You Don't Even Have the Right to Mention Him

"Clang, clang."

The spell chains wailed endlessly in the void.

Seimei's attempts to soothe Hakuzosu did nothing to calm his violent emotions.

Instead, dark memories surged through his mind all at once!

A cramped, airless cell,

shared with insects and vermin!

Freedom lost,

forced to serve humans!!

Every one of those memories scraped against Hakuzosu's raw nerves.

He would never return to that life. He would never serve humans again.

Freedom.

Freedom!

He wanted to go home, back to Dream Mountain!!

"Roar!!"

Overcome with emotion,

his furious roar rolled across the skies above the entire area.

The beast's eyes, which had only just regained their clarity, clouded once more with bloodred stains.

And it was not only his eyes. Ghostly energy crept through his white fur, staining it a chilling black and red!!

Though it had never been his choice, while enslaved by the Genji Clan, he had killed four hundred and ninety-nine humans!!

Some had been entirely innocent.

Return to the past? Return to how he had been at the start?

From the moment the Genji Clan's onmyoji hunted him down and he took on that blood debt, he had been doomed never to live peacefully as he once had.

"I hate onmyoji! I hate humans!"

"After five hundred, I'll be free! No one will ever enslave me again!!"

Driven by his mounting fury, Hakuzosu's dark side, nurtured by human blood, surfaced once more. The false promise Shadow had planted in him rose with it, becoming the rule by which he believed he could free himself!

His healed body let him unleash even greater strength, and the energy chains binding him began to crack beneath it like shattered tiles.

"No one will enslave me again! Never again!!"

"From now on, I'll kill humans whenever I please!"

"I hate them,