「頭が派手に足りんのと違うか？　命要らんのならそう言えや」
　粉塵立ち込める帳を見下ろし、舞殿の屋根に腰掛けているのは蜥蜴[トカゲ]を思わせる痩身の男だった。伝法な口調で悪罵を叩き、手にした煙管を弄んでいる。
　その佇まいは弛緩して、なんら威圧を感じさせない。だがこの場にあってまったく気負いがないという事実だけで、男が常人でないことは明白だろう。
　糸のような目をさらに細めて、男は続けた。

「が、しぶとい。凌ぎおったか。やるのう」
　同時に、銃火が百花繚乱と狂い咲いた。
　耳を聾するその轟音に重なって、剣戟にも似た金属の調べが雷雨さながらに木霊する。キーラを槍衾にしていた刃の山が、一本も残らず砕かれたのだ。
　のみならず、舞殿の屋根に在る男へ向けて凶弾の嵐は飛来する。しかしそれは、寸前でそこに壁でもあるかのように悉くが弾かれた。
　いや、違う――壁ではない。

　鬼がいる。
　主を守るかのごとく、射線上に立ちはだかっている鬼面の女が存在した。
  身に寸鉄すら帯びていない丸腰で、ゆらゆらと陽炎のように朧な姿を結びながら、しかし見る者の呼吸ごと止めかねない妖気を全身から放っている。
　先の銃撃を完全に打ち落としたのはこの鬼か。そうとしか思えなかったが、その手段が分からない。刹那にも満たない攻防は魔的すぎて、余人の理解を超えている。
　そもそもの発端であった白刃の乱舞を成したのがコレだとすれば、同じ業をもって防いだのかもしれないが、しかしだとしたら剣は何処だ？　見えない。まったく目に映らない。
　これではまるで――

｢Do you differ from not sufficing of the head showily?The command can say so if it does not need. ｣
It was a man of weight reduction to think of the lizard skink that it looked down at the notebook that shrouded dust, and sat on the roof of the hall for Shinto music and dance. [De] of ..impetuous.. tone abuse is beaten, and the obtained pipe cheating on train fares is played with.
Because the atmosphere slackens, I do not feel any overpowering. However, it might be clear that it is neither a fact that there is not eager in this place at all alone a man is nor an ordinary man.
Eyes like the string were narrowed further, and a man continued.

｢However, it is tenacious. Do it surpass and did it pursu it?Had pus｣
Gunfire went mad and bloomed with 100 [hana**ran] at the same time.
The examination of the metal like to [tsurugi**] coming in succession in the roaring sound that deafens the ear echoes to thunderstorm [sanagara]. All as much as one mountain of the blade that made Kyra [yari**] was crushed.
The not only?but, the storm of [kyouhi] comes flying for a man who exists in the roof of the hall for Shinto music and dance. However, all [ga] bullets have withered there immediately before like the wall, too as for it.
No, it is different. ――It is not a wall.

There is a demon.
The woman of the blocked devil mask existed in hit [sen] the defense of the main.
[**ki] that might be stopped at each breath of the person who waveringly connects an appearance as dim as the heat haze with the body without swords not to have worn even the pithy saying and sees has been shot from the whole body.
Is it this demon that completely struck down the previous gunfire?The means is not understood though it was possible to think only that way. The offense and defense that does not come up even to the moment is does a manitou, and is beyond the other people' understanding.
Where is does it do and the sword if it is an oak though might to begin with have the same industry if it is [kore] to drink and to have danced the dazzling sword that the beginning wildly and prevented?It does not see it. It does not reflect at all.
With this,――