Chapter 106 An Encounter with Half-Tengu
Kanae Kochō, Shinobu Kochō, and Kanao Tsuyuri went home with Mitsuri Kanroji to visit their families.
After agreeing to meet them in the jungle, Aoki wandered the streets alone.
Familiar streets, familiar shops, even familiar faces.
Unconsciously, he arrived at the location of the Night Princess Society.
However, the once luxurious building was gone, leaving only an empty space.
"It was demolished?"
Aoki muttered to himself. Mitsuri Kanroji hadn't mentioned it; it must have happened after she left.
An old man passing by interjected, "Young man, you're talking about the Night Princess Society, right?"
Aoki nodded, "That's right, I remember it was still there when I came last year!"
The old man looked disgusted, "That Night Princess Society is no good. On the surface, it's an art society, but its true face is a lewd and sadistic den built by the Fujita family, killing countless girls. It's dirtier than my toilet!"
The old man's analogy was quite apt!
Aoki inwardly praised him and asked, "And then? Why was the Night Princess Society demolished?"
"About half a year ago, the Night Princess Society was destroyed, and the Fujita family was disgraced. However, those crimes weren't the main reason for its demolition,"
the old man said mysteriously. "It's said that the Night Princess Society was destroyed by a single person, a messenger sent by the gods. The gods disliked the Night Princess Society, and no one was willing to take it on, so it had to be demolished."
"A messenger of the gods?"
Aoki's expression was subtle.
Judging from Muzan Kibutsuji's situation, even if there were gods, demons were probably objects of divine scorn.
The old man changed the subject, smiling, "By the way, young man, how old are you this year? Are you married?
I have a granddaughter, sixteen years old, whose beauty is quite famous throughout Iikura. She's currently looking for a suitable husband."
"I see you have a good appearance and temperament, would you like to meet my granddaughter?"
Aoki: "?"
Goodness.
You've come for a blind date.
But looking at your appearance, it's hard to believe you have a granddaughter who is as beautiful as an angel.
"Sorry, sir, I already have a fiancée."
Aoki said perfunctorily and left in a hurry.
He hadn't felt this much pressure when facing the combined attack of Muzan Kibutsuji and the Upper Moons.
"Where to go next? Should I go to the Fujita family?"
Aoki was thinking when a figure appeared in his field of vision.
It was an old man with a hunched back, walking slowly along the wall. A huge tumor was swollen on his forehead, his face was old, his posture was cautious, and his body was trembling slightly.
At first glance, he was just a weak, inconspicuous, ordinary old man.
"Hantengu?"
Aoki almost blurted it out.
This image was all too familiar.
Moreover, the hunched old man's aura, though seemingly weak, was actually complex, ethereal, and unpredictable, extremely eerie.
He'd just happened to stumble upon one of the last two Upper Moon demons during a casual outing.
This was definitely the luckiest moment of his demon-hunting career.
Hantengu keenly sensed two unusual gazes. He turned his head and his body shuddered violently.
"A defector?!"
Bang!
Without the slightest hesitation, his body shattered into pieces.
This wasn't suicide.
Hantengu's fragmented body rapidly regenerated, transforming into four younger demons, remarkably similar in appearance, but with completely different auras.
Their eyes were etched with the characters "Upper Moon" and "Fourth Moon."
In fact, the characters "Joy, Anger, Sorrow, Happiness" were also etched on their tongues hidden in their mouths.
"Hmph, trying to escape?" Aoki had already activated his "Transparent World," clearly capturing all the changes in Hantengu's body.
In a flash, he appeared in front of a piece of Hantengu's shattered flesh and reached out to grab it.
The rotten flesh suddenly transformed into an old man the size of a rat, remarkably similar to Hantengu before he split apart.
Hantengu's Blood Demon Art is complex and powerful.
Including his main body, he possesses eight bodies.
Normally, he appears as a frail old man with a tumor on his head, his eyes blank.
After splitting, he can transform into five demons: four demons representing joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness, and his true body, the timid demon, which is the size of a rat.
The timid demon can mimic the tall and strong hate demon.
The anger demon, after devouring the joy, sorrow, and happiness demons, can transform into the most powerful, the hate demon, Zōhaten.
Hantengu's different clones can also use various types of attacks, such as lightning and sound waves.
In terms of the richness of his Blood Demon Art, Hantengu is undoubtedly one of the best.
However, among the Upper Moons, his weakness is also the most obvious.
His clones are immune to decapitation, possess a wide range of abilities, and can adapt to various environments, but his main body, the timid demon, is completely incapable of combat.
Gyutaro is relatively weak in raw power and has Daki as a burden; he is proficient in both combat and magic, but not in either. Hantengu, while possessing a wealth of abilities, has the significant weakness of his main body.
Although all are Upper Moon demons, there is still a significant difference between the lower three and the upper three.
"Aaaaah!"
With his true form held in Aoki's hand, Hantengu let out a furious roar, his body swelling into a towering Hate Demon, his fists clenched as he slammed towards Aoki.
Aoki remained calm, sweeping his arm across.
*Thud!*
The Hate Demon's upper body was torn off.
Although his strength was great, how could it compare to Aoki's current power?
The four demons—Joy, Anger, Sorrow, and Happiness—also paled.
They didn't understand why the defector had locked onto his true form so quickly.
During the last battle, they had appeared directly in the form of Zōhaten.
Logically, the secret shouldn't have been exposed.
The Anger Demon didn't hesitate, immediately beginning to devour the other three demons, attempting to transform into Zōhaten.
Only Zōhaten had a chance against the defector.
Aoki didn't even glance at them, pulling his arm back.
*Thud!*
The remaining half of the Hate Demon's chest was ripped open, and a palm-sized old man was forcibly pulled out.
"Gotcha!"
"Let me go! Let me go!"
the cowardly demon screamed. "Why are you bullying me? I'm so pitiful, and you still want to hurt me? Don't you have any conscience? Don't you feel any remorse?"
"Remorse?"
Aoki's face showed a faint sneer.
Hantengu had stolen, robbed, and killed in his previous life, committing all sorts of evil deeds, yet he pretended to be a victim, and even after becoming a demon, he remained unchanged.
Everything was someone else's fault.
He was always the victim.
The Upper Moon demons' personalities were more twisted than the last, the most serious being Upper Moon Two Doma, Upper Moon Five Gyokko, and Upper Moon Four, Hantengu!
Whether the other three were good or bad is another matter, but before becoming demons, they were at least normal people, while these three were psychologically twisted perverts in their previous lives.
The Anger Demon finally devoured the other three demons, quickly striking the taiko drum behind him. A huge wooden lizard burst from the ground and lunged at Aoki.
"Too late!"
Aoki ignored it, tightening his grip, and with a thought, "Devouring Demon, devour it!"
"No!"
Hantengu struggled.
However, his true form was too weak to break free from the "Devouring Demon"'s grasp, and his body was gradually devoured.
The wooden lizard opened its massive jaws and bit down on the green wood.
But the next moment, it instantly turned into black smoke.
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