Shota is surrounded by monsters!

If Yomi really manages to escape, things will get complicated. Having been influenced by the Killing Stone, she doesn't care about morality or justice; she's capable of using any despicable means. Although Shota is certain she'll come after him sooner or later… what will she do before that?

"Hello? Is this Kagura Tsuchimiya? Hello, this is... Shota, Shota Kousaka."

"It's nothing, just... oh, right, I wanted to ask about your father's condition."

"Okay, I'll come visit next time I have time."

After hanging up the phone, Shota frowned. Given the nature of vengeful spirits, they would definitely choose to "visit" their former "relatives" from when they were alive. But she didn't seem to be looking for Kagura. Could she have gone to see Iizuna Noriyuki?

I don't have his contact information either, so I'll just forget about it.

Shota sighed, then took a deep breath.

The smell of humans, the smell of monsters, the smell of food, and pungent smells.

All sorts of smells entered Shota's nose. He used his keen sense of smell to analyze the information around him until the wind around him subtly formed a small vortex before he stopped.

That wisp of scent was both hateful and familiar.

Shota determined the general direction and began tracking.

Night had fallen, and the streetlights were all lit. On this street, which was not in the city center, there were no shopping malls, no neon lights, and the population was relatively sparse.

But today, the lack of people was eerily unsettling. Sometimes I walked for ten minutes without encountering a single person. Yet, on the next street, I could still see some figures. It felt as if everyone was deliberately avoiding this place.

No, there is still one person.

Araragi Koyomi.

When he went out to buy H books, he naturally preferred to go to secluded places. If someone discovered the book covers in his bag, there would definitely be an embarrassing situation.

"You!"

"Hey, there you are!"

My name is Araragi Koyomi, and I'm a normal high school student who's healthy in both mind and body and doesn't experience auditory hallucinations. However, it's a bit strange that I don't have any friends—no, right now I only have one strange friend—even though we barely interact outside of school. My grades are a bit bad, but not bad enough to be considered stupid.

In short, my name is Araragi Koyomi, and I'm a very ordinary guy.

Nodding to himself as if talking to himself, Araragi Koyomi ignored the flickering streetlights, the moon that had hidden behind the clouds, and the voice that sounded like a hallucination.

"Could you... come and help me?"

It doesn't seem like I'm hallucinating...

Araragi Koyomi turned his head and looked at the place under the streetlight where the sound was coming from.

Dazzling blonde hair—Although Araragi Koyomi had seen many foreigners, he had never seen such breathtakingly beautiful blonde hair before. So much so that he couldn't take his eyes off the other person after just one glance at their hair.

However... a little further down.

Those cold eyes.

The elegant Western-style dress—no, it's now as tattered as a strip of cloth.

She sat there with her back against the streetlamp, unable to do anything but stare at herself.

Yes, she could do nothing anymore. Because of her limbs...

No more.

The area from the right wrist to the elbow, the area from the left wrist to the root of the shoulder, the area from the right foot to the knee, and the area from the left foot to the root of the thigh were all cut off.

If you look closely, only the cut on the right foot is relatively clean and neat; the rest of the body looks like it has been chopped many times.

"Hey, are you alright?"

Even though he was out buying adult magazines in the middle of the night, Araragi Koyomi still considered himself a good person; at least he couldn't bear to stand by and watch someone die. Although the current situation was somewhat strange, he still did what an ordinary person should do.

He took out his phone, his hands trembling as he tried to call an ambulance, but before he could recall the ambulance's number, another strange thing happened!

"Bam—"

The strange creature that fell from the sky created a large crater in the ground, and Araragi Koyomi was knocked to the ground by the shock.

The enormous lion had twelve pupils and its tail was made of several terrifying venomous snakes.

Does this kind of creature really exist in this world?

monster? !

"Ow!"

The monster opened its mouth wide towards the sky, and a pale yellow energy cannon shot into the air!

Wait, is this CG? An illusion? A filming location?

Araragi Koyomi was stunned.

"Keep quiet and don't disturb my emotional exchange with your master!"

"Bam—"

The mysterious man who descended from the sky punched the monster in the stomach, but before he could continue his pursuit, the monster suddenly vanished.

However, he didn't pay attention to it, and simply raised his hand, grabbing something out of thin air.

pat-

A katana that had been sheathed fell to the ground, and at the same time, a woman in a black kimono began to slowly materialize from the man's hand.

But wasn't that man a pervert? He actually grabbed a woman's breasts?

Araragi Koyomi thought to himself.

"Oh, I'm sorry."

Perhaps sensing something was wrong, the mysterious man released his hand and then grabbed the other person's shoulder again.

However, the girl seemed to be resisting and kept struggling, but the man shamelessly used his legs to clamp her waist and pin her to the ground.

He really is a pervert, but that's a good position.

Araragi Koyomi thought to himself.

Then, the man pulled something like a collar from his arms and forcefully put it around the woman's neck. The woman's shouts and curses subsided, as if she had been tamed.

Is this a feature similar to the Master Ball? Or is it a new item with a mysterious purpose?

Araragi Koyomi thought to himself.

In short, it seems like that's the end of it.

What will happen next... doesn't seem like the time to be thinking about that.

Araragi Koyomi tilted his head. These two were clearly not ordinary people. Generally speaking, if they found themselves being watched, they would definitely kill everyone in an instant, right? Even if it was special effects, the ground tremor just now was real.

Before he could reach a conclusion, the two men turned their heads at the same time.

"Kousaka...Shota-kun and...Isayama Yomi-kun?"

Araragi Koyomi looked at the two somewhat familiar faces and hesitantly and surprisingly called out their names.

"Araragi Koyomi?"

Shota was also puzzled. How did he end up running into him?

"Oh ho ho, our Taotie's inhuman identity is about to be exposed. Don't you really enjoy campus life? Once it's exposed, your life won't be able to continue, will it?"

Yomi Isayama tempted Shota, saying, "Come on, go kill him. If you kill him, no one will know our secret..."

"Well……"

Shota covered Yomi's mouth with his hand and didn't let go even for a second, no matter how much she licked, bit, and kissed him.

Actually, I didn't see anything today.

Araragi Koyomi told the most accurate lie of his life.

"Yes. That's right, Araragi Koyomi, you didn't see anything."

Shota nodded, hoisted Yomi onto his shoulder, and said to Araragi Koyomi, "That's it, I'm going back now."

"..."

Great……

"Brother!"

Just then, a voice came from behind Araragi Koyomi, and he turned around in surprise...

Human body, snake tail...

monster……

Araragi Koyomi felt that his world was about to collapse.

"Oh, Boa Hancock. I'm sorry I forgot about you."

Shota shrugged, about to say something, when he noticed that the Snake Princess, who had walked over, suddenly froze on the spot, trembling.

Shota finally noticed that there was a scent here that didn't belong to a human, though it was very faint, so faint that it was about to disappear.

"Kiss-Shot Acerolario Lyon Heart Under the Blade".

“Oh, you actually recognize me, you…” The blonde woman shifted her gaze from Shota to Snake Princess and said, “So it’s you.”

"An S-class... Great Yokai..."

When Shota heard the name, his first thought was that it was an S-class monster who could rival his father, and then he looked at the blonde woman.

Thump—thump—

His heart skipped a beat. A strange emotion suddenly washed over him.

This woman...

There was a strange sense of familiarity, as if they had known each other for a very long time. In fact, Shota sensed that she had something in common with Rea.

No, that's not the key point. The key point is...

She was so strong...

Sufficient enough to conceive.

Image: "Kiss-Showa", Location: "Images/165944-70129.jpg"

Chapter 96. The First Encounter