Translator: Aoi
“Why did my hair grow longer again? But well, it looks pretty nice like this I suppose…”
Lily’s pretty, chromatic hair within the mirror space long reached 2 inches past the shoulders, and while it had really grown to an embarrassing extent as a boy, she actually found the sensation of this long hair sowhat pleasant.
“I might as well shoulder this sha, as well as senior sister’s sorrow, and blend them both into the Tsukuyomi Swordstyle!”
For so reason, the closer Lily got to the summit of Tsukuyomi Swordstyle’s 1st segnt, the clearer she was able to perceive the eternal sorrow contained within the sword intent of Tsukuyomi Swordstyle. Although her minuscule power and insignificant identity might’ve been nothing comparable to the Pri Battle Goddess of Takamagahara, Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto, the sorrow and emotions she felt were nevertheless the sa.
The sorrow she felt and the obsession she harbored towards her senior sister were no inferior to any of the eternal emotions prevalent in this Heian World.
Although this sorrow originated from a substantially distinct lifeform, puzzlingly enough, it felt a little familiar to Lily.
Lily seed to hear a lancholic, ethereal singing from the bygone immorial tis.
“You and I are a bit alike…”
Lily’s eyes shone as she began dancing gracefully and even though she was a boy, the swordplay exhibited the utmost womanly charm without any inhibitions!
“Soon. Quite soon. The 1st segnt of Tsukuyomi Swordstyle has a total of 10 stages. The 10th stage is just a step away from perfection now!”
The demon hound arrived inside the mirror space once again at this mont.
Kagura, who was in the middle of ditation, questioned it in exasperation, “Why have you arrived yet again, hound?”
“Lily’s been ditating for quite so ti now, so I ca over to take a look since it was worrying a little. Is she still within the cave room? What’s she doing?”
Kagura answered impatiently, “Who knows. She’s probably getting aroused?”
“Aroused?” The demon hound’s fluffy ears turned up as it slanted its head over to gaze at the tightly closed stone door in puzzlent.
Around the sa ti, Haihi had been confined to her room in the rear courtyard temporarily after getting stripped of all her privileges.
“This is nothing. Although the punishnt made it look like I was the one who got disgraced, the one who actually got infuriated was Amanojaku now, wasn’t it? I haven’t lost. As long as I express indifference, the outco of this bout shan’t be my loss.”
“I haven’t lost.”
“I just need to hold on for one more day no matter what happens, and the villagers will be safe! These hellish days that have lasted for over a decade will finally end!”
“Inciting those monsters to kill Amanojaku got nowhere in the end, but it doesn’t matter. This wasn’t the only move I had to make after all these years.”
“I can just escape!”
“With my strength, no one except Amanojaku can stop , besides the villagers overseen by the monsters.”
“I’ll just escape once the villagers are safe!”
“Although my plan of vengeance might’ve failed, I can at least regain my freedom!”
“Soon! I’ll regain freedom quite soon and finally escape from Amanojaku!”
Haihi recalled the past once again, when she had adopted the guise of a pretentious, vile woman and yielded to Amanojaku, finally earning the hate of her cherished clansn and getting a traitor’s treatnt…
“Wash my feet, Haihi!” Amanojaku stepped on Haihi’s breasts directly with his filthy feet, but all she could do was make an effort to appear docile and wash his feet affectionately.
“Haihi! It’s no wonder she likes the strong. After all, she’s a woman who showed no change in expression after watching her mother get murdered and sponged onto the murderer! Hahahahahaha!” Amanojaku’s sarcasm-filled omniscient and vicious remarks had drowned her in darkness several tis and made her feel like going all out in a battle to the death, yet she had no choice but to endure.
“Haihi. Do you really like power that much? You haven’t been misbehaving with my subordinates recently now, have you? Oh, yes. I forgot to inform you about this, but so monsters ignored my orders and killed a few kids after rushing into the underground village. An accident like this is unavoidable, but isn’t it pretty interesting though? Watching these humans fight for their lives under such excruciating circumstances makes even feel moved sotis.”
“By the way, I feel a little weary sitting on the floor in a seiza like humans. I’m going to et with so Great Demons of Mutsu later, so why don’t you lie over for at that ti and let sit on you? You love things like this anyways, right? Hahahahahaha…”
Haihi recalled the untold humiliations she had undergone this past decade or so and smiled unnaturally with her darkened face, “Hehehehehehe. In any case… I’ve at least remained staunch and kept my promise with you by living on, Mom.”
“Soon… Mom. I’ll be able to fulfill the promise I made to you quite soon and rescue those clansn. I’ll be able to escape from this hive of demons then! It’s impossible for Amanojaku to keep watch over at all tis. As for the other monsters, heh, it’s too easy for to escape from their hands!”
“Even though my body has long beco tainted back then, I will keep living on as you asked to, Mom! I will keep living on in this dark world even with this filthy body and shaful personality of mine!”
“Where should I go after escaping?”
Haihi suddenly realized that she hadn’t put much thought into this aspect of the plan since anywhere out of Amanojaku’s sight was a paradise for her as long as she managed to regain her freedom.
“Hmph! I guess there’s no need to seek that woman, the mirror girl. After all, it’s quite easy for to find an obscure region to live in this expansive Heian Empire with my strength.”
“I’ll finally regain freedom. I won’t have to bear such dreadful humiliation any longer! I can finally escape this hatred that has almost torn apart!”
“Mom. I actually find it hard to hold on even a second longer, let alone a day. I really don’t want to share a room with the demon who killed you cruelly, but this final mont is the hardest mont! That demon desires my body even now… but I must preserve, preserve through this final ordeal! For you and my clansn!”
“Once I’ve overco this ordeal… I’ll be free!”
Haihi’s eyes dimd, and her body shuddered as if it were going to crumble apart at any mont, but she persevered tenaciously by relying on her will.
“Lady Haihi…”
“Who is it?” Haihi asked astonishedly.
“It’s ,” A cat-masked kunoichi slid the door open stealthily and arrived before Haihi after closing the door vigilantly.
Haihi regulated her mood hastily and adopted a nonchalant expression intentionally, “Oh, it’s you. Didn’t you all go over to that snake’s side? Why have you co looking for now?”
“Lady Haihi. My two sisters were wounded pretty heavily in front of those monsters and then got dragged inside a group of monsters to beco their playthings, getting toyed to their deaths in a miserable and humiliating fashion… I would rather die after getting found out by them than show loyalty to those monsters!” The cat-masked kunoichi’s mask was expressionless, but the strong resentnt emanating from her shuddering body was enough to evoke sorrow in others.
“So what? For what reason have you co looking for ?”
“L-Lady Yumi got caught by Genga, Lady Haihi.”
“Yumi? Didn’t I tell her to leave? Why did she return?”
“It seed like she wanted to report sothing to you quite urgently, Lady Haihi, but she got caught by them before she could et you.”
Yumi should’ve gone to the underground space where the clansn live based on what I told her, so what was so important that she returned to report to ?
The most important thing is that I’ve yet to announce Yumi’s banishnt publicly, so she still holds her status as one of the subleaders of the demon ninjas in the Land of Hundred Demons. Why did those fellows grab her all of a sudden?
A bad premonition welled up within Haihi’s heart instantly.
“Answer . Where have they imprisoned Yumi right now?”
“Inside the temple’s dungeon,” the cat-masked kunoichi answered with a slight shudder.
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