From Earthbound Spirit to Tokyo Evil

What they regretted the most was probably the proposal to relocate the League of Nations to Fukuoka. The progress of the project had been delayed after the first six months. The reason was naturally to give priority to the reconstruction of New Tokyo. But after Natsukawa said, "Why not just move it from Fukuoka," the progress suddenly became smooth again.

It will take about a year for the new International Alliance headquarters and other supporting facilities to be completed. Although Xia Chuan doesn't really care about these things, he decided to make good use of this matter, even if it's just to vent his anger.

However, those guys' worries were totally unnecessary. Because no matter whether it was humans or aliens, the amount of spiritual power they could absorb was limited, and it was not that Xia Chuan could absorb as much as he put in.

Otherwise, he would have already turned Erika, Chiyu and the other miko into demigod-like beings, and everything would have been much simpler.

Moreover, although over 99% of Neon's aliens have moved to Tokyo in the past year under the temptation of spiritual energy and freedom, and live in the area they call "Demon City" according to Natsukawa's decree, and most of them have also registered with the Skeleton Organization and actively want to become members of the Skeleton Society, Natsukawa has not yet found a few people who he can truly trust and are worth spending a lot of effort to cultivate.

There are a lot of speculators, who knows what they will become after they gain power?

Testing, screening, and training, everything still takes time.

Fortunately, as a god, the thing he has the most is time.

As long as the ancient gods did not dare to draw power in a big way under his oppression, and as long as Astaroth showed no signs of recovering from his bounty and the relentless attacks of the two major countries, he would have enough leisure time to slowly complete these things.

"Onii-chan! It's already so late, why are you still chatting here!" Erika suddenly ran over from the main hall. "The brides are all ready!"

"Ah? Sorry, sorry!" Xia Chuan casually stuffed the file bag back to Long Qingting, and walked quickly towards the palace with her.

The invited guests gathered on the grass in front of the main hall. The new apprentice shrine maidens were busy making final preparations under the scolding of Kawaguchi Reina. Kamio Hitomi was making final preparations for the upcoming stage performance with the orchestra and dancers. Everything looked chaotic.

But Natsukawa still saw through all the obstacles at a glance and saw Yui and Chiyu surrounded by the bridesmaids.

Around them are various shikigami making a fuss.

"It's beautiful, isn't it?" Erika asked with a smile.

"Of course!" Xia Chuan nodded, straightened his clothes a little, and walked straight towards them. "Because they are my brides!"

A flock of crows began to circle in the sky, making noisy noises, and the two girls in the crowd finally saw him.

They looked at each other shyly, stretched out their hands to each other, encouraged each other, and walked towards Xia Chuan together.

Epilogue: Fantasy Drift in Monster Street

"Son, old man, come here quickly! There's room for us!"

The bustling streets were full of tourists. I don't know if it was because it was the weekend, but almost all the shops on this quaint shopping street that was more than 200 meters long were packed with people. There were even shops with long queues of dozens of people.

This situation may be normal for locals in Tokyo, but it is a bit difficult to accept for foreign tourists who come from thousands of miles away. The time for free activities after leaving the group is not much, and if you spend it all in queue, then this trip is in vain, right?

After her husband and only son came over and sat down, the middle-aged woman in her fifties finally breathed a sigh of relief, put the bags of shopping things in a corner of the table, and then began to wipe the table with paper towels.

"Isn't this too much? Even during the Spring Festival temple fair there wouldn't be so many people, right?"

"It was you who wanted to come to this place, saying it was the most famous shopping street in Tokyo. Aren't you asking for trouble?" The head of the family was also sweating and couldn't help complaining.

"How dare you say that! How many years has it been since our family went on a trip? If I hadn't been busy running around, you two could have just stayed at home! What's wrong with this? The things are cheap and you can't buy them anywhere else! When we go back to give them to relatives and friends, you can see if you want to go!"

"Dad, please stop talking." The son of this family is actually in his twenties, but his mother has always been strong, so he didn't think there was anything wrong with the scene in front of him. However, the Japanese people around him were just talking in low voices, which made their table too conspicuous.

But it is absolutely impossible to persuade my mother to lower her voice, so the only feasible solution is to ask my father to stop talking.

"Son, hurry up and eat whatever you want, don't save money for your dad!"

"We agreed that I would treat everyone when they come to Tokyo..." the son whispered, but he knew that he would not be able to win over his mother in the end.

At this time, the proprietress came over with a menu and a smile.

"Are you from Daxia?" she asked in not-so-standard standard language.

This greatly surprised the whole family. Although there were signs in the Daxia language almost everywhere on the streets of the so-called New Tokyo, it was the first time they met a Japanese person who could speak standard language, except for the tour guide.

The middle-aged woman soon started chatting with the proprietress, and under her guidance, ordered dishes that were obviously beyond the appetite of a family of three.

The son was somewhat annoyed, but he also knew that his mother was not the type to listen to others when she was in a good mood, so he could only turn his eyes around, thinking out of sight, out of mind.

The entire shopping street is very different from the style of New Tokyo. In a sense, it looks more like the ancient scenes he has seen in some Japanese-style games. Modern things are certainly there, but they are well hidden or integrated with the antique overall style, looking very harmonious.

He casually flipped through the photos he had taken with his phone over the past two days. At least in the places they had been to, there was no sign of the destruction that had occurred in the city a few years ago. Although many of the previous attractions had disappeared, and many of the scenes he had seen in Japanese TV dramas and anime had become eternal memories, he had to admit that this newly built Tokyo was far more beautiful and prosperous than the previous one.

He suddenly remembered a joke he had seen on the Internet, which said that the reason why Tokyo's urban construction was ahead of other places was because the Americans used incendiary bombs to help them re-plan at the end of World War II, and the reason why the urban construction of New Tokyo was the best in the world was because the monsters used their own flesh and blood to plan it for them again.

A city belonging to God?

He couldn't help but smile and shook his head.

The monster probably existed. After all, everyone remembered what happened a few years ago. He used to be a little skeptical about whether the evil spirit existed, but after what happened two years ago, he no longer had any doubts.

But whether gods exist is still a huge controversy, at least on the Internet in Daxia.

When he reaches his parents' age, he naturally hopes that gods really exist, but people of his age really can't believe that those clay dolls and wooden carvings can have any magical powers.

Apart from anything else, didn't the incident that happened to him two years ago ultimately rely on the army and those amazing weapons and equipment? If there really were gods, why didn't they step forward at that time?

If gods really exist, why do they allow monsters and evil spirits to do evil?

"Sister, come to think of it, why is this street called Monster Street?"

While he was staring at the photos in a daze, his mother was chatting more and more happily with the proprietress.

"Why?" The somewhat seductive lady boss looked back at the boss who was preparing food at an alarming speed at the counter and chuckled. "Of course it's because all the people doing business on this street are monsters!"

This sentence made my parents stunned for a moment, and then they couldn't help laughing: "You are really good at telling jokes!"

"Haha, just kidding." The lady boss also laughed. "This street is a monster culture corridor specially built by the government. The names and styles of all the shops have allusions. If you like Japanese monster culture, you can go to the Hundred Demons Night Parade in front. There are detailed introductions there, as well as exquisite monster illustrations and ukiyo-e paintings for sale."

"Really?" Mom was really interested. "Then I must go and see it later!"

"Do you have any wishes?" the lady boss asked casually while pouring ice water for them. "At the end of the shopping street, you can see the most famous Kasumigawa Shrine in Tokyo. It is very effective there. No matter what your wishes are, as long as you pray to the gods sincerely, they will definitely come true!"

"Really? The tour guide did mention this shrine, but it doesn't seem to be on our itinerary? Son, old man, how about we go over and worship after we finish eating?"

The son felt more and more that the lady boss was not a good person. Although he didn't know what her purpose was, who knows what would happen if he let her chat with his mother. So he quickly picked up the menu she had put on the table and handed it back: "Sorry to ask you to take care of us all the time, go and get busy."

"It's okay. It's a rare opportunity to chat with guests from Daxia." The proprietress had no intention of leaving, so her son reached out to grab the kettle, trying to stop her from staying here, but accidentally touched her hand.

With a "pop" sound, just like the static spark caused by the dry weather, the proprietress screamed "Ah" and looked at her hands, but her son's movements suddenly froze there.

The amulet on his chest, which he had worn since childhood and had saved his life in an incident two years ago, began to emit a slight heat again. After experiencing those things, he certainly knew what that meant!

The woman in front of me is really not a human being!

"Son? Son!" His mother's voice woke him up. He didn't know when the proprietress had left their table and gone to the counter. She was whispering something to the boss and looking at them from time to time.

His mood suddenly fell into an icy cave, but the situation was unclear and he did not dare to make a big deal out of it.

It's a bright and sunny day in a busy urban area of ​​Tokyo, how could such a thing exist?

"Dad, Mom, let's..." His only thought was to take his parents away first, but at this moment, he vaguely heard the voice of the proprietress: "There seems to be something on him..."

He suddenly remembered something and frantically took out the remaining so-called "cow's tears" from his backpack. After hesitating for a moment, he quietly dropped a drop and smeared it on one of his eyes.

Everything in front of me suddenly became distorted. The world I saw with my left eye was still the same as before, but with my right eye...

The person who was cooking and talking to the proprietress was not a human being at all, but a scary monster with more than a dozen tentacles and seven or eight eyes. The one standing next to the counter was clearly a fox!

"Serve you the food!" a strange-sounding voice said beside him.

He turned his head suddenly and looked from his left eye. It was a short waiter, but in fact, he was an umbrella with one eye and one foot!

He subconsciously took a step back, but tripped over the stool behind him and fell down with a bang.

The chandelier on the ceiling hung down, observing him with its huge compound eyes. The umbrella demon came around and tried to help him, and he couldn't help but take a step back again, putting some distance between them.

"He seems to have seen me." The lantern monster muttered in a low voice, but the guests around him just looked at him in surprise, as if they didn't hear the sound coming from above their heads at all.

He suddenly remembered a strange story he had seen on the Internet: When you look down into the abyss, the abyss is also looking up at you. When you see those things, it means that they also see you and can hurt you!

Why would you put that kind of stuff on your hands?!

All the monsters were staring at him, with no sign of harming his parents, which made him immediately believe the content of the strange story.

Staying with them might implicate them instead. The best way now is to quickly find an excuse to leave and find someone who can deal with these monsters!

"son?"

"I'm going to the bathroom!" he said quickly, and then walked out quickly.

There must be someone who can deal with these monsters.

"Customer! Customer!" The proprietress and the boss both ran over at this time, which made him speed up his pace even more.

"Eh? Baka!" He almost bumped into someone as he walked out the door. He subconsciously apologized, but when he looked up, he saw a red-faced monkey in a kimono cursing with an unhappy look on his face.

The proprietress's voice was calling from behind. Although he didn't know what it meant, he knew that it was definitely not a good thing for him!

He no longer hesitated, pushed the monkey away, and ran quickly to the end of the shopping street.

The streets were full of all kinds of monsters, which were simply shaking his values ​​and beliefs. After running for a while, he finally remembered to close his right eye, but at this time, many monsters had already realized that he could see them and began to chase him.

If there hadn't been so many tourists on the street, he would have been caught by them, but even so, the distance between them was closing rapidly.

He was almost in despair and could only hold the amulet on his chest tightly with one hand while running forward desperately. At this moment, someone suddenly pulled him from the side, causing him to lose balance and almost fall, and his steps stopped.

Dying?

In panic, he forgot to close his right eye, but saw that the person holding him was a young girl in a shrine maiden's costume.

She is human?!

"Please help me! Those monsters..." he blurted out immediately, and then realized that the other party probably couldn't understand what he was saying?

Fortunately, the girl frowned slightly and said, "Are you a tourist from Daxia? What's going on? How did you see them?"

"I..." The monsters had already caught up with them. The girl hesitated for a moment and grabbed him. "Follow me!"

The two fled to the main street through an alley, where there were fewer people and they ran faster.

The girl's shrine maiden costume looked very inconvenient, but she ran surprisingly fast. After a few minutes, they arrived at a deserted place, and the monsters chasing them seemed to have lost them.

"Now you can tell me, how did you see them?" the girl asked again.

The young man took out the bottle of "cow's tears". The girl took it and looked at it. Then she sighed and said, "How could such a thing fall into the hands of ordinary people? Really... You too, why would you apply it when you have nothing to do?"

The young man didn't know how to answer and was worried about his parents. Just when he wanted to ask this girl who was obviously not an ordinary person to save them, she suddenly grabbed him and said, "Close your eyes and follow me. Don't open your eyes if nothing happens! Don't worry, as long as you can't see their true form, nothing will happen."

Her attitude was somewhat impatient, but it had a magical power that made the young man feel a little more at ease.

He wanted to explain that he only painted one eye, but seeing her expression he didn't dare to bother her, so he closed his eyes and let her lead him forward.

This feeling was quite strange. He couldn't use his eyes to judge the situation in front and around him. He could only guess from the sounds and smells around him that they might have returned to the shopping street from a fork. But strangely, the warmth from the girl's palm gradually dissipated his fear, and they did not encounter any danger along the way, and did not even bump into anyone.

A few minutes later, they seemed to have arrived at a store. He heard the doorbell rang once, and then a gentle young female voice said, "One to the next, Marseille!"

"Okay."

The girl's hand suddenly let go, which made him feel a little lost. Then, he heard another young man's voice asking in standard language: "Isn't this Xiaoling? What's going on? Who is this?"

He immediately opened his eyes and found that they were in a small pub, but there were not many customers. Only in the corner, there were a few guys who looked like office workers drinking and chatting.

Standing in front of them was a man who looked to be about twenty years old, wearing chef's clothes, but with an indescribable strange temperament. Next to him was an equally young woman wearing waiter's clothes.

The witch who brought him here bowed respectfully to the two men before answering, "He is a tourist from Daxia. For some reason, he has a small bottle of spiritual perception potion in his hand and he even smeared it on his eyelids!"

"Hahaha!" The young man laughed immediately. "So you're the one who caused the chaos!"

"I'm sorry, but..." If it wasn't confirmed that everyone in this izakaya was human, the young man would have doubted their true identities. Because no matter how you look at it, they don't look like normal cooks and waiters.

"Let's solve your problem first." The young man said. "By the way, what's your name?"

The young man hesitated for a moment, then replied, "My name is Sun Yang."

"Okay, then Sun Yang, what would you like to drink? Let's sit down and talk slowly."

"I'm sorry, but my parents are still..."

"It's okay, they'll be fine." The young man said casually, but there was a sense of doubt and rejection in his voice. "Beer?"

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"Sorry about that."

"It's okay. I haven't encountered such an interesting thing in a long time. Your story is also very interesting. Just consider it as a reward for removing the effect of the drug." The young man said with a smile, then waved to him and watched him walk out of the store.

"But he didn't do anything..." After walking out of the store, Sun Yang couldn't help but say in a low voice.

Hearing his complaints, the witch who brought him here rolled her eyes at him and shook her head: "You really don't know how to appreciate what you have! Forget it, you won't understand anyway, and you won't be exposed to these things again in the future. Just remember, don't tell anyone about this, and don't be rash again, just pretend that nothing happened."

"But……"

"Look for yourself, can you still see those things?"

Only then did he realize that he was standing at the door of the shop he had been to before. His parents were eating and looking outside the shop. After seeing him, they seemed relieved and waved at him.