There is nothing wrong with the training method of the Justice Messenger

"That's right. It's just that you want to teach the perpetrator a lesson in a peaceful way, out of affection, and I got angry when I saw my friend being humiliated, and I saw Sagami still bullying someone. I have the ability and reason to punish her, so I did this, but it's my duty as a human being." Li Nian said, "You want to share freely, and I want to do my duty. There is no contradiction. Why not combine them and do both the affection and the duty together? Isn't it wonderful?"

"Is there such a good thing? Could you please give me some advice, Lord Li?"

"Fulfill your duty first and then fulfill your duty - that is, knock someone down first and then teach him the truth, and you can create a change like Sagami. This is the true meaning of convincing people with reason."

Isayama clapped his hands vigorously, "Well said! The problem is that Isayama must first have the strength to not be beaten down by the people of the Jusou Department before I dare to act at will. I also hope that Lord Li, who has such strength, will not use his strength to kill the people he dislikes before beating them down, and will consciously make up for the teaching afterwards instead of waiting for others to do it for you."

"I try my best."

“That’s a very sincere answer.”

"Does this satisfy Lord Isayama? Do you believe that I will not become a criminal?"

"I actually didn't doubt it, I just felt that you were a little too free..." Isayama said with emotion, "But you said that you know your limits and won't stray from the right path, I still believe it... I just hope you can be more careful. My father taught me that 'there is only a difference between indulgence once and countless times, and often evil people fall into evil ways little by little in this process. We exorcists are people with power, so we must be more self-disciplined'... I'll give this to you as well. It's up to you whether you remember it or not. I still know myself well, and a small person like me can't control what the big guys do."

"I always keep in mind what Isayama-senpai taught me."

"Who dares to call himself a senior in front of Lord Li? I also hope that you can teach me how to train to become a fierce man who can defeat the earth spider. How about we spar with each other one day, and Lord Li can give me some guidance?"

Isayama just mentioned it casually as a joke, but it reminded Li Nian of something.

He had recently been thinking about how to construct the visual of the "battle between the devil and the god", and after much thought, he came to the conclusion of "actually fighting." However, this fight still lacked an opponent. Now that Isayama was beside him and mentioned the matter of sparring, he thought that maybe he could ask this senior for help, so he said.

"Okay, let's find a dojo someday and fight a few moves together."

Unexpectedly, Li Nianzhen would agree. Jian Shan was stunned and waved his hands hurriedly: "No, no, I was just joking. How can I fight with Lord Li?"

"It's meaningless if you say that. Isayama is such a powerful person, how can he beat a rookie like me casually? For example, when we first met, we fought each other, and you killed me in one blow, didn't you?"

"Come on, it was obviously you who concealed your incompetence and lost to me on purpose." Isayama got angry when he mentioned it: "And you lied to me that I'm a newbie who knows nothing."

"No, actually I was a real nerd at that time."

"..."

Jianshan cast a contemptuous look at him, thinking that Li Nian was pretending again. Li Nian couldn't explain that he had quickly acquired the power with the [Sword of God], so he could only skip this topic.

"It's just a sparring match. What's there to worry about? I really don't think you're too weak to spar with me, Isayama. How about I tie my hands and feet and seal off my magic power to fight you?"

"...I don't think I'm that weak." Jian Shan raised his eyebrows, and she said it politely. She admitted that Li Nian was strong, but she didn't really think she was not qualified to compete with Li Nian. Instead, she had other concerns. She sighed and replied, "I'm mainly worried about something going wrong."

"Are you afraid of something going wrong? What could go wrong during a competition?" Li Nian didn't understand.

“I’m afraid of being beaten to death.”

"Huh??? Why would I do that? It's just a sparring match. Who can I kill?"

Isayama felt that this guy was again saying something that he had no sense of what he was doing, and gave him a look that looked like a psychopath: "Because in your mind, it seems that fighting with Tsuchigumo to the point of destroying a city is also a sparring match. I can't stand that, I will definitely be beaten to death."

Isayama still vividly remembers the life-and-death battle between Li Nian and Tsuchigumo, and is filled with awe. He doesn't want to "compete" with Li Nian like that at all.

"…Although I treat that kind of actual combat as a form of training, I'm not stupid enough to fight with my friends to the point of making my brains explode."

"……real?"

"real."

"Okay, we can find a time to spar with each other." Hearing that Li Nian would not fight him with the same momentum as he fought against the Tsuchigumo spider, and that he could maintain the level of sparring, Jianshan readily agreed. He clenched the sword bag wrapped with the [Lion King] in his hand and said with a smile: "I just happen to be troubled by not having anyone to practice with. Lord Li is willing to condescend, which is also a rare opportunity for me. I will try my best to kill you... and defeat you in the sparring!"

Li Nian glanced at him and thought, I have no intention of killing you, Jianshan Huangquan, but did you get excited just now and have the intention to kill me?

"Then it's decided."

At this time, Iwata suddenly said, "We're here," and slowly pulled over to the side of the road.

After hearing this, the two looked outside and found that they had arrived at the crime scene while they were talking. This was a residential area and there was a house in front that had been cordoned off by the police.

Li Nian and Jianshan got out of the car. Officer Kosaka, who was talking to his subordinates, noticed the two young exorcists and came over to greet them.

Chapter 338: Night Fighting God, Called

When the two came over, they were still in class at school. They rushed over in a hurry and naturally had no time to change their clothes. They were dressed in school uniforms, which was normal. There were many strangers who had never seen the two before and were pointing and talking - but the remaining police officers, led by Officer Takasaka, were not the first to see these two young exorcists. If a case occurred in Chiba or nearby and was suspected to be a spiritual disaster, they would basically look for these two people, and cases involving deaths would always be investigated first by Detective Takasaka. If it was a third type of spiritual disaster, he would contact the Onmyoji Bureau, and sometimes he would even contact Li Nian and Isayama directly.

After a few visits, we became familiar with each other.

"Hello, Mr. Li, Ms. Jianshan, thank you for making this trip."

The officer Takasaka who came to greet the two exorcists was named Takasaka Daisuke. Although he was a criminal policeman, he had a square face that looked like a gangster boss, which was his characteristic. Li Nian remembered it very clearly and replied, "Hello, Officer Takasaka. It's nothing to bother you. It's my duty and what I should do."

"No need to be polite." Isayama got straight to the point and asked, "So what happened? Officer Kosaka, tell us."

They were only told that someone had died, but they didn't know the specific circumstances. The procedure has always been like this. When the police think that the scene is suspected to be a third-level spiritual disaster, they will ask the Onmyoji Bureau to send an exorcist to investigate. Only when they arrive at the scene will the police be informed of the specific details of the case.

As Kosaka led the two exorcists to the scene, several police officers set up a cordon for them. Officer Kosaka spoke calmly about the case: "This morning, a middle-aged man was found dead in his room by his mother. The door was locked before he was found. When she called out but no one answered, the mother opened the door from the outside with a key. After entering, she found her son lying in a pool of blood with his body torn apart. He had been dead for a long time."

"The body was separated?" Isayama asked in confusion, meaning that Officer Kousaka should be more specific.

Officer Kosaka knew what Isayama wanted to ask: "It was a clean beheading, the murder weapon was a sharp blade, and the murderer was an expert with a knife."

While listening to Officer Kosaka's explanation of the case, Li Nian heard a group of people watching from a distance. They seemed to be fathers and daughters from nearby residents, pointing and talking. Because the content seemed to involve the deceased, he listened carefully.

——"It seems that the dead one is the gambling addicted son of the Springfield family? I don't know who he offended, and he was beheaded!"

——"He owed too much money and someone came to his house to seek revenge, humph, he deserved it. Mrs. Chuntian worked hard to raise him, and she became a widower a few years ago. Now she has to support such an unfilial offspring. I often hear this guy screaming and yelling. If he doesn't get the money, he will beat and scold Mu Qing. It's really a pity that such a guy died."

——"Mrs. Haruta will feel relieved."

——"That's for sure... maybe she was the one who found it..."

The deceased was a gambler? Li Nian heard the message in these words, frowned, and felt disgusted. The respect he had for the deceased was gone.

I also saw a woman sitting next to a police car surrounded by police officers. She looked numb and listened to the officers' consolation expressionlessly. She just stared at her house without saying a word. It seemed that she was Mrs. Springfield, the mother of the deceased.

"With a knife..." Isayama didn't notice this, he just listened carefully to Officer Kosaka's words, thought for a moment, and then asked, "Any other information?"

"The deceased was undoubtedly beheaded by a single blow. His expression before death was frozen in surprise, as if he saw someone suddenly break in with a knife and beheaded him without saying a word. However, according to the victim's mother, the door was locked and the window at the crime scene was closed from the inside. There was no murder weapon left. There were only fingerprints of the victim and his mother on various places."

"A standard murder scene in a locked room." Li Nian snorted twice and said, "It's the kind of crime scene that is so perfect that there is no evidence, right?"

"...No, there are two bloody footprints from wooden clogs, one large and one small. Judging from the size and texture details, one of them is clearly the same as the footprint at the scene of the massacre of the Kanto Great Ape Society." At this point, Officer Takasaka looked at Li Nian and asked, "Mr. Li, do you remember anything?"

"...Well, we just said it was a murder in a closed room and the case was basically solved in seconds." Li Nian shrugged boredly: "Now that you put it that way, I can roughly guess who did it."

Isayama had also heard about the massacre of a whole family by the Great Ape Society of Kanto. It was originally handled by Li Nian and Suzuka Dalianji, and there was some conflict with the visitors from the Nura clan. It has been confirmed that the work was done by a wizard named Fujiki and a martial arts god named Yato. Now Officer Takasaka said that there was a pair of clogs footprints at the crime scene that matched the footprints at that time, and she immediately understood that the culprit was probably the same group of people.

Li Nian asked in confusion, "Last time, they killed the entire family of the monster. It seemed that their original intention was to sow discord between Yuyuko and the Nura Clan, which was understandable. But this time, they killed someone? Why? Officer Kosaka, what is the identity of this deceased? He seems to be just a rubbish gambler that you can find everywhere, right?"

This was information that Kosaka didn't mention. Li Nian didn't know how he knew it. Kosaka glanced at him in surprise and nodded, "Yes, the deceased Haruta was just an unemployed vagrant. When he was in his forties, he was affected by the economic downturn and the company was not doing well, so he was laid off. After that, he got addicted to gambling and lost all his savings. He also owed a lot of debts outside. He didn't go out to work and just idled at home. When he lived with his mother, he often asked Mu Qing for money. If he didn't get the money, he would beat and scold him. This is the information obtained from the neighbors. The deceased was such a person. Unlike the Kanto Great Ape Club, the deceased himself did not have any special identity. The motive I can think of is that the person who lent him money killed him..."

Isayama only then realized that the deceased was such a person. He frowned, but did not say anything sarcastic like gamblers really do not die a good death. He just looked at the old woman beside him who was obviously the victim's mother, and sighed with mixed emotions.

Officer Kosaka continued, "But if the murderer is the same person who committed the massacre of the Kanto Great Ape Society, it doesn't seem like he would kill for such a reason. Does the exorcist have any clues?"

"I don't know. That guy is a martial god after all. I don't quite understand why he would fall to the level of killing a gambler." Li Nian sneered: "Maybe there is no reason at all. Killing is his nature. He is addicted. He is a hopeless pleasure offender."

Isayama thought about it and nodded, "It's not like there aren't evil gods who like to kill people. Maybe that Yato God is like that... People in the world generally call this kind of evil god..."

"Well, I remember that in Japanese Shintoism, this kind of thing is called the God of Misfortune." Li Nian sneered: "Wouldn't it be better to just call it a demon? It's an object of extermination anyway."

"Martial God? Yato God? Horzu God?" Takasaka didn't quite understand what the two were talking about, but it was clear that the two exorcists had already figured it out, so he asked, "In that case, can we be sure that this case is a third-level spiritual disaster?"

"We have to see the scene first." Isayama wanted to investigate further.

"Well, but if the overall situation is as Officer Takasaka said, the only key evidence is the clog print. The one who can enter the secret room without leaving any other traces is most likely a spirit, or a good knifeman who can behead people with one clean stroke. With this information, there is no other greater possibility than Yato God." Li Nian: "The problem is that we don't know the motive. What on earth is this evil god doing in the city? Is he really killing people randomly..."

——"Lord Yatogami is not an evil god."

Suddenly, a vicissitudes and tired voice was heard saying this. Everyone was startled when they heard it and looked at the person who spoke. It turned out to be the mother of the deceased.

The few people were talking in a loud voice, and the old woman who had lost her son heard them not far away. Seeing that everyone was looking at her, she said slowly in a tired voice again: "Lord Yatoshin didn't do anything bad..."

Li Nian narrowed his eyes slightly and walked over: "You are the mother of the deceased, Mrs. Haruta, right? You know that it was Yatoshin who killed your son? And you said he didn't do anything bad?"

"It was me who did the bad thing... not the Lord God." The old man forced a strange expression on his face, as if crying and laughing, and murmured: "The Lord God just... responded to my wish... I was the bad one... I asked him to kill Jiefu... it was me..."

Li Nian's pupils shrank slightly, and he understood what had happened.

Isayama also understood everything in an instant and was horrified: "You prayed to God...?!"

“Yes, yes, it was my wish, it’s all my fault…” The old man covered his face with his hands, wanting to cry but unable to. Only his trembling voice revealed fatigue and numbness: “I am the bad guy… I am really too… painful… that’s why I think that way… It was me who made a wish to Yato God… It was me who killed my son… Ah… Jiefu… My son… I’m sorry… I’m sorry…”

"What's going on?" Officer Takasaka was a little confused. He didn't know what Mrs. Haruta's sudden loss of composure and confession meant. She had a numb expression just now.

"She made a wish to God to kill her son." Li Nian frowned, "And the God responded to this wish and really came here to kill people."

Officer Kosaka understood what was said, but as an ordinary person, he could not comprehend the whole process. After hesitating for a moment, he winked at his team members and said, "No matter what, please ask Mrs. Haruta to leave first. It seems that she invited the murderer. You can ask her... but be careful with your approach and don't provoke the old lady anymore."

Li Nian and Jianshan watched the old woman walk away supported by two policemen.

Gods were born from the faith of all living beings. They have the ability to hear the believers' prayers and the obligation to respond to these prayers. If the believers prayed to kill this person, it would not be surprising that Yato God would come here to commit the crime.

"It turns out that the mother wants to kill her son." Isayama was incredulous: "Yato God responded to this prayer and came here to kill people. This is too..."

"The guy who died deserved to die." Li Nian murmured thoughtfully, "But it shouldn't be this process, at least it shouldn't be the mother who has the killing intention and the regret."

"…In short, the truth has basically been revealed."

"Yes, it seems that Yato God has been accepting such prayers."

"Is Mrs. Haruta a believer of Yato-sama?" Isayama turned to Officer Kosaka and said, "We need to find out where Mrs. Haruta came into contact with the belief in this god. Officer Kosaka, please ask a few subordinates to ask her where she learned about Yato-sama. To pray to the god, you must first have this channel and find the right method. This is very important."

"I understand." Officer Takasaka nodded and immediately went to find Mrs. Haruta who was taken away by his subordinates.

Although he asked Officer Kosaka to do so, Isayama was undecided about what to do when it came to the powerful God of War, so he asked Li Nian: "What should we do next? How do we deal with this Yato God?"

"...What does this look like to the Yin Yang Office?"

"No matter what, killing is an absolute taboo." Isayama said decisively. After saying this, he immediately figured out how to characterize this Yato God: "This is the God of Misfortune, and he must be defeated."

"..." Li Nian had a different opinion, but the conclusion he came to was the same as Isayama's: "I don't know what Yatoshin was thinking when he made a knife for others, but judging by the result, he was encouraging evil. I also think he is an evil god and should be killed."

The destruction of the Kanto Great Ape Society was ultimately a matter of intrigue among monsters, but the killing of people was a completely different matter.

To Li Nian, the life or death of a scumbag gambler is actually not important. The problem is that this Yato God killed people based on the old lady's wish. I don't know what his considerations are, but it seems very casual. He can kill people for the old lady's wish today, and he can kill people for someone else's wish tomorrow... He doesn't have to think about tomorrow. I guess this Yato God used to live like this.

In short, Li Nian's opinion was the same as Jianshan's, so Jianshan said: "We have to find him first, but how do we find him? Search the whole city for him?"

"That's the only solution. Don't worry, let's see if Officer Takasaka can get something out of him. Mrs. Haruta might be able to give us a solution."

Li Nian and Jianshan went into the house first and went to the room on the second floor where the crime was located to take a look. As Officer Kosaka said, there was only a body with its parts separated lying in a pool of blood and a few footprints. There were no other new discoveries, so they went back outside and waited for Officer Kosaka to bring news.

Soon Officer Takasaka came back with a crumpled flyer and handed it to Li Nian.

"Mrs. Haruta said she learned about Yato from this flyer." Officer Kosaka seemed to find it unbelievable: "Just by following the instructions on the flyer, can we summon the god? How is this possible?"

Li Nian took the flyer, and Jianshan next to him came over to take a look.

The flyer vividly depicts the back of a samurai in a kimono and holding a sword. It is painted in ink style, with a few words written in brush calligraphy below.

"I am Yato God. Just call me by my real name, trust me and respect me, prepare five yen, and pray to me, and I will answer your wishes."

"…What is this?" Li Nian held up the flyer and said, "Is this how Mrs. Haruta came into contact with Yatoshin?"

Kosaka also found it unbelievable, but still nodded and added, "Yes, Haruta said that when he was walking on the street, a man and a girl in kimonos handed him a strange flyer with no contact information. He didn't take it seriously at first, thinking it was some cult. But after being beaten and scolded by his son, he hid in his room with a self-abandoned mentality and tried the method mentioned in the flyer. Then he really met that... uh, Yato God."

"The man and the girl in kimono..." Isayama imagined the scene, with a strange look on his face: "Could it be Yatoshin and that Hi...they were handing out flyers on the street?"

"It's quite modern. They know how to print flyers and hand them out. It looks like a job search agency." Li Nian looked at it with interest. It looked more like a poster for "Methods to Contact God" than a flyer. "It's just that there's no contact information on it. Most people would just feel confused when they see it."

Isayama looked at the words on the flyer: "…But the method seems to be correct. Just chant Yato God's name, think of him, call him? Well, the basic process of communicating with the divinity, and then prepare the sacrifice. This sacrifice is - a huge sum of 5 yen? It's really cheap."

"Well, it seems that by doing this, we can call this god over."

"Knowing this, what should we do?"

"Just try it and see if you can call him over directly."

As Li Nian spoke, he took out a five-yen coin, cleared his throat, raised it high to the sky, and shouted, "Great Yato God! Your devout followers pray to you! Here is a huge sum of five yen! Please come before me!"

"You're too exaggerated..." Isayama couldn't help but complain.

"It will be heard, so of course I will act as pious as I can... ah, it really was heard."

Li Nian was very familiar with the process of communicating with the divinity. After doing so, he suddenly felt that he had established a connection with the divinity in the distance.

An invisible "door" opened before his eyes, and two people walked out from the void. They were the war god in black kimono and the girl named Fei who was transformed from his sword.

"I am the Night Fighting God, and I have come here in response to your call. Mortal, what is your wish—"

Li Nian smiled.

He really called over.

The God of War came upon the call, raised his head, and before he could see clearly who summoned him, he saw clearly the familiar knife waving at him.

"Fei!"