The woman at the bridge was holding an oil-paper umbrella and turned to look at Axue.

"The river here sounds very shallow. I'm afraid it's not a good place to commit suicide."

"Haha, do I look like I really want to die?"

The woman with the flower umbrella was silent for a long time, then spoke gently.

“I was just looking at the scenery.”

"Amitabha, that's good."

"Really? Is it because I look so bad? I won't do so many sad things."

The woman with the flower umbrella forced a smile and murmured so.

"I am a blind monk, I just sensed your inner melancholy through my divine eyes."

Axue lowered her hat and replied.

"However, I have long since become indifferent to the mundane world and will respect your choice."

"Thank you for your advice, gentle monk. Goodbye then."

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Subsequently.

Under the guidance of Kato Danzo, Axue and the female ninja finally found a part-time job.

It's a job at a street barbecue stall.

"My Lord, you cannot eat meat. Let Duan Zang do this menial work for you!"

Kato Danzo knew that Axue had been fasting since childhood and had basically never eaten meat. This barbecue stall job was too difficult for the monk.

However, Ah Xue was nonchalant: "I have already killed so many evil people. If I still care about these things, it would be too pretentious."

It is true that Axue is a vegetarian, but he would never force others to be like him, nor would he condemn others for eating meat.

So for him, working at the barbecue stall is just like chanting Buddhist scriptures, there is no big difference.

...Of course, the bigger reason is that Kato Danzo doesn't know how to cook at all.

This mechanical puppet is proficient in killing skills. Facing the work of this barbecue stall, if the dark dishes she bakes are eaten by customers, the master and servant probably don't have to go to the brothel to search for the workshop tonight, and can consider going to the prison to operate the sewing machine.

However, Axue never eats meat, and of course she doesn't know how to grill it to make it taste delicious, so she just grilled a skewer and fed it to Kato Danzo, asking the female ninja to evaluate its taste.

It was just a little different from the plan. The female ninja gave full marks to all the food grilled by Xue.

Moreover, if Kato Danzo continues to eat, I'm afraid this barbecue stall business will become a losing business.

"A skewer of grilled eel, please."

Suddenly, a red oil-paper umbrella appeared in front of the barbecue stall.

Even though it was a day without any rain, there were still people holding paper umbrellas like rich girls.

Axue felt that the voice sounded familiar, but she couldn't remember who the woman was for a moment, so she had to silently hand the grilled eel to the customer.

"Ah, you are the monk at the gate of Flower Street earlier."

The woman with the flower umbrella folded her umbrella and said with some surprise.

"So this is the kind of work you do?"

"No, it's just a part-time job."

Kato Danzo secretly tugged at Axue's robes and whispered in his ear, "My Lord! I suspect we're being followed! This woman with the flower umbrella must be an assassin sent by the enemy!"

"Do you have any evidence?"

"No! But Dan Zang feels that all women in this world have evil intentions towards the lord!"

"Is this your wife, Monk?"

The woman with the flower umbrella finally noticed the subtle relationship between Kato Danzo and Axue, and asked with a smile.

"No."

Kato Danzo was the first to shake his head and said with a serious face.

"Danzo is the flying cup that protects the chastity of the lord, wuwuwu——!"

Kato Danzo's mouth was completely covered by Axue, and the loyal female ninja could no longer say anything.

After Axue issued the silence order, the female ninja had no choice but to stand guard at the side with a look of grievance on her face.

The woman with the flower umbrella took the grilled eel from Ah Xue, savored it carefully, then smiled bitterly and shook her head, saying, "It's too unpalatable... Monk, you will go bankrupt if you keep doing business like this."

"...Is that so?"

Axue glanced coldly at the comment troll Kato Danzo. The upright expression of this female ninja seemed to prove that there was indeed nothing wrong with her taste system!

"There's something wrong with your knife skills. What did you use to cut it?"

Axue raised her eyebrows and grasped the samurai sword at her waist.

That was the weapon left behind by Miyamoto Musashi.

“…You cut eels with a katana???”

"exactly."

"Oh! This bloody weapon will definitely make grilled eel taste much worse!"

The woman with the flower umbrella could no longer sit still, so she went into the back kitchen of the barbecue stall and picked up a kitchen knife to demonstrate to Axue how to cut the eel.

"Hurry up and bring the bamboo skewers over. Thread the eel onto the skewers and grill it over charcoal for a delicious meal!"

So under the command of the woman with the flower umbrella, Axue and Kato Danzo did as she said.

After a busy period, the fragrant grilled eel was freshly baked.

"Monk, would you like to try it too?"

Ah Xue just shook her head, and the woman with the flower umbrella started to enjoy the food by herself.

Kato Danzo, who was standing by, was also a little curious, so he picked up a bunch and put it in his mouth to taste it.

"Ugh! H-How is this possible?!"

The female ninja immediately broke out in a sweat.

"If the lord's grilled eel is a perfect 100 points, then the eel grilled by this woman with the flower umbrella is a perfect 10,000 points!!!"

The sweet smell quickly attracted the tourists nearby, who gathered in front of the barbecue stall and gestured with their hands:

"It smells delicious, Madam! Give me five servings of grilled eel!"

"Are you selling anything else? Give me a few skewers of pork belly, too!"

The woman with the flower umbrella wasn't surprised to see herself transformed from a customer into the proprietress. Instead, she smiled and called out, "Welcome! Grilled eel and pork belly, right? It'll be ready soon!"

Then, while directing Axue and Kato Danzo to grill, the woman shouted at the top of her voice, "Come and take a look! Grilled eels that nourish yin and yang! We're having a sale right now! Three cents for one, ten cents for three!!"

So, thanks to the promotion by the woman with the flower umbrella, the barbecue stall's business is particularly good today.

Only when the three of them were busy and sweating profusely did the customers finally disperse.

"Business is booming today! Maybe I have the talent to be a boss lady!"

The woman with the flower umbrella was wiping her forehead with a towel when she realized what was going on and screamed.

"Oh! I'm not here to work! What am I doing?"

Axue didn't say anything, but just silently grilled the eel in her hand.

"Thanks for your help. How about trying my current cooking?"

Seeing the monk handing her a string of eels, the woman with the flower umbrella was a little surprised, and then she smiled very dotingly: "You are such a strange person."

The woman savored Ah Xue's eel carefully and commented, "It's still so unpalatable!"

"but......"

The woman with the flower umbrella lowered her eyes and spoke softly.

"I can feel your heart, monk. It's like the bright moon in the sky. Even if you fall into darkness, you can always turn your heart towards the light..."

Then the woman opened her umbrella and started walking out of the barbecue stall.

"Thank you, I can finally leave a good memory."

"...Are you still planning to commit suicide?"

Axue asked the question suddenly.

"...No, I suddenly feel that living in this world is not so bad."

The woman with the flower umbrella turned around and smiled sweetly.

"As for me, I'm going to be sold to a brothel tonight. If the first customer was you, a monk, it wouldn't be so hard for me to accept."

"Do you have to go?"

Axue was silent for a moment and asked.

"Well... I'm the wife of a convicted official. I'm lucky enough not to have my entire family executed."

"Can't I escape?"

Axue asked again.

"I can't escape. Kyoto is so big, where can I escape to?"

The woman with the flower umbrella looked up at the city walls of Kyoto and muttered to herself.

"Escaping to the outside world would only mean death in the chaotic world..."

"Danzo, how much money did we make today?"

Axue turned around and asked the female ninja beside her.

The female ninja immediately replied seriously: "My Lord! I made about ten taels of silver!"

"Ten taels of silver...is that enough to redeem you?"

"Fool! A woman of my appearance should be worth at least one thousand taels of silver, hehe..."

The woman with the flower umbrella laughed so hard that her body shook. Then, a tear ran down her face and she turned and left.

"...Goodbye, monk. Take this money and take care of yourself."

The woman walked a few steps towards Flower Street, and suddenly Ah Xue dropped the kitchen utensils in her hand and chased after her, shouting:

"May I have your name?!"

The woman with the flower umbrella did not answer.

That graceful back seemed to be telling Axue that this was the final outcome of the two people who met by chance.

Axue suddenly felt the tip of her nose getting a little wet.

"Ah...is it raining?"

The Shura in white looked up at the sky and saw raindrops suddenly falling.

The cold rain fell on the flower umbrella, finally shielding the woman from the indifference and ruthlessness from heaven, and preventing her shoulders from getting wet.

"I seem to have... unknowingly given others the luxury of life, causing those who should have been freed to linger in this black rope hell."

Axue stood in the rain, muttering so.

The same is true of Master Wukong of the Wanfo Temple, and the woman with the flower umbrella in the flower street today.

I always change the trajectory of their fate inadvertently, and in the end I can only watch them sink coldly from the sidelines.

"My Lord! You'll get sick if you get caught in the rain like this!!"

Kato Danzo quickly took off his red scarf, ran over and used it as an umbrella to shield Axue from the heavy rain.

"Duan Zang."

The Shura in white could only smile like this.

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