Shota is surrounded by monsters!

"Are you looking to die?!"

"no."

Seeing Yomi enraged, Shota continued, half-jokingly, "Look, I actually feel really bad for you. After all, I don't know how long it will be before I die. How about you and Rea become my girlfriends?"

"You really are courting death."

A terrifying resentment emanated from Huang Quan as she said to Shota, "Don't think I'd ever have even the slightest bit of affection for you..."

"Didn't you say you'd say yes if I pursued you?"

"That...that..."

Thinking about that incident, Huang Quan was at a loss for how to brush it off, since so much time had passed and this was the first time Shota had brought it up again.

"That was so long ago, people's feelings change."

Huang Quan finally brushed it off with these words.

"Tch... I was even thinking of starting a harem."

"Keep dreaming."

Huang Quan tapped Shota's head with the umbrella handle, skipping the topic, and said, "Let's look around first. Last time we came to Kyoto at the wrong time. This time we must explore properly."

"Does Kyoto have any specialty donuts?"

Shinobu's voice suddenly entered Shota's mind.

"How could that be? Could it be wasabi flavored?"

"Humph."

So Shota first took Yomi on a tour of Kyoto, and then they arrived at the main residence of Keikain. Since he didn't know where Hagoromo Gitsune was hiding, the best way was to ask the local bigwigs.

Who are you looking for?

The Onmyoji guarding the gate is not qualified to participate in that great battle, and does not know Shota.

"Um……"

Shota hesitated because he only knew one person, Yura Hanakain, but the girl was currently studying in Tokyo, so even if he came to the Hanakain family home, he didn't seem to know anyone.

"Excuse me, who are you looking for?"

The onmyoji guarding the gate asked one more question.

"I'll look for... Kakain Ryu or something? Or that demon or something? Isn't there a name that's simpler? Ahhh, I've got it, I remember a name, Akifusa, right? Kakain Akifusa, the one who can forge demon swords."

Shota rummaged through his distant memories and finally found a name.

"..."

Seeing Shota's obviously unreliable behavior, the other person stared at him with a suspicious look.

"Just say I'm from the Nura Clan."

Shota had no choice but to use the Nura Clan's name, but to his surprise, the other party jumped in fright upon hearing the name Nura Clan, and without a word, ran back, shouting:

"The Nura Clan's yokai are here to freeload! Everyone, get ready for battle..."

"..."

Just how bad is the Nura Clan's reputation within the Keikain clan? In less than a minute, a whole bunch of Onmyoji surrounded Shota, but they were just about to utter a few harsh words...

"Hey, is this guy from six months ago...?"

"It seems so..."

"We can't afford to mess with them..."

Clearly, many of the people who came out this time recognized Shota. Shota just stood there, waiting for someone with authority to speak to step forward.

"A high-ranking member of the Nura Clan, what brings you to the Hanakain residence?"

Hua Kaiyuan Qiufang, with her silver hair, stepped out from the crowd and waved to dismiss the onlookers.

"Oh, finally I see a familiar face. I have something I'd like to ask you."

Amidst everyone's wary gazes, Shota walked up to Akifusa Kakaiin, patted him on the shoulder, and dragged him to a secluded spot...

"Are you looking for Hagoromo Gitsune?"

Akifusa Hanakain looked at Shota with a strange expression, seemingly harboring great suspicion about his motives.

"I'm not looking for trouble, I just have some personal matters I want to ask her about."

Shota, of course, couldn't directly state the reason.

"Can't fight?"

"I don't know how to fight."

"Ok."

Akifusa Hanakain nodded and said, "But I'm not entirely sure where it is..."

"...Then why did you ask so many questions?!"

"No, I just don't know the exact location."

Hanakain Akifusa stated directly, "The west side of the city, but I'm not entirely sure exactly where."

"The west side? I'll find it myself when I get there."

After a brief farewell, Shota headed directly west of Kyoto.

After searching there for about an hour, although he didn't find any information about Hagoromo Gitsune, Shota did catch a whiff of the Mad Bone Loli.

"found it?"

"Yes, I found it."

After determining the location, Shota didn't have the courage to go over, because even if he did, how could he possibly start a conversation?

Ugh, this is so frustrating.

Shota turned his head and looked at his tail. It was exactly the same as before. As for the pregnancy rumors, it must have been just his imagination. His body didn't have any strange or obvious reactions. It was just that he didn't feel like eating fried food that day.

"If you really want to know, why don't you just check it carefully?"

Shinobu reminded Shota of something in his mind, but Shota quickly shook his head.

Although a careful examination would reveal the truth, Shota simply didn't have the courage to examine his own body, because once examined, it would become an undeniable fact.

Moreover, Shota's tail is a disposable item, and if it gets damaged... he'll really be cursed to death by his ancestors.

How are you going to tell them?

Huang Quan stood next to Shota and asked, "After all, she is not only Hagoromo Gitsune, but also half a mother to the young master of the Nura Clan."

"Shall we make an initial contact? A regular visit... that should be fine, right?"

Although Shota himself didn't believe what he was saying, he could only sigh and walk over there while thinking it over carefully.

"So, in the end, it was you who sent me here, Huang Quan!"

"No, I was just mentioning it casually."

Huang Quan distanced himself from the situation, saying, "I didn't know you would actually come."

"Impulsive, just impulsive. Every man does one or two impulsive things, right?" Shota thought for a moment and realized he had nothing to hide from Yomi, so he confessed, "To be honest, I still have some lingering feelings for Hagoromo Gitsune. Although I no longer intend to possess her, I still feel very sorry. Ah, in short, my feelings are very complicated."

"Men should all die, they're all greedy and still eyeing what they don't have."

That's not what I meant.

Shota simply summarized, "I just think it would be nice if I could maintain a simple mother-child relationship with Hagoromo Gitsune. I don't want my son to be born without a mother to take care of him. Although Rea could take on this responsibility, you know, youkai are very sensitive about blood ties. Okay, okay, I just want a fox mother to take care of my child in the future, alright?"

Shota spread his hands, shrugged, and revealed his ultimate goal.

He doesn't want a little glutton following him around everywhere right now; he hasn't had enough fun yet, who wants to take care of a child?

"..."

Huang Quan was silent for a moment, then said, "Are all men's thought processes as strange as yours?"

"What's so strange about that!"

Shota continued walking forward, still searching for the right words, and said, "'I'm pregnant with your child...' No, no, 'I'm pregnant with both of our children...' No, no, no, no, no, no..."

"Tsk."

Shota thought about it and felt that this way of describing things was too easy to misunderstand.

“Just say, ‘We’re having a child together. It was an accident, but if you’d like, I’d like you to be there to watch the child grow up.’ How about that?”

Shota turned around and asked Yomi a question, only to find that Yomi had stopped in her tracks.

"Look ahead."

"Ok?"

Shota looked ahead and then froze.

Hagoromo Gitsune... right in front of her, still wearing that black sailor uniform, standing among the out-of-season mountain hibiscus, seemingly raising her head to look in her direction because she sensed the arrival of someone.

"Sorry, we've taken the wrong turn."

Shota, who was not mentally prepared, turned around and left without saying a word.

Chapter 166. Bribery

"You're too timid."

"I know, but what can I do?"

Shota, who had suddenly escaped from that direction for some reason, explained to Yomi with a helpless expression, "If I don't say I took the wrong road, should I say I slept with the wrong person back then?"

"Shota, you're getting more and more annoying lately."

Huang Quan looked at Shota, who was scratching his head, with disdain and said, "What's wrong with you?"

"Isn't this just nervousness?"

Shota stopped scratching his hair and said, "People always change in one way or another when they're nervous."

"..."