Forging a pact with the Lord of a Hundred Demons, Tamamo-no-Mae!

Thunderous Might!

The divine wrath pouring down resembled a golden World Tree, growing madly downward with heaven and earth as its mirror!

For a moment,

Energy overflowed, and space trembled.

Without question, the master of this shrine was utterly enraged.

First, a shrine maiden in his service had joined with a demon and borne children. Then, a mere mortal had challenged his authority.

Such humiliation had not occurred in a thousand years, in ten thousand years!!

Inexcusable.

Unforgivable!

Even if every human in the city fell to their knees and prostrated themselves in prayer, they could not extinguish the fury in his heart!!

Had humanity's fleeting lives and supposedly growing courage finally made these insignificant ants forget the consequences of a god's wrath?

Then let them use this moment of despair to remember divine might, filled with repentance and gratitude!!

Violent energy hurtled down from the heavens.

With the force of a tiger charging down a mountain, it swept toward the mortal world like a torrent spilling through a torn sky. There was no possibility of stopping it!

Tamamo-no-Mae lay prostrate.

Even though he possessed the power of a great demon and commanded the reverence of countless spirits, even though his innate nine tails destined him for greatness,

Before this Heavenly Dipper Orthodoxy, he remained powerless, unable to suppress the instinctive terror branded into his very bones!!

All he could do was shield his beloved wife and their two swaddled children beneath his body.

Yet even so,

Even as his bloodline surged wildly, even as the violent fluctuations of energy woke the two little ones and sent them crying, even as he lost every trace of a great demon's imposing bearing,

Tamamo-no-Mae still did not choose to flee alone. He kept his head raised, watching the man before him, watching