After slaying the Tengu, Shen Yuanyi noticed some changes in the feather fan in his hand. An inexplicable aura stirred across its surface, and the cursed power within it had grown much stronger. He tried wielding it, only to find that it could merely send out breeze-like attacks, nowhere near the gale the Tengu had previously unleashed.
Shen Yuanyi was not deeply versed in Cursed Objects, so he would have to take it back and hand it over to specialists to see whether there was anything unusual about it. Once the battle ended, the barrier that had enveloped the area had long since dissipated. Suzuki Kazuya glanced at the shattered Tengu corpse on the ground without showing much surprise.
"Genichi-kun, thank you for your hard work. As agreed, aside from the compensation you were already meant to receive, this feather fan is yours as well."
People from their side soon came over and packed away the corpse of what had once been their companion, but was now a monster called "Tengu." Shen Yuanyi put away Dojigiri and the feather fan, then looked at Suzuki Kazuya, who had maintained that faint, inscrutable smile all along.
He then voiced the question in his heart. "This should be quite a significant secret, shouldn't it? Why reveal it now? You brought in the Zenin Family and the Kamo Family, yet now you're disclosing it to the Gojo Family, which has always been excluded. What exactly are you plotting?"
The Kamo Family had always been the foundation and pillar of the Conservatives, so their involvement was only natural. As for the Zenin Family, given all the issues left over from history and their strict family traditions, it was hardly surprising that they would join in, considering they had always been at odds with the Gojo