After Mitsuri's birthday celebration ended, everyone went their separate ways, leaving Kanzaki Kumo and Mitsuri some time alone together.
Kanao had cornered Nezuko, her expression dark.
"Kanao? Is something wrong?"
Although she looked a little puzzled, Nezuko had actually guessed why Kanao was blocking her way.
As one of the few people who could be called Kanao's "friends," Nezuko knew very well how intense, even somewhat twisted, her possessiveness was.
Kanao had simply been holding herself back to avoid putting Kanzaki Kumo in a difficult position.
Even now, for a moment, she had wanted to attack Nezuko.
But Nezuko was one of her few friends, after all, and held a certain place in Kanzaki Kumo's heart, so Kanao dismissed the thought as soon as it arose.
"Mitsuri's birthday celebration is over. I'm here to see you out."
Kanao answered without expression.
"Oh, I see. Thanks, but since I finally got the chance to come over, I'd like to stay a little longer and chat with you and the older girls at the Butterfly Mansion." Knowing that Kanao was already ready to explode at the slightest spark, Nezuko did not dare mention the name that would touch a nerve.
"You're actually here to see my brother, aren't you?"
Though Nezuko had avoided saying it, Kanao brought it out into the open herself.
"You caught me... That's right. I'm here to see Big Brother Yun."
Since the subject was out in the open, Nezuko did not intend to hide anything and admitted it outright.
Yet despite her seemingly confident manner, cold sweat had already broken out across her back.
The instant she nodded in admission, she sensed a trace of killing intent. It was faint and vanished in an instant, but it was utterly pure.
Its source was the girl standing before