Chapter 108: Flowers and Grass
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One day, the Great Shrine Maiden secretly gathered forty people, including them, and said that she was going to give them a top-secret mission, but she did not immediately say what the mission was. The Great Shrine Maiden told the forty people that this matter involved a big secret that affected the fate of Riya Shrine, and that they had to accept it after listening to the content of the mission.
All forty of them were loyal to the shrine and expressed their willingness to listen to the mission, and the Great Shrine Maiden told them the follow-up to the story told by the Shrine Maiden in the apprenticeship camp.
Forced by the threat of the merchants, Kamijin could only politely refuse the request of the former great witch and tell the messenger about his distress. After the messenger brought the news back to the shrine, the former Great Shrine Maiden was furious at the merchants' misdeeds. At this moment, the Great Witch who had just become a confidant of the former Great Witch gave her an idea.
She asked the former Great Witch to pretend to buy the grain of the merchants of Kamijin County, and found a way to get them to transport the grain outside Kamijin County, and sent someone to kill the people who transported the grain and snatch all the grain. The former Great Witch followed the advice of the Great Witch and selected sixty people from among her cronies to take on this secret mission.
After this, the former Great Witch announced the resignation of these sixty people in a high-profile manner, and then secretly handed over these sixty people to the Great Witch and put her in full charge of the operation.
In order to hide people's eyes, the Great Witch asked the sixty people to take off their shrine maiden costumes and change into trainee witch costumes. In fact, the Great Shrine Maiden originally wanted them to change into the clothes of ordinary people, but there were no other clothes in the shrine except for the shrine maiden costumes, and it was also a helpless move to let them change into the apprentice witch costumes.
Although outsiders have never seen the apprentice witch costume, the style of the apprentice witch costume and the shrine maiden costume are too similar. Afraid that they would be recognized, the Great Witch had them remove all the ornaments from their costumes, carve out of wood, and paint grimacles on the masks with ink made of crushed charcoal.
These sixty people were the original "evil witches", also known as "Ichikusa".
The Great Shrine Maiden personally went to Kamijin Prefecture to negotiate business with the merchants, asking them to transport the grain to the Satomi Shrine and pay for the goods on delivery. The merchants did not expect Ira's shrine maiden to deceive themselves, so they loaded the grain into a cart and left Kamijin Prefecture under the leadership of the great shrine maiden. When they were out of the control of Shangjin County, the sixty men suddenly came out, defeated the caravan guards, drove everyone in the caravan, and stole the food.
After that, the sixty men first transported the grain to a secret place and told the Great Witch where the grain was hidden. The Great Witch did not go to fetch food immediately, but asked the sixty people to take out half a year's ration from it, and when the food in the shrine was finished, she took her cronies down the mountain to fetch a batch of food.
The food brought back by the Great Shrine Maiden helped the shrine survive the storm, and in doing so, her reputation at the shrine increased. This made the former Great Witch feel threatened, but this operation gave her a handle in the hands of the Great Witch, so she could only acquiesce to this result and let her be her heir.
According to the original plan, these sixty people will actually leave their posts after this mission and live in seclusion in the plains under the Rimi Mountain. They did live in seclusion for ten years afterwards, and because they had sworn a poisonous oath to their predecessor that they would have to live in seclusion for the rest of their lives after the mission was completed, none of them left their place of seclusion.
In the past ten years, the Great Witch has been sending her cronies to help these sixty people. They were very grateful for this, and their hearts slowly turned to the Great Witch, forgetting about the previous Great Witch.
Ten years later, the former Great Witch died violently in the dormitory, and the Great Witch said that the death of the former Great Witch was due to divine punishment and because the former Great Witch had violated the precepts. The prestige of the Great Shrine Maiden at the Riya Shrine is very high, so everyone believes her words and allows her to succeed her as the Great Shrine Maiden.
After this, the Great Witch contacted the sixty people at the foot of the mountain and told them what had happened on the mountain. At this time, the development of Riya Shrine was already on the right track, and the mountain was already self-sufficient.
In order not to pay taxes, some Iraa people in Kamijin Prefecture went to the foot of Mt. Rimi to reclaim land. The Great Shrine Maiden sent messengers to them, hoping that they would pay the "offering money" and "land use tax" to the shrine. The people of Ira refused to pay the sacrifice money and land use tax, so the Great Shrine Maiden contacted the sixty people who went down the mountain and asked them to teach the Ira people.
These sixty people received the kindness of the Great Shrine Maiden, and they could not refuse, so they could only attack the villages of these Irates according to the orders of the Great Witch, and looted some supplies. The people of Ira were attacked, and they sought refuge in the Great Shrine Maiden. At this time, the Great Shrine Maiden asked for "offering money" and "land use tax", and Irato immediately nodded in agreement.
In this way, the dominance of Rimi Shrine in the local area was established. The Great Witch remembered the merits of the sixty people under the mountain, and gave them "grass" as the official code name of the troops.
Grass is the foil of flowers, and the grass on the same flower has to sacrifice itself for the flowers, and the relationship between Ichikusha and Rimi Shrine is like this. Therefore, the Ichikusa called the shrine "flower", and this code name has been used by later generations.
Within a few years, the shrine was threatened by outside forces. In order to strengthen herself, the Great Shrine Maiden hopes that the village under the mountain can serve in the military for Riya Shrine. Naturally, this request was rejected by the Ira, so the Great Shrine Maiden used Ichikusa again to force the Ira to accept this condition.
It takes resources to raise soldiers, and the resources of the Rimi Shrine are not rich, so the grass received a new task. The Great Shrine Maiden hoped that they would rob the caravans, and the Divine Society would exchange food for these looted resources.
In fact, as early as the first time the Ikusa-kin attacked the village of the Ira people, the name "Evil Shrine Maiden" had already spread in the local area. After they began to plunder the caravans, the name of the Evil Witch spread to the territory of Shangjin County and Liangyue City.
In the process of looting the caravan, there were inevitably some casualties among the Kazuma. The Great Shrine Maiden did not send people to them directly from the Satomi Shrine, but let them solve the personnel problem on their own.
In desperation, the grass had no choice but to go to various villages to kidnap thirteen or fourteen-year-old girls, teach them martial arts, and let them be their pawns. At that time, the Witch Maiden had not yet established a training camp, and the Ichikusha were training newcomers in the stronghold and acting with them.
After learning the news, the Great Witch had a batch of apprentice witch costumes and a batch of ghost masks rushed to the bottom of the mountain. In order to distinguish Kazukusa from the newcomer, the new masks are all made of plaster, and the patterns are also painted with the same mold. Kazukusa distributes the captured weapons to the newcomers and leads them to continue looting supplies for the shrine.
At this time, the evil witch acted very principledly. They do not kill those who surrender, they do not bully the weak, and they often raid the camps of outlaws. Aside from raiding caravans and abducting maidens, witches do almost no bad things.
Thirty years have passed in the blink of an eye, and the total number of Witch Maiden's personnel is approaching the 500 mark. Although the Great Shrine Maiden has repeatedly asked Ichikusa to expand the size of the staff, Ichikusa will always find various reasons to prevaricate the Great Shrine Maiden.
The stubbornness of the Ichicao people limited the development of the evil witch, and in an ambush planned by Kamijin Prefecture, the evil witch suffered heavy losses and was left with no one out of ten. The remaining personnel were also surrounded and suppressed by officers and soldiers, and finally the whole army was annihilated. But until the end, the Ichikusa did not betray the Great Shrine Maiden and the Riya Shrine.
After the announcement of this news in Shangjin County, the Great Witch's heart was like a knife. But she didn't give up on the "flower and grass development model" because of this, so she recruited 40 cronies and wanted them to continue this work.
This time, the Great Shrine Maiden provided them with better logistical support, all the equipment was changed to the standard, and the ghost masks were also revised, all made of plaster, but the pattern and style of the witch and the newcomer's ghost masks were different. The shrine maiden uses the red oni mask that is now used by the black shrine shrine shrine maiden, and the newcomer uses the black oni mask used by the outer evil shrine maiden.
At the same time, the Great Witch created a code name system for the evil witch, and gave "Ercao" to these forty people as a code prefix, allowing them to choose their favorite numbers from one to ninety-nine to form a complete code name.
Ercaiichi is a competitive person, so she uses "one" as her code number. She is the strongest in martial arts and the strongest in leadership among the forty, so she was appointed by the Great Shrine Maiden as the leader of the "Ercao". The Great Witch asked Erkusai to change the way the Witch Maiden developed, set up the Witch Witch Trainee Camp, and specially assigned instructors to train newcomers.
The witch's first apprenticeship camp was the Blue Camp, which was temporarily closed after the 45th class of trainees were trained. When it was activated again, it was renamed the wooden word camp.
The two grasses changed the abduction methods of the first grass, and changed the way to obtain new people to robbery. When it comes to looting populations, they lower the age limit to five years and older in order to develop people who are more loyal to the organization. At that time, Nikusachi was loyal to the Great Witch and Rimi Shrine, so there was no brainwashing course in the Witch Maiden Trainee Camp at that time. The hot-blooded Nikusaichi positions himself as a person who sacrifices himself for the development of the Great Shrine Maiden and the Rimi Shrine.,Hell-bent on making the evil witch a shadow troop of the Satomi Shrine.。
The new Witch Organization developed for fifteen years, after which the Great Witch sent another group of cronies, and these people were Sancao. The number of Sancao is more than that of Ercao, because it is a latecomer, Sancao must obey the leadership of Ercao. Because Ercao is a strong leader, Sancao is very obedient to her and willing to work under her.
Ercao is a leader who is good everywhere, but she has a weakness, that is, Ercao Seventeen. She and Ercao Seventeen are from the same village, and they are the same batch of people who were selected to be apprentices at the Rimiya Shrine, and the relationship between the two is very good. Therefore, she has too much preference for Ercao Seventeen, so that the other people in Ercao become jealous of her, and incidentally dissatisfied with Ercao.
During a material handover, someone in the two grasses said to the chief witch who was in charge of handing over the materials that the two grass were encircling the people of the three grasses, and it seemed that there was something wrong with them. The long witch didn't know much about Ercao, so she fell for the man's provocation and went back to tell the big witch about it.
The Great Shrine Maiden knows Nikusaichi's abilities very well, and she knows that Nikusaichi is much stronger than herself in terms of ability, and she is afraid that she will one day threaten herself with the matter of the evil witch and seize the position of the Great Shrine Maiden of Riya Shrine. So she secretly summoned the rest of Ercao and asked them to make a plan to assassinate Ercausa.
The two grasses knew that the weakness of the two grass was the two grass seventeen, so they wanted to secretly get rid of the two grass seventeen and make her "disappear", and then deliberately released the news to lead the two grass to a place where no one was there to kill.
As a result, in the process of getting rid of Ercao Seventeen, the people who were coerced into participating in the operation deliberately leaked the news. When the two grasses tricked the two grass seventeen to no one to besiege them, the two grass led the three grass to kill and fought with the two grasses. With her powerful force, Nikusaichi defeated the Ercausa, and all the survivors surrendered, confessing that the Great Witch had instructed them to assassinate Ercausa.
In the battle, Nikusaichi was cut by a long sword in his face with a deep wound, leaving a hideous scar. Women attach as much importance to appearance as men do to their penises. The incident of breaking the phase made Ercao Yi have a deep hatred for his former companions, and these people assassinated Ercao Seventeen even more to make her angry. But if that's all she wants, she won't kill all the survivors with her own hands.
The betrayal of the Great Witch is the fundamental reason why Erkusaichi personally killed his former companions.
Ercao Seventeen desperately pleaded for her companions, she knew that some of them were coerced by their peers to do this kind of thing, and she didn't want Ercao to kill innocents indiscriminately. But Ercao Yi had lost her mind at this time, she grabbed Ercao Seventeen's neck with one hand, grabbed the knife with the other hand, and smashed the heads of these people one by one.
The companion who was in front of his eyes was killed by Ercao Ichi, and Fujicao Seventeen fainted because of excessive sadness. After that, Ercao Seventeen began to deliberately avoid Ercausa, making Ercausa regret for his actions.
However, there is no turning back when the bow is opened, since the great witch is unkind, then the two grass one is also unjust. She took complete control of Sancao and completely reorganized the Witch Witch Order, the biggest of which was the relocation of the stronghold.
Nikusaichi moved his stronghold to the current location of the Black Shrine and began building a fortress. She concealed the almost complete extinction of the Nikusa Ichigo family from the Rima Shrine, as well as the relocation of the base, and asked the Great Shrine Maiden to "need more weapons and equipment" at the next material handover.
At first, the Great Shrine Maiden didn't notice Nikusaichi's movements, but when the Great Shrine Maiden found that the Evil Witch Organization seemed to be becoming more and more disobedient, and even dared to attack the village under the protection of Riya Shrine, she realized that Nikusaichi was out of her control. Fortunately, the Great Witch has long been left behind, and the Evil Witch Organization does not have the ability to produce its own weapons and equipment, nor does it have a suitable channel for selling stolen goods, so they have a great dependence on Rimi Shrine.
Therefore, even if Nikusaichi has escaped from the control of the Great Witch, the Evil Witch still has to trade with the Rimi Shrine, but the identities of the two sides have become completely equal during the transaction.
Later, Erkusaichi established the Black Shrine, proclaimed himself the Great Witch, and created a series of systems. The Great Shrine Maiden of the Rimi Shrine sent several groups of shrine maidens to the Black Shrine one after another, wanting to regain control of the evil shrine, but the people who were sent over became the backbone of the Black Shrine.
After decades of development, the Black Shrine and the Witch Organization have become what they are today.