Survive with the beautiful girl

There must be something wrong here!

"No, I need my mother's consent."

Liu Cheng shook her head and refused to play hard to get.

"Mom will definitely agree to my request!

Call me sister first, I have called you brother for so many years!"

Aihara Yuzu refused to give in and resorted to acting coquettishly and pretending to be pitiful.

"As an older brother, I have always been responsible for taking care of my younger sisters...

If you must be a big sister, you must also take care of me and Mei."

Liucheng's eyes flickered. He pretended to be reluctant and put forward conditions in an attempt to make Youzi give up.

"That's all fine! Hurry up and call me sister!"

With her years of experience, Youzi had guessed that Liucheng was setting a trap for her, but things had come to this point and she had no choice but to shoot.

"Okay, this is what you said, don't regret it~"

A smile appeared on Liu Cheng's face, he cleared his throat and said formally: "Sister, please lend me all your pocket money.

I am currently dating 9 girls, and the daily expenses for dating are very high. Considering the amount of pocket money you have saved in the past, please lend me 9 yen for emergency. "

After saying that, he stretched out his hand to ask for money from his "sister" Aohara Yuzu, who was falling from the clouds to the abyss. The girls he mentioned showed more or less embarrassed and ashamed expressions on their faces.

"This... It's not that I can't give you this money, but why does it cost so much just for a date?

Don’t you have your own royalties?”

Because both siblings have been poor since childhood, Yuzu is naturally clear about the amount of Liucheng's piggy bank. She can also take out 9 yen, but this also means that Yuzu will have to live frugally and work part-time to earn money for a while.

“It’s almost all gone, including the savings from previous endorsements and part-time jobs.

Please, I am dating nine people at the same time, please don’t judge me by normal people’s standards.”

Liucheng spread his hands. In fact, most of his money was spent on the clothes he bought for Kato Megumi that day and on the van used to pick up and drop off the girls.

He asked Yuzu to borrow money for emergency, just because it was fun to amuse his sister occasionally...

Chapter 367: No Ashes in the Grave

"The card is for you...

You know the password, so when you go back, you must call me like you did just now in front of Mom and Mei."

With a flushed face, Aihara Yuzu took out a bank card from her wallet and handed it to Liucheng. She felt a little dizzy when she was called "sister", but now that things had come to this, she could only bite the bullet and continue.

"Thank you sister."

Liu Cheng read it with a lack of emotion, but even so, You Zi was so happy that her eyebrows curved. She looked at the others with a bit of embarrassment and said pretentiously: "Then sister, I won't disturb you from dating them. I'll go back to prepare dinner!"

Liucheng threw the card over and over again, with a mischievous sound on his face.

"Please prepare breakfast for tomorrow as well. Since my status has changed, the order on the duty roster should also change."

Yuzu nodded with satisfaction, and replied to Liucheng in a cheerful voice: "Then it is happily decided!"

Seeing the troublesome sister-in-law disappear from the paradise, the girls gathered around her to express their concern.

With the end of the autumn conference and the start of the winter vacation for high school students, Liucheng has more free time.

Christmas was approaching, and if it weren't for the "Sunrise on the Mountain" incident, they would have already prepared to invite Liu Cheng to spend Christmas Eve with them. There were many girls who wanted to be at home base on Christmas Eve.

Judging from the current situation, all their holiday energy will be spent on searching for the "hidden" Kamigami Village and Oborozuki Island.

Although the disasters at these two "Yellow Springs" locations have long been resolved, the entrance to the "Yellow Springs" leading to the underworld still exists in the world.

Yukinoshita Yukino frowned and pushed away Yumeko Snake who was lying on Liucheng's thigh. Her eyes turned to Shinomiya Kaguya who was standing beside her.

"If you can, can you share with us something about your mother?"

Shinomiya Kaguya glanced at Yukinoshita warily, and the coldness between her brows gradually faded away under the gentle look that Yukino tried hard to show, and a hint of sadness appeared on her beautiful face.

"My mother's Shimizu family is located in Kageroyama near Mt. Higashiyama... It is the hometown of the shrine maiden named Shiragiku mentioned in the information.

She was born with a congenital heart disease. After a heart attack, she left my father and returned to her hometown, although it was in the name of recuperation...but when she appeared in front of my father again, she was pregnant with me.

The rest of the family doubted whether I had the blood of the Shinomiya family. Although my father insisted that I was his daughter, he did not show much concern after I was born.

He was even more resistant to doing a paternity test... I guess it was because of some special reasons that made him sure of my identity, but he was also skeptical... or he was afraid of getting a wrong result through scientific means. "

Hayasaka Ai gently held Kaguya Shinomiya in her arms and stroked Kaguya's head to ease her unexpressible sense of loss.

Kasumigaoka Shiha hesitated and asked, "Do you think you are "Yequanzi"?"

Shinomiya Kaguya pursed her lips. "Yequanzi" is mostly related to the "ghost marriage" or "ghost marriage" stories circulated in various places. The living gave birth to offspring through parthenogenesis because of their deep longing for the dead.

The coincidence of timing made her doubt her identity, and the fear of others since she was a child made Kaguya more and more certain of her guess.

"The 'ghost marriage' ceremony on Yangyan Mountain is different from that on Rishang Mountain. The priestesses on Yangyan Mountain seem to be able to choose the person to hold the 'ghost marriage' with themselves."

Jabami Yumeko agreed, but she did not completely agree with Shinomiya Kaguya's guess.

What if Kaguya Shinomiya's mother discovered that she was pregnant before deciding to become a Jinhaku, and decided to give birth to Kaguya Shinomiya before fulfilling her duties as a shrine maiden?

Didn't Hinasaki Shinko, the mother of "Yozumiko" Hinasaki Fukaba, decide to go to "Hijoyama" to become a "human pillar" after giving birth to her daughter because she didn't have much time left to fulfill her wish to be with her brother Hinasaki Mafuyu?

From this we can see that there is no strict requirement for a shrine maiden to maintain chastity.

"Until there is confirmation, all our thoughts are just speculation."

Yukinoshita Yukino glanced at Liucheng and Shinomiya Kaguya out of the corner of her eye, "Liucheng will always be with you, and all of us..."

Shinomiya Kaguya sighed softly, "I know you are all worried about me, but I still hope to solve it by myself... If I need help, I will ask for it."

Liu Cheng stood up and touched Shinomiya Kaguya's face. "Don't think about going back to find the truth by yourself. It won't take me too much time to deal with the remaining "Yellow Springs."

Hayasaka Ai quietly stepped back to give both of them space.

Liu Cheng held Kaguya Shinomiya in her arms, and a wonderful sense of security surrounded Kaguya again.

Kaguya Shinomiya closed her eyes and felt her body gradually becoming lighter. The sound of flowing water could be heard faintly. The beautiful woman whom she had seen during Yuzu's Zanpakutō Bankai was quietly immersed in the black water. The feeling of déjà vu made Kaguya Shinomiya burst into tears.

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Time turns to Christmas Day. After successfully dealing with the locations of the four "Yellow Springs", Liucheng takes her sister, Kaguya and her servant, and Yotsuya Miko on a journey to pay homage to Kaguya's mother.

When they arrived at the village where the Qingshui family lived, there were only a few houses with cold lights shining through the windows.

The dark red sunset was shining on the lush trees in the mountains. Shinomiya Kaguya quietly led Liucheng and the others towards the family cemetery. The crooked figures dragged for a long time on the moss-covered ground.

Shinomiya Kaguya placed flowers and lit incense in front of her mother Mingyezhu's grave, clasped her hands together, closed her eyes, and worshiped devoutly.

While following Kaguya in the worship, Liucheng kept muttering to himself that he was being rude. He opened his eyes and looked at Mingyezhu's grave.

The small and exquisite urn did not contain ashes like those of other deceased persons, but instead contained women's clothes and photos.

After the worship, Yotsuya Miko quietly pulled on Liucheng's clothes, implying that she also saw the truth hidden in the grave.

Liucheng looked up at the "Sunrise Mountain" not far away. The red sunset seemed to be shining from the top of that mountain, bringing temptation and attraction to those who actively looked for it.

"Let's go to Kurosawa Mika's antique coffee shop to check out the situation. We have to go up the mountain after all."

Shinomiya Kaguya took a deep breath and spoke solemnly.

After paying homage at Mingyezhu's grave this time, Shinomiya Kaguya confirmed her guess that there were no her mother's ashes inside this seemingly grave.

Her father, Shinomiya Gan'an, built this tomb for his mother, Mingyezhu, probably to conceal the fact that he did not want Shinomiya Kaguya to be involved in the shrine maiden ritual of "Hijoyama".

Chapter 368: The Charming and Mature Lady Boss

"...Excuse me, is there anyone in the store?"

Yuzu Aihara gently pushed open the wooden door of this antique coffee shop and curiously poked her head out to take a closer look at the dim and quiet interior.

An old-fashioned Western floor clock stands in front of one wall, and next to it is a huge display cabinet.

This solid wood cabinet has both display and storage functions. The bottom layer of the cabinet is neatly arranged with antique boxes, the second layer is occupied by various tools for processing coffee, the third layer is full of coffee cups and trays of various shapes, and the frosted glass door on the top layer is tightly closed. The faint sour smell of coffee mixed with the sweet aroma of sugar and milk wafts in the store.

Even though few customers come here because of the urban legend of "Sunrise Mountain", the numerous coffee pots are still polished to a shine by the coffee shop's owner, Mika Kurosawa.

She seemed to be doing all this work in anticipation of someone's return. That person might walk out of "Rishang Mountain" tomorrow, or might never come back.

"ah...

Sorry, that's rude.

I didn't expect anyone to come to Rishang Mountain at this time. Do you want to drink coffee or do you have a "hidden object" commission for me to help you?"

A gentle, mature and sexy voice with a hint of fatigue came from the counter.

With shoulder-length black hair and wearing a navy blue off-shoulder sweater, and her plump and round thighs and calves wrapped in thick black stockings, Kurosawa Mika seemed to have awakened from her past memories. She stood up in a trance and greeted the guests.

“We plan to have a cup of hot coffee and go to the mountains to look for someone.

Are you the only one in the coffee shop? It's so quiet, aren't you afraid of meeting some bad customers?"

The guests who suddenly visited consisted of one man and four women. They were all dressed in youthful and fashionable clothes, and their speech and behavior did not seem like those of high school students attending school in nearby towns or villages.

The girl and boy who started talking to Kurosawa Mika looked alike. Are they twins?

Kurosawa Mika couldn't help but think so, as the two of them even spoke with similar frankness and enthusiasm in their voices.

Among the remaining three girls, the blonde JK with foreign features went for a mature hot girl style. The other two girls with long black hair, one had a dignified appearance and a posture as tall as a crane, while the other exuded a calm temperament, and the occasional fear in her eyes made her look very cute.

"Rishang Mountain is a well-known suicide site. Apart from those who seek death...

Few people have the leisure to come to my place for a cup of coffee. I stopped accepting "missing person" commissions more than ten years ago.

If you want to go into the mountains to look for someone, I advise you to give up. The mountains are really very dangerous."

Kurosawa Mika gave a serious exhortation to the boy who seemed to be the leader. He had a cheerful and capable temperament and did not look like one of those people who were in pain and seeking death.

Yuzu Aihara took over the conversation. She introduced the other people to Kurosawa Mika with the attitude of a big sister. When she mentioned Liucheng, she specially emphasized that she was the older sister.

Liucheng nodded perfunctorily while admiring the mature and attractive figure of the proprietress, Mika Kurosawa, which was outlined by a sweater and stockings.

There is a melancholy and lonely temperament about this proprietress. Although the smile on her face is gentle and friendly, it gives people a sense of fragility as if she is forcing a smile, which adds a touch of extra melancholy to her.