Night.

The night in Kagawa Prefecture is exceptionally quiet, and at this moment, most of the villagers have fallen asleep.

Chen Beibei: They sat in the courtyard of Taketori Yuki's house and told stories.

Taketori Yuki's mother and father were sleeping in their rooms, but they could often be heard talking from their rooms, probably because they were about to leave.

So Taketori's parents also had some trouble sleeping tonight.

"Big brother, hurry up and keep talking."

Taketori Yuki looked at Chen Beibei and walked towards him.

Obviously, this story has already made Taketori Yukiri interested, after all, for a child like Taketori Yukiri, listening to the story is a very enjoyable thing.

"Hmm."

Chen Beibei nodded, and then continued.

"When the carp reaches the metamorphosis stage, it begins to worry about what kind of human being it has become.

In the past, although he was caught by a fisherman, the carp went to the human world once.

But.

At that time, the carp was packed in a bucket, and there was no other human appearance at all.

Later, the boy bought the carp.

Since then, the carp has been packed in plastic bags, and the severe suffocation sensation has made it very uncomfortable. So much so that they didn't pay attention to what humans look like. The only thing I remember clearly is the boy's appearance.

But.

Carp are female, so they cannot change into boys.

The carp finally decided to go to the human world again to see what a human female looks like.

After all, it's been a long time since the metamorphosis period has been reached.

If you don't change your form, you may always look like a carp.

This is definitely a very fatal thing for ordinary youkai. ”

"So the carp will not encounter danger when they go to the human world?"

Yuki Taketori asked.

"Absolutely."

Chen Beibei replied.

Humans eat fish, and carp is still in the form of fish, going to the human world, once discovered by humans. It's still very dangerous.

"I'm so worried that something will happen to the carp."

Taketori Yuki Fog Road.

"Don't worry about the evening fog, the carp won't have an accident, after all, the carp is a kind monster."

North Chenbei Road.

"The carp began to wander around the places where there were often boats anchored, because in such places, there was a high chance of encountering humans.

In addition, because carp are always in the water, they can easily escape even if they encounter humans.

During this time, carp met a variety of humans.

Among them are beautiful women, cute children, and men who love to tell adventure stories.

Soon.

The carp also chose to identify the human form that it needed to change.

is a sixteen-year-old human girl.

Pure, cute, beautiful, youthful feminine appearance......

After becoming humans, carp still live in the sea, but it is no longer safe to live in shallow waters.

Among the carp spirits, all the carp spirits who have passed the transformation period are arranged to live on a mysterious island.

It is an isolated island in the middle of the sea, rarely inhabited. There, the carp spirits that have taken on the form of humans can live in relative safety.

The carp wanted to go there too, but now she had been driven out by the priests. And told her that she would never go back.

The carp had no choice but to continue to live in the sea Zheng

However, after becoming human, the carp's life became more troublesome.

Sometimes she would meet a boat at sea, and the people on board would look at her with horror on their faces.

Sometimes there will even be a search and rescue plane to hand her a rope.

When humans saw her, they were all very nervous, and it was obvious that she could no longer appear in front of humans. ”

"Didn't the carp become a cute and beautiful girl? Why do humans get terrified and nervous when they see her? ”

Yuki Taketori asked.

"Because carp still live in the sea after becoming humans. If you see a beautiful girl swimming quickly in the sea, will you feel scared? ”

Chen Beibei looked at Taketori Xiwu and asked her.

Taketori Yuki pouted his head, thought for a moment, and then said, "No." ”

"That's because Taketori Yuki knows that it's a girl who turns into a carp spirit that doesn't harm humans. That's why I'm not afraid, but the crew members who sail on the sea don't know.

In the mouths of the crew, stories of mermaids and ghost ships are circulated.

The beautiful mermaids of the sea will sing beautiful songs to attract passing ships, if anyone is seduced by those songs. Then it will definitely disappear into the sea.

A beautiful maiden and a beautiful mermaid look alike, don't they? ”

Chen Beibei looked at Taketori Yuki and explained to her.

"Uh-huh, I see."

Yuki Taketori replied.

"After the carp turned into a girl, life has become more difficult.

Zheng who often falls into the predicament of being discovered by humans

But.

While the carp was hiding from the humans' sight, one of the carps spotted a human at the bottom of the sea.

When the carp saw the human, the human was lying quietly on the bottom of the sea, as if asleep.

The carp heart is close to the past.

The human lay silently, completely unresponsive, as if he had died.

The carp flipped the human over.

It was a male human, who looked sixteen or seventeen years old, and looked quite handsome.

No matter what the carp called the human, the human never reacted. The carp eventually had to admit that the human was actually dead.

The carp guarded the human corpse for some time.

When he woke up early one morning, something suddenly occurred in the carp's mind.

'Boy ......'

The carp looked at the human corpse in front of him and suddenly thought of the boy who had put himself back into the sea many years ago. ”

Chen Beibei paused a little when he came here, after all, he had been talking for so long, and he was already a little tired.

"Is it really that boy?"

Taketori Yuki hurriedly asked.

Obviously, at this time, Taketori Yuki didn't want Chen Beibei to stop.

"Well, that body is indeed the boy who released the carp back into the sea many years ago.

When the boy went out to sea to fish, he encountered an accident and was accidentally killed. ”

Chen Beibei replied.

"It's a pity that such a good boy died like this."

Taketori Yuki Fog Road.

The boy's death is actually quite surprising, after all, the boy is a kind child in the story. It should have a good ending.

"Uh-huh, I'll move on."

Chen Beibei continued.

When the carp found out that the human body was a boy, he made a decision.

- Resurrect the boy!

However, such a difficult thing as resurrecting humans is almost impossible for carp.

After all.

The carp is just a monster, her mana is not very strong, and there is no way to do such a thing as bringing the dead back to life.

So the carp thought of the priest of the carp spirits, the old carp spirit who had been cultivated for tens of thousands of years.

This was the first time the carp had gone back since it was expelled.

In fact, the carp spirit did not have any ill will towards the carp, but the priest was very angry and drove the carp spirit away again.

Priests hate humans.

It is impossible for it to help the carp resurrect a lost human, which is a fact that the carp has to accept.

In the days that followed.

The carp always stayed next to the human corpse, which had been in the sea for a long time.

Something unusual is starting to happen.

The human corpse began to swell and slowly levitated.

The carp dragged the body that surfaced to the bottom of the sea and tied it up with plants from the bottom of the sea.

But.

This only prevents the corpse from floating, but does not stop the corpse's **.

The carp was worried.

She didn't want the boy who had saved her to disappear in front of her like this.

And now the carp has no friends either.

She needed someone to keep her company, even if it wasn't her kind, even if it was just a corpse. ”

"The carp is so pitiful."

Taketori Xiwu looked at Chen Beibei and said slowly.

"Not necessarily, if the carp itself doesn't feel pitiful. It's a bit too much for us to think she's pitiful. ”

North Chenbei Road.

The carp has been living like this, although it is indeed a little pitiful compared to us.

But.

If the carp itself finds that life is interesting, there are some happy places.

So.

This kind of pity is just a conjecture from outside.

"Well, I see."

Yuki Taketori replied.

Obviously, at this time, Taketori Yuki had already understood what Chen Beibei meant.

It's like backward Kagawa Prefecture.

In Wai Rao's eyes, it is a very pitiful thing to live in such a backward place, without good medical conditions, no good educational conditions, and no good entertainment facilities.

But.

The people living in Kagawa Prefecture live their own poor life, with both hardships and joys.

I don't feel sorry for myself.

"The carp was worried that the boy's body would decompose and disappear, so he began to look for a way to preserve the body.

The hard work paid off, and the carp got a magical pearl from the mouth of a mussel spirit.

You put this pearl in the boy's mouth, and his body will remain like this forever. ’

Mussel Jing said so.

The carp took the pearl from the mussel spirit, but on the condition that the boy return the pearl to him after he was resurrected.

The carp happily agreed.

After putting the pearl in the boy's mouth, the boy's body really did not rot.

Now everything has slowly changed for the carp.

The only thing the carp has to deal with is some of the more ferocious fish in the sea, which sometimes come to peck at the boy's body.

The boy's body was protected by the carp and did not suffer much damage.

Little by little, time passed.

The carp also don't know how long it took, only that during this time, some changes occurred on the seabed.

Some of the originally flat seabed has slowly turned into high mountains.

The mountains slowly peeked out of the sea until they reached into the sky and there was no end in sight.

There are also some seabed gullies that become wide ravines that cannot be crossed.

The carp accompanied the boy's corpse, and she did not know how to resurrect the boy.

But.

She felt that as long as this continued, the boy would come back to life.

More than 1,000 years ago, the mussel spirit that lent the carp pearls came to the carp.

I asked the carp if the human had been resurrected, probably because he wanted his pearl back.

The carp did not come back to life.

More than 500 years ago, mussels also came to look for carp, and at that time, the mussels were already very large.

It looks like a giant sea turtle crawling on the bottom of the sea.

The shell of the mussel is covered with green hairs, like the beards that humans grow in old age.

Hasn't he been resurrected yet?' ’

Mussel Jing asked.

'Well, I'm sorry, Mussel, I'll definitely give it back to you when he comes back to life. ’

The carp said apologetically.

Apparently.

The carp was very ashamed of the mussel essence, after all, it was agreed at that time that after the boy was resurrected, he would return the pearl to the mussel essence.

Although the carp did not break the agreement, a long, long time has passed.

Is it a thousand years?

Or two thousand years?

The carp himself can't remember.

The mussel essence only preceded the carp twice, and then it seemed to disappear completely.

The carp couldn't remember how long it had been since he had seen a mussel.

The carp even took the initiative to look for the mussel essence, but the mussel essence was no longer in its original location.

The carp hopes that the boy will come back to life.

I also like to be able to return the pearl to the mussel essence.

If you can make these two wishes come true, then the carp will have no regrets for the rest of his life. ”

"Why didn't the clam spirit go to the carp and ask for pearls?"

Taketori Yuki looked at Chen Beibei and asked him.

"Maybe I forgot."

Chen Beibei replied.

Although Chen Beibei knew that the clam spirit was more likely to die, but in the face of the innocent evening fog, Chen Beibei still chose a less cruel reason.

"So did the boy finally come back to life?"

Yuki Taketori continued to ask.

"Resurrected. But that was a long, long time later, and the carp didn't know how long, and neither did the boy. ”

Chen Beibei replied.

"During the time that the boy was with the corpse, the carp's life was repeated every day.

Repel fish that want to peck at the carcass.

A ship sailing on the sea of hearts.

Looking at Lan Baiyun imagining the scene after the boy's resurrection, whenever he thinks of this, the carp will smile happily.

One morning.

As always, the sun shone in from the sea, and the carp indulged in their own beautiful conjectures

A bubble rises from the bottom of the sea.

This was followed by two bubbles...... Three bubbles......

The bubbles rose from the bottom of the ocean and floated towards the surface of the sea like clouds floating in the air.

The carp looked at the source of the bubbles.

I saw that the mouth of the boy's corpse was moving, as if he was talking something......"