At that moment, all twenty-odd people inside the single-story building were staring at me.
The buzz-cut man rose to his feet with a shout of "Baka!" My expression immediately darkened.
"Fucking hell, I'd barely walked in before the dogs started barking."
Facing more than twenty bare-chested men and women, I showed no fear whatsoever. Instead, I walked straight toward them.
But after only a few steps, I spotted several corpses in a corner of the courtyard.
There were both men and women, all with their throats slit. Their blood flowed with the rainwater into a blood trough in front of the stone platform.
These corpses were clearly innocent people who had been murdered.
They had been used as sacrificial offerings.
That fleshy growth on the stone platform was definitely no good...
That was what went through my mind.
Meanwhile, although everyone present was furious, they could all tell I was no ordinary man.
Could an ordinary person kick open a massive iron gate?
And facing this whole crowd, I hadn't shown the slightest surprise. Instead, I had walked straight toward them.
At the same time, another middle-aged man stood up and demanded angrily:
"Who are you?"
"I'm your grandpa!"
I kept throwing arrogant retorts at them as I entered the courtyard.
By now, the twenty-odd Japanese onmyoji present were furious beyond measure.
"Baka!"
"You bastard!"
"How arrogant!"
"Do you have any idea what kind of place you've walked into?"
"..."
The crowd erupted, everyone shouting at once.
The young buzz-cut man who had first called me "baka" suddenly charged out of the crowd.
His right hand reached to his waist and drew a gleaming short sword.
His face twisted with fury and malice, his small eyes fixed on me.
Waves of True Qi instantly poured from his body. His cultivation