Translator: Aoi
“By the way, Master. I also heard that the painted incarnation can’t be summoned if the main body of the monster painted on the scroll is nearby,” Kagura added.
“Mhm,” Lily nodded and rolled the scroll back up before touching the wide roll gently, simply refusing to put it down.
“Although this ‘Record of One Hundred Demons’ holds an incredibly bizarre power, it’s also a money-squandering item. It takes four magatama to summon the monster cat once, and even though one hundred monsters can be drawn on this ancient scroll, just how many magatama would be lost to summon a true night parade of one hundred demons?” Lily wondered internally.
“You’ve worked hard, Kagura. Put these treasures away properly and rest well after that, all right?” Lily said.
“Yes, Master.”
Lily’s consciousness returned to the outside world and saw that Yumi was actually holding up the parasol for her now.
She had switched with Yuki-Onna at so point in ti.
As for Haihi, she was standing within the snow with hands folded to the front and seed to have changed into a new dress already, actually wearing a decent, light purple kimono this ti.
She then bowed to Lily deeply.
Lily and Haihi walked through the corridors of the temple as snow fell from the skies.
“I’ll have to request Lady Haihi to guide with regards to collecting the flas,” Lily stated.
“P-Please don’t use the appellation of ‘lady,’ I don’t have the qualifications to have it in front of you, Miss Lily. If you wish to collect the flas of Mt. Fuji, I can guide you to the spot anyti you want.”
Lily and Haihi arrived at the latter’s bedroom after that. The snow-capped courtyard was visible from outside the room’s door since it hadn’t suffered much damage from the battle.
“I’ve arranged for my clansn to live inside the temple for the ti being, so please don’t worry too much, Miss Lily. I’ll send them to the provinces of Kanto and do my best to look for a region where they can live once the weather turns for the better. Although the monsters of these Endless Demon Mountains serve now, I believe that my clansn can’t survive in these monster-infested mountains,” Haihi stated.
Lily nodded faintly.
Yoriko ca into the room at this mont while holding ancient martial arts’ books in her hands, and Haihi presented them to Lily.
“Aren’t these… your clan’s legacy? I’ve gone through them already, so I’m pretty grateful for that. However, why are you giving these to ?” Lily questioned.
Haihi looked at Yoriko, “Yoriko, why don’t you return first and rest together with the clansn?”
“All right,” Yoriko gave Lily a sowhat longing glance and retired from the room.
Haihi closed the door after seeing Yoriko leave and turned around to kneel before Lily suddenly, “Miss Lily. I said that I’ll give my everything to you if you help kill that demon.”
“Eh?”
Haihi bowed her head so low that her forehead was almost in contact with the tatami floor and even though her cheeks were just slightly flushed, her tone was far from playful, “I am just a useless woman who made the wrong choice. In the end, I was neither able to obtain vengeance nor protect my clansn, and it nearly ended up with and my mother’s hope getting tarnished. If it weren’t for you, Miss Lily, I would’ve been living a life worse than death for sure. Moreover, I even treated you like that previously. I know a woman like is unqualified to serve you, but since I have so of the Endless Demon Mountains’ monsters under my control now, I believe that I still have so value to you.”
“Haihi. Please don’t ntion things like value and such to . I only acted because Amanojaku’s brutal and evil deeds pushed my patience to the limit. It wasn’t to demand anything from you.”
“A promise is a promise, Miss Lily. Furthermore, now that my mother has been avenged and my clansn are safe, I… am actually lost about how to live from now on. I feel like I’m utterly empty, so please let follow you. If you’re worried that my position as a forr loyal aide to the monsters would affect your reputation, I can just serve you in the dark,” Haihi stated unhesitantly in a seemingly imploring tone.
“I’ve never cared about reputation and such things. As long as you’re willing, I’ll treat you like a sister of mine from now on,” Lily stated politely.
“No, I don’t have such qualifications. Please let act as your retainer. I-I want you to beco my master…”
“Well…”
“Miss Lily, I-I really don’t know what to do from now on. I’ve gone against the Land of East and can’t return to it along with my clansn with all the cris I’ve committed. Furthermore, even if we live together, we’ll still be sowhat estranged because of the misunderstanding between us in the past, and I’ve also beco accustod to living on this mountain.”
Lily recalled sothing suddenly, “Haihi, I get what you an. However, I obtained a pretty incredible treasure from Amanojaku after killing him. It’s an item that far exceeds his abilities, so even though this spot seems safe for now, I’m worried that his backer might co to avenge him if you continue living in this temple. What would you do then?”
“Well…” Lily’s words made sense and Haihi also began to worry. If the adults of the Golden-Horned Tribe and Amanojaku’s father were to really arrive at the surface, they would undoubtedly catch and torture her. Just the thought of it made Haihi shiver.
“Haihi, I actually have a proposal for you. Just set the monsters free and move to my territory along with your trusted kunoichi and clansn,” Lily suggested.
“Eh? But wouldn’t that end up implicating you? After all, Lord Kamakura won’t…”
Lily shook her head, “Lord Kamakura won’t know about it. I own a valley between the Kai and Shinano provinces. Its environnt is quite beautiful, and it’s also hidden pretty well. It’s called Cherry Blossom Valley, and it’s divided into the inner valley and the outer valley. You can just let the clansn live in the outer valley where they can engage in farming. I’ll ask Madam Kotoka to prepare the seeds and equipnt required for that. As for you, you can just live in the inner valley. How about it? Yumi will also accompany us. She doesn’t want to part from you as well, doesn’t she?”
“Eh, is that true? Is there really such a location in this world?” Haihi gave Lily a sowhat excited and longing look.
“It’s true,” Lily nodded wistfully.
Haihi’s eyes glistened after finally seeing a glimr of light at the end of the tunnel and her ntal and physical vitality also recovered because of this glimr of hope.
She seed to regain that charming look of hers gradually and leaned aside, undoing the front of her kimono subconsciously while exposing her slim and pretty legs out of the kimono by stretching them to the side, her nebulous aquamarine hair cascading down to one side in the process.
“I’ll trouble you from now on then, Master.”
“Huh? You’re much older than , Haihi, so there’s no need to call master.”
Haihi, however, leaned forward ekly and lied down on Lily’s thighs directly, “Is my age not to your preference, Master? I’m not just older, but also a virgin… isn’t that quite the loss…”
“D-Don’t say such a thing. By the way, are you not going to take the na ‘Keiko’ back?”
“No, I always want to rember that I’m the loser in front of you, Master, while you are the victor,” Haihi hugged Lily’s waist and pressed her cheek against Lily’s underbody.
It was impossible for Lily to feel nothing after such intimate contact and her breathing turned a little rough as well.
“Fine, then, so be it. Just get up now, alright?”
Lily yielded with a show of reluctance and helped Haihi up.
“I have sothing to ask you, Master.”
“What is it?”
“Uhm. Did you see a key among the treasures you obtained from Amanojaku, Master?”
“A key?”
“Yes, it’s a little brass key.”
Lily didn’t pay much attention to the items, so she couldn’t recall it, “Which treasury’s key is it?”
“A treasury’s key, you say. In a certain sense, you could call it one, I guess,” Haihi replied charmingly.
Thus, Lily asked Kagura about it.
“There’s really such a key, Master. I planned to throw it away tomorrow since I found nothing special about it after appraising it,” Kagura replied from the mirror space.
“Eh? Don’t throw it away. Give it to instead,” Lily stated.
The key naturally wasn’t a grade 6 treasure or anything and was just a tough key made from grade 4 brass, that’s all. However, Lily had found a way to allow an item lower than grade 6 inside the mirror space, which was to let her shikigami carry it on them. Kagura’s dress, undergarnts and underwear, for example, weren’t grade 6 treasures for certain, but they weren’t ejected out from the mirror space, so Lily took advantage of this loophole.
There was also no obstruction at all when taking it out from inside.
Hence, Lily took the key out and waved it in front of Haihi, “Is it this?”
“Kyah. I hate you, Master… How could you… ask such a thing intentionally?” Haihi turned her head away and covered her blushing cheeks with her hands.
“Eh, it’s just a key, isn’t it? What’s so embarrassing about it?” Lily asked puzzledly.
Haihi then got up and raised the bottom of her kimono towards Lily, exposing her fair and warm underbody as well as the humiliating T-shaped black strap fastened to it.
“P-Please help unlock it, then, Master… Or do you want to keep the key with you and make continue wearing this contraption…” Haihi stated in a deep, mature, and submissive tone.
A feminine scent so intoxicating that it could even bewitch Lily a little was mixed in with the odor of leather emanating from the contraption.
Lily noticed a lock at the center of the contraption.
“O-Of course not. I don’t have such strange hobbies. But can’t you unlock it yourself?”
Haihi flexed her hips in front of Lily, “Don’t you feel that it’s more aningful to have you unlock it for , Master?”
“Fine, I got it. I’ll unlock it for you, then.”
Lily also planned to remove Haihi’s fetters originally, so she stopped acting shy and held Haihi’s hip with her fingers while the key-holding hand pushed the key into the keyhole on the leather belt.
“Ngh… It’s inside… Master…” Haihi blushed wholly and quivered all over, producing a gleeful voice from the excitent of obtaining freedom.
“I really don’t get it. Does obtaining freedom really please you that much, Sister Haihi?” Lily’s hip-holding hand circled to the back and held Haihi’s plump and warm buttocks as the whole key went in and rotated inside the keyhole.
“Ngh… Freedom feels the best. After all, it’s the freedom that you’ve given , Master…Kyah!”
Haihi let out a high-pitched squeal as the lock unlocked with a click.
Lily turned her head away and helped Haihi take off that humiliating contraption with one hand while supporting her body with the other. Haihi had gained freedom at this mont.
Her body lost strength and fell towards Lily who was forced to accept her into her embrace as she was seated in seiza.
“Thank you, Master,” Haihi held the front edge of Lily’s kimono, brimming with the charm of a mature woman post-submission as that hand of hers reached into Lily’s cleavage in a probe.
“Y-You don’t need to thank like this,” Lily was also pretty tensed up, so she ended up grabbing Haihi’s hand to stop her, “Sister Haihi. All of you have gone through a lot today, so why don’t you rest a bit earlier? You can guide to fetch the flas of Mt. Fuji tomorrow, alright?”
“Mhm… Alright, Lil’ Master,” Haihi answered in a lonely and empty tone with glistening eyes.
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