But Torachiyo no longer has any relationship with the Nagao family.
His mother's last words were for Torachiyo to devote himself to Buddhism and atone for his sins.
My father's designated heir is my elder brother, Nagao Harukage.
Therefore, Torachiyo did not expect that she would receive so much attention from the Nagao family.
Torachiyo is still busy thinking about what kind of New Year's gift to give to Axue in the new year.
"Torachiyo, what are you doing? How long are you going to make me wait?"
But unexpectedly, the distinguished guest came uninvited and pushed open the door.
There stood a woman.
She was dressed in a plain white dress and a black mourning veil on her head. She looked sadly at Torachiyo who was wiping the Buddha statue.
“Onee-sama…?”
Torachiyo blinked.
I didn’t expect that it was my elder sister Xiantaoyuan who came to Linquan Temple specially.
"You've been living in the temple for longer and longer, day after day. I almost don't recognize you anymore."
Xian Taoyuan lowered his eyes and looked at Torachiyo's increasingly handsome face, his mind full of childhood memories.
"——Torachiyo, you're becoming more and more like a human. I'm sincerely happy for you."
"You should step back first."
Torachiyo sent the monk away and then closed the door with an expressionless face.
Xian Taoyuan knelt reverently before the Buddha statue, lit a stick of incense, and asked, "Have you offered incense for father?"
"...There's no spirit tablet for my father in Linquan Temple."
Torachiyo scratched his face and tried to get away with it.
But the next words from her elder sister made Torachiyo's eyes lose all the emotional light.
"Then return to the Nagao family and fulfill your filial duties to father."
Xiantaoyuan's words made Hu Chiyo's expression freeze.
Childhood memories also unconsciously emerged.
Torachiyo still remembers the day he parted with the Nagao family, when onee-sama hugged him and cried with such emotion.
"Sister, are you trying to persuade me to return to secular life?"
The black-haired boy was silent for a long time and then asked softly.
"Yes."
Faced with Xiantaoyuan's firm answer, Torachiyo's mind had drifted away to who knows where.
He sat down cross-legged and began to recall as if nothing had happened.
"I still remember the day I parted with my elder sister. She hugged me and cried bitterly, saying that if I wanted to continue living in this world, I had to accumulate the Five Constant Virtues and believe in Buddha."
Torachiyo spoke out whatever came to his mind.
"I'm trying hard."
"Some time ago, a wild cat took away the fish in the pond. It wandered around the temple for several days and refused to leave. I was reluctant to chase it away, but it was Ah Xue who reminded me that if I continued like this, it would harm the carp family in the pond."
"I also planted a peach tree two years ago, but I didn't know anything about it and almost killed it. In the end, it was thanks to Ah Xue's help that it finally had a few beautiful peach blossoms bloom this year."
"I plan to plant a cherry tree this year. I'm sure it will be very satisfying to sit with Xue and enjoy the cherry blossoms when they are in full bloom."
Xian Taoyuan listened quietly to Hu Chiyo talking about these trivial things. Her brows softened and she asked softly.
"Torachiyo...you like Xue a lot, right?"
"............."
"But you can't fall in love with him. You can't spend your whole life with this little monk."
Torachiyo rubbed his chin, not knowing what to say.
"Torachiyo, will he like you as a man?"
"I don't know, hahahaha..."
"So what are you going to do?"
Sentoin stared at Torachiyo, whose hair had grown long, and said with tears in his eyes.
"Are you going to tell everyone that the war god who is said to be the reincarnation of Bishamonten is actually a woman?"
Torachiyo's dark golden eyes looked at the statue of Bishamonten. The thirteen-year-old black-haired girl couldn't figure out what she was thinking.
"The Nagao family is about to be destroyed. Those fence-sitters are now pinning all their hopes on you, Torachiyo!"
Torachiyo couldn't help but feel upset by her elder sister's pleading.
But she found it difficult to vent.
"Brother Harukage simply doesn't have the ability to lead the Nagao family any further. Now, Torachiyo must return to secular life and rally the Nagao family!"
My elder sister knelt on the ground and begged.
"Please, Torachiyo, my sister, please come out and save Echigo Province, and bring peace to the people of the world..."
Chapter 22: Awakening the Inner Female
Nagao Torachiyo is actually a woman.
Although this kind of thing is absurd, it is not strange.
As the youngest son of the Nagao family, no one had ever expected Torachiyo to be born.
Therefore, gender is just an external thing to Torachiyo.
However, because the eldest son, Nagao Harukage, was in poor health, it was difficult for him to take on the role of head of the family.
However, in order to make up for the evil act of regicide in his first half of his life, the treacherous hero Nagao Tamekage insisted on letting his frail and sickly eldest son inherit the Nagao family.
But Nagao Mikage forgot that he himself started his career by rebellion.
The guys who made their fortune with him don't have any normal relationship between ruler and subject.
In the eyes of these retainers, the strong should trample on the weak, and only those who humiliate the weak are worthy of power.
If a consumptive can rely on his bloodline to dominate them, why can't I replace them?
Naturally, some people took a fancy to Torachiyo's extraordinary wisdom and fighting skills since childhood, and secretly formed an alliance to support Torachiyo to inherit the family heir.
Torachiyo has been inhumane since she was born.
It would be more accurate to call her a beast in human skin than a delicate girl.
He beats his brother at every turn, only gives a shrill fake laugh, and has a pair of cold and ruthless tiger eyes...
Torachiyo only started disguising herself as a man to maintain the stability of the Nagao family.
Nagao Tamekage originally hated Torachiyo. In his opinion, monsters were monsters, and there was no distinction between genders, so he condoned his subordinates' misdeeds.
How could the sister and mother who were the only ones who cared about Torachiyo have the right to interfere with the decisions of the Nagao family?
So, as the youngest son of the Nagao family, Torachiyo has been dressing as a man until now.
Even until his death, Torachiyo must die as a real man.
of course.
No one expected it.
He just practiced Buddhism in Linquan Temple for a few years.
Torachiyo has already awakened the female in her heart.
And it has reached the point where her female virtue is so abundant that she has become a female hooligan.
Looking at her sister kowtowing, Torachiyo began to feel uneasy.
She stood up and then sat down.
Then he stood up and began to pace back and forth.
She thought her heart had long belonged to Axue alone.
The affairs of the Nagao family have nothing to do with Torachiyo.
But I didn't expect...
The appearance of her elder sister still made Torachiyo confused.
Come out and save the people?
Has the situation in Echigo Province become this bad?
Torachiyo doesn't know much about politics.
Echigo Province was peaceful when my father was alive, but has it become so chaotic after his death?
But there are excuses.
With my brother's talent, it would be quite normal for him to be an heir in peacetime.
But if we have to fill the gap left by the war, my brother will probably be extremely busy and his condition will worsen, right?
But I'm still a layman...
Returning to secular life means that I will never see Axue again, right?
Doesn’t this mean that the happy times at Linquan Temple are coming to an end?
"...Onee-sama, I'm afraid Shuto Chiyo can't obey your order."
Torachiyo decisively refused.
"Axue is only eight years old and still needs my close care."
"He's obviously not related to you at all!"
Xiantaoyuan was so anxious that she gritted her teeth.
She absolutely could not tolerate Torachiyo continuing to hide in Linquan Temple!
"Axue and I are a family, how can we be considered unrelated?"
"The Nagao family is your family! Torachiyo! Don't you recognize me as your sister?!"
With tears in her eyes, Sentoin tried to persuade Torachiyo.
"Are you going to watch the Nagao family fall to ruin? Are you going to watch the people of Echigo Province fall into hell? Are you going to watch all this happen and do nothing?!"
Torachiyo fell silent.
My elder sister is so awesome.
She always managed to portray things in a very exaggerated way, causing Torachiyo to inexplicably suffer unparalleled moral pressure.
It seems that the rebellion in Echigo Province and the sins committed by Nagao Tamekage were all caused by Torachiyo.
Although Tora Chiyo really wanted to continue living the rest of his life as a monk with Axue in Linquan Temple.
But it was because of Axue that Torachiyo, who did not understand human nature, finally understood the importance of family.
——She couldn't bear to watch her family die.
"I have only one request."
After a long silence, Hu Chiyo finally exhaled a breath of white air and said lightly.
"After quelling this rebellion, I have no further connection with the Nagao family."
"Torachiyo?!"
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