Chapter 16: Chapter 16 Knowing one’s heart and one’s nature
The current body shape of the rat is two meters long when lying on the ground. If he stands up with a stoop, he will be about 1.8 meters long. And because of structural problems, the rat can only stoop and cannot stand up straight.
Wearing a raincoat and a bamboo hat, a layer of black cloth around the bamboo hat can block his rat face.
Although he was stooped, walking on two legs was still too tiring, so he found himself a crutch.
Standing in front of the mirror he snatched from the caravan, Kaito nodded with satisfaction.
His outfit is completely weird and very eye-catching. However, it doesn't matter, as long as it looks like a human being, after all, ninjas also have all kinds of weird looks.
Wearing a strange disguise, the rat plague came to human society.
Ten years have passed since then. When he was still small, he lived in a human town for a period of time, but after he grew bigger, he could no longer hide it, and he has been living in the wilderness ever since.
At this time, he returned to human society again, and he really felt that he had gained some kind of comfort in his heart. Looking at the row upon row of houses, looking at the humans coming and going, looking at the laughing children...
Kaito rubbed his eyes, tears almost flowing out again.
Drink in an izakaya while listening to other people chatting.
In Japan on Earth, the chatter of guests in izakayas can only be heard by our table. But in izakayas here, the chatter of guests at the izakaya here can be easily heard by the next table.
Watch Kabuki in the theater. On Earth, Kabuki was later renamed Kabuki because prostitutes were not allowed to participate in the performance. However, in this ninja world, especially in the country of Yu, it is very normal for prostitutes to perform performances.
Of course, since she is a prostitute, the client can pay to sleep with her.
Kaito also wanted to give it a try, but unfortunately with his face, even if he spent money, he couldn't do it.
'But I still have my human aesthetics and my sexual orientation, which is really good news. ' Kaito was extremely happy.
Izakaya and theaters are located in flower streets and willow alleys. The secular atmosphere here is very strong, but there is also art in it.
Some painters will exhibit their paintings here to generate interest in buying them.
The most popular of them is Ukiyo-e, which seems to be a very popular painting technique at the moment.
Kaito also saw several interesting paintings among them. One of them was a strange-looking turtle appearing on the sea. It looked very huge and had three tails.
Obviously, this is the three-tailed Isobutsu among the tailed beasts.
There are also six-tailed rhinoceros, five-tailed and Senju Hashirama have not yet grown up. In this era, tailed beasts are still active all over the world, so it is understandable that paintings of tailed beasts are circulated among the people.
In addition to these tailed beasts,Kaito also saw a painting of a mouse carrying a corpse.
"Sir, which one do you want to buy?" the shopkeeper came over and asked.
"These are some of them." Kaito pointed at the tailed beast and the mouse carrying the corpse.
Rats had carried many corpses, and some of them had money on them, so Kaito had saved a lot of money now. He had paid for drinking and watching movies before.
The shopkeeper's smile became even brighter. After taking the money from the rat, he rolled up the scroll and put it in the bag.
At this time, several children were chasing and fighting. One of the children bumped into Kaito's body. The wooden stick in his hand touched Kaito's bamboo hat and directly pulled the bamboo hat off.
The child fell down and squatted down, but he didn't cry out in pain like before. He opened his eyes wide and looked at the rat face in horror.
The people around him also fell silent, looking at the rat trouble in horror, and the store owner who was handing over the bag also stiffened.
At this time, Kaito had no intention of panic. He calmly picked up the bamboo hat on the ground, patted the dust on it and put it on again.
"Be careful when you walk in the future." Kaito said to the child, then picked up the painting bag in the store's hand, and disappeared from people's sight after a few ups and downs on the roof.
The rat trouble left the town, and there were noisy sounds in the town behind him, but it had nothing to do with him.
He has long been mentally prepared for this. His disguise is very simple, and it just makes it difficult for people to tell whether he is a human or a ghost for a while. As long as he can get around in the crowd with this costume, his The purpose is achieved.
If it's not discovered, that's fine. If it is, it's no big deal.
After that, the rat plague traveled around the world. Sometimes his true identity was discovered, and sometimes he was not.
There are samurai chasing him, ninjas chasing him, ninjas wanting to make a psychic contract with him, and daimyo wanting to recruit him as a thug.
His legend began to spread around the world, and various paintings about him also spread.
There is a rat demon who likes to drink, he likes to eat, and he likes to watch theater.
He can understand human speech, communicate with people, appreciate human music and paintings, and can even comment on the pros and cons and flaws.
He is so powerful that even fifty or sixty warriors are no match for him. He has a cool temperament, and even a thousand taels of gold cannot keep him.
Children will be safe from disaster when they see him, beauties will be rewarded as long as they can dance when they see him, and evil people will be in danger when they see him.
He has become a widely circulated monster legend among humans, even as famous as the tailed beasts.
People don't know his name, some call him the Rat King, some call him the Rat Demon, and some call him the Rat God.
In various legends, his image is also different. Most of them are evil, terrifying, and weird, but occasionally there are a few legends in which he is a positive image of a god who punishes rape and eliminates evil.
He once lived in a village. The village encountered bandits, and he killed the bandits.
He once met a caravan during his journey, rode in the caravan's carriage, and encountered a three-foot-long giant ape. He killed the giant ape.
He once saw a mother and her son who were about to starve to death in a slum, and he left the rice balls he bought to them.
He once took a boat, met travelers who fell into the water, and rescued them ashore.
He walks around the world, rebuilding his own view of good and evil in one situation after another. Perhaps the view of good and evil at this time is different from when he was a human being, but a basic principle of good and evil is necessary for a person. standards.
Lying on the rock, holding a wine gourd, drinking wine and humming a song.
Now he finally felt alive again.