"Black Flame?"
"Lord Priest, could he—could he be the person the god has been searching for?"
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The offender's sudden disappearance did nothing to ease the unease in the hearts of the onmyoji scattered all over the ground.
That was because the lord priest had mentioned a special term: Black Flame!
In recent years, this had been a taboo and secretive term among the many Takagamahara Shrine circles, symbolizing boundless terror!
According to secret records, a god had been burned alive by that Black Flame above Kyoto. Even the frenziedly gathered Power of Faith had merely delayed the god's destruction.
However, though the godslaying incident involved was terrifying, to be honest, they, as humans, had not taken it too seriously.
After all, Heian-kyo was vast. How could the one who wielded Black Flame possibly happen to come to their mountain?
Moreover, their shrine stood on Kyoto's outskirts. It was neither particularly strong nor particularly weak; no matter how they thought about it, they would not be the first target of that so-called Godslayer.
Reality had indeed been just that. The past few years had passed in peace.
And it was not only them. Other nearby shrines had not been attacked by any powerful beings either.
Their nervousness and vigilance had lasted, at most, for the few months after the divine oracle had first descended.
Even the god they served could not provide a prophecy of where that person was or when he would appear again. When could mere followers ever chance upon him?
Perhaps, after learning that he had offended Takamagahara—the highest will of this land—that child of sin had become frightened and vanished into hiding.
Yet at this moment, the lord priest's words sent the