Chapter 327

In the moment when Eirina kicked with one foot, breaking the corpse's nasal bone and forcing the female murderer to drop her weapon, Saijo Yasue made a snap decision, choosing to abandon this body and flee far away.

She's already harvested enough today! I don't even know how much slaughter energy I've absorbed killing my way here!

The only regret is that I actually failed to kill Uesugi Muneyuki, my mortal enemy!

But it's fine……as long as I keep slaughtering, I'll have my revenge one day!

In Uesugi Muneyuki's spirit vision, a dense, bloodthirsty black mist rapidly spewed from the corpse's ears, nose, eyes, and mouth—Uesugi Muneyuki still didn't even know whose corpse he was possessing, and it had solidified into a twisted, scarlet-black eye-socket skull shape, about to swiftly flee.

Hmph~ Want to escape?

Uesugi Muneyuki had prepared for this long ago; after the second Precision Defense failed, he desperately clung to one spirit sphere, waiting for this moment!

This is my last spirit sphere!

Uesugi Muneyuki lay on the ground, stretching his right hand toward the fleeing scarlet-black eye-socket skull, and fiercely pulled the trigger in his heart!

Biu~

The white light shot from his fingertip pierced the cold air and heavy bloody smell of Kabukicho at the end of December, crossing the line of fire under the witness of the ocean of neon lights and countless street signs, striking first despite being fired later!

The scarlet-black eye-socket skull hadn't expected Uesugi Muneyuki to still have one spirit sphere; the expression on the skull turned to utter shock as it saw the spirit sphere about to hit it. Saijo Yasue summoned all her strength, and the scarlet light flashed—at the moment the spirit sphere struck her, she lunged forward a distance, narrowly avoiding Uesugi Muneyuki's desperate strike.

This could even be dodged?!

Uesugi Muneyuki gritted his teeth, focused all his spirit, and recalled Mai Xuejie's guidance.

Damn, this woman drained my spirit power to heal her wounds, now she's vanished without a trace, and I'm left to deal with the Inner World's enemies myself—although she's also just recovered from serious injury and her body is weak, but what about the promised protection? What about the senior student who was supposed to cover me?

When I get back, I'll definitely enforce family law harshly, stabbing this woman three hundred military rods!

However, in Meiji Jingu, Mai Xuejie still guided Uesugi Muneyuki on the use of spirit power.

Use your imagination!

You can move, so can I!

Uesugi Muneyuki focused his spirit, and just as he saw the spirit sphere about to miss its target, he similarly veered it along the same trajectory, striking the scarlet-black eye-socket skull dead center!

Hit!

Boom! The skull formed by the escape curse grudge exploded like a watermelon, bloody qi spraying in all directions, within which Saijo Yasue's visage faintly appeared.

【Leave the rest to me!】Hironaka Mariko deployed, the female anchor's curse grudge leapt a long distance, again just like before, she death-gripped Saijo Yasue's curse grudge.

Demon Claw!

Hironaka Mariko's curse grudge claws shot out together, seizing the dead soul, continuously casting to strengthen control—this female murderer Saijo Yasue could no longer resist. After the scarlet-black eye-socket skull fled the corpse, all of her curse grudge energy was entirely sucked into Hironaka Mariko's body and sealed, beginning gradual digestion.

And a large portion of this energy flowed directly into Uesugi Muneyuki's body; the originally extremely fatigued Uesugi Muneyuki only felt his spirit refreshed, his empty insides instantly filled to the brim with spirit power—though the spirit power flowing into his body was overlaid with a thick layer of blood-red.

No wonder the Inner World is like a dark forest—after all, this behavior of slaughtering and seizing others' energy is simply……the profit is too great, great enough to worth every risk.

The situation is settled!

"I'm fine! Just scraped some skin!" Uesugi Muneyuki immediately said: "No problem!"

At this moment, seeing Ikeda Erena finally subdued the murderer, the Metropolitan Police Department old-timers who had been watching for a long finally got their chance—Special Mission Unit's Kai Toru kicked the Zwilling kitchen knife on the ground with one foot, kicking it farther away and then stepping on it. The remaining officers had planned to come up and control the suspect using the old Arhat routine, but they hesitated beside Ikeda Erena for a long time, not daring to rush forward.

Inspector Okada deeply exhaled, nearly collapsing as he lowered his SIG pistol, engaged the safety, calmly took out handcuffs from behind and cuffed the female murderer, then firmly patted Ikeda Erena on the shoulder: "Well done, Ikeda!"

"Muneyuki, you're fine, that's all that matters." Ikeda Erena completely ignored Okada, her attention solely on Uesugi Muneyuki. The tall beauty knew every inch of his body like the back of her hand; seeing his waist cut with a wound about five centimeters long, oozing a little blood, she also felt relieved. As a black belt, Ikeda Erena of course knew this bleeding level was just a scraped skin—disinfect and bandage it and it's fine.

Thus, this live drama so cinematic it couldn't even be filmed finally came to an end.

"Hostages safe, secured! Immediately call an ambulance!" Inspector Itami of the Fifth Section roared.

"Major active offender already apprehended on the spot! Repeat, major active offender already apprehended on the spot!" Inspector Okada of the Special Mission Unit also loudly declared.

"Uesugi Muneyuki, minor injury! No serious issue! Repeat, Uesugi Muneyuki minor injury, no serious issue!"

Under the glow of the five-colored neon lights, Kabukicho's pitch-black heavens, the Metropolitan Police Department crowd loudly announced the on-site resolution of this major serial street murder case!

Hearing this news, the other police merely sighed in relief, while the hundreds or thousands of onlookers at the scene fell silent for a moment, then suddenly erupted in earth-shaking cheers.

"Good! Awesome! Badass!"

"So strong, Uesugi-san! No wonder you're the descendant of Lord Kenshin!"

"Well done, spirited! Didn't let Lord Kenshin lose face!"

"This is practically a reenactment of the single combat at Kawanakajima—so cool!"

"Actually……personally going to exchange hostages! Is this what the peerage is like?"

"Lord Uesugi, nailed it!"

All the Japanese people around witnessed today's heart-stopping scene—exchanging hostages, courageously agreeing, risking death to push aside innocent passersby, in the instant the female murderer swung her blade at Uesugi, every heartstring was tightened by this moment, as if even Mount Fuji had held its breath.

The female murderer chopped three times—isn't that just like the legendary single combat between Takeda Shingen and Uesugi Kenshin at Kawanakajima? The first chop severed Shingen's retainers, the second split Shingen's arm armor, the third cut Shingen's arm, and just as Uesugi Kenshin was about to take Shingen's head, the general Haratoyo (Ikeda Erena) arrived, the spear formation pushing back Kenshin.

They hadn't seen how the Battle of Kawanakajima was fought centuries ago, and even later scholars verified that this legendary single combat of Shingen and Kenshin was purely a Japanese self-made fictional history (just like Warm Wine Slay Hua Xiong, Three Heroes Battle Lu Bu), but today they personally witnessed Uesugi Muneyuki's enactment!

Not only the Japanese, but even some fellow yellow-skinned people also opened their mouths, clucking in amazement.

"Mmm~," someone said in Chinese, "Should we use this much force? So handsome it's cracking, pretty boy! Lid on the pot, thunderbolt?"

"Oh my goodness, is this for real? Handsome to the point of shedding flakes, this pretty boy!" a squeaky-voiced yellow-skinned girl said in a cute tone.

"otherf**ker" a white-skinned couple snapped photos furiously with their phones.

"DAMN, brothatshitwild! ThisniggafineayGod!" there were also some black-skinned people with Japanese accents cursing.

And similarly at the scene, NHK and the four major commercial broadcast bureaus completely recorded this moment, where the four major bureaus were limited to the Kanto Region, but NHK had already broadcast this to 100 million people across Japan.

"It's over! Everything's over! No gunfire, hostages unharmed! Great Uesugi, miraculous Uesugi, he bravely stepped forward, using his courage and belief, incredibly rescued the hostages from the major active offender's hands! Let's give him our applause!" NHK's host excitedly almost roared with a bellowing voice, even contradicting NHK's usual neutral, slightly left-leaning stance: "And also this miraculous, incredible beauty judo policewoman! If everyone remembers, this is already our third time seeing her peerless skill!"

"Besides, we must also thank that police officer who blew out a tire with one shot—if not for him, we wouldn't know how many more people would have been hurt!"

The four major commercial bureaus also emotionally blasted into the camera.

"Good!!!" At the same time, inside the koban, Metropolitan Police Department Superintendent General Watanabe Eiji saw the active offender subdued, Uesugi Muneyuki confirmed no serious issue, excitedly raised both fists, looked around, and embraced Criminal Investigation Department Chief Uchimura Kanji excitedly, while Watanabe Minami, awakened by her father, glanced to confirm her fiancé was unharmed, then rolled her eyes and fainted.

"Now we can finally answer to the nation!" Watanabe Eiji and Uchimura Kanji embraced passionately, these two old comrades whose combined age is 100 years even nearly kissed.

My superintendent's position is secured!

My criminal investigation department chief's position is secured!

The Tokyo Inspector General's face flushed red with agitation.

This case is truly too heinous! According to intelligence relayed from the front, this female murderer killed at least five people inside the host club, severely injured three on the road — two of whom are in critical condition still waiting for ambulances to arrive for emergency resuscitation — and besides that, over a dozen sustained light injuries, most of them police.

Other matters could still be explained away as insufficient manpower or unwillingness to handle things seriously, but today several hundred police came; with a 100-to-1 advantage on my side, if the culprit escapes even now, we Japanese police will become the laughingstock of the international community!

Ultimately speaking, who could have anticipated something like this? Normally patrols would carry riot shields and electrified forks, but today's sudden attack was originally a large-scale reality show — who would really form a turtle-shell riot shield formation and take to the streets?

And it actually went wrong for real.

Choosing Uesugi as a son was the right call! Watanabe Eiji glanced at the unconscious Watanabe Minami and had already begun thinking about how to leverage this incident to strengthen his own authority and secure more benefits.

The three people with the most outstanding performance today are all from the Special Mission Unit, and the Special Mission Unit was built single-handedly by himself.

Resolving such a major case successfully without firing a shot and injuring anyone — if it's a mistake it's still correct, if it's correct it's even more perfect.

"Wait a moment, Director General, look!" Just as Watanabe Eiji was thinking, a new development appeared on the television.

The police were just preparing to arrest the female murderer on the ground and detain her to await legal sanction when this slightly plump woman slipped away like a softened wide noodle in a large bowl.

Seeing this scene, experienced veteran police immediately sensed something was off; they reached out to touch her, and their faces changed drastically.

"She, she's dead!"

This turn of events caused another uproar at the scene.

The female murderer, dead?

She just died like that?

At this moment, everyone thought for a beat and turned their gazes toward the person kneeling beside Uesugi Muneyuki, using hemostatic aerosol and bandages to wrap his wounds — Eirina, this judo beauty policewoman who had just been incomparably ferocious.

It can only be her!

Ikeda Eirina is the murderer!

(End of Chapter)