Akane on the stage is covered with a layer of white powder, a nobility style of the last century, including jewelry and clothing. She looked at the foxes in the audience indifferently, not at all as agile as Tsukasa Kurihara had seen her for the first time.

Maybe the shell is still there, but her soul seems to be imprisoned somewhere, unable to emerge.

Tsukasa Kurihara understood what the look for help that Katsuko Ogami handed to him before meant.

Akane moves her body precisely and gently with the musician's music, one beat and one movement, without emotion, as if she is simply completing a task, and the mechanical sense of each step is very serious like a marionette.

Marionettes.

Tsukasa Kurihara's heart sank, and he looked at Akane intently, and he could see a white flash in the occasional ghostly light.

When he saw the first flash of light, Tsukasa Kurihara's pupils contracted suddenly—around Akane, it was densely packed with such flashes.

Thin, invisible transparent threads stretched upwards from the top of her head, limbs, wrists, chest, waist, and everywhere. As the thread flickered, Akane on the stage reacted at the same time, and the complexity of the thread was enough to be called a work of art, giving Akane a certain cruel divinity.

Tsukasa Kurihara looked around and found that the foxes next to him were all admiring Akane's beauty and solemnity, and no fox could see the thin lines that controlled Akane's movement, and even said with a kind of innocent cruelty: "It's really beautiful, and the divine envoy chosen by the gods should be like this." ”

They didn't care about the weirdness and unnaturalness of Akane's movements, and they admired what they saw.

Beiliang, who was next to him, said, "Guests, this festival is to pray for the protection of the creator god. Played by Akane, a priest who temporarily resides at Inari Shrine. In the past, the dance of the shrine maiden was to welcome the creator god, but now Akane's dance is a dance that the gods can enjoy. ”

Hayakawa Daichi next to him was already immersed in Akane's dance, and unconsciously sighed: "It turns out that this girl is also a fox." It's beautiful. But also, such an elegant gesture could not have been seen in a human being. ”

After listening to Hayakawa Daichi's praise, Kita Liang smiled and looked at Katsuko Okami again.

"Indeed, it's beautiful." Katsuko said with a little trance in his eyes. She vaguely felt that something was wrong, but looking at Akane dancing on the stage, she couldn't tell what the problem was, and even had the idea that Akane would have no problem returning to Qingqiu.

Akane continued to jump, her eyelids slowly closing downwards and then rising, a flash of white light.

"Huh?"

What did the hairball see, the body that was originally relaxed and lying on his stomach stood up, and he stared at Akane on the stage with wide eyes, could it be that he was dazzled just now?

What's on Akane's eyelids?

Line?

What's going on?

Furball stammered to Tsukasa Kurihara, "Great, sama, have you seen that?" ”

"Hmm."

"What's that?"

"Line. Control Akane's line. ”

"Control - control Akane's line? How is that possible..." Furball looked at Akane, who had thought that Akane would be able to live a happier life when she returned to the fox clan. As an outlier, he trusts his fellow weird ones more than human hairballs. But this point doesn't seem to work on Akane.

She was like a marionette full of threads, and Furball even began to imagine how to put these threads on Akane's body, which was not usually a gentle means.

Although Tsukasa Kurihara was mentally prepared, he unconsciously frowned in the face of Akane being treated like this, and a wave of anger rose in his heart.

He understands that the other party used Hayakawa Daichi to transfer him to Kyoto, pretending to delay time, and the ultimate target is Akane, Akane who stays alone in the foggy house.

The result is the current scene.

Tsukasa Kurihara felt that he had been provoked, and if it had been for a face-to-face display of strength that was more valuable than Akane, he might not have the same angry mood as he is now. But in this way, the hidden side of Tsukasa Kurihara's heart after talking to Nishijima was stimulated again.

His inky eyes were stained with a few traces of scarlet, and his eyeballs showed a few red streaks.

Ash Chun, who was in Tsukasa Kurihara's body, was keenly aware of this, and the changes in his body, some kind of terrifying power was hidden in every cell of Tsukasa Kurihara.

This made Gray Chun impressive: Sure enough, this guy didn't use all his strength against me at the beginning, how could such a body be so weak.

But this guy's heart is not at all like he can have such a strong body.

It's weird. The body and mind are so mismatched, Gray Chun has never seen it. A strange story like Tsukasa Kurihara, who can be called a demon lord, belongs to the winner-takes-all. The heart is beyond imagination of tenacity, paranoia, and self-righteousness, and has a set of self-centered logical and self-consistent ways of thinking. In this kind of guy's world, he doesn't care about anything else but himself.

But the humanity shown by Tsukasa Kurihara is incomprehensible to Ashwagand.

Compassion for humanity, sympathy for other weird stories, and an inexplicable sense of responsibility.

How could a demon lord have such a thing? It doesn't look like a demon lord. Of course, this is also an important reason why Tsukasa Kurihara can pretend to be an onmyoji.

Ash Jun was curious about what Tsukasa Kurihara would do this time.

Kita Liang hadn't felt the difference between Tsukasa Kurihara and asked, "What do you think?" Our sacrifice this time. ”

Tsukasa Kurihara was silent and did not answer.

"Kurihara-san?" Bei Liang asked again.

Tsukasa Kurihara looked at him at this time and said coldly: "When I was on the Shinkansen, that fox on the mountain, is it also you?" ”

"Huh?" Bei Liang replied, "That's the one." ”

There is no follow-up.

"Use Hayakawa Daichi to transfer me out of Tokyo, take Akane away at this time, and control her in a marionette way. Now we've invited us to watch the festival. Tsukasa Kurihara picked things up, "To be honest, I don't really care what you want to do to her. It's true. But I promised one thing - to keep her safe to some extent. ”

Tsukasa Kurihara picked up the Mo knife in his right hand and got up, his face gloomy: "You shouldn't take her away in this way, and you shouldn't treat her in this way without my knowledge." ”

When the words fell, a gust of wind blew for no reason, and the fox fire placed next to the stage was extinguished, and there was only a full moon hanging high in the sky in the space.

The dance on stage freezes as if the pause button has been pressed, and the invisible lines are revealed.

Under the control of the line, Akane lowered her head and looked motionless at the audience, her wrists were lifted by the line, her legs knelt weakly, her neck slightly tilted, and her torso stiff and straight.

Because of the pause in the dance, the foxes no longer looked at the stage, but instead looked at Tsukasa Kurihara who was standing up.

Countless pairs of eyes reflecting light stared at Tsukasa Kurihara.

Tsukasa Kurihara in the center of his line of sight was fearless, and behind him, a black mist rose and spread.

It's ash pure.

The strange space of Tsukasa Kurihara and Ash Chun is gradually enveloping the area.

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