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Chapter 734: It turns out that we have a history with Takamagahara
"Yahoohachi Tanuki" refers to the chief raccoon dog of the Shikoku region - Hikagami Gyobu Tanuki.

It is a very famous monster in Japan.

It is said that this raccoon boss occupies Iyo Matsuyama and commands 808 subordinates. And these 8808 subordinates are each small raccoon monster leaders with their own territory.

The 888 raccoon forces are dedicated to protecting the territory of Shikoku and fighting against their mortal enemy, the Fox Legion.

During the time when the Hidden God Geibu Tanuki were active in the human world, the fox forces were no match for the raccoon forces. The raccoon forces used Matsuyama as their base and occupied the entire Shikoku during their heyday, and also established a rule that "foxes are prohibited from setting foot in Shikoku".

It is precisely because of the raccoon's control over the Shikoku region that in the old days when humans and ghosts coexisted, Shikoku was rarely invaded by other monsters, including foxes.

The locals thought that this was a favor from the raccoons, so they worshipped the leader of the raccoons, the hidden god Gyobu Rinko, and enshrined him as the "Spirit of Yamaguchi."

In today's Ehime Prefecture (formerly Iyo), there is not only the Yamaguchi Reishin Shrine of the hidden god Gyobu Tanuki, but also many statues based on it can be seen on the streets.

Local merchants place the 888 raccoon statues at the door of their shops, which is said to bless them with prosperous business.

"Yabaihatanuki, it seems that they are a raccoon monster force that once operated in the four countries of the modern world. It sounds like this monster tribe moved into the ordinary world for some reason. However... even in the ordinary world, Yaobaihatanuki seems to still be fighting against their old rival, the fox force."

After listening to the little old man's report, Kamiyagawa had a general understanding of what happened to the Traveling Cat Team on this trip.

"Aba Aba!"

The little old man continued to gesture and tell more information he had heard.

Shen Gu understood what the scout meant and murmured for a moment: "You mean the treasure of the raccoon monster..."

It seems to be called something like "Da Ming Yue".

According to the information gathered by the old man, the raccoon forces in Songshan seem to be guarding the "Big Bright Moon" to prevent it from being snatched away by the fox forces.

Kamiya was also a little curious about what the so-called treasure that the raccoon and fox tribes were fighting for was.

However, he had no intention of intervening for the time being.

As a huge force that actually controls a large area of ​​the world, Takama-ga-hara is indeed full of martial virtues, but for the time being... it can still be considered a civilized army?
To say the least, Takama-ga-hara at least has rules.

Like this time, the cat shopkeeper, Kinkuma, Xingxiong and others traveled a long distance and happened to kill Aragami Nirudo in Iyo, which revealed suitable material for building a shrine for the eight-foot-high woman.

But before the battle started, didn't the Houshen serve as bait?
Although doing so may be suspected of being a sting operation.

But the two kings of the cat and ghost tribe also have reasons to say -

"If Nirudao didn't want to kill our people, we wouldn't have defeated it."

At least there is a legitimate reason.

As for the treasure that the raccoon and fox tribes were fighting for, Kamiyagawa had no idea what it was; and secondly, he had no reasonable reason to occupy the so-called "Big Bright Moon".

So for now, I have no intention of getting involved in the treasure hunt.

The Yaohachitan force has just now appeared in the sight of the Takama-ga-hara forces.

All the raccoons did was to stop the cats' team.

Considering that Matsuyama is the raccoon's territory, the Takama-ga-hara forces there are outsiders.

Maomao and his men defeated Ni Rudao in someone else's territory. Although they were temporarily stopped afterwards, it was not unacceptable that no fierce conflict broke out.

"However, the wise Songshan raccoon tribe can speak human language and is good at transformation... 888 raccoons have 808 followers, and each follower is a small leader in a certain place. If the raccoon power in Songshan is really that large, the number of raccoons should be very large. Takama-ga-hara is still in its rising development stage and is short of labor. Perhaps they are suitable to come and work for me?"

And there is the Hidden God Geibu Tanuki, who is the "Chief Tanuki of the Shikoku Region" who actually has a shrine in real life.

There should be a certain absorption value.

If there is a suitable way, such as taking advantage of the conflict between the raccoon and fox tribes, perhaps I can make 880 raccoons and go to Takama-ga-hara.

Rather than snatching treasures, the Lord of Ghosts and Gods seems to be more interested in the raccoon monsters in Iyo themselves.

"Plundering people... well, recruiting talents is quite important for the development of power today. From this perspective, we can continue to pay attention to the developments in Iyo."

Asking the old man to keep an eye on the situation of Tomoyo Iyo, Kamiya Gawa contacted the Countermeasures Office again and obtained some detailed information about Yaohachitan from Ehime Prefecture.

By consulting these materials, he learned more about Yaoba Tanuki. In Ehime Prefecture, there is a legend of "Yabaiha Tanuki Story" that has been passed down to this day.

Legend has it that the hidden god Gyobu Tanuki is the guardian deity of the Matsuyama Castle area. He has been guarding the area around Matsuyama Castle for a hundred years. He is called "the most powerful god in Shikoku" by the locals and is on good terms with humans.

Therefore, the raccoon monsters in Shikoku at that time were relatively rare, and they were a monster force that could live in harmony with humans.

But later, Yaoba Tanuki, who had been the guardian god for a hundred years, launched an action to seize the human Matsuyama Castle without any warning.

Faced with the invasion of the raccoon monsters, the Lord of Songshan City at that time was shocked and frightened.

The city lord knew that his men could no longer defeat the raccoon monsters, so he asked for help.

Coincidentally, a young samurai from Hiroshima came forward and promised to help Matsuyama Castle overcome the crisis.

The samurai's surname was Inao.

Samurai Inao is no ordinary person. He once passed the test of the demon king Yamamoto Gorozaemon and holds a magical small hammer given by the demon king.

At the end of the story of "The Tale of Eight Hundred and Eight Tanuki", with the help of the devil's mallet, Samurai Inao defeated the army of transformed tanuki of Kakugami Gyobu Rinko, and sealed Kakugami Gyobu Rinko and his 808 subordinates in a cave at the foot of Mount Kuma.

This local legend circulated in Ehime Prefecture made Kamiya River laugh.

I originally thought it was a folk legend related to the raccoons, but... isn't this the personal heroic biography of one of my subordinates?
In the "Tale of the Tanuki", the hero Inao Samurai who saved Matsuyama Castle passed the test of Yamamoto Gorozaemon and possessed the Demon King's Mallet.

Isn't that the same person as Inao Heitaro from the Live Fish Inn Shichinin Gozen?

"After all this time, there is still some old grudge between the Yaoba Tanuki faction and our Takama-ga-hara faction."

Kamiyagawa found it interesting and went to the live fish inn in Changshi to find Inao.

Perhaps we can get more clues about Yaobali from him.

……

Live fish hotel.

This room was probably the internal staff meeting room in the past.

Because of the Master's sudden visit, the attendants quickly gathered here.

In addition to the seven emperors, the drone ghost story Kasahara also came to this meeting room.

As the "external memory brain" of the imperial court, Kasahara has long been taken care of by his older brothers and sisters.

When he was first captured by Kamiya, he was just a tragically dead ghost attached to a drone.

But now it's a D-rated weird story.

He was also strengthened by the "ghost story film" picked up by Miyako, which reshaped his body and made his thinking much more agile.

At this time, Kasahara was floating on one side of the conference room.

The black drone hovered quietly beside him, and its camera faithfully recorded the progress of the meeting.

"Master, do you have any instructions this time?"

Kamiyagawa, who was sitting on the main seat, looked at his subordinates sitting upright in front of the emperor and shook his head helplessly: "Aren't you a little too formal?"

He felt that the atmosphere among the imperial court was not right.

But after a quick thought, I roughly understood why.

When the seven emperors first joined the faction, they were also the main combatants. As the faction has grown, the enemies they face are getting stronger and stronger, and the emperors are different from other ghost stories and cannot be promoted normally, so they have less and less room to play on the battlefield.

They are probably troubled by this matter.

"We have failed to serve you well, Master."

"Well... it's not that I have to be loyal to you. In fact, I didn't come here to tell you anything important. I just have a few questions for you."

"Me? Please ask, Master."

The Inao warrior who was named sat up straighter, and the eyes of the other emperors fell on him.

"The thing is, earlier, our people encountered a group of local monster forces in the Iyo region of Shikoku in the Tomoe era. It is now known that they should be affiliated with the great raccoon monster Yaohachitan."

"Eight hundred and eight raccoons..."

When he heard this name, Inao did react.

"Inao, you've fought this group of raccoons before, right?"

"Yes, Master. Yaobashi led his men to attack Matsuyama Castle in Iyo. At that time, I was asked by the castle lord to use the Demon King Mallet to seal Yaobashi in a cave."

It was not something worth keeping secret in the first place, and what's more, since it was the Master who asked about it, of course Inao would tell him everything he knew.

"According to the information I read, Yaoba Tanuki was originally the guardian deity of the Songshan Castle area and was very popular among the locals. Since you were an eyewitness to the incident, do you know why the Tanuki General wanted to attack Songshan Castle?"

"I really don't know about this. But I did hear the Lord of Songshan City say that the Eight Hundred and Eight Tanuki had a good relationship with humans. So, the Lord of Songshan City had never expected that the Tanuki would attack Songshan City."

“You don’t know either.”

The reason why the former general of the four countries' raccoon monsters suddenly attacked Matsuyama Castle is still unknown.

"That battle with the Eight Hundred and Eight Tanuki consumed a lot of Demon King Xiaochui's energy. However, the fact that these tanuki monsters appear in the ordinary world now is probably because they fell into the ordinary world when the present world and the ordinary world were completely separated."

Inosuke went on to add, giving a reasonable guess as to why the sealed raccoon monsters appeared in the ordinary world.

At the end of the Heian period, Abe Haruaki went to war with Yomi. After that war between gods, the eternal world and the present world were completely separated.

This matter is known to the top leaders of the Kamiya forces.

It also corresponds to the timeline of Inao sealing the Eight Hundred and Eight Tanuki.

In short, what Inao said is similar to what is recorded in "The Tale of the Cat and the Rabbit", and what is recorded in that story basically happened.

The role played by Inao in that incident was that of a "passing hero of justice."

After resolving the crisis in Songshan Castle, he left, leaving his mark in the local area.

Didn't go into further details.

But speaking of this, Kamiya Kawa felt that his younger brother was quite powerful when he was active in real life.

There are many stories and legends left behind.

And the "Devil's Hammer"... Kamiya had also seen Inao use this thing once.

It was used in the "Nannin Gozen VS Kamiya River" incident.

After that, Inosuke never took out the hammer in any battle.

In other words, the hammer was only used to hit the Master...

Kamiyagawa actually asked Inao a long time ago why the Demon King's hammer could not be used again.

After all, they have been together for so long, so such important things should have been figured out long ago.

According to what Inao said before -

The Demon King Xiaochui is still in the Live Fish Hotel.

The reason for this is related to the origin of the hotel.

Heitaro Inao died in the Live Fish Inn, or to be more precise, in the real-world area corresponding to the inn.

That's where he died.

According to Gen Inao, he was attacked by a powerful monster one time and escaped to the area of ​​the Live Fish Inn with the help of the treasure hammer.

After arriving here with his heavy body, it was already too late for him to recover.

And at the moment when Inao died and his soul left his body, the demon king Kotsuchi dragged him into the mortal world.

In this way, Baochui consumed himself to create the Live Fish Hotel.

Inao was the first Gozen in the inn, and he was somewhat different from the later Gozens. All the later Gozens entered the inn alive, but Inao was the only one who appeared here after his death and was directly affected by the treasure hammer.

Also, "Yamamoto Gorozaemon", who had previously appeared in the Live Fish Inn and had contact with Kamiya, was not the Demon King himself, but the incarnation of the Treasure Hammer.

Because the treasure hammer maintains the existence of the inn, it is difficult for Inao to use it directly.

Afterwards, after handing over the inn to Kamiya, the Demon King Kotsuchi fell into a deep sleep.

As a result, Inao naturally could no longer use it.

Although I have known about this matter before, when I mentioned Demon King Kotsuchi again today, Inosuke added one more point:
"Now that I think about it, the reason why the treasure hammer is getting weaker and weaker... is also largely related to the fact that I just fought a big battle and consumed too much energy. I didn't have time to replenish it, and then I immediately built the Changshi Inn for me."

Kamiya realized something: "A big battle, too much consumption? Wait, what do you mean?"

Inao nodded, "Yes. Master, I haven't mentioned it before. My death happened shortly after I defeated Yaobatanuki."

"Who was the monster that attacked you?"

"I can't judge, but it shouldn't be a raccoon monster."

"Are you sure that you completely sealed the Eight Hundred and Eight Tanuki at that time?"

"I'm sure."

"That's it..."

After understanding the matter at this point, Kamiya feels that there are still many secrets and doubts about the old events related to Yaobarikuni.

I had been thinking about finding an opportunity to explore Iyo.

Now that I think about it, maybe I can bring Ino with me?
(End of this chapter)