Book 7: Chapter 58: New Demon Enforcers

Book 7: Chapter 58: New Demon Enforcers

Several damaged warships had toppled over the coast of a village next to the sea in the northwest region of Tanba. The decks and masts of these warships were covered in a layer of frost and burned in between the cracks of the wreckage.

“The Tanba Pirates are willing to surrender to you, Lady Uesugi!” A bunch of dark-skinned men lowered their heads to a tall, silver-haired samurai woman while kneeling down.

“Hmph! We’d rather die than surrender if it were Shuten Doji in front of us and not you, Lady Uesugi! Feel free to order us as you want from now on!” said Kuki Mitsukai, the full-bearded pirate captain who had his hair styled into a bun and wore a tattered crimson vest.

“Yeah! We’re willing to surrender if it’s you, Lady Uesugi!” The pirates followed after Mitsukai.

Uesugi Rei had already gained the allegiance of the western Tanba forces that had surrendered to Shuten Doji, and this included most of the wandering samurai, bandits, and pirates who were rebelling against him.

Although these forces were just a puny mob that were scared of dying, they were pretty skilled at fighting.

A blue-skinned imp appeared behind Rei at this moment and caused the pirates to frown immediately. They knew that Rei was acting under Shuten Doji’s orders, so surrendering to her instead of him was just an excuse for their actions.

The wretched-looking imp arrived beside Nioh’s foot and said, “Lord Shuten is pleased with your performance in the west, Ms. Uesugi, and wants to make you one of the new demon enforcers. He has ordered you to return to Mt. Ooe along with the samurai unit you’re leading so that he can personally award you!”

Rei’s calm and arrogant gaze paused on the imp for a while after she turned back. She then said indifferently, “All right.”

Rei turned to the kneeling pirate captain, Kuki Mitsukai, and said, “Do what you were doing before. I’ll pass down an order if I need you to do something for me.”

“Yes, ma’am!” Mitsukai and his pirate crew bowed to her.

Rei could not help but touch her waist and pulled Nioh’s reins after sensing the tattered piece of paper inside her sash. She urged Nioh to turn around and made him take her into the woods at a lightning-fast speed.

A relatively young-looking pirate kneeling beside Mitsukai asked in a small voice after seeing Rei disappear, “You’ve sailed the seas freely all your life, father, and never feared neither sea monsters nor the court’s navy, so why did you surrender to this woman?”

Mitsukai looked at the distant silhouette of Rei and said with a nostalgic expression, “It’s because... Lady Uesugi looks just like her1...”

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Mitsukai remained silent and recalled the sight he had seen more than a decade ago, a time when he was still a nameless sea pirate.

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Kuki Mitsukai had fled into a region where even the bandits did not dare to enter in a moment of desperation so that he could escape the bandits pursuing him on that day.

The celestial maiden glanced at Mitsukai at this moment, finally taking notice of him, but the demons surrounding her attacked her simultaneously, making the earth below them quake.

Mitsukai felt the world before him spin and black out the next moment, forever losing the qualifications to know how the battle ended.

He found himself lying on a coast several hundred kilometers away from where the battle took place when he woke up and had no clue how he had ended up here.

Mitsukai got up and discovered that he just had some minor injuries, seeming fine for the most part.

The sight surrounding him was filled with the coast of the Tanba that he was most familiar with, and the woods looked the same as well.

It was impossible for a mortal like him to figure out how he had survived that immense, judgmental battle.

The answer to whether it was his luck or the celestial maiden who saved him would forever remain a mystery2.

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The samurai woman had finished laying out the defense in Honganji Temple by now.

Lily and Airi looked at the moon in the boundless night sky while standing on the thick wooden steps.

“What do you suppose Sister Uesugi is doing right now, Airi?”

Although Lily was worried about her, she had a feeling that Rei had not really fallen into Shuten’s clutches and was traversing these perilous woods on her horse even now.

As for whether Rei had betrayed the court, Lily naturally did not believe it.

“How much do you care about Sister Uesugi, Lily?”

“Huh?”

Airi turned her head aside and looked at Lily with glistening eyes, “Do you care about her the most?”

Her question left Lily flummoxed momentarily.

Although Lily cared about the safety of her sisters, even she held no answer to Airi’s question.

Robinxen: Are we just going to casually get a flashback showing Rei is the reincarnation of a god or something?Robinxen: Interesting, I wonder if this is happening in some sideways dimension or something else.