"Uh, Miko, Yuria, your faces suddenly look terrible. Are you guys okay?"
Hana Yurikawa was about to speak when she suddenly noticed her two close friends looking strange.
Miko Yotsuya and Yuria shook their heads quickly, not daring to look up above Hana Yurikawa's head.
Because a living hell was currently playing out up there.
Densely packed human arms and legs were flailing wildly. Hundreds of distorted human faces were stretched wide in terror, biting hard at the Chain of Commandments that trapped them in an attempt to flee this place of strife.
Crack...
The sound of teeth snapping was constant. Massive amounts of blood flowed from mouths, falling down along with the broken teeth.
Seeing that pleading for mercy was useless, the evil spirits began trying various methods to break free from their restraints. For example, some raised an arm as thick as a bucket and smashed it hard against the Chain of Commandments, hoping to shatter the links.
With a dull thud, the section of the Chain of Commandments that was struck remained unmoved, while that bucket-thick arm was directly shattered by the counter-shock of the Chain of Commandments. For a moment, flesh and blood flew everywhere!
Among them, the spider evil spirit wrapped a blood-stained, rusty chain around one of its arms. Carrying the lucky hope of using magic to defeat magic, it smashed against the Chain of Commandments with all its strength!
Bang!
The moment the two chains collided, the rusty chain instantly shattered into countless fragments. A ripple of energy also surged across the surface of the Chain of Commandments, and in the blink of an eye, it pulverized the spider evil spirit's arm along with one-third of its body into meat paste!
These hundred-plus evil spirits began using methods of self-harm, exhausting every means in an attempt to escape.
In an instant, countless bits of flesh and broken bone dyed the air above the rooftop red. Over a hundred evil spirits writhed within this sea of blood, letting out shrill, mournful screams.
When the sea of blood was about to drip onto Gabriel and the others, it was blocked about three meters above their heads by a transparent barrier, then enveloped and purified by a rising surge of holy light.
Even Gabriel felt her scalp tingle a bit looking at this scene that resembled purgatory.
She couldn't believe this sanity loss-inducing thing before her eyes actually came from her own hands.
It turned out her artistic cells had precursors of developing toward the Cthulhu-esque.
"The feathers drifting from the sky are getting fewer and fewer. Scenery like this doesn't come often! Everyone, lean in, let's take a group photo for memory's sake! If we miss this time, who knows how long we'll have to wait for the next!"
At this time, Hana Yurikawa actively gathered Miko Yotsuya, Yuria, and Gabriel together.
"A photo is fine, but why choose this spot? Other places should be more suitable than here."
Miko Yotsuya wanted to persuade her otherwise, but was interrupted by Hana Yurikawa.
"Because the view is best here, of course! From here, you can see more than half the school at a glance. Paired with these pure white feathers falling all over the sky, don't you guys think the scenery here is beautiful!"
Hana Yurikawa said with an excited expression.
It's not beautiful at all!
Miko Yotsuya and Yuria subconsciously glanced at the mountain of corpses and sea of blood above their heads with the corners of their eyes, complaining inwardly.
Although Yuria had the protection of the cognition filter and her mind hadn't reached its breaking point, she was close.
However, Miko Yotsuya was different from Yuria; what she saw was the image without any modifications.
Therefore, with just a glance from the corner of her eye, her tears began to flow uncontrollably from fear.
"Eh! Miko, why are you crying?!"
Hana Yurikawa frantically searched her person for tissues.
"Sand... got in my eyes. It's okay, I'll be fine in a moment..."
Miko Yotsuya wiped her tears with her sleeve, making up a random excuse.
Yuria looked at her with a face full of admiration.
Even she, with a cognition filter in hand, almost couldn't take it, yet Miko Yotsuya, facing the horror directly, was merely scared to tears.
What powerful psychological fortitude!
She truly is a role model for our generation.
"Miko, stop looking around aimlessly. Come take a photo with Hana, and then we'll leave here together. Calculating the time, class is about to start."
Gabriel said softly.
Miko really isn't having it easy.
"Mm..."
Miko Yotsuya nodded gently with watery eyes, not daring to continue looking around randomly.
After cooperating with Hana Yurikawa for a few photos, Gabriel looked back once as they were leaving.
"But, am I really that scary? These guys have been completely scared out of their wits by me; most of them are about to go completely insane now..."
Gabriel supported her forehead helplessly, sighing inwardly.
She immediately prepared to make amends.
If an innocent person were indirectly killed by her, the sin would be great.
However, these were all screened by her; basically none of them were good things.
Only among those weak evil spirits pulled in to make up the numbers could there possibly be an innocent.
But this type had always been in a daze, possessing no reason at all. They wouldn't flee even when being eaten bite by bite by an evil spirit; they would only instinctively let out shrill cries, and some didn't even have that instinct.
Therefore, these types of evil spirits were tied in the air like dolls by the Chain of Commandments, currently unharmed.
"It's time to clean up this mass of indescribable matter."
To prevent them from cannibalizing each other and evolving into even more disgusting evil spirits.
Gabriel exhaled a breath of turbid air softly, raising her hand to shoot an inconspicuous golden light toward the sky.
The moment this divine art, closely related to her providence, was activated, the angelic power within her body also poured out.
Seraphim's Judgment.
Destroy all defilement in the human world, clear away evil and purify!
A golden magic circle loomed within the clouds, pure energy converging toward the center. The moment the solemn golden vertical pupil pattern in the middle of the magic circle was lit.
The crazed evil spirits directly below seemed to recover a shred of reason, pausing for a second.
The next instant.
A golden pillar of light that seemed to pierce through the earth fell crashing down from the clouds like divine punishment.
The living purgatory playing out above the rooftop dissolved instantly, and all the sin-heavy evil spirits within had their souls scattered in a flash.
As for those few innocents that could be counted on one hand, they were automatically guided to the world of the dead to wait for a chance at reincarnation.
At the same time, all spiritual bodies within a radius of several hundred kilometers were affected by this pillar of light, serving as a massive wave of purification for the cities within range.
Sinful evil spirits had their souls scattered, innocent evil spirits attained liberation, simple guardian spirits received a blessing, and souls unwilling to leave gained a chance for a dream sending to their families...
Some were happy while others grieved.
Inside a station.
From a perspective invisible to ordinary people, a man wore a black trench coat with a black hood over his head. One hand dragged a blood-stained axe on the ground, and he had a sack on his person.
His body was wrapped in bandages, revealing only a pair of cold eyes and a mouth.
It was the train spirit, swinging the axe in its hand as it usually did, hacking at the heads of passing pedestrians to look for evil spirits possessing humans.
Suddenly, it stopped its movements and turned sharply to glance at the golden pillar of light flashing in the distance.
Following that, it noticed the sack it used to collect evil spirits suddenly became light. An ominous premonition immediately rose in its heart.
It hurriedly opened the sack, and seeing the twelve evil spirits inside that had vanished into thin air, its breathing suddenly became heavy and hurried.