I'm having fun in Tokyo

"When I met Keisuke yesterday... I said I wanted to hold a grand wedding for him and Harumi, but now it seems... I don't have time."

"If you... can defeat that demon, could you please be my witness at Keisuke and her wedding...?"

"Take a picture for me, a picture of her and Keisuke at their wedding...and give it to me..."

Morikawa Yu nodded silently without saying a word.

Japan does not have the custom of burning offerings for the deceased. Instead, offerings are typically placed on paper or wooden boats and sent into a nearby river as a memorial.

However, Abe no Haruhiko is a half-demon of the Oni clan, so it's uncertain whether he can retain his soul.

Even if I did that, he might not be able to see it.

Haruhiko Abe couldn't possibly be unaware of this, yet he still said it, probably because he still harbored the regret of not being able to see his sister.

Morikawa Yu sighed.

He suddenly thought of his sister.

My sister probably harbored this regret at the time, which is why she became a ghost and stayed by my side.

“He… looks just like my older sister,” Xin Jue couldn’t help but say.

She had been hiding in the Goshuin-cho (a type of tent) and watched the whole thing from beginning to end. At this moment, she couldn't help but express her feelings and communicate with Morikawa Yu through her heart.

"Owner......"

Morikawa Yu patted the goshuincho (a type of incense burner) to tell her to be quiet.

He held Abe Haruhiko's hand, gathering his life force and transferring it to Abe Haruhiko little by little.

Although he didn't know if it would work, he still wanted to give it a try, at least to make an effort.

I was very fortunate that my sister stayed by my side back then.

Putting himself in her shoes, he also hoped to help Abe Haruhiko stay so he could see his sister and Fujiwara Keisuke.

Haruhiko Abe closed his eyes.

He held Morikawa Yu's arm, still muttering what he had just said.

"Mr. Morikawa...you must help me...help me witness her wedding..."

"That brat Keisuke... he's such a worry. He's such a shut-in, yet Harumi likes him so much..."

"Well... I don't really agree with Harumi being with him, but he's her only close friend."

Time ticked by, minute after minute, and Haruhiko Abe was still talking...

Finally, he realized something was wrong.

He opened his eyes, straightened up, looked at Morikawa Yu, and hesitated for a moment: "Mr. Morikawa, am I... still alive?"

"here it is......."

Morikawa Yu remained silent, continuing to channel life force to help Abe Haruhiko recover.

He hadn't expected that transferring life force to someone who had exhausted their life force would actually be effective.

As for Abe Haruhiko's question, he was not prepared to answer.

The other person thought they were about to die and said a lot of things that revealed their true feelings.

If you tell the other person at this moment, "I've found a way to save you, you won't die," their first thought probably won't be "Oh, I'm saved," but rather, "Damn, what about all that stuff I just said...?"

Morikawa Haha looked at Abe Haruhiko.

Haruhiko Abe and Yu Morikawa exchanged a glance.

He could feel the renewed vitality within his body and realized that this life force came from Morikawa Yu, which made him somewhat worried.

"Mr. Morikawa, are you...?"

Morikawa Yu shook her head: "It's alright. I have a life contract with a divine demon, and I have her life force replenished."

Ryoko forbade him from telling others that he could convert demonic power into life force, so he changed his explanation to a life contract. There are such rituals in Yin-Yang arts, so it can be explained clearly.

Abe Haruhiko nodded, but the worry in his eyes did not disappear: "Is it Lady Mitsuko? She hasn't recovered yet, and there's still a battle to be fought. Wouldn't this put her in danger...?"

“No.” Morikawa Yu shook her head again.

Haruhiko Abe hummed in agreement.

He knew that Morikawa Yu had a wife who was the wife of the God of the Ages, so he immediately understood what Morikawa Yu meant.

However, this means that I won't die for the time being.

What I just said...

He couldn't help but look at Morikawa Yu.

This time, it was Morikawa Yu who made eye contact with him.

Abe Haruhiko remained silent for a while, then simply closed his eyes, pretending to have fainted, and collapsed to one side.

Morikawa Yu quickly helped him up.

"This uncle is pretending to be unconscious."

Xin Jue couldn't help but say from inside the Imperial Vermilion Seal tent, "Master, you saved him, but he didn't even say thank you."

Morikawa Yu patted the goshuincho again, telling her to shut up.

He understood Abe Haruhiko's awkwardness and knew what kind of person Abe Haruhiko was.

Compared to the debt of gratitude for saving a life, a simple thank you is insignificant.

However, Xin Jue's repeated interruptions made him realize a problem.

That's because she's too annoying.

Chizuru usually sleeps, but she cowardly hides inside while still trying to express her opinions.

"Master, are you disgusted with me? I can hear your thoughts from inside your Goshuincho."

Suddenly, Xinjue said to him, "Although I can't hear it normally, it seems that I can communicate with your thoughts here, so I can hear it very easily."

"Then come out here!" Morikawa Yu immediately said.

"No, no, no, I can't hear you, I can't hear you, Master, please don't pull me out!"

Xin Jue immediately denied what he had said.

Morikawa Yu was too lazy to pay attention to her.

It's definitely dangerous outside; we shouldn't let her out.

However, she wasn't the only one in the Goshuin-cho; Chizuru was also there.

He told Qianhe that if Xinjue spoke again, he should cover her mouth, and if he couldn't cover her mouth, he should hang her up.

Having dealt with Shinkaku's matter, Morikawa Yu looked at Abe Haruhiko beside her again.

Haruhiko Abe's vitality has recovered considerably, and the determination in his mind has become clear again.

The secret method he used, which overdraws his life force, seems to simply stimulate all of his body's life force, causing his vitality to be exhausted in a short period of time.

Chapter 259 Captured a Female Ibaraki (Bonus Chapter for the Helmsman)

Haruhiko Abe's vitality has recovered considerably, and the determination in his mind has become clear again.

The secret method he used, which overdraws his life force, seems to simply stimulate all of his body's life force, causing his vitality to be exhausted in a short period of time.

Once life force is exhausted, life will cease, and death will follow.

Now, by channeling his own life force to maintain his vitality and prevent it from dying out, the life force within his body begins to recover.

Although the recovery is slow, at least I don't have to wait to die like before.

Then why didn't he borrow life force from me just now?

He clearly had so many regrets, but he only mentioned them and didn't bring up the matter at all.

Morikawa Yu fell into deep thought.

He considered several possibilities.

First, Abe Haruhiko was too embarrassed to bring up such a thing.

However, when a person is about to die, they cannot give up the hope of living just to save face.

In his previous life, he had seen many desperate people on missions. Those bastards had no bottom line and were willing to do anything to survive.

Of course, it's possible that Abe Haruhiko is different from those outlaws; he has his own bottom line and doesn't want to sacrifice his life force just to survive.

After all, this thing can be deadly; it's no different from robbing Peter to pay Paul.

Moreover, not everyone is like me, able to transform demonic power into life force, and I also have a great demonic wife from the Age of Gods who provides me with demonic power.

At this point, he thought of Fei Yue again.

Yesterday, he used his life force to help the big fox recover. Feiyue called him this morning to ask if he had encountered any danger.

She sensed the loss of her demonic power.

Although he lost very little, and recovered as he lost it, she was still worried that something might have happened to him.

Morikawa Yu didn't dare say that she was using her demonic power to help the big fox recover, but she was afraid that the fox would smell the lie, so she honestly told him what had happened.

Feiyue didn't blame him, she just told him to finish things in Kyoto and come back quickly so they could hold their wedding.

He felt guilty and touched, and he also felt that Feiyue's words had an older sister's tone, as if his older sister had taught her to say them.

However, since he didn't know the specifics over the phone, he was too embarrassed to ask.

Morikawa Haha came back to his senses and looked at Abe Haruhiko again.

Besides the fact that Abe Haruhiko was too embarrassed to admit it, it's also possible that he was unaware of the existence of life force.

But he was worried about himself just now. He was clearly aware of the existence of life force, and he felt very bad that giving him life force would harm him.

After ruling out this guess, Morikawa Yu thought of another possibility.

That is, Abe no Haruhiko was unaware that after overdrawing one's life force, one could maintain life by replenishing it and offset the side effects of death caused by the secret technique.

This is very possible.

After all, the Ghost Clan's secret method of overdrawing their life force was taught to them by Qingluo. Given her wicked nature, it's highly likely that she concealed a way to counteract the side effects of this secret method.

In this way, only she would know how to counteract the side effects.

Suddenly, Morikawa Yu frowned.

He realized that if he thought about it that way, the secret technique seemed to be a way to temporarily increase strength at a controllable cost, rather than a method that would inevitably lead to death if used desperately.

Perhaps... this is the true method of using the secret technique!

She just didn't reveal it, leading those who knew about this secret technique to believe that using it would inevitably lead to death.

Moreover, she can use this information asymmetry to do many things, including dealing with the big fox and the shrine.

Morikawa Yu's brows furrowed again.

If that's the case, then Qingluo seems to be even worse and more terrifying than he thought.

Both Ryoko and the Great Fox believed that she was just a top-tier high-ranking demon, but she could use secret techniques to extract the life force of others at the same time, preventing her own life force from being cut off, and making herself in an unprecedentedly powerful state for a period of time.

Even if she doesn't reach the level of a divine demon, she is definitely much stronger than a high-ranking great demon.

No wonder... no wonder she dared to use the entire Abe family's power to deal with the shrine and the other two families.

The Great Fox hasn't recovered yet, and Ryoko has to deal with the Priestess Hime. After she uses her secret technique, she will be the most powerful being in Kyoto.

Morikawa Yu hesitated for a moment, then had an urge to call Hiizuki over.

But after thinking about it, he decided to discuss it with Ryoko and the big fox first...

.......

A few minutes later, Morikawa Yu ended the telepathic communication.

Ryoko and the big fox reacted differently when they learned about this.

Ryoko told him not to worry and not to rush to call Hiizuki for help.

Even if Qingluo can absorb the life force of others while using secret techniques, the objects that can provide her with life force cannot be without any restrictions.