The office was very quiet. Munechika was invited to sit on the chair opposite Shizuka Osamu, and was flipping through the information that the other party had given him about the space rift in the back mountain of the mansion.
The white letters on the black background said that it was one of the ancient methods of sealing monsters.
But now it is a forbidden technique.
The reason why it became a forbidden technique is not only because it will affect innocent people, but also because there are no demon exorcists who can use such a technique anymore.
Simply put, normal sealing of monsters has a medium, whether it is a pot or a jar, these two are the most commonly used.
They all have a space for monsters to exist, but this technique is different. It can seal monsters without any preparation, and the method is to seal the monsters into another space.
However, no matter how the seal is performed, its effectiveness will weaken over time, gradually decay, break, and eventually lose its effectiveness, releasing the sealed existence.
Even if it is a seal in another dimension, it is the same.
Now that crack is proof that the seal is unstable.
Currently, no one is able to reseal it, so the only option is to release the monster and destroy it.
But the monster inside is very powerful. It is a big monster that can escape the space seal. Even if just a little bit of its breath leaks out, it is extremely violent.
The paper is filled with clear pros and cons, but there are also exceptionally generous rewards. If you make enough contributions in action, you can also gain favors from the market owners.
That's a great opportunity.
It seems that the situation this time is indeed serious.
"Before you came here today, did you know the purpose of the meeting?" When Munechika was flipping through the documents, Shizueji Osamu, who was sitting opposite him, asked casually.
Munechika was concentrating on the information in his hand. He glanced at him and said, "I don't know."
"Really?" Shizue looked from his brown hair over the half-fox mask to his jaw, then to the small part of his collarbone that was faintly exposed under his casual sweatshirt, and to his shoulders covered by his clothes. "You look a lot like someone I know, and your code name is similar, too."
The body shape is almost identical.
Even though they are covering their faces, are there really people in the world who are so similar?
Is it really like this, or was it premeditated?
Munechika responded meaninglessly, and after flipping through the information, he pretended to be still reading.
However, Shizue saw through his trick and asked with a smile, "How about it, are you interested in joining? If we leave it alone, the people around this mansion will suffer."
Good question, not interested.
No way...but if it comes to responsibility, he has to take it.
Besides, it looks like Natori Zhousu is going, and so is Natsume Takashi... Now that the three of them are here, can they just go home?
Munechika didn't plan to say more to Shizuji Deba. This man would habitually test and evaluate strangers. Although Natsume Munechika had experienced this once before and didn't mind it that much, he didn't have the interest to do it again.
"Okay, I'll join." Munechika put down the documents and stood up. "Then, can I leave first?"
"……Wait."
Everyone in the scene was shocked by his speed of acceptance and paused for half a second.
"What?" Munechika paused as he was about to walk out.
Then, Chang Jingsi also stood up, looked at him and said, "I heard that you brought an entourage with you. Will that person go with you?"
Followers? They didn't report when they came in, which means the registrar registered them as followers without permission, right?
The only one among the three who didn't register was Natsume Takashi.
Now that I ask this question specifically, has he recognized it?
Thinking of the disguise that he and Natori Shuichi had made for Natsume Takashi, Munechika realized that the estimated situation was based on the information conveyed by the servants or shikigami, such as the news that there was a brown-haired boy following behind.
So it's not recognition, but guesswork?
...I suddenly feel that there is no point in disguising myself without changing my hair color.
Although they did disguise the cat teacher, the so-called disguise was meaningless to the scene.
Forget it, it was originally just to block the attention of other demon hunters. If this person knows, then he will know.
"Does the head of the Deba family still care about who the participants bring with them?" Munechika responded calmly, "Or is it that my ability to complete thirty commissions in five days is not enough for me to prove myself?"
The commissions he handled at that time were mostly of a certain difficulty, and if given to an ordinary demon exorcist, it might take more than a day to complete them.
"How could that be? That's not the case." Shizuka Deji showed a sincere and distressed look after being misunderstood. It was really very confusing. "There is no problem with your ability, Natsume. The question just now was just a little curiosity of mine."
"Really? Anyway, I'll participate. Excuse me." Munechika avoided the question and waved his hand before leaving.
“…
I'm so anxious. We haven't even discussed the meeting place yet."
Munechika paused at the door when he heard Shizuka's voice from behind. He turned around and glanced at him with his brown eyes under his fox mask. "I came here with Natori, so you can talk to Natori later."
He took his uncooperative attitude of not wanting to talk to the extreme.
But originally, the only important things are the information, whether to participate, and the subsequent plans.
And as a new demon hunter who knows nothing about the details, to put it bluntly, the so-called follow-up plan will probably not be fully explained to him.
Instead of listening to half or one-third of it, it would be better to have Natori come over on Monday to take over the whole thing and then Munechika can ask.
Moreover, when Munechika saw that the other party looked like he had found out something, he was afraid that if he stayed, he would say something nonsense.
Munechika walked out of the room and closed the door behind him. He felt the sight and turned around to see the waiter from before.
Perhaps because he saw Sochin's attitude when he was at the door, the other person lowered his head and led the way silently with a drop of sweat on his face. After Sochin walked down the stairs, he stopped seeing him off.
Back in the little corner of the garden, Munechika just approached and saw a waiter saying to Natori Shuichi: "Mr. Natori, Miss Nanase wants to see you."
"Ah, you're back." Natori Zhoushu glanced at Munechika, stretched out his hand to greet him, and stood up. "Then I'll be back soon. You two should be careful."
This time the guide was a young lady.
She was stunned for a second when she heard what Natori Shuichi said. While leading the way, she looked back hesitantly at the two brown-haired boys who were dressed differently, and thought to herself: ...Is there a safer place than the gathering of demon hunters?
Munechika noticed the words "Ms. Nanase".
So they are different people? Could it be that he is the only one who came here in person?
He sat down to chat with Natsume Takashi, and soon Munechika noticed that there were fewer and fewer people with slightly stronger demonic powers in the hall, and those who went in did not come out. So some of the shikigami did not follow their master and stayed in the garden.
So it can't be that he is the only one meeting alone, right?
Teacher Cat caught a shikigami whose owner was away. It was a small black ball monster, and was being held under Teacher Cat's claws.
"Don't be like this, Mr. Cat." Natsume Takashi just saw the arrogant Mr. Cat, stood up and hugged him.
There was absolutely no one around this little corner.
It seems that some demon hunters who disagreed left directly.
Munechika has seen people coming back just to receive shikigami or take things.
"Boring! So boring, Natsume!" The cat teacher rolled around in his arms, "There's no wine here, what kind of afternoon tea is this!"
"...No, teacher, there is no wine in the afternoon tea." Natsume Takashi touched his forehead.
"If you're bored, why not play games?" Munechika suggested.
When he talks to Takashi Natsume, they always have endless topics to talk about. They are never bored, but the cat teacher really has nothing to do.
Um?
"Come to think of it, aren't cats pretty good at sleeping? Mr. Cat, aren't you sleepy?"
The cat teacher who was saying "What game?" heard this and jumped up and kicked Munechika on the forehead of the fox mask, causing him to fall back.
He got angry and said, "I'm not a cat!"
You're not a cat anymore, are you?
"Teacher, how can you just kick people!"
"Puff." Munechika didn't feel any pain, but he couldn't help laughing when he saw the cat teacher being hammered.
Not long after, Natori Monday came back.
Not only him, most of the exorcists who were called away walked into the garden together. The place became noisy again, filled with discussions.
"Have you been waiting for a long time?"
"Not bad." Munechika stood up.
Natsume Takashi nodded while hugging the cat teacher.
Natori Shuichi looked around at the crowd, put on his fisherman's hat and glasses, and said to the two of them, "Let's go, and tell them the details outside."
They were probably the first group of people to come out, so there was no one around them as they walked along the road leading to the back mountain.
There were shikigami holding signs along the way to guide the way.
When Natsume Takashi saw the long-necked shikigami, he let out a "huh" sound, misstepped, and hid beside Munechika, forming a straight line with the shikigami with an obstacle in the middle. He grabbed Munechika's clothes, approached him, and walked through this section of the road with his head down.
Munechika watched his series of actions with amusement, and breathed a sigh of relief after the boy passed by.
It doesn't look like he's afraid, but more like he's childish and doesn't want to see the other person.
Is it true that Shizuka's reaction to the shikigami is so big?
This place is not too far from the destination and it will take at most ten minutes to walk there.
On the way, Natori Shuichi slowly told the content of the meeting just now. The general situation was that after asking everyone their intentions one by one, several of them agreed to participate, and then they got together with Chang Jingsi to discuss the plan for the meeting.
But listening
When he read the content of the data, Munechika was surprised to find that it was not much different from the information he had just seen in the reception room of Shigekiji.
As for the battle plan, it is actually quite simple and crude.
A formation that weakens and slows down the monsters. Everyone just needs to use their best skills to repel the monsters and destroy them.
"…They want to get rid of this monster before nightfall. According to records, the opponent is the weakest monster in the evening, with a huge body and appearance like…" Natori Shuichi thought about the picture he had just seen and was silent for several seconds, but couldn't think of an adjective.
"Hmm... should I say it's a giant covered in white cloth, or a white ghost like in the cartoons in anime?"
...What kind of adjective is this?
Munechika, Natsume Takashi, and the cat teacher all bubbled up their imaginations at the same time, then shook their heads violently at the same time.
You don't even have the majesty of a big monster!
"What is that!" Even the cat teacher complained.
Natori Shuichi laughed awkwardly. He had only looked at the information, and that's what it looked like in the picture.
"Anyway, we'll know once the seal is completely lifted. Now let's go check out where the crack is."
The crack appeared quite abruptly in the middle of the tree, and it looked like a purple-black diamond-shaped vertical crack.
The surrounding space was distorted, and from a certain angle one could see cracks near the rift that looked like shattered glass.
The trees behind it were twisted, with their leaves withered and only dead branches left, creating a huge contrast with the lush trees not far away.
Just by standing far away, Munechika could feel the violent demonic power emanating from it.
Natsume Takashi couldn't help but took two steps back while hugging the cat teacher.
The impact of the irrational demonic power on him was even greater than the mixed atmosphere of people and demons he had just felt at the demon-hunting gathering. It seemed to be able to infect people and make him emotionally unstable.
Munechika frowned and moved a little closer, but was pulled back by Natori Shuichi.
"No, you can't get any closer." Natori Shuichi pulled him back seriously. "Someone has tried it before. If you get within 3 meters, you will get hurt. They must have been cut by the chaotic space. Some people were even swept in."
There was no room for argument in his words, and it was clear that he would not allow Zongqin to get close.
"I understand." Upon hearing this, Zongjin did not move forward. He looked at the crack and felt the demonic power and time and space.
The monster inside has lost its self and is the embodiment of madness. If he is allowed to come out,
No matter how many people you kill, you can't calm the other side down.
It has evolved into a situation that must be eliminated.
This cracked space was created by the demon hunter in this world. It was a very fragile and thin space. It had no other use except to seal demons and place items. Naturally, it could not help him return home.
However, the way to construct space seems to be able to be done with demonic power...
"This space is not a space that can travel through time and space." Munechika said to Natori Shuichi beside him.
"Oh, I know, sorry... I thought there was some connection." After Natori Zhouzhou just got the information and saw this crack, he clearly knew the difference between the two.
But Munechika told Natori Shuichi that he didn't ask him to apologize, but the other party was thinking about him and he had to give him something in return.
As for Natori Shuichi's actions, all he wanted to express was.
"No, thank you." Munechika turned his head to look into the other person's eyes.
Natori Shuichi had not expected him to thank him so seriously, and his eyes widened immediately.
He slowly came back to his senses and took a step uncomfortably: "No need to thank me, I didn't help..."
By the end, it was like a mumble, almost silent.
Other demon hunters arrived one after another. There weren't many of them, and it seemed that few of them were willing to take the risk.
Shizuji Deba was walking in front and immediately saw Takashi Natsume holding the cat teacher.
"As expected, he's here..." he murmured in a low voice.
"President, what's wrong?" Nanase asked sideways when he heard the voice.
"Haha, it's okay, let's start." Shizueji took off the bow.
Once the formation is set up, everyone will take their positions.
Chang Jingsi drew his bow, and he shot the arrow so fast that it was almost invisible.
By the time the others reacted, the purple-black cracks had spread out in all directions, making crackling sounds.
The demonic power swept in with a huge wind and blew violently in the surroundings.
A huge, three-story-high figure appeared in the formation set up by the demon hunter.
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