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As he said this, Kintaro happily waved the gold nugget he had been holding towards Ian.

“Everyone has it!”

Although Kintaro's appearance was so ferocious that it made people feel a little scary when he said this.

But Ian could feel that he was genuinely happy that both he and Ian had gold nuggets.

In a sense -

He is actually quite upright.

Ian's opinion of Kintaro improves slightly.

"Yeah, we all have gold nuggets."

"Now, we can talk, right?"

"Sure, hey, sure."

Kintaro smiled a mixture of friendly and ferocious, while patting the grass beside him.

"Sit down, sit down!"

"..."

Realizing that this was Kintaro's way of showing his goodwill, Ian, who had originally wanted to ask him to go somewhere else, had to change his plan temporarily and sat down on the grass with him.

but--

What happened next was somewhat beyond Ian's expectations.

As soon as he sat down, Kintaro beside him held the piece of gold and started yelling at the great Onmyoji beside him.

"Glittering!"

"nice!"

"I want to show her too!"

"..."

Although it was just a simple sentence, Ian noticed the subtlety in it.

"she?"

"Kintaro, you mean..."

As soon as Ian asked, Kintaro said happily:

"Boy!"

"It's a beautiful thing. I want to show it to the boy too!"

"Is there any way you can help me?"

123. Shuten-doji's "Invitation"/Kintaro's Wine Gourd (-word chapter)

[Looking at Kintaro's excitement, you realize that the boy he mentioned might be a very important person to him. ]

But you don’t know what that is.

You decide to find out what's going on.

"Kintaro."

The sturdy big guy next to Ian asked again.

"I might be able to help you."

"But the prerequisite is that you have to explain to me clearly what the 'boy' you mentioned is?"

When Kintaro heard Ian say he could help him, he immediately became interested.

He held the gold in his hand, gestured and pointed outside, looking very excited.

"Over there! Over there!"

"The boy is over there!"

Ian looked in the direction Kintaro's finger pointed, and what came into view was the road out of Kyoto.

He immediately realized that Kintaro's "over there" was referring to places other than Heian Kyo.

To put it in easier to understand terms: it means taking him out yourself.

to be honest--

This is a somewhat risky move.

After all, it is very easy to stop Kintaro in Beijing.

But once you go outside, there are many more variables than you can imagine.

But is it really necessary to doubt him?

Ian thought about it again and again and decided to give it a try first.

After all, if something really happens, I am not unable to handle it.

"That--"

"Kintaro, can you take me there?"

"Sure! No problem!"

Kintaro, holding the gold, looked extremely excited.

[After briefly explaining your destination to Minamoto no Raikou, you and Kintaro left Heian-kyō the next day.]

[You don't know where his destination is, so you can only let him lead the way. ]

[Fortunately, Kintaro is a very simple person. ]

[He didn't have any bad intentions, he was just leading the way. ]

[You and he came to the foot of a mountain. ]

[That is the place where your adopted son, Usui Sadamitsu, fought.]

"..."

As soon as he stepped into the forest, Ian frowned.

Because he saw the forest full of signs of destruction.

The tall trees were covered with alarming claw marks, so the fallen leaves almost filled the entire path.

obviously.

This battle was not as simple as Usui Sadamitsu said.

In order not to worry himself, he deliberately omitted a lot of things and only reported good news but not bad news.

Ian realized that his relationship with his adopted sons was not entirely based on interests.

I will worry about them.

They also worry about themselves.

"This way, this way!"

After Kintaro shouted this, he ran towards a path in the mountains.

Although he looked like a burly man, he was as lively as a child at this moment.

Ian had no choice but to hurry up and keep up.

[You are traveling through the woods.]

【Kintaro is so excited to return to this mountain that he is a little scary.】

[Perhaps for him, this is the environment in which he was born and raised.]

You followed him around for quite some time.

[You finally stopped in front of a wooden house.]

"This……"

Looking at the wooden house in front of him, Ian was a little surprised.

This doesn't look like a mountain where people can live, but there is a house like this.

Something is wrong.

Ian was still wondering why, but Kintaro had already revealed the answer to him.

He pushed open the door with a happy look on his face, and then shouted inside:

"I am back!"

however--

There was no response from inside the house.

Kanekutaro looked at the empty room, looking somewhat confused.

Seeing this, Ian asked:

"Is there someone waiting for you here?"

"Yeah." Kintaro nodded while holding the gold.

"Grandma should be waiting for me here."

"..."

Ian realized something was wrong.

He hesitated for a while and asked in a low voice:

"Kintaro, does the grandma you are talking about look like this?"

[You described the appearance of the ghost described by Usui Sadamitsu to Kintaro.]

You hope the result will not be what you thought.

【But unfortunately, the opposite happened. 】

After listening to Ian's description, Kintaro clapped his hands happily.

"Yeah! Yeah! That's it!"

"You know Grandma!"

"..."

Ian didn't know what to reply for a moment.

He didn't want his description to correspond to the "grandma" mentioned by Kintaro.

But now it seems that the two are the same.

This also means a sad fact.

The monster killed by his adopted son Usui Sadamitsu was the "A-lao" who lived with Kintaro in this mountain.

She was indeed doing evil.

But at the same time, I'm afraid he did this for Kintaro.

He himself didn't know this.

After learning that Ian seemed to know his "grandmother", Kintaro became very concerned.

"Where is grandma?"

"..."

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Let's just make it go for now.

"Oh... She went to a very far place and won't be back for a while."

"That's why I had you taken back to Heian-kyō."