"Hey, Hanyu-san, can you hear me?"

Inside the spacious transport helicopter, Sosuke Araki in black tights was leaning against the glass with a worried expression, looking at the dead sea of ​​trees below the Skytree.

"It's too quiet down there, you can't see anything, are they okay? Why don't I..."

At this moment, the space around the Skytree was filled with raging currents, showing irregular distortions.

On the tower, which was dyed black by vines, there was also the wreckage of a helicopter whose fireworks were not extinguished.

"Calm down, your opponent is the black claw that may cause large-scale supernatural disasters at any time..."

As soon as he opened his mouth, he was blocked by Hanyu Mai on the communication channel: "This sea of ​​trees is a 'signal restricted area', and the other party is coming for you. Before confirming the position of the key person, rashly entered the It is possible that the "Hua of Evil" will pull the tiger away from the mountain and fall into the 'quagmire'. "

"From the perspective of modern military concepts, as a 'core combat force', you must be 'precisely cast' on the Black Claws to disintegrate the opponent's combat effectiveness as soon as possible. Only in this way can the possibility of saving Higashino-kun be released. to the maximum, and to minimize the potential damage."

Inadvertently listening to Hanyu Mai's "long talk", Sosuke Araki stared blankly at the unchanging sea of ​​trees, and his heart became more and more anxious: "The truth is true, but they have been in for almost half an hour..."

After receiving the phone call from "Chardo Nord" and the request from Yin Yang Liao, Section 9 and the Association organized staff to arrive in Yamanashi Prefecture.

But when other spirit removers "teamed up" into the sea of ​​trees, someone who was the "secret weapon" could only stay on the transport plane and wait.

"I haven't seen the 'signal' yet, so be patient. If there's no news in ten minutes, I'll press '' to drop you directly under the Skytree. Anyway, that weird current shouldn't have any effect on you..."

"Sister Hanyu, ten minutes is too long, how about five minutes?"

"Humph, as a ruthless scientific madman, it's useless even if you act like a spoiled child..."

The two were still arguing, and a red flare had lit up over the sea of ​​trees without warning.

"Letter, signal!"

Like an elementary school student who heard the bell for the end of get out of class, Sousuke Araki jumped up from his seat and put on the helmet that he had been holding in his hand.

"The location of the signal is about five kilometers away from the Skytree... If they didn't confirm the whereabouts of the key people, they must have encountered a huge threat."

"Pilot, open the hatch and launch the 'Ghost Rider'!"

In the sound of Hanyu Mai's broadcast, the rear hatch of the transport plane slowly opened, and the cold and suffocating wind poured in...

"Boom boom boom boom boom!"

The crackling exhaust sounded in the cabin, overshadowing the roar of the plane's engines and airflow.

"For the barbarians, this should be regarded as a 'feat' in their career... right, Warriors of the Warring States Period?!"

The sharp black heavy locomotive rushed straight out of the cabin and fell in the direction of the signal bomb...

...

In the deep and endless void, there is a chessboard as white as jade floating.

"Temple? Temple? Brat, please answer me if you don't die! 』

In front of the chessboard, Abe Bushi was sitting cross-legged with his eyes closed and frowning, silently sensing something.

"Tsk, although a hand is broken, there is a 'sun and moon' transformation to seal the wound, so he can't die for the time being. 』

After a while, Abe Temple's weak "voice" came from a white chess piece he was holding between his right fingers.

"Hey, it's alright if you don't die. The 'round sky' will move you to the edge of the sea of ​​trees, find a way to run first..."

After receiving his son's response, Abe Bushi loosened his expression and dropped the white stone in his hand to the edge of the chessboard.

"Running? In my kendo, there is no such thing..."

The child fell off the chessboard, and Abe Temple's voice stopped abruptly.

"It's not bad that this dead brain can escape. After all, this sea of ​​trees has become a real hell..."

Opening his eyes full of blue light, Abeji raised his head with a hearty smile: "I'm right, this beautiful lady."

"If you know it's hell, why don't you come uninvited?"

Natasha, who was wearing a black robe and had a beautiful face, was sitting quietly on the opposite side of the chessboard: "We are also dependents of destiny. Your Excellency should know that the general situation is set.

The three cards "Demon", "Tower" and "Judgment" were spinning behind her in a triangle shape.

At the moment when the "chessboard" and the "fate network" were intertwined, the two who were the controllers naturally "meeted" in the conscious space constructed by this "fate".

"Follow the good fortune and avoid the bad, follow the trend... That's right!"

Repeating the other party's words, Abe Bushi nodded in agreement: "These two words are simply a portrayal of my life in Kyoto over the years."

"Unfortunately, there is a rebellious boy in the family who's "my fate is up to me", and he wants to pull me into this muddy water..."

Then, he reached out and brushed lightly on the chessboard in front of him: "What's more, you broke one of his hands."

On the chessboard that originally had only one white stone, a black stone and a white stone appeared quietly.

"This is called Yiping, also known as Go. The game is quiet and the chess is round and moving. With the law of heaven and earth, this game is independent and there is no solution in the world."

Judging from the situation, those white sons were surrounded by black sons that were several times his size. Obviously, the big dragon was dead and the game had reached the endgame.

"Have a friend come from afar, how about a hand-to-hand game?"

Following Abe Bushi's charismatic smile, the besieged white pieces quietly moved to the blank space on the board: "Play, hold white."

"Your Excellency uses fate as the chessboard and uses chess as the chessboard. It is rare in your life. Although you don't know much about Go, since you're here, it's okay to try a game."

Youlan's fate thread intertwined in front of Natasha, overlapping with the nineteen vertical and horizontal lines on the chessboard: "Because today, fate is on my side."

...

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"Just now, these chess pieces, as well as the chessboard, seem to be some kind of formation..."

Somewhere in the quiet Aokigahara Sea of ​​Trees, a group of spirit slayers who were originally besieged by blood shadows appeared out of thin air.

"My dear Seimei Shrine, Abe Bushi, I beg you all to help me and hold my fingertips..."

They haven't figured out the current situation yet, and a man's lazy voice has already sounded in their ears.

"Abe Bushi? Sure enough, it's him..."

Hearing this name, the spirits of the exorcists couldn't help but look up.

Abe Bushi, as the chief priest of Seimei Shrine, the direct blood of the Abe family, and the suzerain of Tuyumen Shinto, is an existence comparable to the Fujiwara clan in Meiji Jingu only in terms of inheritance and family background.

What's more, this one inherits not the Yin-Yang technique that relies on blood, but the rarer astronomical way.