Junpei Yoshino hurriedly laid his mother down. By then, Nagi Yoshino was in a terrible state.
The loss of blood had left her lips pale, and her eyelids trembled as though she were enduring immense torment.
Although Kenjaku could use Reverse Cursed Technique, outputting it to heal someone else was still too difficult for him.
Mahito's Idle Transfiguration could alter the body, but a lack of blood was not the same as a missing body part.
Still... they had to try.
At Kenjaku's signal, Mahito once again transformed his tongue into a hand and pressed it against Nagi Yoshino's chest.
This time, he really was being a creep. Her abdomen had already healed, yet he still placed his hand on her chest out of sheer perversity. Since Mahito was a cursed spirit, though, calling him a creep wasn't entirely accurate.
He was simply a beast.
"Idle Trans..."
Mahito suddenly stopped, instinctively halting the cursed energy gathering in his palm.
He was uneasy. Whatever condition Kamo Xu was in now, he remained deeply wary of that man.
This woman had been healed by Kamo Xu. What if some of that man's soul still remained inside her?
He only had his head left now. If he wasn't careful, he could die without even knowing what had killed him.
His senses slipped into the woman's body, and after a brief search, he discovered something alarming again.
Sure enough, Kamo Xu's soul floated quietly within Nagi Yoshino's soul.
A milky-white mass of cursed energy surrounded this tiny, miniature Kamo Xu. It was Kamo Xu's Reverse Cursed Technique, its gentle light sweeping through Nagi Yoshino's blood as it slowly replenished what she had lost.
Like a silent land mine without any warning signs, it would have blown his last remaining head to pieces if Mahito