…
Yoshiwara Flower Street.
on the street.
It's daytime now.
Yoshiwara Flower Street is even more glorious at night, and there are many pedestrians walking on the road at this moment.
In front of a teahouse.
Several drunk men were gathering together, talking exaggeratedly and horribly.
"Hey, have you heard anything at night lately?"
"Ah? What, you made the oiran of Kyogoku House stare at you?"
His companion raised his glass and joked: "Have you peed your pants? Hahaha!"
"Tsk, no!" The man shook his head with a serious expression. He lowered his voice and carefully looked around before daring to share with his companions:
"...In the past few months, people have often heard extremely strange roars in the middle of the night."
His eyes were panicked:
"Just last night."
"I heard it too."
…
Kyogoku House.
The sunlight blurred through the paper window and fell on the corridor on the second floor. The white dust in the beam was clearly visible.
Tap tap tap... The sound of running and trampling on the wooden floor came from far and near.
The girl with her hair tied held the headband in her mouth, trotting while tying her ponytail again.
Her eyes were frightened, her expression was panicked, she was in a hurry, and cold sweat broke out on her forehead.
Not good, not good!
The room is a mess and hasn’t been tidied up yet!
If Warabihime Oiran sees it...
Thinking of this, the young girl felt frightened in her heart, and she couldn't help but trot faster.
That courtesan...
It is famous throughout Yoshiwara Flower Street.
——Because of her fairy-like beauty.
But only Danna from Kyogoku House and their personal followers like the oiran knew.
What a vile existence the Bracken Princess Oiran is.
By her side, if someone is not careful, they will be severely beaten, tortured, and even disappear the next day. Sometimes she will force others to die just because they are not pleasing to the eye.
Several sisters have committed suicide because they were scared but had nowhere to escape!
That scary oiran with a vicious temper was already her inner nightmare.
No.
——It should be everyone’s nightmare in Kyogoku House.
Sudden.
tread.
As soon as the girl ran to the corner of the corridor, she vaguely heard the sound of conversations coming from the room on one side.
Hearing the familiar voice in the room that was engraved in her heart, the girl's face suddenly turned pale.
Fernhime Oiran...has arrived...
…
inside the house.
The light-transmitting windows were blocked by various luxurious screen stickers, making the room extremely dark and not even a trace of sunlight could penetrate.
Only the candlelight placed on the table flickered slightly, bringing a glimmer of light to the dark room.
“…boss lady.”
The woman wearing thick and gorgeous oiran clothes was tilting her head slightly, her tone was cold, and her indifferent eyes swept over the person in front of her:
"Any news on what I was looking for a few days ago?"
"Well..." The person known as the "boss lady" held her breath. She looked up at the oiran in front of her anxiously, her face a little ugly:
"It's all here."
The landlady quickly unfolded the long cloth bundle in her arms and showed the neatly arranged green flowers to Fern Ji. Her voice trembled slightly:
"I asked the florist to buy all the blue flowers I could find."
"They are all freshly picked flowers. If you take good care of them, they will not wither within a few days or even a week."
After saying this, she raised her eyebrows carefully and observed Fern Ji's expression:
"What the guest wanted, I also stopped."
She added:
"...If it's not enough, I'll keep looking..."
The landlady's name is "Matsu".
It has been several years since she took over the responsibility of Kyogoku House from the previous landlady.
In the past few years, she has become increasingly aware that something is wrong with Fern Ji.
More than just a quirky personality.
Thinking of the scenes she saw a few days ago, the boss's wife couldn't help but shed nervous sweat on her forehead.
The ferocious tentacles waving in the night sky and the screams that almost pierced the eardrums were deeply engraved in her mind.
In just one month, she actually encountered this kind of scene three times in a row!
She has so many virtues and abilities.
I asked my previous bosses and they all told me to turn a blind eye and pretend they didn't see anything.
Gudu.
Mitsuru swallowed a mouthful of saliva.
Warabihime Oiran—definitely not human.
Just as the landlady lowered her head timidly, waiting for the oiran's answer.
before.
"All of them..."
Fern Ji glanced at the row of flowers in front of her, the coldness on her face slowly relaxed, and her tone gradually became more relaxed:
"Then I'll spare your trouble, boss lady."
She turned her face slightly, as if because her mood had improved, a rare smile appeared on her face.
His eyes looked up from bottom to top, but his words were extremely cold:
"You can go out now."
Hear the words.
"Ah, okay, okay."
The landlady was stunned for a moment, then nodded quickly, turned around somewhat at a loss, and opened the door leading to the lightless staircase.
Creak——
Left the room.
She is obviously the proprietress of Kyogoku House, but with Warabihime, her identities seem to have been swapped.
Click.
After turning her back and closing several doors to ensure that no sunlight would leak into the innermost room, the landlady breathed a sigh of relief.
door.
"Old... boss lady..."
The young girl stood at the door in a panic. She looked anxiously at the proprietress who had just walked out of the room, and her two little hands came together unconsciously:
"I...I..." She was so anxious that she was about to cry: "The room is not yet..."
His eyes wandered towards the door of the room, and his feet unconsciously stepped on the ground left and right.
"It's fine."
The landlady sighed, stepped forward gently, held the girl in her arms, patted her back slightly with her hand, and comforted her softly:
"I've already cleaned it up, Warabihime Oiran won't be angry."
Shoot, shoot.
"Be at ease."
The girl who was hugged paused for a moment, tears welled up from her eyes, and she sobbed softly in the arms of the landlady.
"Uh-huh!"
…
…
inside the house.
Not paying attention to the movements of the landlady and the girl, Fernhime focused her eyes on the flowers in front of her.
No, it should be called Fallen Princess.
Warabihime is just a name in disguise. She has changed her name several times in the more than two hundred years since Edo.
Once every ten years, she changes her name, appearance, and location.
What remains unchanged is that she has always been Yoshiwara's courtesan.
And it's the most popular one.
Snap.
Fallen Princess casually picked up a green flower, twirling it slightly with her slender fingers and observing:
"...What does the blue Higan flower look like?"
The warm light illuminated her gradually changing side eyes. In the green eyes, the black font was different from the past.
[Winding]
[three]
Although I don’t know what happened, it has been since the last winding meeting.
Her rank in the winding system has been rising.
Although each advancement is accompanied by fear that shakes all the cells in the body, it is all worth it.
The blood concentration of Wuhan-sama in the body is also rising——
--but.
There was a hint of doubt in Fallen Princess's expression.
During this period of time, she didn't even eat a single pillar, thinking about it over and over again.
In the end, I can only attribute all of this to Master Wuhan's special favor for me.
Just when Fallen Princess looked at the flowers that the landlady had found one by one.
Sudden.
She frowned, turned around and looked around, feeling a vague sense of malice.
After searching to no avail.
Fallen Princess looked back suspiciously.
She thought back to the past few days.
The current one, Tong Mo, suddenly came to visit her residence.
Although in a place like Flower Street where there are many women, Tong Mo would come occasionally, but he didn't dare to go too often.
If the upper string and the upper string are often together, they will be punished without mercy.
…
some days ago.
night.
Tong Mo gently fanned the golden copper fan. The fan blades reflected the light of the candle and looked very sharp.
"...Mr. Tong Mo." Fallen Ji looked at Tong Mo who suddenly came to visit with some doubts. She seemed not to have heard Tong Mo's words clearly and blinked:
"What did you say?"
Falling Princess still has a favorable impression of this child who turned herself into a ghost and was introduced as Shangxian.
Snapped!
The open copper fan was folded away by Tong Mo, revealing the lower half of his face with slowly fading veins.
Tong Mo looked at Duo Ji with a half-smile but not a smile. There was red blood flowing from the corner of his mouth. He stretched out his tongue and licked it clean, and then said in a frivolous voice:
"You haven't forgotten what Master Wuhan mentioned in the last winding meeting, right?"
His tone changed slightly:
"Blue Higan flower."
…
The lights flickered slightly.
rustle…
The silk ribbon behind Fallen Ji moved, sweeping away Tong Mo's remaining limbs and carrying them into the huge "granary" underground in Flower Street.
"In a few days."
"Master Wuhan will personally control your body and mine to check the search status of Cyan Higanhua."
Tong Mo smiled, his eyes curled up, looking very gentle, and he stretched out his long fingers:
"Be prepared, Fallen Princess."
When he talks about preparation, he naturally refers to the cyan Hibiscus flower.
Hear the words.
Fallen Princess blinked her eyes in disbelief. She opened her mouth slightly, with an expectant look on her face, and leaned forward slightly:
"...Really, really!"
Master Wuhan...want to control my body...
Under the light, Fallen Girl's face was clearly blushing, and her eyes were trembling slightly.
Fallen Princess has unparalleled admiration for the Ghost King Wu Ke.
After thinking randomly in her mind for a while, Fallen Princess' expression became serious. She sat upright and nodded:
"I will be well prepared!"
Opening his eyes, a pair of green eyes were full of yearning and expectation.
Although she had doubts in her heart about "Why didn't Lord Wuhan come in person?", Fallen Princess did not say it out loud.
Wouldn't it be better not to do it yourself, but to take control directly?
Fallen Princess pursed her lips slightly, her cheeks turning red.
She is not stupid when she falls into a concubine.
Seeing this, Tong Mo, who was not aware of Duo Ji's inner thought process, nodded with satisfaction.
After Hei Shimo's "death", the most powerful Tong Mo suddenly became Wu Ke's agent among ghosts.
He didn't understand what emotions were, so he suddenly became the best trash can for Wuhan to vent his depression.
At this time.
Falling Ji, who was thinking wildly, was stunned by the light reflected from a smooth and curved piece of iron tied to Tong Mo's arm.
"Mr. Tongmo?" She pointed to the finely polished piece of iron that looked weathered. It seemed that this piece of iron did not exist when they last met:
"What's this?"
Tong Mo followed Duo Ji's gaze, and after seeing the ninja headband tied to his arm, he suddenly smiled relaxedly and turned around:
"Ah, a newly found accessory." He opened his fan and slightly covered his face: "It is said to be a ninja's forehead protector."
As he spoke, he waved his hand casually:
"Well, don't worry about small things."
Fallen Princess looked at it in surprise.
——Do ninjas still exist now?
…
…
The next day.
Butterfly House.
The hermits who had been busy for a long time finally had time to rest.
Kanzaki Aoi, who was being pulled by several Yin to help, was also sitting in the corner of the corridor, looking up at the sky outside the window.
After hearing the faint sounds of sleeping breathing coming from a few people beside her, Kanzaki Aoi was slightly startled.
She suddenly felt that this seemed good.
…
Second floor.
"elder sister."
The butterfly ninja was talking to herself, sitting in front of the workbench, holding a syringe filled with purple liquid.
With a calm expression, she took a deep breath, rolled up her sleeves, and pointed the needle at her arm, preparing to inject herself.
Boom!
There was a sudden knock on the door.
Butterfly was so frightened that she quickly put away the needle and stuffed it into a drawer on the side.
Creaking…
The door was slowly pushed open.
"What's the matter..."
The Butterfly Ninja gathered his emotions and looked in the direction outside the door with a smile.
When her eyes met the expressionless Tomioka Giyu standing outside the door for a moment.
Creaking…
The veins throbbed faintly on his forehead.
"...Mr. Tomioka?"
door.
Tomioka Yoshiyuki hid his hands behind his back and brought a piece of food.
After some inquiring, he learned that Butterfly Ninja liked Ginger Tsukuda.
I did this together with Rinataki-sensei.
certainly.
He only found out after explaining the outline of the matter to Lintaki and being reminded by his teacher that he should apologize.
"If you don't apologize, Butterfly will probably be angry."
Lintaki Sa taught his disciples this way recently.
…
…
at the same time.
downstairs.
In the room where Kamado's family lives.
Tanjuro was sitting at the desk, holding a pen and writing rustlingly on the paper.
"Dad!" The youngest Mrs. Six curiously stretched out her little hand, put it on the edge of the table, stood on tiptoes and looked up:
"Writing...what?"
"Okay." Midouzi rubbed her wrist. She had just finished repairing Takeo and Shigeru who were waving wooden swords in the house. She walked over helplessly and took away Rokuta:
"Don't disturb Dad, be good."
"It's okay." Tanjuro smiled. He turned around, reached out and touched Rokuta's head, and replied:
"Dad is writing a letter to Ubuyashiki."
tread!
Mao held a red bag on his head. He threw away the wooden knife in his hand and came over without fear, looking at the letter.
Then he read out curiously:
"Yoshiwara...Flower Street?"
He turned his head and looked at Tanjuro doubtfully:
"Dad, are you going to Yoshiwara Flower Street?"
"What is that place?"
At this time.
Snap.
A slight sound came from the direction of the door.
Everyone's eyes immediately turned there.
Kui Zhi was standing at the door, the hairpin in her hand fell to the ground, recalling Shigeru's words in her ears, she looked at Tanjuro in a daze:
"...Flower Street?"
Tanjuro was sitting, but the next moment, he reacted, his pupils shrank, he stretched out his hand and shouted:
"no!"
(End of chapter)
