As the roots of the trees running through the interior of Mt. Hakone wriggled more and more violently, the collapse of the entire cave was also accelerating.

Two years ago, Ryoma carried the stone statue-like Sousuke Araki, and followed behind Tori Yumayumi. He was chased by the collapsed stone steps almost all the way, and rushed out a second before the entire staircase was buried.

Standing on the edge of the ever-expanding hole, Little Bird Yumayumi looked back and saw that Mayuji's body was slowly disappearing into the creeping and converging tree roots...

"It turns out that the roots of the trees in the entire Hakone Mountain are connected to the cave, not to support the wall of the cave, but to feed the grievances and flesh and blood of the entire Hakone Mountain to the body of Mayuji... the design of!"

At this moment, Wuyueji's body undergoes an unknown mutation, and these ordinary old trees connected to it also change and are used for it...

"Don't look at it, it's not safe here! According to the volume of the cave just now, if it completely collapses, the entire top of the mountain may..."

Feeling that the shaking under their feet continued to intensify, the three continued to run down the stairs leading to the top of the mountain while shaking violently.

On the contrary, the cherry trees on both sides of the stairs "standing up and rolling", constantly wriggling their thick roots, moving towards the collapsed top of the mountain.

Even if they passed by the three people on the stairs, these big trees did not pay any attention to their meaning.

It seems that something in the belly of the mountain is calling them.

"Little Bird You, go this way, the square on the mountainside is the 'Earthquake Shelter'!!!"

Coming to the main road of the park, Erma Ryoma put Araki Sosuke on the back seat of the motorcycle with difficulty, and started the engine while panting heavily.

He didn't realize it when he was busy running just now, but when he stopped now, the experience of passing by those strange trees made him horrified for a while.

If it weren't for Araki Sosuke and the two still at the top of the mountain, he would have driven away early when he saw the strange tree that was so angry and rising from the ground.

"Look! That ghostly breath..."

He didn't follow the Ryūma before the second ride, and Yumako Birdie looked back at the dusty and constantly collapsing Hakone Peak, his eyes slightly frozen.

In the eyes of the two of them, the top of the man-made Mt. Hakone was constantly collapsing and shrinking inward while the trees were rising up and walking towards the collapsed summit.

And the more and more powerful gray-white ghosts and spirits, like a volcano eruption, rose into the sky from the dust on the top of the mountain, and smashed the resentment entrenched above the "Yin Yang".

"Second former gentleman, do you have binoculars... Thank you."

After receiving the spirit detection binoculars that Ryoma handed over to him before the second, Yumako Birdie looked into the dust.

As the line of sight kept getting closer, I could see the densely packed huge cherry blossom trees, guarding Mayuji, who seemed not to wake up and had a sluggish expression.

Countless vines and roots wrapped around her body like tentacles, causing her originally pale face to occasionally blush.

At this moment, the main bodies of those trees are tightly surrounded, and the branches, leaves and roots are constantly intertwined with each other, gradually merging into a larger tree.

"Hey, Sousuke? Now is not the time to be in a daze..."

Faced with such a strange scene, Ryoma couldn't help crouching down and shaking Sousuke Araki, who was dumbfounded.

Just as the two were guarding Sousuke Araki, who was lying on the back seat of the motorcycle like a stone statue, the dust had settled on the top of the mountain not far away.

Seen from a distance under the moonlight, under the dust, the originally full peak of Mt. Hakone, as if it had been flattened, was more than ten meters shorter than before, which happened to be the height of the underground cave.

On the top of the disappearing summit, there was a wide and flat crater-like depression.

"That is……"

Two years ago, Ryoma took the telescope from Yuma Yumiya's hand, looked there, and was so frightened that he almost dropped the expensive spiritual detection telescope on the ground.

"...What the hell?!"

The sunken wide surface has been covered by countless vines, and a huge figure about ten meters high, like a small hill, is entrenched in it.

At first glance, it seems that the summit of Mt. Hakone is still there.

And Mayuji, who was originally guarded by trees, disappeared.

"I also...haven't seen it...there is no record of this kind of creature in the classics I have read."

Tori Yumayumi shook his head and solemnly took down the giant bow on his back.

Even the Shinto trees that have been enshrined in shrines and temples for thousands of years and gave birth to spirituality are only the incarnation of gods possessed, and their appearance is no different from ordinary trees.

The black shadow in the center of the depression looks like a black towering giant tree, but it is a completely different thing.

It has the shape of a trunk and the texture of its bark, but it is much taller and thicker than ordinary trees.

Below the trunk-like body are five stubby, wooden feet that look like sheep's hooves, forming a multi-legged situation.

A large number of tentacle-like vines with thick mucus rose up from the trunk and kept squirming. From a distance, it looked like a lush tree canopy and dancing seaweed.

The only certainty is that judging from the violent gray-white arrogance on the body, this is an out-and-out ghost.

On the surface of the "trunk", several huge deformed and swollen wood lumps suddenly split open, turning into a giant mouth full of ferocious teeth and dripping corrosive mucus.

"Sha... 咘..."

The language that does not belong to human beings came out from those huge mouths, carrying the meaning of destruction and hatred that any living creature could feel.

They could smell it from far away, and there was a rotten stench in the wind.

The giant ghosts and gods that looked like trees and animals just "squatted" in the depression without any intention of moving.

The vine tentacles extending from his body constantly uprooted the surrounding trees and sent them into the huge open mouth.

"Tsk, why is there no cell phone signal?!"

Ermae Ryoma, who originally wanted to call for reinforcements, put the cell phone without signal back into his pocket angrily.

"Otherwise~lightnovelpub.net~ While this guy is 'eating breakfast', let's go out and call for support first?"

Looking at the giant ghost like a hill in the distance, he couldn't imagine how capable he was, he stepped on the old motorcycle again and put on a standard "starting action".

"I can't go anymore..."

Xiaoniao Yuzhengong stood pretty in the wind with a giant bow in hand, letting the red and white shrine maiden's clothes be blown by the night wind, but he had no intention of leaving.

"Look around, this ghost has already swallowed up the 'Yin Yang', one of the eyes of the "Tai Chi Yin Yang Formation", and took it for himself. "

After her reminder, Ryoma discovered two years ago that with the summit of Hakone as the center, the surrounding one kilometer seemed to be shrouded in a layer of gray fog.

"The Shenyin, which originally belonged to the 'worshiping stairs in ugly times', has covered the entire mountain top... People outside can't get in, and people inside can't get out."

After the cloud-like grievances that were entrenched above the yin and yang were shattered, all the brightly lit high-rise buildings nearby that could be seen inside the park disappeared.