"Against the rules?" Jin Jianglang was rather baffled. "Did Shuten make a rule against speaking to me?"
"Oh, no, it's just that, Brother A-Xiang, you..."
Through the mask, Jin Jianglang hadn't caught what the young man said, but he could tell that the other party had mistaken him for someone else.
"A newcomer who doesn't even recognize me? I am Jin Jianglang of the Shiranui Household."
"Yes... I know." The young man nodded, then fell into thought again.
"Boring." Watching his strange behavior, Jin Jianglang snorted coldly and turned to leave.
"Ah! I've got it!" the young man wearing the Yaksha Mask suddenly said. "I'll tell you three sentences."
"Three sentences?" Jin Jianglang slowly stopped, his face full of confusion.
"Yes." The young man nodded. "If you can work out what these three sentences mean, the ending will be different. But if you can't... then that means 'such is fate,' and I shouldn't have interfered in the first place."
Jin Jianglang felt that this masked fellow seemed a little different from the others, and his confusion only deepened.
"You said... the ending? What ending?"
"I can't tell you that." The masked fellow shook his head, then said, "Anyway, listen carefully."
Jin Jianglang frowned and listened quietly.
"First, the Maple Forest without monsters."
"Second, Jin Jianglang, who kills ten monsters."
"Third, her smoke and the dry-grass wreath."
Jin Jianglang frowned in thought for a moment, then asked, "What?"
The young man wearing the Yaksha Mask repeated the three sentences, then said, "Remember them! If you don't want to be left with regrets, make sure you remember them!"
With that, the masked fellow turned and left.
Jin Jianglang paused for a moment before hurrying after him, wanting a clear explanation. But when he rounded a corner, the masked fellow had vanished without