The Iron Fortress Naraka Scripture stated:
[A Bang, when he was human, had been unfilial to his parents. After death, he became a bull-headed humanoid in the underworld, serving as a yamen runner tasked with patrolling and capturing escaped sinners.]
At first, there had only been "Ox-Head." But when it spread to the Great Kingdom, where folk traditions placed great emphasis on symmetry and pairs,
"Horse-Face" was added as his counterpart.
It was worth mentioning that the yokai of the Four Souls Underworld were almost all "original creations" unrelated to Wano Country mythology.
Yet the existence of "Ox-Head and Horse-Face" had been preserved.
It was also worth mentioning that, according to Great Kingdom mythology, "Ox-Head and Horse-Face" were two individual figures.
In other words, there was only one Ox-Head and one Horse-Face.
But here,
they were two types of monsters.
Thus, their numbers depended on how many the Lord of the Underworld had created.
Some of these Ox-Heads and Horse-Faces were responsible for guarding the Gate of the Underworld.
Others led the Lord of the Underworld's army of a hundred demons.
At this moment, the two armies faced each other.
What Yoriichi Tsugikuni, Michikatsu Tsugikuni, and the others saw from afar
were Ox-Head and Horse-Face in their original forms.
They did not need to take human form like their gatekeeping colleagues.
Thus, they looked even more terrifying and ferocious.
(Ox-Head)
(Horse-Face)
The army of a hundred demons behind them spread across the mountains and plains, stretching beyond sight.
The so-called "hundred demons" was actually an imaginary term used to describe the many varieties of ghosts and monsters.
On the World Government's Underworld Army side,
the Underworld Army warships moored on the black sea behind them had already turned broadside.
The triple-mounted turrets at their bows and sterns had also swung