I'm having fun in Tokyo

"Of course it's the truth."

Daitamaru nodded earnestly.

Morikawa Yu still frowned, not immediately believing her.

He suddenly missed Xinjue, whom he had left at home.

With her around, you can immediately tell whether what others say is true or false.

"Then I'll just take it as fact for now," he nodded.

"Just a temporary measure? Isn't that just too disheartening?"

Daiyu Maru pouted: "There are only a few cunning and treacherous demons like Qingluo. I am a more conservative demon."

She suddenly patted the amulet hanging from the hem of her skirt.

The amulet glowed with a clear light, and she reached into it, pulling out two black jars.

"What is this?" Morikawa Yu asked instinctively.

"liquor."

Seeing Morikawa Yu frown, Daitamaru added, "It's the sake of our Oni clan."

"I'd like to offer you some wine. But human wine is so boring; our wine is stronger and more flavorful. Would you like to try some?"

Her words made Morikawa Yu frown again.

He doesn't like drinking.

Moreover, this is wine from the Oni clan.

Although he had never tasted the Oni clan's wine, he had a general idea based solely on Daitamaru's description.

Ordinary wine is intoxicating enough, but the Oni clan's wine, which Daitamaru spoke of with such pride, must be intoxicating for ten days after just one sip.

You're here to kill me, aren't you?

"Really not going to drink?" Daitamaru picked up a teacup from the table.

Those were teacups prepared on the tables in two high-floor rooms of the hotel. They looked very exquisite and did not seem disposable at all.

She gathered demonic power in her hands, which burned into demonic fire, and used the demonic fire to burn the teacup.

"I won't drink." Morikawa Yu shook her head: "I'm not yet twenty years old, I can't drink alcohol."

Japanese law states that people under the age of twenty cannot drink alcohol, so he openly refused Daitamamaru's offer.

"Law?" Ootamaru raised an eyebrow. "Isn't that a tool used by the upper class of you humans to rule over the lower class?"

"Would that kind of thing be useful to you?"

"You bring this up simply because you don't want to drink it, right?"

"Don't make me sound like some kind of outlaw, okay?" Morikawa Yu sighed. "I suppose I'm a law-abiding citizen, after all."

Chapter 338 I envy you

“It’s just ‘for the time being’…” Otamaru’s gaze was somewhat sarcastic.

"Fine, if you don't want to drink, then don't. I can drink it myself."

She lifted the seal of the jar and poured the contents into the cup that had already been burned by the demonic fire.

The glass immediately releases a rich aroma until the clear, transparent liquid overflows.

She picked up her glass and took a hearty gulp: "Whew, that's strong."

Morikawa Yu covered her nose.

It's not that the smell of the wine is unpleasant, but rather that the aroma is too strong.

He only caught a faint smell, but it reminded him of his past life when he was forced to drink alcohol.

The headache from a hangover made him avoid alcohol altogether.

He disliked that feeling of weakness and powerlessness.

"Really not going to drink?"

Ootamaru swirled his wine glass: "You can drink half of this glass of mine, okay?"

She parted her cherry lips slightly and licked her thin, alluring tongue.

Morikawa Yu shook her head: "I just don't want to drink."

"If you try to persuade me to drink again, just leave."

Daiyu Maru's expression froze.

She put down her glass: "Alright."

This time, she didn't urge Morikawa Yu to drink it, but instead drank it herself.

Morikawa Yu watched her silently chug drinks, one glass after another, and finally frowned: "Ootamaru, what exactly do you want to come here for? If you're not going to tell me, then even if you won't let me drink, please leave."

"I still need to sleep."

"As I just said, I came here to have a heart-to-heart talk and reconnect with you." Daitamaru took another swig of sake.

Have a heart-to-heart talk? No way.

Morikawa Yu pursed her lips.

Just now, Ms. Maki seemed to want to have a heart-to-heart talk, and as they talked, she started to push me into it.

Seeing the change in his expression, Otamaru immediately understood what he was thinking: "I really meant to have a heart-to-heart talk."

"Because we're going to fight tomorrow."

"Knowing more about your opponent before a battle will help you win more often; it's the same for both of us."

She finished the rest of the wine in her glass in one gulp, put the wine jar back into the protective case, and opened the seal on another black jar.

"So, human, can you tell me why you've come to participate in this competition?"

“I heard you’re going to participate in this competition, but I’ve never been able to understand it.”

"You are a great swordsman who has reached the pinnacle of kendo, a powerful figure even in the shadows. This competition is a stage for ordinary people, and the participants are all ordinary high school students."

"To them, you are like a legend, an insurmountable mountain, someone from a completely different world."

"But you've shown up here, ready to take that empty title that ordinary people only care about from them tomorrow. Why is that? I can't understand it."

"Perhaps because I was one of them before?" Morikawa Yu shrugged. "I also participated in this competition last year, but I only made it to the quarterfinals and lost in the quarterfinals."

"I want to win the championship this year and bring the Kui Xing flag back to Tokyo."

"Is that all?" Ootamaru seemed somewhat doubtful.

Morikawa Yu nodded: "Yes, that's all, it's that simple."

"You're lying." She gripped her wine glass tighter.

"If that's all there is to it, you only need to say one word and someone will deliver the so-called Kui Xing flag to your home."

"The present world... the prosperity of the present world is merely a facade controlled by secrets."

"Your hidden status and power surpass those of the real world. Whatever Kui Xing Banner you want, just say the word and exert some influence in the upper echelons of the real world, and no one will refuse you."

“Maybe, maybe it really is as you say, but what’s the point?” Morikawa Yu frowned.

"What I want is the Kui Xing flag that I obtain myself, the honor that I earn with my own hands, not empty titles that others bestow upon me to flatter me."

"Yes, so you actually want to prove yourself, not some Kui Xing flag."

Ootama sighed: "Just like me, just like me."

“I was asked by my master to come here, not for the Kui Xing Banner, but to defeat you.”

"Only by defeating you can I prove myself, sever my divinity, regain my master's approval, and return to the divine palace."

“But you are different. You can get the Kui Xing Flag as long as you beat those ordinary high school students.”

She drank the wine in her glass: "I still hate you, human."

"Your life is good, happy and fulfilling."

“You have a teacher who cares about you, a priestess who protects your growth, a lady named Hisuki and a lady named Mitsuko who love you, a sister who has always been with you, and those who follow you.”

"If you want to prove yourself and regain the honors you once lost, all you need to do is defeat those ignorant and naive ordinary people. It's easy and simple, and you can also enjoy the admiration of your teachers and classmates."

"But I can't."

"I want to return to the shrine, I want to gain my master's approval, I want to regain everything I had before. I need to face you and defeat you, this formidable enemy, with all my might."

She suddenly put down her wine glass, raised her head, and pulled down the sailor uniform top of her school uniform from the collar, revealing her fair neck and collarbone.

Above the collarbone was a smooth incision that ran across the entire neck, as if it had been slashed by a sharp weapon and then sewn back on.

"This is still the wound you left me with, and it hasn't healed yet."

"When I see you, I am reminded of the battle in Kyoto where we fought and I lost my head. The wound is still aching."

Morikawa Yu did not speak.

Daitamaru is still in the form of a demon.

His "End of the Divine Era" title effect deals true damage to divine targets and also has an additional permanent damage effect.

As long as Daitamaru remains a being of the spirit, his wounds will never fully heal.

He quietly looked at Daiyumaru.

Daimamaru took another sip of sake: "If I could, I wouldn't want to fight you, I wouldn't want to experience that defeat again."

“But then I would be abandoned by my master and would have no way to escape the corruption of divinity.”

"I can only grow weaker day by day."

"Human, you may not know this, but I was originally very strong, not as weak as I am now."

“I am a demon of Ise, not much different from those real gods.”

"But over the past thousand years, I have fallen from the realm of ghosts and gods to the pinnacle of high-ranking demons, and then from a top-ranking high-ranking demon to the current level of a mid-ranking demon."

“As long as I am not free from divinity, I will be troubled by divinity every day.”

"This evil spirit from the old era will drag me down to hell with it."

"Then why don't you find someone to take this fate for you? Didn't the Inari God give His secret techniques to the first priestess?" Morikawa Yu looked at Otamaru with a scrutinizing gaze.

The secret of Inari God is to transfer divinity to others, with those others bearing the cost.

The great fox was tricked by Him in this way, and its power was exhausted over eight or nine hundred years.

He was curious why Ootamaru and Hime-no-Miko didn't do that.

They were all His helpers and knew this secret method.

Ootamaru shook his head: "You mean Inari? What He can do, Master can't do."

"When she first obtained the secret technique, she only used it as a reference."

"Over the years, successive masters have helped Him stabilize the situation in Kansai, simply hoping to achieve a balance between the present and the hidden in the Kansai region."

"As far as our Ise Grand Shrine is concerned, whether it is His rule over Kansai or Lady Mitsuko breaking free from her seal, as long as Kansai remains stable, it doesn't really matter."

Morikawa Yu nodded, neither agreeing nor denying.

Chapter 339 I'm satisfied

Ootamaru held the wine glass, looking at the last drop of wine in it: "So, my master asked me to come find you and participate in this competition."

“She said that if I can defeat you and sever my divinity, then I can go back and have hope of regaining my original power in the future, without relying on the blessing of divinity.”

“If I lose, she will banish me from the shrine.”

"Then I'll be homeless and will have no choice but to beg you to take me in."

She shook her head, tilted her head back, and drank the last of the wine. A blush appeared on her face, making her look both drunk and sober.

Morikawa Yu simply watched her quietly, without showing the slightest interest.