The roundtable, the highest decision-making meeting of the Juai Council, the six-party meeting composed of the five major families and the Spirit Emperor, the family that initiated the meeting threw the family head ring into the Sensoji Temple merit box, and the Kuroba family, who managed Sensoji Temple, received it, and selected the date and place of the meeting, and informed all the families that this tradition had remained unchanged for hundreds of years.

This time, the meeting was held at the underground auction house of Toyama Auction House in Tokyo, and the sponsor was the Kimura family.

The round conference table symbolizes the equality of all parties involved, and there is no distinction between high and low seats. Shiratori Ling sat in it as the acting head of the family, and among the other four heads of the family present, Gense Jing was an old acquaintance, Akai Matsudaira had also seen it in private, Kimura Hiroki had also seen it in the Soul Eater Soul Farm of Morui in the Seigaku Pavilion, and the remaining head of the Black Feather family was not the Black Feather Yoshi she had seen, but a big white-bearded old man, who was a bald little squint like Black Feather Yoshi, and the difference was that this one was also wearing a Japanese-style robe and looked like a monk.

The head of the Black Feather family is actually a monk, perhaps a master of Sensoji Temple, and also the organizer of the conference, as if he has no quarrel with the world.

When I was in Shengyue Pavilion before, I learned that the composition of the members of the Black Feather family was very complicated, and the members were all adopted, so they all did any kind of work, and the monk was just one of them.

The head of the family is called Yuanhai, his original name is unknown, and he should also be a member of the Black Feather family, and he is probably also surnamed Black Feather.

After the five heads of the house sat down, Shiratori Ling noticed that all five of them were concentrated on one side of the round table, and there was a large gap on the other side, but then this gap was filled by a projection cloth hanging from the ceiling, and a figure was projected on the projector opposite.

The man was sitting in a dark space, and a strong light source was shining from behind, making his face pitch black and his face invisible.

At this time, the residents stood up together, and before the meeting, Bai Bird Ling heard Bai Bird Ping mention the etiquette of the meeting, and knew that this person was the Spirit Emperor, so he naturally got up with them at this time and bowed to the Spirit Emperor in the projection.

"Guys, it's a good job. ”

After Emperor Ling finished speaking, the five of them sat down again.

Two days ago, just reunited with Bai Ma Xiao, who knew that on the way back they were separated again, Bai Bird Ling searched around there for two whole days, and finally followed the tire prints of a forest path to find the area blocked by the military, of course, she also sneaked in to see, the empty city. If it weren't for the fact that the meeting was about to start, she would have turned the entire Nerima area upside down. I had to come to the meeting first today, after all, this meeting had already been arranged.

"The Shiratori family has been taken over by the new head of the family, Shiratori Ling, and you should have seen it. It was she and her companions who saved me, and you, two days ago. ”

Emperor Ling symbolically greeted her, and everyone also nodded to her in thanks, and even Yuanhai, who was not present at the time, also saluted her, and Bai Bird Ling returned the salute one by one, waiting for the meeting to begin.

"This meeting was initiated by Kimura. Kimura, please explain the agenda. ”

Hiroki Kimura said, "As you know, the huge fluctuation of spiritual power from China caused the demons of the 24 wards to be restless, and several members of each family were killed one after another. Seven days ago, the 'Oni Kitsune Inuyama' attacked Haneda Airport, wounding the little girl Iori Kimura and picking up the thousand-year-old ghost corpse Himiko who had come to Toshu from China, which was an emergency that Toshu had to guard against. ”

The major families must have known about the commotion at Haneda Airport, and it was certainly impossible for the Spirit Emperor not to know, "All the family masters, you all know about this matter, I have already ordered the blockade of Dongzhou to prohibit the entry of foreign spirits. In addition, I also ordered the arrest of all spirits with spiritual powers in all spirit towns. Now not only has Himiko entered the East Continent, but he has not yet caught the ghost fox. Source, I want to hear your thoughts. ”

This is obviously Xingshi's questioning, and Yuan, as the commander of the five major families, is naturally directly responsible for this. However, in general, leaders will shift the blame to their subordinates who are not doing their jobs well. Sure enough, Minamoto continued, "Putting in Himiko is a dereliction of duty on the part of the Kimura family, who are in charge of blocking the airport. ”

Kimura Hongyi knew this for a long time, and said calmly, "The little girl has done her best, but she is still no match for the ghost fox." As for the power of the Demon Fox, Lord Yuan should know it, otherwise he would not have escaped from the twenty-fourth area of the enchantment. ”

These words obviously put the blame back on Minase Sutra. Obviously, Yutaro Inuyama is not something that ordinary people can deal with, but his escape from the 24th district is entirely the responsibility of Genji.

Of course, Gense Jing would not take this baton, so he handed it over, "Regarding the clearance of the ghost fox, Akai-sama, you can explain it." ”

Holding the Blue Dragon Ring in his hand and in charge of the extermination, of course the Akai family can't escape the involvement, and Akai Matsuhei is certainly not a person who can carry a black cauldron on his back," Lord Yuan said this, it was really embarrassing. In recent years, the Akai family's taxes have been drastically reduced and cannot afford large-scale manhunts. In addition, the samurai of your province are also very dedicated, and it is very difficult for us to enter your territory every time, which is a considerable obstacle to the execution of our operations. ”

The first half alludes to Genji's annexation of the territories of major families in recent years, and the second half complains that Genji's territorial awareness is too strong and full of resentment.

The ball was kicked back again, and it seemed to form an endless loop, and the two families of Black Feather and White Bird who survived were either because they did their job perfectly enough, or because their power was so small that they were almost negligible.

Judging from the situation, it should be the latter, after all, the Shiratori family only has the last territory left. Shiratori Ling had been listening to the back and forth between the three families, and finally understood what Shiratori Ping said when he analyzed the situation for her, and the current Iaikai was the battle between Genji, Akai and Kimura, and Kuroba and Shiratori were bystanders.

Although it is very sad, Shiratori Ling is very glad that she did not join this annoying kicking ball tournament at this time.

The ball was kicked to this part, and although the responsibility was not clearly placed on anyone's head, it is certain that Kimura and Akai divided half of the responsibility between Genji, and in general Genji was a little more responsible. The Spirit Emperor naturally saw it too, and said that he would terminate the competition, "In that case, Mr. Yuan, please also allocate funds to Akai and open up enough authority so that he can pursue the ghost fox with all his might." As long as he can be caught, Himiko's whereabouts will be clear. ”

Gense thought for a moment and sneered, "There have been too many disasters in recent days, and our government is still afraid that the third brother's death has not recovered...... It is somewhat difficult to implement. ”

"I will allocate half of the treasury and the other half from the Juhe Association, Mr. Gen, and I will not embarrass you. ”

Minase nodded with a wry smile, agreeing to such an arrangement.

This matter is considered to be in the past, and Emperor Ling then asked, "Mr. Akai, I heard that the training area has not been peaceful recently, please explain." ”

Akai Matsudaira said calmly, "It's just some small plague, and I got in touch with the shogunate of Nerima Ward and learned that it has nothing to do with Reicho, so please rest assured." ”

"Don't take it lightly, and you can't fully trust the shogunate, so please send someone to observe it. ”

"Good. ”

"In short, Himiko is definitely not a good person, and after seven days, she should take action, so please keep an eye on the movements in Reimachi. I don't want to see the appearance of the Four Generations of Ghost Kings again. ”

Everyone nodded, waiting for the Spirit Emperor to end the meeting.

"Wait. In just two words, it attracted everyone's attention. The Shiratori family, which had always been silent in the round table, broke this convention because of the change of family heads, which attracted everyone's curiosity.

"Ms. Shiratori, is there anything else you would like to add?"

Bai Bird Ling stood up and was about to speak, when the Spirit Emperor interrupted, "You can sit down and speak." ”

Shiratori Ling smiled, "It's still not possible, so as not to make Lord Yuan angry, so that I can easily escape." ”

Her words were quite in the style of a white horse, and everyone was stunned, but Emperor Ling smiled, "Then feel free." ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty. After speaking, she said to Gense, "Lord Gense, not long after I became the new head of the family, I have some questions about the territory of our mansion, and I heard that most of it has been occupied by your mansion, is this really the case?"

Everyone was shocked, among which Akai and Kimura were the most surprised, just now Kimura complained about it, but it was very tactful, I didn't expect this new woman to be so outspoken.

Gense Jing can do the annexation thing, naturally he is not afraid of others to find fault, in the face of such a stunned Qing, of course he replied very calmly, "That is the previous head of your mansion lost to our mansion, presumably Lord Shiratori has also heard about it from Sachiko." ”

"If that's the case, I'd like to redeem the territory and try it out in the royal way. Listening to them play the ball for so long, and finally get to the point, Shiratori Ling didn't mean it at all.

I thought it would be a boring Xingshi questioning, but I didn't expect her to seriously propose the imperial trial. Everyone's eyes were once again attracted to her, and this time, in addition to shock, there was more admiration.

"You actually know that the Imperial Trial. So you should know what you have to give, right?"

"Of course I do. If I lose, my White Bird family is willing to look forward to your mansion from now on, and never regret it. ”

The Iaikai can't implement a dictatorship, but such a tactful dictatorship is still feasible, and Minamoto is happy to run it, Akai and Kimura naturally needless to say, Kuroba is still a guy who doesn't eat oil and salt, and the only thing he can control is Sachiko Shiratori, who has been ** turned into an idle and ambitious head of the family in recent years. But now that Sachiko is gone, the new one doesn't seem to be a good stubble, after all, he once beat Mo Rui away from Mo Rui's spiritual field, and it is almost impossible to continue to control the White Bird family.

It doesn't take much to break the balance of the scales, one smallest weight is enough.

"Okay, I'm done. ”

directly skipped the voting session, and Minamoto agreed to the competition.

Before the Spirit Emperor could speak, Akai Matsuhei was the first to react, "Since this is the case, then add a code to the bottom, and the Akai family also launched a pre-imperial trial to Genji." ”

Gense Jing's expression froze for a moment, "What, do you want to carve up the territory of our province now?"

Kimura Hiroki smiled, "How can it be called a partition, it's just to take back the territory that belongs to us." ”

Minase Nobuya also expected that Kimura would not be an audience, "It seems that Kimura also wants to intervene." So, what about Black Feather?"

Yuanhai still folded his hands and bowed slightly, "Hei Yu has never wanted to do anything outside his body, but this time he is still only watching from the wall." ”

The three major families besieged Genji at the same time, and Minamoto was visibly shaken.

Akai Matsuhei said with a smile, "Didn't Lord Gen always boast that he was the first in the Righteous Sword Flow, don't you have confidence in this trial?"

Gense Jing showed a very deep smile from the city, "Of course not. In that case, I should take on all the challenges. ”

This can be regarded as an internal strife within the Juhe Society, of course the Spirit Emperor does not want to see this situation, but in recent years, Genji has indeed expanded very arrogantly, if it can be resolved at one time, no matter who wins or loses, this internal conflict can also be ended.

"Then, three days later, the Spirit Palace Dojo will try to meet in front of the Emperor. I look forward to your performance. ”

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Out of the conference room, came to the auction hall, but found that it was already a mess, Shiratori Ping had been waiting for a long time, and when he saw Shiratori Ling appear, he hurriedly greeted him, "Lord Ling, is the meeting going well?"

"It went well, and Genji accepted my Imperial Trial. As she spoke, she looked at the messy venue, even the sofa on the second floor fell into the audience on the first floor, and there were many gangsters running around, "What's going on here?"

"It's Lord Hakuba, he was waiting for you here with me, but he didn't expect to encounter an accident, and now he has escaped from here. ”

Before Shiratori Ling could rejoice in the safe return of Hakumashi, she immediately got the news that he was in trouble again, "How long have you been gone?"

"Just left. ”

After hearing this, she immediately ran out of the venue.

Shiratori Ping looked at her back as she left in a hurry, smiled slightly, turned around, and saw the heads of the family who came out together, he smiled again and bowed slightly to Gense Jing.

Between the glances, a smile darkened.