Scattered farmhouses are nestled on the other side of the golden wheat fields, and farmers walk down the country roads with hoes on their shoulders, saying hello or chatting with joy, and this year should be another bumper harvest year.

It is a village on the border between Kuri and Izumo, and although it is only a small village with a few dozen households, the land is abundant, and a large amount of grain is produced every year, which is sold to all parts of Wano Province, and the surplus grain is made into sake for the villagers to enjoy in their spare time.

Because of the closed relationship between Wano Country, there are very few pirate invasions, and the people of the village have been living a healthy and prosperous life.

It's just that the village has become a little less quiet these days, and a strange thing happened: the village doctor who went to collect medicine outside the village found the villager lying on the ground and unconscious in the early morning.

With the help of everyone, the fainting villager was carried home, and after a few days of coma, he woke up with a great change of personality, and hid in the house in a cowering house and refused to go out, asking him what had happened, but he could not tell him, only that as soon as he came into contact with the sun, he would die like water vapor.

This strange thing has happened three or four times a week, and there have been four or five victims, and the situation is the same.

There was talk of it all over the village, and some people said that the terrible demons and monsters that had escaped from the Kamakura mass graves in Izumo must have been secretly responsible for such a thing.

After that, at night, every house closed its doors and windows for fear that ghosts would trespass.

Fortunately, it was autumn, and the joy of the grain harvest diluted some of the panic atmosphere in the village, and it became more or less lively.

"Where are they going?"

Bucky, who was wrapped in Wano Country's cloak and covered his face with a hat, walked down the path and looked at the villagers who were walking in one direction in groups with some curiosity, muttering to himself.

"Oh, they're going to worship the Jizo statue in the village."

A man in a coarse linen robe was passing the road, and happened to hear Bucky's words, so he stopped and answered, took a closer look at Bucky's outfit, and couldn't help but be attracted by the burly Weibull behind him, and after a few more glances, he said, "A few guests seem to be from a foreign country, you shouldn't know, there are monsters here recently, and everyone can only pray for the help of the gods for peace...... But no one can say how much they hope for. As he spoke, a wry smile hung on his face.

Along the way, Bucky also saw the atmosphere of Wano Country, not only this village, but almost everywhere there are legends and deeds of ghosts, gods and demons, but everything that cannot be explained is called a monster, so Bucky did not feel strange about the other party's words, and in addition, probably because of the isolation of the country, this way also saw various feudal habits.

The man in coarse linen took the initiative to talk, and Bucky did not miss this opportunity to gather information, and he asked in the manner of Wano Country's speech, "What the hell is going on with this monster, I will listen to you." ”

The man didn't hide it, and told the villagers about their illness, and said, "It's said that it's a demon who came out of the Kamakura mass grave, and I don't know if it's true or not, but if the number of people expands again, I'm afraid the village chief will go and ask the mage of Izumo to exorcise evil spirits." ”

"Why didn't you report the matter to the daimyō?"

"You mean the Daimyo Mitsuki-sama of Jiuli......"

The man touched his head, "The busy affairs in various places in Jiuli have made Lord Guangyue hard enough, and thanks to Lord Guangyue over the years, the wind and rain can be smooth here, and all we can do is to be more considerate of him, compared to this, this kind of trivial matter is really embarrassed to bother him." ”

"That's right......" Bucky nodded.

"Ah Hong!" Someone shouted in the distance, and the man waved in response, bidding farewell to Bucky, and rushed over.

"We've reached Nine Miles."

Bucky, who stopped and looked at the man's distant back, said in his heart, roughly knowing where he was currently walking in Wano Country.

A few days ago, the group had landed on the east coast of Wano Province and arrived at the place known as Izumo, and since he had never been to Wano Country, Bucky was not very familiar with this place, and he did not know the psychology of the people of Wano Province to reject outsiders.

On the first day of passing through a town, he was reported by the local townspeople, so the town's guards took weapons and chased down Bucky.

Bucky simply didn't do anything, luring the pursuing guards to the sparsely populated woods, then killed them, then stripped off his clothes, and took off his coats again, disguised himself and his group.

After that, he walked while asking the local civilians for directions, and finally passed through the Izumo Realm and came here.

"I've always heard of demons, ghosts, and ghosts, but I've never seen them once, and I don't know what the monsters in Wano Country look like......"

Bucky was a little interested, and decided to rest here for a day, since he had already arrived in Jiuli, he was not in a hurry to meet Mitsuki Mita, it was better to see what was happening.

……

It was night, and the village was deserted, and the houses were closed, except for the faint light peeking through the paper windows of the houses.

Bucky and his party stayed in the woods on the outskirts, sitting around a lit campfire and watching what happened.

Weibull sat on the cut down tree, his chin in his hands and looked at the bonfire in a daze, although he changed Bucky's "guiding light", but Miss Bajin's disappearance still had a big impact on him, so that he became a little silent these days, even under the service of big fish and meat, his body still lost a lot of weight.

He suddenly looked at Bucky and asked, "Uncle, will there really be a youkai later?" ”

Being called "uncle" by someone who may be older than himself, Bucky doesn't feel wrong, it's based on his own strength advantage.

He sat still and replied, "I don't know." ”

Probably not a human per se, Mikul is not very interested in youkai, but it is probably a cat habit, listless during the day, and at night he looks agitated and looks around.

"Ahh

Suddenly there was a scream not far away.

Weibull, who was as quiet as a virgin, ran out first, and the monster or something still had a considerable attraction to him.

Bucky is not far behind.

After a while, in the forest, I saw a person sitting on the ground with a frightened face, and I saw that five meters in front of the person, there seemed to be a huge black fang!

When I looked closely, I realized that it was the bushes that seemed to be blown by the wind and swayed from side to side.

The man heard the movement behind him, so he turned his head and looked at each other, and Bucky recognized that this was not a youkai, but the farmer Ahong he had seen during the day.

The nervous look on Ah Hong's face did not subside, and he stretched out his arms and pointed to the bushes tremblingly.

"There...... There are youkai there!! ”