Here you'll find beautiful clothes, lovely girls, magicians performing on the street, Hiyoribou dolls in front of shops, Daruma dolls, and little boys hawking their wares... a bustling and vibrant scene.
"This place is wonderful~ I love it here~"
Jiaotu laughed.
"I'll take you out to play this afternoon."
Quan secretly spoke to her.
"I want to go out and have fun too."
The Snow Woman's voice rang out.
"good."
Quan agreed.
After walking down the street for a while, they stopped in front of an old mansion, and the Snow Woman's voice rang out again: "This is Izumi's home."
"Uh...yes."
Quan slowly walked in, all the way to the hall. As she walked, the leaves at her waist swayed incessantly, like dancing musical notes.
There is a fox spirit there.
What is that?
"It should be a Zashiki-warashi."
"There are evil spirits there!"
"Wow, so many talismans!"
...
It's so noisy...
Quan walked into the main house with a helpless expression, where her father was waiting for her.
"Quan, you're back?"
A deep, resonant voice rang out.
Quan took a deep breath and pushed open the door. Sure enough, besides her kind-looking father, there was also a handsome middle-aged man in the room.
“Father, brother,” Quan said.
"Quan is back."
The middle-aged man looked her over a few times, nodded, and said, "You've matured a lot."
"Thank you for the compliment."
"Is that a friend you met on the road?" the old father asked with a smile, his expression kind.
"Yes." Quan smiled knowingly.
"What friends? They're just a few shikigami." The middle-aged man turned his head away.
"Get ready. You've made Xiaotian wait a long time. Get ready to get married in a few days. They will treat you well."
Quan's smile froze.
“I know, but I don’t think it’s the right time yet.”
"How long do you want to wait at home? Another girl entered the Oda family while you were away. Her mother was a musician in the palace, and she was strictly trained from a young age. She knows everything a woman should know."
The older brother's disdainful gaze fell on Quan, carrying a hint of coercion.
"Don't be temperamental. Three days from now, take your dowry to Xiaotian's house. Forget about those Yin-Yang magic techniques and what you saw. You need Xiaotian to be with you."
"yes."
According to the guide, Izumi knows one thing: never disobey this "older brother" who is quick to resort to violence, or you might be thrown into the Oda family's house.
One player tried this, and as a result, their shikigami was thrown out of Heian-kyo, leading to an extremely tragic outcome.
Seeing that she was very obedient, her brother softened his expression and said to the maid beside him, "Prepare the things that Miss will take with her in the next few days."
“Okay,” the maid replied.
"I'm going to rest now."
"Go."
Izumi left and returned to her room. She entered the room, closed the door, and released the shikigami.
"Quan, you're not happy."
The Snow Woman could see the worry beneath her smile.
"It's alright, Yuki-onna, this is all just a dream, and we'll wake up eventually." Izumi rubbed her temples.
"My lord, may I go out and see the world?" Jiao Tu asked her.
"Okay. Hmm... let me think, there seems to be a hole there."
Quan emerged from behind a loose plank and appeared in the back garden.
"I can take you flying away," the Great Tengu said, looking at the low wall.
“You’ll get caught this way.” Izumi denied his idea. “Let’s leave from here.”
She pointed to a dog hole.
"..."
"~"
"?"
“√”
I turned around and saw four different expressions.
Quan started thinking of a solution again.
"I can say that I want to go out and visit Lord Seimei, and perhaps then I can leave this place."
She told her father these words, and he easily let her go. Izumi wandered around Heian-kyo with her shikigami, all the way to the vicinity of the Demon Gate of the capital.
"The demonic aura here is very strong."
Yaksha became excited.
“Abe no Seimei lives here.” Izumi poured cold water on it. “Don’t act recklessly here.”
Yaksha scoffed.
"Lord Seimei, I am a mediocre Onmyoji, and I have come to pay my respects to you."
Izumi stood at the doorway, speaking to the overgrown weeds in the garden, and Yaksha's lips twitched.
"This is the residence of that genius?"
"Don't speak!" Quan scolded.
A purple flower drifted down from the tree, and a beautiful woman walked by in the distance. A fragrance of flowers wafted over, refreshing and delightful.
"Hello, my lord."
The woman stood in front of the courtyard.
"My master went on a long journey with Lord Minamoto no Hiromasa a few days ago and will not return to Kyoto for several months. If you need anything, you can go to the nearby bridge and summon the shikigami there to deliver your message."
"OK."
Quan left dejectedly.
She definitely didn't have the luck of a big shot.
"Looks like we can wander around the streets all day," Jiao Tu laughed.
"Izumi, I want to go to the streets and tell the children the stories I've heard. Maybe I'll make a lot of new friends. Before you leave, remember to have any one of them come to me. Don't forget!"
Aoandon sat on the lamp and drifted into the distance, the hazy night veiling her in mystery.
"Let's go play."
They entered the bustling market.
I like that one~
Jiaotu bought a lot of rouge and face powder, as well as a small mirror from the West.
I like these~
Yaksha went around looking for lone demons to fight. When Izumi found him, he brought her back a bone woman, a white wolf, and many other tengu.
Yuki-onna and Ōtengu followed her the whole time. They had never been here before. Ōtengu bought Yuki-onna a small Hiyoribou doll and some tangerines as gifts for them.
"Great Tengu is so kind~" Jiao Tu said with a smile.
"You're welcome."
Walking down the street, many shikigami had never seen Juzu and Yuki-onna before. They gathered around them, seemingly looking at strange objects, which frightened Yuki-onna.
"Looking for a beating?"
The Great Tengu snorted coldly, and those people dared not act recklessly. Although Heian-kyo was full of evil yokai, Yuki-onna and Juzu returned to Izumi's house unharmed.
Where do we live?
The shikigami asked.
“We live in the outer courtyard,” Quan said.
The Snow Woman followed the Great Tengu to the rooftop in a daze, only to encounter the Zashiki-warashi, who almost treated them as evil monsters.
Who are you?
They landed on the roof, where the Zashiki-warashi spotted them, and then the Aoandon flew up as well.
"We are Lord Izumi's shikigami, and we will not harm the people here," said Ōtengu.
The Zashiki-warashi sat on the roof, saying, "I will be watching you. If you dare to harm the people here, I will not let you get away with it!"
"Short guy, but he talks a lot!" Yaksha sneered, sitting on the tree.
"You are an evil monster, why did Izumi take you in as a shikigami?" Zashiki-warashi was a little confused.
"Go ask her! It's so annoying!"
The Yaksha sat impatiently on the tree, gazing at the Great Tengu and the others across the distance.
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