Chapter 814: Gaining One More Student

When Mokou saw Lingyun's Bamboo House, a trace of hesitation could not help but appear on her face. The reason for this was that Lingyun's Bamboo House looked just a little too small on the outside.

"Sister Kaguya, how about I just go back?" Mokou whispered to Kaguya.

"Go back? Why would you want to go back?" A trace of confusion appeared on Kaguya's face.

However, when she followed Mokou's gaze, a trace of realization also appeared on her face: "Oh, Mokou, are you thinking that this Bamboo House is too small to hold so many people?"

Mokou hesitated for a moment, but in the end, she nodded.

"Ha, just come inside and you'll see." Kaguya pulled Mokou directly into the Bamboo House.

Upon walking into the Bamboo House, Mokou could not help but open her mouth wide; she discovered that after stepping inside, there was a world within, and it looked extremely spacious.

Watching the bewildered Mokou, Kaguya could not help but cover her mouth and laugh.

"What's wrong, Mokou-chan, do you find it very strange?"

"Uh, how is it so big inside..." Mokou was still a bit dazed.

"Because the space inside the Bamboo House was expanded by Teacher!" Kaguya said with a smile. "Though, if I say this now, Mokou-chan, you might not quite understand, but you will slowly come to learn in the future!"

Mokou nodded in a dazed, half-understanding way, but there was still a trace of shock in her heart. As a daughter of the Fujiwara clan, she naturally had some understanding of Onmyoji and had seen many powerful Onmyoji, but among these people, not one possessed such methods. It was only at this moment that she remembered the person who had confronted Lingyun earlier was the famous Kamo no Tadayuki. Yet, in front of Lingyun, he did not seem to have gained the upper hand at all.

"Alright, we've been out all day and feel a bit uncomfortable, let's go take a bath!" Kaguya pulled Mokou toward the direction of the bathroom.

"You, are you Sister Kaguya?"

In the bathroom, Kaguya dispelled the Array that lowered her presence. When Mokou saw the Kaguya before her, her eyes were filled with astonishment. The Kaguya now and the Kaguya she had seen before looked like heaven and earth apart; in her eyes, the current Kaguya was no different from a noble Princess.

"Ah, Teacher said earlier that if I went to Heian-kyo with my true appearance, it would definitely cause big trouble, so he used an Array to temporarily conceal it for me. Now that we are back home, there is naturally no need for such trouble." Kaguya extended a finger and lifted Mokou's chin. "How is it, have you been captivated by my beauty?"

"Ya—" It was only at this moment that Mokou reacted, and with a face as red as fire, she retreated several steps.

"Hee hee, Mokou-chan looking like this really makes me feel it's very interesting!" Kaguya said with a giggle.

Watching Kaguya and the other run into the bathroom, Lingyun summoned with a casual gesture, and a bamboo scroll flew from the bookshelf, landing in Lingyun's hand.

Holding the bamboo scroll, Lingyun tapped his fingers lightly, and rays of light spread across his hand, then slowly carved themselves onto the bamboo scroll. These bamboo scrolls were all personally processed by Lingyun after being cut from the Bamboo Forest, and each one contained powerful strength.

"Teacher!"

Just as Lingyun was engraving the bamboo scroll, Kaguya's voice came over.

Lingyun looked up and saw Kaguya pulling the freshly bathed Mokou out of the bathroom and toward him. Mokou had already changed out of the tattered clothes from before and was wearing the clothes Lingyun had prepared for Kaguya. The two had similar builds, so Kaguya's clothes fit Mokou perfectly.

Perhaps because the Fujiwara clan's genes were quite good, Mokou herself was also a beauty in the making. After changing into Kaguya's clothes, she actually had a bit of the air of a young lady of a great family. It was only because of long-term malnutrition that she still looked a bit thin and weak.

"Teacher, look, is Mokou pretty?" Kaguya said to Lingyun with a giggle.

"Mm, indeed not bad, just a bit too thin." Lingyun nodded and said.

"By the way, Teacher, I have a request, I wonder if you could agree to it?" Kaguya leaned in close to Lingyun, staring at him with wide eyes.

"A request?" Lingyun looked at Kaguya's expression and knew she must be up to some mischief. "Speak, what do you want to do again?"

"That..." Kaguya lowered her head, her index fingers touching each other. "Teacher, can I have one more companion?"

"One more companion? You mean, Mokou?" Lingyun instantly understood Kaguya's thought.

Kaguya nodded vigorously.

A trace of difficulty appeared on Lingyun's face: "But I don't have the final say in this matter; even if I agree, it won't work if Mokou doesn't agree!"

"Eh? Let me become Mr. Lingyun's student?" Hearing the conversation between Kaguya and Lingyun, Mokou could not help but open her mouth wide, directly stunned by this huge surprise.

"What, could it be that Mokou-chan doesn't agree?" Kaguya looked at Mokou with a dejected expression.

"No, no, I, I..." Seeing Kaguya like this, Mokou panicked instantly. "I, I agree, I agree."

By the time Mokou came back to her senses, she realized what she had actually agreed to. She looked at Lingyun with some unease, only to see his smiling face.

"Ah, right!" Kaguya suddenly jumped up, quickly poured a cup of tea, and handed it to Mokou.

Mokou took the tea from Kaguya's hand in a daze, then suddenly, as if struck by inspiration, she respectfully handed the tea to Lingyun: "Master, please drink tea."

Lingyun took the tea from Mokou's hand and took a sip: "From today on, you are my student."

"Student Mokou, greets Teacher." Hearing Lingyun's words, Mokou was so happy she almost jumped up.

"Great, now I have a junior sister too," Kaguya said with a smile from the side, then immediately pulled Mokou and ran out.

After the two left, the figure of Yagokoro Eirin appeared by Lingyun's side.

"I didn't expect you to accept this student so easily," Yagokoro Eirin said.

"Did you not see it? Between this girl and Kaguya, there is a very deep karmic entanglement," Lingyun said indifferently. "Moreover, Mokou's aptitude is very good; such aptitude is not often seen in this world nowadays."

"You can see the karmic entanglement between the two of them?" Eirin was somewhat astonished.

"I suppose I can see a portion of it; the threads of karma on the two of them are layered one upon another!" Lingyun said. "Their future might be very interesting."

"The future, huh?" Thinking of Kaguya's immortal Hourai Person constitution, Eirin fell silent and said no more.