Chapter 576: Paid Spirit Assistance Fails Miserably, Summoning Black Shadow Ninja

Can the White Shadow Ninja answer? Of course not. As a magical lifeform modeled after the standard soldier template of the Black Shadow Corps, it merely looked like a person, but actually had no vocal organs at all. So, regarding his own ninja's silence, Broly didn't mind.

"Did I miss a step?"

He carefully recalled the process of contracting the hanged evil spirit, then raised his small fist.

"Could it be that I need to beat this group of evil spirits first before they'll obediently speak of their dying wishes?"

Thinking this, Broly took action.

The next moment, the old evil spirit's head exploded like a watermelon, and its headless body, under the spiritual power of the Soul-Pacifying Fist, quickly turned to flying ash.

"Ah, how did its head just explode?"

Hearing Broly's words, the White Shadow Ninja shifted its gaze to the boy's fist and continued to remain silent.

"No, the force I used was about the same as when I was at the Ghost House Villa; it shouldn't have exploded its head. Wait, could this be the Type D miscellaneous spirit Sister Huangquan mentioned?!"

Broly understood. He felt things should be just like this: the hanged evil spirit he had contracted before was a Type C spirit body, and based on this conclusion, the level of the evil spirit whose head he had accidentally exploded right now should be Type D, and D is weaker than C, which is very reasonable!

"Sorry, it's my fault. I should have used lighter force."

Broly squatted down and began apologizing to the evil spirit turned to ash on the ground, but felt the other party could no longer hear him.

"Sigh~"

The Saiyan boy sighed. Since things had come to this, he couldn't make up for the evil spirit he had already scattered, so he could only turn his gaze to the other human evil spirits in the cemetery who were similarly headless.

"Your sacrifice is not in vain. At least your companions will receive my preferential treatment."

Having the White Shadow Ninja bring over a new human evil spirit, Broly said very sincerely to it: "To express my apology, I will help you fulfill your dying wish free of charge!"

Saying this, Broly raised his fist again. This time he lowered the spiritual power output on his fist and slammed it into the abdomen of the evil spirit in front of him.

"Ugh~"

Even a lower spirit without rational intelligence, at this moment, reacted like a living person struck in the abdomen.

"Speak, speak of your dying wish~"

Broly was like practicing Wing Chun, raining blows on the evil spirit's midsection, asking while striking, causing the headless evil spirit held by the White Shadow Ninja to make ugh-ugh-ah sounds.

"Say something, stop with the ugh-ahs, I really can't understand what you mean!"

But after a while, Broly was about to scatter the evil spirit, and the other party made no sound other than ugh-ahs. Slightly stopping, the evil spirit even kept opening its mouth, wanting to bite him.

"Let's try another one."

Afraid of beating the other party away, Broly had the White Shadow Ninja bring over another human evil spirit.

Half an hour later, Broly looked at his own fist and fell into silence.

These cemetery evil spirits, suffering his boxing, only made ugh-ugh-ah sounds.

They were nothing like the previous hanged evil spirit, which, after being beaten by him, spoke of its own dying wish.

"Where exactly did things go wrong?"

Broly spoke in confusion, but neither the evil spirits with unstable spirit bodies nor the White Shadow Ninja could answer his question.

The difference between Type A and Type C evil spirits is still quite obvious, but this only applies to exorcists of this world.

As for Broly, the difference between an A-rank evil spirit and a C-rank evil spirit probably lies in one being more durable and the other turning to annihilation with just a bit more force.

"Wait, could it be that Type D evil spirits have no humanity and don't deserve dying wishes? I need to find some higher-level evil spirits, like the hanged evil spirit I contracted?"

Standing alone in the cold cemetery, Broly felt his idea was correct. It must be that these evil spirits he found weren't high enough in level, which caused them to be unable to feel his heartfelt desire to help them.

"But where would I find such evil spirits?"

Broly was troubled. Since Ki Sense wasn't useful for detecting spirits, it was difficult to find some stronger evil spirits.

"Perhaps I can rely on the professionals of this world, the power of the Supernatural Countermeasures Bureau."

Broly was thinking this when, just as he was preparing to leave the cemetery, his pant leg was grabbed.

Looking down, it was a severed evil spirit arm.

And around him, there were already more severed limbs of evil spirits surrounding him.

"You don't need to keep me, right?"

Broly tried to persuade the owners of the arms beside him, but obviously these evil spirits couldn't speak and couldn't understand human words.

"You all saw it. It's not me who wants to take action, but them."

Broly said a sentence to the White Shadow Ninja, then used the Plundering Aura.

Of course, in this world, it should be called the Plundering Spiritual Power Field.

The evil spirits on the ground and their limbs were all swept up, rotating, squeezing in midair, forming a spirit body ball of evil spirits squeezing evil spirits.

"I didn't want to rob you; I just wanted to trade fairly with you. But since the trade didn't work out and you don't want to let me leave, that's your fault."

Broly said to an evil spirit within the evil spirit ball before him, raised his palm, and began compressing the evil spirit ball before him.

Only to see the evil spirit ball formed by thirty or forty evil spirits, starting from a diameter of over four meters, began to shrink. During the shrinking process, the evil spirits inside were gradually crushed and squeezed, finally forming a pitch-black mass of evil spirit energy. When it floated in Broly's hand, it was only the size of a basketball.

As Broly further compressed this energy, some crystals began to appear. Until when the energy was completely crystallized, a black crystal the size of a fingernail appeared in Broly's hand.

And this was the method Wiz told him for collecting soul energy. In the KonoSuba World, the Lich's signature skill Absorption Touch is also effective on ghost creatures of the same Undead race.

But this method, from the perspective of living people, is no different from living people using living people for blood sacrifice. Broly didn't want to obtain soul energy in such a brutal way, but unfortunately, the evil spirits in this cemetery were too enthusiastic and hospitable, wanting to keep him.

"This thing probably shouldn't be given to humans. I might as well try feeding it to Sister Huangquan's spirit beast Ran Guren to see if it suits her taste, though I don't know if it matches her palate."

Broly thought this, and incidentally tried to summon a new White Shadow Ninja, but the result was failure. The White Shadow Ninja, a magical lifeform composed of light and positive emotions, didn't want this crystal block full of impurities and resentment.

However, the White couldn't be summoned, but the Black could.

When Broly left the cemetery, a black chain appeared in his hand.

In the sky, two ninjas, one black and one white, turned into ninja kites and floated behind him.

"The source of the Black Shadow Ninja in this world is me, so there shouldn't be any problem, right? Xiao Yu's mind was affected because of the problem of dark energy in that world, but this world shouldn't have Righteous Qi and Dark Qi. Even if there is something similar, it shouldn't affect me, right?"

Broly only tried to summon a Black Shadow Ninja once, and unexpectedly it actually succeeded. He was just unsure whether the other party would have the problem of affecting the summoner's mind like in the world they originally came from. But thinking about his experience of also summoning Black Shadow Ninjas in the Adventure Chronicle World, Broly felt it wasn't a big deal.

"It's too late. Sister Huangquan wants me to go home early. As for stronger evil spirits and such, I'll look for them tomorrow."

Of course, mainly because going to the Countermeasures Bureau headquarters late at night and saying he wanted to find more powerful evil spirits — however you looked at it, it seemed a bit abnormal, not something an ordinary child would do.

Carrying the Black and White Dual Ninja back to the Isayama Family home, Broly stopped his footsteps at the front door; he suddenly thought that the matter of finding evil spirits could perhaps be entrusted to the two ninja.

"Can the two of you find the location of evil spirits in the city?"

Broly came back to his senses, turned his head to look at the Black and White Dual Ninja following behind him, and asked.

Upon hearing this, both ninja nodded simultaneously.

The white one sank into the ground, turning into a two-dimensional human-shaped diagram of a murder case victim, and left traversing rooftops and walls.

The black one spread both arms, wrapped himself in his ninja garb like bat wings, and submerged into the shadows.

In the dark night, Broly simply couldn't make out how his family's shadow ninja had left.

Concealment, truly too concealed — the ninja in spirit body state.

Early the next morning, Broly got up very early; while he was brushing his teeth and washing up in the bathroom, a black shadow suddenly darted in from the window, emerging from the floor behind him.

"Found evil spirits?"

After gargling and spitting out the water, Broly asked; the shadow ninja didn't speak, took out a black crystal, knelt on one knee, and presented it with both hands.

"Eh?"

Broly's eyes widened, pointing at the black crystal in the shadow ninja's hand he asked: "Where did this come from?"

Facing his master's inquiry, the shadow ninja made a motion of slashing a spirit body, then absorbed the black crystal into his body and expelled it again.

"You mean, after you kill evil spirits you absorb them into your body, then compress them into crystals?"

Broly asked based on the shadow ninja's body language, then received the other's nod of confirmation.

"But, why?"

Broly was somewhat confused; his order was to find evil spirits, not kill them.

The shadow ninja remained silent, merely presenting the black crystal in his hand again.

"Wait, you're the same as the shadow ninja from Xiao Yu World — you can also sense some of the thoughts in my heart?"

Broly had a guess; the shadow ninja nodded.

"Except you're a bit different from the shadow ninja of Xiao Yu World — under clear orders they wouldn't do anything superfluous, while you, influenced by this world's evil spirit crystals, possess stronger autonomy, correct?"

Facing Broly's question, the shadow ninja fell silent and lowered his head, like a child who had done wrong accepting criticism.

"Alright, I don't mean to blame you; it's just that compared to these evil spirit crystals full of impurities, what I want to obtain more are soul crystals filled with sincere gratitude.

Hmm, from now on when I have you search for evil spirits, if they don't actively attack you, don't actively assault them — understand?"

Broly lectured the shadow ninja a bit then asked; the shadow ninja nodded indicating he remembered, but what exactly he remembered is unknown.

Just like the white shadow ninja was influenced by soul crystals, the shadow ninja is also influenced by evil spirit crystals, and there are certainly some differences from the original version of ninja soldiers.

"As for this thing..."

Broly put away the evil spirit crystal; he decided to wait until Jianshan Huangquan returned home, then feed this thing to the girl's spirit beast.

During breakfast, the white shadow ninja also returned; unlike the black shadow ninja, after finding locations with spirit bodies last night, it did not act on its own to attack the discovered spirit bodies, but obediently returned to report the situation.

"Hmm, in a bit I'll go check out the place you found, then go inquire about intelligence at the Countermeasures Bureau..."

Broly made his decision; after finishing breakfast he went out the door.

And the place he headed to was a school's rooftop.

Just as he dropped down from the sky, at first glance he discovered a somewhat bloated spirit body crouching at the edge of the rooftop; the other was muttering "Why must I suffer these things?"

Behind him, the rooftop door was shut, and several locks had been added behind the door.

Word has it that a while ago a student leaped from the rooftop, and after the death the school took emergency measures.

To prevent students from jumping off the school rooftop, they sealed the school rooftop.

"Do you need any help?"

Broly wasn't clear on the other's situation, but the spirit body could speak, proving communication should be possible — this made him very happy; he approached and asked.

However, Broly's question was ignored by the bloated spirit body.

The other had no reaction at all, merely continuing to repeat in its mouth why it had to suffer these things, looking rather resentful.

"Hey, hey..."

Seeing this, Broly jumped to the rooftop edge and waved his hand in front of the other, only then making the bloated spirit body notice his existence.

"You can see me?"

Not attacking upon seeing a living person, the evil spirit next to it — or rather a ghost not yet polluted, still retaining its wits — merely asked in puzzlement; this was much more polite than last night's cemetery evil spirits.

"Of course."

Broly nodded, then introduced his identity.

"I'm a novice exorcist; I'm doing paid spirit assistance work. If you have any unfulfilled lingering wishes, you can tell me — I can help you realize them. As long as before you attain Buddhahood, you pay me the soul power you don't need as compensation."

"Any wish, you can help me realize it?"

The bloated spirit body asked.

"That depends on the situation; if it's a wish even I cannot fulfill, then there's no way."

Broly didn't speak in absolutes; in case the spirit body before him proposed a lingering wish he couldn't fulfill, saying it would be useless.

"Then a wish for revenge is okay?"

"You have some enemy?"

"I was bullied to death."

Hearing this, the information "Classic" emerged in Broly's consciousness; it seemed his subconscious wasn't surprised by this situation at all.

School, rooftop, a spirit body complaining of its own suffering after death — the cause of death was just those few reasons: either academic pressure or school life pressure...

"No problem; a wish for revenge is relatively simple for me — as long as the person who caused your death is still alive, it can be realized."

"Then please, help me get revenge! No matter what you want from me, I'll give it to you!"

"Alright, tell me who your enemy is!"

Broly was in a pleasant mood; the white shadow ninja had reliably found him a spirit body capable of communication, even willing to make a deal with him.

The bloated spirit body listened and quickly poured out its grievance: "The one who bullied me to death was my classmate; that guy, thinking he was the class monitor, united others to bully me...

"Although I was a bit fat, also ugly, and had bad grades, is that a crime?"

Broly nodded, acknowledging the other party's words.

"I merely secretly placed cameras in the changing room and the girls' toilet, merely sold the secretly taken photos and videos outside the school to earn pocket money.

After that guy discovered it, that guy united others to bully me inhumanely, and even told my parents and the school teachers about my behavior, ruining my reputation, forcing me to jump off a building and commit suicide.

Ah, why must I suffer this? Why does that green tea bitch have to cling to this and not let go? Why can't she just pretend nothing happened?"

Broly: "???"

"And the others are all her accomplices, the murderers who killed me...

Hey, you'll help me get revenge, kill them, right?"

The bloated spirit body stared with dead eyes, as if it would blacken and turn into an evil spirit to devour him on the spot if Broly didn't agree.

Broly: "......"

Waving his hand, he annihilated this spirit body about to turn into an evil spirit, yet this completed his first genuine exorcism activity in this world.

You should know, even that group of evil spirits in the cemetery last night, if they hadn't grabbed his pant leg and refused to let him leave, Broly estimated he wouldn't have made a move.