Throughout the summer, Chunhu stayed with his parents at the Tuyumen main house.

When the adults gather, Haruka and Natsume always play together.

Unlike the always injured and naughty Spring Tiger, as the only daughter of the family, Natsume appears very quiet.

In the wide mansion, there are bamboo forests, pools, stone lanterns and rockeries, and everywhere there are traces of two children playing.

It's just that the most they go to is under the towering ancient tree at the top of Yushan Mountain.

Since that day, after taking Spring Tiger to see the sealed Yakumo for the first time, the altar at the top of the mountain has become the most common place for the two children to play together.

Each time, Haruka and Natsume would sit side by side under the tree, holding their calves in their hands, and looking up together at Yakumo Mo, who seemed to be sleeping forever.

"Now, Natsume......"

"Huh?"

"You say, what would happen if this monster woke up one day?"

Natsume tilted her cute head in some distress.

"I don't know, my father just said, this monster is very powerful, but I don't know much about ......"

"That's amazing...... Monsters? ”

"By the way, Chunhu, do you know that?"

"Which one?"

"It's the family rule, the person who separates the family wants to become the god of the family!"

"Shikigami? What is that? ”

"I don't know, but I heard my grandmother say that Shikijin is a person who can always be by my side! Chunhu, would you like to be my Shikigami? ”

Facing Natsume's cautious and somewhat expectant gaze, the ignorant Chunhu patted his chest and said, "No problem! I'll be by Natsume's side! ”

"So, are you willing to be my Shikigami?"

A bright smile bloomed on the little girl's face, like a lily blooming in the mountains.

"Hmmm! I do! ”

Although I don't really understand what Shikigami means, Haruka thinks in his young heart that it should be a good thing to be by Natsume's side all the time, right?

"So. Retractor! ”

"Pull the hook!"

In the midst of the blooming lilies, under the towering ancient trees, before the sealed youkai.

The two children made a lifelong promise.

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Dark.

Darkness that poured in from all sides, with no end in sight, shrouded Yakumo Mo's heart.

I want to try to mobilize the demonic power to break this darkness, but the demonic power seems to be limited by something.

Although I can sense the existence of demonic power in my body, it is very difficult to use it.

It's like a dam that has just opened a gap. Only a large amount of water is allowed to be used at a very small flow rate.

This feeling of being restricted made Yakumo very uncomfortable.

【Occurrence...... What's the matter......]

Trying to recall the previous events, a little bit of pictures began to emerge in Yakumo's heart.

While traveling through the world, I encountered the strange Jade of the Four Souls.

Later, he lost consciousness.

By the way, it seems that there was a moment later, and I briefly regained my senses.

[At that time...... Something seems to have hit me ......]

As soon as this thought arose, Yakumo Mo felt that his chest seemed to be pierced by some foreign object.

It's just that. But there was no painful feeling coming, but in that place, there was a certain cool aura that constantly flowed through his body.

It was that aura that made it very difficult to mobilize his demonic power.

[This...... Similar to the Demon Sealing Demon Breaking Arrow......]

From Pachuali's collection, Yakumo quickly found a record that matched him by seven or eight points.

Then, the memory of the moment of brief wakefulness became clear.

A sky red with flames. The shattered earth, and the terrified people below.

There is also the spiritual power that fills the heavens and the earth.

The spiritual power that makes Yakumo Mo, who is a monster, very uncomfortable, and the spiritual power that belongs to the Onmyoji.

[It's hard to do it. I'm sealed......]

[No, you have to wake up as much as possible-]

I tried hard to open my eyes, but my eyelids were as heavy as mountains, and no matter how hard Yakumo tried to open them, he couldn't open them a bit.

[It seems that I can't do anything if I don't want to solve that seal......]

Come to think of it. Yakumo recalls all the books he had seen in Pache Riche's library, hoping to find a way to break the seal.

After looking for a long time, Yakumo finally found one.

Trying to mobilize all the demonic power that can be mobilized now, bit by bit, Yakumo Mo began to impact the seal on his chest.

It's just that. Under the impact of demonic power, the seal was as stable as Mount Tai, and there was no loosening at all.

Yakumo persevered, and just persevered.

Time is beginning to pass.

After some time, he seemed to sense the loosening of the seal, and he could also hear a hint of the outside world.

Insects chirping, birds chirping, and the rustle of leaves in the breeze.

The sound of thunderstorms.

Even the sound of some people talking.

"Well, there doesn't seem to be any major problem with the seal, it seems that it only needs routine maintenance."

"Master, can we try to take this youkai as a Shikigami?"

"I've tried it too, but it's a pity that this monster body is too powerful, and at the same time, there are some strange energies that are stopping me."

[Who are these?] The one who sealed me-]

"How's that, it's amazing!"

"That's amazing, Natsume!"

[Strange, why is there a child's voice......]

"Now, Chunhu, are you willing to be my Shikigami?"

"Yes!"

"Then let's pull the hook!"

"Well, retractor!"

【Shikigami? What the hell is going on......]

In the passage of time, Yakumo can only rely on his sense of hearing to perceive the outside world.

He couldn't release even a trace of his mental power.

Until, that day comes.

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Holding in his arms the body wrapped in countless talismans, his brother, who has been dead for many years, has grown into a Tingting girl, and Suzuka of Dalian Temple came step by step to the royal mountain of the Tuyumen family.

Behind him, followed by two Shikigami.

A Shikigami looks like an ordinary office worker, a man in a suit.

Another Shikigami has a huge steel-like body - Asura.

"Here, is this the altar of the Taishan Mansion Monarch's Sacrifice?"

Suzuka, who was holding his brother's corpse, looked at the altar calmly.

It wasn't until his gaze shifted to the towering ancient tree and the sealed Yakumo Mo on it that he changed.

"Is that the flower demon that shook the entire Yin and Yang Realm back then?"

As a national first-class onmyoji, one of the youngest twelve gods in history, Suzuka of Dalian Temple, known as a "prodigy", naturally knows a lot of secrets of the year.

Now, though, is not the time to focus on that youkai.

Because the daughter of the Tsuchigomon family went to school at Onmyojuku in Tokyo, the main family mansion here was vacant, and he had the opportunity to come here without permission to hold the Taishan Mansion Jun Festival to resurrect his brother.

"Hurry up, those guys, they're supposed to be coming."

After placing his brother's body on the altar, Suzuka of Dalian Temple began to direct Shikigami to set up the altar. (To be continued......)