Sakumura Anno more or less knew Hozoin Inshun's ultimate fate.
"Lord Inshun, it is not that I wish to stop you, but before we begin, there is something I must remind you of."
Sakumura glanced at Hozoin Inshun standing beside him.
He knew exactly why Hozoin Inshun had appeared here.
But he—
He had no way to stop him.
"If you intend to remain here with me, then you—you will die."
"You will fall into the Avici Hell."
All he could do was offer this warning, as he did now.
"It matters not."
Hozoin Inshun smiled freely.
"To fight alongside Lord Sakumura Anno—what matter if I die?"
"Lord Sakumura himself said it: this is the battlefield of the dead. The meaning of our remaining here is to secure a chance for the living to survive—is that not so?"
Sakumura was slightly stunned. His gaze dimmed for an instant before he nodded.
"Then, Lord Sakumura—this monk is going in!"
After fleeing some distance, Miyamoto Musashi and Fujimaru Ritsuka finally stopped.
"Ow."
Fujimaru Ritsuka was still holding O-Nui and Tasuke in her arms. The two children were terrified by what they had just seen.
"What kind of world is this?"
Musashi's hand remained on the hilt of her sword as she let out an involuntary sigh.
Demons ran rampant, and hell had descended upon the world—
If this truly was a so-called "Singularity," then it was far too—
"O-Nui, how far is your grandfather's hermitage from here?"
Fujimaru Ritsuka nervously looked back. Seeing that no one had followed them, she breathed a sigh of relief.
O-Nui had once told her that her grandfather's hermitage would never be invaded by bandits, no matter what. Though Fujimaru Ritsuka did not know whether it had merely escaped notice by hiding away and thus avoided becoming