"How could a human possibly command evil spirits? Not even an Onmyoji could do that. What exactly are you—a human or a ghost?"
Having followed the Dog Demon here, Suzuki Yukiko could not help staring wide-eyed as she watched the unfamiliar Onmyoji command evil spirits to block the traitorous Dog Demon.
She knew that the events at Suicide Cliff were connected to an evil Onmyoji, but she had never confronted one directly. Watching this scene now, Suzuki Yukiko could not help wondering... had this Onmyoji been behind everything?
"You meddlesome little girls, why did you have to come and disturb me?"
The middle-aged Onmyoji slowly rose to his feet. By the moonlight, Seele and the others could barely make out his appearance.
He had long hair tied into something like a single ponytail. His features were horribly twisted, like those of an evil ghost... He wore an ancient Japanese robe and stood barefoot atop the roof of a wrecked car...
"So... you were the one behind everything here? Why?"
Though she asked that, Suzuki Yukiko felt that something was off. How could an Onmyoji... possess such power?
"Yes and no. As for why... you will find out soon enough."
"It truly makes me jealous. How could someone like you possibly understand the bitterness of Onmyoji like us, who devote our entire lives to the Way of Yin and Yang yet achieve nothing?"
Looking at the Inugami beside Suzuki Yukiko, a flash of envy passed through the Onmyoji's eyes. An Inugami... Why did Suzuki Yukiko possess a shikigami like an Inugami at such a young age, while he... after striving his entire life and becoming a wanted criminal... had only obtained a traitorous Dog Demon?
But that was who he used to be... Now, he was different. He would become the