"Snow Leaf Monarch!!" the Three Days Moon Sect suddenly raised his voice and shouted sharply.

Before Kiyohara Yukiha could answer, Kanno Rinne suddenly burst out laughing, laughing as if he was very happy.

"Hahaha...... Are you—Do you have times when you're afraid, Mikazuki?" she mocked rudely.

Mikazuki didn't pay attention to her, and turned to Kiyohara Yukiha. His handsome face was tight.

"It doesn't do any good to go too far. ...... Aren't you already aware of this, Xue Ye-kun?" he said as if warning.

Kiyohara Yukiha was silent for a moment.

Then, she turned her head and calmly stared straight at Mikazuki Sect.

"What are you going to do when I'm too far away?" she asked, completely abandoning polite or cautious tentativeness.

“...... Will you purge me again?"

Three Days and Moons: !!

He opened his beautiful eyes with a crescent moon slightly, as if he had been struck by this sentence, and showed a look of surprise. Although that look only swept over his face, it seemed to have swept away his eternally calm and condescending demeanor, making him seem to have lost his dignified and proud sense of being a god for a moment, and truly looked like a mortal who would be troubled by unsatisfactory things.

In response to her defiant answer, he took a deep breath.

"If you want to shake the foundations of this world—that's my duty as a sword. ”

His famously beautiful eyes darkened for a moment, and a hint of compassion gradually appeared in the depths of his eyes.

"Hmph, that's a nice thing to say. In the silence, Kanaru snorted arrogantly.

"It's okay to just say that you are doing your duty as a retainer? As a good retainer, shouldn't you be responsible for admonishing and correcting the lord who has gone astray? The smile on her face was a little meaningful—in one sentence, the relationship between Kiyohara Yukiha and the Three Days Moon Sect was positioned above the "lord and retainer", and I have to say that this is also where she is clever.

Of course, this kind of inconspicuous provocation will not make Qingyuan Snow Leaf or the Three Days Moon Sect nearly fooled.

Kanna Rinyin saw Kiyohara Yukiha in front of him and glanced at her, there was a little cold in his eyes, but as if he was hindered by some deeper and more dangerous reason, he didn't immediately deny her words.

"If that's what you're going to tell me, then I'm overestimating you. Kiyohara Yukiha replied in a defiant sneer.

"Why don't you just say something worth the risk of stopping here and listening?"

was stabbed slightly, and Kanna's face changed, but from this sentence, she seemed to have gotten what she wanted the most-that was to divide Kiyohara Yukiba and the Three Sun Moon Sect, and at the same time tell the truth she really wanted to say to the fierce rival in front of her who she had defined without permission-

"A male inquisitor of unknown origin who suddenly appeared. and female inquisitors whose whereabouts are unknown and who disappeared from Honmaru for no good reason—I don't think I need to say their names out loud, do I?" she snorted.

Of course not.

Because both of them knew by heart, what Kanno Rin was talking about was the handsome man who claimed to be "Yashima Yoriyoshi" but forced Minamoto Yorito's love sword to the ground, and the other was the original inquisitor of the Honmaru that Kiyohara Yukiha had taken over, the girl whose name she still didn't know.

In Kanna's eyes, Kiyohara Yukiha's gaze flickered. She understood that the other party was really interested in it.

"It's not easy—you're so bold as to be interested in this. She praised her opponent magnanimously.

Kiyohara Yukiha replied quietly, "Maybe it's just a little curiosity—but after that, I still have to complete my mission." ”

Kanna Rinne chuckled twice.

"No, no, no, believe me, after you've listened to me, you won't want to arrest me—" She prolonged her voice triumphantly, and then stopped selling off, but said bluntly and frankly, "...... The government of the time probably wants to kill me. So, I can't let you take me back. ”

Before she finished speaking, she saw Qingyuan Yukiha on the other side raise her eyebrows, aptly expressing a little surprise and waiting for her to continue.

In any case, it is better for the other party to be willing to listen to her than to immediately rely on the superiority of force and numbers to capture herself and hand her back to the government of the time for punishment, so she also said cheerfully: "...... Because, according to some of my investigations, I found a little secret that they couldn't make public. ”

Kiyohara Yukiha: "Oh?"

Kanna: "Let's put it this way, the cause of this incident is very simple. Originally, I just wanted to investigate the inside story after she was forced to step down from her position as a god inquisitor for the sake of Granny Hibiko's grievances...... I wonder why she was forced to retire at the age of thirty, why she did not return to her home after that so-called 'retirement,' and died in seclusion so quiet?——ly? ”

Kiyohara Yukiha: "...... Oh. ”

"Your attitude is very cold. But now that I'm wanted, I don't think there's any chance of continuing the investigation...... I can only trust your abilities. ”

was stabbed by her, but Kiyohara Yukiha didn't seem to be moved at all. She just asked a simple question. "Why?"

Kannaru sighed. "You will see with your own eyes, and then you will use your heart to think and judge, and then you will not sit idly by and turn a blind eye to all the peculiarities of the government of the time. Because the ridiculous sense of justice and the great 'conscience' that remains in your heart will drive you to seek the truth—I think so. ”

After a pause, her chin slightly lifted in the direction of the Three Sun Moon Sect on the side, and added in a low voice as if reluctantly.

"Only such a person will let the arrogant guy over there who has eyes above the top and cleverly wraps this arrogant guy with a casual and gentle attitude. ”

Hearing this, Qingyuan Yukiye seemed to pause as well, revealing a look of surprise. Then, she slowly bent her eyebrows, and the aura emanating from her body also softened.

Of course, Kanna Rinne didn't miss this subtle change in aura between them—it would have done her a lot to convince Kiyohara Yukiha to continue to pursue the truth and let herself go, so she took a deep breath and began to count.

"I did my own research, and I found that there were not a few women like Hibiki's mother-in-law who stepped down from the position of inquisitor at a young age. As far as I can hear, there are seven or eight. ”

"Strangely, we can't find out where they went...... In this world, no clues can be found. It stands to reason that they have their own families in this world, and they will also have close friends of the God Inquisitors here, but everything seems to have been cut off neatly...... Even I, as a junior of Granny Hibiki, want to know how Granny Hibiki performed as a god judge back then, but I can't start......"

Speaking of this, Kanna Rinne noticed that Kiyohara Yukiha's eyes had narrowed slightly, and his expression had become serious.

Ah, if only she believed her own words.

Because now, it is clear that it is impossible to find the answer with his own strength.

Although he was aware of the danger and took the opportunity to turn against Kiyohara Yukiro, he successfully escaped, but now that he is exiled here, it is impossible to go back and continue the investigation.

What's more, she also understands that although she doesn't want to admit it, Qingyuan Xueye's force value and skill tree seem to be far above herself. What's even more terrifying is that the woman still has the courage and mind to match.

Those who only have force value but no brains are reckless, and those who only have brains but do not have skill trees can only talk on paper. Unfortunately – or fortunately – Kiyohara Yukiha has both.

Luckily, Kiyohara Yukiha didn't seem to want to just go with the flow, covering his eyes, pretending that nothing had happened, and just enjoying the support of all the swords in the Honmaru that he had finally accepted - except for Tsurumaru Kuninaga - and was willing to spend his life in ignorance.

Kanna Rinne smiled bitterly.

"In the end, the only person who can entrust his unfulfilled wish is actually his opponent...... How ironic is that?"

With such a sigh of emotion, she didn't expect a response from Kiyohara Yukiye, and continued:

"Then, I noticed the appearance of that man. ”

"'Yashima Yoriyoshi' - but I don't think he's called that. As she spoke, she turned her head away, glancing quickly at the gloomy man who was standing quietly with a bone spur on his back.

"Where did he come from? Why did he seem so out of place at the Divine Inquisitor Conference? Speaking of which, among the Inquisitors there were also people who came from some tea ceremony or flower arrangement family, and the rules of the family were very great, and they seemed to be accustomed to the old red tape. But those people are not enough to see at all when compared to that 'Yashima Yoriyoshi'. ”

The mostache lowered his gaze slightly. His long eyelashes drooped, obscuring his eyes, which had become blood-red from the fall. Kanna's voice couldn't detect any of his true thoughts from his calm expression.

Shen Wuyin was a little discouraged, so he had to turn to Qingyuan Yukiha again.

"It doesn't seem to be a secret that he has a bitter hatred for Mustache-kun...... The strange thing is that he was actually connived at by the government of the time, and although he didn't deliberately break the knife under the constraints of the regulations, what he did was not much worse - after seeing this mustache-kun today, I understood that those rumors and whispers were not wrong. ”

"The one who pampers the knee pill and hates the mustache cut...... In this way, we seem to be able to think of a person. ”

She cautiously spied Kiyohara's expression, and then suddenly slashed straight in.

"Yi Jinggong—right?"