Hearing Hikari's classic line, the Hachishaku-sama's already huge, doll-like eyes widened even further, round as saucers.
'A ch!ld? So what if we're a ch!ld?'
'Being a ch!ld makes you invincible, does it?'
Looking at Hikari, who still showed no sign of regret and was even smiling at her, the Hachishaku-sama clenched her fists. Suppressing her anger, she asked, "Let me ask you something. Are you planning not to honor the promise you made with me before?"
"What promise?", Hikari asked.
"To stay with me forever," the Hachishaku-sama said in a low voice.
"Isn't that a bit too much? Didn't I already say I'm still a ch!ld."
"Fine! Fine! Fine! I get it, you don't plan on keeping the promise!", Hearing Hikari's words, the Hachishaku-sama angrily cut him off.
"Since you don't intend to keep it, then I'll help you keep it! I'm going to imprison you by my side for the rest of your life!", As she spoke, the Hachishaku-sama suddenly stretched out her arm and grabbed toward Hikari.
Although there was some distance between the driver's seat and the back seat of the car, the Hachishaku-sama's arms were already much longer than an ordinary person's, so she could reach him.
But even though she grabbed quickly, she failed to catch Hikari. Instead, he dodged away at an even faster speed.
"You've been watching me for a long time, haven't you, Hachishaku-sama? You've been secretly spying on me ever since I came back to the village," Hikari said.
The Hachishaku-sama didn't answer. She simply kept reaching out toward him, clearly still trying to grab him.
"The taxi's too cramped. It's really inconvenient to move around, especially with your size. How about we go outside and fight instead?", Seeing her strike again and again, Hikari couldn't help but say it.
"Fine!", The Hachishaku-sama gritted her teeth as she stared at him and decisively agreed.
After observing him earlier and probing just now, she also knew that Hikari wasn't some ordinary male high school student. He clearly had some strength.
If she wanted to take him down, she really did need a wider space.
Hikari opened the car door first and stepped out.
The Hachishaku-sama followed right after him and got out as well.
Hikari turned to look. After getting out of the car, the Hachishaku-sama had completely dropped her earlier disguise. She didn't bother pretending anymore.
The taxi driver's uniform she had been wearing earlier had turned into a tight white spaghetti-strap dress.
Her black hair, which had been tied in a long ponytail, now fell loose.
Her height, which had already been extremely tall, suddenly increased by another section. Even Hikari had to lift his head to look up at her.
But honestly, after returning to her original appearance, the Hachishaku-sama's looks had improved quite a bit.
Especially that tight spaghetti-strap dress. It made her already imposing figure look even more enormous.
At this point it couldn't even be described as "impressive" anymore. After all, the Hachishaku-sama wasn't human to begin with.
"This time… don't even think about leaving me again!"
After getting out of the car, the Hachishaku-sama looked at Hikari with blazing anger in her big eyes. Without wasting another second, she rushed toward him.
Her speed was extremely fast. It didn't even look like running, more like a drifting, flickering motion.
Almost instantly, she arrived beside Hikari and her large hand grabbed straight toward his neck.
But Hikari's physical abilities were also far beyond those of an ordinary person. He could clearly capture the Hachishaku-sama's movement trajectory.
So he easily dodged her attempt to grab him.
Seeing Hikari drift away so easily, the Hachishaku-sama widened her eyes.
Inside the car earlier it had been inconvenient, so she really hadn't used much strength.
But now that they were outside, she had already moved as fast as she could.
Yet Hikari still dodged effortlessly.
'How did this guy suddenly become so strong?'
Unable to believe it, the Hachishaku-sama attacked Hikari again and again.
What she couldn't understand was that Hikari dodged every single time.
At one point he even threw out a punch and clashed with her head-on, knocking her hand aside.
As an urban legend, the Hachishaku-sama's physique alone was terrifying. Her speed and strength were both extremely powerful.
Yet Hikari, such a young human, could actually match her evenly?
Seeing how agile Hikari's movements were, and that his speed was even getting faster, the Hachishaku-sama gradually realized that not only was catching him difficult, she could barely even keep up with him.
She immediately stopped and gritted her teeth angrily, "I didn't expect you to run this fast. Fine, go ahead and dodge."
As she spoke, she suddenly let out several strange cries from her mouth.
"Bobo! Bobo!"
Hearing the sound, Hikari guessed she was calling for help.
Based on their fight so far and the aura he sensed, Hikari felt that the Hachishaku-sama was clearly stronger than the urban legends he had encountered before, like Hanako of the Flatwood and Mary-san.
So it was very possible that the Hachishaku-sama could mobilize other urban legends.
For example, the urban legend called "The Thing of the Mountain" that he had encountered before. Hikari had suspected it was sent by the Hachishaku-sama to test him.
Sure enough, just as Hikari had expected.
Not long after the Hachishaku-sama made those strange cries, two scarecrows glowing with white light and constantly swaying left and right suddenly rushed out from the forest beside the road.
"Hmph! Hikari-kun, it's still not too late for you to admit defeat!", the Hachishaku-sama sneered.
"Heh!", Hikari only smiled slightly.
Seeing this, the Hachishaku-sama's expression turned cold. She immediately made the "bobo bobo" sound again, ordering the swaying scarecrows to charge at Hikari.
These strange scarecrows that kept shaking nonstop should be the urban legend called "Kunekune."
Putting everything else aside, the way they glowed white and kept flailing around really was creepy. Just looking at them felt like it could drain someone's sanity.
Unlike the beautiful and curvy Hachishaku-sama, whose figure was all curves in the right places, this "Kunekune" was something that would make ordinary people very afraid.
But Hikari wasn't very scared. In fact, he felt that this "Kunekune" looked a lot like some of those ghost remix videos online from his previous life featuring something called the "Shadow Master."
So not only was he not afraid, he actually found it a little ridiculous.
Perhaps sensing the faint mocking emotion in Hikari, the two "Kunekune" scarecrows angrily rushed toward him faster.
At the same time, Hikari could feel a strange force spreading from those two figures, as if trying to control him and make him Kunekune along with them.
As the eerie power grew stronger and stronger, Hikari didn't retreat at all.
Instead, he suddenly charged straight toward the two "Kunekune" in front of him.
Golden light burst out all over his body. When he reached one of the "Kunekune," his shining golden fist swung forward fiercely.
Bang!
A dull sound rang out. The scarecrow that had been shaking like the "Shadow Master" was instantly blasted away.
After the golden fist landed, pieces of white cloth and countless strands of straw flew through the air.
The other Kunekune tried to sneak attack from behind, but Hikari turned around and threw another punch glowing with golden light.
Just like that, the two "Kunekune" were instantly killed.
Seeing Hikari's hands wrapped in golden light as he easily destroyed the Kunekune, the Hachishaku-sama looked at him with some surprise, "You actually know exorcist techniques?"
Hikari smiled, "There's a lot more I know. Hachishaku-sama, do you want to try them one by one?"
Hikari knew that based on the Hachishaku-sama's strength, she probably still had quite a few tricks left.
But he also had plenty of trump cards.
However, what surprised Hikari was that after hearing his words, the Hachishaku-sama actually shook her head.
"No, that won't be necessary. Actually, I never wanted to fight you in the first place, Hikari-kun."
"If we keep fighting, I'm afraid I might lose control and accidentally hurt you. I don't want that."
"Actually, as long as you agree to one request from me, that's enough."
The Hachishaku-sama spoke slowly.
"What request?", Hikari asked curiously.
In truth, Hikari also didn't really want to continue fighting.
Based on his estimate, although the Hachishaku-sama was quite strong, she probably still wasn't his opponent.
After all, he hadn't even used his full strength yet, and he still had many skills and divine abilities that were especially effective against evil spirits like her.
But it couldn't be denied that powerful urban legends like the Hachishaku-sama often had very strange methods.
Hikari was confident he could win, but he couldn't say for certain that he would be able to keep her from escaping.
So since there was another way to resolve things, he was willing to hear it out.
At least for now, it seemed that the Hachishaku-sama still remembered the old feelings from when he was a ch!ld, so her hostility toward him wasn't that strong.
When the Hachishaku-sama saw Hikari looking at her, her fair face, which had been lifted high, suddenly flushed slightly red. Even though she was eight feet tall, her expression now looked just like a young girl's.
The oversized mature beauty nervously pinched the corner of her dress and said shyly to Hikari, "I… I actually just want Hikari-kun to keep the promise you made when you were little. That… that promise to stay with me."
Hearing her words and seeing that her expression didn't seem fake, Hikari thought for a moment, then nodded.
"Okay."
Although the Hachishaku-sama was a terrifying urban legend, Hikari actually wasn't that afraid and didn't feel it was unacceptable.
After all, he had already been with the Snow Woman, who was also an urban legend, for quite a long time.
And besides the Snow Woman, he also had connections with other urban legends like the Oni race, Hanako of the toilet, and the doll Mary.
So the Hachishaku-sama's request wasn't impossible to accept.
Even though she was a bit bigger in size, she was still a beautiful woman.
A larger-than-usual mature woman… wasn't completely unacceptable either. After all, he had quite a few methods that could change things.
Hearing Hikari agree, the Hachishaku-sama couldn't help but beam with joy.
"Good! Then from now on you'll stay with me forever. Hurry up and break up with those other women."
"Hm?", Hikari raised an eyebrow slightly and looked at her.
"I know you still have several human women. You're so outstanding that attracting the opposite sex is normal. As long as you cut off all ties with them and stay with only me, that's enough," the Hachishaku-sama said with a smiling expression.
Her eight-foot-tall body towered above him as she looked down at Hikari.
But hearing her words, Hikari shook his head, "I only agreed to be with you. I never agreed to cut ties with everyone else. That's impossible."
Hearing Hikari's words, the Hachishaku-sama's previously joyful expression instantly turned cold.
She stared at Hikari tightly, seeing that his face was serious and that he wasn't joking in the slightest.
The Hachishaku-sama immediately said coldly, "No wonder you never thought about me all this time. So you already have other women. Fine. Since you're unwilling to cut ties with them, I'll just kill them all!"
As soon as the Hachishaku-sama finished speaking, Hikari responded coldly as well.
"If you dare even think about harming them in the slightest, I will personally destroy you."
Hearing Hikari's words, a strong look of grievance suddenly appeared in the Hachishaku-sama's eyes.
She looked at Hikari with a face full of hurt. Her gaze was filled with love and sorrow.
The little boy she once held in her arms had now become so powerful… and so ruthless.
Seeing the extremely dangerous aura radiating from Hikari as he stared at her, the Hachishaku-sama felt a chill run down her spine.
At the same time, she felt very unwilling inside.
Right now she was both anxious and angry.
Because she truly didn't want to fight Hikari again. No matter who got hurt, she couldn't accept it.
And even if they completely turned against each other and fought seriously, she wasn't sure she could actually defeat him.
The strength Hikari revealed once he became serious gave her an extremely dangerous feeling, probably even stronger than herself.
But the Hachishaku-sama also didn't want to accept sharing Hikari with so many people.
After all, she had waited more than ten years. And now she was supposed to share him with others like a shared bicycle. How unfair was that.
Standing there and thinking hard for a long time, the Hachishaku-sama finally lowered her head and apologized to Hikari.
"I'm sorry. What I said just now was only said in anger. I won't do something like that."
Hikari didn't give much response to her words.
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