P.S. Some of you might find this chapter a little hard to stomach. I'm really sorry.
The character appeared abruptly without any buildup because the original version got criticized. This is a revised version, which left the foreshadowing out of sync. Please go easy on me.
Qingxiao screamed frantically inside, Faster! Go faster! His heart held nothing but urgency and anticipation.
When he received Masamichi Yaga's assignment to meet a newcomer and saw the unfamiliar yet familiar name on the file, an irrepressible sense of anticipation rose in his heart.
Combined with the specific request that he be the one to come, Qingxiao settled on one person: someone he had saved while training at the villa.
Air currents burst beneath his feet in rapid succession. The wind whipped up by his high-speed passage sent loose stones rolling across the road. Qingxiao became a sharp afterimage, tearing through streets and sweeping over walls, his heart set on this long-awaited reunion.
The old alley lay deathly still, chilled by sinister breezes. Even the surrounding wind and insect calls had fallen silent, leaving the atmosphere suffocatingly oppressive.
Inside the alley, Kenjaku had just finished taking over the body and had yet to leave. She had only just occupied Nagayumi Jin's flesh and hastily completed the brain replacement. With nothing but a thin veil of concealing cursed energy, she had carelessly hidden her discarded former body in a corner, and the cursed energy around her had not yet fully subsided.
She was currently reading the original owner's memories, standing frozen in place as though she had taken a hit from Unlimited Void.
Just as she was lost in thought, a sharp, urgent whistle of displaced air erupted at the alley's entrance!
A fierce gust swept in, stirring up dust and sand as a figure