In Isayama Naraku's study, Isayama Mei excitedly licked the blood from the corner of her mouth.
A rusty taste, not at all pleasant, filled Isayama Mei's mouth, yet she felt incredibly satisfied.
Isayama Mei looked at Isayama Naraku, who was writhing in pain on the floor, with exhilaration as the madness in her eyes gradually receded.
"Enjoy your final moments slowly, Uncle Naraku."
Isayama Mei turned and walked out of the study.
"Soon, I will be the new Isayama Family Head."
Isayama Mei's figure disappeared into the dark corridor.
The cocoon encasing the Cursed Stone within her also burned to ashes at that moment.
Meanwhile, Medea, staying in her Magic Workshop, looked up in the direction of the Isayama Family main residence.
Just moments ago, a Summoned Spirit (Familiar) she had deployed to monitor the surroundings had sent her information.
The Isayama Family had experienced a strange fluctuation of Cursed Energy.
This Cursed Energy fluctuation was fleeting and could no longer be found.
Medea took out a Crystal Ball and adjusted its view to the Isayama Family main residence.
"It doesn't seem like anything has changed."
Medea looked at the mansion in the Crystal Ball, which showed no abnormalities, and wondered if her Summoned Spirit had been mistaken.
A few more Summoned Spirits focused their attention on the Isayama Family main residence, and Medea finally sensed something was amiss.
It was too quiet, so quiet that there was no sign of life.
"Tell me everything you observed."
The information gathered by several Summoned Spirits instantly flooded Medea's mind.
Medea summarized the reports from the Summoned Spirits and deduced what had happened at the Isayama Family residence during this period.
A few minutes ago, Isayama Naraku was still working. Isayama Mei had quietly entered the Isayama Family main residence, and soon after, a strange Cursed Energy fluctuation occurred within the residence, after which it became devoid of life.
Isayama Mei had avoided everyone, but she hadn't intentionally avoided the surrounding animals.
"Illusion? Or some other kind of trickery..."
A few more minutes passed, and faint Cursed Energy fluctuations gradually began to emanate from the Isayama Family main residence.
"I should go and take a look."
Medea dematerialized and vanished from the room.
She would not allow any unknown situation to occur in her vicinity.
Soon, Medea arrived at Isayama Naraku's study.
Medea stared in astonishment at Isayama Naraku, lying in a pool of blood and on the verge of death.
Did Isayama Mei kill Isayama Naraku?
Medea found it somewhat strange and began to recall her observations of Isayama Mei.
Her memory finally settled on the look of unwillingness and jealousy in Isayama Mei's eyes when she secretly glanced at Isayama Yomi.
A power struggle...
Medea stabilized Isayama Naraku's injuries, then cast a sight-obscuring spell on her purple cloak and brought Isayama Naraku to her stronghold.
Shortly after, a magic puppet, identical to Isayama Naraku in his injured state, was placed in Isayama Naraku's study.
...
The Tsuchimiya Family, enveloped by a Curtain, was currently the scene of a Special Grade level battle.
The moment he discovered Sanzu River, Tsuchiya Garaku unleashed the restraint on White Heron Inugami.
White Heron Inugami, now displaying its full Special Grade power, fiercely clashed with the giant fiery fox summoned by Sanzu River.
Tsuchiya Garaku fought with a desperate all-or-nothing approach.
On one hand, Tsuchiya Garaku knew his strength was inferior to Sanzu River's, and only by going all out could he grasp a sliver of hope for survival.
On the other hand, Tsuchiya Garaku now had the means to fight desperately.
In the past few days, Medea had helped Tsuchiya Garaku undergo a treatment.
Since Tsuchiya Garaku wished to complete the treatment as soon as possible and return to hold the line at the Tsuchimiya Family.
Medea had employed a very brutal yet effective method.
Scraping bone and removing flesh.
Medea used her magic to stabilize White Heron Inugami.
Eiji painstakingly shaved off Tsuchiya Garaku's right hand, which had been almost completely eroded, and then regenerated healthy flesh and blood using a Reverse Cursed Technique.
The reason for doing this bit by bit was not because Medea and Eiji wanted to torture Tsuchiya Garaku, but because if the entire arm were severed at once, it would cause the Cursed Stone to detach from Tsuchiya Garaku's body.
This would result in the Inugami within the Cursed Stone losing its restraint.
Thanks to this simple, brute-force therapy, Tsuchiya Garaku's condition recovered significantly in a very short amount of time.
Later, after Medea returned and finished researching the Lion King, she began crafting a Cursed Tool to slow the Cursed Stone's erosion on Tsuchiya Garaku, as she lacked the necessary materials to continue her research.
With his condition largely recovered, Tsuchiya Garaku could last for a while even when fully unleashing White Heron Inugami, giving him the capital to fight Sanzu River to the death.
"Help! Save me!"
"Fire, put out the fire quickly!"
"There are injured people here, hurry and get her out!"
The Tsuchiya Family estate was in utter chaos.
Facing a life-or-death crisis, almost everyone saw the monstrous White Heron Inugami circling in the sky and the fox fire spreading disaster.
White Heron Inugami's body coiled in the air, blocking a large amount of fox fire.
A flicker of mockery flashed in Sanzu River's eyes.
"You can barely save yourself, yet you still want to protect those useless people?"
Sanzu River waved his hand, and fireballs appeared around him.
"Give up, or you will die."
Countless fireballs flew towards the fleeing Tsuchiya clansmen.
"Byakurei!"
White Heron Inugami moved at extreme speed in the air, blocking Sanzu River's fireballs aimed at the Tsuchiya clansmen again and again.
"Let's see how many more you can block!"
Sanzu River laughed wantonly.
This wasn't just Sanzu River venting his anger and toying with Tsuchiya Garaku.
It was also to quickly defeat White Heron Inugami.
White Heron Inugami was incredibly fast; if it truly wanted to dodge Sanzu River's attacks, many would have missed.
But like this, it wouldn't. White Heron Inugami would intercept Sanzu River's attacks itself.
"It's really tough, but even Byakurei must be reaching its limit."
Seeing Byakurei becoming heavily wounded, Sanzu River attacked with even more fervor.
Sanzu River had been using the power of Tamamo-no-Mae within the Cursed Stone, because compared to his own Spirit Butterfly Manipulation, Tamamo-no-Mae's fox fire was clearly more powerful.
Much like Mei Mei's Black Bird Manipulation.
The Cursed Energy within animals was scarce, let alone in such small creatures as butterflies.
Mei Mei initially couldn't provide much help in exorcising Cursed Spirits with Black Bird Manipulation, which was why she trained her physical combat skills so hard.
However, in this life, because Medea became a Jujutsu High teacher, Mei Mei's development of Black Bird Manipulation was much faster than it originally was.
And she had begun cultivating her own crow Summoned Spirits using Medea's teaching methods.
"Hmph."
Tsuchiya Garaku appeared beside the last remaining clansman who hadn't escaped, shattering a fireball with his fist.
"Family... Family Head."
The clansman's voice was choked with tears.
"What are you still waiting for? Run!"
Tsuchiya Garaku's roar jolted the trembling clansman awake.
"Lord Tsuchiya, you must win."
Under Tsuchiya Garaku's protection, the last Tsuchiya clansman escaped the estate with tears in their eyes.
"You actually protected them all. I'll give you some praise for that."
Sanzu River looked at the panting Tsuchiya Garaku in surprise.
"You're no match for me anymore. Are you ready to die?"
"No, his fight is over. Your next opponent is me."
"Miss Saber?"
Tsuchiya Garaku looked in surprise at the blonde girl who appeared before him.
Altoria's identity wasn't kept too secret, so Tsuchiya Garaku had naturally looked up information about her.
A Special Grade Imaginary Heroic Spirit.
"You have successfully protected your clansmen and fulfilled your duty as Family Head. Now, step aside. I will vanquish this evil."
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