Why are there only loser heroines around me?

"We're here to work," Ukyo reminded her.

"I know~, taking pictures is part of the job." Yanami enlarged the photo and held the screen in front of Ukyo. "I found that if I use a warm filter, then adjust the exposure by +10, the shadows by +45, and the saturation by -5, I can capture things that some people's eyes can't see."

Ukyo looked at Yanami's screen. In the photo, a dark figure in heavy clothes had just passed by him. He was wearing a mask and a long black windbreaker that shouldn't be worn in summer. He was surrounded by thick gray-black fog and was holding a cane in his hand. He looked like someone who had traveled from 17th century London.

Jiashu told him that newly awakened eyes cannot see some weak ghosts.

Ukyo's eyes are still immature.

But he thinks it's fine now. Jiashu said that invisible ghosts mean that their power is not enough to hurt people. If his eyes can only see ghosts that need to be "eradicated", then maintaining the status quo is fine.

But the man in black in the photo just now doesn't look like some "no need to remove" little devil. He looks very dangerous.

"Is he still at the airport?" Ukyo asked.

Yanai saw him looking around with the camera on, then immediately shook his head and said, "It only appeared in the frame I took the photo. I only discovered it when I was checking the photo."

Ukyo was slightly surprised. "So you didn't know about the effect of this filter before, and you only discovered it now?"

"That's not the case." Yanami said, "One of my friends used this filter parameter to take a photo of a bird-man holding a child jumping between telephone poles at night. I thought the photo looked very much like a photoshopped picture, but I still saved this filter parameter, thinking of trying it out. The photo I posted before the plane took off also used this parameter, but I didn't capture anything..."

Ukyo asked Yanami to send him the camera parameters.

This guy is really a lucky guy. He always gets unexpected rewards when he takes her with him.

Youjing didn't come here for this man in black, but since this thing appeared next to him for a frame, it was enough to attract his attention.

"Do you think he came for me?"

"I don't know." Yanami made the shape of an "eight" with his thumb and index finger, resting them on his chin in a contemplative manner. "Your demon-slaying video has been circulating widely online. Perhaps it's been targeted by those 'resurrecting strange creatures'. Put yourself in their shoes. If I were them, I certainly wouldn't want to be killed before I'm fully revived. So, the only thing I can do is to strike first and eliminate the one who wants to kill them first."

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After saying that, Yanaijian made a cute hand knife gesture, scratched his white neck, then stuck out his tongue and pretended to be dead.

Ukyo repeatedly watched the shadow until the cat pulled a private message down from above his phone, begging him with its eyes flailing, hoping that its errand-running behavior would give it a "reduced sentence."

Ukyo looked at the message. The sender was called "Gen."

His style is as frugal as his own.

"I'm looking forward to meeting you tonight."

Volume 65: Chapter : Sleepless Night (Do not skip this section if it involves the main plot)

Ukyo was also looking forward to this fateful meeting.

So he arrived at the top floor box of the Condelai Hotel early. It was a bit strange to bring a female companion to attend such a "fateful" meeting. Yanami keenly noticed the alienation that Ukyo showed to her after he landed. He was very exclusive. If he didn't want someone to follow him, even the dumbest fool could realize it.

"I won't follow you." Yanai said.

She and Ukyo reported their itinerary, explaining that she'd gotten off at Jiyugaoka Station, Tokyo's famous pedestrian street, a bit far from where they lived. She planned to bring some souvenirs for her parents and the members of the literary club, and also to grab some dinner. She'd heard the street was perfect for photo shoots, so she'd update her LINE status.

There is a sword competition tomorrow, so she doesn't have much time to play.

Ukyo noticed that she was gently pinching the knuckles of her right index finger with her left thumb as she spoke. Japanese girls were very reserved in their way of expressing their emotions. Her lips moved, as if she wanted to say something but didn't. In the end, she left alone.

Walking alone in Jiyugaoka at night is bound to be lonely. The more lively the surroundings are and the more suitable the street scenery is for taking pictures, the lonelier and more desolate the person standing in the middle of the street will feel.

Ukyo said, "There's a buffet on the floor below the top floor of the Kandelai Hotel. You can eat while you wait."

But Yanami left in a hurry. She dressed very beautifully today, but she couldn't fit in with the atmosphere of the Kandeli Hotel. Ukyo was wondering if there were more mature women here, but Yanami was dressed too innocently.

The thing he is worst at is keeping others. He has already told Yanami that he can stay for the buffet, but the other party doesn't seem interested.

...It doesn't matter, she just went out to play, she's not going to stay away from home.

...

Ukyo was waiting alone in the top box. The waiter laid a snow-white napkin for him and placed bright yellow tulip wine glasses in front of the two seats.

The time stopped at seven o'clock at this moment, and the other party arrived very punctually.

He didn't look like a girl, nor did he look like a tortoise. His eyes were ocean blue, giving him a Nordic look, but eye color in this world was very random, and it was difficult to determine a person's nationality from their eyes. This guy didn't resemble the image Ukyo had imagined at all. He looked at him with a questioning look towards a stranger, and also revealed the sultry playboy. He was wearing a perfectly ironed black suit, without a single wrinkle. As soon as he sat down, he pushed a beautifully crafted cigar box in front of him.

"This is a gift. I heard that Mr. Ukyo likes cigars very much."

The silent battle had begun. The other party seemed to know him well, aware that he liked cigars, but this information was actually wrong. He didn't really like the idea of ​​lighting something and putting it in his mouth... He collected cigars and often carried a cigar box in his pocket, just to commemorate a man who had disappeared. Those who truly understood the matter used matches to light cigars, because the impact of a blowtorch lighter was too strong, while the flame of a match was more gentle. The former could cause the cigar to burn and destroy the aroma of the tobacco.

But Ukyo uses a lighter. He doesn't understand the experience and doesn't need the experience of smoking a cigar.

He didn't tell anyone about these things, so no one knew about them, and it was impossible to trace the "source".

But Ukyo still accepted the other party's gift and planned to put it on the literary club's antique shelf after returning to Toyohashi.

Yuan was also holding a small bag in his hand, which contained a sapphire pendant surrounded by small diamonds, which was very valuable.

"Where's your girlfriend?"

He actually knew that they were a team of two on this trip to Tokyo. It seemed that flights to and from Tokyo were also under his surveillance. However, he and Yanami had also appeared together in hotels and trams, so the other party's spies might not be at the airport.

"She went out to play by herself." Youjing accepted the jewelry he gave her.

Now it's time to get down to business.

Yuan suddenly said, "I guess Mr. Ukyo doesn't have a clear understanding of my strength. Coincidentally, I'm also curious about Mr. Ukyo. I know a place: there's an American-owned strip club in Shinjuku. Every month, those white guys kidnap a dozen girls from warring countries and bring them to Japan. They inject them with addictive drugs and force them into prostitution. Those who disobey are beaten until they comply, and those who still refuse are simply killed and their bodies abandoned... Mr. Ukyo probably doesn't understand the state of Tokyo. Tokyo Bay is under emergency repairs recently, and there are always one or two extra bodies in the cement used for the construction."

Ukyo thought he knew it all too well, as it fitted his stereotype of the dark side of the city.

"So you want me to help rescue those women stranded in foreign countries?"

You can't tell that he's actually a "righteous man". Although it's not their obligation, Ukyo doesn't mind working with such people.

"Rescue is just incidental," Yuan said. "Our goal is to eliminate the evil spirits that have accumulated there. As I just said, many girls died there unjustly. Although their bodies sank into Tokyo Bay, their ghosts have gathered in that strip club. We have to help them find freedom. This was originally my mission today, but meeting you delayed the operation."

"Yoshiki should have told you that I'm Tokyo's last 'gatekeeper.' I guard the largest gate to the underworld in all of Japan. If the power of evil spirits gathers here, the already unstable 'gate' will be forced open by the evil spirits. The hundreds of ghosts trapped inside will try every possible means to seduce the ghosts outside and manipulate them to open the gate."

"Guarding the gate is our Yuan family's destiny. Most of the powerful monsters inside were sent in by our Yuan family ancestors."

"We have a heavy mission tonight, Mr. Ukyo, and your female companion? I've prepared two knives for you. If Miss Yanami doesn't come tonight, we'll just have to..."

Wait a minute.

Ukyo found this ridiculous.

He couldn't help but interrupt, "Are you the only one in the Genji family? Why do you have to have Yanami as our helper? As the head of the Genji family, don't you have other thugs under your command?"

Ukyo had a preconceived notion that anyone with the surname "Gen" must be the emperor who controlled the Japanese underground, and that the entire Tokyo was their family's hunting ground, with ghosts being nothing more than their after-dinner entertainment.

But Ukyo was wrong.

The ancient Genji, the only demon-slaying family in Tokyo, has developed into a single-line family in modern society. Their family has accumulated countless wealth, but the number of descendants is so small that only he is left.

Ukyo felt that this "fateful partnership" shouldn't include a half-wit. It wasn't that he didn't want to bring Yanami along, but Genji had described the situation at the nightclub as dire. How could an ordinary person like Yanami, who couldn't see ghosts, join the fight? Would he hold his phone in one hand and wield a knife in the other?

He was just worried about Yanami's safety. If he wanted to let Hua broaden his horizons, he might as well start by eliminating simple ghosts. There was no need to do such a difficult task right from the start.

But Ukyo soon let it go.

Because he remembered that when he first arrived in Tokyo, he was also a group of three, but the most inconspicuous one was their trump card.

Junior has his own hidden trump card, which he has never told anyone. Ukyo doesn't think Yanami has any hidden killer moves, but he will tell Yanami about it. If she wants to come, she'd better be prepared to die. Before coming, she'd better talk to her parents and tell them what will happen if she can't go home...

.....

.....

This psychological preparation is not easy to do, but Yanami did it easily -

At 10:00 PM, the three of them met at the entrance of the strip club called "Seven Lucky Gods" on time. Yanami smiled and waved her mobile phone at him. There was a message set to be released at a fixed time. The general content was telling her parents not to be sad. She did not meet with an accident while traveling in Tokyo, but died fighting evil spirits. Please place snacks such as White Lover cookies and Morinaga steamed buns at her funeral. Remember to put more beef. She doesn't like it too well-done, just medium or medium is fine.

If she is still alive tomorrow morning, Yanami will manually cancel the message. If she is dead, the scheduled message will be sent automatically.

Maybe "psychological construction" is not that difficult for high school students. The younger the children, the less they understand the concept of life. Intentional homicide cases among Japanese teenagers account for 75% of all intentional homicide cases in the country. They have not fully understood the value of life, so they do not cherish their own lives, nor do they cherish the lives of others.

Ukyo realizes that he made a mistake in letting Yanami make the decision.

"I'm sorry." Before the three of them rushed into the nightclub, Youjing said, "You won't die tonight. When you turn 18, I'll teach you how to write a suicide note."

"Haha~, how do you teach this? Have you ever written it before?"

"Yes."

Yana was stunned when she saw this and wondered why Ukyo wrote a suicide note.

But before she could do so, the next moment, there was a deafening explosion, flames shot up to the sky, and foreigners and half-naked local guests rushed out from the gate!

Youjing was shocked. He thought the three of them were going to rush in, but he didn't expect Yuan to blow up the place. He used a lot of gunpowder, as if he didn't care whether the people inside were dead or alive.

"Don't act like I'm crazy." Yuan pulled a match from his pocket and professionally smoked a cigar. He waited quietly for the tobacco to burn completely before putting the cigar butt into his mouth. "The girls are staying in a place where there's a passage reserved specifically for dealing with Metropolitan Police Department inspections. They can't be hurt. I've placed explosives in the room where the smugglers rest. They'll be killed in their sleep. The building structure here is very solid. As long as they don't get choked by the smoke from the fire and can't walk, they'll probably be able to get out."

"What about those who can't get out?"

"I just called the fire department and gave them some overtime."

"madman."

"That's what the Onmyojis in Tokyo call me. No one who isn't crazy can guard the gate to the underworld. We in the Minamoto family don't have any demon slayers who follow the rules!"

After saying that, Ukyo heard the vengeful spirit wailing in his ear. This was another "weird form" that he had never seen before.

They were not fantasy creatures invented by people, nor were they ancient monsters living in this land. Instead, they were the incarnations of resentful human souls. Controlled by something, they curled up into a ball in mid-air, with human faces, arms, and limbs mixed together like dough. A huge, irregular ball of evil spirits came crashing down on them like a rolling stone from a mountain!

Gen flashed in front of Ukyo and Yanami, and produced two swords from nowhere. He leaped four or five meters high, unbelievably unhuman. His two swords slashed through the night sky, creating a tangible moonlight. The two blades split apart, scattering the flesh ball of the wronged soul in mid-air!

Ukyo saw a black dog lying on his right shoulder. The reason why Yuan could jump so high was inseparable from this black dog.

That was the Inugami he raised, the soul of a dog that lingered in the world after its death and could possess a human. Many Onmyojis specifically looked for Inugami to improve their athletic abilities, which would give them the upper hand when dealing with many monsters. The Onmyojis used talismans to subdue monsters, but their bodies were as weak as those of ordinary people, to the extent that slightly stronger monsters could easily kill them. All Onmyojis like the "Genji family" who mainly relied on knives and swords to kill monsters would be obsessed with finding shikigami that could possess.

However, if a dog god possesses a person for too long, it will cause the person's body temperature to rise, hallucinations, and even mental disorders... This is not Ukyo's guess, but in Tokushima Prefecture and Kochi Prefecture, there are countless people who have been possessed by a dog god, died of inexplicable high fever, become crazy, and lost their minds.

Ukyo suspects that the reason why this "Gen" behaves erratically and crazily is probably because he is often possessed by the Inugami.

But Youjing had no time to think so much, because the exploded "ghosts" were scattered from the sky like rain, and he had to draw his sword to deal with them.

The swords in his and Yanami's hands were both ancient Genji swords provided by Minamoto no Miyabi. The previous owner was unknown, but it could kill demons. The shrill wails of demons could be faintly heard on the blade. If one looked with special eyes, one could see that the blade was not silver, but the same black color as the mist that splashed out when it cut through the flesh of the wronged souls!

Ukyo raised his hand and cut a deformed ghost to death. Its body scattered, and the painful expression before death remained only for a moment. The black mist that exploded quickly disappeared into the air.

Yuan's two sword strikes looked intimidating, but in fact they only split the aggregated flesh balls apart. They didn't kill many of them at all, and the fallen souls quickly surrounded the three of them.

Ukyo saw a fanged demon head suddenly bite Gen's left shoulder, tearing away a chunk of flesh. Ukyo quickly thrust his sword, piercing the demon head through him. Gen abruptly thanked him and, with his sword in hand, rejoined the demon horde. The blaze of the explosion stained the black spirits with a hue reminiscent of a setting sun. Yanami watched Ukyo swing his demon-slaying sword wildly through the filter of his phone... The demons' attack intensified, their ferocity increasing, and they had already surrounded them both.

She actually thought dying like this was kind of romantic. Wouldn't it be nice to film this scene and upload it to LINE as her final status? Yanami, mocked for dating her childhood sweetheart for 12 years and ultimately left with nothing, finally became something of a sensation after her spiritual resurrection. You see, she didn't fall in love simply because she had more important things to do.

"Why are you crying suddenly?"

Ukyo had excellent dynamic vision, and he saw that his blade had just cut through a flying rain tear.

"No, you saw it wrong." Yanaijian felt her eyes a little sore. When she opened her eyes again, she could see those evil spirits without the help of a camera.

"So this is the world you see." Yanami suddenly took out a lollipop she bought at Jiyugaoka Pedestrian Street from the pocket of her skirt and put it in her mouth. Gen and Ukyoto were holding their cigars handsomely, which was very cinematic. Unfortunately, she was a "good girl", and cigars were not a good match for good girls, so lollipops became a lower-level substitute for cigars.

Ukyo's eyes became visible because his emotions fluctuated strongly in a short period of time, and the same is true for Yanami now.

Ukyo discovered this detail and felt that he could use it to create a group of professional night watchmen, but the prerequisite was that they had to leave here alive tonight.

Yanaji had awakened her eyes, but her swordsmanship was still not very good.

With eyes, her vigilance relaxed. She thought to herself that she was not bitten by the evil spirit when she held up the phone. Now that her hands were free, how could she be bitten again?

As a result, her calf was bitten the next second. After fighting with Ukyo with so many strange creatures, Yanami felt that she was no longer ordinary and was not an ordinary person.

But her legs hurt so much.

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Why does it seem like it's about to break?

The black energy from the evil spirit seeped into the wound, destroying the skin on her calf as if it had been burned by fire. After a few seconds, the pain pierced her brain, and cold sweat suddenly spread all over her body. It seemed that she couldn't even hold the knife.

Yanami suddenly realized that this was her, an ordinary person. She tilted her head to look at Ukyo. The guy had many wounds on his body, but he continued to swing his knife as if nothing had happened. If she hadn't seen him, Yanami wouldn't even know he was injured. But she was different. Even if it wasn't a bite on her arm, she would have almost lost her grip on the knife.

In this kind of battle situation, as long as the speed of swinging the sword slows down, you will be swallowed up by the wronged souls immediately. Yana thought to herself that it was over. Her suicide note would be sent out tomorrow morning. She was not so calm about death. She felt that the reason she could show the suicide note to Ukyo with a smile was actually because she cared a lot about her reputation and was afraid of death... It was too embarrassing.

But she only knew how to cry when she was about to die.

She couldn't stand the feeling of being devoured by evil spirits. The pain those girls had suffered in their lives was replaying before her eyes like a film. They wanted to inflict the abuse they had suffered on her.

"do not want!"

The darkness was suddenly cut apart——

It was a pitch-black lone blade, using the momentum of its spinning body to slash horizontally, shredding the air and the roaring evil spirit! A demon with a scar on its face pressed towards her from the surging sea of ​​souls. The curved blade pierced its neck from behind, piercing the ghost's throat. Then the blade deflected and sliced ​​its head into a scattering black mist!