Tokyo: My Hundred Demon Scroll

Clearly, this phrase had become Grandpa's favorite saying.

The old man always said this whenever Gu Yun came to see him.

"..."

Grandpa glanced helplessly at Gu Yun, then chuckled and gently patted him on the head: "You brat."

However, he doesn't dislike it.

Snail truly enjoys these days of playing and frolicking with his grandson.

"I told Nadeshiko about her problem back then."

"Can't have more children?"

If that's the case, Gu Yun frowned: "That would indeed be troublesome."

It's like going to the doctor. If the doctor tells you that you absolutely cannot do something, but you still do it, then you're just asking for trouble, and you can't blame anyone else.

Similarly, Nadeshiko, knowing her own body's condition, still insisted on having a second child...

"No, Gu Yun, you've misunderstood."

Grandpa shook his head and said, "Nadeshiko did not ignore my warning; she followed it carefully."

Gu Yun knew about Kinomoto Sakura's existence because of the anime in his previous life.

But for Nadeshiko, she didn't necessarily need to have a daughter. She was already content with her son, Touya.

"Then, is it Mr. Fujitaka's problem?"

Fujitaka Kinomoto, Nadeshiko's husband, Touya and Sakura's father, and the reincarnation of Clow Reed.

The wife didn't want it, but the husband couldn't resist, which led to a death.

"No, not at all."

Grandpa knew Gu Yun had misunderstood and interrupted again: "Fujitaka and Nadeshiko have both followed the rules well. They haven't done it even once in the past three years, cough cough."

The old man felt it wasn't easy to explain this to Gu Yun, so he said somewhat awkwardly, "That's right, no."

"Grandpa, I know how babies are born."

"Oh, that's good then."

Grandpa nodded, thinking to himself that this child was far too mature.

"Since both Nadeshiko and Mr. Fujitaka have noticed this, where did Sakura come from?"

Gu Yun was stunned. This didn't make sense!

If Nadeshiko and Fujitaka didn't do it, then who is Sakura's father? Could it be that Nadeshiko cheated on her?

"It's not what you described, Gu Yun."

Grandpa said helplessly, "Actually, Nadeshiko's daughter is not an ordinary person. Like you, Gu Yun, she was born from a womb."

"???"

Gu Yun was full of questions: "What is 'Fetal Fruit'? Weren't you talking about Sakura? How did this get involved with me?"

Didn't I tell you?

"Absolutely not! Grandpa!"

Gu Yun asked, "What does 'born with a fetus' mean?"

"Um…"

Grandpa pondered for a while, seemingly unsure where to begin.

"Is it some taboo that you can't tell me?"

"No, it's just that it was too sudden for me, and I don't know where to begin."

Grandpa pondered for a moment before speaking: "The so-called 'fetal fruit' generally refers to the life that is born after being brought into the mother's body by an egg-shaped fruit brought from the west of the sea and the east of the mountains by a spacetime storm called 'eclipse'."

"Forehead…"

Gu Yun looked distressed. To be honest, he didn't understand what his grandfather was saying at all.

What does "west of the sea and east of the mountain" mean? What is "eclipse"? And what is the difference between an egg-shaped fruit and a fetal fruit?

Chapter 59 Eternal Life

"Let's start by explaining the west of the sea and the east of the mountains."

The old man chose some relatively simple concepts and explained them to Gu Yun: "You already know about the present world of matter, the afterlife of the Yellow Springs, the afterlife of the hidden gods, the illusory world of strange tales, the quagmire of evil gods, the sky of benevolent gods, and the place above the heavens where the gods are."

"Actually, there's another place that I've never told you about, Xiao Gu Yun."

"Where?"

"Eternal life!"

The so-called "eternal world" is the 3.5th layer, located above the quagmire of evil gods and below the sky of benevolent gods.

The mortal world is an extremely vast world where humans, animals, and plants live. However, everything operates not according to scientific laws, but rather according to the forces called the Heavenly Order and the Earthly Order.

“There is a special ‘gate’ between the eternal world and the present world,” Grandpa said. “This gate is called ‘eclipse’.”

Eclipse is a spacetime storm that, once it occurs, will cause enormous disasters in the present world, such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, typhoons, and tsunamis.

Through this process, something called 'egg fruit' from the mortal world will flow into the present world with the winds of eclipse, implant in a woman's body, form a fetal fruit, and thus give birth to a child bestowed by heaven.

"The probability is very low, but it's not impossible."

"Forehead…"

Gu Yun was stunned for a moment, then asked, "So, you mean I actually don't have a father?"

"Yes, Xiao Gu Yun, you only have a mother, not a father."

A normal egg fertilizing a woman can result in a fertilized embryo, or this step can be skipped.

There are many women in this world who have never been with a man, but only had a dream, such as a dragon entering their womb, an angel telling them, and waking up to find themselves pregnant.

Among all births, a child born from the union of parents is not special and cannot be called a child of God.

Those who only have a mother and no father are the special cases.

Just like Sakura and Gu Yun, both of them possess extraordinary power and mission.

Such a person has a specific name in the exorcism world—a living saint.

"Essentially, there are two types of eggs."

"One type has parents, and the other type does not have parents."

An egg is the way people conceive children, so an ordinary fetus will have two sets of parents.

One pair lives in the mortal world, and the other pair lives in the present world.

In such pairings, only the child born from the egg of parents in an impermanent world, after eclipse and coming to the present world, and mating with a woman who has not conceived, is a living saint.

"Eggs also have parents? What does that mean?"

To be honest, Gu Yun still didn't understand what the 'egg fruit' was. Was it a fruit, or some kind of treasure?

Or perhaps, a woman in the mortal world miscarried after becoming pregnant...

"The egg fruit is the fruit that grows on the Limu tree."

Grandpa said, "Changshi is a legendary fairyland, like the place where immortals live in Eastern mythology."

“There, women do not have to suffer the pain of pregnancy,” Grandpa said. “If a man and a woman are in love, they only need to come to Limu, tie a red string to a tree branch, and then pray sincerely.”

"Ten months later, an egg-shaped fruit will grow where the red thread is tied. If you cut it open, you will get a child."

"..."

Gu Yun was a little confused; what kind of bizarre myth was this?

It really is Momotaro, and the child was delivered by a crane, or perhaps Princess Kaguya of the Takenaka.

“That’s not all,” Grandpa continued, “If you want plant seeds or animal cubs, you can pray through Limu.”

"There are also wild trees, the fruits of beasts and birds, grasses and trees in the mountains and fields, and the trees of fish that live in the water."

It can be said that in the mortal world, all living beings and all things are born from the fruits that grow on various trees.

"that…"

Gu Yun commented, "What a mythical world! Grandpa, have you been to the mortal realm?"

"Yes, I went there when I was young."

Grandpa said, "Back then, Reiko, Shiro, and I, guided by Kogoro's spiritual vision, traveled through different times and dimensions."

Thinking of his youth, Grandpa's face lit up with nostalgia.

Although the Spirit Vision technique has no combat power, it can travel through the world and reach different dimensions, times, and spaces. For this alone, it is undoubtedly a legendary secret technique.

"So," Gu Yun said, "how should we resolve the matter between Sakura and Nadeshiko?"

"The best way to deal with Nadeshiko's matter is to do nothing."

"what?"

Gu Yun looked at her grandfather, puzzled: "Why?"

"Xiao Gu Yun should know how much longer I have to live, right?"

"sorry!"

Gu Yun's expression changed, and he quickly lowered his head to apologize.

"Hahaha, that's not what I meant."

Grandpa quickly laughed and said, "Although I've told you not to care about other people's moral blackmail, well..."

"He couldn't resist after all."

The old man scratched his cheek and said, "Ignoring those who need help is the only thing that causes me pain."

However, everyone has a different personality, and my grandfather is the kind of person who is kind-hearted.