Chapter 560: A Wonderful Beginning Not Experienced for a Long Time

"Is this a ghost-type creature?"

The large head outside the bridge hole could not sense any living presence above, but could sense an aura similar to that of a ghost-type undead creature, an aura carrying a hint of coldness; Broly and Wiz had carefully felt a similar aura when they were in intimate contact.

"How's the situation?"

Broly's ears twitched, and he heard the voices coming from the bridge.

"This revived spirit has been temporarily controlled by the barrier and is currently in a dormant state, but this state won't last long; if left alone, it will eventually revive again."

"Honestly, can't the logistics personnel be more careful when cleaning up residual spirits? They actually let the remaining residual spirit almost revive again."

The speaker sounded somewhat complaining, like a corporate slave encountering sudden overtime work.

"Sorry."

Someone apologized.

"It's not your fault; it should be because I was too hasty in my last exorcism and failed to confirm that the evil spirit's spirit body was completely eliminated."

On the bridge, a girl wearing a black middle school uniform with beautiful long straight black hair took responsibility for the appearance of the revived spirit.

"Since I didn't clean up that evil spirit properly, I'll take care of it myself, Ran Guren!"

The girl drew the long sword at her waist, and a red lion with multiple pairs of eyes was summoned.

"So this is the Isayama Family's spirit beast Nurarihyon; it really is full of imposing presence."

"Miss Huangquan, do you plan to have Ran Guren use the Roar Wave to deal with the revived spirit?"

Just as the long straight black-haired girl was about to have the lion spirit beast she controlled use a powerful exorcism technique on the revived spirit over there, she was stopped by the burly man with a rough appearance and a beard beside her.

"Mr. Iwahara, is there a problem?"

Iwayama Huangquan looked over with some doubt.

"The Supernatural Countermeasures Bureau of the Ministry of the Environment is an organization that actively goes out to eliminate evil spirits to protect ordinary citizens from harm by evil spirits, but if ordinary citizens are drawn into the process during exorcism, it counts as a work error."

"So, before exorcising, we must carefully check the surrounding environment and try to avoid drawing ordinary citizens in."

The girl was a genius of the Demon Hunter Family Isayama Family, but as a new exorcism employee who had joined the Supernatural Countermeasures Bureau not long ago, she had the drawback of insufficient work experience; whereas Iwahara Kōji, a burly man with a mohawk who was once a mercenary and is now a veteran exorcist of the Supernatural Countermeasures Bureau, offered some pointers to this genius girl.

"Uh, thanks for the guidance, I'll check the surrounding environment right away!"

The girl, having been pointed out, was indeed receptive and immediately went to observe the environment around the revived spirit.

"Confirmed; besides us, there are no ordinary people around."

She said to Iwahara Kōji beside her in a reporting tone.

"Mm."

The burly man nodded in approval at the girl's serious and responsible attitude of being willing to listen to the experience of this exorcism senior of his.

But as a professional exorcist, he still looked at the colleague beside him responsible for observation.

"Iinaga, please use your pipe fox to check the surrounding situation."

"Understood, leave it to me."

Iinaga Noriyuki, a Spirit Beast Tamer from the Demon Hunter Family Izuna Family, can manipulate the spirit beast pipe fox to serve as his eyes and ears; within the Supernatural Countermeasures Bureau, he is a personnel specialized in intelligence gathering.

Only saw him whisper a sentence to the creature on his shoulder that looked like a fox and a ferret, and a large number of such creatures suddenly drilled out from the shadow and ran quickly around.

And one pipe fox climbed under the bridge; through shared vision, Iinaga Noriyuki soon discovered a strange boy curiously looking at the pipe fox, making eye contact with the pipe fox's red eyes.

"Ah, there's someone under the bridge, a small boy!"

"There really is someone?!"

Hearing this, the exorcism employees of the Supernatural Countermeasures Bureau around were all somewhat surprised; they knew Iwahara Kōji was imparting work experience to the Isayama Family genius girl.

But when they usually carried out exorcism missions, they wouldn't be meticulous to this extent, because this process is like being required to walk around the car and check before driving.

There are requirements, but veteran drivers don't necessarily do it strictly.

Unexpectedly, this time, they really encountered an ordinary person.

"Mr. Iwahara, you are indeed a veteran of the Supernatural Countermeasures Bureau; if it weren't for your reminder, I might have made a work error."

Iwayama Huangquan looked at the mohawk burly man with some admiration, making Iwahara Kōji somewhat embarrassed.

"I'll go down and take a look."

Fortunately, the girl didn't continue praising; she mounted the neck of the big red lion spirit beast beside her and commanded it to jump down from the bridge.

Carrying one person, Ran Guren landed steadily, landing in front of Broly, and Crystal Palace's notification sound appeared in his consciousness:

【New capture target discovered, Iwayama Huangquan, current Happiness Value 1 (happy that no error occurred in her own work)】

"Ah, um, big sister, I'm practicing parkour~"

Jumping off Ran Guren, being watched by the boy, Iwayama Huangquan suddenly realized that in the eyes of ordinary people, her situation was a bit too abnormal, and hurriedly made up an excuse.

"Little brother, what are you doing here at such a late hour?"

At the same time, she also realized the abnormality of her holding an unsheathed long sword late at night in the eyes of ordinary people; while asking about the situation, she silently hid the long sword behind her back.

"I just came here; as soon as I arrived, I saw that strange creature connected to a spine over there, bound by golden rune chains and floating in mid-air, and then I heard your conversation on the bridge, and made eye contact with the creature climbing down from the bridge over there."

Broly pointed to the pipe fox beside him, paused, and then continued: "Next, you sat on a fluffy creature with many eyes and came down from the bridge, appearing in front of me and asking me what I was doing here, and now I am answering your question."

Broly was very honest, clearly explaining what he experienced after coming to this place.

"Huh, you can actually see spirits?!"

Iwayama Huangquan was somewhat surprised.

At the same time, the evil spirit with only a head and spine left in mid-air outside the bridge hole suddenly opened its eyes.

"Not good, Iinaga, the evil spirit has revived!"

The revived spirit quickly broke through the barrier's seal, new flesh grew on the spine, and malice was unhiddenly released toward the crowd nearest to itself.

"Hmm?"

Broly leaned forward to look at the spirit giant beast condensed behind the girl, and Iwayama Huangquan directly rushed to his front; this girl, without a word, scooped him up, held him at her side waist, as if making some determination, and ran forward without looking back.

"What is that?"

Broly didn't resist either, just looking at the giant beast that had crashed into and destroyed the bridge behind him, he couldn't help but ask curiously.

"That is a B-Type Intermediate Spirit 【Train】, a powerful evil spirit capable of manipulating the power of flames."

Iwayama Huangquan explained, and brought Broly to a safe position away from that battlefield.

"Big Sister is going to deal with the monster over there, Little Brother, you just stay here, don't move."

The girl instructed, waving her hand to summon the red giant lion from just now.

Mounting it, she headed back toward the bridge where the *dadadada* gunshots were ringing.

【Back Figure】

Broly watched the retreating figure of the girl riding the lion, not knowing why, a segment of inexplicable information suddenly surfaced in his consciousness.

"Roar!"

Iwayama Huangquan rode the lion like a divine soldier descending from heaven; her treasured blade, clad in her powerful spiritual power, with just one slash, severed one of the forelimbs of the revived Intermediate Evil Spirit Train.

The evil spirit kaiju that lost its balance fell, and under the coordinated attacks of the others, its body was soon beaten to pieces.

"Drive the water sprinkler truck loaded with spirit water over here, this time we must completely eliminate this intermediate spirit!"

After the battle ended, the logistics personnel cleaning up the aftermath drove the water sprinkler truck to wash the ground.

They used the specially made spirit water inside the water sprinkler truck to flush and melt every piece of spirit body flesh that might revive.

"What about that child who can see?"

Iinaga Noriyuki walked over to ask; he knew through his pipe fox that the boy could see spirit bodies.

"I had him stay over there."

Iwayama Huangquan said, looking in Broly's direction.

"Look, that child is still staying in place and hasn't left."

The girl waved at the boy; Broly, who had been waiting in place, saw it and waved back in response to Iwayama Huangquan.

"Then, the procedure for this kind of situation, you should know how to handle it, right?"

Iwahara Kōji walked over to ask.

"I know, have the ordinary citizen register their information and sign a non-disclosure agreement, guarantee the existence of evil spirits isn't known by the outside masses, avoid possible mass panic, prevent other low-level spirit bodies from absorbing negative emotions produced by humans and evolving into dangerous spirit bodies."

Iwayama Huangquan answered quickly; before joining the Supernatural Countermeasures Bureau, she had also properly done some Forest Elf's Homework.

"However, such a small child appearing here in the middle of the night, there might be many special reasons behind this, yet the person responsible for registration later should pay attention..."

Iinaga Noriyuki said.

"Then I'll go help him register and inquire about the specific situation."

Iwayama Huangquan volunteered.

"Eh, you?"

"Of course, after that child encountered the dangerous evil spirit, it was I who saved him in time; I believe in front of him, I should be just like a hero, and thus more able to obtain his trust!"

"Alright, if you want to do it then go do it; after inquiring clearly, send the other party home."

"Understood!"

Iwayama Huangquan accepted the quest, took the registration board from the logistics personnel, and walked smilingly toward Broly's side.

"How about it, was Big Sister's heroic bearing eliminating the monster handsome?"

She didn't rush to ask private questions, but first used self-praise to get closer to the boy, lest the boy generate unnecessary wariness toward her.

"Uh, it was very handsome!"

The capture target acknowledged by the Crystal Palace asking this kind of question, what else could Broly say.

Could he tell the girl that slag evil spirit monsters like that, he could eliminate with a flick of a finger?

Of course impossible; he could only go along with her words and praise her.

"Big Sister is called Iwayama Huangquan, affiliated with the Ministry of the Environment's Supernatural Countermeasures Bureau, hmm, this is an official organization specially dealing with evil spirits doing evil in the human world.

And during the exorcism process, targeting ordinary citizens who can see the evil spirit exorcism scene, our department has a set of procedures that must be followed.

Little Brother, no need to worry, Big Sister isn't some suspicious molecule, just need to ask you some questions..."

"Okay, you ask."

"Eh, okay?"

"Mhm."

Iwayama Huangquan originally thought she would need to waste more breath, didn't expect the boy to be this straightforward.

"Then, first, what is Little Brother's name?"

"Broly."

"Where do you live?"

"Nappa Star."

"Uh, what is Nappa Star?"

Iwayama Huangquan's pen stopped.

"It's a small asteroid."

"Little Brother, Big Sister really isn't some suspicious molecule."

"I know."

"Then why are you joking with me?"

"I'm not joking with you, I really live on Nappa Star."

"Alright, then your parents, do you know where they are?"

"Mother is gone, Father is on Nappa Star, and not in this world."

Iwayama Huangquan: "..."

It was only then that she noticed the boy's clothes were made of hemp cloth.

And this kind of uniform, perfectly normal in the Six-Faced World, viewed against the backdrop of a modern-era world, looked just like clothes refashioned from hemp sacks.

And those who wear this kind of clothing are generally people at the bottom of society, for example wandering beggars and such.

Connecting the boy's earlier answers, the image of an orphan child who lost his mother, was deceived by his father, might have been treated as a burden or had other hidden circumstances — in short, became alone, scavenging and wandering in the city — leapt vividly forth.

"So, you've actually been staying under that bridge over there all this time?"

To confirm she hadn't misunderstood the situation, Iwayama Huangquan even pointed behind her and asked.

"Mm."

Broly thought for a moment, then nodded, giving an affirmative reply; after arriving in this world, he had indeed stayed under the bridge, until the girl before him brought him over to this side.

"Uh..."

And at this moment, Iwayama Huangquan also noticed the bridge cave behind them had already collapsed in the battle just now.

"So, right now in this world, you're in a situation with no relatives, no home to return to?"

"Mm."

This time Broly didn't hesitate, directly nodding and making an affirmative response.

"Little Brother Broly, wait a moment, I'll make a phone call first."

"Okay."

Broly nodded, and while Iwayama Huangquan ran to the side to make the call, he also clicked open the group chat room and sent a private message to Roxy's side, mainly asking if Rudeus knew of any world where Type B evil spirits existed.

"Uh, I really don't know this one, because I never watch, nor play, horror-type anime or games."

"Director Shinguuji, I have an unexpected situation here?"

"What's wrong, did something happen?"

Inside the Supernatural Countermeasures Bureau Office, Director Shinguuji Shobu, having received Iwayama Huangquan's call, inquired.

"During the process of resolving the returned spirit this time, a child who can see evil spirits was caught in the wave; I asked about his situation, and he should be an orphan who lost his parents and family."

"Mm, that's not a problem, just contact the Children's Welfare Institution."

"But he can see evil spirits; his spiritual sense should be much stronger than an ordinary person's, and people with strong spiritual sense are more easily attacked by evil spirits."

"Simply put, you're a bit uneasy about a child who can see evil spirits, right?"

"Mm."

"Then what do you want to do?"

"I plan to bring that child back to the Isayama Family."

"But will your father, the Jianshan Family Head, agree? This isn't adopting a kitten or puppy."

"I know, but my father could even take me in; if I explain clearly, he definitely won't refuse to help a child."

"Alright, if you've decided, I have no problem on this end."

Hanging up the phone, Nikaido Kiri beside her spoke up: "Director, Huangquan Miss seems to have resonated with a child of orphan status."

"Having a kind heart, for those of us in this line of work, isn't a bad thing, is it?"

Shinguuji Shobu said with a laugh.

"Still, prepare the welfare institution's contact number just in case; if Huangquan fails to place that child with someone else, we'll handle the problem solving."

"Little Brother Broly, I've worked it out with our Countermeasures Bureau Director; if you're willing, you can come with me, and big sister will help arrange everything properly for you."

Iwayama Huangquan, having finished the call, walked over; her words left Broly somewhat dazed.

The capture targets of this world not only appeared before him without him needing to search, but were also extraordinarily enthusiastic about it.

He hadn't said a word, yet the other party expressed willingness to take him in; it had been a very long time since such a wonderful isekai opening.