"Kehehehe, to think a human would use his own body as a breeding ground for bugs.69🅂🄷🅄🅇.🄲🄾🄼��
"How interesting, how interesting."
"I really want to get to know you again."
"Oh, my dear children, don't be shy. Don't waste a thing. Feast your fill on this banquet!"
In the middle of his field of vision, a man carrying a toad-shaped voodoo lamp and wearing a mask covered in vile insects muttered to himself in a frenzy.
His clothes were strange, too, resembling the haori of some kind of insect. Strange patterns mottled the fabric, and a bright red butterfly was painted on his back. It didn't look like a family crest so much as some kind of obsessive fixation.
[Voodoo Master]: A monster who raises insects and turns them into poisonous voodoo bugs. He possesses many strange and unusual abilities.
He raised all kinds of insects and affectionately called them his children.
He was a rather bizarre fellow.
[Butterfly Spirit, where are you? Kehehehe.]
At last, once the insects had devoured every corpse on the ground, the monster—whose face was impossible to make out—stopped muttering frantically. His gaze settled on the seemingly frail young man.
"Honorable Onmyoji, might there be another feast like this in the future?"
His crimson, demonic eyes brimmed with interest.
"There will."
Arata replied.
After all, Ryoma wasn't the only member of the Aburame Clan in Root.
"However, the insects dwelling in that man's body are highly poisonous. Touch them, and death is all but certain."
At that, a feverish madness shone in the Voodoo Master's eyes. He could sense the hostility toward the man in Arata's
"When the time comes, please grant that man to me. In exchange, this old man is willing to serve at your side."
Of course, his decision to submit so readily