"Was that vile fish always this beautiful?"
Upon seeing Isohime emerge from the grand hall, Kanihime's mouth hung open slightly, her stunned silence lasting quite a while.
The drastic transformation of her sworn enemy following the rite of succession as King was too great; had she not been forewarned, she wouldn't have been able to recognize her as the same person.
The original Isohime took the form of a malevolent sea demon, exuding a gloomy and violent aura.
But now, the tall figure who walked out from within the Munakata Shrine exuded nothing but nobility, ethereality, and purity—
The small pair of horns atop her head became translucent and tinted with a pale red hue, resembling gemstones or coral.
