[h2]Heir to the Konpaku[/h2]

Killing Fujiwara-san is no issue. I've done it before. She'll simply return, unaffected by whatever might have afflicted her. It's not natural, it's unsettling, but it means that fixing her sudden surge in killing intent on touching the orb shouldn't be an issue at all.

My hand returns to Roukanken's hilt---

And the fire fades.

Whatever it was, she brushed it aside easily.

"Vengeful spirits?"

The idea that so many are contained in that orb is creepy, to say the least. Hakurouken wasn't able to dispel those strange phantoms from the village in the same way as it normally could, too. I'm feeling confident I could still destroy them with Roukanken, but so many trapped inside that sphere without any clear way of getting them out---

"It definitely shouldn't just be sitting around here."

---Not that I know what to do with it. Yuyuko-sama would probably suggest---

I don't know if Yuyuko-sama would have any useful suggestions here.

"At the very least, it should be sealed away even more than it already is."

[@Raineh Daze][@FujiwaraPhoenix]

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[h2]The Scarlet Devil[/h2]

"Hmph, curses? As if a curse matters to me."

---It probably didn't, at least. Even weakened, a curse so subtle I didn't even notice it wasn't likely to be enough to affect me. That being said, it's still irritating that I was even struck with a minor curse in the first place.

I hope that idiot in the tunnel was close enough to get crushed even more, now. Or maybe that the cave-in sealed them away down there and they'll never escape. It's the next best thing to cutting them down myself, but if we find them---

"Tch. I'll kill the one behind this, for sure."

I'm not going to hold back. I'll make them regret it.

But we haven't found them yet, and I'm not about to expose myself to such a dismal and unpleasant location so quickly.

"Anyway, that miko should be able to handle a few curses," I reply with a wave of my hand, "Besides, I'm starting to get a bit of an appetite."

[@FujiwaraPhoenix][@Drifting Pollen][@Rezod92]