"Uh... actually, a very powerful female yokai is after me. It'd be better if I just stayed here..." Jiu Ming shook his head. Kazami Yuuka probably would not let go of the "prey" she had bitten so easily. He sent her flying, she sent him flying; when they parted, Jiu Ming had clearly seen the frenzied ecstasy in Kazami Yuuka's eyes.
It seemed he had become the object of her greatest desire.
Uh, this was not a good encounter.
"It's fine!" The implied meaning in Jiu Ming's words had already been perfectly clear, yet Aya Shameimaru acted as though she had not caught it at all. Completely unconcerned, she grabbed Jiu Ming and pulled him along. "It'd be such a pity for an interesting guy like you to die. An injured yokai out in the wilderness is prime prey for other yokai, you know. Come on, come on—where I live, even a Great Yokai has to rein itself in a little."
As she spoke, Aya Shameimaru half-forcibly dragged Jiu Ming into the air. "You really are badly hurt. Even your strength has become this weak... But that's strange. You're obviously severely injured, yet I can't see a single wound on you?"
"Well... my constitution is special. Any injury heals right away, but the energy I expend can't recover that quickly." Glancing back, she saw that Jiu Ming's eyes had narrowed to the thinnest of slits, on the verge of closing completely the next moment.
"Mmph, I can't hold on much longer... If I'm not awake tonight, remember to wake me up. Don't hold back on my account..." Jiu Ming lightly shook his head. After barely managing those words, he gave a lion's toss of his head, and his head simply lolled to one side.
He should recover a little by