In order to become a Heroic Spirit, I had no choice but to cause trouble in history.

Zuocun wiped the black blood off the crane's wings with his palm.

"...I am willing to bear all the sins...to serve as this executioner." His eyes were resolute. "Therefore..."

"kill."

......

"Mother." The giant body of the Hidden Demon had long since disappeared, and inside the black cocoon was a black-clad girl.

The girl shed black tears.

"Mom, I've already sent you beyond the Kurokawa Mountains, why, why did you come back?"

"I just want you to live..."

The mud pillar was still wrapped inside the pitch-black cocoon.

Part of the mud pillar had collapsed beyond recognition, exposing what was inside the mud.

The white bones are vast and desolate.

With a grinding sound as she clenched her teeth, the pure black girl split open the cocoon and reappeared on the outside.

But what she saw before her left her stunned.

Before me lay a broad back.

Mama Bear never considered fighting with Zuo Cun and his group.

Her purpose in coming here was solely to protect her daughter.

Her fighting ability had already dropped to rock bottom after yesterday's serious injuries and her desperate withdrawal from the battlefield.

Zuocun, carrying the crane's wings, walked up to Mother Bear.

The Hidden Demon embraced its true form, shedding black tears.

"Mother......"

"Xue Nai, hide behind me." The words came from the mother bear's mouth.

"Mom, you should go." Tianyin Gui said painfully, "I'm the one who always kills people, you've never killed a single one."

The long black hair lay lifeless on the ground.

Tenkakuki... Hoshiguma Yukina, after being beheaded twice by Samura, was also on the verge of death.

"So, let's go, Mom..."

The white-clad Snowy appeared before Mother Bear.

Zuocun stopped in his tracks.

“Mommy.” She looked up at the bear mother.

"Who are you...who exactly are you?" The black-clad Yukina stared blankly at the incredibly familiar figure, yet she couldn't recall who it was.

White Setsuna bypassed the mother bear and came to Black Setsuna.

He pulled the black-clad kimono closer, and their foreheads gently touched.

"I... have always just been Hoshiguma Setsuna..."

The white-clad Yukina disappeared.

And Yukina in black also realized it.

"So that's how it is..."

Setting the mud pillar aside, Hoshiguma Yukina looked at her dark, sharp hands, and large tears streamed down her face.

She knelt on the ground, looking at the surface of Lake Kurokawa.

"So, I've become...this kind of person."

Zuo Cun looked at Hoshiguma Yukina in silence.

I... no longer need to lift a finger.

The monsters are extinct.

"He has become like Hideo Kurokawa, a scoundrel who would recklessly take the lives of others based solely on his own whims."

Unable to control herself, Hoshiguma Setsuna fell backward, only to land in a familiar embrace.

“Mom…” she looked up.

Even in this state, will you stay by my side...?

The mother bear didn't speak, but looked at the thin girl with a sorrowful smile.

Hoshiguma Yukina gave a self-deprecating laugh, forced herself to get up.

He bowed deeply to Zuocun Anuo from a distance.

then.

Hold your mother's hand.

"Mom...I'm going to hell."

"...Mom, I will always be by your side." The one-armed bear mother embraced her daughter with her left arm, "No matter what kind of person you are, Xue Nai."

Hoshiguma Yukina suddenly hugged her black bear mother, bursting into tears.

The two of them floated up slowly.

Magic converges.

A fluorescent color appeared in the night sky.

The mother and daughter held hands.

It transformed into magical molecules and vanished into the world.

Beneath Lake Kurokawa, a bear skeleton has turned to ash.

The stone pillar that remained on the shore also cracked.

The soil attached to the surface fell off, and what emerged from the mud pillar was a skeleton without limbs.

Everyone remained silent.

They watched as the magical molecules, transformed into the mother and daughter, covered the entire Kurokawa Lake like fireworks.

......

Hoshiguma Setsuna is a tragic girl.

However, as she herself assessed, it was unforgivable.

She was already twisted into an abyss of hatred and tyranny.

But such people, in essence, die by their own hand.

So how should we evaluate it?

who knows.

......

Zuo Cun sat cross-legged silently, gazing at the small tombstone.

Hoshiguma Setsuna's Grave.

The one commemorated here is not the fierce and cruel Tenkakuki, but the pure and kind Hoshiguma Yukina.

The sun had already risen, and Hoshiguma Setsuna's tombstone stood where the sun could be seen.

Matou Sawa contacted the magistrate's officials and had nearly six hundred drowned corpses dragged up from Lake Kurokawa and burned in a unified manner.

Hidden within these remains are the souls that have become evil spirits; burning them is the safest course of action.

However, when the fire started, all the officials were startled.

From the rotting, stinking drowned corpses came frantic screams.

The screams came from a corpse that looked unusually dark.

Miss Okita reached the mountaintop and patted Samura on the shoulder.

"Mr. Samura, what kind of person do you think Ms. Hoshiguma would have been if she hadn't been killed?"

She sat down next to Zuo Cun, watching the rising sun, and asked.

"...She must be a very beautiful and kind person."

"Such a beautiful and kind person, yet she suffered such a fate..." Ryoma also came to Zuocun's side and sighed deeply.

“Sakamoto.” Samura took his kimono from Ms. Okita, put it on, and called out to Ryoma, “Kurokawa Hideo is certainly the root of evil, but the inaction of the local government has also shown me all the filth.”

"Oh dear, they're at it again..." Miss A-Long said speechlessly, pulling Okita aside.

"Ugh?"

“These two have always been like this. As soon as one of them starts talking about ideas or governance, the other will keep talking endlessly. I’m used to it.” Miss A-Long patted Miss Okita’s head.

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Chapter 319 Feather Demon Slayer, Zuocun Anno

Zuocun sat in the room, his body wrapped in many bandages, his face gloomy.

As the only one who directly confronted the Amagi throughout the Kurokawayama incident, Samura, despite being restrained by Ms. Aryu and Shiro Yukina, still suffered considerable injuries.

Tenkakuki's black blade still inflicted many shallow wounds on Sakura's chest and abdomen, aggravating the previous chest injury that hadn't fully healed.

In addition to the few ribs that were broken last time, two more were broken, and there was also a noticeable wound on his chin.

Then there's the left arm, with a fractured upper arm bone and a fractured wrist.

His right hand, which was holding the knife, was completely unharmed.

"Um, Mr. Matou, may I ask, what kind of weird name is 'Habakizan'?" Samura practically spat out the question through gritted teeth.

"It means exactly what it says. As a hero who defeated the great demon, Tenkakuki, he should at least have a resounding title!" Matou smiled, channeling his magic power to help Samura heal his injuries.