Otaku Witch

At night, this should be the busiest time for the Yin Yang Bureau, the night watch organization of Japan.

Normally, Onmyoji would spend the night outwitting and battling those Demon Hundred Spirits who prefer to roam about at night, preventing those fellows corroded by Demon Nature from causing trouble everywhere.

But tonight, the Yin Yang Bureau is rather quiet.

It's not that something happened to the Onmyoji, in fact, it is the Demon Hundred Spirits that had an incident.

No one knows what happened, but for the past two months, the nights in Japan have been eerily peaceful, and those Hundred Spirits and Demons who often appeared from nowhere and caused trouble are now suddenly nowhere to be found.

This made the Onmyoji, especially the members of the special action task force of the Elite Ace Team, very uncomfortable.

Usually, at this time, they should be busy, but now they can only stay at the bureau and guard the night shift.

After all, as the Ace Team, ordinary trivial matters don't require them to step in at all.

"Ah, so boring, can a demon come and fight me?"

A bored Onmyoji expressed this sentiment.

"Haha, Kaori, that wish of yours isn't likely, it's better for us to be a bit idle, otherwise needing us to move out is not a good thing."

The deputy captain of the special action team, Kamo Aki, reprimanded this sister who was speaking nonsense.

It's often the Great Demons that require them to take action, and the destructiveness caused by an out-of-control Great Demon is considerable, needless to say. Even if they managed to subdue the Great Demon, there would surely be a lot of victims before they arrived.

So, it's better to be a bit idle.

"Aki-nee, I'm just saying it, but I can't figure out where all those Demon Hundred Spirits went. If it continues like this, we might all become unemployed."

The girl named Saionji Kaori lay bored on the table, her cute, slightly chubby baby-face pressed against the tabletop.

She didn't even bother to turn over to face her deputy captain, just complained like this.

In response, Kamo Aki remained silent for a moment. She glanced at the door of the Bureau Chief's office not far away and then sighed inwardly.

Isn't it possible that to prevent the Yin Yang Bureau from becoming unemployed, there were so many out-of-control Demon Hundred Spirits in the past?

Ever since the Family Head, Kamo Tadayuki, was killed by that terrifying Ghost King, Kamo Aki and Abe Seimei have been sorting through the Family Head's belongings, and in the diary he left behind, the two discovered an earth-shattering secret.

A significant portion of those countless out-of-control Hundred Spirits in the past was actually manipulated by the Yin Yang Bureau from behind the scenes.

If the world were so peaceful that everyone could move freely at night, what would they need the Yin Yang Bureau for?

No demand, then create demand.

Moreover, those out-of-control Hundred Spirits are also good materials, good for practicing Hyakki Buddhist Dharma and refining Demon Buddha Form. Over the years, aside from a portion becoming the Onmyoji's Shikigami, most of the detained Demon Hundred Spirits were secretly sent to the dungeon under the Heaven's Guard Pavilion, serving as resources for the former Great General to cultivate the Demon Buddha Form.

In short, the various things recorded in that diary are truly shocking, almost causing Kamo Aki to have a breakdown of faith.

She always believed that Onmyoji were truly the Guardians of the Night in Heian-kyo, and she always felt proud to be an Onmyoji. Although she was somewhat aware of the dark side of the Chinese Clan, knowing that the so-called Chinese Clan was not as glamorous and clean as it appeared on the surface, she never imagined that her own family was so dirty.

The countless crimes of cultivating Hundred Spirits, and turning them out-of-control into Demons documented in that diary, are endless; this isn't a Guardian of the Night for Heian-kyo, but a factory for hatching Evil Ghosts.

Fortunately, it's all over now.

The Family Head Kamo Tadayuki, who once presided over Evil Ghost cultivation, is dead, and the Great General, who was secretly practicing Demon Buddha Form, was also killed by the terrifying foreign Ghost King. The nights in Japan have finally become peaceful.

Although the Onmyoji have indeed been idle as a result, even facing unemployment pressure, it doesn't matter. Kamo Aki quite enjoys this peace.

Both she and Master Seimei did consider whether to make this former sin public, ultimately deciding to bear it silently themselves.

After all, Japan is already chaotic enough right now; if there were a calamity from the Yin Yang Bureau, it would truly become a chaotic mess.

Moreover, the fundamental existence of the Yin Yang Bureau is based on the Shikigami system driven by Hundred Spirits. If those dirty past actions were made public, aren't the Shikigami likely to pounce on their masters first?

Plus, Onmyoji themselves have long shared the pressure of Demon Nature from the Shikigami, and it is indeed easy to lose control. This stimulus may trigger faith collapse, leading to them turning dark — then, the trouble would be significant, a real double chaos.

Even Kamo Aki herself was once on the verge of losing control upon seeing that diary. Fortunately, Master Seimei was by her side, suppressing her, preventing her from causing trouble.

So, considering the big picture, all they can do is to try their best to restructure this decayed Yin Yang Bureau and transform it into a true Guardian of the Night in Japan.