Chapter 22: Goodbye
The next day, at night, the full moon rose into the sky at the gate of Koizumi Castle.
"Demon energyβ" Link looked at his palm, some strange sensations and emotions were being pulled away by something, "It's disappearing." He raised his hand and touched it, and the big cat's ears disappeared, and the demonic energy on his body quickly dissipated after being entered into the night.
"Does that mean I've become a half-demon completely?" He felt his head clearer than ever.
"There is no such anger of being offended, even the bloodthirsty impulse is completely gone."
"Monsterization, sure enough, the side effects are also very strong."
"So is that the instinct that Inuyasha is always suppressing? It's really hard for him to maintain his original cheerful and lively personality. β
"Keeping saying that he wants to become a complete youkai, but constantly suppressing his instinct as a youkai, Inuyasha is really a typical tsundere.γ
"Like Naraku, a fool who doesn't even figure out what he's pursuing."
"Xiaoquan City is so quiet, is there really an ambush?" Link exhaled a breath of turbid air, feeling the chaotic aura in Koizumi City, the evil qi, demonic qi, spiritual power, and some inexplicable weird aura mixed together, but the human taste was the weakest.
"It's kind of like the taste of Naraku......"
With nothing to do, he pondered the meaning of the trap in his mind, and then he strode towards the deserted city.
Koizumi Castle is a standard military fortress, in fact, there are no ordinary residents, ordinary human residents, even samurai, mostly live outside the city, not inside the city, and the castle in the early and middle Warring States period has not evolved to accommodate many inhabitants in all castles.
The structure of Koizumi Castle itself is an incomplete combination of the Renoka style and the Nagaku style, and the Honmaru (Ichi-no-Kowa), the center of the city centered on the castle tower, is connected to the round and wide Ninomaru (Nino-Kowa) by layers of stone barriers and Ishigaki arches on the mountainside, and Ninomaru is the widest 'circle' in the entire castle, so it assumes the residential purpose of some samurai and retainers and the buffer of street fighting.
After the division of the wall and the terrain, the Ninomaru is connected to the Sannomaru (Sannomaru Wheel) below with a narrow tiger mouth and a chaser gate......
Because the scale of the war itself was not large, the Japanese had already studied small-scale siege warfare during the Warring States period.
By the way, from the air, Koizumi Castle is a big trap and a small circle, the largest circle is an oval, and the bottom is broken at the foot of the mountain, so it should be more vivid.
The city of the Warring States Period, not to mention at night, even if you want to enter during the day, you have to go through a one-on-one inspection, and Link, who has no strange ability, is destined to be difficult to pass through without incident.
"Boom!" The tall gates of the city, specially set up for cavalry, were kicked open.
"Hey, half-demon." The black long straight girl standing on the wall carried a huge bone boomerang in her hand, and reminded in a loud voice: "Just tie your hands, it just so happens that when you encounter the time when the blood of the monster in your body does not obey the call, you have no ability to resist." β
Demon Slayer...... And that familiar shape with boomerang, coral?
Link glanced at it and made a judgment based on his memory, "Naraku's progress is too slow, hasn't he made use of the demon slayer yet?" Or is there some plot change? β
"The Great Myojin of the Mountains." The familiar middle-aged monk Master Yunya and his disciples came over and said sincerely, "Please follow me to explain it to the City Lord of Koizumi." β
"Then I'll go with you to see it." Link smiled and groaned, and he wanted to take a good look at what the hell Naraku - or the guy behind this was up to.
Master Yunya knelt on the ground, truly treating the half-demon in front of him who seemed to have lost his power with the courtesy of a god, and said in a low tone: "No matter what, with my life as a guarantee, I will definitely let you get out of Xiaoquan City safely." β
He had already determined that the half-demon had not violated the agreement with him, and such a pure aura would not be a monster in the city, as for the conflict with the army...... He is not a pedantic person, the blood of the monster in the body of the half-demon would have made them irritable enough, the army has been surrounded and suppressed in the past, is it not allowed to fight back?
"Hmm." Coral did not continue to warn the half-demon who had lost her power, but looked at the full moon in the sky, she was the one who was persuaded by Master Yunya to take Link away from Xiaoquan City no matter what, but the experience of being a demon slayer and the greed of humans made her a little confused at a young age.
What kind of future will humans and monsters go to?
"There are still people peeping." Link glanced around the corner to a dark, evil, but innocent gaze peering at him.
However, it's not very strong.
He retracted his gaze, the not very powerful Xiao Xiaojuni, even if it was strange, it didn't deserve his attention, with his intuition, he could sense that whether it was Coral or Master Yunya, the monks had no ill will towards him, so what he would encounter next would be even more interesting.
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"This guy" sweat stains appeared on the forehead of the witch maiden, and forcibly used black magic to divert her gaze, "The perception is too keen, and it has a strong body, not the power of the blood of the monster......"
Her eyes were full of curiosity and yearning, if she had such a powerful power back then, wouldn't she have lost to Kikyo, let alone end up trading her soul to a monster?
"Hey, Naraku, you didn't tell me that the half-demon you were going to deal with was so powerful, did you?" The witch unceremoniously accuses the same party who admired the moon in the corner.
Naraku seemed to be recalling some memories of his time in the cave, and after being awakened by the words, he didn't have the interest to reply, but said lightly: "If you're not interested, you can quit at any time." β
"Hah" The witch laughed, "You're really a contradictory guy, just like that Koizumi City Lord, obviously the original form is the strongest, as long as you don't steal other people's things and keep that jealous heart, you can easily control the people of the entire city, but now it's just"
"You've been jealous of someone, too." Naraku interrupted her and said in a narrative tone, "It's an innate emotion, simpler than breathing, and death can't take away that pain......"
"Enough!" In response, the witch returned a fragment of the Four Souls Jade and sneered, "Just let me see how you can fight against such a powerful guy." β
"With that idiot, there's no way to get rid of this guy." She turned away with great determination.
"The more you pursue, the weaker you become, the closer you get to death......" Naraku just looked at the full moon, and there was no emotion in his tone:
"Let me see your endgame, Koizumi......"