Chapter 106: You Really Think Highly of Me

  Thanks for the reward from "Anderson's Dream", "Fantasy Village Watcher" and "A Walking Fish"!

  When Bachiroku woke up again, what entered his eyes was a pure white ceiling.

  "Hmm..."

  Rubbing his somewhat dizzy head, Hachirou Moku supported himself and sat up on the bed.

  "Is this...the Shrine of the Gods?"

  The room in front of you is the rest room arranged by the God's Institute for Asuna's team.

  "Why am I here?"

  "Creak——"

  Bang!

  The door of the room was opened, and Akane saw Yakumo Mukuro who had woken up, holding a basin of hot water, excitedly knocking over the basin in her hand.

  Ink!!

  Rushing over, she directly pounced onto the bed and tightly hugged Yakumo Mokuto. Akane buried her head into Yakumo's chest.

  "Wooooo..."

  Watching Akane tremble in pain with her shoulders shaking in his arms, Yakumo Saku felt a pang of sympathy.

  "Okay, stop crying!"

  Gently stroking Mei's head, his fingertips felt the silky smoothness of his wife's hair, and Yakumo Suke smiled wryly.

  "Dad!"

  "Yakumo-senpai!"

  The entrance came again with a few cries of surprise, and then Yiyun Mo felt another small body rushing into his arms.

  It's Zheng Yi.

  "Dad, you've been unconscious for three days! Yui is so scared!"

  Three days?

  I actually fainted for three days?

  Yakumo Mokuzu licked his tongue, with his own realm's demon physique and robust recovery ability, although not comparable to the vampire clan, but the injuries that could make him unconscious for three days were obviously severe enough.

  Akane in his arms finally stopped crying and looked up at Yakumo Suke.

  "Mo, is there anywhere else you're uncomfortable?"

  "It's all right..."

  Although her whole body ached, Yakumo Mokou still smiled at Akane Tsukino.

  "Sorry to have worried you. The mobile phone's first launch address is:"

  "This is it, ink you..."

  Wiping away the tears from her eyes, Akane pouted with her small pink lips.

  "Don't be like this again, okay?"

  "Good——"

  Under Asuna's care, Yui Mukuro dressed and got out of bed. First, she thanked the girls from the Knights of the Blood guild who had come to visit her, then turned to look at a quiet elf girl standing beside her.

  "What should I call you?"

  "Just call my name, Isaria." Isaria Tsuwa said to Yakumo Sumi, "Thanks again for before. If it weren't for your help, I might have been consumed by that darkness once more after the seal was broken."

  With his chest still aching slightly, Hachigou smiled softly under Akane's worried gaze. "So, I hope you'll answer my next question truthfully, King of the Water Spirits."

  When Ya Yun Mo called out her own identity, Iza didn't have any reaction.

  The girls in the room did not show any surprise, they had already known Elsa's true identity before.

  It still feels unbelievable even now.

  "Although I'm called the Elf King, I'm just a split personality."

  "Doppelganger?"

  "Hmm, memories haven't fully recovered, and most of the power is still left in the main body. For now, I can only use some simple spirit magic."

  Looks like Esther

  Bā yún mò xīn zhōng xiǎng dào.

  Translation: Eight clouds and ink in his heart thought of.

  "So, as the Fairy King, why were you sealed away there?"

  "I don't know, vaguely remembered, three years ago what happened, someone rescued me who was imprisoned in the dark and had gone mad."

  This matter, Yakumo Mokou actually knew a thing or two about it.

  Three years ago, the Spirit King who was assassinated by the Divine Man was the Water Spirit King.

  "So, what exactly is it that's driving you all crazy?" Akane asked.

  "I don't know, but it's clear that it's 'the darkness from another world'."

  Even the Elf King himself didn't know what it was?

  Baiyun's eyebrows furrowed slightly.

  "But does the other world really exist?" Kurea found it unbelievable, her fiery twin tails fluttering about. "Didn't the Shin'i Institute already prove that other worlds don't exist?"

  "There are some things I can tell you now."

  Yayun Mo suddenly said.

  "In fact, I, Asuka and Yui are people from a different world for you."

  "Huh!?"

  The girls let out an unbelievable scream of surprise, and even Isa stared intently at Yakumo Suke.

  "Aren't you curious about what kind of spirit I am? In fact, I'm not a spirit. In my original world, there's a term for beings like me - it's called 'yokai'."

  "Youkai?" Kreler awkwardly pronounced the word "youkai", "What's the difference between it and a spirit?"

  "In this world, the spirits are beings that exist in the elemental spirit realm, under the Spirit King, and can form contracts with humans who possess spiritual power. They have various powers, but they all fall into six major attributes: fire, wind, earth, water, holy, and dark."

  "It's difficult to explain what a yōkai is because they are all different."

  "Mountains, rivers, grass, trees, flowers, birds, insects, fish, flying creatures, walking beasts, any living thing that has produced spiritual intelligence, possessing wisdom equal to or even surpassing that of humans, and also possessing various inconceivable abilities, can be called a demon."

  "Some special monsters are even born in a very strange way, and their belonging race is also difficult to understand."

  This point is just like his own Ba Yun Mo.

  Boundary yokai, ordinary people really don't easily understand what kind of existence it is.

  "Is it possible that Minamoto no Yoshitsune is also a yōkai tomorrow?"

  "I'm not, I'm a real human being." Akane grasped Yakumo's hand and burst into a brilliant smile.

  "So, what brought you seniors to this world?"

  "Ah, let's not mention that for now." Yakumo Suke avoided the topic and turned to Iza, "I've been suspicious from the start. The legend of the Spirit King has a miracle that 'can grant any wish', what exactly is that thing?"

  "In my understanding, such a so-called 'miracle of fulfilling any wish' cannot exist in this world."

  "In my world, even a true god or a powerful demon that can rival a god cannot grant any wish."

  Isha fell silent.

  "That so-called miracle is actually just darkness."

  "What do you think is the reason for holding the Spirit Sword Dance Festival?"

  Isha suddenly asked.

  "Isn't it for the sake of pleasing a spirit king like you?" Alice said.

  Isha shook her head.

  "No, in fact, the Elf Sword Dance Festival is a ritual set by our Elf King to save himself. For hundreds of years, every time that dark invasion deepens, we will issue an edict and hold the Elf Sword Dance Festival, dividing that dark power among the winning elf messengers, thereby alleviating the invasion of darkness on us."

  "The Spirit Sword Dance Festival is a setup by our Spirit King to suppress his own madness. In these hundreds of years, through sharing with humans the extraordinary miracle power beyond this world, we have been able to calm our spirits."

  "For hundreds of years, every time that corrupting force deepened, we would inform the mortal realm to hold a Spirit Sword Dance Festival. Hoping that one day we could completely purify that darkness that was corroding us. In fact, this method was very useful - until three years ago."

  "Heavens, heavens——"

  The girls who had witnessed the truth of the Spirit Sword Dance Festival covered their mouths in disbelief.

  The Spirit Sword Dance Festival has been held since hundreds of years ago.

  In other words, the Elf King had already been eroded hundreds of years ago and went crazy.

  "There's another thing, I'm not a spirit, so why did I make a contract with Akane?"

  Baiyun Mo asked out his most concerned question.

  Yisha smiled lightly, and after recovering her memory, she seemed to have gained a bit of vitality.

  "Three years ago, I had not yet been liberated, but at that time still maintained the last bit of sanity."

  "It was by chance that I noticed your arrival in this world, and with a try-it-out attitude, I had you and the girl form a spirit contract. From you, I sensed an extremely high level of power, a power that is almost on par with the darkness that corrodes us."

  "So I hope, I can get your help, this will allow you to make a contract with that girl as a spirit."

  It's finally clear, it was because of this that I, a monster like myself, became a spirit.

  At this time, Isabella suddenly raised her head and said: "After regaining consciousness, I have already issued an edict as the Spirit King, making you the winners of this session of the Spirit Sword Dance Festival."

  The Spirit Sword Dance Festival exists to appease the Spirit King in the eyes of outsiders.

  It is natural for the Elf King to designate one of them as the winner.

  "Because we can no longer expect the purification effect of the Spirit Sword Dance Festival, if we spirit kings continue to be eroded, this world will be destroyed - by our own hands."

  "So, I have a request, tomorrow when you all meet with the Spirit King as the winning team, I hope..."

  "Shall we go and rescue the Elf King?"

  Baiyun Mo raised an eyebrow.

  "You haven't even recovered your strength yet, and at that time you almost beat me to death. Now you want me to directly confront the five Great Elemental Kings of the main body? You really have a high opinion of me!"

  ;。