Hoken Temple, the place where Nanami would lose her life.
At this moment, Nanami had already fallen to the ground, spitting out a mouthful of blood.
Her already fragile body was on the verge of its limit at this moment.
"So it really ends like this? What a pity, when I clearly felt a familiar aura."
Nanami's bright eyes gradually became dim; her time was running out.
"Sister."
Shichika held the Evil Blade, one of the twelve deviant blades, and looked at Nanami, who had fallen to the ground, with a complex gaze, his heart struggling.
"Sorry!"
Shichika closed his eyes, his face full of pain. He had made his decision.
Raising the Evil Blade, Shichika came before Nanami.
"Come on."
Nanami's expression was very calm. She had long been prepared; this was also what she hoped for—to die as a human, as family.
Even if the one doing it was her strongest younger brother.
"I'm sorry!"
There were still many words in her heart, but in the end, all those words boiled down to these three.
A smile appeared on Nanami's sickly pale face. She felt her heart being pierced, and her fragile body reached its end at this moment.
Nanami was dead, but even at the last moment, there was still a smile on her face.
Shichika's expression became somber. While personally finishing off his sister, a heavy stone also pressed down tightly on his heart.
"Shichika…"
Togame, behind him, looked at Shichika with worry, wanting to step forward to comfort him, but at this moment, a strange voice suddenly rang out.
"It really is quite unpleasant."
Fujino used Heavenly Movement to arrive beside Nanami's corpse. Looking at Nanami's corpse, her face was full of displeasure.
Although Nanami's death was inevitable, for Fujino, who had already come to regard Nanami as her own younger sister, watching her sister die was extremely unpleasant, and she had an impulse to destroy the world.
"Who are you!?"
Seeing Fujino suddenly appear before them, Shichika instinctively raised the sword in his hand.
It was not just Shichika who was on guard, but also Togame behind him, as well as the red and black-clad ninja beside her.
This ninja was a subordinate of Hitei from the Katanagatari world, seemingly from the personal intelligence department, though Fujino did not remember the specifics—after all, it was just an ant.
"Get lost!"
This single, indifferent word gave the three of them the feeling of being crushed beneath a massive mountain.
Blood spilled from the corners of their mouths, and their bodies were pinned tightly to the ground, making intimate contact with the soil.
"That is... the same eyes as my sister!" Shichika's eyes widened, his face full of disbelief.
Fujino coldly glanced at Shichika. She had absolutely no goodwill toward the guy who had laid a hand on her sister. Even if killing Nanami had been a necessary act, Fujino simply hated him. If she weren't worried that after resurrecting her sister, her sister might want to see Shichika to say goodbye or something, Fujino would have wiped him from the world right then and there.
"I am taking Nanami now. Get as far away from here as you possibly can!"
After saying this, Fujino bent down, picked up Nanami from the ground, and vanished before their eyes.
As Fujino disappeared, the pressure weighing down on the three of them dissipated as well.
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