The Light Screen showed the battle hymn rising.
Purification Arrow cleared the way.
In an instant, holy light blossomed.
Kikyo, who had recovered to her peak condition and had not been injured in the previous battle, unleashed the true power of an exorcist shrine maiden.
With just one arrow, over a thousand yokai were annihilated within the light.
Though the yokai had been tightly clustered together, there was no doubt that Kikyo's anti-yokai specialty was the main reason.
Otherwise, the ninjas also possessed wide-area attacks, but their lethality against yokai was limited. Even when faced with huge numbers of yokai at once, it was difficult to kill them all outright.
After all, yokai possessed remarkably tenacious vitality. Ordinarily, even if their bodies were torn apart, they would be fine as long as some crucial parts remained or their vital points had not been harmed.
But Kikyo was different. Her anti-yokai specialty and sacred spiritual power did not so much kill yokai as purify them.
She directly purified evil and filth, and since yokai were generally formed from evil and filth, they were all purified away.
With Kikyo's Purification Arrow blazing the trail, the others launched their attacks as well. Once the yokai noticed them, they roared and charged forward.
The raiding party was not about to get bogged down fighting the yokai. With Mash handling the primary defense, Gaara providing auxiliary defense and crowd control, the other ninjas offering support and covering the flanks, and Fujimaru Tachibana calmly directing everyone from the center, the formation pushed onward.
Yes, Fujimaru Tachibana truly was directing them.
After entering attack mode, Fujimaru Tachibana seemed to have entered some kind of state. Or rather, after experiencing battle after battle and such terrible events, her resolve had been fully forged.
Now that she had made