On the lawn facing the Lanshan River, Su Sheng sat there alone, some distance from everyone. The noise of the yan ()kuai banquet can only be heard a little, and the cool night air is very comfortable for Su Shang, who has a red cheek due to the heat of the banquet.

The banquet became more and more lively, and the laughter of the yokai echoed in Arashiyama at night.

The music also began to play, and it was changed from Fu Fushen, who had been transformed into a pipa or harp, to a performer, but I didn't know who was singing, and Kabuki-like yokai danced beside him, under the pink snow.

In people's hearts, youkai are casual and do evil deeds, and there is no such thing as a kind youkai. But Su Sheng knew that they were probably the real monsters who were laughing under the cherry blossoms now.

……

"Natsume-sama!"

With a bewitching female voice, a tall figure that appeared out of nowhere pounced on Su Sheng and hugged Su Sheng in his arms.

It's a big smell of alcohol

"Ah~~~ It's such a warm breath."

In the blink of an eye, she was pushed away by Su Shang.

"Why are you pushing me away, it's very comfortable, but boys without breasts are really annoying."

"I'm sorry, I don't have boobs."

Su Sheng rubbed her hair and responded helplessly.

Lin Ye is a monster who likes humans very much, and will always go to human cities or villages to hang out, and because of this, she is the only monster who said her real name when she introduced herself in front of Su Shang.

"Hee-hee, what are you thinking about Natsume-sama alone?"

"Do you want to be human?"

"Huh? Why ask such a strange question? ”

Lin Ye sat next to Su Sheng in a very indecent posture, probably because he had drunk a lot of wine, and now Lin Ye looked very mature.

Although it was originally a big monster that lived for hundreds of years and thousands of years.

"Because Lin Ye likes humans very much, just like Qingxia."

"Qingxia, hey, that guy has a very good name. But I'm not that wayward youkai.,I.,I like humans.,But I don't want to be a monster at all.。 I guess it's because I prefer to look at humans. ”

"Yes."

"So, Natsume-sama, why are you asking such a question?"

"Because I don't want to lose friends anymore."

Su Sheng said softly, looking at the deep dark corner of Lanshan, his eyes full of memories.

"Natsume-sama is a very gentle god."

"Because you're happy right now, aren't you?"

"Ahh Oh, yes. ”

The cool wind touched the two of them, and a brief silence took place not far from the noisy banquet.

When Su Sheng reached out to grab a piece of cherry blossom but failed, he saw the pheasant standing alone not far from them.

In the pheasant's delicate appearance, there is a soft look. It's a kind of look that only shows when you miss someone.

probably felt Su Shang's gaze.

The pheasant turned its head slightly.

Look at each other.

The pheasant smiled slightly, and owed a debt, which was a kind of etiquette.

"Does Natsume-sama know that the attachment between people can also turn into a youkai?"

"Huh?"

"Sometimes even if the 'relationship' between people is dead, there will be an indelible existence, which is what we call attachment. That child is a youkai born of the attachment between humans and humans. ”

"Attachment between people"

"Wasn't Arashiyama a place of human nobility before? At that time, there was a maid who fell in love with the young master of the family she served, but how could they be together, after all, human thoughts at that time were very strange, and then the maid became pregnant, and the family naturally knew about what was going on between them. The big fat nobleman said that he was going to kill the maid, but the boy swore to protect his wife and the fetus in her womb, and a lot happened, but in the end the two died here, hey, but the fetus was saved by other kind people. At the time, I didn't understand it at all, and it was clear that the boy would not have died as long as he didn't agree and drove the maid away, but now that I think about it, what a fool. ”

Lin Ye grabbed a slowly falling cherry blossom petal and put it in his mouth.

"Ah, yes. The bodies of those two men were buried under the cherry blossom tree, but now they must have become two skeletons. ”

"Is it because of the sad love between the two that the pheasant was born?"

"No, it's probably the wish that the girl made when she died."

……

The cherry blossom viewing is over.

Many of the yokai got drunk and fell asleep under the cherry blossom trees. Fall over like ninepins.

The pink flying snow fell gently on them, and there were some monsters with relatively large mouths, and the pink flying snow fell into their mouths.

Because he still has to go to school, after saying goodbye to the sober youkai, Su Shang returned to the shrine with the drunken and sleeping Asakura and the Tsuchigo, who looked similar to the Asakura.

When leaving, the pheasant kept following behind Su Shang. I didn't stop until I reached the bottom of the mountain.

"You're good to go."

The pheasant's voice is soft and empty.

"Thank you."

When saying goodbye to the pheasant, Su Shang's heart once again welled up with deep sadness.

Because it's a god, that's why I feel this sadness.

Because he knew why the pheasant was born, Su Sheng understood this sadness.

……

After returning to the shrine, after settling down with Asakura and Tuyu, Su Shang went back to his room to sleep.

He had a dream.

I saw a pheasant in my dream.

She is very beautiful, with a slender melon seed face, silkworm eyebrows, a yao nose, a cherry mouth, and long light pink hair spread on the ground. Dressed in intricate layers of white, it is the clothes worn by Japanese women when they get married.

Sitting under the cherry tree, the pink cherry blossoms fell on her white cotton hat, and the pheasant with her face bowed down was suffocating, and she was as beautiful as a flower made of snow in a white bridal dress.

Behind him stood a man and a woman, the man was very handsome and good-looking, and the woman was not beautiful.

The woman snuggles up in the man's arms, and the man holds the woman. They looked at the pheasant with happy eyes.

She sat upright on the ground with a calm smile on her face, like a cherry blossom.

There was a calling voice, vague, and he couldn't really hear what he was calling, but Su Sheng subconsciously knew that it was his name.

Consciousness began to rise and fall in chaos, desperately trying to grasp a trace of clarity, but the body was heavy and could not move.

Su Sheng opened her eyes hard, and found that her eyelids had become heavier than usual, and her vision was more misty than usual. (To be continued.) )xh118