Fantasy Village.
House of the Lost, under the cherry tree in the courtyard.
"Ahhhh, what a cliché plot ~"
Yukari elegantly opened her folding fan and sat on the white carpet that Indigo laid out in advance. Yukari looked at the scene in front of her and smiled.
Under the purple robe and white dress, a pair of white jade-like legs were exposed.
Her slightly curled pearl-like toes were enough to drive any foot fanatic in the world crazy.
"You're still as boring as ever, peeping on Little Yagumo like this. Are you really a man?"
Cui Xiang, who appeared out of nowhere, was lying on the cherry tree behind Yukari. She took a sip of liquor from the gourd and then turned to look at Yukari.
"This is the concern of an older sister for her younger brother. Can Cui Xiang understand?"
"Forget it, when I think about someone peeping on me all the time, I don't even have the mood to drink!"
Cui Xiang shuddered.
"Speaking of which, why didn't you go to Bori Shrine today? Why did you come here instead?"
After the incident with Son of Heaven, Cui Xiang almost always stayed at Bori Shrine.
"Ah, I finished the liquor at Bori's place."
Cui Xiang, who didn't feel the slightest guilt for drinking the red and white liquor without permission, said indifferently.
"Speaking of which, the 'industrial alcohol' that Little Yagumo gave me last time tasted pretty good. Do you still have it here?"
Cui Xiang smacked her lips and seemed to be reminiscing the taste of the industrial alcohol.
"After drinking that, I feel that the liquor is tasteless!"
Yukari remembered that Cui Xiang drank an entire bottle of industrial alcohol and almost tore down the shrine. Yukari decisively decided to pretend that she didn't hear anything.
"Lord Purple, the orange juice you wanted …"
Indigo walked over with a glass of orange juice. After handing the orange juice to Yukari, Indigo looked at Cui Xiang.
"Master Cui Xiang, what would you like? Although we don't have liquor, we have fresh watermelon juice. Do you want it? "
"Pfff —!!"
Cui Xiang, who spat out the liquor in her mouth, rejected Indigo's proposal with a strange expression.
"That's a pity …"
With some regret, Indigo shook her head and walked to the side to start the work that she had been doing recently.
After sorting out the fur that had fallen off, it was processed and woven into a variety of fox fur products.
Seeing such a strange scene, Bai was so scared that his hair stood on end. He quickly ran to the corner and curled up with Orange Meow, who had a broken expression on her face.
"Is it an illusion …"
Purple sighed softly.
"… Why do I feel like I've been acting weird lately? Could it be that I'm in heat?"
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Looking at the Eight-cloud Ink in front of her, Origami gritted her teeth and tried to attack again.
Then, it was once again blocked by Eight-cloud Ink.
"An enemy who killed his parents?"
Eight-cloud Ink looked at Kotori.
At this moment, the young girl's face was deathly pale. Her lips were trembling, and her body was on the verge of collapsing. It was as if she would fall from the sky at any moment.
"How are you sure?"
"Five years ago …"
With a dark expression, Origami slowly spoke.
"The fire that broke out in Heavenly Palace City, Efreet … Have you forgotten?!"
Five years ago? Fire?
Kotori's face turned even paler after hearing Origami's words.
His eyes had completely lost focus.
【Hmm? Is that true?】
Seeing Kotori like this, Eight-cloud Ink and Ashina both frowned.
If that was the case, things would be difficult.
If Kotori really was the murderer of Origami's parents — even if it was unintentional — Eight-cloud Ink and Ashina had no reason to stop Origami from taking revenge.
However, before the matter was confirmed —
"Wait a minute, did you see Kotori kill your parents five years ago?"
Origami was silent, then shook her head.
Seeing this, Eight-cloud Ink immediately said, "If that's the case, how about we stop fighting for now? After we deal with the current situation, we can investigate what happened five years ago. You should know that Shido hasn't recovered yet. "
Shido!
Hearing Shido's name, Origami and Kotori both came back to their senses.
"Right, Shido … Shido …"
Kotori was first attacked by Origami, then her rationality was swallowed by the destruction of her body, then she fell into despair because of Origami's words. Only now did she realize that she came here for Shido.
As for Origami, when she saw Kotori in her elf form, she was instantly controlled by hatred and started attacking Kotori like a madwoman. Only now did she remember that she came here to chase after Shido.
Seeing that the girls really stopped fighting because of Shido, Eight-cloud Ink heaved a sigh of relief.
At this moment, Eight-cloud Ink discovered that Kurumi and Meijiu were also rushing over from the ground.
Noticing this, Eight-cloud Ink immediately looked at the crash site in the distance.
There, the wreckage of the transport plane was still burning.
There were heavily injured magicians lying on the ground, including the magician sent by Irene, Chonya Shinna.
"Let's leave first …"
After saying this, Eight-cloud Ink prepared to leave with everyone —
"Hmm?! Who's there?! Come out!!! "
Without any warning, Eight-cloud Ink raised her parasol and fired a magic cannon at an empty place.
"Boom-!!!!"
"What's that-!?"
In the flash of the explosion, Yakumo discovered that something seemed to have flashed past.
"Trying to escape?"
Reaching out her hand, she pointed in that direction, and mysterious waves of demon energy spread out rapidly with Eight-cloud Ink as the center.
Then, a blurry 'mosaic' appeared in the sky.
It was a figure, but no one could see the face clearly.
"This is … Phantom?!"
Kotori exclaimed in a small voice.
"Strange …"
Looking at the Phantom, Eight-cloud Ink frowned tightly.
[Such a familiar feeling. I must have seen it somewhere before. If so —]
Yagumo's body turned into a blur as she instantly appeared in front of Phantom.
Then, he clenched his fingers into claws and grabbed the Phantom in front of him.
However, it was as if Yakumo's hand didn't touch anything as it went through Phantom's body.
Then, the Phantom disappeared like a real phantom.
However, Eight-cloud Ink smiled.
[Success.]
At that moment, Eight-cloud Ink secretly planted a mark on the Phantom.
Now, all she had to do was wait for the Phantom to reappear in front of her — or see if anyone she knew would deliberately avoid her.
⑧
"Huff … Huff …"
In a secluded corner.
Leaning against the corner of the wall, Phantom, who no longer looked like a mosaic, revealed her real body. She leaned against the wall and panted heavily.
"This is troublesome …"
With a bitter smile, Phantom tried to expel the extra thing from its body.
Then, she failed.
"… As expected of a demon, I was too careless …"
Looking up at the setting sun, the Phantom sighed faintly.
"Is the truth about to be revealed …"
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