[...]
"Could it be that Shuten-doji killed and ran away?"
Lin Xun furrowed his brow.
Although he only had one 'Tooth of Disaster Fight', and therefore could only subdue one top-grade yokai. But whichever one he subdued, the other yokai could join in the final battle against the Daishogun as a powerful aid.
Already without a 'Great Tengu', Lin Xun didn't want to be without the Shuten-doji either.
If he could add some weight to the balance of victory, he must do his best. He couldn't slack off.
[After asking the villagers for more information, you finally learned something different from a rice-selling farmer...]
[The farmer, accepting the thousand points of Lingxi you gave him, quietly told you that he, like the other villagers, had not seen the legendary sake-buying child...]
[However, a handsome-looking herbalist in the mountains has a bafflingly large appetite and purchases an enormous amount of rice for his semi-annual mountain trips.]
