"But that's not right!"

After a moment of silence, such a sentence suddenly came out of Saburo's mouth.

Qiao Xi remained silent: "Oh? What's wrong? ”

Saburo hesitated.

He didn't know what was wrong, but he always had an intuition that told him that this was not the case.

He had always trusted his instincts very much.

- Just like when he saw Qiao Xi before going to sea, his intuition told him that he would know the truth by following this onmyoji.

So he mustered up the courage to follow the onmyoji out to sea.

At this point, he felt that something must have happened just now—though it might have challenged his own worldview.

Saburo had such a thought in his heart, and his face brought out a corresponding look.

Qiao Xi glanced at him and laughed:

"Are you suspicious of anything?"

"Huh? Nor is it ...... But, but ......"

He "but" several times, but he didn't have a "but" something, and finally he could only frown and shut his mouth.

Yamabuki Otome looked at him with a little hesitation on her face, glanced at Qiao Xi, and then said softly: "Can you tell the concubine what you met in your dream?" ”

- As soon as she opened her mouth, she directly characterized Saburo's memory as "in a dream", which made Saburo stunned for a moment, and then unconsciously doubted - maybe this is really a dream.

While thinking, he intermittently recounted his "dream" to the two monsters next to him.

"That's really my Taro brother, and that familiar feeling can't be wrong."

"Of course you can't be wrong. In your dreams, your Taro brother exists according to your memories, and it is naturally exactly the same as your memories. ”

"But ......"

"What's more, you just said the island, the palace, but you see, this is the sea, we are surrounded by endless sea, as for the island......"

Qiao Xi said this, laughed softly, and did not continue.

Although he didn't finish the rest of his words, Saburo clearly understood what he meant.

- If there is an island here, then at the speed of this raft, they will definitely be able to see the shadow of the island.

But at this moment, when I looked around, there was really nothing but the sea surface and the seabirds that passed by.

Realizing this, Saburo's face suddenly turned red.

- It turned out to be a dream.

He lowered his head and pinched the corner of his shirt with some discomfort.

- If it's a dream, then Brother Taro's words are still there.

Qiao Xi looked at him, glanced at Yamabuki Otome, smiled slightly and sat cross-legged on the tail of the bamboo raft.

Saburo was a cheerful and brave child after all, and after only being lost for a while, he cheered up again, waved his fist, and looked firm:

"Well, although it's just a dream, it's a good sign that I've dreamed of Brother Taro! I'm sure I'll find Taro! ”

Yamabuki Otome has just been mentally stimulated, and at this moment her heart is excited and melancholy, in short, her heart is full of the guy named "Nura Carp Companion", and she really doesn't have the heart to pay attention to the psychological state of the human boy for a while.

Qiao Xi looked at him and raised his eyebrows, undeniable.

- What a pity.

There will be no Taro brother in this world who belongs to Saburo.

- Humans who are devoured by youkai will not even have their souls left.

On the bamboo raft, the three of them had their own thoughts in their hearts, and no one spoke, and there was silence.

After a long time like this, after Saburo had done a good job of building his mind, he tilted his head to look at the child who was sleeping quietly in Yamabuki Otome, and asked curiously, "What is this?" ”

Qiao Xi: "......"

Yamabuki Otome: "......"

"It's a baby, right...... Probably. ”

Saburo: "emmm...... Why do babies suddenly pop up on the sea? ”

- I always feel that something is not quite right.

Qiao Xi coughed and began to continue to flicker.

"Well, I don't know why, a big peach suddenly floated on the surface of the sea, we scooped up the peach, and when we cut it, there was a little baby inside."

"Eh, eh? Momotaro?! ”

San Lang was so shocked that he almost jumped up from the bamboo raft, his eyes were round, obviously shocked.

Qiao Xi nodded solemnly: "Oh, do you think so too?" Xiao Sheng also thinks that this child should be called 'Momotaro'. ”

San Lang blinked, and looked at the child who looked no different from a normal human baby on the outside, and when he heard Qiao Xi say this, he hurried to popularize science:

"No, haven't you heard of it? A story about Momotaro? ”

Qiao Xi's expression was innocent: "'Momotaro's story'? Could it be that besides our Momotaro, there are other Momotaro? ”

"Yes, yes!"

Saburo had already crept up to Yamabuki Otome at this time, stretched out his fingers and looked a little impatient, and his expression was also full of a sense of novelty in seeing the legendary things.

When I heard that the seemingly noble Onmyoji in front of me had something else that I didn't know, I was excited at the moment, and even the feeling of being lost because I dreamed of Brother Taro was left behind, and I started telling the story with great interest.

"It is said that a long, long time ago, there lived an old couple in a small village in the middle of nowhere. Although life is not rich, it is also peaceful and quiet to save money. One day, my husband wanted to go to the mountains to collect some firewood, so he stepped out of the house early in the morning. ”

……

When Saburo tells the story, his tone is subdued and frustrated, and sometimes he changes his posture and expression according to the plot of the situation, and occasionally dances and sits with grimaces, which sounds funny.

The boy told Momotaro's story very carefully and seriously.

- After all, he is still a simple child, and when he has something that attracts attention, his mood changes quickly.

Although Qiao Xi knew this story, he had never heard the version of this era, so he held his chin and listened to it with relish.

Even Yamabuki Otome, who was full of slave carp companions, was gradually attracted by his story, and listened carefully to the child in her arms.

Saburo saw that the only two audiences were very face-saving, and he became more and more serious.

So Momotaro married the daughter of the prefectural lord with the blessing of the villagers. The daughter of the county lord is also a good girl who is knowledgeable and courteous, filial to her parents, and since then, Momotaro has lived a happy life with the daughter of the county lord. ”

It wasn't until his mouth was dry that Saburo let out a sigh of relief and said the ending.

After hearing this, Qiao Xi looked thoughtful.

"Hmm...... In this case...... But our Momotaro is a girl, why is that? ”

Saburo looked very confused, obviously not expecting this:

"⊙▽⊙ Huh? Is that so? ”

- This one is different!

"yes, what's going on?"