In Zongman, the evil spirits are eliminated physically.

"No...no..." Kaguya whispered softly.

"What is Kaguya-chan talking about?" Shimizu Nayatake smiled, then picked up a small piece of cream from the cake and put it in her mouth.

"Don't eat it! Mom!"

Little Kaguya screamed and jumped onto the table, kicking the cake to the ground. She stretched out her hand with all her strength, trying to grab Shimizu Nayatake's hand.

Kaguya fell heavily on the cold ground, a ground that was both strange and familiar. Strange because she had never been there when she was awake, and familiar because she had been there several times in her dreams.

This seemed to be the morgue of a hospital. Kaguya climbed up from the ground trembling. When she got up, she saw the pale face of Shimizu Nayatake with blood coming out of all his orifices. This most familiar stranger who had just been happily eating cake in front of her was dead again.

Kaguya didn't remember how many times this had happened. She only remembered that Shimizu Nayatake had died in front of her many times. He was hit by a car while trying to save her, died at the hands of a gangster while trying to protect her, and was shot by the bodyguards of the Shinomiya family while trying to save herself who was sent away. In this dream, Kaguya had seen her mother, whom she had never met in person, die in many ways, all of which happened in front of her, and this time was no exception.

Under the instruction of the Imperial School of the Shinomiya family, Kaguya originally did not have much affection for others, whether it was her classmates or the large number of servants in the mansion. The only people whom Kaguya could put in her heart were very few, like Fujiwara and Hayasaka, who had either been tested repeatedly or accompanied for a long time.

But to Kaguya, Shimizu Nayatake was just a person she had never truly felt before today.

In order to let Kaguya experience the most desperate moment, the succubus will temporarily seal Kaguya's memory, let Kaguya fully experience the motherly love from Shimizu Nayatake, and then shatter it fiercely, so as to defeat Kaguya's spirit and get the sweetest food.

For Kaguya, whose memory was sealed, she was really just an ordinary little girl, growing up with her mother in an environment full of maternal love, instead of growing up in the cold imperial palace in reality.

"Mom, didn't you say you would accompany me to watch the fireworks?" This was what Qingshui Mingyezhu promised Kaguya during the first reincarnation.

"Mom, aren't you coming to my high school entrance ceremony? I'm already a freshman. There are photos. Do you want to come and see it?"

"Mom, don't you want to see me fall in love and get married? Now there's a guy from mainland China who says he cares about me and is willing to exorcise that person's spirit for me. Come and be my advisor."

Although her memory had been restored, Kaguya's body still remained in the state of a child. After a while, she lost her strength and fell to the ground.

I could have endured the darkness if I had never seen the light.

For Kaguya, who had never experienced maternal love, this short period of half a month felt like a blind person suddenly gaining sight for half a month. When she loses it, she becomes extremely frightened and desperate. After experiencing even false maternal love, Kaguya no longer felt that she could endure the cold Shinomiya family.

"What do you mean the daughter of the Shigong family? She's just the seed the old man had when he got drunk. She really thinks she's the eldest daughter."

Haha, who wants to be this young lady?

"What a motherless bastard! If the young masters hadn't bothered to argue with her, how could she possibly be qualified to enter the Shinomiya family just because her mother is a hostess?"

Shut up! Who are you to comment on my mother?

"She's just an illegitimate bastard. Who knows if she's actually from the Shinomiya family? Maybe her mother got pregnant after having an affair with another man, and that's why she came to the Shinomiya family to take over."

I am my mother's daughter! The daughter of Qingshui Mingyezhu.

"It's really annoying for me, a person who has a mother's love, to get close to that motherless person. He has no mother to teach him. He just has a sullen face all day long. I don't know who he is showing it to. I hope he can get married soon. I don't want to serve this motherless person."

Hayasaka?

Even though her memory of herself had been restored after her body turned into a child, Kaguya was inevitably affected by the state of her body. Children are inherently emotionally unstable and easily influenced by the outside world. If it were outsiders, it would be fine, as Kaguya didn't regard them as human beings.

"Hey, stop looking over here, okay?" Hayasaka Ai looked at Kaguya, who was trying hard to hold back her tears, with disgust. "Your mother is dead, why don't you go with her? Don't you love your mother very much? What? Are you greedy for the Shinomiya family's money? Do you want to continue living as your eldest daughter? Isn't that good? The death of a hostess's mother can bring you a lifetime of wealth and glory. You can then find a rich family to marry into and enjoy the rest of your life."

"Don't talk about Mom like that!"

"Is it very hard? A child without a mother's love and affection, you finally enjoy your mother's love once, but it's gone in the blink of an eye. Isn't it very hard? Hahaha, you don't even know what your own mother looks like, but you still like your mother. It's really hilarious."

As if she had heard President Hiden's joke, Hayasaka Ai burst into laughter, and her laughing body disappeared.

"That woman's child, huh, who knows if it's mine? But it doesn't matter. I'll give her a name and use it to exchange for something for the Shinomiya family. Although her mother is of low status, she looks pretty good, so she must be no worse."

"A body? Since I was the one who poisoned her, I'll reluctantly send someone to collect her body."

A pair of scissors appeared in her hand, and Kaguya's body changed from a child to her real appearance. Her red eyes looked even redder, not sure if it was because of crying or because they were filled with blood.

Even if it was just a false fantasy, Kaguya still felt a rush of blood to her heart when she heard what Shinomiya Yanan said. She clenched the scissors in her hand and rushed forward, wanting to give the old thief Shinomiya Yanan a result.

The ground beneath her feet was solid one second, but the next second she stepped on empty air, and Kaguya's entire back slammed onto the soft bed. Her eyes, filled with rage, felt as if they had fallen into an ice cellar. Her entire body felt hot, and her lower abdomen felt as if it was on fire. What frightened Kaguya even more was that a man pushed open the door and looked at Kaguya who was twisting on the bed.

"With just one word, he sent his daughter to my bed. That old man is really afraid of death."

Ouyang Xuan pinched his chin and smiled, taking off his clothes as he walked inside.

Kaguya opened her mouth and wanted to scream, but after the sound came out, it became extremely seductive, which made Ouyang Falcon's pace even faster.

Looking at the approaching Ouyang Falcon, the first person Kaguya thought of was Qingshui Mingyezhu, whose impression was gradually becoming clearer. The second person she thought of was the real Ouyang Falcon in the real world.

boom!

There was a gunshot, followed by the sound of something falling to the ground.

Kaguya tried hard to open her increasingly blurry eyes, and saw that the fake Ouyang Xuan had only walked two steps into the room when he was shot dead in the head. The person who killed him was standing less than a meter behind him. He was a man wearing green and gold armor, and beside him was kneeling a black-haired woman with her eyes rolled up and her teeth showing.

"Time to get up, Shinomiya."

Chapter 53: Son of a Half-Demon

Pulling out the card box, Ouyang Sun reluctantly canceled his transformation, leaving behind a shadow. He grabbed the collar of the nightmare demon whose mask had been knocked off and whose spirit had collapsed from dying too many times, and walked into Kaguya's room.

Ouyang Xuan, who was lying on the ground with a lewd smile on his face, had disappeared. The most familiar Ouyang Xuan with a cold face came in dragging a woman with a very bad expression. Kaguya, who had experienced a series of ups and downs, was too lazy to react. When the fake Ouyang Xuan was beaten to death, the hot feeling on Kaguya's body had disappeared. She was just lying on the bed like a big letter, without any elegance at all.

"It's time to go." Ouyang Jun walked to Kaguya's bed.

"Can you also do this, control my dreams?"

"Okay." Ouyang Falcon knew what Kaguya wanted to say, "But I won't do that."

"Not everything in this dream is real. You should get up now."

"But here, I can see Mom." Kaguya's voice no longer had the iceberg-like coldness it once had. Instead, it was more fragile than her age. "Even if it's just fake, even if it's just for a little while, I want to stay with Mom for a while."

"You want to abandon your mother who sacrificed her own life to save your body, and live a life of drunkenness and death in this dream?" Ouyang Sun had seen examples like Kaguya before when he killed nightmares. The Tianshi Mansion's exorcism manual taught them how to deal with it. Just beat them up and catch them.

"Then your mother died in vain." Ouyang Xuan gave up and took action directly.

"What do you mean?" Kaguya sat up. "What do you mean Mom sacrificed her own life to save my body!?"

"You are aware that this body of yours has a congenital heart disease, right?"

"I know." Kaguya certainly knew, but she didn't know how Ouyang Falcon knew it. "But my heart disease isn't a serious problem. It's healed on its own as I got older. My heart is healthier than most people's now."

"Heart disease, self-healing, don't you think these two words are contradictory?"

"You said so..." Kaguya placed her hand on her chest in disbelief. The familiar heartbeat seemed to have a special charm at this moment. "My heart disease was cured by my mother?"

"But didn't Mom die of complications during childbirth when I was born?" Kaguya suddenly thought of something and excitedly grabbed Ouyang Falcon's wrist, her red eyes filled with nervousness. "Mom, Mom, is she still alive somewhere..."

"Your mother is dead." Before Kaguya could develop the hope that would only hurt herself, Ouyang Falcon chose to directly break her fantasy.

"I went to your mother's grave and she is indeed dead."

"So, what do you mean?" Kaguya sat back dejectedly.

"In the other world, there's a spell where a mother, while pregnant, injects all of her spiritual and magical powers into the fetus, allowing the baby to be born with a better physique for cultivation. However, the downside of this spell is that the mother will undoubtedly die the moment the child is born."

"Later, after several generations of refinement, this spell's effectiveness has become only one tenth of what it was before. However, it no longer threatens the mother's life. Its use is limited to treating congenital diseases in children, just like your heart disease."

"Your mother isn't from the other world. She just has some connection to it for some reason. She has the same heart disease as you, but she has been suppressing it with her spiritual power. That's how she lived peacefully until the day she discovered she was pregnant."

"You...you mean..." The clever Kaguya had already deduced a terrible truth based on just a few words from Ouyang Falcon.

"Just as you guessed," Ouyang Sun said, "Your mother's spiritual power isn't strong. Using this spell to treat your heart disease while you were still in her womb, she wouldn't have the spiritual power to suppress her own heart disease. The only way for her to continue living is to abort you, or watch you die from a heart attack after you were born."

"My dear Miko, my life is enough. She is already in my belly and has come into this world. I don't want to take her life away. I want to give birth to her. My life is already bad enough. I just want her to live a healthy and happy life in this world. Please."

This is recorded in the Hakurei Shrine, where a woman named Shimizu Nayotake said something when she asked the then Hakurei Shrine maiden to use this spell to heal her unborn baby.

"Mom." Covering her chest, Kaguya cried softly.

Her mother gave her the future of life. Kaguya would not say that she was the one who killed her mother or that she died because of her mother. That would only trample on her mother's love for her. She would live on, just as her mother expected, healthily and happily, until her hair turned gray and she died in happiness. She wanted to complete the life that her mother did not complete.

"Thank you, Lord Ou."

Kaguya wiped away her tears. Her face, which had remained as cold as an iceberg for more than ten years, melted at this moment. In Kaguya's eyes, which were redder from crying, there was only the knowledge of her mother's love for her and the happiness from the bottom of her heart.

"Let's go. It's time to wake up from this dream. Even though it was a nightmare, I'm still quite grateful to this...Miss for letting me know about my mother."

Kaguya paused at the end of her speech, because only then did she see clearly what the nightmare demon, who was dragged into the room like a dead dog and beaten up by Ouyang Sun, had become. To put it simply, it was just a photo taken with some Japanese words added to it, and then posted on E or P.

Could it be that after winning the fight, Lord Ou still took control of her?

"Are you ready to leave now?"

"Yeah, it seems like this dream lasted for quite a while. Hayasaka outside must be extremely worried."

"Since you don't plan to see your mother one last time, then let's leave. After all, seeing your mother for the last time is really painful. There are too many people who can't walk away and cry bitterly after seeing her."

"Wait!" Kaguya screamed and jumped off the bed, raising her hands and pressing them on Ouyang Falcon's shoulders, "What did you just say?!"

"The things about Mom weren't created by this person using the memories and fantasies in my head!? Why do you call this the last time we met!?"

"Her." Ouyang Sun shook the half-dead nightmare in his hand. "Although she did want to make you fall into a beautiful dream with your mother at the beginning, and then the dream kept switching between beautiful and nightmare, and finally broke your spirit."

"But she just pulled you into the dream, and you immediately constructed a beautiful dream about your mother. This was completely out of her control. All she did was manipulate the final outcome of the dream."

"That is to say..." Kaguya's throat suddenly rose to her heart.

"The mother you spent those days with wasn't created by this nightmare demon. Instead, she's made up of the spiritual energy that remains within your body. To some extent, she is indeed your mother herself. However, because her spiritual energy has been consumed in your body over the years, it's almost exhausted. Even if you don't come into the dream this time, she will completely disappear from your body in at most six months."

"Yes! I want to see my mother!"

Letting the family see the deceased for the last time, and then the deceased enter the reincarnation without any worries, is one of the Taoist priests' jobs. Ouyang Xuan doesn't think this is overtime. Anyway, he just needs to draw a talisman and then go out to wait for them to finish talking.

Raising his hand, Ouyang Xuan's fingers slid in the air. Unlike in the real world, Ouyang Xuan slid for a while, but not a single stroke of the talisman was drawn.

"As expected, a start button is needed."

As he spoke, Ouyang Xuan picked up the nightmare demon in his hand, and with a loud slap, he quickly slapped the nightmare demon on the face. A clearly visible slap mark appeared on the nightmare demon's face. After a while, it could be seen that the nightmare demon's face was swollen. It was not known whether this was because the nightmare demon was weak, or because Ouyang Xuan's slap was full of resentment that he was not satisfied with the beating he had just given her.

Kaguya stared blankly at Ouyang Falcon's actions. As an ordinary person, Kaguya just felt confused and impressed. She didn't know why Ouyang Falcon couldn't draw the talisman, nor did she know why Ouyang Falcon suddenly slapped the nightmare demon in the face. She only knew that after defeating the nightmare demon, Ouyang Falcon repeated the operation of drawing the talisman, and this time he drew it successfully.

With the completion of the spiritual talisman, the spiritual power scattered throughout Kaguya's dream was gathered together, and finally gradually condensed into a human figure in front of Kaguya. Unlike Kaguya, whose face was blurred because she had never seen her mother, Ouyang Falcon had seen the appearance of Shimizu Nayetsu, and the face of Shimizu Nayetsu that appeared with the spiritual power he actively condensed could be seen clearly.

"Mom." Kaguya threw herself into her mother's arms like a swallow returning to its nest.

"Little Kaguya." Shimizu Nayatake also gently hugged her daughter.

The mother and daughter hugged each other, and Ouyang Xuan tactfully dragged the nightmare demon out of the room and closed the door.

Ouyang Xuan waited at the door for a long time. Because they were in a dream, time had lost its meaning and could only be calculated based on physical sensation. According to Ouyang Xuan's physical sensation, about an hour had passed, and laughter and talking sounds were still coming from the room.

Two hours later, the talking stopped. When Ouyang Jun was about to push the door in, the door opened automatically from the inside and Kaguya walked out.

"Sorry to have kept you waiting, Lord Ou."

Kaguya has a beautiful smile. If we were to talk about it in a certain world line, Kaguya has already completed the transformation from an ice-sculpture beauty to a sand-sculpture beauty. However, the sand-sculpture side has not been revealed yet. She still looks like a quiet and elegant lady from a rich family.

"Thank you so much, it's all thanks to you, Lord Ou, that I was able to see my mother for the last time. I was able to understand how much I love my mother."

"Please accept this, my gratitude."

As she spoke, Kaguya folded her hands on her lower abdomen and bowed to Ouyang Shun with great respect. The 90-degree bow made Kaguya's waist parallel to the ground.

"No need. It's just my duty. My job is to deal with the monsters and demons here." Even after so long, the nightmare demon who was picked up by Ouyang Sun still maintained Ah Hei's expression. It really made people wonder whether Ouyang Sun did something to her, but Kaguya didn't dare to ask.

"Now that you're done with your work here, you should get up."

"What should I do?" Kaguya touched her cheek and said worriedly, "Should I do as the book says and slap myself to wake myself up in pain?"

"If you slap yourself now, it's just a slap on yourself," Ouyang Xuan said, "If you could wake up by slapping yourself, this nightmare wouldn't have devoured so many people."

"I'll use a spell to send you out in a moment. You don't have to do anything, just stand there."

clap clap!

Just like the pre-casting motion in this dream, Ouyang Xuan raised his hand and slapped the nightmare demon twice. His face, which had just subsided, immediately became swollen again, but he still looked like he had been beaten to a pulp. If he stuck out his tongue again, his expression would be the same as Yang Nai's, who had tried to provoke Ouyang Xuan several times after the battle and was beaten to the point of sticking out his tongue.

After slapping the nightmare twice, Ouyang Jun drew a talisman with his hand, and then slapped Kaguya on the chest. Because he had done this process too many times, Ouyang Jun didn't even need to look up to see the effect. Ouyang Jun didn't find anything wrong with the feel. It was flat and hard, and felt about the same as before.

"Si Gong is gone. Do you have anything to say to me?" Ouyang Xuan shouted at the empty corridor.

"No need to thank me, Shigong has already told me."

"Please, sir, treat Kaguya well." Shimizu Nayatake was unable to maintain her human form and could only appear as a point of light as big as a glowing firefly.

"I won't let anything happen to her until I get what I want from her. If something happens to her, it will be very troublesome for me to find a new one."

"A relationship is stronger when it depends on each other, isn't it, my Lord?"

"Then, could you please, since Kaguya and I have maintained that power for you for so many years, provide Kaguya with a place to stay and shelter after you take the power from her?"

"Even if I take away her power, she is still the eldest daughter of the Shinomiya family. However, I can promise you that when Kaguya needs it, I will provide her with shelter and a place to stay."

"Thank you, sir. I wish you good luck in your military career." The light spot of Qingshui Mingyezhu floated up and down, as if bowing to Ouyang Sun.

"I hope we'll have a chance to meet somewhere else, son of a half-demon."