Who is Izanami?

In addition to the legend known to all Japanese people, she is also the first airborne leader of Yomi. It seems that in order to take care of Kuen's situation, Kizuki asked the demon who led the way to describe Izanami's experience to him.

This made him feel a little amused and helpless.

...It feels like a child who has run away from home for many years and meets a neighbor on the way back home. The neighbor keeps asking you "how are your family members" and observing your expression from time to time.

But what he found most incredible were the stone pillars on both sides of the long corridor in front of Izanami Palace. Even from the perspective of modern art aesthetics, they were quite exaggerated.

The two rows of colorful cat heads are still giving off a disgusting laugh, but after looking at them for a long time, there is actually a subtle feeling of disgusting cuteness...

"Does Lady Izanami like this style?" he asked the little devil next to him.

The latter obviously knew something about the situation, and whispered, "I heard that some time ago, Lady Izanami came to Lord Kizuna and said that she was tired of the door decoration after so many years and wanted to change the style..."

Jiuyuan: “…I see.”

Just when he was about to send the demon soldier back and was thinking about whether to go forward at the door, he didn't expect that the main door of Izanami Palace would open directly.

A woman with light orange hair came out. She had no pupils and her entire eyes were pure white, which was completely different from that of ordinary people.

But after seeing Jiuyuan, the woman said "Oh?" and seemed not surprised by his arrival.

"What? It's Jiuyuan." She said casually.

The demon soldier beside him bowed respectfully and said, "Lord Izanami." Then he said to Kuen, "Then I will leave first."

"What's wrong? Why do you look so strange?" Izanami came forward and asked casually in a natural tone, "Is your reaction to seeing me so subtle?"

Jiu Yuan didn't seem uncomfortable seeing the big shot, he nodded respectfully: "Hello."

Seeing him like this, Izanami covered her lips with her sleeves, "...What's your reaction?"

Izanami was very familiar with his reaction, and when Jiuyuan combined it with the previous reactions of Kizuna and Yanma Daioh, he became more certain that he had an extraordinary origin.

But he had never heard of any character in myths or legends that could match him.

Could it be that the hell became related to me only after it was built?

Maybe I am just one of the ghosts?

These thoughts only lasted for a moment, and Jiuyuan simply gave up thinking about it - anyway, he couldn't guess anything with the information he had now. Instead, every time he met someone, everyone acted as if they knew him, which made him a little itchy.

"Lord Izanami." He adjusted his expression and said again: "Excuse me, I don't know if there is something wrong with my memory, may I ask... do we know each other?"

After hearing what he said, Izanami raised her eyebrows, with an expression that said, "What nonsense are you talking about again?"

"...Memory? Let me see..." As she said this, she came forward.

Although they were close to each other, Jiuyuan did not have the same feeling as usual when facing the opposite sex. Instead, he felt like wanting to get close to the other person.

He thought: ...But aren't all Izanami's relatives written about in mythology? I've never heard of a person like me.

Izanami: "So that's how it is. You have sealed your own memories as well. However, this is a restriction you set yourself, and I cannot help you remove it."

Jiuyuan muttered to himself - I am just an ordinary high school boy, what skills can I have?

But he didn't show any expression on his face. He asked softly, "Excuse me, Master Izanami, how can I remove my restriction?"

Izanami said as a matter of course, "You should ask yourself. However, since you set it up yourself, it will give you hints, right? Isn't it okay to just follow the hints?"

After that, she changed the subject -

"I didn't expect you to ask me for help. You look pretty endearing when you have no memory."

After listening to this, Jiuyuan combined it with what King Yanmo said about pulling out his beard, and he had a better grasp of his own image.

Kuen: ...Well, it seems like he might have been a very noisy character in the past.

"I see. Thank you."

"No, I'm not used to your seriousness." She said, "Although I can't get my memory back for a while, it's okay to tell you the rest now. The guidance of fate is very strong. No matter what, you were born because of me, and you are like a child to me."

Even Kuen, who had been involved in a lot of messes, felt a little stuck in his head after hearing Izanami's words, which roughly meant "You are my son."

--he?

Izanami's child?

Seeing the boy pause for a moment, Izanami found it interesting. She continued, "You know, right? In the myth, that guy didn't keep his promise and took the initiative to peek at me in the underworld—"

The "that guy" she was referring to was of course Izanagi, who had made an agreement with her not to peek but couldn't help himself.

"Unfortunately, the Ugly Lady of Yomi and the God of Thunder that I sent to hunt him down returned in vain, and Yomi's demon soldiers were unable to stop him either... Well, he is Izanagi after all, but I still couldn't forgive him, so I chased him to Yomi Hirasaka myself, but was stopped by Senbiki..."

"When I was at Yomi Hirasaka, part of the resentment I carried merged with the resentful souls, ghost girls, and will-o'-the-wisp in Yomi, and a new existence was born—"

Jiuyuan considered and said: "...Is it me?"

"Of course." Izanami did not keep it a secret, "Although I did not give birth to him personally, he was born because of me. From the perspective of cause and effect and fate, he is naturally my child."

“…Is that so?”

Jiuyuan thought about it and felt that he was like a hidden character who had no place in the official history but existed in unofficial history.

Well, that doesn't sound bad?

From this point of view, the surname Huang Quanchuan was probably chosen by him.

"That's not a big deal to me..." Izanami held her chin with one hand and looked at Kuen and said, "But you seem to be a little concerned about your origins... Since you have sealed your memories yourself, it seems that you don't care about it anymore."

After all, Kuen has no memories of his own, so he tried to put himself in the shoes of "himself" mentioned by Izanami and think about why he cares about his background.

The children born by Izanami are basically all well-known characters in mythology, but she herself was just a being born by chance from the combination of resentment and resentful souls. The contrast is indeed a bit big.

Jiuyuan thought: Could it be that this is the reason why I was so unlucky and had no fortune in the past...?

Izanami turned her head to look at the boy in front of her: "However, decades ago you ran away from home saying you had something to do... Maybe that's why you sealed your memory."

Kuen: "Didn't I even tell you?"

Izanami: “Not at all.”

Izanami had an expression that said, "It's normal for children to have their own ideas," and didn't care about the matter at all.

It could also be that she thought that no matter what Jiuyuan did, nothing would happen, and it would be okay to just let him do whatever he wanted.

Kuen: ...I'm starting to get curious about what I want to do.

He now suspected that the so-called "system" must know something, and the content set in the system's rewards might be his own former slush fund.

He wondered with a smile, what is this? Working for yourself?

So what was his real purpose in going through so much trouble?

He thought of the most important indicator in the system - reputation.

And the mysterious reward that can be obtained by achieving reputation points...

Kuen: ...I really set a troublesome game for myself.

But he became more and more curious about what he wanted to do, to the point of going through so much trouble. Moreover, although he had such good connections (referring to the underworld and his mother), he had no intention of using them.

In other words, the goal you really want to achieve may have little to do with hell?

After going around in circles, I'm afraid it will still have to come down to "reputation" and "monsters".

The child had been away from home for many years, so Izanami still had to care about him, so Jiuyuan briefly explained the reason for his return.

After hearing the story, Izanami, who had been staying at home recently, became interested and said she wanted to go to Yanwang Palace with Jiuyuan. So Jiuyuan went back to Yanwang Palace with her.

At this moment, they were using the mirror in the temple to look back at Noose's life trajectory.

When Izanami came over, she happened to see him using a woman's body to give birth to a child for someone else.

Izanami: “…”

However, she also felt that everything was weird.

The others saw her coming and greeted her.

After Izanami greeted King Yanma and the others, she followed Kuen's instructions and saw the young man who was traveling with him. She walked straight over to him.

"Nice to meet you."

Izanami's appearance was unique, but her voice was very pleasant when she spoke. She said to Geto Suguru, "I have heard from my child that he always does whatever he wants, thanks to your care."

Not only Kuen, who was listening in on the side, had a head full of ellipsis, but Geto also felt as if he had accidentally walked into a parent-teacher meeting or a job fair, where his colleagues' relatives and elders came over to shake your hands and say polite words to you, thanking you for taking care of our family...

In short, you shouldn't appear in King Yan's Palace!

He had no choice but to use his years of experience and said with a smile: "No, it was Jiuyuan who helped me a lot. By the way, may I ask who you are..."

Izanami: "I am Izanami."

Xia Yujie thought about how she had just called Kuen - "my child".

Xia Yujie: “…”

...No way?