They really couldn't wait any longer.
Although he hadn't seen any wailing comments, which meant Zenitsu was still all right, Haruto feared that dragging things out any longer might lead to something they couldn't control.
So Haruto called Shinobu Kocho over. The three of them quickly settled on acting that night, then had Tengen Uzui relay the news to the two boys.
To their surprise, Inosuke had heard a demon moving through the ceilings, floors, and gaps in the walls. That made them even more certain there were secret underground passages.
Daki, who adored beauty, used those underground passages to travel between Yoshiwara's brothels, attacking the prettier courtesans.
After night fell, the Entertainment District's lights remained dazzling.
Tengen Uzui went off on a sweeping search for his wives, Shinobu went to gather the two boys, and Haruto crouched close to the ground, spreading out his consciousness, as vast as a star-filled sky.
Underground, underground!
Something was wriggling through a tunnel beneath the Ogimoto House!
Got you...
Inosuke!
*?*
Inosuke? Why was it Inosuke?
In Haruto's perception, a boar-headed figure was wriggling rapidly through a narrow underground tunnel, heading toward that strange hollow beneath Yoshiwara!
...Damn it, why was he so reckless? What if an Upper Rank was lying in wait down there?
Haruto let out a breath. He had better find a way in and drag that reckless boar-head back first...
The upper floor of the Ogimoto House was a wreck. Shinobu Kocho slipped lightly past the crowd gathered at the door and looked around, but found no sign of Inosuke.
All she could make out from the madam's hysterical cries was that a boar-headed monster had appeared in their brothel and injured a drunken customer.
Shinobu Kocho was about to investigate when she suddenly caught the faintest sound