Faced with the swarms of ghosts and undead summoned by Nitocris, Fujimaru Ritsuka's side reacted... with oddly complicated expressions?
"Um, Miss Xuanzang, Mr. Liao Ye, please."
Fujimaru Ritsuka took a step back, leaving the open space to Xuanzang and Liao Ye.
"Mm-hm! Leave it to this humble monk!" Xuanzang smiled and tapped her khakkhara against the ground, looking rather excited.
"I didn't expect this thing to come in handy so soon." Liao Ye, on the other hand, looked somewhat awkward as he pulled something from inside his shirt over his chest. A military tally?
"Senpai, what is that?" Mash leaned close to Fujimaru Ritsuka and asked quietly.
"Ah, that... I think Mr. Xiang An gave it to Mr. Liao Ye in the last Singularity." Fujimaru Ritsuka did not really understand it either, but that thing... probably worked especially well against spirits or the undead?
"Ah, well, Mr. Xiang An is worshipped as King Yama, after all." Mash nodded.
Xiang An was King Yama, and one of the Four Ghost Generals under his command—Huo Ao You Ning, the Underworld Ghost General, Liao Ye—naturally possessed certain authorities as well.
Of course, those were authorities he could possess only when Liao Ye had been summoned as the Underworld Ghost General. The current Liao Ye was merely the Grand Coachman of Northern Chu.
But... Liao Ye, Grand Coachman of Northern Chu, could likewise be invested by Xiang An, King Yama.
Just like the item in his hand.
Before his departure from the North American Singularity, Xiang An had handed this to Liao Ye along with the order to protect Fujimaru Ritsuka, engraving it into the Saint Graph Liao Ye possessed at this moment.
It was—the Underworld Military Tally.
Though it was a military tally, it could not recruit soldiers, nor did it grant Liao