Volume 13 Chapter 3 (1/2)
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Her friends cheered one by one Ten as Touji reapplied his seal Akino gingerly peeked over, still hiding behind a stack of cardboard boxes Kyouko, who had stopped her divination and looked over through theupon hearing the noise, tearfully shouted ”Ohtomo-sensei!”
It was like a dream come true!
Natsuht at Ohtomo It was honestly like a dream for hiiven up hope of contacting him
”Hama! At ease This is our friend”
”Understood”
Hama cut off its power as Tenhtfully
”Letcar over there is Tenami? It's quite complex - no, it's even composed of a spell I haven't really seen before”
”Yeah, this is the ami my dad made”
”Your dad? That's quite”
Kyouko also leaned out of thefro
”Ohtoht”
”You too You've gone through a lot, Kyouko-kun”
”Speaking of which, why didn't you contact us!? Do you understand the situation right now? Are you an idiot!?”
”Hold on, Suzuka First off, how did you find this place, Sensei?”
”Ah, that You guys fought the 'Colonel' in this huge car, and the Mystical Investigators hadn't gotten any reports that you abandoned it, so there could only be a few places in this city where you could be hiding out And with Chief Aion”
He got along great with them, as could be expected Not only did he increase their side's fighting strength, but more importantly, he was a 'friend' Also, he was Ohtomo-sensei, a former Divine General who had risked himself to save Natsume
Patter Kyouko opened the door and hurried down A his wheelchair
”Chief” Ohto well”
”I am” A quiet smile ”Let's enter the main topic You definitely understand our situation to soree You've heard the terrorist attack announcement, of course?”
”That's why I hurried here to help”
”Yeah Can you get in touch with Kogure?”
”You want to get him to defect? I feel like that depends on how Harutora-kun presents himself”
”Not necessarily Actually, it's possible for uy saw o in that park”
The conversation between the two of the-awaited reunion The topic jumped around rapidly In this kind of situation, both sides needed to understand theof the other party's words several steps ahead The atmosphere in the warehouse became tense as everyone watched their conversation
”But Chief, we have no chance of winning in a straight-up fight against Zenjirou, you know? After all, Independent Officer Miyachi's on the other side”
”Hure over to our side is much easier”
”A war of information, then?”
”His reputation hasn't fallen at all If he says a loud 'No', quite a few Onht stop”
”You're going to stop the terrorist attack with that?'
”It's the ht now”
”I see I understand We'll have a huge advantage later if we can rope in Zenjirou Good luck with that, Chief”
Aood luck with that' mean?”
”It's because I have other things I need to do”
He said that sentence matter-of-factly, but Natsume didn't miss the implications in it
”Eh? S-Sensei, you're not going to fight with us?” Tenma asked in a panic
Ohtomo didn't speak Another restless atathered
”I knew so was up for you to suddenly co back?” Amami pointed out Ohtomo smiled bitterly and said:
”Chief, I originally wanted to speak with you alone I'll put it straight I ca yourselves I'll go deal with the Agency Chief and the Sou like this”
”Wha--”
What? The word left her ain Touji was the only one mostly unshaken, since he seemed to have anticipated this to some level
”Just you - no wait, are you saying that you're going to confront the Chief, the Souency alone?”
”Yes” A brief reply
”Do you think you can win?”
”There was never a need to 'win'”
”Then stopping the terrorist attack is enough?”
”They were never plotting any terrorist attack in the first place”
”What?”
Ohtomo turned to Suzuka ”Suzuka-kun, can you coency?”
Everyone present turned to look at Suzuka
”A large-scale ic ritual” Suzuka chose every word carefully ”Perhaps it's ' at its core The previous two spiritual disaster terrorist attacks ht be parts of the ritual As for the 'God' part of the endary ancestor and the ara-uardian of Edo, Taira no Masakado”
”That's their goal right there Dairenji shi+dou plans to push the Phase Four into the next phase, Phase Five - the 'Final Phase' The previous two spiritual disaster terrorist attacks, as well as this third one, were all experiments for that theory”
Judging by the 'next time is for real' that Yashamaru had once said to Suzuka, the terrorist attack this time would most likely be different from the past two In other words, it would be much harder to warn people beforehand this time
As a result, they could only defeat the enemies on the other side If they didn't know the spell's composition, they couldn't obstruct it, so they could only defeat the caster directly
”I know the ”
Ohtomo replied calmly
”It's the 'Tenchuu Chifu Ritual'”
”T-Tenchuu Chifu Ritual!? B-But that--”
”The sa of The Tsuchi secrets, even higher up than the Taizan fukun Ritual”
The Tsuchireatest secret ritual, the 'Tenchuu Chifu Ritual' But it had been so from before Yakou's era
But if what the boy ara- hi the world's changes since the Heian era Naturally, he would have experienced the chaos during the Pacific War era 'first-hand'
The great spiritual disaster that had attacked the city during the war period was but a page of history to Natsume and the others History constantly went on, and Natsu it with her less than twenty years of age
But if it were related to Harutora's past, she couldn't ignore it Natsume asked:
”W-Wait! But why? Why were the Sou to perform the 'Tenchuu Chifu Ritual' or whatever if they were following Yakou? Also, didn't the Tsuchimikado family only perform the Tenchuu Chifu Ritual for the emperor--”
When she was halfway done speaking, Natsu
”That's right, the Tenchuu Chifu Ritual was originally a purifying and life-extending ceremony held for the e - the 'New E to summon the ara- the Tenchuu Chifu Ritual then its existence rather than going after a teacy”
Natsu
Reviving Taira no Masakado?
Was so like that possible? No, hadn't Yakou failed because it was impossible? Even so, were Chief Kurahashi+, Takiko, and the others still trying for such a great challenge?
Su a God into the world It was sos
Ohtoo alone had coht head-on If he only needed to impair the cere the unjust actions of Kurahashi+ and the others, he ht be able to defeat them
”Please wait, Sensei” Touji, who had been silent until now, opened his ht, then that's fine But even if you decide that, it's always better to have some more help What you said just now makes it seem like we don't have a common enemy”
”You could also say that”
”Why?”
”Idiot, do I need to say that? Of course that's because it's dangerous”
”Then we really can't just sit back and wait”
”The Phase Four from last time”
”Hmm?”
”That was so als ended up”
”Huh!?”
”Sorry, you can't do this unless you're an elite Onmyouji My students have no chance”
”But”
They hadn't i rejected like this The current Ohtomo was different from the Ohtomo-sensei from before
He didn't have that easygoingness The past Ohtomo-sensei had been free-spirited even in a crisis His principles were fir else was flexible and unrestrained
He had changed over this year and a half
”What kind of joke is that?”
Touji opened his ain ”We have to hide because it's a Phase Four? Or is it because there's someone who can cause spiritual disasters at will? Please I'll fight whatever coht? Of course there's going to be head-to-head fighting, right?”
Touji balled a fist with no intention of backing down
Ohto,
”Interesting”
His shi+kigaster, you're definitely a living spirit Judging by your spirit, it seeth too Let me test you Gozu, Mezu!”
In the next moment, the two auras that poured out from his waist seeped into the warehouse and formed a man and a woman
Phase Three res'
W-What were these deht with Ohto roof!
Doman had revealed Gozu and Mezu to Ohtomo before, but at the time Doman had only called them 'shadows'
In other words - these were the real bodies! These were Ashi+ya Doami!?
”Fight with that youngster Who's first?'
”Me, me! I'm first, I'm first~~”
”Hey, Priest!” Amami and Ohtomo shouted at the same time
But Touji grinned and slowly took off his bandanna ”Perfect I have so I want to try out too”
”Not a bad demeanor Okay, start”
Touji released his seal in the blink of an eye
”Third seal, release!”
The demon bound inside Touji's body instantly awoke and de him into the fors also appeared with his shout
It was Natsu him like that She still felt shocked The two oni, Ohtorossed
”Wait, what's that!? What is that!?”
”As I said, that's a living spirit!”
In the next ht at Gozu The shockwave froe blew boxes away, and the walls and ceiling shook
Haaaaahhhh---!”
Sered shout ”You Goddae, Gozu attacked Touji like a stor, his ed his strikes and counterattacked
”What's wrong!? Is that all you've got?”
”Graaaaahhhhh!”
Gozu bellowed and his deer than his body Touji looked on fearlessly, the dehout his body
Not good It wouldn't be good if this went on Natsuht this instinctively
”Ashi+ya Doman!”
Ohtomo shouted loudly