Volume 3 Hello, Eri Chapter 208 The Red-Haired Girl (Part 4)
However, there are some small problems about the young master Yuan Zhisheng that are hard to accept. Every time Crow drinks and chats with Yaksha, the two of them often cannot avoid one topic, that is, each other's future.
In the eyes of other people in the family, it is an honor to be a close minister of Minamoto Chisei. Crow and Yasha also thought so at the beginning. The young master is of noble status and is extremely sharp when holding a knife. Both his ability and personality are enough to impress people. He has been in charge of the Executive Bureau for only three years, and the Executive Bureau has become the strongest department in the Japanese branch. The entire organization revolves around the Executive Bureau. There is no doubt that the next person in charge of the Snake Eight Clan, that is, the head of the Japanese branch, will definitely be Minamoto Chisei. He will be the emperor of the underworld and the leader of the mixed-bloods.
According to this future, the Crow Yaksha has a bright future. Since the debut of Yuan Zhisheng, they have been Yuan Zhisheng's right-hand man. From ancient times to the present, any new emperor who succeeds to the throne will have a great success. One person has a leadership team, which is easy to understand. By then, the Crow Yaksha will most likely be promoted to the position of deputy director, guarding the new owner and becoming a new generation of power group. Then they will really be the kind of guys who will spend a lot of money and have beautiful women sitting on their laps.
But the problem lies with Yuan Zhisheng. As the destined person in power, he has no desire for power. The reason he fights on the front line of the Executive Bureau is just out of a sense of responsibility... and he also said that his ideal in life is to go to France to sell sunscreen!
At first, Crow Yasha thought that Gen Chisheng was joking with them, until they found photos of nude beaches on Gen Chisheng's desk and bought a lot of sunscreen online to study their actual cost-effectiveness. Sakura Crow Yasha were both lucky enough to become experimental subjects and had sunscreen applied to them. Only then did they have to believe that the young master really wanted to spend his life in the sunshine on a nude beach and that Tokyo was a boring cage for him.
Yasha was very worried about his future because according to Japanese custom, once you serve someone, you have to be responsible for the rest of your life and you can't just run away if you want to. This means that if Gen Chisei really went to the nude beach, he would have to follow him.
Crow and Yaksha had many serious discussions about this. The more cultured Crow was the strategist of the team, and Yaksha trusted him more.
Crow drank sake and lit a cigarette, smoking it for half a day and said that in ancient China there was an Emperor Tianqi, Ming Xizong, whose greatest hobby in life was carpentry. Whenever the eunuchs below talked to him about something, he would get impatient, which was somewhat similar to the young master's idea. He did not love his empire and the court.
Yaksha said with surprise that since the ancients have made a template, then we can persuade the young master according to their methods! What happened to that emperor later?
The crow shook his head and said that it was all over. Emperor Tianqi was the second to last emperor of that dynasty, and the demise could be said to have started with him. Do you think if someone could have persuaded him, this would have happened?
Yaksha was silent. He had already foreseen his life for the next few decades. When Yuan Zhisheng was applying sunscreen to a cute girl in a bikini on the nude beach and the two of them were exchanging glances, he was squatting on the side wearing sunglasses and throwing sand for fun. A pet dog passing by circled around him twice, raised its leg and urinated on his feet in disgust.
Therefore, Yasha is a staunch opponent, he is against the life ideal of Minamoto Chisei. But of course he can't say this openly, what he hopes most is that Minamoto Chisei can seduce Yabuki Sakura, if the young master has his own girl, maybe he won't think about going to the nude beach, his girl definitely doesn't want him to go to the beach every day to see all the bikini girls.
When Minamoto no Chisei returned to the main hall, he pulled Eri into the hall through the side door. If a latecomer walked in through the main gate in a ostentatious manner, it would be too conspicuous, but everyone still noticed his arrival. Everyone agreed that there was no point in holding a meeting without Minamoto no Chisei. Although Tachibana Masamune had not yet abdicated, in the hearts of most people, Minamoto no Chisei was already regarded as the future young master of the Snake Eight Families.
Genno Chisei sat down at the small table of the Genji family, and Eri sat down at the small table of the Uesugi family opposite him. The air was extremely quiet, and the sound of rain outside became clearer and clearer. Everyone was looking at Tachibana Masamune, who straightened his kimono, stood up, took a few steps back, and bowed deeply.
This action was too unexpected. For a moment, the crowd looked at each other in silent uproar. As the leader of the underworld, Tachibana Masamune was like the emperor of this circle. There had never been a case in the world where an emperor would kneel down in front of his ministers. Even if he admitted his mistakes, he would only issue a confession of guilt spoken by himself and written by others.
The insightful elders immediately knelt down and worshiped, and the younger generations followed suit. For a moment, the whole hall was filled with prostrating black sleeves.
"Thanks to all of you, I have been the head of the family for ten years. Although there have been many ups and downs in these ten years, I have been fortunate enough to meet you all, so the road has been relatively smooth without any waves. Everyone has done their job and everyone has done a good job in their position." Tachibana Masamune waved his hand, motioning for everyone to sit down. "Unfortunately, the relatively stable days seem to be coming to an end here."
He waved his hand gently, and the screen in the hall slowly lowered. Photos of the trio from Kassel Academy were grandly performed at the underworld gathering: a domineering nobleman, a beautiful enchantress in the twilight, and an eternally burning pupil master. The three photos used were the versions made by the Tokyo headquarters, and the visual impact of the colors was comparable to the giant banners outside commercial buildings.
"These are the three commissioners sent to Tokyo by Kassel Academy, Caesar Gattuso, Lu Mingfei, and Chu Zihang. They are the most proud children of Kassel Academy and the trump cards in Angers' hands. The purpose of their trip is the burial place of the gods in the Sea of Japan."
Everyone showed a look of surprise. The God Burial Place was no secret to everyone present, because they were all mixed-bloods. If it was just an ordinary commissioner from the headquarters who came here and asked to perform tasks related to the God Burial Place, the Japanese branch would have many means to confuse the audience, but this time Tachibana Masamune mentioned Angers. The Japanese branch always held a contemptuous attitude towards the people of the headquarters, but they could not ignore Angers, and even respected him.
The Japanese have a typical psychology of admiring the strong, which has never changed from ancient times to the present. In ancient times, when they learned that the Tang Dynasty on the other side of the ocean was extremely prosperous, they sent countless envoys to the Tang Dynasty, eating dry rice balls and risking their lives to cross the sea to study in the Tang Dynasty. As a result, many ancient buildings in Japan today still retain the obvious Tang Dynasty style. In modern times, Japan began to reform, this time learning from Europe. What they learned from there made them stronger, and then started a war, and finally they were beaten by the United States, so they began to learn from the United States again. Many of the borrowed words in Japanese are almost English, and American lifestyle and American style are also flourishing in Japan today.
Ange was the first person to appear in Japan after the war. Although he was British, he came to this land as an American soldier at that time. With his tough political skills, gentlemanly manners, and violent sword and gun stocks, he used these three things to deal with the Snake Eight Families who were in a bad situation due to the defeat in the war.
In the past, the Japanese mixed-race people only maintained a separate relationship with the European and American mixed-race people. But this time, under the leadership of Ange, the Japanese mixed-race people formed the Kassel Special Branch in Japan, which means that from now on they will be part of Kassel Academy and under the jurisdiction of Kassel.
Of course, the Japanese were unwilling to do this, but they could not fight against Anjou. It is said that Anjou at that time used two Japanese swords to defeat all opponents. Even the emperor who ruled the underworld was no match for him. The Japanese had no choice but to sit down honestly and sign the agreement. From then on, they regarded Anjou as an unchallengeable enemy.
Such an Angers sent his three trump cards by name to dig up the secret burial place of the gods of the Japanese branch. Even though the Japanese branch was frightened by this, they could not think of any solution for the time being. This was the reason for the shock among the crowd.
"Do they know what is buried there?" asked Fuma Kotaro, the head of the Fuma family. This is a name that has been passed down from the Warring States Period to the present day. The heads of the Fuma family have been called Fuma Kotaro from generation to generation. Although the current head of the family looks like a white-haired old man, no one will forget that he is a ninja active in modern times who can take the lives of several people around him in an instant.
"Caselle's thoughts on the God's Burial Site are because they heard a heartbeat that could penetrate the sea water in that sea area," said Masamune Tachibana. "Everyone should understand what this means. In ancient times, Amaterasu and Tsukuyomi pushed the God's Burial Site into the sea, using countless sea water as the burial place for the gods. But we all know that gods will not die easily because of this, and they will return one day. Over the years, deadpools with bloodline rampage have continued to appear in various parts of Japan. The number of attendances of the Executive Bureau has increased several times in the past ten years. Many research institutes have invested in deep-sea detector research and tried experiments near the coast of Japan. Cassel began to hear the heartbeat from the God's Burial Site, and Chisheng brought back a dangerous potion taken from a corpse that has the effect of activating dragon blood. All signs indicate that someone has begun to reach out to the underworld of the God's Burial Site!"
Tachibana Masamune slowly scanned the eyes of each family head, "Who is this?"
"A group of fierce ghosts?" After a long silence, the head of the Longma family said in a low voice.
"Then who has been competing with us in the underworld? Who instigated those gangs that once depended on us to betray us, and who has been constantly encroaching on our territory over the years?" Tachibana Masamune continued to ask.
"A group of fierce ghosts!" Fuma Kotaro said in a deep voice.
"Yes, it's still the Fierce Ghosts. Only the Fierce Ghosts who have inherited dragon blood like us can challenge us. Only those who carry dragon blood know the secret of the Yellow Spring Road!" Tachibana Masamune shouted loudly, "Izanagi once followed the mysterious road to the Yellow Spring Netherworld to save his wife. The path is tortuous and deep, winding into the mountains. Living people can reach the netherworld from that road. That is the so-called Yellow Spring Road, a maze that 999 out of a thousand people will not be able to get out of. The Fierce Ghosts use the Yellow Spring Road to refer to the bloodline evolution they want, because they themselves know that this is a taboo road with a very high failure rate. But even so, the Fierce Ghosts are still keen to explore the end of the Yellow Spring Road. This is their belief. They believe that only by finding the real Yellow Spring Road can they be redeemed and take revenge . They are demons among humans, born for the dragon clan."
"But these demons are created by ourselves." Tachibana Masamune sighed softly again, "Every demon was born from a family. The purer the bloodline and the more outstanding the ability, the more likely it is to become a demon. We have received the gift from God and have stepped half a step into the world of dragons. However, this gift is not fate but a strong poison. It has been constantly eroding us for thousands of years, and every generation has produced children with unstable bloodlines. We closely monitor them and try to wipe them out before they grow up, but by doing so, we become their enemies in the eyes of these children. When they leave the surveillance of the family, what burns in their hearts is only hatred for the family and an even more intense desire for purification by dragon blood. We cannot destroy the demons because we cannot destroy ourselves."
Everyone hung their heads, feeling sad. Many of them had experienced their brothers and sisters suddenly having an attack one day. They were either captured and taken away by the family, or they killed their relatives and disappeared from sight, becoming their enemies from then on. This was the fate that the Japanese mixed-race people could not escape, a gift from God.
Because of the instability of their own bloodline, the Japanese branch has maintained a strict information blockade on the Cassel headquarters, and any rampaging Deadpool will be quietly wiped out. According to the blood contract held by Cassel Academy, their rules will consider all mixed-bloods in Japan to be extremely high-risk. The Japanese branch cannot calmly stretch its neck and let all the mixed-bloods in Japan be monitored or even killed by Cassel one by one.
Yuan Zhisheng also lowered his head, silently wiping the long sword across his knees. A cold azure light flowed on the blade, and the inscription on the sword read "The evil spirit lurks at night in Spider Mountain". The name of this sword is "Spider Cut", and it has been passed down in an orderly manner for thousands of years. The owners of each generation have used it to kill many incredible things, leaving behind many magnificent legends.
He was the only person in the entire hall who was allowed to carry a sword. During the meeting, he also served as the person who intervened. In the past, people who had made serious mistakes were picked out at the meeting as a warning to others, and the person who wielded the sword was Yuan Zhisheng.
Today's meeting will probably not see any bloodshed. The blade is useless. Yuan Zhisheng gently stroked the blade over and over again. He saw his own eyes in the cold light and shadow... or maybe it was the eyes of another person.
Just like those people around him who kept their heads down and kept silent, Yuan Zhisheng had also had such an experience. He once told Chu Zihang that his brother might be dead, which was a lie that allowed him to excuse himself. Only with such vague words could Yuan Zhisheng make himself believe that the knife he swung might not have cut his brother's neck, and that his brother was still alive somewhere in the world, but he didn't know it.
