Tokyo Fall Guys beats up the supernatural

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Although their true thoughts seem to be completely different, at least for now, they have both found some satisfaction.

Huaiyin reached out and grabbed Doutang's hand, no longer simply holding it as before, but instead inserting each of her fingers into the gap to interlock her fingers with his.

After sensing that Dou Tang was not resisting, she slowly let out a long breath.

Despite being in a dangerous game where they could lose their lives at any moment, and despite always being accompanied by evil spirits, at least for this moment, Kiryu Kaine simply believed that she could still find happiness.

Chapter 83 I am Kamen Rider

Right after class, Takeda Koyo asked for leave and left the school.

Humans and demons are bound by fate.

As soon as she left the school, Takeda Koyo saw Tou-tang and Huai-yin standing not far away. The two seemed to be scrolling through their phones idly. Tou-tang frowned from time to time, as if he had seen something troublesome.

Takeda Koyo quickly stepped forward and said, "You...you're still here."

Dou Tang looked up at her strangely: "Didn't I say we'd talk about this after your get out of class? Do you take me for someone who would go back on their word?"

Takeda Koyo quickly shook her head, hesitated for a moment, and said, "But... I didn't expect that there would actually be someone who would be an enemy of a half-demon..."

She was originally just an ordinary person, but after meeting Tanuki, she discovered that there were so many half-demons lurking among humans.

The mere existence of half-demons is enough to shatter one's worldview, let alone the current situation: half-demons, intent on mutual destruction, have kidnapped Tanuki, and a group of mysterious exorcists have come looking for him... It's all too surreal.

Dou Tang waved his hand, pausing her thoughts, and said, "Let's talk about something we're both interested in. Where was your partner, that half-demon named Tanuki, taken? How can we rescue him?"

Takeda Koyo was about to answer, but then stopped, hesitated for a moment, and asked with a doubtful look, "How could I..."

How can you be so sure you have no ill intentions towards Tanuki? What if you also want to kill him?

Dou Tang seemed to have been prepared, and said, "Then I can tell you the truth: I have no hostility towards half-demons who have never killed anyone, because ultimately, the half-demons who are involved are also victims, and I think you know this better than I do."

"Whether you believe it or not? I don't care. You can just wait until you get there and escape with him in the chaos. I think that guy must have his own unique way of saving his life since he can use human magic, right?"

"In other words, you don't need to believe me at all. We just happen to have the same goal." Dou Tang spread his hands: "Whether you believe me or not, and how you decide, is none of my business."

"You only need to tell us where those half-demons are. Whether you intend to save Tanuki or not is not important to us."

Finally, Dou Tang bluntly stated, "Even if you don't tell us, it's fine. We have plenty of ways to track you down, unless you want to protect those harmful half-demons even if you don't save Li Zhu."

"You! You all!" Takeda Koyo was utterly shocked.

Who would have thought that someone with such thick eyebrows and big eyes could be so vicious?!

Given the current situation, Takeda Koyo had no choice at all!

Dou Tang sighed and said, "Actually, if you think about it carefully, you'll understand. If I really had hostility towards you, I would have made my move long ago. Do you think you can still fight me without the talisman?"

"By explaining all this to you now, I'm already proving that I have no hostile intentions. What good would it do to go through all this trouble and become your enemy?"

Although she had never witnessed Dou Tang's attack, just by looking at Huaiyin standing beside him, Takeda Koyo knew she couldn't beat him.

"I...I understand, I will tell you."

Seemingly resigned to her fate, Takeda Koyo let out a long sigh.

………………

Meanwhile, Kotaro rode his motorcycle to a shrine in the bustling downtown area of ​​Urayasu City.

Although this shrine is located in a bustling area, it receives little worship and has no dedicated shrine manager. It is merely a landmark abandoned by its own priests, and hardly anyone comes here on ordinary days.

Kotaro stopped the car, took off his helmet, and looked at the shrine in front of him with a burning gaze and deep thoughts.

The place before him was where he first encountered the half-demon, and also... the place where he became what he is now.

Thinking of this, he felt a tingling sensation on the inside of his arms, as if the bone spurs were restless and wanted to break through his body.

He slowly walked toward the vermilion torii gate, his expression devout, like a pilgrim.

The torii gate stands silently before me, separating the worlds of gods and humans, creating a last sanctuary for the gods in the bustling city, even though the guardian of this sanctuary has disappeared.

Kotaro stepped over the torii gate, his eyes instantly turning bloodshot, his body shrouded in wisps of resentment. He exhaled a long breath and strode towards the shrine.

The offering box in front of the shrine has been smashed by someone, and the money inside has long since disappeared. So much time has passed, yet no one has come to repair it.

Kotaro bypassed the offering box and entered the shrine where the gods were worshipped.

Pushing open the rotten wooden door with strange scratches, he saw the huge fox statue again. This was the Inari Shrine. Inari, also known as Inari Daimyojin, is the god of grains and food. However, what was enshrined here was not the god himself, but his messenger: the fox.

But behind the fox statue, there were occasional sounds of hard objects rubbing together.

Kotaro walked around the statue, and in the open space behind it where the sun did not shine, lay a huge monster.

It was a huge locust that lacked all its limbs.

Traces of humanity can still be faintly seen on this enormous locust monster. Behind the locust's huge mouthparts, a row of neat human teeth is clearly visible, and human skin can also be seen on its lower abdomen.

Even the eyes are bizarrely shaped, with one human eye and one compound eye.

The monster lay silently on the ground, its eyes vacant and devoid of light. Lying in the darkness, it seemed like a bizarre creature born from shattered shadows, caught between reality and dreams, half-dead.

Kotaro stared silently at the monster before him, his voice choked with emotion.

"Ah Sheng, I've come to see you."

He slowly knelt down in front of the locust monster, reached out and stroked the monster, whose head alone was as big as his chest, the crimson in his eyes gradually deepening.

"Ah Sheng, I helped you win your war."

"Katsu, I really became a Kamen Rider, and I met a lot of new friends. They are also Kamen Riders."

“Ah Sheng... I haven’t let you down.”

Kotaro slowly closed his eyes, and tears streamed down his face.

Old Wolf once said that Kotaro is a strange existence. He is a being who coexists with both a demon and a human. In other words, he is more like a human than a demon, but he can never be considered a human.

All of this—his physical constitution and his overwhelming killing intent towards half-demons—came from the monster before him, this locust monster, who had once been his best friend.

Kotaro raised his hand, gritted his teeth, and the bone spur pierced through his arm, bursting out with a bang and tearing through his clothes.

Seemingly due to their proximity to the locust monster, the bone spurs began to deform, sprouting more tiny spikes on their inner sides, and their entire bodies were no longer the color of bones, but were covered with a faint green light, becoming increasingly smooth.

Like insects

Its carapace resembles the limbs of a locust or the sickle of a mantis.

Chapter 84 The Out-of-Control Knight

The locust monster didn't make a sound, but silently turned its eyes to Kotaro and stared at him.

Kotaro slowly raised his hand and said, "However, I need even stronger power, Osamu, to overwhelm the power of those fully-formed half-demon."

The locust monster's mouthparts twitched as if it wanted to say something, but Kotaro heard nothing.

"So, Ah Sheng, it's time for us to say goodbye... Even though you wanted to die back then, I always wanted to... keep you alive, and even held onto the hope that you could live until the day this war ends."

The bone spurs on Kotaro's hands increasingly resembled the armor of a monster, and even his body began to develop strange blue-green hard skin, as if the bizarre skin belonging to insects was emerging from his body.

This is Kotaro's curse, a curse linked to the half-demon named Katsu in front of him.

"Hey, I didn't know you had such a deep-seated grudge?"

Suddenly, a voice sounded.

Kotaro abruptly stopped what he was doing and looked in shock toward the direction from which the voice came, only to find that it was Old Wolf.

At this moment, the old wolf leaned against the pillar next to him, looking helplessly at Kotaro kneeling on the ground, and said, "This is the secret you've been hiding all this time... Surprisingly boring."

Kotaro's expression immediately turned hostile: "You were following me?"

Old Wolf strolled over to him, shrugged, and seemed nonchalant: "Following? Don't be ridiculous. I just had no date today, so I was bored and wandering around. I just happened to run into you here."

Kotaro stood up, his back slightly hunched, looking like a cheetah poised to pounce. He stared coldly at Old Wolf and said, "Old Wolf, is it really that appealing to you to investigate other people's secrets?"

Old Wolf then realized something was wrong and quickly took two steps back, waving his hands and saying, "Wait a minute, Kotaro, we're comrades now, right? We've been through so much together, you don't still want to kill me to silence me, do you?!"

Kotaro's eyes seemed to be faintly glowing, and strange bluish-green skin appeared on his neck under his collar. He twisted his neck and said, "That depends on what you want to do, Old Wolf."

"We have been through a lot together, that's true, hunting half-demon, fighting against Onmyoji... but that doesn't mean you can pry into my private affairs."

Old Wolf immediately raised his hand, clearly out of the blue—he chickened out.

"I just want to help you, Kotaro. Although everyone else is a bit abnormal, you seem to be a little unusual, so I'm a little worried... It's true."

"What do you mean by 'exceptionally abnormal'? What kind of talk is that?" Kotaro was even more annoyed.

Old Wolf pointed to the locust monster next to him: "You're keeping a creature outside that's somewhere between a monster and a human, and you're talking to it so affectionately, and you even want to kill it. Don't you think that's extremely abnormal?"

Kotaro was too straightforward, and after being told off by Old Wolf, he immediately lowered his head in silence.

After a long silence, he finally said indignantly, "This is none of your business... I don't need your concern. In the end, how good can you be, you perverted monster who lures high school students?"

"...You bastard, who are you calling a kidnapper?"

Kotaro raised an eyebrow: "Looks like someone's getting impatient?"

Old Wolf, neck stiff, pointed at him and cursed, "You greenhorn, you'll probably never have a girl like you in your life! It was consensual between us, and I should remind you, she's already 18!"

Kotaro looked up at the ceiling and said softly, "Oh, right, but if we go back three years, before the age law was changed, she would still be considered a minor."

"...You bastard..." The old wolf bared its teeth, looking like it wanted to bite someone.

"How come I didn't realize you were actually quite eloquent before?" he mocked.

"That's because I don't handle things with my mouth like some people do, including hunting." Kotaro smiled disdainfully, subtly mocking the old wolf for fighting with his mouth in the past.

The two looked at each other and finally sighed.

Arguing and getting angry like this seems really silly.

"What a mess... Don't we have anyone with a simpler reason for joining the war?" Old Wolf sighed.

"Kiryu Toudou wants to hunt down Onmyoji, I want Harui to live a peaceful life... Even you are carrying such a heavy burden, can't there be someone who simply stands up for justice?"

Kotaro shrugged: "There used to be."

The old wolf leaned against the pillar and looked at the locust monster again.

"So," he gestured with his chin, "what's up with this guy?"

Kotaro took two steps back, sat cross-legged on the ground, and gently stroked the monster's carapace beside him, saying, "It's a long story..."

"His name is Asahi, at least that's the name he told me. He is... a real Kamen Rider."

"A real Kamen Rider?" Old Wolf frowned and repeated.

He gazed thoughtfully at the enormous insect monster lurking in the darkness.

Kotaro continued, "He is the only one who, despite being a half-demon, wanted to end this war. In the beginning, he was the true Kamen Rider who hunted half-demons."

The old wolf gradually understood something.

"He... was also the first half-demon to touch the threshold of fully unleashing his power."

"But as you can see, we are all failures." - Kotaro

His eyes darkened, a hint of disappointment in them, as he looked at Old Wolf: "That's why I always have Mr. Ren kill the half-demon, instead of us."

Old Wolf asked in shock, "There's something wrong with our bodies?"

Kotaro nodded: "That's right. When we are about to fully unleash our power, mutations like his will occur, leaving him caught between humans and monsters, constantly tormented. I don't even know if he still has a complete consciousness and mind."

Old Wolf remained silent for a long time, as if he had been struck by a heavy hammer. He leaned against the pillar without saying a word, only his breathing gradually became rapid.

"So..." he suddenly spoke, his voice becoming somewhat hoarse, "What will happen to us after we kill the Onmyoji?"

“I don’t know.” Kotaro lowered his head: “But the changes in our bodies are irreversible. On the bright side, we’ll maintain the status quo, but on the worst side… I’m afraid we’ll all end up like Katsu.”

He looked at Ah Sheng with a sorrowful gaze.

“I was there when Ah Sheng finally unleashed his power.”

"That strange and powerful resentment impacted my body, which turned me into what I am now. Although I am human, I have the same physical attributes as a half-demon."

"Then, Ah Sheng..."

Old Wolf took a deep breath.

He could even imagine the scene: perhaps in a field littered with the corpses of half-demons, a humanoid knight, blue like a locust, was fiercely fighting, eventually clutching his head, wildly unleashing all his power, and finally transforming into a monster without limbs amidst painful howls and flapping wings, his mind and body caught between monster and human, unable to respond to the outside world.

That's truly despairing.

Chapter 85 Deception Amidst Helplessness and Despair

Old Wolf thought for a moment and then asked again, "So, do Mikazuki and the others know about this?"