Chapter 23: The Human-Faced Tree (1)

"Bubbling ......"

In the afternoon, the river was warmed, and I sat on the edge of the river to wash my hands and face, which was just right.

Phantom doesn't like to bask in the sun, so he frequently asks me, "Have you washed it?" ā€

"It's almost there, there's still a little bit left uncleaned."

I just fought a bunch of youkai again, and their blood spurted on me, and it smelled terrible. Although I changed my clothes immediately, the smell of the tip of my nose lingered, especially on my hands. So I went to the water and washed my hands.

"Isn't it good for you to wash it later, it's hot to death, and maybe another monster will come to the door later, and you will wash it in vain now."

"Eh, don't curse me, with good luck, I might be able to take a shower and sleep today."

ā€œā€¦ā€¦ Okay, I don't stop you from fantasizing. ā€

"If it's hot, find a cool place and wait for me."

"I'd better stay here, just hurry up."

It's a special time, and if I am suddenly attacked, I'm afraid it won't be able to help me if it's far away.

I washed and straightened my sleeves and was getting up to go. When I turned sideways, I saw a head floating past me.

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I looked back and looked closely, it was really a woman's head! Did someone fall into the water, or was it just a corpse? I can't draw conclusions now, so I'd better fish her over and take a look.

I ran ahead of her and waded over to stop her, but luckily the current was not fast.

I didn't see the head, so I didn't know what I was doing.

"Why did you run into the water?"

"There's a guy in the water up ahead."

She slowly floated over, and when I fished into the water, it was just a bare head, no hair, not even a neck. I suddenly felt my hand burning where I was touching her, and she was closing her eyes to me, and I was afraid that she would open her eyes and bite me.

Phantom was more daring, climbed up to see, "Huh? It's not a human head, is it? ā€

It's not a human head, it looks like a human hair, or it doesn't make fruit.

"Gurrah."

A slit appeared in the middle of the top of her head, and then it cracked along the crack and became two halves, one in each hand.

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What's going on, I wiped it, and my head actually cracked on its own, and it was ...... inside. Well? It's white pulp inside, not cerebral pulp, cerebral marrow or anything like that, but it's okay.

"It's really fruit."

It's so realistic, I really can't tell it's a fruit, and I took it and looked left and right in novelty.

"Throw it away, it's not a serious thing."

Phantom hates it.

"Why, isn't it just a fruit?"

"How can a normal fruit grow like a human, someone must have moved some crooked brain."

That's a witchcraft, and I'm curious how it came about.

"Tell me about it."

"I also heard that there used to be a tree called the Human Face Tree, and its flowers were the same as a human face, and it couldn't speak, and when people asked it, it just laughed, and it withered after laughing."

So amazing? Could it be that this is how the idiom of smiling like a flower came from? But it doesn't match my current situation.

"You're talking about flowers, and I'm talking about fruits."

"Anyway, it's very evil, and I've only heard about the specific situation one after another."

That is, I don't know where it comes from and what it does, but it piqued my curiosity.

"Since it's a fruit, I don't know if I can eat it."

What I thought in my heart was that the fruit of life also looks like a child, and it can still live forever after eating, I don't know what the effect of this is.

The phantom horror came, "You look at its human appearance, can you eat it?!" ā€

ā€œā€¦ā€¦ You told me it was a fruit, why can't you eat it? ā€

When I eat cake, I often don't make some villains or something, as long as I know it's not true.

Fantasy Summary: "You're getting farther and farther away from humanity now. ā€

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Then there are people who eat cockroaches, rats, maggots, what do they say.

After the human face fruit cracked, it slowly softened in the sun, and my facial features were distorted, turning into a lump on my hand. It's a bit like the feeling of a human head in my hands, a little chilly. I threw them back into the water and washed my hands again.

In the direction of the upper stream, I came to a large village, and as soon as I entered the village, the sky suddenly changed color and it began to rain heavily. People hurried home, and the shops were closed. I ran under the eaves to hide from the rain.

"It's good that it doesn't get too wet."

My clothes were depleting quickly, either torn or dirty, and I didn't have much time to wash. Now there are only two sets of clothes left from home, and I have no money on me, so I don't know how to get clothes in the future.

I must wear dirt-resistant clothes in the future.

I leaned against the slab and watched the rain fall on the ground and the long, thin needles pierced holes in the dirt.

After a while, the rain subsided, and it floated in the air like a thin thread.

I was fascinated by the sight of a pair of barefoot feet as white as jade, and I looked up at a girl wearing a solid lace kimono, without any hair ornaments on her head, and her long black hair was wet and clinging to her.

She didn't have an umbrella, so she walked slowly in the rain, her face was melancholy and melancholy, and people couldn't help but want to use an umbrella to cover the rain and wipe away her sadness.

I stared at her, and she looked at me and looked away.

"This is the Rain Maiden." Fantasy told me.

"Rain Girl?"

"Specializes in seducing men in the rain, if the man smiles at her and holds her an umbrella, then she will follow the man for the rest of her life until he dies."

No wonder I'm not interested, "Isn't that good, a daughter-in-law for nothing." ā€

"How can there be such a beautiful thing, the rain girl is too damp, and the humans who live with her will die in seven days."

Well...... Such a female ghost is more suitable for men who pursue the principle of "death under peony flowers and being a ghost is also romantic".

"I want to ask a question." But I'm afraid it will scold me.

"What?"

"Is there a rain man?"

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"Is it possible that the rain girl's sexual orientation has changed and she has changed to seduce beautiful women?"

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"I think if both men and women take it, she will have a better chance of success."

ā€œā€¦ā€¦ Shut up. ā€

……

"Click, click, click......" Someone is coming.

A man with an umbrella appeared, looking like Sven, and he looked like a good old man. He also saw the woman in the rain, and sure enough, he walked towards her.

"Men really like it." Or is it more tasteful for me to kill the temple.

"You're going to save him?"

"I've seen it all, so I can't let him perish on his own."

When the man raised his umbrella to talk to her, I rushed over and snatched the umbrella and said:

"It's raining so hard, borrow your umbrella."

The man froze and looked at the rain girl, "But she ......"

"She likes to get in the rain and runs out as soon as it rains. You don't care. ā€

When the rain girl saw that I had cut off my beard, she immediately revealed her true form, her black hair fluttering, and her face contorted to reveal her sharp teeth, and rushed towards us.

I blocked her teeth with my sword and kicked her away. This kind of monster has no attack power, and it can be killed instantly without spiritual power.

"If you don't want to die under my sword, get out!"

The rain girl lay on the ground with her head scattered, and her figure slowly disappeared.

Count her acquaintances.

"Miko-sama, what's the matter with her?"

I turned my head to him and said, "A female ghost, if you encounter such a situation in the future, just ignore them." ā€

"Well, the shrine maiden just saved me, so I'm not very grateful."

"Little things."

The man was very enthusiastic, "In order to repay the kindness of the shrine maiden, I will invite the shrine maiden to my house to take shelter from the rain and have a cup of tea." ā€

"No, I still have to hurry, and the umbrella will be returned to you."

The man didn't answer, "This rain won't stop for a while and a half, it's not suitable for hurrying, it's better to go to my house and wait for the rain to stop before setting off." ā€

He pestered me a little annoyed, if it weren't for the fact that he was a human being, I shouldn't know the Jade of the Four Souls, so I would have cut it directly over to clear the road...... No, now I still have a color to see, how can I go home with someone casually.

"It's raining hard, I'm ......"

As soon as I said that the rain began to rain loudly, it was even heavier than at the beginning.

"......" hit me in the face, this is.

The man smiled, "I'm going to have to trouble Miko-sama to send me home." ā€