Oh, So This Is the King of the Asura Ghost Path? He Doesn't Look Like Much.

Kidomaru.

An evil half-demon exiled to the Asura Ghost Path by Kyoto's Grand Onmyoji, Kamo no Tadayuki.

He was the son of the former Asura Ghost King.

Cruel and cunning, obsessive and vicious in his methods, he had even managed to suppress his demonic nature before the human onmyoji who had slain and beheaded his father. For decades, he had feigned respect and tried to fit into human society as a human.

But the nature of a demon's son could never be washed away.

By the time he came of age, he could no longer suppress it. The thrill of slaughtering living beings unleashed everything he had kept buried for years!

When his fellow disciples admonished him,

Kidomaru waited until his master, Kamo no Tadayuki, was away, then slaughtered every student of the Kamo Clan. The massacre left one of the three great onmyoji families broken beyond recovery.

Yet even when his own teacher punished him and exiled him to the demon-infested Asura Ghost Path, he felt not a trace of remorse.

On the contrary, only there did he discover what true freedom felt like!

After all, once evil reached its extreme, punishment ceased to be punishment. Every penalty became a reward!!

I never thought another human onmyoji would try to reach me after that old fool from the Kamo Clan.

Then I'll peel off your skin and make it part of my demon garment.

Heh, heh, heh.

During the war against Konoha, Arata had obtained the final piece needed to summon Kidomaru: the life of a Sunagakure jonin.

He had delayed the summoning because he feared Kidomaru's strength and cunning. At the time, he had doubted he could control him.

The summoning condition alone—taking the life of a jonin from each of the Five Great Shinobi Villages—was enough to