Zongman I fight weirdness in everyday world

"Does it even need to be said?"

"Never letting a single evil spirit go free, that's my motto."

Chapter 046 Professional Exorcist, Mobilize

"But..."

At this crucial moment, Yui Yuigahama displayed an unusual sharpness compared to her usual airheaded image.

"That place is already surrounded by the Metropolitan Police Department's forces. Putting aside whether you can handle the armed kidnappers, just trying to get in is impossible, right?"

Faced with this question, Yae Star simply smiled and asked in return.

"What time is it now?"

Yui Yuigahama took out her phone and glanced at it.

"It's half-past four, why...?"

Halfway through her sentence, Yui Yuigahama had already realized something, her pupils shrinking in shock as she covered her lips and said.

"You don't mean...?"

"That's right."

Yae Star nodded slightly.

"In half an hour, it will be the Hour of Meeting Demons."

Yae Star's plan was very simple.

To go to the Kyoto City of the Reverse Side through a "Gate."

Then, through another "Gate" in the Reverse Side, directly return to the location within Kyoto Municipal Kindergarten in the real world.

It sounded simple.

But the difficulty of executing it was completely different.

First of all, Hachishaku's ability to open "Gates" hadn't reached the seven-day cooldown period.

This meant that if Yae Star wanted to enter the Reverse Side, he could only find a "Gate" that already existed.

And the Kyoto City of the Reverse Side and the Kyoto City of the Surface World were completely identical in terms of buildings and terrain.

In other words.

After entering Kyoto in the Reverse Side, Yae Star had to traverse several kilometers, or even more than ten kilometers, through that thick, eerie black fog to reach the "Gate" inside Kyoto Municipal Kindergarten in the real world.

Not to mention that after returning to the real world, he would also have to face at least twenty unstable thugs armed with guns.

Difficult, too difficult.

This was completely an impossible mission.

What Yui Yuigahama could understand, Yotsuya Miko, as a spiritual ability user, naturally understood even more clearly.

She looked at Yae Star's relaxed expression, a meaningful glint flashing in her golden eyes. After hesitating for a few seconds, she spoke softly.

"Actually... you don't need to take such a big risk for this matter. Just hand it over to the Metropolitan Police Department. They are professionals, after all."

For Yotsuya Miko, with her personality, to say such words was truly not easy.

She appeared weak on the outside, but in reality, as could be seen from the train pervert incident.

Yotsuya Miko was the kind of person who was willing to sacrifice herself for the benefit of others.

Provided that.

It was she herself who was being sacrificed.

Yotsuya Miko was well aware that no matter how worried she was about the safety of the teachers and students in the kindergarten, she had no right to ask Yae Star to take such a risk.

Moreover, what was the success rate?

Nine deaths and one life?

Or one percent?

The risk involved was simply too great.

"Oh, right."

Yae Star suddenly seemed to remember something, took out a bank card from his pocket, and handed it to Yotsuya Miko.

"There's sixty thousand yen in here, it's..."

To his surprise, before he could finish speaking, Yotsuya Miko suddenly shed two lines of clear tears, looking heartbroken.

This left Yae Star completely bewildered.

"What's the meaning of this, pal?"

Yotsuya Miko sobbed softly, her shoulders trembling as she spoke.

"Do you have to be so intent on seeking death?"

Yui Yuigahama also had a complicated expression, looking at the bank card in Yae Star's hand and murmuring.

"Yae Star-kun, if you die in that black fog, the children still won't be saved. How about... we think of another way?"

Listening to the words of the two girls, Yae Star was first slightly stunned, and then chuckled in amusement.

"What are you thinking? This sixty thousand yen isn't my last will and testament. It was given to me by the old man, the exorcism reward for this period of time."

"Ah? Oh, oh, is that so...?"

Seeing that she had misunderstood Yae Star's meaning, Yotsuya Miko, who was halfway through crying, blushed with embarrassment and took out a handkerchief to wipe away her tears.

She thought to herself that this was more like it.

Based on Yae Star's personality, he wasn't the kind of person who would knowingly take a risk and deliberately seek death.

After all, he was a cautious exorcist who cried out that he was already low on health after using one-tenth of his power.

It's just...

"Sixty thousand!?"

Hearing this shocking number, Yui Yuigahama couldn't help but raise her voice a little, then reacted and glanced around, lowering her voice.

"Counting from Tuesday, it's only been less than three days, and there's already sixty thousand yen in commission rewards? That's too much, isn't it?"

"Is it a lot?"

Yae Star shrugged.

"We are fighting against genuine evil spirits. In other words, we are saving the lives of clients. Do you have some kind of misunderstanding about the income of professional exorcists?"

Yui Yuigahama and Yotsuya Miko exchanged glances. The two girls shook their heads, saying in unison.

"This money is too much. We can't accept it. You keep it."

Yae Star was shocked.

Good heavens, is this a science fiction movie?

Is this the campus version of Three-Body?

This is sixty thousand yen. For high school students, it's definitely not a small amount.

You're rejecting it so decisively?

Are you... angels?

"Take it. I've already divided it equally."

Yae Star placed the bank card on the table.

"It's a total of one hundred thousand yen. We each take thirty thousand, and the remaining ten thousand will be used as the club's activity funds, temporarily kept here with me."

"This..."

Yotsuya Miko looked at the bank card on the table, her eyes very complicated.

"I accepted the commission to help others. If I take money... it feels strange."

Yae Star curled his lips, helplessly saying.

"Have you two ever heard the story of Zilu accepting cattle?"

"No."

"Young people these days really lack culture."

After complaining, Yae Star began to explain.

"In short, receiving rewards is a matter of course. Leaving aside the danger of eliminating evil spirits, have you thought about a problem?"

"If our exorcism work is free, it will lead to an obvious result."

"That is, anyone, as long as they feel that they have encountered a supernatural event, regardless of the seriousness of the matter, whether their lives are affected, or whether their lives are threatened, will issue a commission."

"After all, it's free. For the client, there's no loss in trying."

"But for us, it means spending a lot of time searching for those who really need help among a lot of meaningless false information."

"We have classes during the day, and time is already very tight. Then, how many clients who really need help will be injured or even die in supernatural events due to this wasted time?"

These words left Yotsuya Miko and Yui Yuigahama speechless.

They were just ordinary high school girls. How could they have imagined that there were such complicated things behind it?

"Alright, take it."

Yae Star glanced at the time on his phone, stood up and stretched, chuckling.

"Now, it's time for me, this professional exorcist, to go and save Kyoto City."

Chapter 047 The Confronting Sides

Half an hour later, Kyoto City of the Reverse Side, an alley twelve kilometers away from Kyoto Municipal Kindergarten.

"Successfully arrived."

Yae Star slowly stepped through the doorway, looking at the thick, tide-like black mist outside the alley, and muttered to himself.

After exploring for this period of time, he had already roughly figured it out.

Merely separated by a door, the Surface and Reverse Sides were two completely different worlds.

In Kyoto City of the Surface World, the most dangerous place was the only S-ranked location he had marked, that unfinished building.

But if that unfinished building was placed in the Reverse Side, it would be equivalent to a safe house.

After all, as long as you didn't approach that "Gate", the evil spirits in that building wouldn't even actively attack people.

The biggest difference between the Kyoto Cities of the Surface and Reverse Sides was this.

The evil spirits in the Reverse Side didn't need to ask questions like, 'Can you see me?'

Even ordinary people like Yui Yuigahama, when they were in the Reverse Side, could clearly see the evil spirits.

This also meant that as long as they saw humans, they could directly launch an attack.

After all, this was a world dominated by evil spirits. Yae Star, a human with spiritual abilities, was the outsider.

Yae Star slowly walked out of the alley, facing the thick black mist that emitted a nauseating aura, simply saying softly.

"Come out."

As soon as these words fell, the Pale Ghost Hand appeared again.

The continuous devouring of evil spirits and removal of gates in the Reverse Side these past few days had clearly brought about growth.

The current Pale Ghost Hand was no longer limited to the wrist area, but had grown out of the forearm and upper arm. It was only missing the shoulder area to be called a complete arm.

"Tell me, what exactly are you?"

Yae Star leisurely walked on the streets of Kyoto in the Reverse Side, lightly laughing as he asked the Pale Ghost Hand behind him.

Of course, the Ghost Hand didn't have a mouth and couldn't give any answers.