"...All right, just how was such a freak cultivated?" Standing on the scorched earth, through the last remnants of the seal's fading power, she sensed what Jiu Ming had done at the time—he had actually cut off a piece of his own Soul Body?
Heh heh, did he treat it like a Hourai person cutting off their own flesh? Lose a piece, grow a piece back? That was a soul! Cutting it off was easy enough, but recovering it would be difficult... Yet Jiu Ming had merely felt a moment of pain, with seemingly no other problems at all.
Either this fellow's soul regeneration had reached a bug-like level, or his current body was not a Soul Body in the truest sense...?
Hm? A soul within a soul?
Shaking her head, Eirin Yagokoro set the matter aside for the time being. Jiu Ming's instincts were sharp. If that arrowhead had landed back then, both Jiu Ming and Mokou would have been entirely bathed in the spiritual light and contaminated by the seal, rather than having the sealing erosion begin from his palm after he caught the arrowhead in his hand.
"Ahh~ I nearly turned into a steamed shrimp. Eirin, you finally came." A soot-stained arm stretched out from the soil, which had been steeped in cold air until it was icy and stiff. Then a head popped out as well. Kaguya let out a long breath—not hot breath, but cold air. "He definitely did it on purpose. A double heaven of ice and fire—this princess is freezing!"
"Princess, where is the Fire-Rat Robe?" Eirin Yagokoro pulled the long black-haired girl from the ground. Seeing her princess in such a bedraggled state, she raised an eyebrow. Perhaps she should not have let those two leave so easily just now...
"Gone." Brushing