Miss Heber is fighting her way out of the Lostbelt!

They had also been to the Yokai Forest and left a torii gate there as a mark, nominally "registering it."

Without Inari Taisha Shrine and its branches across the country, Eastern Japan would certainly not be as peaceful as it is today.

"The situation in the Youkai Forest is not optimistic. Fortunately, you also enshrine Tamamonomae-sama, so we built an Inari Shrine there, merging the nearly collapsed Youkai Forest into the Inari Shrine."

Li Xi clenched her fists suddenly, regret and unwillingness welling up from the depths of her heart: After all, it was one step too late...

"So, what about the demon raccoons?" Li Xi asked in a deep voice, "Where will those demon raccoons living in the Monster Forest go?"

"I've already talked to them, and they all agreed to serve as Tamamonomae-sama's messenger." Suzuran smiled, her eyebrows curved. "It just so happens that humans also call us foxes. Now there are foxes and raccoons too."

Li Xi cast a skeptical look: "Where's the evidence? Why didn't I see a single demon raccoon?"

"Eh?"

Now it was Suzuran's turn to be confused: "The raccoon...? Aren't they right next to you? Can't you see them?"

Li Xi's mind went blank.

Suzuran suddenly realized: "Ah, so you're not a raccoon, but a human? That's true you can't see, but it doesn't matter, I can make you see."

She picked up the imperial coin placed beside her and pointed it at Li Xi.

In an instant, the empty plain became crowded. On the left were foxes with different hair types, and on the right was a demon raccoon with green leaves casting curious eyes.

Several beautiful tails appeared behind Lily of the Valley, and lively fox ears appeared on her head.

Li Xi looked at those evil raccoons, her face pale.

"You, you guys, how..."

She found that she could no longer speak the words of the fox demon, and the language that she could understand in the past was just noise in her ears.

Li Xi stretched out his hand tremblingly and reached out to Master Liu Mio.

She became human.

Suddenly, Li Xi fumbled with anxiety and took out the amulet that had turned to ashes from her waist and handed it to Linglan: "Can you help me take a look?"

Lily of the Valley frowned and brushed the wheel over the ashes.

"No, this amulet can only be destroyed by Tamamonomae-sama's divine power, and I can't put it back together... Oh, I think I understand what happened."

Her voice fell softly into Li Xi's ears, but it was like thunder that made her mind go blank.

"The contract between Lady Tamamonomae and the great raccoon demon Tanuki Taro has come to an end."

"After the end of the all-protecting decree of the Spirit Dream Fin Age Bar, all demon raccoons will be banished by the laws of the world and become ordinary raccoons, losing their magic power and wisdom."

"And your 'demon raccoon' side has been slain by Lady Tamamonomae. So now you are purely human. Naturally, you cannot see foxes and demon raccoons, nor can you understand their words."

"That is to say, that is to say..." Tanuki murmured to herself in a desperate voice, almost fainting, "I almost killed all the raccoons in the Monster Forest?"

"Yes." Suzuran nodded. "Thanks to Lady Tamamonomae for the oracle. Otherwise, everything would have been irreversible."

Li Xi did not answer. The effect of the imperial coin gradually wore off, and the scene in front of him became blurry and disappeared again. The place became empty and lonely again.

She is already human.

She can never return to her hometown.

Everything in the past was separated from her in an extremely rough way.

Now she is truly alone.

Li Xi stood up shakily and staggered down the mountain.

"Hello!" came a voice from behind.

Li Xi turned around blankly.

Miss Suzuran was standing not far away and called to her, "Do you want to stay at Inari Taisha Shrine for a while?"

"Will Inari Taisha take in a sinner like me?" Tanuki curled the corners of his mouth.

She probably wanted to laugh, but her expression was uglier than crying.

"Tamamonomae-sama only fulfilled your wish, she didn't say you were guilty." Suzuran walked down, holding Tanuki's hand. "Tamamonomae-sama taught us that we must live. If we don't know what to do, why not learn to be a miko and see how it goes?"

The shrine maiden named Shiina was already waiting by the side.

"Oh right." Linglan seemed to remember something, "Since I'm already a human, I should have a human name, right?"

"Then how about taking Shiina-san's last name? After all, she's the first person of your kind you've met since arriving at Inari Taisha."

Li Xi did not refute.

Or maybe she was no longer able to refute.

Or maybe her inner persistence no longer existed. In any case, she had no objection to the new name.

"Alas, Lord God, this is against the rules..." The miko smiled bitterly and looked at Li Xi, "Then the child's name is..."

"Tsuki." Suzuran answered.

"Okay." The miko nodded, "Then call me Shiina—Shiina Riki."

ps: The second volume is finished, and the last part is left.

ps2: Another chapter

Eastern Volume: 118 Singularities

For later scholars, the events of this era have always been vague.

History seems to have taken on a different look again, so much so that people from different eras are recorded at the same time.

But for people at that time, this didn't matter - because it would take them a long time to understand that history had changed and distorted.

This is the singularity.

Of course, there are also people who are "aware of this matter", but do not think there is a problem with it. Instead, they are happy to see it happen and enjoy it.

......

In Kyoto, on the Suzaku Bridge in front of Nijo Castle, a strong man holding a spear meets a female swordsman with two swords on her waist.

Honda Tadakatsu, who had gone through dozens of battles without being injured, stared at the female swordsman who called herself "Miyamoto Musashi", but the sweat on his forehead could not be stopped.

He could sense that within those sheaths lay a power beyond his reach.

"Sword Saint...?" the man known as Kongo Niou roared, brandishing his famous spear like an impenetrable wall. "Let me see if your swordsmanship can survive on the battlefield!"

The spear was twenty feet and one inch long, and the Sanskrit words on the blade shone brightly.

——The Dragonfly Cut of the Three Great Spears of the East.

The female swordsman, wearing a blue-gray haori and a conical hat, simply drew out the two long swords from her waist.

Storms, flames, torrents... none of these images existed, but Honda Tadakatsu felt as if his body was being ravaged by these natural disasters.

"Shinmen Musashi no Kami Fujiwara no Genshin, march out."

Across the fortified city transformed from the famous spear, Miyamoto Musashi's voice reached Honda Tadakatsu's ears clearly: "Hand over the dragon body in your hand!"

......

In Mingyuefang in the East Market, the old swordsman who has gone blind is drinking by himself.

In the shadows, the peerless assassin leaped in on tiptoe, his fingertips gleaming with crimson and dark blue. It was a fierce curse extracted from the blood of the Takachiho dragon. Just one drop could rip hundreds of people's bodies open from the inside out.

However, the ninjas calmly endured this curse and even used it as a weapon.

Just as her fingertips were about to touch the old swordsman's back, the seemingly unconscious blind swordsman drew out the small sword from his waist without warning and stabbed it into the ninja's heart like an antelope hanging a horn.

"when!"

His fingertips intertwined with the blade, and the ninja flew through several tables and chairs, stopping in front of the stage with a snap, bowing slightly and clasping his hands together.

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"Greetings, Mr. Tomita Segen, the 'Kodachi Warrior'. I am Chiyome Mochizuki."

The old swordsman turned sideways, his cloudy white eyes looking at Mochizuki Chiyome.

"Oh, it's the smell of dragon blood—it seems you've obtained the blood of the Takachiho dragon... Hmm, and ambergris, right?" Tomita Segen's cloudy eyes gradually revealed cold, vertical pupils like those of a reptile. "How terrifying, how terrifying..."

"However, I have no reason to lose."

A bleak white torrent appeared on the small sword, and densely packed compound eyes circled behind it.

Those eyeballs all have vertical pupils.

......

Kyoto, outside the Qingliang Pavilion.

The thin man wearing glasses stared at the swordsman in armor.

"They've already started fighting, fufufu." The man with glasses smiled a half-forced smile as he looked at the Shura Sword Ghost who had survived the battlefield. "Let me tell you, what I got were the fangs and scales of the Takachiho Dragon."

"I see. Zhongjuan Jisai, the founder of Zhongjuan Style swordsmanship, has been defeated by your sword."

"Ito Ittosai, you are truly an unworthy person, but you are a great successor in swordsmanship."

Sword Ghost Gu Jing Wu Bo's face showed a satisfied smile: "In that case, there is no reason for me to hold back."

"I suggest that we decide the outcome with three swords, Your Excellency, Yagyu Tajima-no-kami." Ito Ittosai narrowed his eyes and smiled, "After all, the night is still long."

In response to him, there was a sword light filled with silence.

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......

Kyoto, under the Accord.

The young monk, brandishing the Jumonji spear, was already engaged in a battle with the roaring Shikari-ryu swordsman.

Togo Shigei's sword technique was more violent and malicious than that of later generations, but underneath his sword technique, his expression became increasingly cold and lonely.

The spearmanship of the Hozoin School slowly transformed into a dense forest, completely covering the open space in front of the Accord.

The swordsman gazed at the dense forest and took a deep breath.

He had a premonition that he would die here today, at the hands of this young and unknown monk, Hozoin Inshun.

......

The swordsman, holding a sword as long as a clothesline, swung the last blow calmly.

Then, he bent down and took away the dragon tail that was gradually emerging like a flag from the body of Aizhou Yixiangzhai, the founder of Yinliu.

"Kojiro" wins again.

......

In the center of the sky, the bright white moon is round.

Fights to the death broke out simultaneously in various parts of Kyoto City.

This is a deathmatch ritual arranged by Ashiya Doman himself, called the Ceremony of the Waxing Moon. Swordsmen from all over the East have been invited here, transcending the boundaries of time and space.

They fight for the remains of the Takachiho Dragon, trying to piece together its form and spirit through fighting, to fill the ownerless dragon ball with magic power... and the final winner will be able to realize a wish.

This is the victory promised by the general and the emperor.

In Kyoto, a city far from the eastern lands and suspended in the clouds, the possibilities of history are twisted and entangled.

At this time, on the edge of Kyoto City, which has become a historical singularity, in a secluded and abandoned shrine, the figure of the fox demon gradually took shape.

【The deepest door has been opened.】

"In Kyoto, at the Hana no Ogosho, history and time stood still in the fifteenth century. Here, the last dragon of the world met its end. The Shogun who ruled Kyoto invited all swordsmen to come and feed on the dragon's remains like parasites."

"But the weapon that could kill the dragon has already been used for another purpose, so even the general cannot truly kill the dragon. But this is exactly what she wants to see."

"The currency of life is blood, and the Holy Grail uses it as a guarantee for all life in the world. Therefore, when the slaughter and life fill the 'Ritual of the Waxing Moon', the final victor will realize his wish, and the general will make good use of her military power to ensure that only he can seize the fruits of his labor. The latter is kept secret."

"Here, you only have one chance. The past has been witnessed, but the future is not yet determined - there is still a chance to change."

[Main Path 1: Defeat all swordsmen holding the remains of the "Takachiho Dragon"]

"The body of the Takachiho dragon is shattered, yet her spirit lives on. Gather all the fragments, and within the realm of the Waxing Moon, she will be able to return at your call."

[Main Path 2: Defeat the General in Charge of the Flower Palace]