This year's winter in Gensokyo is exceptionally cold, obviously it's just the beginning of winter, but it's like a cold winter wax moon, it's incredible, it's inexplicably cold, thanks to this, the tengu of Monster Mountain changed into winter clothes early, isolating themselves from the cold air outside. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

As the old village chief in the human world said, youkai are born from the fear in people's hearts, and the more they get along with humans, the more they are like humans. In the distant past, the strong tengu never wrapped themselves up like this, and in order to keep their bodies agile, they often wore light and breathable clothes, even in dripping and icy weather.

And now, they have long been corrupted by the comfortable life of Gensokyo, and from body to spirit, they are far from being compared with the past.

Therefore, the current Youkai Mountain will hold a festival every nine years, feeding on human flesh and celebrating with the whole family, so that those old tengu who are greedy for comfort can recall the past eventful years and arouse the demonic nature hidden in the blood of those little tengu.

"It's really cold."

The little tengu with folded ears was dissatisfied, she was one of those little tengu who had never experienced a fight, and this time she was specially sent by the big tengu to hone it.

She was now standing alone outside the Moriya Shrine, guarding the two sacrifices from the earth, and she had already worn a lot of clothes and wrapped herself tightly, but she still felt a cold wind pouring in from the neckline and cuffs, and swam through her whole body along the gaps in her clothes.

"Lord Tengu-sama is really, just let me stand here stupidly, how can I grow."

She muttered discontentedly, moved her somewhat stiff body, and looked at the large wooden barrel behind her.

As a prop for the festival, this wooden barrel is naturally very delicately made, and each wooden board is taken from the thousand-year-old wood of Youkai Mountain, which is not only thick, but also very hard, which can prevent the offerings inside from breaking this wooden barrel.

And on top of this barrel, a large stone was pressed, which completely blocked the way out of the people inside.

"You don't need a guard at all."

The little tengu with folded ears complained.

It's just that she didn't realize that the eyes she looked at the barrel contained complex emotions.

As a new generation of tengu, she has always been playing in the human world, and in her opinion, the so-called human is nothing more than a tengu without a tail, unable to fly, and weak in body.

And now, she wants to eat humans, which makes her a little dazed.

What she didn't know always brought fear, but when she looked at the barrel, there was less fear, more curiosity, and excitement.

She could feel her blood throbbing, her heart was beating fast, her whole body became very excited, smelling the fear coming from the bucket, she unconsciously licked the corners of her mouth, like a child waiting for the meal, showing a very innocent and simple smile.

"But it seems well worth it."

It's just that after the excitement, she was cold again, and she couldn't help but put down the knife in her hand and put her frozen red hands in her pockets to keep warm.

And just as she was thinking about whether to sneak back first and put on more clothes, a cup of hot tea was handed to her, and she looked up in surprise to see the green-haired shrine maiden at Moriya Shrine.

"Drink, I think you must be cold."

"Thank you."

She was so busy that she took a sip of the hot tea, and her face couldn't help but show a happy expression, and she didn't realize that Sanae's eyes were so complicated when she looked at the barrel.

There is both the unbearable sympathy of being a human being, and the understanding of being a god.

As a new resident of Yokai Mountain, Moriya Shrine has also been invited to the festival and can go and get a piece of the pie. It's just a matter of treating people as sacrifices, Suwako and Kanako have seen a lot, and Sanae hasn't seen them at all.

As a human being, she resisted all this, and even had a big fight with Suwako Kanako during the day, and even ran to Hakurei Shrine, claiming to crusade against the evil god of Shouya Shrine.

It's just that in the end, she figured it out on her own.

She thought of the blessings bestowed upon her by the two gods who guarded her day and night when she was born.

She thought about the fact that she had just become a wind blessing and followed Suwako's advice to give the white snake as a sacrifice to Kanako.

She also thought about Suwako-sama's increasingly transparent body and Kanako-sama's longer and longer sleep before entering Gensokyo.

Unlike other children, Sanae has been a person who has stepped into the mysterious world from the beginning, and as the last descendant of Suwa no Kuni, she was born with the talent of being a shrine maiden, and she can see her two gods from an early age.

Deprived of most of the divine power, Suwako and Kanako, who have no believers, are more like Sanae's family than gods.

They will laugh, they will be helpless, and they will be anxious because Sanae is sick.

It's hard to imagine that Suwako, who once owned one side and had countless shrine shrine maidens, would jump to her feet in a hurry because of the illness of a shrine maiden, and almost got into a fight with Kanako.

Memories of the past haunted Sanae's side like a marquee, allowing her to gradually sort out her thoughts and find the truest thoughts in her heart.

"After all, human beings have limits, even if they are an excellent onmyoji like **** Harumi, they will die because of the problem of lifespan, if you want to go down with Kanako-sama, Suwako-sama, don't let them be sad, and become the same existence as them is a must.

"So I have to be a god!"

Although there is still some patience in my heart, and I am still a little afraid of eating human flesh, Sanae is no longer confused.

So she returned to Moriya Shrine and stood here, looking at the barrel carrying the offerings, listening to the whimpering sound coming from inside, and was silent for a long time.

It's cold on the outside and even colder inside the barrel.

Although the brothers snuggled tightly, they still didn't feel the slightest warmth.

The deodorizing herbs fluttered beneath them, refreshing them, but the more awake they were, the more they felt the pain.

They have no way to escape, the world has given up on them, Huiyin teacher has given up on them, and even the Shouya witch who has been preaching in the world and always smiling and doing good deeds has abandoned them.

Now they are just abandoned children by the whole Gensokyo, and apart from each other, there is no one, not a single youkai, who wants them to live.

What else can they do but cry, but grief, but despair?

But no matter how many tears there are, there will be a time when they will run out, and from the moment they put them into the barrel, they have been crying for hours, and they have long since dried up all their tears.

The elder brother looked up, his eyes were dull and swollen to the extreme, as if they were dead ashes, and his fingers were covered with bloody scabs, he had tried countless methods since he was imprisoned here, he had beaten them with his hands, and he had dug them with his hands, but the barrel was so hard that it was desperate, and all his efforts had turned into scars on his hands.

Youkai Mountain and the Human World have been doing this business for too long, they have long been fully prepared, before they were imprisoned here, the two brothers had already been searched, and there was no longer any utensils on their bodies, and there was no hope of breaking this wooden barrel at all.

Now they are prisoners who know the date of their death, and as time passes, they gradually enter the abyss of despair.

"We ...... Kill yourself. ”

After I don't know how long, my brother finally said dryly.

The little boy, who was crying hoarsely, was not surprised to hear this astonishing suggestion.

As sacrifices, they are destined to be eaten by youkai, and they have never experienced such a thing, and they will never want to experience it.

If they had to feel their flesh being cut off and swallowed in their mouths little by little, they might as well die now.

"They...... Do not eat the dead. ”

Monster Mountain is really too comfortable, the new generation of little tengu is not pampered, and it is not far off, since they were young, they have not suffered from it, they may eat people under the persecution of their elders, but it is absolutely impossible to eat people who have died a long time ago.

If they are destined to die without a corpse, then they might as well die now and keep their corpse.

It's just that they don't have any weapons on them, and how to kill themselves has become the biggest obstacle to their liberation.

The little boy didn't know the answer, but he knew that his brother knew, otherwise he wouldn't have proposed it.

Youkai Mountain thought very carefully, there was nothing in the barrel, there was someone guarding outside the barrel, and even if they crashed into the barrel, they would be stopped by the tengu guarding outside, but this time it was a little different from the past.

In the past, the sacrifices were all made by one person, but this time it was two.

Because the human world was worried that if one of the brothers sacrificed, the other would hold a grudge and take revenge on them, so the big people directly doubled the number of sacrifices this time.

One person can't commit suicide, but two people are different.

"We can do that."

The elder brother put the little boy's hand on his neck, and then put his own hand on the boy's neck, and said tremblingly, "Wait a while, we will exert our strength together, and at the same time pinch each other's necks." Remember, give it your all and never let go. ”