When no of Shuten-dōji's subordinates come to collect sake, the sake cellar is safe; when Shuten-dōji's subordinates come to collect sake, the sake cellar is dangerous. And in a sake cellar where sake is collected once a week, the floor will definitely be covered with dust. Where the dust is noticeably thinner than the surrounding area, it indicates that a demon servant has been there to collect sake.
Thinking of this, Kenji Yamamoto couldn't help but recall the last rule of the "Rules of the Ōeyama Royal Palace":
[9. You only need to work at the Ooe Mountain Royal Palace for a full week and present the Demon King with a jar of the finest sake from the wine cellar to leave this place.]
A full week of work...
Sunday…
The similarity in these time points led Kenji Yamamoto to suspect that there was some connection between them.
The Sakura Kingdom's think tank hinted at the possibility that "the demon servant himself is the demon king's fine wine." This is because in Sakura Kingdom's history, Shuten-dōji, before being beheaded by Minamoto no Yorimitsu, happily drank wine mixed with the blood of a young girl.
The ghost servants of the Oeyama Royal Palace are all "young girls".
In the realm of demons, the chosen ones never heard of the week, for for these long-lived demons, seven days a week was far too short, and hundreds of years had already passed for them.
Kenji Yamamoto suddenly realized that perhaps "Sunday" itself referred to the day after the "Demon Servants" had completed a full week of work at the Oeyama Royal Palace? On their first day at the Oeyama Royal Palace, the Demon Servants could hardly avoid entering the wine cellar. On the following Monday, they would come to the wine cellar to select a bottle of fine wine to present to Shuten-dōji, unaware that their future fate was indeed "to die on Sunday."
Thinking of this possibility, Kenji Yamamoto became even less flustered.
He's only been here four days. If that's the case, he'll only be here until Thursday, three days short. Yamamoto Kenji wouldn't be foolish enough to offer fine wine to Shuten-dōji, so this hint was useful, but ultimately useless to him.
Just as he was congratulating himself on deciphering the contents of the note, Kenji Yamamoto suddenly realized a problem:
The floor of the wine cellar was spotless.
There were no footprints or dust; it seemed as if some ghost servant or something was cleaning the place every day.
His keen ears suddenly caught the sound of footsteps descending the steps. Without hesitation, Yamamoto Kenji hid inside the empty wine vat and put the cork back on.
Just as they finished doing all this, footsteps reached the entrance of the wine cellar.
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