Chapter 215 Parents' Past, Youthful Arrogance...
If all the honor of the past was a lie told by the despicable, how should we conduct ourselves in the future?
Close your eyes and ears, so that the days of abundance may continue forever.
...
Miyoko was reluctant.
"Little Sun..."
She kept crying as she stuffed meat into the cat's mouth.
"Eat more, because I won't be able to afford to feed you such good food anymore, sob sob..."
"Meow?"
"Miyoko!"
Before the cat could even lick the oil off its mouth, the furious homeowner slammed the door open.
"Where did you go this afternoon? Do you know how long the guests have been waiting for you? How could you be so irresponsible? You—you—you deserve to be punished!"
He cursed wildly for a while, his accusations incoherent, but to his surprise, he found that his increasingly rebellious daughter did not refute him. She simply picked up a velvet handkerchief and gently held it to the corner of her eye to dry her tears.
He became satisfied again. "You cried elegantly, that's good, but true nobles don't shed tears, Miyoko, you..."
"Father."
Miyoko interrupted his rambling lecture, speaking in a straightforward manner.
"However, Kami Harunosuke had no descendants, nor did he pass on the art of Yin and Yang to his descendants."
"..."
The rambling stopped abruptly, and after more than ten seconds, the patriarch let out a cold laugh:
"There's a limit to madness, Miyoko. Have you forgotten your own name?"
Miyoko really didn't understand why he suddenly emphasized his surname; she just wanted to share the results of her investigation.
The result came from the Red Horned Demon Clan, the sealed Tanuki Demon, and the mournful Earth Fox Statue.
"After the war was over, only Kami Harunosuke traveled around and never passed on the Yin-Yang technique to anyone."
"However, some samurai with ill intentions stole the technology from the original Yin-Yang Bureau and, with their meager talent, barely learned the ability to enchant weapons without the Eye of God."
"...Yi Kami, Miyoko! Shut up!"
"That group of warriors has been passed down to this day and scattered in all directions. Now they are roughly divided into two schools: Sea Chaos Ghost Flame Might and Sea Chaos Ghost Thunder Teng."
The girl looked into the man's frightened eyes and asked sadly:
"Father, which faction are you on?"
"!?"
Xia Worei shuddered and immediately looked at Qianzhi beside her:
"I remember that the Sea Demons held a status almost equivalent to bandits in Inazuma?"
"That's roughly how it can be understood. After all, even the basic principles of conduct were learned by stealing, so loyalty and righteousness are not much of a concern."
Chiori nodded in confirmation, then looked again with some disbelief at the spacious courtyard she remembered.
"So how exactly was this wealth accumulated...?"
The father didn't answer Miyoko's question. Veins bulged on his forehead as he gritted his teeth: "Damn it, Miyoko... you fucking!! Why did you say that! Have you forgotten your last name?"
"In short, it's not just about God."
Miyoko looked at him calmly, and the man forcibly twisted his angry expression into a fawning smile.
“Miyoko, think about it carefully. Even those beast-like monsters can be praised and made famous after they die, so why can’t we? Our ancestors also protected our country back then!”
He tried to convince himself about his talented daughter.
“Miyako, we’ve only borrowed our compatriot’s surname…Miyako, don’t you like fame? Don’t you like wealth? Don’t you like being admired? As long as you continue to be the Onmyoji of the Korekami family…”
"Go to hell with you."
"?" The patriarch looked at the noblewoman before him in disbelief. "What did you just say?"
“I said.”
Miyoko picked up the cat, took a deep breath, and pulled out a lightning-inducing talisman from her sleeve.
"Go to hell with you!!"
A curse that was completely out of place with her status, followed by a thunderous roar and a scream, and Miyoko turned and ran without hesitation. As she ran, she felt something heavy and familiar being forcibly ripped off her body, and a light breeze blowing into her sleeves.
Was it responsibility that was relinquished, or freedom that surged in? Miyoko didn't know, Miyoko was unclear, Miyoko just wanted to cry.
"Little Sun..."
She roughly rubbed the cat against her eyes.
"I've fought for a complete lie for nearly twenty years! He lied to me!"
"Miyoko!? Are you okay?"
Thunder roared through the sky, and A-Zhu rushed over upon hearing the sound, anxiously inquiring.
"You've come at the right time, Ah Zhu."
She moved the cat away, trying to appear calm, but her unblocked tear ducts couldn't stop the tears from flowing.
"I'm going to become an outlaw, and Little Sun is coming with me!"
To become an outlaw?
The boy, who hadn't figured anything out, instinctively reached out and caught her tears.
"What a coincidence, me too... together?"
"Don't try to persuade me! Just be a good guard... hmm?"
"?"
"?"
Forgetting their sorrow, the two teenagers stared at each other in the thunder, while the cat struggled to lick its tear-soaked belly.
Hahahaha!
The stragglers started laughing again, but this time it wasn't out of mockery; they just wanted to laugh.
"Look at these two. They're reliable on their own, but together they've become two idiots!"
"That……"
Azhu nervously wiped her palms on her clothes and handed them to Miyoko.
"Shall we go first?"
"……ah."
Miyoko blinked, somewhat bewildered, and grasped his hand. As she was led through the forest again, she looked back at the 'Taishin' servants who were chasing after her.
"It's like we're eloping."
"No, we're not dating."
"That's true."
Violet melon, seaweed, general crab; cherry blossom, blood clam, and devil beetle, they run hand in hand on the land of Inazuma, with a samurai wielding a sword seemingly always chasing after them.
So, amidst the ceaseless roar of the waves, Miyoko turned to the side and gently kissed the boy's cheek.
"Now it is."
"So you're only confirming your relationship now??"
A gasp rippled through the audience: "I thought they were already a couple!"
"Is no one speaking up for cats?"
Sino strongly protested, "Cats cannot eat dog food."
"Oh dear, how did it turn from a thriller into a romance?"
Funina appeared to be complaining, but her eyebrows were raised so high they almost flew off.
"Alright, the opera house rarely shows this kind of program, so it's good to let it run for a while longer."
"Mi-Miyoko!"
Miyoko looked at Takeshi strangely. "Hmm? What's wrong?...Don't you like me? Huh?"
No!
Ah Zhu reached out and desperately pressed down on her wildly beating chest.
"Actually, there's something important I haven't told you yet, so I'll tell you at least after that—"
“Oh, speaking of which, I also have something important to tell you.” Miyoko sadly recalled her family background.
"I feel like you'll hate me once you find out."
"I won't!"
"Me too, I won't dislike you..."
"That's right, that's right. Auntie and some uncle, I don't know if he's an uncle or not, have become outlaws together."
Leosley clapped his hands in satisfaction.
"Inazuma's matter shouldn't affect me, a public servant in Fontainebleau. They shouldn't have committed any transnational crimes, right?"
Exhausted, the priest replied, "No, no, no, commoners back then had no means to go to sea."
She had been giving it her all to glare at the strange looks she was getting, and now she was completely exhausted.
"Divine Child, do you know them?"
The fact that the culprit was completely unaware of this left Yae no choice but to admit defeat.
"Have you forgotten where the Sumeru people got the cat's remains? Narukami Taisha, I've been enshrining those remains for decades."
"Remains... Ah, yes, they're all dead. It's really unpleasant to suddenly think about this."
Thinking of this, Gan Yu began to feel sad, and in her sadness, she began to ask the Divine Child for spoilers.
"Why offer remains? Corpses are generally not needed to be sent to shrines."
"Well, Sister Ganyu, you should know that the fairies of Inazuma and the fairies of Liyue are very different, right?"
"Of course, I remember, your Inari's demons are quite bizarre!" Liu Yun Jie Feng Zhenjun couldn't help but interject, pushing up her glasses and speaking without hesitation.
"Streetlights, umbrellas, knives—these ordinary items can all become demons if the conditions are right!"
“I remember, Little Sun later seemed to have become a cat, and cats seem to be born from strong human emotions and desires…” Gan Yu suddenly became uneasy. “So, their escape didn’t go smoothly, and something happened to Little Sun? You collected its remains in the end to dispel its resentment?”
"No, they ran away smoothly. Although Miyoko is not as good as Harunosuke, her talent is rare. Although Takeshi's martial arts are not as good as our demon immortals, they are enough to dominate a place in the mortal world."
As expected, the two people and one cat from my memory easily shook off their pursuers.
Xiao also speculated, "So, Miyoko couldn't accept Takeru's rebellious behavior and will, and accidentally injured the cat during the argument, causing the cat to die with resentment and then rise from the dead?"
"What's wrong with rebelling? Is rebelling strange? We are all groups of wandering samurai in Nashiida, and none of us are willing to submit to rule. At least Takeru has a noble and righteous goal. What is there that Miyoko can't accept?"
Xiao couldn't understand, and after hearing it, he instinctively hid behind Zhongli, "...Your Majesty, this is so scary."
In her memory, Miyoko readily accepted Takeshi's wish, only requesting to see the faces of everyone who was to be killed.
"A world without oppression, where everyone is equal," she imagined. "If we had grown up in that kind of environment, we would have been together much earlier."
"...It's not bad now either."
Amidst the cheers and jeers of her subordinates, A-Zhu blushed slightly.
"My forever young lady."
"..."
Listening to the dialogue between memory and reality, Ying began to think.
"I also like a world without oppression and harm."
But the more she thought about it, the sadder she felt.
"That wish was destined to become a tragedy, because above humans there are demons, and above demons there are even more indescribable beings. Their strengths are worlds apart, so how can there be equality? Alas... I suppose they must have perished under my thoughtless blade."
"Shadow, Shadow, you're such a big idiot."
"Hmm? Divine Child, is there something wrong with what I said?"
"Why do you think the gods will be the first to act? It's not your place to ruin this wish."
"……I do not understand."
"Then let's keep watching with our questions in mind and see what's going on in people's hearts that you can't understand."
With the quiet companionship of the orange cat, A-Zhu's power began to grow rapidly, a prelude to prosperity, and the name of the Bamboo Demon once resounded throughout the land.
"I will spread the seeds of rebellion throughout Inazuma, so that everyone will know that obedience only brings death, while swords bring life..."
"But 'Bamboo Demon' sounds awful. Can't you just call me Ah Zhu?"
"It's not intimidating, Miyoko, and don't you like having a special nickname for me?"
Every night, villains die in the city. With their unparalleled martial arts skills and Yin-Yang magic, A-Zhu and his team are almost invincible.
As a result, countless people came to seek refuge with him.
"Boss, although we always want to shoot and move on, to be a guerrilla force forever," the scarred young man said, scratching his head in frustration.
“But that’s not realistic now. Look at that old man with broken feet, and that blind woman… they can’t keep up with the group either. Let’s just throw them away.”
“They’ll die if we throw them away.”
Atake disagrees, and neither does Miyoko.
"How about this, let's find a place to settle down as a village, so that everyone can have a home."
"Home?"
"Of course I need a home."
Miyoko stroked the cat with a smile.
“We might have a child someday. Little Sun will play with the child at home while we go out to work. Ah, that would be wonderful.”
"...It would have been better if the job back then hadn't involved killing people."
The village should be located in a remote, peaceful, and secluded place, far away from officials, soldiers, and people.
On the edge of Qinglai Island, there is a small island impervious to lightning, and on that island lives a talking cat.
"Want to be neighbors? It's up to you, as long as you're willing to help me find Ah Xiang... Ah Xiang seems to have a good friend surnamed Wei Shen... Hmm? You're not surnamed Wei Shen anymore, what do you mean by habitual slip of the tongue?"
Compared to humans, the black cat, Sumiko, cared more about her chubby fellow human. "Meow meow, I am the acting palace attendant here, so you must obey my commands."
"Wow! The cat is talking!!" Miyoko exclaimed excitedly, asking repeatedly, "How can you talk? Are you a cat demon? Can you teach Taiyo?"
"Hmm? Is your way of speaking special? I see you all talking every day." Qinzi licked her paw in confusion. "I've forgotten how I learned to speak. It seems like I just woke up one day and knew how. There's no way to teach me."
"There's no way to teach it."
Ah Zhu was very disappointed.
"I also asked Little Sun if it was satisfied with its current life; it has lost a lot of weight."
"Don't be sad. People may be better tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow, or even in the distant future. Little Sun might suddenly say you're better someday, because we cats can do anything."
The orange cat suddenly meowed towards the dormitory, "Meow~"
"Oh, you fierce-looking person, you don't need to wait for it to speak, I'll translate for you right now."
The black cat swished its tail, looking somewhat melancholy.
"Little Sun said, things are great now, and I hope to be with you all forever... Meow, I also want to be with Ah Xiang forever."
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
