The Head Lanterns Filling the City Want to Pluck My Disciple's Head? The True Body Descends-Then Come and Take It!

Crimson light fell from the sky that no one could look up at.

The red light passed through the transparent window and fell across Chisa's legs, casting the shrine glowing in her arms in an eerie, bewitching sheen.

Even through the half of the window uncovered by the curtains, Uesugi Tetsu could see the horrific scene on the road outside.

There was no need to mention the colorful, crimson, sticky mess covering the entire road. On top of that, bloody human skins were scattered everywhere.

Uesugi Tetsu could even make out a few pedestrians fleeing in panic in the distance, apparently being hunted by something.

He knew they were probably being pursued by the Ghosts he currently "couldn't see"—Chisa hadn't even opened a single True Sight Eye.

The outside world was completely different from the scene two days ago, when at least the surface order had remained intact.

If it was already this gruesome outside Kujo Machi's home, then what was happening deeper and farther into Asahikawa City went without saying.

Uesugi Tetsu studied Chisa, who was frowning slightly in her light sleep while clutching the shrine tightly. He smiled and was just about to wake her when he caught sight of something even stranger from the corner of his eye.

Unlike the bloody, nauseating scene beyond the left half of the window, the area farther to the right was covered in perfectly clean ground and...

Bodies without heads, as though their heads had been forcibly plucked away, yet without a drop of blood?

One headless corpse after another lay sprawled haphazardly across the road. Judging by their number, there were probably more than twice as many as on the other side, which looked like purgatory!

Even if most of them were impostors, if there were still ordinary people like