I transformed into a demonic spider lily.

"Whose is it?"

Xuelu was so frightened that he took a step back, then looked at the spider lily with a complicated expression.

"Why are you looking at me? I don't know either."

The red spider lily felt insulted.

"You bastard! You idiot! Sherry will only do things with you, not me!"

Xuelu shouted.

"flower?"

Kikyo was also greatly shocked.

"Nonsense! I never slept with Shirley!"

Li Biyanhua immediately denied it, and that it was the truth.

"I'm sorry, it's all because of me that you couldn't control yourself for a moment, but you can't..."

Kikyo felt somewhat guilty.

"Hey, Shirley, make yourself clear. Don't just stop talking halfway through."

The red spider lily urged them on.

Sherry could only explain her situation in the Nura Clan, and finally bowed her head deeply.

"...In other words, that child is only yours, an individual reproduction? That's good."

Xuelu immediately breathed a sigh of relief and continued, "Don't worry, I will treat that child as my own daughter. Besides, she should be my daughter."

"Are you really not bothered?"

Shirley looked up and asked.

Why should we care?

Xuelu asked a question in return.

"I'm sorry, I misunderstood you."

The bellflower was still there, trying to soothe the sullen spider lily.

"Humph~"

The red spider lily turned its head away.

Angry, ヽ('⌒'メ)ノ.

The brief interlude ended there. The spider lily explained the reason to Izanami before officially leading Kikyo and the others away. The wind tunnel opened wide, and crimson flowers bloomed in their familiar homeland.

……

Tokyo in the 21st century.

The summer evening breeze swept across the coast, stirring up waves. A young man with short blond hair sat on a chair nearby, constantly flipping through a thick notebook in his hands.

On the other side of its seat, a round, spotted cat lay on its back.

"Teacher Nyanko-sensei, why did Grandma specifically leave this for me?"

The thick notebook in the young man's hands contained the name of a monster on every page. Despite its small size, it recorded more than four figures of monsters.

“Because you are our only heir now. A few years ago, Reiko complained about being ‘bored’ and ‘wanting to travel’ and ran away with another guy. Do you know how many years I waited for your mother to give birth to you? And how many years I waited for you to grow up?”

The spotted cat was able to speak human language.

"So why not just give it to my mother?"

Young people should ask questions when they don't understand.

"Her talent is not as high as yours, and her personality is not suitable either. It's fine for her to live an ordinary human life, but you still have to succeed her in ruling all the demons. At least until the true owner of this Book of Friends returns, you must take over the responsibility in place of Reiko."

The spotted cat explained.

Reiko Natsume had a few months of interaction with the spider lily fifty years ago, and gained the power of immortality. She also had a daughter with the yokai Hei through a special method.

And now there is his grandson, Natsume Takashi.

He was a young man with short, blond hair.

And the cat chatting with Takashi Natsume...

"Nyanko-sensei, why is your appearance as a lucky cat, even though you're a yokai?"

Takashi Natsume asked.

"It's all because of your bastard grandmother back then, who turned me, this tomb guardian beast, into what I am now. The more I think about it, the angrier I get! Ada! Roar ho ha hey!"

The tomb guardian beast, Ibuki Madara, stood on Natsume Takashi's head, teasing his junior.

"So heavy, Nyanko-sensei, you're so fat."

Natsume Takashi covered his head and squatted down to defend himself.

"This is the weight of wealth!"

"Ibuki Madara said matter-of-factly."

"Stop fooling around, stop fooling around. By the way, you seemed to have mentioned the true owner of the Book of Friends earlier. Isn't that the name that Grandma collected?"

Takashi Natsume put down the heavy Ibuki Madara and asked.

"Read the last page of the Book of Friends."

Ibuki Madara said, "This is the yokai that gave the Book of Friends to Reiko back then. It has quite a few abilities, but it hasn't appeared for fifty years now."

"The Red Spider Lily".

Takashi Natsume kept repeating this name.

"For a monster's lifespan, fifty years is not a long time. Perhaps she is just sleeping somewhere."

Madara Ibuki told Takashi Natsume not to communicate with him using questions such as "Where did this yokai go?" or "Why hasn't it appeared yet?"

Back when Natsume Reiko first went abroad with Yokai C to play with vampires or zombies, she would ask him these kinds of questions all the time.

This made his head spin considerably.

"Oh~ How many monsters does our organization have?"

Takashi Natsume asked.

"It's only a five-figure sum, but a few years ago some yokai came to inquire about it. They were all veteran leaders, such as the two calamities known as the Golden and Silver Calamities who once guarded Sagami Province and were called Kamui, the King of the Hundred Demon Bats, Tsukiyomaru, in Shimosa Province, and the Rain Woman of the Sky Tears in Hitachi Province. It seems that they all came to find the Spider Lily. Unfortunately, they were several years too late. Now they are all registered in the Book of Friends and waiting. Don't underestimate these old things from centuries ago. Even I would have a lot of trouble dealing with them."

Ibuki Madara then added, "Compared to the Nura Clan next door, we are not much worse, especially since their second-generation leader, Rihan Nura, was killed, their first-generation leader is old and weak, and their third-generation leader is young. Our overall strength is actually stronger."

“Nura, this surname…”

Takashi Natsume pondered for a moment.

"...He's Nura Rikuo, who's three grades younger than you and attends the elementary school affiliated with your junior high school. He's their young master," Ibuki Madara explained.

"Oh, I vaguely remember."

Natsume Takashi suddenly realized.

"Speaking of the Nura Clan..."

Ibuki Madara talked on and on.

……

Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, Nura Clan Head House.

The Third Generation Nura Rikuo is currently only an eleven-year-old sixth-grade elementary school student. Although he transforms into a young man every night and inherits the power of a great demon directly through his bloodline, he is still just a child.

Despite having countless expectations for the third generation, who was weaker than the second generation and less capable in leadership than the first generation, the Nura Clan ultimately hesitated because of his flawed half-demon bloodline.

The veteran group leader has never drunk the Demon Name Wine with him, nor has he formed a sworn brotherhood, although this is also related to the fact that Nura Rikuo is underage and cannot drink alcohol.

Even monsters must abide by basic laws.

However, a small minority are still willing to continue following.

Kubinashi, the hairy prostitute, Aotabo, and Kurotabo—this group of young men with only two or three hundred years of experience—are willing to nurture the still-growing Nura Rikuo.

Bingli sat in the courtyard, looking up at the Milky Way, its dazzling light like her mother's eyes.

Thinking of this, Bingli clutched the scarf around her neck.

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The southern peak of the mountain in Tokyo.

Eight figures gazed at the neon-lit city.

Their expressions were confident and arrogant. They were the "Seven Travelers" from the Shikoku region, a group of monsters who could only be seen between the legs of a cow or in the gaps of other things. However, anyone who saw them would be plagued by bad luck or even lose their life.

"It's just a small place, yet my father has praised it so highly. As the eighth son of the eighty-eighth wife of the overlord of the Shikoku region, I, Yuzhang, will conquer this place."

The eighth figure, who was in the lead, spread his arms wide, holding a strange knife in his hand, from which a large amount of demonic power flowed into his body.

……

Under the cover of darkness, bloodshed and carnage raged.

As dawn broke, the Nura Clan's main branch in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, received a message that the yokai guarding the Ota Ward had been attacked by an unknown force and almost all of them had been wiped out.

Of the hundreds of monsters, only three or five were lucky enough to escape the chaos when they happened to go out.

The Nura Clan's main branch held an emergency meeting and dispatched several executives to investigate.

"Could it be that the guys from Tokyo Bay are behind this? Their antics really bothered us a few years ago."

An official asked a question.

"No, they have no reason to do that."

Nurarihyon, seated at the head of the table, denied this possibility. Since the death of the second Nurarihyon, he had returned to the position of commander-in-chief, handling all matters within the group.

"You always say that."