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Bang——

With a loud noise, fire bloomed on the wasteland.

It was the flash of a grenade exploding.

High explosives and fragments carrying spiritual power burst out around the red leaves.

One, two, three, a salvo, more than twenty shells landed densely on the small area where the red leaves were. For a moment, the whole world was like daytime, and the sun in the center of the light was the red leaves.

"!!!"

Hongye looked confused.

what is this?

Where did these things come from?

Um? It seems that Nobunaga mentioned this before. Now is not the time to think about this!

The shadow hand beside her wanted to protect Hongye, but the high-temperature flames and high-speed fragments broke through the shadow hand's defense in an instant and penetrated Hongye's clothes.

Hongye was in ragged clothes. She wanted to use the [distortion] ability, but each cannonball was an independent individual. Even if she wanted to distort, she couldn't do it under the cover of artillery fire.

In this case, the only option is to run.

Hongye rushed in one direction, but the next moment, she heard some kind of sharp sound.

In the exorcist's base, a slender white object flew into the sky.

It's a missile.

"???"

Are these humans crazy?

Hong Ye had just moved less than ten meters when the missile caught up with her and exploded.

On the flat ground, a mushroom cloud rose.

Qiao Qiao glanced behind him and mourned for Hong Ye for a moment.

From the base, several exorcists wearing mass-produced Hellbound armor similar to Qiao Qiao's, but slightly different, flew out.

"Commissar Qiao, leave the rest to us."

The one who came turned out to be Maki Araki from Shimogamo Shrine. Their armors were mainly red and white, highlighting elements such as the hakama and white clothes, as well as the Kagura bell.

And everyone's weapons are different.

For example, Kitagawa Ryoko is equipped with a high-power power hammer and an explosion-proof shield that can withstand a direct hit from Shiva's Dance.

Hashimoto Kotone is a high-power positron cannon with a sniper range of more than five kilometers.

Hayashi saw Nanase also controlling more than twenty drones equipped with floating cannons, gathering in the direction of Hongye.

The Ghost Exorcist Tactical Team, codenamed Xiaoya, is the name of the team of these witches today.

"I understand, thank you for your hard work."

Qiao Qiao saluted them and quickly returned to the base.

He came directly to the command room.

"Set it here."

When Professor Taketori saw the girl in Qiao Qiao's arms, his expression changed slightly and he asked him to put her on the stretcher he had just prepared.

On the other side, on the sunken ground that was melted by the high temperature and condensed to a glass-like surface, Hongye stretched out a hand and tried to climb out.

She no longer had any clothes on her body.

To be precise, most of Hongye's body has been evaporated.

Now, her whole body was burned by flames and spiritual power, and she had changed from the original beauty to a charred person without any intact skin.

With only one hand left, Hongye gritted his teeth, struggled, cursed, and wanted to escape.

But the muzzle of the black hole was pointed at her.

Hongye raised his head.

Several spiritual masters wearing armor similar to Qiao Qiao's were surrounding him.

Farther away, in the sky, numerous drones equipped with artillery were also aiming here.

"Can I choose to surrender?"

Hongye asked hoarsely.

".Based on the bone age of this body, it is approximately equal to a twenty-year-old human female."

".The internal organs, bones and other characteristics are no different from humans."

".It's just that this body has no vital signs and the brain is inactive. But it's strange. It's different from ordinary corpses. It's not corrupted. It's like the time on it has stopped."

".What exactly is this?"

Ii Masaharu looked at the report in his hand, slightly confused.

He looked up at the dead girl on the other side of the glass.

In the ward of the base, the body that Qiao Qiao picked up from the rift in hell was lying quietly in a separate isolation ward.

According to human Pacific time, the current time is four o'clock in the morning.

Have you ever seen hell at four in the morning?

Ii Masaharu didn't sleep all night, all his attention was focused on this remains.

The words "月Read" on the coffin make people think.

The automatic door of the observation room opened. Professor Taketori yawned and held a lollipop in her hand. She came to Ii Masaharu and glanced at the report.

"Professor Taketori, do you have any impressions of this thing?"

Ii Shoji asked.

"Hmm, well, although I had a guess before, I can only confirm it after reading the inspection report."

Professor Taketori opened the lollipop and licked it. It was strawberry flavored.

"Ii-kun, you know that gods sometimes transform into other forms for various reasons."

She pulled up a chair and sat down.

"For example, I have undergone such a transformation process, from a god to a legend, weakening my authority but retaining my existence. This process, Ii-kun, do you know what I need to prepare?"

Ii Masaharu looked at Professor Taketori thoughtfully.

"Professor, do you mean that this is a body prepared by an adult to transform his own state?"

Contacting the words on the coffin, Ii Masaharu suddenly figured out a lot of things.

"It is very possible that even if it is not the great Tsukuyomi god, it may be a similar existence."

Professor Taketori stuffed the lollipop into his mouth and said slightly vaguely.

"The gods will first create a body that can carry their own power, then make various arrangements and transformations, and finally let their will enter that body. This process may last for decades, even hundreds, or thousands of years. , specifically determined by the personality of the god himself.”

"Then, the gods lose most of their authority. These authorities will return to the planet. The rest will be contained in the body and walk on the earth in a legendary posture."

"Of course, during this period, various accidents may occur, such as being discovered by the enemy, or failing due to lack of faith. In this way, the gods will fall, their authority will be lost, and the body will have no owner. The body will soon rot due to loss of strength."

"There is also a special situation where a deviation occurs during the transformation process, resulting in incomplete transformation. Either the person loses his memory and becomes an ordinary person with powerful power, or he becomes a mortal and spends his life."

"This body probably had a problem during the transformation process, so it's lying here."

Professor Taketori took the lollipop out of his mouth.

"But... Tsukuyomi? Is it true that he was on the verge of death in the ancient war and had to transform his form of existence, but failed in the end? What does the ghost girl Hongye do with this remains?"

She looked at the wall. In the cell not far away, the ghost girl Hongye was being imprisoned here.