I rely on the vest to become the lord of ghosts

Jiu Yuan didn't know what Xia Youjie was thinking, but fortunately, Izanami was not a parent who interfered too much with her children.

If Izanami just gave him the vest, then he would really have to shout: Mom, I'm so wronged.

Therefore, when Xia Youjie secretly looked at him, Jiu Yuan made a "shh" gesture to imply that "now is not the time to talk about this".

As for how Xia Youjie misunderstood his identity during this period, it was out of his control.

Of course, Izanami did not miss the private interaction between her son who had been away from home for many years and his little friend, but it was just as a way of watching young people having fun.

... Isn't this the same as whispering in class and passing notes, which is normal, right?

"Lord Izanami." Jiu Yuan still chose this more respectful title, he walked up to Xia Youjie, and said to her: "There is something wrong with my fellow traveler... After his body was occupied by the rope, , some of the souls are still unable to return to their places immediately. Listening to Lord Ghost Lantern, I think I need to take him to Taoyuan Township."

"Is that why you don't want to stay by my concubine's side?" Izanami's tone raised slightly, although the words sounded like she was complaining, she was not really angry with the other party.

"...No such thing." Jiuyuan felt that if he didn't explain any more, Izanami might become addicted to the drama, and would act a soap opera drama in which a rebellious adolescent abandoned her mother and ran away from home. .

"We have other companions waiting for us to go back," he explained.

After simply telling Izanami the news that Gojo Wu and the others were still waiting for him and Xia Youjie to go back, the latter said "Oh?"

"I understand the situation, but it's just to restore the boy's soul, so there's no need to go through so much trouble." Izanami walked to Xia Youjie's body and looked down, "The soul body is stronger than the body I'm much younger... It's okay, I don't need to go to Taoyuan Township to find a doctor for such a small problem, I can help him solve it."

She covered the forehead of Xia Youjie's body with one hand, and just about to do it, she remembered something and asked, "By the way, do you still need this body?"

Xia Youjie was silent for two seconds, then shook his head: "No need."

"That concubine started doing it herself—but, you look almost like a monster. Even if you want to revive this corpse, it's pointless."

As Izanami said, an orange light condensed in Xia Youjie's body. This beam of light had its own beacon and flew directly into Xia Youjie's soul body. Finally completely integrated into one.

But he still looks unchanged now, Izanami said considerately: "It will be normal after I go back."

"By the way——" Izanami said, "I have something to remind you. If you still want to become a human, you will go to hell to participate in the trial. If you follow the normal process, you will always be reincarnated as a human. If you choose to become a monster , although you can escape the criminal law brought about by your sins in life, but you will be completely wiped out when you die."

Xia Youjie paused briefly when he heard her words, and then nodded: "I understand."

Izanami didn't care about his decision, she said to the ghost soldiers passing by, "Find me an urn."

The little ghost was summoned by Izanami, so he went to another department quickly to get a new urn.

Izanami directly burned Xia Youjie's body.

As a goddess, her cremation efficiency is not comparable to that of crematoriums in the world.

It took less than 3 minutes from the cremation to the time when the kid packed up the ashes and put the ashes into the urn. Xia Youjie took his own urn with both hands.

Xia Youjie: "..."

Although they were carried out in the corner of the Hades Palace, how could they escape the sight of the ghost lamp.

It's a little unkind to have a mini-cremation in the main hall (although it is a corner) of someone's workplace, so Jiuyuan had to take out the cursed item received from Fitzgerald from his private vault and give it to the ghost lamp.

Izanami: "Is this a bribe?"

Xia Youjie: "...It's bribery."

Ghost Lamp expressionless: "Isn't this caused by the two of you?"

Jiuyuan: "..."

Before leaving, Izanami asked the ghost lamp to give Jiuyuan's mobile phone a special treatment, and he was able to chat with her online.

It's a pity that Jiuyuan can't record the video of what Ronso did and share it with Gojo Satoru. After all, they only saw those wonderful pictures through the means of hell trial. How can the effect of dictation be as refreshing as video?

With this regret, their trip to the underworld came to an end.

……

……

In the old house in the Kisaragi field, Gojo Satoru looked bored at the dark scenery outside the window. Everything here was made by Kisaragi Station, and there was nothing interesting to see.

The boy on the opposite side was flipping through a book that he had materialized, reading under a dim oil lamp.

Gojo Satoru: "... Is it interesting to read the book that I have materialized?"

Kisaragi smiled and nodded: "Of course it's interesting, don't you humans also like to indulge in the playthings you made?"

Gojo Satoru felt that it didn't make sense to him: "It's not the same thing—forget it."

In Kisaragi's domain, all time becomes meaningless, even if you count the seconds with your heartbeat, it seems that you will soon forget the recorded time.

After Gojo Satoru got rid of the two curse spirits, he began a long wait in Kisaragi's domain, but Kisaragi was very bored and didn't chat with him, except for the station and the old dormitory in the gloomy forest , there is nothing left.

"Ah—so boring."

When Gojo Satoru complained for the [-]st time, he saw the boy opposite him slightly raised his head and looked out the window.

"They're back."

The house disappeared instantly, and they appeared directly opposite Xia Youjie and Jiu Yuan.

"Hey, it seems that you are going well..." Gojo Wu said halfway through, when he saw Xia Youjie who was clearly "grown up" opposite him, his tone changed slightly: "...This is really true, it perfectly solved everything ah."

Xia Youjie was wearing a white bottoming gown and black home trousers, with bare feet and draped hair, looking very leisurely.

If you ignore the box he is holding in his hand——

Gojo Satoru: "What's in your hand? It can't be the body of Yansuo, right?"

Xia Youjie said lightly, "It's my ashes."

Wutiaowu: "..."

Generally speaking, shouldn't this be the enemy's head or something?

Jiuyuan coughed lightly, "Mr. Gojo, the main body of Rinso...is a brain without a body. He has been sent to hell for the next round of trial. Don't worry, he was sent to the palace of the king of hell. He has no chance to escape. .”

Gojo Satoru caught the key words: "The palace of the king of hell? Judgment? So you not only went to hell, but also went to the depths of hell?"

Jiu Yuan said: "No, this is called a successful report, and we are assisting the hell official organization to arrest and interrogate the fugitive Li Suo."

"...Although it sounds weird, the conclusion is that Suso has completely become a thing of the past, right?"

"That's right." Jiu Yuan said with a smile, "Mr. Xia You's problem has been solved, and those curse spirits won't have a chance to come back again."

Gojo Satoru felt relieved at the moment, and said with a smile, "Ah, Jie...you are now 'Mr. Xia You' instead of 'Mr. Xia You'."

Only Xia Youjie, after visiting the miraculous hell, suspects that if Jiuyuan is really one of Izanami's children, then he must be older than himself and Gojo Satoru.

At this time, no matter what the other party wants to call himself, it doesn't matter.

So he just smiled back at Gojo Satoru's teasing, and said calmly, "Yes."

"Since the problem has been satisfactorily resolved, there is no need for my domain, right?" Before he could interrupt, Kisaragi found an opening and opened her mouth immediately.

After all, maintaining such a huge field still requires demon power, and he doesn't want to burn demon power in vain to provide a place for chatting.

Want to chat?Wouldn't it be nice to go to an air-conditioned coffee shop?

Jiuyuan returned with a polite smile: "Thank you for your assistance."

Kisaragi bowed slightly: "... I am happy to serve you."

The domain collapsed, and they reappeared on the streets of Tokyo.

"Wow." Gojo Wu looked at the busy street, turned to Xia Youjie and said, "...go to bury you first?"

Xia Youjie: "...All right."

You can't run around with an urn in your hands.

……

……

After dealing with the follow-up questions, Jiuyuan finally ended his busy running around.

He returned to Hanako's folding space - every time he needed someone to think about something, he would choose this place.

Jiu Yuan leisurely opened the chair and drank the iced coffee bought from the shop in a leisurely manner, the ice cubes collided and made a creaking sound.

"System, at this point, I thought you would speak first."

He took a sip of iced coffee, put the cup on the table, leaned on the chair and said to the empty ceiling.

"...However, since you can't think of where to start, we can also start with why you went offline as soon as you arrived in hell in Japan."

He stirred the ice in the glass—

"Are you afraid of being recognized by the people in hell? Ghost lamp? King Yan Mo? Or Izanami..."

"It's just that I'm more curious about why you think you won't be discovered as long as you don't speak. Could it be that you have some kind of special suspended animation mechanism? Can you completely pretend that you don't exist?"

"But there must be a way to crack this camouflage. As long as Lord Izanami is willing, she will definitely be able to see it..."

It seemed that he was anxious to ask the question, and the system finally shouted out aggrieved——

[Master, Master!I really don't know how to explain it to you! 】

Jiuyuan: Finally, I stopped pretending to be dead.

He said, "Then explain slowly."

【system:……】

[System: ... I was originally created by the master, and my essence is just one of thousands of unconscious souls. 】

[The master gave me a little wisdom, and then sealed me in this world, saying that when the time is right, someone will undo my seal, and I, I will be able to go to the master...]

"And then?" Jiu Yuan guessed that the system might be the product of his own making, "Didn't the 'I' from the past say what to do?"

【No, you just set up a set of 'rules' for me, and I can only give you props according to this set of 'rules'. 】

"What about my vest characters? Is it 'me' for myself?"

[You didn't tell me this...] The more the system said, the more aggrieved it became, [I know very little. 】

"Do you know little? Or do you know but can't say it?"

The system misfiring.

Jiuyuan knew that he had guessed right again, but it didn't matter, the system didn't tell him, he could guess by himself.

Bold assumptions!

Jiuyuan thought for a while. In the system he set up, the most important indicator is the reputation value.

And the most unique thing is the strange talk characters one after another, obviously they are also linked to the reputation value.

It's like giving the player an important reminder or two when playing a game.

Izanami said that she thought that the 'I' who used to be would mind because of her origin.

His origin?That's right, most of Izanami's children are serious "gods", but he is more inclined to be a "demon", maybe there will be a sense of gap.

But Izanami said lightly that although the former self cared a little bit, it didn't mind so extreme.

He also didn't think that he made such a big move, not only sealed his memory, but also threw himself into the human world to toss for so long, just for such a sigh of relief.

Then we have to start with the second hint—that is why there are so many vests.

"system."

【? 】

"Although you say that you don't know anything...but I don't believe it. Anyway, I know myself. If you are really a vengeful spirit who doesn't know anything, I will choose to let you stay in 'Huangquanchuan' By Jiuyuan's side?"

"Furthermore, many of the prestige point rewards are linked to vests, and from the very beginning, I was very encouraged to use the vests to earn prestige... Does it prove that 'I' want more than just one or two monsters?" Prestige, but want to build a 'system' that is more likely to attract people's attention?"

"Just like the legends about monsters in ancient times, many of them are related. Ah, using mobile games as an example, it's like there is actually a 'linkage' between two unrelated characters you think— —It is this kind of connection that makes the spread of characters more widespread, because people prefer to study the relationship between monsters.”

"It is precisely in this way that the legends of monsters can be passed down for a long time-and the more famous monsters, the stronger the storytelling of them, and the longer they can exist in people's vision: it can be a novel , comics, movies... Having a dense story network is a good thing for monsters."

"They will not disappear until they are remembered. The more passed on, the stronger they become."

"It's a pity that in modern times, the ghost stories in the information age are almost all independent, and most of them even have extremely short life spans—"

"Yeah, it's very simple to keep them alive. That is to increase their popularity and make people remember them more, so they need to give them more stories."

"So, this is just a simple conjecture of mine."

"Is what 'I' want to do, is revival of Yokai culture in modern society?"

"—Looking for a longer way of survival for these short-lived modern monsters?"