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

Or rather, it is the soul of Tamamo-no-Mae that is sealed inside Miyamoto Sakura's body!

Sakura stood in the icy water.

Unlike when she was a child, she didn't burst into tears at the horrific sight.

She simply raised her head, and her face, which usually wore an innocent smile, now revealed a heartbreaking calm and resolute determination.

"I've come to see you, big fox."

Sakura's voice was very soft, echoing across the empty water.

"A big fox?"

A disdainful sneer came from behind the torii gate.

A huge fox head peeked out from the darkness.

It was a fox face so beautiful it was almost eerie, with a hideous scar between its brows.

"You little rascal, you've grown up quite a bit, and you've certainly become bolder."

Tamamo-no-Mae's voice resonated in Sakura's mind, carrying a hint of malicious mockery:

"What? The illusion outside can't hold up anymore? Have your 'good brothers' started killing each other?"

"I've said it before: human bonds are the most fragile trash in this world."

"Just like back then..."

Tamamo-no-Mae seemed to recall some distant and painful memory. Her golden beastly eyes suddenly narrowed, and a deep fear and resentment flashed in her eyes.

But she quickly covered it up and continued in that seductive tone:

"Come on, Sakura. Beg me while you're having a nightmare, just like you do when you cry."

“I can lend you power. I will help you burn all those broken mirrors that are trapping you outside, along with this temple, to ashes!”

Tamamo-no-Mae's enormous fox tail slapped across the water, creating a thousand waves:

"You know, once the seal is broken, you will no longer be a vessel to be manipulated by others; you can possess your own power!"

Faced with this all-too-familiar seduction.

Sakura didn't move.

She stood quietly in the water, watching the enormous phantom of the fox spirit behind the torii gate.

Chapter 390 The Golden Foxfire That Incinerates Everything!

Sakura lowered her head, looking at her pale reflection on the water.

"I've known since I can remember that there's a terrible monster hiding inside me."

“Back then, I had nightmares every night.”

"My dreams are filled with images of you: mountains of corpses, seas of blood, and those people you burned to a crisp..."

Sakura's voice trembled slightly, but she stubbornly raised her hand and wiped away a tear from the corner of her eye.

“I used to be terrified of you. I was so afraid that I couldn’t sleep all night and could only cower under the covers, trembling.”

“The elders in my family look at me as if I were a terrifying monster.”

"Only Haidou, only Yuanyi and the others are willing to play with me and protect me."

Sakura raised her head, meeting Tamamo-no-Mae's oppressive golden eyes, and walked step by step toward the huge red torii gate.

"Hehe, little girl!"

Tamamo-no-Mae's golden eyes narrowed slightly as she watched this usually frail girl dare to approach the seal.

"Aren't you afraid I'll eat you the moment I step out today?!"

"You won't."

Sakura walked to the torii gate, separated by the shimenawa rope that shone with golden light.

She stretched out her small, fair hands and gently, even with a hint of soothing, placed them on the cold barrier.

Sakura raised her head, and a beautiful, relieved smile bloomed on her young face.

"Because I know why you've become the way you are now."

Sakura's words caused Tamamo-no-Mae's massive body to stiffen.

"On the streets of Akihabara before."

Sakura looked at the hideous scar between Tamamo-no-Mae's eyebrows through the barrier.

“I could feel it.”

"When you sense the aura of that man in the white shirt... that is, Master Tian Shu."

“Big fox, you’re trembling so much in this space that you’ve even tucked your tail in.”

Sakura's voice was soft, yet every word was piercing.

“I have consulted the family’s top-secret ancient books.”

"More than seventy years ago in North China, there was a crushing defeat that severely weakened the Japanese Onmyōryō (Bureau of Yin and Yang).

"You, the dignified nine-tailed fox demon Tamamo-no-Mae, had your soul shattered by that man!"

“You are not some invincible demon at all. You are just a pathetic wretch who has been scared out of his wits and can only hide in the body of this little girl and eke out a living…”

"Shut up!!!!"

The bloodiest wounds were exposed to their face.

Tamamo-no-Mae was absolutely furious!

"Boom!"

A colossal wave swept through the entire spiritual realm!

Nine golden fox tails slammed into the barrier, unleashing a deafening roar.

Tamamo-no-Mae's eerie face was contorted to the extreme, her golden eyes burning with endless humiliation and rage:

"That white-clad demon! That unreasonable madman!!"

"If it weren't for him! How could I have fallen to this state today!"

"What do you know?! You have no idea how terrifying that lightning was! It's not a power of this world!!!"

Tamamo-no-Mae roared hysterically, her immense demonic energy frantically assaulting the torii gate's seal.

however.

Faced with Tamamo-no-Mae's fury.

Sakura, standing outside the barrier, did not back down.

Instead, a deep sadness and sympathy welled up in his eyes.

She looked at the fox demon that was frantically crashing against the barrier and said softly:

"Yes...we are all the same."

Tamamo-no-Mae paused, her enormous fox head staring at Sakura.

"You have been imprisoned in this dark cage for over seventy years, filled with that fear."

Sakura's tears fell silently, her voice carrying a profound wisdom born of experience:

"And I, from birth, have been treated by my family as a vessel that can be sacrificed at any time, living under the strange gaze of others."

"The big fox."

Sakura looked directly into Tamamo-no-Mae's eyes through the golden light:

"You are not some great demon, and I am not some genius."

"We are nothing more than two pathetic creatures locked in the same cage."

These words carried the weight of a thousand pounds.

The echoes reverberate across the empty, lifeless water.

Under Sakura's calm and sorrowful gaze, Tamamo-no-Mae's fierce golden eyes miraculously gradually calmed down.

Her massive body slowly lowered.

Separated by the shimenawa rope, the human and the fox gazed at each other silently.

After a long while.

"Ah……"

Tamamo-no-Mae let out a complex sigh.

Gone is the arrogance of being high and mighty; all that remains is an indescribable weariness.

"Little girl, you've really impressed me today."

Tamamo-no-Mae lay on the water's surface, her enormous fox eyes slightly narrowed:

"So what? You came all this way here to spout this nonsense just to show me your sympathy, you poor wretch?"

"Do not."

Sakura shook her head.

Her tears had dried, replaced by an unprecedented resolve.

She slowly raised her hands and grasped the thick, golden shimenawa that sealed Tamamo-no-Mae.

"Big fox, I need power."

Sakura's voice was clear and crisp, yet it carried an unwavering resolve.

"Haeto and the others are still outside. They are the most important people in my life."

“I can’t watch them die in that damn mirror.”

"I want to save them."