The monsters moved quickly, just as expected. Once they had Shizuku's consent, they immediately set things in motion. She had no idea what methods they used, but only a few days later, Shizuku received a notice summoning her to a meeting at the headquarters of the Oni-giri Twelve Families. The moment she received it, she got in a car and charged over aggressively.
Of course, know yourself and your enemy, and you will never be defeated. Before heading to the Twelve Families, Shizuku obtained some information about the Oni-giri Twelve Families from Shizuku.
According to Shizuku, only five of the Oni-giri Twelve Families remained: the first-ranked Tsuchimikado, the third-ranked Kagami Mori, the sixth-ranked Amakawa, the tenth-ranked Yakouin, and the twelfth-ranked Jinguuji.
Among them, Shizuku said that the fifth-ranked Amakawa had not awakened at all and therefore had not been accepted yet. In other words, only four families were truly operating.
Incidentally, aside from the seventh-ranked Kusuke Family, which had been wiped out after failing to challenge the resurrected Nine-tailed Fox Demon, and the second-ranked Kamizakura Family, which had voluntarily withdrawn from the world, the other vanished lineages had either been destroyed in wars or died out because they had no descendants to inherit their power.
That alone showed that humans were far more dangerous than monsters.
Only four of the Oni-giri Twelve Families were truly active now, yet they had no intention of immediately filling the vacant spots. According to Shizuku, the Oni-giri Twelve Families placed great importance on tradition and lineage. Thus, any family seeking to join them needed a certain degree of prestige and history. Based on information circulating among the monsters, the Kaikaiin Family and the Tsuchimiya Family were the current candidates. To put it bluntly, only exorcist families with a certain history qualified to join the