The interior of the building was pitch black, so dark you couldn't see your own hand in front of your face. There was only the occasional sound of the wind and faint noises from afar.
In this darkness and silence, every tiny noise was magnified. Every shadow inside was incredibly eerie, and the air was filled with a rotten and damp smell.
Tap, tap...
Intermittent footsteps rang out.
The sudden visitors startled the evil spirits hiding inside this building.
They crawled out from the walls, garbage piles, ceilings, and stairwells. Their pitch-black eye sockets looked towards the sound, and upon smelling the scent of the living, they instinctively moved their footsteps toward the lit light source.
Hana Yurikawa held up her phone, using the light from the flashlight to carefully avoid the clutter under her feet.
She didn't know if it was just her imagination, but she felt like several pairs of eyes were staring at her from the darkness.
Even though there was obviously nothing here.
"As expected, we shouldn't go any deeper. What if we encounter a murderer or something hiding here..."
Hana Yurikawa gulped and then whispered to the others.
No one usually came here; it was simply the perfect hiding place for criminals.
"We'll just stay for a little while, not too long."
Miko Yotsuya had a stiff expression, and Yuria beside her also looked very unnatural.
Because they were surrounded.
From Yuria's perspective, the number of evil spirits she could see alone reached over twenty. Most of the rest were black masses of gas, with only a slight outline visible.
These evil spirits surrounded them, staring at them like tigers watching their prey.
The cross in her palm was heating up. Yuria could see her body enveloped in a white light, and the evil spirits attempting to get closer suddenly stopped their movements. Some even took the initiative to pull back a distance.
Gabriel in the back turned the camera around and recorded the scene just now.
"Everyone saw that just now, right! It was really thrilling. Some filthy things actually tried to get close to our Miss Kitty, but fortunately, my guardian cross was there, so it was a near miss..."
After Gabriel finished speaking, she ignored the screen full of question marks in the livestream and looked at the squirming 'flesh lump' to the front left of Miko Yotsuya.
So disgusting.
The squirming flesh lump waved dense human limbs, moving on the ground like a centipede.
Even though it was crawling, its massive size almost pierced through the first-floor ceiling.
Its giant mouth full of sharp teeth was currently chewing on an unlucky evil spirit, and the other party's screams could faintly be heard.
Eyeballs the size of basketballs extended on long tentacles like a snail, glaring with bloodshot eyes as they sized up the four living humans.
Upon seeing the layer of holy light on Yuria, it unabashedly revealed a look of fear and disgust.
"So disgusting..."
The centipede flesh lump's eyeballs avoided Yuria and lingered on Hana Yurikawa for a few seconds.
The rich life energy on Hana Yurikawa's body was a blazing inferno that weak evil spirits desperately avoided, but for an evil spirit like it, it was like a rare delicacy in this world.
But after seeing the same holy light on her, the disgust in its eyes deepened.
No matter how delicious a delicacy was, it would become worthless once arsenic was added.
The centipede flesh lump's gaze swept over Gabriel, but it also noticed the same light coming from her.
Finally, its gaze stopped on Miko Yotsuya at the very front.
"It's, it's looking this way!"
Miko Yotsuya's gaze trembled slightly.
Both the appearance and the terrifying nature of the flesh lump in front of her were constantly challenging the limits of Miko Yotsuya's psychological endurance.
Forcing down her inner fear, she recalled Gabriel's instructions.
"As long as the evil spirit doesn't realize you can see it, you won't suffer any harm, inherently standing in an invincible position."
"This is where it gets interesting. The evil spirit can't hurt you, but you can deal damage to it."
"Remember, you must use the flower I gave you while ensuring you always remain in an invincible position."
"Even if the divine arts on that flower can't do anything to the opponent, you won't be implicated and thus fall into a near-death, perilous situation."
Suddenly.
A sudden change occurred.
Billows of pitch-black yin qi surged from the centipede flesh lump's body. The surrounding temperature instantly dropped by several degrees, and the nearby evil spirits also became restlessly agitated.
Hana Yurikawa couldn't help but hug her arms.
Miko Yotsuya also snapped out of her memories. The scene before her made her heart tremble.
The enormous centipede flesh lump transformed into a cloud of black mist, lunging at her without any warning, as if trying to drill into her body.
Some special evil spirits could possess human bodies.
It seemed to have chosen Miko Yotsuya and was preparing to possess her.
Seeing this.
Miko Yotsuya's legs trembled uncontrollably. She subconsciously raised the holy cross (lily flower) in her hand and said in a deadpan tone:
"It really is scary here (deadpan). I need to shout a slogan to try and dispel the fear in my heart..."
Right when the black smoke was about to rush into her body, Miko Yotsuya suddenly shouted: "Help me, Berserker!"
Hearing this, Yuria jerked her head up.
It was this phrase again!
Could it be that there was another powerful evil spirit here that she couldn't see!
In an instant.
A pink fist blasted out instantly toward the black mist!
Boom—!
A deafening roar that ordinary people couldn't hear echoed through the heavens and earth.
The black mist dissipated, and the centipede flesh lump, whose entire head looked like it had been blown to pieces by a bomb, crashed heavily to the ground, the dense limbs on its body flailing wildly.
And in front of Miko Yotsuya, a pink-haired girl appeared.
A barrier subsequently unfolded, completely cutting off any possibility of the evil spirit escaping.
Immediately after, Mika Misono walked with elegant steps, approaching the nearby evil spirits.
"Did you see that! This is a divine artifact passed down from my ancestors! Even an ordinary person can unleash one hundred percent of its power."
Gabriel pointed the camera at Mika Misono and the horde of evil spirits, beginning a live commentary with an impassioned tone.
Vividly describing a one-sided massacre.
Gulp.
Yuria broke into a cold sweat as she listened from the side, because she saw the nearby evil spirits being hunted down by something. The cruelty of the methods was exactly as Gabriel had described.
"Help me, Berserker... Hahaha, can this slogan really boost your courage?"
The oblivious Hana Yurikawa laughed. She never expected Miko Yotsuya to have such a chuunibyou side.
"For me, it's quite effective..."
Miko Yotsuya responded with a numb expression as she watched the massacre unfolding.
This level of gore was even more terrifying than the time at the Sports Equipment Storage Room.
"Everyone, the livestream ends here. If anyone is interested in this divine artifact of mine, feel free to contact me at any time."
After the massacre ended, Gabriel cleared her throat, said a few words, and finally turned off the livestream.
On the other side.
"..."
Mitsue Takeda stared blankly at the blacked-out livestream screen.
Like Yuria, she saw something she couldn't see frantically slaughtering the evil spirits inside The Cursed Building.
Although she couldn't see it, she could tell from its aura that it was something incredibly terrifying.