The Bride Of The Sacred Forest God
Chapter 91. Worry

At his residence, Aragaki's heart started to unsettle. Although his attention was fixed on his entire work, yet in his mind there was only that village girl.

“I hope Hakuren and Kuroto find something.”

**

In the morning that began to signal the time almost noon, Nagi and Ginko who were in the yard began to tour the house. They stopped at engawa near the dining room.

“Hakuren and Kuroto were briefly summoned by Nushi-sama. Do you think something happened, Nagi?”

“I'm not sure. Perhaps because the two tengu often go for walks and patrols together, Aragaki-sama wants to hear for themselves a report on their work.”

“But it seems, they were asked to keep an eye on Reda-sama and Ryuunosuke who went to the market for shopping.” Ginko added

“Observing yes..”

Nagi started to get curious and walked towards the master's room.

“Again! Nagi, where are you going?”

“I want to ask Aragaki-sama. I don't know why, but if it was Aragaki-sama who asked for it directly, there must be something.”

Nagi's eyes were so sharp and she looked serious.

“During this, Aragaki-sama never asked us all to look after his ‘bride’ candidate. That's good because he started to be interested in Reda-sama.”

“But, having both tengu watching him was..as if he felt something bad.”

“I want to ask and hear it from Aragaki-sama!”

Upon arriving at the door of the master's room, Nagi saluted before asking for permission to enter. Ginko, who could not stop Nagi, knelt down.

Not because he couldn't, rather he was also curious.

“Aragaki-sama, Nagi and Ginko facing. Can we log in?”

“Nagi, Ginko. Login.”

They opened the door of the room and found the master who was putting his book on the table.

The two youko entered and sat before the master.

“Is there anything?” ask the master to them

Nagi did not hold back at all and directly asked Aragaki, “Aragaki-sama, I want to ask. Is it true that Aragaki-sama asked the two tengu to watch over Reda-sama and the little fox?”

“True.”

“Why?” Nagi asked with curious eyes

Aragaki can't lie, she says it all. “I felt something watching the girl some time ago.”

“What?!” the two youko were surprised

Ginko directly asked, “What is..are you sure, Nushi-sama? Watch Reda-sama..but who did it?”

“I don't know. But I will not feel strange because all the demons here hate humans.” replied the

the ruler calmly

“Despite that, this has never happened before. Is that right, Nushi-sama?”

“I may have ignored it for 200 years now, but there is always someone watching over every ‘bride’ candidate from that damned village who comes.”

“What?! Impossible!!” Nagi was surprised to not believe it. Ginko who heard this did not understand. “Why do we never know?” ask himself of the ruler

“I never cared for the dirty girls from that damned village, so I preferred to kill them all this time. But behind that, there's something that makes me do it.”

“What is it?”

The sentence was so ambiguous and incomprehensible to the Aragaki servants. Aragaki said everything.

“They are so despicable. Treat them the more disgusting the day, the more tormented my little fox is by hitting him and doing other unworthy things.”

“And the more I couldn't accept, they tried to poison me.”

“After I thought about it back, where could they have a poison that could possibly affect a top-tier demon like me?”

“The dirty girls who were initially so scared and wanted to run away from here, some actually chose to stay while doing bad things to my little fox.”

“...” both youko were speechless hearing Aragaki's explanation

Nagi began to speak inwardly with her complicated thoughts.

“Indeed, all this time not always the dirty girl here who lives up to 3 months. Some will be directly thrown into the demon Nue directly by Aragaki-sama for trying to poison him.”

“But, if remembered..how could they have the idea to poison Aragaki-sama who is a high-level demon as well as the ruler of Higashi no Mori?”

“In addition, if anyone wants to stay here though. Changes in their attitude can immediately change as if.there is something that deliberately provokes Aragaki-sama's emotions to kill them.”.

Ginko tries to figure out the possibility, though unsure.

“Nushi-sama..do you think anyone is eyeing Reda-sama because of his arrival here?”

“That's. I've heard bad news when I went to visit Jorogumo. There was news that the girl was a sneaky girl who tried to kill me like everyone else.”

The expressions of the two youko were annoyed to hear it.

“The bad news about the arrival of the dirty girl from the village will definitely spread quickly. However, the news that he was going to poison me was.something that should not be known by many people.”.

“I'm sure there must be another demon after him. And if that's true, it's possible that the one watching him is the demon.”

Aragaki's worried expression is starting to show, “I just don't want anything bad to happen to her.”

The two youko were looking at each other. Nagi said, “We will do everything we can to find out the source of the bad news. We will also find out who is the one who is roughly eyeing Reda-sama.”

“For a while, I will ask Hakuren and Kuroto to supervise. You guys just focus on the border area as usual. Thanks for the attention. You guys can go, I still have to finish all this work.”

The two of them could not refute him and walked out of the ruler's room after saluting him.

**

Outside, after leaving Aragaki's room…

“I still want to know, who might be after Reda-sama and why?” Nagi sounded like she was grumbling

Ginko thought for a while and made another guess. This time, the guess was quite reasonable.

“Maybe one of them is because they saw Nushi-sama walking with the girl. It could have been when they were on their first date and the second date back then.”

“Who would believe that the ruler Higashi no Mori could walk with a girl? The most reasonable thing is Nushi-sama walking with his ‘bride’ candidate.”

“There has never been a girl who walked with Nushi-sama except for her servants like Ryoko-san back then and all the demons know Ryoko-san here.”

“I think you're right, Ginko. That means the residents of Higashi no Mori could have been suspect suspects. I have to see it for myself.”

Nagi disappears quickly leaving Ginko in engawa.

Ginko who was looking towards the cherry trees of a thousand hopes started to look so worried. As if talking to the entire petal of the cherry blossom, he said in a sad tone.

“I hope you guys want to protect that girl too. She is the best ‘bride’ candidate and will be the port of love of our master.”

“Reda-sama..when good things happen to you, why can everything immediately change like this?”

Ginko prays to the sky, “I beg you, may all be well. Hopefully nothing bad happens to Reda-sama”

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