401 Everything was caused by the Midnight Spell! (1/2)
Tengu was a rather famous demon.
Legends had it that this type of demon had internal rank differences amongst its ranks. The highest level would be called Great Tengu, next was Tengu, and the lowest was Crow Tengu and other similar Lesser Tengus.
And, amongst the highest-level Great Tengus, there was one particular heavenly emperor who held a grudge and transformed into an Emperor Tengu, and became one of the three strongest and evilest demons, ranked as an equal with Shutendoji and Tamamo-no-Mae!
In his previous world, Seiji had never been able to draw a Great Tengu SSR card in his cell phone game…
What people typically thought of Tengus was that they had red faces, large noses, were tall in appearance, wore monk attire and wooden clogs, held fans and hammers in their hands, and would be winged. In summary, they were a type of male bird humanoid.
However, according to the description from the victim, the Tengu that he met had a white face and a vicious appearance. The Tengu had a large nose and was wearing black-colored Sakura Island clothing. He was holding a red folding fan and had no wings on its back.
”Compared to a demon, I think he looked more like a singer you'd find at a New Year's Eve party,” Hisashi said. ”But there's no singer I know that's capable of causing someone severe injuries with a single swipe of his fan.”
Seiji was rendered speechless.
Indeed, there were some New Year's Eve party singers that had even more ridiculous or demonic-appearing outfits than actual demons.
”How did he meet this Tengu?”
”He suddenly met the Tengu on the street and was scared by the Tengu's face, so he reflexively cussed at him, and then…” Well, he was beaten up.
”…I see.”
”Do you know what's going on? Seigo.”
Seiji knew that Hisashi wasn't asking about the Tengu demon, but rather about the entire incident of demons appearing.
”Everything was caused by the Midnight Spell!”
”…Which anime did you copy that line from?”
”I admit that I intentionally used a line that seemed like it came from an anime, but that's the short one-sentence summary version of what happened.”
Seiji gave an appropriate explanation to Hisashi.
”The 'Midnight Spell…' That's quite a suitable name that you came up with.” Hisashi agreed with Seiji's naming sense after listening to the explanation. ”Such a powerful spell… do you think it will also appear in other cities?”
”It's possible if the caster's goal is to make ordinary people know about the existence of the mystical.”
”What benefits would that give to them to reveal the mystical side of society?”
”I don't know. Perhaps the caster is just like the antagonist in some manga or anime, someone acting for the sake of their beliefs.”
”It's worth sacrificing some people for the sake of our cause!” Seiji followed up with this line.
”There will be a beautiful new world after a short and temporary pain!” the two of them said together.
They had copied those lines from a mid-level antagonist in the Honey Candy Girl anime. That was a classical character, although it had a rather comical death.
”If the person who cast the Midnight Spell has such a way of thinking, then that's not laughable at all.”
”Yeah.”
A moment of silence fell between them.
”Seigo, if something happens to Kaede, are you willing to protect her?” Hisashi suddenly asked this question.
Seiji instantly pictured the blonde teacher in his mind.
”Of course I'm willing to.”
”That's great… then start living together with her, right from today!”
”What?”
”Actually, my younger sister met Tengu as well.” Hisashi sent a serious-looking emoticon. ”Although she defeated it with our family heirloom, it'll definitely return. She needs a Spiritual Ability user as a bodyguard!”
”Hey, hey… aren't you just making all of this up?” Seiji didn't believe these obvious made-up lies.