Chapter 218: The Hospitable Cousin

Before seeing the person, one hears their voice.

Uchiha Gin heard the cloying, sweet voice coming from afar and secretly rejoiced in his heart; could it be that his good days were finally coming?

He immediately pulled a mirror from his bag, tidied up his appearance, then revealed a smile he thought was dashing, brushed back the curly bangs on his forehead, and slowly greeted the several pretty figures galloping toward him,

"Ladies~ I'm over here, open your eyes wide and take a look. Qiaobiluo!"

As the several figures wearing medieval robes drew closer, Uchiha Gin, who had been looking forward to this with a face full of smiles, felt a bone-chilling cold travel from his brain to his spine after seeing their appearances clearly with the aid of his super-vision.

Cold sweat seeped from his back, the grinning face no longer held its previous anticipation, and his slightly narrowed dead-fish eyes widened in shock, as if he had seen some ancient demon; his trembling voice was filled with fear.

Just as Uchiha Gin was stunned, the owner of the voice had already stood before him.

"Oh my~ this little handsome guy, where do you come from, and where are you going?"

The leading woman looked at the handsome young man before her, her mouth unable to close from smiling; she scanned him from top to bottom several times with her mung-bean eyes before covering her mouth and asking with a laugh,

"Ahem... this humble monk is from the Eastern Land... oh, excuse me, I mixed up my lines."

Hearing the question, Uchiha Gin, who found it very familiar, subconsciously responded with the code; having said only half, he was suddenly startled and hurriedly waved his hand to retract it.

He saw the gazes of the few people opposite him, looking at him as if he were a lamb waiting to be slaughtered.

Uchiha Gin subconsciously retreated a few steps, putting distance between himself and them, and covered his collar with his hand to prevent any unnecessary covetousness.

"Ladies, I am just a passerby who accidentally ended up here; may I ask if there is any way to go back?"

Uchiha Gin roughly scanned the women before him; apart from the leader, the others were not bad-looking, despite being a bit mature in age. He immediately turned his head away and told a lie without blushing or skipping a beat.

"Hehe, look at you, he's even shy~"

The leading woman mistook Uchiha Gin's action of closing his eyes and turning his head for an expression of shyness and said with a chuckle to the women behind her.

"Hehehe, how long has it been since we've seen such a young, strong, and handsome young man?"

"Yeah, it's been ten years, right?"

"More than that, I haven't seen such a sturdy man in twenty years~"

The women standing behind started a heated discussion on the topic of men, and finally, it seemed they reached some sort of consensus.

Several pairs of white eyes glowing with red light stared fixedly at the anxious Uchiha Gin, as if they wanted to eat him up, clean him out, and even crack his bones to suck the marrow.

Uchiha Gin, whose perception exceeded that of ordinary people, could naturally sense the desire from the women before him—which, while not malicious, was worse than malice. He immediately clamped his legs together, preparing to defend his chastity to the death.

"Little handsome guy~ since you're lost, come to the sisters' palace to rest and have some tea."

Waving her hand to stop the restlessness of her clanswomen behind her, the leading woman invited Uchiha Gin to her palace for a chat with a coquettish laugh, her small eyes hiding an unconcealable desire.

"Uh... then I shall respectfully obey."

Hearing the woman's invitation, Uchiha Gin, who already had a plan in mind, slowly turned his head and gave a respectful smile to the leading woman, signaling that he indeed needed to resupply.

"Alright! Ladies, let's go!"

The leading woman's eyes held unconcealable joy as she beamed, causing Uchiha Gin's stomach to churn, but he still endured the discomfort and smiled politely.

"Whoosh~"

At the woman's command, several small floating boats flew in from the distant horizon; they were carved with gorgeous patterns on the outside, and a pattern resembling a sun was painted on their sides.

Uchiha Gin raised an eyebrow; he had seen that pattern before—it was the clan emblem of the main Otsutsuki family.

"Come on up~"

The woman jumped onto the small boat first, her considerable tonnage causing the thin boat to let out a low groan.

"Thank you so much, if I hadn't met you, I wouldn't have known what to do!"

Uchiha Gin jumped onto the boat with a look of gratitude, and following the woman's command, the small boats slowly drifted up and headed toward the floating islands in the sky.

"How old are you, little handsome guy? Are you married?"

On the way, the woman who looked like Qiaobiluo struggled to turn her thick neck and asked Uchiha Gin, who was looking down and thinking behind her, with a voice as crisp as an oriole.

"Huh? Age? I just turned... uh, eighteen!"

How old was he again? Ever since Uchiha Gin glitched the immortality bug, he hadn't paid attention to his age. He vaguely remembered he should be thirty now? But when talking to people, one should keep half the truth, so he'd say eighteen!

"You do look quite mature."

"A bit precocious, a bit precocious~"

"As for being married, I am not."

Uchiha Gin answered righteously; as long as there was no marriage certificate, it counted as unmarried.

"Hehe, that is excellent, excellent~"

Hearing Uchiha Gin's answer, the woman turned her head back with satisfaction, and the flying boat beneath her feet began to accelerate sharply along with its owner's impatient mood, getting closer and closer to Uchiha Gin's destination.

Before long, Uchiha Gin was brought by the woman to a group of floating islands, where islands of various sizes floated densely.

The woman's status did not seem low, as she drove the boat straight to the huge palace in the very center before stopping.

"Oh my! I was so excited that I forgot to ask for your name, little handsome guy. I am called Otsutsuki Biluo."

The two stepped off the boat, and the woman leading the way suddenly remembered she didn't know Uchiha Gin's name, so she asked.

"Sister's name is truly... fitting for the person..."

Uchiha Gin resisted the urge to complain and suppressed his overwhelming desire to laugh, praising her with a straight face.

"As for me, sister, you can just call me A-Gin."

Anyway, people on the moon couldn't go down, so it didn't matter if he used his real name.

"A-Gin~ you rest for a while first, I have something to take care of and need to go out. Wait for me, okay~"

The woman led Uchiha Gin through the magnificent and gorgeous palace, finally arriving at a huge bedroom.

After getting him settled, Otsutsuki Biluo rose with reluctance, looked at the handsome man before her, and said,

"Later, servants will bring you our local specialty delicacies. If you need anything, you can ask the butler."

Having said that, the woman moved her massive body and disappeared into the palace corridor.

"Phew... I guess the infiltration was a success, right?"

Once the woman's aura was completely gone, Uchiha Gin let out a long sigh and slumped onto the spacious bed, recalling the appearance of the woman just now; his eyes ached without even being touched.

"How did the Otsutsuki clan's looks become so bad? Wasn't it said that they were all handsome men and beautiful women?"

(End of chapter)