Enma Ai's hair stirred without a breeze, and she fell silent.
Because Megumi Fushiguro's thoughtfulness and sincerity had opened her heart, Enma Ai did not refuse when Aikawa Kaze approached to speak with her, and she listened carefully to what he said.
And because she understood him, Enma Ai, kind at heart, found herself unable to hate Sentaro completely for the moment.
After all, Sentaro had always protected her. Even her aunt and uncle, whom she had thought did not care, had known she was there all along and quietly covered for her.
All this time, none of them had reported her.
It was only when the Village Chief forced his hand, threatening his parents' lives, that Sentaro had...
Enma Ai stood rooted to the spot, unsure what to do.
She still felt hatred and the pain of his betrayal, but now that she knew he had been forced into it, she could no longer quite treat the boy she had once loved as an "enemy."
"Besides, killing isn't the most satisfying revenge. I've recorded plenty of evidence. We can go through 'normal channels' and make their lives worse than death."
Aikawa Kaze waved his phone and spoke with a smile.
"I've actually already called the Police! But this place is pretty remote, so it might take them a while to get here."
"!!!"
Enma Ai, still a little girl at heart, instinctively took a step back.
In this world, where there was no hell and no spider to tempt her, Enma Ai had originally been just an ordinary child.
Just as Aikawa Kaze, a student, would rein himself in a little around teachers and the principal, Enma Ai shrank back at the word "Police." She had yet to plunge into the abyss and become something inhuman.
Normally, few ordinary