Exiting Akari's mind I looked down at my handiwork or more specifically the blush spread across her face. When my eyes wandered over to Fumiko she was still in a similar blissed-out state, and Chizue was busy gawking at the expensive-looking credit card I gave her. The dollar signs in her eyes and drool leaking from her lips told me she was happy. The card's holographic display revealed the balance amount on the card, and it was a lot of zeroes. Apparently, Garridan was a cheapskate and had saved most of his Captain's Salary, but it's not like I'm complaining because it gives me a lot to play with.
"Darling, you're sweatpants are soaked in cum." Charlotte spoke with a chiding voice and when my eyes saw the massive stain coating my pants I couldn't help but groan. Damnit I like these pants!
"I may have got a little carried away teaching Akari [Geist Magic]." I rubbed the back of my neck with a sheepish grin, the tent in my pants was still as large as ever. Maybe fucking constantly in their mind spaces without any actual physical touch is making them just as horny as me.
"You...taught her [Witch Magic]?" Charlotte asked incredulously, "How do you even know how to use spells in the first place?"
"Manuscript I found, you can buy anything for the right price this side of the veil." While in this case it wasn't true what I said was 100% correct for a majority of artifacts and weapons people use as exorcists. Dejima Island is the preeminent hotspot for foreign merchants and is home to several auction houses accessible via the [Crossroad Network], anything you can think of is there and it has a price.
Speaking of that place I probably should go snatch that stupid fox up before she goes all Kurama mode and gets put down like a stupid dog. I don't know what the mangaka was thinking killing off such a fine piece of ass so early on. Even if the main character is too dense to do anything it still doesn't mean we can't appreciate fan service.
"Well just be careful okay, the headmistress would have a field day if she found out." Her worried tone was super cute and I couldn't resist scooping her up in my arms. My lips pecked at hers as we walked to my next target, a certain half-yokai girl that had been displaying her bakeneko features more and more after the Oni triplet's attack.
"She's been training it seems." I spoke as I looked down at the petite girl whose black cat ears twitched as we approached. Despite her cute appearance Chihara Yuzuki was a dangerous predator, her mother Kiyomi being one of the strongest yokai of Hyakki Yagyō meant her potential for growth as a phantom was huge. The only reason Japan never suffered the wrath of her mother was the sin that she was born from wasn't violent in nature. No, Kiyomi was a creature of lust, a temptress who would bed and fuck anything with a pulse and even that was debatable whether or not being alive is necessary to have her jump your bones.
"Yes, she even landed a strike on me and even though it only nicked my skin it was still impressive nonetheless." Charlotte chimed in as she looked down at the girl, her porcelain hand rubbing at the twitching cat ears with a small smile on her face. Note to self take Char to a cat cafe for a date, and double note to self, take Charlotte on dates instead of only fucking like beasts.
A cloying heady smell filled the air around her, the black tail at the base of her spine was raised high in the air as it languidly flailed behind her. Her cheeks were dusted pink and her breath was ragged, her nose twitching as I stepped behind her. The whimpering sound leaving her lips spoke of a begging need, the smell of my cum inside Char probably helped put her body in heat. As soon as I enter her mind space I will most likely be attacked, death by snu-snu may be a real possibility if I don't tame her quickly.
"Hmm, this might be more difficult to pull off than the others. Char, can I ask a favor?" I spoke as I pulled down my pants, my cock sprining free for the world to see.
"What is it?" Her purple eyes watched my dick the way a dog watches a tasty treat, her own hand slipping her yoga pants down to reveal her drenched cunny. The anal beads still jammed in her ass prevented my cum from leaking out of her ass.
"Can I sheath my dick in you? She's probably going to try jumping my bones and unlike the other girls, she has the ability to affect reality from her mind space." Similar to the concept of a succubus I have no doubt that she will try draining me of my life force when she fucks me. But before we can even get to sexy fun time I'm going to have to fight a crazy phantom inside of their own mind space where they have control of every aspect of reality in there. The only thing she can't directly manipulate is my body due to my own soul being inviolable, the laws of the Weltgeist, and all that.
"Yes, you can sheath your dick in its rightful place." She spoke haughtily but by the way, she came running toward me tripping over her yoga pants like a clutz was telling me she was just as eager to fuck too.
"Okay, Char here goes—!" Without any preamble I bottomed out inside of her, a groan escaping my lips as the real thing felt so much better than sex in the mind space. Charlotte's toes curled, her body was held up in large part because of the massive cock nearly splitting her in two.
"Mmmmmf—oh, that feels so good!" She looked back at me with damp eyes and I couldn't help but lean forward and give her a kiss.
"In the first part, you might not see any action because I'll need to pin her first but after that expect buckets of cum." With those parting words, I placed my hand on the head of Yuzuki between her fluffy cat ears. An application of dark aether later and my world faded to black, the vice like grip of Char's cunny being the only feeling that remained.
***
The desolate streets of an empty Hyakki Yagyō greeted me, the storefronts normally filled with all sorts of abominations hawking their wares were now dead quiet. The moon loomed ahead, the soft pale light it produced soaking every thing in the city in a ghostly glow. Like an eye the moon watched as I walked down the street, the creak of a wooden shudder moving in the breeze took my attention as I looked left. The sound of sandaled feet clacking along the tile roof of the building to my right had me looking up, a black blur jumping just over the roof before I could see it.
"Okay, ain't no way I'm playing this jumpscare bullshit you better come out right now before I burn this place down!" Flames flickered in the palm of my hands, I wasn't kidding. Fun fact of the day, I absolutely hate cheap horror. I'm not a masochist who enjoys getting jump-scared over and over again, if I'm going to watch horror I prefer the cosmic variety. So when this stupid bitch who is trying to scare me (it's working a little) shows herself I'm going to spank the shit out of her ass!
"Hiiiiiiiissssss—!" Leaping down from the rooftop was a massive creature that despite its size it managed to land gracefully without making a sound. Glowing yellow eyes the size of trashcan lids looked down at me with slitted pupils as if I were a mouse it had just caught. Black fur covered the creature's large muscular frame, and glowing red ectoplasm radiated from the creature like burning flames. Its maw opened to reveal several rows of large fangs the size of steak knives capable of rending steel and crushing concrete like it was nothing. The creature's tail flicked back and forth sending waves of ectoplasm battering into the merchant stands knocking them over with a crash. The creature's feet were barbed with claws as long as swords that dug deep rends in the earth.
"You know you really forget how scary a Phantom is until you see them in person. I'd been spoiled fighting the Dōji sisters because compared to them you're uglier than Sin himself. Why don't you pop out of that nasty little form of yours and go back to being the cute catgirl you are." The only answer I got in response was a clawed swipe trying to decapitate me as I backpedaled away.
Holding out my hand I channeled dark aether into the shape of a sasumata, a forked spear used to catch criminals during the Edo period. My creation came just in time too as the creature's tail launched toward me extending unnaturally long like a whip. Catching the tail took every ounce of my physical strength plus a copious amount of geist to smooth over and yet even still I was being pushed back by the creature.
Channeling geist into the soles of my feet I began planting pockets of my aura in the ground concealing them with [Hidden Geist]. This is an advanced application of [Masking] allowing me to conceal my aura without stopping the flow of it. It's perfect for laying hidden traps and what better target to set a trap against than an unintelligent phantom that only relies on its instincts?
I dodged another three claw swipes and another tail attack as I planted another pocket of dark aether each time she tried hitting me. The creature was surrounded, and that's when I molded my geist in the shape of a long strand of thread. Laying it like the fuse to a bomb I ducked under a claw strike before stepping back, my fingers snapping blurred me up to the rooftop overlooking my trap.
"Not bad for not using any words, the somatic component seems to help me mold my geist into the spells matrix 'shape'. Let's see if it does anything with elemental techniques, three, two, one, go."
Snap
"[Necto: Hidden Chains]." Did you know that saying your technique aloud or describing its function to your opponent increases the ability's strength?
Yep, the mangaka really wanted an in-universe explanation for why characters would talk about their abilities during a fight. The reason why a technique is strengthened by giving away its name or explaining it is because it gives your hidden advantage away and to the weltgeist that small restriction is enough to buff your ability. The more you explain your technique the stronger it becomes but it also means your opponent will have time to devise a counter or kill you as you are too busy yacking about your divine technique to fight back.
The metal clang of chains filled the air as five black manacles rose from the ground. They moved with a mind of their own their target the cat's limbs and tail. The first one struck true snarring the creature's front left paw, the second one following suit by getting the right back leg. The third one aiming for the phantom's tail was buffeted by ectoplasm as the black metal corroded and broke into dozens of pieces. The fourth one nailed the cat's left hind leg as it hissed at the chain. The fifth and final one aimed for the creature's throat in a desperate attempt to ensnare her. I watched it get snatched out of the air by the phantom's wicked sharp teeth as it snapped the shadowy links like they were nothing.
"Well shit," I grumbled at the still very mobile and pissed limo-sized kitty. Even worse the two ranged options it has are still available to it. You may ask why I am saying there are two ranged options when clearly only the tail is capable of producing a ranged attack. The answer is simple because the mangaka had to give phantoms their own super original ability, a giant beam of ectoplasm that comes from—you guessed it their mouth!
Yuzuki's maw opened wide as a basketball sized orb of crimson ectoplasm grew in the dark recess of her mouth. The thing crackled as the air distorted around it, the amount of power radiating from it was immense. If [Elemental Resonance] is an exorcist's lucky break then [Phantom Beam Resonance] is a fuck you I win button. The massive damage it causes though usually disincentivizes intelligent phantoms from using it in a tactical engagement, and only the animalistic lower-tier phantoms use it without thought or care. It also has an effect that cannot be taken lightly, if a target is struck undefended by geist the attack will corrode your soul. This attack is even deadly inside illusions and mind spaces, and that meant she was trying to kill me.
Even worse was I couldn't move, the thread of geist connecting me to my technique was fragile, and I doubt I could maintain control running from her, and teleporting is out of the question as the thread would be cut as soon as I exit to the other side. All that means is that I'm going to have to tank a hit square to the face from one of the most devastating attacks in the series.
"[Necto: Black Coffin], [Necto: Black Coffin][Necto: Black Coffin], [Necto: Black Coffin], [Necto: Black Coffin], [Necto: Black Coffin]!" Darkness overtook me as my shadow formed a black box trapping me inside, another five wrapping around the first like a Russian nesting doll of inky black boxes. And I wasn't done yet as a I channeled geist near my stomach and converted it to earth aura.
"[Earth Dome Prison], [Earth Dome Prison], [Earth Dome Prison]!" I panted from the effort, and even then I wasn't sure this would work.
Roar!!!
The building shook underneath me and I began to realize that maybe I should have reinforced the building too. The sound of collapsing rubble and the feeling of weightlessness over took me as my Russian nesting doll of darkness and dirt fell along with the crumbling building. At the moment of impact, I channeled geist throughout my body to reinforce it against the force of the fall I would inevitably take. What I had no idea is that Yuzuki's tail would hit my defensive barriers like it was batting practice punting me across the map. The sensation of spinning rapidly made me nauseous and when my barriers slammed into the ground I blacked out.