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[Lily POV]

I stood still, my breath heavy as power flooded over my head. Flames roared around the area. Consuming the world in its flames.

The buildings around had already burned to the ground. An irrational anger held tight to my chest as I remembered that my dear Inari was there. My master.

But he was not dead, he could not be. He was too strong willed for that, too thick headed. I smiled, a sardonic one that didn't quite reach the edges of my mouth.

Standing, staring at the very being that had done this. That had created this madness.

It roared, telling of some sort of rage. Its gaze held far into the distance. Where that was, I could not tell. But I knew that even with all of the force focused on it, of all the deadly forces that I focused on it.

I knew that if it were so focused on something else. That j needed to protect that something else. Lest it end up in the hands of that being. Of the boy.