Zongman I fight weirdness in everyday world

Ushio Kofune and Mio Kofune could clearly feel that their shadows had merged with them. Although they couldn't hear the shadows' voices yet, it seemed to be because they were in a dormant state. They could awaken them at any time if they wanted.

"Speaking of which, what about Ryunosuke...?"

Hearing Minakata Hizuru's question, Futaba Rio shook her head.

"Unfortunately, your younger brother, Ryunosuke Minakata, probably can't continue to exist like Ushio and Mio. After all, Ryunosuke's original body is already dead. What exists in your consciousness is just Ryunosuke's shadow."

"I see..."

Minakata Hizuru's eyes revealed a complex expression. Looking at Futaba Rio standing there, she, who tended to be expressionless, actually showed a rare smile.

"I initially thought Yozora was joking when he said he knew someone very similar to me."

Immediately afterward, Minakata Hizuru added a sentence that almost made Futaba Rio jump in anger.

"Just a bit shorter."

After saying that, Minakata Hizuru walked to Nagisa, looked at her childhood friend, who was also the enemy who killed her younger brother. Seeing her in this state, she couldn't help but sigh slightly.

"Nagisa actually has a kind side."

"Yeah, that's true."

Yozora nodded, first agreeing with Minakata Hizuru's view, and then added.

"However, she was foolish enough to be used by Masaki Yanagida, committing so many heinous crimes. Even if she has a kind side, that's not a reason for her to escape punishment. Whether it's gods, humans, or evil spirits, they all need to pay the price for their actions."

"You're right."

Minakata Hizuru raised the large hammer in her hand. Her hands, wearing black gloves, gripped the wooden handle tightly, and she said softly.

"Goodbye, Nagisa."

"Bang!"

After a loud noise, Nagisa's body began to dissipate. In that glimmering light, there was no longer a painful groan, but the voice of her childhood friend from Minakata Hizuru's memories.

"Thank you... Hizuru..."

Watching the black flames emerge from the ground, burning and engulfing Nagisa's body, before Minakata Hizuru could breathe a sigh of relief, she suddenly heard a woman's voice in her mind.

"Have you finally fulfilled your lifelong wish?"

"Who is it?"

Seeing Minakata Hizuru's shocked expression, looking around even though there was no sound, the members of the Otherworld Exploration Club understood that this was a sign of awakening the soul's manifestation ability.

After all, they had all been through this before.

"After carrying out your lifelong pursuit, eliminating the murderer of your younger brother and your childhood friend, where will you go from here?"

"I..."

Hearing the question in her mind, Minakata Hizuru's eyes showed a hint of confusion. But after a few seconds, she regained clarity, silently took off her black gloves, looked at the pair of hands that were clearly beautiful and slender, but had scars from the burning of that incident, and a look of determination appeared in her eyes.

"I... I will carry on Ryunosuke's will and continue to uphold my beliefs."

"Very good, it seems you have made your resolve."

"Then, let me now become the power for you to carry out your beliefs."

"Here, call out my true name."

Minakata Hizuru closed her eyes. When she opened them again, a spiritual light bloomed in her violet pupils, and she said word by word.

"Here, call out your true name."

"Follow your heart, Momijigari!"

As Minakata Hizuru's voice fell, a woman whose whole body was wrapped in clothes made of crimson maple leaves, with a graceful figure, with some similarity to her face, with long black hair, and a crimson maple leaf hanging on her hair, appeared behind her.

"She's awakened..."

Seeing this scene, Sakurajima Mai approached Yozora, poked his shoulder with her finger, and said in a low voice.

"As expected, although you act like a pervert, you actually want the Kofune sisters and this Minakata Hizuru-san to become one of our assistants, right?"

"No."

Yozora shook his head, very sincerely.

"The main thing is being a pervert, and the secondary thing is this."

"Screw you, you're not even hiding it now, are you? I'm giving you a way out, but you're not taking it?"

"The problem is..."

Yozora looked at Minakata Hizuru, who was panting heavily, her high chest heaving, because she had consumed a lot of physical strength from using soul manifestation for the first time.

"She's really too big."

...

Later that day, at the beach of Hitogashima.

Looking at Yozora staring at the sea, silent, Sakurajima Mai couldn't help but ask curiously.

"What are you thinking about?"

Yozora didn't answer, but slowly raised his hand, pointed to the endless sea in front of him, and said softly.

"The enemy is on the other side of the sea."

Sakurajima Mai: "... That direction you're pointing is the Sakura Province."

Yozora didn't change his expression and changed direction.

"Then the enemy is on the other side of the sea."

"That's Kyushu."

"What about this side?"

"What? Is the business in Sakura Province not enough for you now? Are you going to run to a foreign country to exorcise demons? People over there don't believe in this, they believe in God."

"Heh heh, I'll taste what God tastes like sooner or later."

"Can you just shut up for a while."

Seeing that Yozora was still in the mood to joke, everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief, at least proving that his injuries weren't too serious.

At this moment, Miko Yotsuya suddenly saw her soul's true form, Hyakume, who had been missing since the end of the battle, suddenly walking over from the distant beach.

"Hey, why are you running around?"

Hearing Miko Yotsuya's question, Hyakume smiled, approached her, opened her hands, as if showing off.

"Look, what's this?"

Everyone focused their eyes, and in Hundred-Eyes' hand were two eyeballs emitting a strange red light.

"Whoa."

Night Star couldn't help but exclaim in admiration.

"Good stuff, Miko, you've even developed an auto-loot function for your Soul Avatar. I almost forgot about the 'equipment drop' process after a battle."

"Heh heh."

Hundred-Eyes chuckled twice, saying meaningfully.

"If you cared about Miko and me, you probably wouldn't have forgotten this, right?"

Night Star's expression changed upon hearing this, and he retorted righteously.

"Little Hundred-Eyes, have some conscience when you speak. Those eyes of the Slaughter Demon, I even asked my good brother Slaughter Demon for them, so don't say such things."

"Asked for? Or snatched?"

"Hey, I've already reached a consensus with him. Let's not mention the unpleasantness of the past."

"Hmph."

Hundred-Eyes placed one of Botao's eyes into her own body, but just as she was about to put in the other one, the red eyeball suddenly flew out on its own, directly merging into Kozue Shio's left eye.

"This… this…"

Kozue Shio clutched her eye socket, her expression somewhat flustered. When she opened her eyes again, everyone saw that one of her originally sea-blue eyes had turned red.

"My eyes!!!"

The one who cried out was not Kozue Shio, whose eye color had changed, but Hundred-Eyes.

She had a look of utter despair, on the verge of tears.

"Do you know how long I searched in that cave to find these eyes…"

"She… she… this foreign girl is stealing my equipment!!!"

Chapter 339: Summer Training Camp Plan, the Oppressive Presence of Villain Night Star

Night Star glanced at Kozue Shio's left eye, seeing that although she still looked bewildered, the color of her eye was gradually returning to normal. He waved his hand dismissively.

"There's no helping it. Botao's left eye ran to her on its own. Didn't you put on the right eye? One eye and a pair, there's not much difference for you, right?"

"That's true, but…"

Hundred-Eyes pouted, still looking somewhat heartbroken.

Yotsuya Miko patted her shoulder gently, coaxing her like a child.

"I'll compensate you with another eye later, okay?"

"Hmph, since you've already said that, what can I do?"

Hundred-Eyes glared at Kozue Shio resentfully before her figure slowly disappeared.

"Um… everyone…"

Yui Yuigahama swiped through her phone, looked up at everyone, and said with a complicated expression.

"We… seem to be in the news again."

"Huh?"

Sakurajima Mai hurriedly took out her phone as well. She didn't even need to search specifically; the news push popped up automatically as soon as she opened the browser.

"'Mask' versus the Gods… Illusions in the sky?"

Seeing the overwhelming news reports, with discussion reaching fever pitch, everyone realized that from the moment Izanami unfolded her domain, the battle process had been broadcast live in the form of a mirage.

Fortunately, when the other members entered the domain, there was no sound in the illusion, and according to their usual habits during operations, they hadn't called anyone by their real name, so no information would be exposed due to someone reading lips.

"This is really troublesome."

Futaba Rio frowned deeply, muttering to herself.

"Such a large-scale supernatural phenomenon, even if the authorities try to control the舆论 (yúlùn, public opinion), I'm afraid they'll be powerless. If this causes panic in people's hearts… that would be a disaster. I didn't expect Sakura Rikka to bury such a mine at the last moment."

Then, Futaba Rio changed the subject.

"But fortunately, we won in the end. If 'Mask,' the hero admired by all, had been killed under the gaze of the entire Sakura Prefecture, then Izanami's goal of causing panic and a drastic change in the Reverse World would have been achieved. Now it seems that the public only feels excited, and although there is some fear and panic, it doesn't seem to have a serious impact."

Yui Yuigahama breathed a sigh of relief and smiled.

"In that case, it shouldn't create too powerful evil spirits? That's great, the pleasant summer vacation is finally going to…"

"Don't even think about it."

Before Yui Yuigahama could finish, Yotsuya Miko interrupted her calmly.

"I have an idea."

"Let's take advantage of the fact that there's still more than a month before school starts and do some special training."

Yotsuya Miko pointed to the surrounding beach and slowly said.

"Hitodo Island has a large usable area, and there aren't many residents. It can be said to be isolated from the world. Although everyone's physical fitness is very strong now, our combat experience is still too little."

"Like that Weather God, and this time's Izanami, even though they possessed god-like power, the lack of combat experience led to the initiative in the battle being completely controlled by Night Star."

"Considering that even more powerful enemies may appear, we'd better take advantage of our free time to conduct some targeted training, both to adapt to our superhuman physical strength and to develop our Soul Manifestation abilities further."

"Of course, not everyone can stay here. Mr. Oda's requests and daily exorcism activities still need someone to be responsible for."

"So, I suggest we train in shifts."