Chapter 130 - The Fate of Succeeding the Country

The moon was surrounded by darkness, and its dim moonlight barely reflected on the paddy fields.

Purgatory Jinjuro, who was running towards Shang Quan Nai, slowly stopped. He looked at Shang Quan Nai who was talking to the air and frowned in confusion.

"...Huh?" Purgatory Jinjuro tilted his head, crossed his arms, and cautiously did not choose to move forward.

aside.

"Can't touch..."

The woman in a light yellow kimono looked at her translucent palms, froze for a moment, and blinked.

She clenched her fists, raised her hands slightly, and placed them under the dim moonlight.

She was stunned until the moonlight clearly shined through her palms and vaguely reflected the blood veins on her arms.

Then, her hand holding the child in her arms tightened slightly, and she smiled bitterly at Shang Quannai:

"Ah... by the way... I've already..."

The child in her arms closed her eyes and was sleeping peacefully.

"My name is Uta."

She closed her eyes slightly, then strengthened her belief. She looked at Shang Quannai and bowed deeply:

"Although it's sudden! I'm sorry! But can you please follow me?"

She raised her head, with a lot of anxiety hidden in her determined eyes, and she eagerly explained to Shang Quanna:

"My husband, he's been sitting there for a long time, not moving, not even blinking..."

"He can't see me...and can't hear me..."

"He's sitting there, and I know you probably don't understand, but..."

"I'm afraid if he continues like this... he will..."

Shang Quannai frowned slightly. Looking at the soul in front of him, he could detect a very familiar feeling.

But this feeling did not stay firmly on the woman in front of him.

Instead, it seemed like it was a result of staying with someone for too long.

Husband...

"Then, please take me to see your husband." Shang Quannai pondered for a while, then he raised his head and said to Yu Duo in front of him: "Perhaps, I can help you convey the words you want to say."

Upon hearing this, Yu Duo's body trembled slightly with excitement. She covered her mouth with her hands, held back the "tears" in her eyes and bowed vigorously:

"Thank you very much!"

As soon as she bowed, Shang Quanna followed her gaze and looked down.

Then, he saw two blue lines that were faint but visible at night.

Two blue lines extended from Udo's back and the child in her arms!

The line connecting the relatively short mountain in the distance seems to be slowly becoming weaker, as if it will break in the next moment.

What's this?

Shang Quannai narrowed his eyes and looked into the distance along the intersection of the two lines.

A very small dazzling gold seemed to be looming in the dark night.

"Please follow me..." She straightened up slowly and was about to guide Shang Quannai in the direction when she was suddenly interrupted by Shang Quannai.

Shang Quannai stood in front of her and pointed at the intersection of the two blue lines he saw on the low mountain in the distance:

"Is that there?"

Yu Duo was stunned for a moment, then hugged the baby and nodded: "Yes, that's right."

"Let's go." Shang Quannai narrowed his eyes and nodded. He waved to Purgatory Jinjuro who was standing far behind him.

…

…

far away.

Inside the wooden house on the mountain.

The room was extremely dark, the door behind Ji Guoyuan was open, and the cold wind kept blowing, but he didn't seem to care.

His heart was filled with confusion, and he sat there like a dead tree without a thought.

Holding his wife's body, which was already slightly cold in his arms, he looked straight ahead.

God gave him a gentle mother, a kind brother, and a beautiful home.

But now, my mother died of illness ten years ago, and the beautiful home in front of me has been torn to pieces under the random trampling of others.

Nothing...can be protected...

The sadness of being unable to protect him lingered in his heart, and Jiguo Enichi's body gradually became stiff.

…

nearly twenty years ago.

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!" With a baby's cry, a pair of twins were born.

They are "Yuanyi" and his brother "Yansheng".

The two were born into a samurai family with the surname "Jiguo".

Yuan Yiyi was a very quiet child when he was born, and he didn't even cry.

In this Warring States period, twins were regarded as "unknown", "demon" and "a harbinger of family ruin".

As the head of the family at the time, their fathers would naturally make decisive choices for the sake of the family.

-- cover up the news and abandon one of the children.

And Yuanyi, who was born with ferocious markings on his face, naturally became the child who was about to be abandoned by his family.

Even because of the markings on his face that resembled the symbol of a demon, the young Yuan Yi almost died at the hands of his furious father.

Fortunately, after learning the news, his mother protected Yuanyi like crazy, so Yuanyi escaped by chance.

However, he was still not treated as a real child of the head of the family. When Yuanyi turned ten, he was sent to a temple to become a monk.

No one in the family would go out of their way to contact Yuanyi. He lived in a room only the size of a "three-fold" mat.

Smaller than a slave's room.

The clothes Yuanyi wore were very simple, even an adult's haori was casually tied around his body.

Unkempt hair and casual clothes, this was Yuan Yi's image when he was young.

And his elder brother, Jiguo Iwakatsu, was trained as the next generation head of the family.

Their food, clothing, housing and transportation are completely different.

This was the path planned by the family for the two of them. They were obviously brothers, but they went in completely different directions from the beginning.

But even so.

In Yuanyi's memory, his gentle brother always came to contact him regardless of external obstruction.

His brother is really a very gentle person.

Even if his father beat him with a black nose and a swollen face for cheating on him, his brother would come to him with a smile on his swollen face the next day.

Later, Iwakatsu also polished the bamboo and made a piccolo with his own hands. He gently placed the piccolo in his hand and said to Enichi:

"If you want to find your brother, just blow the whistle and he will come to help you right away!"

"So, don't worry about anything!"

The face that was bruised and swollen after being beaten by his father smiled and said this.

The young Yuanyi held the flute with no expression on his face and could not say any words of thanks.

I just silently kept my brother's tenderness in my heart.

Therefore, his young brother Yan Sheng treated him as a deaf-mute.

Even my mother would sit in front of the shrine every day and pray devoutly to restore Yuanyi's hearing.

The gentle mother even invited a pair of earrings of the Sun God from the shrine in order to cure Yuan Yi's ear disease that she had never had before.

Yuanyi once felt very guilty for her mother's concern for her.

Because he can hear and speak.

In this way, under the care of his mother and brother, Yuanyi was immersed in his own simple world, without being infected by any troubled world.

Until that day, Enichi, with his brother's permission, stayed aside to watch Iwakatsu practice swordsmanship.

He spoke for the first time.