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Inyouchuu Gaiden Chapter 4 Part 3

Almost at the same time, the youmas who noticed Kyouko’s existence flew all at once towards her and attacked her. The tip of the tentacles opened wide once they realized that they would get to have one more toy to play with to their hearts’ content. Even so, Kokonoe Kyouko did not show any signs of making a move to avoid the incoming attacks at all.

SPLATTER!

The youma that was suddenly approaching Kyouko was torn to shreds in an instant. Pieces of its flesh scattered and its bodily fluids wetted Kyouko’s cheeks.

「……Maki-kun. Earlier, you wanted to know how it happened that I was captured by the youmas, didn’t you? …… This is the answer to that question.」

The female Exorcist spoke quietly and in a composed way. Her appearance had clearly changed in a blink of an eye.

It was actually the claws that were now growing out of her fingers that tore the youma apart. They were as sharp as the claws of a wild beast, and dripping with fresh blood. Her hair, which curled backwards on her back, had unraveled and split into nine tails. At the tip of each tail, a bluish-white flame, the fox fire, was lit. And her eyes were dyed in deep red like the color of blood.

It was clearly not the form of a human being.

Yes, as a matter of fact, Kokonoe Kyouko was not a one hundred percent human. She was a hybrid of a nine-tailed fox and human. A half-breed. A monstrosity. The youmas would call a creature like that by only one name: “Malevolent Fox”.

「I’m going to kill you all!」

Kyouko’s nine tails grew together with her murderous intent, and the hardened hair of the tails would start to rip the youmas to pieces like razor blades. Kicking the floor at the same time, she approached the detained Shiratori sisters with a beastly agility and ripped the tentacles that had wrapped around them to pieces with her claws.

「Hahahahahahaha!! Weak! So incredibly weak! Is that the best you can do!? Is that the extent of your abilities!? I’ll kill you! I am going to kill each and every single one of you! I am going to obliterate you so thoroughly that there won’t even be a single trace of you left behind!」

It was not just her appearance that changed all of a sudden. Even her heart seemed to be changing more and more into that of a merciless demon. Not even the slightest bit of mercy existed inside of her at the current moment. Kicking the floor to dodge the attacks of the youmas that were coming at her all at once, she swung her arms without even breaking a sweat. Her sharp claws ripped the youmas apart, painting the body of the Malevolent Fox bloody red from head to toe. All the while, the fox’s mouth continued to show a maddened smile.

The reason as to why Kyouko was captured at a young age by the youmas was because she was of mixed blood. There was no place for her to be a girl who was neither on the side of humans nor on the side of the youmas.

So she was captured, repeatedly violated and had her power constantly drained from her. If she was a mere human, she would have gone mad and broken down before long.

However, her mixed-race body surpassed that of a human by an incomprehensible margin. It was the strong body that could endure any kind of torture that they youmas would subject her to.

Every time she would tear apart one of the youmas, she would find it hard to remember her own past. Each time her past memories escaped from her, the power to tear the youmas apart would increase substantially.

She has been cursed since birth. She could not have a happy life for herself.

(My whole life is just so that I can kill as many of those bastard as I possibly can……)

Kill the youmas that created her, the nine-tailed fox. That’s all that Kyouko had going on for herself.

SPLURT! SPLURT! PSHHHHHHH!!! PSHHHHHH!!!

While continuing to spill blood, the Malevolent Fox continued to kill all the youmas inside of the barrier down to the very last one.

* * *

A room where the barrier has disappeared. White walls, white floors and white beds were back. Two sisters laid on top of each other on the floor, breathing heavily.

「…… Ahh…… Ahh…… Ahh……!!」

「M-More, moooree…… Pleashe, give me mooorrreee……」

Their eyes were cloudy and out of focus. But even though Mikoto was in that broken down state, she would still continue to beg for the youmas to violate her even more.

「I’m sorry. I’m so sorry, you two……」

The pleasure carved into the human body by the youmas would never disappear. Kyouko, who returned to her original form for the time being, cursed her own powerlessness and apologized to the two sisters many times over.

「…… Please don’t beat yourself up over it, Kyouko-san. After all, those two were not your responsibility to shoulder.」

Maki tried to console the female Exorcist and took off his white lab coat and put it over the bodies of convulsing Shiratori sisters. He might have been right. It was impossible for her to notice anything unusual in a facility that was always full of yomas at all times. But even so…… She bit her lip so much that blood started to flow from it. It was her failure as an Exorcist here.

It was at that time that Maki first showed Kyouko just how abnormal his nature really was.

「If there is someone to blame here for this incident, that would be me. I never imagined that those two would change so much because of the youmas. I didn’t expect them to end up like this. That was not my intention in the slightest.」

The boy spoke really casually.

「I can’t believe that those two Exorcists would be so mentally weak. My outlook was too naive. But rest assured, everything is going to be alright —— I will make sure that you two are going to be restored back to normal.」

「What the hell are you talking about?」

Kyouko was a little irritated by the strange behavior of the boy. His words were generally unusual.

「Let’s say that this little performance you did just now gave me a little hint on how to bring those two back, Kyouko-san. Haha, but I must say, I was most certainly surprised. I didn’t know that Kyoko-san was that famous ‘Malevolent Fox’. But I understand a little bit about how youmas feel, because your body is certainly very attractive.」

Kyouko looked at Maki with suspicion, but the boy didn’t lose his composure in the slightest. As he spoke in a gentle tone, he approached her little by little. The female Exorcist also retreated involuntarily seeing him do that. At that moment, Maki raised his voice, “Ah!” As he was about to fall down, Kyouko unconsciously reached out to help him.

「As expected, you really are a good person, Kyouko-san.」

As he said that, the boy clearly laughed in a nasty way.

「A-Ah! T-This… this is……!」

A syringe was stuck in her arm that supported the boy’s body. Some kind of medicine was then poured into Kyouko’s system.

「Please don’t worry. Even if I understand how youmas feel, I’m still human. I’m not like that scum…… Kyou… -an…… This is all so…… help those two…… Please…… live…… that……」

As Kyouko’s consciousness receded, perhaps due to the effect of the injected medicine. Maki’s speech continued while her face was flushed and her vision became blurry.

***

「Wake up. Come on now, Kyoko-san, please wake up……」

A boy’s voice could be heard in the distance. A pure voice that hasn’t changed from when they have first met. Words that seem to dawn awaken the half-fox, half-human woman.

「Uh, uuuhh…… Uhhh, uhaaah……」

Kyouko slowly opened her eyes. A reddish-black space jumped into her field of vision almost right off the bat.

(Am I stuck inside of a barrier again……?)

Even though she just woke up, she immediately recognizes the situation that she was in.

Her body seemed to be bound by a swarming mass of tentacles. Many youmas bit into her skin from above her coat. Her posture was fixed with her hands stretched above her head, as if she was cheering enthusiastically for something. Her wrists were bound by tentacles that extended from the ceiling and she could not move them even an inch. She tried to grunt a little bit as she struggled to break free, and the tentacles responded by tightening their grip over her arms, sendings sharp pricks of pain through them.

Her chest would rise and fall together with the rhythm of her rough breathing. Of course, her ankles were also bound tight, but the tentacles binding her down there extended from the walls and the floor instead of the ceiling.