Chapter 824: Kazami Yuuka

The sun gradually slanted to the west, plating the entire Bamboo House in a layer of pale gold.

Kaguya sat before the table, looking toward the kitchen with an expectant expression. Although Fujiwara no Mokou didn't say anything, there was a hint of expectation in her eyes as well. As for Ibuki Suika on the other side, she was gulping down saliva while drinking her wine.

"Uh, isn't it just a meal? Is it necessary to be like this?" Inaba Tewi looked at the people present, a trace of confusion in her eyes.

"That's because you don't know how delicious the food Master makes is!" Fujiwara no Mokou said to Inaba Tewi. "Besides, it is a very rare thing for Master to cook."

Inaba Tewi wanted to say something more, but a fragrance wafted over from the direction of the kitchen. After smelling this fragrance, Inaba Tewi felt as if her cravings had been hooked out all at once. Before she knew it, she had a different kind of expectation for this dinner.

Just at this moment, a Gap suddenly unfolded before them, and the densely packed eyes within the Gap made the scalps of everyone present tingle.

"You, Youkai Sage?" Looking at this obvious proof of identity, Inaba Tewi felt her teeth chattering. "Why would the Youkai Sage appear in this place?"

"Eh, it seems I arrived just in time!" Yakumo Yukari, who had poked half her body out of the Gap, caught a whiff of that fragrance, and a bright light flashed in her eyes.

"Yakumo Yukari, what are you here for again?" Kaguya looked at Yakumo Yukari before her, a trace of vigilance flashing in her eyes.

From the first time she met Yakumo Yukari, she felt that this Youkai Sage hid too many stories. Especially after Yakumo Yukari learned her identity, there seemed to be an extra hint of calculation in the gaze directed at her; this feeling made her particularly displeased.

"Of course, I'm here to sponge a meal, and, well, there are some things I want to ask Lingyun for help with." Yakumo Yukari climbed entirely out of the Gap and landed on a bamboo chair.

"Ask Master for help?" Kaguya's gaze turned sharp instantly, and there was a bit more vigilance in her eyes.

She knew that the last time Yakumo Yukari asked Lingyun for help, Lingyun's right hand was visibly severely injured when he returned, and it took him several days of recovery to get better. Kaguya knew how monstrous Lingyun's own recovery ability was; under such circumstances, it still took him several full days to completely recover from his injuries, which showed how troublesome the previous injury had been. She still remembered the uncontrollable heartache she felt when she saw Lingyun's injuries at that time.

"What thorny matter do you want to ask me for help with again?" Just as Kaguya was about to say something, Lingyun walked out from the kitchen, with various dishes floating beside his body.

"Lingyun!" Seeing the dishes emitting an alluring aroma beside Lingyun, Yakumo Yukari's eyes lit up instantly.

"Master." Kaguya looked toward Lingyun, her tone carrying a hint of worry.

"Whatever the matter is, we'll talk after eating," Lingyun said with a wave of his hand.

The food Lingyun made himself was naturally a hot commodity at the dinner table. Everyone present showed their own prowess, quickly tucking the food into their bellies. Among them, Inaba Tewi was truly bewildered; while she was still savoring the delicacy in her mouth, most of the plates were already empty. After the bewilderment came depression; clearly, this dinner was held to welcome her arrival, yet she hadn't managed to eat much at all.

"Mm, in the future, if you encounter Master cooking, don't bother with any logic, just do your best to eat as much as you can," Fujiwara no Mokou, who was on the side, leaned over to Inaba Tewi and said.

"Is it very rare for Mr. Lingyun to cook?" The ears on Inaba Tewi's head drooped down.

"Mm, Master indeed rarely cooks. But once he does, it is absolutely a worldly delicacy. At those times, you must not be overly reserved!" Fujiwara no Mokou nodded and said.

"Mm, I understand." Inaba Tewi nodded somewhat dejectedly, clearly still mourning the delicacies she had lost in her heart.

After everyone was full of food and wine, Yakumo Yukari directly occupied Lingyun's bamboo bed, looking not at all like a Youkai Sage.

Lingyun poured himself a cup of tea, and at the same time reached out and slapped away the hand Yakumo Yukari had quietly stretched out from the Gap.

"If you want to drink tea, pour it yourself," Lingyun said indifferently.

"Woo, Lingyun is really stingy!" Yakumo Yukari retracted her hand from the Gap and muttered with some dissatisfaction.

"Speak, what thorny matter has appeared again? That you need to run all the way here to me?" Lingyun drained the tea in his cup in one gulp and said indifferently.

"Well, this time the opponent is truly a bit thorny..." Yakumo Yukari said somewhat embarrassedly.

"There probably aren't many people who can make you say the word 'thorny'," Lingyun said. "Who is it that can make you like this? Tell me about it."

"It's Kazami Yuuka!" Yakumo Yukari said.

Hearing Yakumo Yukari's words, Lingyun almost spat out his water. "Kazami Yuuka? It couldn't be the person I'm thinking of, could it?"

"Besides the person you're thinking of, who else could make me this troubled?" Yakumo Yukari spread her hands and said.

The Master of the Four Seasons' Flowers, Kazami Yuuka, is an extremely powerful Youkai. Legend says she is a plant Youkai, but she does not have the gentle personality of an ordinary plant Youkai; instead, she is extremely overbearing. Her personality is fickle, she likes to crush everything with her powerful strength, she is a Sadistic Queen, and she even holds the title of Flower Tyrant. As an incarnation of nature, she possesses near-Infinite Demon Power, and in a war of attrition, she is inferior to almost no one. Compared to sorcery and Magic, she more often uses overwhelming physical attacks to win, and her close-combat ability is almost unrivaled in Gensokyo.

"Kazami Yuuka, huh?" Lingyun tapped his fingers lightly on the table, not knowing what he was thinking; facing this person, even he felt a headache coming on. "Can you even persuade such an existence?"

"The general persuasion is already complete, but now one thing is missing," Yakumo Yukari said.

"What thing?" Lingyun had already roughly guessed what was missing.

"Kazami Yuuka said that if I can give her a battle that lets her enjoy herself to the fullest, she will join my camp," Yakumo Yukari rubbed her forehead.

"A battle that lets Kazami Yuuka enjoy herself to the fullest?" Lingyun's mouth twitched. "Then why don't you go? After all, you are also an existence at the peak of Great Youkai, you should be able to satisfy Kazami Yuuka!"

"This, you know my fighting style, and Kazami Yuuka hates my kind of fighting style the most," Yakumo Yukari spread her hands and said.

Thinking of the fighting style Yakumo Yukari used, appearing and disappearing unpredictably using Gaps, it was indeed the fighting style that someone as straightforward as Kazami Yuuka would hate the most.

"No, I don't agree!" Kaguya jumped out directly at this moment, looking at Lingyun with puffed-out cheeks. "Fighting a brutal Great Youkai like Kazami Yuuka is a very dangerous thing, Master, you must think thrice!"

Looking at the anxious Kaguya, Lingyun smiled and patted her head: "Don't worry, I have a plan in mind for this matter. Besides, I also want to see just how powerful this legendary Flower Tyrant really is."

"The battle with Kazami Yuuka is not something to rush; you should recover from your injuries first," Yakumo Yukari said.

"The Death Qi in my body has already been completely expelled; it is time to go stretch my muscles," Lingyun's eyes were filled with fighting spirit.