This Japanese Monogatari Isn't Lame
Chapter 150 - 149: Escape! (19th Update)

Chapter 150: Chapter 149: Escape! (19th Update)

Beichuan Si felt goosebumps all over his body, his back drenched in cold sweat.

This was not a display of fear, but a subconscious reaction to encountering an enemy he absolutely couldn’t defeat at the moment.

Admitting his weakness wasn’t difficult for Beichuan Si; the vengeful spirit indeed was an existence he couldn’t defeat at the moment.

Because the opponent’s strength wasn’t just limited to vengefulness.

Beichuan Si could feel an extremely dangerous sensation hidden beneath the slender, twisted body of the knife maid.

In the moment he charged at the opponent, he threw the duvet from the concubine’s room at the vengeful spirit, blocking their view while he shifted his body to the side, throwing the Jian Ding at them too!

Beichuan Si had only completed these three actions when the thick duvet, originally flying in the air, was neatly sliced into pieces, and the Jian Ding, which had shot out, was deflected by the opponent’s blood-stained bone knife.

But this was within Beichuan Si’s expectations.

His previous actions were merely to buy time for his escape.

By that instant, he had already moved to the knife maid’s side, just a step away from the gate!

He needed to leave quickly.

But the knife maid reacted faster than Beichuan Si.

As she deflected Beichuan Si’s Jian Ding, the butcher knife connected to her calf swiftly came down towards Beichuan Si’s head!

A rotten smell assaulted him from behind, but Beichuan Si didn’t even look, merely thinking, and the Death Energy Chain connected between his fingers pulled the Jian Ding back, the silver glowing Jian Ding entering his hand from the side.

While sprinting, Beichuan Si changed his footwork, standing firmly and holding the Jian Ding with both hands, barely blocking the opponent’s chop.

Crack—!

The Jian Ding collided with the opponent’s knife, a tremendous force transmitted from his hands to his arms, and with this terrifying force, Beichuan Si, who had deliberately adjusted his stance, was thrown backwards towards the outside of the gate.

He barely managed a defensive roll upon landing, rolling several times, distributing the force across his back, but still felt a persistent aching all over his body.

This opponent was simply not in the same league, and that narrow room was too advantageous for the knife maid.

Her reflexes, strength, and precision in striking were all terrifyingly accurate.

Had it not been for her overly simplistic manner of attacking, Beichuan Si felt he might have been dismembered into a mess of flesh in an instant.

"Is it a concubine or something else..."

Could it be another Soul Suppressing Twin?

Regardless, he had to escape quickly!

The moment Beichuan Si landed, he immediately pushed himself up with both hands and sprinted frantically towards the direction of the underground palace’s stone steps.

But—

He distinctly heard a terrifying sound behind him, rapid like raindrops.

Using the blade of the Jian Ding, Beichuan Si clearly saw the terrifying figure rushing frantically towards him!

The knife maid!

Beichuan Si turned his body and hurled the Jian Ding toward the opponent’s head—

Clang!

A metallic crisp sound.

The Jian Ding was launched out.

Beichuan Si only then saw the iron mask worn on half of the knife maid’s face.

The mask was engraved with ancient, bewitching floral patterns.

The knife maid had no facial features, the skin beneath the mask smooth and pale green-white.

But for some reason, Beichuan Si always felt the opponent was smiling.

A chilly, resentful laugh—

Although Jian Ding hadn’t caused any substantial harm to the Knife-Wielding Maiden, under her powerful forward momentum, he momentarily made her pause.

Beichuan Si seized that moment and continued running towards the stone staircase’s entrance.

However, the passage was far too long, and the speed of the Knife-Wielding Maiden was terrifyingly fast. He had only covered two-thirds of the distance when she almost caught up with him.

Even worse, Beichuan Si could smell the overpowering stench of decay from behind.

In such a seriously menacing situation, Beichuan Si remained calm. Various thoughts surfaced in his mind and were promptly dismissed.

A direct confrontation was definitely not an option. After all, she was superior in both speed and strength. Moreover, Beichuan Si could sense she still had something hidden up her sleeve.

While he was racking his brain, a spirit with a twisted neck suddenly rushed out from deep within the wall beside him!

Shinju Rina!

Appearing at this moment?

A thought struck Beichuan Si, and he instinctively stopped his motion to subdue her.

From Shinju Rina, Beichuan Si still sensed no hostility.

So, her purpose was...?

As the distance between him and Shinju Rina closed, Beichuan Si’s heart raced.

If it was as he imagined—

Beichuan Si did not strike Shinju Rina. Her twisted limbs did not impede him either, allowing him to run past her.

But at the instant the Knife-Wielding Maiden charged towards them, the short blade in her hand slashed directly towards Shinju Rina’s neck.

Splat!!!

The Knife-Wielding Maiden’s steps halted for an instant. She cleanly shattered Shinju Rina’s blade and, with her knives clinking against her, performed a dissection as skilled as any surgeon. Shinju Rina was instantaneously dismembered into clumps of resentment.

But Shinju Rina’s spirit did not vanish. Even as her resentment dissipated, she still struggled to materialize once again.

However, the Knife-Wielding Maiden clearly had no intention of allowing Shinju Rina that chance. Her terrifyingly grotesque blades lifted swiftly, ready to mash the resentful spirit floating in the air—

A blinding burst of light suddenly flew from ahead.

It was an intricately patterned talisman.

As soon as the talisman stuck to the Knife-Wielding Maiden, it burst into an intense blue flame!

The fierce flames elicited a sharp, mournful scream from the Knife-Wielding Maiden.

"Go!"

Standing at the entrance of the underground palace, Beichuan Si shouted to the barely materialized Shinju Rina, slipping another Spirit Talisman from his hand!

It was an exorcism tool that the system had given him at the start.

Initially having only four, he had now used two, leaving only two talismans in Beichuan Si’s hands.

As Shinju Rina completely vanished into the stone wall, Beichuan Si could not afford to linger and immediately dashed out of the underground palace.

After emerging from the underground palace, his movements didn’t stop—he sprinted from the Shenzhu branch family in a blink.

Leaping over the long bridge, he then rushed past the ritual tool room.

He grabbed the Shinra Bell without hesitation before dashing into the grand hall of Shenzhu Shrine.

She shouldn’t be able to chase him down here.

Beichuan Si sat on the floor, breathing rhythmically.

He had been adjusting his breathing during the run, so he wasn’t overly disheveled.

But—

"Who exactly is that Knife-Wielding Maiden...?" Beichuan Si wiped his forehead with a hand.

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