In Genshin Impact, I'm really not Muzan.

Chapter 129 The Hundred-Eyed Demon of Ako: A Past That Sparks Curiosity

At the same time, he was also somewhat surprised by the other person's name.

He remembered the name Akako Hyakume, it seemed to have appeared in the background story of the four-star weapon [Fishing], but why did he have the Mist-Cutting Reflection? Suzumiya Yuu couldn't figure it out.

Therefore, he plans to talk to the other party for a while first.

“My name is Ryoumi Suzumiya. You don’t seem to be feeling very well right now. Would you like to come up here? Let’s talk.” Ryoumi Suzumiya extended her hand, as if inviting the other person.

Akako Hyakume hesitated for a moment: "No...no, the black mist on my body will hurt you and drive you mad."

"No problem, I can handle it. Besides, I'm more interested in how you got into this black mist."

"I...I can't remember."

Hyakume seems to have lost some of his memories, especially his time as a human; there are many things he can't recall.

The evil spirits can affect a person's mind, so amnesia is a very normal phenomenon. Suzumiya Yu was quite surprised that the other party could still maintain his rationality in this state and did not attack him directly like those demons.

This shows that Hyakume's will is very strong, and he truly deserves to be the master of the Mist-Cutting Light.

......

After calming Hyakume's unstable emotions a little, the two went outside. The fresh air there could slightly relieve their stress, but the effect wasn't very good.

"Tell me everything you remember. Also, have you ever been to Tianyun Pass?"

Hyakume-ki is quite powerful; with the power of the evil spirit, he can even hold his own against Rosalind.

If what happened at Tianyun Pass was his doing, then it makes sense, since with his strength, he could easily defeat Lei Yin Quanxian.

“Tenkumo Pass…a familiar name, but I’ve forgotten where it is,” Hyakume said, then took out the last feather that Suzumiya Yu had been searching for from his pocket.

"However, I once encountered a flying monster that attacked me, and after defeating it, I obtained this feather."

"This feather contains some memories of the past, memories of me and people I know. The things I know now are basically things I recall through it."

Suzumiya Yu took the feather, but instead of swallowing it directly, he examined its memories.

In the memory fragments, there appears a young child and a woman dressed as a shrine maiden.

Time passed little by little, and the child of yesteryear grew into a famous pirate in Inazuma, owning more than a dozen ships and sailing the seas under the name of the immortal demon, Seirai.

That was the Hyakume-ki from the human era. At that time, his fleet frequently clashed with the Shogunate Navy. The old priestess, who was already in her twilight years, was often worried about this and repeatedly advised him not to continue.

Finally, General Raiden personally ordered the annihilation of Hyakume's fleet. Just when they were about to be captured, the old priestess broke the seal on Seirai Island.

In an instant, a thunderstorm surged, spreading across the battlefield in just a moment. Kapachiri's demonic resentment indiscriminately attacked both sides' fleets. The Shogunate's navy had no choice but to retreat, while Hyakume and his men disappeared without a trace.

The memory ended there, and no one knows what happened after that. However, it did let Suzumiya Yu know why the seal on Seirai Island was broken.

That old shrine maiden... Suzumiya Yu couldn't remember who she was for a moment, and Hyakume only knew that she used to be the priestess of Asase Shrine, but she had long forgotten her name.

"After the fleet was destroyed by the thunderstorm, do you remember where you went?"

Suzumiya Yuu wants to know why Hyakume-ki has become like this. It can be guessed that he must have been to the Dark Outer Sea, otherwise he would not have been able to come into contact with such a strong evil spirit power.

"I can't remember... I have a vague impression, but I just can't recall it..." Hyakume's mind was blank, and he couldn't remember anything about what happened after the fleet was destroyed.

As time slowly passed, Suzumiya Yu continued to provoke Hyakume, which reminded him of some things.

For example, he remembered that there seemed to be a talking cat in the Asase Shrine, but he forgot its name.

Furthermore, he once defeated a fully automated samurai doll and kept it as his trophy, and even after his fleet was destroyed by a thunderstorm, he still took it with him.

This allowed Suzumiya Yu to deduce some clues.

That fully automated samurai doll should be the Demon Puppet Sword Demon, but it wasn't the original prototype, because the original was the one that Suzumiya Yu encountered on Hachiyū Island.

In the game, the Puppet Sword Demon appeared not only in Inazuma, but also in another location.

The Golden Apple Islands were a natural landscape created by the wind god Barbatos with his divine power. They were originally intended to be incorporated into Mondstadt, but were later abandoned for unknown reasons.

Like Heguan, the Golden Apple Islands are shrouded in mist year-round, but unlike Heguan, the Golden Apple Islands are not places you can just go to whenever you want.

Speaking of which, the echoing conch shells found on the Golden Apple Islands seem to tell the story of a fleet of refugees that drifted to this place and eventually escaped successfully.

This is quite similar to Hyakume's experience, and there is a Puppet Sword Demon on the Golden Apple Islands, which is very likely brought there by Hyakume.

In other words, after the fleet was destroyed by the thunderstorm, Hyakume and his crew were lucky enough to drift to the Golden Apple Islands, where they spent a lot of time and effort to escape.

However, this doesn't quite make sense. How did Hyakume become tainted by the evil spirit? Logically speaking, the Golden Apple Islands should be quite far from the Dark Sea, right? Could something major have happened after they left?

The questions remain unanswered; perhaps only when Hyakume regains his memories will all the mysteries be revealed.

At this moment, Ryoujiro's interest was completely piqued. Although it was still a bit too early, this was an opportunity to make contact with the Dark Sea, and he certainly wouldn't let it go.

His goal is to rule the continent of Teyvat, while the Dark Sea is a threat from outside the continent. In other words, even before they have met, the creatures of the Dark Sea have already become Yui Suzumiya's enemies.

But Suzumiya Yu knew very little about the Dark Outer Sea, so he had to find out where Hyakume had been, even if it was just a clue, so that he would know what kind of world the Dark Outer Sea was.

So, for the next few days, he stayed on Qinglai Island and did not leave, and Bai Mu Gui's memories were gradually restored.

Chapter 130 Another Mist Cutter?

On the calm sea, a strange black mist suddenly rose up, as if it appeared out of thin air. Even the fish in the water were frightened and quickly fled.

The black mist gradually gathered together and eventually formed a human figure, but his facial features and limbs were distorted, and he could not be seen as human at all. He was simply a monster.

A katana shrouded in black mist appeared in his hand. If Suzumiya Yu were here, she would definitely recognize it at a glance as the Kirigiri no Kaiko.

However, unlike the Mist-Cutting Radiance I was familiar with, this katana exuded a sense of oppressive power that inspired fear, and its owner felt the same way.

“Sound…” The monster, shrouded in black mist, kept repeating the same word.

At the same time, he looked into the distance, towards Qinglai Island, which was easily recognizable because of the thunderclouds overhead.

The monster, with faltering steps, walked towards Qinglai Island, as if searching for something.

After he left, the fish in the water returned to the spot. They curiously examined the black mist he left behind. One of the fish couldn't resist touching it, and instantly turned to ashes.

......

"So, after leaving that unknown archipelago, you returned to Qinglai Island with your fleet?"

On the abandoned ship of Seirai Maru, Hyakume had regained some of his memories, which gave Suzumiya Yui some information.

After leaving the Golden Apple Islands, Hyakume returned to Qinglai Island with his fleet. However, his hometown was different from what he remembered. It was deserted and filled with excessive lightning element.

He returned to Asase Shrine and found it to be very well preserved and unaffected by the thunderstorm, but the old shrine maiden who always loved to meddle was nowhere to be seen.

In the shrine, only a talking cat remains, who is the acting priestess of Asase Shrine.

The keeper told him that the old witch had disappeared a long time ago, and it had been waiting for her to return, but she never did.

His closest person had just vanished. Hyakume-ki glanced at the devastated Qinglai Island and seemed to have guessed what was going on.

He began to lament that there was no longer a place for him to live in the Inazuma Islands. So he led his fleet to set sail again, wanting to see the ends of the earth.

That was the old witch's lifelong dream, and now, he would fulfill it for her.

His memory stopped there; Hyakume couldn't remember what happened after that, except that they encountered a disaster and he was the only survivor of the entire fleet.

During that period, he was like a walking corpse, aimlessly drifting on the boundless sea.

One day, Hyakume suddenly recalled the promise he had made, so he followed his memory back to Seirai Island, back to his former homeland.

That's all the information we have. Ryou Miyako guessed that the end of that world must be the Dark Outer Sea, because the Hyakume's fleet approached there without permission and was attacked by the creatures of the Dark Outer Sea.

During this process, Hyakume-ki became tainted by the primal power of the Dark Outer Sea. However, for some unknown reason, this ordinary human being was able to withstand this powerful force and even retain a trace of human rationality.

As more and more of his memories returned, Hyakume's humanity grew stronger and stronger. Now, apart from his somewhat eerie appearance, he is basically no different from a human.

As for the missing old witch... even Suzumiya Yu could guess that she must have died in the raging thunderstorm. Hyakume must also know, but he just didn't want to say it.

The old witch was like a mother to him, taking care of him from childhood to adulthood. Without her, his fleet would probably have been destroyed long ago.

“She used to tell me all the time,” Hyakume-ki recounted his story with the old shrine maiden, “that she used to study at Narukami Taisha and made three friends there.”

"Kombu Maru, Harunosuke, Nagamasa, and her teacher are all fox spirits with beautiful faces. Hahaha, who knows if she's making up a story."

Hyakume-ki shook his head with a half-smile, while Suzumiya Yu was carefully pondering the names of the three people.

He seemed to have heard the name "Kombu Maru" somewhere before, but he couldn't remember who it was.

He was very familiar with Harunosuke. Harunosuke was a famous Onmyoji in Inazuma hundreds of years ago. He was enraged by the death of his friend, Kosai-no-miya, and later went to Liyue to train in Sage Mode.

After returning to Inazuma, Harunosuke Yuugami used the Sage Art he had written in Liyue to create a series of highly renowned talisman techniques at the time. He even created a secret realm for people to use to enhance their strength.

Later, as the dark turmoil in the outer sea disappeared, the secret realm created by Harunosuke Yuugami lost its original purpose, and even the name of Yuugami was gradually forgotten.

Later, Shinobu's Yin-Yang technique was lost, but the technique of making talismans was stolen and learned by the sea monster.

As for the name Nagamasa, Suzumiya Yu had never heard of him before, let alone his true identity.

As for the beautiful fox spirit, who is also the old shrine maiden's teacher, based on the timeline, she should be the previous high priestess of Narukami Shrine, Kōsai-miya.

It seems that Suzumiya Yuu doesn't know many things about Inazuma, at least not about the past. For example, he clearly remembers the old shrine maiden's name, but he just can't recall it.

Just as Suzumiya Yu was lost in thought, he suddenly heard a faint sound behind him.

He initially thought it was the wind blowing the branches on the ground, but when he turned around, he was shocked by what he saw.

A monster shrouded in malevolent black energy appeared out of nowhere, holding a katana that was remarkably similar to the Kirigiri no Kaiko.

Suzumiya Yu was shocked because she hadn't noticed him approaching at all before he turned around.

His perception was so powerful that he could even detect the aura of a demon god, but now, it was completely useless when facing that unknown monster.

A chill ran down his spine. Could it be that the opponent's strength was even greater than that of the Demon God, or even surpassed that of the Seven Rulers of the Mortal World?

Thinking of this, Suzumiya Yu immediately entered battle mode, and even Hyakume, who was standing next to her, gripped the Mist-Gripping Light tightly.

"Hibiki...where is she..." Like Hyakume, this monstrous-looking creature could speak human language, though it was somewhat unclear, but it was still understandable if you listened carefully.

Chapter 131 The Resurrected Kirigiri Takane

“Hibiki?” Suzumiya Yu remained unmoved, but Hyakume-ki became visibly agitated. “You know that old shrine maiden at Asase Shrine? Who are you?”

As he spoke, he saw the katana in the other person's hand, which looked very much like the Kirigiri: Resurrection, but was not quite the Kirigiri: Resurrection.

"That sword... Kirigiri? You're Kombumaru?!" Hyakume exclaimed in surprise, and even Suzumiya Yu was taken aback.

Mist Cutter and Mist Cutter's Return of Light are actually two weapons.