Tokyo: My Hundred Demon Scroll

Born from maternal instinct and the hope of an abandoned child, the aunt has a fatal weakness: she is afraid of Gu Yun crying, being sad, or suffering.

Her heart was completely devoted to Gu Yun.

Any tactic a child uses against their loving mother will cause the aunt to lose her composure.

So if Gu Yun were to transform into a mischievous child, he could definitely drive his aunt to the brink of death.

Just like now, Auntie couldn't figure out what Gu Yun meant, so she worried that she might say the wrong thing and accidentally offend Gu Yun.

Well, she wasn't afraid of Gu Yun scolding or hitting her.

The most troublesome thing is when the child has a cold war with the mother, or complains that she is in the way.

"Perhaps you and Hagoromo Gitsune might have some common ground, Auntie."

Sensing what the Guhuoniao was thinking, Gu Yun sighed, thinking to himself that she was at it again.

My aunt is a total brother-obsessed and son-slave.

Gu Yun had no good solution to this, so he could only try his best to take care of her mindset: "At that time, Aunt will stay by my side to protect me."

“Aunt, you’ve always been very good at judging things,” Gu Yun said. “So don’t worry too much about it. Just do what you want to do. I won’t blame you.”

"Ah."

Once she calmed down, the Guhuoniao immediately began to consider the pros and cons.

"The Thousand Demons Parade contains information about the shikigami that the master needs, so we cannot move them for the time being, at least until we have extracted all their remaining value."

Momiji appeared beside Gu Yun. She was the strategist among the courtyard's shikigami, possessing considerable wisdom: "But let's deal directly with the Nura Clan..."

"The Nura Clan has worked diligently for four hundred years to reconcile the relationship between humans and demons and maintain the balance between the two worlds..."

Unusually, Momiji said a lot of good things about the Nura Clan, which surprised her aunt.

"so?"

Gu Yun took a sip of tea and smiled slightly.

"You have to pay more!"

As expected of Hongye, she truly understood Gu Yun's wishes. She said, "It's just a transaction. If Qian Gui Ye Xing can offer us something that will tempt us, then this deal is worth doing."

Gu Yun and the Nura Clan are not enemies, but they don't have much of a relationship either!

So this was just a pure transaction.

If the Thousand Demons Parade can offer a price (benefit) that Gu Yun cannot refuse, then what's wrong with helping Hagoromo Gitsune without disrupting the balance between the two worlds?

"The Nurarihyon clan are chivalrous heroes among demons."

“Dealing with them directly,” Gu Yun shook his head, “is not in line with my principles.”

Gu Yun wouldn't stoop so low as to sell himself off for mere personal gain; he's not that cheap.

"But I do want to fight the Nura Clan."

No, it's not just the Nura Clan.

There is also the Night Parade of a Thousand Demons, and the Night Parade of Eighty-Eight Demons of Shikoku.

Especially Abe no Seimei, who was hiding in hell and manipulating the reincarnation of Hagoromo Gitsune from behind the scenes.

Gu Yun discovered that the information he had about Abe no Seimei was very different from that of the blonde model he had seen in the anime.

In the stories of Abe no Seimei told by his grandfather and Ashiya Doma, he should be the child of the celestial fox Kuzunoha, not Hagoromo-gitsune.

Moreover, the two lived in very different eras.

The Abe no Seimei mentioned by the Four Heavenly Kings, who was the ancestor of the Abe family to which Abe no Shōmei belonged, should have been a figure from 900 AD.

Although Hagoromo Gitsune's child was also named Abe no Seimei, he lived in an era after 1000 AD.

Moreover, the two Abe no Seimei were quite different. The former was upright and had the demeanor of a master, while the latter was extremely cunning and a pure schemer.

While it wouldn't be fair to say that one of these two people was 'obviously superior,' it did raise some doubts for Gu Yun.

Who among them is the real Abe no Seimei?

"Is this what you want to know, Master?"

Hongye didn't care about such things, but since this was Gu Yun's need, she would definitely find a way to satisfy him.

"Ah."

Gu Yun: "However, I have many questions."

For example, why did Abe no Seimei want to return to the human world? Given his level of cultivation, he should have known about the existence of the underworld.

If you really don't want to be reincarnated, you can continue cultivating in the underworld.

Like Lingzi, she is not far from raising her spirit level to 70. If she wants to in the future, she has a good chance to be reborn as a natural incarnation that is a level higher than the ecological spirit through secret methods.

Or perhaps, Kuro Seimei (the son of Hagoromo Gitsune) has some higher ideals and ambitions.

Or perhaps, like in Nurarihyon no Mago, he wants to be the ruler of both the human world and hell?

"No matter what."

Gu Yun thought to himself, "This meeting with Hagoromo Gitsune is a good opportunity to test the depths of this Kuro Seimei who is hiding in hell."

"The time is set for tomorrow night."

"Place…"

Gu Yun pondered for a moment and said, "Mount Fuji."

“Let the Kyoto Thousand Demons Night Parade wait there,” Gu Yun said. “At that time, I will have Miketsu open the gate to the Pure World Flower Pavilion.”

"I'll go and inform them."

Aunt's figure disappeared from the study, while outside the great barrier of Mount Kurama, Kidomaru, who was waiting, opened his eyes.

"Tomorrow night, Mt. Fuji."

With just a few words, Kidomaru nodded knowingly, and then relayed the response from the Kyoto garrison to Senki Yagyō.

"Is the main branch of the Kōrō-shū located at Mount Fuji?"

The name Mount Fuji first appeared more than 800 years ago, and in even older times, the mountain was called 'Mount Immortal'.

In Japanese, Fuji sounds similar to immortality, and there is a legend that En no Ozunu, the founder of Shugendo, once flew through the air here and became an immortal.

The "immortal" here does not refer to a deity, but rather to a person in Japan who has achieved great spiritual cultivation.

In terms of attributes, Japanese immortals are actually more similar to the immortals in Indian mythology who can make prophecies, possess magical powers, and can issue curses at will.

"It's not certain yet."

Kidomaru respectfully asked Hagoromo Gitsune, "Are you really planning to go in person?"

“I am no ordinary demon. Even if Amaterasu were to be reincarnated, she could not kill me.”

In some ways, Hagoromo Gitsune is more like a demon god.

As long as the world continues to treat women unfairly, causing them to harbor negative emotions such as resentment and jealousy, then Hagoromo Gitsune cannot be killed.

Perhaps you can destroy her physical body, or seal her soul.

But that's only temporary.

Resentment kept pouring into her body, and the longer it went on, the faster it accumulated.

How can your seal alone withstand such a massive curse?

This is why Hagoromo Gitsune didn't care about rashly going to see Gu Yun.

“Since you have made up your mind,” Kidomaru placed his hand on the hilt of his sword, “as your subjects, we will certainly protect you with our lives.”

The physical body of Hagoromo Gitsune is dispensable, but her next reincarnation is crucial to the resurrection of Kuro Seimei, and cannot be lost.

The people of Shangluo and their master are shrouded in mystery.

What the Thousand Demons Parade is most worried about is that Gu Yun has a way to target Hagoromo Gitsune.

When the time comes, the lambs will fall into the tiger's den, and the thousand-year-old dream of the demons of Kyoto will be completely ruined.

I've been busy with tax refunds these past few days, running around everywhere, but it's finally resolved today. I'll resume updates tomorrow.

Chapter 90 The Great Tengu of Mount Kurama

"We've arrived, Lord Hagoromo Gitsune."

The flaming Wheel of Fortune stopped above Mount Fuji, with Hagoromo Gitsune kneeling inside, looking down at the dormant volcano covered in snow.

She did not bring her Thousand Demons Night Parade subordinates with her on this trip, nor did she come in a large entourage.

This is Tokyo, the core area of ​​the Kanto region's yokai (supernatural beings) sphere of influence, where the Nura Clan's main family is located.

If the demonic aura were to rise to the heavens, it would surely alarm Nura Rihan.

Therefore, those who came with her were only Jizo, Kuramazan, Kyokotsu, Kidomaru, Ibaraki-dōji, Seiryugu, and Hakuzō-shu.

The Ibaraki-dōji and Hakuzō-shū here are not based on their real-life counterparts.

They are actually ghost stories born from people's fear of the legends of Ibaraki-dōji and Hakuzōshū.

After hundreds of years of cultivation, it emerged from the illusory world and transformed into a demon of the ghost clan and a demon of the fox clan.

As mentioned before, ghost stories are countered by monsters, who can devour their resentment and curses.

The ultimate form of ghost stories is to become real demons.

The ghost stories of Ibaraki and Hakuzosu are such beings. They inherited the 'reverence' of mankind for thousands of years, transformed it into demonic power, and with the help of Hagoromo Gitsune and Nue, they escaped the illusory world.

"Where are the people of Shangluo? Are they just going to make me wait like this? Isn't that a bit too rude?"

Before Hagoromo Gitsune could speak, Ibaraki the Ghostly Demon asked in a hoarse voice, "Kidomaru, where is the swordsmanship master you mentioned?"

The ghost story Ibaraki is a swordsman who, like Kidomaru, awakened his abilities while studying intermediate-level techniques.

Kidomaru's ability is to increase the speed of his sword strikes, while Ibaraki's is to condense and control lightning.

Among these seven demons, Jizo, Kyokotsu, and Hakuzosu are only mid-level demons.

The spirit mole cricket and the ghost Ibaraki possess superior demonic power, but they have not yet reached the threshold of being subdued by all demons; they have only barely mastered how to use their awakened abilities.