Chapter 2 Rainy Night

Chapter 2 Rainy Night

————Three years later————

Thump, thump, thump.

In a dilapidated temple, a thin figure was carving a wooden statue in his hand bit by bit with a file in the dim candlelight.

The familiar movements seemed to have been immersed in them for decades, and this figure was the wolf who came to this world for unknown reasons after severing his last immortality by slashing his own throat with the Undead Slash.

Crack, crack.

While continuing with the actions in his hands, the wolf was thinking about everything that had happened in the past three years.

————Three years ago————

"Where is this... where has he been resurrected again... has Long Yin's power not disappeared yet?"

Wolf struggled to get up from the rain and looked at the architectural styles around him that were obviously different from those of Ashina. The feeling of powerlessness he felt when he woke up in the dungeon and lost his memory reappeared in his heart.

But after experiencing so much, the wolf's state of mind was different from before. He made a decision immediately and walked out of the alley with tired steps towards a house with lights on in the rainy night.

Knock, knock.

Gently knocking on the closed door, the wolf subconsciously stuck to the wall beside the door and hid behind it, but suddenly realized that he was here to ask for a place to stay, so he quickly left the wall and stood back at the door.

The footsteps came from behind the door, getting closer and closer, and a crisp voice came from behind the door.

"...Excuse me, who is this?"

Looking at his clothes and remembering that he had died in an alley, he had a rough guess about his original identity.

"I am a beggar, and I hope the lady will allow me to stay for one night."

The voice from the other side of the door stopped, as if it was thinking. After a moment, the voice came out through the door again.

"I'm not some lady...and my mother told me not to open the door to strangers, so I'm sorry, Mr. Beggar, I can't let you in!"

After hearing this, Wolf was not surprised. In fact, he would not feel surprised even if the person behind the door chopped at his neck with a knife. After all, when he was in Ashina, people not only hated him, but also drew their swords to fight each other if they disagreed with each other.

The wolf was already surprised that the person opposite him could explain patiently, so even though the person inside the door couldn't see him, he still bowed slightly towards the door.

"learn."

After saying that, the wolf turned and walked towards the next house. He didn't think that he could find a place to stay just by knocking on one door.

Hearing the sound of the wolf turning and leaving, he ran to the side window and saw the skinny wolf leaving in the pouring rain. The small figure in the house gritted his teeth, made up his mind, ran to the door, pushed it open, and shouted to the wolf not far away.

"Well, Mr. Beggar, please come in and sit down!"

In the rain, the wolf, who looked a little miserable, stopped and looked back at the little girl standing at the door with a hint of nervousness on her face.

The wolf's eyes were covered by wet long hair. No one knew what he was thinking. He nodded slowly and walked towards the house.

"Thank you."

I came to the little girl and looked at her clothes. The fabric was obviously different from the linen clothes of Ashina. It was soft, silky, and bright.

The wolf was now even more certain that this was not Ashina, but the language was mutually intelligible. Perhaps he had just been resurrected somewhere outside of Ashina, and there was still a possibility that he could return to Ashina.

The little girl looked timidly at the wolf that had been sizing her up. Her face gradually turned red and she lowered her head, not daring to look the wolf in the eye.

The wolf naturally noticed the little girl's abnormality, so he quickly looked away and apologized to her softly.

"Feel sorry."

The little girl shook her head gently to indicate that it was okay, and then secretly looked up at the wolf's thin figure and his calm eyes, confirming that he really didn't look like a bad person.

"Mr. Beggar, please come in."

Pointing to the room behind her with warm light, the little girl went in first, then waved her hand to signal the wolf to go in with her.

"excuse me."

The wolf bowed slightly, hesitated for a few moments, and seeing that the girl didn't care, he stepped his muddy bare feet directly onto the clean floor of the house.

The moment he entered the room, the cold was dispelled by the campfire in the house, and the wolf only felt a sense of warmth. All the facilities in the room were different from what he had seen in Ashina.

Kneeling on the floor, he looked at the facilities in the room curiously. After a while, a girl came out from the inner room with a towel and a plate of rice balls in her hands.

Handing the towel to the wolf, the little girl watched the wolf take the towel and wipe himself roughly, making his hair a mess, and she couldn't help laughing happily.

"Mr. Beggar, you are so stupid, haha."

He handed the plate full of rice balls to the wolf again and took the towel back from him.

Picking up the rice ball with some surprise, the wolf looked at the girl in disbelief.

"Can I really eat it?"

He had never seen a rice ball, but he had really seen the things used to make the rice balls.

rice!

So much rice! I have never seen so much rice in Ashina. I only got a little from Benruo Qingzi when I went to Senpoji to get the Immortal Slash.

The powerful healing effect, the sweet taste, and the wonderful taste when it was made into peony cake by Shen Zi Jiulang all left a deep impression on Wolf.

But at this moment, so many rice balls made of rice were placed in front of him, and even the wolf couldn't help but show a shocked expression on his face.

The girl was a little puzzled, but when she thought of the wolf's identity as a "beggar", she showed an expression of pity towards the wolf.

"It's okay, it's just the leftover lunch from lunch, please eat it!"

"I'm gonna start now."

He solemnly picked up a rice ball and took a bite of it gently. The wolf was slightly startled and thought to himself.

It was delicious as expected, and was on par with Jiulang’s Peony Cake, except that it lacked that terrifying restorative effect.

After swallowing the rice ball in three or two bites, the wolf suddenly felt full in his empty stomach, and couldn't help but feel relaxed.

Seeing the wolf eating rice balls bite by bite, the girl didn't know if it was because the wolf was too bored because her parents hadn't come back for a few days, so she wanted to take this opportunity to chat with the wolf.

"By the way, Mr. Beggar, what's your name? Let me tell you mine first. My name is Fujiwara Minako~"

Name? After being taken away from the dead by Owl, his name became Wolf. He could no longer remember his previous name. He remembered Isshin calling himself Sekiro and Godson Hirata Kuro who treated him like a family member.

"Hirata Sekiro, just call me Wolf."

The weird name coming out of the wolf's mouth caused Minako on the opposite side to laugh at him.

"Sekiro, what a weird name, haha!"

Wolf didn't care about Minako's ridicule of him. He also felt that the stitched name was a bit strange, but he didn't have any obsession with the name.

After finishing the rice ball, the wolf stared blankly at his own reflection in the plate.

This is...my childhood self.

Without the scar on the right side caused by the owl, and without the pale mark on the left side of the cheek, he looks quite handsome.

Did I look like this before?...

Just as he was about to touch his face, a screen of light suddenly appeared in front of the wolf.

!

The cross-legged figure instantly squatted down, and subconsciously wanted to pull the wedge pill out from the side of the waist, but when he was about to touch his waist, he realized that he did not bring the wedge pill with him this time when he was resurrected.

But the action had already been made subconsciously, and the wolf could no longer stop. At this moment, a magical thing happened. When he swung the knife towards the light curtain, the wedge pill had already appeared in the wolf's hand!

The wolf was startled at first, then happy, but his expression remained calm. The blade passed through the light curtain, but there was no feeling of cutting into anything solid. Instead, it only scared Minako, who was watching all this on the opposite side.

"Ah ah ah ah ah!!"