On the Uda Blood Plain, Basara publicly executed Jia Ermi. All the gods were terrified into silence.
"I never expected the spy to be him..."
"The third strongest beneath our clan's Progenitor Gods was actually a spy turned by Youtan Poluo!"
"Jia Ermi never put on airs as a powerhouse within the clan. I thought it was simply his nature, but it seemed he had been concealing his edge!"
"Ah... what a pity. The All-Seeing Insight Shikigami is gone."
There were many sighs of regret, but few mourned. This clan's cold-blooded nature truly ran to the marrow.
"..." Basara glanced at the ashes Jia Ermi had left behind, then turned toward Urashiki, who sat slumped in the distance with vacant eyes, and slowly raised his hand.
The gods thought, Even now, Basara still doesn't intend to spare Urashiki. He truly cannot tolerate the slightest impurity!
Just then, Gandharva called out, "Brother Basara..."
Basara's hand paused. "Gandharva, do you have something to say?"
Gandharva said sadly, "Brother Jia Ermi has already paid with his life. Please don't implicate the innocent any further."
Basara said, "Urashiki may indeed be innocent, but we cannot rule out the possibility that Yama sent two fish in—one big fish and one small fish. Besides, Jia Ermi had no reason to expose himself at all. The moment I was about to make a move against Urashiki, he jumped out. It is difficult to let that go."
Gandharva said, "That may be true, but look at how frightened Urashiki is..."
"Hm?" Basara looked over and saw that a foul-smelling puddle had spread across the ground beneath Urashiki.
His brows furrowed deeply. Ōtsutsuki did not excrete, except under one extremely special circumstance: when someone had been scared completely out of their wits.
Gandharva said, "I don't think Yama would