I, the Dimensional Devil, save the world online Chapter 055

The headless ghost saw La Duy, neither welcoming nor disliking him.

He stood by a pillar with his arms crossed, gazing at the ground, as if he hadn’t seen La Duy at all.

La Duy estimated that he was still holding a grudge from when he had beaten him.

So much time had passed, and he still hadn’t gotten over it.

This person was quite petty.

Putting himself in the ghost’s shoes, if La Duy were the one who had been beaten, he might be even more petty.

So La Duy also pretended not to see the headless ghost, and his gaze fell upon the group of monsters tied up with ropes.

He walked over and looked at the first monster.

“Give me a laugh. If it sounds good, I’ll let you go, how about that?”

The monster was bewildered, but hearing that La Duy was willing to let him go, he still forced a laugh.

He tried his best to make it sound pleasant.

Poof!

The next second, the monster’s head was blown off by La Duy.

“Too awful,” La Duy said with a look of disgust. “Who told you to laugh so horribly?”

The other monsters: …Good heavens, this person is a lunatic.

They all shivered with fear.

La Duy turned his gaze to the second monster. “You, too, give me a laugh. If it sounds good, I’ll let you go.”

This monster was scared out of his wits, and a smile uglier than a cry appeared on his face as he let out a sound.

But it was more like a cry than a laugh.

Pfft!

Then, naturally, his head was blown off by La Duy, and he died a violent death.

La Duy could tell that this guy wasn’t the one he was looking for.

So, he shifted his gaze to the third monster. This monster was timid as a mouse, scared out of his wits, begging incessantly, “Let me go, let me go, please let me go.”

But La Duy didn’t let him go; he still killed him.

Just as La Duy turned his gaze to the fourth monster, Yuki Onna suddenly spoke, “Lord La Duy, someone’s coming.”

La Duy grunted, having already heard footsteps.

He looked in the direction of the stairs and saw a petite girl slowly walking up, appearing before everyone.

“Good evening, everyone from the Nura Clan, and this unknown young man.”

The girl elegantly greeted La Duy and the Nura Clan.

La Duy scanned the girl a few times. She was petite but had a refined appearance, often mistaken for a middle school student.

She wore a beret, leaned on a cane, and was dressed in a white lace dress, exuding the demeanor of a young lady from a prominent family.

Familiar, too familiar.

Isn’t this Iwanaga Kotoko, the heroine from In/Spectre?

If La Duy remembered correctly, she was indeed a young lady from a prominent family and also the Goddess of Wisdom for yokai.

Because she became the Goddess of Wisdom for yokai, she paid a terrible price: her right eye, hidden by her hair, was a prosthetic eye, and her left knee was also a prosthetic limb.

Yuki Onna clearly recognized this Goddess of Wisdom and asked curiously, “Miss Kotoko, what are you doing here?”

Iwanaga Kotoko’s gaze fell on La Duy. “Actually, I came here today to find this unknown young man. Could I have a word with you, young man?”

“Of course.”

La Duy was also interested in this Goddess of Wisdom.

He took out two chairs from the Dimension of Light and placed them on the ground. “Please sit, Miss Iwanaga Kotoko.”

A flicker of surprise flashed in Iwanaga Kotoko’s eyes as she walked over and sat on the chair opposite La Duy.

“You’ve heard of me?”

La Duy grunted. “The Goddess of Wisdom for yokai, I’ve heard of you.”

At this point, he turned his head to look at Yuki Onna of the Nura Clan. “Miss Yuki Onna, can you tell me how you yokai view Miss Iwanaga Kotoko?”

Yuki Onna’s gaze was somewhat complex as she said, “Miss Kotoko is less the Goddess of Wisdom for yokai and more their protector.”

Iwanaga Kotoko smiled slightly. “Miss Yuki Onna exaggerates a bit.”

La Duy, however, was somewhat surprised and asked, “What do you mean?”

Yuki Onna explained, “The Sengoku period was an era rampant with yokai, giving birth to many powerful ones. These yokai possessed terrifying power; once they acted, heaven and earth would crumble.”

“Weak yokai could only tremble in fear before these great yokai.”

“So, the weak yokai had to band together for warmth to resist these powerful ones.”

“Yet, even so, these weak yokai still had no right to bargain with the great yokai.”

“But at this time, a human miko appeared.”

“This miko possessed great power and held a trace of compassion for the weak yokai.”

“So these weak yokai gathered behind this miko, obeyed her commands, and elected her to be their Goddess of Wisdom.”

“Thus, the weak yokai finally had a chance to breathe in this era.”

“As time progressed, the powerful miko gradually passed away.”

“But the tradition of the Goddess of Wisdom was passed down.”

“Weak yokai would randomly select suitable girls for the miko’s inheritance, who would inherit the miko’s will and become their Goddess of Wisdom.”

“Therefore, in my opinion, Miss Kotoko is the protector of yokai.”

Oh, so the Goddess of Wisdom in this world actually had such an origin.

La Duy’s gaze locked onto Iwanaga Kotoko, and he indeed discovered a powerful energy within her.

This indicated that Iwanaga Kotoko was not an ordinary person.

But a miko.

This was different from the plot in In/Spectre.

In the anime In/Spectre, although Iwanaga Kotoko was the Goddess of Wisdom, she was ultimately just an ordinary little girl.

She had no supernatural powers and could only rely on her boyfriend in combat.

But in this world, Iwanaga Kotoko was actually a powerful miko, which was quite interesting.

“So, what is it that Iwanaga Kotoko wants with me?”

La Duy asked curiously.

Iwanaga Kotoko replied, “Actually, some yokai have been complaining to me recently that the Nura Clan seems to have gone mad, capturing yokai everywhere, and they hope I can negotiate with the Nura Clan.”

“After investigating, I found that the Nura Clan mostly captures man-eating yokai.”

“So I’ve been silently observing, and today I finally have a revelation: the Nura Clan captures these man-eating yokai entirely because of you, young man, right?”

“That’s right.” Seeing how deeply Iwanaga Kotoko had investigated, La Duy didn’t bother to play mind games and readily admitted it.

“The Nura Clan is indeed capturing these man-eating yokai.”

“May I ask the reason?” Iwanaga Kotoko asked.

“Because I was eaten by a yokai,” La Duy frankly replied to her question.