"Hehe, you might not believe it, but I'm the current village chief of Higi Village!" Yasumoto scratched his head, sounding a bit embarrassed.
"You?" Shiki looked Yasumoto up and down suspiciously.
"That's not right. I remember you were an itinerant doctor, weren't you? How did you end up staying and becoming the village chief?"
She was very curious about how Yasumoto became the village chief.
"Ah... this brings us back to when you and Young Miss Kamisato came to Yashiori Island to repair the warding stone."
"Didn't you use a miraculous method to cure those villagers infected by the Tatarigami? When they woke up, they thought I had cured them, and no matter how much I explained, it was useless."
"After the war ended, they directly made me the next village chief of Higi Village."
"Although I don't really want to be the village chief, my home is here, and I simply can't stop them from constantly coming to find me!"
Yasumoto looked helpless. He was an itinerant doctor, traveling across Inazuma to provide medical care, like a mobile physician.
Becoming the village chief meant he couldn't travel to other places to practice medicine anymore.
"So you agreed?"
"Yes, otherwise, every time I came back, they would come looking for me, it was really troublesome... Oh, right, since you're here, quickly go and explain to them. After all, this isn't my credit, and I feel unworthy." Yasumoto said with a wry smile.
"It's fine, just accept it."
Shiki didn't mind. Yasumoto also had some credit for curing them back then.
If Yasumoto hadn't gathered all those infected villagers in one place, Shiki might have missed some.
"Are you really not going to say something?"
"No need." Shiki shook her head.
"Alright, you go back to your work. I'm just here to find the Kobayashi couple this time."
"Oh, oh, then I wish you success."
After bidding farewell to Yasumoto, Shiki followed the somewhat dilapidated wooden bridge to Higi Village and then walked towards the north.
Since it was just a village, the houses here were not like those in Inazuma City where surnames were written in front of each house, which undoubtedly increased the difficulty of finding them.
Moreover, the people here seemed unaware of her identity...
"Who is this person?"
"I don't know, a Young Miss from the city, perhaps? But with so much of her lower body exposed, she's definitely not a good person."
"What's wrong with that? If I could marry her, it wouldn't matter if the child wasn't mine!"
"Typical of you, but you're right, she's much prettier than my old lady."
...
Listening to the surrounding people's whispered chatter, Shiki couldn't help but feel annoyed.
They were all villages, so why was there such a big difference? In terms of quality, Konda Village was much higher than Higi Village.
There's a saying that's very true: 'Bad mountains and wicked waters breed vicious people.' If the two armies hadn't fought and sent all of Higi Village away, they might never have left Yashiori Island.
At most, they would mine Crystal Marrow and transport it through Nazuchi Beach to Tatarasuna. Narukami Island was basically out of the question.
"Tsk..."
These lewd gazes were truly disgusting. Indeed, quality education was extremely important everywhere.
Shiki looked around, then found an old woman and asked for the location of the Kobayashi family.
"Tell me where the Kobayashi family lives, and this Mora is yours."
Shiki said, pulling out a coin purse from her sleeve, preparing to take out a few thousand Mora as a Reward for directions, but then she saw the old woman extending her hand.
"What do you want?"
"The money! Didn't you say all this Mora was mine?!"
The old woman said as if it were obvious, then continued to reach for the coin purse.
"Heh, I'll give it to you, do you dare to take it?"
With a cold laugh, Shiki released her hand, but the coin purse did not fall; instead, it floated in mid-air.
Mora, in essence, was a metal. As long as it was metal, it could be controlled by a magnetic field.
At the same time, thick dark clouds began to appear in the originally clear sky above Yashiori Island, obscuring the scattered sunlight and half of the girl's face.
Only her nose and mouth could be clearly seen of her exquisite features; the rest was covered by shadow.
The old woman swallowed nervously, somewhat frightened by this strange sight, yet her hands still tried to grab the coin purse full of Mora.
Hundreds of thousands of Mora, she had never seen so much money in her life. If she got her hands on it, she would be rich!
But reality was often cruel. No matter how hard she tried, the coin purse remained suspended in mid-air, unmoving, as if held by an invisible hand.
"De... demon..."
"Demon my ass, now I ask, you answer. Where is the Kobayashi family?"
Shiki had completely lost her initial politeness. There was no need to be polite with such rude people.
Politeness was for normal people. Are you normal people?
"The, the Kobayashi family is... in the third house to the north..."
The old woman said tremblingly. Shiki heard her, put away the coin purse, and then dispersed the dark clouds that had gathered in the sky.
That's how Archons are; a simple change in their mood can alter the local weather, and if she wishes, she can shroud an entire island in a thunderstorm.
"I hope everything you said is true, otherwise…"
Saying that, Shiki shot a lightning bolt at a nearby boulder, shattering it into pieces.
"That's what will happen to you!"
"It's all true, it's all true!"
Seeing this, the old woman nodded frantically, fearing that she would turn into pieces like the Shitou in the next second.
"It better be."
With that, Ryougi ignored the old woman and turned to walk towards the house she had mentioned.
The Kobayashi family…
"What just happened? The dark clouds suddenly gathered and then dispersed. Don't they know it's troublesome to collect clothes?" Kobayashi Katsura said, impatiently rehanging the clothes on the drying rack.
"It hasn't rained yet, has it? By the way, has that girl we bought for our son not settled down yet?" Kobayashi Kumata asked.
"She's from the city, how could she settle down so easily?"
"True, but once she's in our house, she can only accept her fate and be a good wife to my son."
"Is that so? Then why don't you tell me how you bought her?"
"Alright, it didn't cost much, just…"
Kobayashi Kumata suddenly froze mid-sentence. This voice, it wasn't his wife's, was it?
He turned his head to see a graceful girl who had appeared in their home at some unknown time.
"Oh, good! I was just worrying about where to find a wife for the second son, and here she is!"
Kobayashi Kumata grabbed the katana hanging on the wall and drew it. Although the blade, full of nicks, didn't look good, it was perfectly sufficient for killing.
"Whose unlucky Ronin did you strip that katana from?"
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