The swayed in Kohara Asami's hand.
The lantern wasn't lit, with only a writhing mass of pitch-black darkness under its shade.
In the next second, the bottomless blackness extended outward from the , spreading toward the mountain forest.
The forest fire that had been raging moments ago was quickly engulfed.
The flames were swallowed into the darkness, and both light and heat vanished in an instant.
After extinguishing the surrounding forest fire, Kohara started her motorbike again, leaving behind only charred remnants of trees and blackened soil, stripped of warmth, cold and eerily quiet, with faint wisps of smoke drifting into the night.
The wildfire threatening Shouka and her group was thus swiftly extinguished.
"Meow—!"
The Train Cat Demon sensed something amiss, and the wooden wheels beneath it started turning again.
Yet the flames on those massive wooden wheels were also snuffed out by the , leaving them lifeless and devoid of their previous intensity.
