Legend Management Bureau Chapter 473

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“You… let go of me!” the leader cried out in panic. “I am Tsuchimikado Juichiro! If you hurt me, you will regret it!”

“Regret?” Shuten sneered with a wrathful expression. “”

“Tsuchimikado…” Jinjiro gritted his teeth, glancing over at Little Xiang. Ootengu nodded at him, indicating that Little Xiang’s injuries were not severe.

Jinjiro then walked over to Enenra’s side and asked softly, “Blind Princess, how are you holding up?”

“Senior…” Enenra offered a bitter smile, blood trailing down the pale curve of her cheek. “Is this what a war between Onmyoji is like? I… I risked my life to protect Little Xiang…”

“You did wonderfully,” Jinjiro replied, his face likewise masked in fury. “Leave the rest to me.”

“Senior… you must be careful… their goal…”

Enenra lost consciousness. Jinjiro immediately caught her and gently laid her on the ground. He examined the sharp needles piercing various acupressure points on her body, his expression turning extraordinarily grim.

“The Tsuchimikado family… what are you thinking?” Jinjiro slowly stood up. “Do you realize who you have provoked?”

Gritting his teeth, Jinjiro ordered, “Shuten, let him go.”

Shuten glanced at Jinjiro and loosened his grip. The man immediately crashed to the ground, his face contorted in pain.

“Today, I will reason with you.” Jinjiro approached Tsuchimikado Juichiro step by step. “You injured my younger sister. For fifteen years, no one in this world has ever laid a hand on her. So, are you prepared to descend to Yomotsu Hirasaka?”

“So what if she is your sister? She was being unreasonable! She insisted on protecting Enenra!” the leader screamed. “Has your Shiranui family been colluding with Yokai this entire time?

! Do you not exterminate the Yokai depicted in the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons scroll when you see them?!”

The man’s question was indeed rather tricky.

Since almost all the Yokai in the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons were Shuten’s subordinates, there was no reason for the Shiranui family to attack them.

At that moment, Shuten slowly extended his hand again, pressing it onto Tsuchimikado Juichiro’s shoulder. “Bastard, leaving the Shiranui family aside, the one you just injured is my master. How do you plan to answer to me?”

“M-Master?!” Tsuchimikado froze. He clearly knew that the monster before him was Shuten Doji. “Are you saying… that little brat is the legendary Shiranui Asuka?!”

Shuten did not answer, continuing, “You injured her forehead, so I shall injure yours. That will make us even.”

“Huh?”

Before Tsuchimikado Juichiro could speak, Shuten pinched the man’s forehead with two fingers. With a gentle tug, he actually began to slowly peel the skin right off his skull.

“Ahhhhh!!”

Tsuchimikado Juichiro roared, “You lunatic!! What are you doing?!”

“I said, making us even.”

Shuten applied more force, outright ripping a clean square of flesh and skin from his forehead before tossing it disdainfully aside. Two eyebrows were still attached to that piece of skin.

Missing a large patch of skin on his forehead, blood continuously poured out, dyeing his entire face red.

“Ahhhhh!!”

Tsuchimikado Juichiro rolled on the ground, clutching his bleeding head and shrieking in agony.

Although this strike would not take his life, it was enough

to make him suffer for a lifetime.

The remaining Tsuchimikado clansmen were absolutely terrified by this bloody spectacle.

As expected of the Demon King, Shuten Doji. With such ruthless methods and astonishing Demonic Energy, it had to be him in the flesh.

One of the clansmen gulped, asking with a trembling voice, “E-Even if Shuten Doji and Ootengu are Shiranui Asuka’s Shikigami, why are you protecting Enenra?!”

Shuten turned his head to look at him, murderous intent erupting from his body once more. “Do I need to explain to you… who I choose to protect?”

Jinjiro also spoke up. “Tsuchimikado, I would actually like to ask you—why did you slaughter a whole village of humans just for Enenra?”

“You… how did you…” The clansman was stunned for a moment before hastily retorting, “So you found out! Those villagers were all killed by Enenra! We came here to seek revenge!”

“What nonsense are you spewing?” Jinjiro furrowed his brow. “How could Enenra possibly slaughter the humans of Hiezu Village?!”

“Why is it impossible?!” the clansman pointed at the corpses on the ground. “She killed thirty-six of our Onmyoji! What does a mere village of humans mean to her?!”

Hearing this, Jinjiro paused.

This was indeed a suspicious point.

Although it was impossible for Enenra to have killed the villagers of Hiezu Village, how did she possess the ability to kill dozens of Onmyoji?

If she had that kind of strength, why had she been captured by three lesser demons right in front of his eyes?

To have such immense power yet constantly struggle in battle—wasn’t that too strange?

‘Could she have been hiding something all along?’

Jinjiro realized that once he started digging into this question, there were simply too many inconsistencies.

For such a powerful Yokai to come here and kill

lesser demons.

‘Wasn’t that almost identical to my own situation…’

As a renowned Onmyoji of the Shiranui family, yet he was forced to kill ten Yokai within a month.

The second sentence now began to swirl in Shiranui Jinjiro’s mind.

‘Jinjiro, the slayer of ten Yokai.’

‘What on earth did that bizarre Yokai mean…’

After pondering for a long time, Jinjiro finally spoke. “Tsuchimikado, I do not care what grudge you hold against Enenra, but she is about to become my Shikigami. According to the laws of Onmyodo, your vendetta should be completely written off.”

“A Shikigami…” the Tsuchimikado clansman sneered. “In other words, she wasn’t even a Shikigami before this… Yet she was wearing the clothes of the Shiranui family. Do you realize what a grave sin that is? And you still dare claim you haven’t colluded with Yokai?”

Regarding this matter, Jinjiro truly had no justification.

He had absolutely no reason to protect Enenra.

The cause of all this was simply a promise he had made to the residents of Hiezu Village.

“So there is nothing left to discuss.” Jinjiro’s face darkened as he slowly drew a pair of scissors from behind his back. “I had intended to leave you a way out, but now, I will let you vanish quietly from this world.”

“You!” Panic washed over the clansman’s face. “Are you really going to raise your hand against the Tsuchimikado family?”

Jinjiro said no more. Ootengu, Shuten, and Yamabiko understood his intent perfectly. The four of them struck simultaneously, instantly slaughtering four of the Tsuchimikado clansmen. Only the one rolling on the ground was left alive.

Just as they were about to finish him off, the man suddenly hurled a cloud of black smoke at the ground. In an instant, four phantom figures dashed out of the smog, fleeing rapidly in four different directions.

“Clones?” Jinjiro momentarily blanked, then hurriedly shouted, “Do not let him escape! Otherwise, there will be endless trouble!”