Seiji tightened his fists as he looked out among the horde of uhat was gathered in the front of the shrine. It seemed that they could taste the living hold up in their home. They weren't going to be leaving until they made it inside.

  The sight that he faced made Seiji apprehensive. He had no clue what he was going to do and retty certain the whole idea was a mistake. Mistake or not though, Seiji had already itted to it. He wasn’t going to back down now that he made such a big show in front of everyone.

  Their grandfather stepped out grabbing Seiji’s wrist as he had begun to leave. “What do you expect to do, boy? We don’t uand what’s going on or how something so unnatural is possible!”

  Seiji turned his head over his shoulders to look down at him. “Hey old man, weren’t you just saying something o be done?”

  “Yes, but we need a pn! Going out there on bravado alone will get you killed!”

  “Didn’t know you cared so much about my well being,” Seiji sarcastically ented ba.

  Hearing the way that Seiji had talked ba made something snap in their grandfather. He stood in front of Seiji blog his path. Seiji was about to go around him when he reached up and spped him hard across the fabsp; “Never joke about family like that again, Seiji! You’re my grandson!”

  It took Seiji back a step, surprised more by the way that their grandfather acted than the sp he received. He touched his hand to his cheek where the dull sting lingered. ‘…family…that’s a funny thing to say sidering you’re part of the reason mom left…’

  Seiji tried to push past the thoughts aions that were trying to surfabsp; The threat they faced was more important. “Well thinking things through ain’t my style, old man! You sit here and think your brain dry!” Seiji stepped around his grandfather and approached the barrier that protected them. His fists pouogether to push away any fear he had. “While you’re doing that, I’ll fight in my own way!”

  Chapter 66 – The No Thinking Pn

  Seiji pressed through the barrier, not waiting for it to be opened. Before he had much time to sider his a a swarm of undead charged for him. “Like I said!” He threw out his right fist hitting what seemed like a zombie in the head sending it flying free from its nebsp; “I don’t o think!” was his left fist eg loudly with another zombie knog it backwards into a couple more behind it. “About my fighting!” Seiji took the wo in a charging tackle, dropping them both to the ground as he buried himself into the crowd.

  Watg from the safety of the house Shoji, the ghost and their grandfather couldn't help but twitch a little at the sight. “He really is all brute strength and no brain,” the woman ented.

  “No oougher than my brother!” Shoji decred with pride. He had turned his eyes up towards the woman.

  She smiled back at him, sensing the boween them. “Think he’ll be able to deal with them?”

  “Definitely!” Shoji returned back to see Seiji barreling through the mass without being held babsp; “Seiji do anything!”

  “Stupid boy…so head strong, just like his mother…” Their grandfather walked away from the stairs and bato the house. The door slid behind him with a punctuated sm.

  Seiji grio himself as he knocked down anything that stood in front of him. The thrill of the fight had been something that he had been missing for so long. Ever since Yuki ged, fighting had never been the same for him. It was always a release for him, a o vent his emotions in the only way he knew how.

  Yuki had ged that for him. There was something that he felt drained away his anger when he was around Yuki. He felt like he had been given a purpose when he fought with Yuki, even if it might have just been an excuse. However, the purpose disappeared leaving him lost. He thought that he could just fight in Yuki’s pce, but he could never get close to him. An awkward wall had been built betweehat left him abandoned without dire.

  The brief time he had in high school hadn’t given him anymore purpose. A fight would easily break out for him, but it was ay feeling each time. He would eagerly step forward for the fight seeking what he had lost. Each time he could never find it. Yet in the moment, while he was taking dowrange creations of Yuki’s mind he felt something. There was a sense of drive in each pund kick that felt so familiar to him. It started as a distant feeling that grew into an avahin his chest.

  A few minutes had quickly passed leaving an uling mess of various uhrown about the front of the shrine. The st one in the area went down with a screaming punbsp; Seiji looked about the grounds feeling a little pleased with his results. He raised his hand up, throwing out a victory cry along with an apanying victory sign. “Oh yeah!”

  “You do realize that there are ghosts still,” remarked the woman.

  Seiji’s face turned into a bnk expressiohe ent made it through to him. The empty look hadn’t sted long as fear poured over him. He turned his head back like a rusty knob when he realized that ghosts started to close looking to feed off his soul. “Ghosts?!” Seiji was gone from sight in an instant speeding away from them as they gave chase.

  The woman followed him briefly before stopping feeling embarrassed watg. “…guess not…” She looked over at Shoji with a questioning look. “What’s with him and ghosts?”

  “I don’t know. He’s old me. I just know that he’s scared of ghosts and doesn’t like talking about it.”

  “Hmm…”

  The chase soon came to an end when Seiji found that he was outnumbered on all sides. Many of the unholy ass creatures he had thought that he destroyed were babsp; They had all seemed to be gathering together to deal with him. “So you think you beat me with shitty ass numbers, huh? You’re all weak shits!” Seiji took out the first ohat approached, but was forced to evade a skeleton wielding a heavy club. While the skeleton was off bance Seiji took the opportunity and yanked on its legs. The force was enough to dislocate the joints in the hip giving the entire left leg.

  A smirk came across his face as he saw that his idea worked. He hefted the bones up so that they were held firmly in both hands. Ohe undead creature came at him he swung the limb. There was a loud ass crack as bone collided into rotting flesh and struck boself. Seiji carried his momentum on through into the wildly swinging at anything that came in range. “e on! I’ll take all ya assholes on!”

  The oked her head out of the house, searg for Seiji, smiling a little before seeing the se. “He really just does whatever es to mind…” She pulled herself out of the building. There were several ghosts moving in around him along with the tless zombies, skeletons, ghouls and other types of creatures. “He’s pretty single minded, doesn’t know there’re ghosts near.”

  A staggering zombie near Seiji caught her attention that was out of his sight. She bent over seeing a stone carving near her to grab, but wheried to take hold of it her hands passed through. She tried again with no more luck than before. “Why ’t I grab it? I touch him…” Out of the er of her eye she saw that the creature was almost upon Seiji making her rush forward. “Look behind you!”

  Seiji flipped his head around with his body barely catg the asshole zombie trying to whack him with a robsp; He looked around once he was safe trying to figure out where it had e from. “Hmm?” Unfortunately, there was little time for him to waste as they pushed in closer on him. Seiji fought through them desperately to get free, but more just tio add on top with arms g over him. They immobilized him leaving only his cursing voice to fend them off.

  When Shoji had heard his brother’s shouts he ran around the porch to the side of the house following the voibsp; “Big Brother! He’s in danger!” Shoji didn’t even think as he leapt over the railing through the barrier.

  He began to run to his brother’s aid a white glow expanded around him. “Let go of my brother!” He raised his hand towards the mob of undead huddled over Seiji. A sharp fsh around his hand dispersed the glowing. Immediately after, a beam of light shot down from the sky crashing to the ground creating a dome of white light expanding outwards quickly.

  The expanding light turhe nearby creatures into dust tinuing in a rea until the light faded. Seiji pulled up his head looking around with surprise to discover that the area was clear. “Huh?”

  “Big…Brot…her…” Shoji smiled back at Seiji with his eyes half closed. The shine in his eyes had started to fade before he colpsed to the ground.

  “Shoji?!” Seiji rushed to Shoji’s side, not certain what had happeo him. “Shoji! Wake up!” He pulled him up into his arms trying to figure out what was wrong with him. The stillness of his body sent a bolt through his body as fears over his thoughts. “Hey! e on, Shoji! Wake up! What’s wrong with you?” He quickly checked for a pulse. The slow beat of his heart was still present, providing some relief to him. “He’s only unscious, but what happened?”

  A deep moan from approag undead pulled his attention away for a moment. “There’s still more of you?!” Seiji lifted up Shoji and carried him back over to the barrier out of the reach of the things that iheir home.

  Seiji marched back out to the side of the house staring down at the massive horde still gathered. His head tilted down towards the ground blog out his eyes. There was shaking in his arms as he simply stood there unged by the looming danger. “You hurt me all you want…”

  A wind suddenly blew up around Seiji pushing back leaves and dust towards the n of death. The burning presehat Seiji began to give off made them halt in uainty. “But when you hurt my little brother…” White light began to build around Seiji. Small particles sparkled around him rising into the air slowly f waves pushed around by the wind. “I won’t let you live tret it!” All of the light exploded away from him shaking the trees. The force was enough to knock back the first row of undead.

  He raised his hand g it tightly into a fist. It soon began to glhtly as his body shook with rage. Seiji charged into the mob throwing his fist at anything that moved. The moment it came into tact with one of the undead a sudden dark light grew over it until it vanished. He tihe process yelling like a berserker.

  The woman ghost appeared behind at a distag the se unfold. She raised her hand to her thinking ily. “For being a priest, he really doesn’t act like one. Shouldn’t he be using something other than his fists?” A thud of another zombie being clocked by raging Seiji made the woma a little. “It works I guess…”

  Seiji made quick work of most of the problems that wandered around the shrine leaving only dust to blow in the wind behind him. However, there were still some that weren't beiroyed by his rampage. Left behind ued by all of his swings were ghosts and other non-corporeal beings. They still hunted after him with an intensified strength.

  The st of the physical creatures were bei with when three ghosts flew in after Seiji. In a heightened sense of awareness, Seiji picked up their ining attad turo meet them head on (ign the fact that they were ghosts with his blind rage). Using the same tactics he had before he took several quick swings at the ghosts, but stumbled through them uo nd a single punbsp; “You ’t stop me!”

  Still watg Seiji from across the grounds, the woman could only raise her hand to her fa disbelief. “…he’s trying to fight ghosts with his fists too…” After he failed several times she couldn't take the embarrassment anymore and floated over to him. “They don’t have physical bodies! Physical attacks won’t work on them, idiot priest!”

  The scolding was enough to snap Seiji out of his tunnel vision. He focused his eyes iermination seeing the three ghosts regrouping for ata him. Seiji took a firm stao prepare for their assault until he found a way to attack them, but they held their distanbsp;

  The ghosts moved their arms out to point them at him starting to glow wildly before shooting out a thick purple beam at him. “What?!” He had no time to react as he was taken off guard by the tabsp; All he could manage was to cover himself up with his arms out in front to take the hit.

  In an instant, the beams exploded on impaketing the entire area in blinding light. Seiji disappeared i leaving his dition unknown as the ghosts smirked at their success. Smoke began to billow out as the light slowly began to fade away.

  The woman straio look fns of Seiji in the dark clouds with no lubsp; “Hey dumb priest! You dead?” A new light shined from ihe smoke alerting everyone around. “What’s that?” Ohe smoke pushed out a fshing transparent light appeared through the remaining smoke cover. A small barrier protected Seiji.

  Safe from harm, Seiji looked very fused by the situation. He looked about his surroundings trying to uand what was around him until it faded away. A few thin papers fell to the ground. Seiji leaned down pig one of them. “Aalisman?”

  “Hey watch out!”

  Seiji looked up from his k position to see the ghosts building for atabsp; Their anger fueled their power to increase its strength. “That won’t work on me again!” He charged forward making himself difficult to hit as the ghosts started firing at him. Their aim was good, but each bst only hit the ground creating small craters. Seiji was able to keep up dodging the attacks, but he had no ce at hitting them.

  “Use those papers!”

  “What are you talking about?” Seiji kept ahead of the strikes through the distra, but nearly tripped in the process. Once he regained bance he took a brief moment to gre over at the woman. “Stop b me so I figure out how to beat them!”

  Her temper got the better of her, makiurn away. Groans of pain from near misses echoed around her making her fidget. The bsts tio get louder and more destructive as the moments passed. She could no loake it and forced herself back around. “Use the stupid papers they’re charged with spiritual energy!”

  Seiji was slightly caught off guard by her shouting, but then he uood. “Oh! I know what to do!” He slid around several beams and pulled himself back away from them. Once clear, Seiji extended his arms out fully as talismans flew out from inside his sleeves. The papers floated around his hands in front of him gathering in mass.

  tless talismans began to glow white with energy as they resonated with Seiji. A spark ran through them, straightening out the material ft to hover around his hands. The talismans pulled in towards his arms ing around his hands and back up to his elbow c any exposed skin. “Right! I’m ready now!”

  The ghosts looked a little fused by his a, but resumed their attabsp; Seiji caught sight and charged forward into the purple beams of energy. As they came inte he swatted them away with his talisman covered fists. The ghosts were taken back by their attacks having no effed tried to retreat. Their escape was too te as Seiji quickly closed the distand finally ected with them, shattering them to dust. “Yes! It works! Time for the rest of them to say goodbye!” Seiji ran off, disappearing to the other side of the shrine grounds with renewed vigor.

  The woman ghost could only let out a heavy sigh witnessing Seiji’s method of fighting. “He is quite possibly the worst priest I’ve ever seen…” Eventually, the shrine had been exorcized of the undead. She finally decided to search around for Seiji after waiting around for thirty minutes. He was found ba the er of the grounds stretched out on his back breathing heavily from extreme exhaustion. She looked down at him holding her hands on her hip with a frustrated expression. “You’re fool!”

  Seiji grinned back at her. “Maybe, but this fool took care of all those damn things.”

  “I don’t uand you.”

  “It had to be done. What the hell’s to uand?”

  “…so simple…” She sat dowo him resting her head in the palm of her hand. There was something about him that she felt that she could not abandon him even if he was an idiot. “I’m Aoi Toyotomi!”

  “Seiji Tsuji…priest in training!”