He changed Tiwat

The divine child was somewhat surprised.

There's no rule about giving back birthday gifts to those who receive them—otherwise, wouldn't all those gifts piled up at the shrine on the birthday of the shrine mean we'd have to keep returning them until next year?

However, she still accepted Mizuki's "return gift" and opened it in front of Mizuki without any hesitation.

Mizuki's face turned even redder.

The box contains chocolates.

Moreover... it was her own "dream chocolate" woven from her own "dreams".

She looked at the goddess, her eyes full of anticipation—she wondered if the goddess would like her gift.

Han Fulai walked up to the Divine Cherry Tree.

The divine child was sleeping peacefully under the tree.

Her face wore her usual smile, a smile with a familiar slyness—even in her dreams, was she playing a trick on someone?

He did not awaken the divine child, but walked to her side and sat down beside her, leaning against the divine cherry tree.

Then he noticed that the priestess seemed to be holding something in her hand, something that looked like...

"chocolate?"

Last time it was pumpkin seeds, this time it's chocolate. This priest is really a glutton.

Han Fulai didn't stand on ceremony with Shenzi and casually scooped up the chocolate and put it in his mouth.

Mmm, it tastes like cherry blossoms, and it's sweet.

Chapter 240 I Want to Know Everything About You [4k]

"So delicious... I live for this 'Nisshinbei'! Boss, another bowl, please!"

A young girl dressed as a shrine maiden banged on her soup bowl, seemingly oblivious to her image, urging the owner to hurry up.

"Haha, seeing such happy smiles on the customers' faces is the glory of being a ramen chef."

The crow shopkeeper at the counter flapped his wings, manipulated his demonic power to take away the customer's empty bowl, and pushed a steaming bowl of "fox udon" in front of the customer.

The divine child picked up his chopsticks, took a piece of fried tofu from the bowl, looked at it first, smelled it, and finally tasted it.

After tasting it, she gave the most professional food critic's opinion:

"Mmm, when the oil is about 80% hot, put the tofu in the pan, then turn the heat to low and fry until golden brown before taking it out. It's still hot... There's nothing better in the world than fried tofu!"

Seeing the happy look on Miko's face, Mizuki also smiled contentedly.

Like the cherry tree on the south side of Mount Heikage, the ramen shop "Nisshinbei" in the town is also their "date spot".

Foxes all love fried tofu, and the Divine Child is the one in the fox clan who loves fried tofu the most.

Back when Miko lived at "White Fox Field," Mizuki would prepare fried tofu bento boxes every morning and deliver them to her neighbor, Miko. Now that Miko has moved to Narukami Shrine, Mizuki can no longer drive dozens of kilometers to deliver meals there every day. The only place where she can eat fried tofu with Miko is at "Nisseibei."

As the two grew up, they each began to shoulder the affairs of their clans, and the childhood promise of "meeting once a month" became difficult to maintain, and the time they spent traveling together gradually decreased... But whenever there was an opportunity, Mizuki would definitely bring Shinko to this ramen shop to taste the fried tofu.

For the two of them, this place is filled with childhood memories. Every time they come to this ramen shop, it's like going back to more than ten years ago, back to their childhood.

However, no matter how delicious the ramen is, one shouldn't overindulge. As the successor to the chief priest of the shrine, the shrine maiden now needs to pay attention to her image. Maintaining a slim figure is the most basic requirement. The shrine maidens of Narukami Shrine are known for their purity and incorruptibility. If they look round and plump, it will inevitably give people the impression that all the donations from the shrine have gone into the shrine maiden's belly...

"It's rare that you have a day off today, where should we go next?" Mizuki asked.

Today is the first day of the new year, which should be the busiest time for shrine maidens, but the shrine maiden actually managed to get time off to go out and have fun, which was a complete surprise to Mizuki.

So when the goddess came to find her, she was completely unprepared, and most shops would be closed for the New Year, so she could hardly think of anywhere else to go besides this ramen shop.

Without hesitation, Miko answered, "'One soup, two eagles, three Naruto gods,' of course we should go to the public bathhouse to enjoy ourselves during the New Year! Mizuki's back-rubbing skills and Master Crow's ramen are both national treasures of Inazuma!"

Mizuki blushed slightly.

The term "qiantang" refers to a "paid bathhouse," also known as a "bathhouse."

To help the goddess relieve the pressure of her studies, Mizuki went to work at a bathhouse to learn massage techniques from the bathhouse masseuses, and quickly surpassed them.

The only masseur that could make Shinko so comfortable that even her tail was exposed was the one she dreamed of, Tsukishiki.

This also meant that after each bath, Mizuki would always secretly apologize to the bathhouse owner—because there would be a lot of fox fur in the pool…

A sly smile appeared on the goddess's face. Actually, she preferred seeing Mizuki's shy expression to taking a bath.

In addition...

Her narrow, beautiful eyes flickered, and she suddenly gave a flirtatious look to the other side of the counter.

—There sat a male guest with black hair and black eyes, wearing a plaid shirt.

This customer didn't order anything. He had been staring at Shinko ever since he entered the shop, as if he hadn't come to eat ramen, but rather to see her.

The goddess seemed to be asking him, "I'm going to take a bath, are you going to come along?"

Han Fulai did not answer, but just smiled.

Only the divine child can see him in this dream, and it's likely that everything in this dream is controlled by the divine child. Even if he did follow him into the bathhouse, he'd probably only see mist and holy light, right?

Anyway, if the god wanted to, he would definitely have a million ways to mess with him, so he wouldn't go looking for trouble.

Speaking of which, he entered this dream because he ate the goddess's chocolate... I wonder if the goddess had prepared it beforehand.

Last time, in that teahouse "Ru'an", the goddess asked him if he was afraid she would poison his food.

At that time, Han Fulai confidently replied that even if you really poisoned him, I wouldn't be afraid... and then this time, the Divine Child really did poison him.

Han Fulai now has a deeper understanding of the Divine Child—this pink-haired fox is definitely the kind of person who would cheat when playing cards.

She seems to hate losing, even in a verbal argument; if she loses, she'll definitely try to make up for it elsewhere...

That chocolate with added ingredients was probably the "return gift" from the divine child.

However, being able to "share dreams" with the divine child is a good thing for Han Fulai.

To save the divine child, we must understand the divine child better.

The fact that the goddess was able to show him her past experiences in her dream was already a great help to him, and he was more than grateful.

Moreover, being able to tour Inazuma with the divine child in a dream, experiencing the local customs and culture of 500 years ago, is a very rare experience.

Along the way, he followed the Divine Child and saw many dreams, which gave him a better understanding of the Divine Child's past. He also became familiar with the old friends who appeared in the Divine Child's dreams.

The dream-inducing chocolate that the goddess made was likely learned from the tapir girl named Yumezuki Mizuki who was by her side.

The ramen shop he was in, run by the demon race, "Nisshinbei," was a place he could not see five hundred years later. After the "Dark Calamity," the withered Inatsuma demon race no longer lived with humans, and this ramen shop became "Shimura-ya" five hundred years later.

He remembered that the owner of "Shimura-ya" was named Shimura Kanbei. Could it be related to Nisseibei, the crow owner of the ramen shop?

It's a pity he can't interact with these characters in the Divine Child's dream, otherwise comparing the changes in Inazuma Castle five hundred years ago and five hundred years later would actually be quite interesting.

It seems that the goddess is really going to take a bath.

Han Fulai also got up from his seat and followed the Divine Child.

There was no "Akisa Sentang" on the town street 500 years ago, but there was indeed a bathhouse at the original site of "Akisa Sentang".

At this time, the hot springs in Nata were still a novelty for Inazuma, and the boiler machinery in Fontaine and Shizuka was also "high-tech" that did not exist in this era.

Inatsumi's bathhouse was just an ordinary bathhouse in this era, where hot water was heated with dry firewood. A tall chimney stood on the roof, emitting white smoke—this was the so-called "hot spring smoke".

Ordinary public bathhouses naturally do not have the magical healing effects of "hot springs," and "moon bathhouses" are not the "high-end bathhouses" of later generations; they are leisure places that ordinary people can afford.

In this era, when Inatsumi people came to public bathhouses, in addition to enjoying scrubbing and massage, it also served as a public chat room.

According to Inatsume, communicating in the bathhouse is literally "being completely honest with each other."

Well... of course, no matter how "open and honest" you are, there are still rules about men and women not touching each other, and public bathhouses are separated by gender.

Blue curtains hung in front of the men's bath, while red curtains hung in front of the women's bath.

Han Fulai is standing at the bathroom door.

He actually tried to follow the goddess and Mizuki into the women's bathhouse—and then an invisible wall of air blocked him out... The goddess was definitely doing it on purpose.

If you want to know what Miko and Mizuki said while taking a bath, you'll have to go to the men's bath next door and "eavesdrop".

Han Fulai hesitated about whether or not to do it.

Although he did need to know about the goddess's past, eavesdropping on the women's bath was hardly the act of a gentleman... and given the goddess's personality, she must have set a trap to play a trick on him.

At this moment, three more people entered the lobby of the tang (a type of public bathhouse).

They were the trio later known as the "Three Shadow Actors": Hibiki Asase, Harunosuke Yuigami, and Nagamasa Mikoto.

At that time, the three of them were just teenagers.

"Because I saw the public bathhouse in my dream, I mistakenly thought I had already arrived at the meeting point, so I got up a little late." The sleepy-eyed girl used her usual indifference to cover up her shame and explained the reason for her lateness to her friend.

—In reality, this is because Hibiki Asase is unwilling to frankly admit that she simply overslept on the first day of the new year, and is shifting the blame to the warm public bathhouse in her dream.

"As the saying goes, one dreams of it during the day and longs for it at night. I never expected that the usually as still and unassuming shrine maiden would be so looking forward to this vacation." The young man wearing an eboshi hat and an Onmyoji hunting robe smiled mockingly. "Oh dear, what a pity, what a pity, Brother Takane is too busy to come. Only I and Nagamasa can keep you company..."

"It hurts!"

Before Harunosuke could finish speaking, Hibiki Asase grabbed his ear.

The "exorcising priestess" of later generations had already displayed astonishing physical strength in her youth, and Han Fulai watched as Harunobu's ears turned into various strange shapes...

It wasn't until Harunosuke begged for mercy that Asase Hibiki finally let go.

"Honestly, you've clearly achieved a dream that others can only envy. Don't always have such a long face, smile a little."

Harunosuke spoke half-jokingly and half-seriously, but was glared at fiercely by the girl with the clear and melodious voice.

The boy looked toward the demon's adopted son as if pleading for help, while the upright apprentice simply looked away silently.

The boy who would later be revered as the founder of Yin-Yang arts was not joking; Inazuma did indeed have such a custom—the so-called "one soup, two eagles, three roaring gods"—the visions seen in dreams at the beginning of the new year are often regarded as auspicious omens.

The money soup symbolizes curing diseases and prolonging life, the eagle symbolizes soaring to great heights, and the singing god symbolizes wish fulfillment.

Asase Hibiki's "first dream" was a public bathhouse, which was an extremely auspicious sign.

Seeing that Asase Hibiki was about to pinch his ear again, Harunosuke raised his hands in surrender: "Okay, okay, I shouldn't have joked around like that, alright? Seriously, Nagamasa, you should say something too!"

"Since you've taken a rare vacation and come to the public bathhouse, our shrine maiden isn't planning to just stand there and stand there until closing time, is she?"

The girl, dressed in the red and white shrine maiden's outfit for a shrine apprentice, snorted and lifted the red bathhouse curtain on her own, turning back to leave a warning: "Don't peek!"

After Asase Hibiki entered the bathroom, Harunosuke pulled the taciturn Nagamasa into the men's bathroom, saying as they walked, "Nagamasa, I've learned some new magic..."

“I won’t accompany you in spying,” Yu Yu Changzheng immediately refused.

Harunosuke chuckled: "I didn't ask you to lie on the wall and look... I meant, let the shikigami go. It's the shikigami looking, not us, so there's no problem, right?"

"..."

Well, Hibiki Asase may be a bit rough, but she's still a beautiful young girl in her prime. It's not strange at all that boys her age would want to take a second look, especially... Hibiki without any clothes on.

It's just curiosity, pure curiosity.

Mikoto no Nagamasa successfully convinced himself.

Han Fulai watched the two brave young men leave, feeling that he had already seen the ending—there was more than just Asase Hibiki in the women's bath next door; there were also two great demons from the Baku clan and the Shiro Chen fox clan.

Harunosuke is trying to teach them a lesson; he'll probably end up in a terrible situation.

Sure enough, not long after, a cry of "How beautiful the lightning is!" echoed from the bathhouse, followed by the roar of thunder and lightning, mixed with the wails of two brave boys...

If he actually went into the men's bathhouse, he would definitely suffer the consequences.

While he was secretly pleased, some people behind his back were not happy.

The divine child appeared behind him at some point, steam rising from the bathtub above her head: "Why didn't you come?"

Han Fulai spread his hands innocently: "I'm not a teenage boy anymore, I'm not that easy to fall for... Or is it that Lord Gongsi really wants to show it to me?"

"Tch." The goddess clicked her tongue in disappointment.

Han Fulai smiled: "That's why I said you don't know me well enough. A gentleman has his principles, and he does not deceive even in a dark room. Although I, Han Fulai, am not quite at the point of being able to remain unmoved by a woman in his lap, I can still be considered a gentleman."

The goddess glared at him: "Han Junzi, you've been following people around spying on them the whole time, haven't you? In Inazuma, that's called 'tailing,' and it's a crime, you know?"

"How can you call it 'peeping'?" Han Fulai feigned surprise, mimicking Harunosuke's tone: "I was clearly traveling openly with Lord Kuji, but Lord Kuji kept ignoring me, which made me feel a bit lonely."

The divine child burst out laughing.

After laughing, she finally became serious and said, "How long do you plan to stand by and watch before making a move this time? I am a great demon who has lived for more than five hundred years. My memories are... very, very long."

Han Fulai's answer surprised her: "I will look at your memories for as long as they last. If you want to remember for five hundred years, then I will look at them for five hundred years."

The divine child was taken aback: "...Why?"