Forcefully Taking a Daughter

"All right! Your subordinates must be getting anxious by now! The battle may have already broken out, so we should hurry back to the capital of the Land of Demons!" Nawaki said to Miroku with a solemn expression.

"Ah! All right!" Only then did Miroku seem to remember something. Blushing shyly, she walked up to Nawaki, wrapped her right arm around the back of his neck, lowered her head against his chest, and said with her eyes closed, "Lord Nawaki, I'm ready. Let's go!"

Nawaki first stared at the Miroku who had thrown herself into his arms in surprise, then nodded in realization. Wearing a sly grin, he silently began to circulate the chakra within his body.

As soon as the hand seals were completed, the two vanished from the volcanic cave. In the next instant, they appeared out of thin air in the Land of Demons' conference hall. The high-ranking officials of the three countries, who had been silently awaiting their return, wore strange expressions when they saw the young man and woman embracing, but no one rashly spoke up.

With her head resting against Nawaki's chest, Miroku listened to his steady, powerful heartbeat and inexplicably felt safe and warm, just as she had when she leaned against her mother's lap as a child. Noticing that Nawaki had not moved for a long time, she kept her eyes closed and said shyly, "Lord Skywalker, don't waste any more time. Hurry and carry me so we can travel. This is no time for jokes. If... if what you said earlier is true, then I'm willing to join you in passing down the power of the shrine maiden..."

After mustering the courage to speak that final, suggestive sentence, Miroku buried her head even deeper.

Upon hearing this, the officials present all