"Cut it out! Save that thing for when you actually want a daughter." Jiu Ming immediately refused. "Or you could trouble me... Ahem, that was a joke. Don't take it to heart!"
Jiu Ming coughed twice, shaking his head with an expression that said he was doing this for their own good. "Anyway, be more careful from now on..."
"If you really want it, trade the Jeweled Branch of Penglai for it." Jiu Ming named a condition Kaguya would never accept.
"Of course not!" Kaguya chuckled, glancing at her clothes. "They're all torn up like this. I'll be heading back first."
"By the way, how did you end up fighting all the way over here?" After Kaguya left, Jiu Ming asked Mokou curiously.
Mokou wore a slightly embarrassed expression. "It was nothing much. I just accidentally set the bamboo forest on fire, so I got thrown over here..."
"So you were diverting trouble eastward?" Jiu Ming knew at once who had done it. But even throwing her own princess over here—was she that furious, or had she simply tossed her discomfort onto him?
"Ah~ don't worry about that. I just want to know, is that thing of yours real?"
Mokou asked with a trace of suspicion.
"What if it is? Are you planning to have a taste?"
"...No need!" Mokou huffed and turned her head away. When she saw outside the window, she was startled. "Huh? When did that strange patch of forest appear? What the hell!?"
She watched as that strange forest suddenly began to move!
"They're actually a bunch of tree spirits?"
"Uh, just think of them that way." Jiu Ming scratched his head, not knowing how best to explain it. "There's nothing to worry about, right?"
"...It's not bad that your place has gotten livelier." Seeing the