"Ah! I understand! You poor child, you must have memories you can't let go of, too. Don't be shy. Tell me everything. I'm all ears."
Seeing Doma's false show of compassion, Shinobu Kocho unleashed all the fury in her heart.
"You have the nerve to ask me? You're the one who hurt my sister, aren't you? Don't you remember this haori at all?"
Doma confidently looked over the haori Shinobu Kocho wore and immediately remembered someone he had once met.
"Ah! That girl who used Flower Breathing, right? She was such a sweet, gentle girl. I really wanted to eat her."
"But dawn was almost breaking, so I didn't get my wish. I remember it perfectly. You have no idea what a shame... it was."
The moment the last word left his mouth, Shinobu Kocho's Nichirin Blade pierced Doma's left eye.
"Insect Breathing! Bee Sting Dance! True Thrust!"
Even with his eye pierced, Doma praised her with a grin. "What a sharp thrust! I didn't even have time to block it with my hand."
Then Doma swung his paired fans, scattering lotus-shaped ice crystals.
"Blood Demon Art! Lotus Leaf Ice!"
Shinobu Kocho quickly retreated, but the freezing air emanating from the crystalline lotuses veered away the instant it touched her.
Suddenly, the crystalline lotuses changed direction and flew toward Doma.
He watched his own Blood Demon Art suddenly switch sides, turning around to attack him.
Doma couldn't make sense of it for a moment, but his iron fans moved swiftly, smashing all the crystalline lotuses that had switched sides.
But the freezing air from the crystalline lotuses still touched Doma's body, turning one of his hands into ice crystals.
Shinobu Kocho hadn't expected Doma's Blood Demon Art to turn traitor and attack Doma himself, either.
Just then, Lin Guang said,