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[Lili pov]

I took a deep breath, breathing in the toxic smoke that had come from that fire. The explosive wood and stone that had been pulled from the ground by that…

That explosion. For a moment I just closed my eyes. Let the dark take my vision for a moment.

Then after… I opened them and watched the sweat pour down Inari's forehead, the way that he focused his power amongst the flames.

An iteration that I had not seen before. Yes, I had seen that destructive power of his within the war. But not this.

This control of his was greater than I had ever seen. Pulling flames that were not his. Extinguishing them with but a thought.

It was so different than the complete destruction that he would usually reign m.

So when he took control of the flames m, starting to swirl them into a huge ball in the sky.

It was then that the particles of fire fell from the sky.

Bang