Chapter 120: Standard misunderstanding
Three days later, another meeting was held in the main hall of the Makura family.
Because of his abundant spiritual power and restored mobility, Ma Cang Ye Xian was able to sit and attend this time.
Three days was neither long nor short. In order to fulfill the decree issued by Takama-ga-hara, the Asakura family used various methods and channels to collect a long list of information about the Pachi tribe's sacrifices and the goddess.
The purpose of this gathering is to gather intelligence.
Although the target of the investigation is an outsider and spends most of his time in the deep mountains and forests where there are no witnesses, as long as we can grasp a clue, we can always find out something to prove the truth.
This clue is easy to grasp:
To put it more utilitarianly, the reason why Ma Cang Ye Xian ambushed the Eluo King was to gain a reputation.
At this time, King Eluo was quite famous among the aliens because he was more active in harming the human world. However, compared to King Nurarihyon, who had been famous for many years, he could barely be considered a soft persimmon with good appearance - after all, he did not have a clan or a country of monsters under his command.
Although the results of the retreat were not satisfactory, the first half was still going according to plan.
He chose a remote place and set up a maze that was big enough to cover an entire mountain. Before he started, he also confirmed that there should be no living people or monsters within a radius of ten miles.
So the question is: Why did the goddess go to those deep mountains and forests for no reason?
Following this clue, the Makura family called on their clansmen and apprentices training in the dojo to directly block the entrance to the mountain and conduct a carpet search. Finally, they found a small white ball-like monster in a tree hole at the foot of the mountain on the east side.
The power attribute of this ball is very strange. It is naturally not afraid of talismans and barriers set up by talismans, and is also highly immune to detection spiritual power.
But the brain capacity is clearly not enough.
It is timid and stupid, but whenever it meets someone stronger than itself, it will immediately obey. After obeying, it will answer whatever is asked. When no one talks to it for a long time, it will jump around by itself and persevere in repeating certain short words that others cannot understand.
There is also a "master" in its mouth.
According to the inquiry of an Onmyoji apprentice of the Makura family, it is speculated that this "master" is 99% likely the goddess who brought it into the mountain.
The elder sitting at the head of the group cleared his throat and asked, "How did you meet the previous master?"
The white ball jumped up and down in place and said, "I was caught in the corner."
The Yin-Yang master sitting next to him was curious: I’ve only heard that the Goddess of Bad Luck is used to hiding in corners and waiting to trick people, but isn’t she... a Goddess of Fortune?
He asked again with doubt: "Why did she arrest you?"
The white ball replied: "Let me find the big monster!"
The onmyoji questioned her, wondering if she was planning to exorcise demons. It turned out that the gods all yearned to protect humans. Although this new princess had not received any education, her nature still urged her to do so!
The witch sitting next to her was thinking: I've only heard that after the God of War is born, he will hunt down demons under the urging of his nature, but isn't she... a god of fortune?
So she became even more confused and asked, "What are you looking for the big monster for?"
This time, Baituanzi's answer was disjointed, perhaps because it was too lengthy for its thinking and vocal systems to support. So, after bouncing around incomprehensibly for a while, all the people present could clearly hear was an ambiguous sentence: "I want to be sick."
Then he repeated it seven times, each time with a more cheerful tone.
Asakura Yexian: ...
Ma Cang Ye Xian: It is impossible for you to be sick. Even if you are seriously ill, you still have to reply. If you dare to hide anything, I can just send you to death.
On the other side, Baituanzi ignored the threat and continued jumping around at the same frequency, shouting loudly "I want to be sick!"
Asakura Yexian: ...This thing is quite courageous.
Over there, the aunt who had been watching for a long time frowned and said, "No, the demonic energy fluctuations of this thing are the same as before. It should still be answering your questions."
answer the questions?
"Wait!" interrupted the miko in disbelief. "Are you trying to say that the goddess is looking for big monsters everywhere just to get sick?"
It's not that she was making a fuss. Unlike humans, when gods get sick, they are "An Wu". If the divine body is contaminated and the mind is eroded, they will fall into depravity if they are not careful, and even die if they are not careful again!
Even if you can rely on means to cure and avoid death, the pain you suffer when you first get sick will not be any less.
The goddess was only a year and a half old - with such a short life like that of a baby, what obstacles could she not overcome that would make her seek death?
So the clue went a step further and became: Why does the goddess want to die?
Because they learned from Shirotuanzi that the goddess liked to hang out in nooks and crannies, the entire Asakura family went out and searched every nook and cranny in the city.
As mentioned earlier, most areas in the city have been deliberately cleared, and the only ones left are small monsters that pose no threat, and there are not many left.
Just the next day, they found a Tsukumogami transformed from a pickle jar on a street corner in the southeast suburbs of the city.
The pickle jar had only recently transformed into a monster, its form remained unchanged, it could not speak clearly, and it did not like to move. According to the interrogation results after its capture, the goddess had squatted on this street corner, poking it and muttering to itself.
The young man in charge of this matter raised his finger and pointed to the center, performing a spell to show everyone present the restored memories of the pickle jar.
The halo of the magic flashed by, and the picture that appeared was from the perspective of Fusangshen: first of all, there was a big face with bulging eyes that were very problematic.
Then the face slowly moved back, and after the picture stabilized, the proportions of the eyes returned to normal.
The round face and almond-shaped eyes are exactly the newborn goddess.
The goddess picked up a wooden stick and muttered to herself.
"What should I do..."
She raised her hand and poked “everyone”: “Oh, you are so weak, but after searching for a long time, you turned out to be the strongest person on this street.”
"We're all at your level. Even if you made a divine weapon, you wouldn't be able to make me sick..."
She repeated these words over and over again, and every time she said them, she would poke people, just like a naughty kid with nothing better to do.
Wooden sticks were flying around in front of the elder, and he commented calmly with a serious face: This kid has really naughty hands.
Over there, the naughty kid, not caring at all about how white his clothes were, collapsed straight onto the bluestone slab, groaning with despair, "There are only two months left. When that time comes, he'll go back to America. If he doesn't get sick soon... I'll really have to go with him..."
"What the hell!"
An old man at the corner flipped a table and said, "How dare that outsider kidnap the goddess of Takama-ga-hara!"
The Great Elder said you should calm down first, how can this be considered robbery?
The miko bowed calmly, "Excuse me, His Highness would rather find ways to get sick than go with him. It's obvious that he doesn't want to be with him."
The only way to avoid being with him was to get sick - the goddess clearly didn't want to leave, but had to.
"Look at what you've done to the child!"
The old man flipped the table and was furious: "Whose god is so persistent in finding people with illness?!"
The aunt, however, was very calm. She held up the teacup and said, "That's not certain. All we can see from this is that the goddess doesn't want to leave. Maybe she just can't bear to leave her hometown."
While there's no such thing as pre-wedding phobia these days, the fear people feel before getting married hasn't changed for centuries: "Maybe they're in love, but they just haven't come to their senses yet. And the child isn't educated, so she probably doesn't understand how difficult it is to be sick, and she's just looking for an excuse to delay."
My aunt herself was ill before she went on a blind date decades ago, which delayed her marriage for nearly two more years.
This actually makes sense.
Most of you here are the same age as my aunt, and were either accomplices or partners in the blind date incident. After recalling the past, everyone has to accept that it is still possible for two people to fall in love with each other.
The elder thought that although this old lady had been very pretentious before marriage, she had been showing off after marriage and it was really annoying. He simply decided: "In this case, let's find her and ask her."
Although it involves the emotional affiliation of the gods, and they have always called Shalva Ganna a heretic, the Pachi people are the guardians of the Elf King after all, and the priest is the most outstanding member of the tribe. They always believe in using courtesy before force, and it is not appropriate to wrongly accuse him.
After all, it is a cross-border meeting. As the follower of one god, meeting the follower of another god, even if it is just for testing, a formal ceremony must be put on.
That night, a group of elders signed and handed over a formal invitation. On the day of the meeting, the atmosphere was even more solemn and serious.
The kind of solemnity that can scare people at first glance.
Even someone like Ma Cang Ye Wang, who had seen the world, was still shocked when he entered the door.
Did he reveal himself somewhere?
Although he was very confident in his own strength, in this serious situation where it seemed that as long as someone threw the cup as a signal, everyone would rush over and take him down, King Ma Cang Ye was also a little cautious.
Everyone drank tea and greeted each other, then got down to business.
The elders acted as if they were having a heart-to-heart talk, but unfortunately, they were angry about someone usurping the authority of the gods, so they were quite serious.
First ask: "Do you still remember why you crossed the sea to come here?"
The tone was very cold and hard.
Ye Wang thought that what was openly happening was just an investigation of the contestants of the Shaman King Competition. Why was he acting like he was going to accuse someone of something? Could it be that he had seen something and was testing him on purpose?
Thinking of this, King Ma Cang Ye took the opportunity to drink tea and looked around silently, and was surprised to find that everyone had come.
He was originally from the Makura family and had been the head of the family for nearly twenty years five hundred years ago. It had to be a major event for the whole family to gather together. If he counted carefully, he had only faced such a scene twice.
One time was when Ma Ye Tongzi was included in the family tree and changed his name to Ma Cang Ye Wang.
The second time was before death.
At that time, he was just about to use the clan gathering to speak out to appease the recent weird atmosphere in the clan, but his blood suddenly boiled over and he dropped the teacup in his hand. He was shocked to find that the contract between himself and Nekomata Gu Zong had disappeared. Then his eyes went dark and he was met with an overwhelming beating.
Then he was GG.
Thinking of this, he actually wanted to laugh.
King Ye suppressed the urge to sneer, lowered his head and took another sip of tea, thinking to himself: Could it be that... these guys think he is here for revenge and are planning to strike first?
He thought, what's the point of taking revenge on you?
—Don't mention that the people who attacked me back then are all dead. Now I have all five great elves in my possession. It's much more fun to plot against the Elf King than to torment you old guys...
But on the surface, he put down his teacup and calmly gave a standard answer: "To select the contestants."
In the back row, an elder looked sideways at the corner with a reserved expression.
Ye Wang keenly followed his gaze and glanced at the corner.
An old lady was sitting in the corner, with a large screen behind her.
Ma Cang Ye Wang frowned, and there seemed to be someone behind the screen.
The old lady in front of the screen closed her eyes and paused, then made an unspeakable gesture. When the old men noticed it, although their brows furrowed even more, they could clearly feel that the atmosphere in the room had become more relaxed.
——What the hell is going on?
On the other side, the great elder, having put aside his initial worry, once again carefully looked at the foreign priest in front of him.
He looks really good.
The Makura family used their connections to hire a psychic who was good at face reading. He was now sitting behind the screen in the corner. They had just done some divination. From a metaphysical point of view, this person did not seem to be the type of person who was heartless and unfeeling.
Opposite the Great Elder, the affectionate-looking King Ye made a seal with his fingertips, and the divination result was neutral.
Not a good thing, but not a bad thing either?
He subconsciously glanced at the large screen again. Although the aura-isolating spell was very concealed and outsiders couldn't see the problem, he was still a Ma Cang...
Even though the existence behind the screen with strange spiritual fluctuations was neither an enemy nor a friend, and had no ill intentions, his calm spiritual field couldn't help but fluctuate when he saw the eye contact and the obviously arranged gestures.
——Has he really been exposed? Is he looking for someone to observe his aura and try to observe his soul information through the spiritual force field?
What a pity, the ancestors of all the Onmyoji present laughed sarcastically, when he made a contract with the Fire Spirit, the attributes of his spiritual power changed and he could no longer be recognized as a human being.
Across from him, a serious-looking old man stared at him for a long time, but got no reaction. He thought to himself that this man had remained calm until now. You could say he was scheming or that he was very patient, but observing these things was not the point...
This guy is investigating candidates for a certain prince in Takama-ga-hara!
So the old man cleared his throat and asked him, "Where did you meet Her Highness Sonoko?"
The Pachi calmly asked, "What does this have to do with the Shaman King Tournament?"
The old man said more seriously, "It has nothing to do with the Shaman King Tournament, but we serve the Shinto with all our might. Whatever concerns His Highness naturally concerns us."
The old man thought that the goddess was a descendant of gods after all, and private matters could not be discussed in public. He thought twice before speaking, and swallowed back any inappropriate words. The ambiguous and ambiguous words, coupled with the serious face, made it impossible to understand the cause and effect, and could only listen to the consequences:
The point is that the Shrine is also paying attention to this matter (the specific details are vague). If you are sincere, no, if you want to save your life and leave safely, then answer us solemnly.
However, to Ye Wang, it sounded like he had discovered that he had ulterior motives in approaching the new god, so he took the opportunity to guess his identity. The last mention of Takama-ga-hara seemed like an attempt to intimidate him.
Prince Ye lowered his eyes and chuckled, saying, "When I met Her Highness, she was just a newborn, so many things are unconfirmed. If I lied, the old lady wouldn't be able to tell..."
The Asakura family, after receiving information from the white dumpling and the pickle jar, combined it with information from divination, confidently said, "You speak your mind, and we will judge whether you are right or wrong."
funny.
How do you judge?
Ma Cang Ye Wang thought coldly: Only he and Sonoko know what happened after they met. These people dared to say that they could judge the truth of his words. It was obvious that they had already received an answer from her...
She remembered that she had been injured while catching ghosts with Ma Cang Ye Xian. She heard that it was because she was willing to risk her life that she saved that guy's life - for no reason, why would that person who was afraid of death risk his life to save Ma Cang Ye Xian?
Should we guess that they had planned this in advance?
Ever since he met Nekomata Gu Zong, he should have known that the so-called oath of protection was not reliable.
Besides, that Sonoko guy seemed to have never made any oath to protect him.
King Makura Ye was not good at trusting others, but he didn't want to waste his hard work - he really didn't have the patience to follow anyone in his life - fortunately he had already thought of how to deal with it next. After signing the service contract, she would always be obedient.
This can probably be considered as recycling, right?
He himself was not worried about being besieged, but surprisingly, these people from the Asakura family had no intention of besieging him (to the Asakura family, he was at least a potential son-in-law, and his expression was understood as being angry and embarrassed).
When he returned to the mountain retreat, the sun had not yet set. He walked through the courtyard and saw Suzuki Sonoko sitting in front of the corridor eating snacks.
Yuanzi was chewing a red bean cake. She looked up and saw him, startled: "Where have you been?"
Ye Wang bowed his head and smiled at her: "Don't you know what I've been doing?"
Sonoko: “Huh?”
But Ye Wang had no intention of probing further. Instead, he put away his smile and asked her meaningfully, "Yuanzi has been going out to play a lot lately. What have you been doing?"
"recent?"
"Before," he changed the subject, "did you go out to meet someone?"
Considering that her one and a half year old's ability to understand was about the same as that of a little girl, Ye Wang did not try to hide his tone when questioning her, and even deliberately sounded a bit harsh, asking: "Yuanzi, have you done anything bad?"
He himself actually hates the mention of the word "betrayal".
Unless something unexpected happens, I don't want to ask her if she betrayed me.
As soon as he finished speaking, the hair on the back of Yuanzi's collar stood up!
Yuanzi held a lump of melted bean paste in her mouth and looked at the handsome face that had captivated her. She thought that her plan of looking for the little monster and trying to feign illness to separate from him had been exposed, and she instantly felt relieved.
Looking at Suzuki Sonoko's face, she couldn't hide the helpless expression at all. Even if she could control her facial features, her eyes clearly showed that she was guilty.
Ma Cang Ye Wang's smile suddenly faded.
The curve of his mouth was still there, but Yuanzi inexplicably felt that his whole body had become cold.
Intuitive creatures feel their personal safety is threatened.
Yuanzi thought to herself, I didn’t do anything naughty today, why do you suddenly want to kill me?
When he went out in the morning, he was wearing a very beautiful crown, and one of the long Indian-style feathers was hanging on his ear, swaying and touching his ear. Yuanzi really wanted to go up and kiss him, but she finally held back - she was so angry, why was this guy so difficult to please?
But he is just cute now. Sonoko is wearing an affectionate filter, and even he looks cute when he gets angry!
Especially because she knew that his love would fade away sooner or later, Sonoko had a mysterious tragic feeling towards this unrequited love (a romantic element that she really liked!). With the mentality of wanting to be in a relationship for as long as possible and to look at the beauty as much as possible, she unknowingly put herself in the position of the tolerant person.
When flowers are ready to be picked, pick them immediately.
After all, he is a handsome guy.
So Ms. Suzuki decided to change the subject.
When she is in love, she is particularly devoted. She is so love-brained that she can't think of anything else except her partner all day long and will do anything for them. Today during the day, she sat there and recalled the sad memories of Ma Cang Ye Wang's miserable peer. She felt heartbroken and extremely pity for him. In order to make up for his missing peer, she bought three strings of candied hawthorns and two boxes of mung bean cakes in one go.
As a result, her boyfriend didn't come back for a day, and she finished eating it without noticing.
Fortunately, there are some exceptions!
Suzuki Sonoko stood up quickly, without even wearing shoes, and ran back into the house barefoot.
Miss Suzuki, who was walking away with excited footsteps, had no idea that when she suddenly moved, an ominous red light had flashed in the sleeves of the Indian priest.
Thirty seconds later, with another series of squeaking sounds, Suzuki Sonoko came running back holding an orange paper windmill.
Yuanzi held the paper windmill in front of him, puffed out his cheeks and gave it a gust of wind.
It tastes like red bean paste mixed with honey.
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