Chapter 558 - 290: The Great River Mountain in the Capital Region, Shuten-doji_3
[You help ’Shuten-doji’ to its feet and inform it about the Evil God ...]
[...]
[After a brief exchange, you learn that all the members of the ’Shuten’ clan were sacrificed in the divine war, leaving only it who was still an infant at the time.]
[It grew up in the mountains, spending its days with beasts, living on raw flesh and blood... Until more than a decade ago when it awoke its inherited memory of the ’Shuten’ lineage, gaining human intelligence.]
[It learned about the defeat of the Dragon God, and the outside world is now dominated by believers of the new gods, so it had to remain low-key, assuming a human form to occasionally descend the mountain.]
[Despite its caution, it accidentally alerted others and got surrounded by the general’s soldiers...]
[Now, your presence has filled it with hope, and ’Shuten-doji’ can’t wait to storm the Capital with you and eliminate the General.]
[You explain to ’Shuten-doji’ that you’ve found the ’Nine-tailed Fox’ still in existence, but because there are limited Suppressing Objects, you can only make one out of the two of them your Shikigami. It isn’t clear to you which of them is stronger or weaker.]
[’Shuten-doji’ immediately pulls itself together and articulates without hesitation that ’dragon descendants,’ speaking of the art of charm, the ’Shuten’ clan, cannot hold a candle to the ’Nine-tailed Fox’...]