In this unstable year, she Sato Mako, a fourteen-year-old girl with bright looks, a delicate temperament, no power to tie a chicken, and a "simple" white lotus like a peerless independent white lotus, set foot alone on the road from a remote town that did not even have a specific name to write to distant Kyoto.

Qiao Xi: "......"

I have to say that young people in these years are very thoughtful.

Qiao Xi held her chin and couldn't help but sigh.

Speaking of which, after getting along with youkai for a long time, he always has a very uncomfortable feeling when he comes to the human world.

There doesn't seem to be anything wrong with the appearance of human beings, but in the eyes of a god who can see many things from other worlds, the monsters born in the air because of various emotions such as jealousy, hatred, or longing make him feel that the so-called world is really a group of demons dancing wildly.

"I understand, Miss Mako's traces Xiaosheng will ask a friend to help check it, but what do you ......mean by asking Xiaosheng to save Mr. Sato?"

Qiao Xi didn't make much excuse and agreed to Mr. Sato's request for Sato Mako, but the other party said such a big thing, and he didn't find anything related to Mr. Sato, so he asked directly.

Hearing this, Mr. Sato choked up.

"Mako left home three days ago in the morning, and my father disappeared that afternoon."

Unlike Mako Sato, who left a letter before leaving, Mr. Sato disappeared without warning, but disappeared when everyone went out to find Mako and promised to meet at home at a certain time.

At first, everyone didn't care, they just thought that the old gentleman was concerned about his granddaughter, and he was in a hurry to find it outside and didn't pay attention to the time, but that day Sato Ken waited all night and didn't see his father come home, so he realized that something was wrong.

After some twists and turns, Sato Ken neither heard from Mako Sato, nor did he find any trace of Mr. Sato, and in desperation, he remembered that the nobleman who lived next door to his house was heard to be from somewhere, and he had a series of career personnel under him - in short, it was a different existence from ordinary people like them who had no way to ask for help.

In desperation, he knocked on the door of Qiao Xi's mansion with the idea of trying his luck.

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Sending away Mr. Sato, who was grateful and looking forward to the period of one step and three turns, Qiao Xi sat cross-legged under the porch and began to think about where to start researching this matter.

Just as he was deep in thought, a small blue bird flew down from the cherry blossom tree and landed on the bat fan that Qiao Xi was holding in his hand.

"Master Joe, are you worried about what the human just said?"

Qiao Xi: It's not enough to worry......

"Well, I do care a little about it."

The bird's wings fluttered, and it fell to the ground and turned into a little girl who looked like five or six years old kneeling beside Qiao Xi, and then looked up at him with a soft and glutinous voice with some unconscious pride, and said: "Zhizi knows yo~ about the human named Sato Mako." ”

"Huh?"

Qiao Xi raised her eyebrows in surprise.

The little monster, who was originally a robin and called himself "Chiko", shook his hair, shook a few thin blue feathers and scattered them in the air, and told everything he saw in a tone like offering treasures.

"That's a ......"

- Unexpected.

After listening to Chiko's narration, Qiao Xi couldn't help but sigh like this, but no matter what, the more important thing now is to find Mako Sato and Mr. Sato's people first.

- Although according to Tomoko's description, Miss Mako Sato probably won't be able to come back.

With a feeling of regret, Qiao Xi followed the path he had inquired about from the little monsters and came to a certain hill to the east of the town.

It's a remote place, proportionally sparsely populated, and there are several well-known and unknown hills around the town where he lives—and the place where he was born as the god of the moon is one of them.

However, unlike the existence that is named "Fengyue Divine Mountain" among both humans and youkai, these mountains are often different between humans and youkai, such as the mountain where he is staying in front of him, which is called "Cloud Mountain" by humans, and the youkai call it "Yanling".

- Because the great monster that lives on this mountain is an existence that controls the smoke.

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"Oh, oh, oh~ Look at the concubine, what do you see?"

When a female voice sounded no matter how she heard it, it was full of flirtatious meaning, Qiao Xi didn't feel a little surprised.

But when that voice was accompanied by undoubtedly flirtatious movements, Qiao Xi only had "......" left in his heart.

He used a folding fan to block the arm that the woman behind him intended to wrap around his neck, and with a twist of his body, he stepped away from her before raising his eyes to look at the great youkai he had heard of several times since returning to Toyotsuki Shrine.

Since it is a smoke ridge, it is enough to imagine that this mountain is floating all the year round and there is almost endless smoke that cannot be seen, Qiao Xi walked along the way, and the dark fog shrouded the entire mountain, if it is an ordinary person who says that he has seen things, he is afraid that he will get lost as soon as he enters.

However, Qiao Xi did not bother in this regard, so the figure of the monster that appeared in front of him was clearly reflected in his eyes.

This is an elegant and noble female youkai.

- This is the first impression that comes to mind after a glance.

The other party is wearing a delicate kimono with purple prints, and his appearance is the best among the monsters, his hair is neatly coiled, and his gestures are full of mature and seductive style, and there are deep and shallow smoke-like unknown objects around his body, and the demonic power that occasionally overflows is full of an indescribable temptation.

- is a fairly powerful youkai.

Qiao Xi immediately affirmed this, and then subconsciously released his momentum.

- For youkai, there is nothing that cannot be solved by a fight.

If there is, then another fight.

It just so happened that the female youkai on the other side probably thought the same thing.

So the four looked at each other, and in the next second, one finger was raised, and the white smoke imp screamed and fluttered, while the other was a folding fan, bringing out a bright green light.

"Oh? Onmyoji? ”

Seeing Qiao Xi's attack method, the female monster who controlled the smoke frowned and shouted out in surprise, and at the same time, the original tentative attack suddenly became sharp.

"It's not yo~"

Qiao Xi gave full play to his demonic power, mobilized the aura of the entire mountain grass and tree elves, and denied the other party's guess with a gentle expression and a smile, but the movements of his hands were merciless.