Arriving in Tokyo: Urban Legends and Zach, the Rookie Exorcist

Where some people kept a low profile, others made a show of themselves.

While waiting in line, Li Dan spotted several exorcists and mediums using their privileges to register.

There were others who seemed as ordinary as Li Dan, but from a demon's perspective, he could see the difference clearly. Their souls were nothing like those of ordinary people.

If ordinary people were puppies, these people's souls were grown dogs or wolves. They could withstand a measure of supernatural force and perceive and communicate with things most people could not. That was what made them mediums or gave them Yin-Yang Eyes.

Li Dan's soul was usually that of an ordinary person, but he could transform completely into a demon. That made him another kind of creature altogether.

Among the exorcists, he was an anomaly.

The plane had not taken off yet.

Li Dan sat in his seat reading the Holy See's records. The island nation was widely known for three things nobody knocked: its music and animation among them.

Those were what it was best known for, but as supernatural incidents had grown more frequent in recent years, another kind of story from the island nation had begun spreading across Southeast Asia.

Locals called them urban legends.

The most famous of these legends were nearly as well known as the places with the worst hauntings.

The first legend Li Dan read was about the Slit-Mouthed Woman.

It began in the spring of 1979, when panic over the Slit-Mouthed Woman suddenly spread across the island nation.

According to the legend, she had once been beautiful. A botched cosmetic procedure split her mouth to her ears, after which she killed the doctor and became an evil spirit.

She wandered near schools wearing a mask and stopped children to ask, "Am I pretty?"