Then... the scene suddenly changed. The next moment, she seemed to have appeared somewhere else.
The light here was dim, with a sunset that was about to give way to night. Mountains surrounded the area, and the air was chilly enough that an inexplicable sense of sorrow seeped into her. Before Rita lay a strange river, its banks covered in vivid Higanbana, as though she had arrived at the legendary River of the Underworld.
Standing on the shore, Rita held a scythe that seemed like the incarnation of the Lord of Ice. Calmly, she turned to look beside her, where... four people very familiar to Rita stood nearby.
There were exactly two men and two women: an old man, a young man and woman, and a girl in the loli stage. Yet the four of them appeared to follow that youngest little girl's lead.
"Enma Ai..."
The four people before Rita were indeed Enma Ai's group, whom she knew well: Enma Ai, Kottou-onna, Ichimokuren, and the Wheel-Eating Monk.
"I wonder whether this is an illusion or hell..."
As she observed this world, Rita felt somewhat curious. She had arrived here in an instant, and it felt like an illusion, much like the Sharingan's Tsukuyomi. But... it also seemed real, which suddenly reminded Rita of something: Jigoku Shoujo's powers were actually seemingly adapted from Aobingdeng, the Lord of Hundred Tales.
The Hundred Tales ritual summoned Aobingdeng, who then dragged people into hell. Jigoku Shoujo had merely removed the Hundred Tales ritual, gaining the ability to pull people directly into hell.
Furthermore, modern urban legends had also renamed the ancient yokai known as Aobingdeng as Jigoku Shoujo.
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