From Earthbound Spirit to Tokyo Evil

This is definitely not an easy thing for them.

The memory fragments they could see were far from being as complete and coherent as what Xia Chuan could see. In most cases, they were flashing images and sounds, with only a very small number of coherent images, and these fragments were often filled with strong emotions.

Unlike Xia Chuan, who has long been accustomed to having his soul torn apart and being buffeted by all kinds of memories and obsessions, and for whom schizophrenia is commonplace, these messy memory fragments are a huge burden for them. After each spell, they need a long time to adapt, to free themselves from those intense emotions, and to peel off the illusions of other people's memories from themselves.

But what’s worse is that many of the people who died in this incident had many dark and dirty things in their memories.

Inaba Rika was fine, after all, she had been a reporter, met all kinds of people, and experienced some things. For Nomiya Wakana, the things she saw through Aoi Dance simply refreshed her worldview and made her unable to calm down for a long time.

Finally, when she once again saw something that was disgusting to a high school girl, she finally expressed her great indignation: "These guys are just scum! Trash! It's so disgusting! Bah! Bah! How could they... I quit! I can't do this kind of thing!"

Kimoto chased after her to apologize, but Nomiya Wakana's reaction was stronger than ever.

"These guys deserve to die!" Nomiya Wakana only hated herself for not being able to completely forget those things. Because her spiritual power was the strongest, the things she could see were more specific and coherent, so naturally, she was also more shocked.

"They didn't see anything." said Kana Nomiya.

For most people, the memory before death is the most profound, and the negative emotions contained in this scene are also the most powerful, forcing them to spend more time fighting.

But most people's memories before death are just chaotic images, with nothing valuable recorded at all.

At the same time that they saw the evil spirit, it also took their lives.

Several priestesses experienced the taste of death several times in succession. Although they knew that it was only the memory of the victims, for them, it was no less than a real near-death experience.

On the way back, the three Nomiya sisters held each other's hands silently, while Inaba Rika continued to try to pray to Mukuroki, hoping to get his response.

"Master Haizhai, please tell me what we should do."

Her voice was filled with hesitation and uneasiness, but after serious consideration, Xia Chuan decided to continue with the status quo.

This is also the best thing for them.

The priestess shouldn't have been pushed onto the battlefield in the first place. The skeleton has finally sunk to the surface of the water, so it shouldn't float up again so easily.

This night was destined to be another sleepless night for the people of the Corpse Agency. Aoshima and Sugishita, who rushed over directly from home, had been looking through the case files of the previous death of Yoshida Yasushi's family, while Tachibana Koichi and Kimoto stayed at the scene of the Hirano family, continuing to look for clues that might not exist at all.

Baime searched the Internet for information that might be related to the two incidents. The shrine maidens were exhausted but couldn't sleep, so they closed their eyes to rest in the shrine. Daisuke Sasaki checked the surveillance from time to time, and at the same time checked whether the weapons and defense systems were intact.

"I don't even know what's the point of doing this." Sugishita rubbed his nose. "It's been so long since this case happened, and Akasaka's people must have found all kinds of experts to analyze these materials. What can we find out? The police experience is completely meaningless to these things, and common sense doesn't work, and it may even have a counterproductive effect..."

"Then we do nothing?" Qingdao asked back.

"We shouldn't have joined in the first place." Sugishita sighed. "They are still somewhat useful, but what about us? Apart from walking around like clowns wearing masks and pretending to be something, what role have we played in this?"

"It's no use thinking about this now. You're getting paid so much, you have to do your job seriously even if it's just for show." Qingdao put the case file on the table, stood up and took another one. "They must have had a reason to recruit us, but the time has not come yet."

"It would be nice if men could become shrine maidens, too." Sasaki Daisuke said, looking at his spirit mouse. This was the "spiritual pet" he had asked Nomiya Wakana for before, but because it was not eligible to pray to the gods for power, it was just a pet that was slightly smarter than an ordinary mouse, and there was no hope of it becoming a shikigami. "I pray to Lord Mukuroki three times a day!"

"That's called a priest." Sugishita said unhappily. "Please, you are doing this anyway, so pay a little attention to the relevant information and don't act like an amateur, okay?"

"It would be great if we could become priests too." Sasaki said, and began to pray again.

His actions made Sugishita sigh, but he picked up another case file, opened it, and deep in his heart he couldn't help but pray.

"If there was a reason why you recruited us, then please tell me what I should do. Please."

Chapter 35 The Second Transformation of the Rat God

Xia Chuan couldn't hear these guys' voices, so naturally he couldn't understand their confusion and anxiety.

However, he had been keeping an eye on the situation of the priestesses intermittently.

He didn't expect that just a "Aoi Dance" would make them like this. This made him once again reaffirm his idea that they must be kept away from the battlefield.

Therefore, the change of Shikigami is very critical.

Fortunately, in order to calm down the stimulation they had suffered, the priestesses prayed to him intermittently, blessing and healing each other with the Katsura Dance and the Maple Dance, which gave him the opportunity to quietly inject more divine power into the body of Pogi who was still sleeping.

It finally woke up, but Xiachuan stopped it before it made any sound or movement, and let it quietly avoid the sight of the priestesses and follow him to a secluded place in the shrine.

"My Lord God, is that you?"

Because he did not come in response to Hinoki Dance's summons, but merely an investment of divine thoughts, the Rat God could not actually see him, but could only feel his presence.

"Did you memorize that spell?" Xia Chuan asked directly.

The Rat God had a dazed look on his face. After all, it was just a transformed spirit rat. It possessed intelligence and fighting instincts, and also acquired some common sense from its daily interactions with its master. However, knowledge does not come out of nothing.

really.

"Study hard!" Xia Chuan said.

This spell was not complicated at all for him, but it was extremely difficult for the shikigami. Xia Chuan had to teach many things from scratch. Fortunately, the shikigami had the power borrowed from him, the god, through the shrine maiden, and in the previous battle, it also experienced how this spell worked.

After Xia Chuan completely gave up on making it understand the principle and just let it learn how to use it, it finally succeeded.

The cabinet was suddenly overturned by its rapidly growing body, which scared the priestesses.

"Boji?" Nomiya Wakana hurriedly looked at the small nest she had placed next to her, and sure enough, the rat god who had been sleeping soundly in it was gone.

"Don't reveal any information about me! Tell them that you have learned all this naturally!"

The Rat God looked embarrassed, as its nature was to obey all orders from its master. However, since the master's power was borrowed from the Lord God, the Lord God's orders should be more effective than the master's orders?

"What are you doing?"

"I don't know either." Rat was in a hurry and learned everything by himself without any teacher. He didn't understand anything about Dafa.

Its appearance was completely different from before, its voice and expression were still the same, but its two-meter-tall body standing in front of the priestesses suddenly gave them a strong sense of oppression.

He has a rat head and a human body, with a tall stature, wielding muscles, and an exaggeratedly large sword. He is dressed like a ronin samurai and has a bamboo hat on his back. He looks strange no matter how you look at him.

However, Nomiya Wakana did not have such feeling at all. She ran to it excitedly and poked its body with her hand. It was hard, just like wood.

"Bogie, have you become stronger too?"

The Mouse God responded by holding her up with one hand and letting her sit on his shoulder easily.

With its previous small size that could only stand in Nomiya Wakana's palm, it was impossible for it to do such a thing.

Nomiya Wakana screamed in surprise, then shouted excitedly, soon attracting Qingdao and others.

"What is this?" Sasaki was completely confused.

They had not arrived when the shrine maidens were fighting the evil spirits at the Hirano family. Although they heard that something had happened to Nomiya Wakana's shikigami, they did not hear any details.

"This is my Pogi! He has learned the second stage transformation!" Nomiya Wakana said excitedly. "Pogi, try other things!"

As long as she doesn't ask why, the Rat God will not feel any psychological pressure.

It quickly put Nomiya Wakana down and began to try to run around in the shrine, jumping up and down. It was impossible for such a huge body to move at the same speed as before, but this speed was definitely not slow.

"Sasaki, go find something hard!" Inaba Rika had recovered from her shock. "Steel or something!"

The Rat God had not stayed in this state for so long before, and no one knew how long it could last this time. However, since it was its second transformation, and it did not seem to be feeling any discomfort, this should not be an isolated incident, but rather a welcome evolution in it.

She couldn't help but look at the pet crow standing on her shoulder...Others are doing the same, don't you have any self-awareness at all?

At this time, Sasaki came over with two chairs. The seat was leather but the frame was stainless steel.

"Throw it harder!" Inaba Rika said loudly.

Sasaki Daisuke threw one of the chairs at the Rat God with all his might. Amid Nomiya Wakana's excited shouts, the blade flashed continuously, and the chair was directly cut into four pieces! And they didn't even see how many times it was cut.

Rika Inaba couldn't help but compare it with the monster from the Styx Society that also wielded a giant sword and had a huge body.

It is impossible to say who is stronger just based on the current impression, but she would rather believe that the Rat God is more powerful.

After all, it belongs to the power of the Skeleton Organization and the Skeleton Shrine!

"Boji, you are awesome!" Nomiya Wakana cheered, and at the same time said to her other two spirit rats, "Bunta, Takako, you two should know your shame! Boji is already like this, and you are still the same, don't you feel ashamed? Humph! I won't give you any food tonight! If you don't transform quickly, I will replace you!"

The two mice lying on her shoulders stared at her blankly, as if they couldn't believe what they heard.

Her two sisters couldn't help but look at their pet, and suddenly they wanted to drag her over and give her a good beating like they did when they were little.

“Hahahaha, I’m Nomiya Wakana, the direct descendant of the Yanaka Skeleton Shrine and the first generation shrine maiden of the Edo Nomiya family. I’m the one who is in the world…Ahhh!! It hurts! It hurts so much!”

She suddenly screamed, and everyone gathered around her in fear. It turned out that she had been grinning and laughing so hard that her face was cramping.

"You bastard!" The eldest sister Nomiya Misa finally couldn't help but hit her hard on the head. I haven't done this for a long time, it's so easy!

The corner of the Rat God's mouth twitched, and he finally decided to turn a blind eye to such an attack.

"Starting tomorrow, we must study carefully how to maximize Boji's power!" said Kana Nomiya.

Since their own pets are not doing well, there is nothing they can do but put all their hopes and attention on their younger sister's Shikigami.

Chapter 36: Insect Removal and Retrieval

It was said to be tomorrow, but because I didn’t sleep all night, it has actually become today.

However, because of the "second evolution" of Nomiya Wakana Shikigami, the people of the Corpse Organization became happy again. Although they are still confused about the future after losing the guidance of the gods, the power of the gods is still there, hope is still there, and everything will have a chance to get better in the end.

"Could it be that there really is something wrong with the spirit pet we chose?" Kana Nomiya discussed this issue privately with her sister.

The talents of both of them are obviously not as good as those of their younger sister Nomiya Wakana, but there is nothing that can be done about it.

People have different qualifications, but does the same apply to spirit rats?

Otherwise, why is it that, although they are all Wakana's pets, Pokiji has not only already become a Shikigami, but has also undergone further changes, while the other two have never seen any hope of becoming Shikigami?

Should I raise a few more spirit pets like my sister did, or should I continue to stick with the one I have now?

"Then... let's pick two more spirit rats?" said Nomiya Misa.

Of course, the existing spirit pets cannot be abandoned either. After such a long period of cultivation and training, they have already acquired a certain level of combat capability. If they are abandoned easily, not only will they themselves feel bad, but their owners will also feel bad.

"At most, we can just be more diligent and spend more time nurturing them."

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It seems that the shikigami is also qualified?

Xia Chuan was also thinking about this problem.

Although he can borrow his own divine power and has greater convenience than ordinary monsters, the effect of the multiplication technique used on the Rat God is too exaggerated.

His next step was to experiment with Kawaguchi Reina's Inugami, but right now he had another thing to do.

After the murder of Taro Hirano's family, Akasaka probably didn't have the extra energy to investigate the group disappearances near Aoba High School, but Chisuke Moriyama still obediently followed his instructions and asked for leave to stay at home, which was indeed something he had not expected.

Is that guy planning to just hide away like this until the holidays?

Come to think of it, Xia Chuan was somewhat curious about her story. The address she registered at school should not be fake. After digging up that thing, should he go to her house to take a look?

While thinking this, Kinoshita Takaya called.

Xia Chuan sneaked to the rooftop to answer the phone and learned that everything was ready, so he immediately ordered the termites to take action.

The floor above the wooden box was soon completely eaten away, but the owner failed to notice this in time. Xia Chuan had to manipulate the termites to eat through the floor and start crawling around the house, which finally attracted the attention of the hostess.

"Dad, there are suddenly a lot of bugs in the house! Come back and see what's going on!" She called her husband in panic, and the latter quickly identified the identities of these bugs.

"Damn! It's termites!" The man started knocking everywhere and soon found the hollowed-out areas. This kind of insects can be a disaster for old wooden houses. He immediately took out the phone book, called the pest control company listed on it, and made an appointment for their service.

Natsukawa immediately wrote down the number and told it to Kinoshita Takaya.

Shortly after he hung up the phone, Kinoshita Takashi called again disguised as him, apologized to the other party and explained that it was just a misunderstanding and that pest control service was no longer needed.

"What a psycho!" said the pest control company employee unhappily after being harassed twice for no apparent reason.

But here, Kinoshita Takashi had already picked up Natsukawa who was waiting for him on the roadside, and he drove to the side of the house while calculating the time anxiously.

The face Xia Chuan used was naturally not his own, but one he randomly selected from his memory and modified to become the most ordinary young man's face.

"Your mission is to gain their trust, get them out of the house, and buy them at least half a day. You don't have to worry about anything else."

"Yes." Kinoshita Takashiya was full of doubts, but he still pretended to be an employee of an insect extermination company, signed a contract with the homeowner, and asked them to leave immediately.

"Your house is seriously infested with termites. It will take at least a day or two to completely eliminate the problem. Before that, we have to seal the house and kill the bugs with gas, so you can only find another place to live temporarily."

"Gas? It's not poisonous, is it? Then can we still live here in the future?"

"It's not poisonous gas. Don't worry. It's written in the contract. We guarantee that it won't cause any harm to your health. But during this period, people are not allowed to stay in the house. It's really dangerous."

Kinoshita Takashiya used what he had learned from the pest control company that picked up the car to fool the homeowners, asking them to pack up their belongings and valuables and leave temporarily. At the same time, he began to hang a "Pest Control in Progress" sign outside the house and surrounded the house with special plastic sheeting.

At this time, Xia Chuan had roughly uncovered the floorboards and began directing the mice to dig.