Zongman I fight weirdness in everyday world

It was the shrine located in the center of the village.

After coming outside, Hiratsuka Shizuka saw that even under the scouring of the heavy rain, the ground outside was still stained with a thick, bloody red. The corpses of those villagers... no, they could no longer be called corpses, only... remnants.

As she stepped out, she saw Yexing's Soul Avatar grabbing the body of a male villager with his two ghostly hands, completely ignoring the screams and pleas for mercy coming from his mouth. He bit off the male villager's head in one bite, and then, as if venting the anger and distortion in his heart, he crushed the remaining body into pieces and threw it aside.

"Interesting, truly interesting."

Yexing saw that there was still one male villager sitting limply on the ground, without even the strength to run away. He raised his foot, stepping through the rainwater on the ground, and walked over slowly. Then, he reached out and grabbed the other's neck, lifting him up forcefully.

"Do you know?"

Yexing's voice still carried a smile.

"Killing you people, who, although possessing human form, are even more disgusting than evil spirits, is truly an enjoyment that whets my appetite."

Immediately afterwards, Yexing took out a sharp silver nail from his pocket. Amidst the villager's shrill screams, his hand, like a surgeon, slowly and steadily drove the silver nail, little by little, from the crown of the head, straight into the other's skull.

"Disgusting fellow, just disappear completely from this world..."

...

At the same time, in the center of the village, inside an ancient house resembling a shrine.

"Village Chief... I just... I think I heard the sound of gunfire..."

"Hmm?"

A middle-aged man wearing simple clothes, with a seemingly normal expression, turned his head, his brows furrowed tightly.

"Gunfire? Tonight, haven't we already brought back the divine palanquin to be used for the sacrifice? Could something have gone wrong? Go and take a look quickly. If you delay the ceremony to worship the gods, causing the divine being to be displeased, every single one of you will be sacrificed alive!"

"Understood, Village Chief..."

"No need to look."

Just then, a voice came from the entrance of the shrine, carrying a smile, but mixed with the sound of rain falling on the ground, it was a chilling sound.

"We... have already found you."

Looking at the dimly lit shrine, with only a few candles lit, nothing else, only a few futons placed there, and the middle-aged man called the Village Chief, along with a dozen other male villagers, wearing only white cloth around their waists, obviously dressed to facilitate the so-called "ceremony to worship the gods," Hiratsuka Shizuka felt a deep sense of disgust, as well as intense anger.

What disgusted Hiratsuka Shizuka even more was that the villagers, including the seemingly upright and serious Village Chief, who had originally shown fear due to the sudden unexpected situation, suddenly revealed lewd expressions the moment their eyes swept over her.

"Divine palanquin... the sacrificial divine palanquin... actually delivered itself to our door..."

"God your head!"

Hearing that the other party actually used such a disgusting term as "divine palanquin" to refer to herself, Hiratsuka Shizuka's anger finally reached the point of explosion at this moment.

Right now, she only wanted to use her iron fists to crush these disgusting fellows, one by one...

"Have you finally made up your mind?"

A woman's voice suddenly sounded in Hiratsuka Shizuka's mind.

"Rather than maintaining a false image of a lady, you want to reveal your true self even more, right?"

"Now that you have resolved to face your true self, then here..."

"Call out my true name."

"Here... call out your true name..."

Hiratsuka Shizuka slowly raised her head. Having already come into contact with the "truth" of that world, she finally awakened her own soul-materialization ability at this moment.

"Break through the obstacles... Jeanne!"

As Hiratsuka Shizuka's words fell, a beautiful girl with long golden hair, wearing medieval knight armor, not holding a sword, but wearing a pair of heavy steel gauntlets, with a figure that seemed slender and weak, but gave people a sense of oppression, appeared beside her.

"Crush them, Jeanne!"

"Okay."

Hearing Hiratsuka Shizuka's order, Jeanne simply nodded slightly, and then her figure flashed, instantly appearing in front of a male villager with a lewd smile still on his face, and without hesitation, she slammed her right fist, clad in a steel gauntlet, with all her strength into the other's ugly face.

"Bang! ! !"

With this punch, the male villager's body was still standing in place, but his head instantly burst like a punctured balloon. Immediately afterwards, Jeanne's figure fluttered like a butterfly, her posture was very graceful, but that pair of heavy steel fists directly smashed the heads of four or five enemies in a row.

"What is that thing..."

Seeing this suddenly appearing blonde girl, slaughtering their own people in a ruthless and unpitying manner, the Village Chief and the others, who were originally in that inexplicable lewd desire, were frightened and instantly sobered up, and, wielding things like kitchen knives, pitchforks, wooden sticks, they tried to fight back.

"Clang!"

Watching a kitchen knife swing around and chop at her body, but was directly bounced away by that hard armor, Jeanne raised her head, looked at the villager who tried to wound her, and didn't give the other party a chance to speak at all, simply punching him directly in the abdomen.

With a muffled sound, a blood hole appeared directly in the villager's abdomen, as if he had been hit by a sniper rifle bullet, and he fell directly to the ground.

"This is... the power of soul materialization..."

Just as Hiratsuka Shizuka was muttering to herself, a villager holding a sharp knife suddenly rushed over from the side, with a ferocious look on his face, stabbing the tip of the knife towards the position of her heart.

"Bang!"

Before the tip of the knife could touch Hiratsuka Shizuka's body, Yexing used a pistol to hold the other's forehead, pulled the trigger without hesitation, and then smiled lightly at Hiratsuka Shizuka, who had just regained her senses.

"Exorcist... no, the first lesson of a psychic, in a state where you have not merged with your Soul Avatar, you must protect the safety of your own body. If the Soul Avatar is destroyed, it can be summoned again, but if the psychic dies, then it's really dead, concentrate a little."

"Hmm... I understand."

Hiratsuka Shizuka shook her head. Although her body and mind were very tired due to the first use of soul materialization ability, she still braced herself to raise the gun in her hand, aimed at a villager who wanted to rush towards her, and fired several shots in a row.

And a few seconds later, Jeanne, summoned by Hiratsuka Shizuka, had already almost literally physically crushed all the enemies present.

Looking at Jeanne's fighting style, Yexing already had a judgment in his heart.

Shizuka Hiratsuka's soul manifestation ability… as expected, it's a close-combat specialization type. However, unlike Tsukiyomi's Emperor Sutoku, who also specializes in close combat, Jeanne's speed isn't as fast, her movements aren't as agile, and she can't fly. But she possesses extremely powerful defense and terrifying strength capable of crushing everything.

Honestly…

This is the soul manifestation ability that Shizuka Hiratsuka, Kyoto's number one iron fist and a devoted fan of passionate manga, should awaken.

“No… no… this is impossible…”

The middle-aged man, known as the Village Chief, took two steps backward, his body collapsing weakly against the red-painted wall.

“Lord God, save… save me…”

The middle-aged man's prayer seemed to be answered. From within the shrine, a strange laughter echoed, filled with lewdness, making Hiratsuka instinctively feel physiologically uncomfortable just by hearing it.

In the next second, in the empty shrine hall, an disgusting creature gradually emerged, resembling a wriggling maggot, yet also resembling some kind of male genitalia, its surface covered with dozens of male faces.

“Lord God…”

Seeing this disgusting, enormous evil spirit appear, the middle-aged man was first stunned, then suddenly burst into maniacal laughter, looking at Yae and Hiratsuka standing there.

“You're done for, you're completely finished! You have angered Lord God, you will surely…”

Just as the middle-aged man was halfway through his sentence, a terrifying roar suddenly came from outside the shrine.

Immediately afterward, amidst the trembling of the ground, a black and white humanoid monster with only its upper body, moved with an extremely eerie posture, at a speed completely invisible to the naked eye, and directly pounced into the shrine.

In the next second, the evil spirit resembling male genitalia was knocked to the ground. Pale and jet-black ghostly hands with sharp claws deeply pierced into the other's body. Amidst the screams of the so-called Lord God, Yae's Soul Incarnation opened its large mouth full of sharp teeth at its neck and began to devour it greedily. In less than a second, the 'Lord God' was completely swallowed into its belly.

“Haa… satisfying.”

Yae exhaled a long breath, and like his Soul Incarnation, wiped his mouth with his hand, appearing to relish the taste of the food and feeling content.

“As expected of Wakayama Prefecture's specialty, the taste is really good.”

Then, he looked at the middle-aged man with a bewildered expression and asked with a smile.

“By the way, what were you saying just now?”

“How could this be…”

The middle-aged man collapsed to the ground in despair, completely unable to believe that the Lord God his village regarded as its guardian deity was actually eaten instantly by the monster summoned by the other party, like a tiger preying on a rabbit.

Moreover…

He even got a 'good taste' rating?

“You…”

“Alright, die.”

Yae was too lazy to waste another word with this ugly fellow, directly walked over and ended his life with a shot, then looked at his Soul Incarnation and said softly.

“Eat everyone in this village, leave no one alive.”

…

Five minutes later, in the house where the group had first entered.

“Shizuka… you also awakened the soul manifestation ability?”

Hearing Natsumi Suga's question, Shizuka Hiratsuka, although physically and mentally exhausted due to her first time using the soul manifestation ability, couldn't help but boast.

“Amazing, right? My Soul Incarnation is named Jeanne, you know, that saint who fought in the war? Hmph, tenacious and brave, unafraid of difficulties, possessing great strength and absolute confidence. This is the power that I, Shizuka Hiratsuka, should possess.”

Clearly, while awakening her soul manifestation ability, Shizuka Hiratsuka's chuunibyou soul, which she had always hidden, was also completely ignited.

Just as she was feeling smug, Yae suddenly spoke from the side.

“Isn't it because Jeanne, like you, has never been in love, and was a virgin until the moment she died…”

“Shut up!”

Hearing this, Shizuka Hiratsuka was both ashamed and angry, and quickly covered Yae's mouth, not letting him continue.

The key was that she also had a hint of worry in her heart.

Could it be that she would really be like Jeanne in history… single for life?

The title of Saintess was indeed very good, but she, Shizuka Hiratsuka, didn't want to be that kind of saintess!

Just then, the black and white headless monster silently crawled in from the doorway.

Logically speaking, Shizuka Hiratsuka should have felt terrified when she saw Yae's strangely postured, headless Soul Incarnation without a lower body, but now, no matter how she looked at it…

This guy… seemed quite cute?

Did this mean that Yae also had such a cute side in his heart?

Yae didn't know that Shizuka Hiratsuka was indulging in romantic fantasies again, just looked at his Soul Incarnation and said with a smile.

“Have you eaten everything?”

His Soul Incarnation gave a definite reply in sign language, then spread out its pale ghostly hand, handing something in the palm of its hand to Yae.

“This is…”

Shizuka Hiratsuka looked over curiously, only to see a golden fragment, seemingly from something, lying quietly in the palm of the pale ghostly hand.

Chapter 536: The Remnants of the Holy Grail, Amadeus's True Purpose

“What is this thing?”

Shizuka Hiratsuka carefully observed the golden fragment in the palm of the pale ghostly hand. Because she had already awakened her spiritual ability, she felt an extremely dangerous aura from this mysterious object, but at the same time, she had an uncontrollable desire in her heart, wanting to immediately summon her own Soul Incarnation, Jeanne, and devour this golden fragment.

“This is a fragment of the Holy Grail.”

“Holy Grail…”

Hearing this familiar word, Kurisu Makise couldn't help but be stunned, then revealed an expression of disbelief.

“Is that the enemy from when you went to another world… the thing created by gathering the desires of all the humans in the world? But… why would this thing appear in this world?”

“I don't know the specific reason.”

Yae stared at the golden Holy Grail fragment, suddenly realizing.

“I was wondering why the wild, newly spawned evil spirits tasted so good. It turns out they were a specially cultivated breed, no wonder.”

Shizuka Hiratsuka stared at the golden Holy Grail fragment, the desire in her heart not diminishing at all, but rather becoming more and more agitated. She swallowed her saliva, revealing an expression like that of Hana Yurikawa when she saw delicious daifuku, and tentatively asked.

“Um… Yae… aren't you going to eat this thing? If you're not going to eat it… could I…”

“No.”

Seeing Shizuka Hiratsuka's pitiful, teary-eyed expression, as if a little girl had been wronged after being rejected, Yae couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

Why is this old woman acting like a virgin?

“It's not that I'm unwilling to let you eat it.”