Translator: Aoi
Snowflakes and ice crystals manifested around Yuki-Onna and turned into ancient spell runes, and at the sa ti, a luminescent pentacle appeared beneath her feet.
Lily and Kagura had ford an unbreakable bond because of her adventures with Nanako where they had trusted their lives to each other.
However, it was Lily’s first ti forming a soul contract with a new shikigami.
In fact, a contract was much more restrictive to the shikigami and normally made it pretty difficult for the shikigami to betray their master as they would suffer from the penalty ntioned in the contract.
The contract actually didn’t bind the master’s side much, so it was usually necessary for them to defeat the shikigami and subdue them or raise the shikigami from a young age and nurture it when it’s weak in order to form a contract with their consent.
Otherwise, so preconditions were required.
For example, the condition Yuki-Onna had put forward was that Lily had to look for Yosh*tsune along with her. However, this made it evident that Yuki-Onna’s extre infatuation had turned her naïve even though she was pretty strong as the contract between them didn’t stipulate where Lily had to go and how long Lily had to find Yosh*tsune, although it wouldn’t have affected Lily’s original plan much.
However, no one knew whether Yosh*tsune’s soul was still in this world or where it was, so even if this was truly an impossible contract, it was still a gleam of hope for Yuki-Onna, and she was willing to pay any price to find his soul.
“Lily, I have two additional conditions before we finalize the contract,” The shimring pentacle illuminated Yuki-Onna’s face from below.
“Please say them.”
“First: Our positions as shikigami and contractor will remain equal until the day your strength surpasses mine and you make submit to you wholeheartedly. I will help you when you are in danger and you can also request my help when you need it, but you cannot order , and I will have the right to refuse you.”
“All right, Yuki-Onna, I’m willing to accept the first condition. Feel free to ntion the second,” Lily stated solemnly.
“Second: I shall leave you and end the contract between us after Yosh*tsune is found. However, if you’re unable to find that heartless man within a year, you shall take responsibility for it and beco my lover until we find him.”
“Mhm, fine… huh?” Lily had beco accustod to affirming Yuki-Onna’s questions, but she only realized sothing was fishy with the second condition a mont later.
“Wait, Yuki-Onna, the second condition you ntioned…”
“You’ve accepted it already. The contract has been established now!”
“Eh? Wait a second…”
The spell runes turned into a rope ford from rippling strands and assimilated into Lily as if they were lding with the night sky while enveloping both Lily and Yuki-Onna in them.
Lily knew it was practically impossible to back out after the gentle, illusory light shrouded her, so she stepped forward in a modest, sacred and staunch manner and reached out to hold Yuki-Onna’s hand.
“Whoosh!” The snow glowed brightly, and a pillar of light shot up to the skies before scattering.
Yuki-Onna disappeared just like that in the next mont… and appeared within the octagonal stone room within the mirror space.
“H-Huh? What is this place…”
Even soone on the level of Yuki-Onna felt perplexed by this developnt.
“This doesn’t seem like the narrow, oppressive, dark, illusory and lethargic space created by the shikigami bond ntioned by those shikigami and looks like a pretty spacious stone room. Just where in the world am I?” Yuki-Onna checked her surroundings puzzledly.
“Hehehe. I’m afraid it’s impossible for you to understand the mysticalness of this mirror space with the knowledge you possess, newcor…” the Sakura Parasol flew from the corner of the room and arrived beside Yuki-Onna.
Lily knew that Yuki-Onna had entered the mirror space as it was possible for her to know about everything within the mirror space as long as she used the art of no-thought. However, she didn’t know what was behind the stone doors that she had yet to open until now. Each side of the octagonal room consisted of a stone wall, and Lily had found a space behind four of them, so Lily presud that the other four walls might have so kind of space behind them as well. However, it was rely a guess of hers and they could be just normal stone walls.
“Mirror space? To think such a mystical space exists in this world. It seems this Miss Lily of mine is quite amazing,” Yuki-Onna checked her surroundings and then looked at the parasol, “Since you called a newcor, you must be shikigami as well. Are you a parasol monster? That’s a pretty weak shikigami.”
“W-Who are you calling a monster?!” Kagura tensed up, “Hmph! What a short-sighted and superficial woman you are, Yuki-Onna. It’s true that you have a decent reputation which has reached my ears as well, but your strength is far lower than mine, just like your reputation! Heed my words, If I recover my whole strength…”
The first eting between Kagura and Yuki-Onna, the two shikigami, wasn’t really that peaceful, and the mood between them turned a little complicated the longer they retorted each other’s words…
The snowstorm cald down significantly once Yuki-Onna got teleported inside the mirror, and the other girls walked over towards Lily.
Yukiko lifted Lily’s hand worriedly after sprinting over and buried it inside her soft bosom, “Your hand has beco so cold, Master.”
“Huh? I-I’m fine,” Lily smiled embarrassedly, feeling once more that married won were caring people.
Yumi stepped forth and looked at the snow falling gently from the skies that had beco normal with trepidation, “Did you really make that Yuki-Onna your shikigami, Master? She’s a monster from the legends… this is really unbelievable.”
Lily smiled wryly, “She just wants to look for her lover and isn’t bound by my orders. Also…”
Lily recalled the second condition that Yuki-Onna had forced on her and felt her heart turn colder than ever.
Thus, she tried to send a voice transmission to Yuki-Onna, “Can you hear ?”
“I can. This is quite normal as even a normal shikigami bond allows the shikigami to hear their master’s voice, let alone this unfathomable mirror space you possess. So, you are a mirror girl. This is really quite unbelievable. Yosh*tsune sought the secret of the mirror girl once in the past and felt deep sympathy for the unfortunate fate shouldered by the mirror girl. Hmph! It seems like the origin of his sympathy was his fondness for you, am I right?” Yuki-Onna began fantasizing again.
“Well, that’s… since you’re worried about the matter between and Yosh*tsune, why did you propose a second condition like that, Yuki-Onna? Also, since we’re both won, isn’t it impossible for us to beco lovers? Don’t you like n?” Lily probed out Yuki-Onna’s intentions in an attempt to lead Yuki-Onna into removing the condition as it was possible to remove the conditions of any contract as long as one party wished to remove it and the other party accepted it.
“That won’t do. I know you are a woman, and an attractive woman on top of that. anwhile, even though I’m a woman, I’m also a shikigami, and we shikigami can freely change certain parts of our bodies, which is sothing that you human won cannot do. If you fail to find Yosh*tsune within a year, I have my ways to turn you into my lover, and I’ll make sure you’re fully obedient to at this ti!” Yuki-Onna stated profoundly while brimming with confidence.
“Freely change… W-What do you an by that?!” Lily blushed hard and an indescribable timidness manifested in her heart.
“Uhm. Let’s leave this place quickly, Master,” Shiu interrupted Lily’s embarrassed ‘daze’ and voiced out her fear while hugging her trembling arms.
“Mhm,” Lily nodded affirmatively. They only realized later with regret that they had forgotten about the fetched horses while retreating into the temple, which had caused them to freeze to their deaths.
“It seems like we’ll have to journey on foot,” Yumi spread out her hands helplessly.
However, a voice transmission from Yuki-Onna arrived at this mont, “Now that I recall it, there’s sothing in the mountain temple that has intrigued all this ti, Lily.”
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