Tokyo: I am the Lord of All Demons!

"...What use are you?" Araki Makoto looked at Jun with disdain.

Upon hearing this, Ah Chun lowered her head and bent over at a ninety-degree angle, softly saying, "Private Ma Sai, Ah Chun has disappointed Cammy-sama."

"Step down," Araki Makoto said helplessly, shaking his hand.

"Okay. If you need anything, please summon Ah Chun." Ah Chun straightened his back and then bent over at a ninety-degree angle again.

Then, it disappeared.

Kitamura Eri looked at the spot where Jun had disappeared and leaned closer to ask, "Hey, Kamisama, aren't you omnipotent? Why didn't you grant Jun a physical body?"

"Good question!" Makoto Araki slapped his thigh, then pointed to the moonlight outside the window and said, "Why can't the sun and the moon rise at the same time?"

Kitamura Eri looked slightly surprised: "That's definitely not possible. If the moon and the sun rise at the same time, the moon might be destroyed by the sun!"

“What you said is true, but there’s also something wrong with it.” Makoto Araki shook his head with a smile. “The truth is, if the moon and the sun rise together, the moon will be dim and even block out the sun.”

"Can the sun still be blocked?" Kitamura Eri asked, still looking surprised.

"Why not?" Araki Makoto said with a look of disdain. "Wait, weren't you a human being in your previous life? Didn't you ever see a solar eclipse?"

"Oh!" Kitamura Eri scratched her head, belatedly realizing, "I don't even remember this phenomenon. After all, I've long forgotten about human knowledge!"

At this moment, Fujita Mino interjected: "You look like an elementary school student, what knowledge could you possibly have?"

"You can't look down on me!" Kitamura Eri tilted her head, looked at Fujita Mino, and said, "Although I was an elementary school student in my previous life, I'm not an elementary school student now, at least not in terms of intelligence. I'm still the Great Demon King!"

Fujita Mino calmly said disdainfully, "The so-called Great Demon King is just a title given to you by those weak ghosts, isn't it?"

"That's still a great demon king!" Kitamura Eri seemed quite proud. "What's wrong with me being a leader of kids!"

Fujita Mino was too lazy to reply to Kitamura Eri's words, so she simply turned her head away and looked at the god instead.

Araki Makoto had nothing to say.

Actually, it's not that he didn't want to provide Ah Chun with a physical body, it's that there was no need for it.

After arranging the physical body, is it necessary to arrange the memories? If the original memories are arranged, then there will be an independent mind, and in that case, Ah Chun will become an ordinary divine messenger again.

Becoming an ordinary divine messenger means a decrease in combat power, and everything returns to square one, which is not what Makoto Araki wants.

Ultimately, there is no such thing as having it all in the world; you can't have it both ways.

However, there seems to be one exception in this world, namely Makoto Araki himself, because he has already become a kind of law.

While Makoto Araki was still thinking, Eri Kitamura interrupted him, saying, "I'm done, let's play games!"

"Come on!" Araki Makoto instantly perked up. He looked at Fujita Mino, who was still looking bewildered, and reminded her, "Fujita, haven't you recovered yet?"

Fujita Mino placed her hands on her waist and slightly bent her knees. "Reporting to the High God, Fujita has recovered and can now play games with you."

"Let's go, good luck, chicken dinner tonight!" Araki Makoto said, sitting down in the gaming chair and picking up the mouse.

The two girls, looking tense, sat down in their respective computer chairs, ready to start the battle.

The game PUBG is in full swing indoors, but what they don't notice is that a real-life PUBG battle royale is also about to begin outdoors.

It was close to midnight.

Tokyo.

In Yoyogi Park.

A ghostly girl named Akane, whose identity is that of a demon king, sat on a bench in the park.

Opposite her, the divine messenger named Ooi Yushin was trapped in an energy cage resembling a pig cage, unable to escape.

In this situation, Qian simply raised her head and gazed at the bright moon hanging in the sky, watching it slowly turn red.

Chapter 178 Purity of the Soul

Time flowed slowly as usual until midnight, but Yoyogi Park was now completely quiet.

Qian stood up and looked around to check the presence of the divine messenger: "He didn't come..."

The absence of the divine messengers means that the anticipated battle between the gods and demons will not take place, making it difficult for Qian to prey on the other divine messengers and thus preventing her from absorbing their energy and completing her transformation.

Akane slowly floated up to Ooi Yushin, looking down at him: "Oh dear, how unfortunate. It seems you've already been abandoned. In that case, I'll have to choose you as my target?"

No sooner had he finished speaking than Ooi Yutomi retorted through the energy cage, "You won't kill me."

Qian tilted her head, her face twitching slightly, but her expression remained mechanical: "Oh? So confident?"

Unexpectedly, Akane responded. Ooi Yuomi feigned sternness and said, "To be precise, you won't eat me whole, much less absorb my divine power. I suspect there might be some ulterior motive. Am I right?"

Qian didn't answer him, she just laughed: "Hmph, hehe..."

The other party's guess was correct. If Ruoxi really wanted to absorb Ooi Yushin's soul and divine power, she could have "executed" him after using him to threaten the divine messengers, instead of waiting until now.

Even now, Ooi Yuomi still can't sense any murderous intent from Akane. It seems that she doesn't want to kill him, but rather sees him as a bargaining chip that can be discarded at any time.

In fact, it is true.

Even now, Akane still considers the purity of her soul as the most important factor, because for her, only a sufficiently pure soul can wield more powerful demonic energy.

Ooi Yuomi is undoubtedly a male soul, which does not match the majority of female souls within Akane's body.

If she forcibly swallows a man, it's hard to say whether "Qian" will still be under her control after the fusion.

Not to mention that this was a risky attempt, because Qian had never tried to devour the soul of a divine messenger before, which was extremely risky and could be described as a do-or-die situation.

Therefore, for Akane, her only target was the souls of the three divine messengers: Shimizu Suzune, Fujita Mino, and Ishikawa Risa.

"I guessed right, didn't I?" Ooi Yutomi's lips curled up slightly, and he said, "How about we make a deal?"

Qian's gaze sharpened slightly: "What right do you, a prisoner, have to negotiate with me?"

Seeing that Akane's tone had softened, Ooi Yuji confidently said, "Because I can help you catch them."

Qian retorted irritably, "Why should I arrest them?"

Ooi Yutomi took a deep breath and said confidently, "If you didn't want to capture them, you wouldn't have tied me up here. The fact that you haven't made a move against me means you hope to gain more, and they are the greater gain in your eyes."

Akane: "Why did you help me?"

Yushin Ooi, who was trapped in the energy cage, sat up slightly and said emphatically, "This is our deal. In exchange, you spare my life."

Qian feigned indifference and said, "You just say you're going to make a deal, but what if you run away? How can I trust you then?"

Ooi Yutomi shook his head and laughed, "Those good-for-nothings in the Shinto Hall are refusing to help me when I'm in trouble. After tonight, they'll definitely treat me as dead. Tell me, wouldn't such tacit approval be considered betrayal?"

Qian remained silent.

Ooi Yutomi continued, "Since they betrayed me first, don't blame me for being unjust. I'm willing to help Your Majesty capture them and personally deliver them to you!"

After saying this, Ooi Yushin knelt down in the energy cage and prostrated himself before Akane.

Qian narrowed her eyes, still somewhat puzzled: "Do you really hate them that much?"

Ooi Yuuji raised his head and patted his chest: "Heaven and earth bear witness, I, Ooi, have uttered not a single falsehood tonight!"

Akane stared at Ooi Yushin and said, "If you want to join my camp, then your divine power will be unusable, and you will need to be infused with demonic power again. But don't worry, I will give you double the demonic power as long as you have divine power, and your strength will not be worse than before."

Upon hearing this, Ooi Yushin even hesitated. He hadn't considered that defecting to the enemy would require changing the power within his body, which would make it impossible to defect flexibly.

If he were to accept the power of the demon, the divine messengers in the Shinto Hall would definitely treat him as a demon and deliver a devastating blow.

But if he didn't accept the ghost's power, he would have to die here tonight. He knew which was more important.

He had no other choice.

The divine messengers are not only few in number but also weak in strength. Furthermore, their superior god has yet to take any action, and the balance of Yin and Yang has long been disrupted.

For Ooi Yuomi, if he chooses to side with Akane at this time, then with Akane's power boost, he might be able to become the number one person below the Demon King.

In comparison, even if Ooi Yuomi continues to serve as a divine messenger, he will probably still be at the bottom of the Shinto Hall.

The Shinto Office has been divided into three factions: one is the Shinto Office Director and external political forces, another is the female Shinto Messengers, and the last is Ooi Yuomi and some newly arrived police inspectors.

Seeing that Ooi Yutomi was hesitating, Akane urged, "Have you thought it through? My patience is very limited."

Upon hearing this, Ooi Yushin decided to stop hesitating and knelt down immediately: "I, Ooi Yushin, beg the Demon King to baptize me."

Then, he raised his head, made hand seals, and chanted incantations to release all the divine power within his body.

In the next instant, countless rays of light burst forth from all parts of his body and disappeared into the air. Even his Totsuka Sword, after materializing right before his eyes, vanished again.

After releasing his divine power, Ooi Yushin collapsed to the ground like someone who hadn't slept for several days. His skin began to atrophy, and his hair turned completely white, making him look decades older in an instant.

This was inevitable. During his time as a divine messenger, Ooi Yushin was constantly exhausting his mental and physical strength to perform his duties and fight against demons.

But despite his hard work, he was not valued by the Shinto Bureau; to them, he was just a dispensable person.

Therefore, after days of overworking his body, he would have collapsed long ago if not for divine power. Now that the divine power has dissipated, his true condition has been exposed.

However, this situation did not last long. The energy cage that imprisoned him softened and merged into his body.

When the last wisp of energy that made up the energy cage merged into Ooi Yushin's body, his hair turned from white to black, and his previously aged and wrinkled skin became smooth and silky again.

Yushin Ooi could clearly feel the energy within his body. If the energy before was like a wolfhound, then the energy now was like a fierce tiger. The difference was not small.

Ooi Yushin tried to circulate the demonic power within his body. During the process, the demonic power was enhanced by midnight, becoming three or four times stronger than before.

Looking at the black mist surrounding his body, Ooi Yutomi couldn't help but sigh, "Is this the power of the demons...?"

Akane was very satisfied with the newborn Ooi Yushin. She said, "From now on, you are my servant. If I tell you to go east, you must never go west."

Upon hearing this, Ooi Yutomi immediately knelt down on one knee. "For my master, Ooi is willing to go through fire and water without hesitation!"

Qian said expressionlessly, "There's no need to go through fire and water. With your current strength, you can challenge the three of them working together. It's time to fulfill your promise and bring one of them to me as your pledge of loyalty."

With unwavering resolve, Ooi Yutomi replied to Akane, "Yes, Master."

Then, Yuomi Ooi turned around and activated his demonic power to scan the entire island of Japan.

This scan is no simple matter!

First, there's the Shinto Hall. There isn't a single divine messenger there. In this time of crisis, instead of being on duty in the Shinto Hall, these women have somehow gone off to some unknown ghostly place.

Secondly, throughout the entire Tokyo metropolitan area, Ooi Yuomi did not find any trace of the divine messenger.

Where did all these girls go?

Left with no other choice, Yuomi Oi expanded the scanning area to the entire Japanese island, and finally found a clue in Hokkaido.

That was a car.