Shota is surrounded by monsters!

Glug, glug...

Upon tasting this familiar flavor, Mashiro trembled slightly with excitement, seemingly about to lose her human form and liquefy again. However, remembering that she had more important things to do, Mashiro persevered with unparalleled willpower.

Glug-glug-glug

The thought that all the food she had painstakingly saved up was about to be drunk up in one go made Mashiro suddenly sad again, and tears were about to slide down her cheeks. But when she thought that she had more important things to do, Mashiro bit the pacifier and persevered.

The baby bottle is empty.

Mashiro unscrewed the bottle, poured in some of her favorite strawberry juice, shook it vigorously, and then gulped it down again.

After repeating it three times, Mashiro, who could no longer taste Shota's flavor, walked resolutely to the mirror. She held up two fingers on each hand and placed them in front of her forehead.

"Whoosh...ha!"

"Whoosh...ha!"

After trying twice and finding no change, Mashiro was a little discouraged, but she absolutely did not want to let these precious treasures go to waste. This time, she unleashed all of her weak demonic energy!

"ha!!!!"

"Bah-"

With Mashiro's "roar," a silver-white ahoge, different from her original hair color, suddenly stood up on her head...

The 10cm-long ahoge (cowlick) scanned the surrounding area like a radar before suddenly fixing on the southwest direction.

"There it is!"

Following the direction indicated by the ahoge (cowlick), Mashiro located Shota. However, going out alone was too dangerous, so she quickly ran out to report the matter to Rea…

"Southwest is the direction of Nagoya and Kyoto."

After hearing Mashiro's report, Rea thought that Mashiro's ahoge radar might actually be useful, so she nodded and said, "Let's go!"

"Miss……"

"You don't need to come with me, I can go by myself."

"No, Miss... Master instructed that if we need to find someone, it would be better to have more people."

As he spoke, more than a dozen maids stepped forward from behind the butler, saying, "These are all maids who have met Young Master Kosaka. With them here, there will definitely be no problem."

The dozen or so maids were all wearing masks and carrying weapons...

This is the masked maid guard of the Sanka family...

Chapter 134. Kyoto

Ryugan-ji Temple, Kyoto.

"Four-string Buddha, Takamatsu, Mangokujo..."

"Snowshoes... jingle jingle..."

"Fish rack..."

When the moon had already hidden behind the dark clouds, a strange nursery rhyme suddenly echoed in the ancient temple. A strange girl, holding a skull, sang as she walked step by step toward the center of the temple.

"Are you a monster?"

The Onmyoji stationed at the temple watched the little girl who walked in warily.

"Ah, you were just afraid of me, weren't you?"

The little girl said happily, "In a battle against a monster, the side that feels fear loses. I'm going to take your eyeballs."

"puff--"

"what……"

The Onmyoji suddenly covered his right eye and said, "What happened! Why can't I see my right eye?"

"Your eyes are already in this world."

Suddenly, an eyeball appeared on the skull that the girl was holding.

Don't underestimate me!

The Onmyoji prepared to counterattack. He took out a talisman from his robes and said, "Shikigami..."

"puff--"

Before he could finish speaking, a green venomous snake suddenly pierced through his head, swallowing his other eyeball as well.

"Bam—"

Onmyoji, death.

"Welcome to the world of Mukuro..."

Just as the girl was looking at her Warring States period, footsteps slowly approached from behind her.

"Ah, it's my elder sister!"

The woman who appeared behind me possessed an eerie beauty; just looking at her made one feel as if they wanted to be swallowed by darkness. She wore a black sailor uniform, and her waist-length black hair fluttered in the evening breeze. Her black pupils were so deep they seemed to suck one in.

"Kyoukotsu's daughter, you are even more ruthless than your father, hehehehe..."

"This is the sixth-ranked Onmyoji. Please enjoy his liver~"

Tokyo, the main family of the Nura Clan.

"grandfather."

"What's wrong, Lu Sheng?"

"Grandpa, I want to go to Kyoto."

Nurarihyon fell silent and tapped his beloved pipe.

"Grandpa knows him too, right? He's my classmate, Hanakain, that Onmyoji..."

Lu Sheng said to his grandfather, "I'm afraid something might happen to her..."

Do you want to die?

Nurarihyon glared fiercely at his precious grandson.

"..."

Lu Sheng was silent for a moment, then suddenly realized that his grandfather was missing.

"Bam—"

His body was suddenly sent flying backward.

"You are too weak right now."

"What are you doing, you old geezer!"

Rikuo stood up from the pool and looked at Nurarihyon, who had suddenly attacked, and asked, "Did that hurt?"

"Don't think you're so great just because you defeated four countries. Right now, any small fry could defeat you."

Nurarihyon looked at Rikuo and said, "You're too weak. If you want to go to Kyoto, then draw your sword."

Without a doubt, Lu Sheng was brutally defeated by his own grandfather.

"You can't even win a trip to Kyoto from a lousy old man."

"But Shota-san has already gone!"

Rikuo clutched his chest, panting heavily as he looked at Nurarihyon.

"Ha...you compare him to him?"

Nurarihyon sneered at his grandson and said, "Putting aside the racial differences between you and him, you should know how much that kid suffered at my hands. Don't forget... back then you were drinking and watching the show under the cherry blossom trees... With your meager abilities... it would be a miracle if you could last 5 seconds against Shota."

"...So annoying!"

Rikuo brandished his sword and roared, "If I just learn that move you just used, Grandpa, then I can go to Kyoto!"

"Why...are you so determined to go to Kyoto?"

Nurarihyon felt that his grandson was a bit strange.

"That guy must be there... My heart starts pounding just hearing that name. That guy is in Kyoto! That guy named Hagoromo Gitsune!"

"..."

"Bam—"

Nurarihyon delivered another blow, knocking his own grandson unconscious.

"...Hey, Tengu, call those guys over here."

"General... General... where are you referring to? Are you sending the young master to that hell?"

“He can’t grow if he’s always by my side.”

One week later, in Kyoto.

"We've finally arrived!"

Shota glanced at the city before him, a blend of ancient and modern styles, and finally smiled with delight.

"..."

The Snake Queen behind him, panting heavily, said, "Young man, take a rest for a while."

"You've only been walking for 20 minutes! Aren't you being a bit too precious?"

"But... walking is so tiring."

"You have to get used to it, after all, learning to walk is a very useful thing."

The reason we've only just arrived in Kyoto isn't because Shota got lost or anything, but because we have to take a slow, toddler-like girl, Snake Princess, with us along the way.

Bringing her out was definitely a mistake on Shota's part.

"Hey buddy, what brings us to Kyoto?"

Snake Princess took a couple of deep breaths and asked, "There's an ominous aura emanating from here."

Indeed, the city before us is filled with an overwhelming sense of malevolence.

The black aura had already filled the sky above the entire city. Even with the naked eye, one could see the dense black demonic energy. Although it was only dusk, Shota felt as if he were in the middle of the night when demonic energy was at its peak.