Put That Fire Out

Momo edges closer to dousing both the blaze and the molten flow with help from the dead Tsuchinoko, yet the Kito Family rounds on her for misusing the creature and claiming credit for the village's rescue. A shrine priest she encountered before steps between them, admitting that he too studies under Seiko and was sent to guard the teenagers.

When the Evil Eye returns to wreck the corpse and strike the clan, Momo shoves the priest and clan head aside with her powers, pleads for the spirit to quit harming people through Jiji, and asks after Okarun, but it ignores her every word. The clan head heaps blame on Momo, telling her to set her resentment aside as the spirit charges in to strike them.

The clan disrupts her firefighting, yet Manjiro the priest rescues her and confesses that Seiko trained him. Once she returns to spraying phlegm across the lava, the spirit goes after the Great Serpent's body and the Kitos alike. A clash erupts that pits Momo, Manjiro, Naki Kito, Seiko, the Mantisian, and Taro against the Evil Eye. The trio of Momo, Manjiro, and Naki scrape through the assault and steel themselves for round two.

Spanning nineteen pages, this Volume 6 installment sits within the Cursed House Arc under the Kintama Hunt Saga and reached print on March 1, 2022. Episode 16 covers its events. Its cast features Momo Ayase, the Great Serpent, Naki Kito and the wider Kito Family, Manjiro, a flashback of Seiko Ayase, the Evil Eye, Jiji as the possessed host, and a mention of Okarun.