At this moment, Sasaki Yamagakure was lying on the ground holding a camera and giving instructions enthusiastically.
"Yes, raise your little hands a little higher, and be careful not to let the skirt block the bow on your tail..."
"Does it look like Jiang Zi?"
Hearing this, Ono raised his hand a little higher, tilted his little head and asked.
Seeing this scene, Sasaki Shanyin's eyes widened and he said repeatedly.
"That's right, keep this posture and don't move, show your happy smile, 3, 2, 1, meow——"
The moment he was about to press the shutter, Ono's cat ears suddenly twitched intelligently.
The next moment, he disappeared from Sasaki Yamakaku's lens and came to the courtyard of the shrine.
He greeted excitedly to the two hooded figures that appeared in front of him.
"Sora, Sister Yuzu, you are back, nya!"
"Well, we are back."
The two figures opened their hoods one after another, revealing the faces belonging to Yagami Sora and Yuzu.
"Sora, do you think Ono's dress is beautiful? Sasaki conjured it up for me!"
Ono held up the hem of her skirt and happily spun around in front of Yagami Sora.
“Really good.”
Looking at Ono, who was wearing a Gothic Lolita dress in front of him, Yagami Sora commented calmly.
His eyes immediately fell on Sasaki Yamagakure who appeared behind him, and asked.
"Captain Sasaki, since you have free time to use the power of the curse seal to make clothes for Ono, then I guess the new batch of pirated Huluo cards have been made, right?"
Sasaki Shanyin coughed twice in embarrassment.
"I... I've been working a lot lately, and occasionally I need to take a break and be healed."
However, seeing Ye Shenkong's slightly frowning brow, he immediately changed his tone, patted his chest and vowed.
"But don't worry, Lord Ye Shen, I will definitely finish the work on time before tomorrow, and I won't delay your use!"
"Yes, that's good."
After hearing this, Ye Shenkong reluctantly accepted.
"Sister Yuzu, Lord Yagami, you are back."
At this moment, Xiao Zi, who heard the sound, also rushed over along the shrine's approach.
"Well, thank you for your hard work while we were away, Xiaozi." Yuzi nodded gently, "How about it, nothing happened at the shrine today, right?"
"That's not the case...but Sister Yuzu, I just discovered this."
Xiaozi took out a pile of letters from her kimono sleeve and handed it to Yuzu.
"Huh? What is this?"
Yuzi took it with some doubts, opened it and looked at it.
Gradually, her expression became extremely solemn.
After reading one letter, I quickly opened the next one.
After reading them all, she raised her head and asked seriously.
"Xiao Zi, where did you find these letters?"
"From the offering box at the shrine." Xiao Zi replied.
"Because the shrine's offering box has not had monsters put in fox coins for a long time. It should have been empty, but when I wiped the offering box just now, I found that it was full of something."
"After I opened it, I found letters like this inside."
Looking at Yuzi's somewhat ugly expression, Ono asked curiously.
"Sister Yuzu, what kind of cat is this?"
"It's...a letter of challenge."
Yuzu turned to look at Yagami Sora.
"Your Excellency Ye Shen, this is the letter of challenge sent by the other party."
War letter?
Hearing this word, several people present were surprised.
"Sister Youzi, you said this is a declaration of war? Then, could it be..." Xiao Zi asked in surprise.
"Well, it's a letter of challenge from the leader of the Demonic Spider Clan, Luo Xinfu." Yuzi nodded slowly.
"Oh? Did you finally react?"
At this moment, Ye Shenkong's eyes became sharper and he asked.
"So Miss Yuzu, what does it say above?"
Yuzi read according to the letter.
"The leader who rules the underground of Igazaka, Luo Xinfu, hopes to have a fox card duel with Lord Yagami."
"The time is set at the Purple Gold Palace in Huajiuli in five days."
"As a bet for the duel, the opponent will bet half of the assets of Akira Yashiki."
"On the other hand, on our side, we have to pledge all the land of the shrine."
"Huh? It sounds like we've made a lot of money. After all, there's only such a small area left in the shrine, and it's not worth much fox coins."
Ono blinked his big eyes and said.
Yuzi took a deep breath and then continued to read.
"...and all the rights of Lord Yagami in Nasuno shall belong to the Demon Spider Clan."
What!?
The moment they heard this, the expressions of several people present changed.
Xiao Zi confirmed with a trembling voice.
"Sister Yuzu, in other words, if you lose this duel, Lord Yagami will become your opponent's slave?"
Yuzi clenched the paper in her hand and nodded slightly.
"In this case, we must not agree to them!" Xiao Zi resisted.
Gujia
"Now we are clearly in the upper hand, why should we agree to such conditions!"
"But one thing must be admitted, the other party's conditions sound quite fair." Ye Shenkong thought.
"After all, the longer the time goes on, the more unfavorable the situation will be for us. The other party obviously knows this, so they will take the initiative to propose such speed-up measures."
"If this can give you a chance to defeat the Red Broken House, then it's worth trying."
Hearing this, Xiao Zi couldn't help but be stunned, and then spoke anxiously.
"Wait a minute, Lord Yagami, you are not planning to accept such a duel, are you?"
"Right now, we can't make such a simple conclusion."
Ye Shenkong said thoughtfully.
"Before that..."
"As expected, let's eat first."
...
late at night.
Sitting on the edge of the neatly spread bed, Ye Shenkong did not fall asleep, but was still thinking about the issue of the letter of challenge during the day.
Unexpectedly, the other party's actions were more decisive than he thought, and they didn't even give him any room to pull.
From this point of view, the other party also knows very well what his purpose is, so the plan to continue to use pirated Huluo cards to weaken the other party's strength will be difficult to work.
Although he currently has more than 30 million fox coins in his hands, it is still nothing compared to the abundant capital accumulated by the other party over the years.
So, can we only agree to this duel?
Ye Shenkong sighed softly, feeling a little headache.
And that wasn't the only thing that gave him a headache.
Seven days have passed, and I haven't even been able to collect any information about Ye Shencai.
Is this girl practicing in seclusion somewhere right now...
While Ye Shenkong was thinking, the door to his room was suddenly opened.
Ono appeared outside the door holding a pillow, his two big eyes as clear and bright as topaz in the darkness.
Ye Shenkong was stunned for a moment, then asked.
"Xiaoye, what's the matter with not sleeping so late?"
"Well, I have something to say to Kong." Ono hesitated.
"Huh? What is it?"
Ono came to Yashenkong, held his hand with both hands, looked up into his eyes, and begged.
"Sora, can you promise Ono not to accept their duel?"
"Xiaoye, why did you suddenly say that?"
Seeing the somewhat abnormal Ono, Yashenkong couldn't help but be a little surprised.
"Because...because..."
Ono hesitated to choose his words, and finally gritted his teeth and said.
"Because Ono has a hunch that the current Sora cannot defeat them. Just like Kaede before, Sora will also lose."
"How can you know something like this if you don't try it-"
"No, you can't try it!"
Ono seemed to be stimulated by something, and refused very firmly.
"Ono doesn't want this kind of thing to happen again!"
Looking at Ono in front of him, Ye Shenkong was slightly startled, and then sighed softly.
"Yeah, I understand."
"So Ono, can I ask a question?"
"Well, yes, you can ask." Ono nodded.
Looking at those big bright eyes, Ye Shenkong slowly spoke.
"Why does Miss Feng think that I will definitely lose?"
Huh?
The moment he heard this question, Ono's eyes widened to the extreme in disbelief.
After a while, he came back to his senses and spoke tremblingly.
"Ye...Your Excellency Ye Shen, how did you...find out?"
"Because in everyone's eyes, Miss Feng is a cowardly runaway." Ye Shenkong explained calmly.
"Only in your eyes, Ono, have you always firmly believed that Miss Feng has 'lost' and is a 'loser'."
"Unless you have experienced something like this personally, you can't do it to this extent."
"Moreover, when I had the Huluo card duel with the tiger-headed monster, you were the only cat spirit who was not affected by the other party. From that time, I could see in Xiaoye's eyes that were inconsistent with her experience.
Rich dueling experience."
"That's why I speculated that Ono might be the Miss Feng who once had the reputation of being the 'strongest'."
"Of course, it's just speculation."
Looking at Yagami Kong's determined gaze, Ono's originally innocent gaze suddenly became a little bitter, and he sighed.
"Your Excellency Ye Shen, you are really so sharp that even the cat spirit can't compare to you."
"As you said, yes, I am that Feng."
"If you can guess my identity, then you should understand better why I don't want you to participate in the duel, right?"
"Yes." Ye Shenkong nodded and admitted.
"Originally, those families could have made a big deal out of defeating Miss Feng, but the other party did not do so and chose to hide it."
"Even Miss Feng, who is the victim, chose to hide it actively,"
"I think this is because the method they used to defeat Miss Feng should be some kind of insidious method that cannot be made public, so in order to prevent the other party from knowing that they are still alive, and in order to prevent Miss Yuzu and others around them from being implicated in danger, so
Miss Feng could only pretend to be Ono and endure it until now."
"So, Miss Feng, if you really want to convince me, can you tell me the method first?"
He looked into the other person's eyes.
Facing Ye Shenkong's gaze, Feng took a deep breath.
Then he spoke.
"Your Majesty Yagami, have you ever heard of the Dark Duel?"