"ROAR!"
An inhuman roar rang out as the "villagers" charged at Tetsu no Sosuke.
This time, they were truly attacking!
They had held back before only because they feared Tetsu no Sosuke would discover the truth. Now that he had, there was nothing left to hide.
Tetsu no Sosuke's hands and feet went cold. He had never imagined this.
He looked around. There were so many villagers. If each one was nothing but a human skin, didn't that mean they had all died long ago?
Then what about the people he had met earlier? The villager who had lingered outside the pit of bones... his weight had been normal. What was he?
And Honmyo Yutaro. And... Yuko!
The moment he thought of her, a tearing pain ripped through his chest!
He jerked his head down. Beneath the haori wrapped in his red robe, the little girl looked up at Tetsu no Sosuke with an innocent smile.
From the tips of her ten fingers, tentacle-like appendages had burst forth. They pierced Tetsu no Sosuke's chest like spikes, and blood dripped down!
The little girl beamed. "You finally fell into the trap!"
She lunged upward, ready to sink her teeth into Tetsu no Sosuke's neck!
Chapter 455: Startled Awake
A trap!
Everything had been a trap from the very beginning!
Honmyo Yutaro, Yuko, everything that had happened in the cave—perhaps it had all been calculated!
Tetsu no Sosuke's face paled. The agony in his chest and the mouthful of fangs rushing toward him brought his mind into razor-sharp focus.
He swiftly went back over everything that had happened. Only then did he realize how many details he had overlooked.
There had been something deeply wrong with Honmyo Yutaro entrusting Yuko to him.
What father would leave his own daughter with someone he