Compared with Qiao Xi's memory, Yamabuki Otome doesn't actually look much different, except that her face is a bit paler - but she has always been pale, and it is only when she is with Nura Li that her face becomes pale because of his
Blushing some red on the cheeks in a playful, angry or shy way.
Nura Liban probably felt that she looked more energetic when she blushed, so he always tried his best to deliberately make her angry.
But now we don’t know what happened between the two of them, so Yamabuki Otome never even mentioned the name Nuraikaban.
Qiao Xi stared at Yamabuki Otome in silence.
Yamabuki Otome didn't speak, she just held the hem of Qiao Xi's clothes tightly, then looked up at him, her eyes full of prayer.
Qiao Xi couldn't help but sigh softly.
——What... How can he refuse with such an expression...
With this thought in mind, he raised his hand and touched Yamabuki Otome's soft hair, and said helplessly: "Okay, I won't go."
A forced smile appeared on Yamabuki Otome's face, but her hand holding Qiao Xi's clothes became tighter unconsciously.
After a while, Qiao Xi simply sat down cross-legged, then looked at her seriously and asked: "Since you don't want to, I don't have to go, but..."
He frowned and considered the right words: "At least I need to know the reason - what do you think?"
He asked seriously. Yamabuki Otome looked at him for a few seconds and then couldn't help but look away.
"My body... my body..."
Yamabuki Otome uttered a few words with bitterness in her mouth, but she couldn't form a sentence intermittently. Qiao Xi looked at her and even her fingertips trembled slightly.
Qiao Xi: "..."
——So angry!
At this moment, he really wanted to catch Nuliang Liban and give him a good beating.
Look at Yamabuki Otome, who was originally such a gentle and reserved girl, now she has become thin and has a sad look - her family life is particularly disharmonious at first glance!
He wouldn’t even believe this pot if he said it wasn’t Nuliang Liban!
Qiao Xi gritted her teeth secretly, and spoke to Yamabuki Otome in a good-natured manner. She did not dare to ask her about Nura Liban, but only motioned to Sa Dou to talk about the monsters in the shrine in the past.
Along with Qiao Xi, Sa Dou has raised several monster cubs and is a good storyteller.
What he said was interesting, and the story he was talking about was very close to Qiao Xi, the Fengyue God. Yamabuki Otome became fascinated while listening, and gradually she was able to interject a few words and ask some curious things.
.
Qiao Xi watched her loosen the hem of her clothes, thought for a while, and quietly walked out the door.
——He originally wanted to find Nuliang Libi, but after walking around outside, he suddenly felt powerless.
Yamabuki Otome had already begged him to leave it alone, so he had to go find Koiban and ask for details regardless of her wishes?
As he strolled along the road, Qiao Xi felt as if grass had grown in his heart, and he was so irritated that he felt flustered.
After a long while, he gritted his teeth.
——Okay, we can’t go to Edo without permission, so we can only convince Yamabuki Otome, wait for her to agree, and then take her with us.
After a period of time, under the heavy fog that Qiao Xi spared no effort in, Yamabuki Otome finally mustered up the courage and embarked on the road to Edo with Qiao Xi.
Qiao Xi: "You've decided, you won't back down?"
"Hey! I know that what you say is the best way."
Yamabuki Otome said this, looking up at Qiao Xi, her eyes looking at Qiao Xi with a very gentle expression.
Qiao Xi tilted her head, with a deliberately distressed look on her face.
"Well, if that's the case, then why do we still have to walk slowly in the human way?
——Xiaosheng thought it would be faster to use demonic power."
Qiao Xi said it so seriously that Yamabuki Otome couldn't help but blush slightly on her face.
——Using demon power can indeed be faster.
However, the reason for leaving without saying goodbye for so long was entirely due to that unspeakable reason. She always felt that it was too sudden to stand in front of Nuliang Liban and explain so suddenly.
——At least give her some time to prepare herself mentally.
By the way, it is also a rare opportunity to experience in this world with Master Qiao Xi.
Thinking like this, Yamabuki Otome's eyes became softer and softer. Qiao Xi looked at her expression, "tsk" and couldn't help shaking her head and laughing.
The two non-human beings were completely walking, but in order to be faster, they chose a relatively straight path - although this road was not considered a road in some places, who made them not?
What about people(?)?
It's such a small thing, I don't care.
The distance between Yahara and Edo is not close, and even the time it takes for monsters to go back and forth is not short, not to mention that the two of them are relying on one pair of legs at the moment. After a while, Qiao Xi thought about it, it is still far away from Shikoku.
Half the journey.
Qiao Xi: "..."
The weather today was a bit gloomy, and the sky looked like it might rain at any time. Qiao Xi squinted her eyes and stared at the distant coast, turned back to pay attention to Yamabuki Otome, and asked: "It looks like it's going to rain. What's ahead?"
It’s the coast, how to choose?”
Yamabuki Otome has always been the one taking the lead between them along the way. At first she felt embarrassed and even frightened, but as time went by, she gradually got used to it.
This time Qiao Xi still simply gave the choice to Yamabuki Otome.
Yamabuki Otome thought seriously for a moment, and a smile appeared on her face: "I have heard humans mention the sea before, and they always said that the sea is a very powerful and interesting place. This is a rare opportunity for us to take a boat and float around like humans.
Is it okay to experience the fun of the sea at sea, Fengyue-sama?"
The current Yamabuki Otome and the one who just came to the shrine look like two different people.
She is still gentle and reserved at heart, but after walking in this world and witnessing the strong or light, passionate or dull emotions between human beings, Yamabuki Otome's inner thoughts have gradually changed.
——She had previously chosen to leave Nuliang Liban due to personal reasons, but now that she thinks about it, she feels that her actions at that time were too arbitrary.
It is true that she has been married to Nuliang Liban for a long time, and she is not a being who is too powerful to have offspring, but she still has no heirs - this is a fact, and the monsters of the Nuliang group are not wrong.
But she just left a letter to Nu Liang Liban and then walked away - she was really too cowardly.
Now Otome Yamabuki occasionally thinks that if she had not left directly at that time, but had discussed the reason for having no heirs with Nura Liban, and the two of them had come up with a solution together - no matter what, the situation would not be worse than the current situation.
Worse.
Qiao Xi, who has been with Yamabuki Otome, has the deepest experience with her changes.