4-74: The Miko’s Kamui (God’s Authority) (1/3)

4-74: The Miko’s Kamui (God’s Authority) (1/3)

The giant skeletons were each about 15 meters tall.

That was tall enough that looking up at them from up close made ones neck hurt.

With a skull at the apex, followed by the clavicle, the sternum, the ribs, the pelvis, the femur, and so on They were basically a giant skeletal model of the human body, but they looked strangely beautiful in the moonlit Kyoto.

However,that only held true when they were a painting, not when they were real.

Not to mention, there were five of them.

If not for them appearing within the barrier, people would have long noticed them despite it being in the dead of the night, and the countermeasure department and even the aircrafts of the JSDF would have surely been deployed, reenacting a scene straight out of the kaiju films.

F-Fu ha ha, well arent you well informed for a fake! Normally, these things would be used one at a time, but I combined them into one and now control them all! Behold this power! Behold this size! This is is my true power!!

Without the slightest regard for the dangers involved, Michizane praised himself and laughed.Visit no(v)eLb(i)n.com for the best novel reading experience

But Tomoe and her friends didnt so much as spare him a glance and just made a difficult face as they glared at the giants.

With the Miasma wafting up from the gaps between the bones and the eye sockets that were darkly glowing, these things werent just giant skeletal models but actual monsters.

Tomoe calling them Gashadokuro was indeed apt.

Not just for the appearance, but also for the circumstances of its creation.

Gashadokuro? So this isnt a shiki but a real monster?

Ryou recognized the name and the terrible atmosphere emanating from the skeletons, so he asked that question, but Tomoe shook her head.

No. Its true that there are exorcists that bind monsters with a contract to use them as a shiki, but the Gashadokuro are said to be a recently developed youkai by humans. Theyre similar to the shikionis I use Though the catalysts they used are real human bones.

They were shikis created using the resentment, hatred, and envy contained in those bones.

Just where and how did they collect those human bones? And how many?

When Tomoe thought of that, her expression turned grim.

As Tomoe spoke to someone(something), a thin layer of spiritual power covered her, then a flash gold ran through her.

To these students from Garesto, there was no need to think about what that brilliance entailed.

H-Hey, Tomoe are you

Sorry, Ryou. I messed up a bit. If he takes something like that out, Ill have to fight seriously too. I would hate it if the manor were to be destroyed. Hopefully, the Tsuchimikados master will be able to smoothen things out despite everything.

Huh? Oh, so thats what you were trying to do. No wonder you were so docile Wait, thats not whats important right now!

Tomoe knew what Ryou wanted to ask but just laughed as she easily diverted the topic.

She didnt have the time to leisurely explain.

Michizane, who had been laughing so smugly, had already started shaking when he realized that no one was listening to him.

She needed to take the initiative before he blew his top again.

For safetys sake, huh You were right, so right I feel useless as a fortune teller.

Tomoe wryly smiled, then with flowing movements, hid the pendant in her clothes and touched her weapon terminal.

AwakenGods Authority (Kamui)!

Upon receiving the command of the registered voice, the otherworld terminal displayed its true value.

The brilliance of golden light(photon) grew even brighter as it covered her whole body, and then she vanished.

What!? Where did she Uwaah!?

Michizane opened his eyes wide, wondering where she went, but then a powerful wind and impact assaulted him.

The black-clothed men immediately went to support him, while Michizane looked through his half-closed eyes, wondering what had happened, only to see a trail of golden light.

A streak of light was rising toward the heavens, and at the end of that was a white and red floating beneath the night sky.