All-out: Starting with the Awakening Special Operations Unit, search, attack, and withdrawal.

Amaterasu Kingdom!

The snow has been falling even harder in Abashiri Base Castle these past few days.

However, compared to the heavy snow that had been falling for several days and the increasingly frequent monsters roaming the wilderness outside the city, the atmosphere inside the city was even more eerie.

Located north of Abashiri Castle, the entire dojo is built on a mountain range. It is more magnificent than the Fujiwara Shogunate, the castle lord's mansion in the south of the castle, and is also more capable of overlooking the entire Kitami Shrine of Abashiri Castle.

The students at the dojo have been talking about the fact that the Fujiwara family patriarch, Fujiwara Ikko, had his source core shattered in the secret realm.

"Usoda Yonai, Fujiwara Castle Lord's の実力はあんなに强いのに, どうしてあんな小さなsecret realm でやられちゃYuki? (You’re lying, right? Lord Fujiwara is so powerful, how could he collapse in a small secret realm?)"

"How thick wow how thick! こんなことでushをつくやつがいるわけないだろ (In fact, this is the truth! How could someone use this kind of thing to deceive people?)"

"Even when the Palace Master went to the City Lord's Mansion, the Fujiwara family refused to see him. Recently, the special-grade students have all received notices to begin training..."

"Huh? Red bean paste?!"

Several students from the Kitami Shrine Dojo were chattering about recent events in the base city when they suddenly saw a figure walking towards them.

They hurriedly bowed and made obeisance.

"Priest Kato! Oho, Gozaimasu!"

"Oh hi yo~"

The middle-aged, refined man known as Priest Kato smiled gently and nodded slightly. His smile was as warm as the spring sunshine. After passing by a few people, a suppressed excitement came from behind him.

The words "So handsome" and "So gentle" made the smile on Kato's face grow even wider.

He was already aware of the recent events involving the Fujiwara family. Not only was the core of the castle lord, Fujiwara Ikko, shattered, although it may have been repaired by now, but he was also making a big show of developing the newly arrived secret realm outside the castle.

It still managed to attract the attention of the higher-ups at Kitami Shrine Dojo.

After greeting the students at the dojo with a smile along the way.

Kato Shuo entered his assigned residence at the dojo. As one of the five high-ranking priests at the fifth level of the Core Condensation Realm or above in Kitami Shrine, Kato Shuo owned a nice residence within the dojo.

but.

The moment he stepped into the mansion today, his steps involuntarily faltered.

When he saw Yamashita Hanako standing in the covered garden, fidgeting nervously as if waiting for him, the gentle smile in his eyes finally took on a different quality.

"It's Hanako. Have you met your family yet?" Kato Seki's voice remained gentle, but towards the end, it carried a hint of passion.

When he walked up to Yamashita Hanako, his face revealed an undisguised greed and evil.

Looking at Yamashita Hanako's shy and delicate appearance, like a flower bud about to bloom, Kato Seki's appetite was greatly tempted. With his strength at the seventh level of the Core Condensation Realm, he humbled himself to stay at Kitami Shrine.

Isn't it all for these little flower buds...?

however.

Just as he was already thinking about how to teach the young girl, Hanako Yamashita, profound knowledge tonight, a soft, teasing voice suddenly came from behind him.

"This is truly disgusting..."

Kato Seki's hair stood on end in an instant.

Without any hesitation, a vine-like flower, resembling a datura, instantly appeared above his head, and before it could spread, a dizzying aura emanated from it.

Kato Shigeru froze on the spot.

The world before him seemed to change drastically in an instant. A majestic figure looked down at him with disdain, as if a god were looking down on an ant, making his body feel as if it were being firmly suppressed by a mountain.

Even the source energy cannot be mobilized in the slightest.

Hydra raised an eyebrow. The effect of the [Cicada's Song Across the Sea Monk's Hat] display case that his main body had given him was surprisingly useful.

In an instant, it renders the opponent unable to react.

This suppressive technique called "Kamui" resembles an illusion, but it is not an illusion at all.

Behind Hydra, Yamashita Yoru emerged with a ferocious expression, staring at the shameless bastard who had attempted to coerce and defile his sister—this hypocritical scoundrel.

He was actually a famous "wise man" at the Kitami Shrine dojo.

"Hydrasama, please hand this bastard over to me! I would be extremely grateful!"

Yamashita Yoko knelt on the ground, filled with excitement, and begged.

Hydra nodded slightly, just about to agree, when suddenly his expression froze, as if he had sensed something, and a playful smile appeared on his lips.

He murmured softly.

"What's this? A small world of enemies?"

......

Kitami Shrine Dojo.

The dojo's owner, Kitami Ryōna, was receiving a very important person who had suddenly arrived, with a respectful expression.

If anyone were present, they would recognize it at a glance.

The figure in front of me was casually draped in a piece of clothing that I had somehow acquired, looking disheveled and unkempt, as if he had emerged from the wilderness deep in the mountains to survive.

It was none other than Anben Guiyi, one of the guardian deities of Amaterasu Kingdom who had just been defeated by "the benevolent father" a few days ago!

"Sword Saint, is there something you need my help with that you've suddenly visited?"

Despite the opponent's defeat, Kitami Ryōna still dared not show any disrespect.

Conversely, given Abe no Kiichi's current rare, defeated state, offering him help at this moment is far more likely to win his favor than simply adding to his already good fortune at other times...

Kitami Ryōna had many thoughts on his mind.

Yasumoto Kiichi cut to the chase: "Kitami-kun, please tell me, what was the situation at the Heart-Slaying Dojo during the time I was missing?"

Anben Guiyi's face showed anxiety.

On his way here, he heard some rumors, and that his damned benevolent father, without the slightest pride of a strongman, had killed the elite students of his dojo.

The casualties were heavy!

Most importantly, he has never heard anyone mention the whereabouts of his granddaughter, Masami Yasumoto.

Upon hearing this, Kitami Ryōna's expression darkened slightly, and he sighed softly.

"Sword Saint, please accept my condolences... Miss Anben is currently being held in custody by the Great Xia."

Before Anbenguiyi could say anything...

"Boom!"

A deafening clap of thunder, accompanied by the sudden blasting of the doorway, startled both Kitami Ryana and Yasumoto Kiichi.

The latter was just about to say that the damned "benevolent father" had not yet finished casting the magical curse on him.

But when his gaze fell upon the tall, imposing figure at the entrance, exuding a noble and divine aura, his pupils suddenly contracted.

"Oh my god, Nemonota?! (Who are you?!)"

Hydra sneered and remained silent.

Behind him, Yamashita Ye, however, adopted a pretentious air, raising his head and taking a step forward.

"So you're Yasumoto Kiichi? You don't even kneel before Her Majesty Amaterasu?! You have some nerve!"