Large amounts of rainbow-colored light spread out from Kaori's back, forming giant wings of light. Countless insect shadows appeared and expanded, taking physical form as they swarmed in all directions.
Kazuko raised her hands, causing her palms to shine with a blood-red light. Numerous black cracks appeared in the air around her, forming oval-shaped cracks. Spiritual ghosts with various weapons walked out of these cracks and started walking in all directions.
Kaori's insect swarm and Kazuko's ghost swarm were the first line of defense against the enemy. Although their individual strength was low, their numbers were high.
Not long after they finished setting up, they were attacked.
The attack came from black spiritual soldiers wearing red masks of various shapes!
These spiritual soldiers all used strangely shaped weapons that could shoot out spiritual bullets at high speeds. The masks they wore looked like demons and ghosts. Some looked like animals, some looked like plants, some looked like insects, and some looked like strange shapes that were hard to describe … all of them emitted a strange aura.
These spiritual soldiers entered through the torii and started fiercely shooting at the insect swarm and ghost swarm! They kept moving deeper into the shrine.
The insect swarm and ghost swarm worked together to attack and injure these spiritual soldiers.
After being seriously injured, the black spiritual soldiers' masks started glowing blood-red. At the same time, their bodies started transforming from human forms into all sorts of inhuman monsters! The masks also transformed and became a part of the monsters.
After the spiritual soldiers transformed into monsters, their individual strength greatly increased. They also seemed even more berserk and lost their sense of organization.
Most of the spiritual soldiers were blocked by the insect swarm and ghost swarm. They were defeated once again and transformed into mist that was completely destroyed.
However, there were a few that were stronger and managed to break through the defense line.
Now, it was time for the others to attack.
* Shing! * Kagura drew her sword and sliced a monkey monster in half with a bright flash of her sword.
The spiritual monster's body fell to the ground and transformed into mist. The blue-clothed Spirit-branded Retainer calmly sheathed her sword with a calm expression.
Kaede, who was standing nearby and watching this scene, applauded.
"Snow Girl" and "Wind Wings" guarded the eastern part of the shrine.
* Boom! * The ball of light exploded on the sticky mud monster's body, causing countless arcs of electricity to envelop it and instantly vaporize it.
* Boom! * The spiritual eagle viciously crashed into the gigantic bull monster's body, causing it to explode in half and vanish in midair.
"Beautiful! Hoshi-kun, "Tomohisa praised.
"You as well, Tomohisa -san." Hoshi responded with a smile.
"Thunder Arm" and "Eagle Practitioner" guarded the western part of the shrine.
Dong! Hitaka kicked down the bird monster that was flying in the air. He landed on the ground and gave it a slash, easily finishing it off.
Rona, who was sitting a little further away, yawned, looking bored.
Inugami and Cat Demon were guarding the northern part of the shrine.
Xiu! Genji released a large amount of spider silk, which tightly wrapped around the two monsters that looked like a tortoise and a hedgehog.
Mika then used her spirit clothes to shoot out several black blades that pierced through the bodies of the two monsters and killed them.
At the same time, Mayuzumi controlled her spiritual form "Rheia" to defeat a giant jelly-shaped monster all by herself.
"Spiderweb", "Spirit Clothing", and "Humanoids" were guarding the southern part of the shrine.
The two Yin-Yang Masters, Seiji and Summer Night, were in the center of the shrine, ready to support any side at any time.
After a while, no one called for help, which meant that the defense was solid.
But they all had a premonition that this would not last until the end.
…
The psychic demons were unable to attack the target location.
Heikai Takagi, the leader of this mission, was unsurprised by this at all. Seiji's organization told him that psychic demons had limited combat strength. It would be impossible to rely on them alone to complete the mission.
But to his surprise, apart from the "sakura samurai demons", there were also a large number of insects and humanoid figures blocking the psychic demons!
It was impossible to determine whether or not these people were real people based on what the psychic demons saw. Perhaps they were only spirits that the target had created to look like humans.
But why would the target specifically create such spirits? Was this meaningful to the target? Takagi didn't understand.
These "people" were obviously protecting the target, which meant that they were enemies to the target.
There were only two ways to deal with enemies: kill them or capture them.
If these people were spirits, capturing them would be meaningless.
If these people were real people, perhaps he could interrogate them for information after capturing them.
But keeping them alive would increase the difficulty of the battle. Takagi decided to ask his team members for their opinions.
"I can't be bothered with that. Just kill them all."
"I'm rather curious as to who they are. I suggest keeping one alive."
"The one in blue suits my taste. I want her!"
"I want that one as well … and the others are pretty good as well. It's best if we capture all of them."
"Ha, men."
"We should make our judgment after the battle. If we can capture them, then capture them. If we can't, then kill them."
More people wanted to keep them alive.
Takagi himself was quite curious as well. If these people were real people, just who were they? Were they sent by Soul Society?
He hadn't heard that Soul Society would interfere with this mission … If Soul Society had interfered, the organization would have warned them when they sent out this mission. However, they hadn't.
It was possible that the organization didn't know what Soul Society was up to. It was also possible that these people weren't from Soul Society.
If he wanted a definite answer, he would have to capture one of them and interrogate them.
Takagi decided to capture at least one of them.
But, the question was, which one should he capture?
…
A giant octopus-like monster shot a long tentacle at Kagura. Kagura swung her sword and sliced off the tentacle. She was about to counterattack when she suddenly sensed something and abruptly turned around and dodged to the right.
* Boom! * A dark gray [Mana Bullet] exploded where she had just been, releasing a large amount of sticky gray liquid.
At the same time, Feng Wu, who was flying in midair and fighting against the bird-shaped monster, was also ambushed. She was suddenly hit by a dense wave of [Mana Bullets] and fell from midair!
The dark gray [Mana Bullets] kept shooting at her. Kagura continuously dodged and then counterattacked with ice blades!
While she was shooting at her attacker, she looked towards Feng Wu. Seeing that Feng Wu was unharmed, she also used her wings to shoot wind blades at another attacker.
"Master, enemies are attacking from the east!" Kagura reported using the spell Seiji Mukai.
"How many? Do you need reinforcements? "Seiji instantly responded.
"Two. No need for reinforcements for now."
Kagura shot out two more ice blades. She then used her demon's sword to create a giant ice blade that sliced the octopus monster in half!
At almost the exact same time, Tomohisa and Mika both reported that two and three enemies were attacking them.
There were two enemies in the east, two enemies in the west, and three enemies in the south … a total of seven enemies.
Only the north wasn't attacked.
Although none of them immediately requested for reinforcements, it wasn't good to just stand around. That was because they might not be able to make it in time when reinforcements were needed.
"Summer Night, go to the south! Kaori, Kazuko, send more insect swarms and spiritual demons to the east and west, "Seiji swiftly instructed.
In case more enemies attacked from the north, Hitaka and Rona couldn't move.
And as the strongest guardian, Seiji couldn't act rashly either.
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