The Three of Us Living Well Together Matters More Than Anything

Snow Woman looked as though she had heard a joke.

As a monster who had lived for over a century, aside from those great monsters and mediums, she had never encountered anyone capable of hurting her.

Precisely because she had lived so long and witnessed too much of humanity's ugliness, she knew that creatures called humans could not be trusted.

Before leaving.

"Hachishaku-hime, stay here and behave. I'll make you see this man's true face."

At the foot of the mountain.

Li Dan looked up at the white mountaintop. Of course, he had sensed Hachishaku-hime's disappearance. She had been taken away by a gust of wind, and he vaguely heard her call out a name.

Not long afterward, the wind and snow began to intensify, nearly reaching the level of a blizzard.

It seemed the monster who had taken Hachishaku-hime away was Snow Woman.

This blizzard was no illusion. It carried a hint of a Ghost Domain, though an ordinary snowstorm could only stop or frighten regular people.

An invisible barrier spread around Li Dan, automatically parting the wind and snow that fell upon him.

Almost instantly, Li Dan had guessed Snow Woman's little trick. There was no attack; its purpose was mainly to trap him.

The two of them bore no grudge against each other, so it could only be because of Hachishaku-hime.

Unfortunately, Li Dan was not in the mood to play some game of proving his sincerity. He immediately forced his way out of the blizzard, stepping through empty air toward the mountaintop one step at a time.

The evil power of a High-Ranking Demon—this was merely its most basic application.

The one Li Dan had fused with was no ordinary High-Ranking Demon, but the incarnation of a Demon King from hell.

Snow Woman could not