"Are you sure you can just put it in like this? Won't it hurt?"
Longli stood there, his face showing hesitation.
"Dragon, let me in! Please don't pity me!" Guhuoniao suppressed her excitement.
"call."
Long Li took a deep breath, and then with a forceful thrust of his arm, his entire palm pierced into the body of the Guhuoniao.
Ah~
The Guhuoniao's expression was morbidly distorted with excitement, and its body was trembling incessantly.
Even though she was being hurt by the dragon, she seemed to be enjoying the process.
"Ryuri, please treat me like one of those despicable Demon Slayer Corps members, and treat me with all the rudeness you desire!"
Longli kept frowning, as if he was doing something he particularly disliked.
After a period of time.
Longli and Guhuoniao sat at the table respectively.
Long Li was wiping the blood off his hands with a handkerchief, his brows furrowed and his expression grim.
"As expected, being hurt by cute boys is a very enjoyable thing."
The Guhuoniao had a blush on her face, as if she hadn't noticed anything unusual about the dragon.
"Mother."
At this moment, a little girl walked in from outside, poured a cup of tea for Longli and Guhuoniao respectively, and then left. However, as she left, she kept looking at Longli with curiosity, probably because it was the first time she had seen such a handsome boy.
Is that your child?
Ryu's gaze lingered on the girl.
"That's the child I adopted."
Guhuoniao rested her chin on her hand, her eyes, which seemed to say "Lower Rank One," smilingly looked at Longli: "All the girls in this mansion are girls I adopted. They were originally homeless orphans. I felt sorry for them, so I brought them all back."
"You are such a good person."
Long Li's tightly furrowed brows finally relaxed.
"I'm a good person?" Guhuoniao was taken aback, then couldn't help but cover her mouth and laugh, laughing so hard she almost fell over, tears even streaming down her face. Wiping away her tears, she laughed, "This is the first time anyone has ever said that to me."
Long Li frowned, puzzled, not understanding what was so funny about that statement.
The Guhuoniao seemed to have developed a strong interest in Longli. She looked him up and down with great interest, as if admiring a novel object.
She blinked her beautiful big eyes, a sly smile playing on her lips: "Mr. Ryūri, is this your first day as a demon?"
"Um."
"No wonder you seem so naive. Have you ever eaten someone?"
"I killed a Pillar."
"Oh right, I almost forgot, Mr. Ryūri is a monster who killed a Pillar on his very first day as a demon."
Long Li frowned: "What exactly are you trying to say?"
The smile on Guhuoniao's face deepened. She gently stroked her chin and said slowly, "Then, as a way of thanking Mr. Longli, shall I prepare a sumptuous feast?"
Longli looked at Guhuoniao with confusion, not understanding what she meant by "feast".
However, just five minutes later, when the so-called feast was placed in front of Longli, he could hardly believe his eyes.
The girl who had just poured them tea was now bound hand and foot and placed on the dining table, her limbs firmly restrained and her mouth tightly gagged with a piece of cotton cloth, unable to make a sound. The girl's eyes were filled with fear and despair, tears streaming down her face. She struggled desperately to break free, but to no avail.
"Well then, Mr. Ryūri, this is the feast I have prepared for you. Please make yourselves at home."
The Guhuoniao said, "This is the one I'm most satisfied with out of all my daughters. I wouldn't even dare to eat it myself, but I'm bringing it out for you specially because Mr. Longli made me feel so comfortable today!"
Long Li clenched his fists, suppressing his anger, and asked calmly, "Isn't she your daughter?"
"That's right."
"Then why did you still eat her!"
"Longli, what nonsense are you talking about?"
The Ubume gazed calmly at Ryuri: "They are humans, born to exist as beings like us demons."
I adopted her and gave her a home; she should be grateful to me. Therefore, when I am hungry, they need to offer themselves up as my food.
Longli finally understood where the feeling of resistance that had arisen in his heart since he entered came from!
The source of this resistance is none other than the Ubume!
"I have other things to do."
Longli stood up and walked outside without hesitation.
He really doesn't get along with the Guhuoniao!
For Longli, both hurting women and eating girls were forms of torture.
He didn't meddle in the matter and try to save the girl who was about to be eaten, because he didn't care what the Guhuoniao wanted to do, but he was unwilling to break his own principles.
"Hey, Ryuri, aren't you sure you don't want to try it? It's delicious!"
The Guhuoniao was still calling out to Longli from behind, but Longli left without turning his head.
"What a pity!"
Guhuoniao looked down at the girl in front of her and sighed, "If I had known he didn't like you, I wouldn't have taken you out. Honestly, now I can only enjoy you myself, otherwise it would be a waste."
...
Emerging from the Guhuoniao's mansion, Longli found himself in a world of ice and snow. He wandered aimlessly down the street.
The area was filled with pedestrians dressed in kimonos, and people would occasionally glance at Ryūri.
Ryuri had concealed his demonic features, but his appearance still became the focus of attention as soon as he appeared.
The streets were brightly lit, and red lanterns hung outside the brothels, casting an ambiguous glow.
Women dressed in gorgeous kimonos and with exquisite makeup posed seductively at the entrance of the brothel, attracting passing men.
The geisha played the shamisen and sang melodious songs, adding a touch of Japanese charm to the night.
The streets were filled with a rich fragrance, a mixture of rouge and alcohol.
Men strolled through the streets, some drunkenly flirting with geishas, others following closely behind the most beautiful courtesans, hoping to win their favor.
Laughter, singing, and flirting mingled together, creating a noisy and dissolute atmosphere.
'I think this place is called Youguo.'
Longli suddenly remembered that his mother seemed to have said that she lived here when she was a child.
So, is this my mother's hometown?
Perhaps because I've come to my mother's hometown, the bad mood I had with the Ubume has improved somewhat.
"Since this is my mother's hometown, let's take a stroll around here."
Longli suddenly stopped in his tracks, his gaze drawn to a brother and sister.
"Mei, what are you looking at?"
The thin, emaciated boy asked in confusion.
"Brother, look! That big brother is so handsome!"
Young Mei stared intently at Longli in the distance.
The boy behind her laughed and said, "Can anyone be prettier than my sister?"
"Onii-chan~"