One person: Starting with the Rumble-Rumble Fruit, his grandmaster uncle emerges from seclusion.

"I'm a genius! I don't need anyone to teach me how to do things!"

He suddenly turned his head, his bloodshot eyes fixed on Makoto Ito, who was standing not far away.

"Acheng! You always stand in front of me like a block of wood, do you look down on me too?! Die!"

Ashiya Ryo actually raised his katana and slashed fiercely at his brother whom he had been with for over a decade!

Meanwhile, Makoto Ito, a tall and usually taciturn man, had a blank stare in his eyes.

Like an enraged beast, he let out a low growl and charged headlong into the blade without flinching!

"no, do not want……"

Abe Genji cried out in despair in his heart.

But what terrified him even more was Kamo Kaito!

This is a young master from a prestigious family who is usually gentle and speaks softly.

She was facing away from him at that moment.

Haidou's face was covered with eerie black runes, and his expression was twisted like that of a paranoid madman.

He walked step by step toward Miyamoto Sakura, who was not far away.

"Sakura...Sakura..."

Kaito's voice was hoarse and trembling, carrying a chilling possessiveness:

"The outside world is too dangerous... those people will hurt you..."

"Only I can protect you... Yes, as long as I break your arms and legs, and lock you in my barrier forever..."

"You'll always belong to me alone...hehehe..."

crazy!

They've all gone mad!

Meanwhile, Miyamoto Sakura...

This is a girl who usually wears her hair in a bun, is loud and carefree.

He was standing blankly in front of a huge bronze mirror.

She held the kunai in her hand against her heart.

In her mirror.

Only a thick, black chain, covered with countless sealing runes, was tightly bound around her limbs.

The "Sakura" in the mirror is looking at her pleadingly, tears of blood streaming down her face.

"Sakura, we're so tired..."

Why did the Miyamoto family put that monster into our bodies?

"We are not human, we are just moving containers..."

“If we just pierce the heart with the kunai, we will be completely free.”

No more living in fear every day, no more enduring that inhuman suffering…

"relief……"

Sakura's eyes were empty and lifeless, like a puppet that had lost its soul.

A single tear slid down her cheek.

Yes, it's really tiring.

From the moment the elders of her family placed that terrifying seal into her body when she was three years old.

Her life was forever devoid of freedom.

Every day she forced a smile, every day she carefully suppressed the demon within her that threatened to devour her sanity at any moment.

She was actually very afraid of pain and very afraid of dying.

"Once the stab is made... it will be over..."

Sakura muttered to herself as the kunai in her hand slowly tore through her clothes, the cold tip piercing her fair skin and drawing out a drop of bright red blood.

"Sakura!!! Stop!!!"

With his neck being gripped, Abe Genji's eyes widened in fury as he desperately tried to reach out and stop him.

But he couldn't even make a sound!

Gradually, his eyes also became vacant.

They sank into depravity.

Looking at this young team that carries all the hopes of the Japanese supernatural community.

They were about to be completely wiped out in this eerie mirrored corridor in the most tragic and sorrowful way!

Just as Sakura was holding the kunai, preparing to thrust it into her heart with all her might!

"Boom-!!"

A heartbeat that seemed to come from the ancient wilderness.

Suddenly, it rang within Sakura's body!

The sound was so loud, so violent.

As a result, the surrounding void space, conjured by the array, rippled at this moment.

Sakura's previously empty eyes suddenly snapped back to reality.

"Clang."

The kunai in Sakura's hand fell limply into the void.

She clutched her head in agony, kneeling on the cold, empty ground, her whole body trembling violently.

Large tears rolled down her pale cheeks.

"Brother Yuanyoshi... Kaito..."

"No...everyone, wake up...please..."

Sakura desperately tried to grab Kaito Kamo's hand, but was violently thrown back by the cursed power emanating from him and fell to the ground.

That insidious, penetrating sound continued to tear at her defenses.

"Sakura...you have no future..."

"Kill them. Once they're dead, no one will know your secret..."

"Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!!!"

Sakura covered her ears tightly and screamed in pain.

But the sound did not disappear; instead, it grew louder and clearer, eventually turning into a sharp, piercing tinnitus.

"Yes! There's still hope... I still have..."

"Yuan Yi-ge, Hai Dou-ge... you won't die..."

Sakura seemed to suddenly remember something, and her consciousness began to blur.

The scene before them—the fighting comrades, the cold bronze mirrors—all began to distort and spin like ripples in water.

"Pfft."

Sakura's body went limp and collapsed into the void.

……

"Tick...tick..."

The sound of cold water droplets echoed in the empty space.

It was a chilling cold that penetrated to the very bone.

When Sakura opened her eyes again.

She found herself no longer in that despairing mirrored corridor.

Her feet were on a patch of dark, icy water that went above her ankles.

The water was completely still, as calm as a giant black mirror.

And directly in front of her.

A colossal, towering crimson torii gate stands there.

The torii gate was covered with countless talismans that shimmered with golden incantations.

Thick shimenawa ropes sealed off this space, emanating a chilling, ancient sealing power.

Here.

It was the deepest, most secret place in her heart.

"You've finally come again, Sakura."

A voice, alluring and languid yet carrying a chilling undertone, drifted out from behind the massive red torii gate.

Accompanied by this sound.

in the dark.

Two beastly eyes, like giant red lanterns, slowly opened in the abyss behind the torii gate.

Those were eyes filled with ancient vicissitudes and resentment.

Followed by.

Nine enormous golden fox tails, like towering pythons, slowly unfurled and swayed in the darkness.

Evil aura.

Like tangible mist, it tumbled and rolled in this spiritual space!

Nine-tailed fox spirit – Tamamo-no-Mae!