In this crossover anime, I fight against the supernatural in my everyday world.

Half an hour later, in the alleyway of Kyoto City, 12 kilometers away from the Kyoto Municipal Kindergarten.

"Arrived successfully."

Ye Xing slowly stepped through the doorway, looking out at the thick, tide-like black mist beyond the alley, and murmured to himself.

After this period of exploration, he had already roughly figured it out.

Separated by only a door, the inside and outside are two completely different worlds.

Within the city of Kyoto in the real world, the most dangerous location, which is also the only S-class location he marked, is that unfinished building.

However, if that unfinished building were placed in the Otherworld, it would be equivalent to a safe house.

After all, as long as you don't get close to that "door," the evil spirits in that building won't even attack you on their own.

Kyoto City, which has two worlds, has one major difference.

The evil spirits in the underworld don't need to ask questions like, "Can you see me?"

Even ordinary people like Yui Yuigahama can clearly see evil spirits when they are in the Otherworld.

This means that they can attack humans as soon as they see them.

After all, this world is dominated by evil spirits, and Ye Xing, a human with spiritual abilities, is the outsider.

Ye Xing walked slowly out of the alley, facing the thick, nauseating black fog, and said softly.

"come out."

As soon as those two words were spoken, the pale ghost hand reappeared.

In the past few days, it has been continuously devouring evil spirits and removing doors in the inner world, and the resulting growth is quite obvious.

The pale ghost hand of today no longer ends at the wrist; it has grown into a forearm and upper arm, and only lacks the shoulder area, making it a complete arm.

"Tell me, what exactly are you?"

Night Star strolled leisurely through the streets of Kyoto City in the Otherworld, chuckling as she asked the pale ghost hand behind her.

Of course, the ghost hand didn't have a mouth, so it couldn't give any answer.

Night Star also tried having it answer by writing.

As it turns out, Ghost Hand seems to have no ability to write at all.

He was still illiterate.

How embarrassing!

However, through Yotsuya Miko's successful awakening of her abilities, Yohoshi also gained some valuable information.

Like Miko's Hundred Eyes, the Pale Demon Hand is a manifestation of the soul, without a doubt, but it is rather special.

The first special point is that Night Star still doesn't know Ghost Hand's real name.

Perhaps we will have to wait until the demon hand is fully solidified and grows into human form before we can use the method of calling its true name to unleash its full power.

the second.

The true nature of the Ghost Hand is far more terrifying than any evil spirit he has ever encountered.

The method of argumentation is very simple.

Before she deliberately revealed the pale demon hand, Yotsuya Miko was completely unaware of its existence.

There is only one explanation for why psychics cannot see evil spirits.

Like Oda Noto, the old woman in the original story, although they are also psychics, all they can see are blurry black outlines, unlike Yotsuya Miko, who can see the true face of evil spirits.

and.

Evil spirits that are too powerful for them to even be observed.

Among the evil spirits that Yoruichi knows, only his own Pale Demon Hand is an existence that even a powerful psychic like Yotsuya Miko is not qualified to "see".

The true form of this thing...

Could it be some kind of Cthulhu-style evil god?

tentacle?

That's actually quite interesting.

As Ye Xing thought this to himself, the thick black fog ahead was gently parted by the pale ghostly hand as he moved forward.

Gradually, Ye Xing's figure completely disappeared into the black mist.

Only the crimson moonlight in the sky above the other world reflected a desolate and eerie red glow.

........

Meanwhile, inside the activity room of the Supernatural Quantum Mechanics Research Society, or SuperQuantum Society for short.

Rio Futaba stirred the coffee in the beaker, the stirring rod hitting the side of the beaker with a crisp sound.

She looked at Yui Yuigahama and Miko Yotsuya sitting opposite her, staring intently at their phone screens with tense expressions, and listened to the reporters' voices playing from their phones. She sighed helplessly.

"Are there any younger siblings in that kindergarten?"

After spending these few days together, Rio Futaba couldn't really call herself a friend of Yui Yuigahama and Miko Yotsuya, but they could chat for a bit when they occasionally bumped into each other in the activity room.

Today, however, was the first time she had seen the two of them in the activity room after school.

Upon hearing the question, the two women paused for a moment, exchanged a glance, and then shook their heads simultaneously.

"I am an only child."

"That..."

Rio Futaba frowned slightly, a meaningful look in her eyes. She picked up her cup, took a sip of coffee, and spoke seemingly casually.

Why are you all so interested in this live broadcast?

Yui Yuigahama and Miko Yotsuya were startled upon hearing this. In the end, it was Miko Yotsuya, who had a stronger mental fortitude, who came to her senses first and managed to force a smile as she explained.

"Well... after all, nothing like this has ever happened before, so we're all a little worried."

"is it?"

Rio Futaba gave a noncommittal reply.

Why didn't Ye Xing come today?

"Um... he had something to do and went home first."

"That's it."

Seeing that Rio Futaba seemed to have only asked the question casually and did not intend to delve too deeply into the topic, Yui Yuigahama and Miko Yotsuya finally breathed a sigh of relief.

If the other party really presses for details, they will have a hard time explaining.

Originally, Yotsuya Miko also wanted to go with Yohoshi.

However, after some consideration, she gave up on the idea.

On one hand, Yotsuya Miko's Hyakume, although now grown to have five eyes, is at most equivalent to one of the hundreds of evil spirits in the abandoned building, which is the level of a B-class evil spirit.

She couldn't even imagine the dangers she might encounter while traveling more than ten kilometers in the Otherworld.

With her current strength, if she were to follow Ye Xing, she would only slow down his movements in the black mist and wouldn't be of any help whatsoever.

Another reason.

This time, the opponent is not an evil spirit.

Instead, it refers to humans wielding firearms.

Before setting off, Ye Xing asked her a question that struck a chord with her.

"Could you bring yourself to kill someone?"

Miko Yotsuya really wanted to say that she would do anything to protect the innocent.

But the reality is, she knows she can't do it.

At least for now, I can't do it.

Pointless stubbornness is meaningless.

All Yotsuya Miko could do now was follow the reporters' reports with Yui Yuigahama and silently pray.

...

Fifteen minutes later, outside the Kyoto Municipal Kindergarten.

"What's the situation at the scene?"

A middle-aged man with glasses, a square face, short hair and a beard, and a resolute expression wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve and asked his subordinate a question.

"Still no progress."

"hateful..."

The middle-aged man gritted his teeth and waved his hand.

"Get me a bulletproof vest. I'll go inside alone and negotiate with the kidnappers!"

"This...no, Commander Yagami, you are the commander-in-chief on site, you can't risk your life!"

There's no other way!

Soichiro Yagami, the head of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's Criminal Investigation Bureau, gritted his teeth, his hands clenching tightly involuntarily.

"More than an hour has passed, and the kidnapper's mental state is unstable. If this continues... the hostage's life is in danger..."

Hearing his words, the Metropolitan Police Department members around him, as well as the Self-Defense Force members who came to provide support, all fell silent.

The situation is very complicated.

There were more than twenty kidnappers, each armed with a gun.

storm?

Among the hostages there were many kindergarten children as young as five or six.

If there are injuries or fatalities, who can bear the responsibility?

This is Japan, not Russia, where they can wipe out both hostages and kidnappers.