Chapter 164: The Corpse is Speaking
"Pleasure working with you."
Quanxi also replied indifferently with a cold expression.
"We meet again!"
Pingtsi immediately made a funny face at Otonashi Chiya. Perhaps because her Lord Quanxi was present, she wasn't as afraid of Otonashi Chiya as she had been before.
"Halloween! Halloween!"
The Cosmos Fiend, Cosmo, seemed incapable of saying anything other than "Halloween." This was apparently a result of her ability, though she could speak normally when someone was trapped inside the mental world created after she activated her power.
Both the zombie girl and the Dragon Fiend remained completely silent.
The zombie girl most likely couldn't speak at all, while the Dragon Fiend could actually manage a few words, but carrying on a normal conversation with people was probably out of the question.
Otonashi Chiya ignored Pingtsi and instead discussed business with Quanxi, "I'll have to trouble you all to lie low near the school recently."
Quanxi gave a slight nod.
After that, there was nothing else to discuss, so Otonashi Chiya, Quanxi, and the four fiend girls left Chairman Jiang's study.
At that moment, Quanxi suddenly asked Otonashi Chiya, "I heard you came over from Tokyo Public Safety. How is my old partner Kishibe doing these days?"
"I didn't have much contact with Senior Kishibe, but his mental state seems quite good."
Otonashi Chiya said calmly.
"That's good."
Quanxi replied.
After that, the two didn't speak again, though Pingtsi proved to be quite talkative.
"Weren't you a newcomer? How did you suddenly become an SSS-rank Devil Hunter just a few days later?"
"Looking at it that way, you must really be strong. The Chairman must have made an exception to grant you that SSS-rank, right?"
"Hey... why are you ignoring me?"
She talked so much that even Otonashi Chiya found it a bit annoying.
"Because I don't think there's anything to talk about."
Otonashi Chiya casually remarked, "Since you have so much energy, you'd better save it for the upcoming battle."
"Ugh..."
Pingtsi didn't like being lectured by others, and a sense of dissatisfaction welled up in her heart.
Not wanting to stay here and continue bantering with Pingtsi, Otonashi Chiya quickened his pace and left.
Seeing this, Pingtsi became even more unhappy. "That guy is so annoying! So what if he's an SSS-rank Devil Hunter? Isn't our Lord Quanxi an SSS-rank too?"
"Halloween! Halloween!"
The Cosmos Fiend, Cosmo, was still her usual self.
"Pingtsi, be good. Don't go provoking that boy."
Quanxi said instead.
Unlike Pingtsi, Quanxi had a rough idea of Otonashi Chiya's strength and background.
Although her understanding wasn't completely comprehensive, she could still determine that he was an existence best left unprovoked.
Moreover, since Chairman Jiang placed such high importance on the boy, causing trouble for him would easily bring disaster upon themselves.
"Lord Quanxi..."
Hearing this, Pingtsi was somewhat in disbelief. "Is that guy really that amazing? Even Lord Quanxi..."
"Yes, very amazing. I don't have the confidence to beat him."
Quanxi stated bluntly, "If we really fought, there's even a chance we'd get wiped out by him."
"Alright..."
Since Lord Quanxi had put it that way, Pingtsi had nothing more to say.
Yet she still believed that Lord Quanxi was invincible and certainly wouldn't lose to that guy.
When the brain-dead idiots from the Devil Church finally came to make trouble, she and the others would be able to show off their skills alongside Lord Quanxi.
Even Pingtsi, a fiend, considered the people in the Devil Church to have something wrong with their brains.
...
Upon returning to Modu Qingfeng Middle School, Otonashi Chiya informed Shingetsu, Reze, and the others about the Devil Church.
To be precise, he called all the instructors together for a meeting.
"According to Chairman Jiang, this Devil Church is extremely dangerous. Recently, outside of training the trainees, you must all pay extra attention to the situation inside and around the school to avoid being caught off guard by a surprise attack from the Devil Church."
"Once any movement from the Devil Church is detected, evacuate the students to a safe place as quickly as possible and prevent them from coming to harm."
The content of the meeting called by Otonashi Chiya revolved primarily around the Devil Church.
"The Devil Church, huh? I've heard of them before; they're just a bunch of brainwashed lunatics."
Reze found the name of the Devil Church quite familiar.
Although Reze was a student, she was also an SS-rank Devil Hunter of the Devil Hunter Association, so she naturally had the qualifications to attend this meeting.
It was just that her school uniform looked somewhat out of place.
Not only Reze, but the other weapon hybrids were also no strangers to the Devil Church.
As former operatives, information regarding China's Devil Church was something they were required to understand.
Aside from these people on Otonashi Chiya's side, the instructors sent by the Devil Hunter Association naturally knew about the Devil Church as well, seeing as they were their most dangerous enemy.
"Precisely because they're a bunch of lunatics, we can't let our guard down. When the time comes, there's no need to hold back—kill one for every one that comes, and just slaughter them all."
Otonashi Chiya said with an indifferent expression.
...
The meeting had just concluded that evening, and the very next morning, the Devil Church struck.
A group of masked freaks clad in black robes broke into the school from all directions.
Quanxi and her fiend companions had naturally discovered that the Devil Church was making a move, but the Devil Church had deliberately sent a batch of cannon fodder to stall them.
At this moment, Quanxi wielded two bagua sabers. Her speed was so fast that ordinary devil hunters couldn't even catch a glimpse of her figure, and her blade-swinging speed was so rapid that it left behind afterimages.
One could only vaguely see the flash of blade light cutting across.
The members of the Devil Church were devil hunters themselves; otherwise, they wouldn't have had the capability to oppose the Devil Hunter Association. Furthermore, they believed themselves to be the most orthodox devil hunters, viewing the Devil Hunter Association's contracts with devils as illegitimate.
Yet before this batch of "cannon fodder" could sacrifice themselves to unleash the full power of their devils, they were one after another decapitated by the bagua sabers in Quanxi's hands.
Dozens of devil hunters were all beheaded almost in the blink of an eye.
However, due to Quanxi's terrifying speed, they hadn't even realized they had been decapitated yet.
"Kill them! At all costs, you must kill—"
"I am willing to offer up everything I have! Lord Devil, please let me use your full pow—"
"..."
Their words cut off abruptly in the middle of a sentence because they suddenly noticed something was wrong.
Smooth blade marks had appeared across all of their necks, and their completely severed heads hadn't even had time to shift position yet.
In contrast, Quanxi had already come to a stop, casually spinning her bagua sabers with effortless ease, the detached expression on her face entirely unchanged.
Even the displacement of the enemies' heads after being decapitated couldn't keep up with her speed.
The four fiend female companions, led by Pingtsi, were just slacking off on the sidelines, admiring Lord Quanxi's heroic bearing without having to worry in the least about being attacked by the enemies of the Devil Church.
Because in front of Lord Quanxi, those enemies simply didn't stand a chance.
Pingtsi even had the leisure to mock them with a playful smirk: "The corpses are talking~"