Before answering Kaguya's question, she turned her attention to the new scenery.

The horses' hooves trampled over the messy blades of grass, and the wheels left two deep ruts on the ground that was gradually becoming muddy, and they had entered a dense forest at some point.

"Lord Li Wu! There seems to be an abnormal situation ahead! ”

The two retainers who seemed to be using the same set of character models reported in a dull manner, and the horse neighed, and the frame stopped in place.

Kaguya curiously lifted the curtain and saw a dying white crane lying on the side of the road in front of her, with white saliva dripping from her mouth, and she was about to die.

"Li Wujun, there's a thing over there that is about to die, it's very pitiful."

She tugged at Li Wu's cuffs and wrote her intention to help on her face.

"That's a crane...... Do you have a cure? ”

Kaguya shook her head and patted her head again: "Can it get better if you give it bamboo?" ”

"Of course it's impossible! I don't have the means to be a veterinarian, and our main purpose is to go to Namba Port and go to sea. ”

"Yes!"

The retainers who received the order raised their whips, and the carriage rumbled forward.

It was too late, and the white crane, which had just been sick, flapped its wings in front of the carriage like a return to the light, and flew gracefully and was knocked to the ground and rolled a few times.

Then, the horse's hooves and wheels that galloped mercilessly past its body.

Under the surprised gazes of the two people in the car, it spat out a large pool of blood, and its feet twitched with its back facing the sky.

"Wait, let's stop first."

Unless the little animal in this year has also learned to touch porcelain, it will definitely not be able to ignore this guy with the [Crane] text on his head.

Li Wu jumped out of the carriage and was about to check its injuries.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he touched the soft feather, the crane turned over, opened his wide white wings and hugged his hand like a handshake, and said: "Engong! Thank you for saving me! ”

"Are you alright?"

"It's all thanks to your help!"

Li Wu felt that it was angry with himself in yin and yang.

This unfolds...... Could it be the story of the crane repaying the favor?

Since entering the illusion, Li Wu has probably figured out its routine a little, which is probably another clue to the event that is forcibly promoted, that is, I don't know how to restore the plot of the crane pulling out his feathers and weaving cloth to repay his kindness in the original story, not to mention that there is also a plot of the crane as a wife in some versions.

Looked at by his strange gaze, the red spots on the top of the head of this crane with a medical miracle became more and more bright red, and he shyly withdrew his wings and folded in front of his long black neck, twisting his long beak: "Engong, please don't keep staring at me, I'm very shy." If you don't dislike it, I'm willing to recommend myself for pillows, farming and weaving for fun......"

Li Wu: "......? ”

You have to be like the person in the original story!

"Wait a minute, you can't be together!"

Kaguyahime, who was panting and following behind Li Wu, finally arrived at the scene, "Miss Crane, you and Li Wujun are different species, so you can't be together." ”

"Why not?"

Unexpectedly, the crane raised his head and looked at her proudly, "The joy of love, how can there be a difference in race?" We cranes, snakes and foxes have been good companions of human beings since ancient times, and we have left countless good stories. What's more, you are a moon girl, don't you also recruit relatives in the world? ”

Kaguya loses a fight with a bird.

"I refuse, you better repay the favor with another plan."

"Why?"

Miss Xianhe shed a teardrop humanely, "Engong, you don't want me to go around publicizing that you drove into a bird, do you?" ”

"You bumped into it yourself—no, you know I didn't do anything good to you!"

Li Wu pointed to Kaguya, who was in a sense of frustration, and casually said, "I have already engaged to this guy, so I can't be with you." ”

According to the setting of the role he played in the fantasy, it should be like this.

A man and a bird exclaimed at the same time.

"You, what are you talking about Li Wujun?! Obviously, we are still on the way to obtain the dragon head five-color jade, do you think that a surprise marriage proposal can make my heart move? Please wait at least until you find the treasure before saying it again! ”

"I always think I've seen your style of speech once in the last few days......"

"So that's the case, I didn't expect the two of them to actually have such a relationship."

Miss Xianhe spread her wings to cover her face, "I will pray for the happiness of Eungong, the dragon god you are looking for will not usually show his true face, and if you go to sea rashly, you will only encounter a storm and lose your life in vain." ”

In the original story, although the Otomo Goyuki, who was looking for the dragon's head jade, survived, he did not find any trace of the dragon.

Li Wu asked himself, even if it was him, there was really no way to find a specific target simply in the face of the wind and waves on the sea.

Fortunately, this crane should be a hint of the illusion arrangement.

It continued: "The god of dragons and snakes is also the god of force, the god of struggle, and if you want him to appear, you have to find a place where the blades will fight, and Okurajima has recently had two swordsmen meet to duel, which will surely attract him to go. ”

"Thank you for the reminder, Miss Crane."

Kaguya thanked him sincerely, and wanted to reach out to touch the red top of the crane, but he was dissatisfied.

Xianhe didn't know where to take out a guqin from his body, and lamented: "I originally wanted to play a song for Engong, but I just thought that you and I are fated to have no part, so what's the use of me asking for this qin!" ”

I saw that it broke the piano, lit a fire on the ground, and then rolled and jumped into the fire, turning into green smoke and disappearing.

This scene shocked Kagyahime, her eyes reflected the blazing fire, and she whispered, "I'm inspired!" To record this scene in concise words—let's call it Burning the Qin and Boiling the Crane. ”

"Don't take parables seriously!"

If you stay in this fantasy world again, I am afraid that you will see more things that destroy common sense and childhood, and after getting the prompt of Miss Tsuru who drove the crane west, Li Wu hurriedly urged his retainer AB to set off and divert to Okura Island.

"The name of the place of Okura Island, plus the decisive battle between the two swordsmen, is likely to be those two people - but they and the legend of Kaguyahime are obviously not from the same era."

Li Wu was reminded of the duel between Miyamoto Musashi and Sasaki Kojiro that took place on Okura Island, which ended in Miyamoto Musashi's victory, and Okurajima changed its name to Iwarujima in honor of the genre name used by the latter.

"Also, the bird's description of the dragon is strange."

In the legend of Kaguyahime, the dragon did not really appear, but Miss Xianhe called him the god of dragons and snakes and the god of force, and there are not many gods who meet these two characteristics, and Li Wu happened to visit the shrine of one of them.

"What do you think?"

Li Wu turned his head and asked Kaguyahime, who was silent after setting off again.

Kaguya's body trembled when her name was suddenly called, and she tried to distance herself in the small space of the carriage, but soon hit the wall of the car and couldn't move.

"This is Li Wujun, you have to face the test yourself, please figure it out by yourself."

She kept this awkward posture and turned her head to face out the window, "And don't call me that, it's rude." ”

"Kaguya's temper is as unpredictable as the moon phase."

Li Wu said a pun.

"It's all said, don't call me that! I thought you were a good person, but I didn't expect you to be such a frivolous person! ”

For the first time, Kaguyahime showed her reaction as an ancient woman, "It's also the case that I talked about the marriage contract in front of Miss Senzuru without permission!" How sad it would be if your lover found out! ”

The lovers she is talking about here correspond to the wives and concubines of the original legend Otomo Goyuki, who also dismissed them in order to marry Kaguya.

Finding that she was really angry, Li Wu also said with a straight face: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Miss Kaguya's appearance is too similar to a friend I know, and if I don't pay attention, I lose my demeanor." ”

In fact, there is another reason that this fantasy is full of unobtrusive absurdity from the beginning of the scene, which makes him unable to face Kaguyahime, and has a mentality similar to that of the heroine in a role-playing game.

But even if it is a derivative of the illusion, it can be detected in a short time together, and the other party's behavioral intelligence is no different from that of a real person, and it is normal to get angry for a frivolous attitude.

As the saying goes, a gentleman should be cautious and independent, and he should not indulge in his way of treating others just because he is facing a "person" who may never be seen again.

Li Wu reflected on his behavior, and Kaguya-hime also relaxed her body again, and asked in disbelief, "How can there be such a similar person in the world?" Li Wujun must be lying to me. ”

It's not just the same, you all wear the same pair of glasses!

Could it be that the glasses that Shiratori Makai usually wears are actually like the tail of Sai ○ people and the pineal gland of 20 people, and they are a kind of existence that is part of their appearance?!

"That's true, but she probably won't eat bamboo and wear this costume."

"And what kind of person is she?"

Kaguyahime, who had less than a year of life experience on earth, quickly believed his words and became interested in people who were exactly like herself.

"Like you, she likes to find material for her own work, but she doesn't write poetry. At first, I thought I was a mature person, but then I found that I also had a clumsy side, and that's probably it. ”

Kaguya listened attentively, asking from time to time about the content of the story written by Shiratori Makai, Li Wu simply took advantage of the time on the road to pick a few books created by Shiratori and he happened to have read it, and talked about the content of it like a story.

When the retainer AB who was driving reminded him that he had arrived at his destination, Kaguyahime, who had not seen much of the world, was already pulling the panda's ears and crying.

"Uh-what happened to Ye Jun's revenge on the shark? Why is there nothing behind? ”

Sorry, the original author may have forgotten about him too.

After she finished crying, Li Wu fell to the ground first, and then picked up the girl who jumped down.

"Let's go, Your Highness Princess, let's go find the Dragon Ball you want."

"It's not a dragon ball, it's a five-colored jade on the dragon's head!"

It seems that she has no problem with the title of Her Royal Highness.

What could theoretically have been crossed in an hour or two, and they were already standing on the soft sand near Ogura Island, where the shadow of their destination was faintly visible.

The two retainers stayed on the shore, and Li Wu and Kaguya Ji boarded the wooden boat on the shore one after the other, and after paddling for a while, they came across the shallows that were the site of the legendary life-and-death duel between the two swordsmen.

"I remember in the story that Miyamoto Musashi made Sasaki Kojiro wait for a long time, grinding his mind to make him anxious, and resorting to a plan to attack his heart, I don't know if they met when we arrived."

"Sounds despicable."

Kaguya complained.

On the edge of the shallows squatted a lean man in a blue robe and a pair of clogs, his temples shoulder-length, writing and drawing on the ground and muttering words in his mouth.

On a dead tree about five meters away from him, he leaned on a sword hidden in a sheath, which was of unusual length from the outside.

"That's one of the two swordsmen who are going to duel? I feel more like a mage or a monk from the village......"

Glancing at the swordsman's drawing on the shallows from a distance on the boat, Kaguya whispered in Li Wu's ear.

Li Wu looked at the text on his head [The swordsman who will be killed by the oar] and confirmed: "It's Sasaki Kojiro." ”

He grabbed Kaguyahime's wrist and jumped onto the shallows, an action that alarmed Sasaki's work, and Iwa-ryu's Kenho raised his head and scolded angrily, "Don't step on my circle!" ”

These words held back Li Wu's original thoughts, and he fell into an embarrassing silence.

"You're on the set, uncle!"

Is it time to play as a Roman soldier to hack to death this suspected cosmeed Archimedes Kojiro Sasaki?

"Hmph, impudent."

There was a gleam in his half-open and closed eyes, "You're Miyamoto Musashi?" ”

"Don't you even know the opponent you're going to fight against?"

"Instead of spending time memorizing human faces, you should seek the ultimate in kendo."

The swordsman who was squatting on the ground stood up, walked to the edge of the tree and held the sword leaning against the tree with his thin arm, and pulled it out an inch: "Miyamoto Musashi, since you disturbed my research, you can come and try the sword to lead the death." ”

"It's so unreasonable!" , Kaguya Hime was startled by the murderous aura emanating from that thin torso, and hid behind Li Wu, "We're just here to watch ......"

Before the voice of the word "battle" could be finished, a silver light like a training could be transmitted with the extreme intent of sealing the scorching heat like underground magma, and bit into the heads of the two of them.

Double kill with one sword!

The thunder of the blade tearing through the air followed the remnants it left behind, and the silver sword light retracted into the blade of the Notai Sword, leaving deep slash marks on the ground.

The blow that attempted to decapitate both of them missed, causing the sword-wielder to look surprised.

"Where are you looking?"

Then, a voice from behind made his hair explode, and he pounced forward like a predatory tiger.

The front knee dropped an inch first, the upper body held still while the back leg lifted, as if the distance on the ground had been shortened, and Sasaki slid forward out of thin air.

A martial art called Shrinkage saved his life, but the place where he was standing was tossed apart.

Just like walking and lowering his right foot, the result of the other party casually stepping on the ground was like several large cylinders firing together, and the soil and gravel were wrapped up and rushed into the sky, and many of them even hit their backs, leaving a black mark without looking at it.

When he turned around again, his hand holding the knife was already in a rare cold sweat.

"Although Miss Xianhe said that you need to fight with the blades to attract the dragon god, I wonder if you were defeated by a wooden sword made of oars, so maybe it would be useful to kill you empty-handed?"

Li Wu raised his head and looked at the sky that was already overcast and seemed to be about to usher in a storm, "I hope you can hold on until that moment, Kojiro Sasaki, who loves to draw circles." ”

(End of chapter)