Chapter 76: Check-in Starting from Inuyasha Chapter 76: Taro Maru's Employment

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Protagonist:

Zang Ye

"I never meant to cause trouble, but who made my companion Miss Sango such a kind-hearted person?" Zang Ye sighed languidly, looking very helpless.

Sango said unhappily, "I'm sorry to put you through this, Mage."

"Oh~ oh~, if Miss Sango is willing to offer a kiss, I'd be very happy to stay here and exorcise yokai."

Seeing Zang Ye's fawning look, Sango's face turned slightly red, and she blurted out, "Dream on!"

"Oh~ since you're unwilling, I won't force it." Zang Ye glanced at Sango and put on a disappointed look.

The villagers looked at Zang Ye speechlessly, "You're a Mage, how can you ask a girl to do such a thing?"

Zang Ye pressed his palms together and said with a devout face, "Mages are people too, and they have emotions and desires."

Seeing Zang Ye's serious look, Sango looked indignant. (Father, where exactly did you see that he's a virtuous and respected Mage? His head is full of bad thoughts.)

"They're coming..."

At this moment, a villager suddenly said.

"What's coming..."

Zang Ye looked confused, following his gaze toward the distance.

On the mountain road in the distance, led by a man with a mustache, a group of villagers carried a palanquin slowly forward.

"What are they doing... It seems like they're holding some kind of ceremony." Sango said with a confused look.

"That's a palanquin carrying the sacrificial offering. I don't know whose child it is this time..." The villager sighed and shook his head.

"How stubborn. To exchange for a moment of peace, they sacrifice a child. If this continues, it only emboldens the yokai, and their demands will only get more excessive." Zang Ye turned around, using his Super Long-Distance Vision to see through the gap in the palanquin's curtain, spotting a masked child of a few years old.

However, that child was covered in wounds, with severe bruises on his arms.

It seemed he had suffered much before.

(Could it be that he was forced!?) Zang Ye narrowed his eyes; regarding the Water God incident, he couldn't remember the specifics clearly.

He only knew that the Water God was sealed inside a stone by that so-called fake Water God yokai, becoming very small.

And the Water God was quite beautiful.

"Village Chief is truly pitiful." A villager sighed emotionally.

Village Chief, for the sake of the village, without hesitation offered his own son as a sacrifice to the Water God.

"To protect our village, offering my child is only natural." The Village Chief said thus.

Soon, the procession carrying the sacrificial child passed by Zang Ye and the others.

The Village Chief glanced at Zang Ye, dressed in Mage attire, and Exorcist Sango.

"Who are you people!?"

Zang Ye glanced at the nervous Village Chief and said with a smile, "We're just travelers passing through here. Village Chief, you seem very nervous!?"

The Village Chief's face changed slightly, then he said, "Leave here before dark. There is a Water God in the river; don't offend the Water God and bring disaster to our village."

"Don't worry, Village Chief. How dare we stay here? It's too terrifying." Zang Ye waved his hand with an embarrassed laugh, looking very scared.

"That's for the best!"

The Village Chief gave a cold snort and led the sacrificial procession away.

Seeing the procession carrying the sacrificial child go farther and farther, a flash of inspiration struck Sango's mind, "So they're going to send that child to that so-called Water God."

"Yes... another child becomes the Water God's food..." The villager shook his head and sighed.

Zang Ye glanced at Sango, pointing at the procession ahead, meaning to follow them!?

Sango nodded seriously.

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Zang Ye and Sango followed the sacrificial procession to a shrine by the lake.

After leaving the child at the shrine, those people hurriedly left.

"Will the Water God really eat that child?" Sango still held a glimmer of hope, wishing that the children sacrificed before had not fallen victim to the yokai's poisonous hands.

Zang Ye glanced around, narrowing his eyes, "Sango, don't entertain such hopeful thoughts. This so-called Water God is a real yokai. Moreover, this is the place with the densest demonic energy; that yokai should be in the water."

Sango turned her head to look at Zang Ye, "Mage Zang Ye, did you discover something?"

"I just feel that the yokai is in the water."

At this moment, Zang Ye turned his head and glanced at the grass not far away.

Sango followed Zang Ye's gaze and saw a child of about ten years old run out from inside, his face dirty.

"Hey! You're here to exterminate the Water God, right!?"

The child asked with a serious face.

Zang Ye and Sango were slightly stunned; they didn't expect this child to be so bold as to appear where the Water God comes to take the offering.

"Yes, that's right..." Sango nodded.

Zang Ye glanced at the child, "You little brat, you look like that Village Chief."

"Although you look dirty, you don't look like someone who does heavy labor."

Instantly, Zang Ye recalled the Village Chief's nervous look, very afraid that things would be messed up.

"Hey! Little brat, you wouldn't be that Village Chief's child, would you!?"

"That Village Chief's child..." Sango carefully observed and discovered that he indeed looked very much like that Village Chief.

Uh~

"Yes... I am the Village Chief's child."

Seeing his identity exposed, the Village Chief's child admitted it.

"My name is Taro Maru. The one being offered as a sacrifice is my childhood friend, someone I grew up with. I absolutely cannot let him die in my place!"

"Consider these things as the reward for hiring you."

Taro Maru took out a package from behind and dumped everything inside onto the ground.

Looking at the items scattered on the ground, a glint flashed through Zang Ye's eyes. "All of these are some nice high-grade goods..."

Sango picked up a piece of fabric. "This fabric is quite valuable too."

Seeing the two pick up the items, Taro Maru continued, "How about it? Is this enough to hire you?"

Zang Ye and Sango exchanged a glance.

This brat really isn't ordinarily bold.

"Hmm... I think it's not bad."

"Sango, you keep that fabric. As for the rest, I'll take them."

Zang Ye swung his hand, collecting the items on the ground into his Storage Ring.

"No... they're gone..."

Taro Maru wore an expression like he had seen a ghost.

The items he had brought had actually vanished into thin air.

Sango was also stunned, a look of disbelief flashing in her eyes.

"Mage Zang Ye, all the things were taken away by you!?"

A smile curved Zang Ye's face. "Of course."

"Like this, they're put away."

Zang Ye repeated the action from just now.

"So... so amazing, Mage." Taro Maru had a face full of admiration.