Zonggu was panting, looking at the empty bar hall in front of him, and suddenly dropped the wooden sword in his hand.
The illusion that suddenly appeared in front of him made him think that he had fallen into the chaotic and dangerous underworld again, and he slashed with his sword;
When he came to his senses, only he and Izanami, who was patting her palms, were left alone.
"If he had been born in the Warring States Period, Yoshiaki might have become a prince guarding one side."
Zonggu looked at him coldly, thinking that the hallucination just now could only be her doing something wrong.
"I have dealt with both Uesugi of Echigo and Oda Nobunaga of Owari, and Yoshiaki is not inferior to them."
With a wooden sword and crisp actions, he proved to her his strength honed in the underworld. As a result, all the spirits in the bar were wiped out.
He glanced outside and didn't see Kirino Akane or Asagiri Suzu. They seemed to have walked aside.
"That child is holding the amulet." Izanami saw his concern, "I didn't see anything."
"What is the solution once and for all? Do you want me to kill all the girls from the underworld who come after me?"
"If Fangming thinks this is useful, I won't object."
"..."
No matter whether it is the daughter of Huangquan or the army of Huangquan, they will never be able to kill them all.
Seeing him looking at her, Izanami gave half of the answer, "As long as Huang Quan returns to his original state."
"The original appearance?"
"Those things from the other world couldn't come here originally."
"..."
Zong Gu pursed his lips and looked at her without saying anything.
The boundary that separates this world from the other world was destroyed into its current state of being riddled with holes when the Lord of the Underworld fled out of anger.
Since then, the spirit bodies that fell into the underworld have had a chance to escape, and the daughter of the underworld who was born in it can come and go between the two worlds freely.
Izanami continued: "As long as the boundaries are restored to the original state, the spiritual bodies from the other world will not be able to enter the human world, and Yoshiaki will not be captured."
She said this, which means there is a possibility of repair.
Zonggu asked: "How to repair it?"
"Fill it up with what fell out of me."
He frowned, "What?"
"Fool." Izanami smiled, "He is my child."
"..."
The children of the Creator Mother Goddess are naturally gods.
"I gave birth to eight children in the Underworld Hall. The greatest significance of their birth is to become new boundaries when necessary."
Zongya quickly remembered their names: "Eight Thunder Gods..."
Izanami's voice suddenly turned cold, "They were the ones who made me look ugly in front of my husband... That's all, let's not mention the old things.
The gods returned to Gaotianyuan, and the children wanted to follow them, but as expected they were rejected.
However, they did not return to their mother, but hid in the human world... Even if I came to the human world, the children would still hide and refuse to see me."
Soya: "If you find them, can you restore the boundaries to the original state?"
"Just finding it is not enough."
"What?"
"Those children will not agree to Fangming unless they are willing to do so."
"so……"
"Kill them and get their divine power."
"..."
Really cruel and ruthless.
Such thoughts only lasted for a moment, and Zongya soon began to question the feasibility of this matter.
"Those are the eight thunder gods."
"What's wrong? Fangming doesn't have confidence?"
"I shouldn't have had the confidence to kill gods in the first place."
The Mother Goddess showed a gentle and peaceful smile that was dazzling.
"I don't mind."
"..."
Zong Gu looked away, "Except for my developed spiritual sense, I am no different from ordinary people."
"So are they."
"..."
He looked back again, with "I don't believe it" written all over his face.
Izanami opened her hand, and the wooden sword discarded by Soya flew over. She held the wooden sword and drew a standard octagon on the floor.
"Eight in one, those children only have the power of gods when they are united into one; if they are separated, they are not much stronger than Fangming."
"Ever since they were born, those children have hated each other. Now they are far apart and will never unite. It's really worrying."
Zonggu was silent for a while, then asked a very important question:
"In that case, why didn't Izanami-sama go find them?"
"I have seen one or two of these children, but they are unwilling to return to their mother. It would be too cruel for the mother to kill her own children, wouldn't it?"
"..."
On the one hand, she regards the gods who were born from the body as children, on the other hand, she does not hesitate to ask him to kill them and take away the divine power. The characteristics of gods and humans are paradoxically combined in her, which makes Soya
It's hard to tell what kind of emotion she was feeling when she said these words.
However, if he wanted to completely get rid of the shadow of hell, he had no other choice.
"Where do I find them?"
"It's a pity that we haven't contacted each other for so long. I don't know where those children are now."
Zonggu frowned, "Should I go find it myself?"
He knew nothing about the current situation of the Eight Thunder Gods, and searching for them was like looking for a needle in a haystack.
"It's going to be hard on you. However, they are a part of my body that is separated from me. If the child is thinking about me, I will feel it vaguely..."
Snap.
Izanami dropped the wooden sword and folded her hands, covering her heart.
"In human terms, this is the 'love' between mother and flesh and blood, right?"
"..."
"——When my child misses his mother again, you will kill him."
...
When Soya went to Kyoto alone, the train carriage was empty. It was still the same when he returned from Kyoto, except that there were two more people around him.
"Are you a friend from a children's welfare home? It's such a coincidence that we can meet again in Kyoto."
Looking at the two people sitting across from each other, Kirino Akane's eyes were mainly focused on the petite girl.
"Ring...?"
"Asagiri Suzu." Soya answered for her.
"What's your age?"
"..."
He couldn't answer. Probably only she knew the answer to this question.
Asagiri Suzu: "One thousand two hundred and eighty-four years old."
"..."
Kirino Akane's smile froze on her face.
"Don't worry...she likes to read books and often imagines that she was born in the Nara period."
In order to avoid trouble, Soya did not tell her the true identities of Izanami and Asagiri Suzu, "This year should be... fifteen years old, right?"
Chao Wuling glanced at him.
"Seventeen years old."
"I really can't tell..."
Akane Kirino couldn't accept the fact that she looked so petite but was actually one year older than herself, but she quickly put it behind her.
"Did you grow up together?"
"Um……"
Although he is the only one who has really grown up, she was what she is now ten years ago.
To be precise, her body stopped growing more than 1,200 years ago during the Nara period.
Asagiri Suzu was born in the Nara period. In order to learn calligraphy (called "Bi Dao" at that time), she joined the mission to the Tang Dynasty and became a member of the entourage;
Unfortunately, she encountered a shipwreck when she first crossed the sea and sank into the sea at the age of fifteen.
Izanami, who was also on the ship, fished her body out and used his divine power to let her become a spirit and continue to live in it, becoming a so-called "half-human, half-spirit".
Although the body's functions are still there, it just won't grow anymore and it will always maintain the appearance of fifteen years old.
After that, Asagiri Suzu followed Izanami around the world until today, a thousand years later.
"This." Zong Gu picked up the amulet on his chest, "You will need to lend it to me for a while longer."
Kirino Akane nodded, "No problem."
"Ling said there is a way to eliminate that evil spirit. After that, the chaos in Kinki will probably really stop."
"Eh, really?"
"Well, I don't know exactly what to do yet..."
Soya looked at Asagiri Suzu next to him. She was also looking at him, her eyes unblinking, and she obviously had no intention of explaining on the spot.
"Let's talk about it when we get back."
He looked at Kirino Akane across from him again, "In addition, Ling wants to stay temporarily..."
"No problem. When Soya goes to the store to help later, I will go with you. My parents will definitely agree."
"Thank you, that's a big help."
"Speaking of which..."
Akane Kirino thought again of the strange bar in the Kyoto Imperial Palace and the bar girl who behaved intimately with him.
"Who is that woman? She is the one who keeps calling you 'Fangming' and 'Fangming'."
"..."
Zonggu took a breath silently and moved his gaze to look out the car window.
"Zong-gu-"
"teacher."
"Eh?"
"She is Ling and I's life teacher at the orphanage."
"..."
Akane Kirino was stunned.
Although the coincidental stories of meeting old friends in a foreign land are touching, they are too frequent.
"Is that the teacher Tachibana Tenko?"
"Um."
"She is really young and beautiful, and she looks very gentle. She must be a very good person."