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Chapter 170 It’s rude to come and not return.
"You on earth, this is the power of Lady Gion, which even goddesses can seal away. If you don't want to end up covered in wounds, you'd better honestly tell us the origin of what you have, and how you managed to enter the space created by that boundary demon!" Seeing that Bai Ye was already trapped by the blade, Watatsuki Yorihime breathed a sigh of relief and shouted at Bai Ye sharply.
"...Are you so sure this thing can trap me?" Bai Ye, trapped in the forest of blades, remained completely calm.
Why are you still stubbornly holding on at a point like this?
In the past, unless it was trapping someone with a bug-like ability like her sister, or someone whose strength was far inferior to her master's, this move was always effective in trapping people. Therefore, it was only natural that Watatsuki Yorihime took Byakuya's words as a desperate attempt to hold on before failure.
Just as she was about to say something sarcastic, her expression suddenly changed.
Surrounded by layers of sharp blades, Bai Ye suddenly sheathed the two swords, whether real or fake, called Kusanagi, then took a deep breath and whispered a shout after reaching the maximum capacity of his stomach.
"what!"
boom--
Those blades she was so proud of, those that had helped her subdue enemies in battle countless times, those blades imbued with the power of the Gion Okami, shattered almost instantly. As for the sword energy contained within those blades, which she had once been so proud of, they could only leave faint white marks when they struck Bai Ye's body.
“This thing is indeed quite exciting…” Bai Ye grinned, looking at the dumbfounded swordswoman girl: “Now, do you still have any questions about whether I can get out of here?”
"..."
What a joke! That's the power of a god! How could you not even hurt him?
What kind of monster is this?!
This terrifying defensive power even troubled the will of the Gion-no-Okami attached to her, like someone who had practiced their marksmanship for half a year, only to find in the final round that the remaining players all had a health lock.
"Want to continue?" Although Watatsuki Yorihime's face no longer held the arrogance she had before, her hands were still tightly gripping the katana. Byakuya raised an eyebrow: "Next time, I won't stop after breaking through your attack like I did just now."
“That’s exactly right. If a battle is destined from the start for one side to remain unharmed, then the battle is destined to be meaningless,” Watatsuki Yorihime retorted sharply.
"...Good will. In this respect, you are quite similar to a friend of mine. You are both the type who will not give up until a winner is decided once you start fighting, and once you get entangled with someone, you are like a piece of chewing gum that you can't shake off."
—No doubt, Bai Ye is referring to Tony, that sword fanatic.
"If I have the chance, I'd really like to witness the prowess of your friend," Watatsuki Yorihime replied. She didn't doubt the authenticity of the friend Bai Ye mentioned. After all, in a world where the strong prey on the weak, with very few exceptions, most strong people's friends are those who are their equals, or at least were once their equals. Given Bai Ye's strength in shattering the blade imbued with Gion Oogami's power, it's not surprising that he has one or two friends with battle maniac personalities.
However, why had he never heard of such a powerful being before? Was it really because the Lunar Capital had been closed off for too long, and its information about the outside world was still stuck a thousand years ago?
Muttering something in a voice she could barely hear herself, Watatsuki Yorihime flicked the blade in her hand, forcibly dispelling all the distracting thoughts in her mind.
Regardless of the rules of the Moon Capital, the most important thing now is to defeat the White Night in front of her and then ask him about the whereabouts of her master... Her intuition told her that this might be the last time she and her sister hoped to see Yagokoro Eirin since she rebelled for Kaguya!
"Lord Atago! Grant me flames that can burn everything on earth to ashes!"
……
During the fight between Watatsuki Yorihime and Byakuya, Watatsuki Toyohime, as the older sister, remained an observer throughout, neither interfering nor offering any help.
Unlike her intelligent but easily impulsive sister, she inherited more of Yagokoro Eirin's calculating mind. So when Yakumo Yukari abandoned Byakuya and ran away, she realized that Byakuya was more troublesome than Yakumo Yukari in direct combat.
After all, although this boundary demon likes to use some underhanded methods, she is still good to her friends. During the lunar war a thousand years ago, she almost failed to return to the ground in order to save a dead soul - of course, those stupid demons who were tricked into going to the lunar capital to die after careful interrogation do not count.
Judging from the way Byakuya and Yukari were before, the boat of friendship between the two was still quite stable.
Sure enough, Bai Ye effortlessly countered one of his younger sister's most prized techniques—divine possession—in a way that was both the least cost-effective and the most shocking to the two sisters.
Since physical attacks don't work, let's try other forms of attacks.
Almost as soon as she thought of this, Watatsuki Yorihime had already changed the object of her possession to Lord Atago, and the extremely hot flames quickly climbed onto Byakuya's body under Yorihime's control.
As for the high temperature that was enough to melt rocks into magma and turn ore into molten iron, Bai Ye simply opened his mouth and inhaled it, and all the flames that had attached to his body were sucked into his mouth.
Seeing that Byakuya had chewed twice with his mouth closed, Watatsuki Toyohime 4.2's expression changed, and her ability to connect mountains and seas was activated instantly. With the first flash, she arrived beside her sister; with the second flash, she had already pulled Watatsuki Yorihime hundreds of meters away, and the place where Watatsuki Yorihime had been standing was now burned into a large crater by the flames that Byakuya had sprayed back.
"Attack me with flames, the cuteness of your behavior is second only to that purple-haired boy whose heart I pierced with a spear a while ago. Both of you have quite the ideas." Bai Ye opened his mouth and exhaled the last bit of black smoke, then looked at the Mian Yue sisters with a smile: "I already said that it is impolite not to reciprocate. Since you still won't let go after I've advised you, then be careful... Just think of it as a way to prevent your teacher from dying here."
"The eternally unchanging labyrinth (Chaos-Labyrinthos)!!!"
Chapter 171 A hearty meal and drinks, but a slip of the tongue.
A brilliant purple magic emanated from Bai Ye's feet, instantly enveloping the surroundings. When the Mian Yue sisters regained their senses, they found themselves in a long, seemingly endless passage.
The walls, floors, and ceilings were all made of bricks of uniform size. The only light source in the passage was a torch placed on each side of the wall every fifty meters.
They exchanged a glance, and the two sisters walked along the passage for a while until they came to a crossroads.
However, before they could even feel happy, the two of them discovered that the two sides were actually the same dark passageways as the ones in front and behind, seemingly endless.
"..." x2
"Sister, can't even you just leave from here?"
Watatsuki Toyohime shook her head: "I already tried it when I first entered here. It seems there's another layer of spatial sealing here, and..." Under Watatsuki Yorihime's cautious gaze, she suddenly opened the fan in her hand and gently waved it at the wall. The bricks that supported structure 03 were instantly reduced to basic particles by the fan. However, in just a few breaths, everything returned to normal.
"Hmm... it seems that forcibly leaving from inside is basically impossible." Seeing this, Watatsuki Yorihime also abandoned the idea of using force to create a way out.
Given the resilience of that wall, breaking through it would probably be less efficient than simply walking along the passage.
But then again, this kind of layout that easily makes people lose their sense of direction... is it a maze?
……
They walked for a good half hour in the dim light, surrounded by those meticulously planned, almost maddeningly neat, brick mazes. After Watatsuki Toyohime tried to memorize the maze's route but ended up confusing herself, Watatsuki Yorihime's attempt to rely on her swordsman's intuition and blindly rush through any passage also failed.
For the first time in their lives, the two sisters hated the guy who invented the maze so much. It was simply the most disgusting building in the history of world civilization, bar none!
If it weren't for the fact that the two sisters had already developed a very good mental fortitude under Eirin Yagokoro's tutelage, they would probably have lost their composure long ago if they were trapped in this hopeless maze.
Judging from some of the subtle actions of the two, it was clear that their temperaments had been tempered quite a bit. Bai Ye, who was still in the same spot eating barbecue skewers and drinking iced cola, snapped his fingers and solved the maze.
Seeing the two bewildered Mianyue sisters appear before him, Bai Ye handed them a handful of freshly grilled skewers.
"Hey you two, how about a move?"
"Thanks~" / "Go to hell!"
Judging from their reactions at this moment, the difference between the older and younger sisters is quite obvious. When they both realized they were lost in the maze and questioned their existence, Byakuya was enjoying a barbecue and drinks outside, while Watatsuki Toyohime took the tray with the skewers and put it aside, picked up a can of peach juice, opened it, and took a sip. Watatsuki Yorihime, on the other hand, immediately aimed a knife straight at Byakuya's forehead.
"Tsk tsk, aren't you worried about not being able to get married with such a bad temper?" Bai Ye shook his head, his fingers slightly bent as he flicked away the knife. "I thought you two had already come to terms with reality. If it really came down to a fight, it would be more like you'd have someone else behind you. It's just the two of you..."
"Hmph, that's because I haven't shown my true strength yet!" Watatsuki Yorihime retorted.
"So you were going easy on me before?" Bai Ye raised an eyebrow and asked in return.
Watatsuki Yorihime was speechless.
"See, that's it." Bai Ye spread his hands helplessly: "Even if you use your true strength and can split me and this planet under your feet in two, what's the use if you can't use it in actual combat or simply can't bear to use it? Before you realize you need to unleash your full power, I could have killed you a hundred or eighty times over."
"..."
After a moment of stunned silence, just when Bai Ye thought she might continue to be stubborn to the end, Watatsuki Yorihime suddenly sheathed her sword and, like her sister, took a can of juice and started drinking it.
"..."
"..." x2
"..." x3
"Could you stop staring at me like that?" Feeling increasingly uncomfortable under the intense gaze of the two expressionless girls, Bai Ye finally couldn't help but speak first, "And are you two really that serious? You've already drunk three or four cans of drinks, and haven't touched anything else..."
Are they here to cause trouble?
“It would be a bit impolite to leave the food untouched, but we’re used to the light flavors of the food above, so let’s switch to this…” Watatsuki Toyohime pointed to the skewers in Byakuya’s hand that had been rolled in chili powder and then sprinkled with cumin, the meaning of which was self-evident.
"Alright then, let's leave it at that for now. I'll head back if there's nothing else?"
"No!" x2
“A powerful figure like you, who is still unknown, is almost impossible to exist on the ground in the Dharma-ending Age. Judging from your relationship with that realm demon, I think the place where you usually live must be related to her. As long as we follow you, we will definitely be able to find the traces of our master!” Watanabe Toyohime stretched out two fingers and pinched the hem of Bai Ye’s clothes.
“Yes, this is our only hope. If it weren’t for the fact that a Moon Rabbit soldier received the wavelength of my pet that ran away decades ago, we would all have thought that Master had already taken 113 and that guy away from the solar system.” Watatsuki Yorihime nodded, agreeing with her sister’s statement, and casually tugged at the other side of Byakuya’s clothes.
Bai Ye: "...So where does this huge obsession come from? Just like you said yourself, a thousand years have passed."
"What do you know? That's a master!"
"I don't understand the bonds between you and your master, but the key issue now isn't whether you can find her or not, but rather that Eirin Yagokoro herself doesn't want to see you, right?"
"..." x2
"Who did you just say...?"
"I'm talking about your teachers."
“But if my memory serves me right, I never mentioned my master’s name from beginning to end, and neither did Yorihime.” Watatsuki Toyohime tapped her palm heavily with her dangerous fan. “If you didn’t know my master’s name or even have a good relationship with her, how could you possibly know her name and that we are her disciples?”
After everything was made clear, Watatsuki Yorihime's gaze towards Byakuya became dangerous.
“Emmmm…this is what Yukari Yakumo told me.”
"You're kidding me!" Watatsuki Yorihime's eyebrows twitched, feeling like her intelligence had been fooled.
Chapter 172 Cirno is the strongest, no arguments allowed!
stare……
Stare~~~
stare--
"Fine, I admit I know your teacher and your sister, and I even met them a couple of days ago, but no matter what... what can you do to me?!" Bai Ye's lips twitched as she was stared at by the Mian Yue sisters, and she decided to just throw caution to the wind. "Besides, even if I told you right now that they're inside the great barrier, could you even get in?"
What the hell are you...
Bai Ye's confident words infuriated the Mian Yue sisters.
Even someone like Watatsuki Toyohime, who usually relies on her brain, feels helpless when faced with someone who doesn't play by the rules.
What else can we do? Force them to comply with our will?
But when it comes to fighting, even if the two sisters were tied together, they wouldn't be a match for him (laughing and crying).
"Just tell me straight, what do you want in order to get us to see Master? Name your price!" In the end, Watatsuki Yorihime spoke up domineeringly.
“Conditions…” Bai Ye began to seriously consider this question.
ten minutes later.
"I haven't thought of any specific conditions yet, since I don't seem to lack anything." Looking at the expectant eyes of the two sisters, Bai Ye shrugged.
When Bai Ye said he lacked nothing, it wasn't that the Mianyue sisters didn't have anything he could admire. Putting aside everything else, the sisters' abilities alone were enough to make Bai Ye somewhat envious.
There are two reasons why he didn't mention those exaggerated conditions. First, the Watatsuki sisters have been searching for Yagokoro Eirin for over a thousand years. Even without his guidance, they probably wouldn't mind waiting a few decades or centuries longer, since they are all long-lived beings and can afford to wait. Second, even if the sisters' love for Yagokoro Eirin is truly pathological enough to the point of abandoning everything, Byakuya estimates that if he were to bring two useless people to find Yagokoro Eirin, his relationship with Eientei would be completely ruined...
In Gensokyo right now, apart from the Scarlet Devil Mansion and Terakoya with their ambiguous attitudes, Eientei has the highest favorability rating among all the factions. It seems that from Kaguya and Eirin to Reisen and Tei, they all have a mysterious fondness for him... This is not narcissism!
"How about this, although the beginning was a bit unpleasant, the ending was pretty good. How about I seal away those two attacks you just made as a one-time gesture?"
"What do you mean by 'disposable'?" Watatsuki Yorihime said, indicating that she did not understand what Byakuya meant.
Can moves be sealed only once?
"That's about it." Bai Ye's consciousness sank into the space where all his cards were neatly categorized, and he found a card that he had liked to use for a while without much effort.
"Basic Magic Cannon"
"That's basically the situation. The specific value doesn't really matter. I just want to enrich the variety and quantity of my inventory." Watching the Mianyue sisters examine the one-time basic magic cannon over and over, Bai Ye casually unlocked the card's ownership, leaving it ownerless.
Click,
The card shattered in Watatsuki Yorihime's hand. A few seconds later, a turquoise magic cannon shot across a distance of over a thousand meters and landed on a small hill about two or three hundred meters high, successfully causing a chaotic scene.
"So that's how it is..." Recalling the feeling when she unleashed that magic cannon, Watatsuki Yorihime looked at Byakuya in amazement: "Being able to seal away other people's attacks at will and completely transform them into one's own is truly a terrifying ability. What do I need to do?"
"This is easy. First, do this... then this... and finally this, and you're done!"
A few minutes later, Bai Ye had about ten cards in his hand.
Seeing that she was about to meet her master whom she hadn't seen for a thousand years with Byakuya, Watatsuki Yorihime was in a great mood. After mastering the method of making one-time attack cards with Byakuya's help, she sealed away several of her commonly used, or rather, her most handy, divine possession techniques for Byakuya.
After all, this level of exertion was really nothing to her.
After putting away the stack of cards, Bai Ye took out a piece of white paper covered with tiny writing and held it up in front of the Mian Yue sisters.
"What is this?" Looking at the words on it, Watatsuki Toyohime blinked in confusion.
"Of course it's a contract. You don't actually think I have the guts to put you two in Gensokyo right now, do you?" Byakuya looked at Watatsuki Toyohime speechlessly: "If you two really don't care, I personally think there should be something in Gensokyo that can control you. But if a battle of that level really happens, the outer barrier, not to mention its concealment, will be lucky if it's not directly destroyed."
"Uh..." Watatsuki Toyohime was speechless. Thinking carefully about her younger sister's personality, if there were no restrictions, she might actually do something extreme after seeing her master and that little sister.
"But you don't need to worry. I'm just making sure that Gensokyo won't be destroyed because of my momentary lapse of judgment. The contract is just a safety net. If you really encounter danger, you can break through that seal at any time and regain all your power. But that will also be when you two are teleported to the outside world. Is that acceptable?"