Dramatic Blade

Chapter 58

After passing by the sparkling river with floating lanterns, the sides of the street leading to the high platform are no longer scattered stalls of monsters, but some shops.

Most of them are hung with "so-and-so house" lanterns, and under the beautiful red-lacquered lattice windows, there are beautiful wandering girls in the windows. They generously reveal the parts belonging to monsters in the shadow of the lights, with hairy ears and long tails. Or bird claws rattling under heavy kimonos.

Asahikawa passed by these windows with great interest. He felt that the world of monsters and the world of humans are very close. They are obviously a collection of mysterious and strange existences, but they are chasing after the way humans have fun. Such a logical question mark makes He found it very interesting.

Nuliang Rikusheng on the side saw the painter staring intently at the woman in the veranda, and didn't say much.

The painter of the fox face has a special temperament. Even under the ambiguous light, his sizing eyes are purely admiring and exploring, which naturally attracts You Nu's attention.

"Guest, would you like to come to our chrysanthemum house for a while?"

"This fox-faced lord..."

The banshees rolled their eyes and greeted the painter with a melodious voice, but halfway through the teasing, the wandering girls were suddenly taken aback, as if the person in front of them had suddenly disappeared, and they couldn't help but look around.

Asahikawa didn't move a step for a while, but saw that the women's eyes had lost their shadows, and he felt it, and turned to look at the slippery ghost beside him.

The slippery ghost is a monster that is difficult to detect when passing by. The fire fear on Nuliang Rikusheng seems to have inadvertently touched the corner of the painter's clothes, making him an "undetectable person".

Asahikawa was a little dissatisfied for a while, after all, the dead house hadn't gone out for many years and didn't give it a good time. Just as he wanted to say a few words, he saw Nuliang Rikusheng smiled, and his words were full of ambiguous hints.

"The slippery ghost's ability to hide people is really convenient, isn't it?"

Asahikawa bit his tongue momentarily.

He wanted to refute something immediately, but he heard the young master of monsters say: "The monsters from the Dragon Palace have come out, I just heard from the monsters on the side of the road that this time the wine cup and the water mirror have a lot of background, don't you want to go and have a look? "

Asahikawa for a moment: "..."

It's not the first time he was blocked by Nuliang Rikusheng, because of his unknown past, Asahikawa wanted to keep his distance for a while, but sometimes he really felt that he was caught to death, I couldn't help but wonder if I had abused Nuliang Rikusheng before.

Seeing that he finally showed a bit of bewildered and embarrassed expression, the young monster master couldn't help laughing lowly in the crowd.

It wasn't until the ghost's eyes gradually turned cold that Nuliang Lusheng coughed a few times and stopped the loss in time.

"The time is indeed coming, let's go faster."

Asahikawa glared at the half-demon with a casual tone for a moment, then looked angrily at the corridor with the red lattice windows.

He had just discovered that one of the beautiful wandering girls kept her back to the tourists on the street. It was a kind of monster with only a back view. It was rumored that she had been using her graceful back view to seduce men to approach and then eat them.

The strange rumors turned into reality and appeared in front of the eyes, and the mystery of the back added a daunting atmosphere to the shadows of the veranda. The painter was not afraid, but just wanted to take a second look.

dong dong.

Under the reflection of the splendid Dragon Palace loft, there was a monster beating the red taiko drum next to a high platform, which attracted a lot of attention.

Boom, boom.

People come and go during the festival, and there will always be merchants who come here with the best products they are proud of, either to show off or to make a lot of money, and the valuable products should naturally be placed in a more eye-catching position. Therefore, the monsters gathered under the high platform, holding the idea that even if they can't buy the treasure, they still want to see the appearance of the treasure.

The monster that came out of the Dragon Palace was a carp monster with blue scales covering half of his body. When he landed on land, he transformed into webbed feet and thick limbs. Fork, at this time, was on the high platform with a proud face, and put out the three treasures.

The lights on the high platform are even more extraordinary, illuminating the treasures brightly.

Even knowing that these treasures were robbed, many monsters still exclaimed.

Just as the civet cat who sells mineral materials said, the carp demon took out the wine cup, water mirror, and scroll. The three treasures were so exquisite that the onlookers couldn't help but guess and fear.

What they guessed was what kind of treasures of equivalent value would be able to buy them. What they were afraid of was that if the carp demon could not sell the treasures, then according to his habit, he would directly buy and sell them by force among the monsters. The carp demon is not targeting himself.

Before the excitement that Asahikawa wanted for a moment came, there was a small incident between him and Nura Rikusheng.

The sound of drums came from a distance, and the two of them seemed not in a hurry, and continued to pass slowly through the red-painted lattice windows.

Nuliang Lusheng tilted his head from time to time, and the lights and shadows on the street were filled in and out of the corridor through the lights in the railings on the street. He could see the painter stopping and walking slowly amidst the interlacing of lights and shadows. Light and shadow combined to form a certain kind of The wonderful Manli seemed to have distanced herself from the hustle and bustle of the festival for a moment.

"My lord, what do you think the world is made of?"

Asahikawa looked up at a spot of light and shadow for a while, and suddenly asked: "Is it line and circle, or light and shadow?"

Nuliang Rikuo hesitated for a moment, and replied, "It's monsters, humans, and ghosts."

Asahikawa paused for a moment.

This question is just a question of his own. Most people who know ukiyo-e know the masterpiece* that depicts the light and shadow of the corridor. The light and shadow of the line and circle are just a perspective of painting.

But Nuliang Rikusheng's answer was too serious. This is clearly the answer of being a half-demon, the future leader of the Nuliang group, and the lord of Kanto.

Asahikawa suddenly stopped and stood where he was.

I don't know if that unknown memory came out to cause trouble again. The mind of the swordsman who was born in Breath of Water was split into two parts. A half-demon.

Asahikawa's momentary eyes are in a trance for a moment, the lights, light and shadow, the strange attic, the woman's laughter, the sound of an unknown song, the noise from the rippling attic, everything in front of him constitutes the monster that he misses. world.

"My lord, I have a question."

The painter quietly took off the mask and said:

"Obviously our hobbies, habits, goals, fields and the world we live in are different, so what is the relationship between us maintained?"

Nuliang Rikusheng looked at him.

Asahikawa laughed playfully for a while: "After being in contact with the world of monsters, I am confident that I can fully rely on my own ability to understand and recognize monsters. The Ghost Killing Team will not have any reason to contact. You said, since we have separated before, it proves that you and I have agreed on this reason worthy of separation. "

"Then why are we still together?"

Pure appreciation, timely enjoyment, and passing a certain amount of time, Asahikawa imagined for a moment that he would agree because of these reasons, and he would have nothing to complain about when he was destined to separate.

But he is not willing now, because these reasons are not worth it. Nuliang Rikusheng faces him with a very forbearing, actually warm and sad emotion every time.

Nura Rikusheng concealed it very well, but Asahikawa, as an elder for a while, still felt this kind of restrained emotion to some extent.

While chasing him, he must stand soberly in the position of the Lord of the Night Walk of the Hundred Ghosts, as if to avoid getting carried away when he is a monster.

Asahikawa walked straight forward for a moment, breaking the distance he had been keeping, and approaching Nura Rikusheng.

He stared into the eyes of the half-demon and said mercilessly: "If you are too hesitant, I will consider quitting. I just lost a piece of memory, and it's not that I have forgotten everything in the past. Treating it carefully will make me became very irritable."

Nuliang Rikusheng was rarely speechless.

Asahikawa didn't give him time for a while, and laughed.

"Do you want to prove it now?"

As if all the lights and shadows in the world were gathered into the eyes of the ghost, Nura Rikusheng slightly opened his eyes wide, and the accompanying fear of fire was high, and Asahikawa was fearless for a while.

As soon as his voice fell, his figure shattered and disappeared in front of Nuliang Rikusheng. The latter immediately turned around following his breath, and saw the group of monsters under the high platform not far away exclaiming, and Asahikawa fell gently on the ground for a while. above.

When the ghost landed on the ground, he put on his mask back. Before the mask fit, he showed half of his eyes to look at the half-ghost in the audience, and moved his lips.

Look at me, Nura Rikusho.

……

A figure landed on the high platform, with a figure as light as the wind.

If the other party was not wearing a fox mask, the blue-scaled carp demon would probably think that the other party was some kind of bird monster.

The young man with a fox face looked around at the scenery on the high platform, as if he didn't know how attractive he was.

He walked to the carp demon's table casually, and said to himself:

"It turned out to be these two things."

The group of monsters became lively. This young man with a fox face was the first guest to climb up the high platform tonight. You must know that the guests who dare to climb up the high platform are usually either rich or expensive. Get some rewards.

The carp demon that came out of the Dragon Palace lowered its gill scales that had been erected by conditioned reflex, and took a look at the young man with a fox face.

He couldn't see the opponent's strength for a while, so he said politely: "I have collected these treasures from various places, do you have any advice?"

The fox-faced young man looked indifferent: "I dare not take advice, but I am a little disappointed. I heard on the way here that the adults of the Dragon Palace brought several treasures today, and all of them are rare treasures. They belonged to female ghosts." The purple mirror and the purple mirror that reflects the scenery on the other side of the mountain, but now it seems that there is nothing unusual."

The young man stretched out his fan and clicked on the two treasures slowly, with a light and indifferent disdain in his tone.

Hearing what he said, the carp demon immediately became dissatisfied. He patted the table and said, "You can know the origin of the two treasures, but I have another treasure. If you can guess the origin of it, I'll give it to you!"

The fox-faced young man's eyes fell on the scroll in the carp demon's hand. Just looking at the appearance, the scroll's wood was the color of jade, and it looked very luxurious.

"It's a nice thing."

The carp demon saw that he only boasted and didn't say much, so he couldn't help but feel complacent: "It seems that you are not that smart, why don't you just buy this treasure, and I can tell you its origin."

"Okay."

The quick and easy answer made the carp demon stunned, and immediately asked: "The treasures here are not so cheap, do you have anything that can be equivalent to my treasures?"

After all, you are used to being domineering on land, and the monsters in the Dragon Palace have always looked down on the monsters on land, so they uttered vicious words: "If you can't get it out, I will chop off your head and bring it back to the Dragon Palace. The whale demon raised by the dragon girl!"

The fox-faced youth smiled. He seemed to be smiling all the time. In such an environment, everything was attractive to him.

In order to buy civet cat minerals before, he wondered what currency circulated among monsters. He learned that monsters mostly traded with barter, or simply traded with gold coins and jewels.

For a moment, Asahikawa fantasized about the possibility that he would spend a lot of money like a fool for the treasures that the monsters robbed, and couldn't help but laugh.

The magnificent buildings behind the high platform are like snow, silver and gold, and the light of the erected lantern frame seems to reflect the black color of the sky, but the blood moon is so red that it seems to be dripping with strange blood.

Just when all the monsters thought that this thin monster was going to be skewered by the carp monster.

A clear light jumped up from thousands of lights.

With a thud, Mimi Qiermaru's sword light was placed in front of the carp demon in a thrilling manner.

The illusory bustle around was broken by this sharp knife. Unexpectedly, the fox-faced young man would suddenly show an unbelievable look on the carp demon.

"you--"

"Exorcism Knife Mi Miqiewan, I wonder if it's worth the price?"

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*Katsushika Yoshihara lattice first