Chapter 601 A Spy Appeared in Dajiang Mountain

[The female ghost arranged to serve]

In such a short sentence, Kamiya Kawa saw three doubts.

First, the identity of the thorn princess. He now has reason to suspect that the other party is the Ibaraki Douji who has never appeared.

Secondly, if the thorn princess is really the famous Rashomon ghost, then coming to his side is definitely not really for "serving".

Kamiya Kawa is not sure if he has exposed something; or if this is some kind of test, Ibaraki Douji wants to get close to him to personally inspect the goods.

For the time being, I don’t understand what the ghost tribe is planning.

There is also the last doubt, which is... "female ghost".

That’s right.

The thorn princess may not be the thorn princess, and may not really come to serve him.

It is even possible that she is not a female ghost at all!

In the legend of Oeyama and the story of the "Rashomon ghost" itself, the gender issue of Ibaraki Douji has always been confusing.

Its image is also very changeable, with the duality of a voluptuous ghost and an evil ghost, and sometimes even appears in a more elegant image.

In the famous "Rashomon dialogue" anecdote, the Heian period sinologist and poet Tsuyoshi Ryukaka once exchanged poems with Ibaraki Douji.

"The wind combs the willow hair of Jin in the clear air, and the waves wash the old moss beard in the ice."

It is said that the first line of this poem was chanted by Tsuyoshi Ryukaka, and the second line was continued by Ibaraki Douji on Rashomon.

In the Heian period when the legend of "Rashomon ghost" was fully active, the so-called Rashomon referred to the last gate of Kyoto.

At the end of the Heian period, the samurai class had begun to rise, and the royal power was weakened. Even in Kyoto, there were large areas of desolate land. Outside Rashomon was the more desolate suburbs, not too far from Oeyama.

This place has been in disrepair for many years, dilapidated and desolate, and many unclaimed corpses are often piled here. At that time, people believed that the first floor of the eerie Rashomon was filled with dead bodies, and the second floor was inhabited by ghosts and gods, so Rashomon was described as a mythical gate that passed through life and death, through the Yin and Yang worlds.

The Rashomon ghost, Ibaraki Douji, who was active here, has many legends.

The most famous one is the story of Ibaraki's broken arm recorded in "The Tale of the Heike":

Watanabe Tsuna, the demon-exorcist king under Minamoto no Raikou, met a beautiful young woman when passing through Rashomon at night, and rode to escort her home. On the way, the woman turned into a demon, and Watanabe Tsuna fought with her and finally cut off one of her arms.

In the story, Ibaraki Douji appeared as a woman, and in other related stories, he was usually portrayed as a young, beautiful, thin-necked demon.

Then the legend of Shuten Douji began to spread near Oeyama.

The story of Shuten Douji was formed later than Ibaraki Douji in Kyoto and Oeyama.

This indirectly confirms a clue that Kamiyagawa currently has-

Shuten is likely to be the offspring of Yamata no Orochi, born on Mount Ibuki, and for some reason came to Mount Oe and fell into a demon career.

Compared with Ibaraki Douji, who was born and raised in the Oeyama area, he is an outsider.

Shuten Douji established his own power in Mount Oe, and then Ibaraki Douji was probably absorbed into the group.

So after that, the two demon kings appeared together in the story, and the image of Ibaraki Douji in people's minds also turned into a fierce evil demon, usually considered to be Shuten's subordinates and confidants, and the image of male Ibaraki Douji began to spread.

However, because of the story of Watanabe Tsuna cutting off the female demon's arm, and the Oeyama represented by Shuten gave humans more external fear and shock, while Rashomon represented by Ibaraki gave people more of a deep and gloomy feeling. Therefore, Ibaraki Douji will give people a more feminine feeling compared to Shuten Douji.

Even in some grass stories, there are still many erotic dramas about the image of the beautiful female ghost of Ibaraki.

The heroine of these erotic dramas is naturally the iron Ibaraki Douji, and the hero is sometimes Shuten Douji, and sometimes... Watanabe Tsuna.

Among them, the story with Watanabe Tsuna has many romantic versions.

After all, from the perspective of the listener, just saying "Watanabe Tsuna exorcises the ghost at night and cuts off the ghost's right arm" sounds boring. Saying "Watanabe Tsuna escorts a beautiful woman at night, rides a horse together and behaves intimately home" seems to be just like that.

But if the two are combined, and some innovation is made, the story becomes: "Watanabe Tsuna entangled and fought with the beautiful female ghost at night and cut off Ibaraki's arm. Later, the two took this as an opportunity to have a love-hate relationship, which is not known to outsiders..."

Then no matter which era the audience is from, they will prick up their ears and let the storyteller tell the details.

These wild stories spread by humans with exaggeration, it is hard to say whether the content is true or not, but wild is really wild.

In short, in the relevant stories that Kamiya Kawa has learned, there have always been different opinions about Ibaraki Douji's gender, and it is difficult to make a conclusion.

In the story image of him as a male, he is usually a subordinate of Shuten Douji.

When he is a female image, he is considered to be Shuten's wife, or a sexy ghost who loves and hates Watanabe Tsuna.

…

"If Kazukihime is Ibaraki Douji, then the true gender of the Rashomon ghost is actually female? Ah… Could she really be the widow of Shuten Douji or Watanabe Tsuna as the story of Kushoko said?"

Kamiya Kawa continued to look at Kazukihime.

Then he felt something was wrong.

The story of Ibaraki Douji is so complicated, how can I make such a hasty assumption about his gender?

What if this is a man dressed as a woman?

Be careful!

Having said that, let's call the thorn princess "she" for the time being.

Moreover, no matter whether the thorn princess is a man or a woman, Shen Guchuan doesn't want her to enter the mansion to "serve" him.

There is still a sacred casket in the basement.

So, he cleared his throat and said against his will: "I don't need a female ghost to serve me. I don't like women. You should know that the female demons of Shannan before were also dismissed by me."

"I don't care whether you like it or not. Anyway, according to the rules, the thorn princess belongs to you now." Jin Xiong Tongzi's tone was undeniable, "Ghosts will not let go of what they have already got!"

"Can you give me a change? I am a dog demon. No matter what, I have to be matched with a female dog, right?"

"This..." Jin Xiong choked a little.

Then he looked at the thorn princess beside him, and the latter seemed to give him a look without expression.

The expression of the golden bear became awkward, as if he had made some kind of decision before he shouted: "Even if you want a female dog...she can be one!"

He then pushed the thorn princess hard, and roughly pushed the lovely girl in the white cloak to fall at the feet of Kamiya, and the shackles on her body rang.

After doing all this, the golden bear boy felt relieved and turned around and left.

And the star bear boy, who had just talked about life and ideals with Kamiya, also picked up the wine bowl and strode towards the gate, but when he reached the door, he looked back at Kamiya with a very complicated look.

"This is completely leaving me no room for refusal."

Now, only Kamiya River and thorn princess were left in the center of the courtyard.

"Master Inujiro."

The thorn princess, who was lying on the ground, raised her head, and a silver-white hair swayed out of her white hood. And the gaze from bottom to top was soft and weak, just like a docile puppy.

On her delicate and charming face, she forced out a smile in fear: "I will serve you well."

"Hehe... Hehe."

The corners of Kamiya Chuan's mouth twitched.

Okay, okay, that's it, right?

"Since you want to serve me, then, Ji Li Ji, go clean up the courtyard first, and there will be other things for you to do later." Kamiya quickly regained the initiative.

Since you want to be my "slave" so much...

Well, to be honest, I am quite good at being a "master" and have a lot of relevant experience.

Before you reveal your true intentions, let's do the whole show.

"Okay, sir."

Ji Li Ji got up from the ground and really went to clean the courtyard obediently.

But a set of shackles on her body made her movements slow.

The slender and graceful figure of the girl, coupled with the heavy shackles. The textures of softness and hardness that are almost two extremes are intertwined on her body, which is particularly abrupt and dazzling. It is really unbearable to let her work clumsily like this.

But Kamiya didn't have much sympathy for the girl, he just watched the imprisoned hooded white cloak swaying in the courtyard with strange rocks:

"Trichogram, you'd better not really be Ibaraki Douji."

Otherwise, when we have a falling out, I can give you a bigger surprise than if you reveal your true identity.

...

Kin Kuma and Xing Kuma walked towards their respective mansions, and they would inevitably pass by for a while.

"The dog demon shouldn't have noticed anything unusual just now, right?"

Kin Kuma, who successfully placed Trickle Princess next to Inujiro, felt pretty good about himself at this time.

Xing Kuma was staggering at this moment, unable to walk in a straight line, and didn't pay attention to what Kin Kuma said, but just cursed him in his heart as an idiot.

But in fact, even if Inujiro realized Trickle Princess's true identity, it didn't matter.

Xing Kuma felt that Inujiro was more "lawful" in character. If he had guessed the identity of the thorn princess, and she was really innocent and had no problems, he would be more polite to her.

On this basis, Inujiro had close contact with the willful adult. If he could gain the trust of the adult, he would definitely be reused in Oeyama in the future.

Maybe he could really become the king.

But is Inujiro really okay?

Subjectively speaking, Hoshiguma hoped so.

Even before the adult returned, Hoshiguma Douji had begun to have a certain degree of trust in Inujiro.

It is difficult to find a second ghost story in Oeyama who can drink and chat with him and understand what he says and thinks.

But the news that the adult brought back...

Turtle Princess, that is, Ibaraki Douji in Oeyama.

After experiencing the last battle with the Genji clan thousands of years ago, the remaining ghosts and Oeyama hid in the secluded world of the world to recuperate. The beheaded Shuten-douji revealed his true form as a snake god, used his divine power to protect several of his dying but not yet dead subordinates, and retreated to the shrine of Ibuki Daimyojin before going completely crazy and losing control.

After a long time, the surviving Ibaraki, Hoshiguma, and Kinkuma woke up one after another.

The three of them divided the work.

Hoshiguma and Kinkuma stayed behind to guard the Shuten-douji shrine while trying to revive the power of the demon clan.

Ibaraki-douji left Oeyama to find a way to restore the demon king to normal.

And just a day ago, Ibaraki, who had been out of touch for a long time, returned to Oeyama quietly and met with the two kings.

"I found a way to restore the king, but the price may be very high. In addition, I got a piece of news..."

Ibaraki brought back a piece of news, a piece of news that was completely unexpected by Xingxiong and Jinxiong-

Yatake no Mikoto is likely to attack the emerging Oeyama forces.

Yatake no Mikoto, the Takeno-no-Mikoto in mythology.

According to the corresponding legend, this god has died, and died at the hands of Ibuki Daimyojin, who was considered to be an "evil god" who disobeyed discipline at that time, that is, Shuten-doji later.

But in the world of ghosts and gods, nothing will be too surprising.

Shuten-doji should have died at the hands of Minamoto no Raikou, but after he lost his divinity, he still survived in a twisted way, lingering on.

Ibaraki-doji is not sure what form Yatake no Mikoto exists in now.

But she has been to Ibuki Mountain, where she did feel the clear remnants of Takeno-no-Mikoto's aura.

Yatake no Mikoto will definitely come to seek revenge on Shuten.

Since Takezun is likely to come to retaliate against Oeyama, the foreign ghost story Inujiro who has recently appeared here naturally becomes particularly conspicuous.

His identity is mysterious, his appearance is vague, his strength is strong, and the time node of his appearance is so sensitive.

It is hard to believe that there is no connection between him and Yamato Takemi-kun.

Even Hoshiguma Douji has renewed suspicion in his heart.

This may be the fundamental reason why she is more emotional than usual today and suddenly comes to Inujiro for a drink and chat.

Maybe Inujiro is a spy sent by Takezun?

Or maybe he is Takezun himself who is in an unknown state?

In addition, Ibaraki, who has not yet shown his face inside the emerging Oeyama, took the initiative to propose to follow Inujiro one-on-one.

If the dog demon is a spy who sneaked into Oeyama, then I will sneak into his side!

Ibaraki Douji has a set of shackles and shackles that can completely cover up his strong aura. He got it while traveling around. With the cover of this equipment, he can do some spy work.

Moreover, even if the identity of "Tribulus Princess" is noticed to be unusual, it doesn't matter.

Rashomon's demons do like to do some things that are almost evil, such as transforming into a soft young woman, teasing the then hot-blooded demon-exorcist Watanabe Tsuna, and riding on the same horse with him intimately.

Even if his identity is exposed in front of Inujiro, Ibaraki Douji will stay by his side all day long.

If the dog demon is really innocent, it's fine, but if he shows any clues, Ibaraki will loosen the shackles and attack him.