[In the instant flames and flashing steel intertwined, the smell of burning filled the air. Beneath Ogi Zenin's Brow-Burning Slash, laden with his so-called "authority as clan head," the enormous White Qu proved as fragile as thin paper, cleaved straight in two through the abdomen.]
[Watching the enormous Shikigami's body rapidly disintegrate beneath the licking flames, dissolving into countless wisps of pitch-black cursed energy residue, an almost deranged joy burst from Ogi Zenin's bloodshot eyes.]
[Even now, consumed by venomous resentment and fury toward you, the sheer pleasure of personally cutting down this creation that symbolized the Zenin Clan's "inherited technique"-of vindicating not only himself, but also proving his swordsmanship superior to the "Ten Shadows Technique" praised to the heavens-still delivered a powerful, hallucinatory shock to Ogi Zenin's already twisted mind.]
[Even the gloom surrounding those two "worthless daughters," which had always weighed on his heart, was swept away in that moment. Never had he felt such exhilaration, as though his blade had severed not a Shikigami, but the shadow that had loomed over half his life.]
[The corners of his mouth curled wildly upward beyond his control, contorting his stern, rigid face into something hideous and terrifying. Gripping his sword in both hands, he pointed it at you from afar, his voice hoarse with excitement.]
["Did you see that?! The so-called 'Ten Shadows Technique' is nothing special! You're next, you ignorant little rat...!"]
[But before Ogi Zenin could even finish his arrogant tirade, something changed.]
[As dictated by the cruel yet powerful ironclad rule of the "Ten Shadows Technique," when a Shikigami was destroyed, its power would be inherited by another Shikigami.]
[The pitch-black residue dispersing from the slain White Qu did not fade into nothingness. Instead, it was greedily swallowed in an instant by the deeper mass of