non-human secret history

When Kenmaru told me about their battles, I felt a strange emotion in my heart—to be honest, no matter how much I got permission from Shizheng, no matter how close I was with them, this Is it really appropriate to tell me such a thing that is related to the battle situation so easily?

Or……

I looked at Kemaru suspiciously, but found that the other party's eyes were on the small wakizashi I was holding in my hand.

"Miss Chia." After a short silence, he called my name solemnly.

"Ok?"

As if he had made up his mind, Keimaru clenched his fist and finally said, "If... I mean, if Shizheng wants you to participate in this battle, will you fight side by side with us?"

I squinted my eyes.

Probably from the time when Higakiri began to explain to me about time and space, I had a vague premonition of such an invitation, but I think both Higakiri and Keimaru should be very clear about my attitude, so I am proposing this matter. It's only when things happen that you are so careful.

"Genji's mission does not allow me to have any part-time jobs." I said half-jokingly.

Kagemaru lowered his eyes and was silent for a moment.I don't think he will be surprised by such an answer, but his next words and deeds are somewhat beyond my expectation.

"And what if you can unload Genji's mission?" he asked.

Katsumaru is not a person who is good at making jokes, it can even be said that he is a person who almost never makes jokes.But the question he raised solemnly at the moment seemed like a joke no matter how you looked at it.

I stared at him, trying to find any clues from his face, but under my probing gaze, Kemaru's expression suddenly became a little cramped.

——At this moment, I suddenly became sure that Kemimaru probably obtained some terrible information.

But he had no intention of telling me the news.At least not now.

"So thin green," raised my chin slightly, and my tone was a little bit stiff: "What's going on?"

I didn't ask him this in the hope that he would change his mind in a few words, but since Kagemaru had inadvertently revealed something intriguing, I certainly wanted to dig deeper.

The flash of astonishment on Katsumaru's face confirmed my thoughts, he is really not a person who is good at keeping secrets.

I'm not sure what kind of information he was hiding, but what I'm sure of is that during the time I was away, something terrible happened to the ghost clan.

And the reason why he knows this is probably because...

"I'm asking this." I waved the little wakizashi I was holding, and I chuckled: "I want to know, why is this here?"

"I remember it was held by a guy named Purgatory Kyojuro from the Demon Slayer Squad."

The expression on Kenmaru's face finally became natural. Obviously, he can still answer questions of this level.

"It's... Master Chikage Kazama." He said.

Even though I vaguely guessed whose masterpiece it was, when I heard that name, I still couldn't help but feel disgusted.

Did he come to the human world again?How long has it been since the last time he caused such a big mess here?Well, the scars forget the pain and it’s not so fast, right?

Besides, what did he ask me for?Demonstrate the authority of his ghost clan ruler?It's not enough to just send the boy Qie Angang to monitor, so that he has to go to the battle to check the results in person?

Since he can run to the outside world so casually, why should he just send me, a weak Wen Department, to look for that guy Wumai Tsuji alone?

This task undoubtedly messed up the ghost life that I have been quiet for hundreds of years. I ask myself, I still have some resentment towards Chikage Kazama who assigned this task to me.

"Master Chikage is at least concerned about your safety." Kagemaru said again.

This statement is somewhat ridiculous.

I really can't read the slightest "care" from his behavior.Not just this time, ever since I took over Genji's job from my father, Chikage Kazama as the leader has never had a soft attitude towards me.

So much so that when I heard other people say that I had a good relationship with him when I was young, I couldn't believe it.

"Master Qianjing's original intention..." When he said this, Xiwan suddenly stopped, and after a while he continued to say: "His original intention was not to put you in danger, but...to make a fool of others."

The hesitation in his tone completely exposed what he was trying to hide in front of me, but for some reason, when I realized that what Kemaru wanted to hide was related to Chikage Kazama, I lost track of the continued questioning. Interested.

And Katsumaru continued the topic.

"Although Tong Ziqie is reckless, he is still one of the Five Swords in the World, and his strength is still trustworthy." He thought about it and said, "Master Qianjing believes that Tong Ziqie is secretly guarding him, so there shouldn't be any trouble."

"But when something happened, what the boy thought of was running back to rescue the soldiers instead of helping me." My voice was slightly raised, with some sarcasm.

The leader's crazy decision-making, the guard's jumping judgment, and my mistakes in choosing tactics, the fate is guided by these things to the result that makes people feel stuck in the throat.

"Actually..." The eyes of the knee ball flickered for a moment, and then he seemed to sigh lightly, and then he continued as if he had made up his mind: "Douziqie once told me not to talk about this matter. Listen to people from the ghost clan, but I think it's better for Miss Chia Ya to find out."

"what?"

"Before the battle started that day, Dozikiri was already ready to go out to help, because Chikage-sama's order was to give priority to your safety, Miss Chia." Kagemaru said: "The reason why he really ran back to move Rescue, because he met a person—"

The fact that Keimaru stopped here was probably not to whet my appetite, but to really hesitate to say this name, because when he said this name, I seemed to understand why in his previous words There will be such hesitation.

"It's Mrs. Hua Ji." Knee Maru said.

"What?" I even wondered for a moment if there was something wrong with my ears.

"It's Kahime-sama whose real name is Mrs. Senka Genji." Kagemaru said again.

Of course, I am not unfamiliar with this name. Although I have a very dim impression of the face behind this name, in the only memory I have, this name always appears in the conversations with my mother from time to time.

"If Master Hua Ji is still here, I don't have to do such troublesome things—"

She always said that.

In her description, it seems that the person who took care of me when I was a child was always Hua Ji——she was a woman who was really born in a noble family in the ghost clan, and her gestures and gestures were full of nobility and elegance.Although the Genji lineage is pure, in terms of status, the family that walks on the edge of ghosts and humans all the year round is really not worth mentioning.

Thinking about it now, I really can't understand why a woman like her would choose to marry my grandfather Minamoto Chiwa. I also know that the grandfather who was in love with a human woman at that time would not have any substantial relationship with Kahime For the sake of blood, the ghost clan has a lot of other choices - after all, in the ghost clan, pure-blooded female ghosts have never been rare.

But she chose my family after all.

Grandpa died in a rebellion of the ghost clan hundreds of years ago, and after that rebellion, Hua Ji has been missing.

——Just why did she suddenly appear in such a place?Is there any reason to lie to the boy who was supposed to protect me to leave?

"Because Master Hua Ji is your relative, and she is also very powerful, and I heard that she will help you from the side, so Tong Ziqie will feel at ease and come to find Lord Qianjing."

"Hua Ji... my lord." I muttered the name dumbly.

It’s not that I can’t believe Tongziqie’s words, but no matter what, Huaji and I have some kind of blood relationship after all. If Huaji lied to him to leave as he said, then after Tongziqie leaves, I will be helpless. What kind of mood does Kahime have when she sees me being kidnapped by Kibu Tsuji?

I can't imagine.

"Anyway, Chikage-sama has already negotiated with the Demon Slayer Squad, and also learned from us that you have gone to the Heian era." Keimaru said: "He told my brother that after you go back, there is no need to investigate any more... ...that man's movements, anyway, let's go back to the ghost clan's territory first, Master Qianjing seems to have something to explain to you."

Biting my lips lightly, I just feel that my mood at the moment is somewhat complicated.

It's not that I can't understand that Chikage Kazama specially called me back to the ghost clan. After all, the previous incidents are enough to prove that it is a bit of a fantasy to let me deal with the ghost dance Tsuji alone, and the appearance of Huahime makes the whole thing change. It got complicated, and it was only natural that Chikage Kazama would let me go back and make a long-term plan.

But in fact, I don't want to go back.

I don't know how I should face Chikage Kazama, and I don't know how I should face Genji, who I came from.After going through those ups and downs and learning about the past, I suddenly found that as a historian, my mother clan, which I thought I was familiar with, seemed so strange at the moment.

What Kazama Chikage is planning, and what Hua Ji is chasing after, I don't want to and can't imagine these things.

What I can be sure of is that when Katsumaru told me that Chikage Kazama asked me to return to the Onizu, the first thought that popped into my mind was——

If you go back, is it true that you will never see that man again?

Thinking about it this way, what Higakiri said at the time was probably not a simple joke, because he knew early on what Chikage Kazama asked him to convey to me.

I can't tell what kind of feelings I have for that man at the moment, and I don't know what kind of mood I should take to face the guy who has committed unforgivable sins, but I know that even if I fight from the bottom of my heart I don't want to admit it, but I also know clearly——

I want to see him again, I want to see him again from the moment we parted.