In the open-air hot spring, Mo Bai, whose head had been spun by the mature miko's beauty, finally regained his clarity.
Holy crap? What just happened?
Following his refreshing realization, he thought of Dōjima Gin, who seemed to still be trapped in the paper talisman barrier before he left. Mo Bai let out another "Holy crap."
Holy crap! Did I pit Dōjima Gin again?
The use of the word "again" was truly the essence of the matter.
Yesterday he pitted both Zhang Yu and Sena Hiromi, and today he pitted Dōjima Gin twice in a row. Isn't this "Friend-Jinxing Buff" activating a bit too frequently?
Mo Bai looked up at the sky, speechless.
"Your Highness Mo Bai, the clothes prepared for you have been placed in the changing room." Yukikawa Shiratori's voice rang out unexpectedly, causing Mo Bai to nearly drown in the hot spring.
"O-Okay, I got it." Mo Bai hurriedly wrapped a bath towel around himself and ran to the inner room to put on his underwear.
Sliding open the frosted glass door to the outer room, he saw Yukikawa Shiratori kneeling quietly, exuding the tranquility of an orchid in an empty valley. This scene once again made Mo Bai understand the meaning of "broad-mindedness."
"Miko Shiratori?! You... you didn't leave?" Mo Bai quickly hid back behind the glass door.
Pretty boys must protect themselves well when they are away from home.
A beautiful woman waiting in the changing room for an eighteen-year-old boy—this kind of scene forced Mo Bai to overthink things a little.
"Please change your clothes, Your Highness Mo Bai." Yukikawa Shiratori's cool words and her expression, indifferent from start to finish, were like a basin of cold water extinguishing the eighteen-year-old's romantic thoughts.
"Okay." Mo Bai stepped out of the inner room cautiously, then had an inner lining draped over him, covering the toned muscles resulting from his improved physique. "...Sure enough, I was thinking too much."
However, having a mature miko with a beautiful face, cold temperament, and voluptuous figure bending over and moving around him...
Who could withstand this?
Mo Bai immediately felt his face burning. Feeling slightly lightheaded from the "scenery," he tried to divert his attention.
"Miko Shiratori, why do you address me honorifically as Highness?" Mo Bai really wanted to know the answer to this. After all, when the Great Miko saw him, her expression was one of respectful awe, looking like she was about to kneel, even carrying a hint of trepidation.
Yukikawa Shiratori raised her willow-leaf eyebrows slightly, looked at Mo Bai strangely, and said, "The power of Divine Favor on Your Highness is very clear, and there are two distinct auras."
"Divine Favor? Two of them?"
Literally interpreted, Divine Favor is nothing more than power favored by the gods, but when did he ever deal with gods?
"One is a domineering and peerless black dragon qi, and the other is an invisible pure white that remains calm and unruffled."
"So that's it." As soon as Yukikawa Shiratori spoke, Mo Bai understood immediately.
What "Divine Favor"? It's just the aura left behind from interacting with people from the Inner World. Why give it such a lofty name?
The domineering black dragon qi likely refers to the black-robed emperor-like man he met during his spiritual communion with the Gourmet Showcase, and the invisible pure white is definitely Ryougi Shiki.
Although Mo Bai wasn't entirely sure of the black-robed man's identity, with a golden bird pattern on a black imperial robe, it could probably only be Great Qin, which honors the Water Virtue and reveres the Black Bird.
Speculating boldly, that black-robed man is nine times out of ten Qin Shi Huang.
While Mo Bai was deep in thought, Yukikawa Shiratori had already tied his sash. "Her Excellency the Great Miko invites you for a talk."
"Mn." Taking a step, Mo Bai realized he wasn't wearing some shrine priest's uniform, but a Hanfu with a black base.
"Yukikawa Shrine really has something up its sleeve." Mo Bai didn't think a shrine would normally stock Hanfu. To procure a well-fitting Hanfu made of fabric that looked expensive at a glance during the time he took a bath was truly not simple.
"Does this shrine also have connections to the Inner World?" He felt he understood the truth about Yukikawa Shrine. Only in this way would they disdain to pay attention to Dōjima Gin, the General Head Chef who manages Tōtsuki Resort.
Incidentally, Mo Bai observed a moment of silence for Dōjima Gin again.
The latter excitedly brought a fake newbie to the shrine wanting to show off his skills, but the fake newbie was treated as a VIP by the shrine maidens, while he was shut inside a barrier eating dirt... Calculate the surface area of Dōjima Gin's psychological shadow.
Truly miserable!
So miserable that Mo Bai couldn't help but laugh out loud.
"Please." Yukikawa Shiratori slid open the door.
In a magnificent Japanese-style room with carvings of flowers and birds on the walls, the Great Miko, whose style was completely different from the simple attire of ordinary mikos, sat kneeling on a cushion in the center of the room. She wore a twelve-layered ceremonial kimono and had many gold hairpins in her hair.
"Your Excellency Great Miko, did you have something to discuss?" Mo Bai didn't stand on ceremony; he adjusted his back hem and sat his butt down on a cushion.
He didn't care about respecting the old and cherishing the young. With the increased perception brought by his enhanced physique, the elderly Great Miko before him felt no different from the bunch of young mikos outside, and the same went for Yukikawa Shiratori.
Coupled with his earlier deduction that Yukikawa Shrine maintained contact with the Inner World, this Great Miko and Yukikawa Shiratori were definitely not ordinary humans.
"Your Highness Mo Bai, are you aware that a major event occurred in the Inner World last night?" Facing Mo Bai's directness, the Great Miko also cut straight to the chase.
Mo Bai's expression twitched, and his heart gave a thump.
The major event in the Inner World last night—there could only be that one thing on the Ice Continent, right?
Not only was he aware, but ultimately, he was the one who personally caused the damn thing.
The Great Miko, a shrewd person who had weathered many storms, could easily see Mo Bai's answer. She sighed slightly.
"It seems Your Highness Mo Bai is already aware, so I won't hide anything."
"Our Yukikawa Shrine originally stems from a branch of the Snow Woman clan in the Inner World. After our ancestors left the Inner World, we maintained close contact with it."
"But last night..." The Great Miko's voice rose an octave, and her eyes revealed a hint of panic. "For the first time in a long time, the connection was severed. Before it cut off, what came from that side was a chaotic clamor that cannot be described in words."
"I implore Your Highness Mo Bai to tell this old woman what exactly happened in the Inner World last night?" The kneeling Great Miko bowed low, giving Mo Bai plenty of face.
Fortunately, the Great Miko didn't look up. After listening to her account, the muscles on Mo Bai's face were twitching wildly.
"Motherf*cker! The Snow Woman clan over there didn't get wiped out, did they?"
The scene of terrifying creatures on the Ice Continent slaughtering each other frantically before he left forced him to speculate on the worst possible outcome with the greatest malice.
"...Does the Snow Woman clan live on the Ice Continent?" Mo Bai's expression twitched frantically, and he was panicking just as much inside.
Something he caused wiping out someone else's entire race—he would be hacked to death! He would definitely be chased down and hacked to death!
"Yes, Snow Women naturally like icy and snowy environments. The Ice Continent with its glacial mountains is the best possible place to live... Your Highness Mo Bai? What is wrong with your face?" The Great Miko, having finished her deep bow, saw Mo Bai's facial muscles completely out of control.
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Don't panic! Don't panic! No one knows about this except me and Qin Shi Huang.
"I'm fine." Mo Bai tried his best to squeeze out a twisted smile, then took a deep breath.
"Last night, the Gourmet Showcase of the Ice Continent... ceased to exist."
The words were like a bolt from the blue; the Great Miko began to tremble all over like a Parkinson's patient.
The Great Miko naturally understood what the Gourmet Showcase meant to the Ice Continent.
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For a moment, the two people in the room panicked together.
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