"Hmph, I thought you guys could be different from those in the family... In the end, you're just mortals blinded by your eyes..."

In the apartment, Fujiwara Takukai lowered his head gloomily, and the bangs in the middle were hidden in front of his eyes, making it difficult to see his expression.

"Anyway, I have my own way to go. Your joint action will be discussed later depending on my mood."

"But, you obviously will..."

Hearing the other party's decisive rejection, Mochizuki Ayano couldn't help but persuade.

After confirming downstairs that Fujiwara Takumi was the "Ghost Rider" that night, she was very confident that she could persuade the other party to join the joint operation.

Since Qiao Zhuang dressed up and assisted the ninth lesson secretly, the other party must have a determination to implement justice.

Her eyes moved to the neatly folded special camera suit and ghost-faced helmet by the sofa, her brain was running at a high speed, and she suddenly realized.

The noble Fujiwara clan has always been the main force against the joint action proposal.

The reason why Fujiwara Takukai directly refused to participate in the joint operation, and disguised himself as a secret extermination, must be to take care of the clan's face while implementing the justice in his heart.

Such a person with both talent and morality, indifferent to fame and fortune, is worthy of being the leader of contemporary young spirit slayers.

Since he already knew the identity of the other party, rashly exposing this matter would probably anger the Fujiwara family and bring unnecessary trouble to Fujiwara Takumi.

Having figured this out, Mochizuki Ayano has decided to pretend she doesn't know anything about Ghost Rider.

After all, the other party was a saving grace for him that night, and Fujiwara's willingness to approve the document of the joint operation has already made a great concession.

"In that case, we will visit again and hope to see you in the next run-in mission. Lesson 9 will prove to you with your own performance that you are not 'fighting alone'."

Now that she had made up her mind, Mochizuki Ayano didn't stay any longer. After making a hint, she got up to leave.

"This……"

Ichiro Tokimoto, who had originally planned to persuade him, followed her in confusion and left.

Seeing Uncle Keigo sending the two away, Fujiwara Takukai's expression relaxed.

"Huh, have you finally passed away? I'll just say I'm in retreat for the next mission..."

Having said that, he fell on the sofa and took out the switch.

"Damn Sousuke Araki, I have to rebuild the whole island... But just in time to try a new design style..."

As he excitedly operated, chrysanthemum patterned spiritual power continued to float in the air.

Meanwhile, somewhere in Shibuya.

"Are you ready, Sousuke... You have to be decisive when you take action, and you must not be distracted. You have to 'kill' the target as soon as possible."

Higashino Yukihira stood in the crowd, his eyes slightly condensed, full of murderous intent.

"Oh, come on, let them know how good we are..."

Beside him, Sousuke Araki rolled up his sleeves to reveal the large tattoos on his arms.

In the face of the murderous two people, the crowd huddled around them also had a resolute expression and did not retreat.

"Seiyu Supermarket's annual limited-time special sale event starts now... Please line up this batch of customers to enter..."

Following the shouts of the clerk with the microphone, the two of them squeezed into the middle of a group of aunts and made their way towards the supermarket with difficulty.

The rush to buy big specials is destined to be a difficult journey.

……

Five days later, late at night.

A black Toyota Alpha commercial vehicle parked quietly at the entrance of Akagi Shrine.

After a while, Yumayumi, a little bird dressed as a priestess, walked out slowly along the stone road behind the torii.

On her back was a long and narrow white cloth bag.

"It's the little bird wandering priestess of Akagi Shrine. Ichigo Ichigo is the leader of the 'Joint Group'. Please take care of me during the 'Joint Action'."

A middle-aged man who looked extremely capable brought the detective behind him, greeted her respectfully, and introduced the detective behind him.

"Please take care of me."

Kotori Yumayumi also quietly nodded in greeting.

The documents related to the "Joint Action" were signed a week ago. Thanks to the "fig cloth" of the Soul Eliminator Association, the members of the Soul Eliminator Association and the ninth lesson began to enter the stage of full cooperation.

The ultimate goal of joint operations is to play their respective strengths, reduce casualties, and improve the efficiency of removing spirits.

The ninth lesson is responsible for preliminary information collection, task plan formulation and personnel allocation.

For the existence of the strange level [II] or above, based on the detectives of the joint team, cooperate with the spirit slayers to execute targeted spirit scavenging operations.

In the "United Group", in addition to Yuma Yumiya, there are four drivers, all composed of the most elite detectives of Lesson 9.

Drivers are responsible for in-vehicle communications, medical care, driving, information support and emergency support.

The other three fully-armed detectives formed an action team, responsible for cooperating with the scavengers to go to the front line to perform tasks.

"Little Bird Wandering Miko, this is the relevant information of our running-in mission and several sets of action plans we have drawn up."

Ichigo Satoru handed Yumayumi a tablet computer.

Although he had already checked the relevant information in advance, Yumayumi Kotori still took the tablet and looked at it seriously.

The running-in tasks were selected from the tasks piled up by the Spirit Eliminator Association, and they were all tasks between the weird levels [One] to [Two].

"We are really lucky to be assigned a genius priestess with a 100% mission completion rate."

A young detective sitting on the side said excitedly.

"Joint Action" is tantamount to a shot in the arm for the entirety of Lesson 9.

Detectives from Lesson 9 are mostly elites selected by the Self-Defense Forces and the Metropolitan Police Department, and a few have weak inspirations~lightnovelpub.net~ and can vaguely sense certain existences.

However, in the face of invisible, intangible, illogical, resentful and weird spirits, even with the assistance of the Institute's spiritual power equipment, the detectives are still ordinary people in essence, and they are always on the "unsuitable" battlefield. Barely fighting.

The addition of professional spirit removers just made up for the biggest shortcoming of Lesson 9.

"No, you have won the prize, please take care of me."

Kotori Yumayumi answered modestly.

According to the relevant principles of joint action, the team members sent by Lesson 9 must give up their own lives in times of crisis, and give priority to protecting the evacuation of spirit removers.

This is also one of the conditions that those onmyoji clans, temples and shrines are willing to send their hard-trained spirit removers to participate in the action.

"You don't have to be humble, the little bird travels. The action is guided by the professional opinion of the spirit remover. Please feel free to command us boldly."

Seeing the shrine maiden's restraint, Ichigo also kindly animated the atmosphere.

What he said is not false. Since they are facing existences that cannot be inferred by common sense, the spirit remover often, after learning about certain action rules of the target, may even propose something like going to the dead end, self-mutilation, etc. "Unreasonable" orders, this time requires the collective obedience of the detectives.

Moreover, they have already read the information on the spirit removers who participated in this run-in mission. Although the witch in front of them is only a spirit remover with the exemption level [One], she was privately rated by the detectives as "the one who wants to cooperate the most." "Spirit" NO.1.

After all, the other bizarre spirit removers don't seem to be good masters to deal with.

At the same time, the "joint action groups" in various places in Tokyo, like those below the torii gate of Akagi Shrine, each embarked on a difficult journey.

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