Aunt Haruno is a warm-hearted Middle-Aged Woman, probably in her thirties. When she first came to the town, she took care of Tenraku and Akeno and gave them a lot of cooking ingredients on weekdays.
Tenraku and Akeno usually don’t stay in one place for too long. Since they have decided to set off again, they arrived at Haruno’s house after packing their clothes in the morning. They said goodbye to Aunt Haruno and thanked her for taking care of them.
Not expecting the two of them to leave so soon, Aunt Haruno was also quite sorry. In her opinion, Tenraku and Akeno were both poor homeless children. Although she once again proposed that they could stay with her, the two childrens still declined politely.
They had originally planned to leave, but they suddenly found something, Tenraku and Akeno glanced at each other, and there was a trace of suspicion in their eyes.
“Aunt Haruno, is there anyone else in your family beside you?” Akeno asked seriously.
“Besides me, Ichiro is at home, what’s wrong?”
Not knowing why Akeno suddenly asked about this, but the simple Aunt Haruno answered truthfully.
“There is an ominous aura coming from Aunt’s house, and if we read it correctly, it seems that someone in Aunt’s family had been possessed by Evil Spirits or something.”
After thinking about it, Akeno finally surmised what she and Tenraku are thinking.
After hearing Akeno’s words, Aunt Haruno couldn’t help but panic.
There are countless Yōkai and Evil Spirits in this world, and they often attached themselves to some ordinary people to absorb their essence, so even ordinary people believe in their existence.
Aunt Haruno didn’t doubt Akeno’s words, because she also found that Ichiro was acting unusual for the past few days, he is always in a state of lack of energy, and he slept all day yesterday, and didn’t wake up this morning.
“What can I do, what can I do …”
In this remote town, there is no master who can exorcism Evil Spirits. Aunt Haruno turned pale and was sweating anxiously.
“Aunt Haruno, Akeno and I have some spells to get rid of Evil Spirits. If you believe us, let us try.”
After all, she has taken care of both of them, and Tenraku thought it was time to repay them, so he said this.
“Can you really do it?” Although Tenraku’s words made her feel a little emotional, Aunt Haruno still hesitated. After all, Tenraku and Akeno are not much bigger than Ichiro. It is really hard to believe that they can destroy Evil Spirits like the powerful Master.
Looking at Aunt Haruno’s indecisive look, Tenraku and Akeno smiled at each other without explaining anything.
Although they are still not masters at present, they are still able to deal with a few Evil Spirits, and they have done many similar things in the past six months of traveling together.
In the end, Aunt Haruno, who had no other choice, still chose to believe the two. After instructing them to be careful, she invited them into the house and took them to Ichiro’s room upstairs.
Ichiro is the only son of Aunt Haruno. He is an ordinary teenager of eight or nine years old. He was sleeping peacefully when the three entered his room.
Of course, this is just the scene in the eyes of Aunt Haruno, and in the eyes of Tenraku and Akeno, the teenager named Ichiro is lying on the bed screaming for help as his life force is getting sucked by an Evil Spirit.
“Aunt Haruno, you should go outside and wait for a while, don’t come in no matter what you hear.”
The young man named Ichiro could not hold on for long, and Tenraku’s face became solemn.
Although the Evil Spirits could not be seen, Aunt Haruno could only trust the two at the moment, ensuring that she would not come in and then exited the room and closed the door.
“Akeno, be careful.”
“Yes, you too.”
After reminding each other to be carefull, Tenraku pulled out the Longsword from behind him and Akeno also released some of her own Imps.
These little Imps are a group of little guys that Akeno once met while drifting alone. For some reason, Akeno became friends with them and she has been taking care of them. Although they are not very strong, they can also help her as an enabler.
At Akeno’s command, the few Imps screamed and rushed towards the Evil Spirit. The Evil Spirit, who was already consuming the boy’s life force was disturbed by the Imps and looked irritable. It opened its big mouth and was about to kill these annoying little people but the Imps were very clever and they flew away at the sight of the situation, and then returned to Akeno.
The enraged Evil Spirit stopped there, it let go of Ichiro’s soul and roared towards Tenraku and Akeno.
“Come here!”
With a sharp flash in his eyes, Tenraku rushed against the Evil Spirit while mobilizing Spirit Qi in his body to cover the sword body.
Ordinary swords cannot harm Evil Spirits, but swords covered with Spirit Qi can do it!
The sword in Tanraku’s hand falls and with the cold light flashing, the Evil Spirit in the air was directly cut off by Tenraku’s sword!
“Ahhh !!!!!!”
The Evil Spirit, who had been cut to pieces, let out a shriek of pain, and the fierceness light grew in it, it was ready to bite Tenraku’s in spite of everything.
“Thunder and Lightning!”
At just the right moment, Akeno’s voice rang from the side, and the girl’s jade-like finger pointed towards the Evil Spirit and then a beam of electric light emitted from it, directly exploding the Evil Spirits in the air into flying ash…
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“Wowowo … Mom, I’m so scared, so scared!”
“Ooo, ooo …… My Ichiro, you scared your mother to death.”
In the living room of Haruno’s house, Tenraku and Akeno stood side by side while watching mother and son crying together.
Although the two of them are just doing this to repay the favor, it feels good to help others occasionally like this.
“Ichiro, can you tell us what is going on, why were you possessed by an Evil Spirit?”
“Yeah, Ichiro, you tell your mother what happened.”
Tenraku asked when the mother and the child were crying, and Aunt Haruno also eagerly asked.
At first, Ichiro dodged their eyes, but he finally told the truth under the pressure from his mother.
It turned out that he received a leaflet while playing outside a few days ago. The leaflet was painted with a peculiar Magic square, and the person who gave him the leaflet also told him that he could summon the Devil Lord as long as he called to the Magic formation in good faith. Devils can do anything he wants, so long as he pays the price.
The little guy took the leaflet back to his house with a little doubt. Finally, he couldn’t resist his curiosity and tried to summon the Devil from this Magic circle with a sincere heart. To his surprise, he actually summoned a Devil!
The Devil was not as terrible as he heard in the legend, but it was rather kind, which relaxed the young Ichiro who was nervous and frightened at first. After asking the Devil a lot of questions, Ichiro finally exchanged his most beloved toy with the Devil for the ability to temporarily talk to Ghosts.
After gaining the ability, Ichiro found that he could see a lot of ghosts floating in the air. Not only could he talk to them, but he could also find them to play with. At first, everything was fine, but then he saw a black-spirited ghost, he did not agree to speak to him, but when he invited him to play with everyone, he threw himself over and grabbed his neck, and also sucked his own energy, and then what everyone knew later happened…
After hearing Ichiro’s statement, Aunt Haruno was stunned, but Tenraku and Akeno were not surprised. Devils in this world would enter into contracts and trade with humans for various reasons.
Tenraku also specifically asked the younger Ichiro if he knew the name of the Devil who traded with him, but the little guy shook his head, and the other party only told him that he was a Peerage member of some big devil in the Underworld.
But when the little guy said the name of the big Devil, it made Tenraku look surprised, because that Devil belonged to one of the legendary 72 Pillars of the Underworld, whose name was-
Gremory!
To be continued …