Are You Ready?
Night fell quickly.
News of Luo Zhen's return spread through the industry at astonishing speed, becoming known to the many people who had been watching the matter.
Once they learned that Luo Zhen had returned, many surging undercurrents began to subside, seemingly afraid to cause any more trouble, and gradually faded away.
However, some undercurrents had no choice but to keep surging, even after Luo Zhen's return.
On the rooftop of a school building at Saihagakuen Academy, a bespectacled girl holding a book clutched her phone, her brows furrowed with an unusually troubled expression.
The bespectacled girl was none other than Yugiri Asagi, one of the Three Saints of the Lion King Organization and one of the world's strongest Demon Slayers.
Having interacted with both Luo Zhen and Natsuki, this Three Saint, who could be said to have witnessed Luo Zhen sealing the Fourth True Ancestor with her own eyes, listened to the news coming through the phone and let out a sigh.
"I never expected him to return neither early nor late, but precisely at a time like this."
Yugiri Asagi really did look troubled.
Then a very clear voice came from the other end of the phone, though its wording and tone were quite archaic.
"Indeed. He just had to return when we were planning to make use of his absence to do something. We truly are unlucky."
The person speaking with Yugiri Asagi was Endou En, the person in charge of the Lion King Organization's branch office on Kageno Island. She had once encountered Luo Zhen briefly in the form of a shikigami and had represented the Lion King Organization in a deal with him, offering the organization's magical knowledge as the price for having Luo Zhen accept Yukina's surveillance. She was also Yukina's