Eating Sakuratei's traditional and delicious kaiseki cuisine and watching the graceful dancing of the geisha girls, Mai Shiraishi, Nanami Hashimoto, and Nanase Nishino gradually let go of their tension and guard, and gradually became talkative.

"So, Miss Gion, why do you call us 'Madame'? Is it because of the thousand nights? Mai Shiraishi picked up a piece of boiled and soft sea bream meat and put it in her mouth, feeling the delicious taste of the soup and the fish melting in your mouth, and asked Chiyo Gion.

Chiyo Gion, who had already put down the cigarette stick in his hand to prevent the smell of tobacco from interfering with the taste of food, heard Mai Shiraishi's question, a smile appeared on the corner of her mouth, but with a look of nostalgia in her eyes, she said to Mai Shiraishi: "Since the three ladies are the wives of Chiyo, I should naturally have some respect for you, and there is nothing wrong with calling you Madame." As she spoke, Chiyo Gion turned her gaze to Nanase Nishino, looked at her and asked, "This is Mrs. Nishino, right?" You just called me 'Ruri Chiyo of Gion', how did you know that name? At your age, you shouldn't know that name. ”

"Yes, I'm Nanase Nishino." Nishino Nanase put down his chopsticks and nodded seriously before answering Gion Chiyo's question: "I have indeed heard of your name, Miss Gion, 'Gion's Ruri Chiyo Girl', the most famous geisha in Kyoto during the Warring States Period, who once made the dragon of Echigo, Uesugi Kenshin, say 'If you can see the dance of Ruri, you will not be in vain', and even the first Oiran in Kyoto who once conquered the world, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and Tokugawa Ieyasu, I naturally know." ”

"It's all a thing of the past, and now I'm just a small kiosk proprietress in this Gion." Chiyo Gion's laughter was full of vicissitudes and nostalgia, and even people could feel the precipitation of four hundred years of time on her, and after laughing for a while, she turned her gaze back to Nanase Nishino and asked her, "Lady Nishino, are you still human?" Why do you know about these things that were 400 years old? I don't think these things are recorded in the history books, right? Did Chiya tell you that? ”

Gion's question made Nanami Hashimoto and Mai Shiraishi both look at Nanase Nishino with interest, curious that she could know these things, because both of them knew that these things were obviously not told by Chiya to Nanase Nishino, but from the memories of the once wise Tamako.

"No, these things are things that I have personally experienced." The smile on Nishino Nanase's face was a little shy, and he shook his head slightly and explained: "Although I am a human being, I used to be a disciple of Qianye in my previous life, and after four hundred years of reincarnation, I became today's Nishino Nanase and married him to become his wife. Four hundred years ago, my name was Wise Tamako. ”

"Wise Tamako? That wise Mitsuhide's beloved daughter, Hosokawa Tadashi's main room, along with Shizunomae and Oda City, is known as the three beauties, and the kara who was baptized by the Nanban religion? What an amazing big shot! When Gion Chiyo heard Nishino Nanase's explanation, his eyes were stunned, and he sat up straight and looked at Nishino Nanase, with surprise in his tone.

"Please don't call me by the name of the main room of the Hosokawa family, I am the wife of a thousand nights in this life, and I have nothing to do with the Hosokawa family four hundred years ago." Nanase Nishino seemed a little unhappy, and seriously retorted to Chiyo Gion.

Gion Chiyo didn't get angry because of Nishino Nanase's rebuttal, but said with a smile on his face: "So you are the little girl who followed Chiya four hundred years ago?" Unexpectedly, after 400 years, you finally got what you wanted and married your master? ”

When Nanase Nishino heard Chiyo Gion say this, she immediately blushed again, lowered her head embarrassedly, and made Mai Shiraishi and Nanami Hashimoto on the side chuckle when they looked at her.

After a chuckle, Nana Hashimoto seemed to remember something, looked at Ge Ye, who was sitting on the side and didn't say much, and asked her, "Aunt Ge Ye, you invited us to the banquet, it must not be as simple as just inviting us to dinner, right?" Is there something you want to tell us? "Nana Hashimoto has always been wary and jealous of Kuzuba, who used to be a feathered fox.

Seeing that Nana Hashimoto didn't ask Kazuha questions, Mai Shiraishi, who was sitting next to her, also put down her chopsticks and looked at Kuzuha with her. For this elder in the mouth of a thousand nights, a friend in Tamamo's former memory, and a dangerous monster in his impression, Mai Shiraishi has always been a little distrustful of her, and she is even more suspicious of the purpose of Ge Ye inviting her and Nanami Hashimoto and Nanase Nishino.

Seeing Mai Shiraishi and Nana Hashimoto not being in their own place, even Ge Ye felt helpless for a while, but after all, it was the consequence of her own being a feathered fox, so she didn't say anything to Mai Shiraishi and Nana Hashimoto, but the smile on her face was a little more bitter to hide well.

Ge Ye sorted out his mood and explained to Nanami Hashimoto and Mai Shiraishi: "I invited the three of you to Sakura Pavilion for a banquet today because I knew that the three of you had come to Kyoto and wanted to invite you to dinner. Of course, on the one hand, it's also because Chiyo wants to see Chiyo's heart and what it's like to be his wife, after all, the 'Ruri Chiyo Girl of Gion' also lost her girlish heart on Chiyo. ”

"It's all old things, Ge Ye, what else do you mention about her." Regarding this matter, even Chiyo Gion, who has always been very chic and heroic, can't help but have a hint of shyness on his face. At the same time, Kudzuba's words also made the three of them look at Gion Chiyo with a little more defensiveness, which is also a potential love enemy! Nanami Hashimoto, who didn't want to share a thousand nights with one more person, couldn't help but be vigilant in their hearts.

For the vigilance and vigilance of the three of Hashimoto Nanawei, Gion Chiyo didn't care, now she is no longer the girl who fell in love four hundred years ago, hundreds of years, after too much experience, she no longer cares about all this, but being looked at by the three of Hashimoto Nanawei's guarded eyes, it still makes her feel a little uncomfortable, so she said to Ge Ye again: "Don't talk about me Ge Ye, you better hurry up and get to the point." ”

Seeing that Gion Chiyo said this, Ge Ye no longer sold Guanzi, and instead said seriously to Mai Shiraishi and Nanami Hashimoto: "Originally, I just wanted to find Shiraishi you, because your current identity is a nine-tailed fox, for youkai, your identity has a special meaning, I believe you can also know a thing or two from her memory before Tamamo." But what I didn't expect was that even Hashimoto you would become a big youkai. ”

Although Ge Ye said this, she always had a strange look in her eyes when she looked at Nanami Hashimoto, as if she was surprised that Nana Hashimoto had become a big monster, but she also felt that she took it for granted.

"Aunt Ge Ye, what you want to say, does it have anything to do with my identity as a big monster like Mai?" Nana Hashimoto didn't hear what she meant from Ge Ye's words, and frowned, and couldn't help but have some guesses about Ge Ye's purpose.

"Yes, Hashimoto, you guessed right, this matter does have something to do with your identity as a Shiraishi Great Youkai." Kuzuha nodded, confirming Nanami Hashimoto's guess: "I believe you already know about the thousand-year-old covenant from Qianya, right?" Regarding the fact that the thousand-year-old covenant of no war is coming to an end, do you two as the big monsters of the demon clan, especially Shiraishi, who is in charge of the Nine-Tails Group in Tokyo, do you have any opinions? ”

Kudzuba's question made Chiyo Gion on the side and all the geisha girls in the room also focus their eyes on Mai Shiraishi and Nanami Hashimoto. In fact, as early as when the three of them walked into the Sakura Pavilion, they already felt that all the geisha in this pavilion were youkai, and Chiyo Gion was a big monster like Nanami Hashimoto and Mai Shiraishi. Therefore, for the gaze of these yokai geisha and Gion Chiyo, Nanami Hashimoto and Mai Shiraishi are not surprised.

After the two glanced at each other, Mai Shiraishi asked, "Aunt Ge Ye, in what capacity are you asking us?" Is it the white fox kudzu, or is it ...... What about the feathered fox? Seeing Ge Ye mention the matter of the thousand-year covenant of no war, Mai Shiraishi couldn't help but think of the previous battle between the feathered fox and the thousand nights in Kyoto, the impact and damage caused by that battle to Kyoto, to this day, you can still see the remaining scars, so Mai Shiraishi has a spirit to deal with this problem of Kudzu Ye in her heart.

And with Mai Shiraishi's opening, the demon sword Ji who had been sitting behind her also became vigilant, although she did not release her momentum, but a kind of monster geisha in the room, she could clearly feel the pressure from the big monster, and became trembling. Seeing this, Gion Chiyo frowned slightly, and with a wave of his hand, he asked these youkai geisha to retreat, and all that was left in the entire room were Gion Chiyo, Kudzuba, Hashimoto Nanami, Shiraishi Mai, Kushi, Akimaru, Demon Daohime, and Nishino Nanase, who was an onmyoji.

And when the last clam closed the door, the big monsters also had a little less scruples, and they let go of their momentum, and for a while, this room was full of the momentum of the big monsters.

Feeling the momentum of the five big monsters that came from the direction of Nanami Hashimoto and Mai Shiraishi, even Ge Ye felt a little tricky, the expression on his face became solemn, and he replied solemnly: "I am asking you as the representative of the demon clan who signed the thousand-year covenant of no war back then, the identity of the white fox Ge Ye, one of the three major monsters, the nine-tailed fox, the successor of the former Tamamo, and the general of the Tokyo Nine-Tails Group - Miss Mai Shiraishi." ”

"Madame Shiraishi, you may not know what the identity of the nine-tailed fox, one of the three major monsters, represents, but your opinion is very important to our demon clan. At this critical juncture at the end of the thousand-year-old covenant of no war, we must confirm your attitude and the final position of the Nine-Tails. Gion Chiyo saw the solemnity of what Kuzuha said, and also put on a serious expression, and added on the side.

"This ......" Hearing the words of Kudzu Ye and Gion Chiyo, the expression on Mai Shiraishi's face changed, and after a while of silence, he spoke: "Before I became a youkai, I lived as a human for twenty years, and even now, I am still unwilling to give up my human identity. So Aunt Ge Ye, the question you ask me, if it's just me, my choice is to be on the side of the human race. Speaking of this, Mai Shiraishi glanced at Nanami Hashimoto on the side, saw her smiling and nodding to herself, so she said to Kazuha and Chiyo Gion: "And I believe that Nana Min and I have the same choice, for us, I'm afraid we still think of ourselves as human first, and then think of ourselves as youkai." ”

Kazuha was not surprised by Mai Shiraishi's answer, it seemed that Mai Shiraishi's attitude had been expected by her, and after she and Chiyo Gion looked at each other, she asked Mai Shiraishi: "Since Mai Shiraishi has such an attitude, what do you think of the thousand-year-old covenant of no war?" Do you want our demon clan and humans to continue this truce agreement and continue to live in hiding in the human world like this? I want to hear you answer this question as the general of the Nine-Tails Group, the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox. ”

"If it is in the capacity of the general of the Nine-Tails Group, I also hope that this peace that has lasted for thousands of years will continue." Facing the gaze of Kuzuha and Gion Chiyo, Mai Shiraishi said seriously: "Although I don't know much about the lives of other youkai, judging from the usual lives of the youkai under the command of the Nine-Tails Group, everyone has actually been accustomed to the current life in a thousand years. Although you need to hide your identity, this is not a kind of protection for the monsters themselves.

It is no longer the ancient times of a few hundred years ago, and the power of human beings has been greatly developed. Japan may be able to occupy a place for the yokai by force, but if other human countries also unite to deal with the demon race, we big yokai may be able to rely on their strong strength and do nothing, but the little youkai may not be able to face such a thing. So, if I had to choose, I would choose to lead the Nine-Tails to maintain this peace that has lasted for thousands of years. Since peace has lasted for a thousand years, why not let it continue? ”

Mai Shiraishi's answer made Ge Ye and Chiyo Gion look at each other and smile, and then put away the momentum on their bodies, and smiled at Mai Shiraishi: "Since this is your choice Shiraishi, we can rest assured, in fact, our demon clan has long been accustomed to living a peaceful life now, and we don't want to start any more disputes." Please Baishi, you go back and tell Qianye, just say that the demon clan will choose to maintain the peace of the thousand-year-old covenant of no war, even if the old agreement ends, a new covenant of no war will be made, and this time the representative of the demon clan will be you, the nine-tailed fox Mai Shiraishi. ”