Where Are the Onmyoji and Shrine Maidens? 3

Hearing Suzuki Yukiko's voice, the Inugami did not immediately attack. It stared at her for several moments before turning toward the crawling evil spirit.

Then... with a sharp swish, the Inugami charged straight at the evil spirit. A claw-shaped blade of energy flashed, splitting the evil spirit before it cleanly in two.

Immediately afterward, the Inugami suddenly grew several times larger and clamped its jaws around the evil spirit.

"Sacred Arrow!"

At the same time, the arrow in Aso Yuna's hand flew from her fingers, piercing through the evil spirit ahead. The demon-purging spiritual power carried by the arrow began cleansing its body.

However, having learned from past experience, Aso Yuna knew that her weakness was her short time cultivating. The spiritual power within her was limited, so to avoid exhausting it too quickly like before, she attached only a tiny amount of spiritual power to each arrow.

After all, her spiritual power differed from that of ordinary cultivators. She possessed Kikyo's shrine maiden bloodline, and her unique demon-purging spiritual power was exceptionally effective against spirits and monsters.

Even that tiny amount of spiritual power was enough to make those evil spirits suffer.

And that was indeed the case. Although the spiritual power attached to the arrow was too little to completely purify the evil spirit at once, it... still left it severely wounded.

"What incredible spiritual power. Its suppressive effect on monsters is actually this strong."

Suzuki Yukiko watched the arrow Aso Yuna had fired. It contained only a trace of spiritual power, yet it had inflicted such grievous injuries on the evil spirit. She had never heard of anything like it.

It was as though Aso Yuna's spiritual power had been born specifically to deal with monsters.

But clearly, now was not the time to dwell on that.