Hearing Higokumaru's description, Rita could now confirm who it was. Of course... aside from that one, there probably weren't many who could snatch someone directly from her hands, were there?
"So it really was that... Three-Eyed Spider..."
Rita looked thoughtfully at the ice in her hand. Sealed within it by the Silver Moon was a trace of the Three-Eyed Spider's aura. Yet even a mere trace of it was enough to affect certain living creatures.
"Hmph! What a cautious fellow!"
With a soft snort, Rita wiped out the Three-Eyed Spider's aura in her hand with one hand.
The Three-Eyed Spider was also known as the Human-Faced Spider. It was basically modeled after the human-faced spiders of the mortal world—the kind that liked to weave webs where Ai lived and had three eyes on their backs.
Of course... the Three-Eyed Spider here could not possibly be an ordinary spider. It was likely just an incarnation of some powerful being, though no one knew what sort of being it truly was. All anyone knew was that it was called the guardian of hell. It had appeared after Ai burned down the village, after her revenge was complete, when she had been lost and weeping.
However, this Three-Eyed Spider was no good creature either. For example, after Enma Ai took revenge on the enemies who had buried her alive, the Three-Eyed Spider chose that exact moment to question whether she herself had done anything wrong. Naturally, Enma Ai answered no. Most people would have done the same.
All because a dead butterfly had come back to life in Ai's hand—though the butterfly had merely been asleep—Ai had been treated as a monster by the villagers, made into a sacrifice, an offering—she had to die! And Ai had only been seven at the time.