Chapter 59 Izayoi: Yes, sir.

Chapter 59 Izayoi: Yes, sir.

Huangquan Town, near the Great Evil Tangju.

"Come to think of it, I thought your mountain group had their own mission, but I didn't expect you to follow so actively."

After meeting Youyu and others at the entrance of Huangquan Town, Linglan looked at Shizayoi who was unexpectedly quiet and followed Youyu closely, and exclaimed in surprise.

"The responsibility of the Mountain Group is to obey the orders of the head of the family. I am participating in the Devil Game according to the head of the family's instructions. My fundamental purpose is to come to Huangquan Town. Since there is no conflict between our goals, I can naturally act with you."

Izayoi still had that calm and serious look on his face, his hand resting on the hilt of the sword beside him, but his eyes were fixed straight ahead, looking quite deliberate.

You Yu complained speechlessly: "Is your head of the family right between us? I dare not look over here no matter how hard I try."

It was rare for Shizaye to not argue with him. He just glanced at Youyu coldly, said, "You don't understand," and walked forward.

The mottled night sky was already stained with a few traces of stars, but Huangquan Town was still brightly lit. The snow on the ground was simply swept away by each bathhouse, and the compacted snow was barely turned into a road. Apart from that, it looked exactly the same as when they first arrived here.

But...it's not exactly the same.

Beautiful fireworks rose in the sky above the night island in the distance, but the distance of a tram line divided the two worlds. On one side was the reality wrapped in the beautiful atmosphere of neon signs and fireworks festivals, and on the other side was the front line of the struggle where one had to race against time to duel with the devil's apostles.

"Hurry up! You guys will be in trouble if you delay tonight's important event!"

Saotome Rin showed an ugly expression when passing by the bathhouse where they lived. Everyone stopped at the same time. A man wearing the clothes of a soup worker of the Great Evil Hot Spring House dragged out several people from the ramen shop downstairs of the bathhouse. They were obviously the staff of the bathhouse. The people of the Great Evil Hot Spring House had an ugly expression on their faces: "If those people hadn't suddenly come to Huangquan Town, the free 'soup ingredients' pulled in by Mr. Kisaragi Maru would be missing, and we wouldn't need you to make up the numbers. You should be happy to be able to participate in and witness tonight's great cause!"

Kisaragi's men dragged those people to the street, cursing. The soup workers of the Great Evil Hot Spring who looked obviously abnormal were standing around, ready to drag those normal people directly to the Great Evil Hot Spring.

"Robbing people in broad daylight, isn't that a bit too arrogant?"

Linglan clenched the fork in her hand, her face grim. Although the people who were dragged away did not look like normal people, they were taken away by the people from the evil bathhouse, and the owner of the bathhouse did not seem to mind at all, and even watched with a smile. This was a bit too...

"It seems that every bathhouse in Huangquan Town has a cooperative relationship with the Great Evil Bathhouse, or maybe they are all subordinate units of the Great Evil Bathhouse."

Shuise touched his chin. The other bathhouse owners around him did not show any surprise at the scene. Some even smiled, as if what the bathhouse workers were going to face next was a great honor.

Shuise was keenly aware of the undercurrents between everyone in this small town. It was not a normal competitive relationship, but a symbiotic relationship that was forced together. When one prospers, all prosper; when one suffers, all suffer. Because the hot spring resources and effects here were coveted by the so-called bigwigs of Yedao's upper class, everyone's hot spring business was no longer a business, but something that had to be done in order to survive.

"Then I'll leave these people to you."

The bathhouse owner with gray hair smiled and waved to Kisaragi's subordinates. Mizuiro and Suzuran still remembered how kind the other party was when they were looking for a bathhouse on the first night. He lit a lamp in the snow, which illuminated the snow like the sun in the daytime among the bathhouse owners who drove them away because the rooms were full, and invited them to stay in his bathhouse.

"Hey, isn't this Miss Suzuran and Mr. Mizuiro? Oh, and Xiaolin, you three are finally back after a day out? How was it? Was Huangquan Town fun?"

As if he noticed someone was looking at him, the amiable old man turned around and walked to the ramen stand in front of his store. "The stand will be open soon. I don't know if you guys have eaten after playing for so long today. If you haven't, come to my place and have a bowl of ramen. Don't worry, it's included in the room rate."

The old man waved to Linglan and the other two, looking just like a grandfather next door, his eyes full of doting on the younger generation. However, when they thought about how he had just pushed the soup maker in his shop to Kisaragi's subordinates, and how the evil Yuju had used people as inducements to stimulate the activity of the hot spring last night, everyone present could only stand still, unable to move.

Especially the three people in Shui Se who had stayed in the bathhouse of the old man who ran the ramen stall for a night, their faces looked as ugly as snow.

"Sorry, Grandpa, we still have some things to deal with at the Great Evil Soup Residence."

Suzuran was the first to step forward. She waved her hand reluctantly to say goodbye. The old man at the ramen stall did not say anything, so the others quickly followed Suzuran's footsteps and walked towards the Great Evil Hot Spring at the other end of the street. After they had taken several steps, a hoarse murmur that was not human suddenly came from the ramen stall, which was so quiet that only the sound of boiling soup could be heard.

"Why are you so disobedient? Didn't you hear me? Didn't grandpa ask you to eat ramen?"

The voice was old and full of malice, like a crawling snake. Just hearing it made people feel cold down their spines and feel nauseous as if there were many worms crawling on their bone marrow.

"sieve---"

"Lily of the Valley!"

There was a sound of a huge object sweeping across the snow. The huge blood-red snake tail swept away all the people gathered together with its terrible impact force. Even the blood butterflies had to flee backwards. The team that was torn apart scattered, and the strange giant snake formed by solidified flesh and blood pointed directly at the lily of the valley at the front of the team.

"The damned thing—"

Linglan turned around cursing, ready to block the attack with a fork in hand, but she only heard a "swoosh" sound. The scene in front of her almost made her unable to believe her eyes.

The originally weak and timid silver-haired girl had almost become a different person. Her eyes and brows were as sharp as frosty blades. She leaned over and slid forward, accurately predicting the position of Blood Butterfly's retreat. At the moment when their figures intersected, she quickly pulled out the knife from Blood Butterfly's side, just like in slow motion in a movie.

The simple and quaint, snow-white blade flashed with two eyes of white light in an instant. Even Mizuiro's sharpest eyes could not track Saotome Rin's figure. The girl turned into a snow-white light, blending into the snow, and cut a beautiful cross of sword light on the squirming flesh monster.

No one could catch sight of her figure until a subtle sound like a titmouse landing on the snow came from the ground. You Yu and the others all looked in the direction of the only subtle sound that they could catch.

The girl in the dark blue uniform knelt on one knee, and she slowly pushed the sharp knife into the scabbard at her side - that was the position where Xuedie had judged Saotome Rin's position by observing the traces of the knife with her naked eyes and threw it to her.

Saotome Rin ended the attack with a standard Iai-slash move. Suzuran even heard in a trance that when the sword and the sword guard closed, the sound was not the sound of metal colliding, but a sharp sound of a drum.

"Oh no! It's still moving!"

Mizuiro stared at the strange snake with a grim expression, which was bleeding as if its skin had been peeled off. Although Saotome Rin took action, the bloody monster snake summoned by the owner of the bathhouse behind him was still wriggling rapidly, as if it was planning its next attack.

"Don't worry, there's no way a slash like this will go wrong."

Izayoi was calm and composed, and his good mood comforted Mizuiro. Youyu even saw a hint of subtle pride in his eyes.

"Eleven Characters Slash."

At the moment when the knife returned to the scabbard, Saotome Rin spoke softly. The next second, as if it had just realized that it had been stabbed, the huge monster snake let out a sharp scream. Countless horizontal "one"-shaped knife lights lit up on the giant snake. Before the giant snake could attack, it turned into a pile of minced meat and fell in the air.

Ichimonji Slash, one of the most famous slicing techniques in Yoshima Kendo, got its name because the knife mark resembles the number "one". If the attack of the blood butterfly is the unpredictable flying of a butterfly, then Saotome Rin is the most standard Yoshima warrior. Her movements are even more standard than Izayoi's. With the methodical style unique to Yoshima warriors, she completed ten Ichimonji Slashes in the blink of an eye.

Saotome Rin stood up and looked at the old man who was still standing there cooking ramen with a serious expression.

"Leave him to me to stop him. You guys go to the Great Evil Hot Spring and release the ingredients. Don't let the conspiracy of the person behind the scenes succeed. Kisaragi Maru has even asked his subordinates to come out and collect the ingredients. Apparently, the bigwigs are about to start their collective plan of using human flesh and blood to increase the concentration of the hot spring for the last time, thereby achieving eternal youth and immortality."

"You know it very well."

The old man turned the long wooden chopsticks around in the pot, his voice still kind.

"Of course...you told me all these plans."

Saotome Rin slowly drew out her sword and pointed it in front of herself. That was the most standard starting move in Yedao Kendo.

"After all... we meet again after a long time, teacher, or rather, my father's guest of honor... Mr. Tang."

Saotome Rin said so.

"I remember... in the story of Huangquan Town that Yangyan told, the daughter of the previous head of the Yamagumi worshipped Tangzhu as her kendo teacher? If this old man is Tangzhu, the culprit of Huangquan Town, then Miss Saotome Rin is actually the daughter of the previous head of the Yamagumi?"

Youyu looked at Suzuran and Mizuiro in shock. Mizuiro was relatively accepting of Saotome Rin's identity, but Suzuran was obviously shocked as well. After all, this was the first time they met a real rich girl.

No wonder Izayoi has that attitude.

"Yes. The knife is also her soul weapon, so I said it is a good knife. She has been investigating the whereabouts of Master Tang. Now, it is just right to return it to its original owner."

Xuedie nodded seriously. Ever since the Huangquan Town incident 8 years ago, Saotome Rin, who escaped from Huangquan Town and lost her father, chose to gather her father's remnants and have them managed by her father's subordinate Izayoi. She herself hid in Tanghong High School as a student, investigating the whereabouts of Tangzhu who caused the Huangquan Town tragedy.

Yang Yan and Xue Die, who also escaped from Huangquan Town, were absorbed by the Sun Law Enforcement Bureau and the Sun Metropolitan Police Department respectively. A good sword will lose its edge if it does not drink blood, but it is obviously impossible for an ordinary high school student to own the ancestral sword "Tang Hongshan Zhan" of the Yamagumi lady. In order to hide her identity, Saotome Rin even gave her ancestral sword to Xue Die, who had no soul weapon, and became the best "companion" who accompanied Xue Die in countless missions.

Although Tang Zhu disappeared after the Huangquan Town incident, along with the bigwigs of Yedao's upper society who participated in the Huangquan Town incident, neither Yangyan, Xuedie, nor Saotome Rin gave up their obsession to find the real murderer.

After parting at Huangquan Town, they never met again and only communicated through the Internet. However, as they grew up over the past 8 years, no one wavered in their will.

but……

Mizuiro and Suzuran thought of the weak Saotome Rin who was frightened by the will-o'-the-wisp on the tram track. No matter how you put it, doesn't this rich girl have too much conviction as an actress?

"I see. I was wondering why you deliberately stopped in front of my bathhouse and chose my bathhouse with those two children."

The old man, no, the master of the soup, turned off the fire. He turned around and looked at his former student, with terrifying scales rising around his eyes.

"But how did you recognize me? There are at least a hundred bathhouses in Huangquan Town."

Saotome Rin took a deep breath and said, "Because I saw with my own eyes the owner of this ramen shop burn to death in the fire in Huangquan Town, and you are completely different from him."

At that time, she and Yangyan escaped from the hot spring on the top of the shrine mountain and ran on the streets of Huangquan Town. They saw countless people struggling in the sea of ​​fire, and it was a luxury for her and Yangyan to take care of themselves.

The original owner of this ramen shop was one of the shadows dancing in the flames, trembling due to the extreme heat.

She knew the real owner of this ramen shop. Even if she had to do it all over again, she would not see the familiar and disgusting look in front of her.

"Okay, okay... I've been wondering all these years who the new leader of the Yamagumi is. He's so powerful that he managed to maintain the Yamagumi's position in the night of Night Island and continue to share the responsibility of light and darkness with the Sun Metropolitan Police Department. I didn't expect it to be you, my student who could only flee in the flames."

The old man raised his head, and blood and flesh began to wriggle horribly on his body: "But do you think you can stop me, stop your teacher?"

The owner of the soup narrowed his eyes, and from the evil soup house not far away, a strong smell of blood came along the street.

"Rin is buying us time, let's go!"

Youyu was the first to rush towards the Great Evil Hot Spring, Xuedie was completely confident in Saotome Rin, Suzuran hesitated for a moment, and still followed her companions from the detective agency. Only Izayoi put his hand on the scabbard, as if to draw the sword.

"Izayoi, help me, stop him!"

Saotome Rin rushed towards the soup master who was trying to summon the huge flesh and blood monster snake again.

The corners of Izayoi's mouth curled up into an incredible smile, and he spoke word by word the name that frightened countless people in the dark night of Yedao: "Yes, sir."

"The head of the family."

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