The woman lay on the ground, her eyes widened, but there was no look in her pupils, this woman who did not look even thirty years old, now like the twilight of her life, she could not get up, her mouth was chanting, and she spoke with an accent, Qishi could not understand what she was saying.

“…… I'm sorry. ”

Qishi wanted to help her up, but the woman was unwilling to accept it, there was no way, the girl who tried a few times to no avail had to retreat, now she knew that it was not as simple as the plague that dragged this village into the abyss of fear, there was something else, as for what that thing was, it was probably the "evil ghost" that the woman kept talking about.

"Ah...... Yes...... Hahh......"

Holding her chest, the woman's mouth was salivating, and then her whole body began to convulse, and after a few breaths, she actually died suddenly, and when she died, all thoughts were lost, and Qishi could only watch her die like this and could not do anything.

"What the hell is it?" Dragged the woman's body to the wall and put it away, Nanami was about to call the village chief to deal with the matter, but she didn't know the village chief, and bowed to the woman who had helped her with full doubts.

The so-called evil spirits...... And the corpse of the child who had been cut off with a sharp weapon.

'A single knife cuts the human body into two pieces. ’

There is only one thing that can be said for sure - the murderer killed the child with only one knife.

Standing on the alley again, she hadn't come back to her senses after just experiencing an abnormal event, she only felt that the back of her head was cloudy, Nanami didn't choose to go back to the temple where Master Aoki lived, mainly because she had a knot in her heart after witnessing the tragic situation of the woman, and it was okay to ignore it, but if she couldn't figure out the ins and outs of the abnormal events in this village, she felt uncomfortable even holding the hilt of the sword, and she might miss her own practice.

While walking, I found the living and persuaded myself, and before I knew it, I was about to visit this small village, and finally met the living people, and when I saw Qishi, I also hid my face and ran away.

Slowly, there was a forest on the northern border of the village, the forest was full of green smoke, and you could smell a scorching smell when you stood outside, faintly, and Qishi felt that there was something hidden in it. Not daring to investigate in a big way, the girl rolled up her sleeves and tied them firmly, hid between the shades of the trees, and quietly groped towards the source of the smoke screen.

The road was not easy to walk, and after a few bloody cuts were cut by the branches on his bare ankles, Qishi finally saw the figure.

"Hu ......" lay behind the haystack, poked his head out, and there were more than a dozen men in front of him, dressed in the coarse cloth clothes of ordinary people, looking not like thieves and villains, but like local villagers.

"......" Qishi narrowed his eyes to make himself look more closely, there was a pit in front of these men, and there were three invisible corpses swept up by the grass on the side of the hole, the men threw the corpses into the pit and burned them, one of them couldn't help but kneel to the ground when he looked at the corpse thrown into the fire pit, he couldn't help choking himself, and beat his chest so hard that he made a muffled sound of "dong dong", so many times that he could barely suppress the tears that were about to burst out of his eyes.

It may have been his loved ones who burned.

Seven real conjectures.

“…… In order to prevent the plague from raging, the infected corpses were burned. "It seems that she just caught up with the process of burning the corpse.

It was another corpse, but this time something went wrong in the process of moving, the person carrying the foot tripped over the stone, and fell to the ground with his hand away, as a result, the straw mat fell apart, and the lower half of the corpse fell into the fire pit, and the upper part fell on the edge of the pit. -- Another dead body that had been cut in half, like the woman's dead child, cut off by a sharp blade.

Damn it...... pinched his arm, and Qishi barely allowed himself to scold.

'Is it really a plague, what kind of hell plague would make people die like this, heh. ’

Among the men, the man who seemed to be the leader kicked the person who missed his hand, the person screamed in pain, the atmosphere of the scene became noisy, and the man who could still hold back his sorrow also collapsed in this atmosphere, crying, so the leader went to teach him a lesson, the atmosphere changed from noisy to tense, people began to argue, because there was a distance and the accent was unfamiliar, so Qishi could only hear things such as "ghosts" and "knives", and felt that it was not suitable to continue to hide, the girl did not come forward, she secretly returned to the temple the same way.

Because of this, Qishi has wasted a lot of time unconsciously, going out early in the morning, and now she doesn't go back to the temple until noon, walking at the door, she happened to bump into the eight directions who were about to go out.

Bafang didn't see her, this short-haired little girl rubbed her hands and passed by Qishi, and Qishi, who was full of corpses in her mind, almost ignored her, and felt wrong when she stepped into the door.

She felt that the Bafang she saw just now seemed to be a little different from usual, if you want to say where the difference is, it may be the demeanor, this girl has always had a facial expression, not indifferent, but seems to be very ignorant of everything, Bafang is like a one- or two-year-old baby and not like a six- or seven-year-old child, even if she can behave and do things in an orderly and rational manner, but she still feels very incongruous to Qishi, and that disharmony comes from the rejection of the soul and the body, but such a Bafang, when he just passed by, Nanami felt like he saw her smile.

The mood is high, and I can't smile on my own.

“……”

For some reason, Nanami felt that her heart was hanging, she hurried back to her room, pushed open the door, Kenshin was lying on the bunk and had fallen asleep again, breathing regularly and steadily, and Master Bigu was sitting in front of the bookcase, eating side dishes and drinking sake, and writing something with a pen.

"Phew, hoohoo."

Because of inexplicable heart palpitations, Qishi's breathing was short.

"The breath is very disordered, girl, you have been a little negligent in exercising recently." Bigu turned his back to her, writing quietly.

He sniffed and said, "Go wash and clean, you smell of corpses." ”

"Master!"

Nanami shouted at Higu, but his gaze was still on Kenshin.

"If you can't ask for a sword, why don't we leave?" She asked.

"Who told you couldn't get a sword?"

When Bigu finally turned around, he looked at his little apprentice and smiled.

"Master, what sword in this world can cut the human body in two." Regardless of the details, Qishi still asked his master what he was most concerned about.

What kind of sword can cut the human body flat like cutting tofu?

"This ......"

Bigu Kiyojuro took a sip of wine and said after thinking about it.

"The sword forged by your Uncle Aoki is probably nothing more than that......"