A samurai who doesn't want to be a daimyo is not a good onmyoji

Chapter 28
Although Shinkuro later showed a little magic in front of Asai Hisamasa under the persuasion of veteran Akao Kiyozuna, but unlike other retainers who were shocked and admired, Asai Hisamasa did not want to believe what he saw at all. Instead, he dismissed it as an illusion, and he didn't even bother to take a look at the corpse of the monster that Shinkuro defeated.

As for Miyabe Tsurun who had recently surrendered to his family, he did not formally receive him. Instead, he only awarded him the position of Ashigaru General and some insignificant rewards. Then he couldn't wait to organize a monk army in Miyabe Castle. The team serves as the escort and honor guard for Shinkuro's wedding.

Of course, everyone knew that he was just using this excuse to want Miyabe City to show his submission to the outside world.

Regarding Asai Hisamasa's behavior, the retainers were immediately in an uproar.

Originally, they all knew about the mediocrity, incompetence and cowardice of the family leader, but now they have to add stupidity to it.

Could it be that he was really frightened by the Rokkaku family?But in all the previous battles, he has never personally gone to the front line to supervise the battle?
The actual fighting depends on them. Apart from making general decisions, the family head can only provide logistical supplies!

The retainers were puzzled, but they refused to allow the Rokkaku family to form an alliance with their own family in this way. Therefore, within a few days, many retainers ran around, secretly colluding.

On the one hand, they wanted to know the true thoughts of other retainers, and on the other hand, they also wanted to further confirm the truth about the spells mastered by the young master and the monsters that were defeated.

The theory of monsters and gods has been circulating in Nibon for a long time. It can even be said that before there were books, people had already passed down the legends about them orally.

But legends are legends after all, and they had never really seen it before. Until these days, the city lord from Miyabe City began to personally bring the corpse of the pig demon to the city for display.

Combined with the anecdotes about monsters that have been faintly reported from other places in recent days, maybe things are not that simple, and they all need further confirmation, because that will determine many of their decisions.

After all, in many legends, no matter how brave a mortal warrior is, it is difficult to fight against real monsters. Unless there is help from gods and Buddhas, the one who can really fight against monsters and is good at fighting monsters is the legendary Onmyoji!
And now, it seems that an Onmyoji has appeared in their Asai family's Kotani Castle, and no matter what, they need to protect his safety.

Many retainers were busy, and Shinkuro himself did not take the initiative to participate, because he was temporarily grounded as expected.

The reason given was that he contradicted the head of the family in public, so he was temporarily prohibited from leaving the small independent courtyard that belonged to him. This was probably one of the few assets of the young master of the Asai family, and it was also used by him as a martial arts practitioner. .

The thoughts of many retainers seemed to be surging undercurrents, but on the surface, Kotani Castle was very lively, because many people, under the orders of the daimyo Asai Hisamasa, began to prepare for Shinkuro's wedding and the formal Yuanfu ceremony.

After the initial calm, Shinkuro's small courtyard quickly became busy, because he had to receive many visiting retainers every day, and almost all of them had only two purposes.

The first is to confirm whether he really mastered the legendary spell.

The second is to express to him his position on the Rokkaku family.

This was certainly not beyond Shinkuro's expectations. In fact, it was him and his cheap apprentice Miyabe Tsugujun who promoted this whole thing.

In addition to dealing with retainers, Shinkuro would also spend several hours every day practicing martial arts, and then get familiar with and master his own spells.

What he received from Abe Seimei was a simple inheritance. This inheritance was like a book engraved in his head. He could recite it at will. Even if necessary, he could achieve the literal meaning with a little preparation. Back and forth like a stream.

But this does not mean that he has completely mastered it. He still has to continue to practice it himself.

The founder of Onmyoji had great aspirations, so he included almost all the knowledge he knew and understood: many Shinto spells in Nibon, the nine-character Buddhist mantra and mudra, the Five Elements technique of the Cathay Empire, and more Astronomy, geography, psychics, alchemy, spells and many other types.

This inherited memory is so vast, that's why the ghost girl Hongye used it to test it, because if an ordinary person touches it even slightly, his whole head may explode in an instant.

This is precious wealth, but it also brings great pressure. He must make good use of it in order to live up to this inheritance!

Based on the benefits brought by the possession of Huanglong, he has unprecedented talent for earth spells and can also understand water spells by analogy. However, if you want to become an onmyoji as powerful as Abe Seimei, just mastering these two spells is far. Far from enough.Fortunately, he has a new guardian spirit Biwing. The male Biwing is good at wind and fire spells. After possessing it, it can slightly improve his spell talent and power in these two areas, although the improvement is far from the same as that of the guardian spirit Biwing. Compared with the earth element, he also needs to work hard in this area.

At the same time, he must not give up training in martial arts easily, because he knows that a strong and mighty samurai will attract worship, but a powerful but mysterious onmyoji is more likely to arouse fear. People are always used to it. We remain wary and even fearful of the unknown and things we don’t understand.

If you are a hermit in the mountains who lives aloof from the world, perhaps the latter is better, but if you are aspiring to the world and recruiting heroes, the former is better.

A general who is undefeated on the battlefield with swords and guns is more likely to be worshiped by samurai than an onmyoji who kills with magic. There is no way, this is a limitation unique to mortals.

At the same time, he is also preparing his secret weapon. The soul core from the pig demon can't be wasted all there, right?

Although he had no previous experience in making magic weapons, the soul core forcibly created by the ghost girl Hongye was still very different from the real soul cores naturally bred in the monster's body. Strictly speaking, it was just a magical weapon. The defective products forcibly produced by the demon power are not considered a waste even if they are given to him for training.

And all of this requires a lot of his time.

So even though it seemed like he was grounded and just stayed at home all day, in fact he only slept for less than two hours a day these days, and he all slept through meditation. He was better than ordinary warriors. Much harder.

But even though he didn't leave the house, he was actually always in control of all the goings-on at home, because Tsugujun Miyabe was there.

Although his cheap apprentice looks rough and rough on the surface, he is actually extremely shrewd and very proactive. He does not need to explain many things at all. He can complete them very well by himself, just like before. That scene was performed in front of Asai Ryouchi.

This even made Shinkuro himself feel a little bit sorry. Although Hisamasa Asai followed his strong request and promised Tsurujun Miyabe the position of Ashigaru General, other than that, he was only rewarded with dozens of taels of silver. After all, it can be said to be very stingy.

At the same time, Asai Hisamasa also asked him to send monk soldiers to serve as escorts and honor guards for some kind of wedding. This was simply a slap in the face.

But after some communication, Shinkuro was surprised to find that Miyabe Tsurujun was not too angry in his heart because he had not set his mind on this from the beginning.

Not to mention a mere Ashigaru general, so what if he is a serving general?Compared with the wonderful spells taught by Master, they are not worth mentioning at all!
This is what Miyabe Jijun said personally. Although Shinkuro didn't believe it completely, he did take another high look at his cheap apprentice.

He has power, connections, abilities, and most importantly, a brain. It seems that I really can't just use him as a tool. Maybe I can teach him a few more things so that he can do things in the future. Come and be more attentive.

However, it is just a temporary adversity at the moment. Once the time comes and the matter goes smoothly, what he will gain will definitely exceed his imagination.

Regarding this point, although neither of them said it explicitly, there was a tacit understanding between master and disciple. Neither of them were stupid. Communication between smart people was often easier, and language was not even required at all.

However, Shinkuro knew that this situation would not last long, because it was said that the Rokkaku family had sent a team yesterday to escort his fiancée. If he wanted to change Asai Hisamasa's mind, something must be done before she arrived.

Otherwise, when the woman arrives at Kotani Castle, no matter how cowardly and incompetent Asai Hisamasa is, he will not change his mind.

After all, he is the daimyo of the Asai family, no matter how incompetent he is, he still wants to save face.

Moreover, the communication with the retainers in the past few days also let Shinkuro know their true thoughts. They wanted to unite with themselves and other retainers who had not arrived a few days ago to persuade Asai Hisamasa again.

If the young master of the Asai family married the daughter of a retainer of the Rokkaku family, he would be out of the right family and would lower his family's status, making him just like a retainer of the Rokkaku family.

Then wouldn't the status of these many retainers loyal to the Asai family be even lower?
The most important thing is that they are all worried that this is just the beginning. Once they agree to this marriage, how should the Asai family respond to the various demands made by the Rokkaku family as the head of the family?
On the surface, it seems that it is only detrimental to the head and young master of the Asai family, but in fact, if even the head of the family cannot preserve his reputation, then the fate of these smaller retainers will only be worse.

Not only were the children in their family killed by the Rokkaku family, but many samurai from the Rokkaku family were also killed by them!
(End of this chapter)