"There are more enemies! Be careful."
When a high-ranking yokai was killed with a single arrow, every yokai in the temple was instantly terrified. That was no cannon fodder—it was a powerful high-ranking yokai! And it had been taken out in seconds.
All the yokai immediately warily looked around. At last, outside the temple, they spotted a shrine maiden dressed in white above and red below, holding a longbow aimed at them.
"Careful! It's a shrine maiden."
"She's alone. Don't be afraid—rush over and kill her."
After discovering the shrine maiden's presence, a high-ranking yokai with a blue face and fangs hesitated slightly. It sensed that this shrine maiden was no ordinary opponent, but it still began urging the surrounding yokai to attack her.
And those yokai truly had no brains. Upon hearing its words, they immediately charged at the shrine maiden. She was alone, while there were so many yokai on their side. Besides, she only seemed skilled with a bow; once they got close, she would be finished.
The yokai charged toward the shrine maiden with great momentum, but none of them noticed that the high-ranking yokai that had spoken first not only failed to charge with them—it had begun quietly retreating instead!
Although it did not know Kikyo, a shrine maiden capable of instantly killing a high-ranking yokai with one arrow was definitely no simple opponent.
And precisely because of that, when dozens of yokai charged at her menacingly, the shrine maiden showed no intention of retreating. Instead, she drew another arrow from the quiver on her back, nocked it onto her longbow, and pulled the string to its limit... Purifying power continuously flowed into the arrow as she maintained that posture and watched the yokai approach.
At last, when they were only twenty meters away, the