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There was no mistaking his identity. This student was The Yoko Kurama. His aura confirmed it.

Shippo had been lucky enough to have witnessed Yoko's power when he was younger and his real parents were still alive.

It was the same as today, if not stronger.

The stories say that Yoko was one of the most powerful kitsunes. There shouldn't be a reason for him to hide in a human illusion.

No. Not an illusion, he corrected. The body was too real -too human- to be fake. His youkai energy was barely detectable; even Shippo had believed that the student merely had a youkai ancestor when he first saw him.

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