<div style="text-align: center">MIHO<br/>​</div>Miho clutched a bone dagger between her talon-like fingernails. Dancing flames of a great bonfire lit up the small clearing of trees. Her pale skin was stained with blood; some her own, some belonging to the shrine maiden she had sacrificed moments before. Blood was always the price for communing with Yokai. Taxing as the murder had been, the spell’s demands had been met, and the blood which covered her had turned into a conduit for her dark master’s power. She could feel him, creeping his way into her skin. Konton, the exiled, rebel Oni Prince of the abyss could not exist in the primal plane without a mortal anchor: at least not while the Skin Walkers still roamed the earth. Soon that would be rectified, for Lord Nakamura had lived up to his end of the bargain. Skin Walkers from Ame, Yama and Kaze had been rounded up and killed, their essence bound to Gohei that inhibited their rebirth. And as the Skin Walkers dwindled, the spirits of the abyss became ever more potent. The mortal had earned the Demon’s services, for now.<br/><br/>Miho felt herself recede within her body, as though entering some familiar nightmare. She had little choice but to listen to the demon’s commands. She would have put a knife to her throat long ago if her master had allowed it. But he was ever vigilant. His commands, odious as they were, held some irresistible sway over her, and to deny them was to endure horrific delusions that tested the limits of one’s sanity. Her eyes turned black as coals. Blood poured from her nose as she fell to the ground, writhing. Shadowy forms raced around the roaring flame, chanting in unison in some indiscernible tongue. As the last vestiges of her soul crawled from her mind, blackness overtook her, and, for a brief moment, she found comfort in the sweet reprieve of oblivion.<br/><br/><div style="text-align: center"><div class="bbMediaWrapper">
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