Outside Kyoto, in the Red Maple Forest, I'll Wait Until You Come of Age. Don't Break Your Promise.

Boom!!

Dust billowed across the street as Hakuzosu was blasted into the buildings lining it once more.

Fortunately, most of the buildings were warehouses used for storing equipment, with no residents inside. That spared innocent people from being caught in the destruction.

Watching from the sidelines, Seimei was finding it harder and harder to believe his eyes.

What kind of family was this? What kind of Onmyoji?

He was beating a monster that even the Genji Clan had only captured after enormous effort so badly it could barely fight back!!

Across all of Kyoto, perhaps only three people could dominate a battle like this.

And those three were none other than the heads of the three great families!!

"Roar."

A savage howl tore from Hakuzosu's throat.

He struggled free of the rubble and still looked ready to fight,

but the sorry state he was in was plain to see.

Demonic blood streamed from his fangs, several horrifying craters marred his massive body, and even the towering phantom and strange incantations around him flickered on the verge of breaking apart!!

Even so, Hakuzosu had reason to be proud.

If Kurama from the Ninja World had been in his place, Arata might already have broken his bones!

The strange runes circling him had, after all, afforded him considerable protection.

But that protection had reached its limit.

Arata watched the great fox tense his body and lower himself. No longer charging blindly, Hakuzosu had begun to study him with an almost human wariness. Arata had no intention of playing around any longer.

This was Kyoto, after all, a city watched over by the Genji Clan, the Kamo Clan, and the Fujiwara Clan.

If he went too far, the three families might well unite against him with the same resolve they had shown when