Chapter 9: The Book of the Dead
Kyoto Daimyo Domain's Mansion, Hojo Family's Mansion. The entire Sakura no Kuni is somewhat similar to the system of one country and one castle divided into feuds, and basically each capital has an independent feudal lord daimyo. It is said that Kyoto was originally the capital 100 years ago, but after the emperor moved the capital to the gods, Kyoto is now the Kyoto Domain.
"The executioner has been killed? The kid that the Fujiwara family picked up? On the main seat, there was a bewitching woman holding a pipe, and the original head of the Hojo family knelt down on one knee.
"Yes, Ichi-sama, do you need us to kill him directly?" The head of the Hojo family knelt on one knee, and the man who was supposed to be the pinnacle of power in Kyoto was like a retainer who met the head of the family.
"No, since he killed the executioner, let him be the next executioner. Slash Tianyu Feather to him, and let this legendary strongest demon sword cultivate the next strongest executioner, we are running out of time. ”
"Yes, my lord."
"By the way, how is the rosemary made?" Iki asked.
"We're making enough of it, but we need time for Rosemary to completely control more people, so that they are completely intoxicated and can't get rid of it, and in this way, control the vast majority of the gentry in Kyoto."
"How long will it take?"
The head of the Hojo family lowered his head slightly and said, "Because according to your request, you can't be exposed to the sight of those priests and monks, you can only do it secretly, and it will take at least two months." ”
"Waste, waste, waste! It's taken us so long to make you a daimyo in Kyoto, and we can't just kill all those onmyoji......" Ihime had a distorted expression on her face, her green tendons bulging, and the bulging blood vessels on her face were visible to the naked eye, and her original elegant and charming appearance disappeared.
And the head of the Hojo family waited until Ihime's demeanor returned to normal before he said slowly: "I'm being stared at by countless eyes now, and I can't be too conspicuous. And Ihime-sama, even if I'm now disguised as a daimyo, the Ise Hojo family still has countless pairs of eyes staring at me. ”
"I see, get out."
The head of the Hojo family vanished, and she was the only one left in the room, and instead of her thighs, a canine-like tail sticking out from under her twelve-single dress.
"Time is running out, time is running out...... The Onmyoji have already spotted the signs, and they have begun to explore our previous traces outside the city...... I need a human executioner who grows up to get rid of those hateful Onmyoji. She touched her heart, and there was a hole in her heart, which was caused by the Demon Breaking Arrow of the Onmyoji of the Earth Imperial Gate, a curse that could never be cured of the demons.
Looking at Levi's information in the scroll and the lifelike portrait, since the executioner's plan has been ruined, let this person replace the executioner.
"The Hojo family has been controlled, the second son of the Shimada family has been controlled, and only the Fujiwara family and the Kujo family remain. As long as before the onmyoji react, control the Yoshiko of the Fujiwara family with the demon sword, make him have enough combat power and kill all the onmyoji, lift the curse, and control the Kujo family with rosemary. In this way, we will be able to keep the whole of Kyoto under our control. ”
The foxtail was swinging rapidly, and the name after name on the scroll was on her list.
"Then, become the lord of Kyoto, and use the luck of the whole of Kyoto and the sacrifice of the living beings to complete the ritual ...... in the Book of the Dead."
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Levi felt like he had a dream, a long dream.
It's still Hayata Village, and it's still facing the group of evil ghosts that are mixed in the crowd.
But this time, he was just a native of Wasata, and he didn't become a stand-in messenger, and he didn't have a system.
After Obon, the entire village was blocked off from the road, and in this place, which was supposed to be the end of summer, dark clouds completely covered the sky and snow began to fall.
After the dark clouds cover them, the evil spirits even appear in the daytime, knock on the door one after another, and then completely assimilate the family into evil spirits, or, kill them directly for food.
Until there were only 100 people left in the village, everyone hid in the hospital, and the village doctor finally developed an inhibitory serum that could suppress the blood of the evil spirit not long after being infected by the demon.
So, dozens of people were injected with demon blood and at the same time injected with inhibitors. They pick up their guns, stretch out their claws, and transform into half-human, half-ghost monsters for their final revenge, calling themselves demon hunters.
Then there was a war between monsters and monsters, until in the end, no one survived, the demons died, and the ancestor of the demons was hung on a cross and roasted by fire and the sun for three days before he died completely. The last three surviving ghost hunters have been completely alienated, and they have chosen to commit suicide.
And the entire Hayata Village has grown from a few thousand people to less than twenty.
This is the end of the dream.
This dream is as if Levi did not go to the timeline of Hayata Village. An ending where no one survives, whether it is a demon or a human, there is no winner.
In the end, it was just a mass extinction news that stayed in the newspapers.
Levi carefully recalled that among the twenty people who survived in the end, there was no Megumi Harada's family. The girl took her dream of going to university in the big city buried forever in that small village.
The sun shines through the white paper, and you can even hear the birdsong and the rustle of the maple leaves outside the window.
Levi came to the windowsill, and the Arashiyama Taisha Shrine, which had been cleaned last night, was now full of bright red maple leaves again. He wondered for a long time whether he had already experienced three worlds, whether he had traveled to other worlds, or whether he was simply reincarnated in an infinite loop of dungeons.
It's like the second mission, even if he doesn't go, the man named Jojo will kill the vampire completely, and his help only keeps the men on that team alive and not wiped out.
He thought again of the girl named Megumi Harada, who boldly showed her love under the fireworks. Maybe she doesn't like Levi as a person, she likes his fictitious identity, likes the big city hukou in that fictitious identity, likes money, and likes his appearance......
"Or I don't have enough strength."
"Knock knock." There was a quick knock at the door, and then a slightly rough voice replied, "Young master, the daimyo has just sent a message......