Zongman I fight weirdness in everyday world

“Nonsense, Ryunosuke certainly doesn't count.”

Hearing Ye Xing's matter-of-fact tone, a hint of sadness flashed in Nanfang Rize's eyes as she whispered.

“But… if I hadn't become friends with Hatou back then, Ryunosuke wouldn't have…”

Before Nanfang Rize could finish, Ye Xing interrupted directly.

“I didn't say Ryunosuke's death had nothing to do with you. You were partly responsible.”

Immediately afterward, Ye Xing changed the subject.

“But don't get me wrong. The one who killed Ryunosuke was Hatou, and the main culprit who caused his death was also Hatou. You can feel guilty and blame yourself for your brother's death, but to blame yourself to the point of thinking you were the one who killed your brother is too outrageous. Abandon this meaningless self-blame, and use your own power to prevent tragedies like Ryunosuke's from happening. That is the path you should take from now on.”

Hearing these words, Nanfang Rize's expression froze for a moment, and after a few seconds of silence, she whispered.

“Thank you. I didn't expect… you would say such gentle and considerate words, which don't match your usual image.”

“I am not gentle, nor am I considerate.”

Ye Xing raised his head, looked towards the top of the cliff, and replied casually.

“I just don't want a qualified collaborator who can awaken spiritual abilities and has value to be unable to help because of self-blame, that's all.”

Nanfang Rize couldn't help but reveal a hint of a smile upon hearing these words.

“You're still such a tsundere, I really didn't expect it. But, what do you mean by asking me if I've killed anyone?”

“Still don't understand?”

Ye Xing glanced at Nanfang Rize beside him and said in a calm tone.

“Although I don't like to call myself righteous, simply put, in this world, there are spiritual ability users who protect the innocent, just like those members in our club you've seen. Naturally, there are also spiritual ability users who act recklessly and like to kill ordinary people.”

“We not only have to fight against evil spirits, but also deal with this type of spiritual ability user. Although their minds are already twisted, I don't consider them human at all, but in your eyes, they should still be considered humans.”

“So, are you prepared to kill?”

Before Nanfang Rize could answer, Ye Xing's phone in his arms suddenly rang.

He answered the phone, and Shuangye Rio's voice came from the other end.

“Regarding the matter you told me a few days ago about Setsuna awakening her spiritual ability, I've looked through some information and I have a rough idea.”

“Yeah, go on.”

Just as Shuangye Rio was about to speak, she suddenly heard a woman's panicked exclamation from the other end of the phone.

“Ye Xing, there…”

Before she could finish, a muffled sound of flesh colliding came from the phone, and it continued to sound repeatedly.

Hearing this familiar sound, which she also made every time, Shuangye Rio frowned slightly, and a hint of coldness flashed in her eyes beneath her glasses.

“What… what exactly are you doing right now?”

“Nothing, fighting.”

“The fighting you're talking about… is it a proper fight?”

“Of course it's proper.”

At this moment, Ye Xing was holding the phone in one hand, and casually blocked a punch from a masked mysterious person with the other arm, completely calm and leisurely, without any change in his breathing rate.

In contrast, Nanfang Rize, who was fighting another mysterious person, was not so relaxed.

She didn't directly use her spiritual ability, but relied on her fighting and grappling skills to maneuver against her opponent.

Perhaps it was because Ryunosuke's shadow consciousness had lingered, although the shadow had completely disappeared, Nanfang Rize's reflexes were much stronger than normal people, and she wouldn't necessarily suffer a loss even in close combat with ordinary evil spirits.

Even so, in the process of fighting this mysterious person, Nanfang Rize could only fight and retreat, completely unable to gain the initiative.

The opponent's reflexes were also very strong, and their strength, speed, and explosiveness were even greater than hers.

Most importantly, this mysterious person's every move was obviously specially trained, commonly known as a martial arts expert.

Nanfang Rize really didn't expect that such an enemy would suddenly pop up on this remote Ridu Island.

She now understood what Ye Xing meant when he asked her if she was prepared to kill.

Obviously, the other party didn't intend to leave anyone alive.

On the other side, the mysterious person who was fighting Ye Xing… no, it would be an exaggeration to use the word "fighting." On the other side, the mysterious person who was trying to attack Ye Xing was already sweating profusely.

To be honest, his feelings were the same as Nanfang Rize's.

How could there be such a terrifying guy on this remote overseas island?

Holding the phone in one hand and talking as if nothing was happening, while blocking all of his attacks with one hand?

Isn't that too exaggerated!?

Is this a monster?

Ye Xing even had the leisure to laugh and remind Nanfang Rize in the distance.

“If you hold back any longer, you'll die.”

Immediately afterward, he smiled at Shuangye Rio on the other end of the phone.

“My dear concubine, please continue.”

Hearing the previous sentence, Shuangye Rio finally believed that Ye Xing was really fighting, and not the kind of "fighting" she had imagined. She didn't care, after all, with Ye Xing's personality, if he felt strained, he would definitely tell her directly. Since he hadn't hung up the phone, it meant that the enemy posed absolutely no threat to him, so she continued where she left off.

“Although Setsuna has never completed 'Observation,' perhaps we were wrong about the conditions for awakening spiritual abilities from the beginning.”

“Oh? What do you mean by that?”

Shuangye Rio picked up her coffee cup and took a sip, then slowly began to speak.

“Since spiritual ability is a mental power, I tried to think in a mental direction, and then I realized that 'Observation' is only a superficial condition, and 'Belief' is the trigger for awakening spiritual abilities.”

Ye Xing nodded slightly, frowned slightly as he listened to the sound of the air being torn apart, and with an impatient look on his face, clenched his other hand into a fist and punched the mysterious person in the chest at a speed that the mysterious person couldn't even see.

Accompanied by the crisp sound of bones breaking, the tall and burly mysterious person flew back nearly seven or eight meters and lay on the beach, his chest already caved in. He certainly wouldn't survive.

“You mean that for most people, they can only 'Believe' that there are so-called spiritual entities in this world after they have personally 'Observed' them, but for Setsuna, the moment Kazusa told her the truth, she already believed Kazusa's words from the bottom of her heart, so she directly reached the conditions for awakening spiritual abilities?”

Shuangye Rio nodded.

“That's right, exactly.”

“No wonder, that explains it.”

Ye Xing had always had a question in his mind.

Having experienced so many large-scale bizarre incidents, take the Tokyo hotel incident as an example. Due to the fusion of the Reverse Side with the real world, everyone involved in the incident at that time had already completed the "Observation" condition.

Among so many people, why was there not a single person who could awaken the ability to materialize their soul?

Now the fog has been lifted.

Even if a small number of people believe what they see are real evil spirits, after the event passes and their emotions gradually stabilize, coupled with the influence of those around them, they will begin to doubt whether what they saw at the time was real or just a hallucination.

When this kind of thought arises, they no longer possess the conditions to awaken the ability to materialize their soul, and it's useless no matter how much they recognize their true self.

Chapter 345: Saki Kawasaki Declares Sovereignty, Kaguya Shinomiya's Love Brain

“Okay, then I'll hang up first.”

“Okay.”

After hanging up the phone, Yoru Hoshi looked at Nata Hiuzuru, who was still fighting the masked mysterious person and already showing signs of decline. He didn't step forward to help, but instead sat directly on a nearby boulder, propping his cheek with one hand, looking bored.

“Little Hizuru, make a quick decision, it's time to kill.”

“I know that without you telling me.”

Nata Hizuru wasn't the kind of saintly person who would hesitate to attack even when someone wanted to kill her.

Her black-purple long hair fluttered as she quickly took two steps back, creating some distance from the mysterious person. Before the other party could step forward, she raised her right hand wearing a black glove, slowly clenched her five fingers, and said word by word.

“Follow my heart, Momiji-gari!”

In the next second, just as the mysterious person approached Nata Hizuru, wanting to use a killing move, he suddenly saw a woman with a slender figure and long black hair, wearing a costume made of blood-red maple leaves, appear behind her.

“Hmm? More help?”

“Go to hell.”

The moment Momiji-gari appeared, she was already standing in front of Nata Hizuru. Her left hand, with slightly curved fingers, reached towards the mysterious person's neck.

Seeing her movements were so slow, as if she were just an ordinary person, the mysterious person snorted lightly and said disdainfully.

“This childish trick is…”

“Crack.”

Before he could finish speaking, Momiji-gari, who was originally about half a meter away, suddenly appeared in front of him. Her bright red eyes were devoid of any emotion, and her slender, fair left hand rested on the other party's neck. Her jade-like white fingers were now merciless, directly breaking the mysterious person's neck.

Watching the enemy's body slowly fall to the ground, Momiji-gari didn't stop there. Her right hand reached out again, directly piercing the other party's chest, forcibly crushing the still-beating heart within.

Afterward, she casually flicked off the blood on her hand, turned to look at Nata Hizuru standing there, and said in a flat tone.

“It's done, I'm going back.”

“Okay.”

Compared to Hyakume, Hone-onna, and Suzuhikohime, Momiji-gari was clearly the kind of person who wasn't very lively and was taciturn.

Come to think of it, Nata Hizuru herself wasn't someone who liked to talk much and preferred to be quiet. The soul manifestation formed from her true heart was naturally similar in personality to her.

“Not bad.”

After the special training began, Nata Hizuru finally received the first compliment from Yoru Hoshi, but as she looked at the corpse on the ground with a broken neck and a bloody hole in its chest, she didn't know if she should be happy.

“These two people…”

Yoru Hoshi dragged the two corpses together, reached out and took off the masks on their faces. As expected, he didn't recognize them.

“Hmm… Duelists…”

Yoru Hoshi wasn't surprised that there were two duelists hiding on Hito Island. After all, it involved a struggle of the level of the Shinomiya Zaibatsu, and hiring duelists to do some dirty work was expected.

However, no matter how inhumanly strong duelists were, they were still just humans. Even Nata Hizuru, who had only recently awakened the ability to materialize her soul, could easily have her soul manifestation, Momiji-gari, take care of the other party in a one-on-one situation.

This was still under the condition that Nata Hizuru's physical fitness was still within the normal human range.

If it were the Overload Society members who had received the infusion, Yotsuya Miko, Futaba Rio, Sakurajima Mai, Yuigahama Yui, Touma Kazusa, etc… they wouldn't even need to use their spiritual abilities. Just their speed and strength might not lose.

And if they used abilities like soul manifestation fusion…

Then it would be instant kill.

After the black spiritual power flames burned, no trace was left on the scene.

“Now that you have the determination to kill, it's time to start special training for spirit users.”

Yoru Hoshi stood up, clapped his hands, looked at Nata Hizuru standing there, and said in a flat tone.

“First of all, we call the ability to materialize the soul a power of the mind that extends from the heart. You should have also noticed just now that the soul manifestation constructed by the soul materialization is usually not seen by ordinary people, but it can be actively revealed in front of ordinary people at the user's will, so as to achieve the prerequisite for 'observation', so as to carry out attacks.”

“Although because it is a power of the mind, in theory, it can be expanded into infinite abilities through training, but in reality, everyone's soul materialization has aspects that they are good at and not good at.”

“Just like Yotsuya Miko, her soul manifestation, Hyakume, is not good at direct combat, and is biased towards tracking and observation type soul manifestations.”

Hearing this, Nata Hizuru felt a little puzzled and couldn't help but say.

“That's not right, is it? In the practical exercise on the beach that day… wasn't that Yotsuya Miko the one who rushed to the front, one of the few members who could contend with you in close combat?”

“Oh, that has nothing to do with the soul manifestation.”

Yoru Hoshi waved his hand and replied nonchalantly.

“That's because Miko herself is very strong. This is also the second point I want to say. Although the ability to materialize the soul is the greatest reliance and trump card of every spirit user, the strength of a spirit user does not completely depend on the soul manifestation. Miko is a very good example.”

“Although her Hyakume is not the type that is good at combat, under the blessing of her extraordinary strong psychological quality and powerful spiritual talent, she herself is very good at close combat.”

As Yoru Hoshi said, each member of the Overload Society, although not weak, basically has shortcomings.

For example, Amano Hina, who is an auxiliary type, and Sakurajima Mai, who is mainly focused on group control, are not good at close combat.

Yuigahama Yui, who is very strong in close combat, lacks effective means of attack at medium and long distances.

Futaba Rio, who possesses the all-around type soul manifestation Hone-onna, also has the shortcoming of a long casting animation and a slightly weak attack power.

Even Yotsuya Miko, who has the strongest strength, also has many shortcomings such as completely lacking medium and long-range attack methods and lacking effective defensive measures. It is only because she is very strong and possesses the mutually understanding famous sword Mikazuki Munechika that she can cover up the shortcomings of her own abilities in the situation where her soul manifestation, Hyakume, is basically just a scout.