"Leigh, I've been out a few times lately."

“… Because of those youkai? ”

"Oh, that's unwise. The team that crusaded against the monsters this time were all elites, and the officials also participated in it, and there were also many powerful monsters on the monster side.

We're not strong enough to interfere in these situations, so let's try to minimize our visibility now. To be famous at this time, you either offend either one or both. ”

Purple and Ellie huddle in the mountains, and recently Elle has suspended her human activities as "Alice" and completely favored Ellie's demonic form. Yakumo Zi's life trajectory has not changed much, it is nothing more than more time to meditate and meditate, and sometimes he has a gap to study his monster abilities.

Ellie went to the forest to catch some small animals to cook, and the work of picking wild fruits was handed over to Purple, after all, it was faster and more convenient to use the gap.

The two of them have been staying in the mountains for three or four months, and in the blink of an eye it has already reached autumn, and they have stored a lot of grain, enough to eat for a winter and be rich.

Thanks to Zi's education, she is now more familiar with the mastery of the realm, although she still can't use the gap, but she can barely change the origin of some small objects.

For example, in the realm of cold and heat, Erli can heat the leftovers of yesterday, but she can't control the specific temperature, and she can't keep objects or herself at a constant temperature like purple.

Thanks to this small realm use, their food stocks continue to increase, and air-dried meat, dried grains, dried fruits, and the like are stored in jars, and then sealed with mud.

For example, she could barely open a slit between the gaps, and from that slit it looked like a starry sky, but there was still some kind of strange eye inside.

The eyes weren't like the horror of purple, but as clear as blue gems. When the eyes looked at her, there was no such oozing hair.

She asked Purple to come over and take a look, and Purple looked at it, and slashed a knife at Ellie's head.

"Ahh … What's wrong? ”

Erlie held her head in her hands, and then she asked.

"Sure enough, it's different from the realm monsters...

Leigh, you'd better not use this gap-like thing. ”

"Why?"

"I don't know what it is, but the demonic power in it, or the wonderful demonic power that belongs to you, is extremely unstable.

I don't know where it's going to take you, and this thing is going to drain all your magical powers. ”

"Can you hide inside?"

"You can't close the gap, or the place where you come out will be unstable."

That basically means that the current gap ability is useless, you can't use it to dodge, and you can't use it to attack, because the magic power is not enough for Erli to open the two gaps to attack others like Yakumo Murasaki.

Therefore, Erli, who lives in the mountains, often fights with Yuka, but it is not like the desperate style of fighting a few years ago.

Basically, after winning a few moves, she stopped, and Erli won, so she asked Yuxiang to help you get some food together, and Yuxiang won... Elle was dressed up as a doll by her for a day.

For the sake of the only remaining male dignity, Ellie takes this matter very seriously. Though... Most of the times they lose.

As for the situation in Yamato... It's bad...

In the autumn, the yokai attacked the three cities as planned, but before long, the battle was stalemate, and many people were lost on Shikoku Island, and the gathered yokai were also damaged.

The monsters' assault was very successful, because the time to assemble was too short, and it was also to guard against the attacks of other big monsters. Therefore, although the people and the government sent as many people as possible, they were too widely dispersed to resist the collective attack of the monsters.

But after all, as soon as the attack is attacked, the exorcist will determine the situation, and immediately deploy more manpower to defend against the attack of the monster.

Moreover, in the battle with the exorcist, the top youkai sacrificed a lot, and two of the five leading big youkai died.

The battle between the humans and the monsters immediately became stalemate, and most of the nobles left the three acropolises, leaving the situation in the city to the exorcists.

The exorcists were not polite, and directly gathered the slaves and civilians in the city to form patrols and observation teams, and reported to the city as soon as there was a situation.

Generally, this kind of patrol encounters a youkai, and the probability of surviving is extremely low, and the exorcists don't care about this, and if a team does not return within the specified time, it will be judged dead. If a dead person reappears, it must be a youkai.

It's cruel, but no one objects, because it's the only way to survive.

……

A year after the fall of autumn, the war remained unchanged.

It's still a game of life, and there's no choice.

Many people died of starvation this winter.

The deliberate destruction of the monsters and the excessive collection of the food collection team, as well as the replenishment of some magic weapons by the exorcists, almost cruelly plundered all the resources in the vicinity.

Without food, without the ability to leave safely, you can only starve to death.

But the two sides still have no intention of stopping, the monsters are not convinced, and the humans are unyielding.

So it can only be fought, isn't it? Until one side collapses.

……

"I still can't find anything this time, are they crazy..."

With a roll of dried bark and some dead grass roots, Elle returned to the house with Purple.

Naturally, the animals were hunted clean by the people in the Acropolis, and the plants that could be eaten now were almost gone. The eastern and central parts of Shikoku Island are as if they have been attacked by swarms of locusts. The land here is full of war in addition to corpses, and there is a great atmosphere of scorched earth warfare.

"It's not normal this time...

The big monster was just watching, but he didn't mean to meddle at all. ”

Purple frowned and thought, because youkai would not choose to attack humans for a long time. Exorcists are good at defense and arrange formations, as long as they figure out the laws of monster attacks, then the offense is useless.

However, this attack has lasted for more than a year, and it looks like it is going to be fought until the autumn of this year, what is going on with this group of monsters?

"There's not much leftovers.

If this continues, it is estimated that there is no way to solve the problem of drinking water. ”

Putting down the fuel and some food, Ellie moved her shoulders and continued.

"I'm still not well informed...

I'm still going to have to get some information. ”

"Wait, Leigh.

Don't forget, you're still a youkai, and this time you attack, you're completely showing up in front of youkai, and you know what that means to you.

You may be able to earn the trust of humans, but when they know you're a youkai, you'll still be slaughtered by them as a normal youkai. ”

“……”

At this time, humans are completely hostile to youkai, whether good or evil, even if it is a youkai who does good all day long, they will instinctively reject this youkai.

After all, education and stories from childhood to adulthood have taught people that monsters are all evil, and evil will inevitably destroy humans, so humans must unite to destroy monsters.

“… So what to do, Purple. ”

"Still don't do anything, Leigh."

"But..."

She wanted to say something more, but was stopped by Purple.

"I said... Beautiful... If you show your head in this delicate situation now, if you don't have the strength, you will be sent to death..."

"How are you going to get all this stuff to eat?"

"Go ask Yuxiang and see if you can share some life force around and let what you can eat grow."

After autumn, Yuxiang didn't come over to eat. Because in order to enhance her strength, she is also constantly gathering life force to prevent attacks from monsters or exorcists.

Naturally, I didn't have time to come over to eat, after all, I still had to save my life first.

……

……

……

"I'm afraid not..."

Yuka looked at the two helplessly and replied.

"Why? Isn't your flower field growing very well? ”

As she looked at the growing sunflowers, she seemed to have gathered a lot of vitality. Purple held a sunflower in her hand, looked at it, and said to Erlie.

“… I can feel the situation in the flower field, and the vitality is actually leaking out constantly.

Yuxiang, when did you find that you can't collect so much? ”

Yuka, who was asked, said slowly with a "sure enough, you know" expression on her face.

"Three months ago.

Although the human activities in this vicinity are not so exaggerated, the life force guidance from afar has been completely disconnected.

The demonic power can only be replenished by the only surrounding forest now, and I can't go too far, otherwise the forest will be directly sucked dry.

All I can tell you now is that the demonic power in the flower field is slowly overflowing. It won't attract exorcists and youkai, but I can't really channel any more. ”

"Tsk."

Purple smacked her mouth, and Ellie looked at the withered trees in the distance, which looked like autumn in a place that should be full of life.

"What do you think?"

Yuka didn't care much about this, and asked Yakumo Zi directly.

The latter didn't expect it and was stunned for a moment.

"What?"

"I'm asking you, what should I do?"

She seems to be using Zi as a staff officer, but Zi is not worthy of the name of the sage in the future, and she said the way in less than a while.

"Both.

The first is to choose to participate in the yokai, but you can't win by looking at the youkai now. Once humanity reverses the situation, even if we survive, we are definitely the target of crusade. ”

"That's what you told me a year ago, you're scared of this.

We really can't beat the exorcists who are united by the government and the people. ”

"So, what about the second one, Purple?"

Erli interjected, and Purple followed her words.

"It's about getting out of here.

However, I can't use the gap to transfer us away, and with my current demonic power, I can't even leave Iyoshima alone. ”

They are sparsely populated in the central part of Shikoku Island, but if they encounter any situation, it is difficult to solve the problem of eating.

"The way out is controlled by those youkai and exorcists, and if you want to get out of there, the three of us are too eye-catching, I'm afraid it's impossible to do something without happening."

"Are you so afraid of accidents?"

Yuka frowned, not very fond of Purple's method, and Purple smiled helplessly.

"Spend less time in the flower fields.

Those exorcists are not good at stubble, and according to what you say, you are fighting some junior exorcists.

I've fought a few times with those old immortals, and I know how dangerous they are. ”