This Japanese Monogatari Isn't Lame
Chapter 456 - 304. Decryption? Nonexistent (8000-word target achieved!)

Chapter 456: Chapter 304. Decryption? Nonexistent (8000-word target achieved!)

Under Beichuan Si’s gaze, Hobu Tian stepped onto the first buoy amidst immense pressure.

To his relief, the buoy only sank slightly and the water remained calm on both sides, with nothing happening.

"Mr. Beichuan..." Hobu Tian turned his head.

"Mm. Keep moving," Beichuan Si nodded to signal him not to stop.

Feeling the calm in Beichuan Si’s eyes, Hobu Tian also felt greatly reassured and slowly made his way to the second buoy.

The water’s surface stirred slightly as Hobu Tian jumping from the buoy caused the others to wobble, in turn agitating the water.

Still, nothing happened.

Hobu Tian took a breath and, gritting his teeth, proceeded to jump forward in quick succession!

Once!

Twice!

Boom!!!

An unexpected change occurred!

As Hobu Tian was mid-leap off the buoy, a vengeful spirit of a young man covered in black liquid and wounds suddenly burst forth from beneath the water.

Because the spirit appeared so suddenly, Hobu Tian had no time to react!

He could only watch in horror as it lunged at him, seemingly ready to plunge him into the filthy water.

Then—

Hobu Tian suddenly felt a light tap on his shoulder.

Next, he saw a small doll leaping out.

Yes.

A doll.

The doll Beichuan Si had given him actually moved like a living thing?! And it even...

pulled out a small iron hammer from its behind?!

The edges of the hammer were fitted with fine needles attached with tape, making it resemble a prop commonly used in slasher films.

But this prop really seemed rather shoddy.

Hobu Tian opened his mouth in shock.

No wonder the doll felt so heavy...

Amid the astonished expressions of everyone present, the scruffy little doll swung the disproportionally large hammer and smashed it into the vengeful spirit’s battered face.

Splat!

The strike sent the spirit’s head flying, finally spinning to a stop at Beichuan Si’s feet.

Beichuan Si’s response remained as straightforward as ever.

He decisively stomped on the vengeful spirit’s head, now with needles sticking out from it, and crushed it. Then he looked again.

Hobu Tian was standing steadily on the fourth buoy, having reached the bank.

Meanwhile, Nishijou Kurenai, holding the small hammer with her round arms, was jubilantly jumping over a meter high on the shore.

The little one seemed very pleased.

But—

Beichuan Si glanced at the small hammer Nishijou Kurenai was holding.

Wasn’t that the hammer missing from his house? It turned out to be with Nishijou Kurenai.

And those sewing needles...

Beichuan Si finally understood why Nishijou Kurenai would ask him for a sewing kit every other day.

So that was what it was all about.

Beichuan Si sighed imperceptibly.

To be honest, he wondered who Nishijou Kurenai had learned from, as she was becoming increasingly violent now.

Even beginning to make such props, it seemed he would need to moderate her a bit in the future.

As an echo to Beichuan Si’s silent lament, Hobu Tian, who had already climbed ashore, put his hands together in gratitude towards Nishijou Kurenai.

"Thank you so much! Thank you so much for your help!"

So Beichuan Si hadn’t lied to him; the doll really was that powerful.

Watching his straightforward worshipping gestures from across the water, Beichuan Si looked at Tanaka Takashi, Yamakou Hideyasu, and Gongben Naoki: "It’s your turn now."

"...Alright." With Hobu Tian’s example before them, they each felt reassured and took turns stepping onto the buoys.

As if influenced by Nishijou Kurenai’s earlier performance, no vengeful spirits appeared to disrupt their passage as Tanaka Takashi and the others made their way across.

"Mr. Beichuan, we’ve all made it across. It’s your turn."

Tanaka Takashi called out from the other side.

"I know." Beichuan Si gestured to show he had heard, then he took the Shinra Bell from his backpack and placed it in the water bottle compartment of the folding pack.

Then—

"Make some room for me."

"...Okay."

Although they didn’t know what Beichuan Si intended to do, Hobu Tian and the others still cleared a path for him.

Under the watchful eyes of Hobu Tian and the others, Beichuan Si took two steps back and then—

Boom!!!!

He stepped on the edge of the pond, and his entire body leaped into the air.

"He’s jumping across directly?! That’s a seven or eight-meter distance," Hobu Tian exclaimed, his mouth agape.

Disregarding the height difference between the banks and looking just at the straight distance, it indeed spanned seven or eight meters... but then—

Splash—

The previously still water suddenly stirred.

Under the horrified stares of everyone, four disgruntled spirits rose from the water surface in an instant.

They shrieked piercingly, their palms reaching for Beichuan Si’s ankles mid-air.

Just as Beichuan Si was about to be dragged down into the dark depths...

Death Energy took form!

Death Energy shot out, forming chains and slamming into the ceiling, providing a fulcrum. With that support, Beichuan Si kicked out, bursting two of the spirit’s heads midair, then flipped his hand, and a grisly hammer woven from dark Death Energy emerged, striking across and breaking two more charging spirits in half!

All these actions happened in the span of a mere moment, summed up simply by a few phrases—

Leap, smash, land.

Just like that.

Beichuan Si dissipated the Death Aura Hammer and Death Energy Chain in his hand, ignoring the ghost-stricken looks of the others, and turned to glance at the floating remains of the spirits on the water.

Like spider webs shattered against the walls, the dark bloodstains and scattered chunks of the spirits’ remains drifted on the surface of the water...