Under the flickering neon lights of the city, various flows of people hurried past; it was hard to imagine that not long ago, a large-scale supernatural phenomenon had occurred right here.
99% of the population had suddenly vanished, and at the same time, many yokai and evil spirits had emerged in the city. However, after just one night, everything returned to its original state.
It seemed as if something had changed, yet it also seemed as if nothing had changed at all.
People continued to live their daily lives. Everything that happened that night seemed to have been erased by a mysterious power, and only those who participated in it still retained their memories... "Look, there's a stray evil spirit ahead. His nutritional value is six times that of a Little Old Man. Let's not startle him yet; we must approach quietly—sneaky-beaky like, no shooting."
On the crowded street, a figure composed of black mist was muttering to himself while hiding behind a telephone booth. However, no one noticed him—or rather, no one could see him at all.
And in front of him, an evil spirit shaped like a monster was wandering aimlessly.
The evil spirit looked extremely terrifying; its eye sockets were empty and pitch black, and its entire face seemed to be split open. Occasionally, fragments of skin would fall off, and its whole body emitted an ominous black yin energy. It seemed to have lost its intelligence, leaving only the instinct to wander.
If anyone saw the evil spirit, they would surely flee in terror, but neither the dark shadow hiding behind the telephone booth nor the evil spirit wandering ahead could be seen by the surrounding pedestrians.
Some people even passed directly through the evil spirit's body, and the evil spirit turned a blind eye to it. Both sides were like living in different dimensional worlds, unable to intersect.
The evil spirit continued to walk forward in a daze, seemingly unaware that another evil spirit was stalking him from behind.
After walking for a moment, he suddenly stopped. Seeing this, the black mist figure crept forward, and at the very moment before the evil spirit could notice, the figure's hands suddenly transformed into whips and then lunged forward with a stab.
"Screee—!"
The tip of the whip easily pierced into the evil spirit's body, and a silent scream rang out that no one could hear.
This scene was extremely eerie, but the normal people walking nearby still couldn't see it. Only other existences that were also evil spirits noticed this scene.
But the other evil spirits hiding in the dark corners all shrank back and did not move.
After capturing the evil spirit, the black mist figure suddenly opened a pitch-black, gaping maw filled with sharp teeth and took a bite.
*Crunch, crunch~*
"Tastes good, quite chewy."
In just a moment, the evil spirit's body was completely crushed and transformed into the purest yin energy.
Xia Yu swallowed the last bit of yin energy in his mouth, picked his teeth with the tip of his whip-arm, and evaluated to himself, even though no one could hear him.
The other evil spirits who could see him wouldn't talk back to him either; they were merely food to increase his strength.
These spiritual bodies that could be found everywhere weren't actually strong. At most, they were just a bit ugly... well, probably exceptionally ugly, the kind of ugly that could cause real damage to a person.
However, since he had transmigrated into an evil spirit himself and had eaten quite a few such spiritual bodies, Xia Yu had already become immune to the appearance of those evil spirits.
No matter how ugly they were, once you got used to looking at them, they were just like that.
Since arriving in the world of ghostwire: tokyo, he had been living like this for nearly half a year, going from being exceptionally excited at the beginning to being bored out of his mind now.
He had woken up during that supernatural phenomenon that affected all of Tokyo. However, the location where he woke up wasn't very good, because not far from him were the protagonists of ghostwire: tokyo, Akito and Hatake Kaka... bah, it's KK. Those two guys were thinning out the evil spirits.
Although he considered himself a harmless spirit, who knew if he would be identified as an evil spirit.
Therefore, without even thinking, he fled immediately. Fortunately, the other party didn't chase him. He didn't want to hear the protagonist say some 'heart-to-heart' words to him.
That 'heart-to-heart' was literal—the kind where they'd reach in and crush your spirit core.
After successfully escaping, Xia Yu just wanted to curse the heavens. How did he wake up and become an evil spirit, and even transmigrate to the world of ghostwire: tokyo?
How should he put it? This world was dangerous yet not dangerous, but what made him lose his composure was why he had to transmigrate as an evil spirit of all things.
Even being reincarnated as a human again would have been fine. After all, with a second life, he could surely live better.
But before he could even think about what to do, the supernatural event that affected all of Tokyo had already been resolved by Akito.
As expected of a protagonist, his efficiency was truly fast.
Although Xia Yu had played the game ghostwire: tokyo, how should he put it? The game was played for the gameplay, not the plot.
Moreover, the plot seemed to have already ended, so his advantage of foreknowledge was gone.
After the large-scale supernatural event that affected all of Tokyo ended, the direction of things afterward was much simpler—everything returned to its original state.
The people who disappeared came back, and they seemed to have lost their memories of that night.
But ghosts and monsters still existed, and the yokai had not disappeared. The urban legends that appeared occasionally seemed to be proving to the world that the supernatural still existed.
Under these circumstances, an evil spirit like Xia Yu naturally didn't disappear, but he didn't return to the Underworld or the Netherworld either.
Speaking of this, Xia Yu was a bit puzzled. Clearly, in the game ghostwire: tokyo, the Netherworld and the Underworld both existed, so why did those incredibly disgusting evil spirits still exist?
And it seemed that no underworld messengers appeared to arrest these wandering evil spirits. Fortunately, because of this, he could continue to wander around.
But this seemed even more difficult to handle. After all, having transmigrated into an evil spirit without an Underworld to guide him and without some'Strongest Ghost King System,' he didn't even know where he should go.
Fortunately, something that happened not long ago gave him a new goal.
That was an inexplicable battle where a guy who was also an evil spirit suddenly attacked him.
Being attacked out of the blue—could he endure that? He definitely couldn't!
Because he possessed clear intelligence and a sense of self, he easily dealt with that mindless evil spirit that attacked him. That evil spirit was beaten into yin energy by him.
During the process of striking, that yin energy merged into his body, making his originally illusory form a bit more solid.
After sensing this, Xia Yu was extremely excited. Since he could become more solid, did that mean he could also restore a physical body? He wanted a physical body so badly.
Although a spirit body could go anywhere without any restrictions, it couldn't do anything. He couldn't come into contact with physical objects; he couldn't even touch them.
From then on, Xia Yu began his career of hunting evil spirits, most of which were ordinary evil spirits without a sense of self.
Mainly because he couldn't beat the powerful evil spirits—at least not for now.
"Sigh, it's been so long, when exactly will I be able to have a physical body?"
Bored, Xia Yu didn't change his whip-arm back but instead split it directly into several tentacles.
Unfortunately, there were no magical girls in this world, so his tentacles had no place to be put to use.
"Hmm? There's a stray Four-Headed Evil Spirit ahead. Great, the nutrition of this kind of evil spirit is..."
Seeing another stray evil spirit appear, Xia Yu swung his multiple grotesque tentacles and slowly followed. Since no one could see him anyway, he just let himself go.
If he could do it, he even wanted to turn directly into a meatball covered in hands with only a gaping maw in the center. That would make preying on other evil spirits much more convenient.
I don't know if anyone has seen this manga, which is "Mieruko-chan." Because I like this manga quite a bit, I merged it directly with the game "ghostwire: tokyo." Besides, "ghostwire: tokyo" doesn't have much of a plot, so I just decided to write "Mieruko-chan" using the skin of "ghostwire: tokyo.