Chapter 98 A fragile balance

At the pier of Komizu Town, a merchant ship belonging to the Mori family was docked there. In the best room, two people were playing chess while sipping tea from the glass cups they had just bought.

The man on the left is a rare tall man in Japan, he is probably over 1.7 meters tall, with a very good height-to-leg length ratio, but his horse face makes him look a bit cheap, and his thin eyebrows, long eyes and always crooked mouth corners give people a feeling of being out of tune. He is the swordsman Dong Haijian.

The young man opposite him is Qing, a good friend of Ken Tokai and a famous Onmyoji in Kyoto. He came here to capture a monster.

"You still don't plan to go to the Moroboshi family? You should know that the princess of the Fukushima family has been taken away. She is a very interesting woman." Qing held the teacup in one hand and supported the bottom of the cup with the other hand, tasting the bitter fragrance of the tea comfortably, while admiring the color of the tea through the glass, paired with those equally exquisite snacks. He could sit here for a whole day if that bastard Tokai Ken didn't hide the chess pieces.

A paper man took a chess piece out of Dong Haijian's sleeve with great effort, but the other party's expression did not change at all, and he put the chess piece back on the chessboard very naturally.

Qing twitched the corner of her mouth, and asked the paper man to push the chess piece back to its original position, and then captured a key chess piece on Dong Haijian's chessboard.

"Don't be anxious. Before I get down to business, I plan to visit several daimyos one by one. I'm sure I'll gain a lot." Seeing that the game was hopeless, Dong Haijian smiled crookedly, simply messed up the chess pieces, then lay back and said in a rogue manner.

As a swordsman of the Mori family, he would receive the best hospitality whenever he came to the house. Some samurai would even invite him to stay overnight at their homes and give him many gifts. He would not miss this rare opportunity.

Qing shook her head. This guy was still so unreliable. She really didn't know whether it was right or wrong to ask him for help. You know, although the monster he was tracking this time was not a big monster, it was extremely difficult to deal with. Many Onmyoji had fallen into his hands.

No matter what, Dong Haijian is the one in charge this time. If he doesn't move, no one can do anything.

Fortunately, the trip was not in vain. The tea sets and snacks of the Moroboshi family are indeed extraordinary.

Thinking of this, Qing sipped her tea comfortably, picked up the dessert on the small plate, took a small bite, and savored the pleasure brought by the sweetness.

Because the road was wide and flat, the carriage could go faster and it didn't take too long to reach Guimaru Mountain.

As soon as she arrived at Onimaru Mountain, Princess Fukushima's eyes fell on the mountain shrine, and she happened to meet the eyes of Hibiki who was walking towards her with a mace. She was slightly stunned, then bowed.

Xianggui scratched her head. Although she didn't understand, she still responded and went straight to the kitchen to prepare ordering. Now she has made great progress, from eating whatever is available to learning to order food. As for what her father eats, of course she will give him what he doesn't like. Anyway, he is injured now and can't beat her.

"It seems that there is something wrong with the intelligence again. According to the intelligence, the red ghost of Onimaru Mountain has just reached adulthood and has not yet mastered the power of a ghost, but the one in front of us is clearly a ghost god." Fukushima Masaki sighed and said.

Ghosts that have just reached adulthood are already difficult to deal with. After awakening the power of ghosts, even swordsmen may die tragically at the hands of the ghost's brute force.

The monkey-like Sarutobi scratched his cheek uncomfortably. Although he was not a ninja who specialized in gathering intelligence, he was obviously unqualified as a ninja as he could not even figure out such important information.

After walking past the mountain shrine, the three of them set foot on the road to hell. Fukushima Masaki and Sarutobi were fine, but Fukushima Hime felt a heaviness in her body until an aura marked her body and the pressure dissipated.

"The other party has become the mountain god of this place." Fukushima-hime turned around and looked at the mountain shrine at the foot of the mountain, with a complicated expression. Fukushima Masaki and Sarutobi were silent for a while, and the background of the Moroboshi family once again shocked them.

They could no longer imagine what effect a solid mountain castle combined with the mountain god could have. Anyway, no one was willing to attack such a place, not even the Fukushima family at its peak.

In silence, the three of them passed through the city gate and arrived at the real core of the Moroboshi family.

With sufficient capital, the originally empty Onimaruyama Castle was naturally filled up, and it was in no way inferior to the Fukushima family, and was even more strictly guarded. There were patrols everywhere, and there were hundreds of well-equipped hatamoto and dozens of ninjas stationed in the castle tower alone.

The hatamoto had their own place to guard and rest, and because of the special nature of the ninja's profession, Yan Xu specially added a suspended ceiling to the castle tower. Not only did it reinforce it, but he also reserved about one meter of space so that the ninjas could move freely on it while crouching, and there was enough space for training, eating, and sleeping. It could be said to be a special ninja secret base. Therefore, as soon as Sarutobi entered the castle tower, he felt like he was being stared at by dozens of eyes, which made him feel uncomfortable all over and he scratched his ears and cheeks like a monkey.

In fact, Sarutobi's feeling was not wrong. After Yan Xu became rich, he recruited more ninjas from the system as secret guardians. Otherwise, he would not have specially reinforced the ceiling of the castle tower. He was afraid that too many ninjas on it would collapse it.

When facing his peers, Sarutobi's presence naturally attracted more attention. After all, the ninja's methods of killing are hard to guard against, and each of these system ninjas is a death warrior, so of course they will not be careless at all.

At this time, Yan Xu was looking at Princess Fukushima who deliberately revealed her two round, jade-like horns, and nodded with satisfaction. Her appearance was absolutely amazing, pure and charming, with big eyes and moist lips, and she must look very beautiful when she rolled her eyes.

In addition, if the other party is not bragging, Fukushima-hime also has the blood of the dragon girl, which would make it even happier.

"Get engaged first, and hold the wedding in a year. Now you should learn how to manage domestic affairs, starting from Guimaruyama Castle." Yan Xu said casually.

One year later, Princess Fukushima will be exactly eighteen years old. Considering her background, she must be a talented person, so she should not be idle during this period and should help deal with the affairs of the territory.

As for Fukushima Masaki and Sarutobi, they certainly could not continue to stay with Fukushima-hime.

Fukushima Masaki will go to assist Kazuha Shizuka, while Sarutobi will form a special team with ninjas such as Tsuchigumo.

The simple and casual treatment made Fukushimahime and the other two a little uncomfortable, but in order to better integrate into the Moroboshi family, no one objected, and they were not qualified to do so.

Although the process was sloppy, Yan Xu achieved his goal.

As Princess Fukushima stepped into Onimaruyama Castle, the Shimazu and Sagara families, who had originally planned to use moral blackmail, fell silent, because they could not guarantee whether the Moroboshi and Fukushima families would join forces to annex their two families.

The one who was most dissatisfied with this in the entire Soejima was the Otomo family, but they were helpless because the Otomo family noticed the ambiguity between the Moroboshi family and the Fukushima family, and the Moroboshi family responded to the alliance with the Shimazu family, which made it impossible for the Otomo family to do anything. Therefore, Soejima restored the fragile balance again.

(End of this chapter)