When I was supposed to be slaying the dragon, I accidentally started cultivating immortality

Inuyama Kari is an orphan.

His father is the son of the sister of the head of the Inuyama family.

The previous generation of the Inuyama family supported the radicals in the Japanese military during World War II. Later, Japan was defeated and the previous generation of the family committed seppuku. The Inuyama family, originally the weakest family among the eight snakes, was completely defeated and was on the verge of extinction.

So the second sister of the current generation Inuyama family leader got together with an American colonel in exchange for the protection of the family by the US military. Later, the family leader’s sister gave birth to a child for him. A few years later, the colonel officer wanted to return to the United States and wanted to get Inuyama. The head of the family's sister and children were taken away, but they died in an alley inexplicably on the eve of boarding the ship.

As long as a colonel went one step further, he would become a brigadier general. The humiliation of a senior military officer being assassinated in a defeated country made the United States, a victorious country at the time, furious and vowed to find the murderer, but in the end nothing happened.

A few years after the death of the colonel, the second sister of the head of the Inuyama family died of illness. She had no relationship with the colonel. She was only committed to him to protect the family's business. She was not the colonel's wife, just his. She was just a lover and a plaything. While suffering long-term torture, she almost died due to massive bleeding during childbirth. After that, her health deteriorated and she was unable to survive for several years.

After the death of the second sister, the current head of the family adopted the child into his own name. The child was a bloodline of the Inuyama family. The head of the family liked that child very much, but hated that he had a face of mixed Japanese and American descent. This face always reminded him of that child. His sister was an American officer who had been humiliated in every possible way, so she wanted to arrange for him a beauty with the most traditional Japanese style as his wife, so that he could give birth to a child who looked most like a Japanese.

The Inuyama family has gradually prospered since the current head of the family rose from the youngest son, regaining control of Japan's large number of flesh and blood and custom businesses, and successfully keeping up with the times and grasping the entertainment industry - although the Inuyama family head always said that the so-called Japanese entertainment industry is nothing more than Another kind of custom industry, there is no essential difference.

The Inuyama family had money, and the head of the family was very kind to the second sister's child. He sent him to the best school, hired the best kendo teacher for him, and found the most beautiful Yamato Nadeshiko for him.

The head of the Inuyama family, who controls the custom industry, started selecting the second sister's child when he was fifteen years old. It took five years to select a girl he was satisfied with - a gentle and elegant Yamato Nadeshiko who was the same age as the second sister's child.

Under the arrangement of the head of the Inuyama family, they got married and gave birth to Inuyama Kariyu, a boy with a quarter of American ancestry and almost no trace of foreign ancestry.

Inuyama Kari grew up day by day, and the head of the Inuyama family, who was in his prime, was very satisfied. Even at the time when the competition between the family and other custom industry gangs was the most intense, he would still often take time to see the child.

The head of the Inuyama family always likes to sit in the Japanese-style room with the door open, watching the children holding bamboo swords practicing the swordsmanship of Beichen Ittōryu in the yard planted with bamboo.

The yard is cloudless in the summer, and the chirping of cicadas comes from the distant woods. The wooden sword in Inuyama Kari's right hand rubs against the air and makes a whistling sound. He adds water and puts up a bamboo tube diagonally in the corner. The water drips in. When it is full, the bamboo tube falls over. After knocking on the stone with a "bang" sound, the head of the Inuyama family cut several corners of watermelon in the house. When he was satisfied with Inuyama Kari's training, he called him over to rest, stroking his white beard and watching Inuyama Kari. Eat a lot of watermelon, reminding him from time to time not to forget to spit out the seeds.

Inuyama Kari likes this grandfather who is sometimes kind and sometimes majestic. The head of the Inuyama family also likes this sister's grandson, and always urges Inuyama Kari's father to have another child as soon as possible. The Inuyama family is still too thin.

However, Inuyama Kari's father didn't like his children, let alone his wife.

Everything about him was arranged by the head of the Inuyama family. After the head of the Inuyama family decided on his wife, he sent her there. At that time, he was painting by the lake, listening to the sound of the wind blowing the lake surface and the grass blades. The head of the Inuyama family put a girl in a kimono. The woman wearing wooden clogs and her hair in a complicated style came to him and said, "You will marry her next month."

The woman who looked like Nadeshiko glanced at him, lowered her head and smiled shyly. The head of the Inuyama family was very satisfied. He opened his mouth several times, but did not have the courage to refuse. He only replied, "Can you let me finish this painting first?" "

Later, Inuyama Kari's father married Yamato Nadeshiko and never painted again. He drank heavily every day and practiced kendo. He did not beat his wife or speak harshly to her, but he never smiled at her, and even his words were extremely polite. He rarely talks about it, but Inuyama Kari is always beaten and scolded. Every time he is beaten severely, he will hug Kari and cry, cursing himself for being a coward.

Inuyama Kari remembers that when he was eight years old, his father told his mother that he had cheated on him. He fell in love with a female teacher in the art department of Tokyo University. They met in front of graffiti on the streets of Tokyo, discussed poetry together, oil paintings, and finally met in an oak tree. Next kiss.

The father knelt down in front of the mother and said that he had done something wrong and if the mother did not forgive him, he could cut off his fingers.

There was a moment of sadness in the mother's eyes, and then she knelt down in front of her father and said softly: "It doesn't matter, I am your wife, and you are my God. How could God do something wrong? You would I must be looking for another woman because I haven't done enough, I'm really sorry."

Inuyama Kari will never forget the look in his father's eyes at that time, that kind of frightened look as if he had seen something extremely disgusting. He screamed, jumped up, and ran to the yard to vomit crazily.

Later, his father cut off his little finger, and the head of the Inuyama family became furious.

His father drank a lot of wine, a lot of wine, so he was very drunk. That night, ten-year-old Kari Inuyama was choked awake from his dream. When he woke up, he still couldn't breathe. What caught his eyes was his father's bloodshot golden eyes.

Suffocation made his consciousness more and more blurred. With difficulty, Inuyama Kari stretched out his hand to hold the bamboo knife placed beside the bed.

Inuyama Kari's father learned kendo from the best teacher since he was a child, but in the end he was killed by a ten-year-old child with a bamboo sword.

That night, Inuyama Kari awakened his word spirit - immortality.

Inuyama Kari was judged by his family to be a ghost and the nature of his mistakes was extremely egregious. He will be imprisoned until he turns eighteen and will be executed.

From that day on, the Inuyama family never visited him again, and neither did his mother.

At the age of sixteen, Inuyama Kari escaped from the Inuyama family, first wandered, and then joined the Oni clan. It has been twenty years now.

He doesn't know if he has degenerated into a ghost. He doesn't want to kill people, and he doesn't like the smell of blood. When he sees a beautiful girl, he just wants to admire it, instead of impulsively tearing off her clothes and possessing that beautiful body.

But he should be considered an evil ghost, right? After all, even a ghost would not kill his father.

Even if a ten-year-old child uses "immortality" to strengthen his body, how powerful can he be?

That night, his father was stabbed for the first time and fell to the ground in a daze. He stood up, lowered his head and looked into his father's eyes. The bloodshot golden pupils looked at him blankly, reflecting him again and again. Reflection of holding up a bamboo sword.

The bamboo sword was raised and swung down, and blood splashed again and again. The fair face of Inuyama Kari, who was still a child, was stained with blood drops, and his expression was expressionless.

The last blurry mass of flesh and blood gradually extinguished the golden eyes.

Inuyama Kari felt that he must be a crazy evil ghost, but he actually saw this meaning in his father's eyes.

"It hurts so much, kill me."

…

It rains and clears during the day, so at night the sky is clear and the stars are twinkling.

In the narrow alley, Miyamoto Haruko sat in a muddy garbage pile. The rain during the day washed away the filth and mixed it into the soil. The mud was sticky and smelly, but Miyamoto Haruko's lungs were damaged due to the previous strenuous exercise. It was broken, and the smell of blood was all between the mouth and nose, and there was not much stench.

Inuyama Kari was holding the honey red bean bread and mineral water he had just bought as he passed by the alley. When he turned around, he saw a girl sitting in the mud.

The girl didn't seem to care about the stench and dirt underneath her body at all. The white shirt on her body was full of stains, her long hair was wet with sweat, and strands were stuck to her forehead and cheeks. She raised her head and stared at the night sky.

Inuyama Kari walked into the alley, and the girl immediately turned her head, like a wary wolf.

Inuyama Kari had long noticed that she was holding a dagger in her hand, but this weapon was not enough for him.

"Bread, water." Inuyama Kari pointed to the unopened bag and mineral water bottle in his hand, and threw it to the girl.

The girl took the thing and still looked at him warily, but the coldness in her eyes melted.

Inuyama Kari took off his coat, took out the contents of his pockets, and threw his coat to the girl: "It's cold, keep warm."

The girl slowly put on her coat.

"What were you looking at just now?" Keeping a safe distance, Inuyama Kari asked her from a distance.

"Stars," the girl said for the first time, her voice dry and hoarse, "beautiful."

As she spoke, she stretched out one hand to point at the stars.

"Oh, that's called the North Star, it can guide the direction." Inuyama Kari raised his head and said.

In the clear night sky, the North Star is dazzling.

"That one?" The girl pointed to another star.

"Which one? I can't see clearly? Can you let me get closer?" Inuyama Kari asked.

The girl hesitated and nodded.

Inuyama Kari just took a step forward and looked up at the night sky: "Oh, that one is called Venus."

"That one?" The girl pointed to another one.

"I can't see clearly. Can I take another step forward?"

The girl nodded.

I don’t know since when, Inuyama Kari has been squatting next to the girl. She points to a star, and Inuyama Kari says a name.

Until finally, the girl pointed to herself: "This one?"

Inuyama Kari scratched his head.

The girl smiled. It was as if an epiphyllum suddenly bloomed in the cramped and dirty alley, as bright as the North Star in the sky. Inuyama Kari was fascinated by it.

"Haruko Miyamoto," she said.