I Refuse to Be a Valkyrie! Chapter 863

Hearing Yingcao's admiring voice, Mei sheathed her katana and patted Yingcao on the head.

"How could that be... Yingcao is just a little yokai..."

"Believe in yourself."

"But..."

Yingcao still did not believe she could become stronger. All she could do was heal minor injuries; she could do nothing else. How could someone like her possibly grow stronger?

"Believe me... Hm? There's another one... Come out yourself!" Mei had just been about to continue comforting Yingcao when she suddenly looked toward a tree branch.

"Give me your liver! Your liver..."

Realizing it had been discovered, the yokai on the branch immediately lunged down at Mei.

Only then did Mei see clearly... it was a monstrous bird as large as a person.

"A high-ranking yokai... What a shame its intelligence isn't much."

"Soul Severing Slash!"

As the monstrous bird's claws came at her, Mei unleashed a technique from Hokushin Ittō-ryū, a slash carrying the power to tear apart souls. Before the bird could even cry out, blood sprayed across the ground, and its body split into two before falling to the earth.

"These yokai... they really are obsessed with human livers!" Mei naturally understood why these yokai craved human livers so desperately.

Ever since Shenzhou's Journey to the West had spread to Japan, the tale that eating Tang Sanzang's liver could grant immortality had also begun circulating there.

But Japan had no Tang Sanzang, so they could only seek other substitutes.

Then, combined with Japan's yokai having a peculiar obsession with human girls, it gradually became believed that the livers of increasingly noble girls—babies, Miko, princesses, imperial princesses, and the like—were treasures.

And incredibly, after yokai ate the livers—or hearts—of these girls, their yokai power really did increase. The yokai then went completely mad.

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