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She felt like a naked clown putting on a ridiculous show in front of the other person.
"It's very simple."
Zhou Ye finally revealed his purpose.
"I can have a pet to warm my bed."
"But the only people I'm responsible for are you and your daughter. The lives of everyone else are none of my concern, because they're not worthy! They're not even worthy of the demon guild's submission. I can accept you and your daughter."
His words made Yasaka suddenly raise his head.
"why?"
"Not only is there a huge gap in strength, but they also lack self-awareness. They're the kind of subordinates who take advantage of others' kindness. If you were in their shoes, would you dare to take them? Don't tell me that no one in the Kyoto Yokai Group has proposed to your daughter."
boom!
Yasaka's mind went blank.
How could there not be? There were even those who hoped to take her, whether it was the gods in the Japanese pantheon or the powerful yokai within the yokai group.
surrender!
These two words are a thousand times heavier than asking her to sacrifice herself!
This means that the mother and daughter will become one person's private property...
"You...you're trying to enslave us, mother and daughter!" Yasaka screamed.
"You can understand that."
Zhou Ye's answer was cold and devoid of any emotion.
"Or, you can choose to refuse."
"Then, let's pray that those lunatics, like Li Zeweim, won't be the first to target you Kyoto monsters."
Oh, right, I forgot to tell you.
Zhou Ye seemed to remember something and added a sentence.
"That guy named Euclid mentioned a big gift before he ran away."
"The person behind him, Li Zevim, is about to take action against the Underworld."
"Do you think that when the forces of demons, fallen angels, and angels, along with other pantheons, are thrown into chaos by the recurrence of the mythological war, when this sudden war plunges them into chaos, who will have time to care about the fate of your Kyoto?"
"By then, how many jackals and tigers will this piece of fat meat attract?"
"And you, Yasaka, what will you use to protect your daughter, your people?"
Zhou Ye's words were piercing to the heart.
He tore open the bloody reality and laid it out in front of Yasaka.
Yasaka swayed and nearly fell to the ground.
She is not stupid.
She instantly understood what Zhou Ye meant.
A storm that will sweep through the entire mythological system is about to arrive.
Kyoto, on the edge of the storm, is like a lone boat, which could be torn to pieces at any moment.
Her attempt to gain protection by offering herself in return seems utterly laughable in the face of such a powerful trend.
The other party wasn't negotiating with her at all.
The other party was giving her a chance to live.
They traded their freedom and dignity for a chance to survive.
“I’m 1.7…”
Yasaka opened his mouth, but his throat was dry.
She looked at Zhou Ye's calm face, a face devoid of greed and desire, only filled with absolute indifference.
It was as if enslaving all the yokai in Kyoto was a trivial matter to him.
despair.
An unprecedented despair enveloped her.
She slowly, very slowly, knelt down.
That proud head, that dignity of the nine-tailed celestial fox, was utterly crushed in the face of cruel reality.
She pressed her forehead deeply against the cold ground.
"Kyoto Monster General, Yasaka..."
"I am willing to bring my daughter to Lord Zhou Ye..."
Her voice was hoarse and dry, filled with endless bitterness and humiliation.
"...I offer you my eternal loyalty."
The moonlight still shone in the courtyard.
But some things have changed forever.
Zhou Ye looked at the nine-tailed fox kneeling on the ground with no expression on his face. He simply handed her two contracts, which were written in four languages: Japanese, Chinese, demon language, and celestial language.
"If you like it, just sign it with your daughter."
Chapter 288 Reality is so cruel
The two contracts, written in four different languages, lay quietly on the cold ground. The paper seemed to still retain Zhou Ye's body heat, yet it brought a chill to Yasaka.
Her mind, after experiencing extreme humiliation and despair, became unusually clear.
Surrender.
This word carries immense weight for her, and for any leader of any ethnic group.
But Zhou Ye's words were like heavy hammer blows, shattering her last illusions and waking her up.
Li Zevheim.
The old Demon King faction.
A storm that swept through the entire mythological system.
These words, when put together, create an apocalyptic picture.
She, Yasaka, the nine-tailed celestial fox, reigns supreme in Kyoto, revered as the supreme commander by countless yokai. But what is she in the grand scheme of the world?
A great monster?
In the face of those monsters that would readily unleash world-ending wars, her proud power was laughably fragile.
Her foolish subordinates were still gloating over petty gains and their so-called demonic dignity. There were even some blind fools who dared to try and take advantage of her and her daughter, thinking it was a marriage alliance between the powerful and the vulnerable.
How ridiculous 09 is!
They couldn't see that Kyoto, this seemingly magnificent ship, was already sailing on the edge of a storm.
One wave crashes in, and the ship is destroyed, and all lives are lost.
Offering oneself in marriage? That's what the weak beg from the strong when they're desperate.
Zhou Ye, however, did not need to beg.
What he wanted was absolute domination.
Having figured all this out, Yasaka calmed down.
She picked up the contract from the ground; the weight of the paper made her fingertips tremble.
She did not sign her name immediately.
She turned and walked back to the brightly lit main hall. Under the watchful eyes of countless demons, some surprised and some puzzled, she stood before her daughter.
"Ninefold."
She gently called her daughter's name.
"Mother?" The little girl with the cute fox tail swaying behind her looked at her mother in confusion.
She could sense that her mother's emotions were very strange.
"come over."
Yasaka took Kokko's hand and led her back to the quiet backyard.
She handed one of the contracts to her daughter.
"Mother, this is..." Jiu Chong looked at the dense text on it that she couldn't understand, her face full of confusion.
"Kujō, listen carefully." Yasaka squatted down, placing his hands on his daughter's tender shoulders, his golden eyes filled with an unprecedented seriousness.
"From today onwards, Lord Zhou Ye is the master of my daughter and me."
"Master?" Jiuzhong's face fell instantly. She couldn't understand the meaning of the word, but instinctively felt unease and resistance.
“Yes, Master.” Yasaka’s tone left no room for argument. “You don’t need to know too much. Just remember that we must obey any of his orders unconditionally. Because only he can keep us alive.”
She didn't explain much about the impending storm, because it was too heavy a burden for a child.
All she knew was that this was the only way out she, as a mother, could choose for her daughter.
She picked up the pen and solemnly wrote her name, stroke by stroke, on her own contract.
Yasaka.
As the last stroke was made, a golden rune suddenly lit up on the contract and instantly disappeared into her brow.
An absolute bondage originating from the soul descended.
She swayed, her face growing even paler.
Then, holding her daughter's hand, she signed the name "Ninefold" on another contract.
The same rune lit up and disappeared into the little fox's brow.