Chapter 95

Ino fights to live up to Nanami's faith against the curse users on Shibuya Tower, while Yuji and Megumi find Awasaka far harder to deal with than expected. The sorcerers want a quick finish, but the curse users have their own surprises ready.

A flashback shows Nanami over a meal telling Ino that his innate technique could lift him to semi-grade 1 in no time, yet Ino has always insisted the recommendation come from Nanami himself. Doing the work properly matters to him, especially in a thankless line of work, and whenever he is unsure he simply asks himself what Nanami would do. On the tower, cursed energy pours off him as he activates Auspicious Beasts Summon, a seance technique that lets him channel four beasts, Kaichi, Reiki, Kirin, and Ryu, by concealing his face. He fires Kaichi's homing horn, but the grandson shields Ogami with his own body while she clasps her prayer beads and begins an incantation.

Below on the expressway, Yuji and Megumi press Awasaka alongside Divine Dog: Totality, finding the fighting easy but the coordination hard. Awasaka cuts Yuji only at skin depth and gets snared by Megumi's Toad, which hurls him into a bridge above, yet he walks away unharmed despite blows that should injure even a special grade. The two realize they are wasting the time they cannot spare.

Atop the tower, Ino keeps winning the close exchanges with Reiki, telling himself to grasp the facts and shed his ego, but the grandson is too weak to be the real threat, which leaves him uneasy. The realization comes too late: Ogami's conditions are met, her cursed energy surges, and the grandson swallows a pill, then catches Kaichi's horn barehanded. Folding her hands one last time, Ogami uses her grandson's body to revive Toji Zenin. As the boy's features twist into Toji's, the resurrected sorcerer grins that this is the best feeling ever.