And just like that, everything was settled.
Thanks to Luo Zhen's purification ritual, Tokyo's Spirit Veins had returned to an even more stable state than before.
The spiritual disasters born from the previous disorder in the Spirit Veins had been exorcised by the Hyakki wandering through Tokyo.
Then, the Demons and Monsters and Demons and Monsters began disappearing one after another. Tokyo, which had been transformed into a realm of ghosts, finally regained its peace as though it had seen daylight again.
At the moment the Hyakki vanished like a mirage, the armies and Self-Defense Forces that had been surrounding Tokyo and repeatedly trying to force their way in immediately drove military transport vehicles into the city. Military helicopters flew into Tokyo in groups amid the thunderous roar of their rotors, while tanks, armored vehicles, and fighter jets gradually appeared on Tokyo's roads and in its skies. The entire city suddenly looked like the site of a military exercise, filled with a tense atmosphere.
Unfortunately, after entering Tokyo, the armies and Self-Defense Forces were greeted only by an abandoned city devoid of people. There was not a trace of a living person, nor even half a corpse. All that remained were battered buildings, seas of flames, and a devastated cityscape, making it hard to believe that just a few days ago, this had been the nation's administrative center and its most prosperous capital.
But no matter how unwilling they were to believe it, everything before their eyes still told them exactly what the city had been through.
Thus, the army and Self-Defense Forces began searching the city on a massive scale, while several units were dispatched toward the shelters.
There, the citizens of Tokyo finally appeared. As though they had been rescued, they emerged from the shelters one after another,