Ian listened to this and suddenly realized something.

He looked at Ibaraki Douji in front of him, hesitated for a moment, and then continued to ask:

"So--"

"Where is she?"

"Here, where?"

Ibaraki Douji's expression seemed a little complicated.

She didn't understand why the ordinary human in front of her who claimed to be Shuten Douji's "servant" would want to find the woman who was killing demons everywhere on the island with a knife.

No.

To be precise, it's not just about killing ghosts.

But in order to kill the ghost, let the ghost do evil first.

The huge red demon that was chasing her just now was released by her in an unknown way.

This is something that Ibaraki Douji simply cannot understand.

She was at a loss for a moment, so she could only secretly look at Shuten-doji, trying to get some advice from him.

Shuten-doji hesitated for a while, and finally nodded in response.

This is an “instruction” to “do as He pleases.”

"there."

After receiving the reply, Ibaraki Douji pointed to the highest cliff on the entire Onigashima Island.

"She'd show up there quite often."

"okay, I get it."

Ian walked past the two little ghosts with a serious face and went straight to the cliff.

"Shuten..."

Ibaraki Douji pointed at Ian who was walking away and asked with a worried look on his face:

"Is he going to meet that woman?"

"..."

Shuten Douji looked at Ian's back, and there was a bit of confusion in his purple eyes.

"We don't know either."

"after all--"

"We are not human."

[You temporarily leave Shuten-douji and Ibaraki-douji. ]

[You walked past the giant red ghost's corpse.]

[You climbed up the cliff that Ibaraki Douji pointed to.]

[You saw a familiar figure. ]

[Talented Great Onmyoji++ has been activated: You confirm that the scene before your eyes is not caused by ghosts or external forces, but a real figure. ]

【You walk towards her.】

"Yakou?"

Ian looked at the familiar figure looking out to sea and asked:

"is it you?"

Hearing the voice, the figure was stunned for a moment, and then slowly turned around.

The moment their eyes met, Ian felt every inch of his skin trembling.

The person in front of me had a face almost identical to Minamoto no Raikou, the only difference was that her eyes had almost lost all color.

Everything is just as Ibaraki Douji said just now.

There is a strong ghostly aura about "her".

This was certainly not a feeling she herself was emitting - rather, it was because the blade in her hand was stained with too many "thoughts" of dead ghosts, which in turn affected herself.

But the "she" in front of me seemed to not care about this at all.

"why you?"

"She" picked up the sword in her hand and pointed it at Ian in front of her.

"My letter was obviously not sent to you."

"..."

With just this one sentence, Ian quickly confirmed the identity of the person in front of him.

After all, apart from himself and Shuten-doji, the only one who could know the letter was only one name.

"Ugly Gozen, is that you?"

"Yes, it's me." The other party answered directly.

Ian had to admit.

Although he looks almost identical to Minamoto no Raikou, the Ugly Gozen in front of him exudes an extremely cold attitude.

Her blade flashed white under the lightning.

A normal person seeing such a scene would probably just feel scared and worry about being beheaded by her.

But Ian wasn't worried about that.

He just wanted to figure it all out.

"Why do you... look like Raikou?"

"Because I am her and she is me."

Ugly Yuqian answered Ian's question expressionlessly.

"Since we are the same, we will naturally have the same appearance."

【You realize that this may be related to the battle of Oeyama. 】

[Perhaps it was Minamoto no Raikou's choice at that time that led to the birth of the current Ugly Gozen. ]

[How is all this done? ]

【You don’t know.】

"So, you are Raikou?"

The ugly emperor in front of him shook his head.

"nor."

"She can turn into me, but I won't turn back into her."

"what do you mean?"

Ian looked at the ugly emperor in front of him and his expression began to become serious.

"This has nothing to do with you."

Ugly Gozen looked back at Ian, without any emotion in his eyes.

"It's Minamoto no Raikou I want to see, not you."

"You asked her to come see me."

"..."

Ian was silent for a moment and shook his head.

"No, I can't."

"Why?" Ugly Gozen looked at the man in front of him, "I clearly told her in the letter that I would come to Onigashima, right?"

"But I didn't tell her."

Ian stated his reasons directly.

"So she didn't follow me here either."

"..."

Ugly Gozen looked at the man in front of him, and there was finally some change on his face.

But that was a sign of unhappiness.

"Abe, do you know what you are doing?"

"I know." Ian was not afraid of Ugly Gozen's angry tone.

"I chose to come here without telling her just to prevent Lai Guang from coming here."

"Ugly Gozen, tell me everything."

"Why do you know so much about Heian-kyō? And why did you call Raikou here?"

"Tell me everything."

【Ugly Gozen is watching you. 】

[Although she looks almost the same as Minamoto no Raikou, you can clearly feel the difference between her and her. ]

【Perhaps it is just as Ugly Gozen himself said. 】

[Is there some kind of inseparable, yet completely different connection between her and Minamoto no Raikou? ]

"..."

Ugly Gozen was silent for a long time.

She seemed to be considering whether to tell Ian something.

Finally, she spoke:

"Although my cognition tells me that I shouldn't tell you these things."

"But since you chose to come here, I think you are qualified to listen to all this."

"you--"

Ugly Gozen looked at Ian in front of him.

"You should still remember why Minamoto no Raikou went looking for you in the first place, right?"

"Learn the art of killing demons and revive the Genji."

Ian answered Ugly Yuzen's question directly without any hesitation.

He still remembered how Minamoto no Raikou threatened him with a sword.

to be frank.

She was the only one who dared to do this.

Although the result is useless, at least it is expressive enough.

So to this day, Ian still remembers Minamoto no Raikou's purpose - and in fact she is really working hard for all of this.

Now she has become the pillar of the entire Genji.

Ian was naturally very happy about this.

"Well, you really are just like she remembered. You remember everything."

Ugly Yuqian suddenly changed the subject.

"But if I say—"

“Does this kind of rejuvenation come at a price?”

[You are silent. 】

[In fact, you have already noticed some clues. ]

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