Kirino Reisei jotted down notes in a state of agitation. Xu Yang found them later and tucked them away, knowing that if he handed them over to Nanase Kizuna, it would surely brighten her eyes.
They prepared for another two days before Xu Yang led them toward Shangjing.
In feudal times, this city was originally called "Kyoto," meaning the capital of a nation. People from the Northern Archipelago often said they were "going to Shangjing City," and in time, through miscommunication, the name changed to Shangjing.
To Xu Yang, Shangjing was a vast city of dreams, also like a monster, using the promise of wealth as a trap to continually devour young people from the Northern Archipelago seeking opportunities, consuming their flesh and blood and sucking away their nutrients. People from the densely populated yet narrow lands of the Northern Archipelago flock here, making up a rare urban concentration of fifty million people.
