Chapter 498 Don’t mention that woman in front of me
Chapter 498 Don’t mention that woman in front of him
"It's normal for me to be surprised. After all, he looked like me when he first heard about it."
Fujiwara Kirei didn't seem surprised by Hirohito's performance, he gently stroked his red beard and smiled.
"No, Grandpa, what's going on?"
"He came to ask me, have you heard of the story about Minamoto Yoshitsune who once learned skills from Tengu?"
"I've heard of it, but Ushiwakamaru doesn't agree..."
Haoren was surprised because he had heard of it.
It is true that Ushiwakamaru learned martial arts from Tengu when he was a child, but I have never heard that Ushiwakamaru himself is a Tengu demon!
"He knows what I want to ask. It's a long story, and it's hard to explain clearly in a while. Generally speaking, I can understand that when Minamoto Yoshitsune was about to die, her master - the legendary
Then the Tengu demon replaced her with demon blood and passed on her lifelong demon power to her.
Since then, she has lost her human body and turned into a complete monster..."
Fujiwara Kirei's words made Hiren instantly moved.
Because the Ushiwakamaru in his words is so similar to his experience.
Replace bloodline and impart demonic power...
Isn’t that exactly what Tamamo Mae did to him?
However, what surprised Haoren even more was what happened behind.
"It's strange to say that after she became a monster, she didn't lose her human reason like those half-monsters and become a murderer. Instead, she retained her humanity.
Also because she retained her humanity, she became the Tengu Demon Queen and did not harm humans. She even often protected the descendants of the Genji clan.
The demon clan has a long lifespan, and even appears as bright as day. She exists in the world and has become a high-ranking member of the Tengu demon clan.
After she became a high-ranking member of the Tengu Clan, she tried her best to avoid conflicts between the Tengu Clan and humans, and even chose neutrality in the Third Human-Monster War.
Although she is not a monster, she is still an ancestor of the Genji clan, and she often helps her descendants and humans.
Therefore, the Genji clan did not recognize that ancestor, so they established a special shrine to worship her.
Moreover, the attitude of the three major spirit-killing agencies in the island country towards the Tengu clan is completely different from that of other demon clans. A large part of the reason is due to the existence of Minamoto Yoshitsune.
Of course, this is the secret of the Genji clan, and the three major agencies have tacitly acknowledged this, and most people do not know the truth..."
"It turns out...it's not like that..."
It must be said that Kirei Fujiwara's words resonated in Hiren's heart.
Having the same experience as Ushiwakamaru, he felt as if he had found a similar person.
Then forget it.
However, Ushiwakamaru's ending is not a good one.
After becoming a monster, he was not regarded as an enemy by humans and was constantly hunted and killed.
On the contrary, he was recognized as an ancestor by the Genji clan and established statues to worship him. Even the three major spirit-removing agencies did not treat him with ambiguity.
That gave Haoren a glimmer of hope.
What hope?
Is there any hope for peaceful coexistence between nature and mankind?
I want to know that since he became a nine-tailed fox demon, he has been worried about his personal safety all the time. He is afraid that one day he will accidentally reveal his identity as a fox demon and be chased by a large group of spirit exterminators and strangled on the spot.
He once believed that human beings and monsters had a blood feud, and that ghost-killing agencies were unreasonable and would kill monsters whenever they saw them.
But after Ruming saw what happened to Ushiwakamaru, maybe things were not as bad as he imagined.
Although this is not because Ushiwakamaru is not an enemy of humans, but often helps humans and takes care of his children...
But he doesn't intend to be an enemy of humans, and he has even become close friends with the Queen of Britain, the head of the Witch Organization.
Maybe, I can be like Ushiwakamaru...
Haoren was thinking this way and soon thought of another question.
"Wait a minute, grandpa, he is already aware of what I said. Does the fact that the ancestor of the Genji clan is a Tengu demon have anything to do with me coming to him?"
If that was Fujiwara Kirei's original words before, Haoren took advantage of the situation and asked.
"There is some connection, but not much. I must know the reason why he came to me that time..."
"Is it because he awakened our Fujiwara clan's imperial bloodline?"
"That's right, the Fujiwara clan's bloodline awakeners have not appeared since the end of the third human-monster war two hundred years ago. My father and him, very much my great-grandfather, my great-great-grandfather, have not awakened their bloodline.
In fact, the Genji clan, like the Fujiwara clan, also possesses the power of blood, so it may be that there has not been a bloodline awakener for a long time.
The awakening of bloodline is random and they have no control over it. The only thing currently known that can increase the chance of awakening is marriage with a family with a different bloodline.
Therefore, the Fujiwara clan and the Genji clan have been married for generations, and when seeking marriage, they will choose brides and grooms from the Genji clan. My deceased grandmother will be Minamoto Noraimasa's biological sister..."
"Ha, isn't Master Yuan his uncle? Wait, grandpa, what do I mean by saying that? Am I asking him to marry Master Yuan... a junior from his uncle's family?"
Doesn’t that constitute intrusion into marriage? That’s too much punishment!
Faced with Hirohito's question, Fujiwara Kirei shook his head.
"That's not the case. In this generation of the Genji family, except for Minamoto Noraisho and my grandmother, there are no other direct descendants, and old man Minamoto has no other choice, so he can regard me as the heir of the Genji.
So one of the reasons why they came to me that time was because the two old men came forward to help me stabilize my awakened bloodline.
Another reason is that old man Minamoto wants me to worship the ancestors of the Minamoto clan and officially inherit the Minamoto clan. The wrong reason for worshiping is the statue of tengu.
The last reason is to urge me to give birth to an offspring as soon as possible and give one to Genji..."
"Ha, let him inherit the Genji family? An adopted child?"
"No, the Genji clan has no other direct descendants, so I don't have to abide by the marriage rules between their two families. All I have to do is find a girl with spiritual power and good health to marry."
"I see. No wonder I was so anxious to urge him and Rumi-chan..."
Haoren was slightly startled, a little confused about whether to laugh or cry.
Methods like adopting a blood-related child are indeed a method used by some families to ensure the inheritance of incense.
Those Haoren didn't really have any objections. Anyway, one was his grandfather and the other was his uncle.
But Fujiwara Kirei's words made him suddenly think of one person - his deceased father.
"Well, what about his father? Since the Genji clan broke up with Uncle Yuan, did he marry a woman from the Genji clan? Where is his mother from?"
Speaking of which, Haoren has not seen his mother much since he was a child.
I heard from my grandfather that my mother seemed to have committed something and was taken to jail.
He had asked Fujiwara Kirei several times since he was a child, but he never got an answer.
Hirohito couldn't remember clearly how Fujiwara Kirei answered him when he was a child, but that time, the wrong person's reaction made him slightly surprised.