With several explosive cracks!
The Yasukuni Shrine erupted into flames without warning.
Chaos immediately broke out. Tourists scattered in panic, screams and sobs ringing out incessantly.
The security guards and staff shouted for help and called the police, while some grabbed fire extinguishers and tried to put out the blaze.
But once the fire started, it spread for miles.
How could a few little fire extinguishers possibly put it out?
And that was not all!
When the evil souls slumbering within the spirit tablets awoke, they immediately formed a ghost domain.
Outside the ghost domain, dark clouds loomed overhead and sinister energy filled the air. Ghostly wails and howls spilled out, frightening even the ordinary security guards into standing frozen in place.
Some dropped to their knees and frantically kowtowed, while others screamed and scattered.
Meanwhile, the disturbance at the Yasukuni Shrine drew a squad of onmyoji dressed in hunting robes. They had been stationed at the shrine year-round.
Now that the Yasukuni Shrine had caught fire under their watch, they could not escape responsibility.
The lead onmyoji's expression turned utterly grim. He sensed powerful fluctuations of spiritual power within the blaze.
"This is no ordinary flame. A cultivator has attacked the Yasukuni Shrine! Bastard! The heroic souls of tens of thousands of imperial heroes slumber here. We will never allow anyone to desecrate them!"
"Everyone, summon your Shikigami to extinguish the fire, then follow me inside and tear the intruder to pieces! Otherwise, we will have failed our imperial heroes and every citizen of our nation!"
The onmyoji answered with a resounding "Yes!" Then each used their own methods to summon all manner of bizarre Shikigami, which were really just monsters possessing a little demonic aura.
The onmyoji drove their monsters forward, trying to suppress the flames.
But against