The little fox, whose tiny head had been lightly poked and who had heard the summons, raised her face from the shrine maiden's embrace in half-understanding.
Before her stood the onmyoji who had brought her here.
During the brief moment she looked up, he had already stepped past her and casually blocked the hateful gazes of those bad people.
In an instant, the little one understood what he meant.
"Yes, Onmyoji-sama."
She answered as loudly as she could, pouring all her strength into it. The joy in her voice was impossible to hide.
At the same time, his words at the foot of the mountain—"I'll take you up there. No one can stop me"—echoed endlessly in her heart!
What a domineering and powerful onmyoji!!
"Please take Sister with us too, Onmyoji-sama."
The little fox rose to her feet and pleaded with the back that had shielded her from all hostility and hatred.
Yet the moment the words left her lips, Yu Zhi's heart filled with intense unease and apprehension, and her pleading voice gradually lost its confidence.
After all, Sister had said that everything she had was already devoted to the god.
Taking Sister away by force would mean standing against the god!
That was a god!!
Looking at that back, the Three-Tailed Fox truly felt that her wish was asking too much. It was already more than enough that he had brought her here and allowed her to hear Sister's true feelings.
How could she drag an onmyoji into opposing a god for the sake of an insignificant little yokai like her?
Thinking this, the little fox opened her mouth, intending to withdraw that rude request.
But—
"One is no different from two."
"Kasumi, right? Get up. I'll take you with me."
The owner of that back answered without