Since You're Here

No one responded.

No one wanted to see him here. Some did not even know who he was.

But the undisguised horns on his head made it clear enough: someone from the Hybrid Alliance!

The instant Tsushima Daigo understood, he felt an indescribable fury, followed by a chill that ran through his entire body until he nearly began to tremble.

If the other side had come here, it meant they had known about today's operation all along!

Most of them were probably doomed...

And worse still, there was a mole in the Iron King Party!

Tsushima Daigo never could have imagined that the mole was neither among this group of people today nor within the Iron King Party itself, but in Lu Ming Hall behind the Iron King Party!

But being furious, cold, and trembling was of no use now.

Amid the fiery light of the explosion, the sword-drawing oni stepped forward, introducing himself with a smile. "Huai Shi Su Ren of the Alliance—here to send our distinguished guests on their way."

In his hand, the famous blade forged ten thousand times by a master revealed layer upon layer of scale-like patterns, reflected across every face.

A chill that pierced straight through the heart.

—Kusanaagi Muramasa.

Among Satenme's many treasures, it was still a rare precious blade. Though it had never absorbed the power of hell to become a Border Relic, it still possessed extraordinary sharpness and hardness.

In Yingzhou, "kusanaagi" meant snake.

The swordsmith who forged it had made a mistake in the time of its consecration. It had failed to receive the spirit of the white serpent, becoming an empty shell with only the outward form.

But to Huai Shi, this empty shell was more convenient than any Border Relic.

Now, with a turn of his wrist, a