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He discovers that the Hyakki Yagyo is not just a single event but a thousand plus year old Japanese folkloric tradition in which a series of demons parades or explodes into the ordinary human world The procession is made up of various monsters such as skeletal soldiers riding a human headed horse a frog like demon dominating a badger furry headed demons and naked demons The young nobleman soon realizes that he has been chosen to stop this chaos from spreading further He must use all his wit and courage to face these supernatural beings and prevent them from causing destruction and havoc in the mortal world He learns that chanting magical spells such as KA TA SHI HA YA.

In a world where the boundary between the known and unknown is blurred a young nobleman is forced to close his home in Kyoto and move to the new imperial court in Fukuhara However his loyal servant stays behind to look after the house and finds it infested by one hundred yokai who refuse to leave The nobleman prays to Buddha and by dawn the demons are thrown out of the house by the power of religion But that is only the beginning of his journey On his way to the house the nobleman encounters the Hyakki Yagyo a parade of demons yokai and other supernatural beings that flood the town streets at midnight The monsters overwhelm his carriage chase away his attendants and set about destroying the vehicle Ogres smash the carriage with their mallets while demons set it on fire with golden fireballs With Buddha s help the nobleman manages to escape into a field Stopping to rest he prays until the break of dawn When the light comes the demons scatter back into the darkness But as he travels further E KA SE NI KU RI NI TA ME RU SA KE TE E HI A SHI E HI WA RE SHI KO NI KE RI will protect him from the demons As he delves deeper into this mysterious world the young nobleman encounters a one eyed malformed goddess Benzaiten accompanied by an elephant reptilian monsters and the fierce Buddhist guardian Fud My holding a sword He also learns that the Hyakki Yagyo is made up of three types of the type of the nocturnal march across the streets of the capital the haunted house type and the type of the demonic egression in the mountains The young nobleman s journey is full of twists and turns as he battles various demons and yokai including nurarihyon otoroshi and tsukumogami These creatures test his strength and determination but he perseveres knowing that he is the only one who can stop the Hyakki Yagyo from causing chaos and destruction in the mortal world Night Parades of One Hundred Demons site_link post a comment