For a monster that has been immortal for thousands of years, being verbally humiliated by a low-level human is undoubtedly something that makes him feel angry.

But anger didn't help, the irritable voice gradually subsided, think about it, this human being is so despicable, if you become angry because of this, you will undoubtedly let yourself fall into the trap of this despicable human again.

"Human bugs, count yourself as the winner. But what are you going to do with these two women? ”

The Sprite calmed the anger that was about to stir up in his heart, and let out a cold laugh.

He was indeed carried away by the anger, but when he calmed down, he realized what was wrong.

Even if you cut off your connection with Chakra, there's no need to worry about this kind of thing, right?

How will the ninja fight if he loses the chakra?

Rely on natural energy?

That kind of energy is special, but it is not enough to pose a deadly threat to it alone.

Therefore, even if Shiraishi had a way to block his dark energy, it would only serve to protect itself in front of it at best.

The most important thing is that the other two women who followed him may not be able to use such a special technique, which can prevent its dark encroachment.

I saw that after the collision of the dark torrent, Ruri and Ayane, who fell to the ground, had slowly stood up from the ground at this moment.

A thick black fog spread over the two of them, rolling and surging like a stream of water.

The writing wheel eyes and white eyes turned into boundless darkness, completely soaked in the darkness of the dragons, and when the eyes scanned over, it gave people a very terrifying sense of trembling.

"Do humans always look ahead and look backwards, or do these two women have no value to you? Either way, witness the look of despair you put on your face after being killed by them. ”

The strength of the two newly obtained chess pieces is also considerable.

Among the humans it has controlled for thousands of years, the strength of Ruri and Ayane is also among the best.

Fighting with it now, it can be described as a tiger with wings.

After Ruri and Ayane both stood up from the ground, their eyes became dull under the erosion of darkness, like a pool of stagnant water that was calm and unwavering.

But they are full of murderous energy, and it is conceivable that the posture they show at this moment can be described as extremely dangerous to the enemy.

Seeing this scene, Shiraishi fell silent slightly, and looked calm.

In the eyes of the spirit, Shiraishi was just pretending to be relaxed.

It is estimated that at this moment, I am already afraid of regretting death.

It has long seen through the weakness and incompetence of human beings.

"Go, kill him!"

The spirit gave the order in a commanding tone.

A ninja corrupted by its dark origins would never be able to act against its will.

Humanity cannot face its darkness.

They will only be dominated by its darkness, panicking, trembling, screaming in fear, crying in despair.

This is something that the Sprite is born with.

Struggling hard, her body trembled violently, Liuli lowered her head deeply, her long hair fell down, and she grabbed her forehead with one hand, as if it was very painful.

Ayane made almost the same move, struggling to break free from the dragon's shackles.

With the pupil power of the writing wheel eye and the white eye, he strives to fight against the darkness that has eroded into the body.

The darkness that has smelted the essence of human beings is by no means a weight that the human body can easily bear.

On Ruri's body, slowly, the solid model of Susanoo's chakra was condensed again.

The difference is that Susanoo is no longer a bright blood red, but on the basis of blood red, it is dyed with a dark quality, and it has become a dark red color that is close to darkness.

The greatsword was also pulled out of the air, rendering it into a new dark red blade, which was more solid and sharp than the chakra greatsword produced before.

And when people look at the blade of the sword, they will also be covered with darkness, which affects their consciousness, which is equivalent to unconsciously releasing higher illusions, causing the most fearful things in people's hearts.

The dark red greatsword was raised high, raised to the highest point, and stopped moving, as if it was stiff there, and did not move for a long time.

Kill –

The Dragon's command, mixed with the pleasure of destroying everything, was once again accurately transmitted to Ruri's mind through the chakra.

Then, the dark red sword light that destroyed everything crossed the obstacles of the atmosphere, like a wild horse that had completely let go of its restraints, galloped out, and mercilessly rushed away from the rocky road under its feet.

The magma underground is divided into two halves, directly hitting the body of the dragon hidden in the magma.

A terrible howl came from the mouth of the dragon.

Countless tentacles poked out of the magma and began to swing wildly, being touched by the dark red blade of the sword, and the pain was so painful that the body could no longer control itself.

The pain can only be shared in such an exaggerated way.

However, compared to this sudden pain, the actions made by Liuli at this moment were the ones that made the dragon feel the most angry.

"Why is that? - No, it can't be! How is it possible for humans – why? ”

Impossible!

It's absolutely impossible!

It would be forgivable to say that Shiraishi could avoid his dark erosion by severing his connection with Chakra.

However, why is it that a human being, who has its dark origin in its body, can attack its 'master' against its will?

Such a scene happened beyond the scope of what the spirit could think.

"Humans—"

Is there really a human being in this world who can look directly into the darkness of his heart?

If so, what is the meaning of being born into the world?

This kind of thing can't happen!

"Is that you? Are you a human doing it again? Hateful! ”

The sprite swept its gaze to the white stone, and countless pitch-black tentacles began to stretch at breakneck speed, breaking through the blockade of the magma.

It must have been something that Shiraishi did for its control to fail.

Just kill this despicable human and everything will return to its original state.

Shiraishi watched a large number of pitch-black tentacles fly towards him, and stood there calmly without the slightest movement, just calmly watching the dragon in the magma, showing its ridiculous and pitiful posture of struggle.

Boom!

A huge rock fell from above, and it was Ayane who jumped to the top of the cave, and through the observation of the white eyes, directly hit the bearing point at the top of the cave, revealing the deep and endless night sky outside.

The rocks were as large as a hill, almost grazing the edge of the white stone and falling into the magma.

Before the countless outstretched tentacles could touch Baishi's body, they were crushed by the huge rock blocks, splashing blue-black blood, and one by one the tentacles fell weakly into the magma.

The lava rolled up and splashed everywhere.

The massive rock had sunk into the magma, hitting the dragon's body.

The howl of the sprite became even more terrible.

Although it can't form a fatal blow to the dragon, this is not an ordinary heavy blow to the dragon's heart.

It can no longer maintain the calmness and calmness it deserves.

A human who was supposed to be an ant-

I should have been a victorious self-

Why did this happen?

One by one, why should they all be out of its control?

In the midst of extreme anger and humiliation, the spirit of the dragon was like magma bathed in the body at the moment, hot and frenzied.

It's just that its madness, in the eyes of others, is nothing more than a desperate beast making a final struggle in front of the hunter.

The dark red greatsword swept away, slicing off the dark tentacles that stretched out of the magma.

Liuli's mind is not very clear, but she can barely discern the current situation with her amazing willpower.

Should I say that it is worthy of a ghost? This darkness was heavier than the darkness in the eyes of any writing wheel she had ever seen.

And this is only a part of the Dragon's shoulder, it's hard to imagine what this monster has been carrying so far, so far, so far.

Even if it's Liuli, I can't help but feel pity for the dragon in my heart.

However, pity is pitiful, and Liuli has no intention of being soft-hearted.

In fact, fighting the sprites is very dangerous.

The strength of the dragon is not in the huge chakra and its infinite regenerative flesh.

Its most essential darkness is the greatest weapon of the Spirit.

For humans, this is a deadly virus that is difficult to resist.

Even if she forces her will not to be distorted by this darkness, these darkness are like maggots on tarsal bones, and it is extremely difficult to enter the body to remove it, and it is uncontrollably in the void of her heart, which then affects her consciousness.

Unless it's like Shiraishi, who briefly abandons Chakra and cuts off the channel for resonating with the darkness of the Dragon.

It's just that in this way, doesn't it prove that you lost to the darkness in your heart?

The darkness of the writing wheel has endured, and there is no longer anything to fear in this world.

Now it's just that I've encountered a darkness that is heavier than the Sharingan, and it's too early to make her succumb.

For Ayane, the same is true.

In the Hyuga family, the Hyuga family was instilled with the concept of protecting the clan and sacrificing for the clan day and night, and this concept instillation lasted for more than ten years, and he endured it one by one and acted in his own way.

Moreover, the most important thing is that even the woman who writes the wheel eye has endured, if she can't do it, won't she prove that she is weaker than her?

This is more unacceptable to Ayane than being controlled by the darkness of the spirits.

I just don't want to lose to this woman who writes wheels in this kind of thing.

The painless muffled hum that kept coming out of the mouths of Ruri and Ayane seemed to have endured until the critical moment.

Their chakra eyes and white eyes began to take the initiative to devour the darkness left by the dragon in their bodies, intending to turn the darkness in their bodies into nourishing pupil power.

The sprite roared angrily, and it also sensed the intentions of these two unscrupulous human women.

I plan to use it as a nourishment for the nourishing pupil technique, how can I endure this?

Although with their amazing willpower, they were able to initially block its darkness and encroach on it, but such a radical desire to smelt its darkness and turn it into a part of their power was, in the eyes of the spirits, nothing more than the last madness of humanity's self-destruction.

But what if?

Yes, just in case.

Although the Sprite is still reluctant to admit that there is a special being among humans who can withstand its darkness.

However, the three of them broke its expectations again and again and made unreasonable moves.

If these two women are allowed to use their pupil techniques to devour its dark power, it will inevitably give rise to some accidents that are not in its control.

It could no longer endure what was beyond its grasp.

The sprite immediately went into action, and more dark torrents erupted from the lava and rushed towards Ruri and Ayane's bodies.

The dark red blade was swung out, but to no avail.

The dark torrent pierced through the dark red greatsword, which was only the embodiment of the darkness primordial, not a formal force that could be countered to.

It doesn't believe that Ruri and Ayane can devour its darkness without limit.

As long as the balance in their bodies is broken, the two of them can be killed on the spot, and the balance of victory will tip in its favor again.

In any case, these two humans cannot be allowed to succeed.

A dark territory that humans are not allowed to tread.

Just as the dark torrent was about to touch Ruri and Ayane's bodies, a miraculous light suddenly lit up.

“！？”

The blood-red pupils of the sprite jerked somewhere.

An ancient stone door appeared on the ground at some point, and it was the sealing container that was originally in the Oni no Kuni Shrine and sealed the dragons, and it was summoned here at this moment.

The stone door was completely open, revealing a mixture of purple and black.

The body of the dragon trembled restlessly.

That time and space is the 'cage' it has been most familiar with for thousands of years.

For thousands of years, it has broken free from the seal again and again, and has been sealed in it again and again by the shrine maiden, where it tastes endless loneliness and despair alone.

It's a world that only monsters can endure, and it belongs to one person.

A 'paradise' specially created for it by the shrine maiden.

Once you enter it, its darkness cannot reach the world.

There is no more boring place for the Spirits than that plane.

In front of the stone gate, Maitreya Shrine Maiden shines with a holy white light, which is different from the darkness of the sprites, and is a warm power that melts whenever the darkness appears.

It is not accurate to say that it is warm, but some kind of purification of a higher realm.

When Shiraishi saw this scene, he rushed to Ruri and Ayane and took the two of them into the distance.

Even if Maitreya Shrine Maiden didn't deliberately target Ruri and Ayane, as long as that light illuminated them, the two who were devouring and fusing with the dark part of the dragon would also be hit hard.

Unless you can completely swallow the darkness of the monster and turn it into your own power.

However, this is not something that can be solved in a while.

The three of them have fully done their job as 'containers' and have completed the tasks they should do well.

The next finishing work can only be to believe in Maitreya Witch.

It's just that this is not a good thing for the spirits.

The darkness turned into a torrent, constantly spilling out of the body of the dragon, and was forced to flow towards the stone gate behind the Maitreya witch.

The surging tide of darkness passed by Maitreya Witch, driving her long, beautiful hair that was also shining brightly, and fluttered there.

"Original...... So...... Are those three humans here to spread the darkness for you...... The shrine maiden believed in humans, and humans trusted shrine maidens who were no longer humans...... How can you lose to this power of 'trust'......"

At this time, it suddenly dawned on the three of them that the reason why the three of them came here was not to fight it, but to act as Maitreya's sealing container, which was used to spread the excess darkness on its body.

Because with Maitreya's strength at the moment, it is not enough to seal such a weight of darkness.

It can only rely on the way of spreading the darkness evenly, let the three of Shiraishi share part of the pressure, and finally let the shrine maiden seal its final remaining root consciousness.

It's just that this time I understand that it's a little late.

From the very beginning, the pace of the battle was completely dominated by the opponent.

Its ugliness is also something in their calculations.

Obviously mastering the darkness that is more powerful than ever, why do you fail every time?

Is it true that your failure was just an accidental loss to humans and shrine maidens?

If it is accidental, how can we explain the countless failures over the millennia?

The Dragon's mind was filled with such questions.

The vast darkness is the manifestation of the original soul of the dragon.

Countless dark tentacles dancing in the air lost their spirituality, turned into dead things and fell towards the magma, where they were finally swallowed up by the magma and disappeared.

A great darkness flew over Maitreya's head and turned into two arms, clutching the edge of the stone door so tightly that her body was not sucked into it.

Indissoluble?

Unwilling?

Or both.

Will fate be reincarnated again?

At this point, it seems that there is no point in asking anything.

Why did Maitreya, who was of the same kind, help mankind so much?

Just a swarm of hopeless bugs.

It seems that in the past, Maitreya's ancestors also asked him why he did not want to believe in human beings.

At the time, he remembered scoffing at the question.

Having absorbed the darkness of human beings and grown, no one knows the ignorance and selfishness of human beings better than it.

Why should such a stupid thing be trusted?

In the blood-red pupils, there is infinite attachment to the human world and pity for Maitreya as a shrine maiden.

Longing for beautiful things is the instinctive pursuit of human nature.

It's not human, it's better than a human, and naturally it has this thirst.

I opened my mouth, but in the end I couldn't say anything, and I had a strange feeling that I didn't know what to say.

Taking the initiative to let go of his hand, the body formed by darkness lost its support point and plunged into the endless other world.

There, it will enjoy eternal solitude as before.

Quietly waiting for the next moment to come.

Next time, it won't let go of its hand like this easily.

"I'm sorry, Spirit."

Calm words, from Maitreya's mouth.

The ancient stone door slowly closed, and all the things in the world suddenly returned to calm, and the darkness disappeared.

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The Spirits have been resealed, but the follow-up issues still need to be dealt with.

Because during the battle with the Spirits, the Ghost Legion controlled by the Dragons caused serious damage to many areas of the Ghost Country.

In particular, the main roads of some important towns were trampled by stone soldiers, causing the road surface to collapse.

Some towns were also invaded by stone warriors, and it was difficult for the ninjas stationed there to resist them, so they had to give up and flee with the townspeople for refuge.

These damaged towns also need to be restored and rebuilt as soon as possible.

For other countries, this can be a huge and labor-intensive project.

But for the country of ghosts, it is not a difficult task.

Within the country of ghosts, a special ninja engineering team was set up very early.

The ninjas in this engineering team are not skilled in combat, but are proficient in various special techniques that are conducive to construction, and have a wealth of construction experience for up to ten years.

The speed at which they started to renovate was far greater than that of ordinary people.

Cooperate with ordinary workers to devote themselves to the construction work, which greatly increases the efficiency of road and town reconstruction.

Among the shrines outside Shion Castle.

When Shiraishi arrived, the air was completely new and devoid of that oppressive aura.

This may be because the sprites have been resealed.

Moreover, its darkness was cut off, and naturally it was impossible to pass through the sealing stone door and extend the tentacles into the human world again.

In the stone stream of the mountain behind the shrine, Maitreya Shrine Maiden stood alone, standing alone, and it seemed that the heavens and the earth were depressed.

For some reason, Shiraishi felt Maitreya's presence at the moment, and it became very thin.

Even the human figure has become much more illusory.

Is it because of the seal? Shiraishi thought to himself.

However, rather than sealing, Shiraishi prefers to see Maitreya's state as the price of offsetting the darkness of the spirits.

Although the spirit has said that the witch is the same kind as it.

But the roots of the two are very different.

The monster is a monster that is bred by the darkness of the human heart through chakra.

And the shrine maiden, in its original form, is a real human.

The reason why they are the same kind is only because they have formed a special way to form a special force that can resonate with each other.

This is also the reason why the spirit is obsessed with the shrine maiden.

Even monsters can feel lonely and have someone who longs to understand them.

For it, the shrine maiden is a special being that can pry open its heart.

It can't kill a shrine maiden, and shrine maidens can't kill it.

It's just a repetition of the fate of this cycle of constant reincarnation, entangled with each other.

In this world, there is no one who knows the essence of the shrine maiden better than the spirit.

"Mr. Shiraishi, has the situation of the two of you improved?"

Maitreya turned his head and asked.

Shiraishi knew that the people Maitreya was referring to were Ruri and Ayane.

The two of them are in a special state of unconsciousness at the moment due to the darkness of the dragon, and they are undergoing some unknown transformation.

This kind of thing, Shiraishi can't help the two of them.

The only thing they can do is to ensure that the two of them can escape when the two of them fail to fight against the darkness.

"So far, there have been no accidents. But I'm not sure if it will succeed. Even if I used Zerotail's negative energy to give the two of them simulation training in advance, the darkness on the dragon's body was not comparable to that of a juvenile monster like Zerotail. ”

In order to deal with the dragons, Shiraishi made targeted training for Ruri and Ayane very early.

Monsters are not easy to find in the ninja world.

There are even fewer monsters in their hands, only Zerotail.

Although the way of birth can be said to be similar, Zerotail was discovered and mastered by the people of the Sky Country a few decades ago, and when Zerotail was discovered, its power was very weak, and it is conceivable that Zerotail is still a juvenile of a monster.

There is a world of difference between it and a monster that has survived for thousands of years.

Even if Shiraishi uses various ways to stimulate and enhance the power of Zerotail, if he wants to reach the magnitude of the dragon, he may not be able to do it in his lifetime.

There is also an essential distinction between monsters and monsters.

However, this also opened up an idea for Shiraishi at that time.

They all use darkness to influence people's hearts, so Shiraishi has chopped up part of Zerotail's body more than once, and made these body fragments into potions that specifically hone their willpower, so that Ruri and Ayane can adapt to the so-called 'darkness' in advance, and exercise a firm willpower that ordinary people can't reach, and fight against the dark nature of monsters.

Aside from his somewhat fee-free body, overall, his speculation was not wrong.

"In this way, although the root consciousness of the dragon has been sealed in another time and space by me, the darkness left in the human world is still a dangerous force for ordinary people. If you can, Mr. Shiraishi should not abuse this power, not every life can withstand the erosion of darkness. ”

Maitreya's gaze was deep, and he looked straight at Shiraishi.

Shiraishi nodded.

"Don't worry, I've figured out what to do with that part of the darkness."

"In that case, please leave it to Mr. Shiraishi."

Maitreya smiled slightly, with a hint of ease.

Shiraishi's heart moved, and he looked at Maitreya's gentle and kind face.

"You...... Leaving it? ”

Maitreya nodded, and even so, there was no sadness on his face.

"For the shrine maiden, life is just a reincarnation of rebirth. My mission in this life is over, and in the future, let Shion continue to carry the mission of the shrine maiden instead of me. That kid might be a little headstrong, but he'll definitely do a great job as a shrine maiden. ”

Born in such a land, Maitreya did not know whether his daughter Aster was lucky or unlucky.

But before a new path can come, the shrine maiden must take on such a responsibility.

"Really? That...... May you go all the way. ”

Shiraishi exhaled slowly, turned his back to Maitreya and left.

Maitreya, who has seen everything in the world, does not need an outsider to be comforted here.

For her, sleeping quietly on the earth that nurtured her is the best farewell ritual.

Where the shrine maiden will go after her death, Shiraishi doesn't know, and he doesn't want to know.

Because the truth of the matter can be very cruel.

In this world, there will always be some people who choose to carry the weight forward.