The next day.
Around six in the morning.
A boy about four feet tall, with pale skin, white hair, and crimson eyes, ran up behind the head of the Eighty Stream School and looked up as he shouted:
"Father, I want to fight alongside everyone too! Just give me a sword—I have what it takes!"
The latter had been urging the group to pack up quickly. Hearing this, he turned around helplessly.
"Akifusa, I admit that your talent is extraordinary. Precisely because of that, you need to follow everyone to the main house."
"After all, you're only six this year. You are the future of the Eighty Stream School—no, of the entire Hanakaiin Clan!"
This son of his had truly made him immensely proud over the years.
Their Eighty Stream branch was renowned in the world of onmyoji for three things.
First, sword forging. And not ordinary mortal blades, but Cursed Swords forged from yoma materials.
Second, yoma blood—in other words, being half-yoma. That was a stain they had no way of erasing.
Thus, most onmyoji who worshipped the idea that "humans are white, yoma are black" often called the Eighty Stream School's people "gray."
Lastly, there was the Demon Possession Art!
For other onmyoji to achieve "human-shikigami unity" with their shikigami, both sides needed to cooperate with great care.
But the Demon Possession Art allowed an onmyoji to directly turn a shikigami into pure power and infuse it into a weapon.
It was cruel, but highly efficient, often greatly increasing an onmyoji's combat strength.
It could even be infused into a human body, but at the cost of abandoning one's human soul.
Yet such extreme actions and easily gained power—
Often caused darkness to grow within an onmyoji's heart, twisting their thoughts to extremes.
In the end, they would