Kotaro and his group of three walked slowly in the middle of Yoshiwara Avenue, like a fire truck dragging two firefighters, which can be said to be quite conspicuous.

However, it is precisely because Kotaro's appearance is so special that the entire Yoshihara knows that he is the security guard of the dim sum shop, so there is no store to disturb Butterfly Shinobu at all, and she is allowed to look around out of curiosity.

Occasionally, a girl trotted out of the surrounding girl's house, gave Kotaro some snacks and toys and other things, smiled and greeted, and left.

"I didn't expect Kotaro to be so popular with girls in Yoshiwara."

Ichiro said with a smile.

He thought most people would be afraid of Kotaro.

The current situation, it is estimated that when the guy in Anayama usually throws money around Yoshihara, he takes this child to support the scene with him, and these girls are very familiar with Kotaro.

Butterfly Shinobu noticed that perhaps because of the proximity to "home", Genichiro's smile was not as stiff as usual.

"These sisters are all good people, and they will give me a lot of food every time we meet."

Kotaro couldn't wait to open the food box he had just harvested, bent down, and happily showed the contents to Ichiro and them: "Ahhhh ”

When Ichiro looked closely, it was a mooncake-like snack in the shape of seven human faces.

The faces on each snack are different, and they look strange, a bit like the human face statue carved by Hawkeye Goff in "Dark Souls", which is only one step away from being difficult to swallow.

"Why did you make the dim sum like this?"

"It's a human-shaped yaki, a confectionery unique to Sensoji Temple, and it's hard to buy on a regular basis."

Seeing that the two of them looked confused, the butterfly man popularized science: "The seven kinds of humanoid burning represent the seven blessing gods, so they also represent the different blessings among them. People are very attentive to giving such a gift to Kotaro. ”

As she spoke, she explained the connotations and meanings of the seven immortals to the two of them one by one, causing Kotaro to nod frequently.

Kotaro is just naïve, not completely incapable of learning, this kind of little knowledge with ghost stories, he remembers it almost once he listens to it, and plans to share it with others when he goes home.

"Eh, that's a great snack."

He sighed as he handed Bencaiten's humanoid yaki to Butterfly Shinobi, the snack was less than one-tenth the size of the palm of his hand.

"This is the only god in the humanoid ware who is a girl, so I'll give it to you."

Bencaiten is known as the god of good fortune, and his expression is more festive, and Kotaro's blessing is quite obvious, hoping that Butterfly Shinobi will smile more.

Butterfly Shinobu showed a rare smile and accepted it gratefully.

Then, Kotaro handed over the Daikokuten humanoid burning, who could keep him safe, and said in a "serious voice": "Don't break your hand again, it hurts so much." ”

After saying this, he threw Ichiro on the spot and moved, and he picked up the cloth bag monk human-shaped yaki that was nine points similar to him and threw it into his mouth, chewed it twice and swallowed it, and his originally dull eyes brightened, "It's red bean paste!" It's delicious. ”

However, after eating, he looked like he wanted to continue, but in the end he hesitated for a while, but he still closed the lid of the food box and held it in his hand.

"And so much, why don't you eat it? And no one is robbing you. ”

As he ate the blessed sweets, his heart was a little warm, and he felt good about the taste.

"Uh-huh...... Kuro has been studying lately...... What kind of English is learning, this Bishamentian who makes people smarter, is left to him. ”

Kotaro counted them one by one with his fingers.

"Shou Lao is left to the old woman, Ebisu is left to the eldest brother, Fu Lu Shou...... Well, Fu Lu Shou will give it to Sister Fern Ji, she treats me very well, and occasionally looks at me drooling......"

[Jiurou is learning English? 】

This is something that Koichiro didn't expect.

However, there are more and more people in the store, and Kuro doesn't have to do everything himself, so he naturally has more free time, and it's normal to want to learn something new.

"Why, does Miss Fern visit the store often?"

Ichiro asked.

This time he was able to rescue Koi Murata, and the belt that Warabi gave him contributed to it, and it was not reluctant to say that it brought him luck.

If he jumped directly from the mountain without that belt, let alone him, even the butterfly Chanae and the immortal river were completely uncertain.

However, the strange thing is that it is clear that the Fern Ji has sent them a lot of things back and forth, and often gives advice to the dim sum shop, but this woman's name has never appeared in the old hunter's notes.

But if it is said that Warabi is a pseudonym, there are no other female names that Koichiro doesn't know on the note.

[What a mysterious guy.] 】

"Sister Warabi goes to talk to Jiuro every few days."

Kotaro bit his finger and remembered.

"But she always comes here when the door closes, so she must have worked hard."

Hearing this, Genichiro nodded, not surprised.

He knew that the position of the warabi in Kyogokuya was that the geisha was not a wandering girl, and she was learning art, and it was estimated that she was training some kind of poetry, piano and dance during the day, so she only had time at night.

[That guy doesn't have a crush on me, right?] 】

[Did she say she was stupid a few times and was heard by her?] 】

gave him a parting gift, probably because the other party saw Jiurou's face.

[Hey, I almost misunderstood, I thought it was ......]

[Jiulang, this guy, the peach blossom luck is good. 】

Ichiro thought about it, and showed his half-moon eyes.

There are some things he doesn't say, and he doesn't really care, but he is still a little unconvinced.

In this way, the three of them continued on the road, and Genichiro also acted as a half-hung tour guide who was not very qualified, introducing the buildings on both sides of the avenue to Butterfly Shinobi.

Yoshihara said that it was not big.

In a place of 27,000 square meters, there are 10,000 small people, and the composition is quite complicated.

There are more than 200 nomadic houses, but not all of them have an Oiran and a geisha.

Therefore, according to the size and grade of the scale, it can be divided into the big world, the middle world, and the small world.

Close to the periphery of Youguo, there are also a bunch of longhouses, known as corner shops, which are not even considered to be inflow.

Pointing to the huge cage-like rooms on both sides of the road, Ichiro said, "Ordinary maidens sit there from twelve o'clock in the afternoon, waiting for the selection of guests, until four o'clock in the afternoon. After the guests have their favorite maids, they go to the teahouse to drink tea, and after the cost reaches a certain amount, the waiter in the teahouse will guide the guests to meet with the maids in the evening. Almost fifteen yen was spent back and forth, and if the time was delayed overnight, the cost would naturally be higher. ”

Fifteen yen is almost a year's worth of military pay for a new recruit.

In other words, the income of a soldier who has been training for a whole year is nothing more than the turnover of a wandering girl for a few hours.

With such high profits, it is no wonder that Yoshihara can maintain such a prosperous appearance.

But it is not known how much the owners of the Wandering Girls' House will give them.

When the three of them pass by a big family, Kotaro also warmly greets the acquaintances in the cage.

However, Butterfly Shinobu stiffened her expression and did not dare to look directly at the women who were sitting in the cage-like windows, displayed like goods on the shelves.

Isn't it like a monkey in a zoo to put people in a cage for people to admire?

Although the girls were wearing heavy makeup, Butterfly couldn't help but glance at it, and she could see that there were many people in it, but they were of the same age as her, but they looked like they were used to this kind of life.

Some of them have snobbish, ambitious eyes written in them, and can't wait to get ahead.

And some people are dull-eyed and insensitive, and just want not to be beaten and scolded today, meet a gentle guest, and spend the day safely.

But according to the fern princess, whether they like it or not, most of the girls will not live past the age of twenty-five.

Most of what awaits them is that they are young and infected with a vicious disease, break the rules and be killed or commit suicide, and finally become one of the thousands of dry bones in the Jingxian Temple behind, disappearing into this world incomprecisely, unable to make even a little waves.

Even if the Oiran is old and decrepit, if there is no benefactor to redeem him, his fate is not much better, and he is more of a teacher to teach the younger generations the skills of pleasing guests.

The more I learned about their lives, the more absurd Shinobu realized

- It turns out that there is a more unfortunate job in the world than a ghost hunter.

Although the Ghost Slayer is also a profession that is prone to untimely death, most of the team members' family members died at the hands of ghosts, so they have experienced fear, hatred, and pain since childhood.

But at the very least, the way they exist is not distorted in this way.

They are convinced that their work will protect humanity from harm, so despite the dangers of killing ghosts, few of the team members despair.

But the vast majority of the girls in these cages are dying slowly.

At this moment, for the first time, Butterfly Shinobu understood what her sister had said to her.

"Shinobi. The most fundamental misfortune in the world is not a disaster like a ghost. Rather, there is no hope in sight. ”

"So people like us who still have goals to work for should be happier."

At that time, she didn't believe that there could be anything more unfortunate in the world where a ghost took away her family?

But when she saw Chanel and the girls who were sold here by her parents for various reasons, she knew that the pain of being abandoned and sacrificed by her relatives was more than her relatives being taken away.

As a fellow woman, Butterfly Shinobu couldn't stand the confused eyes of the girls in the cage anymore, and said to Genichiro in a pleading tone, "Hey, let's go quickly." ”

Ichiro was stunned for a moment, then nodded.

The three of them walked briskly along the main road for a while, and then they saw a prominent dim sum shop near the main entrance of Yoshiwara.

After the three of them entered the door, Butterfly Shinobu felt a little lighter.

I don't want to come here again! She thought.

I saw three people enter the door, and two figures walked out from behind the counter.

"Master Ichiro."

The two snake-eyed people of the Fallen Valley bowed to Genichiro.

However, when Butterfly Shinobu saw them, he was a little nervous, and his hand unconsciously clenched the cloth bag wrapped in the Nichiren knife.

No other, because these two women look too strange.

Because the Fallen Valley people don't need to touch gunpowder here, they naturally don't need to cover their faces with rags.

They are tall and tall, with a height of 1.71 meters 8, which is much taller than ordinary men.

Moreover, they are descendants of the Sijiamei clan, and their skin color is closer to that of the shrine maidens who guard the Iwado of the Heavenly Palace, and they look pale and pale.

However, due to the fact that they became the lord of the White Snake, they have faint white scales on their cheeks, and their eyes have also turned into gray-white iris close to the White Snake, and they have vertical pupils, so they can easily see things in the distance.

It's no wonder that Butterfly Shinobu feels nervous.

But she realized right away that the two men were not ghosts, otherwise they would not have been exposed to the sunlight of the doorway again.

Seeing that both of them were here, Ichiro also understood that the ghost Buddha in Tokyo should have been found, and his mood was a little better.

So Koichiro asked, "Is everyone there?" ”

"Young Master Jiulang is learning English in the living room with the teacher. Mr. Sase is teaching some general knowledge to two adults, Norizen Yamauchi and Minayu Shisei. Master Dao Shen prepares dim sum in the back. ”

The Fallen Valley replied, "Only Mr. Anayama is not there, saying that he has gone to a meeting organized by some councillors, and he should be back in a moment." ”

Stringichiro's eyes lit up, and Anayama's approach coincided with his idea of letting Reed's celebrity participate in politics.

"I see." He replied, "I'll take the guests to meet Jiuro first, and you will work hard to do two things." ”

"One is to prepare a room for this Miss Butterfly Shinobi, who will stay here tonight, and then ask the chef of Kyogokuya to prepare a table of food and send it to the living room; Second, when Cave Mountain comes back, I will close the door of the store and everyone will come to see me. ”

"Yes." The two didn't ask much, and listened to the order.

After arranging the task, Genichiro said to Butterfly Shinobi, "Let's go, go and meet my brother, he is the true heir of Ashina." ”

"Then bother."

After seeing Kotaro's height, Butterfly Shinobu already had some guesses about Kuro's size.

The moment she followed Kotaro into the backyard, Genichiro suddenly turned around, glanced at the Kyogoku House across the street with an extremely vague gaze, and frowned slightly.

[What happened to the three fresh paper figures that suddenly floated over from there? 】

[Could it be that there are dead people in Kyogokuya? But if three people died, why didn't there be any movement at all? 】

……

On the other side, Kyogokuya.

When I went out for a stroll last night, I met a very unreasonable man who kept saying that he had a lot of money, so he wanted to be a guest of the curtain for him, but he has been entangled since he was rejected.

So after Kyogokuya closed, Akihime followed the guy home, and ate his beautiful wife and daughter in front of the guy.

As for the man, it was given to his brother the prostitute Taro, after all, the elder brother hates the rich man who pretends the most.

That's not all, in order not to waste a lot of this guy's inheritance in vain, she also sent the little ghost to inform the ghost king of Wu Miao.

When the time comes, as long as Wu Miao becomes the appearance of that man, he will be able to transfer all his money and assets under his other vest.

After doing all this, Fallen Hime quietly returned to Yoshiwara, intending to sleep and digest the food, and by the way, wait for the Oni King's reward to arrive.

It wasn't until just now, when Genichiro entered Yoshiwara with the belt she had sent, that Akihime suddenly opened her eyes. She sensed her doppelganger, who was clearly eager to return to her form and tell her everything she saw.

So Fallen Ji excitedly shouted behind him: "Brother, wake up quickly!" The little imp who secretly called me stupid is finally back! ”