Legend of the Demon Cat Page #4

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It's just tricks, right?

But a killer cat is no mere trick.

So I'd like your advice.

What do cats have to do with melons?

If a melon isn't a melon,

then a cat...?

Isn't a cat!

What is it, then?

You think melons come from thin air?

Inside the illusion is reality.

So I must look to the cat itself.

Tha n k yo u!

Yunqiao's house?

Will I end up dead and eyeless too?

Not yet.

What's that supposed to mean?

It probably knows about your poem.

That tree wasn't here yesterday!

Who's that woman?

Isn't it Chunqin?

No.

Beware the magic!

It wasn't like this last night.

Hey-

gentlemen, come on up.

Have a seat. There's tea.

Kukai, I hear tea is popular in Japan too.

Yes.

You know his name?

I know you, too, Bai Juyi-

the famous poet of Chang'an!

Indeed.

The one who makes his own rules.

Juyi, have you finished your poem?

I told you she knew you were writing it.

In fact, you finished it long ago,

but you're not happy with it,

and it's no wonder

because it's not the real story.

And Lady Yang didn't inspire Li Bo's poem.

He met her only after he wrote it.

You're saying he faked it?

If it wasn't sincere...

why recite it from the roof?

Her robes, clouds; her face, flowers.

Lady Yang loved that poem.

She told Li Bo that herself.

But didn't you say they hadn't met?

Oh they met.

But only after he wrote the poem

and threw his brush into the pool of wine.

How do you know all that?

I was there.

Where?

At the banquet.

Which banquet?

The "Feast of Supreme Joy".

Who are you?

But first tell us about the injury.

It's your back paw, right?

Yes.

I was Emperor Li's pet cat.

We should've grown old together.

But when the rebellion came,

he abandoned me

and fled for his life.

And then?

After that,

a cruel man buried me alive.

But it wasn't my fate to die. I escaped.

That's why you put a curse on him.

He ordered them to bury me.

I'm not done with them yet!

What do you have against Yunqiao?

It was his father who buried me alive.

That all happened thirty years ago.

A cat doesn't live that long.

While here to take revenge

I ate a poisonous fish

and died under the bed.

My soul was trapped in my body

and I turned into a demon.

Why use Chunqin to recite the poem?

Why show us Lady Yang by the tree?

Is there a secret you want to tell us?

Did I not share her fate?

Who?

Cat skin?

Master Kukai, thank you.

Scribe Bai.

How dare they play banned music.

Lady Yang loved to dance.

Emperor Li wrote the song for her himself.

It was banned after the rebellion.

Yunqiao!

You brought on this disaster!

It's your fault!

Stop it!

I want you dead!

Kukai! Save Chunqin!

Ku ka i!

Chunqin!

Chunqin!

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