(⊙x⊙;)
Without Conan needing to say anything, Meta and Hikaru turned and ran the moment Ten’e looked at them.
Conan’s eye twitched as he saw this, crouching down and adjusting his foot-powered shoes.
Boom!!
He then leaped back and delivered a flying kick, sending a soccer ball from his Soccer Ball Belt flying.
“Child’s play.”
Ten’e caught the soccer ball casually and crushed it, then leaped into the air and snatched the little rascal.
“Let me go.”
Conan tried to appear adorable to put the old monk at ease.
Unfortunately, Ten’e didn’t like children.
He let go of Conan, who fell directly into the open maw of the Death Worm.
“Conan!!”
Dr. Agasa cried out in worry, but could only watch helplessly as Conan fell.
“Damn you, you bastard…!”
Having witnessed this brutal scene firsthand, Sato Miwako was filled with anger and shakily stood up.
“To think you’re still alive, you’re surprisingly tenacious.”
Ten’e was surprised, and a somewhat sinister smile spread across his face, which was covered in black curses.
“Then I’ll try another ability.”
As he said this, he suddenly accelerated toward Sato Miwako, tearing a bloody gash across her face as they clashed.
“That’s it.”
He pulled away from Sato Miwako again and landed on the ground, his smile twisted as he tore open the blood vessels in his arm. The blood dripped onto the ground and automatically converged into a sinister formation.
“Curse Technique: Death’s Will Through Blood.”
Ten’e casually tore off his own arm, and on the opposite side, Sato Miwako’s arm was also torn off.
“Ah!!”
She knelt on the ground, glaring at Ten’e fiercely.
“It seems this isn’t enough.”
Under the influence of the Heaven’s Curse, Ten’e’s arm quickly regrew. A cold smile played on his lips as he ripped open his chest with his bare hands, grabbing hold of his heart.
“Aaa!!”
Sato Miwako’s entire upper body arched back, her pain so intense that she couldn’t breathe.
The Nine-Tailed Chakra on her body grew even darker, turning black-red.
Whoosh whoosh—
Just as the number of tails behind her increased again, the police reinforcements finally arrived.
Two armed helicopters fired cannons and rockets at Ten’e and the Death Worm.
Boom boom!!
The intense explosions engulfed Ten’e, who used his wing-like hands to shield himself, glared at the helicopters in the sky with hatred, and coldly said, “Death Worm, take them down.”
“Roar roar—!”
The monstrous beast, tens of meters long, raised its massive body and roared angrily.
The blood-red eyes on top of its chrysanthemum-like maw released electricity once again, instantly turning the two armed helicopters into scrap metal as they crashed to the ground.
“It’s terrifying!!”
The three kids trembled like sieves at the sight.
Especially Meta, his face turned pale as he thought about Conan being eaten by the monster. He imagined himself being eaten too.
He heard that monsters like to eat meaty people.
“Run away!”
The moment the police helicopters crashed, Mount Takao completely lost its order.
Everyone frantically ran down the mountain path, even resulting in stampedes.
“Hikaru, let’s run too.”
Of the three kids, Hikaru was the only one who remained relatively clear-headed. He called to his companions and Dr. Agasa, hiding them in a building on the mountain.
The four of them looked at the rampaging monster and the seemingly dead Sato Miwako with pale faces.
“Look.”
At this time, Ayumi pointed with a surprised expression on her face.
They saw on the mountain path, while all the tourists were frantically fleeing downhill, an old man with a long beard and long eyebrows walking uphill against the flow, holding a sword in his hand.
“That is… ”
The three kids looked at each other and exclaimed simultaneously, “That’s Director Ochiai!!”
…
After the two armed helicopters crashed, the Metropolitan Police Department dispatched their ace card – the Special Assault Team.
This was an elite unit responsible for counterterrorism and hostage rescue.
In terms of combat effectiveness, they were probably stronger than the Ground Self-Defense Force.
After all, due to the interference of the United States, the combat capability of the Self-Defense Force had long been a joke.
“Team 1 in position, ready.”
“Team 2 in position, ready for sniper fire.”
Snipers were already in position at the high point, and some even carried shoulder-mounted anti-tank missiles.
However, at this time, as if sensing danger, the Death Worm burrowed into the earth, taking Ten’e with it.
Rumble rumble—
The ground rolled and trembled, and the Special Assault Team completely lost track of their target’s location.
“Team 1 be careful! Team 1 be careful!!”
“The target is rapidly approaching you!!”
A sniper’s voice suddenly became urgent on the radio at this time.
Boom!!
The moment his voice fell, the Death Worm emerged from the ground, its maw agape, swallowing the entire police team whole.
“Damn it, launch the anti-tank missiles immediately.”
A commander roared on the communication channel, and the next moment, several anti-tank missiles hit the mountainside where the Death Worm was located, triggering a violent explosion.
However, it was no longer there.
“Aaa—!”
Using the same trick, it swallowed another police team, and the number of reinforcements sent by the Metropolitan Police Department was dwindling.
Mōri Kogoro and his few remaining men stood nervously on the hillside.
“Chief Mōri, we shouldn’t have come.” One of the officers turned pale and almost cried.
“Shut up.” Mōri said in a deep voice, “Find Miwako immediately and bring her back.”
“But… ”
The officer had just uttered those words when the ground rumbled open, and the Death Worm emerged from the earth, only a few meters away from them.
On the other side.
Ochiai also reached the hillside, looked at the demon in front of him, his expression solemn, and drew his demon sword, Oni-giri.
…