Chapter 169 [Extra!] A short story written from different perspectives. 】
1. Me
My name is Beibei, and when I first met Mo Xue, she was trying to persuade an umbrella to be her own god. She said that she was going to become the first Onmyoji in Kyoto in the future, and she would definitely be able to get ahead with her.
The umbrella closed her eyes, firstly to show that she was not interested, and secondly, she had been listening to her nagging for several hours, and she was really sleepy.
At the moment when it closed its eyes, a silver needle flew from a distance, and the umbrella demon's back was cold, and when he turned around, the silver needle was already close at hand, obviously unable to hide.
Mo Xue made her debut at this critical moment, she hooked the neck of the umbrella demon with one hand, and spun half a circle gorgeously, just like the woman on TV who blocked the sword to save her beloved man. The silver needle pierced her back, a trace of blood flowed down the corner of her mouth, and she spit out three words with difficulty: "Needle... Yes... Poison..."
In the distance, the branches moved, and a man in black fled quickly, and the umbrella demon said to Mo Xue, "Wait a minute." Then it turned into a puff of green smoke and disappeared under her gaze.
In the distance, the man in black knelt on the ground and took out the antidote, because the umbrella demon in front of him had a murderous aura, and even more because he didn't want to kill.
After Mo Xue finished eating the antidote, she rubbed her eyes as if she had just woken up, and asked, "Is this heaven?" Hey... Aren't you the umbrella demon? Are you dead too? ”
The umbrella demon said, "Lord Moxue, in order to block this poisonous needle, I would like to be your god and protect you, from today until death."
Mo Xue silently recited the contract spell in her mouth, and a glowing paper talisman flew in, and the umbrella demon wrote her name on it. The contract is complete. Shikigami who signed the contract will follow Onmyoji for life and never abandon him.
I took off my black clothes and walked towards Mo Xue, who almost died laughing as she clutched her stomach.
"I'll just say yes, the umbrella demon is kind by nature, easy to be moved, and kindness will be repaid, and the bitter meat plan is the most useful for it. By the way, and... You'll be my little brother from now on. ”
Yes, I made a bet with her before that whoever loses will be the other party's little brother. Let's bet on who can subdue this umbrella demon, because generally onmyoji relies on force to subdue all kinds of demons and monsters to become their own gods, and she is just an ordinary girl.
The Umbrella Demon asked her, "So... Blood on the corners of your mouth? ”
"Ah, that's a blood fruit, and if you bite it, blood will come out, and it's sweet. Do you want to eat? ”
The umbrella demon closed his eyes and turned into an ordinary paper umbrella, not wanting to talk to her.
"Hey, open your eyes, I'll show you your inner world now"
After speaking, Mo Xue put a red fruit in her mouth, pointed to the air with one hand, and said in a voice betrayed by her beloved: "You... You..."
Then a mouthful of blood spurted everywhere, and in the laughter, only I could see a trace of white on her face due to blood loss. It was precisely because of this whiteness that I decided to accompany her to chase the dream of the first onmyoji.
The umbrella demon opened his eyes and thought to himself that following her, life would seem to be more interesting in the future.
For a long time in the future, we will be doing some delegated tasks in the village, such as finding a lost kitten of my mother-in-law, helping people deliver letters, and so on.
Until, the appearance of the Zashiki boy.
2. Ink snow
It rained heavily for ten days and ten nights, and the earth on the ground was washed away in a thick layer, and a rotting child lay on the ground. People say it's Zashiki Boy.
When we arrived, the expressions on people's faces were heavy, the air was heavy, and a woman was trembling.
"That's my child," she said. ”
Her husband tugged at the corner of her coat and motioned for her to say no more.
The woman ignored her husband and continued, "Because there is no food to eat, there are many children in the house, so you have crushed the children to death with stones. Dead are dead, why can't they admit that they are their own children? ”
"It's sad to admit it." It was the voice of a child, but the onlookers were all adults.
I chanted a mantra and opened my eyes, and I saw a little girl of five or six years old standing next to the woman, dressed in red, very honest and lovely, and she was looking at me, and it seemed that she was saying it to me, because no one else could hear her.
"Are you the spirit of that child?" I asked her, pointing to the corpse on the ground.
"yes, I've been dead for five or six years." She said lightly, unable to see joy and sorrow.
"Why don't you go to reincarnation, is there anything nostalgic?"
"I was in pain when my mother killed me, but I could feel my mother
I bear more unbearable pain in my heart than I do, and I want to do my part even though I am dead. ”
I looked at the woman who was crying in her husband's arms and said to her, "Your daughter doesn't want you to cry, she's right next to you." ”
She wiped away her tears with the back of her hand and looked around, but she didn't see anything.
The girl straightened out her mother's tear-soaked hair and said to me, "Although she can't see me, and although she can't eat, she can still feel happy as a family." ”
"What are you talking nonsense, you little ghost?" The woman's husband said to me dissatisfied.
"After your daughter died, she stayed because she had the obsession to do her part for this family, do you often have more rice in the rice bowl? And the dress on your body, did you open the door early in the morning and find someone on the ground? ”
"It's... The man seemed a little unable to control himself, his body trembled a little, and then the tattered clothes on his body, although torn, would not freeze to death in the cold winter, which her daughter had found from a man who had starved to death a year earlier.
"Little girl, are you an onmyoji? I heard that the Onmyoji can see spirits. The woman relieved herself from her grief and asked me.
"Well, but what do you have to say to your daughter, say it quickly, I'll take her away in a while, if you stay here, she will be trapped in the world forever and can't be reincarnated."
"I'm sorry I wasn't able to be a good mother." The woman said into the air.
"You're a good mom, and dad is a good dad, but we don't have anything to eat," the girl replied immediately, with a smile on her face.
I relayed the girl's words, and the woman and her husband smiled, but tears unconsciously slipped from their eyes.
"Let's go, follow Sister Onmyoji, she will take you to practice, and you will be born in a good family in the next life."
I looked at the girl, and she nodded, and wrote the words "Zashiki Boy" on the deed.
Accept Zashiki Boy, even if it is a junior Onmyoji, but I am not happy, because the burden on my body has become heavier, and the dream of the first Onmyoji does not seem to be so important.
3. Umbrella Demon
The direction of Kyoto has been shrouded in dark clouds for the past few days, and I have an ominous premonition in my heart, hoping that I will not think too much.
With Lord Moxue, life has really become more interesting, at least compared to the thousands of years abandoned in the corner, I really hope it will continue like this.
The people in Kyoto began to run out in large numbers, and I knew that the ominous premonition had come true, so Lord Moxue should run after others, and don't mess with the Yaki Orochi.
Lord Mo Xue grabbed a young man, who was emitting a pale white light, and that was also an onmyoji. Lady Moxue asked him what was going on in Kyoto, and the man told her that the Yaki Orochi, which had been sealed for thousands of years, had broken through the seal and was now killing in Kyoto.
Lord Mo Xue looked at the fleeing crowd and shouted with all her might, "You are gone, what about the old people, women, and children in the city?" ”
The crowd was still, the people's breath was still, and the heavens and the earth were silent.
In the distance, an old man with white hair like snow came from the opposite direction, the old man had a large beard, snow-white, long dragged to the ground, energetic, steady steps, every step seemed to have the strength of ten thousand catties to fall on the ground, but walked surprisingly fast, he walked straight through the crowd, did not look at them, did not say a word. In the direction of Kyoto, only one back is left for the people.
Lord Mo Xue chased after the old man's back, and the fleeing crowd slowly changed direction, following the old man, following Lord Mo Xue, towards Kyoto.
I want to pull Moxue away, she is just a junior onmyoji, the Yaqi Snake has been the strongest existence in the demon world since ancient times, she goes, there is only one possibility, and that is death. But Lord Moxue said to me, "Umbrella Demon, you can go, I'll go to Kyoto alone." "I'm not an ungrateful monster, what's fate? Die and die. So I stopped talking and silently followed Lord Mo Xue.
When we arrived in Kyoto, the elderly, women, and children all gathered together and resisted with all their might, and there were no big casualties. As soon as Lord Moxue saw that the Yaqi Snake directly summoned the Zashiki Boy, he rushed up, and the Yaqi Snake did not look at her, but casually spewed out a sky full of green venom, seeing that the venom was about to touch Lord Moxue, in a hurry, I transformed from thin air, and held an umbrella in front of Lord Moxue.
The venom is corroding my body, it's hot, is it going to die? It doesn't seem that scary.
Before I died, I saw a blood-red slender scimitar burst out of the air, and then a woman in red conjured out of the knife, and she rescued Lord Mo Xue and went to the white-bearded old man. I've heard of this monster, that knife was originally just an ordinary silver-white steel knife, only because it killed too many people and demons, it turned blood-red, people said that the knife was bloodthirsty, don't look at the woman in red is good-looking, but a very powerful monster, that old man can summon her, must also be a very great onmyoji, with them, Lord Mo Xue will definitely be fine.
Sleepy, tired, I really want to sleep, I slowly close my eyes, this sleep is forever.
4. Me
The old man was unimaginable, and after summoning the Demon Sword Ji, he summoned the three major demon kings one after another, the golden-faced nine-tailed fox Yuzao, the Great Tengu incarnated by Emperor Chongde, and the wine swallowing boy who once dominated the demon world, with them, there seems to be a glimmer of hope for defeating the Yaqi Snake.
Mo Xue was sent to transfer the wounded and children, and when she returned, it was already three days later, Kyoto had become a ruin, the Yaki Snake was gone, all the Onmyoji were overworked, lying on the ground crookedly, and only one person stood on top of the ruins, to be precise, it was not a person, it was a stone statue, it was an old man, in good spirits, and his long beard dragged to the ground.
5. Ink snow
I missed a great battle, I was so angry, and what was even more angry was that Beibei didn't even describe what that battle looked like to me, but only threw me a few words and let me imagine it myself.
Shocking the world, crying ghosts and gods, the sun and the moon have no light.
Later, when I expressed my anger and didn't want to pay attention to him, he said that all the onmyoji were united that day, and none of them escaped, and the battle was fought for three days and three nights, regardless of victory or defeat, and finally the old man chose to use his body as a container to seal the Yaki Orochi.
6. Me in reality
Although Kyoto is in ruins, the people are extremely diligent and begin to rebuild Kyoto, and there is an indescribable feeling in my heart as I watch the tall buildings rise from the ground.
At this moment, a phone call pulled me back to reality from the Onmyoji, and it was a woman on the other end of the phone, and she said, "Mr. Kitaku? You've passed your interview, and you can start your official work tomorrow."
"Well, okay, thanks."
Hanging up the phone, I immediately switched back to the interface of the Onmyoji, found Mo Xue, we came to a secluded place, lying on the grass, I said, "Boss, I have to start work tomorrow, and I won't have time to play games with you in the future." ”
She looked at the sky for a long time...
"Little brother or something, it's really unreliable."
I wanted to continue saying sorry and something like that, but it was hard to spit out when the words came to my lips, so I had to say nothing.
After that day's farewell, I unloaded the Onmyoji and buried myself in work. As soon as the flowers bloomed and fell, spring went and spring came again, and suddenly I thought of the girl who said she wanted to become the first onmyoji, and I wanted to know how she was now.
So, I re-downloaded Onmyoji, and when I entered, Kyoto was already bustling, and I found her from my friend's location, she was holding a broken paper umbrella, she had grown a lot taller, and she had a melancholy in her eyes, and she didn't look like a child anymore.
She said: "Zashiki boy has completed his cultivation and has been reincarnated, and he is a good family. ”
We didn't even mention the dream of the first onmyoji, everyone had been young and frivolous, forgot about it, and grew up.
"The umbrella...?"
"It's an umbrella demon, a monk said that if someone who sincerely wants to resurrect it will accompany it to rain ten thousand times, its spirit will return."
"It can't be a liar, right?"
"I don't know, I've been drenched nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine times, and I'm still one time away, I heard that it will rain today, let's go together?"
We sat under the eaves and the sky was blue and cloudless, not like it was going to rain.
She looked at the sky, stunned, and fell into her thoughts, and suddenly came back to her senses, as if whispering to herself: "When the umbrella demon is resurrected, I will also leave." ”
"Leave?"
"Women, after all, have to get married."
"Is it someone you like?" This sentence was a lot of redundant questions, but looking at the sadness in her eyes, I still couldn't help but ask.
At this time, it began to rain, she got up and walked into the rain, her thin body, white dress, she didn't look at me, looked at the rainy day, and said: "It is said that I will love it for a long time, and I will like it in the future." ”
I don't know if she was in tears when she said this, because the rain fell on her face, and it was hard to tell the difference.
I got up to walk into the rain, and she threw her umbrella into the air and said, "Don't come, wait until your clothes get wet." ”
I stopped, and just as I was about to speak, she preemptively said, "I'm leaving..."
I closed my phone and let out a sigh.
In the game, the paper umbrella fell to the ground and turned into a man in white, muttering "Lord Moxue." ”
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