After walking for a short while, the girl looked back and saw the little girl with the single ponytail hurriedly hiding behind a large tree, clutching the strange furball in her arms.
But at that speed, she had been spotted at a glance. She had no tracking skills at all.
"Weren't you afraid of me? Why are you still following me?"
Seeing that half of the little girl's arm was still sticking out, the girl could not help but find it amusing.
"I... I wasn't afraid of you! Mother said... that I'd become even stronger than a Great Yokai someday."
Hearing the girl's words, the little loli could not help stepping out. She looked at the girl with great seriousness as she explained herself. At that moment, she no longer seemed afraid in the slightest.
"Yes, yes, stronger than a Great Yokai! What's your name?" The girl looked at the somewhat familiar little loli before her, though she was not entirely certain.
"My name... my name... my name is... Yingcao."
Chapter 2: Raiden Queen
"Yingcao... Grass Daddy..."
The girl looked at the adorable little loli with the single ponytail before her. It really was Yingcao!
"However... our whole clan is called Yingcao. But now, I'm the only one left in our clan, so I'm all the Yingcao. What about you, powerful human?"
Yingcao looked curiously at the beautiful human girl before her.
Although the human girl before her resembled those terrifying humans Mother had spoken of, she... had saved her life.
She probably was not a bad person, right?
"Me? My name is Mei. I'm just an ordinary passing samurai."
The girl—Mei—reached back and touched her own single ponytail as she answered calmly.
"Ordinary... an ordinary samurai? You're not an Onmyoji? How could an ordinary samurai defeat such a terrifying