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The old hell still retains the style of the Heiankyo period, with taverns and custom shops, however, on a street in Kabukicho somewhere, the oni clan enter a large tavern to attend a banquet that is said to celebrate the blonde child who won the championship in the martial arts tournament. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The tavern is huge, the facilities inside are more luxurious than the taverns outside, and the power system is relatively rudimentary, but the lighting is sufficient.

Eiyi opened a small room here, and personally entertained the players who won in the semifinals, as well as Marisa and Meihong, who were defeated by accident.

Brother Hu, because they lost face in the conference, they didn't dare to go to the banquet, but ran home in embarrassment.

In this small room, you can feel the simplicity of the Heiankyo period, with a rectangular table in the middle, four cushions on either side of the table, and people sit down and eat here.

"Oh, oh, oh, oh, it's delicious!" Reimu gulped down wine and meat, gobbling up the word "festival".

Valkyrie poured Ragnar a drink: "Master, please drink." ”

"Thank you. ”

"Ragnar-kun~I want to eat fish~" Marisa argued.

"Yes...... Lagna picked up a piece of fish meat with chopsticks, "Open your mouth, ah~"

"Ah~woo~delicious~" Marisa showed a happy expression.

"Ragnar, I want it too~!" Danatus also argued.

"Yes......" Ragnar picked up another piece of fish, "Ah~"

"Ahh

"Please, be serious, okay...... The master is tired enough. Valkyrie couldn't stand it.

"It's okay, it's okay, I can handle it. Ragnar advised.

Xingxiong Yongyi raised his wine glass and laughed with an open mind: "Hahahaha~ Cheers to our champion!"

"Cheers!xn"

Taking a sip of the glutinous rice wine in the bowl, Yongyi poured himself another bowl of white wine.

"First of all, congratulations to the captain of the Red Devil Pavilion, Ragnar, for winning the championship of the world's first martial arts conference! Secondly, regarding the issue of prizes, we will mail the prizes to the Red Devil Pavilion soon, and there is also the issue of marrying our Hua fan......"

"I don't need that. ”

Ragnar's abrupt refusal left Youngyi's head covered with question marks.

"I'm not here to get a prize or marry a beautiful woman, I'm only here to help Valkyrie-sama solve my doubts. ”

"Oh, what's the question?"

"About the reason why your ghost clan suddenly disappeared in Yokai Mountain hundreds of years ago. ”

……

The atmosphere suddenly became serious, and everyone, including Ragnar, had solemn eyes.

"Is that the problem? haha...... There are still people who want to know about the relocation of our ghost clan from the Monster Mountain to the old hell. Yongyi smiled bitterly for a while.

"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said it. ”

"It's okay, I have to say it anyway, besides, you're a champion, I have no reason to refuse you╮( ̄⊿ ̄)╭. ”

Yongyi took a sip of liquor and began to tell the reason for the disappearance of the ghost clan, and Ragnar and Valkyrie listened intently.

"I vaguely remember that the scene of the ghost clan and the tengu clan loving each other and the country prospering should have been peaceful at that time, but, more than ten years have passed, the population of the tengu clan has become more and more, and the territory of our oni clan has become narrower and narrower, and there are even some tengu who want to try to occupy our last piece of the world. ”

"The expansion of the Tengu population is also one of the reasons why you have moved to the Old Hell. Ragnar asked.

"Well, but we all endured it, after all, at that time, we knew that the Tengu clan was a good friend of our ghost clan, and it was nothing that a good friend wanted to come from home, but the incident that happened one day, the root cause of the disappearance of the ghost clan appeared. ”

"Could it be the demon slaying operation of the Heiankyo period...... Is it?"

Ragnar remembered that he had read a history book about the Heiankyo period in the library, which recorded that the demon slaying army led by Minamoto Yorimitsu and Sakata Kintoki was killed by them, and the youkai including the oni clan such as Ibaraki Boy were called demon slaying operations by later generations at that time.

"I didn't expect that humans would collude with the Tengu and let the Tengu deceive us, causing the majority of the Oni population to disappear, although we did harm humans, but they shouldn't kill those innocent Oni, but, in their eyes, the Oni are the embodiment of evil...... Hehe. ”

Yongyi smiled as if she was mocking humans.

"And after that, have a small part of your population fled to the Old Hell?" Reimu also raised his interest in wanting to know the truth.

"No, not yet, the betrayal of the tengu, the ferocity of the human race and the disheartened we, exiled to a wasteland under the Yokai Mountain, lost our home, the people were killed, so that many demons hated the human beings to the core, I once advised them not to go to the human beings for revenge, but they did not listen, and as a result, a few days later, I found several corpses while picking fruit near the woods. ”

"Human beings are really hateful, they indiscriminately kill innocent monsters. Marisa took another bite of the barbecue.

"You don't seem to be ......human," Nina grumbled.

"No, it's not humans who are wrong, it's not tengu, if you want to blame it, it's because they don't have enough sanity, and if they kill too many monsters, they will become beasts, maybe it's fate. ”

"And what about later? Didn't you ghost clan four heavenly kings later lead the ghost clan to relocate to the old hell?"

"That's true, but at that time the old hell was still a metropolis, but when the old hell was still a hell, it was still a place where the ghosts who worked there, and only the dead could not step into it, and hell was lightened in order to cut costs, and at that time this underground was cut off, and that's how we can live underground. ”

"How short of money is this to give up the land......" Reimu wiped her sweat.

"Because of this, this hell was in ruins, and we started to rebuild a territory here, and it became the old hell today. ”

"I see. ”

"It's a pity, the original order of the place was not good, and our Four Heavenly Kings couldn't control it all, and sometimes it was even idle, Hua Fan left the old hell to go to the top of the mountain to learn the life of immortals, and Cuixiang also became a guest of the Hakuri Shrine for no reason, and I was no different from them, doing nothing all day, wandering around the streets and drinking. ”

"That's why there are so many bandit bullies in the old hell......"

"That's probably it, the old hell is still peaceful now, and no human has dared to enter it so far, although a shrine maiden who claimed to be Hakurei Shrine came here ten years ago. ”

Everyone turned their gaze to Reimu.

"Yes, I did go to the Old Hell back then, but I passed by there when I was investigating the source of the mutation, and I had a fight with Yongyi. ”

"Ten years ago...... I remember I hadn't entered Gensokyo yet. Ragnar took a sip of glutinous rice wine.

"Strange, Hua Fan should be here at this time?"

As soon as Yongyi's words fell, the door of the room was suddenly opened, and a girl with a bun head walked in from the outside.

"Oh!

Ibaraki didn't speak, just walked quickly to Ragnar and sat down.

"You're Ragnar. Hua Fan spoke at this time.

"Yes...... I'm just, what's the matter?"

"It's nothing, I thought you were only thinking about how to marry me and something, it seems that I guessed wrong. ”

"I only came to the conference to learn the secret of the disappearance of the Oni Clan, not to get a prize......

"That's good. ”

…… The scene was awkward.

Yongyi laughed loudly in order to solve this embarrassing situation.

"Hahahaha~ Shouldn't it be the time to eat?Please rest assured that you will have a big meal~ I'm in for a treat!"

"That's right, don't waste so much delicious food!"

"Don't rob my meat!"

"I'm going to have a drink!"

The atmosphere was much happier in an instant, Yongyi breathed a sigh of relief, then looked up at the sky outside the window, and took a sip of a bowl of white wine.

"Do you think that's really good? let me marry Ragnar or something. Hua Fan asked.

"Forget about this matter, Ragnar-kun has no intention of marrying you anyway, what's more, neither of you have ever gotten along, how can you promote love?"

“……”

Hua Fan looked at Ragnar, who was forced to drink next to him, and there was a smile on his face.

Ragnar Char Brand Edge...... Is it?"