Your ancestor is showy, do you know?

"You were just a normal person before?"

Sakuragi laughed heartily, looking at Li Mo and not knowing what to say.

Amazing, truly amazing, what divine providence!

Are all young people these days so cheeky?

What a joke. If you were just a normal person before, doesn't that mean you've become like this in just half a year?

However, seeing Li Mo's serious expression, Sakuragi felt his whole being go downhill.

"Is what you're saying true?" Sakuragi asked tentatively, putting down what he was holding.

"Of course it's true. What's there to lie about?" Li Mo casually picked up a piece of fish and put it in his mouth, saying with annoyance.

There's no benefit in lying to you. Although this is quite a blow, my life as Li Mo is different from ordinary people, because what I want to do is—

DOMINEER! FOR ETERNITY!

Punch Golden Pikka, kick Goetia, and wipe out Lostbelts with a single spit!

Half a year? What's wrong with half a year? I, Li Mo, will make them understand that I never speak empty words!

If they feel they have the strength to play with me, I, Mo, don't mind playing along to the very end. I, Mo, am not someone they can afford to provoke!

Sakuragi felt his heart turn to ash, feeling like he had lived his life for nothing. You're amazing, you're amazing. I'll just eat, won't I!

Li Mo bared his teeth and grinned, popping the last piece of meat into his mouth. "I'm done eating, let's settle the bill!"

Sakuragi: MMP

Two days later, at the Sakuragi ancestral grounds in Hokkaido.

"Time has passed for too long, and since these secret matters are passed down orally from our clan leaders, we don't know much about what happened back then," Touki Sakuragi said with a serious expression to Li Mo in the guest room.

"Lord Li Mo, is it true that our Sakuragi clan's Magic Crest has indeed been poisoned, as you said?"

Li Mo looked at the elder before him and nodded. "Yes. I know you pulled strings to find a stepdaughter for your son, right? Absolutely do not attempt the Magic Crest transplant, because anyone who has it transplanted now dies."

Hearing this, Touki Sakuragi showed a look of shame and looked at Kirie Sakuragi beside him. "I have failed my son. This is the sin of our ancestors. I never expected... Sir, is there truly any hope for our Sakuragi clan's sin? If this continues, our Sakuragi clan will truly disappear!"

Li Mo calmly took a sip of tea, looking at the agitated Touki Sakuragi. After thinking for a moment, he replied, "Don't worry. Kirie Sakuragi and I returned precisely to solve this problem."

As long as they find the thing with which the contract was made back then, the rest will be handled through brute force.

In fact, the root cause was the Sakuragi clan's Necromancy. If they had given up Magecraft and become ordinary people back then, they wouldn't have reached this point. But power is something no one is willing to give up.

In Li Mo's estimation, the Sakuragi family became like this due to the accumulated toxins from generations of using Necromancy. It wasn't a big problem at first, but it erupted in Kirie's generation.

So, either they purify the toxins or find the thing with which the contract was originally signed. After all, Necromancy was something the Sakuragi family specialized in only after that, so that thing naturally had a solution.

But the problem is, what exactly is that thing?

So Li Mo asked, "Are there no ancient texts passed down from your ancestral grounds from that time?"

Find it. If I don't figure out what it is, how can I solve your problem...

However, to Li Mo's disappointment, Touki Sakuragi shook his head, directly extinguishing Li Mo's idea.

It turned out that the Sakuragi family was not originally a Japanese family but had migrated from Europe. The name "Sakuragi" was also changed after they came to Japan. Back then, the Sakuragi family had even declined to the point where their Magic Crest was almost gone, forcing them to come to Japan. Unfortunately, even after fleeing to Japan, the family showed no signs of improvement until the appearance of the patriarch who signed a contract with an unknown entity.

Later, after that patriarch signed the contract, the Sakuragi family finally rose again, even exhibiting greater power than during the family's peak. And so... and so the family's ancestral grounds were moved...

It's human nature... Human nature my ass! Li Mo grumbled internally.

It's true that people buy new houses when their living standards improve, but you just abandon your old house like that?

And what's with abandoning things?

These city folks are really something...

Li Mo blinked and looked at Kirie Sakuragi beside him, then asked, "Your old ancestral grounds... has no one ever returned there after so long?"

Before his father could interject, Kirie Sakuragi scratched his head and said sheepishly, "Uh... no. And I heard that a school has been built on the original ancestral grounds..."

Damn it... Li Mo almost spat out his tea. He had only heard of schools being built on abandoned graveyards or burial grounds, but now there was a school built on someone's ancestral home?

"Where is that school?"

"Kanbuchi City."

Kan... Kanbuchi City?

Li Mo scratched his head. Isn't that the place where Ryougi Shiki resides?

Could it be that before he could embrace the tsundere Rin, he's going to see Shiki first...

If the two of them really went to Kanbuchi City, then there would be no need to search for clues, they could just go find Ryougi Shiki and ask, oh no, Root Shiki!

Yes, most people only know that Ryougi Shiki has two personalities, "Shiki" and "Kira." In fact, besides these two personalities, she also has another personality: Root Shiki. This personality is even unknown to the other two, "Shiki" and "Kira."

And most importantly, Root Shiki is the main personality!

So, Japanese anime is really too twisted. It's either going dark or dissociative identity disorder. Try doing that in the ancient Eastern countries!

You'll instantly turn into a love triangle, N-sided love story!

Sakuragi closed his eyes, took out the metal hip flask he always carried, and took a swig. He then tentatively asked Li Mo, "So, are we going to Kanbuchi City now?"

He had originally intended to smoke, but after Li Mo glared at him...

"Wait, let me think..." Li Mo covered his head, considering whether or not he should make this trip.

To be honest, he wasn't too keen on meeting Shiki right now.

Calculating the time, Shiki should only be seven years old. Who knew if it was the Root Shiki or "Shiki" and "Ogi" controlling her body.

"Shiki" and "Ogi" would be fine; at worst, they'd be a bit cold and difficult to communicate with. But the Root Shiki...

Connected to the Root, omniscient. He, an outsider and transmigrator, wasn't even registered in the Alaya-consciousness. Who knew what would happen if they met?

At that point, the Root would look and go, "Oh, this person doesn't have local residency?"

The Throne of Heroes would freak out, and Golden Pikka, Golden Needle Auntie, and Little Sun would all come out to eliminate this unknown individual!

It was over!