“Wh-what？！Kidnapping?!”
Looking at the little mouse in front of him, Nura Rikuo's face was full of disbelief.
“Yes! Kidnapping!”
The little mouse nodded heavily, his tone absolutely certain, as if he had witnessed it with his own eyes.
“Thank you! I have to go find everyone...”
In a hurry, Nura Rikuo immediately got up. Kujou Kana was the object of his long-held crush! How could he not be anxious now that she had been taken by evildoers?!
But just as Nura Rikuo got up and ran a few steps to ask for help from the other yokai of the Nura Clan, the little mouse’s face changed, and he hurriedly called out to Nura Rikuo:
“Please wait! Rikuo-sama!”
Hearing the call, Nura Rikuo stopped in his tracks and turned his head to look at the little mouse beside him.
“Miss Kujou is an Onmyoji, I’m afraid everyone will be unwilling to save her.”
The little mouse looked serious, his tone of voice as if he was reasoning with him.
Upon hearing this, Nura Rikuo finally realized that Kujou Yuzuru was an Onmyoji who was hostile to yokai!
After figuring that out, Nura Rikuo, who had wanted to ask for help from the Nura Clan yokai, didn't know what to do. Just as he hesitated about whether to tell his grandfather, the little mouse spoke up:
“Please rest assured, Young Master Rikuo. We, the Old Rat Clan, will do our utmost to assist you! Please proceed alone!”
“But...”
Listening to the little mouse's words, Nura Rikuo was still a little worried, but the mouse's next words made Nura Rikuo determined:
“If anything happens, the Old Rat Clan will find a way to inform everyone as soon as possible!”
“Okay, I understand, let's go!”
With a deep voice, Nura Rikuo turned around and, under the leadership of the mouse, left the Nura Clan.
Only just after Nura Rikuo left, behind him, a broom-head slowly poked out, watching Nura Rikuo’s back with its only eye, full of worry.
“This time, we’re in trouble!”
...
“Young Master, this is where the two young ladies were kidnapped.”
Under the leadership of the mouse, Nura Rikuo soon arrived in front of a luxurious mansion on Ichiban Street. Standing at the gate, the mouse turned to Nura Rikuo and spoke.
Walking forward, Nura Rikuo observed the iron gate. Seeing that it wasn't locked, he immediately turned to the mouse behind him and said:
“Can you sneak in and open the door for me from the inside?”
However, after a long time, Nura Rikuo didn't get any response from the mouse.
Turning his head, he found that behind him, several figures had already surrounded him.
And those figures were none other than the yokai of the Old Rat Clan!
“This is the Third Head? He’s really a human!”
“Hahaha, beat him up and take him to the Boss!”
“Okay! Let’s see what kind of skills the Third Head has!”
Faced with the approaching yokai, Nura Rikuo kept retreating, but there was no way out.
......
“Pfft, long time no see, Young Master Rikuo.”
In the mansion's grand hall, Old Rat looked at Nura Rikuo, covered in dust, his eyes filled with disdain.
“You tricked me! Release Kujou and the others!”
At this moment, Nura Rikuo was already slightly injured, surrounded by yokai, but there was no fear in his tone.
“Roar?”
Upon hearing this, Old Rat snapped his fingers. Behind him, on a high platform, a red curtain opened, revealing an iron cage and the four people trapped inside it!
Although Nura Rikuo didn't recognize the other two people, he could see his friend and the object of his crush, Kujou Yuzuru and Kujou Kana, also trapped in the iron cage!
“Kujou-san!”
Seeing Kujou Kana, Nura Rikuo immediately called out, but she was still unconscious and couldn't possibly respond to him.
“Old Rat! Release them!”
Seeing his friend suffering, Nura Rikuo shouted at Old Rat, but Old Rat was no longer a yokai of the Nura Clan, so how could he possibly obey Nura Rikuo?
A yokai on the side, seeing a human being so arrogant, walked forward and kicked Nura Rikuo in the stomach. The sharp pain made the young man fall directly to the ground.
“You want me to release them? I can do that, but I want you to publicly declare that you will not inherit the position of Third Head, and I will release them. How about that?”
Looking at Nura Rikuo lying on the ground, Old Rat’s tone was full of disdain and incomprehension, as if he couldn’t understand why such a weak kid would inherit the position of Third Head.
“If I do that, you will release everyone, right?”
Holding his aching body, Nura Rikuo raised his head with difficulty to look at Old Rat.
“Tonight, issue a letter of resignation to all the Clan Leaders. If you can’t do that, at dawn, your two friends will die.
However, the other two, I’m afraid Young Master Rikuo doesn’t know them, right? These are the little cats I finally got my hands on!”
Old Rat said, getting up, looking down at Nura Rikuo.
Hearing Old Rat's words, Nura Rikuo clenched his teeth.
Although he didn’t know the other two girls in the iron cage, their life and death were none of his business. But...as a human, he couldn’t stand by and watch them be eaten by Old Rat!
Seeing Nura Rikuo’s reluctant look, Old Rat felt an inexplicable anger arise in his heart:
“Bang!”
He suddenly lifted his foot and stepped on Nura Rikuo's head.
“Old Rat-sama!”
Seeing that Old Rat dared to humiliate Nura Rikuo like this, some of the rat yokai who were still afraid of the Nura Clan panicked and tried to say something, but Old Rat glared at them and they obediently shut their mouths.
“You, you are really detestable! You didn’t say a word when you were expelled from the Nura Clan, but now, for two humans, you dare to give me a cold shoulder!”
“I really don’t understand, the Second Head was so powerful, such a great yokai, how could he have such a weak offspring!”
“Huh?! Answer me! Nura Rikuo!!”
Thinking of the day he was expelled from the Nura Clan, Old Rat’s heart was filled with anger.
Why?! Why did Nura Rikuo, a human, have such a high position and power from birth?! While he had been working hard in the Nura Clan for so many years, he was simply expelled from the Nura Clan with a few words after eating a few blood sacrifices?!
Damn it! So detestable! He hated this weak Third Head, hated that the Third Head wasn’t a yokai! He hated Nura Rikuo for wanting to abandon his yokai nature and become a weak human!
Under Old Rat's foot, Nura Rikuo's human body couldn’t bear the weight and immediately collapsed to the ground, losing consciousness.
Seeing this, Old Rat had no choice but to give up, waving his hand to signal the rat yokai to wake Nura Rikuo, while he walked towards the iron cage behind him.
“I’d like to see what’s so captivating about these humans, they’re just food anyway!”
He said hatefully, snapping his fingers. A black mist flowed into the nostrils of the four people in the iron cage, and they woke up one after another.
The first to wake up was naturally Kujou Yuzuru, who had the strongest physique. As soon as she opened her eyes, she saw Old Rat's scarlet eyes.
Seeing this, Kujou Yuzuru was startled and took a few steps back, subconsciously reaching for her shikigami talisman, but found that it was gone after she had already been taken away by the yokai in front of her.
Seeing this, Kujou Yuzuru gritted her teeth. Just when she was at a loss, Old Rat pulled open the iron cage and slowly walked in.
“Human blood is the thickest and tastiest before dawn. Today, I'm going to see how delicious Onmyoji blood is!”
Seeing Old Rat approaching, Kujou Yuzuru didn't know what to do for a moment. Without her shikigami, she was a fish on a chopping board in the face of a yokai!
“Get away! Don’t come any closer!”
Seeing Old Rat walking in, Kujou Yuzuru stood in front of the three unconscious people, shouting angrily.
However, how could she possibly stop a yokai?!
It’s no use, who, who will save us?!
In fear, Kujou Yuzuru closed her eyes. But the next second, a breaking sound exploded in the hall, and in an instant, a golden long sword beheaded all the rat yokai in the hall except Old Rat!
“What?!”
The sudden change caught Old Rat off guard. He hurriedly turned around, only to see that beside Nura Rikuo, a black-haired boy appeared out of nowhere and was bending over to check on Nura Rikuo’s condition.
At this time, Ichika woke up faintly. When she saw the golden-haired youth in front of her, her face turned pale. But when her gaze fell on the outside of the iron cage, she saw a familiar figure, and she exclaimed in surprise:
“Yu!”
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Today’s second chapter!