"Please, my other self."
Mai took away all the cursed energy in her older sister's body.
At that moment, Maki's heavenly restriction reached the same terrifying level as the Sorcerer Killer's.
Boundless strength surged endlessly from her flesh.
Brimming vitality healed the gruesome wound in her chest.
Yet when Maki opened her eyes, there was not a trace of joy in them.
Only tears that would not stop falling.
Her sister's arms were wrapped around her neck, so cold that Maki wanted to deny reality.
"Mai!"
"Wake up."
"Mai..."
The countless grotesque cursed spirits around them were already stirring.
They surrounded the sisters eagerly, ready to feast at any moment.
Clutching the broad blade forged from a life, Maki rose like a walking corpse.
"Mai, I promise."
With that, Maki shot forward, slaughtering every cursed spirit around her like lightning.
She would not let them hurt her sister's body.
The sounds of cursed spirits being exorcised and the traces of dissipating cursed energy spread outward.
Ogi Zenin, who was on his way out, immediately picked up on them.
"The cursed spirits are all gone?!"
Ogi Zenin gripped his sword hilt, watching the doorway without daring to lower his guard.
Amid the clouds of dust and smoke.
A blood-drenched demon gently laid her sister by the doorway, then stared at Ogi Zenin with suffocating pressure.
Sensing the terrifying aura coming from his daughter.
Ogi Zenin fell into a daze, instinctively thinking he had seen Toji Fushiguro.
"My body still remembers the fear I tried everything to forget..."
The horror crawling over Ogi Zenin was swallowed by towering fury.
Rage pushed to its limit made his chest heave violently.
The worthless daughter he had always despised, the obstacle he had wanted nothing more than to kill.
*She actually made me feel the