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"But according to the philosophy of the Moon People, waiting for the end of eternity within eternity... well, this is very consistent with the tradition of the Moon People."

"Well...so, Lord Shang Yang, please take me with you."

Her Royal Highness the Princess seemed a little sad, but suddenly changed the subject, her tone full of seductive joking.

"I can give you a 'reward'."

"...Princess, if you want Ai and I to help you, just ask nicely."

Hearing the "test" hidden in the joking tone of Her Royal Highness the Princess of the Moon City, the young man couldn't help but complain about Her Royal Highness the Princess of the Moon City's awkward personality.

"Hmm... I heard it."

Even though her true intentions were seen through by the young man, Her Royal Highness the Princess of the Moon City still wore a joking smile.

"So, what is Shang Yangjun's answer?"

Carefully hiding her uneasiness, the awkward princess, who was both expectant and very apologetic, stared intently at the handsome young man who was ruffling his hair.

Shang Yang, rubbing his hair in distress, turned his gaze to Ai, and Ai also turned her gaze to Shang Yang. The young man and the black-haired girl looked at each other.

In an instant, Shang Yang understood the meaning of love.

Nodding, Shang Yang turned and stared at Kaguya Houraisan, who was hiding her anticipation but also felt very uneasy.

"Princess, please go back to the moon."

"……Eh?!"

Volume 2: The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter: Chapter 47: Princess Kaguya Returns to the Moon

According to the records in "The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter", Princess Kaguya from the moon committed a crime and was exiled to the earth as punishment by the people on the moon. When her sentence on the earth was over, Kaguya followed the celestial messenger from the moon and returned to the moon. The emperor on the earth sent soldiers to drive away the celestial messenger from the moon and keep Kaguya on the ground, but in the end she had no way to deal with the celestial messenger. Under the gaze of everyone, Kaguya returned to the moon with the celestial messenger from the moon.

But what we know now is that Kaguya of Houraiyama still has hundreds of years left to serve. Not to mention the sensation that Kaguya-hime, who will live forever for hundreds of years, will cause on earth, the waves of suitors, from the emperor to the nobles, are enough to worry Her Royal Highness the Princess of the Moon City.

In fact, Shang Yang could also create a "shenyin" (a form of magic) to make Kaguya of Mount Penglai and the Taketori family disappear from public view. However, after observing them for a while, Shang Yang discovered that Taketori and his wife were not easy to deal with. They were an elderly couple living in the countryside. The idea of ​​marriage was deeply ingrained in them. Now, Taketori and his wife only thought about one thing every day: how to marry Kaguya off.

The thought of being constantly urged to get married gave Her Royal Highness the Princess of the Moon City a severe headache, and Shang Yang was also rubbing his hair in frustration.

Previously, the young man felt extremely helpless because of this. He followed the line of thought of Kaguya getting married - being urged to have children - whether Kaguya could have children. His thinking diverged and he thought of the question of whether the people of Penglai could have children after getting married. He casually asked Kaguya, who was watching anime with Ai, about this.

Then, the young man was pinned down and beaten by two angry girls.

Of course, Shang Yang thought that it would be okay for him and Kaguya to put on a play and pretend to get married.

Shang Yang was very confident that his handsomeness met the requirements of the old couple, the Bamboo Cutter, for a son-in-law.

But after knowing that they were a monster who "married" Kaguya, Mr. and Mrs. Taketori must have felt very pressured.

Of course, Shang Yang could insist that he was a god, but the current emperor, Emperor Mommu, who was also an admirer of Princess Kaguya, was a high-ranking "living god" in the hearts of Taketori Osamu and Taketori Nakagami.

The question is what kind of god Shang Yang calls himself. Is Shang Yang going to call himself the great cute god Nagato, who has come specially to marry Kaguya-hime?

...If the author writes like this, he will probably be beaten to death by Nagato Yuki's fans.

In the end, after discussing with the Lady Lord, Shang Yang felt that it was not unacceptable to occasionally restore the "original work".

Although the current "The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter" has been turned into "The Tale of the Giant Pit" by the earlier NEET-ized Princess of the Moon City, the young people think that it is better to return the orthodox ending of "The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter" to this country.

So, early the next morning, Shang Yang decided that he and Ai would make a friendly guest appearance as the Moon Messenger. Ai and Kaguya were discussing the details of the script.

"No, no! Listen to me! The costumes must be NERV combat uniforms!"

The extremely stubborn Princess insisted on her point of view loudly and rudely. It looked like she wanted to roll over and act cute and willful.

Kaguya pointed at Shinji, Rei Ayanami, and Asuka, who were dressed as members of the NERV organization, on the computer screen, and refused to back down.

"If you pick me up wearing your NERV combat uniform, I can claim that I'm actually the pilot of the gigantic combat weapon Unit-01, and that the moon is being invaded by the Angels, and I'm going back to fight them. That's a perfectly good excuse. And when Anno gets the inspiration for EVA, he can claim that the Instrumentality Project began thousands of years ago, and he can come up with even more interesting plots!"

Ai shyly stared at the combat uniform that seemed shameless to her, then shook her little head like a rattle, letting her long black hair sway back and forth like a whip, hitting Shang Yang's cheeks.

"I don't agree either!"

The young man, who was also extremely persistent, slammed his hand on the table and refused to give in at all.

"I will not allow any future EVA anime to have a boring 'EVA Prequel: Princess Kaguya'."

After expressing his objection, the young man also pulled up a picture on his computer. In the picture, Keanu Reeves, the savior of "The Matrix", was wearing a black windbreaker and black sunglasses.

"The Moon City is known for its high technology, so the Moon Messenger should be a science fiction character."

Young people who were keen on SF works in their previous lives are also extremely stubborn.

"I absolutely disagree!"

Kaguya was also very angry when she heard this, and stared at Shang Yang with her beautiful eyes.

[…Master, the combined age of you and Kaguya-san is only ten years, no more.]

The Lady Lord complained coldly and emotionlessly within the young man's consciousness.

After staring at each other for a long time, the two sighed at the same time.

"Forget it, let's be serious."

Shang Yang suggested, pressing his temples.

Nodding in agreement, Kaguya also felt that she could no longer destroy the values ​​of the people on Earth.

Speaking of which, except for Fujiwara no Fuhito, whom Kaguya deliberately wanted to punish and whose official career had come to an end because of the incident of privately engraving the imperial seal of the Tang Dynasty, the endings of the other four people were much better than the original "The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter".

Prince Shizhu formed a fleet and went to the Far West to look for Danterian's bookshelf. Although he found nothing, he seemed to like the life of adventure on the sea. Except for letting some servants who missed their hometown return by ship, Prince Shizhu led the servants who were willing to follow him to the Far West and became an adventurous navigator. After that, there was no news of him. According to people who have seen him, Prince Shizhu is looking for treasures all over the world with a captain named Jack.

After resigning his post a year ago, Right Minister Abe no Miyabi, driven to despair, embarked on a personal journey to find the girl named "Shana." Though he still had no leads, his vision broadened as he experienced the customs and people of various countries. He took his family on a carefree, aimless journey around the world. He was never seen again. Some say he encountered a storm at sea, but remained unfazed, commanding his fleet with a hearty laugh as he sailed into the storm. It's unknown whether he survived. Others say he found the immortal island of Penglai and ascended to heaven there. Still others say he encountered Prince Shizuku and Captain Jack Sparrow while on his journey, joining them on their adventures around the world.

When Grand Councilor Otomo Miyuki was searching for a woman named "Tosaka Rin" in the Edo period, although he also had no clues, he unexpectedly learned about the hardships of life for many common people. Such sufferings of the world undoubtedly shocked the Grand Councilor, who was a noble family for generations. After returning to Fujiwara-kyo, he went to Taketori Ogawa's house, bowed deeply outside the door, and returned to Fujiwara-kyo without looking back to report to the Emperor. The problems he stated were urgent and sharp, but the solutions he proposed were simple and easy to implement. He became a good man who worked for the benefit of the common people.

While searching for a writer named "Sugii Hikaru", Chunagon Ishigami Maro came into contact with many literati living in seclusion in mountain temples. These unprecedented and diverse literary works made Chunagon deeply fascinated. Now, Chunagon is collecting works of literati from all over Japan, and he himself is also going to travel to various parts of Japan. While continuing to search for the writer, Chunagon walked along the way, using his pen to write down all the poems and literati works he heard. It is said that he has now reached the farther east.

Of course, some people are not as lucky as they thought.

Fujiwara no Fuhito, a former Grand Minister who had lost all his power, had become increasingly ill in the past few days. Although he was not very old, he looked as old as a dying man. His wife, Michiyo, carefully helped him up from the couch. A concubine beside him immediately brought a bowl of black herbs and spooned them into Fujiwara no Fuhito's mouth.

After reluctantly drinking a few sips of the medicine, Fujiwara no Fuhito waved his hand reluctantly, asking the concubine to leave, and he lay down again with the help of his wife Michiyo.

When Mrs. Michiyo saw Fujiwara no Fuhito's current appearance, she shook her head, covered Fujiwara no Fuhito with the quilt, and left with a sad face.

After his wife left, Fujiwara no Moeko appeared at the door.

Fujiwara no Moeko stood at the door and looked at her father and sighed. She didn't expect that her father, who was always energetic and seemed like nothing in the world could stump him, would become like this.

Thinking carefully, when did her father no longer see her? Was it three or four years ago, or five or six years ago, or even seven or eight years ago? Fujiwara no Moeko couldn't remember. She only remembered that ten years ago, after her biological mother passed away, her father became increasingly busy and indifferent to her. Ever since her sister, Miyako, the only one who cared about her and who was born to the same mother, entered the palace and married His Majesty, no one else in the family liked her. But Fujiwara no Moeko didn't care. As long as one day, her father could still laugh out loud behind her back like when she was a child, she would not care.

Just fine.

My father became like this because of that woman named Kaguya-hime. Your Majesty also seems to be obsessed with Kaguya-hime. His Majesty's elder sister, Concubine Miyako, who married his Majesty, has been neglected for quite some time.

The source of all the misfortunes is that Kaguya-sama, how annoying...

The girl clenched her fists tightly.

The cool autumn climate made the nobles living in Fujiwara-kyo quite satisfied. In addition, the former Minister of the Interior Fujiwara no Fuhito, who was in charge of the government, fell from power. The huge power originally held by the former Minister of the Interior was distributed evenly to the nobles under him. The nobles were generally very satisfied with this result, and therefore looked forward to this year's New Year's Daijosai even more.

However, standing at the pinnacle of Japan, the young Emperor Wenwu felt extremely surprised and irritated at this moment.

Nara, outside Fujiwara no Kyo, Asuka Kiyomihara Palace.

The young monarch sat on the throne, frowning deeply, looking at the Bamboo Cutter who was kneeling on the steps and begging bitterly.

According to the old man, Kaguya has been frowning every time she saw the moon since about a month ago, and the nights without moon were just like any other day when the sky was overcast. Until yesterday, Kaguya looked at the gradually waxing moon and burst into tears. Under repeated questioning from the old man and the old woman, she choked up and said that she was a princess on the moon, but because she made mistakes, she was punished to suffer on the earth. Now her sentence has expired, and the moon messenger will descend from the moon to the earth on the night of the fifteenth to take her back to the moon.

Upon hearing this, Taketori Ou and Taketori Granny were horrified. Taketori Ou hurried to Asuka Kiyomihara Palace. Because Emperor Mommu had summoned him several times before, he soon met the young emperor. He burst into tears and begged the emperor to send someone to protect Kaguya-hime and prevent her from being taken away by the Moon Messenger.

"The Moon Messenger, the Moon Kingdom..." Repeating these words, the young monarch's expression became gloomy and he waved his hand.

"I have only met Kaguya-hime once, yet I cannot forget her. Moreover, Taketori and Kaguya-hime were together day and night. The Moon-goddess should govern the Kingdom of the Moon, while the land on Earth is Akitsu-su (Japan), which I govern. I agree to this matter."

Upon hearing this, Taketori Ogura was overjoyed. He thanked the young Emperor Mommu and left the Kiyomihara Palace excitedly.

Nara, the top of Mount Yoshino.

The young man with disheveled hair sat cross-legged on the edge of the cliff at the top of the mountain, facing the vast and boundless sea of ​​clouds with constantly rippling waves.

There was an unnatural distortion of light around the young man, which was a strange phenomenon caused by the operation of the power of yin and yang.

The unnatural light distortion disappeared, and the young man raised his right hand and extended his index finger towards the rippling sea of ​​clouds.

The sea of ​​clouds was still.

What a strange sight it is, not stillness but motionlessness, without the wanton waves of the sea of ​​clouds. The rolling sea of ​​clouds seems to have turned into a stagnant pool without any ripples, and there is no change anymore.

The power of yin and yang reverses the world.

After the great power of the Yin-Yang force was taken back, the sea of ​​clouds began to surge again.

Shang Yang stood up and looked at the sea of ​​clouds which was still rippling with waves, feeling very satisfied.

In Nara, at the foot of Mount Yoshino, Sanuki built the Maro House using bamboo.

The night of the full moon on the 15th.

That night, the moon was bright and the stars were sparse. A bright full moon hung high in the sky, and the earth was silent.

The more than 1,000 foot soldiers who were originally guarding the capital, each led by a samurai leader, hid in the rice fields, behind the houses, or in the grass, concentrating their minds and staring at the night sky nervously.

Taketori Old Man and Taketori Mother-in-law stayed at home. Looking at the tight formation, Taketori Old Man finally breathed a sigh of relief and walked into the inner room alone.

In the inner room, Kaguya was wearing gorgeous clothes, gently covering her face, as if she was sobbing. Seeing Kaguya like this, Bamboo Cutter whispered to comfort her.

"Don't worry, there are thousands of soldiers lying in ambush around this house. The moon's messenger can't take you back to the moon."

Kaguya didn't say anything, just sobbed and shook her head gently.

The Bamboo Cutter sighed and left the inner room. After the Bamboo Cutter left, Kaguya lowered her sleeves that were covering her face, feeling somewhat lost.

"Malu, mother-in-law, I am truly an unfilial daughter. Shang Yang is right. Everything is about making a choice, and I must make one too."

After saying that, Kaguya turned sideways and cast her gaze towards the bright moon hanging high in the sky.

This is the misfortune brought about by "change" after losing eternity.

So...if I choose to stay on Earth forever, what kind of life will I lead in the eternity before the arrival of the eternal catastrophe?

It was already midnight, and the samurai and foot soldiers were generally feeling sleepy.

Perhaps the moon's messenger wouldn't come tonight. This was the general thought.

However, at this moment, something strange happened.

The moonlight seemed to suddenly become brighter, and the sound of a bell that had never been heard before was sometimes distant and sometimes short. The samurai and foot soldiers all gripped their weapons tightly and cast their eyes towards the moon at the same time.

The light from the moon suddenly became fixed, and turned into a road connecting the moon and the earth. Along with the sound of light bells, something seemed to be coming on the road connecting to the moon.

As it got closer, the soldiers finally saw clearly that it was a magnificent carriage pulled by eight white horses, galloping rapidly from the moon road to the ground. The hazy fog covered the foot of Mount Yoshino, making it difficult to see clearly.

The foot soldiers came to their senses from this astonishing scene and hurriedly drew their bows and arrows, ready to shoot at the luxurious carriage coming from the moon.

However, before the archers could shoot their arrows at the luxurious carriage, a person dressed in luxurious clothes, who looked like a woman, raised her right hand and revealed her wrist. On her wrist, which was as white as jade, were two bells tied with red ropes.

Love gently shook the bell. Although it was just a bell, it sounded like a heavy ancient bell. The soldiers who heard the heavy sound began to feel dizzy and could no longer stand. Some sat down on the ground, while others simply lay flat on the ground, unable to get up again.

A thousand soldiers, including some with strong character, were all knocked down by the drowsiness brought by the bell, and no one was spared.

Bamboo Cutter stood in the courtyard, his mouth wide open, looking in panic at the luxurious carriage coming from the sky. The bells in this house deliberately avoided the sound and did not affect the people inside.

The luxurious carriage slowly landed on the roof. Shang Yanghe Ai was wearing gorgeous and luxurious clothes, and had deliberately used magic power to cover their faces. Outsiders would only see them hazy and difficult to see clearly.

Shang Yang and Ai jumped off the roof, and without paying any attention to the stunned Taketori Old Man and Taketori Granny, they walked straight into the inner room. Kaguya was sitting upright, looking at Shang Yang and Ai, who were disguised as the Moon Messenger, with great interest.

Shang Yang entered the inner room and found it empty. He couldn't help but feel confused. Should there be some plot here?

At this time, Ai tugged at Shang Yang's sleeve, signaling him to leave quickly.

Coming back to his senses, Shang Yang looked at Kaguya who was pretending to be something, and couldn't help but recall the first time he met Kaguya ten years ago.

The young man with shaggy hair and the black-haired girl took a step forward at the same time and extended a hand to Her Royal Highness the Princess of the Moon City.

Kaguya stood up, raised her white hands, placed them on Shang Yang and Ai's hands respectively, and held them gently.

The Princess of the Moon City gave the two of them a mischievous smile that seemed to be hiding her shyness.

"Thank you for accepting me. Please take good care of me in the long future."

Then, the three of them walked out of the inner room together and went to the courtyard. Then, they flew onto the roof and got on the luxurious carriage.

The old man, Bamboo Cutter, stood up with difficulty, looked at Kaguya-hime who was riding on the luxurious carriage on the roof, opened his mouth, and finally, the old man shouted towards the luxurious carriage that was rising higher and higher and heading towards the road to the moon.