A 'cannonball' dragged a white chain behind it. Two figures passed through three houses. The walls collapsed with a loud rumble. Wooden boards, concrete, and steel bars could not bear the weight and were all broken.
"Ouch!"
Takeo crashed into a wall, and the falling stones hit his legs.
The flying scythe rubbed against his shoulder blades, and the endless pain stabbed into his nerves like knives.
He grabbed the flying scythe that stabbed into his shoulder, and his eyes widened. This was the first time Takeo had suffered such a serious injury.
He wanted to pull out the flying scythe!
Whoosh!
The chain suddenly vibrated violently, and a woman dragged the chain and rushed out from the rolling dust. Her long black hair flew in the air like a waterfall, and the sharp hair cut through the dust and the turbidity.
"Spear!"
Misa's entire right arm twisted into a spiral spear, and the air and stones were all annihilated by the spear!
The spear pointed straight at Moribe Takeo. She wanted to pierce through Takeo!
Seeing the spear coming at him, Moribe Takeo resisted the pain in his shoulder and tilted his body.
The spear stabbed into the ground with unstoppable force.
It was more than half a meter deep!
"Chi!"
The wind brought by the spear brushed past Takeo's ear, leaving a small wound. A few drops of blood flew into the air.
He could not sit still and wait for death!
Gritting his teeth, Takeo suddenly jumped up with his knee and kicked Misa's stomach. A normal person would die on the spot if they were kicked like this.
Misa was caught off guard and was hit head-on. At such a close distance, it was impossible for her to dodge.
"Such strength."
Feeling the pain coming from her stomach, Misa's body was sent flying. Her stomach was her only weakness. Among all the places where her bones were hardened, only her stomach remained unprotected.
Her stomach instantly twisted and tangled.
Swoosh.
However, the other end of the flying scythe was still restraining Takeo's shoulder. As Misa was sent flying, Takeo's shoulder also let out a terrifying creaking sound of bones rubbing against each other. Bone fragments and flesh flew out together.
"Damn it." Takeo spat and took the opportunity to form a seal with one hand.
His abdomen swelled up like a balloon, and his mouth suddenly bulged. Spiritual force transformed into flames that brewed within his body!
Boom!
Flames rose from his abdomen!
First, a wisp of flame sprayed out in front of him like a long line, stretching for more than ten centimeters. Then, it suddenly expanded and curled up, forming a large fireball with a diameter of two meters.
"Great Fireball!"
A spectacle!
The large fireball spat out scorching heat as it ferociously charged towards Mochizuki Misa.
After rolling a few times in the air while clutching her stomach, Misa propped herself up on the ground with her left hand. She looked at the big fireball that suddenly came at her, and her scalp went slightly numb.
This guy actually knew how to cast spells.
Furthermore, this attack was even more lethal than the wind blades that the dog had spat out that night. If he was hit directly, he would be in grave danger!
She could not block it. The power that Lord Bone Lady gave her was more than enough for attack, but it was not enough for defense. Her exploration of the Corpse Bone Vein over the past few days allowed Misha to think of a way to avoid it in a flash.
A chain suddenly shot out from Misa's spine.
"Ding!"
The tip of the chain stabbed into another building. Misa laughed mockingly. Although this fireball looked terrifying, it was too slow.
"It's done!"
Looking at the large fireball that was charging towards him, Moribe Takeo smiled. However, his smile did not last long. The girl's figure suddenly rose from the dust and broke through the thick smoke.
“Boom！”
The cruel Great Fireball missed its target.
"Five Finger Flicks!"
Misa, who was suspended in the air, retracted her spear form and shot out her five bone fingers.
"Ding dong dong!!"
Takeo, who was nailed to the ground, was directly hit by the five bone fingers. Under the intense pain, blood seeped out of the corner of Takeo's mouth, and his eyes turned bright red.
Apart from being hit in the stomach, Misa could be said to be unscathed.
Compared to the Defense Division, which lacked intense combat and was only fighting on a small scale to "protect the city's justice", Misa's combat experience could not be said to be lacking. Even if two more Defense Divisions came, she was confident that she could deal with them.
Using a flying scythe to drag her in front of Takeo, Miyoshi Shukishima's voice came from Misa's earpiece.
"Miss Mochizuki, how is the battle? Did you win?"
Miyoshi Shukishima and the others had clearly seen the explosion caused by the huge fireball. It was comparable to a main battle tank's artillery shell, and it even had an incendiary function.
Thinking back to how they had chased after the fireball in the helicopter, Shirota and the others broke out in cold sweat. They had been courting death. If they had been targeted by such a fireball, the helicopter would not have been able to dodge it.
"We probably won."
Misa cautiously observed from a distance of five or six meters.
Takeo's suit had become tattered during the battle, and there was a large hole in his shoulder. Four of his five finger bones were stuck in his limbs, and one was stuck in his chest.
'I didn't die just like that, did I?' Misa felt embarrassed by the weakness of her supernatural species.
…
[Am I dead, Immortal Fox?]
The world in front of Moribe Takeo turned into darkness. It was a familiar darkness. Was it the same when Jokai Aokigawara committed suicide?
At the end of the darkness, there was a coiled flame. The light emitted by the flame was as bright as the sun. Compared to this flame, the flame he released was like a small flame.
No, it was a coiled fox. It was just that the flames on the fox's body were burning fiercely, so it gave the illusion of a flame.
[Dead?]
The fox monster's voice became very sharp.
[Of course. It's normal for someone as reckless as you to die.]
[I …] Moribe Takeo nodded dejectedly. [Where will I go next? Hell?]
[You've already killed so many people. You can only go to hell, not heaven.]
The fox monster opened its eyes. Flames turned into liquid and flowed out of its huge pupils. [Those judges don't care if you kill good or evil people. As long as you kill people, you'll be sent to the endless hell to suffer.]
Moribe Takeo wasn't afraid of going to hell. His human world was already a miserable hell.
No matter how terrifying hell was it, how could it compare to the human world?
[But …] A small spark flew out of the fox monster's body.
[Even an Infernal Judge would have to give me some face. I can pull you back from hell.]
[Do you want to be resurrected?]
[You still have many wishes that you haven't fulfilled.]
[Why don't you burn this filthy world to ashes with fire?]
[As long as you want to, you can pick it up and become an Asura who controls the Karmic Fire of the Red Lotus.]
[Judging evil. Isn't that what you like the most?]
It was exactly the same as the scene in Jokai Aokigawara when he received the inheritance of power. The fox monster threw out another bait temptingly.
The faintly floating flame twisted into the fox's face.
Takeo's face also seemed to become like the fox's. He closed his eyes in pain. As his power grew, he felt that he was becoming less and less like himself. Instead, he was becoming more and more like a cunning and cruel fox.
'Is this the price of power?
'If I continue to enjoy this power, will I be completely replaced by the fox monster one day?
'Am I the fox, or am I Moribe Takeo?'