Sword Art Online Crossover: They're all close friends, how did I become a player?

Chapter 148 Awataguchi Internal Meeting

"Uh... I really don't know much about the connection between the Moon Goddess and the General." Shinano Toushirou rubbed his soft red hair, a slightly embarrassed look on his face.

Although he could see what was happening around him when he was with the Saniwa, he didn't know the specifics of the relationship between the Saniwa and the Moon Goddess.

All that is known so far is that, in addition to his identity as Enkidu in front of Gilgamesh, the golden-haired heroic spirit, his general also has the identity of the Moon Goddess in front of the Earth Goddess, the Moon Goddess.

And the Toyokatsuki-no-Kami on Mount Misumi was actually the weapon Amane Himemu of the Saniwa-sama, and that Amane Himemu looked exactly like the General!

Thinking of this, Shinano Toushirou suddenly realized that he hadn't shared anything about Amane Himemu with his brothers yet.

So he raised his voice, attracting the attention of all the short swords, as well as Ichigo Hitofuri and Narukuni.

"Everyone, listen to me. Although I don't know the specifics of what happened between the General and the Moon Goddess, there is one thing I must tell you."

"What? What?" Upon hearing Shinano Toushirou's shout, the other short swords gathered around, asking with curious expressions.

"That's right. Besides us, there's another weapon spirit incarnate beside the Master, and he looks exactly like the General."

"!!! What! Shinano, are you sure?"

"If it looks just like the Lord, then it must be a tsukumogami that is a manifestation of the Lord's own weapon, just like Yamato no Kami-dono and Okita Souji."

"But didn't Shinano just say that the tsukumogami looks exactly like the general? Even Yamato no Kami-dono couldn't possibly look exactly like Okita Souji, could he?"

"..."

"..."

For a moment, the room of Awataguchi was filled with the chattering of the short swords. Since they themselves were sword spirits, not one of them even considered the possibility of them being shikigami.

After all, their power systems are different, and they know very little about the Onmyoji's Onmyodo techniques.

In the end, it was Ichigo Hitofuri, the patriarch of the Awataguchi clan, who brought the increasingly chaotic situation back to normal.

It was late at night, and although the soundproofing of the citadel was quite good, Ichigo Hitofuri was still a little worried that the increasingly lively activities of the short swords might wake up his companions in the next room.

"Since Shinano says so, then he must have seen the tsukumogami that looks exactly like our lord. Instead of guessing here, why don't you ask Shinano?"

Ichigo Hitofuri patted Akita Toushirou's fluffy little head beside him, signaling them to be a little quieter.

Hearing their elder brother say this, the little swordsmen finally realized what was going on.

Yes, they could have asked Shinano.

"Ahem... Actually, I wasn't finished speaking. It's just that you guys got too excited."

Shinano Toushirou never expected that simply telling his brothers about Amane Feiyu would cause such a commotion.

Then, under the watchful eyes of a group of short swords, Shinano Toushirou slowly revealed the true identity of Amane Hisume and the events that had occurred on Mount Misumi.

As they listened to Shinano's account, Ran and Maeda kept exclaiming, "Wow!", "How could this be?", "Our lord has even met two new humans!"

"Oh my~ This really makes me curious about that Tianyin Feimeng. But then again, although we don't know the specifics of what happened between our lord and the Moon Goddess, there are always some people who do." The little fox on Minghu's shoulder said.

“You mean…” Ichigo Hitofuri followed the little fox’s words and quickly understood what he meant.

Apart from the first time he traveled through time, in the subsequent times, the lord always had at least one sword spirit by his side.

Therefore, although they do not know about the matter between the Moon Goddess and the Master, as the little fox said: someone must know.

Furthermore, it was deduced that their own Saniwa only began to carry the aura of Toyotsuki after returning from Heian-kyo. Therefore, there were several sword spirits who knew what had happened between their master and Toyotsuki.

For example, some veteran swordsmen from Heian-kyo, or Kashuu Kiyomitsu who went to Heian-kyo with Mikazuki and Hizamaru to find the Saniwa.

"Then... how about we ask Mikazuki-dono and the others tomorrow?" Akita Toushirou said weakly.

"Okay, shall we go to sleep now?"

"Go to sleep, go to sleep, it's getting late. Tomorrow I have to go on an expedition with Izumi no Kami and the others."

Okay~ Goodnight~

"Good night."

After saying goodnight to each other, with a soft "click," Ichigo Hitofuri turned off the light switch in the Awataguchi room.

The room, which had been brightly lit, was suddenly plunged into darkness.

……

Early in the morning, Hasebe rang the assembly bell.

While Yu Bai was still asleep, the tsukumogami in the citadel had already gathered in the front courtyard and were listening to the attendant for the day, Hasebe, assigning the teams to be deployed and on expeditions, as well as the personnel for each duty.

Those tsukumogami who aren't assigned tasks have the right to manage their time freely. Whether they want to train, help out, or just laze around all day, it's up to them.

"Knock knock~ knock knock".

At this moment, a soft and orderly knocking broke the tranquility of Yu Bai's room.

"Fengyue, are you awake?"

"Hmm?" With a knock on the door, Yu Bai finally slowly opened his sleepy eyes.

Because of his reunion with Bu Yue yesterday, Yu Bai was too excited to sleep until late at night. It wasn't until after 5 a.m. that he finally succumbed to sleepiness and drifted off to sleep.

Although Yu Bai had already sat up in bed, his eyes were still tightly closed, and his face still showed signs of sleepiness, making him appear completely awake.

"Fengyue, may I come in?" As if hearing the noise inside, Buyue, who was standing at the door of Yu Bai, said softly.

"Good~"

In a daze, I felt like I heard something, but I wasn't fully conscious and had no idea what I heard.

Upon hearing that the speaker was Bu Yue, Yu Bai answered "okay" without thinking.

"Fengyue, get up. It's almost ten o'clock. Your swords prepared breakfast for you this morning. Eat a little something to tide you over when you get up."

As the door was slowly pushed open, Bu Yue immediately saw Yu Bai sitting on the bed, looking extremely sleepy.

The chill that had been in his dark eyes gradually dissipated the moment he saw Yu Bai, like melting snow in winter, appearing exceptionally soft and warm under the sunlight.

Bu Yue sighed helplessly, then stepped forward and began to help Yu Bai put on the clothes that had been placed on the chair that morning.

During the process, because she was not used to modern human clothing, Bu Yue even studied it for a while.

Fortunately, comparing the clothes to what she remembered, and considering the very simple style of the clothes, it didn't take long for Bu Yue to get them on Yu Bai smoothly.

Afterwards, Bu Yue went into the bathroom, picked up a wet towel, and carefully washed Yu Bai's face.

During this process, Yu Bai's brain finally started working again, and he felt the warmth of the towel on his face.

After wiping Yu Bai's eyes with the towel, he slowly opened them and met Bu Yue's gaze.

His eyes curved into two crescent moons, and a bright smile appeared on his lips: "Good morning, Bu Yue."

Bu Yue took back the towel, pointed to the clock on the wall and said, "It's getting late. Didn't you say last night that you were going to take me to some dessert tasting event? It's almost ten o'clock now."

"Huh? It's already ten o'clock. I went to bed really late last night. Luckily, it's not the time that Ran and Sonoko agreed to meet yet."

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