Even back when Luo Zhen was still training with the Akaba Family, Tenzen had been deliberately cultivated by the people of the family. They had even sent him into the military for that purpose, building a good relationship with the armed forces.
Tenzen knew all too well how much power and influence Izanagi wielded in Japan. Given the Akaba Family's abilities, trying to oppose it would unquestionably have been suicide.
Just as Tenzen had said, the moment the Akaba Family chose this path, its destruction that night had become inevitable. There had been no suspense at all.
For that reason, Tenzen had resolutely chosen to join Izanagi and fish in troubled waters.
"I considered having the clan members fake their deaths, or disguise themselves as dead. But Izanagi is an Onmyoji clan to begin with. How could they possibly fail to distinguish whether their enemies were truly dead or merely pretending, when they controlled miasma, the energy of death, and shikigami, corpse-demons?"
Thus, faking their deaths or disguising themselves as dead simply would not work.
Besides, even if they had truly managed to pull it off, where could they hide so many members of the Akaba Family?
Their opponents were a clan of national pillars, an aristocratic family that symbolized Japan itself. All of Japan was their territory. How could so many members of the Akaba Family hide perfectly under such circumstances without being discovered?
It was simply impossible.
That was why Tenzen had realized long ago that saving everyone was impossible. He could only save as many as he could, one at a time.
Luo Zhen was one of them.
If Tenzen had not knocked him down and left him lying in the flames, the Luo Zhen who appeared before Izanagi's people that night would certainly have been killed