807 Because I saw the future (1/2)

Douman Ashiya was truly an evil person.

He was actually far more evil than in the fictionalized stories about him. He was unmistakably and incurably evil!

But, that would only be from the normal ”human” standpoint.

Douman Ashiya was incredibly cruel towards humans, including even his own children. He basically didn't have a single moral value that normal people would have, which was why he could only be described using adjectives such as ”insane” and ”evil”. However, he was actually quite gentle and magnanimous towards non-humans—basically, demons and other spiritual creatures.

Normally speaking, if there was a fight between humans and demons, spiritual ability users would be on the humans' side. However, Douman Ashiya was the opposite. He always acted for the sake of demons. In fact, there were even multiple confirmed examples in history of him slaughtering an entire village for the sake a demon.

Without a doubt, a Yin Yang Master like Douman Ashiya would become enemies with all spiritual ability users who were on the side of good. However, Douman Ashiya just happened to be incredibly strong with countless demon subordinates. No ordinary spiritual ability user would be even close to being an opponent for him.

Seimei Kamijou was the only person who was powerful enough to stop him.

The end result of the final duel between the two strongest Yin Yang Masters of their era was that Seimei Kamijou destroyed Douman's cultivation level. Seimei then placed a powerful seal on Douman before having him exiled.

As for what happened to this ”evilest” Yin Yang Master afterwards, there were countless rumors. Some said that he died pathetically, some said that he became a demon, some said that he regretted his past deeds, and some said that he used evil arts to extend his life… There was no verifiable record of what happened to him in history.

However, it was indeed known that he had left descendants behind.

If only Douman Ashiya had been a normal Yin Yang Master, perhaps the seven major families of today would instead be the eight major families. However, he was not a good Yin Yang Master. His descendants were forced to bear a heavy burden due to having such a notoriously evil ancestor.

Seiji didn't know very much about Sakura Island's version of the history between Douman Ashiya and Abe no Seimei (Seimei Kamijou). He had learned all this while previously chatting with Natsuya before. He didn't have a deep understanding of just what exactly the family name ”Ashiya” meant in the spiritual society.

Seiji was curious, but he knew that now was a bad time to provoke Voidfire, so he let this topic go.

It didn't seem like Voidfire minded… but maybe he did, and just wasn't showing it.

Not only that, was it possible that Kamitani wanted Seiji to contact Voidfire in the previous timeline because of this connection? Intentionally having the descendants of two mortal enemies meet each other indeed seemed like something that would fit that bastard Kamitani's interests.

”Thank you for telling me.” Seiji paused for a moment. ”Will it be alright if I continue addressing you as Voidfire-san?”

”As you wish,” Dousei Ashiya—Voidfire—spoke in a light tone.

”Voidfire-san, I'd like to ask, where is Itsuki Kamitani? Did he not come together with you?”

”I don't want such a thing to follow me around.”

He actually called Kamitani ”such a thing…” Seiji's lips arched upward.

It would seem that Kamitani wasn't liked by Voidfire. The fact that Kamitani had succeeded in calling Voidfire here to meet a stranger must have been hard on him.

Kamitani: It's good that you understand. Please be gentler to me~

Seiji: Shut up and get the hell away from me.

That above conversation was imagined by Seiji.

”What do you want from me, Seiji Haruta?” Voidfire asked him.

”I want to convince you not to attack Soul Society, because this attack is destined to fail with catastrophic results,” Seiji spoke in a serious tone.

”Why do you say that?”

”Because I saw the future.”

Voidfire fell silent for a moment.

”Is your prophecy one hundred percent accurate?” Voidfire questioned.

”It is,” Seiji unhesitatingly agreed.

This was as much as he could afford to explain.

Making prophecies was an important role for spiritual ability users in ancient times. There were prophecy spells for major national affairs or simple daily life questions. Alternatively, this was also known as fortune telling.