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"...Perhaps you are capable of saying that, given your abilities," Mikazuki said dryly.
"My ability? No, no, no, Mikazuki, that has nothing to do with ability." Dou Tang shook his head and retorted, "Forget it, it's a bit inappropriate to discuss that now, let's continue."
"Okay, then I'll continue."
"When Taira no Masakado woke up, it not only shook the demon world, but also the exorcist world. However, Taira no Masakado made it clear that he would not harm society, so the exorcist world seemed to stay quiet."
"Oh," Dou Tang sneered, "You knelt down the first time before, and now you're kneeling again?"
"...Could you please stop being so sarcastic?"
"You go on, I won't say anything more."
"It's so annoying, they won't let people speak, they just keep interrupting."
"...What did you just say? Did you refer to yourself as 'the other person'?"
"shut up!"
"..."
"In short, Kujiro-no-Kujiro is Taira no Masakado's organization. Kujiro-no-Kujiro... refers to himself."
"I understand, but isn't what he's doing also going against what he promised the exorcism community?"
"Only a small number of people know about this now, Dou Tang. If you hadn't said that those sugar pills were full of resentment, ordinary exorcists or monsters would have had no chance of discovering them."
Dou Tang frowned and asked, "Why?"
"Not everyone has your extraordinary ability to sense resentment. The weaker the monster or exorcist, the harder it is to sense it. This is not because they do not have resentment; on the contrary, novice monsters and exorcists are more susceptible to the influence of resentment."
"To become part of the extraordinary, one must inherently contain resentment. If one already harbors resentment and is not sufficiently skilled in improving one's own abilities, then it is difficult for them to perceive the resentment in the outside world."
"In other words, one's senses are blocked by resentment, so one cannot perceive the faint resentment in the outside world."
Dou Tang nodded: "I understand, you can continue."
"This incident has proven that Taira no Masakado has ulterior motives. Tou-tang, are you sure you want to continue investigating? Your opponent is Taira no Masakado, who is... one of the three great vengeful spirits in Japanese history!"
"That's a legendary being! A mythical vengeful spirit revered throughout Japan!"
Dou Tang scratched his ear.
"Hmm... so what?"
"He's doing something wrong, and it's having a huge impact. If this drug continues to circulate, how many people will suffer? Am I just going to stand by and do nothing?"
"But……"
"No buts, Mikazuki, this is my responsibility."
"What does this have to do with you?" Mikazuki chuckled, both annoyed and amused. "You are a jelly bean, that's true, but Taira no Masakado isn't the owner of the crown. What responsibility do you have to care about this?"
This isn't Fall Guys' business, but it's Mr. Ren's responsibility... If Mr. Ren doesn't take care of such an evil spirit that's secretly doing bad things, who will?
If I don't take action myself, all the scars on my body will be in excruciating pain.
"I want to do it."
"I really can't do anything with you... Don't think I'll help you! I won't get involved in such dangerous things!"
"Okay, I understand. Remember to let me know if there are any new updates, it's very important."
"What I just said...you're awful! I know!"
"Beep beep-"
Although Mikazuki hung up the phone, Toudou nodded.
Although this kitten has a bad temper, it will never let you down, Dou Tang trusted his intuition.
Once back on his motorcycle, Dou Tang headed home.
Another Taira no Masakado has appeared... It feels like a lot of things have been piling up lately, and there's a sense of impending storm.
Then again, it was the same in my previous life. I was always busy, and I didn't know what to do when I took a break, until... until the sword broke, until Haoli lost Guibo.
"Haoli... Guibo... Now that I'm in this world, those things shouldn't concern me anymore, right?" Dou Tang whispered to himself.
But then he remembered the replica sword at home, of unknown origin, that was exactly the same as the ancestral sword.
Why would anyone in this world know about this sword?
Chapter 36 My Adorable Little Sisters
The girl stood quietly on the side of the street.
The Tokyo night is intoxicating, and at this moment, Tou Tang is carrying out a purge of the Juu-no-Shou-no-Ku in a corner of the city.
On the other side, a girl wearing a straw hat looked out at the street in front of her.
She's always been slow-witted, never learning anything as quickly as her older sister, and always following her around like a little shadow, and she's still the same now.
But she also lives life to the fullest. She learns Japanese very quickly and can now have basic conversations with people.
The.
But she was still a bit confused about where her sister should look.
The life of scavenging did not make her dissatisfied. You know, she had smuggled herself to Tottori and wandered all the way to Tokyo.
Walking down the street, Lu Zijun continued her routine patrol of the streets surrounding the park, which served as her source of intelligence.
As she walked, she wrote in her diary.
"A new biker gang has appeared, called Headless Dogs... Recently, there has been more resentment around the park, and people on the streets also carry a faint resentment. It feels like... Hmm, are there more people being haunted by vengeful spirits? But I haven't found any vengeful spirits."
"Katsuta Yohei said they've been too busy lately to come see me. Sigh, another source of information is gone."
"Ringo Shinzaki came by yesterday. Hmm... I feel like Ringo Shinzaki is an idiot. Even though she's an exorcist, she doesn't have any useful information."
"Sister, sister...where are you? I miss you so much."
Shaking his head in distress, Lu Zijun looked down at the road beneath his feet, casually walked to a bench, sat down, and sighed in frustration.
"Tokyo is such a big place, and my sister likes to hide, what should we do..."
"Smacking sounds..." came from the side.
"Sister, I miss you..."
"Smack smack smack smack..."
"If we can't catch my sister, then we're probably doomed. Damn it, is the fate of the Lu family going to end in our hands?"
"Smack smack smack smack..."
This guy is eating so deliciously...
Lu Zijun turned his head away, quite annoyed, wanting to see who was munching away on the bench late at night.
What came into view was a rather thin young girl who was picking up a fish from a can of saury with her fingers, tilting her head back, sticking out her tongue, and stuffing the whole fish into her mouth.
Then, she squinted her eyes happily, chewing incessantly, her cheeks puffed out like a little squirrel.
The girl was dressed simply, with her head covered by a hood, and several plastic bags were placed next to her.
A person slowly ran over from not far away, also carrying a plastic bag. He came up to the thin girl and put the plastic bag on the bench. It seemed to contain a bento box.
"Boss... I've bought it!" The man, who looked like an office worker, bowed slightly, respectfully.
"Mmm," the thin girl responded.
Lu Zijun, however, had already lost his temper and slowly placed his hand on the long black mace behind his back.
The thick resentment emanating from this office worker revealed his identity; he was clearly a dead man, or even a corpse!
A corpse whose soul is forcibly locked inside its body.
Seemingly sensing the fighting spirit of the person beside her, the thin girl curiously turned her head and, upon seeing the mace behind Lu Zijun, exclaimed "Oh ho!" with great delight.
"Wow, a mace! It's been so long! Hey, where are you from? Henan? Chen-style Tai Chi mace?"
Upon hearing the familiar Chinese, Lu Zijun froze, and before she could react, the thin girl continued, "No? Which school is it? Have you heard of the Martial Classic? Or something later? The Treatise on Military Preparedness? The Record of Military Equipment?"
Lu Zijun shrank back. In front of this girl, she seemed to be naturally inferior, always feeling like she was facing the teachers from her village.
"Those...aren't those historical materials? No, they're not technical books, are they?"
The thin girl smiled smugly and said, "So you really do know, hehe, you're a martial arts expert... That's rare. Which school are you from?"
Lu Zijun pursed her lips, then suddenly hardened her tone and said in a muffled voice, "Shouldn't you introduce yourself before asking questions?"
"Oh." Upon hearing this, the thin girl wiped her mouth with her sleeve, turned around, and cupped her hands in a gesture of respect: "Ghost Uncle Ren Yuyin, without any sect or faction."
Lu Zijun glanced curiously at the man standing to the side and bowed slightly: "Lei Jin Lu Zijun, from the Henan Lu Clan's Mace School."
"Meeting a fellow countryman in a foreign land, wanna grab something to eat together?" Ren Yuyin said with a grin, pointing to the plastic bag next to her.
"No, no... I've already eaten." Lu Zijun waved her hand, but her eyes couldn't help but glance at the office worker next to her.
Seeing the confusion in Lu Zijun's eyes, Ren Yuyin explained, "He is a spirit that is temporarily following me. You can think of it as something similar to the technique of corpse driving, but with more stringent conditions. I can only control vengeful spirits."
“Controlling vengeful spirits… doesn’t seem like something a righteous person should do?” Lu Zijun became wary again, recalling her sister’s childhood admonition.
"Zijun, you must remember, the kinder a person is, the more likely they are to be a bad person. Look, Li Xiaoyao suffered because of this!"
"Sister, that's Zhang Wuji."
"Oh right, Zhang Wuji, oh my... wouldn't it be great if my sister found someone as amazing as Zhang Wuji?"
"...Sister, stop dreaming!"
Ren Yuyin smiled and shook her head: "Of course it's not like that. I control those vengeful spirits so that I can help them pass on to the afterlife. However... our method of helping them pass on is a bit special."
After saying that, she waved her hand behind her and said, "Alright, you can go now. Go and continue with the things I asked you to do."
The man with the icy expression bowed slightly and said, "Boss, then this subordinate will take his leave."
Lu Zijun wasn't going to trust people so easily. He still looked somewhat unfriendly and took a few steps back.
Ren Yuyin also seems to be absent.
Ignoring her attitude, he continued eating, saying as he ate, "By the way, Lu Zi-kun, Tokyo is going to get a bit chaotic lately, so be careful. You seem like the kind of person who's a bit impulsive, so you absolutely mustn't get carried away and cause trouble everywhere."
Lu Zijun frowned deeply: "What do you mean?"
Ren Yuyin smiled mysteriously: "I know you best, but since we're just strangers, I have no obligation to tell you all that."
"Anyway, protect yourself. Maybe we can still become friends. Tokyo is about to descend into chaos..."
Lu Zijun pressed further, "Is it related to those resentful people on the street? What exactly is going to happen?"
Ren Yuyin did not answer, but simply picked up the newest plastic bag and waved.
"call--"
Suddenly, a ripple appeared in the air, as if something had wiped the air away, and Ren Yuyin vanished into thin air, leaving no trace of her departure.
Lu Zijun was stunned for a moment, then she searched incredulously. She jumped off the bench and looked around, but she couldn't see Ren Yuyin anywhere.
Chapter 37 Cat-Loving Perverted Siblings
Two flowers bloom, one branch each.
The night passed.
Dou Tang had been busy all day and slept until the morning.
I had just gotten up when I received a call from Mikazuki. After I answered, I was met with a chorus of meows from a cat.
"Aww... Aww... Aww... Aww..."
"Can you speak Japanese? I don't understand cat language."
"What exactly did you do last night? Why do all the monsters in the Tokyo area know about that guy... what was he called again? Oh right, how come they all know about this Mr. Ren?"
Dou Tang smiled, even a little smugly. After relaxing a bit, he was actually looking forward to the name resounding in Tokyo again.
"Hmm...then what?"
"What?! Damn it... Taira no Masakado just said he wanted your life. Although most yokai don't know what the Kubinashi is doing behind the scenes, they all know that killing you will allow them to join Taira no Masakado's forces. Quite a few yokai are using you as a stepping stone!"
"They can't beat me anyway," Dou Tang said calmly.
"...Ugh, damn it, damn it, it's precisely your situation that's so annoying. Things that are supposed to be really difficult become completely insignificant when you run into them. This feeling of having my worldview shattered is so unpleasant!"
Dou Tang comforted him, "Alright, let's get down to business. It's not worth worrying about something like this."
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