Zongman I fight weirdness in everyday world

"You two, calm down first."

At times like these, Ye Xing, who usually spouted abstract nonsense and seemed so unreliable, was surprisingly calm.

"Little Yua, did the red threads connecting those four to me break at the same time?"

The Matchmaking God nodded, instinctively replying.

"Yes…"

"Then that's the answer, isn't it?"

Seeing that Mai Sakurajima and the Matchmaking God both looked puzzled, Ye Xing shrugged and said with a relaxed smile.

"If they really encountered something fatal, the order in which the red threads broke should be Shoko Makinohara, Yukino Yukinoshita, Yui Yuigahama, and finally Rio Futaba. This would be the logical order of death, based on their strength. Even the most powerful evil spirit couldn't instantly kill all four of them. Besides, if that were the case, time should have already reversed."

"The most logical possibility for the simultaneous breaking of four red threads is that they were pulled into an independent space. The threads of fate that Little Yua can see don't break even between the spirit world and the real world, which proves that they are not in the spirit world, but in another area."

"Don't panic here. The top priority now is to find a way to reach the area where they are. Since Rio and Yui are both there, ordinary evil spirits, even gods, won't be able to harm them in the short term. As long as we act quickly enough, there won't be any problems."

Hearing Ye Xing's confident words, Mai Sakurajima and the Matchmaking God thought about it carefully, and it seemed to make sense, finally calming down.

At that moment, Mai Sakurajima finally recalled something she had forgotten due to Ye Xing's usually overly abstract personality.

Before his identity as the Innate Abstract Holy Body, Ye Xing's most important identity was… a professional exorcist who could remain calm and think rationally no matter what the situation.

"But…"

Mai Sakurajima frowned, her face filled with worry and anxiety.

"Miko is currently in the spirit world, and we can't contact her for the time being. Even if we rush to the spirit world to find her now, it will take at least half an hour. Without her Soul True Body, the Hundred Eyes' ability, and with Kyoto City being so large, Rio and the others may have been pulled into another dimension. Where should we even begin to look?"

Hearing the serious question raised by Mai Sakurajima, Ye Xing simply waved his hand with a smile.

"No worries, I've already prepared."

The next second, he suddenly stood up, walked to the center of the empty living room, raised his right hand, and slowly said.

"Here, I call out your true name."

"Slaughter Demon!"

The moment Ye Xing spoke this name, Mai Sakurajima and the Matchmaking God saw the space in front of them suddenly distort intensely.

Before even a breath's worth of time had passed, the Slaughter Demon, tall but gaunt, looking like a zombie, holding a dark green evil spirit thigh in his arms as if he were eating it, appeared in the living room with a bewildered expression.

"Huh? Where is this? What am I doing here?"

The Slaughter Demon looked around blankly. When he saw Ye Xing smiling in front of him, he belatedly realized what was happening. The pupil in his only remaining dark green eye began to gradually widen.

"You… This… Could this be…"

Ye Xing nodded with a smile.

"That's right, it's Kyoto."

"Kyoto my ass!!!"

The Slaughter Demon was very agitated, yelling at the top of his lungs.

"Do you even understand how long it took me to run from Kyoto to Tokyo?! Why did you summon me back to this barren land where there aren't even evil spirits to eat!!!!!"

"Stop yelling."

Facing the agitated, angry, and aggrieved Slaughter Demon, Ye Xing simply waved his hand, not caring at all.

"After we finish our business, I'll send you on the train, so you can take the train back."

"Oh, is that so?"

The Slaughter Demon, who had just been incredibly agitated and seemed about to attack Ye Xing, immediately calmed down after hearing these words, nodding very obediently, his attitude making a complete 180-degree turn.

"Lord Ye Xing, what are your orders?"

Mai Sakurajima and the Matchmaking God: "…Your face, it changes way too quickly…"

Ye Xing didn't care, and directly gave the Slaughter Demon instructions.

"Search for traces of spiritual energy within Kyoto City."

"Alright."

In order to ride the train back to Tokyo, a place with abundant food, escaping this Kyoto City, which was even worse than exile and where he couldn't find any evil spirits to eat, the Slaughter Demon's enthusiasm for work was also very high.

But, having said that…

Precisely because Kyoto City was swept by the Supernatural Liberation Squad every day, and there were no evil spirits that had become a threat, in the eyes of the Slaughter Demon, who could sense and observe traces of spiritual energy, it was like searching for a black dot on a pure white canvas, not very difficult.

If it were Tokyo, where the density of evil spirits was higher, even with his special eyes, it would be difficult to find suspicious traces for a while.

…

Under the search of the bloodhound Slaughter Demon, in less than five minutes, the most suspicious location was found.

"This is…"

Mai Sakurajima looked at the Kyoto Municipal Hospital in the night and recalled the things that had happened there last year, her brow furrowing.

"I remember… we met Shoko and Menma in this place…"

"It's this place."

The Slaughter Demon's dark green eyeball rotated, observing the traces of spiritual energy in the air, and then said with a puzzled expression.

"But… it also doesn't seem to be this place… How should I describe it… It feels like looking at something through a thin veil. There's nothing wrong with the place itself, but only after lifting that veil can you see the true scene…"

"Is it the Kyoto City corresponding to the spirit world?"

Hearing Mai Sakurajima's question, Ye Xing shook his head.

"Miko, Saki, and Sha, Setsuna, Haruna, Minami Hizuru, excluding the few people who have things to do today, the rest of our club's spiritual ability users entered the spirit world during the weekend, wanting to improve their combat experience and spiritual power. If the matter happened in the Kyoto City corresponding to the spirit world, the enemy should have been defeated long ago. Moreover, Little Yua said that the threads of fate broke, which proves that this is not the case."

"Then…"

"Wait a moment."

Just then, the Matchmaking God suddenly glanced around, as if she saw something, and reached out to grab a strand of red thread floating in the air.

After she grabbed the red thread, Mai Sakurajima and Ye Xing also saw the floating red thread, not knowing where it was connected to.

"Here… is the entrance to the other dimension."

Hearing the Matchmaking God's words, Ye Xing nodded and said softly.

"Come out."

As the words fell, two ghostly hands, one pale and one black, reappeared, making a tearing motion. In the next second, a crack was slowly forced open in the space by the two ghostly hands.

Sakurajima Mai, including the other members of the Metaphysics Club, didn't understand why Ye Xing's Soul Avatar, which was the two ghostly hands, possessed the ability to tear through space and travel between different worlds.

Of course, they wouldn't understand.

Ye Xing's logic was very simple.

His Soul Avatar was a hand, and two hands at that. What can two hands be used for?

They can be used to tear things apart. And since it's a psychic ability, then the spatial通道 (tōng dào, channel) created based on psychic power can naturally be forcibly created by tearing, just like the 'door' connecting the Reverse World and the Real World.

If the members of the Metaphysics Club heard this, they would definitely think it was illogical, but it didn't matter.

Ye Xing thought it would work, so it would work. The only difference was how much psychic power it would consume.

… …

At the same time, in a mysterious space, inside a building resembling Kyoto Municipal Hospital.

"Huff… Huff…"

Yukino Yukinoshita, whose physical strength was originally a weak point, was now leaning against the wall, gasping for breath, looking exhausted.

Similarly, Rio Futaba and Yui Yuigahama were not in much better shape. Especially Yui Yuigahama, who mainly used close combat, had a cut on her forearm from a sharp needle.

"What… what exactly is this place…"

Rio Futaba looked out through the window of the ward where they were hiding. All that met her eyes was pure darkness, as if there was nothing outside, only a dead, silent void.

"I don't know."

Yui Yuigahama, at this time, no longer had her usual innocent and cute appearance. Because she had merged with her Soul Avatar, Kiyohime, she had a huge snake tail phantom behind her, but the phantom flickered constantly, indicating that her psychic power had been over-consumed.

"There's a constant stream of enemies, and they're all evil spirits dressed as nurses. Although a single one isn't strong, it's not a solution to keep consuming our power like this."

Hearing Yui Yuigahama's words, Rio Futaba's expression also became serious.

A quarter of an hour had passed since the four of them were pulled into this other dimension, and it was fifteen minutes that they couldn't relax for even a second and needed to keep fighting.

Although the evil spirits dressed as nurses were not strong individually, they seemed to be able to revive continuously. Every time they were eliminated, they would reappear.

Not to mention Yukino Yukinoshita, who had just become a psychic and hadn't received the 'milk baptism'.

Yui Yuigahama's psychic ability was the kind that could burst out in a short period of time, and she wasn't good at sustained combat.

Rio Futaba's psychic power consumption was okay, but as the strongest, she had to keep protecting Yukino Yukinoshita and Shoko Makinohara, and the inside of this building, which seemed to be the inpatient department of a hospital, was too narrow for her to exert her full strength.

If this continued, it would be over when their psychic power was exhausted.

"Bang, bang, bang…"

Hearing the knocking sound coming from the door, Rio Futaba bit her silver teeth lightly, trying to maintain the white bone wall blocking the ward door, and muttered to herself.

"Why… why can those guys always find our location…"

With Rio Futaba, who was the combat strategist, they had naturally considered whether to find a place to hide, avoid fighting, save psychic power, and wait for support from the members of the Metaphysics Club.

But no matter where they hid, even if they avoided the sight of the two nurse evil spirits, they still couldn't escape the other party's tracking.

Rio Futaba felt that her group was now like a tiger being gnawed on by hyenas. They might be fine for a while, but if they kept dragging on like this, death was only a matter of time.

Unlike Rio Futaba, Yui Yuigahama, and Yukino Yukinoshita, who were thinking about what to do next, Shoko Makinohara remained silent, her eyes flashing, as if she was thinking about something.

"I…"

Just as Shoko Makinohara was about to speak, the strange voice from before suddenly sounded again.

"Have you finally recognized your true heart and are you ready to accept it?"

The three girls, Yukino Yukinoshita, Yui Yuigahama, and Rio Futaba, couldn't help but be stunned when they heard this sentence. After all, the content of this sentence was too similar to the first sentence that sounded in their minds when they awakened their Soul Avatar ability.

Only after looking at each other and seeing the expressions of others did they realize that not only themselves, but everyone present could hear this voice.

Shoko Makinohara couldn't help but change her expression when she heard that voice, and her eyes revealed a complex look.

"Admit it, Shoko Makinohara. For so long, what you have been yearning for is not to continue living, but…"

"Not to continue to burden anyone, not to become a burden to anyone, to disappear silently from this world, equivalent to liberation…"

"Death."

Hearing the words of the mysterious voice, Rio Futaba couldn't help but be stunned. She looked at Shoko Makinohara and wanted to say something, but was stopped by Yui in time.

The knocking sound outside the door stopped at this moment.

In a silence, after an extremely long dozen seconds, just as Shoko Makinohara raised her head to look at the three girls in front of her, took a deep breath, and wanted to confess her feelings, a little girl suddenly appeared in the room.

"Careful!"

Rio Futaba's reaction was the fastest. She immediately raised the gun in her hand and wanted to pull the trigger, but when she saw the face of the little girl clearly, she couldn't help but be stunned.

The little girl's appearance was the same as Shoko Makinohara's when she hadn't yet contracted Adolescence Syndrome…

Exactly the same.

"You, who have become a burden to so many people, should have died sooner, right?"

Although the little girl had the exact same face as Shoko Makinohara, the words she spoke were completely unlike what Shoko Makinohara would say. Although her voice was still very childish, it revealed a ruthless indifference.

"How many times have you seen your father and mother's forced smiles?"

"Knowing that your body is getting worse and worse, they still have to pretend in front of you that there's nothing to worry about, that everything will be fine."

"And Menma, everyone in the Metaphysics Club, Brother Ye Xing."

"Your existence will only bring pain to everyone."

"What's the point of you lingering on like this? In fact, in your heart, you have long wanted to die, right?"

Hearing these words, Yui Yuigahama couldn't help but show an angry expression and retorted sharply.

"That's not true, Shoko, she…"