The fire was still burning. Above the raging fire, the curse spirit roared in pain because its nest was destroyed. It commanded the sword and curse spirit. Even tearing this woman into pieces was not enough to relieve the resentment in its heart. It was decided.

, It wants to destroy this woman into a cursed spirit, and she will be immersed in the thick cursed soup created by it forever and will not be reincarnated!!

Although the hotbed containing the cursed spirits is already burning, the number of swords and cursed spirits controlled by the stone statues of the human-faced beasts has not decreased, occupying the sky densely. With a wave of Rai's large naginata, it is entangled with many cursed spirits.

.

The battle between the two sides has also entered a fierce stage.

Ding——beep——hiss——

The sound of the metal friction of the sword sounded frequently. Even though they were all special-level or above curse spirits, the unknown woman in red was as elusive as a ghost. When the sword fell, it didn't even touch the corner of the opponent's clothes, and the opponent was already there.

They harvested their heads without anyone noticing.

This is when the Ghost Sword is armed and catalyzes Rai's body in a short period of time into a body that can use 200% of all the power of the Ghost Sword, forcibly improving strength, speed, enemy combat skills, etc. to Rai's current level.

A small body cannot reach a height of cultivation.

Although this ability has a limited time, and there will be certain physical side effects after using it, it is not a big problem for people like Lai who can breastfeed.

Now Rai is fighting alone and can easily suppress all the opponent's spell spirits. It seems that the situation is tilted in her favor, but Rai knows that if this continues, she will be the one who will not benefit.

The speed at which the opponent's cursed spirit was cut off and healed was obviously much slower than before. It seems that the cursed spirit pool below is one of the factors that can resurrect the cursed spirit. However, although the speed was slowed down, it was slashed by the ghost sword with powerful magical power.

The cursed spirit in the ghost still has the ability to heal. In this regard, the ghost on the string is not as good as the other.

But the huge power of the curse that can plunge the entire Honmaru into an infinite cycle is not possessed by the curse spirit itself. If it had been so powerful from the beginning, then the curse master would not have to spend time using acting skills and swords to pay the penalty.

The gods are circling around, and what he needs is time.

He needs to let the curse spirit that can control all the powerful fusangshen grow to the point where they cannot resist, and the nutrients the curse spirit needs are naturally the negative emotions in the hearts of the sword fusangshen.

It's like raising a poisonous poison. As time goes by, the poisonous poison will be catalyzed to become more terrifying. In this tortured environment, the more painful the sword is to the god of death, the more power the curse spirit can produce.

The thicker it is, the more curse power it has, the more power it has to heal the sword and curse spirit, and the curse of Dark Honmaru falls into an even more unsolvable situation.

Circular ecosystem, sustainable utilization, and ‘environmental awareness’ are great...

Rai couldn't help but want to applaud the sorcerer's mind, the kind of applause that would slap the other person's face crazily.

Realizing this, Rai chose to burn the cursed spirit pool below first. Since the sword can still regenerate after burning the cursed spirit pool, it proves that there is still a huge amount of cursed power in the pill.

Supporting this curse... right!

Rai had a flash of inspiration and looked up at the sky - she had only solved the problem underground, but not the problem in the sky!

The thick miasma that envelopes the entire Honmaru is actually the cursed air emitted from the cursed spirit pool. Although the miasma is less effective than the slimy cursed spirit pond, it is still enough to provide nutrients for the reproduction of the cursed spirits, so

If these miasmas are not resolved, the sword can be 'reborn'.

The ghost girl Rai, who was fluttering in red and repelled another group of sword and curse spirits, jumped back to the ground. She took a deep breath and adjusted the breathing rate of the breath of wind that she had learned from the Immortal Kawa Mina.

The naginata was balanced outside, mobilizing the direction of the air flow. Slowly, the miasma in the sky rolled toward the naginata like a linear mist.

Rai turned the naginata, rotating the linear mist wrapped around the naginata, activating his own magic power to condense the miasma into a solid and adhere to the knife, so that they would not spread out, just like a ramen master stirring the pot.

The unformed dough seems easy, but in fact it is the product of Rai's concentrated efforts to mobilize the muscles of the whole body in conjunction with the operation of the magic power - the product of concentrated breathing.

"--Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah!"

Seeing Rai's behavior, the curse spirit realized what she was going to do again and would not do what she wanted this time.

Rai was still rolling her naginata, and the swords of the sword and curse spirits were almost close to her body. Rai relied only on her steps to escape from the pursuit of the curse spirits. She still had a while to go, so she had to hold on, big deal—

—

Ding!!!

At the critical moment - someone took Rai's place and faced the cursed spirits.

Tsurumaru Kunaga wielded the pure white blade and repelled the sword and curse spirits who wanted to get close to Rai one by one. He relied on his body to guard himself in front of Rai, and his golden eyes flashed with the determination to never back down.

belief.

The curse spirit can understand Rai's behavior, and Tsurumaru Kuninaga can naturally understand it. Rai has worked hard to break the curse of Dark Honmaru from the beginning to the end. On the contrary, he himself has been hurting his friends because of the various enemies in Honmaru.

Depressed by the persecution.

Tsurumaru Kunaga admitted that he did not have the ability to break this curse, but now, there must be something that only he can and must do!

"Even if the enemy is Xiaoguang and you - I will never let you disturb her at this time!"

Tsurumaru Kunaga fought with his former partners and current enemies with swords. He also saw that the healing speed of the sword spirits was declining, which intuitively proved that Rai's behavior of getting angry just now was very correct.

He may be intolerant, but Tsurumaru Kuninaga will not be lenient at all in terms of his behavior.

At this time, he put aside his previous friendship and fought with all his strength.

Even if the bodies of the sword and curse spirits who have been catalyzed to a special level or above are as solid as rocks, even if the opponent's killing moves are pressing forward step by step, their clothes are torn by the opponent, their exposed upper bodies are already bleeding from the knife wounds, and the wounds have been infected by black energy.

Things got worse, and the second cross broke already at the beginning of the battle, and it didn't last more than half a minute.

Even if it means risking his life, he must guard against this last line of defense!

"...Thank you for your hard work, Tsurumaru."

A melodious and mature female voice came from behind.

"I really feel wronged by Ghost Sword."

The cursed air hovering above turned into extremely high-density pieces of meat that adhered to the surface of the naginata blade. At this time, the large knife held by Rai was like holding a wooden stick preparing to skewer barbecue, except that this

The taste of roasted seed meat is definitely very disgusting. If you feed it to pigs, the pigs will vomit.

I'm sorry, Ghost Sword, for staining you. There's nothing mom can do about it.

Lai apologized to her beloved knife with such humility in her heart, and smiled arrogantly at the stone statue of the human-faced beast. She held up the pile of meat and dangled it in his sight.

"Hey! You coward hiding inside! This is also a part of your body, right?"

"——Give it back, give it back to me!!!"

It is gratifying that the stone statue of the human-faced beast finally uttered words other than "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh". It was this high-pitched and hoarse voice that sounded like a rough man trying to imitate a woman's speech.

and unpleasant.

The pile of squirming pieces of flesh clinging to the naginata is the result of the curse spirit finally assimilating the bonmaru into a part of its body and accumulated over a long period of time. It is also the source of the remaining curse power. Absolutely, absolutely not anymore——

The stone statue of the human-faced beast was so anxious that he didn't even bother to control the sword and curse spirit. It directly reached for his own hand and tried to grab it. Rai held the knife in his left hand and hid it behind his back, and used his right hand to resist the huge fist-shaped weapon in front of him.

Shishou stood on the spot with his back straight, his steps not being pushed back at all by the huge strange force.

The slender woman in red was as small as an ant in front of the stone statue of the human-faced beast. However, with this small body, she took the huge fist in front of her with one hand. The powerful shock was felt at the moment when the two parties came into contact.

Spread out in all directions.

When Tsurumaru Kunaga, who was already seriously injured as he slid down against the wall and sat down, saw this scene, his heart, which was fond of swords and pursued strong men, was touched. Although Rai looked like an adult woman at this time,

He didn't forget that she was just a little girl whose height was less than his waist.

But after meeting in the Taisho era and now coming to the Dark Honmaru, Rai can remain rational in the face of anything, calmly and calmly point out the core of the problem, and calmly come up with solutions. This is not to say that Rai is a useless person.

Emotionally hard-hearted, she only realizes what is more important at the critical moment of things and how to make things develop in the direction she wants. She has the ability to handle things from many aspects and angles.

All are incorporated into thinking about the overall situation.

——This is not the mentality that an ordinary 7-year-old girl can have. In Tsurumaru Kunaga's perception, it is more like - everything can be done easily and everything can be resolved easily.

, a kingly demeanor who is in a high position and deeply trusted by those below.

For someone who can be so calm at such a young age, this person's future is simply terrifying.

And this also made Tsurumaru Kunaga couldn't help but want to witness the growth of this girl with his own eyes.

Rai had no idea what Tsurumaru Kuninaga was thinking about her at this moment. After fully merging with the Oni Sword and becoming Oni Hime, Rai could always hear some sounds that made her very uncomfortable from time to time, as if she was being tortured in a prison.

The cries for help from the tortured people are the voices of the swordsmen in this honmaru.

The sound became clearer and clearer - the moment when all the miasma adhered to Naginata's body in the form of pieces of flesh, Rai, who was connected to Naginata, felt an uncomfortable feeling of nausea all over his body.

It's not that Rai dislikes these squirming pieces of flesh, but the almost infinite amount of curse power required to curse Honmaru into a super-grade cursed spirit lair comes from the secret fall of the swordsmen.

So Rai, who is so close to these spells, can hear the screams hidden in the spells——

They are crying, sad, uncomfortable, complaining, hating...

"Human girl..."

"Is that you? Someone who can help us."

"please……"

"Please help us-"

"Just kill me."

Rai, who was one body with the sword, felt that his brain was going to explode. His expression when facing the stone statue of the human-faced beast was extremely bad——

"It turns out you can talk too. After several confrontations just now, although you acted like a naughty child who only cries when his toy is destroyed, I can see that you have formed human consciousness. Since

If you are dissatisfied with others' offense to you, then——"

"What were you thinking about when you heard the heavy wails and pitying sounds of the swordsmen?"

Most of Rai's face was plunged into darkness, and unspeakable anger rushed towards the stone statue of the human-faced beast. A faint sign of retreat appeared on the face of the stone statue of the human-faced beast, which was intimidated by the opponent's aura.

At the same time, the piece of meat adhering to the body of the naginata was visibly smaller than the large lump of meat at the beginning, and this trend continued. Soon, the blade wrapped in the piece of meat gradually disappeared under the piece of meat.

Slowly revealed under the situation, the blade exuding dazzling fire is like the beauty exuded by the swordsmiths when they are hammering and forging the sword.

——The blade is eating the curse.

"Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah!!!"

The stone statue of the human-faced beast began to wail again, and the flames in the cursed spirit pool below had also been extinguished, because there was nothing left in the pool to burn for the flames. Only the stone statue of the human-faced beast was left underneath, which was burned by the hard stone

The feet protected by the isolation of the source of the curse survived.

And all the miasma in the sky was absorbed by Rai and eaten by the blade. That special sword was not like the previous swords of Fusangshen, which were assimilated into its curse power and became the curse power driven by it, but the sword reacted with it.

It swallowed up and digested its curse power in its tracks, which is extremely abominable!!

The moment the naginata completely digested the meat, Rai held the handle of the knife with both hands. While the opponent was still wailing for his lost results, he quickly drew a huge half-moon arc slash in the air and flew towards

The waist of the stone statue of a human-faced beast.

Boom - a loud noise!

The stone statue was cut off at the waist and split into two. The cut upper body fell down, revealing the true appearance of the curse spirit protected by the stone statue - it was a spherical curse spirit of equal width and proportion, less than two meters long.

Compared with the burly appearance of the human-faced stone statue, the real body of the curse spirit looks weak and funny.

The slash that Rai just released was made by absorbing the curse power swallowed up by the miasma. This is also a special ability that only a ghost girl possesses - absorbing the opponent's energy and turning it into one's own use.

Treating the other person with his own way, the culprit who was back-bitten by his own curse. At this time, the body that was violated by the sword energy felt like the whole body was burning. It was in excruciating pain. It was so hot! It hurt!

It was like being in a boiling magma burning at a thousand-degree temperature, or like being in a thousand-day cold that was frozen three feet high. Hot and cold alternated, and the mind was tortured. The cursing spirit's round and plump body lay in the deep pit at the bottom.

He was rolling around in his body, his body felt like it was being bitten by billions of ants, and he was in great pain.

"It hurts... it hurts..."

The curse spirit rolled on the ground, purple liquid flowed from the corners of its mouth, and it wailed in pain.

Seeing the cursed spirit suffering from severe pain due to the backlash of its own cursed power, Rai was greatly pleased. Her red lips were slightly curved, but the smile did not reach her cold eyes, "Do you feel it? This is it.

How does it feel to pay the pain of the mourning gods with the sword that you have been torturing all this time? How does it feel?"

"Save...save..."

"Save you? Don't be kidding!"

Rai stepped on its body and stepped on it a few more times as he felt that it was not enough to relieve his anger. "You turned a blind eye to the cries of the mourning gods before and listened to their screams. You were snickering, right? Now you still want to

Let me give you relief, dream!"

"Look at how embarrassed you are now being trampled to the ground by my feet. Do you feel humiliated? Humiliation is fine! I just like to see the way you look like you don't like me but you can't kill me!"

At this moment, Rai showed his greatest malice without any politeness. He stepped on the cursed spirit's head and crushed it hard, "Why don't you bark like a dog and listen, maybe I will be merciful."

Let you go...ah, forget it, I can't let you insult the dog."

Damn woman!

The curse spirit gritted its teeth.

……so cute.

Rai's crazy criticism actually subverted Tsurumaru Kunaga's understanding of her image of always being rational and calm, but——

Seeing the madly tormenting the cursed spirit, Rai, with her unabashedly petty retaliatory kick, it looked so cute no matter how you looked at it, Tsurumaru Kunaga felt his heart beating rapidly.

Although he was in a terrible situation where he was seriously injured due to the contamination of the curse, Rai's foot seemed to step on Tsurumaru Kuninaga's heart, like a feather's gentle touch that produced an unbearable itching sensation.

Strangely enough, an abnormal blush appeared on Tsurumaru Kunaga's face. As a swordsman, he didn't quite understand what this strange feeling of impact was.

——

There was still a way... The cursed spirit, which had never endured such humiliation since birth, endured Rai's bullying and slowly thought about strategies to turn defeat into victory.

By the way! There are also curse spirits. I don’t know why those sword and curse spirits suddenly stopped attacking this woman. They just kept floating quietly in the sky. But the curse power inside them is exactly what the curse spirits currently need.

To strengthen yourself, you only need to eat them all...

The curse spirit's tongue greedily turned in a circle, and just when it was about to find the right opportunity to feast, something unexpected happened suddenly——

The sound of rumbling and rumbling resounded through the sky, and the sword energy carrying Bianhua attacked the sword and curse spirits in the air who did not make any resistance. The sword and curse spirits that were cut down by the sword energy were able to get their wish and did not continue to heal their faces due to the spell power.

The dirty bodies turned into broken swords and fell back to the ground one after another. They were finally able to take a good rest.

Curse spirit, "?!!!"

"Do you think I don't know what you, this scumbag, are thinking about?"

A devilish voice sounded from above, and the ghost eyes with black background and red eyes looked at the curse spirit as if they were looking at an overestimating idiot, "You still want to hurt them! Why don't you go to heaven?"

The naginata was inserted into its head.

The pain on the body became more intense, and the curse spirit finally shed tears of regret for what it had done - who is it? Who attracted this evil god here?!!!

Tsurumaru Kunaga looked up at the sky. Although the miasma had disappeared, the sky without the blessing of spiritual power was still dark. He could feel that his body was about to collapse. The guard given by the Lord and the cross given by Rai were useless.

, Tsurumaru Kunaga felt that he was probably hanging, now that everything was settled, he didn't want to bother Rai anymore to cure him.

...Wanting to turn into an adult like Lai and fight with all his strength must have cost a huge price. That's it. He doesn't want to burden the girl who has been helping him with his useless self anymore.

"I really want to take a look again..."

Tsurumaru Kunaga looked at the sky and murmured, "The blue sky belongs to Honmaru."

"It's not hard to do either."

Rai, who was tired of playing, sent the cursed spirit away without further delay. After hearing Tsurumaru Kunaga's words, she looked at the sky and concentrated the spiritual power in her body on the sword——

The naginata swung in the direction of the sky, and the sharp sword strike cut a hole in the dark sky. Like the clouds turning to reveal the sun, the dark clouds in the sky above dispersed, and pure blue reflected in Tsurumaru Kunaga's eyes.

, the sun peeked out and fell on Tsurumaru Kunaga's body like fairy flowers. It was warm. Is this the spiritual power of Rai?

"Your body..."

Rai frowned as he looked at the cursed energy on Tsurumaru Kunaga's body due to the battle.

"Lei, at this moment, the crane that has not been completely blackened wants to end up under this beautiful red blade..."

Tsurumaru Kuninaga, who had the gorgeous appearance of the woman in front of him clearly imprinted in his eyes and deep in his heart, smiled at her and said: "To rest in peace under your sword with my companions is the best thing for me.

It’s a bad ending.”

"I'm tired and can't lift such a heavy knife."

The naginata disappeared from Rai's hand, and a hand/gun appeared in Rai's right hand, "I can use my gun to give you a ride."

"Okay."

Although he didn't know where the gun came from, Tsurumaru Kuninaga no longer had any regrets, "Let's do it."

boom--

Kitsune, who accompanied Enichi Tsukuni and dealt with other lurking sword and curse spirits outside, was anxious because of the bug of infinite rebirth of the curse spirits. Finally, when the sword and curse spirits could not heal and completely returned to their original bodies, he saw the sky above.

After the miasma disappeared and even a corner of the blue-white sky was revealed, Kitanosuke felt deeply that this battle should be over.

It couldn't wait to go to Tsurumaru Kunaga and share this joy with him.

Konosuke, who was led away by Tsukuni Enichi, saw the pure white figure from a distance. Before he could be happy, he saw Rai pointing a gun at Tsurumaru Kunaga.

"——Tsurumaru-sama!!"

Foxanosuke's scream and gunfire sounded almost simultaneously.

The bullet hit his body, but there was no pain as Tsurumaru Kunaga imagined. Instead, he felt a very comfortable feeling.

"……well?"

Tsurumaru Kunaga opened his eyes and touched his exposed upper body again and again. All the injuries on his body were healed, including the curse.

So, could this be what happened before...

Tsurumaru Kunaga suddenly realized, yes, his previous curse should have been cured in this way.

"Want to die? It's not that easy."

Rai stuck out his tongue, held the gun and showed him a mischievous smile, with a cute look like "Haha, you are scared of me!", and completely lost the terrifying expression of wanting to crush the cursed spirit before.

"I don't want to inherit a widowed Kitanosuke."

"...Really, the more I owe, the more I owe."

Tsurumaru Kunaga said helplessly: "This way, even if you ask Tsuruga to agree to marry you, it's completely impossible."

"Repay it with your body? It's quite beautiful to think about." Rai, who thought the other party was joking, also became playful and raised his head arrogantly, "How could I give up the entire forest because of a tree?"

"puff!"

Tsurumaru Kunaga broke out in laughter, "You are really having fun like this!"

When Ji Guoyuan heard these words, his expression went blank. Did he not keep up with the times? Why didn't he understand a word of it?

"Wow wow Tsurumaru-sama!"

Konosuke cried and threw himself at Tsurumaru Kunei.

"...I'm sorry for making you worry."

After being reminded like this by Rai, Tsurumaru Kunaga felt that it was really unethical for him to abandon Kitanosuke and leave like this. He touched Kitanosuke's ears and apologized to him.

Enichi Tsukuni, who chose to ignore the weird conversation just now, came to the adult version of Rai and said, "You look like a ghost in your outfit."

"Don't worry, this is not a man-eating ghost."

After all the dust settled, Lai could no longer stand still. Her calves were loosened, but it was Ji Guoyuan who held her in time to prevent her from falling to the ground.

"Are you okay? Rai."

"Might need some sleep."

Rai fell on Tsukuni Enichi's body like a paralyzed cat cake. He disarmed the ghost sword and felt his eyelids heavy the moment he turned back into a human. "I'll trouble you for the rest, Enichi."

"Do not worry."

Ji Guoyuan promised her.

Before closing her eyes with peace of mind, Rai vaguely heard many voices, and they were saying to her——
Chapter completed!