Inner Destroyer

　"That's actually pretty strong. Back in Tokyo, one evil monster like that could fight off several magical girls."

　The white-haired witch said lightly,

　"If we don't make some progress, it will be a small matter of violating the contract with Modora, but a big matter of disappointing the Buddha Mother."

　After saying this, she looked at the mural of the Buddha Mother Maurya Vairocana and clasped her hands together with a pious expression.

　The other two girls did not join in.

　"In short, instead of focusing on others, why don't you help transfer the files and equipment here?" The witch said somewhat dissatisfiedly, "Now that the address of this hospital has been exposed, we shouldn't stay for long."

　"What should I do with this guy?"

　The warrior girl pointed at Liezhen on the ground and asked curiously.

　"Of course this young man can be used."

　The white-haired witch said calmly, her tone was calm but it could not be refuted.

　"The assassin material is enough to deal with magical girls, but it's definitely not enough to deal with Jingorin. I was originally planning to try sending out thirty at once. Now that this guy has come to me, it reminds me of another use. I think I'll give it a try."

　The warrior girl shrugged, saying, "Oh."

　"but……"

　The Onmyoji girl finally spoke, as if to object—but she hesitated for a long time, ultimately afraid to speak, and couldn't say anything. She lowered her head obediently and left the room with the samurai girl.

　Guitou Reishi could only collapse on the ground, looking at the white-haired witch in despair, not knowing how she would deal with him.

　"Don't worry, you have quite a talent as a magician, and you happen to be a man."

　The white-haired witch smiled slightly.

　"It's just for thirty people... I believe you can fit it in."

　Liezhen finally understood what she meant and tried to struggle with all his strength.

　But it was too late.

　The girl he had saved from the sink with all his might—the girl who had been lying on the ground—slowly began to stir, her head stiffly raised. The twisted expression on her face resembled the strange smile of a puppet.

　She reached out to Liezhen, hugged his legs, and pulled his pants.

　“Eh!? No—”

　Liezhen struggled desperately, but his body was no longer under his control.

　The white-haired witch chuckled as if she was enjoying a farce.

　"What a touching scene, young master of the Guitou family." She said softly, her voice gentle as if soothing a baby, "Didn't you want to be a hero just now?"

　"Then take on the responsibility of being a hero."

　"And there are still twenty-nine people to come."

　079: Say goodbye to your wife!

　In the worldview of Taoism, Shintoism, Yin-Yang Taoism, Hinduism, and many traditional shamans, death, childbirth, and many desires of the human heart all produce filth.

　Filth is the power of uncleanness. Human contact with it brings disaster. Purification, a hallmark of Shintoism, involves a ritual bathing by water to cleanse the body of impurities and bad luck.

　In fact, the word "祓禊" was already recorded in documents during the Spring and Autumn Period. However, it is only used in Japanese Shintoism nowadays.

　Later, due to the integration of Shintoism and Buddhism, the concept of filth was also regarded as "karma" in Japan.

　Although calling them filth, uncleanness, evil spirits, and karma may sound scary... but in the final analysis, they are actually things that are absorbed by humans, interact with humans, and are produced by humans. They are a very natural part of the operation of the laws of the universe.

　The desire for money, material things, food...human beings' daily lives will naturally produce filth bit by bit.

　So... I don't know how long it took.

　Probably only a few hours, actually.

　But after a few hours, Kito Retsujin...his ██...was numb from the pain.

　It’s so painful, there is no happiness, only pain.

　My consciousness gradually became blurred, as if I was going crazy.

　Maybe he has actually gone crazy a long time ago.

　Only the brain continues to follow the instruction "put ██████".

　This caused his ██ to spit out a lot of "███".

　Thirty magicians, all possessed by evil spirits, lost their minds.

　To the current Guitou Liezhen, they are more terrifying than 30,000 murderers.

　Don't get me wrong, it's not that they're exploiting him, quite the opposite.

　This was simply a matter of pouring thirty people's worth of ███ into his body and mind through ███.

　One's own

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　The contention was ██.

　Existence itself is █ ...

　This is such a terrifying thing that it is impossible to imagine if you have never experienced it.

　Liezhen screamed with a terrifying feeling as if there were parasites crawling all under his skin.

　(Aaaahh!)

　But now he couldn't even scream.

　(Don’t come over here! Don’t come over here! Don’t come into my body!)

　However, ██ did not stop there.

　As if seeping through his body bit by bit, the accumulated power of thirty exorcists passed through all of his fierce and true power, trying to change him.

　(Stop! Stop!)

　In just two or three hours, Guitou Reishi's whole body was shattered.

　"Desire is power, but most people only have so much desire in their hearts."

　"Even if the desires of an ordinary person are strengthened to the point of demonic power, they are no match for the God Gorin."

　"—In that case, why not just collect desires from other people?"

　The white-haired witch watched how Retsujin Kito struggled and became desperate, and teased him.

　"Being able to be a vessel for another's desires requires considerable talent."

　"You exorcists, with your deep karma and intertwined bloodlines, have accumulated enough karma and desire for generations."

　"So I had these thirty exorcist priestesses absorb the karma of tens of thousands of people. I originally planned to create thirty assassin substances at once, but I felt that even that wouldn't be enough to defeat them... and since a boy like you is here, I decided to do an experiment."

　"You have to hold on well, young master of the Guitou family."

　Even so, before he could truly absorb the evil energy of thirty demon-exorcist priestesses, after about 70% to 80% of it had been infused into him, Kito Retsujin was already unable to move. He could no longer stand.

　"What a useless man... Well, it's time to evacuate anyway, so let's just use it like this for now."

　The white-haired shrine maiden Ise raised her eyebrows.

　"Go, good boy. Go make trouble, go kill, go destroy the one you hate the most, Kamigorin!"

　-

　And so, time goes back to the present.

　Sensing the evil spirit rising in the city, Shingorin spread her wings and flew away from the school. When she arrived in the city center, she saw this—

　He was an ordinary-looking young man, probably no more than 20 years old. His eyes were dull and he exuded a foul odor as he staggered down the street.

　what's the situation?

　Lin was stunned for a moment. This person's face seemed familiar to her. It seemed like she had seen their picture before, on the list of local demon-exorcist families in Aomori Prefecture that Ayame had shown her...

　At the same time, the young man also saw Lin, and instantly, endless resentment and jealousy appeared on his face.

　"Go, Liezhen. Just raise the bracelet I gave you, imagine the power you desire, and shout "Transform."

　A voice came from nowhere, right next to the young man's ear, saying jokingly,

　"You can be anyone and do anything."

　On his wrist he indeed wore an exceptionally beautiful, glittering bracelet that looked as if woven from peacock feathers.

　However, Lin could sense an astonishing evil spirit from it.

　She didn't waste any time saying anything like, "Put that thing down!" Without hesitation, she rushed forward!

　Unfortunately, desire burns faster than fire.

　Can be anyone?

　In an instant, it appeared in the young man's mind, making him imagine himself. Who did he want to be?

　Desire is overflowing.

　The transformation has become a reality.

　It was as if fireworks exploded silently before his eyes, and a green light band instantly enveloped Lie Zhen's body, emitting light particles and wrapping around his entire body.

　Without a word, Rin threw a punch, but his fist bounced off the light particles - interrupting a body that was already half transformed was always difficult in this world.

　The light grew increasingly dazzling, like a tide of green light threatening to engulf the entire street, too bright to look directly at. Lin had no choice but to step back a few steps, blocking the oncoming radiance.

　At the same time, her intuition was also giving her a crazy warning - that evil energy was surging at an uncontrollable speed, like a torrent of desire that had completely burst its banks!

　The transformation is complete.

　The moment the light faded, the person standing in front of her was no longer Guito Reima.

　Rather, she was an exotic dancer who seemed to have descended from a mythical world. She was even more like a bewitching goddess worshipped in a temple.

　She has long light green hair that sways gently in the breeze. Her hair is dotted with gold ornaments inlaid with jade, which sparkle with a strange brilliance in the sun.

　Rather than being a magical girl, her clothes are more like a combination of priest's attire and dancer's costume, consisting only of white gauze and beads, just covering the key parts. She wears a golden wristband on her arm, and the tassel-like thin chain hangs on her skin, swaying slightly with her movements, making her waist curve more prominent.

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　beautiful.

　Her neck, hair, and even the sides of her veil were decorated with peacock feather-like decorations.

　"Aha……"

　The green-haired girl opened her eyes slightly, a dark desire flowing deep within them. She slowly raised her hand, and the veil and ribbons on her shoulders danced with it, pulled by some invisible wind.

　The clothes and the streamers made her look like an Indian goddess, like the flying apsaras in the Dunhuang murals. And her face bore a ninety-percent, even eighty-percent resemblance to Lin.

　For a moment, even Rin felt a little creepy.

　What a horrific evil act, what an astonishing spiritual pressure!

　It was two o'clock in the afternoon on a weekday, and while the streets weren't crowded, there were still quite a few office workers, housewives carrying shopping bags, and other people passing by in groups of two or three. They all noticed that, out of nowhere, two very strange people had appeared in the middle of the street.

　Or rather, there was at least one person who was "weird" to the extreme.

　A girl dressed in green, looking like some kind of magical girl character, tilted her head slightly with a playful smile on her lips.

　Opposite her, a blonde girl in a bad-style blue school uniform, had her hands in her pockets and a sharp look in her eyes.

　After a brief silence, sporadic whispers began to be heard from passers-by around.

　Is this cosplay? But which cosplayer's clothes glow like this?

　Some passersby have started to raise their mobile phones to take pictures.

　Some people also keenly noticed that the green-haired girl's toes were slightly suspended above the ground, so they quickly retreated and took a wider path to escape.

　"There are dark magical girls over in Tokyo who can interact with real magical girls."