They walked for an unknown amount of time, encountering countless monsters on their way out, until finally, they arrived at a house.
From the outside, Liam felt a sense of fear, because all the windows of the house were sealed shut, as if something terrible was locked inside, and if the door was opened, it would run out.
Moreover, this house wasn't next to each other like the other houses; there was quite a distance between them.
"Does Lady Aoandon not like living with others?"
Liam noticed this detail.
"That's not the case. Lady Aoandon is a Word of Power born from the emotions of human stories, and she is also the purest being in the demon world. So she feels uncomfortable when she lives close to many demons."
The cat gently knocked on the door again: "Lord Aoandon, are you there?"
"Please come in."
A girl's voice came out.
With the homeowner's permission, the cat gently pushed open the door and led Liam inside.
The room wasn't as dark and deep as Liam had imagined. Instead, there were many blue candles on the floor, surrounding a girl in white. What should have been a beautiful scene was instead chilling under the blue candlelight.
Because the girl's figure was barely visible, her legs seemed to have disappeared into thin air.
The cat didn't seem to notice anything amiss and proceeded to introduce her directly: "Lady Aoandon, she's a new youkai who doesn't remember her identity." She was recounting the story Liam had made up earlier.
"Shhh."
The beautiful and gentle woman raised an index finger to her lips, gently gesturing for them to be quiet, and then turned her gaze to the candles around her.
It was through this action that Liam realized that a large number of the candles around him had been blown out.
The cat noticed this as well and immediately became excited: "Are humans playing the Hyakumonogatari game again? Could it be that we can go to the human world ahead of schedule?"
Aoandon did not answer her.
As time passed, fewer and fewer candles appeared, as if some unseen force was blowing them out. The room grew darker and darker, making it increasingly difficult for Liam to see the blue lantern clearly.
When only the last candle remained, with a "whoosh," all the blue candles lit up at the same time, as if nothing had happened.
"What a pity," the cat sighed again.
"It's alright, there will be other opportunities, it's just not the right time yet." Aoandon smiled gently, then looked at the girl peeking out from behind the cat demon: "Don't you remember your origins? What a pitiful girl."
The cat added, "Yes, she wants to know the story of the previous person."
"I've heard that someone once came to the realm of ghosts, so I'd like to know that person's story. Is it really possible for someone to know the names of all the ghosts?"
Liam's main point was actually another sentence that Nekomata had said earlier, but he was afraid that these ghosts would discover his true purpose, so he made up a roundabout excuse.
This was learned when Liam claimed he had forgotten his name after suffering amnesia:
If a monster's name becomes known, it will be controlled by that person.
If this is true, then the Chosen One can gradually control most of the monsters by continuously collecting "her diary," without having to worry about being too small and lacking power.
Is everything really that simple?
Yin Zhu doesn't think so.
If the purpose of the "Hyakki Yagyō" dungeon is simply to collect diaries and then leave the world of hyakki, then it becomes nothing more than an ordinary collection game.
Neither the unspeakable nor Hirano San seem like the kind of people who would enjoy doing this.
Another point worth mentioning is that if the purpose of clearing the game is simply to escape the ghost realm, then the diary is not actually a necessity, but rather, as the indigenous people say, it is just bait used to lure people into enforcing the law.
Although Yin Zhu was very interested in "her diary", she would not be willing to risk it if the method of obtaining it was too dangerous.
Like the other chosen ones, after exploring their dwellings, Yin Zhu couldn't stay in one place for long. However, unlike them, Yin Zhu turned her attention to the kappa who was "half-right."
After recording the information she had gathered that day using her own methods, Yin Zhu realized a problem.
The world of a hundred ghosts is in a state of eternal night, and the passage of time cannot be judged by the changing of the sun and moon. Therefore, the chosen ones may be in danger because they cannot determine the specific time.
In the dungeon world, the environment will become increasingly dangerous over time.
Yin Zhu hasn't found the countdown yet, but her intuition tells her that there must be a hidden danger in this world, she just hasn't discovered it yet.
While the cat won't deceive the chosen ones, it is relatively more conservative in nature.
Kappa are different; they can be impatient, sarcastic, and deceitful, so they might say something outrageous. As for which statement is true... that's up to Yin Zhu to interpret.
After circling the house for a while, Yin Zhu finally found the kappa soaking in the pond in the courtyard: "What are you doing here?"
Since the other party wouldn't be too kind to her anyway, Yin Zhu first resorted to sarcastic remarks.
The kappa exhaled a string of bubbles in the water and gave Yin Zhu a long, eerie look: "You little monster are quite annoying. If you have nothing to do in the house, go out and play instead of running around in the house."
"I was standing on tiptoe the whole time, and I didn't bother anyone," Yin Zhu said, clearly dissatisfied.
"I heard there's a gathering in the town square recently. You can go check it out with Neko." Kappa rolled his eyes at her. "Oh, I almost forgot, you just arrived in the Demon Realm and don't have any money in your pocket, so you can't buy anything."
Yin Zhu: ...
It was obvious that the kappa hadn't forgotten and was deliberately mocking her.
Rubbing her hands together, Yin Zhu grinned mischievously: "You're not jealous of my relationship with Cat Demon Sister, are you? Well, Cat Demon Sister seems very popular..."
"Pah, me, jealous?"
The kappa suddenly stood up from the pond, climbed out of the small pond, put his hands on his hips, looked up and glared at Yin Zhu: "She is a divine messenger driven by a god, what do I have to be jealous of? In terms of attack power, the number of people I drowned before I was sealed was not much less than the number she killed."
"Huh? Nekomata-neechan has such a past?"
Yin Zhu covered her surprised mouth with her hand.
Seeing the other person's expression, the kappa was extremely smug: "Of course, she was said to have originally been a messenger of the mountain god, but because she harmed humans and was tainted with their filthy blood, she was banished by the god and became a member of the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons. I'm not jealous of her at all."
A Night Parade of One Hundred Demons?
Isn't that the name of the copy?
Yin Zhu initially thought that the name was given because the hundred ghosts were sealed here and the whole world was forever plunged into darkness.
However, it seems that the meaning is not what the kappa meant when it says it again.
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