The Exorcism Tale of Hachiman

The voice of the system suddenly sounded in my mind.

Immediately afterwards, a black vortex appeared above Tanjuro Kamado's head.

The violent airflow instantly dispersed the surrounding snowflakes, revealing six figures hidden within them.

"Six Class-A evil spirits have been detected nearby. Host, please be careful!"

As soon as Hachiman Hikigaya emerged from the whirlpool, the biting wind that hit him made him shiver.

Fortunately, with the reminder from the intelligent system, he used his spiritual power to form a thin spiritual barrier on the surface of his body, thus avoiding the embarrassing situation of being frozen and unable to pick up his weapon.

Meanwhile, the six evil spirits around them realized that Tanjuro Kamado was distracted by Hachiman Hikigaya's appearance, so they pounced on him.

"Please protect my family!"

Seeing that two of the six demons had split off and were rushing toward his family, Tanjuro Kamado said a plea to Hachiman Hikigaya, who had just appeared, and then charged directly toward the four demons in front of him.

"Um..."

Nodding slightly, Hachiman Hikigaya flashed forward and stood in front of the two demons.

"You little bastard, you're looking for death!"

Although Hachiman Hikigaya's entrance was quite unique, with Muzan Kibutsuji watching from behind, the two Lower Rank demons had no choice but to bite the bullet and launch an attack on him.

However, upon engaging in combat, the two demons were delighted to discover that Hachiman Hikigaya's strength was not much different from theirs, and he was far less terrifying than Tanjuro Kamado.

In an instant, the attacks of the two Lower Moon demons became even more ferocious.

"Spiritual Flow!"

Seeing that after the two demons were driven back, one of them suddenly rushed towards the ordinary people behind him from the side, Hachiman Hikigaya raised his hand and blasted a Spirit Stream.

Sensing the vibration in the air behind him, Byoyo, who was rushing towards Tanjuro Kamado's family, abruptly stopped and turned to dodge Hachiman Hikigaya's attack.

"boom!"

The dodged spiritual energy slammed into the snow, creating a huge roar and blasting a crater more than a meter deep into the hard snow.

"What's wrong with this guy?"

Seeing the power of the spiritual flow, Bingye swallowed hard and turned to look at Hachiman Hikigaya, who was raising his hand towards it, with a look of fear on his face.

This human's strength is only about the same as its own, so why did it feel death during that attack?

Hachiman Hikigaya obviously wouldn't explain what magic is to Byakuya.

After seeing that he had successfully blocked the demon's path, he immediately turned back to the side of Tanjuro Kamado's family, warily watching the two demons on his left and right.

"Go together!"

Seeing that Byakuya was completely stunned by Hachiman Hikigaya's attack, Rui, the Lower Moon Five, gave Byakuya a look.

Despite being extremely unwilling, Byoha nodded in agreement to Rui's suggestion when she thought of Muzan Kibutsuji watching from behind.

However, when attacking, Bingye still played a little trick.

Only after Rui charged towards Hachiman Hikigaya did it make its move, hiding behind Rui and charging towards Hachiman Hikigaya.

It was clearly planning to use its companions as a shield.

Chapter 60: Slaying Monsters Requires Cutting Off Their Heads

"Damn it..."

Looking at Bingye hiding behind him, Lei clearly understood the bastard's plan.

However, Muzan Kibutsuji was watching his every move from behind, so there was absolutely no way he could turn his back to Hachiman Hikigaya at this moment.

"!"

Lei opened its mouth, emitted a series of unintelligible sound waves, and then manipulated its spider silk to pounce on the humans blocking its path.

"Spiritual Flow!"

Seeing the two demons charging towards him in a line, Hachiman Hikigaya initially thought they had conspired to use tactics to disrupt his vision.

He raised his hand and unleashed another Spirit Stream spell at Lei, trying to disrupt the formation of the two ghosts.

But halfway through, the spiritual flow seemed to be cut by an invisible knife, instantly splitting into two halves and turning into spiritual energy that disappeared into the air.

"Such sharp threads..."

The sharp-eyed Hachiman Hikigaya noticed the transparent threads hidden in the snowflakes the instant his spiritual energy disappeared.

He looked wary at the sight of those threads that could cut him, a mage.

Lei and Bingye took this opportunity to get closer to him.

With a flick of his arm, Rui sent out a spider silk thread that wrapped around Hachiman Hikigaya's neck, intending to cut off his head.

Having witnessed the sharpness of the silk threads, Hachiman Hikigaya naturally wouldn't let it succeed.

He spun the demon-slaying sword in front of him, wrapping spider silk around its blade.

Then pull it backward with force!

The spider silk, which was even stronger and sharper than ordinary alloys, was cut by the Demon Slayer Blade.

"what?!"

As the spider silk slipped from his grasp, Rui instantly realized that his once invincible weapon had failed him in front of Hachiman Hikigaya.

But how is this possible?

Its spider silk can even cut through the Nichirin Blades of the Demon Slayer Corps!

"The credit is all mine!"

But just as it was dazed from exhaustion, the diseased leaf behind it suddenly leaped into the air and pounced on Hachiman Hikigaya.

It turns out that after seeing Hachiman Hikigaya's demon-slaying sword entangled in spider silk, Byoha mistakenly thought that he was confronting Rui and was temporarily distracted, so he wanted to launch a sneak attack to steal the credit.

"Is this guy stupid?"

Hachiman Hikigaya was speechless as he watched the sick leaf leap into the air and pounce on him.

However, he obviously wouldn't let such an excellent target slip by.

With a jolt of his arm, all the spider silk on the Demon-Slaying Blade instantly fell to the ground.

Immediately afterwards, Hachiman Hikigaya took a deep breath, mentally calculating the time it would take for the diseased leaf to fall to the ground, while simultaneously assuming an attack stance.

"not good!"

Upon discovering that Hachiman Hikigaya was not confronting Rui as it had expected, Byakuya instantly realized that it had misjudged the situation.

However, it was already falling in mid-air and there was no way to go back.

Left with no other choice, Byakuya had to grit his teeth and launch an attack on Hachiman Hikigaya, all the while praying that Rui wouldn't abandon him in his time of need.

"Aria of the Virgin Mary!"

The moment the diseased leaf fell to the ground, Hachiman Hikigaya moved.

Mimicking the scene of Yuuki's attack, Hachiman Hikigaya swung his Demon Slayer Sword. The eleven-hit combo flashed like dazzling white light in Byakuya's eyes, accurately hitting Byakuya's vital points while repelling him.

"Big brother, its weakness is its neck! We have to cut off its head!"

Seeing that Hachiman Hikigaya was using the same methods he used against humans to deal with the demons in front of him, Tanjiro Kamado immediately made a megaphone shape with his hand to remind Hachiman Hikigaya.

"Neck?"

Upon hearing Tanjiro Kamado's words, a look of understanding flashed in Hachiman Hikigaya's eyes.

No wonder he had hit the core of the evil spirit in front of him so many times, but he still didn't hear the system's message of a successful kill in his mind.

Originally, the neck should have been chopped off.

"Damn human brat!"

Frightened by Hachiman Hikigaya's sudden combo, Byoyo had been lying on the snow, pretending to be dead.

Upon hearing Tanjiro Kamado's words, it suddenly opened its eyes, a look of resentment flashing in them, and got up from the ground, lunging at Hachiman Hikigaya, wanting to fight to the death.

But in mid-air, Hachiman Hikigaya chopped off its head with a single stroke.

"I...I'm not reconciled..."

The sick leaf's head fell to the snow. It stared wide-eyed at the body lying in front of it, which was constantly emitting black energy, and a trace of resentment flashed in its eyes.

How could a demon of the Lower Moon rank die so easily?!

"Congratulations, host, for successfully defeating a top-tier evil spirit. You have received 1000 spirit coins!"

This time, the system notification sound finally appeared.

As Hachiman Hikigaya watched the corpse of the diseased leaf dissipate on the ground, he secretly resolved to behead it someday. At the same time, he looked at Rui, who was standing there at a loss.

"You just killed it like that?!"

Seeing how easily Hachiman Hikigaya defeated Byoyo, who was ranked higher than him, Rui was momentarily unable to accept it.

"if not?"

With a flick of his sword, Hachiman Hikigaya lunged at Rui.

He wouldn't deliberately chat with the enemy just to show off before the battle was over!

"How could I possibly let you kill me so easily!"

Seeing that Hachiman Hikigaya, who had just killed the sick leaf, was rushing towards him, Rui showed a very flustered and angry expression.

Hachiman Hikigaya doesn't care how tired he feels.

After all, the principle that only evil spirits that turn into spirit coins are good or evil spirits also applies to ghosts.

He rushed to Lei's side and decisively swung his knife to slash at its neck.

There was a "puff" sound.

What fell to the ground was not a tired head, but a thick arm.

"Multiple evil spirits detected. Host, please be careful!"

Hachiman Hikigaya retreated to the side of Tanjuro Kamado's family, warily watching the spider-headed, human-bodied demon that had suddenly appeared in front of Rai and sacrificed an arm to block his attack, along with the several figures around it.