Japanese Terrorist: What? I'll fight Hellstar!

Looking up at the gloomy sky, Amamiya Rin felt a sense of foreboding.

It's as if something unfortunate is happening somewhere in this city.

"Isn't this just common sense?"

The moment this thought popped into his head, Amamiya Rin couldn't help but laugh.

A self-deprecating smile appeared on his face.

In a world filled with ghosts and various supernatural tales and curses, it would be strange if no one suffered misfortune.

More than half an hour later, Amamiya Rin, leaning on her crutches, got off the bus at a bus stop only one kilometer away from the Dongdu General Hospital.

By now, it was completely dark, and the streetlights were on, outlining the massive hospital building.

Amamiya Rin, leaning on her cane, walked slowly along the path leading to the hospital.

On one side of the sidewalk is a road with sparse traffic, and on the other side is a dense green woodland design, with branches casting large, deep shadows. Only a few streetlights spaced far apart provide a dim yellow light to illuminate the road underfoot.

It's much quieter here than on the main road; you can only hear the rustling of leaves in the wind and the soft tapping of a cane on the ground.

Suddenly, Amamiya Rin's ears twitched slightly, keenly catching a discordant sound carried on the wind.

"...Help...Help! Someone help...!"

The voice was intermittent, filled with panicked sobs and heavy breathing, mixed with the rustling of leaves and the noise of distant vehicles, and it reached Yu Gonglin's ears.

Yu Gonglin immediately stopped in his tracks, his brows furrowing.

He focused his attention and listened intently.

Thanks to the heightened senses he gained through his practice of Guanyin, he confirmed that this was not a hallucination.

The cries for help, though faint, were definitely there, and they grew more urgent and closer.

Locking onto the direction, it's the green woodland to the right front.

Without much hesitation, Amamiya Rin left the sidewalk and turned onto the dimly lit pebble path in the woods.

A winding pebble path leads through the woods. The light from the streetlights is fragmented by the dense foliage, casting dappled shadows on the ground, making visibility limited.

Yu Gonglin steadied his breathing rhythm, gradually entering a state of deep concentration, maximizing his perception. The sounds of the wind and grass around him materialized into crystal-clear monitoring in his mind.

His steps were small and quick as he followed the direction of the sound. He left the pebbly path and the ground became uneven, but Amamiya Rin's steps remained steady at a consistent rhythm.

After passing a dense flower bed, the view suddenly opened up, and there was a young woman in a light-colored dress stumbling and running away. She had long, smooth brown hair, wore a white wide-brimmed hat, had soft facial features, and her light brown eyes were filled with fear. She was barefoot, wearing only stockings, and her stumbling body looked like she might fall at any moment.

In fact, she had already fallen, and Amamiya Rin could see that her body was covered in dirty grass and dust.

A few steps behind her, another woman was chasing after her.

The woman was dressed in a fashionable dress, thin and with a face that looked extremely strange in the dim light. Her skin was a sickly bluish-gray, her cheeks were sunken, and most horrifying of all was her mouth, which could not be closed completely, revealing several sharp canine teeth. Thick saliva dripped constantly from the corners of her mouth, and strange sounds came from her throat.

"vampire?"

Amamiya Rin's pupils contracted.

Although this design doesn't quite resemble the vampires drawn by Junji Ito, it perfectly captures the image of an ordinary vampire.

"save--!"

The brown-haired girl fled in the direction of the sidewalk, and her eyes met those of Amamiya Rin, who was walking in from the sidewalk.

The moment the brown-haired girl saw Amamiya Rin, a bright light suddenly flashed in her eyes, and she opened her lips, about to call out to Amamiya Rin for help.

However, the cry for help was cut short as soon as it reached his lips.

Her gaze swept over the two canes in Yu Gonglin's hands, and the flame of hope that had just been ignited quickly dimmed as if extinguished by cold water.

"Quick! Run! There's a monster!"

She shouted at Amamiya Rin, then immediately changed direction, avoiding the spot where Amamiya Rin was.

Seeing the brown-haired girl instinctively avoid him, Amamiya Rin understood her thoughts.

(He's a good person.)

Amamiya Rin made up her mind.

Those who are unwilling to implicate innocent people are already considered good people.

Now that he's already here and has already seen it, there's no reason for him to stand idly by!

(Not a human criminal like a robber or rapist, but a vampire? I didn't expect my first enemy after leaving the mountain to be a monster of this caliber. But... a vampire who can't kill a human woman in a short time shouldn't be too difficult to kill.)

"Run this way!"

Amamiya Rin said calmly, her voice, though not loud, possessing a strange penetrating power, resonating in the brown-haired girl's ears.

"I'll be fine."

The brown-haired girl was taken aback by what she heard, her panic mixed with a hint of hesitation.

"quick!"

"I urge you on," Yu Gonglin urged, taking a deep breath and closing his eyes.

In an instant, he entered a deep state of meditation—the gate of contemplation.

His chest rose and fell slowly and powerfully as his mind sank into the [Tomie Network] composed of thirty-two consciousnesses. Through the invisible neural connections, his will forcibly dragged all the Tomies into the same state.

The Tomies scattered throughout the city, no matter what they were doing, froze for a moment.

Their breathing involuntarily followed Amamiya Rin's rhythm, becoming long and uniform. A faint but real energy flowed back along those unseen nerve lines and into Amamiya Rin's brain.

Amamiya Rin's sympathetic nervous system was instantly activated, and his body secreted a large amount of adrenaline. The increased blood oxygen level provided more energy to the neurons, while the rapid expulsion of excess carbon dioxide made his nerve signal transmission more efficient, clearer, and more agile.

Amamiya Rin's temples throbbed slightly, as if the world had been slowed down.

The sounds of the wind, the rustling of leaves, the vampire's footsteps, and even the brown-haired girl's rapid heartbeat all became exceptionally clear.

His nerve reaction speed was pushed to its limit at this moment, almost twice as fast as usual!

Looking at Amamiya Rin's calm expression and composed demeanor as if he were resting with his eyes closed, and glancing at the increasingly approaching, ferocious-looking monster behind him, the brown-haired girl steeled her resolve and, as if throwing caution to the wind, gritted her teeth and charged toward Amamiya Rin's position.

Her change of direction naturally led the relentlessly pursuing vampire to Amamiya Rin.

The monster seemed to completely disregard Amamiya Rin, who was using a cane. Its attention was entirely focused on its prey. It roared and pounced, its slender arms reaching forward to grab the brown-haired girl's nape.

Just as the brown-haired girl, the vampire, entered within 1.5 meters of Amamiya Rin.

Amamiya Rin made a move!