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The night air was cold, thick with the cold scent of the snow that is soon to come in the next season. It is also smelling of ashes.
Ashes.
Ashes coming from far ahead. An unshakable paint that colored the entire sky red and left one petrified where they stood.
Ashes that evoke fear on any normal human, a force of nature that strikes curiosity in any nearby looker.
Luckily, kusuriuri Kon is no ordinary human.
He moved towards the source of the flames with the practiced ease of a man who has witnessed a thousand cities burn through the course of his lengthy lifespan.
Though neither is Kon the type to be utterly immune to curiosity. No, that is not him.
What could it be this time?
Locals moved in a blur around him, dozens of citizens rushing away from the flames, each person voicing their own individual complaint. Their voices mended into one minor sound at the back of his mind, never once taking away his focus.
It’s a Mononoke, of that I can be sure.
Kon stopped in front of the tall building from which the flames came from. A hotel. He looked around.
No matter how strong it is…
And he stepped inside.
The Mononoke will be exorcised.