“Make Him hand over your and Menma's portion of the souls, then send Him off in joy.”

“The last step… the last step, you don’t need to know.”

Anjou Naruko pursed her lips, her face showing nervousness, and hesitated.

“Make Him hand over my and Menma's portion of the souls… Will He hand them over? Since He's an evil god, He shouldn't be so easy to talk to, right?”

“Hehe.”

Yexing smiled meaningfully, his eyes showing a light of excitement and anticipation, and slowly opened his mouth.

“He will hand them over.”

……

An hour later, at the entrance of that mountain.

“We're back here again…”

Anjou Naruko and Menma's faces both couldn't help but show nervousness and fear.

Everything happened here on that day five years ago.

Menma had never returned here, after all, she had forgotten how she died, where she died, and even what her name was.

Not to mention Anjou Naruko.

Fortunately, because of her childhood trauma, she hadn't returned here again, otherwise, she would have probably been tricked by that evil spirit long ago, and her soul would have been taken away.

“The weather… is getting darker.”

With the arrival of Yexing, Menma, Anjou Naruko, and Amano Hina, some existence in this mountain seemed to sense something.

The sky became dim, and gusts of cool breeze blew, rustling the leaves on the trees, as if the mountain in front of them had come to life, opening its bloody mouth, waiting for them to walk right into its trap.

Just as Anjou Naruko, Menma, and Amano Hina were feeling nervous, they suddenly heard Yexing say something that they didn't expect, with a smile on his face.

“Oh, I'm a little tired today, let's just forget about it, I'm not going in.”

“Eh?”

Anjou Naruko was stunned.

Wait, you were so determined before, why are you suddenly retreating now?

Could it be that this terrifying mountain that devours people has scared this Yexing classmate?

It's normal for Anjou Naruko to have this idea, as she's not familiar with Yexing.

But Menma and Amano Hina would never think that way.

Afraid? Fear? Retreat?

Any normal human, even a psychic, would have such emotions when facing a terrifying evil spirit that could be called a god.

But Yexing wouldn't.

Every time he exorcised a demon, he only felt enjoyment, anticipation, and fanaticism.

Logically, the stronger the evil spirit in this mountain, the more excited Yexing should be, after all, according to him, the more powerful the evil spirit, the better it tastes, and the more joy it brings when tortured.

Yexing didn't hesitate or waver in the slightest when facing the powerful god who controlled the weather in the entire Sakura Province, so how could he possibly desert now?

“Okay, let's go.”

Seeing that Yexing was actually turning around and leaving, Anjou Naruko, Menma, and Amano Hina hurriedly followed.

Before they could even open their mouths to ask, they suddenly felt that the wind in the forest had become even more violent.

It was as if… the mountain god was enraged.

The next second, a person wearing a black hooded robe and a strange wooden mask on his face suddenly jumped out of the swaying forest, holding a sharp dagger in his hand, his eyes under the mask full of fanaticism, and rushed straight towards Anjou Naruko who was standing there.

“Offer the sacrifice… to the Mountain God!”

Seeing the person holding a dagger flashing with cold light and rushing towards her, Anjou Naruko, who was just an ordinary high school girl, stood there, her body feeling like she had fallen into an ice cave, her brain completely blank.

Am I going to die here?

“Sure enough, he's getting anxious.”

Anjou Naruko felt a blur in front of her eyes, and saw that Yexing had somehow blocked her in front of her.

The dagger flashing with cold light was directly blocked by his body.

“Yexing classmate!”

Anjou Naruko's pupils shrank in shock.

He… actually took the knife for her?

“Hey, why are you so excited? I'm not dead.”

Yexing looked down at the dagger stabbed into his abdomen.

The blade of the dagger was like it had been inserted into a hard stone slab, and the blade had already broken.

The person in the black robe obviously didn't expect this to happen, and looked at the broken dagger in his hand with disbelief in his eyes.

“You're really making me laugh.”

Yexing reached out his left hand and directly grabbed the neck of the person in the black robe, lifting him up with one hand.

The person in the black robe struggled painfully, and kept stabbing Yexing with the broken dagger in his hand.

“What a clown.”

Yexing used his other hand to grab the wrist of the person in the black robe, and clenched his five fingers without hesitation.

Accompanied by a cracking sound that made one's teeth ache, and the screams of the person in the black robe, Amano Hina, Menma, and Anjou Naruko could clearly see that the other party's wrist had been twisted into a distorted shape by Yexing.

The bones inside were crushed under his amazing grip.

“Come out.”

As soon as Yexing said these two words, what was reflected in the eyes of the person in the black robe was a ghostly hand that had chosen to appear in front of him, a jet-black hand with sharp white nails on its five fingers.

“Open his head.”

“No… no…”

Looking at the jet-black ghostly hand gradually reaching towards him, the eyes under the mask of the person in the black robe were no longer twisted with madness, but with the pain of having his wrist crushed, and deep fear.

But…

Begging for mercy is useless.

The index finger of the jet-black ghostly hand directly pierced into the heavenly spirit cover of the person in the black robe.

There was no blood, and no bursting brain matter, the scene was not bloody.

Only after a breath, blood overflowed from the mouth and nose of the person in the black robe, his eyes became dull and dim, and finally the brilliance in them completely disappeared.

The index finger of the jet-black ghostly hand used its incomparably sharp nails to pick out a luminous humanoid spirit from the head of the person in the black robe, and then slowly handed it to Yexing.

The latter nodded in satisfaction, opened his mouth slightly, and swallowed the soul of the person in the black robe into his stomach.

Afterwards, Yexing threw the corpse that had lost its life force aside.

Although Anjou Naruko couldn't see the jet-black ghostly hand, nor could she see the soul of the person in the black robe being extracted, she knew very well…

This Yexing classmate…

Killed someone?

“Yexing… this person…”

Amano Hina looked at the corpse that was casually thrown on the ground, not closing its eyes, and hesitated.

“Is he human?”

“Yes.”

Yexing nodded with a smile.

“However, calling him a human is a bit of an insult to the word human, this guy is just a fanatical believer who believes in the evil spirit called the Mountain God, and he will not hesitate to kill for it.”

Immediately afterwards, Yexing shook his head with a chuckle.

“What a foolish mountain god, he fell for it so quickly.”

After swallowing the soul of the person in the black robe, the most profound memory of the other party before his death appeared in Yexing's mind.

As a follower of the evil cult, the other party's most profound memory was of course the emotions of worship and awe for the "Mountain God", and also…

The location of the sacrifice in this mountain.

Yexing turned his head, his gaze seemed to pass through the obstruction of the mountain forest, and fell on a certain position on the mountainside, revealing a smile, and said softly.

“Found you.”

“Let's go.”

Amano Hina patted Anjou Naruko, who was still in a daze, and said softly.

“Let's go.”

They took Menma and followed behind Yexing, walking slowly into the deep mountains.

Although Menma also felt a little unbearable, it was only because she was too kind and gentle.

As for Amano Hina…

She had no objections to this.

What good could a believer who believes in that evil mountain god be?

Yexing also said.

That believer in the black robe had killed people in order to offer sacrifices to the Mountain God, and had just tried to kill Anjou Naruko.

This is absolutely unforgivable.

Procedural justice?

Under the conditions, Amano Hina naturally hoped to go through the formal legal procedures to bring the wicked to justice.

However, this does not mean that she is a pedantic person.

Yexing needed the memory of that evil cult believer in order to locate the location of that evil spirit's main body.

And there is the most important point.

The fact that this evil cult believer suddenly took action proved one thing.

The range of influence of the power of this evil spirit called the Mountain God is not large, the limit is the range of this mountain.

Yexing brought Anjou Naruko and Menma to the edge of the mountain, but suddenly wanted to turn around and leave, in the eyes of that evil spirit Mountain God, it was equivalent to the prey that was already at hand, but was about to disappear.

In short.

The Mountain God was anxious, so he let his believers take action.

It's a pity, He was fooled.

Not only did he fail to kill Anjou Naruko, but he also exposed the location of his main body.

As for the lives of the believers?

Since it is an evil spirit, of course it is impossible to care about a mere human life.

Just a stupid tool to be used at will.

As the four of them walked into the depths of the mountain forest, the wind around them became stronger and stronger, the sky became exceptionally gloomy, coupled with the rustling sound of the leaves being blown, and the looming shadows in the forest, like trees swaying, or like something lurking, made Menma and Anjou Naruko, who were not so strong in psychological quality, feel very scared.

“Hina.”

Yexing noticed the changes around him, looked at Amano Hina and smiled.

“It's time for you to take action.”

“Okay.”

Amano Hina nodded, closed her eyes, took a deep breath, put her hands together again, made that prayer-like gesture again, and recited word by word.

“Dispel the haze…”

“Hina Weather!”

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