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Shi Bai narrowed his eyes slightly.

"What, do you also want to possess this cursed life?"

"Of course I want it. Wouldn't I crave it if it didn't exist?"

Chunhu chuckled softly.

"I have answered your question. Now I will move on to my next question: Can you grant other people this cursed life as well?"

"........."

Shi Bai's lips twitched slightly, and he expressionlessly looked away.

"Immortality is a curse. You'd better not have too high expectations for it. It only brings countless disasters. Let others have this cursed life too? Don't be ridiculous."

"It's your turn to ask a question."

Nodding, Chunhu switched hands to support her head, her expression remaining unchanged.

"My question is very simple: Who are you?"

Shi Bai looked at Chunhu in front of him.

It was sunrise, and the golden sunlight bathed the entire world in a golden hue.

"Me? I am Pure Fox."

Turning her head to look at the beautiful scenery behind her, Chunhu stood up from the chair, and with her movement, the chair turned into countless golden light spots and disappeared into the air.

"I've finished asking my questions. This is something your student, Yagokoro Eirin, asked me to give to you."

A golden envelope appeared in her hand without her noticing. After glancing at Shi Bai, Chunhu tossed the letter far away.

"Yonglin..."

Looking at the golden letter in his hand, Shi Bai pondered for a moment before turning to Chunhu in front of him.

"Next question, where is Heng'e?"

"The question and answer session is over. I was just sent to deliver a message on someone's behalf. However, I can give you an extra piece of information: she is safe now, and I am not her."

After casually uttering those words, Chunhu's figure vanished into the morning sunlight, leaving no trace.

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"Are you planning to leave again?"

Looking at the man who had come to bid her farewell, Hirain Hana's words carried a hint of dissatisfaction.

"Although I don't know what you've been busy with, wouldn't it be better to just stay on the Monster Mountain? Your condition isn't very stable yet, so why do you have to worry about those things?"

"This is no small matter. Strictly speaking, it is closely related to my own situation. As I said before, I have enemies. It's still a long way off for me to live a leisurely life of waiting to die."

He waved his hand, seemingly in a very good mood.

"Please say goodbye to Hua and Wenwen for me. When I come back, I will bring each of you a small gift."

"You... never mind, but if you leave, what will happen to that shrine? And what about the bounty on those monsters?"

"Hmm... In order to avoid being killed by some mysterious god, let's just delete the god enshrined at Hakurei Shrine and let this dark history be buried in history."

Shi Bai rubbed his forehead, feeling a slight headache.

"As for the rest... whatever!! After all, there's still no news of Kazami Yuuka after so long, it's very likely that she hasn't been reborn yet or is still a flower..."

"There are still 1,400 years to go."

A black-haired loli suddenly uttered these words in a low voice.

"Uh... what, fourteen hundred years?"

Shi Bai reached out and scratched his hair, slightly puzzled.

"I'll be an adult in 1,400 years. If you dare to shirk your responsibilities then, I'll lead all the monsters on Monster Mountain to hunt you down."

A little girl answered softly.

"Not only that, I will also expose all your dark history to the public without missing a single one."

"Uh...what..."

Shi Bai suddenly regretted revealing his relationship with Kazami Yuuka to the other party.

"I don't care, even if she came first, I won't just give up so easily."

With a soft hum, the little girl turned around.

"Yuuka Kazami, right? I'll find her first."

Shi Bai: "..."

The saying goes, "It is hardest to bear the kindness of a beautiful woman." Now he understands these words a little better. If it were before, he might not have cared about such things, but after regaining his most basic human desires, he can't ignore them even if he wants to.

What if one day you accidentally trigger a good ship ending...

"...But come to think of it, I don't think I've gotten myself into too many romantic entanglements before, have I?"

Sitting cross-legged atop the Monster Mountain, waiting for night to fall, Shi Bai pondered this question very seriously.

He considered himself to be very loyal in relationships, and because he had almost no desires in the past, he had never deliberately flirted with girls. So, he thought it was impossible for him to get involved in any extra romantic relationships.

After much thought, he realized that the only emotional debt he might incur was with Wu Bubu, whom he had been with during Qin Hesheng's time. The others were just friends, siblings, or drinking buddies.

As for Mononobe no Futo... what does Qin Hesheng's business have to do with me, Shi Bai?

As for Hirain Ban, the loli Tenma from the Tengu clan, when exactly did the other party fall in love with her?

Shi Bai sat on the rock for a long time, still looking completely puzzled.

Strictly speaking, he hadn't spent much time with the other party. At most, he had helped the other party resolve a crisis that the Tengu clan might face, and their next meeting was this time.

Logically speaking, there shouldn't be any reason for the other person to like him, right? And they even went to such great lengths to help him...

...Could it be because I'm too handsome?

Sitting there with his arms crossed, Shi Bai nodded with a look of deep agreement, unable to think of any other reason.

After all, he's handsome, highly capable, multi-talented, an excellent cook, incredibly kind-hearted, and has no other vices... Such a perfect man is already one in a million!

But if you think about it, I've already offended four people, and none of them are easy to talk to... No, Xiaoxi is easy to talk to... But whether it's Xiaoye, Kazami Yuuka, or Hiragain Hana, it's almost impossible for them to get along well... Could they be fighting every few days?

Thinking of this, Shi Bai couldn't help but rub his forehead with a headache.

Perhaps because his desires as a human being had reached the minimum standard of being human, he, who had never thought about such things before, couldn't help but think about these important matters of life that were related to his own life.

That's the downside of having many desires; it makes it hard to calm down and think about other useful things.

He should have been pondering the contents of the letter that Yagokoro Eirin had entrusted to Junko for him, but instead, he spent the entire afternoon agonizing over these matters…

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P.S.: If you have any razor blades, feel free to throw some... considering I'm still trying to update 8000 words a day despite having a fever. ヽ(ー_ー)ノ

Chapter 8 Eirin Yagokoro - The Moon Sage Who Wants to Leave

The City of the Moon, as the name suggests, is a capital city built on the moon and covered by layers of barriers.

Ever since Tsukiyomi led the gods to settle on the moon a long time ago, they have never returned, and no one has ever been to the Moon Capital.

To this day, the people living in the Lunar Capital call themselves the Lunarians, and have developed their own technology, civilization, and even passed down their heritage.

The great city inhabited by the Lunarians is located on the far side of the lunar barrier, encompassing palace districts, technology districts, and residential areas. After thousands of years of development, the lunar capital possesses a technological level far superior to that of Earthlings, and because it has completely abandoned impurity, it has achieved longevity.

—These are the contents that Yagokoro Eirin mentioned in her letter to him.

Furthermore, Eirin Yagokoro also mentioned that the Lunar Capital strictly guards against the entry of any impurities, so if he wants to go to the Lunar Capital, he must go through the means that Eirin Yagokoro set up in advance.

If he were discovered by those beings in the Lunar Capital, he would likely be seen as an intruder, leading to a fierce battle. This was something neither he nor Eirin Yagokoro wanted to see.

After all, Eirin Yagokoro risked her life to bring him in, but because of him, she was dragged down and unable to stand in the Lunar Capital. This was something that Shibai himself could not accept.

"It was just a test I left as an attempt, but I never thought that Eirin Yagokoro would actually succeed..."

Looking up at the bright moon in the night sky, Shi Bai temporarily put aside all the complicated thoughts in his mind and exhaled.

Tonight is the night of the full moon, and the bright moonlight pours down on the earth like water.

Shi Bai took out the golden envelope and unfolded it in his hand. He immersed himself in it, and with the activation of a barrier engraved on the envelope, guided by the moonlight, his figure and the golden letter disappeared into the air.

A moment later, when Bai regained consciousness, he found himself in a pure white, enclosed room with a strong technological feel.

However, before he could take in his surroundings, his face turned pale and his vision began to spin.

"Holy crap, I get dizzy even from this kind of super long-distance teleportation..."

After holding his head against the wall with his eyes closed for a long time, he finally managed to recover from the aftereffects of the teleportation dizziness.

This place looks like a research institute. The pure white room he is in is scattered with all sorts of instruments that he doesn't understand. Judging from the current situation, this place is probably similar to a laboratory.

On the wall outside this pure white room hangs a plaque with the words "Eight Meanings" written on it.

"Yagokoro Eirin's personal research lab... As expected of Kengetsu Technology."

Looking at the modern, high-tech research institute in front of him, Shi Bai couldn't help but feel a little emotional.

The Earth is still in the feudal era, while the technology of the Moon Capital seems to have advanced to the modern era... This is a civilization that the Moon Capital itself has developed from nothing over the years.

Compared to the Moon Capital, the monsters were clearly outmatched, which reminded him of historical figures like Emperor Qianlong and Lincoln.

Almost everyone knows that Emperor Qianlong and Abraham Lincoln are from the same era, but few people know that they actually lived in the same time.

Just by looking at Eirin Yagokoro's laboratory in front of him, he could already deduce the gap between the youkai and the Lunar Capital. It was as if one side had already advanced to the Iron Age, while the other side was still using wood. With such a huge gap, it was no wonder that Yukari Yakumo's lunar war was lost...

My lord, times have changed.

Looking at the well-made white pistol lying horizontally on the lab table, Shi Bai's lips twitched slightly, and suddenly a sentence popped into his mind.

He didn't have to wait long. After sensing that the barrier she had set up had been triggered, Yagokoro Eirin temporarily put aside her other tasks and rushed over to him.

Compared to the girl she once was, Eirin Yagokoro is undoubtedly much more mature now... in every sense of the word.

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"You want to leave the Moon Capital?"

Shi Bai frowned slightly.

"What happened in the Lunar Capital?"

He believed he knew Eirin Yagokoro quite well. She had chosen to leave with Tsukiyomi at her request and built Lunar Capital on the moon from scratch. It would be a lie to say that Eirin Yagokoro had no feelings for Lunar Capital.

However, if Eirin Yagokoro, one of the sages of the Lunar Capital and the brain of the moon, had the thought of leaving the Lunar Capital, then something must have happened there that made her extremely disappointed.

"Teacher, you should have already read the letter I gave you, right? Don't you find it strange?"

Reaching out to pick up the white pistol from the lab, Eirin Yagokoro let out a soft sigh.

"The Lunar Capital is located on the moon, and virtually no one can reach it. But why has the Lunar Capital been focusing on military technology development for so many years? Producing so many weapons and training so many soldiers, who exactly is the Lunar Capital preparing for? Now that it has finally achieved peace and stability away from war, shouldn't it be focusing on developing civilian technology?"

"Hmm... probably to guard against a possible counterattack from the monsters on the ground?"

After thinking for a moment, based on his memory, Shi Bai came up with an idea.

After all, a lunar war did break out later on, and Yukari's ragtag army of monsters was utterly defeated by the army of the Lunar Capital...

“The monsters on the ground have never been a threat, and no one has the ability to lead such a large number of monsters to the Moon Capital. This idea is not valid.”

Eirin Yagokoro shook her head and began to speak in a very heavy tone.

"The Lunar Capital's higher-ups plan... to invade other worlds. All the war preparations are for this goal."

"Invading other worlds... Has your Lunar Capital found the right path to other worlds?"

After a moment of stunned silence, Shi Bai realized what was happening and couldn't help but frown.

Opening a passage to other worlds is something that sounds simple, but it's also quite difficult.

However, there is no doubt that such things are often accompanied by considerable danger, especially if a portal is opened randomly without any other world coordinates, it is very likely to connect with some extremely dangerous worlds.

For example, a world corrupted by evil gods and Great Old Ones, or a world containing all sorts of bizarre containment objects of the SCP Foundation. Unfortunately, he had experienced both of these worlds before, and the experience was quite unforgettable.

After all, the evil god Shi Bai, who was created by his own corruption and erosion, is still firmly sealed in the deepest part of his heart, and he still has no way to deal with him.

Even gods or monsters would ultimately meet a tragic end when faced with those terrifying ancient evil gods and unreasonable containment objects.