Chapter 455: Evil God Festival - Boathouse

The moment the Gobunshi family stepped cautiously into the shrine, blindfolded with black cloth, Bai Liu stepped back and pushed open the shrine door.

The heavy red wooden door was pushed with a "creak", and the leader of the Gobunsha family instantly drew his sword from his back and shouted angrily in the direction of the sound, "Who?"

"Sacrifice Bai Liu." Bai Liu turned back with a smile, he raised an eyebrow slightly, "Gobunsha's, here's the sacrifice you want, won't you come and grab it?"

The man at the head of the Gobunshi family lurched, the sword in his hand waving harshly toward the place where Bai Liu's footsteps were running, "Go! Take him to the shrine!"

"Yes!"

The other Gobunsha samurai answered in a loud voice, blindfolded, drew their short swords, and in a well-trained manner drew away and trotted in the direction of the sound of Bai Liu's footsteps.

The moment the group of samurai were about to touch the direction of Bai Liu, the wooden door of the shrine was opened once again.

The light-hearted Bai Liu pushes in the door.

"Who is it again?" The man at the head of the Gobunshi family turned his head violently, he had already walked near the shrine's door, and as soon as he turned his head he clamped his knife onto the neck of Bai Liu who had pushed the door open, and asked in a stern voice, "Who are you from and what are you doing at the shrine this late?"

Bai Liu with the tail of his eyes quickly swept a glance at the opposite Bai Liu , instantly understand what happened.

Bai Liu smiles at Bai Liu before disappearing behind the shrine with a wave.

Bai Liu retracted his gaze, using his hand to deflect the man's knife on his neck, "Didn't you tell me to come?"

"That voice, are you Bai Liu?!" The man in the lead of the Gobunshi family asked back in surprise and uncertainty, his sword turning back and forth twice in the direction of Bai Liu and Bai Liu's departure, "You're Bai Liu, then who was that man just now?"

"I'd like to know too." Bai Liu didn't stop at all as he walked swiftly inward, shaking the whip out of his hand, turning his wrist, his tone calm, "So get out of the way, I'm going in."

The blindfolded man sensed the long whip on Bai Liu's hand and his face sank, "If you're Bai Liu, there's only one thing you can do if you're here - and that's to be sacrificed."

"What are you carrying a weapon for?!"

As he spoke, the knife in his right hand flicked toward Bai Liu's neck, trying to force back Bai Liu's steps inward, and his left hand reached down to snatch away the long whip that was Bai Liu's weapon in his hand.

Bai Liu throws his whip with his right hand with an unblinking eye, and strikes the Gobunshi family, the leader of the group, with a crisp blow to the face, sending the other party flying straight away, and with a light movement, jumps over the other party's downed and tumbled body, and heads straight for the shrine.

As soon as the Gobunshi man was swept away by Bai Liu, he realized something was wrong, the moment he fell to the ground he turned around and raised his hand to try to yank Bai Liu's ankle, but it was avoided by a light dodge from Bai Liu, the man's voice was hoarse as he looked up and roared, "Stop Bai Liu! He's got a problem!"

The warriors on the left and right sides instantly raised their swords and gathered together, forming a line in front of Bai Liu, the silver light of the swords reflected a blinding band of light on Bai Liu's eyes, reflecting Bai Liu's cold brow, his right hand lifted up, raising the white bone whip with a blood-stained end, and swinging it down with great strength and great speed.

When the white bone whip was thrown to its highest point, it was like a scorpion's upside-down tail that seemed to be able to hook the silver moon in the sky.

The bone whip was raised up high, and then fell through the air, making a sharp "swoosh" sound.

"Shoo-bang-bang-bang-bang!!!"

Scattered points of blinding light rose in the center of the moon, and then, as if scattered by a raised whip, the points of light exploded and cracked into a million points of smoldering debris that fell in a flurry.

"Everyone, don't panic!!!" The servant of the Kitahara family waved his hands to calm the blindfolded Kitahara family members who were frightened enough by the sound of the fireworks, hoarsely explaining in a loud voice, "It's the sound of fireworks! Not the sound of any weapons!"

"Everyone follow the sound of my voice and come along, the shrine has a full set of fire shelters and a pond that draws water down from the spring on the mountain, we'll be safe inside the shrine!"

The wooden door was pushed open again.

A strong odor of blood hit their faces, and the noses of the servants of the Northern Plains family twitched twice, their cold sweat falling down their temples blackened by the smoke of the fire and staining the white sarongs they used to cover their eyes.

The hand of the Kitahara family servant who had pushed the door open trembled slightly as he reached down to pull it off to see what sort of thing had happened inside this shrine that smelled of blood, but then paused the moment he touched the gauze.

...... Remove the veil, if he sees the body of the evil god, then he will be dead.

Just as this servant of the Kitahara family who opened the door was in shock, not thinking about whether to go forward or backward, the Kitahara family behind him let out a heartbreaking cry of fear: "Why hasn't the person in front of him gone in yet! The fire is coming up!"

Before the Kitahara family servant at the head of the group had time to react, the people behind him pushed in in a panicked and surly manner.

The Kitahara servant who had rushed at the end was still fumbling around feeling for the door valve, and finally felt it aside, slammed it down hard, and closed the door jamming the licking up tongue of fire.

The pair of glowing lapis lazuli lanterns that stood at the entrance to the shrine were instantly grayed by the fire that rushed up.

Inside, the servant who closed the door knelt on the ground with his hands propped up, his face a look of ecstasy after the robbery, "We did it! There are many pools in the shrine! We'll be safe here!"

"The soil here is all wet ......"

At that, the servant grasped and held a handful of dirt on the ground with both hands, then he stilled, slowly straightened up, and lifted the wet dirt in his hands to the tip of his nose to sniff it.

Salty rusty flavor.

His face turned white for a moment, and he threw away the dirt in his hands almost in horror, his legs stomping back as he screamed out in misery, "It's blood! It's all blood!"

Soon his back was pressed against the leg of a man who, blindfolded, turned his head in fear and grabbed the man's leg, "There's something wrong with the ...... shrine, why don't we just get out first?"

The gauze on the man's face was smashed against it by a drop of blood, and his movements stalled for a moment before he slowly raised his head as if realizing something.

The last trace of blood was gone from the man's face through the view of the gauze, which was violently unfastened at the top edge, and he let go of his hand with a blank expression, his mouth hanging open.

The man, or rather the corpse, he was leaning against on his back was dressed in the costume of a black samurai of the Gobunshi family, and his face had been pierced through the nose by a short sword that had flown through it, and at the moment the corpse was leaning against the shrine's main door bell with round eyes, and in his hands he was holding the huge rattles that were used to make wishes at the entrance of the shrine.

The ground was covered as far as the eye could see with the corpses of black samurai dressed in the clothes of the Gobunshi family, all of them with their necks severed with a crisp whip, their heads rolled all over the ground, their eyes open in death, some of the short swords in their hands flung out, some not, broken by the whip and held only halfway in the palms of the headless corpses.

This corpse's feet were shaken twice by the servants of the Kitahara family, and it slowly collapsed face downward, the bell that he had clutched in his hand in death and seemed to have been used to alert the others finally being rung with the fall of his body.

The ringing of the bell combined with the hysterical, wailing screams of that servant came together from the burning shrine, "Someone's massacring the shrine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

The moonlit sky at the top of the shrine seemed to be reflected as a blood moon by the killing, the fireworks rose and exploded at a compact speed, and from afar, one could seemingly hear the celebratory sounds of the crowds on the beach cheering and jumping, and it seemed that the fireworks display of this summer festival was about to come to a climax.

"Shoo-shoo-bang!"

The fireworks went from colorful to a blinding bright red, and a flare sandwiched between them exploded, an equally bright red, hidden in the clusters of red pyrotechnics not in the least bit obtrusive.

The Mifune family servant who was guarding the fire platform scanned the flare with his binoculars, and with a scowl, quickly dialed the phone to Mifune, "Mifune-sama, the samurai besieging the side of the shrine have sent out a signal asking for assistance."

"A signal for assistance?" Mifune, who was standing on the towering bleachers, narrowed her eyes, "Are you sure it's a request for assistance and not a signal of mission completion?"

The servant raised it again with his binoculars and after confirming it telephoned, "It's still transmitting, indeed it's a flare for assistance."

"This group of trash." The imperial ship swept the six great family clansmen under the stage who were collecting arrows for hunting old sacrifices, their faces completely darkened, "This side of the ship palace night joy festival for hunting old sacrifices is already going to be finished, all the great family clans have already finished hunting sacrifices and are going to bring them up to be sacrificed, they are just completing the simple task of clearing out the remnants of the Northern Plains family and sacrificing the sacrifices of Bai Liu, and they are actually still not finished, and they still need assistance! They are just completing a simple task of clearing out the remnants of the Northern Plains Family and offering sacrifices to Bai Liu, but they haven't even finished it yet and still need assistance.

"And ......" the servant asked hesitantly in return, "is assistance to be rendered, Lord Mifune?"

The Imperial Ship gritted its teeth, "Of course I'll provide it! Otherwise I'd have lost everything I've set up for so long!"

The servant nodded quickly, "Yes! I'll immediately notify the rest of the Gobunshi warriors remaining on the mountain to enter the shrine!"

He pulled out a fuchsia flare from the lookout and lit it at the sky.

"Shoo--!!!"

Fuchsia fireworks exploded, and the Gobunsha samurai who had remained on top of the hill frowned at the sight, glancing at each other in the darkness and quickly lifting the black cloths hanging around their necks to their eyes, moving quickly in the direction of the shrine.

"That's ......" Kitahara Xiao Kui, who had been tugged by her own sister halfway through her run, suddenly heard some sort of peculiar firework explosion, and she jerked her head up, her pupils shrinking at the sight of the purplish-red signal flare that was rising straight and fast from the fire escape, the "A siege flare from the Gobunshi family!"

Her fused memories felt like they were on fire the moment she saw the colorful, piercing flare.

"Sending out this flare is the equivalent of the Gobune family giving the order to kill, and all the samurai that their family has stored up will go out and will not stop until they achieve their goal."

"They're going to kill Bai Liu, and they're going to completely liquidate the Kitahara family ......"

As Kitahara Xiao Kui muttered to herself in a trance, she caught sight of a sparsely rising sky lantern, which reflected in her pupils and made her shudder-

--That's the lamp that Bai Liu carries every night when he goes to meet the evil gods and walks up the mountain.

But this lamp was casually thrown aside by Bai Liu, who had hurried up to save his sister, and was now burned to a skeleton by the fire, flying toward the deep black sky with the push of the heat wave.

It's like a soul to be taken by the gods.

Cangta shook off Xiao Kui's hand, which had grabbed him, and covered his mouth, choking and coughing as he ran in the direction of the fire.

Xiao Kui came back to his senses and grabbed him by the shoulders, asking back in shock, "Over there is the shrine and the Kitahara family in the fire! What are you going to do!!!"

"Didn't you say the Imperial Ship was going to kill Bai Liu-sama! I'm going to save Bai Liu-sama!" Cangta, who had been smoked and was coughing, said with tears in his eyes, "There's still [Cangta] and [Bai Liu]!"

"They were left in the attic of the Kitahara house by me, and they'll burn to death at this rate!"

Xiao Kui grits her teeth, "Are you crazy! Do you know what the concept of all the samurai of the Gobunshi family being out in force is!"

"Killing you is easier than cutting a carrot!"

Cangta shook her head as she sobbed, "I don't know, all I know is Bai Liu-sama and the kittens, they made it possible for me to live well here, without being used as a sacrifice or in pain, they helped me a lot and taught me a lot."

"I've never felt the world was a good place because of the teachings of those Kitahara family teachers, but I think Bai Liu-sama's love for the Evil God-sama is beautiful."

Cangta howls, "I don't want to see Lord Bai Liu die!"

"They were supposed to have a happy ending! Isn't that what they say in fairy tales!"

"Fairytales are all ......" Xiao Kui teeth clenched as she closed her eyes, her teeth chattering as she tried to shatter Cangta's fantasies, "It's all... ..."

--Lies.

The burned lamp fluttered and landed not far from her, slowly dying out, like the light in her eyes in her other worldline.

[Love is all a lie.]

Bai Liu smiled as she knelt before the shrine, her eyes empty as she said, [In this world, there is no love that exists.]

[Because no one who believes love exists exists at all.]

[Only pain is eternal.]

Xiao Kui's eyes snapped open, she took a deep breath as she looked at the burnt mountain, a burning light reflected in her eyes, "You go to the Kitahara's house and save the two cats, I'll go to the mountain and go around the back way to find Bai Liu."