First Outer World Story Series: The Black Mist that Devours - Chapter 93
Translator: MadHatter Editor: MadHatter
(Third person POV)
“N-No… save me…”
A young girl was 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 was fleeing to the rear of the house.
“Hey hey. 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 were men wearing hats and tails of a canine animal on their waists.
These men were smirking viciously as they slowly chased the fleeing female so as to satiate their own sense of sadistic desires.
“Ah… ah…!”
The girl frantically ran away.
But eventually, the girl soon found herself trapped in a corner of a room in the innermost part of the house.
“Someone… please…”
While picturing the act that was about to be perpetrated against her, the girl wriggled and shrunk vainly.
“Hee hee hee. Don’t worry, I’m going to treat you well.”
As they approached, the men licked their tongues.
Their eyes were 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 was about to make contact with the girl, his right hand burst into flames, instantaneously turning to charcoal.
“M-My hand aaaaahhhhhh!!”
“W-What the hell happened…”
The men hastily looked around and attempted to assume a fighting stance.
But…
“?Magic Bundle of Bolt?.” “?Icebolt?.”
“Argh…”
When the voices of the two girls resounded throughout the house, one of the men’s torso immediately froze and shattered.
“W-What the hell is going on…”
“Let me ask you. Are you a Kitsunejin?”
Before the man whose one arm had been obliterated, two girls emerged in front of him, and the one speaking to him was one of the voices he heard earlier. The girl, who was no older than 15, posed a question to the man.
“A-Ah, that’s right! I am the kin of the ‘Hundred Beast Clad Fox Princess’! Furthermore, I am 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 shivered all over and struggled to tell them that he was the favorite of the Fox Princess.
However…
“Activation of ?Authenticity Judgment?. Everything he stated is a lie. Onee-chan.”
“?Thunderbolt?.”
When one of the girls declared it to be a lie, the other girl, who was about 16 or 17 years old, unleashed her skill and electrocuted the man.
“Gi… ga… you guys… what do you think you’re doing…”
The man collapsed to the ground, his entire body convulsing from the electric shock. With his slightly twitching mouth, he addressed the girls.
Both of the girls then answered him.
“We are the Kirijin.”
“We are the kin of the Mist King.”
“What…”
The females arranged their words as if they were singing, disregarding the dazed men.
“We are slaves.” “Dogs of the Mist King.”
The man’s hat slipped off. He bore no fox ears.
“At the command of the Mist King.” “We hunt the Kitsunejin.”
Around the man’s waist, his tail came off and dropped to the ground.
“You’re not a Kitsunejin.” “But you called yourself as such.”
As he looked at them, the man’s complexion grew pale.
[[So I’m going to kill you.]]
“W-wait…!?”
The two girls invoked their skills before the man can even beg for his life, and the man’s entire body was engulfed in flames, annihilating him.
“The next one is.” “You.”
“Hieeeeee!”
Without missing a beat, the two girls simultaneously turned to confront the other girl who was cowering in the corner of the room.
With their movement, the girl realized that while these two were outwardly human, they were inwardly nothing alike, and her fear propelled her to the verge of complete prostration, followed by the spreading of a stain on her nether region.
“Let me ask you. Are you a Kitsunejin?”
Like a machine devoid of emotion, the Kirijin girl posed the question to the petrified girl.
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(Kurokiri POV)
“Well, well, well. The operation to exterminate the Kitsunejin is now over.”
From my private room, I listened to the reports coming in from the scene of the operation and concluded the mission was completed.
“You can’t let an eye loose just yet. Besides, they are not really Kitsunejin, but rather people who call themselves Kitsunejin.”
Tori chided 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 sighed as she replied to me as if to say, “Oh dear”.
“Even so, the power of the ‘Shadows of the Mist’ is terrific. With such a small force, they could achieve such remarkable results…”
After saying this, Tori began to review the data on the Kirijin who participated in this operation and their fruit of battle.
Among them were the two sisters who eradicated the fake Kitsunejin that had descended upon that village, Tsuranuki Mitsuko and Tsuranuki Tabane.
Tori was 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 Mist” shared 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 notified each other that we had 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.