88 Tanuki Styles

"I am sorry."

He bowed his head to his father. After the battle, everything was cleaned up. He wasn't a demon and told his followers to bury all the corpses beforehand. Still, he didn't retract his decision to punish those who tried to revolt, and they were put in the dungeon, locked in the deep darkness with weapons.

In that dungeon, no one forced them to do anything. It was quiet. Yet, the horror took their minds, and they subconsciously held a weapon to ease their fear. However, a single scream changed everything. All of them started to kill each other, and in the end, only a few were left, and as he had promised before, they were forgiven, yet when all the youkai saw the hollow and horror in the eyes which were punished, they swore that they wouldn't betray him.

Yet, strangely enough, no one thought that Tamazuki was cruel. Instead, everyone thought he was benevolent and kind since he erased the tumor on the Shikoku Youkai.

Then, Tamazuki's life was relatively quiet, and after he calmed down everything, he visited his father, who was still hurt, and apologized. Unlike his father, who was wounded, his wounds weren't serious.

"It's okay. As a leader, you have to do this. You have to be tough, and as a youkai, you should remember instead of being loved, you should be feared by your men. If you are being feared, then your man will be loyal."

"Yes."

He only nodded quietly.

Danuki looked softly at his son and felt a bit distressed, but he knew that this was what it meant to become a leader. It was normal for siblings to kill each other since he had done the same before, but he didn't want his son to follow in his footsteps, yet it was too late. He was blind, and he wasn't able to see the strangeness of his children, so everything had become like this.

"Are you okay?"

"Fortunately, I am okay."

"That's good..."

Still, Danuki let out a long sigh, but then he remembered something and stretched his hand to reach something for something on the side of his table. "As you have become a leader, now, I give this book to you."

Tamazuki felt weird and accepted the book.

"88 Tanuki Styles?"

He felt confused, but his father looked at him in anticipation.

"Read it."

"Okay."

He read the book quietly, almost intently, for a few minutes before he realized something and rebuked his father.

"What the hell did you show to your son?!"

He thought that it was a book from his ancestor about how to govern the clan or the secret techniques of the Tanuki, yet while it was a secret technique, it was a technique for having sex! While the knowledge of this book was wonderful, he wondered what this senile Tanuki wanted him to do.

"Sigh..."

Danuki let out a long, exhausted sigh.

"Tamazuki, you have killed so much. Don't you know that our population is dwindling?"

His lips twitched. "Then, what do you want me to do?"

"Make children."

"...."

"Make children."

"I have heard that. You don't need to repeat it."

What the hell?!

He was prepared for something serious and even ready to receive his father's beating for killing his siblings, yet he was told to make children. How wonderful! No, he meant how outrageous! Yet, somehow, it also eased his mind since he had to say killing his siblings definitely wasn't something pleasant.

"Thank you."

"You don't need to be, so what do you think? I think that you should have one or two children now."

"...let's talk about that matter later."

"Why not? You have a cute little sparrow with you, right? I have heard that you often slept together. Why don't you make a child with her?"

"....."

His lips twitched. Having a child with Yosuzume? He was afraid that this woman would betray him and might even use his children as a way to threaten him, so it was definitely impossible to impregnate her. Moreover, he was still young! He wasn't ready to become a father yet.

"What? If you don't want to, the female from your mother's clan and many Tanuki from our group definitely want your genes, you know?"

"Stop, stop. You don't need to tell me that. I will manage that matter myself."

While he was interested in that matter, this conversation wasn't something that he wanted to have with his father.

"Is that so..." His father seemed to be disappointed. "But, I am glad that you are normal. Sometimes, I see someone who likes to hunt the wife of the others."

His body twitched slightly.

"Tamazuki... you..." Danuki looked at his son in disbelief.

"Cough! Cough!" Tamazuki coughed loudly, then asked, "Father, are you not curious about what I am planning to do from now on?"

"What? Are you going to attack Nura Clan?" Danuki knew that the Nura Clan was the enemy of the Shikoku Youkai, so he thought his son wanted to attack this clan.

"No, I am not going to attack the Nura Clan, but I will expand our power. During these two years, I will conquer all the Youkai clans except for the Kyoto Youkai, Tono Youkai, and the Nura Clan."

"I see..."

Strangely enough, Danuki didn't think that his son would fail. Frankly, except for those three clans, which Tamazuki mentioned, he looked down on the rest of the youkai and felt that the Shikoku Youkai was better.

"Do you need me to do something?"

"Probably. I need you to take down the spider youkai in Kyushu in the future."

"...you really plan to take down this country?"

"Of course." He nodded. "My goal is the world. I want to fight Jinn in the Middle East. Jaguar and Big Foot in North America. A dragon in Europe. Namibian Flying Snake in Africa. Mermen in Oceania. Monkey King and Buddha in China. I want to fight all of them and spread the legend of Tanuki even further!" However, before that, he had to defeat the Nura Clan and those who thought that they could control everything in this world. Still, Danuki didn't know that, and he just stared at his son in amazement, thinking he also wanted to follow.

"I will follow you too."

"Huh? Really?"

"Yeah, it seems fun."

"Well, it's fun, but you need to get stronger first. You are too weak, Father."

"...do you want to be beaten up now?"

The two laughed and joked around before he decided to leave, but when he left, he didn't return the "88 Tanuki Styles" on his hand, and his father didn't say anything, only gave him a thumbs up. As he left his father's room, he thought about the reward he got from Yosuzume.

<Congratulations, you have received "Blindspot Talent">

This was why he could disappear and appear all of a sudden. This talent was powerful since he could become a Phantom Sixth Player of the Generation of Miracles. Joke asides, he could easily tell anyone blindspot and attack them without them realizing. It was a good reward, but for an omnipotent, who could see everything, this skill was useless. However, it was still a good reward regardless, and fortunately, he hadn't met such an opponent.

With that said, when he walked out of his father's room, he kept reading the book in his hand until he saw Yosuzume, who was waiting for him patiently.

"Tamazuki-sama." She bowed her head with her usual blank expression, yet her eyes seemed gentler.

"Let's go back, Yosuzume."

However, he wasn't in the mood to observe her expression.

"Is there something wrong?"

She wondered whether something had happened when he talked with his father.

"There is something that I want to test."

"Test?"

"Yes, I need your help."

She wasn't sure, but she nodded. Still, while she realized how thick of a skin her master was, she thought the learning experience wasn't bad.

As the two continued to learn with each other, two years passed, and the system gave him a surprise.