Chapter 015: The One Who Knows How to Lie Low

"Was it you who killed my subordinates?"

The Sky King descended from the sky, flapping his wings, hovering above Kei Kurono and his group, looking down on them from on high. The terrifying pressure made one shudder.

Kei Kurono felt his breathing oppressed beyond imagination.

His body trembled, his heart nearly stopped beating, and the faint trembling sensation from his cells constantly reminded him that the monster before him was an insurmountable calamity.

Run, he had to run.

If he didn't run, everyone would die here.

The Sky King waited for a while but found no one answering his question. It wasn't that they were arrogant; rather, after his appearance, they had fallen into fear and couldn't answer at all.

For a moment, he felt somewhat disheartened.

"Forget it, I'll just kill you all."

They were merely weak humans, nothing significant.

The Sky King flapped his wings, about to strike.

Everyone's mind went blank, especially Kei Kurono, who at that moment was nearly scared out of his wits, with only one thought in his mind.

I'm dead, I'm dead, I'm going to die!

At that moment, Kei Kurono couldn't help but close his eyes.

But after waiting a while, Kei Kurono was astonished to find that he wasn't dead yet. His heart was beating, his breath was circulating. He opened his eyes, and the tengu-like monster that was about to attack him had already disappeared.

"Wh... what happened?"

Kei Kurono was stunned. He looked around but didn't see the tengu monster.

Masaru Kato shook his head, equally bewildered, completely clueless about what had happened.

They looked at the Tanaka aliens and found them also in a state of confusion, as if they didn't understand why the monster had vanished.

But then the Tanaka aliens seemed to realize something and scattered in all directions, fleeing.

Kei Kurono immediately reacted, "Don't let them escape!"

These were their mission targets, after all. So he picked up his weapon and chased after them.

"Kei!" Masaru Kato, worried about Kei Kurono's safety, also gave chase.

Only Kei Kishimoto vaguely felt that the Sky King's disappearance might be related to Wang Bo.

And indeed, the Sky King's disappearance was Wang Bo's doing. He had been watching the Gantz team all along, and when he saw the Sky King appear, he was overjoyed.

Just as the Sky King was about to strike, Wang Bo snapped his fingers, directly teleporting the Sky King in front of him.

At the same time, a powerful telekinetic force bound the Sky King from all directions, forcing him to kneel before him.

The Sky King felt a blur before his eyes, and then he fell to his knees with a thud before a human. An invisible force surrounded his body, binding him so tightly that he couldn't even move a pinky finger.

For a moment, the Sky King was terrified.

"Sky King, right?" Wang Bo stood before the Sky King, looking him straight in the eye. The creature was tall; even kneeling, his line of sight was almost level with Wang Bo's.

In fact, he was even slightly higher.

The Sky King's heart skipped a beat. "Who are you? How do you know me?"

"Never mind who I am. I'll ask you one thing: do you know any other outsiders?" Wang Bo wanted to learn the whereabouts of other travelers from the Sky King.

The Sky King's eyes darted. "I don't know what you're talking about."

Wang Bo manipulated the invisible telekinetic force, pressing inward from all sides, advancing little by little. The Sky King's body began to deform, muscles split, and bones cracked with a popping sound.

An intense pain came from all over his body, making the Sky King scream uncontrollably.

In that instant, the Sky King almost thought he would be crushed into a ball of flesh.

The breath of death flooded the Sky King's bones like a tide.

The Sky King let out a wail.

"Spare... spare me!!!"

Wang Bo stared at him coldly. If the Sky King couldn't give him the answer he wanted, Wang Bo would not hesitate to use his telekinesis to crush the Sky King into a ball of flesh.

Of course, that would mean certain death for the Sky King.

But that didn't matter. With Wang Bo's current strength, he could reverse life and death, especially for those who had just died.

So even if Wang Bo killed the Sky King, he could revive him in a short time without affecting his income.

"I'll talk, I'll talk..." The Sky King was clearly a coward. Facing death, he no longer cared about anything and shouted, "I know others, I do."

"Who, and where?"

"It's... it's Lady Hagoromo, currently in Kyoto."

Hagoromo, another familiar name. Wang Bo remembered that this Hagoromo seemed to come from the world of "Nurarihyon no Mago." Since ancient times, she had dwelled in the capital, manipulating humans on the human stage. She was the sworn enemy of the Tsuchigumo clan of onmyoji and a unique demon in the world.

She was the only demon capable of controlling humans in the world, and for centuries, no demon had dared to cross her.

She was the so-called master of all phantoms.

In other words, the master of the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons.

Hagoromo appeared in times of chaos, possessing the bodies of excellent children to develop. When the possessed person's faith and evil reached their peak, she would seize that person's body. Once mature, she would continuously absorb the resentment—hatred, jealousy, anger, despair—emanating from the political center to strengthen her power.

However, since she only had the lifespan of a human, when the host died, she would hide her true body until she found the next host. She was a reincarnating demon.

She was a demon particularly skilled at lying low, because her nature allowed her to outlive generation after generation of onmyoji.

Even if defeated, it was only a temporary failure; she always had opportunities to stage a comeback.

Wang Bo remembered that in the plot of "Nurarihyon no Mago," after Hagoromo reincarnated, she was repeatedly stopped by the protagonist's father, and their hatred was irreconcilable.

Although the protagonist's father repeatedly killed Hagoromo's reincarnations, he could never kill Hagoromo herself.

In the end, Hagoromo found an opportunity, stabbed the protagonist's father, and killed him.

To be honest, such a tenacious demon was rare.

In Wang Bo's memory, the only one comparable to her in lying low was probably the big boss of the "Demon Slayer" world, the Demon King Muzan Kibutsuji.

The Demon King was also good at lying low, but unlike Hagoromo, who fought and lost repeatedly, he wouldn't challenge someone he couldn't beat over and over.

Instead, he would directly lie low, relying on his long lifespan to outlive his opponents before emerging to stir up trouble again.