"Nurarihyon."
Kikyo's voice came from the side, calm but with a hint of vigilance.
She said: "This aura is unique to the Nurarihyon clan."
Nurarihyon.
Kanbe Hikaru searched his mind for this name.
It was a type of demon skilled at 'blending in'.
They could appear silently in any situation, making everyone feel that they were supposed to be there.
It was the demon race best at stealth and infiltration.
It was also one of the most difficult demon races to deal with, its essence being an illusion like flowers in a mirror or the moon in the water, a type of phantom demon.
In the later circulating Night Parade of One Hundred Demons, they were even once regarded as the leader by other demons.
Capable of mediating conflicts between other demons and monsters.
A sufficiently troublesome demon.
And this guy's Demonic Qi... Six Transformations?
No, it seems even higher.
And this look, it seems so familiar?
"Don't be so tense."
The blond young man put down his chopsticks and stretched.
"If I wanted to fight, I would have done so when you were fighting that toad. Why wait until now?"
He stood up, shorter than Kanbe Hikaru, but not by much. Among ordinary people—not counting those with supernatural powers like mages—he was considered extremely tall.
Upon getting closer, Kanbe Hikaru noticed this guy's eyes.
Golden.
The pupils were vertical, like a cat's, or a snake's.
Giving one a very cunning and deceitful feeling.
"Let me introduce myself."
He pulled a pipe from his waist and twirled it twice in his hand.
"Nurarihyon."
"I am the... well, not just this area, but within a few hundred miles, the most handsome demon."
"You are the only one who poses a slight threat to me—not much, just a little."
Kanbe Hikaru: "..."
The style of this introduction is a bit off.
And, confirmed!
He really 'knows' this guy.
Nurarihyon,
Isn't this a character from "Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan," another work he watched before he transmigrated?
So this world doesn't just have "Inuyasha"?
Although a bit surprised, Kanbe Hikaru kept a straight face. He thought to himself that after all, these are all 'demon-type' series, so it's normal for them to be mixed together... yeah right!
"What did you come here for?"
Kikyo's voice remained calm, but her hand holding the bow did not relax.
If it weren't for the fact that the Nurarihyon race, while eerie and highly dangerous, usually just liked to mooch food and drink from wealthy families and rarely harmed people, Kikyo, given her personality, would have definitely shot an arrow at him by now!
"Eating, of course."
Nurarihyon spoke as if it were the most natural thing in the world. "Isn't there a banquet going on? I just happened to be passing by and got hungry."
He pointed to the plate of meat on the table, half of which he had already eaten.
"This is wild rabbit meat, right? It's roasted well, though it's a bit short on salt."
"However..."
Nurarihyon's expression suddenly changed.
The playful grin vanished, replaced by an indescribable... regret?
"To be honest, what you've done is quite satisfying."
He looked at Kanbe Hikaru, his golden eyes reflecting the shrine still burning in the distance.
"Decapitating that toad with one stroke, torching its nest, and letting these people see its true face."
"Clean, decisive, and beautiful."
"A pity, though."
He sighed, exhaling a puff of smoke from his pipe.
"Your actions, to use a saying passed down from the Ming Dynasty in the Celestial Empire—"
"Are what one calls treating the symptoms but not the cause."
Kanbe Hikaru's eyes narrowed slightly.
"What do you mean by that?"
Nurarihyon smiled.
There was no malice in that smile, yet it carried an uncomfortable sense of insight.
"You know what I mean, Oni Samurai."
He said.
"I'm just saying it out loud for you."
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