Zongman: A journey through time starting from the Supreme

"I just had to be the bad guy for once, so that she could exercise her body and leg strength (ciff)."

"...Besides, Youmu, as a gardener, now has her own job to do. Youmu is very happy."

"If she doesn't have any job, she will be depressed."

You have found a very good excuse to bully people. I think she is both in pain and happy in her heart.

Saigo secretly complained in his heart, and finally realized that this undead princess was a bad person just like Yakumo Yukari.

"Besides, the food is really too little, but it's not enough for us to eat."

Saigyouji Yuyuko giggled, and then she let Saigo see the meaning of this sentence.

The undead princess eats extremely fast, almost as fast as Reimu.

Saigo and Yakumo Yukari didn't even take a few bites of the eight dishes and one soup with chopsticks. They just tasted each dish once, and then all went into Youyouko's stomach.

Looking at Youyouko's flat belly, Saigo suddenly became interested in exploring the stomach of the dead.

"Do the dead still need to eat?"

Saigo picked up the cherry blossom wine beside him and sipped it slowly. After seeing Youyouko's big appetite, he didn't compete with her for food.

Even Saigo saw the undead for the first time and was quite curious.

After finishing her meal, Youyouzi became elegant again. She picked up a clean handkerchief and gently wiped the corners of her lips.

"If Youmeng were here, I would definitely say that the dead must eat, and then tell her that I'm hungry and ask Youmeng to make some more."

Yuyuko Saigyouji spoke seriously about bullying Youmu, but Saigo pretended not to hear.

"But since Xiao Yaomeng is not here, I will tell you the truth."

"...Of course the undead don't need to eat. In fact, the undead have very low feelings about various desires and touch."

"The dead are dead, they have little emotion and no extra desires."

"…So the undead must have something to do, so that they can strengthen their spirits and prove that they are alive."

"If one day the undead really lose all interest, then they will be like the walking dead, truly dead."

Saigyouji Yuyuko said with a faint smile, her tone very calm, without any sadness about the feeling of not being alive.

Maybe she doesn't really understand the emotion of sadness.

"Youyouzi..."

On the contrary, Yakumo Yukari looked sad. She hugged Youyouko's shoulders tightly with both hands and buried her head in her shoulders.

"Don't be sad Zi, I'm not really uninterested in everything. Look, I still like eating."

Yuyuko Saigyouji comforted Yakumo Yukari with a few words in return.

Saigo pondered for a while, and finally understood the living conditions of the undead. He slowly said, "...This is not a difficult matter. It is easy to solve."

"How to solve?"

Before Youyouzi could say anything, Yakumo Yukari asked quickly.

"The situation Ms. Youyouzi is facing is actually the loss of desire. As long as she is given desire, this indifference will naturally disappear, and she will have stronger emotional characteristics."

Saigo said casually.

This man is a devil, and devils should have the means to play with desires... Yakumo Zi's eyes flickered as she thought to herself.

But the Yokai Sage was still hesitant and did not dare to ask Saigo for help easily.

Mainly because of what Saigo did to herself, Yakumo Yukari was a little scared. She was afraid that this devil would use similar methods on Youyuko.

Although the Monster Sage likes to speak without thinking and say some ambiguous words, it does not mean that she is really willing to do it.

On the contrary, Yuyuko Saigyouji looked as if she didn't care. She urged Yakumo Yukari to drink. Yakumo Yukari, who had something on her mind, drank a lot in a daze.

After a while, the exhausted courtier brought more food.

Under Saigo's gaze, this food, which was enough for a small banquet, all went into Saigyouji Yuyuko's stomach.

This time, Youyuko did not bully Youmu again and finally made her stop cooking.

But before Youmu could breathe a sigh of relief, Youyouko's words made the poor gardener pale again: "...Lunch is over, and dinner will be in two hours."

After hearing this, Konpaku Youmu left like a walking corpse.

The banquet lasted from noon to evening.

Saigo and Youyouko didn't say anything important. They just chatted and laughed, talking about little things from all over the world, more like a casual chat between new friends.

Although Youyouko had scared Youmu so much that her face turned pale before, she did not let Youmu cook again at night. She just brought some wine and continued drinking to cheer herself up.

By the time it was past ten o'clock in the evening in the underworld, Yakumo Yukari finally drank too much, and Youyuko asked Youmu to move her away and send her to the guest room in the Baiyu Building.

The moon in the underworld is cold and deep, and even has a kind of eerie coldness.

Under the moonlight that made his soul tremble, Saigo looked at the ghost princess in front of him, whose cheeks were flushed due to the stimulation of wine and who was gradually breathing the air of a living person, and asked with a light smile:

"... Zi has been drunk by you. Miss Youyouzi, is there anything you want to say to me that you don't want her to hear?"

Youyouzi's beautiful cherry-colored eyes were drunken, and her cold and lonely eyes of the dead took on a bit of lively charm, and she said softly:

"...It was Lord Zaratul who discovered that when Zi drank with me, she never used her magic power to expel the alcohol from her body. I knew very well when she would get drunk."

Chapter 27: Dance on the Grave Youyouzi

The moonlight in the underworld is too cold, and when it shines on people, they will only feel an inexplicable chill.

However, this is not a place where normal humans can live for a long time.

Only undead spirits like Yuyuko Saigyouji, or half-spirits like Youmu Konpaku, can live in this place for a long time.

Under the moonlight, the pink cherry blossoms were glowing with an eerie glow, especially the huge withered westward-bound monster, which brought endless terror to the night.

But in such a gloomy environment, the dead princess stood under the cherry tree with her head tilted, her skin was pale and bloodless, as if transparent.

That beautiful and cold face became even more beautiful and charming when she was slightly drunk.

She stared at Xixiang with her cherry-colored eyes, with a hint of curiosity and tenderness, and said in her beautiful voice like an orchid in a deep valley:

"...I can see that Zi is very afraid of you. I wonder what method you used to make Zi so afraid and obedient?"

"Why do you want to know this?"

Saigo admired Saigyouji Yuyuko's impeccable face and her graceful figure that was not visible under the loose kimono, and asked curiously.

"If I knew the method, I could make Zi Ye obey me in the future."

A folding fan suddenly opened in Youyouko's hand, on which were painted ukiyo-e paintings of dead butterflies in the underworld and hell.

The folding fan gently covered her pale and transparent cherry lips, and she spoke with a hint of mischief.

Saigo smiled. No wonder Saigyouji Yuyuko and Yakumo Yukari could become good friends. These two people were really alike.

They are all dark and cunning people, but they all disguise themselves in different ways.

Yakumo Yukari uses mystery and teasing, while Yuyuko uses innocence and cuteness.

"I don't think you would want to know what those means are, Miss Youyouzi. After all, they are all shameful."

Saigo strolled to Youyouko's side and sniffed the elegant cherry-like fragrance on her body.

Saigyouji Youyouzi tilted her head, looking very cute and playful. After thinking for a while, she sighed and said, "...It seems that Zi has done something stupid again and made Your Excellency angry."

Saigo turned his head and looked at Youyouzi's finely carved profile, and said in surprise: "...Why would you say that? I thought you were going to blame me for not being a good person."

"Pfft-"

Youyouzi couldn't help laughing and said angrily, "...where can anyone say that he is not a good person?"

After a pause, Youyouzi continued: "...I think you are a good person, and a gentle person."

Saigo was even more amused, "...I was given the good guy card. Especially when a demon is said to be a good guy, it's even more funny."

But soon after that, Saigo couldn't laugh anymore.

Because when he thought about it carefully, he seemed not to be a pure devil. He was completely different from those devils who lived only for various desires and darkness.

His methods are cruel, but he also has a bottom line. Most of the time he just wants to achieve his goals, and sometimes he even wants to help others, but his behavior is just too arrogant.

However, Saigo didn't care much about his own arrogance. These were inevitable results when the power reached a certain level.

After all, when a person's power is enough to destroy the universe and control all destinies.

He may still behave like a normal person, be polite, and communicate with ordinary people.

But it is even more impossible to make such a person lose his arrogance and self-confidence, become despicable, or even think about problems in the way of ordinary people.

Thinking of this, Saigo laughed and said, "...It seems that sometimes I can be called a good person, especially when facing those oppressed lower-class groups of mankind, I also have sympathy."

Saigo suddenly realized that this might be the reason why he gained the power of the Mother of Good God.

Like those poor and miserable lower-class people in the World Tree game, Saigo really acted with the idea of ​​saving them and letting them live a good life.

He wasn't doing it purely for his own ends.

It is his sincerity that is the source of the power of the Mother of Good God.

This is the compassion and empathy that belongs to humans, not to the devil!

After a moment of silence, Saigo said slowly: "...As you said, Miss Youyouzi, I came here with good intentions, but Zi didn't trust me."

"...It's fine if you don't trust me. I don't mind. After all, trust is something that needs to be cultivated subtly by both parties in the process of getting along with each other. Only then can trust be gained."

"But I hate it when people try to test me, plot against me, and touch my bottom line. You can think of it as the arrogance of the strong."

"…If Zi is stronger than me, then I can only endure it and retaliate after becoming stronger."

"But she is weaker than me and yet she comes to test the stronger. She must be punished."

Saigyouji Yuyuko had already anticipated Saigo's answer. She smiled helplessly and said, "...Zi is just too suspicious and sometimes even stubborn."

"...She has suffered in the past because of this character, but it is clear that those sufferings did not teach her a lesson."

"I once advised her to trust people more sometimes, but she agreed with me, but she still didn't care in her heart."

"…After all, it's a character that has been developed over the years. It's almost impossible to change it. This time, she finally fell into a big trap. It's all her own fault."

Saigo recalled what Yakumo Yukari had told him about Yuyuko's character, and said that this undead princess was a very gentle person.

Saigo agreed with what Yakumo Yukari said, because Saigyouji Yuyuko was such a gentle and graceful woman, and she was quite rational and would not act on impulse.

This made Saigo like her more.

Youyouko and Yakumo Yukari are equally good-looking and each has their own merits, but in terms of personality, this undead princess is much more likable than Yakumo Yukari.

Although she can be cunning and sinister, those behaviors only make her more lovable instead of being disgusting.

"In the past, Yakumo Yukari suffered because of her personality. Ms. Yuyuko, are you talking about the time when she was injured and you met her?"

Saigo actually didn't know much about Yakumo Yukari's life, and this was all he knew.

"Well, that was one of those times. Another time was when Zi led the monsters to the moon and wanted to attack the Moon Capital."

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"…Unfortunately, she was suspicious by nature, and was eventually taken advantage of by the Moon Sage, Bayi Eirin, who caused her to fail and she fled back to the earth in disgrace."

Youyouko didn't mind talking about Yakumo Yukari's dark history.

After pausing for a few seconds, she continued, "...Zi also told you about the time when I met her."

"Well, but I'm even more curious now. Zi said that Miss Youyouzi had forgotten the things in your life, but now it seems that you haven't forgotten."

Saigo looked at Youyouzi's cold face and spoke slowly.

Youyouzi shook her head and smiled faintly, "...I didn't lie to you about this. I did forget about my life, but I have some memory fragments occasionally."

"...Those memory fragments are all related to Zi. I think the most profound memory I have in my life is the days I lived with Zi."

"But I also lied to her about some things. She thought I had forgotten that I was once a living person and was born undead."

......... ..... ...

"...But in fact, I know that my former body is buried under that Westward Journey Monster."

"As for why I lied to Zi, why don't you take a guess?"

Yuyuko Saigyouji blinked her beautiful cherry blossom eyes and said with a sweet smile.