Mitarashi Kazuhiro

These past few days, Mitarashi has truly felt that he is having a run of bad luck.

He went to great lengths to scheme against Isayama Yomi, causing her to accept the Killing Stone) and gradually transform into an evil spirit.

He had hoped to gain another henchman to help him achieve his long-cherished wish. But to his surprise, the other party suddenly broke free of his control and ran away.

Before he could figure out a way to bring the other person back, a big battle broke out in the mountains outside the city yesterday, and then the other person disappeared.

He could no longer sense the location of the Killing Stone inside the other person's body!

The commotion of the battle startled even him, so much so that he didn't dare to approach and observe the situation.

Strictly speaking, his insect-based Onmyodo techniques are not particularly suited for combat.

Early this morning, most of the day after the sudden battle ended, he finally dared to approach the scene to investigate what had happened.

At the very least, he needs to find out whether Yomi is alive or dead.

However, before he could analyze the remaining magical power in the mountains and forests in detail, his intuition, honed over many years in the shadows, told him that someone was approaching!

Without ignoring this sudden intuition, he quickly spread his butterflies throughout the forest as a sentinel and took out the Killing Stone to attract nearby evil spirits.

As it turned out, his caution was very justified.

Before long, he spotted two suspicious figures.

Before he could decide whether to be cautious or launch a sneak attack to eliminate the two men, the other party discovered that he was hiding in the shadows as Butterfly!

This truly surprised the Mitarashi.

It's important to know that his Onmyodo are best suited for reconnaissance. In a natural environment like the mountains and forests, he's even more adept, gaining an advantage in concealment.

So, it was exposed in just a few seconds?

Upon seeing the signal from the other party, confirming that these people were indeed looking for him, Mitarashi decisively chose to flee.

There was no other way; in just a few seconds, nearly ten people had teleported in. If we delayed any longer, who knew how many more would appear on the other side?

Mitarashi was very confident in his ability to escape.

Over the years, only recently have the two successive heads of the Tsuchimiya Family been able to catch him by the skin.

So those two are now finished.

As for the other Onmyoji, they could only be toyed with by him.

However, within a few hours, Mitarashi's confidence crumbled again.

"Are these guys all dogs? How come they can find me everywhere I go?"

Mitarashi thought incredulously.

All I can say is that for so many years, Mitarashi has been playing hide-and-seek with the incompetent people in the Countermeasures Office, which has severely limited its vision and made it overestimate itself.

Although the Mitarashi's ability to conceal itself is superb, it is far from being completely untraceable.

Faced with the pursuit and interception of the Action Team, Mitarashi had no choice but to move towards Kyoto.

If he could, he actually wouldn't want to get close to Kyoto.

There are too many A-rank evil spirits near Kyoto, and even some S-rank evil spirits. Even with the power of the Killing Stone, he wouldn't be enough to satisfy those perverts.

But he has no choice now. If he still can't shake off the masked men's pursuit in the end, then he might have no choice but to take the Killing Stone and seek refuge with the S-rank evil spirit in Kyoto — Hagoromo-Gitsune.

She hoped that when the other party resurrected her son, they would also help him resurrect his mother, considering that he had willingly offered up the Killing Stone.

At this moment, Mitarashi felt a profound sense of desolation, as if he had lost both his wife and his army. Had he known this would happen, he would never have dared to provoke Isayama Yomi!

Yesterday, Isayama Yomi disappeared, and today a group of perverted masked men have appeared and are chasing him around. He doesn't believe there's no connection between them!

Inhale~ Exhale~!

Taking a deep breath, Jennifer pulled her cheeks down forcefully, finally managing to control her wildly upturned lips.

She was so happy!

Because, just now, their interception plan failed! The target successfully escaped into Kyoto!

Hahaha~!

Honestly, for the first time in her life, Jennifer felt no anger or frustration after failing a mission; instead, she was so excited she wanted to scream.

If her target hadn't already escaped, she really wanted to hug and kiss him.

Although that would make her unhappy...

"How do I look right now? Do I look like I'm grieving?"

Jennifer asked her subordinate beside her.

The mission failed, so she couldn't very well go to her Young Master with a beaming smile on her face to report it, could she?

So she needs to adjust her facial expressions now.

"... I feel like I deserve a beating."

Rolling his eyes, the members of the Third Division were already quite used to their captain's occasional erratic behavior.

"I'll beat you to death!"

After giving the other person a vicious kick, Jennifer took out a mirror and started pinching her cheeks in front of it.

Finally, looking at her slightly stiff expression in the mirror, she nodded in satisfaction.

That's good enough; it's not good to take too long.

Using magic to maintain her facial expression, Jennifer Side-Along Apparition and vanished from the spot, leaving behind only a few sighing members of the Action Team.

"Uh, what happened to your face?"

Bell looked at Jennifer with a puzzled expression.

Did the wind blow on it while it was sleeping? Why is its nose crooked and mouth grimacing?

"N-nothing's wrong! What happened to my face?"

Jennifer nervously touched her face.

The magic is still working its shaping function; it wasn't destroyed by Side-Along Apparition.

"Oh, it's good that everything's alright. How's the plan going?"

Seeing Jennifer's flustered appearance, Bell, who did not intend to interfere in his subordinate's private life, decisively changed the subject and asked about what he cared about most.

Actually, there was no need to ask; he already knew the result.

If Mitarashi was trapped by the Action Team, they should have used their Personal Terminal to notify him to come over, instead of Jennifer, the captain and commander-in-chief, personally running back to find him.

"I'm very sorry, Young Master, the target has already escaped into the Kyoto area."

Jennifer said with a heavy heart.

Upon hearing this expected result, Bell did not experience any negative emotions.

After all, if the other party were so easy to catch, they would have been caught by the Action Team long ago.

So, although he was afraid of trouble, he had no choice but to wade into the muddy waters and step into the quagmire of Kyoto since things had come to this point.

"I'll set up a base in Kyoto, pack up and head over there."

Bell gave the instructions to Jennifer.

"Are you going to take action yourself?"

"Since things have come to this, I'll definitely go to Kyoto for a visit. I've been curious about this ancient capital for a long time, given its legendary dangers."

It's impossible for him to take action personally. After all, finding someone is such a troublesome thing that Bell is too lazy to do it.

And more importantly, he had never done anything like this before. His search was far less efficient than that of the Action Team.

After all, the other party is the professional.