The heroes don’t live long, but villains will remain for thousands of years.
Apparently, Windchaser classified Inuyasha as a villain because Inuyasha’s vigor was formidable. The feathered arrow almost hit his heart. To be more precise, the heart was closed to being pierced directly.
Yet, Inuyasha had sustained through it successfully, albeit leaving a severe injury. The Unripe Rice Village Witch’s spiritual power raged wildly in Inuyasha’s body, making Inuyasha weaker. Inuyasha was not even much stronger than an ordinary adult. Any samurai could slay him easily.
Therefore, the arrogant half demon beast boy had to bow his head to reality and could only hide in a nearby cave to recover his wounds. During the recovery period, the only thing that he could do was to argue with the immigrant Windchaser from time to time.
Windchaser felt that Inuyasha was somewhat unreliable. He used every excuse he could to avoid talking about the shrine’s young witch.
But Windchaser knew Inuyasha cared more about the young witch than anyone else.
What a dishonest guy, but Windchaser realized that he didn’t seem qualified to comment on Inuyasha.
Not long ago, he was in the same shoe.
“Windchaser, you remember her promise at that time. As long as I can kill a hundred greater demon beasts and find her a hundred books, she promises to help me become stronger. Is it because she sympathizes with my origin?”
In the damp cave, Inuyasha talked to himself alone-at least he appeared like talking to himself.
“Sympathize with you?” Windchaser thought for a while, thinking about Inuyasha’s life experience. The Yan Wuyue World was averted toward the half demon beast, no matter if it were demon beasts or humans.
The demon beast snatched Inuyasha’s mother and immediately abandoned her after fulfilling its pleasure. Inuyasha, born as a half demon beast, was like a freak to the demon beast. He was not recognized as a demon beast.
The mother was also used as a tool. No one cared about her after she gave birth. Speaking of it, Inuyasha’s life seemed to be quite similar to Chizuko Nagato’s.
“Why do you ask?” Windchaser also recalled when he was wandering around as an orphan; his voice seemed to be melancholy.
“Just asking.” Inuyasha shook his head and closed his eyes.
Inuyasha held the wound, attempting to suppress the raging spiritual power in his body. He was enduring intense pain all the time. This damn woman is so cruel. She is really trying to take my life.
Obviously, Inuyasha didn’t take the thing away but put it back in the end. Can’t you let me off? Inuyasha subconsciously gritted his teeth again when he thought of this.
But thinking of what the woman had experienced before, Inuyasha fell silent.
“Windchaser, are you still there?”
“Don’t bother me. I’m comprehending something to see if there is a way to resolve the current situation. Just find a place to chill on your own!”
“It’s this cave quite chilly already?”
“Fuck off! Idiot dog!”
“You stupid wolf!”
The Greedy Wolf Star inheritance contained intricate knowledge. These things were sealed in Windchaser’s consciousness. Once he opened up these inherited memories, it was like plunging into an endless ocean. He didn’t even understand what was inside!
As a demon beast, he wandered everywhere and had never received any orthodox education. Even before encountering Zixing, Windchaser condensed demon beast power and absorbed vitality instinctively.
Due to the Greedy Wolf Star knowledge being abundant, Winchaser would not digest it well. Worse still, Windchaser had to find a solution to the current problem from this knowledge in a targeted manner.
Learning in the consciousness world seemed to be a long process. Windchaser, who became more immersed in Greedy Wolf Star’s memory, would only wake up occasionally to see what Inuyasha was doing.
Once, Windchaser found that Inuyasha was not in the cave for recovery when he woke up. But when he assessed the body, he realized that Inuyasha had only recovered the ability to move.
Is this guy courting death? You’re in such a weak state. Why do you still move around? Not to mention encountering onmyoji, monk, etc., I’m afraid you’re unmatched to fight an average samurai!
Huh, what is this place?
Just when Windchaser was about to taunt Inuyasha, he realized that this guy was hiding in the branches of a big tree, and the Unripe Rice Village Shrine was in front of him.
The young witch had just picked up a wooden barrel and walked into the path to the back of the shrine.
“Actually, if you explain it, I think she will probably forgive you.” Windchaser sighed, “Why don’t you tell her that you are impatient to gain strength and even break your agreement at the expense of…”
“I have done it no matter what. There is no excuse for it.” The half demon beast boy shook his head and watched the pale figure completely disappear before jumping from the tree.
“Boring pride.”
There had been more than one discussion on this topic. This was not the first time Windchaser mocked Inuyasha. But, Windchaser always thought of his former self every time.
…
Every day after this, Windchaser would take time to observe Inuyasha.
He found that Inuyasha was recovering slowly from his injuries, but he was diligent in visiting the Unripe Rice Villager Shrine. However, the half demon beast had always stay hidden every time, like a voyeur.
“Idiot! If you don’t say what’s in your heart, how do you know that she didn’t forgive you!?”
“Stupid wolf, I think the other person will understand just by speaking out. Don’t you think you are too arrogant?”
Many days had passed. Inuyasha’s injury was healed even without extensive care.
Windchaser became more anxious. He still couldn’t find a way to leave through the knowledge inherited through Greedy Wolf Star. He vaguely felt the existence of stars, but the stars couldn’t guide him.
…
Inuyasha went down the mountain and once walked through a deserted place. Windchaser was not wrong. This should be the Unripe Rice Village’s ruin. It was the village Chizuko Nagato destroyed back then.
Inuyasha had moved out of the cave. She now lived in the old house of the Nagato family. Here the walls were broken, and the room collapsed. It could hardly be considered a shelter. It was just a simple place with bricks and tiles built after a few wooden beams collapsed.
It was raining. The rain finally dripped from the cracks above the head. Under the ash-gray sky, Inuyasha curled up because of the cold.
“Stupid wolf. As long as she’s always in this place, that damn woman wouldn’t have to face that pain, right?”
There was no Miki, no Three Deities’ alliance, and no outsiders. Only Inuyasha visited the shrine and watched the young witch sweeping the fallen leaves day after day.
There was no misery. She would always stay in this place in tranquility. Inuyasha was so familiar with the character of the damn woman. She would stay like this forever. She would sweep the courtyard every day, do her homework, read books, watch the sunset on the horizon, and watch the changing of the seasons. Yet, she would not be bored.
“Perhaps.” Windchaser replied feebly.
It could be the weather, but Windchaser found himself becoming lazy.
“Are we never leaving this place?”
When has it become us? Windchaser was startled. For a long time, he did not give Inuyasha any answer. Windchaser was younger than Inuyasha. He couldn’t give Inuyasha any answers.
“I don’t know, but I don’t want to stay in this place forever,” Windchaser said what was in his mind.
“But, she’s no longer at the outside world. She has died at the hands of another her.”
This was Inuyasha’s most frail voice, which Windchaser had ever heard. It might be the sound of rain or the sound of howling wind. It muffled the sound where the half demon beast boy buried his head deep in his knees.
Inuyasha always knew that the young witch had died in Miki’s hands.
“Actually, you don’t want to leave this place?” Windchaser asked hesitantly.
This time, instead, he didn’t get Inuyasha’s reply.
It slowly started raining. The idiot dog and stupid wolf stop chatting, but the surroundings were quiet enough to make it drowsy.
A few days after the rain stopped, there was no clear weather. The gloomy sky looked like a silent old pavilion.
Windchaser once again awakened from the sea of knowledge inherited through Greedy Wolf Star. What surprised him was that Inuyasha did not appear in the Unripe Rice Village shrine this time and even left the Unripe Rice Village. Instead, Inuyasha came to the city.
It was a wealthy family in this city. Inuyasha was rummaging through the cabinets.
“What are you doing?” Windchaser asked curiously.
“Looking for books.” Inuyasha turned the study into a mess and had plentiful harvests in the end. He glanced around, not knowing if these books were the same. So he packed everything away indiscriminately.
Inuyasha ransacked many families in the city and even the lord’s house.
When Inuyasha left this city, he had a big bundle wrapped with cloth on his back, seemingly quite satisfied.
Windchaser didn’t ask why Inuyasha robbed so many ancient books. But, this incident immediately informed Windchaser why the samurai and monk group pursued him when he arrived at Yan Wuyue World. This guy must have robbed a lot of families beforehand. It was probably the result of public anger.
Otherwise, humans wouldn’t dare to provoke demon beasts.
When Inuyasha returned to the ruins of Nagato’s house in Unripe Rice Village, Windchaser discovered that Inuyasha had looted many places in the past few days when he was busy comprehending the heritage memory.
“There are already more than a hundred books, right?”
Between slaying a hundred demon beasts and finding a hundred books, the latter is obviously more difficult.
“En, since I have violated the agreement, I will pay back ten times the price! Let’s look for a thousand books!” The half demon beast boy suddenly made a bold statement.
Windchaser attacked maliciously, “Then, don’t you have to kill a thousand demon beasts?”
“Yup.”
The idiot dog did not refute the stupid wolf this time. He nodded with certainty, so the stupid wolf sighed: This idiot dog is so dumb.
…
Since that day, Windchaser had lived a life constantly invaded with danger. Is this idiot dog really planning to kill a thousand greater demon beasts? Does he not know his limit?
If it weren’t for the sake of sharing the same body with you, I wouldn’t care about your life and death.
Star Power! Godspeed! Godspeed!
Hmph! I should use your body to cultivate the skills in Greedy Wolf inheritance. Windchaser thought this was the only way not to suffer the bitter end of the deal!
“How many have we slain?”
“Nine hundred and ninety-eight.” Inuyasha frowned and looked back. There were a lot of corpses in the camp in front of him. Among them, there was only one greater demon beast, and the rest were underlings.
How could there be so many greater demon beasts in this world? Later, Inuyasha could only have inferior demon beasts to fill the number. It was already three years later.
In other words, Windchaser had spent three years with Inuyasha in this dream.
“We’re still short of two.” Windchaser thought for a while and said, “Recently, I heard that a toad called Red Mage appears in the south. It’s quite strong. But, if we kill it, there will only be nine hundred, and ninety-nine left. So, we’re still one short. But, it will be convenient for us to return to Unripe Rice Village afterward.”
“Oh, we’re almost reaching a thousand.” The idiot dog demon beast muttered suddenly.
After three years of blood bath, the half demon beast boy still hadn’t grown much. But there was a new scar on his face. Also, he became a lot more silent.
In fact, in the second half of the journey, there had been very few arguments between the idiot dog demon beast and the stupid wolf.
“What’s the matter? Do you have other plans?”
“Let’s just settle with this.” Inuyasha shook his head and walked directly to the south.
…
Ah!
The screams sounded. The seriously injured Red Mage fell to the ground, revealing its true form, “Ah. Why!? I could have lived forever! It’s all because of you. I can’t complete the last evolution recorded in the toad clan. I will never let you go away with this. Even if I die, I will continue to curse you.”
“Shut up.”
The iron sword in Inuyasha’s hand slashed Red Mage’s neck. The opponent was successfully beheaded.
After this, Inuyasha returned to the abandoned ruin of Unripe Rice Village. After staying quiet for a day, he dug out all the books stored here, put them on his back, and walked up the stairs to the Unripe Rice Village shrine.
“Hey, aren’t we short of one?” Windchaser looked at Inuyasha in surprise. Could it be that I have counted it wrong?
“Stupid wolf. Thank you.”
Step by step, the half demon beasts made tremendous progress on the path to the mountain top.
“Thank me for what?” This was the first time Windchaser heard appreciation from the unfranked dog demon beast. It was simply inexplicable.
“If it weren’t for you, I wouldn’t be able to deal with so many demon beasts that are stronger than me. A thousand demon beasts, let alone three years. Even if I were given thirty years, it may not be possible.”
“Hmph, it’s just because I use you as the carrier for now. If you die suddenly, I will suffer too. Otherwise, who can care about your suicidal behavior?”
“Aren’t you suicidal too?” The idiot dog demon beast smiled, “Egoist.”
“Shush!“
It was the last step of the mountain stairs. In front of the shrine, the young witch was cleaning the courtyard. She saw the approaching Inuyasha, and she couldn’t help frowning.
“Inuyasha, you haven’t died yet.” The young witch said indifferently, “Are you still not giving up on the item enshrines?”
Inuyasha scattered many ancient books on the ground behind him, “There are a thousand books here. Check the numbers? It was me violating the original agreement of a hundred books, so I returned you ten folds of the original amount.”
“You…” The young witch opened her lips in surprise.
Inuyasha walked towards her at this time and said calmly, “In the past three years, I have killed 999 demon beasts, including the General Dog who abandoned my mother. In addition, I slew that toad. We only knew each other because of it. I didn’t expect it to be renamed Red Mage in recent years. It has become a lot stronger. But I killed it in the end. Including him, the total count is 999 demon beasts.”
“Inuyasha.” The young witch seemed to realize what the demon beast wanted to do next, and she suddenly became flustered, “What are you going to do!?”
“Please let me stay by your side and never leave you.”
Half-demon beast hugged the young witch hard, “With that, I am the thousandth one.”
At the Unripe Rice Village Shrine, a stone statue suddenly appeared. It was Inugami, a teenager who was once a semi-demon beast who guarded the shrine.
When Inuyasha slowly changed into the Inugami statue in front of the shrine under the witch’s gentle gaze, Windchaser suddenly realized: This dream doesn’t belong to Chizuko Nagato, Miki, or that witch. Instead, this is Inuyasha’s dream.
Outside the dream, the Unripe Rice Village witch no longer exists for Inuyasha.
So he would rather let himself stay in this dream forever and never wake up.
…
Under the cherry blossom tree, Miki slowly closed the book in her hand. Then, after all the foreign consciousness popped out, she sealed the Yan Wuyue World completely.
Then, she nestled in the healing Eric and fell asleep.