"An ancient evil sealed beneath Kyoto... Kamikawa, an onmyoji of the Harima School..."
Listening to Kaede, Yae Sakura fell into deep thought. Kyoto was also known as the thousand-year demon capital. Before the Meiji Restoration in the Far East, it had already possessed more than a thousand years of history. Only after the Meiji Restoration and the movement to overthrow the shogunate did the emperor abandon Kyoto, which had stood for a millennium, and move to Tokyo, formerly Edo. There was indeed a great possibility that an ancient evil was sealed beneath Kyoto.
Besides, why did the Four Gods Barrier of Kyoto that Kaede mentioned sound so familiar...
Kamikawa, the onmyoji of the Harima School... Yae Sakura did have some impression of that. Just like Abe no Seimei's onmyoji family, Ashiya Doman's descendants had also changed their surname at some point.
Although the surname Abe still existed in the twenty-first century, it did not belong to Abe no Seimei's lineage. Due to the fox's curse—having no heirs—Seimei's descendants became fewer and fewer. Especially by the fifth and sixth generations, when Seimei's line was on the verge of dying out, his descendant Abe Arinobu finally decided to change the family name to "Tsuchimikado," allowing the line to continue!
Ashiya Doman, the "evil" onmyoji who could rival Abe no Seimei—his descendants had likewise changed their surname to "Kamikawa" for a series of reasons.
Then... this onmyoji of the Harima School was very likely Ashiya Doman's descendant.
Shouldn't he have been targeting the Tsuchimikado family? Why target Kikyo instead? Yae Sakura did not know, but if it really was him, she would not let him go.
"Big Sister Sakura?"
Seeing Yae Sakura suddenly lost in thought, Kaede could not help calling out.
"Oh, it's nothing! Go on... What happened after Kikyo met that