Zongman I fight weirdness in everyday world

Watching the dust and smoke stirred up by the lightning strike before her, Haruna Amano bit her silver teeth, two lines of tears overflowing from her eyes, clenching her fists and whispering.

"Yozora… stand up!"

Responding to Haruna Amano's call was Yozora's laughing, yet helpless, voice.

"Are you putting on a tokusatsu show here with me?"

"Eh?"

Hearing Yozora's voice from within the dust and smoke, both Haruna Amano and Mitsuha Miyamizu were stunned for a moment, their spirits, which had already plummeted to the bottom, were revived once again.

"Pa… pa… pa…"

The sound of the heavy rain striking the ground became exceptionally clear at this moment.

In the downpour, the dust and smoke gradually dissipated.

Appearing before Haruna Amano and Mitsuha Miyamizu, and the gazes of those hundreds of evil spirits, was a headless monster nearly five meters tall, its body half black and half white.

And beneath its distinct black and white ghostly hands was Yozora, still standing quietly, not even a speck of dust on his body.

"I didn't fall down at all, so there's no such thing as standing up. Wake up, I'm not some hot-blooded protagonist."

Saying this, a jet-black long sword appeared in Yozora's hand, and surging black flames wrapped around his body, forming a pure black coat and a pure black mask that covered his face, revealing only his eyes.

"I am definitely the protagonist of an invincible story."

"This is…"

Seeing Yozora's sudden change in appearance, Mitsuha Miyamizu couldn't help but cover her lips in surprise, an earthquake erupting in her pupils, her face filled with disbelief.

"'Kamen'…?"

Hearing Mitsuha Miyamizu call out the name "Kamen", Yozora chuckled and replied.

"I didn't expect that even a cute high school girl from the remote town of Itomori would know my name. It seems my fame is even higher than I imagined."

To be honest, Mitsuha Miyamizu only heard half of Yozora's sentence.

When she heard him call her a cute high school girl, she didn't hear a single word of the second half.

Mitsuha Miyamizu's face flushed slightly, feeling her heart beating much faster at that moment.

Of course, it was only a slight shyness and awkwardness. After seeing the hundreds of terrifying evil spirits surrounding her and the others, Mitsuha Miyamizu's heart sank again.

So, this Yozora classmate is the unidentified person who shocked the entire Sakura Province, surpassing countless male and female artists, and successfully winning the most popular award for ages six and up…

"Kamen."

Seeing that Yozora had not died under the lightning strike just now, and was not even injured, the hundreds of evil spirits surrounding the platform slowly approached the three people standing there in the pouring rain.

Their pupils, filled with twisted and frenzied intent, were not only locked onto Yozora.

Haruna Amano, who was chosen by the gods as a living sacrifice, and Mitsuha Miyamizu, who came from a family of shrine maidens and had power flowing in her blood, were both considered gifted spiritualists.

This also meant that, in the eyes of the evil spirits, the two of them possessed great allure.

"Kill you!"

One of the evil spirits, nearly two meters tall, with a few tattered strips of cloth wrapped around its body and a dozen eyeballs growing on its face, launched the first attack.

Its dozen eyeballs all locked onto Mitsuha Miyamizu in her spirit form, and it pounced straight towards Mitsuha Miyamizu, its limbs on the ground like a beast, opening its mouth that exuded a black aura.

Faced with the pouncing evil spirit, Mitsuha Miyamizu froze completely.

Before she could even be afraid, or retreat backward to get away, she heard a metallic clang.

"Ding!"

The jet-black blade of the Onimaru Kunitsuna drew a beautiful arc in the air, like a crescent moon.

Although the arc was very beautiful, it was an irresistible sharpness for the evil spirit in the path of this trajectory.

Its upper body continued to pounce forward, but the result was that it fell directly to the ground.

The evil spirit didn't know why at first.

It wasn't until it turned its head that it realized that its lower body, leaving behind a smooth cut, was still standing there motionless.

"Come on."

A white smiling face pattern appeared on Yozora's pure black mask. He swept his gaze over the hundreds of eager evil spirits around him, waved the Onimaru Kunitsuna in his hand, turned it upside down without hesitation, and pierced the sharp tip of the sword directly through the evil spirit's head.

"Whoever goes first will have the honor of becoming the appetizer for Kyoto's number one exorcist."

The clouds in the sky grew even thicker, and although it was still daytime, it was as dark as midnight.

Seeing that the evil spirits around him were standing still, seemingly hesitant, Yozora smiled and whispered.

"If you don't come, then I'll go over."

"Go."

As these two words fell, the black and white headless monster, which had been keeping its hands clasped together to protect the top of Yozora's head, slowly straightened up.

Although it didn't have a lower body, its nearly five-meter-tall, distinct black and white upper body was still filled with pressure for this group of ordinary evil spirits that weren't considered powerful.

"Bang."

A pale ghostly hand with sharp black nails slapped onto the ground.

The black and white headless monster didn't have legs, and its way of walking was very special, using its hands alternately to support itself and replace its legs to move.

Although the posture was a bit strange, the speed was extremely fast.

"One."

A jet-black ghostly hand reached out, grabbed one of the evil spirits in its hand, clenched its five fingers hard, and crushed it like a toy.

Immediately afterward, the headless monster reached out its pale ghostly hand again, and the sharp black nails were like blades, easily cutting several evil spirits into pieces with just a light swipe.

The evil spirits, who had originally been eyeing them covetously, revealing a frenzied and twisted look in their eyes, saw the black and white headless monster slaughtering and easily killing several evil spirits, and their original crazy expressions instantly turned into fear.

In the next second, Mitsuha Miyamizu saw a scene she would never forget in her life.

Surrounding the platform on all sides, the hundreds of evil spirits emitted unintelligible screams, scattering like a tide and fleeing into the distance.

Evil spirits... scared away by humans?

Mitsuba Miyamizu never thought she would witness such a thing in her life.

But what she didn't expect even more was that Yae Hoshi wouldn't let them off just because those evil spirits ran away.

"Onimaru Kunitsuna."

Yae Hoshi released the long sword in his hand. In the shocked gazes of Mitsuha Miyamizu and Hina Amano, the pure black blade shimmered and quickly transformed into a beautiful woman with long hair reaching her waist, dressed in black mourning clothes.

"Master."

Onimaru Kunitsuna looked like a lovesick girl, bowing respectfully as soon as she appeared.

"I'm too lazy to go, you go."

"Yes, I understand."

Onimaru Kunitsuna's gaze shifted away from Yae Hoshi. When she saw the evil spirits fleeing in all directions, the gentleness and obedience she showed when looking at her master disappeared.

Replaced by indifference and disgust in her eyes.

Onimaru Kunitsuna, in her human form, flickered, and the sharp spiritual power she carried even cut a mark in the water curtain formed by the rain in front of her.

Mitsuha Miyamizu and Hina Amano's vision was limited due to the heavy rain, and they couldn't see clearly what was happening in the distance.

Only, amidst the diminishing sound of rain, the terrified roars coming from all directions became increasingly clear.

"Tap, tap, tap..."

Within a short two minutes, the rain, which had been pouring down from the originally cloudy sky, became lighter and lighter, until it stopped completely.

The dark clouds in the sky dispersed, and the warm summer sunlight shone down on the ground again.

"Done."

Yae Hoshi said indifferently, and the black coat and mask on his body transformed back into black flames, disappearing into the air, restoring his original attire.

Onimaru Kunitsuna and the black and white headless monster also disappeared together.

Mitsuha Miyamizu's lips were slightly parted as she looked at the surroundings of the platform, which had returned to calm without leaving any trace. She looked at Hina Amano beside her with a complicated expression.

"Do you... usually do these things?"

Hina Amano also had a complicated expression. Looking at Yae Hoshi, who was standing there, relaxed as if enjoying a spring outing, she replied softly.

"If you're talking about exorcism... then yes, but his way of exorcism is different from everyone else's."

"You call this exorcism?"

Mitsuha Miyamizu had an expression that said she didn't know how to evaluate it.

Is this exorcism?

As the successor of a shrine maiden family, Mitsuha Miyamizu knew a lot about the ghost stories of Sakura Province.

Don't Onmyoji have to use talismans, set up formations, and go through all kinds of hardships, risking their lives, to finally exorcise evil spirits?

That's how the stories go.

But how come it's completely reversed when it comes to Yae Hoshi?

The evil spirits became the ones who went through all kinds of hardships, made preparations in advance, and set up ambushes.

The evil spirits also became the ones who risked their lives.

Even those hundreds of terrifying-looking evil spirits, when being chased by that black and white headless monster and the woman in black mourning clothes, were like helpless little lambs, without even the slightest power to resist.

Is this proper exorcism?

Hina Amano patted Mitsuha Miyamizu on the shoulder and said earnestly.

"I was like this at first too, you'll get used to it later."

At this moment, wisps of red thread suddenly reappeared in the air, floating in front of Yae Hoshi and quickly forming a sentence.

"As expected of the chosen one, the supreme hero, your strength is indeed powerful, mere evil spirits are no match for you!"

Mitsuha Miyamizu and Hina Amano, seeing this sentence and feeling the sincere admiration, flattery, and worship within it, were both speechless.

Good heavens, this is truly an eye-opener.

Land gods, gods of wealth, gods of love, evil gods, they've all heard of them.

But a simp god, this is truly the first time the two girls have seen one.

Immediately afterward, the red thread trembled, as if very hesitant, and carefully formed a sentence in a tentative tone.

"Um... I'd like to discuss something with you."

Yae Hoshi waved his hand, not caring at all.

"You want Mitsuha Miyamizu to return to her body, right? Sure."

Red Thread: "As expected of you, you guessed exactly what I wanted to say, then thank you for your understanding."

Don't look at this deity represented by the red thread as if he's very unreliable, in reality, he's a very responsible deity.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have been so frantic in his flattery of Yae Hoshi in order to save the residents of Itomori Town.

Although Mitsuha Miyamizu is only a first-year high school student, she is a proper successor of a shrine maiden family. Now, every year at the god-worshiping ceremony, she wears the shrine maiden outfit and makes kuchikamizake.

Just like the old woman in the shrine in Tokyo.

Gods are very concerned about the personal safety of their messengers.

Evil spirits have already appeared around Itomori Town.

Who knows what will happen next.

Mitsuha Miyamizu in her spiritual form is too easily targeted by evil spirits, and she herself has no combat abilities.

Returning to her own body is the safest choice.

Both are gods, one wants to protect the residents of Itomori Town and will disrupt his original plan because he is worried about the personal safety of his messenger.

The other takes the weather as a threat and demands a young girl as a sacrifice.

The difference between gods is truly greater than the difference between humans and dogs.

Watching Mitsuha Miyamizu disappear, Hina Amano breathed a sigh of relief.