After the morning exercise, Eriko Ito, Suzu Ito, Rita Ito, and Ya Ye returned to the house one after another and went to their respective bedrooms to wash up.
After a while, Eriko and others, who had finished washing up, gathered in the big house again. They sat at the table full of food, put their hands together in front of their chests, and said in unison, "I'm going to eat!"
"Oh, I forgot to wake Ah Cheng up for breakfast." Just as everyone picked up their chopsticks and was about to eat, Ya Ye suddenly exclaimed.
"What's wrong? Is Ah Cheng back? "After hearing Ya Ye's exclamation, Eriko was very surprised and asked.
"Yes, auntie, Ah Cheng came back at 2 o 'clock in the morning." Ya Ye explained.
"Oh." Eriko nodded and said, "Then don't worry about him. Let's eat first. I'll heat up the food for him when he wakes up."
"Yes." Ya Ye responded and ate with everyone.
When they were halfway through the meal, Sei Itō, whose hair was a little messy, walked out of the inner room leisurely. When he saw the four people eating, he said, "Mother, Eldest Sister, Second Sister, Ya Ye, good morning."
"Morning, morning." The voices of Suzu Ito and Rita Ito sounded almost at the same time.
"Yes." Eriko, who had food in her mouth and couldn't speak, responded.
"Ah Cheng, good morning." Ya Ye greeted him.
"Sit down and eat." Eriko, who swallowed the food in her mouth, said to Sei Itō.
"Okay." Sei Itō nodded and then went to his seat at the table and sat down.
"I'll go get the food for you." Ya Ye put down the bowl and chopsticks in his hand, got up and walked to the kitchen.
"Why are you back so early?" Eriko asked.
"I found something that I couldn't figure out, so I came back to see if you know anything," Sei Itō said. "But let's talk about it after dinner."
"Okay, let's eat first." Eriko agreed.
"Ah Cheng, here you go." At this moment, Ya Ye walked out with a tray. There was a bowl of rice, a big bowl of clear soup, and two fried fish.
"Thank you," Sei Itō said as he took the plate from Ya Ye's hands.
After that, the family quietly finished the Japanese-style breakfast. After cleaning and putting away all the tableware, they came to the living room of the main house and sat down.
"Go ahead," Eriko said after Suzu Ito served everyone a cup of tea.
"Let's start with what I've seen and heard along the way." Sei Itō picked up the teacup in front of him and took a sip of the clear tea in the cup. He held the still warm teacup in his palm and said, "Starting from Benshan, except for a few buildings with one or two residents, the other buildings have completely become empty houses and ghost buildings. The streets are overflowing with lower demons, and purebred demons have also begun to appear among them. Many purebred demons are surrounded by different numbers of lower demons. It's like the situation in the Edo period."
"Is it that serious?" Eriko frowned and asked after hearing Sei Itō's description.
"It's okay. After all, most of the residents have fled. Now the lower demons can hardly find humans to kill. They have begun to kill each other." Sei Itō comforted.
"That's good." Eriko nodded.
"But correspondingly, the evolution speed of the lower demons has accelerated in the killing. Coupled with the catalysis of the foul gas, I believe that it won't be long before there will be an evolution comparable to the real demons." Sei Itō said.
"Next, let's talk about the situation in downtown Tokyo." Seeing that the others had nothing to say, he continued. Then he asked Eriko, "Mother, do you know that there is a city enchantment in downtown Tokyo with XX Cho as the border?"
"City enchantment?" Eriko frowned and thought for a while. "I heard from your grandfather that when Emperor Meiji moved the capital to Tokyo, he had mobilized a group of Ise Grand Shrine members to set up a enchantment in Tokyo. As for whether it is the city enchantment you mentioned, I'm not sure."
"I see." Sei Itō nodded thoughtfully and continued, "With the XX Cho I just mentioned as the boundary, the demons outside the enchantment are more rampant as I just said, and they have formed gangs. But the situation in downtown Tokyo inside the enchantment is very different from outside the enchantment. Normal order has been completely restored. Even if there are still demons, they are almost weak to the point where three or five ordinary people can defeat them with a little effort. "
"It seems that the Ministry of the Environment has put in a lot of effort." Eriko praised. Although it was said that Shinto and the Ministry of the Environment did not deal with each other, the two sides were basically united on the issue of demons. Eriko could not help but praise the results of the Ministry of the Environment's action.
"Yes, but I'm worried that the head of the second room of the Ministry of the Environment, Kobayashi, will use this as a pretext to make a fuss and target us again." Sei Itō said.
"You don't have to worry too much about this. Kobayashi from the Ministry of the Environment is not a person who only cares about immediate interests. I believe that the other party will not target us when the situation is unclear." Eriko comforted.
"But mom, what if?" Suzu Ito, who had been listening on the side, suddenly asked.
"Hmm ~" Eriko was stumped by the question, bowed her head and pondered. After a long while, she said with some helplessness, "If only your grandfather was here."
"Ah Cheng, you continue." After a moment of silence in the room, Eriko suddenly remembered that Sei Itō seemed to have something to say, and opened her mouth.
"Oh." Sei Itō nodded and continued, "Because I was curious about the current situation of the Ministry of the Environment, I wanted to find out about their situation, and at the same time, I wanted to see if I could get some useful information from them, so I found an opportunity to sneak into the Ministry of the Environment's office building …"
"You actually sneaked into the Ministry of the Environment's office building?" Eriko was surprised and said angrily.
"Yes." Sei Itō said.
"Don't you know that it is the headquarters of the Ministry of the Environment? Aren't you afraid of dying inside? Why did you have to sneak in to get information! Have you ever thought about us! Have you ever thought about Ya Ye! "After hearing Sei Itō's admission, Eriko immediately exploded and scolded him angrily. But Sei Itō could clearly feel the strong care and fear in Eriko's words.
Sei Itō honestly accepted Eriko's scolding and did not refute it at all until Eriko was done scolding him.
"Continue." Eriko, who had been scolding for a long time, looked at Sei Itō's appearance and couldn't continue scolding, so she said with a cold snort.
"I saw an order from one of the offices." Sei Itō didn't dare to say that he got the order from the office on the floor where the first room was located, so he just said vaguely.
"What order?" Suzu Ito curiously asked.
"The Emperor and the Cabinet jointly ordered to search for a hundred eighteen year old virgins born in a yin year, yin month, yin day, yin hour, and a eighteen year old virgin with spiritual power cultivation." Sei Itō said.
"What!" Eriko's face changed after hearing this order, and she stood up from the ground and exclaimed.
"Mom, what's wrong?" Suzu Ito was shocked by Eriko's reaction and quickly asked with concern.
"What are the Cabinet and the royal family doing? Aren't they afraid that the summoned thing will go out of control and become a big problem? "Eriko ignored Suzu Ito's question and just stood there muttering to herself.
"Mother, what's going on?" Sei Itō frowned and asked loudly.
"Ah!" Eriko, who was called back by Sei Itō's voice, sighed and sat down again. She looked at Suzu Ito, Sei Itō, Ito Reina, and Ya Ye's inquisitive eyes and said, "You should know that there is a way to use Yin-Yang Jutsu – Spirit-branded Retainers."
"Yes." The four of them all nodded.
"There are two ways to obtain Spirit-branded Retainers, capture and summon." Eriko explained, "The so-called capture method is to capture a powerful wandering ghost or kill a demon to make a Spirit-branded Retainer. The summon method is to use a special method to summon a specific powerful demon at a specific time, and make the other party become a Spirit-branded Retainer through agreement or coercion. "
"Except for a few special cases, the captured Spirit-branded Retainers are generally weak, but relatively easy to obtain and control, so it was the first choice for ancient Yin-Yang Masters to make Spirit-branded Retainers. Although the summoning type of shikigami were all powerful demons and gods, each of them had a distinct personality. They weren't completely under the control of the summoner. Furthermore, the summoning type of shikigami had many requirements and was difficult to raise. Unless one was a powerful faction, they wouldn't be able to raise such a shikigami. But correspondingly, as long as you obtain such a Spirit-branded Retainer, then no matter if it's you or your family, you will definitely become one of the top forces at that time. The best example is Abe Seimei … "
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