Usable Secret Techniques: Isayama Style Swordsmanship, Isayama Style Magic Compendium, Mana Burst... Theoretical Lifespan: 709.6 years Divine Authority Jade: 2361.01
"Damn cool. Invincible!"
Luo Shu raised an eyebrow and smiled gently.
With his current strength, it would no longer be so easy for him to die in this dangerous world.
Outside the window, the bright moon hung high in the sky. It would probably be quite a while before dawn.
The boy fell into thought, considering whether to play a game to kill time.
"Beep beep beep—."
His Apple phone suddenly vibrated beside his pillow.
"Hm? Who's messaging me in the middle of the night?"
Luo Shu was somewhat surprised. He immediately picked up his phone and pressed the button on its left side.
The screen instantly lit up, and the social app LINE was flashing nonstop.
He tapped in curiously. The other party's avatar was a female high school student in a sailor uniform. She was one of the clients who had added him after having their fortune told that day, and she had sent him four messages in a row. She seemed to be in a hurry.
"I'm going to die, I'm going to die, I'm going to die..."
"Master Luo, save meeeee!!"
"An Evil Spirit is going to kill someone!!"
"1 person is sharing their live location."
—Message from Higurashi Kagome.
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Luo Shu blanked out for a moment when he saw the messages.
Didn't her house have that Bone-Eating Well where monsters popped out? Where had this Evil Spirit come from?
...Had she just run into it by bad luck?
Without hesitating further, Luo Shu ran toward the shared location while thinking as he went.
He didn't mind saving a girl while he was at it.
But if the Evil Spirit was too powerful, he would ditch the girl and make a lightning-fast escape.
A Classic Scene Recreated: Carrying a Beauty Under the Moon!
The bright moon hung high in the heavens, casting a silvery sheen across the ground.
Chiba City, the central Saw Mountain Great Forest.
An Evil Spirit as massive as a skyscraper roared. Its cephalothorax had four pairs of long legs, each ending in sharp hooked claws.
It resembled a Sea Spider. The five compound eyes on its brown back rolled about as it stared at the tiny figure fleeing for her life ahead, its gaze filled with greed and desire.
The beautiful glow within her body was constantly calling to it.
If it devoured her, it would definitely achieve an even higher evolution!
"Rumble...!!"
Countless lush ancient trees fell, and the aftershocks stirred up waves of terrifying air.
This colossal creature rampaged excitedly as it gave chase. The ground beneath its feet had been trampled into deep ravines hundreds of meters long, each footprint resembling a natural chasm. Smoke and dust spread through the air, blanketing several thousand meters along its path.
Without a doubt, this was a terrifying Evil Spirit that had reached A-Class.
Not only did it possess overwhelmingly powerful spiritual energy, it could also freely command lower-ranking Evil Spirits.
Whenever an Evil Spirit of this level appeared, it would often unleash a Ghost Disaster upon a human city.
In Japan, only the personnel of Tokyo's Disaster Countermeasures Bureau were confident of suppressing an A-Class Evil Spirit.
If nothing unexpected happened, no one in Chiba City would be able to suppress it.
In the distance.
The tiny figure fled for her life, cursing as she ran.
"You damn Giant Spider, you're still chasing me!!"
As the ground shook continuously, Higurashi Kagome gritted her teeth and steadied herself as she fled.
She couldn't understand it. She was so small that she wasn't even enough to fill the gaps between its teeth, so why was this massive creature following her all this way? It was just like the monsters in Journey to the West seeing Tang Monk's flesh.
Could it be that eating her would grant this monster immortality?
This was absurdity opening the door for absurdity—absurd all the way home!
"Pant... pant..."
At the edge of a cliff, Kagome gasped for breath. Her oxygen-starved mind had gone completely blank, yet she couldn't stop.
Under the threat of death, adrenaline began to surge and her blood circulated faster.
In this desperate situation where she couldn't stop running, her thoughts had begun to wander wildly.
Would Master Luo come after seeing her message?
Had he even seen the message she sent?
At this hour... he was probably asleep too, right?
As a fortune-teller, he probably didn't have much combat ability, did he?
Even if he arrived in time, he probably couldn't defeat such a gigantic monster, right?
If he could beat it, wouldn't that make him a humanoid Ultraman?!
"Rumble...!"
Accompanied by the earth-shaking roar that rang in her ears, the Sea Spider Wraith had caught up.
"Hissss~"
The colossal creature lowered its head. The five pairs of compound eyes on its back were filled with greed as they looked down at the tiny girl.
Drops of green saliva dripped from its mouth, hissing corrosively when they hit the ground. Under Kagome's horrified gaze, the hard natural granite instantly weathered away and scattered into powder.
If it swallowed her, how would that be any different from taking a bath in sulfuric acid?
She widened her beautiful eyes and looked fearfully at the monster. Yet the girl, knowing full well there was no hope of escape, forced herself to calm down after a brief instant. She took a deep breath, and her gaze gradually changed from fear to determination.
"Goodbye, Grandpa..."
"Goodbye, Dad..."
"Goodbye, Mom..."
"Goodbye, Souta..."
In an instant, a savage gust of wind swept through, as though space itself had been pierced.
The A-Class Evil Spirit roared, and six hideous pincer limbs as towering as buildings descended together.
Filled with longing, Kagome closed her eyes. She clasped her hands before her chest, rapidly stepped backward, and instantly leaped backward over the cliff.
In the biting, icy wind, she remembered Grandpa holding her hand as he bought her candied hawthorn skewers when she was little. She remembered Mom gently patting her shoulder and teasing that her daughter had finally grown up. She also remembered Souta affectionately calling her big sister...
Her ordinary yet happy life replayed through her mind like a passing lantern.
My life...
Is this where it ends...?
The girl's eyelashes trembled lightly as she entrusted her regrets to the wind and let herself fall.
In a daze, it seemed that a pair of slender, warm hands had caught her in an embrace...
It felt like candlelight burning in a room during winter, so warm...
It was almost like a dream.
The girl instinctively hugged tighter, clinging on desperately and unwilling to let go.
Then a rather familiar teasing voice suddenly sounded beside her ear.
"Hello~ Miss Higurashi, we meet again."
"Eh... Eeeeeeh?!"
The dark clouds above suddenly dispersed, and bright moonlight shone down upon the figure dressed in a Moon-White Feather Robe. His bearing was like that of an exiled immortal, making his almost celestial, almost demonic beauty all the more striking.
Higurashi Kagome opened her eyes in shock and discovered that she was lying in his arms.
The Hagoromo Boy had saved her in a princess carry. A gentle smile hung on his handsome face, carrying a faint hint of mischief.
It perfectly suited that exquisite line of poetry: A gentleman is like jade upon the road, unparalleled in all the world.
Had she been saved?
Kagome looked dazed. This was the only thought echoing through her mind.
She stared at the boy in confusion. Her blank mind deeply etched that breathtakingly gentle smile into the deepest part of her memories, never to be forgotten for the rest of her life.
Then, as Luo Shu's feet moved rapidly, the two of them safely returned to the ground.
Only after landing steadily did Kagome's little head begin working again. Her cheeks swiftly heated and turned red. Once she regained her senses, she realized the pose she had just been in—clinging to Mr. Luo like an octopus...
Wasn't it a little too intimate?
Luo Shu did not take the matter to heart at all. He gazed into the distance and began to think seriously.
That A-Class Evil Spirit resembling a Sea Spider was radiating a terrifying aura from its entire body.
After he saved Kagome, it seemed to have gone mad. It let out an enraged roar, and its four pairs of long, bristled legs spun like tiny whirlwind motors. It moved so fast that afterimages appeared as it charged wildly toward him.
It was as if it had a clear target with a tracking device installed. That made it rather difficult to handle!
The earth was plowed into countless ravines, and dense forests collapsed in an instant...
This thing was strong~.
Luo Shu rubbed his chin with his index finger.
He could clearly sense that this monster was also a powerhouse who had entered the third-tier realm. Its body, like that of a land overlord, was the source of its dominance.
The instant he saw it, Luo Shu felt a chill shoot up his spine. A vivid sense of terror spread through his body, and his sixth sense frantically warned him to flee.
Even his instincts were warning him that this was an enemy difficult to defeat...
If he insisted on fighting it, a single mistake could leave him injured or dead.
Even two of him might not be a match for this A-Class Evil Spirit.
However...
With the use of his cheat ability, it was still an opponent he could easily deal with.
The Sacred Jewel of Four Souls, Slaying the Evil Spirit with a Godlike Slash!
"Why did you run into the forest?"
Luo Shu smiled calmly, radiating confidence as though everything was under his control. He then looked at the black-haired girl whose pretty face was flushed red and asked curiously,
"There are Disaster Countermeasures Bureau personnel in the city. If you delayed for a while longer, the Demon Exorcists would arrive. They might not necessarily kill the Evil Spirit, but your personal safety would definitely be guaranteed."
"You absolutely can't do that!"
The girl, who had been lost in romantic thoughts, suddenly snapped awake. She clenched her fists and spoke with solemn sincerity.
"I don't know why, but that thing came specifically for me. Its only target is me. If I stay in the city just to save my own skin, I'll get a lot of innocent people killed."
"Even if that means you'll be brutally killed by the monster?"
"So what?!"
Kagome stood righteous and resolute, her eyes firm and serious.
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