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She raised her hand and said, "Kurizaki-san, let's drive and get out of here."
Kurizaki Tsukikoto nodded, walked to the car, got into the driver's seat, fastened her seatbelt, and waited quietly for Tamamo-no-Mae, like a mindless robot.
Even Tamamo-no-Mae couldn't achieve perfection in a hasty illusion hypnosis, but she didn't have any other requirements, as long as it didn't clash with others.
Tamamo-no-Mae whistled as she got into the passenger seat, and after fastening her seatbelt, she said, "Kurizaki-san, drive."
Kurizaki Tsukikoto started the vehicle, reversed out of the parking space, and then stepped on the accelerator, driving the vehicle onto the road.
As the car drove along the road, Tamamo-no-Mae looked at the scenery in the distance. The city looked so chaotic during the day, with buildings of varying heights resembling pale trees without their crowns.
"Cities created by humans... are really interesting."
The car drove down the mountain road, and the city was already in sight.
Just then, Tamamo-no-Mae's expression changed, and she looked ahead.
A motorcycle appeared at the edge of the horizon.
The person riding the motorcycle was a young girl.
The girl was wearing a helmet and had a fishing bag on her back, but Tamamo-no-Mae's intuition told her that the bag didn't contain a fishing rod.
Tamamo-no-Mae's heart leaped into her throat.
It can't be... someone coming to find me, right?
………………
Huaiyin rode his motorcycle along the mountain road.
She had planned to stay at the hotel all day today.
But in the morning, the more she thought about it, the more bored she became, and finally decided to go find Ringo Shinzen to see how the exorcists in Nikko City actually performed exorcisms.
A little over an hour ago, Ringo Shinzen sent her her location information. She looked at it and saw that she was far from the area where Tou Tang was, so she decided to come out and take a look.
She had been taken by Dou Tang several times before when she rode the motorcycle, and she was actually a little nervous about riding it by herself this time.
But Huaiyin was very smart and quick to learn anything, and she quickly mastered riding a motorcycle.
Riding her motorcycle, she had already gone beyond being a beginner after just two intersections.
This reminded her of Kiryu Toudou, who was also known for his racing skills. Perhaps... although her family had left her and her relatives were no longer there.
But their influence remains in our blood and in our lives.
The girl riding the motorcycle couldn't help but laugh.
But soon, her smile turned serious.
At this moment, she was driving on a mountain road leading uphill. This road was the only way to the place where Shinsen Ringo and the others were exorcising demons.
A car appeared in the distance along the mountain road.
In her eyes, the car was extremely eerie, with a thick demonic aura emanating from it, exuding a terrifying aura, and... a familiar feeling.
Tamamo-mae.
...It is Tamamo-no-Mae.
It can't be wrong.
Having already met Tamamo-no-Mae twice in her dreams, Huaiyin was familiar with her demonic aura. Not to mention, she had once connected with Tamamo-no-Mae's consciousness, and that sense of familiarity from her subconscious could not be faked.
The person sitting in the car in front is Tamamo-no-Mae!
Huaiyin looked closely and, with her excellent eyesight, immediately spotted the person in the driver's seat, which startled her.
Kurizaki Tsukikoto? Shouldn't she be exorcising demons with Ringo and that guy named Ninomiya?
Tamamo-no-Mae was in her car… wait, that blank expression…
In Huaiyin's mind, the blank expressions of those people who were killing each other before they took action flashed through her mind.
The truth of the matter was revealed in an instant through Huaiyin's observation.
Tamamo-no-Mae hypnotized Kurizaki Tsukikoto, making her drive her away!
Her expression beneath the helmet was filled with anger and murderous intent.
Could it be that Ringo and Mr. Ninomiya have been murdered?
Or perhaps, Kurizaki Tsukikoto was alone and thus fell into Tamamo-no-Mae's hands?
Regardless of the situation, Huaiyin knew she couldn't stand idly by.
She turned the accelerator, her eyes filled with determination, and reached for the fishing bag on her back.
She unzipped the zipper, reached inside, and touched the all-too-familiar hilt of the knife.
With the gaze of the will, the longsword in its sheath emitted a soft hum and trembled, and the talisman affixed to the blade also emitted a glow.
"Om!!"
Tamamo-no-Mae suddenly realized that the motorcycle coming from the opposite direction had accelerated again!
The roar of the motorcycle could still vibrate your eardrums even from a hundred meters away.
The girl on the motorcycle had already drawn a long knife from her fishing bag. The knife, covered in talismans and radiating a dazzling light, was clearly full of eeriness.
It’s for yourself!
"...Kurizaki-san, speed up! Go right past her!" Tamamo-no-Mae coldly pointed.
At such high speeds, even if someone falls off the vehicle, they will definitely suffer multiple fractures.
Tamamo-no-Mae didn't believe that person would actually dare to run into her!
Hypnotized, Kurizaki Tsukikoto slammed on the gas pedal, and the car accelerated sharply, hurtling towards the motorcycle.
However, Huaiyin showed no fear. Like a lone rider in ancient times fighting a general on horseback, she lowered her long sword slightly, lay prone on the motorcycle, and rushed towards the car where Tamamo-no-Mae was.
Eighty meters... fifty meters... twenty-five meters...
Speed is meaningless in the face of two high-speed mechanical beasts!
In the instant the motorcycle and the car passed each other, Huaiyin swung the long sword in his hand!
It wasn't aimed at the car window, but at... the tires!
The long sword, blessed with talismans, shattered into countless sharp metal fragments the moment it came into contact with the high-speed tire, all of which embedded themselves in the tire and wheel hub.
Then came the explosion!
The tire burst and the car lost its balance simultaneously. With a piercing bang, the car, now missing its front wheel, lost power and began to slide on the ground.
The car wheels touched the ground directly, and the chassis rubbed against the ground as well, sending a series of sparks flying. Although the high-speed car did not roll over, it instantly lost all power and slid for nearly fifty meters before slowly coming to a stop.
Huaiyin, after that slash, quickly slowed down, and had already circled around, holding the broken sword, slowly driving towards the broken-down car.
Her eyes were filled with murderous intent, showing no fear whatsoever.
Inside the car, Tamamo-no-Mae was still shaken.
Are all exorcists these days... this wild?
For some reason, the image of that man flashed through her mind in the face of such brutal violence.
Chapter 318 Sharp Sword Light
For a moment, Huaiyin didn't even know why she had made that move.
The anger and desire for revenge surged within her at that moment, driving her to reach out the knife in her hand and plunge it into the rapidly spinning tire.
Then, she suddenly shook her wrist, deliberately breaking the long sword in the spinning motion to ensure that her hand would not be caught in the rotation and injured.
The quick thinking was almost instinctive, and Huaiyin had only ever seen such an instinct in one person.
Doutang.
Huaiyin was too lazy to think about how much she had been affected.
At that moment, all she knew was that it was time for her to take action.
She stopped the motorcycle, got off, and abruptly took off her helmet, letting her long, black hair flow out. She casually tossed aside the broken knife, tied her long hair up, and combed it into a high ponytail.
At that moment, Tamamo-no-Mae got out of the car, and upon seeing Huaiyin, she frowned and said loudly, "Are you crazy?"
"I'm not crazy." Huaiyin walked forward slowly, her tone firm and cold, while reaching for the fishing bag behind her.
There, she found another sword she had brought from Tokyo.
That... the sword that Dou Tang replaced.
"You'll understand when you see this sword." Huaiyin walked down the slope, drawing his longsword.
The beast's head, outlined with rigid lines, spews out a sharp, ancient yet elegant sword blade from its mouth.
Tamamo-no-Mae felt like she was suffocating.
She knew that sword all too well... She still remembered the way it pierced her throat and stained it with her blood.
She still remembers the feeling of drowning in her own blood.
“This is impossible…” Tamamo-no-Mae’s eyes suddenly reddened, and the memories of being truly killed surged up from her heart, making her tremble all over.
Seeing Tamamo-no-Mae's reaction, Huaiyin understood that even though her appearance had changed, she had still found the right person.
Tamamo-no-Mae clenched her fists, her eyes transforming into crimson-gold vertical pupils. She glared and roared, "Who are you?! That sword...where did you get it from?!"
Huaiyin gently raised the longsword in his hand, looked at the now utterly unrefined Tamamo-no-Mae, chuckled softly, and said in a low voice, "You should try it yourself, Tamamo-no-Mae."
"Do cold-blooded monsters also feel fear?"
In her anger, Tamamo-no-Mae reached for the rear car door, and with a burst of strength, she pried the door off with a snap.
"Although I don't know who you are, since you dare to draw that sword at me, you should be prepared to die, right?" Tamamo-no-Mae bared her teeth, the wrinkles between her brows extending all the way to the bridge of her nose, making her look more like a roaring, defiant animal than a human.
Huaiyin did not reply, but raised her right hand holding the sword slightly to her waist, while her left hand was placed horizontally in front of her body in a defensive posture, with several talismans held between her fingers.
This is a talisman that Lu Zizhen gave her for self-defense.
Huaiyin is a typical tool-based character. Ever since she suffered a loss against the Wheel of Fortune, she has realized that her physical strength cannot compare with that of evil spirits. She can only make up for this deficiency by relying on the enhancement of various exorcism tools.
The talisman burned in her hand, and a light also ignited deep within her clear eyes.
"Hiss...hoo."
Breathing, and then, the sound of locust trees seemed to melt into the wind.
Her mind replayed the image of Dou Tang during the battle, how he practiced martial arts under the shade of that big tree in his youth, and every movement of his strong body. All of these images flashed through her mind.
Huaiyin lowered her body, looking more like a spirit fox than Tamamo-no-Mae. Her left hand's five fingers gently supported her on the ground as she moved forward like a beast, her powerful footsteps echoing with strength.
“Madwoman…” Tamamo-no-Mae cursed under her breath. She swung her right hand and hurled the huge car door in her hand. The massive car door spun around and hurtled towards Huaiyin.
Facing the car door hurtling through the air, Huaiyin remained calm. Her eyes were fixed on the flying door, anticipating where it would collide with her.
After a brief calculation, she slightly curled her lips into a mocking smile.
The rotating car door's edges had transformed into sharp razors, capable of cleaving any creature in two the moment it touched it. At that moment, the car door traced an arc through the air and crashed precisely down on Huaiyin.
Huaiyin then suddenly pushed off the ground with her left hand and jumped up, leaping directly towards the car door.
As Huaiyin leaped high into the air, she stretched her body, her long-suppressed confidence blossoming within her, unleashing astonishing courage and boldness.
The toe of a white sneaker lightly touched the center of the car door.
She deliberately rotated her toes in the opposite direction of the car door's rotation, and in a very brief moment, she regained her balance to ensure that she would not be pulled off course by the car door.
The next instant, his foot left the car door, and he continued leaping forward.
The mountain wind howled, and on the secluded road, Huaiyin, like a swallow, stretched out her arms and flew in the air, reaching out to touch the shade of the trees.
The dappled sunlight filtering through the trees made her face, which was focused and exuded a murderous intent, appear somewhat translucent.
Even Tamamo-no-Mae was stunned at that moment.
Huaiyin's legs were bent, her left hand reached forward, and her right hand swung back, but the tip of her sword was right in front of Tamamo.
She fell from the sky like a falcon swooping down on its prey, carrying a sharp and piercing killing intent.
Tamamo-no-Mae made a very close turn to her side.
"Bang!" Huaiyin landed heavily on the roof of the car, the roof dented slightly from the impact, but it had no effect on the driver, Kurizaki Tsukiko, who was still in a daze.
Huaiyin drew his longsword from the roof of the car and, without pausing, drew a crescent moon and slashed at Tamamo-no-Mae.