765 As expected of the famous Seiji Kamijou (1/2)

”Miss Chiaki isn't cowardly or useless at all,” Seiji told her seriously. ”You had the courage to walk here by yourself. That was critical to suppressing the spirits here.”

”Seiji-san probably could have suppressed the spirits even without me here.”

”That might be true, but things would have been far more troublesome without Miss Chiaki around.”

”No matter how troublesome the issue, Seiji-san can deal with anything as long as you take it seriously.”

”I'm only a single Yin Yang Master. What I can accomplish is limited… Miss Chiaki's assistance is incredibly important.”

After hearing his sincere words, Chiaki harrumphed softly as her lips arched slightly upward.

She then looked towards the building which was in front.

A shrine was there… under the dark sky and flying flower petals, the originally beautiful and divine shrine now seemed ominous and cold. Eerie red mist permeated the entire shrine.

The sculptures around the shrine were completely enveloped in red mist—their contours could barely be seen. All the stone lanterns in the shrine were currently unlit, with ominous red mist all around.

Suddenly, there was a clamorous sound as cherry blossoms swirled within the mist, forming a tremendous number of dark red shadowy humanoid figures. There were male, female, young, and old, and they all had empty holes where their eyes should have been. They also had vicious expressions and distorted limbs…

Chiaki was quite frightened by this scene.

Something flashed in Seiji's eyes as he whipped out a talisman. The silent black-clad warrior next to him also raised her longsword.

Whoosh… the evil spirits rushed over in their direction!

Seiji recited a spell that created a flight of white light on his and Chiaki's bodies.

The black-clad warrior greeted the evil spirits with her sword. A blueish-white flame started spreading on her sword as it lengthened into a giant spiritual sword.

Shing! One swing of the sword slew many evil spirits.

Even more evil spirits kept swarming in. The warrior continuously swung her sword to slay evil spirits while using agile footwork to dodge their attacks.

However, the evil spirits were incredibly numerous—endless, even. No matter how fast the warrior's movements were, it was impossible for her to dodge all the attacks. She could only take the remaining attacks with her armor and helmet.

”Will Kagura-san be alright?” Chiaki couldn't help but ask as she saw the warrior fighting against so many evil spirits.

Chiaki had never even seen this female warrior's face before. She only knew that the warrior's surname was Kagura, and that the warrior was female… Or, more accurately, Kagura wasn't a warrior, but rather a Spirit-branded Retainer.

His Spirit-branded Retainer named Kagura was able to keep the majority of evil spirits occupied. Only a few evil spirits came over to attack him and Chiaki. However, these few evil spirits were all instantly vaporized by the barrier Seiji had set up.

Seiji held many talismans in his hand as he started uttering an incantation with a serious expression. The talismans then began to glow white as they started burning with a golden-white flame.

Seiji waved his hand, tossing out all the burning talismans which stuck themselves onto the shrine's stone lanterns.

There was then an explosion of light that instantly dispelled all the red mist around the lanterns while also lighting them.

With all the stone lanterns now lighted, the ominous aura around the shrine was diminished as the lanterns let off a pure white light.

The number of evil spirits pouring out of the temple obviously started to lessen.

However, the clamorous sound became even louder. The divine sculptures around the shrine began to rumble, making a scarily abnormal sound that resembled both howling and roaring. The red mist around the shrine instantly started expanding and becoming denser while absorbing large amounts of cherry blossoms.

Feeling that something even scarier was about to arrive, Chiaki listened to her heart and hid herself behind Seiji.

Seiji took out even more talismans and began to incant again.

Kagura made a pose as a gigantic blue-white female shadow arose behind her back. The female shadow waved her hand and released a large amount of faint blue mist which eradicated the remaining evil spirits.

*Boom!!* There was a tremendous sound which seemed to even shake the heavens. Two gigantic stone lions suddenly materialized.

Rather than being actual lions, these stone lions were closer to the divine.

Stone lions were originally intended to be majestic guardians. But right now, they appeared vicious and evil, with mouths gaping, sharp fangs, sharp claws, and blood-red eyes. The red mist also swirled all around their bodies, giving them quite the ominous impression.

Before the stone lions could attack, Kagura first pointed up towards the sky with her sword. The shadow behind her back clasped its hands together, shooting out a dense blue mist towards the stone lion on the left!

Roar!!! The left stone lion opened its mouth and roared, causing dense red mist to react explosively around its body and block the blue mist attack.

The right stone lion viciously pounced towards Kagura, swinging its sharp claws…

At this moment, Seiji waved his hand again, tossing out all the talismans he had. The talismans penetrated through the right stone lion's protective red mist and stuck themselves to its body.