terrifying.
But seeing the opponent right outside the window staring at them, Amano Hina froze for a moment, then her face changed, trembling.
"Th... this is the second floor...."
According to the height of this room where Amano Hina lived, the window position was about five meters from the ground.
In other words.
This evil spirit's head being outside the window proved its body was at least over four meters tall.
An evil spirit of this size, let alone Amano Hina who had never contacted strangeness.
Even Yui, who had been to the Otherworld, had never seen such a huge monster.
Is this... an evil spirit fused with a "Door" like Hachishaku?
Just as Amano Hina and Yui were shocked, the evil spirit outside the window made a move that horrified them.
The opponent...
Straightened its back.
At this moment, Amano Hina and Yui realized.
Their original estimation of the size was still too naive.
After this evil spirit straightened up, what they could see was only its waist wearing tattered sackcloth.
The second-floor window close to five meters high only reached half of the opponent's height!?
What the hell is this?
Titan Evil Spirit!?
Roar!!!
Accompanying the sound of threads breaking and tearing flesh, a roar that made the room tremble resounded between heaven and earth.
Amano Hina and Yui sat dazedly on the ground, feeling their whole beings plunged into intense despair.
"Come out."
Yoru's voice was still calm.
Just uttering two words softly, a black and a white Ghost Hand appeared instantly, protecting Amano Hina and Yui in their palms by slightly clasping hands together.
Next second.
Boom!
A huge palm descended from the roof, crushing this dilapidated two-story apartment building directly into ruins.
The two Ghost Hands protected Yui and Amano Hina, sending them to a distance of more than ten meters away in the nick of time before the palm fell.
After landing on the ground again, Yui composed herself first.
She saw the two-story apartment building not far away had turned into ruins. Her pupils shrank in shock, her face filled with incredulity, murmuring.
"Yo... Yoru..."
Yui knew Yoru's main ability was summoning two Ghost Hands with completely opposite colors, black and white.
This was his Soul Manifestation.
However...
Just now, to protect her and Hina, both Ghost Hands appeared.
Then Yoru...
Yui's mind went blank, losing even the ability to think.
After leaving the room, she and Amano Hina finally saw the full picture of this evil spirit.
Body size about ten meters.
It was the largest one among all evil spirits the Super-Quant Club had encountered.
The body was similar to a human, draped in a tattered sackcloth robe stained with black spots.
Gray-white hands hung low, with sharp dark gray nails on ten fingers.
The skin surface was also dark gray.
The whole body exuded a lifeless aura.
Only those huge bloodshot pupils showed twisted hideousness.
Also being an evil spirit fused with a "Door," compared to it, Hachishaku whom Yui met before could even be called very cute.
"Yu... Yui... what to do?"
Although Amano Hina was also trembling with fear, she bit her lower lip lightly and forced herself to ask.
"I... I don't know."
Yui shook her head, despair in her eyes.
Although she wasn't a spirit medium herself, as an internal member of the Super-Quant Club, she still had some understanding of the nature of evil spirits, the Otherworld, and strange phenomena like "Doors."
Here was no longer the real world.
Yoru and Miko encountered such a situation once in that unfinished building.
The opening degree of the "Door" was too high, causing the real world and a certain area of the Otherworld to gradually merge.
And in such a ghostly domain, everything followed the rules of the Otherworld.
Whether a spirit medium or not, one could "Observe."
In other words.
Whether a spirit medium or not, one would become a target attacked by evil spirits.
There were only two ways to escape.
First, leave the area affected by the "Door."
Second, directly eliminate the "Door" causing impact on this area.
No matter which point...
Looking at that evil spirit with a body size similar to the main teaching building of Sobu High, Yui had fallen into deep despair, smiling bitterly.
"Can't do it."
Just then, the evil spirit's bloodshot pupils locked onto Amano Hina and Yui.
It just took one step, crossing directly from the train track behind the original apartment to in front of the two.
Then, the evil spirit extended that dark gray big hand, eyes carrying twisted killing intent, pressing down towards the two girls like swatting ants on the ground.
A black and a white Ghost Hand went up to meet it simultaneously.
After a stalemate of just a few seconds, they were pressed down slowly together with that evil spirit's giant hand as if exhausted.
"Yui, look out!"
Amano Hina's pupils shrank in shock. She made a move completely out of subconsciousness without knowing why.
She clasped her hands together, fingers interlaced, bowing her head slightly, closing her eyes, anxious.
"Please!"
The moment Amano Hina's voice came out, a dazzling light suddenly flashed in the originally pitch-black sky.
A bolt of lightning descended from the sky, striking the hand extended by the evil spirit.
Boom!
The speed of lightning was faster than sound.
Only after the evil spirit was hit did the thunder resound.
Roar!!!
The evil spirit roared in pain and retracted its hand.
Amano Hina felt exhausted, as if she was about to faint.
Seeing this, Yui hurriedly supported her shoulders.
"Hina, are you okay?"
"I, I'm fine."
Hina had difficulty breathing. Looking at the evil spirit not far away, before she could breathe a sigh of relief, she fell into despair again.
The opponent didn't suffer too serious injuries.
That huge palm only left a scorched black mark, not even a hole.
Yui was also horrified.
Even lightning from the sky...
Cannot cause damage to this evil spirit?
Yui wasn't a spirit medium and couldn't accurately judge the strength of this huge evil spirit.
But she knew one thing.
She and Hina were probably going to die here today.
"Hmm..."
Just then, a figure slowly stood up from the ruins formed by the collapse of that two-story apartment.
Yoru stretched lazily, looking at Amano Hina and Yui in the distance, a smile in his eyes.
"Amano-san, your ability is quite good."
This evil spirit with an abnormally tall body and fused with a "Door" was indeed strong.
But far from the point where the black and white Ghost Hands couldn't even contend with one of its hands.
Yoru was just conducting an experiment.
He wanted to see if Yui could awaken the ability of Soul Manifestation under desperate crisis.
Unexpectedly, the original goal wasn't achieved, but there was another unexpected gain.
Amano Hina's ability wasn't just making the weather sunny; she summoned lightning once in the original plot too.
And this wasn't the real world.
Amano Hina being able to pray and summon lightning in the Otherworld proved one thing.
That God (Evil Spirit) controlling the weather could interfere not only with the real world but also with the Otherworld to a certain extent.
Indeed an enemy worth eating.
Of course, it wasn't time to consider that level yet.
Yoru's reappearance made the tall evil spirit, which originally targeted Amano Hina and Yui, turn around and lock that twisted hideous gaze on him again.
For it, compared to the half-baked Amano Hina and the ordinary human Yui.
Obviously, Yoru possessing powerful spiritual power was more tempting.
"Unlimited Blade Works."
Before the evil spirit could attack, Yoru used his killing move first.
As a professional exorcist, just by meeting face to face, he could roughly judge the intensity of the evil spirit.
This abnormally tall evil spirit in front of him obviously devoured many of its kind.
And fused with a "Door."
Purely from the perspective of power, this guy was much stronger than Tamamo-no-Mae.
However, for existences capable of communication like Tamamo-no-Mae, Yoru didn't define them as simple evil spirits.
Calling them Yokai (Monsters/Spirits) might be more appropriate.
As the words "Unlimited Blade Works" came out, thousands of various weapons condensed from pure black evil spirit power emerged in the sky again.
Yoru raised his right hand, waved it gently downward, and whispered two words.
"Go."
The moment his voice fell, thousands of evil spirit power weapons in the sky descended on that tall evil spirit at extremely fast speed like arrows leaving the string.
Seeing the scene before her, Amano Hina was stunned.
She looked at Yui beside her, incredulous.
"Th... is this... the strength of 'Mask'?"
Yui's surprise was no less than Amano Hina's.
She hadn't seen Yoru's Unlimited Blade Works either; this was the first time.
Yui breathed a sigh of relief as if a heavy burden was lifted, then smiled sweetly.
"Don't worry."
"Our Captain-sama is invincible."
Just as Yui said this sentence, Yoru's voice suddenly came from behind the two girls.
"Taking advantage of this free time, let me explain."
Yui and Amano Hina were startled, seeing Yoru appearing beside them unknown when.
"Yuigahama-san."
Yoru looked at Yui. Although his voice carried a smile, his eyes under the mask had no emotional fluctuation.
"You listen too; this is very important."
"Mmhmm, okay."
Yoru pointed to the huge evil spirit raising its arms to resist the attack of Unlimited Blade Works, constantly roaring with blood flowing from its mouth, and spoke slowly.
"As you can see now, this is the ability of Soul Manifestation."
"Soul Manifestation is a special ability evolved based on the user's heart and soul, capable of fighting against strangeness, but not only capable of fighting against strangeness."
"According to the user's heart and soul, each user's Soul Manifestation ability will also produce different effects."
"Regarding the way to awaken Soul Manifestation ability, you can ask Tuanzi (Dumpling/Yui), which is Yuigahama Yui, later."
After introducing this to Amano Hina, Yoru turned his gaze to that huge evil spirit not far away.
His Unlimited Blade Works, originally thousands of pure black weapons, had rapidly reduced to less than a thousand at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Bursts of thick black energy emitted from the huge evil spirit's body, cancelling out the evil spirit power weapons.
"Can't break defense..."
Yoru murmured to himself and started thinking.
Now encountered a problem.
If he condensed only one weapon with evil spirit power as usual, the spiritual power density would be higher, and the single-point lethality would be much stronger.
But this evil spirit's body size was too huge, simply like a Titan.
Can't get a 3D Maneuver Gear to slash the opponent's nape, right?
That's not how to play.
But if using Unlimited Blade Works, the weapon's single lethality wouldn't reach the point of breaking defense.
Of course, these were secondary issues.
Yoru now faced the most difficult problem in his life.
"Grown so big..."
"When will I finish eating this?"
Hearing this sentence, Amano Hina was confused.
She looked at Yui beside her, lowered her voice, with a complex expression.
"The eating he said...?"
"Correct..."
Yui shook her head helplessly.
"Yoru is different from normal spirit mediums; he can devour evil spirits to become stronger."
"Hah?"
Amano Hina was stunned.
There is such a thing?
Leaving aside the size difference between the two.
Human... actually can devour evil spirits?
Is this serious exorcism?
"You two don't get in the way next."
Yoru pointed to the two Ghost Hands beside the girls and chuckled.
"Stand on them and watch the battle in the sky."
When Yui and Amano Hina stood on a Ghost Hand respectively and were carried flying all the way to mid-air, the two girls were shocked again.
Can fly?
And...
Yui and Amano Hina looked at the pure black railing around them.
This thing can even add guardrails?
Safety measures are quite in place.
Roar!!!
Meanwhile, the tall evil spirit had swept away all evil spirit power weapons.
It felt like being chased and bitten by a swarm of mosquitoes for a long time now.
Although not painful or itchy.
But very annoying.
And the source of its annoyance was the human standing not far away wearing black clothes.
Smash this guy to death.
Tear the opponent into pieces bit by bit, then swallow into the belly.
Thinking of this, the tall evil spirit bent down, rushing towards Yoru on all fours like a beast.
Bang!!!
The earth shook and mountains swayed.
The range of tens of meters of the entire street turned into ruins under the crushing of its huge body.
Seeing this scene, Amano Hina's face changed, shouting hurriedly.
"Yui, the residents around...."
"It's okay."
Yui knew Amano Hina's meaning and replied across the air.
"There are no other humans here. I'll explain to you later."
Speaking of which, the interference evil spirits could cause to the real world, even with the existence of "Doors," was very limited.
Normally, they couldn't destroy buildings, nor directly harm ordinary humans, only able to affect the real world through the hands of those with twisted desires in their hearts.
But this tall evil spirit was different.
Its fusion degree with the "Door" in its body had reached the level where it could merge the surrounding area directly with the Otherworld.
In other words.
This was equivalent to a ghostly domain capable of moving freely.
If they failed to eliminate this evil spirit today and let it continue to move in Kyoto city....
Yui dared not think about what kind of disaster that would cause.
Thinking of this.
"Yoru!"
Yui looked at Yoru standing in the devastation and shouted with all her might.
"Must eliminate this guy here!"
"Don't worry."
Kyoto's Number One Exorcist Yoru gave his declaration of victory.
"Will win." (Nah, I'd win).
Yoru's voice wasn't loud but could be heard clearly by Amano Hina and Yui in mid-air.
"Soul Manifestation is an idealistic ability."
"Based on the characteristics of each person's soul true body, extend more abilities based on the user's heart."
"Of course, there are restrictions. Not any ability you want to use can be used."
"According to my personal experience, after the power reaches the basic requirements, one needs to construct a reasonable system in one's heart to extend abilities."
"No need to conform to the laws of the real world. As long as it is logic that can justify itself, abilities can be created based on this."
When Yoru said this, seeing its attack failed to kill the opponent successfully, the huge evil spirit pounced on him again on all fours.
Facing the twisted-faced, huge-bodied evil spirit, the familiar voice sounded in Yoru's mind again.
"Finally decided to tear off all disguises and use your full strength?"
"Since the world has become so strange, why let yourself be bound by the so-called 'normal'?"
"Devour the evil spirit in front of you and create a world in your mind qualified to be called normal."
"Here, call out My True Name."
This time, Yoru didn't choose to refuse.
He raised Onimaru Kunitsuna, placing this famous sword horizontally in front of him.
This powerful spiritual item that had submitted to him seemed to feel unprecedented excitement at this moment too. The pitch-black blade began to emit a pleasant cry.
"Here, call out Your (Ru) True Name."
While saying this sentence, the pure black mask on Yoru's face began to flow and burn like flames from hell.
Even the coat hem originally dancing with the breeze stood completely still at this moment.
The surrounding environment became incredibly quiet at this moment.
In the ears of Yui and Amano Hina, there were no other sounds, only Yoru's plain words.
"Extinguish Evil, All Exhausted." (Destroy all evil).
"End of the Yaoyorozu."
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