Rika Inoue imposed a [Forbidden] on herself, erasing the sounds and traces that were produced in her actions.

Like a wisp of black smoke leaving no trace flying through the streets and alleys of this city.

This state puts a huge burden on her body, but it is a way to hide her body to the greatest extent.

There was a breath that made her extremely uneasy in the darkness around her.

Even with the help of the firelight pouring into the sky behind her, the range of her sight was still less than half of what she used to be.

Suddenly.

Rika Inoue felt a slight resistance on her feet. Before she could react, the sudden alarm ringing broke the dead darkness.

The sound of steps and breathing came from all directions.

Just a moment.

She was already in a siege.

The "army" that surged from all over her surrounded her.

“Here!”

"Environate this street and don't let go of any blind spots!"

"Send a signal to the head of Tianmura!"

A series of fast and undisturbed instructions were issued, making Rika Inoue, who was trapped in a heavy siege, feel as if she fell into an ice cave.

She gritted her teeth hard, showed her determination, and had no intention of surrendering, and was ready to fight for a path of blood.

The uncle chose to sacrifice himself, restrain the extrajudicial person who rushed to the tavern and let her escape, and she must not stop there!

He was right, people should sometimes be selfish. She had made a choice. In that choice, she chose to sacrifice herself to help those who have always had ulterior motives about her, so as to protect Aiyijun.

And this time.

She doesn't want to make the same choice again.

Just like what the uncle said, even if you die, you must die with Achieki!

Rika Inoue took a deep breath and squatted slightly, like a cheetah about to start hunting. Every part of her body seemed to contain extraordinary explosive power.

And just the moment she was about to jump up.

A slight inconspicuous blade broke through the air and slashed from her side.

It was ordinary and without any extraordinary power, but it made Rika Inoue, who was passing by, stand up, and only a blank look remained in her mind.

"Lixiang, how about uncle's knife?"

A gentle voice with a smile came along with the blade and reached Rika Inoue's ears, soothing the despair that Rika had caused by facing the knife from close range.

Rika Inoue opened her eyes wide and looked in front of her, feeling her mouth and tongue dry.

This seemed like nothing surprisingly.

From her feet, it seemed that the burnt black marks that broke Tokyo's knife twice reached the invisible place.

No matter what the blade reaches, it disappears without a trace!

Rika Inoue suddenly turned around.

A loud shout and heroic laughter came from the direction she came.

"Lixiang, even if you go straight forward, the uncle personally cuts out a smooth road for you!"

The old man holding a long sword stood like a reef that had not fallen for thousands of years under the waves, and under his feet were clouds paved with flames.

The naked upper body was covered with scars, which was the medal he had bragged about to men with Rika and Akaichi.

With a long sword swing, the arc of the knife appears in a perfect semicircle, and the flame flow follows like a shadow.

He drew half a big sun!

The flames changed from orange-red to yellow-white, blue-green, and then gradually became transparent and empty. Although they were invisible, they could clearly feel the moisture in the air evaporating rapidly and the drier air.

at last.

The dark clouds surrounded his feet and lingered on the blade.

He swung his sword to the sky!

And the scene of the next moment, Rika Inoue didn't see it.

Because she had already started running along the knife marks that stretched forward!

She ran forward with all her might, clearing all the distracting thoughts in her mind, leaving only one thought-

That is to escape from this city and find Aichi-kun.

This is the uncle's last instructions to her.

There was only the sound of the wind passing by her ears gradually.

The wind roared and rushed.

A majestic rebuke came from the air.

The fire that shines in the sky gradually dimmed.

The light that came from behind illuminating the front became weaker and weaker until it completely disappeared.

The world has returned to silence and darkness.

Did the uncle fall down...

A confused thought flashed through her mind, and then Rika forced her out of her mind.

It's almost done.

You're about to leave Tokyo!

After leaving Tokyo and following the railway line to the north, she and Akachi-kun were the first homes.

Rika Inoue, who was running wildly in her consciousness, suddenly bumped into an invisible barrier.

Her body was bounced hard into the air and fell to the ground.

Just as she hit the invisible barrier, dark red lines appeared in the air, spreading all the way around, as if they included the entire city.

This is...alchemy array?

Inoue Rika looked at the complex and mysterious dark red patterns in front of her in despair and got up with difficulty.

She gritted her teeth and hit her hard, but was once again bounced back by an invisible barrier.

She tried to eliminate it with [Practice and Forbidden] and weaken the existence of the alchemy array, but she returned in vain.

This unbreakable invisible barrier blocked her way from the Tokyo capital.

The fire behind him that was pouring back into the sky was gradually shrinking, surrounded by extremely rich darkness, and only a little inconspicuous light could be permeated.

She suddenly turned her head and looked at the place where a sound suddenly came.

I saw the majestic man who had been waiting here for a long time.

Even though he was in the current situation, Rika Inoue was still looking at the man who appeared here in shock.

"you……"

"What a totally unpredictable old guy."

Yuan Chunqiu complained softly, his eyes staring at the invisible firelight in the air not far away.

He looked down at the woman beside him and sighed:

"Rika Inoue, to be honest, I'm a little envious of you. I've never seen that old guy fight so hard. I thought that old guy would keep huddling in that tavern, just like the past few hundred years."

"I'm really curious. Is it because you look very similar to Princess Sakurako? What exactly ignited the old guy's enthusiasm for fighting that had been extinguished for hundreds of years?"

The man who asked the question seemed to be unprepared to get the answer at all.

He stretched out his hand and pressed it in the air, and the dark red patterns appeared under his palm.

The alchemy array that was helpless in front of Rika Inoue was like a piece of white paper that could be torn apart in front of Junqiu.

"The old pseudo-gods hiding in the Saito family did not escape from [Takahara], but were suspected to have come from outside the country."

"Now with His help, the Ten Commandments of Saito have entered the [unfalling] level. At the level of high-end combat power, we have almost completely lost."

"So go to your best and stay away from Tokyo as much as possible. As long as you don't fall into the hands of the Saito family and become the container of that false god, then there will be hope in Yingzhou. The longer you drag it, the greater the hope."

Yuan Chunqiu, who tore up the alchemy array, said calmly.

Rika Inoue looked at the road behind the man in a daze.

She staggered up, bowed deeply to the King of Yingzhou, and then passed by him and ran towards the road in the darkness.

Wait until Rika Inoue gradually left.

A woman walked out of the darkness again.

Gen Sakai stood beside his brother with a complicated expression, looking at the old man who was resisting under the darkness.
To be continued...