Chapter 328: Grotesque: Facelings (Part I)

May 30th, 8 p.m

"How? Ready, no," Yakumo leaned against the glass door and looked out, "You've swallowed a lot of things in just this day."

"There's no nourishment, I want to go there and eat some fresh food," the dark shadow easily slipped through the tiny crack under the glass door

"I've warned you very strictly, don't even think about moving any of the things in there" Yakumo Zi suddenly lowered his eyes, "You just need to make a big deal here"

"Don't worry, I know what to do," the shadow twisted in front of her, "but I don't know when I'll stop"

"Someone will tell you to stop, I said don't underestimate humans" Yakumo Zi looked out of the glass door, "You just need to use your filthy life to defile this qiē in front of you, and then wait to fall into eternal sleep again"

"I don't understand why you've gone to great lengths to wake me up from my slumber, but why do you have to let me die?" The black shadow barely managed to squeeze out a pair of eyes from the dirt that should have been his face, "If I live, then you could even possess the entire kingdom"

"How big is the kingdom you are talking about? One meter or two meters? Yakumo sneered, "Do you think it's still the era of that desolate land?" Take a closer look at the current society, the invisible laws and regulations that bind our existence, the strong people in the human race use their legendary names to trample a person who dares to subvert the rules under their feet, how many legends do you think once belonged to the land of steel have fallen in history? ”

"You're scared after all"

"Of course I'm afraid that you know how long you've slept in a night's sleep, and I've watched the demise of the race with my eyes open, and you'll never be able to think of that ruined scene at the beginning, and I'm thinking about this every day and every night" Yakumo Zi sighed softly, "But what's the use of recalling, it can only make me feel that I deserve to die"

"You are the monster sage of the East, a living legend among the monsters, compared to those so-called weird, although only a few people know your name, but no one dares to disobey your orders"

"I've just lived a little longer, and I've become a legend when I'm alive," Yakumo Zi said self-deprecatingly, "Experience and resume determine a qiē, the reason why humans are above us is because they have a qiē that has been passed down from generation to generation, when we ruled the world, they just had a vision, a blueprint, and when we really wanted to expel them, we found that the hundreds of years in our lifespan made them a reality, and at that time I already understood that we could no longer defeat humans"

"You're still too steady"

"That's why I need someone to mess around" Yakumo Murasaki opened a gap and slowly stepped into it, "Make a fuss as you like, I'm calm, but it doesn't mean that I'll be forbearing, this time I'll let humans understand a little"

"As long as we don't die, then we will never fall!"

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"Why are the two shrine maidens and a ghost warrior who were supposed to come back today all missing?" When the news came, it was already early morning on the 31st, and the two shrine maidens who had just gone to the southeast to detect whether the leylines were damaged did not return as scheduled, and the oni samurai who had gone to pick them up also cut off contact with the shrine an hour later

"What about the others?" The old man sitting on the futon said solemnly

"They have all returned to their respective shrines to close their doors again, and most of the ghost samurai are still outside to cure the monsters."

"No, let them all come back, except for those who have retreated from the big monsters," the old man began

"But we don't have the qualifications to order them, and without the edict of His Majesty the Emperor and the three auxiliary ministers, no other forces of war may be used between the various shrines."

"What rules are you talking about now?! The awakening of strange beasts, the outbreak of flash floods, and the bamboo slips calculated by divination are all the signatures of the great murderer, and the last remaining vitality in the mausoleum today also rose into the sky and turned into ashes. ”

"Forgive me for taking the liberty of it, but our military department will personally take over this matter, according to the rules you and we set up at the beginning, it is a big crime to act beyond your authority, and your combat strength is insufficient, from the perspective of reason and law, we all have that qualification to do things, right?"

"Then it's up to you, if you want to lose face in front of the people, feel free!"

"That's what we said, you only need five shrine maidens and eight ghost warriors to become the shield of Kyoto, and now those two shrine maidens are dead."

"This matter has nothing to do with you, even if they die, I can find a replacement, and we have quite a few ghost witches here."

"Then I'll see," said the door, which closed again

"After that incident more than ten years ago, we haven't removed the name of a single shrine maiden, and this time is no exception," the old man closed his eyes again and reflected on his life, "Are you already planning to take back your excess power, as long as you don't kill more, then feel free"

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"There's an interesting piece of news in the newspaper, have you read it~" Kurumi Tokizaki asked himself as he sat at the dinner table

"Seventy-eight people disappeared in one day, and the number of people in the past was not much different from this, but this time it happened to be photographed by the newspaper," Chong took a sip of milk tea, "Do you have as many people?"

"Well, there are about five people in one night, which is a lot more than it," Tokizaki answered after thinking for a while

"If you continue like this, you're going to disappear," Chong said coldly

"I'll take this concern, don't worry, don't die, otherwise why do you think my time is saved so slowly" Shizaki Kurumi stirred the sugar cubes in the coffee, "Let me ask you one more question, what will you do if so many people disappear in one day?" ”

"Skip the steps of filing a case, omit a series of police such as the Law Department, the Investigation Bureau, and the Special Operations Team, and the Ministry of Defense will directly dispatch the army, and at the same time, a few onmyoji and Yuan witches will be borrowed from the Heian Shrine" Chong quickly answered this question, "After catching the murderer, the case will be judged without legal procedures, and a special execution will be carried out directly.

"It's so fierce~" Tokizaki said with a smile, "If the monster is beautiful, do you still want to let the man vent?" ”

"There was no such inhumane rule here a long time ago, of course, who knows about private matters," Chong put down his teacup and stood up, "You could be one of them, too"

"Then please continue to protect me," Kurumi Tokizaki took a sip of coffee, "In the end, the rules are also set by people, as long as they are stronger than the person who makes the law, can't they be lawless?"

"A long time ago, youkai had the same idea as you, so the humans only said one word before the war began," Chong Leng said

"A man sets a law and the demon does not obey, but the one who judges and punishes is the heaven, and the heaven destroys the demon and walks the right way, and the man holds the spear in his place."

"Why the Celestial Empire Ancient Text?"

"Because it will be very strange to translate this sentence in English, the general meaning will become the rules of human beings, and the monster can't understand it, so the heavenly prince will come to judge him, this is the natural law of the world, and human beings are helping them" If this is used as a war line, it is estimated that it will only make the monster feel that the human IQ needs to be recharged

"Poof~ I suddenly felt that the original battle was so funny~"

"That's not funny at all, even I know the fierce battle situation at that time, and later the two sides have dared to use anything" Cerberus, who was sleeping under the sofa, crawled out "The original plan of the demon kings was to make a profit, but then each attack was based on the premise of the complete destruction of a large area, and the role of the soldiers was to contain the enemy so that the destruction of the weapons could operate, first a huge iron puppet, and then it developed into a legion fortress and a flurry of demons, More than 500 countries have perished in the human race, and no other species dares to enter the battlefield directly, which is a black history that is not recorded in any book."

Chong took advantage of Tokizaki Kurumi's interest in this matter and walked out of the house first, just as the others were about to wake up

"What's going on in your heart?" Everyone understands what the so-called disappearance symbolizes, but what is the reason for it? Is it because of yourself? How is it possible, that thing was not released by itself, and if you want to blame it, you can only blame it on other people

"Nirvana is reborn and then flies to a higher place" He may be no different from a monster, but the real monster will make people flee from it as soon as they see it, and he is well disguised in a skin

He used to call himself a monster a lot, and then he stopped doing it, but what had happened under the mausoleum not long ago made him think about it again

The Ten Life Stones, which are a stone that determines the life and death of objects, are made into a roulette wheel and placed in the depths of the mausoleum, which becomes the "origin" of maintaining the foundation of the tomb, and the living will die when they turn, and the dead will be resurrected without a body when they turn - that is, the so-called lonely soul, and nothing happens after turning away

"It will only make objects that have had a past life or can have a future life die, and it seems that your one qiē is empty" This is what the thing said to itself, which means that everything in itself is "zero", there will be neither a future nor a zài past, when I was in front of the well, I knew that I would not have a future, and this time even after death decided for me?

It's all "nothingness", so what exactly can I count as? I'm still human, but I'm missing something, my life is written in other people's stories, I don't have my own past and future, and now I've long since gotten rid of my name (family).

Am I a faceless person?