This Japanese Monogatari Isn't Lame
Chapter 144 - 143. Shenzhu Family’s Tradition (13th Update)

Chapter 144: Chapter 143. Shenzhu Family’s Tradition (13th Update)

The Shenzhu Witch, due to her throat being slit open, had her head hanging abnormally at ninety degrees to the side.

She wore a black witch robe, clutching a dagger in her hand, her rotting, yellowed, dead-fish-like eyeballs staring at Beichuan Si.

That inexplicably profound gaze made Beichuan Si furrow his brow.

Dark blood oozed from the slit on her neck.

The horrific appearance would likely make anyone scream in fear.

But Beichuan Si, gripping his Jian Ding tightly, leapt from spot and lunged towards her!

He had no pity for her, amidst the overwhelming aura of death, the Jian Ding glinted with a cold light as he brutally smashed it towards her head.

In Beichuan Si’s eyes, the witch’s plight was pitiful, but that was no reason for her to harm others, and typically, a spirit after becoming a vengeful ghost would lack its original consciousness; by exorcising her, Beichuan Si thought he was also helping her, in a manner of speaking.

But just as Jian Ding was about to penetrate her Spiritual Body, her form suddenly became illusory, dissipating like a breeze.

Beichuan Si, his eyes gleaming with death, scanned his surroundings and then looked towards Nishijou Kurenai at his neck.

"Kurenai, can you sense anything?"

Nishijou Kurenai waved her hand to indicate she couldn’t.

It seemed she had truly left.

Beichuan Si felt somewhat regretful.

That witch’s Spiritual Body, which should have been close to reaching the level of a medium-grade vengeful spirit, if he could have successfully resolved it, the rewards would undoubtedly be substantial.

Helping others and receiving rewards for it, why wouldn’t one?

At least, that’s what Beichuan Si believed.

But since she had vanished, Beichuan Si, expressionless, could only shake his head and felt he should temporarily give up.

He walked over and picked up the Shinra Bell, shook it a few times, found he really couldn’t attract the vengeful spirit any more, and gave up with a shake of the bell in his hand.

He had completed his investigation of this ritual room and it was time to move on to the next.

Beichuan Si pushed open the door and walked into the next room.

This room was apparently where the witches changed their clothes; many witch garments were spread out and hung on the walls, looking from a distance as if bodies were nailed to the wall.

The room appeared ordinary, but Beichuan Si still swept through, finding nothing before pushing open the next door.

Beyond lay a long bridge, terminating in a large Japanese-style house.

That Japanese-style house was situated on the land and did not, like the Shrine’s buildings, float above water,

At a simple glance, the general layout of there bore almost no difference from Magong Family, only the family crest on the door was replaced with what seemed to be the Soul Summoning Flower.

That place was probably where the witches or the priests lived.

With over half of his spiritual energy left and physical strength plenty, and considering it was still daylight, Beichuan Si, of course, wanted to go and explore further.

He stepped onto the damaged long bridge, making his way step by step towards it.

...

"This is the Shenzhu Family residence..."

Beichuan Si looked up, observing the estate barely different from the Magong Family.

Presumably, during construction, both families used the same blueprint, a way to also express the revered status of the Magong Family and Shenzhu Family in Shenzhu Village.

Beichuan Si pushed open the front gate.

The plants in the yard were no different from those at the Magong Family.

He bypassed these, officially entering the Shenzhu Family home.

Unlike the Magong Family, inside the Shenzhu Family home, a natural dampness pervaded, causing Beichuan Si to feel as if he was draped in wetness as he walked in.

Passing through the familiar entrance, he came to the firepit, and the first floor still featured three large doors, the right leading to the kitchen, the left to the sitting room.

Had it not been for the noticeable difference in the degree of wall corrosion from Magong Family, Beichuan Si might have believed he was at the Magong Family residence.

With the aid of Nishijou Kurenai’s spiritual senses, Beichuan Si quickly cleared the first floor and then ascended the stairs to the second floor.

The furnishings on the second floor were different from those at the Magong Family.

Magong Family’s second floor corner has a bookshelf, while Shenzhu Family does not.

Beichuan Si’s eyes were entwined with a deathly aura, and he didn’t see a trace of resentment.

"Could this place really just be an ordinary residence?"

Beichuan Si couldn’t help but think this.

He quickly dismissed the thought.

Whether it was an ordinary residence or not, he had to investigate thoroughly before concluding.

If this place was indeed like the Magong Main Family, then maybe there would be a building like the Coffin Room.

The Coffin Room at Magong Family’s house was inhabited by Magong Yongshi.

So could there be the second one of the Soul Suppressing Twins living here?

All these were possibilities.

However, this time Beichuan Si didn’t have a key, and he might resort to breaking in.

Beichuan Si walked toward the room on the left of the second floor.

As expected, it was a dining room, opposite which was a rectangular corridor.

It was no different from the Magong Family’s layout.

Beichuan Si’s deadly eyes briefly scanned the room, and after detecting nothing unusual, he walked up to the third floor via the rectangular corridor.

The paper windows and curtains on the third floor.

Beichuan Si followed his earlier procedure and removed the paper windows—

This time he first looked behind to see if there was any ghostly face present.

Finding none, he looked outside.

This discovery brought a slight change to Beichuan Si’s calm expression.

The courtyard scenery was completely different from the Magong Family’s!

The cherry trees that had started to sprout and flower buds, and beneath the cherry trees, a flower pond.

Behind the flower pond, instead of a solid iron door like the Coffin Room, there was a corridor.

"At last, something’s different," muttered Beichuan Si.

Since the courtyard was different... could there be something different about the third floor, or possibly the opposite corridor?

Beichuan Si pondered this.

He decisively slid open the Japanese-style sliding door of the first room on the third floor.

In his memory, this place in the Magong house was supposed to be the scripture storage.

"But this is different,"

muttered Beichuan Si.

This wasn’t a scripture storage, but more of a personal study.

Bookshelves stood around the four square walls, and opposite the window, there was a desk covered with various kinds of ancient documents.

Beichuan Si walked over to the desk and began flipping through a booklet that was on top.

The first sentence on the booklet invigorated Beichuan Si.

On the title page, written finely on yellowed paper, it read:

"Please remember the pride of Shenzhu Main Family; if the branch family members do not receive spiritual flesh from the main family, the Shenzhu Village people will inevitably suffer misfortune."

This format, identical to that of the Magong branch family’s family motto, also stirred Beichuan Si’s heart.

Could it be that this place was not the Shenzhu Main Family, but a residence of the Shenzhu branch family?

Then where did the main family live?

Could it be behind the third door...?

The third door leading to the Shenzhu Main Family?

Beichuan Si seemed to have gained some insight.

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