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

An evil spirit is still an evil spirit.

Ye Xing will not change her opinion of Ya Shi because of her relationship with her.

However, the effectiveness of a tool depends on the user.

Whether someone commits murder depends on who they are killing.

"Disguise yourself and lure them out."

Upon hearing Ye Xing's command, Ba Chi nodded slightly and turned to enter a spacious activity room.

This huge room was originally intended for use by kindergarten children during their performances.

Now, the once warm and inviting activity room is filled with children's sobs, teachers' trembling voices trying to comfort them, and the sound of kidnappers' footsteps pacing back and forth, creating a very oppressive atmosphere.

As a notorious evil spirit, Hachikatsu naturally wouldn't act solely on instinct like his other counterparts.

She first peeked into the room, and only after confirming that she had not found any trace of evil spirits did she manage to squeeze out a call.

"Come on, someone help me!"

Although she was eight feet tall, the voice she made was exactly the same as the kidnapper whose head had been crushed, without any flaws.

After all, this was her original profession. Although she had now been formally employed by Ye Xing, she couldn't afford to lose her skills.

"Ok?"

Hearing their comrades calling out faintly from the corridor outside, the kidnappers exchanged bewildered glances.

One of them, a tall man with a thick beard and a burly build, holding a semi-automatic rifle, frowned and spoke in a deep voice.

"Find two people to check on the situation."

Upon hearing his command, two of the kidnappers, each holding a pistol, cautiously stepped out of the room.

What puzzled them was...

The sound, which initially seemed very close, just a few meters away, grew farther and farther away with their footsteps, yet it didn't completely disappear, leading the two of them to the end of the corridor.

Even a fool would sense something was wrong by now.

"Hey, I said..."

Just as one of them opened his mouth to say something, a bundle of long, black hair suddenly extended from the side and tied around the necks of the two of them.

"Uh...uh..."

The two kidnappers lifted their feet off the ground, grabbed the black hair tied around their necks with both hands, and tore at it with all their might.

But apart from the bright red blood seeping from his own hands, it had absolutely no effect.

"Just an ordinary human being?"

Ye Xing slowly walked out from behind Ba Chi, looked at the two kidnappers whose faces had turned dark purple, and waved his hand.

"Kill him."

Eight feet nodded slightly, then used his stiff black hair to pierce the necks of the two men.

Seeing the two kidnappers lying on the ground, their eyes wide open in death, Ye Xing squatted down, first picking up the pistol they had dropped, and then examining it carefully.

The quality is very poor; there are signs of wear and tear everywhere.

These two pistols are like a 4090 who has worked in a mine, an AJ1 who has played in a competition, a donkey that has pulled a millstone all its life, and a saint who has stayed in a goblin's lair for three days.

In short, just like a cream puff, it couldn't close up.

"It seems they're not a professional team."

To confirm his suspicions, Ye Xing examined the hands and bodies of the two kidnappers.

As he expected, there were no calluses from years of gun use.

He had quite a few scars on his body, but they were all caused by cold weapons, and there were no penetrating wounds left by bullets.

From these details, Ye Xing could roughly determine the identities of the kidnappers.

Most likely, he is a member of a yakuza gang.

Then the problem is coming.

Why would someone who's doing so well as a gangster come to kidnap a kindergarten?

If you want money, you might as well rob a bank or a jewelry store.

Even if they wanted a ransom, there's no way they could just kidnap all the students; that would be suicide.

There is only one explanation.

The actions of this group were manipulated by some evil spirit lurking in the shadows, which is why they committed such outrageous acts.

The key issue is that they themselves don't seem to realize this.

It's like being a puppet being manipulated without even realizing it.

A person manipulated by an evil spirit is different from someone possessed by an evil spirit. As long as they can regain their senses in time with the intervention of external forces, they can still save their life.

Of course, Night Star did not intend to do that.

It's not about concepts of good and evil.

Simply because, when facing an enemy armed with a gun, even the slightest hesitation or pity could lead to injury and an instant descent into an abyss of no return.

It can be saved, but it is not necessary.

.......

Meanwhile, in the same activity room from before.

"Why have you been gone for so long and still haven't come back?"

A gunman pressed a pistol against a female teacher's temple, his expression completely unlike that of a normal person; it could even be described as ferocious.

"This is so troublesome. Maybe I should just kill a few to have some fun first."

The kidnapper leader shook his head, a sinister smile creeping onto his lips.

"Don't rush, wait a bit longer. Wait until those guys from the Metropolitan Police Department can't resist and burst in, then..."

At this point, he raised the detonator in his left hand, his expression almost manic, like a fanatical cultist.

"We'll give Kyoto City, and even the entire Sakura Prefecture, another surprise gift!"

Hearing the kidnapper leader's words, the kindergarten teachers all looked terrified.

Because the children are too young and the incident happened so suddenly, some of them haven't even realized what's going on yet.

But the teachers, as adults, have already realized this.

These kidnappers weren't after the money at all.

The reason they haven't taken action yet is because they want to use these hostages until the Metropolitan Police Department sends out troops to storm the building, then detonate the bombs planted inside.

This is simply not something a normal person could do!

Meanwhile, outside the classroom.

Ye Xing peered through the window, observing the situation inside the activity room, and thought to himself that this was going to be a bit tricky.

Several kidnappers inadvertently pointed their guns at the hostages.

If they are professionals, then it's not a big deal.

The key point is that these guys are all amateurs. Although their behavior and thoughts were guided by evil spirits, it is estimated that many of them are handling a gun for the first time.

If I suddenly barged in, wouldn't I scare them?

Startled, wouldn't you instinctively pull the trigger?

Even if a few hostages die, it won't be a loss for Ye Xing.

But as the saying goes.

Every gamer wants to achieve a perfect playthrough with all achievements, and Nightstar is no exception.

After thinking it over carefully, he looked at the pale ghost hand floating in mid-air behind him.

"It's up to you. Go steal all the bullets from their guns."

050 The Professionalism of Actors

Upon hearing this, Ghost Hand, though unable to respond verbally, still managed to express his meaning by spreading his five fingers and rolling twice on the ground.

"Oyster, oyster, oyster, da me da me da me, I can't do it, I can't do it, I can't do it."

Ye Xing looked disgusted.

"You're still acting all cute and clingy here? Don't disgust me."

Of course, he was just joking.

The ability to materialize the soul, a concept belonging to idealism, actually has many similarities with evil spirits.

Just like.

His demonic hand and Yotsuya Miko's hundred eyes both follow the same pattern.

That means you must first make yourself "seen" by someone, that is, make yourself visible in front of someone, before you can cause harm to that person.

Otherwise, they would be like ordinary evil spirits and humans, unable to interfere with each other and simply passing through each other.

According to Rio Futaba's intelligence analysis, it was not any weapon that was able to harm the evil spirits from beginning to end.

Rather, it's the psychics themselves, like Yoruhoshi and Yotsuya Miko.

Take a simple example.

Night Star can harm evil spirits with silver nails, but for ordinary humans who are not spiritual beings, even if they wave nails around, it will only amuse the evil spirits.

Yotsuya Miko once raised a question.

"Why not just use explosives to raze the area where the 'door' is located to the ground?"

Putting aside how radical this idea is, it is indeed feasible.

The prerequisite is that the process of placing and detonating the explosives must be carried out by Yohoshi or Yotsuya Miko herself.