"Abe no Seimei!!!"
Beneath the night sky, Kyoto blazed with fire. A volcanic bomb as large as a millstone hurtled toward Dark Seimei, trailing flames like a shooting star.
Dark Seimei's expression never changed. She did not even blink.
Bang!
The Vermilion Bird Shikigami, one of the Nine Masked Beasts, swooped down in front of Dark Seimei. With a beat of his wings, he blew the volcanic bomb away, and it blasted a five-meter-wide crater into the ground nearby.
"Yuki, calm down."
Uchiha Senmon's figure blurred. The next instant, he appeared in front of Mineko Yuki, stretching an arm across her path to stop her from charging forward in a fury.
"But Mr. Jiraiya..." Mineko Yuki glared at Dark Seimei with fire in her eyes, grinding her teeth.
"I'm angry too, but now isn't the time. I'm begging you, Mineko. Please calm down first."
Uchiha Senmon stared ahead with cold eyes, but his voice was strikingly gentle.
The moment he saw the Toad Sage in the coffin, Uchiha Senmon, who regarded Jiraiya as something of a mentor, had nearly lost control of his own anger. It was hardly surprising that Mineko Yuki, who had received even more kindness and instruction from Jiraiya, had lost her composure in her fury.
Although the Ritual of the Lord of Mount Tai could bring back the dead and fulfill the desperate wishes of both the living and the deceased, conversely, in the hands of someone with malicious intentions, it not only desecrated the dead but also brought endless calamity.
"Senmon... understood."
Uchiha Senmon's soothing words cooled Mineko Yuki's fury a little. She still glared hatefully at Dark Seimei, but at least she no longer shouted about killing her.
Silently breathing a sigh of relief, Uchiha Senmon inspected the five coffins one by one, his