I Am a Heroic Spirit

An explosion occurred, an explosion almost comparable to a nuclear bomb, in front of Nijo Castle. The strong energy fluctuations were enough to destroy half of the city.

Fortunately, however, Hokusai Katsushika successfully reduced the impact of the shock wave to the lowest level in The Great Wave off Kanagawa.

Wave after wave from the Kanagawa River hit Mizuko Gomonin, which almost summoned the entire Kanagawa River. The rushing river submerged Nijo Castle and also dispersed a large part of the energy emitted by the Five Elements Ball.

"hateful!"

Abe Yoshihei jumped out of the river, floated above the river, and stopped attacking. Because water can conduct electricity, his strongest means of attack is lightning. Once used, the heroic spirits on the opposite side may not be in danger, but once they are hit by the water flow, they will be in trouble.

Mizuko Gomonin also floated up from the water in a panic, her feet turning into water elements, and she stood on the surface of the Kanagawa River.

"Is there a way?"

Abe Yoshihei took a casual glance and his expression suddenly became serious, because Abe Youxing had not appeared until now, and it was obvious that such a large-scale attack could not seriously damage them.

Mikadoin Mizutsuko also noticed something was wrong; Abe Ariyuki was missing. Mikadoin Mizutsuko quickly transformed her body into a water element and slipped into the river. Soon, she found Abe Ariyuki's body amidst the rubble at the bottom of the river. A hole was clearly visible above Abe Ariyuki's head, and a bullet had fallen to the side. It was clear that Abe Ariyuki had taken defensive measures, but they hadn't completely neutralized the bullet's momentum.

Mizuki Gomonin's face turned ashen. He grabbed Abe Ariyuki's arm with one hand and floated towards the surface of the river.

"It's that sniper!"

Abe Yoshihei noticed Abe Ariyuki's injuries at the first time and determined the identity of the murderer, but he had no way of finding Emiya Kiritsugu who was hiding unless he razed the area to the ground.

After Abe Yuyuki's death, only Abe Yoshihei and Gomonin Mizujiko were left on the Gomonin side. The two of them fought against seven people, plus Emiya Kiritsugu who was secretly plotting against them. Within a few seconds, Abe Yuyuki and Gomonin Mizujiko were captured alive.

After all, it didn't matter if a few people were killed in the previous life-and-death duel, but now that the two people from the Gomonin family have been captured, they can't kill Bai Qingming's only descendant and his only son in front of Bai Qingming, although under normal circumstances, his descendants should have died long ago.

"Jiping, I didn't expect to meet you in this situation."

Bai Qingming said to Abe Yoshihei with a complicated expression.

"Sorry, other father, if you want to persuade me, don't bother saying it. I have no chance to turn back." Abe Yoshihei responded coldly.

"Another ancestor, I'm really sorry. What we need is an ancestor who can lead our Abe family to the top, not you." Mizuki Gomonin said bluntly. This has been the obsession of the Gomonin family for thousands of years. Except for the first head of the Gomonin family in black, no one will be shaken by this.

Bai Qingming was speechless. He could hear the determination in their words, an obsession that could not be shaken by words.

After leaving Abe Yoshihei and Gomonin Mizuko to Bai Qingming, the other six went to destroy Hei Qingming who had not yet successfully resurrected.

"Do you think this will stop me?"

Facing the heroic spirits rushing towards it from all directions, Yuyuko roared loudly, and its nine tails swelled up, becoming thicker than Titanoboa, dancing in the air like a nimble venomous snake, attacking the enemy.

"It's really hard to deal with."

Shuten-doji swung his sword hard at the fox's tail, but only left a shallow sword mark on the fox's tail. Dozens of hairs fell off the fox's tail, making a crisp sound when they fell to the ground.

"Is your tail made of alloy?"

Shuten-doji couldn't help but complain that the feeling of being chopped down didn't feel like flesh at all, but rather like a hard weapon.

Yuyuko is very powerful. Her own strength, plus the eight or nine tenths of Tamamonomae's demonic power remaining in the Killing Stone, makes her stronger than Shuten Douji. Even if Shuten Douji, Ibaraki Douji, Emiya Kiritsugu, and Princess Geubu join forces to fight the enemy, the Heroic Spirits who have been exhausted in the previous battles will find it difficult to defeat Yuyuko in a short time.

Just when the two sides were in a stalemate, a white shadow swiftly passed through the Nine-Tailed Fox's attack and appeared in front of Yuyuko.

Yuyuko's response to this was to immediately take out a huge iron fan from its tail and hit the figure that suddenly appeared in front of it.

"Yan Ling·Shou."

A green light shield covered the newcomer. Yuyuko's heavy blow only created dense cracks on the light shield in front of it, but failed to destroy it with one blow.

"You are... Seimei? No! You're just an imposter! The real Seimei hasn't been born yet!"

When Yuyuko saw the appearance of the person who came, she couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, but in the blink of an eye, she found a reason for herself, or successfully deceived herself, and launched a fierce attack on Bai Qingming with a huge iron fan.

How sad, this fake life of being deceived.

Looking at Yuyuko's appearance, Bai Qingming couldn't help but feel sad for her.

After blocking Yuyuko's attack with a strengthened light shield, Bai Qingming said to Yuyuko in a low voice: "Come to think of it, I should call you sister, Yuyu, the daughter of Tamamonomae. Do you still remember who you are? In other words, do you remember what your relationship is with Tamamonomae and Abe Haruaki? And do you remember when Abe Haruaki became your child?"

"..."

Yuyuko's expression was blank for a moment. Although she still had that look of disgust and hatred, she did reveal confusion and doubt.

Yuyi Fox asked back: "What the hell are you talking about?"

That expression lasted only a moment. Yuyuko subconsciously denied Bai Qingming's words, casting them aside. Her attack intensified, shattering Bai Qingming's shield in mere seconds. The massive iron fan she had used to attack, after breaking through the shield, launched another blow. When Bai Qingming dodged, it flew out of her hand, unable to exert any force, and plummeted to the ground, cleaving the earth in two.

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It's not that she has no doubts at all, nor that Kuroi Seimei's magic is really so perfect, but Yuyuko is afraid. She is afraid that her life is really a scam.

Today, a thousand years later, even though she possesses strength that is no weaker than that of Kuroi Seimei, she is still afraid to think about those things, because she is unwilling to admit that her children and her family affection are all false. Fearing this, Yuyuko would rather deceive herself than think about the suspicious points in her memory.

Bai Qingming lamented and looked at Yuyuko with an angry look.

Whether from the perspective of reducing an enemy or from the perspective of their relationship, Bai Qingming wants to make Yuyuko realize it, but this obviously doesn't work because Hei Qingming has completely become Yuyuko's emotional sustenance.

The Mahaparinirvana Sutra says: There are eight sufferings in the human world: birth, old age, sickness, death, resentment and hatred, separation from loved ones, failure to obtain what one desires, and the five aggregates.

First, the suffering of birth.

Second, the suffering of old age.

Third, the suffering of illness.

Fourth, the suffering of death.

Fifth, it is painful to meet with those you hate, because you gather together with those you don’t love.

Sixth, the pain of separation from loved ones, which is the pain of being separated from the one you love against your will.

Seventh, the suffering of not getting what you want, which means having desires but not being able to satisfy them.

Eighth, the five aggregates of suffering are composed of the five elements of form, feeling, perception, volition and consciousness. They are constantly changing and filled with all kinds of physical and mental suffering.

I don't know if there is some curse, but Tamamonomae's family of foxes are always associated with the three kinds of suffering: resentment and hatred, love and separation, and failure to obtain what they desire. This is true in the original work of Nura: The Greatest Son, the mobile game Onmyoji, myths and legends, and other anime novels. They almost never have a good ending. Even the strongest Tamamonomae, Tama in FGO, is said to have a nature similar to that of a beast. Since there is such an evaluation, there is no doubt whether she is suffering or not.

After throwing away the Two-Tailed Iron Fan, Yuyuko immediately took out a long sword from its tail and slashed at Bai Qingming.

"Word Spirit: Guard! Word Spirit: Bind!"

Bai Qingming threw out two talismans, one turned into a shield in front of him, and the other turned into a chain made of runes when it approached Yuyuko, and wrapped around Yuyuko.

Yuyuko slashed at the chain with her sword, but failed to cut it in half. Instead, the sword broke. After being attacked, the chain suddenly accelerated and instantly rushed to Yuyuko's side, binding her before she could swing the sword a second time.

Things went very smoothly. On the one hand, Bai Qingming's strength was not much worse than that of Yuyuko. On the other hand, most of Yuyuko's power was concentrated in its nine tails. Now the nine tails were held back by Shuten Douji, Musashibo Benkei, Ushiwakamaru, Katsushika Hokusai, Ibaraki Douji, and Geibuhime. There was also an Emiya Kiritsugu hiding in the dark, who could shoot at her at any time. How could Yuyuko, who could not even exert half of her strength, resist the power of Bai Qingming?

A strong demonic aura burst out from Yuyuko's whole body, and the chains that bound Yuyuko began to make a "rustling" sound. Immediately, a "cracking" sound was heard, and cracks gradually appeared on the chains.

However, at this speed, it would take Yuyuko more than ten seconds to break free from Bai Qingming's control.

Bai Qingming did not maintain the chains, nor did he take the time to destroy Yuyuko, but rushed straight towards the giant baby.

But, he was still one step too late.

"Click——"

Like shattering glass, cracks spread across the enormous infant's body. A shard broke away, followed by a second, a third, and countless more. It was as if a peerless demon had been unsealed. As the shards fell away, a vast and majestic demonic aura rose to the sky.

However, the huge baby was not a seal, but a protective shell for Hei Qingming.

"Failed?"

Bai Qingming stopped and his expression became solemn. Hei Qingming, the symbol of evil, was originally stronger than him. Now, after thousands of years of suffering in hell, his demonic power increased exponentially. It was absolutely impossible for him to defeat him alone.

"Seimei! Seimei! My child! Are you finally coming back?" Looking at the huge broken baby in the sky, Yuyuko shouted with joy. The violent demonic power rushed out of her body and broke the chains that sealed her movements.

After being freed from its restraints, Yuyuko immediately flew towards the giant baby in the sky like a moth to a flame.

The panting Shuten-douji and the others immediately retreated to rest. After fighting for a long time without stopping, they could not bear it even if their endurance was high. Even if they still had plenty of magic power, they could not fight on due to mental exhaustion.

In the sky, the fragments that fell off the giant baby's body were approached by the flying feathered fox as they fell to the ground.

At this moment, strange images appeared on the fragments near Yuyuko. Those were Yuyuko's experiences over the past hundreds of years, and on one fragment, there appeared a picture of Yuyuko and Nurarihyon playing together.

Seeing this scene, Yuyuko's brain felt like it was pricked by a needle, and she felt severe pain. Her body, which had originally risen, also stopped in mid-air.

The images changed one after another, and the eggshell continued to shatter. Yuyuko looked at the images on the eggshell and covered her face in disbelief. At this moment, she understood everything. Yuyuko cried out sadly: "Seimei, did you plan all this? Did you make my mother go through this? Are you the one manipulating everything behind the scenes? This painful memory gives me a headache! Seimei! Answer me! Seimei!"

Hei Qingming finally returned to the world from hell. The strong naked man with blond hair and golden eyes walked out of the collapsed giant baby and stood steadily in the air as if there was a platform under him.

Hearing Yuyuko's call, Hei Qingming lowered his head, facing the painful Yuyuko, looking at Yuyuko's eyes without any emotion, and replied coldly: "I'm sorry, mother."

"I ordered my mother to reside in this girl's body from Hell, but I never imagined things would turn out like this."

Hei Qingming avoided the main point by talking about it, because apart from these plans, the tricks he did to Yuyuko in Heian-kyo did not appear in the fragments condensed from Yuyuko's demonic power.

It may be because the time interval is too long, or it may be because the current body is not the original body created by Tamamonomae, or it may have appeared but was ignored by Yuyuko.

However, no matter what the reason is, it doesn't matter, because Yuyuko doesn't care.

Hearing Hei Qingming's insincere apology, Yuyuko naturally forgave Hei Qingming, just like every parent.

Even though she didn't like Hei Qingming's attitude at the moment, the obsession and emotions that had been accumulated in her heart for thousands of years immediately dissipated the dissatisfaction in her heart.

"Oh, oh, it's okay, Qingming, it's okay, I'm happy, I'm happy to help you! Don't say anymore, come here, come here, let me hug you!"

Yuyuko excitedly flew to Hei Qingming's front, wrapped her arms around him, and sobbed with emotion, "That's great! Qingming! It's so great! I can finally hug you again!"

This should have been a heartwarming and touching scene, but the people watching from below couldn't help but shudder, because Kuroo Seimei's eyes when he looked at Yuyuko were cold and ruthless, as cruel as if he was looking at a dead object.

Bai Qingming pursed his lips and looked at Yuyuko with a complicated expression. Yuyuko looked so pathetic. Hei Qingming's indifferent tone could be clearly heard. As long as he looked up, he could see the indifferent attitude.

However, Yuyuko remained oblivious to anything.

"How disgusting." Shuten-doji on the ground frowned and cursed under his breath. She usually kept her emotions expressionless, but this was a rare moment when she showed a look of disgust.

"Those who are disloyal, unjust and unfilial should be beheaded." Ushiwakamaru said in a deep voice.

At this moment, the ruins of Nijo Castle began to sway again. It seemed to be the place where Kuro Seimei was born. The Nue Pond, which was filled with resentful water, showed abnormal behavior, as if it was ignited by something. The scorching temperature made the air distorted, like the magma in a volcano.

In fact, the place did turn into a magma pool, and the strong smell of sulfur and unbearable stench spread along with the rising hot air.

"that is?"

Yuyuko also noticed the lava pool below and couldn't help but exclaim.

"It's hell."

"hell?"

"That's where I've been for the past thousand years. Whether you're a human or a demon, that's where you'll eventually arrive."

Kuro Seimei said slowly, and then suddenly pushed Yuyuko lightly, and Yuyuko, who was completely defenseless against Kuro Seimei, fell down immediately.

However, this was not a free fall. Yuyuko had the ability to fly, and she would not fall if she was just pushed. Her descent without any resistance was caused by a powerful and irresistible suction force that sucked her body down.

"Qingming!"

Yuyuko struggled with all her might but was powerless to resist, wailing in despair. She could never have imagined that the child she had given birth to with so much effort would kill her.

Watching Yuyuko falling into hell, Kuro Seimei's face showed no emotion at all, and he said indifferently, "I am truly grateful for these past thousand years, great mother. Thanks to you, I can stand on earth again. You were my sun, the light of hope and warmth.

"Qingming! Qingming!"

Yuyuko called out to Hei Qingming in grief, her body being grabbed by countless hands reaching out from the magma pool. In an instant, despair turned to hatred, hatred for being abandoned, hatred for being manipulated and induced for thousands of years, and it was so strong that it was beyond measure.

"Only by leaving you behind can I continue on this path. The devil's way is a shadow, and only when the light shines behind can I become the true master of the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons and move forward." Hearing Yuyuko's call, Hei Qingming turned around and turned his back to Yuyuko's desperate gaze.

However, the stronger the hatred, the stronger the love. The obsession and emotion that have lasted for thousands of years are inherently unimaginably strong.

"Seimei, I love you!"

Yuyuko used up her last bit of strength and screamed heart-wrenchingly before being dragged into hell by countless hands.

As Yuyuko completely disappeared, the magma pool changed from a fiery red to a strong golden color, and a radiance like the sun emanated from the pool.

This color made Shuten-douji, Ibaraki-douji, and Keibu-hime feel inexplicably moved and familiar.

But that was all; apart from the change in color, the pool remained unchanged.

No one came to help, not even Bai Qingming, who offered a helping hand before Yuyuko was dragged into hell. In Bai Qingming's view, even if Yuyuko was deceived, she had committed an unforgivable crime. Instead of sealing Yuyuko, it would be better to let her be dragged into hell.

"Long time no see. I, the white one, Shuten-douji, Ibaraki-douji, Geibu-hime, Ushiwakamaru, and the other three, what should I call them?" Black Seimei turned around and looked down at White Seimei and the group of heroic spirits below, with a malicious smile on his face.

Kuroharu called out everyone's name one by one, not even missing Emiya Kiritsugu who was hiding in the dark.

"It's indeed been a long time since we last met. It's been nearly a thousand years since I sent you to hell. But having said that, your aesthetic sense is getting worse and worse. Not only have you turned yourself into a muscular man, but you are also naked in public. Don't you have any sense of shame?" Bai Qingming sneered at Hei Qingming without any hesitation.