Chapter 6: The Vortex of Death
My name is Alayah,
I seem to have butterflies who.
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Ryunosuke's parents, one of the first builders of Fuyuki Shinto, sensed an opportunity to expand this coastal town, which had been a remote fishing village, and decided to move their family in.
They proved to be right-eyed, and although the initial situation was difficult, after the construction of the dock and the railway station, the prosperity of Fuyuki skyrocketed as much as its cargo throughput, and even when the prosperity of Xindu was no longer inferior to that of other first-tier cities, the city government was still ambitious to continue to expand the town.
But it is precisely because of this that it is difficult for Yusheng and his wife, who have been regarded as the backbone of Dongmu after several years of struggle, to be idle, and their children have almost grown up taking care of each other.
Because of the lack of parental education, and the school's teachers have no responsibility to help students shape their worldview, the two sisters and brothers have hidden psychological problems under the seemingly reassuring appearance of honor students.
Although Yusheng Taihe has a rather masculine name, she is actually petite and has a delicate and cute appearance, and when she stands with her brother, she is often mistaken for a brother and sister, and she is very annoyed by this, and often forces her brother to "squat and walk".
Yusheng Ryunosuke is a cheerful and optimistic, can perceive the subtleties of other people's moods, does not admit defeat because of failure, has a strong curiosity and desire for knowledge, and can always bear his sister's vexatious trouble.
But that's just how they look.
Ryunosuke Yusheng has an extraordinary insight into the concept of "death", and in his eyes, both the old man who is dying and the big tree that is about to be cut down for the construction work are all surrounded by the dark vortex of "death", but this is not foreknowledgeable, because when witnessing a car accident, he finds that the victim is surrounded by a "vortex" after being knocked down.
Because of this, he scoffs at all horror and ghost movies and television, "it's all fake," he always said to his frightened sister.
Yusheng Taihe is very afraid of strange stories, demons or ghosts, but she always likes to listen to horror stories or watch related movies, and she does not give up even if she is scared nine times out of ten, in her words, "I am learning how to protect my brother if these things do appear one day." ”
Putting aside the psychological problems of his younger brother's keen observation of death and his sister's penchant for strange talks, the problems of the two of them were actually caused by the awakening of the Yusheng family due to their thin magical bloodline and the fact that their residence was located above a shallow spiritual vein.
If there is no magic association or church to discover and guide them, the most likely outcome is that my sister will fake it while trying a psychic ritual
Really, the younger brother kills his sister after discovering that he has been replaced by "something" - or is killed, and in any case, the remaining one will become a sane murderer because of the awakening of the blood deformity.
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Recently, Ryunosuke Yusheng, who always laughed at his sister's fanaticism for rituals, found himself "sick" too, and he wanted to see more "deaths" and considered making it himself.
The reason is that the mortality rate of Fuyuki was suddenly much lower during this time, and the "Vortex of Death" was almost completely invisible, and I never found that when I took a leave of absence to go to the project development site on the outskirts of the city, I found that because of the protests of environmental groups, the deforestation was temporarily suspended, and the "death" of natural trees no longer appeared.
He doesn't smoke or drink, so he feels the anxiety of quitting smoking and drinking.
After killing many insects and destroying many flowers and plants, Ryunosuke stops himself from submitting an internship application to the slaughterhouse with great perseverance, because he realizes that he has chosen the wrong way to relieve his anxiety - if he chooses to cause "death" himself, the ultimate target can only be "people", so if he does not want to become a murderer, he must find another way out.
Ryunosuke tried to participate in his sister's "ritual" a few times, but found that the situation was more serious, and Taiga thought that he was just a pure lover of mysterious things, but her brother, who had already stepped into another world with half a foot, keenly discovered that almost all of the "safety measures" in the ritual were ignored, and if the ritual was really successful, the participants would basically be dead.
So, her purpose is to enjoy the feeling that she could die at any time under the mysterious ritual of unsecured mystery, in other words, to find death.
Could it be that our brother and sister have been cursed by something? Sooner or later, I'll do it myself—no, absolutely not.
Ryunosuke, who wonders if there is a problem with his family's bloodline, rummages through the basement where many old things are kept, but even he doesn't know what exactly he wants to find.
"The Tale of 100 Things"
This is a miraculously well-preserved Japanese-style thread-bound ancient book, and it is not a printed matter, it should be a personal handwriting, and the date in it is written in the second year of the main calendar, plus the kanji with almost no katakana in the text, as well as the yokai deeds mentioned in the text, and the means by which the onmyoji summoned the gods, it should have been written more than 1,000 years ago in the Heian period.
This thing was supposed to be classified as a "strange psychic method" that my sister liked, but Ryunosuke saw a "vortex of death" in a book that was almost imperceptible if he didn't look closely, how did a book die? Could it be that this is not my sister's playful rituals, but the real thing?
Ryunosuke, who was very interested in this, experimented with all the summoning methods mentioned in the text, such as drawing a psychic circle, cutting paper figures, or chanting incantations.
Not surprisingly, all of them ended in failure, and of course when you think about it, if this kind of child's play-like behavior can really summon things, how can the onmyoji profession disappear?
"Ha, I knew I shouldn't have stepped into my sister's realm." Finally realizing that he had fallen into the usual frenzy of Yusheng Taihe, Ryunosuke shook his head and closed the book: "Let's try this last one, and if it doesn't work, throw it to the tiger to play with." ”
The last attempt was a ritual and spell that a moderner mentioned in his annotation that could summon Heroic Spirits, but he was running out of patience and didn't take it seriously at all during the ritual.
Drawing the magic array, he just found a few glasses of red wine and poured a circle, and the summoning spell was also recited in a mess, and finally injected magic power into the magic array - hey, what is that?
But it worked.
A wind blew, and a stream of air turned into a fierce whirlwind the moment it appeared, blowing the entire basement into chaos.
The red wine, which had been poured on the ground at random, flowed on its own and formed a blood-red magic array centered on a five-pointed star with a pattern around the moon and sun, and it was not blown away under the pressure of the wind.
The hurricane howled, and it seemed that countless different voices were faintly heard repeating the incantation, they were chaotic, as if countless people were performing the same summoning ritual at different times, and the content of the incantation became clearer and clearer under the multiple chanting, although the language used was different, but the meaning they expressed was exactly the same.
【Swear by this】
The wind weakened, and Ryunosuke's vision darkened, followed by the pain of being crushed by a truck and as if his bone marrow had been pulled out, he involuntarily fell to the ground, but his eyes looked at the magic array without blinking,
[I am the one who accomplishes all the good deeds in the world, and I am the one who destroys all the evil deeds in the world—]
He suddenly had a premonition that whatever was about to appear would change the trajectory of his life forever.
[Thou shalt listen to my commands, thou shalt be with my sword-]
The lightning thundered, the wind and clouds swirled, and the eyes of the young man who fell to the ground were blown by the wind and had to reach out to block it, while the summoned pattern on the floor began to shine with a crimson light.
[The guardian of the scales, from the wheel of restraint!] 】
The incantation came to an abrupt end, and the passage connecting the root and the present world opened, and a petite figure appeared from the blood-red light that erupted like substance.
It was a young girl with long silver hair and red eyes, snow-white skin and a grim expression, wearing an ankle-length pure white nun dress with wide sleeves, a frayed cloak with buckles on her shoulders, two rose-red ribbons embroidered with golden patterns hanging forward, and a bright gold crown that was a little big for her.
From the eyes of ordinary people, although this girl is dressed a little strangely, she can also be called very cute, and in the eyes of Ryunosuke Yusheng......
- Death T——
He never imagined that one day he would see so many death vortexes, and that the countless "deaths" could not be caused by accidents, wars, and disasters, and his intuition told him that the scale of it was even hundreds of times greater than the total number of people on Earth recently counted.
At this moment, Ryunosuke suddenly understood the strangeness of himself and his sister - both siblings had talents to exist on the other side of the world, but the hidden world was so stingy with the door that they did all kinds of strange things under this unexplained anxiety.
If you do it yourself, you won't be able to catch up with even a fraction of the death vortex in front of you in your life.
Feeling the endless death, even if it could be swallowed up in the next moment, he still showed a happy expression of getting what he wanted.
"Just ask."
The girl blinked her red eyes, which were as bright as jewels, and turned her gaze to stand up at some point, stunned by the stupid young man.
"Are you my Master?"