Chapter 995: Change
This old man was the first ghost to be attracted to Kaguya and come to him. Kaguya remembers very well that he was only four years old at the time.
When he first saw the old man, he didn't know that he was seeing a ghost, and thought it was an old man from another village.
This old man was a private school gentleman before his death, specializing in teaching and learning calligraphy to the children of those wealthy families, and he has an extraordinary patience with children, and at the same time, his vision is slightly wider than that of ordinary people, and when he saw Kaguya, he immediately knew what was going on with this child.
For some reason, he felt that he could not leave the child alone.
Although he was attracted by Kaguya's abilities, it was his own heart that decided to stay by Kaguya's side.
Seeing Kaguya getting farther and farther away from his family because of his natural ability, the old man only felt very sad. On the night when Kaguya's little sister died, it was also the old man who floated behind Kaguya, silently watching him cry all night alone.
For a long time, the old man had regarded Kaguya as his student, his grandson, and gave him everything he had learned in his life and what he had seen after his death. Kaguya also has a completely different dependence on this old man than the other ghosts, for Kaguya, this old man is his friend, his teacher, and his elder, and he almost treats him as if he were his own grandfather.
Demonization is not an overnight process, the whole process is slow and subtle, and by the time the ghost's thoughts and behaviors begin to change, it is basically a foregone conclusion.
The old man discovered his changes earlier than others.
He had been a ghost for several years, and he had long known about the ghosting of ghosts, but he had always felt that this kind of thing should not happen to him, at least not so early.
In his cognition, the reason why ghosts become powerful ghosts is entirely because the obsession before life is completely evil, those ghosts who maintain hatred, resentment, incomprehension, and grievances for some people and things in life, after death, these thoughts will be amplified little by little, and finally occupy all the body and mind of the deceased, so that harmless ghosts will become powerful ghosts controlled by malice.
And his obsession does not carry these malice, his obsession is just a nostalgia for the present world, just to see the children he taught grow up, and to see the future life of his grandchildren. He believes that his obsession does not carry any malice, so there is no such thing as being controlled by malice.
This is the old man's understanding of the ghosting. It is precisely because of this that he is relieved to let himself stay by Kaguya's side, and now that his grandchildren are all adults, he is wholeheartedly concerned about this child and takes care of this child.
Although the old man was very knowledgeable and had a certain familiarity and cognition of ghosts, he did not know the existence of ghosts, and he did not know that in addition to obsession, energy would change on its own for other reasons. This change has nothing to do with the consciousness of the ghost itself, it is entirely a natural reaction. As for the kind of obsession that the old man thinks, it will only have a boosting effect on change, and it is not a key factor.
Little by little, the changes were happening to him, but he was unaware of them.
Until the change reached a critical point and burst out, he felt it but it was too late.
When the old man turned into a murderous ghost and showed his claws to Kaguya, everyone was stunned.
The young Kaguya lost her former agility and was stunned and unresponsive.
The ghosts that gathered around Kaguya also seemed to be frightened, and for a moment they couldn't figure out what was going on.
Kaguya, who had escaped many ghost attacks with the help of ghosts in the past, encountered unprecedented danger this time.
Shocked and unresponsive, he was attacked by the old man after the change.
How powerful the ghost's attack is, this time Kaguya really realized it.
Kaguya felt that he should be dead.
He could clearly feel his soul body leave his body, and when he became conscious, he found himself floating in the air, looking down at the ground from a godlike perspective, and it was his blood-stained body lying on the ground.
It turns out that this is the so-called death.
In that moment, Kaguya calmly accepted his death.
However, the crisis was not eliminated by his death.
The ghost wasn't targeting his body, and it wasn't just trying to kill him.
Its purpose is Kaguya's soul body, a soul body that contains rich ghost energy.
Kaguya's soul body is a great supplement for the ghosts. Although it has just been transformed into a powerful ghost, for this delicacy, it is like putting a plate of freshly baked roast duck in front of a big man who has been hungry for several days, how can he resist such a temptation?
Seeing the other party pounce on him again, Kaguya's consciousness instantly sobered up, and he realized that once he was attacked again, he would not only face death, but also be scattered.
Kaguya, who was a ghost at first, seemed to adapt quickly, turned around and fled in one direction as quickly as possible.
In a hurry, he didn't make any choice, and fled in a panic, just wanting to get rid of the deadly pursuit behind him.
In this state, he has no leisure to think about whether his fate is unfair, and he has no energy to grieve for his series of encounters.
He had only one thought, to live.
For the first time in my life, I had a strong desire to live, and for the first time, I became obsessed with life, but after I died, which is really ironic.
Kaguya didn't have time to laugh at himself, now he had to do his best to survive, or to keep a trace of his soul.
Fate doesn't seem to be entirely cruel to him.
In this almost lifeless situation, I don't know if it was his luck or if he was guided by some so-called fate, he met the man.
In order to escape the ghosts, Kaguya rushed into a forest, not knowing that a magic circle had been set up in this forest to deal with ghosts, and he did not know that there was a person hiding next to the magic circle and waiting for his prey to come to the door.
Of course, this prey is not Kaguya, nor is it the ghost who pursues Kaguya.
It's just that by mistake, Kaguya lures the fierce ghost chasing him in.
When he saw that the magic circle he had worked so hard to set up for several days was activated by the intrusion of a powerful ghost who had just transformed, the young exorcist almost flew into a rage. You must know that the target of this young exorcist is a third-order ghost, and he has been preparing for this ghost for a long time.