"You're really weak, how did you run out of Demonic Power again?" Retsu bent down, grabbed Karan by the back of her collar, and lifted her off the ground, his tone full of exasperation.
"What do you mean! It's clearly because you've gotten stronger again. I feel like summoning you this time cost a lot more Demonic Power than last time!" Karan looked up and glared at him, retorted unhappily, "I've clearly been cultivating hard during this time, my Demonic Power has increased a lot!"
"..." Retsu was about to continue mocking her for being a weakling, but Karan, who was being held in his hand, suddenly twitched her nose and leaned in to sniff him carefully.
He thought Karan had discovered that he had broken free from Edo Tensei and regained his physical body, and was about to explain. Unexpectedly, Karan's face suddenly changed drastically, and she glared at him, questioning angrily: "Retsu! Did you secretly eat something delicious? Why didn't you call me?!"
"Uh..." Retsu's face stiffened, and he looked up at the sky somewhat guiltily.
He had miscalculated; he forgot he was just eating barbecue, and the scent of roasted meat still lingered on him.
"You actually ate something delicious without calling me!" Seeing his guilty look, Karan's anger flared even more. Her body squirmed wildly as she was being held, her hands waving as she tried to pounce and bite him, "Retsu! We agreed back then, if there's something delicious, you have to bring some for me!"
"My fault, my fault!" Retsu quickly admitted his mistake. His Mangekyo Sharingan emerged in his eyes, and the spatial vortex of the Kamui Dimension appeared. He reached in and caught a package of roasted meat wrapped in leaves, holding it out in front of Karan, "Look, I saved some for you!"
This was something his Shadow Clone had finished grilling and had just sent into the Kamui Dimension.
Smelling the aroma of the roasted meat, Karan immediately stopped struggling. She reached out to take the package and sniffed it carefully. Confirming it was the same scent as on Retsu, she immediately said happily, "Alright, I forgive you."
Retsu muttered to himself that this cat demon was surprisingly easy to coax.
He set Karan down and watched her impatiently unwrap the leaves, grab a piece of roasted meat, and stuff it into her mouth. Her narrowed eyes were full of contentment, clearly very satisfied with the taste.
"So, tell me, why did you call me here?" Retsu looked up at the trio from the Panther Tribe standing opposite them.
While he and Karan were talking just now, these three hadn't moved or spoken, just quietly watching.
"...Mmph." Karan, who was eating with great relish, finally remembered the business at hand. Swallowing the meat in her mouth, she pointed an oily finger at Fuyuarashi and shouted arrogantly: "Retsu! Help me give Big Sister a beating, I want to be the Big Sister Leader!"
Good grief, she actually wants to rebel against the natural order!
Retsu was stunned by her words for a moment. He glanced at Fuyuarashi, who had already started to frown, then looked back at the arrogant Karan and asked curiously: "Can I ask why you're so determined to be the Big Sister Leader?"
"I told the Big Sister Leader that using the shard of the shikon jewel to resurrect the Lord is dangerous, but she didn't believe me at all! She even said I was tricked by those stinking dogs from the Dog Clan!" Karan stomped her feet unhappily and explained.
"Then let her go ahead and resurrect him. She'll find out after she suffers for it once anyway," Retsu said dismissively.
"No!" Karan shook her head and suddenly puffed out her chest. "I thought about it. What if the resurrected Lord suddenly goes crazy and kills us all? Wouldn't that be a huge loss? So I thought of a way—as long as I become the Big Sister Leader, Big Sister has to listen to me!"
Looking at her triumphant appearance, Retsu couldn't help but throw cold water on her: "But think about it, after I give your Big Sister Leader a beating and leave, won't she just deal with you then?"
"Uh..." Karan was stunned. Her eyes darted around, and she immediately said: "If she dares to hit me, I'll just summon you again!"
"But your Demonic Power is exhausted after summoning me once. You'll have to wait a long time to recover, right?" Retsu pointed out the flaw in her plan.
"This... that..." Karan was instantly stuck for words.
She had just had a fight with Fuyuarashi about resurrecting the Lord and had spoken harsh words in the heat of the moment, wanting to knock the Big Sister Leader down and become the boss herself, without considering the aftermath at all.
Now that Retsu had exposed it, she realized she would most likely receive a fat beating.
"Don't worry, Karan, Second Sister supports you!" Just then, a crisp female voice came over.
Retsu turned his head and saw Shunran, who had been standing next to Fuyuarashi, walking toward them.
Noticing Retsu's gaze, a smile played on the corner of Shunran's mouth. She walked up to him, her small nose sniffing, and an unexpected look appeared on her face: "So it's a human. Karan said you're very powerful, I wonder if that's true?"
As she spoke, she suddenly reached out a fair little hand and said with a smile: "Meeting for the first time, it wouldn't be too much to ask for a greeting gift, would it?"
Retsu was taken aback. Following her gaze to the roasted meat in Karan's arms, he instantly understood.
He activated Kamui. A spatial vortex flashed and vanished, and a package of roasted meat, also wrapped in leaves, fell into Shunran's hands.
Seeing the roasted meat appear out of thin air and the fleeting spatial vortex, Shunran was startled inwardly, but her face remained smiling. She reached out and patted Retsu's arm: "Thanks. I'll help you plead for mercy with the Big Sister Leader in a bit."
Retsu turned to look at Fuyuarashi and found that her icy Demonic Power was slowly spreading. An ice crystal spear had already condensed in her hand, while Akiarashi, who had been standing behind her, had quietly retreated to the side.
It seemed this fight was unavoidable.
He glanced at Shunran, who had already pulled Karan to the side, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, I'll go easy on her."
"Retsu! Just teach the Big Sister Leader a little lesson, you must go easy on her!" Karan stood to the side and shouted loudly at him.
Hearing this, Fuyuarashi's brow furrowed even tighter, and the cold air around her became several degrees thicker.
Retsu sighed inwardly. This girl Karan was definitely going to get beaten by Fuyuarashi later; he could only hope she would be a bit more submissive when the time came.
"Come on, let's get this over with. After the fight, I need to go back and continue eating my barbecue," Retsu said to Fuyuarashi in a casual tone.
"Hmph, arrogant!" Fuyuarashi snorted coldly and stopped being polite. The ice spear in her hand shot out instantly, piercing straight toward his chest.
"Kamui!" Facing the rapidly approaching ice spear, the Mangekyo Sharingan in Retsu's eyes spun rapidly. A spatial vortex flashed and vanished at the tip of the ice spear, and the spear was instantly swallowed by Kamui, disappearing without a trace.
"A spatial ability?" Seeing the ice spear disappear, Fuyuarashi's expression remained calm and she was not surprised.
She had already seen the scene of Retsu taking things out of space just now, and instantly understood what had happened.
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