In response, Fujiwara no Moko mocked him for being a fake good man, hypocritical and pretentious.
"I don't object to your statement."
"But for these villagers, even if they are just pretending to be good people, it is better than doing nothing."
"Is not it?"
Nanxing asked back with a smile.
This time, it was Fujiwara no Mokou's turn to be speechless.
"..."
There are actually many similar stories in this small fishing village.
And every time, Nanxing would help if he could. If he couldn't help, he would leave some of Kaguya's hair to make a barrier.
As he walked along, he had almost distributed all the large bunch of hair.
——This made Fujiwara no Momoko laugh. He didn't want to subdue demons at all, he just wanted to scatter these hairs (dabg).
Nanxing did not object to this.
Because he really didn't want to bring these hairs in front of Kikyo.
But at the same time, Nanxing also deliberately left a strand of Kaguya's hair, ready to give it to Kikyo so that she could see the world.
"So what if a witch has extraordinary spiritual powers?"
"Now, we have even met a real god, and even had a pleasant chat with her."
……
Musashi Province, Maple Village.
Twenty days later came when Nanxing returned to the village.
"Two months."
Counting the time, he hasn't seen Kikyo for almost two months.
During these two months, the temperature in Maple Village dropped from just a cool 10 degrees to the point where people had to light a fire and put on more clothes.
It is already late autumn.
Work in the fields has long stopped.
But Kikyo is still busy.
In this era of extremely underdeveloped productivity, winter is not easy to get through.
Not to mention, there are monsters in this world.
This further increases the difficulty for the villagers to survive the winter.
The villagers of Maple Village are actually fine. After all, they have Kikyo's protection, and ordinary monsters have no reason to come here to cause trouble.
But other villages were not so lucky.
A group of cunning rat demons committed crimes one after another during this period, attacking the granaries of several villages and causing a lot of losses.
Later, Kikyo responded to the villagers' request and eliminated the rat monsters.
But the damage that has been done cannot be undone.
The food was transported to other places by the group of rat monsters. There was no way to find out where it was going, let alone recover it.
“Many of them will probably die this winter.”
"We need to be prepared to survive."
"Otherwise, once they become powerful, it will be difficult to deal with them."
That night, Kikyo, sitting at the dining table, talked about this matter with Nanxing, who had just returned to the village, and Fujiwara no Mokou, who had come from afar.
This puzzled Fujiwara no Momoko.
"In that case, why don't you help them?"
Fujiwara no Mokou raised a question.
She believes that since the crisis has been foreseen in advance, we should find a way to resolve it.
Instead of sitting here and watching the crisis grow and develop.
But what surprised Fujiwara no Mokou was that.
After she asked this question, Kikyo suddenly looked at her.
The little girl sitting next to Kikyo also looked at her.
Of course, Nanxing didn't want to look at her originally.
But in order to appear more sociable, Nanxing also glanced at her.
The looks in the three of them were surprisingly consistent - all expressing the meaning of "Why are you so naive?"
In the end, Nanxing couldn't stand it anymore and gave Fujiwara Mohong some answers:
"If it's a monster, then we can help. We can just go over and defeat it."
"But there is a lack of food... This is not within the responsibility of a miko, and it is beyond our capabilities."
"Everyone has a limited amount of food. Even Maple Village only has enough to survive the winter."
"If we force our way in to help, not only will it not solve the problem, it will also likely drag us, who were originally safe and sound, into a crisis."
Nanxing explained.
A helpless smile also appeared on Kikyo's face.
If possible, she doesn't want to give up.
However, there is no way.
Faced with this kind of problem, even though she possessed extraordinary powers, she really couldn't think of a good solution.
You can only sacrifice the pawn to save the driver, and save those lives that can definitely survive first.
This is a helpless move.
However, at this moment, Fujiwara no Mokou's eyes lit up.
"Lack of food?"
"This is easy to handle!"
"I am from Penglai, I can..."
Fujiwara Mokou was very excited and wanted to explain her solution to everyone.
——She had reason to believe that she was a true wise man and even a true saint because she could think of this method.
However, she didn't expect that Nanxing blocked her mouth with a piece of rice cake before she could finish her words.
"Shut up."
"I'm eating!"
Chapter 76: Entering Kyoto and Seizing the Throne
night.
After dinner, Fujiwara no Moko ran out of the village alone, shouting that she was going to solve the "food crisis".
Nanxing let her go.
She is from Penglai, so Nanxing doesn't have to worry about her safety.
On the contrary, the monsters living in this land may have encountered their real enemies from now on.
And at the same time, on the other side.
Kikyo, who had already taken the medicine, brought Nanxing to the Tree of Time and the Bone-Eating Well.
It was a bit chilly on that late autumn night.
But what was even colder than the temperature was the ~expression on Kikyo's face.
"who is she?"
Kikyo frowned and asked with some confusion.
But facing Kikyo's appearance, Nanxing smiled.
——When they were eating just now, he thought Kikyo didn’t care about Fujiwara no Mokou’s existence at all.
And her current behavior proves that she not only cares about Fujiwara no Mokou's existence, but also cares about her very, very much.
She always felt that this girl didn't seem like a good person.
Of course, this doesn’t mean that Fujiwara no Mokou is a bad person.
She simply judged based on her intuition that Fujiwara no Mokou had characteristics similar to those of a monster.
Chaos, disorder, and whatever you want.
In short, she is not the same kind of person.
……
The next time is storytelling time.
"Her name is Fujiwara no Mokou."
Nanxing told Kikyo roughly the information about Fujiwara no Mokou and the relationship between him and Fujiwara no Mokou.
In particular, he wrote about the process of defeating the hidden god Geibu Tanuki with Fujiwara no Momoko in great detail.
Of course, what Nanxing tells is not just the story of Fujiwara no Moko.
During this journey that lasted nearly two months, Ibuki Suika was also a topic that could not be avoided in any way.
As for Bayonetta Eirin and Horaisan Kaguya... Nanxing had reason to suspect that Kikyo had already known their identities.
And this is indeed the case.
"Every generation of witch leaders will learn information about that adult from the moon."
"But I just knew that... In fact, no one had ever asked her for help before me."
Kikyo said somewhat ashamedly.
But in a flash, he was attracted by Nanxing's magical experience again.
"The rumors turned out to be true. Shuten-doji was not killed, but took the opportunity to slip back to hell!"
"You actually killed the big monster?"
"And that moon a while ago...it turned out to be your fault too?"
Kikyo said in some surprise.
At this moment, her image is somewhat ruined, and she is no longer as steady as a rock no matter what happens.
But, how to say it.
Nanxing actually still likes Kikyo's current appearance.
After all, her surprise wasn't due to anything else.
But because of himself.
It was because he did something that even Kikyo could not imagine that she let out an exclamation that was completely inconsistent with her character.
——Nanxing felt somewhat enjoyable to hear such an exclamation.
To put it bluntly, he worked so hard to improve his strength and defeated those powerful enemies regardless of numerous difficulties and dangers, wasn't it just for this moment?
But of course.
Although I was very proud of myself.
But on the surface, Nanxing still has to maintain the demeanor of a "master":
"It's really no big deal."
"If you want, the two of us will charge into Kyoto tomorrow, seize the throne of the Lord of Demons and Monsters, and completely put an end to this demonic chaos!"
