Just a Minor Issue-Easy to Fix

This monster... doesn't seem to have killed anyone?

A quick-thinking person will soon realize that things may not be as bad as they thought.

"Please stop hitting me! Just tell me what you want, and the entire Yae Village will grant your wish, Your Highness!"

The speaker thought for a moment and decided that as long as no one had been killed, the matter was negotiable... Well, actually, if someone had been killed, the matter was even more negotiable. As long as they weren't driven to extinction, everything was fine to discuss.

As for food and drink, although Yae Village itself is not wealthy, it is not unacceptable for them to hand over some to survive—especially since most of the villagers are now lying here.

Try asking these people to say no.

Money... can be given. Although I don't know what the monsters need money for, Yae Village is a secluded clan village. Money... is important, but money can't be eaten. This condition is easier to accept than the previous one.

After all, you can live without money, but if you don't have food, what if something unexpected happens on the way to buy food?

His biggest worry was still human sacrifice... well, it wasn't that human sacrifice itself was unacceptable, but rather that it was unacceptable from a religious perspective.

For a clan village that believes in God, is it a big deal to perform human sacrifices in the event of a natural disaster? From livestock to people, it's not a big deal at all.

His concern was that after sacrificing the rabbit demon goddess, their Fox God and Sakura God would punish them.

What do I want?

Sakura paused for a moment upon hearing this question.

I don't think I want anything at all.

After a brief moment of thought, Sakura looked at Liu Bai.

For Sakura, this place serves no purpose other than triggering some memories of her hometown.

Yes, it was merely a trigger, not even enough to evoke any emotions, since apart from the similarity in the mountains, water, and style, there was nothing else in this place that could evoke any emotions.

Sakura had long since come to terms with her home. Although she occasionally missed it, her sadness wasn't actually that deep.

After all, Sakura's fate had long since diverged from the original timeline. Since the Honkai of her hometown in the original timeline, Sakura and Rin had been wandering from place to place. From that time until she officially joined the Moth Chasers to Fire, Sakura had no good days. After joining the Moth Chasers to Fire, well, she became Fusion Warrior. Her conspicuous features made ordinary soldiers and civilians see her as an outsider. Fortunately, the habits she developed from wandering also made Sakura rather aloof, so she didn't care much.

After that, misfortune seemed to target the unfortunate. Rin was finished, tortured and killed. Sakura from the original world lost all hope of living on the spot. Her entire spirit was drained in that moment. Her journey to find her sister after leaving the Moth Chasers to Fire was, in essence, self-destruction. After such an experience, she no longer missed her hometown ghost.

However, Sakura no longer has a home. After grieving for a while, she realized that the people around her were kind to her and that she and her sister were both very happy. So ELM became Sakura's second home.

The term "head of the household" was first coined by Sakura. Other terms like Eden, Pardo, and Vil-V are quite unique. How could this group come up with such a down-to-earth and intimate term of address?

Although Ling was still unlucky in the end, she passed away with a smile, and might not even be completely dead, with Liu Bai and a group of close friends by her side. Ying can only say that she was extremely sad, that a piece of her life was missing, but she was far from being in despair.

So seeing a hometown that's completely different from her hometown, Sakura... doesn't really feel much.

For Sakura now, home is wherever her family is, and moving to another place is like moving house.

"Have them arrange a place for you to live."

When Liu Bai saw Ying's gaze, he shrugged. He didn't want anything. What would a poor, remote village like Yae Village want from you?

Moreover, the objective of this simulation itself is not actually clear.

Judging from the simulated name alone, they are probably the Yae Sisters?

But the problem is, with Sakura here, how could anything happen to the Yae sisters?

Forget about Yae Village, now that Sakura goes out, she's the best in the world. Fu Hua has to step aside. With her exceptional mobility and exceptional attack power, Sakura can cut down whoever she wants. If Sakura had fought Chi You back Chiyou probably wouldn't have survived more than two hundred words.

Unlike Fu Hua, whose most commendable quality is her tankiness...

Even with the Sword God, Fu Hua's damage output is relatively weak among the martial arts Flame-Chasers.

"Please arrange a place for me to stay."

Sakura coldly announced to the villagers lying on the ground.

"Where... where to stay?" The villager who had spoken up was bewildered. "We... we live in a poor, remote area. If you, Rabbit Demoness, want to stay, go about fifty miles east. There's a large..."

Click!

"...city."

Sakura drew her sword and planted it in the ground, looking down at the trembling villagers with a cold gaze.

Do you need me to repeat what I just said?

"No! No need! Just tell us which one you like! It's all a gift from your servants to Your Majesty!"

Although Sakura only brought the Frozen Hell, Icy Sky with her when she went out, the coldness naturally emanating from the Frozen Hell, Icy Sky Blade was more intimidating than the Purging Thunder.

Choosing a place to stay...

Sakura glanced at Liu Bai Liu Bai, who gestured for Sakura to choose for herself—since Sakura was going to live alone anyway.

Whose cherry blossom tree is that?

After a moment's thought, Sakura drew her sword, the tip pointing at the towering cherry tree in the village.

Sakura didn't really want to live in this place; the environment was too bad. The only thing that caught her attention was that cherry blossom tree, which was particularly beautiful.

"That, that's Yae Guuji's house..."

"Oh... a shrine." Sakura was quite familiar with the title of priest. "Then just give me a room."

It's not that Sakura respects this thing that much. Back when they were fighting Gray Serpent, Gray Serpent created a whole bunch of organizations with strange and grotesque appearances. Some of these organizations even received a bit of a response from the Honkai Consciousness.

After cutting down this bunch of things, the Gray Serpent, with only its head or half a body left, would usually have a summary with Sakura, mainly saying that there are too many fools and not enough swindlers these days, and they can even pick and choose.

After playing this game, Sakura, being a traditionalist, completely lost her reverence for the gods, and she even became able to distinguish some of the things.

Let me put it this way, if God really responded to you, he could cut down your entire shrine without feeling any remorse—damn it, what else in this world can respond to people from a high position besides Honkai?

Gray Serpent really taught Sakura a lot of misleading things about religious sects.

Things like praying for rain are generally not a concern. Burning or killing someone is a normal practice. If the former can bring rain, burning something else might be more effective. The latter is just primitive sects messing around, and if it works, it's usually just a coincidence.

Of course, if the entire climate were to reverse in a short period of time, that would be a different story.

However, Honkai usually doesn't respond to such things. If they do, then we have to consider how much benefit these people's actions have brought to Honkai. In other words, killing them all wouldn't be an exaggeration, even if their subjective intention was just to ask for rain, they are still traitors in objective terms.

Sakura's current conservative attitude stems primarily from her shared cultural background. She is acutely aware of the status of shrines in small villages, where the shrine is either the behind-the-scenes village chief or a concurrent village chief, especially in a clan village.

"This... this..."

The villagers opened their mouths, but dared not agree to such a thing.

That's the Miyaji family! The shrine! The center of power in Yae Village!

He agreed today, but he might die unexpectedly in a couple of days!

"Rabbit Demoness, you really know how to talk," Liu Bai sighed, half-jokingly. "Alright, he might agree to other places, but not that one. You'd better go and visit him yourself—but he might be coming anyway."

"Oh..."

"Hey, Sakura, don't you even object to the term 'rabbit demon'?" Liu Bai couldn't help but ask, seeing that Sakura had no reaction at all.

He wanted to see when Sakura would realize she was a donkey... cough, a fox, but she acted like nothing had happened.

"I'm used to it." Sakura shrugged, jokingly, she herself couldn't even remember that she was a fox before.

No, not only her, but even Mobius, who performed the surgery on her, would often mistakenly call it rabbit ears.

Some unscrupulous or brainless individuals even call this thing a donkey ear.

... Although, apart from the fox ears, the other two are undeniably similar.

In multiple-choice questions, fox ears are always the first option to be eliminated.

What's the point of her correcting these villagers? They'll probably just think, "This rabbit demon is crazy."

"Hey, you, lead the way."

Sakura pointed at the villager and told him to stand up.

"I will speak with your palace officials personally."

"Then... Your Highness, please come this way..."

"Impossible! How could such a sacred place allow a demon like you to enter!"

The middle-aged man gripped the knife, his face filled with indignation.

Fanatic.

Liu Bai knew it at a glance.

The man who sacrificed his daughter to pray for rain was more obsessed with his faith than Otto.

Although Otto goes a bit crazy whenever he sees Liu Bai, surely no one really thinks that Otto could kill Kallen with just a word from Liu Bai?

It's impossible. In fact, only the Herrscher of Domination can do that. Whether it's Otto or Aponia, they are mutually devoted to Liu Bai in terms of faith.

A ruler chooses his ministers, and a minister chooses his ruler.

Of course, if you believe in the right thing, then there's nothing wrong with it.

"If neither of these options works—becoming a fox, or demanding two sacrificial offerings of priestess bloodlines from him—then it will only turn into a bloodshed."

As Liu Bai finished speaking, looking at the fox-shaped stone sculptures and various fox-shaped decorations in the shrine, his tone became somewhat cold.

As for the former, there's not much to say. Just look at the other party's beliefs. If there's no reaction when Sakura transforms, then it's highly likely that they're involved with the Honkai.

The latter simply took Sakura and Rin away, ignoring everything that happened in Yae Village.

If none of these work, does that mean Sakura's unparalleled martial prowess in this era is a joke?

"...Um."

Seeing the various fox decorations in the shrine, Sakura had a pretty good idea of what was going on.

After Liu Bai said that, and hearing his serious tone, Ying immediately stopped worrying.

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Chapter 530 Minor problems are easy to cure

"F-Lord Fox God?"

The moment they saw Sakura transform into a fox, everyone present knelt down.

Especially Yae Guuji, who was completely stunned.

So those ears were fox ears after all...

"Now, answer my question again."

"No problem! Everything is fine!"

Although he was a fanatic, he was ultimately in power, and his mind worked extremely fast when faced with Sakura's condescending questioning.

"Very good, then from today onwards, this will be my residence."

Sakura didn't hold back either. Since you're being so ungrateful, then you shouldn't even bother entering this shrine.

"And... do you have any children with priestess blood here? Leave two behind."

Sakura still remembered Liu Bai's other request; as for the human sacrifice, it was obviously just an excuse.

"I... in the village, the only ones with priestess blood... are my two daughters."

?

Sakura gave Liu Bai a strange look.

Does this count as kidnapping?

Is it that after Mobius, Mei, Eden, our own head of the household is going to raise another child bride?

"... What kind of look is that?" The unspoken understanding between the two allowed Liu Bai to immediately read Ying's eyes, and he felt a little embarrassed.

What kind of impression do you all have of me?

Sakura casually looked away.

They made these kinds of jokes all the time back then, of course, just jokes. After all, whoever was actually a child bride would win big...

Liu Bai increasingly felt that Ying was the kind of person who seemed normal, but whose brain would occasionally go awry.

Upon further reflection, I realized that the gossip about me and Kalpas being father and son was spread by Ying.

"Ahem... Your two daughters? Perfect, let them stay... Hmm, to serve me."