CH 93

Translator: MadHatter Editor: MadHatter

(Third person POV)

“N-no… save me…”

A young girl is crawling in a desperate maneuver with quivering arms and legs, accompanied by the background music of screams and the sound of trees bouncing up from the neighboring houses, and is fleeing to the rear of the house.

“Oi oi. There is no point in escaping, you know.”

“That’s right. All we want is to share our stuff with you.”

In pursuit of the girl are men wearing hats and tails of a canine animal on their waists.

These men are smirking viciously as they slowly chase the fleeing female so as to satiate their own sense of sadistic desires.

“Ah… ah…!”

The girl frantically runs away.

But eventually, the girl soon finds herself trapped in a corner of a room in the innermost part of the house.

“Someone… please…”

While picturing the act that is about to be perpetrated against her, the girl wriggles and shrinks vainly.

“Hee hee hee. Don’t worry, I’m going to treat you well.”

As they approach, the men lick their tongues.

Their eyes are tinged with dark lust, lacking any semblance of pride.

“Yeah, yeah. You will soon feel so good you won’t be able to think about anything else…”

And right as the man’s hand is about to make contact with the girl, his right hand bursts into flames, instantaneously turning to charcoal.

“M-my hand aaaaahhhhhh!!”

“W-what the hell happened…”

The men hastily look around and attempt to assume a fighting stance.

But,

“≪Magic Bundle of Bolt≫.” “≪Icebolt≫.”

“Argh…”

When the voices of the two girls resound throughout the house, one of the men’s torso immediately freezes and shatters.

“W-what the hell is going on…”

“Let me ask you something. Are you a Kitsunejin?”

Before the man whose one arm has been obliterated, two girls emerge in front of him, and the one speaking to him is one of the voices he heard earlier. The girl, who is no older than 15, poses a question to the man.

“A-ah, that’s right! I am the kin of the ‘Hundred Beast Clad Fox Princess’! Furthermore, I’m the highest-ranking Kitsunejin of them all, and if you lay a hand on me, the Fox Princess will…”

Frightened by the unexpected appearance of the two girls, the man shivers all over and struggles to tell them that he is the favorite of the Fox Princess.

However,

“Activation of ≪True/False Judgment≫. Everything he stated is a lie. Onee-chan.”

“≪Thunderbolt≫.”

When one of the girls declares it to be a lie, the other girl, who is about 16 or 17 years old, unleashes her skill and electrocutes the man.

“Gi… ga… you guys… what do you think you’re doing…”

The man collapses to the ground, his entire body convulsing from the electric shock. With his slightly twitching mouth, he addresses the girls.

Both of the girls then answer him.

“We are the Kirijin.”

“We are the kin of the Fog King.”

“What…”

The females arrange their words as if they were singing, disregarding the dazed men.

“We are slaves.” “Dogs of the Fog King.”

The man’s hat slips off. He bears no fox ears.

“At the command of the Fog King.” “We hunt the Kitsunejin.”

Around the man’s waist, his tail comes off and drops to the ground.

“You’re not a Kitsunejin.” “But you called yourself as such.”

As he looks at them, the man’s complexion grows pale.

[[So I’m going to kill you.]]

“W-wait…!?”

The two girls invoke their skills before the man can even beg his life, and the man’s entire body is engulfed in flames, annihilating him.

“The next one is.” “You.”

“Hieeeeee!”

Without missing a beat, the two girls simultaneously turn to confront the other girl who is cowering in the corner of the room.

With their movement, the girl realizes that while these two are outwardly human, they are inwardly nothing alike, and her fear propels her to the verge of complete prostration, followed by the spreading of a stain on her nether region.

“Let me ask you something. Are you a Kitsunejin?”

Like a machine devoid of emotion, the Kirijin girl poses the question to the petrified girl.

(Kurokiri POV)

“Well, well, well. The operation to exterminate the Kitsunejin is now over.”

From my private room, I listen to the reports coming in from the scene of the operation and conclude the mission is completed.

“You can’t let an eye loose just yet. Besides, they are not really Kitsunejin, but rather people who call themselves Kitsunejin.”

Tori chides me.

“I know that. I’m merely going along with the name ‘Operation Kirijin Eradication’ that the Fox Princess’ group is using. I don’t mean anything else.”

“Well… that’s fine then.”

Tori sighs as she replies to me as if to say, “Oh dear”.

“Even so, the power of the “Shadows of the Fog” is terrific. With such a small force, they could achieve such remarkable results…”

After saying this, Tori begins to review the data on the Kirijin who participated in this operation and their fruit of battle.

Among them are the two sisters who eradicated the fake Kitsunejin that had descended upon that village, Tsuranuki Mitsuko and Tsuranuki Tabane.

Tori is oblivious of this: That Tsuranuki Mitsuko once sought my life. And that she was captured and retaliated against. Or that she was subjugated by my hand and transformed into a glorious slave who would obey my commands.

And that most of the “Shadows of the Fog” share a similar story to that of the Tsuranuki sisters.

“Now, I’ll have to inform the Fox Princess that I’ve disposed of the insolent ones.”

“Be mindful not to give her any strange promise.”

“Yes, yes, yes.”

As a result, the Fox Princess and I notify each other that we have exterminated individuals in our territory who claimed to be our kin and that we had exposed some of their corpses along with the charges to the public.