[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-imperial-enforcer-with-an-eight-hour-workday":3,"chapter-the-imperial-enforcer-with-an-eight-hour-workday-the-imperial-enforcer-with-an-eight-hour-workday-chapter-497":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","The Imperial Hound on an Eight-Hour Shift",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2225555,4113,"Chapter 497: Eating Its Flesh Raw","the-imperial-enforcer-with-an-eight-hour-workday-chapter-497",497,"\u003Cp>Early the next morning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Miyoshi Ryota stood up from his chair with bloodshot eyes, tied a long and a short *katana* to his waist, and walked out the door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nana-ko was packing her luggage in the outer room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Where did Big Sister go?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Miyoshi Ryota asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Went to deliver breakfast to that Lord.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nana-ko replied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Oh.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Miyoshi Ryota nodded. He hadn't slept all night, both anxious and excited. Now that they were about to set off, he felt sleepy instead and couldn't help but want to say something to refresh himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Speaking of which.\" He looked at Nana-ko: \"I see you don't know martial arts, and yesterday you even performed a Buddhist salute to the corpses hanging on the street... you, a noble woman and Buddhist believer, how did you come to travel with those two?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nana-ko shook her head, unwilling to answer, but now that their situations were similar, she didn't want to end the conversation there, so she turned to mention another question she had buried in the bottom of her heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I have a question.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Enryaku-ji acting like this, wantonly slaughtering the innocent... why does no one manage it? And why has no one mentioned it?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Miyoshi Ryota snorted coldly upon hearing this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Who wants to manage it?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The Uesugi family? The Takeda family? The Emperor? Stop joking... Enryaku-ji has nearly ten thousand warrior monks, and there’s no telling how many believers in the world, and they have no ambition or righteousness to seize the world.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Reputation, righteousness, profit—those *daimyo* kill each other, but it’s just for these things. If they expose Enryaku-ji’s evil deeds, what can they get?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He narrowed his eyes, his teeth grinding *creak, creak*.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yesterday I chatted with Big Sister; it turns out that monks in the Central Plains are not allowed to eat meat, drink alcohol, or marry and have children! Keeping the precepts and guarding the Zen heart, that is a monk!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Chanting scriptures and worshiping Buddha during the day, drinking and having fun at night, and then returning to the room to entangle and have sex with wives and concubines after being full of wine and food—what kind of monk is that! But our Japanese monks are just like this! Temples passed from father to son! Monks with three wives and four concubines!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Such Buddha, such temples, such monks—is it strange that they do beastly things?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nana-ko was dumbfounded, her hands tightly gripping her chest, feeling her faith shattering piece by piece.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Miyoshi Ryota, who knew Enryaku-ji was his true enemy, clearly hadn't finished venting, nor did he notice her loss of composure, just continuing in one breath.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Do you know how many people have died in Katsuragawa Mountain Castle in the past half year, and do you know how many Katsuragawa Mountain Castles there are in the world?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No, you don't know.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Heh, nobles! *Heh*, *daimyo*!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Miyoshi Ryota spat disdainfully.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a long while, Nana-ko asked hoarsely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I have one more question... why did killing a few monks yesterday attract pursuers? But after killing the pursuers, it seems no more monks came for revenge, even though it was their territory?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Is it—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before Nana-ko could finish, Miyoshi Ryota sneered and interrupted her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You want to say that the Katsuragawa Mountain Castle incident might not be Enryaku-ji’s top-down behavior, but just the private calculation of the monk who died yesterday, so he died, and the matter ended there?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ha!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He mocked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Katsuragawa Mountain Castle is only a hundred miles from Enryaku-ji, and it’s the last pass from Settsu to Kyoto. If there were no top-down instructions, could a monk ruin Katsuragawa Mountain Castle like this?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Besides, how do you know no one came for revenge?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You think that Lord didn't live with us for no reason? The one who killed the monks was that Lord, and the Gu insect only points to him. Would he live alone and leave us behind for no reason?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I don't know how many bald donkeys died at his hands last night! Only then could we sit here safely, yet you are still thinking of making excuses for those evil monks!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Miyoshi Ryota said it with great satisfaction.\u003C\u002Fp>",694,"2026-06-17T21:41:17.211Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","8f97f7d7b9bbad8a801106ef91474090066052642c815fd05e4479261dff5581","the-imperial-enforcer-with-an-eight-hour-workday-chapter-498","the-imperial-enforcer-with-an-eight-hour-workday-chapter-496",647,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-imperial-hound-on-an-eight-hour-shift-cover.jpg"]