About two years ago, I walked out of the village for the first time. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The book of Gensokyo has reached the epilogue.,For the last data sorting.,The head of the family traveled again.。

In order to protect the head of the family, the guards of the barnyard family, more than 30 elites were dispatched.

This kind of travel has been repeated countless times.

Therefore, even if the samurai of the barnyard family are not the official martial arts families in the village, they have the strength to speak in force because of their rich experience in actual combat.

Only this time, the wrong object of the investigation was chosen.

There are some youkai in Gensokyo that you can't provoke no matter what.

For example, the youkai sage Yakumo Murasaki, and the Kazami Yuka who lives in the sun flower field.

But even these big monsters accepted the interview with Lord Barnyard in a kind way, and got information that could be considered useful.

Therefore, during the period when the head of the family decided to close the manuscript after spending countless hours, everyone thought that the compilation of "Gensokyo Origin" had finally come to an end.

The problem often arises at the moment when people take it lightly.

There are only a few monsters left in the Enchanted Forest that don't usually haunt the forest that have not been recorded, and this is the last travel visit.

Because all the guards of the barnyard family were dispatched that time, no one would have expected what would happen next.

A blonde humanoid monster lying on a tree branch taking a nap is awakened by the sound of people walking through the forest.

Then, the whole team was attacked.

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That was the first time I had traveled with Master.

Probably because the mission was only carried out in the shallow part of the enchanted forest that everyone was already familiar with, and was judged to be less dangerous, I brought five trainee samurai of the barnyard family, including me, with me on that trip.

Walk at the back of the line.

However, the attack was only a momentary event, and I will never forget that moment.

The claws that fell from the sky in an instant tore apart the master and his comrades who were walking in the center of the procession, and I saw only flying drops of blood and flashes of blonde hair at a glance.

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Gensokokyo isn't the only monster that keeps its malice.

The head of the family went out of the village to visit and investigate the youkai, and he was not always treated as a direct attack.

Rather, many youkai will be peaceful, but there are more of them in this case.

But if you ignore the horror of youkai because of this, you should never be.

The experienced Lord, who is at the forefront, will clearly know this.

At the moment of the incident, the elite samurai immediately surrounded the head of the family and shouted to stop the team that had fallen into panic and fear due to the surprise attack of unknown monsters.

But......

Maybe it was the loud sound that attracted attention, or maybe it was the youkai who recognized it as someone in the way, and just as the team had just calmed down, the blond figure flashed out from behind the tree again.

Straight to the main general!

The 'clanging' metal clash was accompanied by a half-cut blade that flew out, and the general's head left his body.

Fell to the ground.

This time, the figure of the blonde youkai did not disappear again.

Everyone stared and saw her figure clearly.

Didn't carry any weapons...... In other words, she broke the main general's Hundred Tempered Steel Sword with her bare hands......

And the face is not as hideous as expected, it looks like an ordinary human girl.

With an expressionless expression, he bent down lightly and picked up the head of the main general that had fallen to the ground.

Lifting the commander's long hair, he glanced at the dilated pupils that had lost his expression, and turned his gaze back to our team.

With a flick of his hand, the general's head rolled with a gurgling and reached the feet of the samurai who were guarding the head of the family in the front row.

Everyone retreated in fright, and everyone leaned close together to hold their breath.

I stood at the end of the line, my heart pounding violently, resisting the urge to turn around and run.

I know, and I must know the rest of the team, that there is only one way to die.

The palms of his hands were sweaty, and the fingers that grasped the hilt of the sword were loosely grasped, and then involuntarily grasped again.

Are you going to die...... Are you going to die......

As far back as I can remember, I've probably been thinking about something like this.

"So ......"

The voice sounded, and I looked at the blonde girl with my pupils constricted by nervousness.

"Two choices, either you will all be killed by me, or you will ......"

It didn't matter if he raised his arms and looked at everyone, as if he was talking about homely gossip.

"You choose five humans from the team for me to eat, and I'll let you go with the rest. ”

"Damn! Don't try to sow discord!"

The voice was made by the general's brother, my cousin.

I could hear the reluctance and cringe in his voice, but to be able to stand up at this moment, I don't think it's too much to call him a hero.

"Ah, I'm trying to see the status quo. ”

The blonde swooped down again, and everyone retreated as if they were facing a great enemy.

The same style of stainless steel sword made by Uncle Cousin is also a master of swordsmanship in general.

As long as the blade is in the right direction, it is not so easy to break if it is not suddenly blocked by a hasty attack like the main general just now.

This time, there were back and forth between the sword and the sword, and he was in a stalemate with the blonde monster for five moves and was defeated!

It was enough to make everyone regain their courage.

I remember someone whispered in the team: "Let's go together, maybe there will be ......"

Maybe there's a chance.

That's what I thought at that moment.

It wasn't until the sixth round that Taidao was knocked away by a blow, and then stabbed through the heart, and my cousin knelt on the ground, his arms hanging down, and his eyes were glazed.

As if he wanted to take out his heart as a deterrent, the blonde youkai, frustrated by the excessive grip he had used his strength, licked the blood from his fingers and looked at the team again.

This time, he looked at the head of the family, who was surrounded by ten samurai.

Still expressionless and noncha来自于tone.

"Are you the one who leads?

Although the head of the family is a young girl, he seems to have seen such a scene.

There was not much fluctuation on his face, and he replied in the same calm voice as the blonde youkai, "I don't make a decision." ”

"Ah, pick five to be eaten by me, there are still quite a few of you left, which side is more cost-effective, right?"

The demagogy of the monsters is tightly pressed.

"You're a trolls, aren't you? Why don't you eat us all?"

Is the head of the house crazy...... To say such a thing......

At this time, even if you can't soothe it, you can't anger the monster like this!

This is self-defeating!

I saw that several of my cousins were already glaring at the head of the house.

"Well, it's not impossible to eat them all," the blonde girl smiled slightly, "but even though I found it by accident, the sacrifice chosen by humans tastes better with a hideous face." ”

"So...... I don't know how it works, but can I ask you to choose a few people to eat for me?"

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If the Lord who has the right to speak is here, he will not allow this to happen, but he is dead.

The head of the family, who is also powerful, says she doesn't make decisions.

Everyone fell silent.

The atmosphere was stalemate and eerie.

It's not that the trolls aren't capable of killing everyone, they just don't.

Saying that I wanted to choose five people to eat for her, this seemingly well-intentioned act made me unable to let go.

Gradually, people began to turn their heads and quietly cast their eyes on the last part of the line.

That's when my heart sank to the bottom.

If five people are really to be selected, then I am afraid that the trainee samurai, who is at the end of the line and has not yet formed an effective combat force, will be regarded as the first candidate.

I quietly tightened my grip on the hilt of my sword.

Probably only the four people next to me, who were also trainee samurai, had a stance of not doing anything to me.

But even if we were together, it was obvious that we would not be able to resist the attacks of the elite samurai of the Barnyard Family.

What's more, the four people next to him still can't figure out the current situation.

If Master were still alive, he might be on my side, but ...... His body was lying quietly aside.

No one is going to pick up a knife for me anymore.

The only thing that can be held tightly is the knife in your own hand.

Although when I was practicing in my family, I was often praised as a swordsmanship genius.

But I'm very sober, if I fight to the death with the elite samurai in my family, even if I have one enemy and two enemies, I will lose.

At this juncture, they don't have reservations because of any genius.

In their eyes, there are only 'useful people' and 'temporarily useless people'.

I'll wait for a few people......

Almost destined to be sacrificed.

The moment I realized the situation, my mind was completely enveloped in darkness.

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Fight for the barnyard family.

These are the words that Master said when he taught me swordsmanship.

I remember this paradoxically.

Although I also thought about opening a small dim sum shop among people, I did not have the capital or talent to do so.

Although it is a bit dangerous to be a samurai, you can also get a worry-free income, and you can reluctantly accept such a life.

Being regarded by the master as a swordsmanship genius shows that he may really have this talent.

Finally, he accepted his fate as an adult samurai to serve the barnyard family.

Even with a bit of reluctance, I still see myself as a samurai of the barnyard family.

So at this moment, the idea of betrayal inevitably arose in my heart.

Dark emotions are growing.

Damn, I only lived to be eighteen years old...... Are you going to die?

Even if you can think that you will die fighting for the barnyard family...... But in any case, I can't think of a way to die because of this, because of my lack of ability, and I will be treated as a 'waste product'.

The meaning of his existence is to be selected to be used as bait for youkai?

Even if this can ensure the safety of the family, I can't accept it.

It's not something that only this human named Yotsuba can do.

As a prey human, anyone can do this kind of thing, and I can't admit the fate of this domestic animal, like a pig and a sheep to be slaughtered.

As more and more eyes began to look at this side, I was the first to pull out my sword and look around coldly.

The air suddenly condensed.

"Presumptuous, Barnyard Yotsuba, put down the knife in your hand!" shouted Yuto Barnyard angrily.

This is an old, old-fashioned samurai, and maybe he just stopped talking about my sword pointing at my colleagues, but others may not think so.

Taking this as an opportunity, all the samurai raised their swords horizontally.

I didn't have time to look at the four trainee samurai beside me.

Maybe they are unwilling, but maybe they are willing to die for the sake of the barnyard family.

I don't want to.

"You're crazy! it's the same as killing your kind!" I cried out almost hysterically.

As a famous family, the barnyard family has strict family rules.

Those who kill the same clan will be shown to the public.

Did they really do it?!

"Barnyard field four leaves! This is just an expedient measure! Our lives are small, and we can give up them to protect the head of the family!" someone shouted.

"You know so well about righteousness, then you go!" I didn't budge.

"If the monster goes back on its word, if we are here, we still have the strength to fight, and you need to know the righteousness!"

It's worthy of being a samurai from the scholarly family of the Barnyard Clan, what a righteous statement.

So they have a high-sounding reason, and I have no way back.

Try to keep yourself from being dominated by fear.

But...... I can't imagine the slightest way to live.

It is impossible to beat so many people...... Escaping is coveted by a youkai on the side.

In despair, I trembled with the knife clenched in both hands, barely able to keep it steady.

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The Enchanted Forest was in the middle of the day, but the air was as cold as midnight.

Maybe in the next moment, the two sides will draw their swords against each other.

At that moment, the sound of the grass being pushed away rang out.

With the sound of 'bang', a small red and white figure only twelve or thirteen years old appeared in the middle of the monster and the team.

"What are you doing?"

The little girl recognized the situation in an instant, and then fell into confusion again.

If you want to say that this occasion is bound to be a monster attacking humans.

The ground was covered with the corpses of human warriors, and the smell of blood that had been sprinkled along the way.

But the current posture is that most of the samurai in the human race have their backs to the youkai and face each other with their own swords.

It's no wonder that this Hakurei witch who has lived by slaying demons for generations can't understand it.

"Mistress Hirori, help me. The head of the house suddenly spoke.

"Eh, under the moon, what are you guys doing here?"

The head of the eighth-generation barnyard family, the barnyard field Tsukishita, was the only one present who had a friendship with the shrine maiden of Hakurei.

"Help me kill that youkai!"

So, the little red and white girl looked at the blonde girl standing beside Shi Shiran - that is, the man-eating monster that attacked the team.

"Did she attack you?"

The red and white girl asked.

The crisp voice was a sign of her youth, but none of the humans present would despise her.

A human being who is almost unknown to the barnyard family and even the famous family - Hakurei shrine maiden.

Instead of despising it, on the contrary, the moment her small body appeared, everyone's hearts beat faster and their faces were happy.

The most powerful human and the most powerful demon slayer in Gensokyo, appear here!

"That's right, that trolls, killed me and the other two!"

"Oh, then there's a reason to do it. ”

At a young age, he was not shaken by the blood and corpses on the ground.

I can't imagine what she's been through.

The shrine maiden who raised the imperial coin pointed at her blonde hair: "Do you have anything to say?"

The troll-eater sneered, and instantly appeared behind the shrine maiden.

The claws swung down sharply, and the little witch was on one side, elbowing and palming, knocking the blonde monster several meters away with a 'bang'.

It's just that she looked at her palm with a somewhat unkind face: "Yes, this level of youkai is still the first time to come into contact with it." ”

Then he looked at the people: "Go back to the village quickly." ”

With that, he greeted the trolls who had risen from the ground and pounced again.

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As if sensing the trouble that the Witch of Hakurei also felt, the head of the house ordered everyone to return to the village immediately.

The rest of the story is unknown.

But Hakurei's shrine maiden is apparently fine.

To say why do I know...... Because she was standing in the corner of the playground in a daze.

It seems that Mr. Kami-Shirasawa combined the current teaching experience he learned from the outside world and began to add a lot of novel courses many years ago.

For example, I am taking physical education class right now.

The abandoned martial arts arena was borrowed from a famous family and used for outdoor activities for students.

Originally, this was the physical education space that the patriarchs of the family had allocated to the temple house for their children, the so-called 'aristocratic classes'.

But it was used by Mr. Kamibai Ze for our class.

I can understand why I was placed in the 'poor class' because the family was unwilling to pay for my unrepentant samurai, but I couldn't figure out why Hakurei's shrine maiden stayed in this class.

Why do such people come to the temple house to take classes?

The common saying is that she wants to be literate and write, and if she asks bluntly, she will get such an answer.

Considering her attitude towards people, it is inconceivable to lie at this point.

In order to read and read Ming history, but he couldn't pay the tuition, so he entered this class.

It also created the current situation.

The small figure of thirteen years old who suddenly appeared at the time coincided with the figure of fifteen or sixteen years old who was now independent, and that figure was now standing alone on the side, watching his classmates move in groups and in a daze.

I thought to myself that if she could study in the 'noble class', it would be a different scene.

Although there are countless classics that repeat such inspiring words as 'a noble son born from a poor family, and a minister from a white house', this is not the case in the world.

The children of famous families are well-read and educated, and sometimes they even seek food and clothing but cannot get them, and give up their dignity for survival, which is the world in the village.

In this class, the children only recognize the fear that comes with being a powerful shrine maiden, and nothing else.

Is...... Rat-eyed humans.

Well, sometimes when I think about it, I'm just 50 steps and 100 steps.

Because I was saved by the Hirori Shrine Maiden, I always subconsciously stood on the side of the Hirori Shrine Maiden and thought about the problem.

But even so, I was horrified by the young shrine maiden's indifference and indifference.

Even if I didn't want to admit it, I was, scared by the kid.

Although at that time, because of the appearance and help of the Hakurei shrine maiden, I was so nervous that my heart finally let go, I felt that I was saved, and I felt relieved and relaxed, and my nose was sore, and I actually cried.

That's right, I actually cried at that time.

It's a shame.

Then, the elders of the family immediately stepped forward to comfort me and the child next to me, and said some comforting words.

We went back to the village and it seemed like everything was over.

However, my personality gradually became bad.

In the end, because of a meaningless quarrel with the new lord, he was exiled and ordered to come to this temple house to 'cultivate his mind'.

I don't care...... Or rather, it's exactly what I want.

Only when I met this shrine maiden in the class was startled.

We haven't had a full conversation to this day, and I'm deliberately avoiding her.

Although she shouldn't remember standing in the line a few years ago and suddenly crying, she was too embarrassed to remember.

So I just stood silently and watched the shrine maiden.

Although I had read through the family records about Bowy's, I still didn't feel confident to talk to them.

It is said that this girl has lived alone at Hakurei Shrine outside the village since she was a child, and she has been constantly practicing and training.

One person can live and practice...... Powerful, elegant, and without weakness.

Not like humans. I have heard such an evaluation more than once.

It's better to say...... It's very dangerous because it's powerful.,That's the general opinion of the village, young and old.,Hiroshi shrine maidens.。

This person can be relied on when his life is in danger.

But don't usually go near her.

This is what the villagers who have not received formal education say to their children.

Maybe at first it was because of fear that they were estranged, but after this atmosphere of exclusion gradually formed, they did not see even one act of outrage or resistance, so in this temple house, among these ignorant children, fear officially evolved into bullying.

While bullying is a bit excessive, it is just the way it is.

In the face of power, people have only two attitudes - reverence or fear.

There's a fine line between the two.

And at that tipping point of fear, there will be tentative resistance.

When resistance is suppressed, fear turns into deeper fear.

If they are left alone, then the desire to destroy that erupts out of fear, the desire to destroy that arises from reverence for the unattainable strength and grace of others, under the condition that they are unconscious, evolves into the current situation of bullying.

It's not something I can change on my own.

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Of course, not all things are so pessimistic.

There will always be a little different attitude from famous families.

It is even inevitable that some forces who fancy the power of the Hakurei witch and want to marry the hakurei witch will finally give up.

This girl can't talk to her classmates more than three sentences now, and her cold attitude is unapproachable.

But looking at her posture in the Enchanted Forest a few years ago, it doesn't seem to be such an autistic girl.

Come to think of it, it must be the eyes of these children in the village that make her feel uncomfortable.

I watched from the sidelines, watching the students who were working in groups in the small martial arts arena.

Not to mention the two little demon slayers who made a thousand paper cranes and gave them to the shrine maiden who were rejected, Momiji Riko and Qiya, the two of them kept casting uneasy glances at the Hakurei shrine maiden.

If you don't have the courage, you'll never be able to go further.

I shook my head and smiled wryly.

These two were not the only ones in the class.

According to my count, there were about five people in total, and the layer felt unjust because of the situation that the Hakurei witch was in.

At this time, there was also a boy about fifteen years old who walked towards the shrine maiden in a daze.

It seems that there was a few words of chatting.

Hakurei's shrine maiden shook her head.

Then the boy shrugged his shoulders and left.

Hawkers,I probably can't stand it.,I want to do it in a group with the shrine maiden.,But I was rejected.。

This is obvious.

It's not the first time that a Hirori shrine maiden has refused an obvious kindness to her.

I think that in this kind of relationship, which involves the mentality of 'charity', Hakurei shrine maidens will not accept anyone.

What do the two young demon slayers over there think?

Sure enough, it was daunting.

Because the boy's kindness was rejected before, the two of them were even more hesitant.

I looked up, and under the blue sky in the afternoon, the red and white figures stood alone.

Today, too, as always.

As far as the eye could see, the Hirori shrine maiden stood outside the crowd.

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ps: Grandma, I want to make friends with you qaq.

Another: Some people may react that some places are too dark, but I want to say that although this book is a sweet and trivial daily life, it is realistic to have bitter and sweet.

If it's sweet, it will be sweet and lose your teeth.

[Preview of the next chapter: Naturally, Momiji Riko took a step]