Chapter 36: The Passage Between Demons and Reality Has Been Opened

The mocking of the demons filled Fumino Yuichi and the others with anger, but more so with grief and despair.

Their handguns were the most lethal weapons they had on hand.

If handguns couldn’t kill the giant demons, what else could?

The key!

This place isn’t just filled with giant demons—there are other demons too.

The shadow of death blanketed every heart.

“Quickly translate—what are the demons saying?” Director Takahashi signaled the lip-reading expert to interpret the demons’ words.

After a round of translation.

Everyone gasped in shock and turned to Professor Furuta.

“That’s really called Dai Nyudo!?” Section Chief Saito paled: “Do demons actually exist…?”

By now, regarding Yunhu’s situation, Saito and the others had reason to conclude Yunhu could not be merely an image, because the Sakurada Group also appeared within it…

All clues pointed to one undeniable possibility: the world within the Yunhu image might truly exist!

Sakurada, President Yamazaki, and the others had almost certainly stumbled into the demon world by accident, triggering the upheaval above Arakawa Ward.

To verify whether Yunhu was real, Director Takahashi summoned demon experts and lip-reading specialists to gather more clues.

Now, the demons have named Dai Nyudo—the same name Professor Furuta described.

The full truth was plain to see.

The terrifying creatures in Yunhu were the demons of Japanese folklore.

In other words, demons truly exist!

Furthermore, since the Yunhu creatures have been confirmed as demons, another conclusion follows: the landscape within Yunhu may be a real world, for if demons are real, how could the world they inhabit in Yunhu not be real?

Combined with other clues—ancient Japan had countless demon legends, even tales of humans killing demons—

Another conclusion emerges…

In ancient times, this world and the demon world once intersected, communicating with each other!!

The reason is simple.

If the two worlds weren’t connected, how could ancient people have known about demons, passed down legends of them, and even stories of humans slaying them? It must have been after direct contact.

The truth is revealed.

Everyone’s minds buzzed as if about to explode; their bodies and wills trembled with shock and horror.

“Those bastards didn’t accidentally open the door to the demon world, did they? Ma De.”

Director Takahashi cursed loudly.

He had concrete evidence supporting this theory.

The evidence was simple: demons existed in ancient times, but none exist in the modern world.

No one in today’s world has ever seen a demon.

Yet demons haven’t gone extinct—because the images shown in Yunhu were clear: demons still exist, numbering in the tens of thousands.

So there’s reason to believe…

In ancient times, people may have done something to sever the passage between the demon world and this world, preventing demons from crossing over and causing demons to vanish from the world, leaving only legends behind.

“Quickly run simulations—calculate Dai Nyudo’s destructive power. What scale of weapon can kill Dai Nyudo?”

Director Takahashi’s expression was grim, his gaze heavy.

If the demon passage reopens, Tokyo will be the first target. The demons’ strength is incalculable; it’s uncertain what scale of military force could possibly resist them.

“Damn it, damn it—what the hell did Sakurada Fuminoji and the others do?”

The more he thought, the angrier he grew; Director Takahashi slammed both fists onto the table, rage radiating outward.

According to the lip-reading expert’s translation, demons favored humans who had killed others; perhaps the Sakurada Group’s accidental entry into the demon world was tied to their own wicked deeds—evil and fear were precisely what demons craved most.

Never before had Takahashi hated Japan’s yakuza so intensely—he wanted to purge them all.

Everyone else in the room also grasped the gravity.

The demons in Yunhu were countless, innumerable—if they swarmed en masse toward Tokyo, the consequences were unthinkable.

Japan might be destroyed.

Even if it wasn’t destroyed, even if they ultimately repelled the demons, Japan would suffer catastrophic losses—economy would regress by decades at minimum.

Every senior official smoked heavily, puffing clouds of smoke, trying to ease the suffocating pressure.

For a moment, the conference room was thick with smoke.

Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department ran analysis after analysis.

Online, countless netizens were also analyzing, reaching conclusions similar to the police.

Although the government had begun suppressing online speech and censoring related information, the public kept spreading the conclusions, sparking massive online uproar.

On the other side.

A sinister twilight in the demon world.

“AHHHH!!!”

A scream, heart-wrenching and piercing.

Before everyone’s eyes, the captured executive was tossed into Dai Nyudo’s mouth.

As its jaws closed.

Crunch… crunch…

The screams cut off instantly; blood spurted from its mouth.

In that instant.

Everything seemed to fall silent—even the air stilled.

The four corners held only one sound.

The sound of Dai Nyudo crushing the executive’s flesh and bones.

Listening to the giant monster chewing, everyone’s scalps prickled; they trembled uncontrollably, their bodies losing warmth, turning icy cold, their very souls shivering in dread.

Gulp.

Dai Nyudo smacked its lips, patted its belly, and wore a look of rapt, greedy satisfaction.

“Humans… are truly delicious.”

Like a fuse igniting, like a bomb’s trigger—upon Dai Nyudo’s words, every demon could no longer contain itself.

The hundred or so demons present all surged forward at once.

They went mad, crashing into nearby demons, clawing and biting at Sakurada Fuminoji, Mizuno Yuichi, and the others without restraint.

The scene spiraled out of control.

Slid into endless madness.

“AHH—”

Mizuno Yuichi screamed, his voice thick with terror, hoarse and desperate.

A demon with no body, only a two-meter-tall head, shot out from the side.

Like a speeding truck, it hurtled past Mizuno Yuichi, opened its massive maw, and tore off his upper body in one bite.

So fast, Mizuno Yuichi had no time to react—even his scream vanished instantly.

His lower body remained standing straight.

As if it hadn’t yet registered that its upper half had been severed.

The next second.

From where Mizuno Yuichi stood, a three-foot geyser of blood erupted.

Blood gushed like a spring, spraying horrific crimson blossoms across the ground.

“ROAR!”

“HOWL!”

In less than half a second, a dozen demons, like wolves hunting prey, pounced on Mizuno Yuichi’s lower body, tearing and gnawing at each other.

The sight was horrifying.

Merely glancing at it sent a wave of terror straight to the heart—as if standing at the scene of the bloodiest horror film.

Mizuno Yuichi’s subordinates nearby had his blood splattered all over their faces; they stood frozen, speechless with shock.

Everything happened too suddenly.

One moment, Mizuno Yuichi was alive.

The next, he was drenched in blood, his body gone without a trace…

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