Qiao Xi stared at Yabuki Otome in silence.

Yamabuki Otome didn't speak, just clutched the hem of Qiao Xi's clothes tightly, and then looked up at him, her eyes full of pleading.

Qiao Xi couldn't help but sigh softly.

- What...... With such an expression, how could he refuse......

Thinking like this, he raised his hand and touched Yamabuki Otome's soft hair, and said helplessly, "Okay, don't go." ”

A reluctant smile appeared on Yamabuki Otome's face, and the hand that grabbed the hem of Qiao Xi's clothes unconsciously tightened more and more.

After a while, Qiao Xi simply sat down cross-legged nearby, then looked at her with a serious face, and asked, "Since you don't want to, I can not go, but ......"

He frowned and pondered the right words, "At least I need to know why—what do you think?" ”

He asked seriously, and Yamabuki Otome looked at him for a few seconds before she couldn't help but look away.

"Concubine...... The concubine is ......"

Yamabuki Otome spit out a few words bitterly, but it was intermittent, and Qiao Xi looked at her and even her fingertips trembled slightly.

Qiao Xi: "......"

- Angry!

He really wanted to catch the slave carp companion and beat him up at this time.

Look at what a gentle and introverted girl Yabuki Otome used to be, but now she has become thin and has a sad look - family life is particularly discordant at first glance!

This pot, he doesn't believe it if he says it's not a slave carp companion!

Qiao Xi secretly gritted her teeth, and talked to Yamabuki Otome with a good voice on her face, and she didn't dare to ask her about her and Nura Koi's companion, only signaled Sato to talk about the monsters in the shrine before.

Sa Dou and Qiao Xi are also the ones who have fed several monster cubs, and they are good at storytelling.

He said it interestingly, and he was still telling a story that was very close to Qiao Xi, the god of the harvest moon, and Yamabuki Otome listened to it and fell into a trance, and gradually she was able to interject a few words and ask some curious things.

Qiao Xi looked at her and loosened the hem of her clothes, thought about it, and quietly went out.

- He originally wanted to find a slave carp companion, but after turning around outside, he suddenly became weak.

Yamabuki Otome had already pleaded so that he would leave it alone, did he have to go to the carp companion to ask her for clarification despite her wishes?

Walking on the road, Qiao Xi only felt that his heart was like grass, and he was flustered.

For a long time, he gritted his teeth.

- Okay, you can't go to Edo without permission, so you can only convince Yamabuki Otome to wait for her to agree and take her with you.

After some time, under the Amway (fog) that Qiao spared no effort on, Yamabuki Otome finally mustered up the courage and embarked on the journey to Edo with Qiao Xi.

Qiao Xi: "It's decided, no longer backing down?" ”

"Hey! The concubine knows that what the adult says is the best way. ”

Yamabuki Otome said this, looking up at Qiao Xi, a pair of eyes looking at Qiao Xi's expression was very gentle.

Qiao Xi tilted his head, and deliberately made a somewhat distressed look on his face.

"Well, if that's the case, then why do we have to walk slowly in a human way?

- Xiao Sheng thinks it's faster to use demonic power. ”

Qiao Xi's words were serious, which made Yamabuki Otome's face blush slightly.

- It's really faster to use demonic power.

However, after saying goodbye for so long, it was entirely because of that unspeakable reason, she always felt that it was too sudden to stand in front of the slave carp companion and explain it so suddenly.

- Anyway, give her some time and let her slowly prepare mentally.

By the way, it is also a rare opportunity to follow Master Qiao Xi to experience in this life.

Thinking like this, Yamabuki Otome's gaze became softer and softer, Qiao Xi looked at her expression, "tsk", and couldn't help but shake her head and laugh.

The two youkai are completely pure walking, but in order to be faster, they chose a relatively straight road - although this road is not a road in some places, but who made them youkai?

It's a little thing, I don't care.

The distance between Hachihara and Edo is not close, even if it is a monster, it takes a lot of time to go back and forth, not to mention that the two of them are all on the same leg at this time, and after a while, Qiao Xi pondered for a while, and there is still half the distance from Shikoku.

Qiao Xi: "......"

The weather is a little gloomy today, and the sky looks like it may rain at any time, Qiao Xi squinted his eyes and looked at the coast in the distance, turned his head and paid attention to Yamabuki Otome, and asked, "It looks like it's going to rain, the coast in front, how to choose?" ”

Along the way, Yamabuki Otome has always led the way, and at first she felt embarrassed and even panicked, but after a long time, she gradually got used to it.

This time, Qiao Xi still simply threw the choice to Yamabuki Otome.

Yamabuki Otome thought about it seriously for a while, and a smile appeared on her face: "The concubine heard humans mention the sea before, and always said that the sea is a very powerful and interesting existence, such a rare opportunity, we can also experience the fun of the sea in a boat like humans, is it okay, Lord Qiao?" ”

The current Yamabuki Otome and the newcomer to the shrine look like two people.

She is still gentle and introverted in her bones, but after walking in this world and witnessing the strong or shallow or passionate or bland feelings between human beings, the thoughts in Yamabuki Otome's heart have gradually changed.

- She chose to leave the slave carp companion for personal reasons, but now that she thinks about it, she feels that what she did at that time was too arbitrary.

It's true that she's been married to Nura Koi for a long time, and she's not something too powerful to keep offspring, but she's still no heirs - that's a fact, and those youkai of the Nura group aren't wrong.

But she left only a letter for her slave carp companion and walked away—it was too cowardly.

Now Yamabuki Otome occasionally thinks that if she hadn't left directly at that time, but had discussed the reason for the lack of children with Nura Koiban, and the two of them would have thought of a way together—no matter what, it wouldn't be worse than the current situation.

Qiao Xi, who has always been with Yamabuki Otome, has the deepest experience of her change.

The breath on her body became clear when she wanted to open it.

For example, in such weather, Yamabuki Otome, who had just come to the shrine, would lean against the window, look at the sky with a sad face without saying a word, and occasionally sing a few waka songs softly, also full of melancholy.

And now she can smile and say that she wants to experience something different.

Qiao Xi is very happy to see her change.

- Originally, there was nothing that could not be solved.

Even if you can't solve it now, time will always give you the best and most suitable result.

Thinking like this, Qiao Xi smiled and pulled out of his sleeve, and took out a small boat the size of a palm.