Chapter 974: Should we fight again?

The forest was cold and silent without response, but under Akaso Kaze's certain gaze, a short and fat figure finally walked out.

The white-haired old man wearing reading glasses was Watanuki Tatsuzo, one of the three travelers from before.

"Mr. Watanuki," Akaso Kaze took the initiative to speak, "has the questioning ended?"

"Yes," Watanuki Tatsuzo squinted, "they said it was too late and would ask us another day. But it's really amazing, you actually found this place. It seems God is on my side."

With a rustling sound, a group of thugs with unkind expressions suddenly emerged behind Watanuki Tatsuzo, all holding various knives, looking at Akaso Kaze and the others as if they were dead men.

There were at least 50 people, and they had surrounded them without them noticing.

A confident smile appeared on Watanuki Tatsuzo's face as he looked at Akaso Kaze with a chuckle.

"To be honest, I didn't intend to kill anyone at this time, but that guy HOTUMI had already discovered the bones and wanted to blackmail me."

"I heard you are some consultant from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, but this time, in order to find this place, I called all my men. Is 643 against you alone a bit too much?"

Sonoko swallowed hard, looking at the unknown number of thugs in the night, her body tensed up.

Dozens of thugs holding weapons were no longer a situation that could be dealt with casually.

"W-what are you doing?" Sonoko asked.

"Of course, we're going to continue digging the grave. If you want to blame someone, blame the two of you for seeing this scene."

Watanuki Tatsuzo chuckled and was about to call his men to close the encirclement, but suddenly his eyes widened in horror.

Beside Akaso Kaze, figures made of branches and leaves stood up one by one.

Their limbs were all made of thick, long tree trunks, and even wrapped in stones.

Akaso Kaze hugged Sonoko in his arms so she wouldn't see the outside.

"You scared my girlfriend, so, be prepared."

The straw men rushed towards the thugs.

Sturdy tree trunks and paper strips wrapped in stones smashed fiercely onto the weak bodies.

Screams filled the air immediately.

A cold wind blew, the red leaf forest rustled, and it was another cold night.

Except for the dozens of underworld members lying in all directions in the forest, wailing incessantly.

Added to the knives stuck around, it was as if they had returned to an ancient battlefield strewn with corpses.

"What, what, what kind of ghosts are these?"

Only Watanuki Tatsuzo was still standing in the field, surrounded by strange straw men.

Facing the sudden change in the situation, sweat kept pouring down Watanuki Tatsuzo's forehead.

A moment ago he was still triumphant, and inexplicably the roles had changed. He didn't even understand the reason. When he came back to his senses, he only saw Akaso Kaze smiling at him.

"Are you kidding me?" Watanuki Tatsuzo took out a pistol from his arms with a stiff face and sneered at Akaso Kaze, "Don't look down on people. As long as I kill you, they will all disappear, right?"

Akaso Kaze smiled and said: "You can try."

Watanuki Tatsuzo looked at the other party's confident smile and didn't dare to shoot.

"Who, who exactly are you?" he asked tremblingly.

"Me? My name is Akaso Kaze."

"What? You, you are the strongest Onmyoji in Tokyo, Akaso-sama?!"

"That's right." Akaso Kaze smiled slightly, "So, do you want to shoot?"

Watanuki Tatsuzo trembled, his forehead full of sweat.

He suddenly dropped the gun, knelt on both knees, and kowtowed repeatedly.

"Akaso-sama, I am guilty, I am willing to turn myself in, please spare my life!"

He is an underworld boss, of course he has heard of Akaso Kaze's rumors.

He didn't expect that the person in front of him was that legendary figure like a myth.

He didn't dare to resist.

"Is it over?" Sonoko poked her head out from Akaso Kaze's arms and happened to see the miserable state of the ground.

So Akaso Kaze is so powerful, she worried for nothing. It's a pity she only saw the result, just like a movie that cut out the process, leaving only the beginning and the end.

"I didn't see anything." Sonoko pouted at Akaso Kaze.

"Then, should we fight again?" Akaso Kaze asked with a smile.

Watanuki Tatsuzo wanted to cry when he heard this.

The thugs wailing all around didn't dare to make a sound either.

Looking at their pleading expressions, Sonoko said kindly: "Forget it, spare them."

After a long while, Yamamura Misao, who received the call, arrived late. He led the team to arrest Watanuki Tatsuzo and all the thugs in a daze, and the white bones buried under the tree were also dug up by forensic personnel.

"This guy is actually the murderer?"

Yamamura Misao watched his subordinates take away the fat old man who looked like Colonel Sanders, scratched his head, and turned to Akaso Kaze on the other side.

After finishing the transcript, Akaso Kaze hugged Sonoko and returned.

On the way, Sonoko talked about the plot of "Winter Red Leaves" and didn't mention the truth about the prototype of the winter red leaves.

I'm afraid that after this incident is made public, the fans of "Winter Red Leaves" will be greatly hit, and the popularity of the red forest will naturally decrease accordingly. Only Sonoko seems to be completely unaffected. ===== CHAPTER 976 =====