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"Miyamoto Ryoha, my dear child, how long has it been since we last met?" An old man's voice came from under the mask, gentle, yet so far away as if it was on the other side of a mountain. Ryoha's pupils contracted in horror, and she realized where she had heard this voice before, but where, where?
She couldn't remember. The harder she tried to think, the more her head hurt, a tearing pain.
"You have met my other two children, right? The Kanto branch of our family calls them Ryuoh and Ryuma, while Akechi Asuya calls them Kazama Ruri and Sakurai Kogure." The old man did not move. He exuded a decayed smell like a dead person, but his voice was very deceptive.
Luoye remembered that when Akechi Asuya reached an agreement with the Oni Clan, there was indeed a boy and a girl present. They were very young, even much younger than Luoye himself. Sakurai Kogure, who was dressed up, was more beautiful and dignified than Xiaoyou and Luoye. It was said that they were the leaders of the Oni Clan, but it was unknown how such a young girl could climb to a high position in the Oni Clan.
Perhaps it's by selling her body. Akechi Asuya and Kotetsu said so.
"Who... are you?" Luo Ye's hand holding the knife was shaking, and sweat was dripping down. She had actually guessed the identity of this person, but it was too unbelievable, too weird, it was as unacceptable as a dead monarch coming back to life.
"Haven't you guessed it?" The man opened his arms. He was actually wearing a well-fitting, stiff suit with a clean white shirt underneath. His cuffs were rolled up, revealing a quartz watch of a brand that even Luoye couldn't recognize.
The smile on the official mask was even more bizarre. It was such a hearty smile, so frightening.
"I am the general, the general who died in the mouths of the Dragon King and the Dragon Horse, the general who was wiped out in the confrontation with the Eight Clans of Sheqi." he said.
"Why did you find me? There should be something more important to the ghosts in this building, right? Kaguya's host, the Uesugi family's residence, the floors that cannot be approached, and even the strategic department..." Luo Ye's figure is graceful and slender, and she is breathtakingly beautiful against the backdrop of the light and fire outside the window.
Wang Jiang chuckled: "You are a descendant of the Miyamoto family. You should have inherited the wisdom of the Miyamoto family. My dear child, you betrayed our great cause. You must pay the price for doing wrong."
"Who is your good child!" Luo Ye yelled and cursed, "You... a bastard born of a whore!"
General Wang didn't seem to be angry. He just tilted his head and stared at the girl who was retreating step by step with his empty eyes. The girl had long legs and a Glock was tied with a belt close to her thighs, but she had no intention of pulling it out and using it at this moment.
In the face of the devil, what effect can human weapons have?
Luo Ye suddenly had a strange thought. She was thinking that perhaps the core purpose of the attack launched by the Demons on Genji Heavy Industries today was actually for herself, to kill herself, the person who betrayed their trust, and to ensure that the great plan of some big man would not be affected by some uncontrollable factors.
"Is your sister okay? Come to think of it, I miss her very much. I have played with many women over the years, but few of them can bring me that kind of happiness again." General Wang reorganized his posture. He held the knife with his right hand and stroked the blade over and over again with his left hand. The cold light splashed and flowed like water seeping in from the crack of the door.
He had his head down, but suddenly he raised his face, as if lava was oozing out of his eyes!
Luo Ye was shocked. The king's eyes were a red-gold color she had never seen before. It was so majestic and so terrifying. In the classroom of Kassel College, the professors had taught that the princes, who were second only to the monarchs in the dragon civilization, would have such eye color. This meant that the leader of the ghosts was actually a second-generation monster!
Such monsters have been roaming in the shadows of Japanese society, but no one has noticed them. It is like people standing on the frozen sea, and everything looks white at a glance, but a huge sperm whale is swimming slowly under their feet, and the whale song can be heard in the sea for dozens of kilometers.
Wang Jiang walked towards Luoye step by step. His skin under his well-fitting suit was as hot as fire. The high temperature immediately triggered the closed sprinkler heads on the ceiling. It was like a rain falling indoors. The water curtain poured on Wang Jiang's body, and thick white smoke rose up. The devilish shadow appeared and disappeared in Luoye's eyes, seeming both real and illusory.
The human figure slowly overlapped with the most unbearable part in the deepest part of the woman's memory. That was when she was sixteen years old... Her head began to hurt like a tearing pain again. The pain that was sealed by her own protection mechanism and buried deep in her soul reappeared on her body, and every part of her skin felt a burning pain.
But suddenly, the sword light swept across, Xueyou's double swords tore through the mist and slashed towards General Wang's throat!
Chapter 188 Fallen Leaves and the Officials (2)
The leaders of the Kanto branch often compare their family backgrounds. They despise the cowardly and corrupt bigwigs in their own families, but they are proud of their own bloodline. For example, Akechi Asuya's grandfather was once the wakaguchi of the Inuyama family. When Inuyama Ka was away, he would follow the orders of the old man to guide the family. Unfortunately, many years ago, Asuya's grandfather, who was able to protect him, was killed by a young man in a demon-slaying operation. Another example is Kotetsu, who actually came from the Fuma family. When he was very young, he was judged to have a dangerous bloodline, but later it was found to be a misjudgment, so he was taken back to the family for retraining, but he had been left with severe psychological trauma in the sanatorium.
Luoye and Xiaoyou have the blood of the Miyamoto family flowing in their bodies. Miyamoto Shio should be considered as their closest elder, but they have never met. The family does not care about how hard they struggle to survive in a dark world. The family only cares about justice, Amaterasu and Tsukuyomi.
Luoye can no longer remember some things. Those dark and unbearable pasts always make people fall into nightmares every night and cannot extricate themselves. She just still remembers her mother.
Like Luoye and Xiaoyou, their mothers are also members of the main family, but their grandfather is Korean and their grandmother is from the Sakurai family.
Luoye didn't know why she thought of her mother at this time. Perhaps the fire of revenge had burned for too long, burning up everything worth remembering for her in this world, leaving only the only person who truly loved them at the very end.
Many years ago, my father was not like that. He didn't like drinking or gambling. He just liked tea and was passionate about it. My mother was also very good. She was a very beautiful woman, very gentle, and she didn't look like she was going to fall into depravity. Luoye and Xiaoyou were actually very happy when they were children. In the family system, they were probably very lucky children.
Mom always loved to laugh. Luoye and Xiaoyou both liked the octopus balls that Mom made. They still remember that when Mom laughed, she had dimples on her face. Her soft hair was tied up in a high bun with a hairpin made of mountain peach wood. She always liked to wear a white peach turtleneck sweater. She looked slender, but she was actually a very strong woman.
Until a long time later, Luoye still didn't know what the word "Miyamoto" in her name meant. She only knew that her father worked in a government department and came home very late every day. When he came home, he always looked tired. He liked to hug her mother first and then pick up Luoye and Xiaoyou and use his hard beard to prick the girls' delicate faces.
They lived in an apartment in Banqiao at that time. When they looked north at night, they saw not the night view of the city with glittering lights, but the rolling mountains with rolling trees. In the summer, the chirping of cicadas and the sky full of stars together formed those nights deep in their memories. When Mom was enjoying the cool air on the rooftop at night, she would hold her daughters and point to the mountains and say that she lived in the mountains of Osaka before coming to Tokyo. There were chubby raccoons and red wild fruits in the mountains. The water flowing down from the mountains into the river was very clean. Mom would use this water to bathe when she was a child.
At this time, Luoye would wonder what a chubby civet cat looks like. Xiaoyou bit his nails, hugged his mother's neck, put his little face against her face and asked, "Are the red wild fruits delicious?"
Mom pinched Xiaoyou's face and said with a smile that it was a little sour but mostly sweet. When Mom was very young, she had an older brother who she had a very good relationship with. The brother would bring back a lot of wild fruits every day, and everyone else envied Mom.
Later, Japan's economy was in recession, and my father was fired from his job. He started his own business, but he couldn't make any money. From then on, he began to drink. My father, who used to be kind, came home every night with a strong smell of alcohol. He turned from a gentle husband into an irritable alcoholic. After the failure of the business, the family's financial situation became more and more severe. Luoye could always see my father hiding on the rooftop smoking alone. But suddenly one day, it was different. The family seemed to have made a fortune. My father bought a new house in Shinjuku District and moved in with my mother and Luoye Xiaoyou. The titanium black building was where Luoye could see it every night. She could overlook the city and became a member of the city, but she could no longer see the mountains north of Banqiao and the starry sky that was not polluted by city lights.
Mom's body seemed to be getting weaker and weaker. Dad would bring her colorful and precious imported medicines every day, but Mom's condition was still getting worse. Soon after, Dad did not allow Luoye and Xiaoyou to visit Mom. She was placed in a room alone. Sometimes Luoye would sneak in when Dad was not around, and Mom would pick Luoye up and put her on the bed, touching her cheeks and hair. Luoye said, "Mom, when will you get better? My sister and I want to go to Osaka to see grandma, and we also want to see the fat raccoon cats and wild fruits in the mountains." Mom smiled and scratched her nose and said, "My Luoye is a good child. Mom will get better soon. When summer comes, grandma will drive to Tokyo to pick us up. We can go to the mountains to see raccoon cats, eat wild fruits, and take a bath with mountain spring water."
But before the winter was over, a group of men in black suits broke into the house. They wanted to take away the already weak mother. Luoye and Xiaoyou, who had just returned from kindergarten and were still carrying their schoolbags, rushed over and cried, blocking them and saying, "Don't touch my mother." The mother also cried and begged, "Please let me see my daughters again."
The first time Dad got angry, he was not angry at the men who broke into the house. He slapped Luoye in the face and made Xiaoyou kneel down facing the wall in the room. The men in suits stood at the door and tied up Mom with nylon ropes and watched coldly.
After that day, Luoye and Xiaoyou never saw their mother again. Their father became very wealthy and brought a different woman home every day. Later, he fell in love with gambling. He won some money at the beginning, but then gambled more and more. The goddess of luck would not always favor the same person, and finally one day he lost everything.
The following summer, Luoye's grandmother who lived in the mountains of Osaka also died. It was said that she went to the shrine to pray for her daughter and accidentally fell down the hillside and was pierced in the heart by a withered log. Mom originally said that the old woman would drive to Tokyo this summer to pick them up and go to the mountains to see fat raccoons and wild fruits.
Later, Luoye and Xiaoyou went to the mountains to see fat raccoons. In fact, they were not as cute as they imagined. They were a little mean and liked to stand up and grab the food from your hand. They also ate the wild fruits in the mountains of Osaka, but most of them were not sweet as their mother said.
Very sour and astringent.
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In the light of the knife, Luo Ye's heart was as calm as still water. She suddenly calmed down. This world was not gentle. She didn't like this world. It would be good if she died here. She was already very tired and her spine was bent.
There are very few Japanese sword techniques that use double swords and long swords. Luoye has never been considered a kendo genius. She just charged forward fearlessly relying on the word spirit called Guisheng.
But today, she wielded the Xueyou double swords as if she was dancing a graceful ballet, and the hem of her red evening dress bloomed as the woman spun.
Everything about her was beautiful. In the mist from the fire sprinkler, she looked like a gorgeous fairy in the forest, so charming, but her eyes were so fierce, like a lioness ready to fight to the death. Luoye held the knife steadily, she was always able to hold the knife steadily, the two slender knives were as bright as the cold moonlight, each knife was aimed at the throat and heart of the king. But the old man under the official mask was not panicked, his pupils were frighteningly bright, compared to him, Luoye's golden pupils were like fireflies and stars.
The plain old sword held tightly by the palm as dry as an ancient tree was probably the divine sword enshrined in a remote shrine. It was pitch black, and after being unsheathed, it was somewhat similar in appearance to Chu Zihang's Murasame. In the hands of the king, it was flexible beyond imagination, fast and fierce. Every strike of Luo Ye was a fight of burning life and soul, and could even split granite, but the divine sword was just blocking, and sparks flew, like a countercurrent of the galaxy, illuminating Luo Ye's face and the pale face of the noble.
Wang Jiang kept dodging the attacks of the beautiful woman in front of him. His bloodline was far superior to Luo Ye's, ten times, a hundred times! In the rating system of Kassel Academy, Luo Ye and Xiao Yu were both excellent hybrids that could be rated as A-level. However, if Wang Jiang was sent to Kassel Academy, his bloodline would not be rated. He would be directly judged as a deadpool or an ancient dragon, and the only outcome waiting for him would be execution or killing.
The crimson evening dress was torn by the knife and was covered with scars, but General Wang seemed to have deliberately not hurt the woman's fair skin. While blocking the stabbing blade, he was able to leisurely appreciate the beautiful scenery in front of him.
Those blades that could cut through granite were like cutting on diamond when they hit the blade of the divine sword in Wang Jiang's hand. Wang Jiang didn't even use much strength. His movements were precise and dangerous, like inserting the knife into the gap of flowing water.
The moonlight and the rolling lights of Tokyo condensed at this moment. The ivory-white sandpaper curtains were blown up, and the wind neighed as it passed through the titanium-black building like a red horse galloping in the sky. It seemed that gunshots were heard everywhere in Genji Heavy Industries, and dragon blood was boiling in Luoye's body. Now was the most powerful moment in her life, so powerful that she seemed to hold the greatest power in the world. When she looked around, her golden eyes seemed to be looking for her own steel throne.
But in front of the king, her strength that had reached its limit was as weak as that of a baby. She could offset all attacks with a casual wave of her sword. The moist air hummed and trembled because of the collision of metal, and the water mist jumped like an elf.
This clever woman quickly realized this. She had realized that she seemed to be being insulted. The king did not kill her, but only cut her clothes with a knife, revealing her fair skin and a beautiful body that glowed like a girl. The red golden eyes under the uncomfortable mask of the nobles revealed joy and desire. The king was just a code name, but no matter who was hiding behind this code name, he was no longer a human being. Perhaps it would be more appropriate to describe him as an evil ghost.
Being stared at by such eyes, Luo Ye felt that she had no way to escape and no way to retreat. She gritted her teeth, and the light of the sword with a sharp whistle of tearing the air was reflected on the faces of the two people wielding the swords in the water curtain. The woman swung with all her strength and finally repelled the evil ghost-like king for the first time. A faint laugh came from his mouth, but Luo Ye had already jumped back and started a new posture that was completely different from before.
She stepped back slightly with her left foot and moved her right leg forward. She held one knife in front of her chest with the tip pointing towards General Wang, and held the other knife behind her back as if to hide all the murderous intent.
This is a variation of the opening stance of the Enmei-ryu created by the swordsman Miyamoto Musashi. Usually, the right hand holds the katana and moves forward to kill the enemy, while the left hand holds the kodachi to break armor and cut the throat. Few humans can break through the limits of their bodies and use the Enmei-ryu swordsmanship like Luoye does, using two swords of equal length in battle.
"What's wrong? My dear child, you still can't remember who I am?" General Wang's breath slowly subsided, his voice suddenly became low, and it seemed as if there was a playful smile at the corner of his lips, and his scarlet golden eyes were no different from two huge torches burning in the darkness.
Luo Ye didn't say anything. She breathed heavily, trying to recover her almost exhausted strength.
The Eight Snake Families would never tell the Kanto branch any forbidden techniques that could enhance their bloodline. These crazy young people learned how to squeeze their potential to the limit. They fell into desperate situations during battles and burned their blood in desperation.
Luoye and Xiaoyou are by no means the strongest people in Kanto, but they can always force themselves into more terrifying situations. They are keen on creating miracles and are good at creating miracles.
The king seemed to be in no hurry to kill Luoye, so Luoye looked for a way to survive in the desperate situation.
The calm seemed to last only for a moment. General Wang did not want to give Luoye too much time to recover. He laughed contemptuously, grasped the hilt of the Divine Sword in his right hand, tucked it under his armpit, and walked towards Luoye step by step. His voice and tone were very bewitching, not unpleasant, but like a sharp knife, piercing into Luoye's soul.
She actually remembered who the owner of this voice was.
The wild wind made the buildings of the city sway like the trees in the mountains. The fallen leaves bit her lower lip until it was bleeding. She was so angry that she screamed like a female leopard. The two Xueyou swords spun and slashed at the king's throat and chest, but the king was as agile as the most graceful dancer. He was much faster than the fallen leaves, spinning around her, as light as if blown by the wind, with shadows connected, and under the light and fire, it was like the most spectacular ballet in the world.
It was clearly Luo Ye who was attacking, but it was Wang Jiang who was directing the rhythm of attack and defense. The knife in the woman's hand was suddenly taken away, and her expression was shocked, and then turned into disgust.
Wang Jiang stood completely in front of her, holding Luo Ye's slender waist. The old man under the noble mask really retained the vitality of a young man. He looked down at the girl's eyes, and his golden eyes burst with majesty. He controlled Luo Ye with the skills of Argentine tango king Carlos Gardel and began to spin. The hem of his evening dress flew, and the silver light on his shoes spun. The sound of the heels hitting the ground was a symphony, crisp and pleasant, accompanied by the not-so-harmonious sound of flesh and blood being cut, and Luo Ye's eyes gradually lost their spirit. At the end of the tango-like attack and defense, Wang Jiang inserted the imperial sword into Luo Ye's heart, pulled it out, and inserted it again, smoothly, without affecting the almost dancing-like elegance.
Luo Ye gradually leaned her chin on the old man's shoulder, and what came to her face was the smell of cigar that had appeared many times in her dreams. This smell was not unpleasant, but every time it appeared in a dream it was a nightmare.
"If I remember correctly, your word spirit is Gui Sheng. Such a death is not painful for you. You didn't have to die so early, but you chose to betray. No one on the throne will tolerate betrayal." The king said in Luoye's ear.
Luoye laughed softly. With Guisheng's help, she really didn't feel any pain, but all the strength in her body was slipping away. She seemed to be saying something, but Wang Jiang couldn't hear clearly. He stopped and loosened Luoye's waist. The woman collapsed, and he finally knew what she was saying.
"So it's you, so it's you, Osaka, Tachibana Masamune, so it's you who did all this..."
Luoye finally remembered that voice and those smells completely. That was the most unbearable part of her dark past. The person who abused Xiaoyou that year was the one who took her mother away when she was very young.
"Unfortunately, when you knew the truth, you already had one foot in hell. In this feast of dividing power, you and your sister are insignificant figures. What can you do if you know it at this time?" The mask of the noble was taken off and held in his hand, revealing a distorted face full of wrinkles.
The face of Tachibana Masamune.
Luo Ye pressed the handle of the knife that was inserted in her heart, and she coughed up blood when she laughed. "The king is Masamune Tachibana. That year it was you who did that to Xiaoyou..." Her life was slipping away as she said this, but it seemed as if she was biting steel between her teeth, hatred and sharpness.
"It's me. Your sister is amazing. It's a pity that I don't have the chance to spend a good night with you." Tachibana Masamune squatted down and patted Luo Ye's pale face. The corners of his mouth held an even more arrogant smile.
"And your mother, do you remember the medicine your father gave her? It was a very expensive injection, a Molotov cocktail. Unfortunately, she was not the lucky one who could tolerate the effect of the medicine. In my hands, she was made into a deadpool. Don't worry, your mother is qualified to serve before the throne."
Luoye still held the hilt of the knife, and his eyes, which had lost their golden color, stared into Tachibana Masamune's eyes, as if he wanted to remember this man's face in his heart even if he went to hell.
She has died, but the fire of hatred is still burning. Before she died, she had guessed that the tragic past of everyone in the Kanto branch was probably controlled by the king, or Tachibana Masamune, but they had no way to resist their fate.
Fate was like a raging river, drowning her at this moment and finally suffocating this tired woman.
In the end, she just thought that her mother was right. The wild fruits in the mountains of Osaka were very sweet. Although some were sour, most of them were sweet.
The distant wind blew from the corner of the room, and the corners of Tachibana Masamune's clothes and hair were blown back. He pulled the knife out of Luoye's heart, and watched her really die. The smile on his old face gradually faded. He lit a cigar, took a deep puff in the water curtain, and then threw out the lighter that spewed blue flames. The ivory curtains burned, and the fire spread as if it could not be extinguished by water, wrapping Luoye's body. He finally exhaled a puff of green smoke, put on the noble mask again, and turned away.
Chapter 189 Snake Deadpool
A black Hummer with a Kyoto license plate was speeding on the Tomei Expressway. It was not late at night, but there were few vehicles passing by. Looking left and right, the rolling mountains looked as beautiful as the soft curves of a girl under the rain. It was clearly the same day, Tokyo was still dry, but Osaka was raining heavily. The bright headlights tore through the endless rain, and a wall of water as high as a person splashed on both sides of the wheels.
There were only two people in the car, namely Minamoto Chisei and Tachibana Masamune. The former was obviously driving. Both of them had sullen faces and the atmosphere was solemn and cold.
Recently, the activities of the Oni Clan have become more frequent, and a gangster organization under the rule of the main family has passed on solid intelligence to the family, believing that they have seen signs of a large-scale gathering of Oni Clan members in the mountains of Osaka.
The eight families of Snake have always had a low tolerance for the corrupted hybrids with the blood of the White King flowing in their bodies. The demon slayers of the Executive Bureau can even cross the whole of Japan to hunt down a demon that has lost control and stab his heart with a long knife. At this time, hearing that the fierce demons appeared in the mountains of Osaka, Minamoto Chisei, as the director of the Executive Bureau, had to go to check it out in person, both for the sake of justice and his own duties. There were also elite cadres of the Executive Bureau and two retainers, Crow and Yasha, accompanying him. As the head of the main family at this time, Tachibana Masamune could have sat in the Genji Heavy Industries and paid attention to this test action, but the old man told Minamoto Chisei that his friend in Osaka was already very old. If he didn't seize the opportunity to take a look this time, he might never have a chance to drink together again.
Gen Chisheng always appeared strong and confident in front of the heads of the families, as if he could always take the initiative in any action. All the demons he targeted would be killed even if they ran to the ends of the earth. Spider-Kiri had drunk the blood of the fallen. But that was just an appearance. Gen Chisheng sometimes felt like a Pinta Island tortoise raised by the family. His biggest responsibility was not to fulfill the duty of Amaterasu to become the most powerful demon slayer in the world, but to mate with various women like a stallion in a stable to give birth to excellent offspring for the family and pass on the great royal blood in his body.
His personality is actually more like that of a tortoise - cautious, knowing when to advance and retreat, and a little indecisive.
According to Genjitsu's own thinking, he and Tachibana Masamune should not be in the same place at the same time. Although no one has ever pointed it out, the top leaders of the eight Sheqi families have implicitly reached a consensus on this.
A Japanese underworld political circle with Tachibana Masamune as the core and Minamoto no Chio as the crown prince was formed many years ago. From the ancient national perspective, Tachibana Masamune was like the emperor of this shadow empire, and Minamoto no Chio as Amaterasu was the well-deserved crown prince of this country.
Of course the emperor and the crown prince cannot stay together. If they are ambushed by the fierce demons in the mountains of Osaka, the entire family will immediately fall into an embarrassing situation of being leaderless. The order that the eight families of Sheqi have worked hard to establish over the decades since the war will disappear in an instant.
But when facing Tachibana Masamune, Gen Chisheng always felt that he was still the ignorant and reckless mountain boy of fifteen or sixteen years old. His father didn't even need to say too much. He just needed to tell Gen Chisheng that he wanted to go, and he would definitely go with him.
The close relationship between the current head of the family and the future head of the family is considered a good thing by the heads of the family. It means that if one day Tachibana Masamune needs to give up the position of head of the Snake Family, the transfer of power will not be as bloody as in the past.
So when Tachibana Masamune told Minamoto Chisei that he wanted to go to Osaka together, Minamoto Chisei agreed without hesitation.
But soon, they realized that this was a ploy to lure the tiger away from the mountain.
Before the Executive Bureau's convoy even arrived in Osaka, Princess Kaguya brought the news that Genji Heavy Industries had been attacked, followed by a series of calls to the phones of Masamune Tachibana and Chiseo Minamoto.
"The Inuyama family masters and the Fuma family masters, who are good at dealing with emergencies, were commissioned a day ago to go to Hokkaido to try and punish the local gang leaders who broke the rules. Only the Ryoma family masters, Miyamoto family masters and Sakurai family masters stayed in Tokyo. Ryoma family masters once served in the Self-Defense Forces and have strong combat experience. Their personal abilities are also unquestionable, but Miyamoto family masters and Sakurai family masters are not strong combat masters. They cannot give Ryoma family masters much help in resisting the attacks of the fierce demons." Tachibana Masamune cast his gaze out the window. In the rearview mirror, he could see a roaring convoy of cars behind the rain curtain, forming a long snake and speeding on the highway. The raging water curtain was shattered, and the continuous car lights looked like a swarm of bees.