Chapter 1095: Chapter 644: Underworld Family Affairs
In the distant Eastern Universe, there was an Immortal Emperor who mastered the cultivation method of reincarnation and enduring tribulations. He reincarnated countless times, experiencing various sufferings in the mortal world, until one day he suddenly attained enlightenment and ascended in broad daylight, becoming an Emperor among immortals.
However, it was evident that this high-risk cultivation method, where one could easily vanish forever, was not something everyone could practice. Most people lacked connections or talent, and if they died, it would be True Death for them.
After Kamiizumi Hidetsuna died and arrived in this Underworld Country, she learned that the Underworld provided a resurrection option. As long as enough resurrection fees were paid, unjustly dead souls whose lifespans hadn’t ended could be resurrected.
However, since Underworld Hinanara was blocked, this resurrection option was essentially useless. After all, if you wanted to be resurrected, your soul first needed to return to the Mortal World. If it couldn’t go back, a resurrection slot would be in vain.
Initially, she hadn’t thought about resurrection, since she and her husband had died together. In life, their days weren’t peaceful, but in death, they could be a celestial couple, especially since their lifespans in the underworld were still long.
However, due to missing their unfortunate daughter, who had miscarried because of their deaths before even being born, Kamiizumi Hidetsuna decided to take up a job in Yama’s Palace.
She simply wanted to know where her poor daughter’s soul had ended up.
Of course, she didn’t have much hope since such souls of stillbirths that died before birth were typically given priority for reincarnation, considering their blank slate status, bypassing all the procedures and directly being reassigned to wait for a new birth.
Finding a job wasn’t difficult. After all, she was a Great Sword Master with the strength of a Peak Witch. Even in death, her strength was greatly reduced to just a Soul Body, yet in the Underworld Country, she remained a top-tier ghost talent. She soon passed the Yin Cha evaluation of Yama’s Palace, becoming an Underworld Yin Envoy.
After painstakingly establishing relationships, going so far as to almost compromising herself, she finally befriended the Yin Cha who managed reincarnation. Only then did the official agree to help her investigate her daughter’s situation.
The result was shocking. The daughter who should have perished with the mother was, surprisingly, still alive.
Upon learning this news, the couple could not sit still. They had no longer cared about being underworld companions. From then on, they began plotting a resurrection plan, working tirelessly to save money.
They couldn’t bear to see their poor daughter suffering alone up there.
However, the resurrection fee for a Peak Witch and a top-tier Great Witch was astronomical, not something that could be gathered quickly.
Moreover, with Underworld Hinanara blocked, even if they paid the resurrection fee and could be resurrected legally, they couldn’t go through the main entrance and resurrect. They had to find their way through the perilous Spirit World path themselves.
Indeed, for their daughter, the couple was fearless.
In fact, after years of relentless overtime and crazy internal competition, Kamiizumi Hidetsuna rose quickly through the ranks, achieving promotions and salary increases at light speed. In less than a hundred years, she went from being a new ghost to becoming a Judge, second only to one person and above ten thousand ghosts in the Underworld Country. Plus, with years of frugality, she finally saved enough resurrection fees.
Moreover, she had built connections, ensuring that even if she failed the trial, her colleagues would at least help reassemble her Soul Body.
This time, it could be said that they were fully prepared, and the couple was ready to choose a date to set off and brave the path of the Spirit World.
But plans couldn’t keep up with the changes. Who would have thought that before they could set out, their daughter would come to find them on her own? And now, the daughter even informed them she hadn’t died to get there.
“Then Yuuki, how did you come down here?”
Kamiizumi Hidetsuna asked her daughter, puzzled.
Could there be another route between the Underworld Country and Japan she didn’t know about?
“I came down following a lord, who was also an benefactor of ours. Actually, Kamo Tadayuki was subdued by that lord…..”
Miss Oiran finally began to explain the reason roughly.
She also recounted her experiences over the years, focusing on recent events, especially Lady Dorothy’s kindness to her.
As she said all this, she realized she owed Lady Dorothy more and more, wondering how she could repay such immense kindness.
“My poor child, you’ve really had it tough these years. It’s mom’s fault, it’s our fault for letting you down.”
The Ghost King’s Daughter was still troubled, while beside her, her former Oiran mother, even larger than her, already pulled her into her embrace, her originally alluring face was now tear-streaked and puffy.
Though the daughter had briefly summarized her life over the years, she didn’t complain to her mothers. Yet, as a former Oiran and former Tendril Woman, no one understood the cruelty and torment of life in Yoshiwara Flower District better than she did.
Reflecting on how her daughter had upheld herself alone for so long, the former Oiran witch genuinely felt both heartache and guilt.
Unexpectedly falling into her mother’s warm embrace, Ibuki Yuuki, who had intended to coolly insist that she wasn’t suffering, felt a sourness in her nose for the first time in her life, feeling her mother’s arms around her.
A Soul Body was devoid of warmth, not warm at all, and even somewhat chilling with ghostly aura, yet the Ghost King’s Daughter felt a warmth in her heart.
Finally, she wasn’t an orphan without support. Now, she had mothers.
Thinking of this, her nose tingled even more, and she couldn’t help but burst into tears, as if to vent all the grievances and fears she had held onto all these years.
Seeing their daughter cry, the Oiran mother also cried more intensely. Emotions were contagious, and upon seeing their wife and daughter in tears, belatedly trying to play it cool and maintain some fatherly authority, Kamiizumi Hidetsuna couldn’t help but have red eyes.
She wanted to go up and hold her wife and daughter, to comfort them, but…..
Sigh, just that as a normally human-sized Miss Judge, she really cannot embrace this gigantic wife and daughter all at once.
But Lady Oiran noticed her partner’s awkwardness and pulled her into the embrace, and the three of them cried together in unison.
Eventually, the three ended their embrace, each wiping their tears, emotions finally stabilizing.
“Yuuki, since you’re still alive, we won’t hold onto you much longer. Let us have a meal together today….”
Lady Oiran initially intended to arrange a meal for her daughter, but as she spoke, she became somewhat regretful.
Sigh, the daughter is still alive; living beings cannot eat the food of the Underworld. The food here is all made of Yin and Death Qi, nourishing for the dead Soul Bodies but poisonous to the living ones.
“No need, Mother, I’m not hungry. Seeing you both makes me very happy.”
Ibuki Yuuki didn’t mind, leaning in her mother’s embrace, enjoying this rare family time.
“Alright, then let’s just chat as a family. Yuuki, do you have anyone you fancy?”
Lady Oiran pondered and asked, as expected.
Ghost King’s Daughter: “……”
Ah, can we change the topic?
But speaking of which, her matchmaking welcome feast seemed to be not over yet.
Then she recalled Lady Dorothy participating in that welcome feast, her face reddening involuntarily.
Ghost Mother: “✧(≖◡≖✿)”
There’s nothing a mother doesn’t know about her daughter. Though mother and daughter had just reunited for less than ten minutes, as a seasoned Oiran, her vision was spot-on. Daughter, you’ve really grown.
Meanwhile, Kamiizumi Hidetsuna: “(◣_◢)”
The old father figure, seething with rage…
Elsewhere, in a corner of the Underworld Country, beneath a giant cherry blossom tree, the Homebody Witch, who was stuffing herself, sneezed twice fiercely.
“Emmm, the barbecue here in the Land of Underworld is really strong; indeed poisonous yet delicious.”
Dorothy rubbed her nose, eyed the smoked dragon sorcerer demon leg she held, thinking this way.
But this thing is really nutritious; no wonder it’s Artie’s treasured stash.
…. Little witch munching on meat…