In a word, it is fate.

Everyone comes into this world with a unique mission, whether it is morning or night, and there is no priority, only aware of it or not.

"This time, we must catch ......!"

The short inky hair was dyed with a cherry glow, and an energy that could not be understood with existing cognition was returned between Yuko and Saikyuki.

Three-point saki, five-point saki, seven-point saki-

The originally bare branches were covered in countless blooming cherry blossoms, and the sparkling light encompassed almost all of Kyoto, and the dazzling brilliance made any color in the world meaningless.

This is not Takeya's subjective amazement, but when the westward demon of Shichisaki descended, only this cherry-colored splendor was left between heaven and earth, and the originally clear sky was obscured by a gray cloud.

The cold, gloomy, bleak air envelops Kyoto, and the only light is the open westward demon, as bright as the North Star shining in the night sky, but unfortunately the direction it leads is full of ominous smell.

"Sure enough, is it the Westbound Demon......

Takeya's fists clenched unconsciously, Yuko's swordsmanship level may still be above that of Youji, but her human body limits her strength.

If it is said that even the army of monsters that Takeya and Purple can't help but are not put in the eyes of Yuko, then from this association, Takeshi can also come up with only one way to break the game.

Westward Demon.

This youkai cherry tree is full of mystery, even after a thousand years, he has never seen it in full bloom, but he has only heard a few words about it from the mouths of many youkai.

This is an ominous youkai cherry blossom.

It possesses the power to guide the living to death.

In addition, the food needed for flowering is "spring", which is to put it more simply, that is, vigorous vitality.

Wu also knew that's all, and in later generations, he had also seen the Westbound Demon in the White Jade Tower, but the Westbound Demon he saw at that time was just an empty shell with nothing on the surface.

He clearly remembered that on that trip to the underworld a thousand years later, he was once taken by Youyuzi to visit the White Jade Tower, and naturally he also saw the Westward Demon.

Unlike the "monster" in front of him, which exuded a strong sense of oppression from beginning to end, the westward demon thousands of years later was just a slightly larger cherry tree.

After all, Yuyuko also said-

The "inside" of the Westward Demon was stolen by someone, so Yuyuko once asked him, hoping to find the real Westward Demon.

Now, Wu Ye can see very clearly that this westward demon in front of him is a complete existence.

Then, Yuyuko once said that when the westward demon is in full bloom, she will be able to meet "her" sleeping underneath it.

Zila——!

At that moment, Takeya's head seemed to be invaded by strange radio waves, and a series of strange and familiar images appeared in front of him intermittently.

Is that a memory? Or is it a bizarre dream?

The girl under the cherry blossom tree, followed him step by step from the unfathomable mound to the white jade building in the underworld, not the dreamlike purple cherry blossom, but the westward demon, yes, it is the westward demon!

"Pretty cherry blossom ......"

The girl with a happy smile stretched out her hand to herself, and this time her face was no longer a hazy fragment, but an extremely familiar appearance of Takeya.

"Are you right, Takeya?"

- The person who spoke was none other than Yuko.

"Whew!!"

Cold sweat broke out from his forehead, Wu Ye bent over with his head in his arms, and after returning to reality from that moment of hallucination, he only felt as if he had fallen to the bottom of an icy lake, and all the noise around him turned into a depressed dullness.

It shouldn't be like this, why did you forget such an important thing, why did you ——!

Takeya gritted his teeth and propped up his knees like they were filled with lead, and the Yuko in front of him was already about to merge with the Westward Demon.

Although in terms of size, in front of the towering beast-like westbound demon, Yuko seems so small, but in terms of spiritual power, Yuko is slightly superior.

The unreasonable amount of spiritual power poured out of Yuko's body, and it was devouring the westward demon little by little.

"Wait......!"

Obviously, it seems to be a favorable situation for Yuko, but Takeya's heart can't calm down, it's not that he doesn't believe in Yuko, it's just that a nightmarish sense of fear has always been hanging over his heart.

Also, the most important thing he had to tell Yuko.

He and Yuko had met early in the morning, and they had met long before he came to Kyoto in this era.

Once, under the influence of the purple cherry blossoms of the unfathomed mound, the girl that Takeya saw was none other than that! It's Yuko!

When all the doubts are connected, the final place that leads is the truth.

It wasn't until this moment that Wu Ye finally understood everything,

It is not an accident that transcends time and space, but a predestined inevitability.

Hua Fan said that the battle of Kyoto two hundred years ago ended with the result of both defeats, and the Westward Demon killed all the lives in Kyoto indiscriminately, and the only one who could seal the Westward Demon was the Westward Mage.

And vice versa.,The person who can break this seal and manipulate the Westward Demon is naturally only the Westbound Mage.,After the death of the previous Westbound Mage,Yuko, as the daughter of the Westbound, became the only existence that can establish a connection with the Westbound Demon.。

"Compared to more than ten years ago, she seems to have grown a little taller."

In the past, during a casual conversation, Takeya found out that Wenwen had collected a large number of photos of Yuyuko, and after repeated inquiries, Wu also heard her comment on Yuyuko.

After saying it at that time, Wenwen himself was bloodless and left in a hurry, at that time Wu didn't understand why the other party had such an expression, but now, he finally understood.

Because the undead do not grow, only the living can grow.

As an undead ghost, Yuyuko is a special existence born based on the death of the living, and everything about her is frozen at the moment when the living passes, so even if it takes thousands of years, she can only grow with demonic power.

But Yuyuko has grown taller, even if it's only a little bit, but Yuyuko is indeed still growing!

And the meaning of growth itself is very simple, that is, "to live".

Takeya once suspected that Yuuko was proof of Yuyuko's existence as a human during her lifetime, but he soon reversed his suspicions, because the undead must have been born from the dead, and if the "Yuyuko" had not died, then there could be no undead.

But Yuyuko is an undisputed undead, which means that she must be a person who has already died once, and after ruling out the absurd assumption that there is an "undead who can grow even after death", there are only two possibilities left -

First, Yuuko is Yuyuko, but she has lost her memory for some reason, and it exists in a form that is "very close to the undead but not the undead".

Second, Yuuko and Yuyuko have nothing to do with each other at all, everything is just an accident.

The original Wu was also inclined to the first guess, after all, there was still a purple attitude there, which was the reason why Wu Ye was able to let Yuko Hu come.

Because Yuyuko is still alive and kicking a thousand years later, Yuuko will definitely not be in any danger now.

But! All this has a new explanation after the appearance of the Westward Demon.

Yuyuko is indeed an undead, there is no doubt about this, and it is also a fact that Yuyuko is growing up, so after eliminating all impossibilities, what is left can only be the truth, no matter how ridiculous it is.

There is only one reason why Yuyuko can grow, and that is that the "body" that is the cornerstone of the creation of the undead is also alive!

And the body left by the undead Yuyuko in the Westward Temple before her death, that is the daughter of the Westward Journey - Westward Yuko!

Yuko is the only existence that has been possible to have a connection with the Westward Demon for thousands of years, because she is the "last Westward Journey", and Yuko, who has fused with the Westward Demon, will not die, but will never wake up again.

The unreasonable amount of spiritual power that flowed out was exactly what Yuko was carrying, and he cultivated the vitality that was unique to the Westbound One Vein Technique, which was specially used to seal the Westbound Demon.

She was planning to turn herself into a seal, so that she could use the Westward Demon to repel the army of monsters while ensuring that the tragedy of two hundred years would not happen again.

Yuyuko is indeed an undead, but it is not an ordinary undead, but a unique "living undead" that separates Yuko's soul and is independent from his body.

She has always been obsessed with the hope of pursuing the lost memory buried under the Westbound Demon, which was left in the body of the Westward Yuko after being divided!

The "she" who slept under the westward demon was none other than Yuyuko herself!

Everything is understood.

Why Yuuko has everything so similar to Yuyuko.

Why did Wenwen tell himself, these speculations would never be able to tell Zi.

Why does Yuyuko, who was born as an undead, have the ability to manipulate death in such a mess?

The Westbound Demon –

It is where it all began.

Takeya, who is obviously a master of lying, can't see through this most important lie, and he's the one who is strong, but Yuko is also doing the same thing.

She, will die.

The future with the existence of Yuyuko in Saigyoji Temple will inevitably need the death of Yuko Saiyuko to sustain it.

Realizing all this, Takeya suddenly rushed desperately, and he reached out to try to pull Yuko back from the nightmarish abyss, but after all, he was still a step too late.

"I see, that's my fate—"

Yuko, who was wrapped in the layers of branches hanging down from the westward demon, sank into the deep darkness little by little, and what slid down her cheeks was not tears of remorse, but sure happiness.

Even if it's just one-sided, Yuko showed an incomparably bright smile at the moment.

"Finally, I finally remembered, Wu Ye, it turns out that before we met, we had met a long time ago."