The light was seen in the darkness.

Kotaro slowly opened his eyes and saw an unfamiliar ceiling.

Then he looked to the side, and was greeted by a beautiful woman in a bright red and luxurious costume.

She was sitting on the floor, her long, shiny black hair reaching vertically to the ground, and her appearance was delicate and beautiful that a charcoal seller could not describe.

The moment she noticed his gaze and looked at it, Kotaro who was facing the cold eyes unconsciously stopped breathing.

"You're awake. She said softly, "How do you feel?"

Kotaro came back to his senses, regained his breath, and involuntarily lowered his gaze from the other's face—he instinctively felt that it was a blasphemy for his humble self to look directly at the face of such a beauty.

"Good...... Very good......"

After reluctantly answering, remembering what happened before, he blurted out his sister's name: "...... Fuyumi"

"She's over there. The beauty in the costume said.

Kotaro followed the other party's gesture and saw that there was a large, complex pattern in the center of Noda's room, which seemed to him to be quite mysterious, and there was a dark red strange mist gathering in the range of the pattern, and his sister Fuyumi was lying quietly in the center of the pattern!

"Fuyumi!!" Kotaro shouted, getting up.

"She's just one step away from being a ghost completely. "It's like hanging on the edge of a cliff, and if you almost fall to the bottom, it's a miracle that you can still maintain your human form." ”

The soft words contained irresistible persuasiveness, and the charcoal seller who heard this suddenly fell into despair.

"What should I do......

"Turning into a ghost is a scourge that people here can't get rid of, but this calamity shouldn't have befallen your sister. "It's because a real demon to us has come here that she's like this. ”

"A real demon?" muttered Kotaro.

"Hmm. Completely different from us, an existence that does not belong to this world. Although they look like us, behave like us, speak our language, and look just like us, they are completely different. The beautiful woman in the costume looked at him, "Have you encountered such an existence?"

It looks like a human, but it's a different thing...... Kotaro suddenly thought of that strange man.

"I ...... I have seen a strange person who fell on the road at first, dressed in strange clothes and carrying a knife...... "Kotaro told about his encounter with the field and his companions.

"That's the devil. The beautiful woman in the costume said firmly, "He is the one who made your sister a ghost." ”

Kotaro looked as if he had been struck by lightning, and his expression was completely dull.

"Yes...... That one...... How could it be ......" He couldn't believe that the strange but friendly man was actually an evil ghost!

He was the one who made Fuyumi a ghost!?

He was the one who caused his mother and brother to die!?

"It's hard to believe, but it's true, the demons look just like us, but inside they are completely different. The beauty in the costume said calmly.

"He is an existence from the outside world that does not allow this world, and just coming here will bring calamity and destruction. ”

"If you don't defeat him, everyone in the town will die. ”

Kotaro stared blankly at his sister in the dark fog for a moment, and his mind began to work with difficulty.

“…… If you kill the demons, will Fuyumi be saved?"

"Perhaps...... There is only a glimmer of hope. The beauty in the costume said softly.

"The demon is very strong, so strong that all the samurai in the town will fight together, and it is likely that they will not be able to defeat it. ”

"To kill him, you need to use the same power as a ghost. ”

"If you have the will to kill ghosts, I can help you gain this power. ”

"But, no matter what the outcome, you will definitely die in the end. ”

Kotaro's mind is messing around.

Who is this beauty, is her words credible, and why can she gain the power of ghosts...... He couldn't even think about a bunch of questions.

Since he was born, he has been living an ordinary life that cannot be said to be very good, but peaceful enough, and has always done manual work, and has never used his brain, and no one has taught him to use his brain. The things he knew, his ability to think was really limited, and what he was experiencing now was completely beyond the limits of his brain's ability to handle.

The charcoal seller named Kotaro wants to insist on at this time, and there is only one thing that he can insist on: protect his sister!

It was his father's instructions, and it had become his life and his instinct as an older brother.

My sister must be protected.

Even if she has become a ghost.

Even if there is only a glimmer of hope for salvation.

Even if the price of this glimmer of hope is his own life.

“…… Could you please ...... Help me ......"

……

Harusa walked into the shrine and saw a samurai standing in front of the worship hall.

This samurai with a ponytail hairstyle is so handsome that it is difficult to distinguish between male and female, and the level is similar to Xingxiu, but the temperament is different, if the latter is a "cute girl", then the former is an "iceberg beauty".

Although there was only one person, his momentum was much stronger than all the samurai just now!

The picture just now was still turning back in his mind, and Hariji didn't have the intention of going to war immediately, and wanted to talk to the other party.

"Hello...... My name is Harano, may I ask what your name is?"

The handsome warrior stared at him quietly for a moment, and then replied indifferently, "My name is Jungo. ”

"First meeting, Mr. Jungo, you know this place...... How did this town come to be?" Haruji then asked.

The handsome samurai was silent for a few seconds.

"A long time ago, a village appeared here. He said lightly.

"Almost everyone in the village lives as if they have been alive all along, not knowing that they have suddenly appeared in the world. ”

"Only one person knows this, and wonders why the village was born, and why only he is more awake and has the power that no one else has. ”

Eventually, she attributed everything to the gods, built this shrine, lived here, and worshipped the gods. ”

"Time passed, and the village grew into a town, and one day, ghosts appeared. ”

"The ghost ate several people. She used her power to kill the ghosts, but new ghosts appeared, one after another. ”

She tried all the methods she could think of, but she still couldn't stop the ghosts from appearing, and there would always be people who mutated into new ghosts. ”

Then she understood that this was doomed. ”

After a long time of killing demons, she became tired of this, so she divided a part of her power and created a special person, a samurai, to fight demons in her place. ”

"In addition to killing ghosts himself, this samurai also trained some ordinary people to become new samurai. ”

"Although the samurai were not as strong as the original samurai, they were all valiant, and in order to protect the important people, they fought bravely against the demons, paid sacrifices, and guarded the town...... Until today. ”

Jungo stared deeply into Haruji's face.

"An evil spirit from the outside world, here. ”