Although the explanations given by Samura, Musashi, and Kotaro were generally very detailed, how should I put it...
Duan Zang couldn't understand it more and more.
The depth of the topic is getting deeper and deeper. It’s hard to believe some things if you don’t see them in person, so in fact, even Muramasa is confused.
"Don't talk too loudly. Can't you say something that I can understand?"
"So, that..."
Duan Zang spoke hesitantly.
"According to what Musashi-sama means, is there no difference between ghosts and so-called 'heroic spirits'?"
"It's just similar." Kotaro shook his head, "Mr. Musashi means that the two have similarities, not that they are the same."
"Whether it is from my personal subjective point of view or from an objective point of view, the essence of the two is absolutely different."
Musashi continued.
"After all, heroic spirits are essentially the incarnation of heroes. I don't think too many words are needed to explain the difference between heroes and ghosts. Ghosts are absolutely unable to coexist with humans on a population scale."
"Whether it is crazy resentment, endless greed, or the pursuit of morbid pleasure - ghosts must have pursuits that humans cannot understand. If not, ghosts would not be ghosts anymore."
Perhaps it was because Cao Cao had arrived. As soon as Musashi finished speaking, he heard a sound in the forest...
roar.
What comes with it is a feeling of resentment that makes people's skin crawl.
"Maybe we shouldn't discuss ghosts in this place."
Zuo Cun pulled out the crane feather from his waist.
There is no doubt that this is one of the transformations that Minamoto no Yorimitsu and Shuten Doji arranged in their path to stop them.
"Damn it, ghosts come when you say ghosts. It's really annoying! Get rid of it as soon as possible!"
With the strength of Samura and Musashi, a mere ghost, even a large individual formed by tangled resentments, is absolutely no match.
Zuo Cun's He He chopped off the ghost's head, fell to the ground, and returned the sword to its sheath.
"So the current situation is that the heroic spirits win and the ghosts lose?"
Duan Zang, who stood aside and wanted to help but was unable to help, sorted out his words and explained the current situation.
"Ah, as for this...you don't have to worry about it..."
Musashi smiled and raised his hand and pressed it.
I always feel that Danzo is prone to being more serious about things like this.
"The reason why I say this kind of thing is actually because I have some doubts about my own existence..."
"Although I have published so many high-level remarks, how can I put it...actually I don't fully understand these things myself."
As he spoke, Musashi scratched his head and sighed, showing a somewhat uncomfortable expression.
"I keep traveling to various different worlds all the time, constantly killing various opponents with the same name but different appearances. Although I wrote something like the Book of Five Wheels, I still don't know how to return to my hometown.
I can’t understand anything.”
After saying that, she was silent for a few seconds, tapped Myojin Kirimura on her shoulder, then raised her head and looked at the silent night sky.
"Maybe - I mean I feel that from the moment I started 'traveling through time and space', I was already dead."
"The one who is here now is just an undead named 'Miyamoto Musashi'."
"Ah, but - although I don't know what kind of existence I should be classified as, at least I know that I am not a ghost! As long as I understand this, I still feel that there is no problem."
"Similarly, a ghost can tell this even if he doesn't know who he is? He is a ghost, and he is a beast that lives with this determination - he has this kind of knowledge,
So for this kind of creature, it doesn’t matter even if it doesn’t know its true identity.”
"...It doesn't matter even if I lose my way of existence."
As he spoke, Musashi gritted his teeth.
"So, as long as I still want to live like this, as long as I still live like this, I will still be me!"
It seemed that he had solved his cognitive crisis with strong self-confidence. Musashi wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Fujimaru Ritsuka didn't say anything, just came over and hugged Musashi gently.
"Hey? What is this? Is it a reward? Ritsuka kissed you too gently!"
Musashi blushed and hugged him back, then let go with a silly smile.
After all, although this fact is often overlooked, Fujimaru Ritsuka is actually an absolutely beautiful girl.
"What Musashi said is also the source of the danger for the two guys on the mountain - ghosts can only break free from the desires that trouble them when they give up their own survival. Before that, they were every moment.
Living as a ghost."
"I have seen such a scene before."
Zuo Cun rubbed his thumb on He He's knife handle.
That was on top of Mount Kurokawa——
The evil ghost recognized his own way of existence and then gave up his life. In the legend about Zuo Cun, it was always Zuo Cun who cut off the neck of Tianyin ghost with the famous sword named Hehe and pierced the big body.
However, only Zuomura, Ryoma, Miss Aaron, and Souji Okita knew the actual situation at that time.
The white girl walked into the heart that had long been polluted into black, and the twisted desires were relieved at that moment. Looking back, the girl named Hoshikuma Yukina saw what she had done, and her mother held her hand.
With her hands, mother and daughter destroyed themselves like this.
So Zuo Cun still has an understanding of ghosts as a creature.
"Understand your own cognition clearly, and live according to what you want - so don't be downcast anymore, Kotaro!"
"You were depressed the moment you said you were a ghost, right?"
Musashi patted Kotaro hard on the back.
"Well--"
Kotaro looked a little embarrassed.
"Really, Kotaro, Your Excellency?"
Danzo looked at Kotaro strangely.
"...Well, I understand."
"All in all, if you want to save the people whose lives are threatened, then that's fine - even though it was done this way from the beginning."
Kotaro pursed his lips and hit his chest twice with his fist.
Although the atmosphere is still serious, it is finally a little more cheerful - which will be good for the battle that is bound to happen next.
However, Duan Zang had some... thoughts because of the conversation between several people.
"What do you want to do, live..."
"What to do, and what to do..."
"Then what am I?"
After Musashi, Danzo Tokikato was the next one to have a cognitive crisis.