"Didn't that female reporter... give you any trouble? Didn't she make any... weird requests?"
"How do you say this?"
Kitagawa Umi looked a little unhappy and muttered softly.
"Although I am grateful to her for taking the photo for me, I always feel that the way she looks at you is malicious, as if she has some idea about you."
"rest assured."
Ye Xing waved his hand and chuckled.
"As long as the older sister is pretty, I will like her just the same."
Kitagawa Umi curled her lips and muttered softly.
"Humph, that's what you are."
Just as the two were walking side by side, a noisy laughter suddenly came from the side.
Seven men, arm in arm, holding bottles of wine, obviously drunk, dressed like thugs, came over in a crooked manner.
When they saw Kitagawa Umi, who was wearing hot pants and a vest and had an outstanding appearance, their eyes lit up and they looked at each other.
One of them walked up, stretched out his hand with a smile, and touched Kitagawa Umi's chest, still saying dirty words.
"It's so late, where are you going, little beauty?"
Before Kitagawa Umi had time to react, Ye Xing moved to the side, stood in front of her, grabbed the man's wrist, and spoke with a smile.
"Let's go dig your horse's grave. Do you want to come with me?"
The sudden attack stunned the man.
After a few seconds, he reacted, his face showing anger. He raised the bottle in his hand and smashed it on Ye Xing's head.
"You bastard, you..."
"boom."
Before the bottle fell, Ye Xing had already hit the opponent in the face with a simple straight punch.
Seeing their companions being beaten with blood all over their faces and howling in pain, the other six men's faces changed. They took out daggers from their arms and surrounded Ye Xing and Kitagawa Kaimeng.
"Night Star..."
Seeing that the other party had more people and more power, Kitagawa Kaimeng looked nervous and spoke in a low voice.
"Don't be impulsive, call the police..."
Before Kitagawa Kaimeng could finish his words, accompanied by six consecutive muffled thuds, Ye Xing had already knocked the six drunken men to the ground with extremely skillful fighting techniques.
Hearing the groans of these people lying on the ground and struggling in pain, Kitagawa Kaimeng was dumbfounded.
"You...you're so good at fighting?"
Ye Xing's reply was simple, he just chuckled.
"Understood."
"Let's go."
Ye Xing patted Kitagawa Umi's shoulder and said softly.
"Go home."
........
When they returned to the door of the apartment, Kitagawa Umi took out the key and opened the door. A blush appeared on her pretty face. She glanced at Ye Xing beside her and said softly.
"Just now...thank you for protecting me."
"Oh, it's not worth mentioning."
Ye Xing waved his hand and said with a smile.
"After all, you are important to me..."
Just as Kitagawa Umi was nervously looking forward to the next words and her heart was in her throat, she heard Ye Xing change the subject.
"Oh no, I forgot to buy an iced Coca-Cola."
"what?"
Kitagawa Umi was stunned for a moment, pointed at the big bag she was carrying, and asked in confusion.
“Aren’t there drinks in there?”
"You do not understand."
Yexing shook his head.
"I have a strange disease that will kill me if I don't drink iced Coca-Cola for a period of time."
"how is this possible?"
Ye Xing pushed Kitagawa Kaimeng, who looked skeptical and seemed to want to say something, into the room.
"I'm going to get a Coke. I'll be right back."
Just as Kitagawa Umi opened her lips and wanted to dissuade her, she saw Ye Xing reach out her hand, pat her head gently, and said in a smiling tone.
"Wait for me at home."
Kitagawa Umi was directly controlled.
It wasn't until the door closed that she came to her senses.
........
At the same time, in a remote alley.
The drunks just now were gathered here, looking unwilling, especially the first one who stepped forward and was punched in the face, with his nose crooked. He was gritting his teeth and looking full of hatred.
"That brat, if I meet him again next time, I will definitely..."
Before he could finish, a familiar, frivolous voice with a smile came from the entrance of the alley.
"Ah hello~"
Several drunks turned around and saw Ye Xing walking towards them step by step.
They were first frightened, then their eyes showed murderous intent, and one of them even took out a sharp dagger from his arms, waving it with a grim smile.
"You bastard, you actually dare to come and die."
"It's just as I felt..."
Ye Xing stood less than three meters away from the drunks, with a kind smile on his face, and spoke softly.
"Your souls are very twisted."
"Is this kid crazy?"
Looking at the group of drunkards with fierce eyes in front of him, Ye Xing just smiled and spoke slowly.
"You know what? I'm very popular and I never have any enemies."
Just as the drunks were about to surround Ye Xing, an unbelievable scene happened.
Ye Xing, who was wearing a short-sleeved shirt, had his entire right arm instantly turned pale, with sharp black nails like blades extending from his five fingers.
"Because I killed all my enemies."
Ye Xing looked at the seven drunkards who were retreating with horror, as if he was counting the number of people, and nodded with satisfaction.
"Seven people... It's been a long time since I let this guy devour human souls. I'm really looking forward to it."
"I can't think of any reason for you to continue living."
"So, it's better for you to die."
214 Undercurrents in Kyoto City, Kitagawa Umi's Declaration of War
"This...this guy's hand..."
Seeing Ye Xing's right arm turned into a pale ghost hand, the seven hooligans who were originally drunk were sobered up by the shock.
"Are you sweating?"
Seeing Ye Xing put away his smile, with no emotion in his eyes, and just approaching him step by step, the drunk holding the dagger finally couldn't stand the pressure anymore. He rushed forward with gritted teeth and stabbed Ye Xing's abdomen with the dagger in his hand with all his strength.
"Go to hell!"
"nerve."
Ye Xing didn't even bother to look down, he just stretched out his right hand, and the long, sharp black nails on his five fingers pierced directly into the drunk's head.
"It made me laugh a little."
Seeing their companion's body twitching, blood dripping down his face, falling to the ground breathless, and turning into a cold corpse, the other six people were so frightened that their faces were distorted and even their legs went weak.
They looked at Ye Xing who was standing there with an indifferent look on his face, and even his eyes did not waver at all. They felt the strongest fear they had ever felt in their lives.
The sense of danger, as if being stared at by a wild beast, made their bodies begin to feel cold.
This guy... didn't come here to fight...
"Kill...kill someone!"
Listening to the panicked roars of those people, Ye Xing just looked bored and shook off the blood on his ghost hands.
"Scream as much as you want."
He walked forward slowly, stretched out his pale five fingers again, and grabbed the face of one of the drunkards. He looked directly into the other's pupils that had dilated due to fear, and spoke slowly.
"Lowly maggots should be prepared to disappear silently in such a dirty and remote corner."
........
Five minutes later.
The alley was dead silent again.
Only the sticky blood mixed with the dust and filth, and the lifeless corpses on the ground, proved what had just happened.
"Lord Yexing, you really have time to spare."
Hearing the woman's chuckle behind him, Ye Xing did not turn around immediately. Instead, he snapped his left fingers and watched the surging black flames burn the remaining blood and corpses on the ground into nothingness before he turned around.
He looked across at Tamamonomae, who was holding an oil-paper umbrella, wearing a light-colored kimono, and had a princess-cut hairstyle, and was smiling.
"Why are you coming to the real world instead of staying in the other world?"
"Oh~ You are so heartless, Lord Yexing."
Tamamonomae pursed her lips and smiled, speaking softly in a gentle and charming tone.
"You asked me to stay with Yashiro to protect the safety of Kyoto City while you were in Tokyo. Now that you are back, you have abandoned me like a worn-out shoe. You are such a heartless and ungrateful man."
"Don't do this."
Ye Xing was completely immune to Tamamonomae's seductive attack and shook his head with a chuckle.
"You said you were protecting the safety of Kyoto City, but in fact, nothing happened during the time I was away, right?"
"In the real world, there really isn't one."
After Tamamonomae said this, she paused for a moment before continuing.
"However, in the other world, another group of evil spirits disappeared."
"But after I arrived in the real world, I learned that the frequency of strange events in Kyoto City did not increase as the density of evil spirits increased. In fact, it has even decreased a lot compared to a few months ago."
Having said that, Tamamonomae's eyes flickered and she opened her lips slightly.
"This shows that most of the evil spirits that disappeared from the other world did not act according to their own will. There is something behind the scenes directing them."
"And being able to suppress so many powerful evil spirits, even forcing them to go against their own murderous nature and not reveal their tracks in the densely populated city of Kyoto, even I am far from having such a powerful force."
"Based on the nature of the otherworld, I'm not bragging, but there aren't many legends that are more famous and more terrifying than the so-called 'Tamamonomae'."
After hearing the last words Tamamonomae said, Ye Xing glanced at her and said lightly.
"It seems that you already know how you were formed."
"I'm not stupid."
