Riki Tsugumi talked to Su Deng for a long time, as if she wanted to say everything she had never told anyone in her life.
Beneath her ever-present gentleness and elegance lay both guilt and unwavering resolve.
Su Deng listened silently.
Finally, after Tsunomiya Riki finished speaking, she looked down at Acha in her arms with reluctance and handed her to Su Deng: "I know it's a bit unreasonable to ask you this, but I still want to ask you to take care of Acha for me."
"Meow!" As if it understood, Acha grabbed her clothes and wouldn't let go.
Riki Ninomiya said sadly, "I can tell it likes you a lot. If... you don't want to keep it, you can give it to a cat club, or find it a good home..."
It was as if she was saying goodbye, that she would never return.
Su Deng looked up at her and reached out to take Acha from her.
She took care of Acha not for Tsunomiya Riki, but because of Acha, who was someone she had gone through the trials with in the fairy tale instance.
"Thanks."
Riki Ninomiya gave Su Deng a graceful Ninomiya-style bow, then reached out and patted Acha's head one last time, saying, "Acha, from now on, your master is Haruko..."
“I have something to ask you,” Su Deng said, breaking the somber mood.
Riki Ninomiya looked up.
Su Deng asked, "Do you know about the 'Night Parade of One Hundred Demons'?"
Riki Ninomiya paused for a moment: "There is a legend here that the places where monsters and humans live are in the same space, but this space overlaps. Humans are active during the day, while monsters appear at night."
"When night falls and the streets are deserted, many strange and hideous monsters appear and walk on the roads and streets at night. It seems to be a parade of monsters, called the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons."
Riki Ninomiya looked at Su Deng: "Why are you suddenly asking this?"
"Do you know who kidnapped Taozi and the others?" Su Deng asked her.
Riki Ninomiya's expression changed slightly: "Is it a monster?"
“The Ghost Clan,” Su Deng said. “They say there will be a hundred ghosts parading tonight.”
Riki Tsunomiya's expression changed again. She wanted to say something, but didn't know how. Finally, she pursed her lips and said, "Haruko, tomorrow is the Shaman Festival. Once tomorrow is over, everything will be settled."
Su Deng didn't quite understand what she meant by that, but she didn't ask any further questions.
Riki Jigami's disappearance this time wasn't due to being kidnapped by the Oni clan, but rather by Yuki-dō. Yuki-dō took advantage of the chaos to help her escape, but she returned for the sake of the Jigami family.
She took one last deep look at Su Deng and Acha in Su Deng's arms, then turned and left, leaving Acha to sob.
Su Deng carried Acha to the red maple tree on the back mountain of Wushui Courtyard and looked out at the small port in the distance.
Riki Tsunomiya boarded the ship with the priest; the ship was heading towards the Wushan Shrine.
"Meow..." Acha lay in Su Deng's arms, looking a little listless.
Su Deng sighed.
"Why are you sighing?" A voice suddenly came from behind.
Su Deng was startled and turned around abruptly, only to see Yan Sizhan.
The man was still dressed the same way, wearing a fox mask, with his long dark green hair tied into a high ponytail with black cloth strips, and his arms crossed over his chest, looking like a knight-errant.
Su Deng frowned: "Why do you always appear so silently?"
Yan Sizhan said, "It's because you're not paying attention."
Su Deng: "..."
ill.
Yan Sizhan walked to her side, looking at the ship sailing towards Wushan on the distant sea. His expression was obscured by the mask, but his voice was cold: "You want to become a priestess of the Wushan Shrine?"
Su Deng said slowly, "I didn't think that way."
The main storyline of the game is to make her a priestess at the Wushan Shrine and participate in the Wushin Festival. Isn't this still going on?
As long as it's not over, anything is possible.
Moreover, whether she wins or loses the game seems to have little effect on her, since she can't die no matter what, at most she will suffer some pain. What she wants to do now is to beat the game and meet the God.
If you don't want to keep traveling through the game, the only way is to enter an A-level otherworld through the Leap Race.
Liu Sangua said that the Divine Court is located above the A-level otherworld.
The C-level otherworld leap competition should begin soon.
Qin Xian... I will definitely save you.
Su Deng's eyes were gloomy.
Yan Sizhan gazed at the distant mountain: "Do you want to go up?"
Su turned her head to look at him, raising an eyebrow: "Are you going to take me up?"
She had just casually mentioned it in response to his words, but Yan Sizhan replied, "Okay."
Su Deng: "...?"
Is this a scam?
Yan Sizhan: "Tonight, a hundred ghosts will roam the night; do not go out."
"you……"
Upon hearing him mention the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons, Su Deng was about to ask something when the person beside her vanished in a puff of smoke before she could even utter a word.
Su Deng: "..."
This person comes and goes like smoke; is he a human, a ghost, or a god?
Moreover, he said he didn't know her the day before yesterday, he was protecting her yesterday, and today he took the initiative to find her, asked her a strange question, said a couple of strange things, and then left.
what?
What are you playing?
Frustrated, Su Deng carried Acha down the mountain after she could no longer see the boat that Tsuyomi Riki was on.
The shrine maiden election is over. Any candidates who don't want to leave can go to other shrines to become junior shrine maidens or do other things.
Anyway, I don't have to stay here anymore.
Su Deng prepared to go to the Firefly Forest to find Su Muye.
As for Yan Sizhan's advice not to go out tonight during the ghost parade...
In this game instance, he is just an NPC.
The rules of the game dictate that you must open the cabinets that are supposed to be opened, and go to places that are supposed to be gone.
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