Miss Zashiki

The four-person (demon) team just stalemate silently at the corner of the long street, and the atmosphere is inexplicably subtle and awkward.

Nested like an ostrich for a long time, before the whole team moved, Fu Xiaoyester, who was pretending to be dead, had no choice but to raise his face again, humming in a low voice with a guilty conscience: "I understand the truth... But, Timidity is also part of my truth and reason... what can I do about it?"

At this point, she suddenly found confidence from her guilty conscience, and curled her lips slightly: "And if you didn't have to come in, I wouldn't be in such a ghostly place..."

The implication is that the subtext is:

——I am a demon born to be so cowardly, why can't you accept it?

——It’s not all because of you now, why do you think I’m useless?

However, as he spoke, the strength in his voice soon weakened again: "Of course, I followed him in, that's not wrong, um..."

She just kept going back and forth, switching her attitude between guilty conscience and righteousness.However, the drug seller in front of her did not comment on her multi-angle defense.

In fact, right after she uttered the phrase "truth and reason", in his usual indifferent expression, he was slightly stunned, and he was quite thoughtful and contemplative.Then, while he didn't know what he was thinking about, he looked at her seriously.

After just looking at each other for two seconds, Fu Xiaoyue, who has never had a firm stand, almost wanted to raise his hands in surrender—"Okay, okay, I was wrong, I was too useless, boss."

But just before she wanted to say something soft, the drug seller turned around again and continued to walk forward.

--Um……

——Is this considered to have given up on her treatment...?

Fu Xiaoyue quietly nestled on the shoulder of the dog god, while thinking uncertainly.

However, without the pressure from the drug seller, it was much easier for her to deal with the stinky Miss Nine Life Cat beside her.

Looking at those cold and angry cat's eyes, Fu Xiaoyue even developed a bit of carelessness and evil taste to tease her, and immediately stretched out his hands to her obediently: "Xiao Jiu, come and hug one——"

The stiff and ugly expression on the young girl's face paused for a moment, and she paused for two or three seconds to realize what she meant, and a sense of helplessness was added to the usually proud eyebrows and eyes.

After a long while, she heard an awkward little snort, with a disgusted expression of "I really can't do anything with you" on her face, she was about to reach out her hand unnaturally——

However, seeing that her arm was raised halfway, Fu Xiaoyue seemed to suddenly think of something, and said in a tone of sudden realization: "Ah, what if you can't hold her? Forget it, I'd like to trouble my little brother to work hard for this kind of physical activity." alright!"

After finishing speaking, she didn't look at the frozen expression on the other party's face again, and thoughtfully withdrew her hand, and once again lay down on Inugami's shoulder honestly and hugged her tightly: "Are you right, Inugami?"

The young man who was a little unhappy after hearing her words before, his brows and eyes were brightened again in an instant, and he responded energetically: "En!"

"So good!" Without raising his head, Fu Xiaoyue stretched out a finger and pointed in an unknown direction: "Let's set off now! Catch up with the drug seller! Drive—!"

"Yes! Master!"

The girl who was left on the spot still mechanically maintained a half-raised posture of her arms, and the whole cat stared expressionlessly at the figures in front of them who were gradually pulling away from her—especially a certain monster. With a trembling head holding back a smile, the mouth almost gnashed its teeth: "Little, bastard...!"

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After closing his eyes tightly again, Fu Xiaoyue's perception of external information again relied on the real-time broadcast of Inugami.Also, being unable to see what was affecting her mood allowed her to calmly integrate the information.

As time passed, Fu Xiaoyue gradually realized a problem: everything that happened in this area seemed to revolve around that "General Kaga".In other words, what the four outsiders were shown was actually the "biography" of General Kaga.

In a nutshell, the life of this general named "Kaga Ichiro" can be described as quite tragic——

He left his hometown at the age of 20 and formally joined the army. After eight years of suffering, he finally made his mark in a battle—that is, the initial situation in this area—after that, he was promoted one after another, and had a smooth marriage with the daughter of a family of powerful ministers. Getting married, gaining both fame and fortune, making a fortune, and enjoying the moment.But the good times didn't last long, and evidence of treason was found in Kaga's wife's family.He is a martial artist, illiterate, and has an upright mind. He was pushed out as a scapegoat for no reason, and even when he was in the execution ground, he didn't even know that it was the power of his wife's family who put all the evidence on him. on the head.

Nearly ten years after Kaga's death, this old case was finally overturned and investigated, and it was finally brought to justice.But sadly, during these ten years, the royal family changed and declined. At that time, the power of the wife's family was now in power, and the real power was in hand, and it had already become a veritable regent royal family.Therefore, even if the truth of the year was revealed, it would not be able to shake the foundation of power that covered the sky with one hand, and would only add more shame to the remaining royal family in vain.So in the end, all the evil truths were finally buried under the false peace of the "monarch and ministers".As for Kaga, until he was under Jiuquan, his surname was still firmly nailed with the title of treasonous minister.

——And here, this personal biography officially ends.

The reason why it is called "the end" is because Fu Xiaoyue noticed that Inugami hadn't spoken for a long time, and at the same time, she suddenly noticed that all the noise around her had been annihilated into complete silence——she cautiously showed a smile on Inugami's shoulder. With only one eye, he glanced around his body, only to realize——

The stretching long street, the restaurant pavements on both sides, the eyes are gray and white, and there is no one around... It is exactly the same, and it is exactly what they saw when they first entered this area.The place where they were standing was also exactly the corner at the end of the original long street.

Fu Xiaoyue recalled what the drug seller said before: fake things.

After just this period of time, she has also realized that what she saw and heard before should be the "illusion" created by this domain.But could it be that even their movement just now was an illusion?In fact, from the beginning to the end, they all stood here, didn't they move at all?

Completely confused, Fu Xiaoyue looked at the drug seller who had been silent for a long time, and humbly asked for advice: "Mr. Yao Lang, can you see what's going on in this place?"

The drug seller quietly looked at the long street in front of him, without any movement under his feet, he just turned his face slightly, rolled his eyes, and looked at her from an awkward angle: "...you haven't recognized it until now, what is it?" place?"

--make out?

Noticing the words he used, Fu Xiaoyue suddenly felt a little weird—could she recognize this place?But she thought about it carefully, and since she came to this world, she has indeed never been to a place like this.

The medicine seller had already turned his head back, and said in a deep voice, "If you were arrested in Yunshu Kingdom, you will be taken to this place in the end."

……what?

Fu Xiaoyue froze for a few seconds, unable to react, before he sorted out the logic of his words, and couldn't help feeling a little absurdly unbelievable: "You mean... this is the capital?"

——As a "monster" who traveled from another world, among the companions Fu Xiaoyue came into contact with: before he fell into a demon, the dog god was a dog born and raised in Hanamachi; after the nine-life cat lost his life as a monster , I don’t know anything about the past; and the little monk Iron Mouse, since he came out of the monastery at the beginning, he has only experienced in the mortal world for a few days——

In other words, among their group of monsters, none of them actually knew what the face of the famous capital in the legends was like.

——This tm is very embarrassing.

After being so embarrassed for a few seconds, Fu Xiaoyue quickly realized something was wrong: "But why is the capital like this?"

She was referring to the appearance of white bones spreading all over the sky in front of her eyes.

The drug seller did not continue to answer her question, but instead said: "Kaga Ichiro, the general who was deposed and sentenced to death for committing treason 12 years ago, is 44 years old."

——Twelve years ago...wasn't it ten years?

When Fu Xiao heard him suddenly change the subject and said such a sentence yesterday, he subconsciously recalled the content of the "biography" just now.

A few seconds later, she suddenly thought of something, and the whole monster seemed to be enlightened, and exclaimed: "You mean, this Kaga Ichiro is a real person who has existed in reality?"

— was not refuted negatively.

Fu Xiaoyue once again felt that a new brainstorm was blowing up in his head: "That is to say, this Kaga Ichiro should have been unwilling to be wronged after death and turned into a monster, and this virtual Kyoto, Is it an illusion constructed by him with his grudges?"

— But why turn everything into bones?Could it be that because of resentment in his heart, he wanted to turn the area that killed him, and all the characters in it, into skeletons?

——Then why didn't he go to revenge in the real Kyoto, but only create an illusion on Qiangwei Island?Even in the illusion just now, Kaga Ichiro did not take revenge from the beginning to the end, but actually repeated his own tragic fate.

——What's even more strange is that if Kaga Ichiro is indeed the boss of monsters in this area, why does he turn a blind eye to the four outsiders like other fake skeletons?Even when the illusion ended, he disappeared like everyone else.

The more Fu Xiaoyue thought about it, the more she felt that there were many contradictions and loopholes in this explanation. Then, she heard the answer from the drug seller:

"No."

"Huh?" She responded subconsciously.

The drug seller looked at the long street in front of him, so that people couldn't see the expression on his face, and could only hear the slow voice: "The monsters in this area are not, Kaga Ichiro."

Fu Xiaoyue listened to him in a daze, and watched him take a step towards the street in a daze, and even more dazedly heard a familiar long cry following the pharmacist's movements, resounding through the air:

"—General Kaga has returned from victory!"

——The long street in front of you "once again" "live".