Chapter 135: Domain Expansion, Light's Challenge to L
While saying this sentence, Yoru had no reservations, releasing the suppression on his own aura.
At this moment, in the eyes of the evil spirit wearing a white coat and dressed as a doctor, what stood in front of it was not a human.
But a throne piled up by thousands of evil spirits, composed of mountains of corpses and seas of blood.
On the throne was this human standing in front of it.
"Can... you see?"
Yoru leaned closer, a smile in his black eyes, staring straight into the white coat evil spirit's pale pupils without irises.
The latter's body trembled, lips wriggling under the mask, legs starting to go weak.
"Stand still."
Yoru smiled and patted the evil spirit's shoulder, pulling open the three positions in the mortuary cabinet in turn.
Mai, Yui, and Kazusa stood up from the metal plates. Seeing the terrifying doctor evil spirit wearing a blood-stained white coat, their expressions changed involuntarily.
Slap!
Yoru gave the white coat evil spirit a resounding slap with his backhand.
"Scaring people, huh?"
Under this heavy slap, the white coat evil spirit's head spun several times directly, its neck twisted into a twist shape.
It felt very scared and also full of grievance.
Obviously, I did nothing.
Why did I get slapped?
Slap!
Just as it was thinking this, Yoru raised his hand again and gave it another slap.
This time in the opposite direction, using the same force, just turning the white coat evil spirit's twisted neck a few more times to restore it to normal.
Yoru was truly too kind; I'm crying to death.
"Slapped you twice, and you still have an attitude? Hmm?"
Looking at the white coat evil spirit slapped twice in a row, the three girls were somewhat at a loss.
Even Yui, who had seen Yoru exorcise long ago, still couldn't get used to such a scene.
Is there such an exorcism?
Which side is the evil spirit exactly?
Until then, the white coat evil spirit finally reacted.
It didn't hesitate at all, ignoring the corpses on those metal plates, turned around directly, scrambling to escape out of the morgue.
Seeing the evil spirit fleeing in panic, before Mai, Yui, and Kazusa could speak, they heard Yoru say in a flat tone.
"Exorcist's first lesson."
"Evil spirits terrifying in the eyes of ordinary people are just prey."
"We are the predators."
"Let's go."
...
Meanwhile, the white coat evil spirit was sprinting.
It was scared.
Don't look at this white coat evil spirit's timid and cowardly appearance.
In fact, it was one of the many evil spirits that came from the Otherworld to the real world, much more powerful than ordinary evil spirits.
Precisely because of this.
The white coat evil spirit could truly feel how terrifying that human just now was.
That simply... wasn't a human.
The phantom of thousands of evil spirits overlapping, and that oppression seemingly from the bloodline, made the white coat evil spirit unable to even generate the thought of resistance.
Only by leaving this area as soon as possible could it obtain a glimmer of hope to continue existing.
The white coat evil spirit ran all the way up from the stairwell to the iron door leading to the second basement level.
It pushed open the door and rushed out, feeling its body relax.
Fortunately...
The opponent didn't chase after.
The white coat evil spirit breathed a long sigh of relief, feeling almost scared into becoming a human.
If it had known such a terrifying monster existed in the real world, it should have stayed in the Otherworld.
Just then, the white coat evil spirit suddenly realized something.
Here...
Is the second basement level?
Why does the sign still say third basement level?
Tap, tap, tap...
Slight footsteps came from the corner of the corridor.
The white coat evil spirit was shocked, hesitating not at all, running up the stairwell again.
Passing the stairs again.
Pushing open the door again.
What it saw again was still that familiar third basement level sign.
The white coat evil spirit felt despair.
How could there be such a thing?
Could it be...
This is the legendary Ghost Hitting Wall (Running in circles/Trapped by ghosts)?
Tap, tap, tap...
Until then, the unhurried footsteps finally passed the corner and appeared at the end of the corridor.
"Run."
Yoru's chuckling voice sounded.
"Why stop running?"
Looking at the white coat evil spirit standing there, Mai and Yui finally noticed something wrong.
According to the rules summarized by Rio and Miko, ordinary people couldn't "Observe" evil spirits and ghosts.
Only extremely few special circumstances.
For example, after entering the Otherworld, or evil spirits occupying human bodies and merging together could break such rules.
"Is this... the Otherworld?"
Hearing Mai's question, Yoru continued to walk forward, just extending his right hand to take Onimaru Kunitsuna handed by the Pale Ghost Hand.
"If you call it the Otherworld... nature might be similar, just one thing different."
While walking slowly towards the white coat evil spirit, Yoru said faintly.
"Here is My World." (Domain Expansion).
As his voice fell, the snow-white walls in the hospital were instantly covered by surging black flames.
"Th... this is..."
Not just Yui and Mai, even Kazusa, whose nerves were thick enough to be somewhat detached, was shocked by the scene before her.
The polished reflective floor tiles, on both sides were surging burning black flames.
Yoru holding a pitch-black long blade walked step by step towards the evil spirit wearing a blood-stained white coat standing at the other end.
This picture even had some religious sacred meaning.
This was the new ability Yoru gained after devouring that Titan Evil Spirit fused with a "Door."
"Didn't I tell you to stand still?"
Facing Yoru walking towards it step by step with no mercy in his eyes, the white coat evil spirit was about to collapse.
Under such strong oppression, its little reason disappeared.
Replaced by the instinct of being an evil spirit.
"You... can see!"
The blood on the white coat evil spirit's mask had dripped onto the ground.
Its originally just blood-stained white coat had completely turned into a blood coat at this time.
Two lines of bloody tears seeped out from those pupils with only whites.
Unexpectedly for Mai and others, as soon as the white coat evil spirit's roar came out, Yoru's figure flashed and appeared in front of the opponent.
Immediately after, he raised his hand again and gave the white coat evil spirit another crisp and loud slap.
"Bastard (BYD), who allowed you to copy my line?"
The white coat evil spirit's head spun more than ten times on its neck before barely stopping.
If it were a normal person, they would have died long ago.
But evil spirits' ability to withstand blows was obviously much stronger.
The white coat evil spirit let out a roar. Its pale eyes filled with bloody tears and without pupils stared fixedly at Yoru.
Next second, it made an unexpected move.
White coat... no, should be called Blood Coat Evil Spirit now.
It flashed like a spider, jumped to the ceiling not wrapped in black flames, then crawled upside down, pouncing fiercely towards Mai and others standing not far away at extremely fast speed.
Listening to the terrifying roar in the Blood Coat Evil Spirit's mouth, combined with that weird upside-down crawling movement, Yui and Mai were scared blank.
Kazusa frowned, her face still expressionless, just tightening her core, retreating her right foot a few centimeters, starting to accumulate power.
When the Blood Coat Evil Spirit pounced close, she had also completed the accumulation. Her right leg wrapped in trousers raised, kicking directly towards that terrifying face of the Blood Coat Evil Spirit.
Bang!
This huge noise wasn't kicked out by Kazusa.
In the instant before the Blood Coat Evil Spirit could touch her, a pitch-black Ghost Hand appeared, pressing this evil spirit hard to the ground.
Kazusa withdrew her leg, brushed her black hair with her hand, expression unchanged.
Mai and Yui were dumbfounded.
No, Touma-san, are you this fierce?
Facing such a terrifying evil spirit, can still remain expressionless?
Even Miko, before making up her mind to fight evil spirits, went through a fierce ideological struggle, finally awakening Soul Manifestation out of the thought of protecting Yui.
Is Kazusa even fiercer than Miko?
"Touma-san... you, are you hurt?"
Hearing Yui's concerned inquiry, Kazusa just waved her hand and said faintly.
"Fine."
Yui was still worried, hurriedly went up to check. Seeing Kazusa indeed wasn't injured, she breathed a sigh of relief as if a heavy burden was lifted, then frowned.
"Why do such a dangerous thing? Leaving it to Yoru would be fine, right?"
"Ah?"
Kazusa also frowned slightly.
"Can Yoru deal with this thing? I don't know."
"Uh..."
Mai looked speechless.
"Didn't he handle the supernatural event for you last time? That piano playing one."
"Ah?"
Kazusa's tone was very righteous.
"So it was real? I thought he was just being crazy there himself."
Mai and Yui: "....."
The two girls looked at each other, speaking in unison, giving a heartfelt evaluation: "You are brave (awesome)."
....
Yoru walked over slowly, looking at the Blood Coat Evil Spirit pressed to the ground by the pitch-black Ghost Hand, unable to move but still panting heavily and roaring constantly, shaking his head with a chuckle.
"You are very weak."
The Blood Coat Evil Spirit had completely lost its reason, just continuing to roar, a pair of eyeballs overflowing with bloody tears about to fall out of the sockets.
"Second point to remember as an exorcist."
Yoru looked at the three girls, Mai, Yui, and Kazusa, in front of him, while turning the tip of Onimaru Kunitsuna, speaking softly.
"Evil spirits have no sense of pain."
"When fighting, absolutely have no mercy."
Speaking of this, Yoru had stabbed the tip of Onimaru Kunitsuna into the back heart of the Blood Coat Evil Spirit.
Moreover, he was also rotating his wrist, letting the tip of Onimaru Kunitsuna rotate slowly inside the Blood Coat Evil Spirit's body at an extremely subtle speed, neither too fast nor slow.
Spiritual items of Onimaru Kunitsuna's level carried spiritual power that had a naturally powerful restraining effect on evil spirits.
After slaying hundreds and thousands of evil spirits, its sharpness surpassed the past.
The blade and the sharpness carried on it were like lingchi (death by a thousand cuts), cutting the Blood Coat Evil Spirit's body from the inside.
Its face approximating a human twisted due to this extreme pain, throat only squeezing out whimpering sounds, wounds emitting bursts of black aura.
Yoru kept rotating Onimaru Kunitsuna with his right hand, squatted slightly, extended his left hand, grabbed the Blood Coat Evil Spirit's hair, pulling its head upward.
Because of the great force used, Mai and the others could even see the skin of the evil spirit's neck being torn, bones making creaking sounds.
"No matter how human-like the appearance..."
Excited madness and enjoyable pleasure appeared in Yoru's eyes, saying word by word.
"Evil spirits are ultimately not humans."
Crack!
As his voice fell, Yoru had forcibly torn the Blood Coat Evil Spirit's head from its neck.
The break didn't spray red blood, only faint black aura.
Yoru stepped on the Blood Coat Evil Spirit's head, crushing it bit by bit until deformed, broken, shattered.
From beginning to end, his gaze never left Mai and others, as if what he was doing at this moment was just an ordinary thing done every day like turning on the tap to wash hands or eating a piece of bread.
Mai and Yui seeing this scene both had the same thought in their hearts.
Yoru, this guy...
Is born to be an exorcist.
Looking at the Blood Coat Evil Spirit's body turning into black gas and dissipating in the air, Yui breathed a sigh of relief as if a heavy burden was lifted, patting her chest.
"Finally over..."
"No, not yet."
Mai frowned, speaking softly.
"Although I am not a spirit medium, according to Futaba-san's analysis, such a scale of supernatural event capable of causing great impact on the real world shouldn't be created by an evil spirit of this level alone."
Yoru smiled upon hearing this, praising.
"Beloved Concubine (Ai Fei), your intuition is keen."
"Go go go."
Mai said grumpily.
"When Futaba-san analyzes for you, she is Ai Fei; when I analyze for you, I am Ai Fei, right? You are really realistic, mere junior."
While speaking, Mai habitually raised her foot, preparing to step on Yoru's instep.
Since knowing him, she only stepped on him once, the time she gave her first kiss in the Wakayama hotel.
However, even knowing she couldn't step on him, Mai would still try.
This was also considered a small game between lovers.
Result: Just as Mai raised her foot, Kazusa quickly raised her left foot and stepped on Mai's instep, speaking flatly.
"Not allowed to step on him."
Mai and Yui were both stunned.
No...
This is too loyal dog, right?
Touma-san with such outstanding appearance, playing piano so well, outstanding and refined temperament, an iceberg difficult to approach in front of outsiders, turns so gentle and considerate when encountering things related to Yoru?
Who can withstand this?
At this moment, the Great Demon King Mai felt an unprecedented threat.
"Back to business."
Yoru paused, waiting until Kazusa moved her foot away from Mai's shoe, then spoke slowly.
"There is the aura of a 'Door' inside this evil spirit."
Before Mai and Yui could speak, Yoru added immediately.
"However, there is no 'Door' inside its body."
"No 'Door', but possessing the power of a 'Door'?"
Mai frowned tightly, murmuring to herself.
"Is there something... more terrifying hidden behind this?"
"Maybe."
Yoru nodded noncommittally. The names of Menma and Makinohara Shoko flashed in his mind.
Kind ghost and spirit medium gradually awakening Yin-Yang Eyes, both located in Kyoto City Hospital where the strange phenomenon occurred. Is there such a coincidence in the world?
The first Tarot card divined was Death.
If this "Death" really represented the dead Menma and the dying Makinohara Shoko as he guessed, why did this person and spirit appear on the future path of the Super-Quant Club?
Perhaps, they could also become helpers of the Super-Quant Club?
Yoru looked at the stairwell, saying to Mai, Yui, and Kazusa.
"The evil spirit just killed was just a minion."
"However, it counts as a novice tutorial before you become exorcists."
"That's it for today; dismissed."
....
Meanwhile, inside a hotel room in Tokyo city.
A boy wearing loose jeans and a long-sleeved pure white shirt, messy hair, dark circles under his eyes, looking very decadent, was squatting on a chair, staring intently at the laptop in front of him.
His posture of scrolling the computer was strange, tapping the up and down keys gently with one index finger of his right hand.
"L."
An old man wearing a wide hat and a trench coat walked in. (Watari).
"Have you decided which case to investigate?"
"Hmm..."
The boy called L bit his fingernail, thoughtful.
"Kyoto's mysterious 'Mask', and Tokyo's serial death cases of criminals and people with criminal records... this is really a difficult choice; both sound interesting."
The old man smiled, took out his phone, swiped to a picture, and handed it to L.
"Maybe after seeing this, you will know how to decide."
L took the phone. Seeing the photo on the screen, a strange light appeared deep in his eyes.
On the screen was a photo of an alley wall.
Lying on the side was a dismembered male corpse.
On the wall, a paragraph was written in blood.
"L, as the world's number one detective, do you have the ability to stop me?"
"I am in Tokyo, looking forward to the duel with you."
"I am Absolute Justice."
"Signed: KIRA."