So...... Now we have to wait until the others notice what's going on over there.

It's just that...

Suddenly, instinctively, I felt that Erli, who was in danger of her life, felt that things were definitely not so simple. Because somehow, this sense of threat ...... It's as if it can wipe out its own existence with a single blow.

Compared with Xiao Hei's psychological effect, this time it was more like a sense of despair felt because of the difference in strength.

"Purple, when is the best time to alert them?"

"About 20 miles...... But ......"

Yakumo Murasaki can't grasp what will happen to that mysterious thing when he gets close to him, but according to his own judgment, this is a character who must not be easily allowed to come over.

20 miles, it should be dispensable for that monster.

"Damn ......"

For the first time, Elle felt that her fate was completely in the hands of others, that she was being manipulated at will, and that she was completely out of her own choice.

Now, if there is the most meaningful thing to do, it is the most useless prayer.

"Mom...... Mom..."

As Erli watched the black object approaching in anguish, Yi Wanchang said timidly, with a hint of pain.

Erlie hurriedly turned around, thinking that she had been affected by something or something.

But, after a closer look, Chang looked at Erli with teary eyes, and then looked at one of his small hands.

Due to nervousness, or fear, he subconsciously squeezed his hands, but he actually pinched the little guy's hands blue, and more than that, even the skin in some places was broken, oozing fine beads of blood.

"Hold... Sorry, Chang. ”

Quickly letting go of her hand, Erli squatted down and checked it, but fortunately, it wasn't particularly serious, but it was slightly swollen.

“…… Next time, remember to say oh... Proper. ”

Purple knocked on Ellie's head, then said this to the little one, she nodded, somehow, hesitated, and took Purple's hand with her other.

"Hmmm......"

She whispered, and her other hand hooked Ellie's fingers, which were still a little difficult to hold now.

"You're too nervous, Leigh."

"Sorry...... Instinctively, there was a sense of fear..."

Looking at Yi Wanchang, Erli let go of her heavy mood a little, at least... I can have a good conversation with Purple.

Zi shook her head, although she was smiling, there was a trace of worry between her eyebrows.

"It's not like you...... Beautiful. ”

"Have you rarely seen me so out of shape?"

Half-jokingly, Ellie stood up.

"No, I've seen all your gaffes, haven't I?

Including when you cry in my arms like a child. ”

Both of them smiled, slightly diluting the tension that was almost frozen in the air, and Elle said in her heart, fortunately not seen by you, it was really too gaffe.

"Well, wait patiently......"

That being said, both of them knew that it was all an ordeal.

......

Wakayama Feather also looked in the direction that the two had been staring into, but he didn't see anything, just looked over there, and that direction happened to be the direction of Yamato.

Maybe he was suddenly homesick, he sighed in his heart.

Life at sea was not so easy, and as a great exorcist on land, he had no experience here at all.

"Half-Immortal."

I don't know when the Ono girl who came up walked to Wakayama Yu's side, and also looked in the direction of that side.

After looking at him, Ruoshan Yu said slowly.

"Ono-sama, but that's what I thought?"

“…… Hometown? ”

Holding the boat gang, he muttered, seeing his trance-like expression, Wakayama Yu did not continue, but handed over the topic to him.

After a moment of silence, Ono spoke slowly.

"Half-Immortal, what do you think of Buddhism?"

“…… What do you mean by that? ”

On the side of Otomo Waka's family, he has a certain foundation for understanding Buddhism, but ...... It's not a good place, but on the side of the imperial court, Buddhism is being promoted.

The conflict between the two...... It is not reconcilable, and the exorcist's own beliefs have a lot of conflicts with Buddhism.

"This is limited to a conversation between you and me, Lord Demi-Immortal......

…… Don't worry about anything......"

Looking around, Ono said with a calm face, and after staring at the other party for a while, Wakayama Feather put his gaze in the direction he had before.

“…… While we're trying to kill these emerging forces as much as we can... But let's be honest... We are completely less influential than these Buddhists.

Time will wear us away...... Or absorbed by them, or swallowed up by something else, or even... Total perdition. ”

"Perish......

The two men spoke blandly, as if they had picked up a stone at random, and then threw it into the sea without hesitation, leaving time to wash it away.

"The descendants of the great gods are going to perish..."

Ono, who has another meaning, looked at the black dots in the distance and said.

“… Who knows? But this is the end of it, I'm afraid. ”

Looking at that black spot, Ruoshan Yu felt a little strange in his heart, but subconsciously, he thought this thing was a giant creature in the sea.

After all, when he was a child, he had seen a towering black beast spew a column of water in the sky, and then immediately raised its tail high.

He could swear to Amaterasu that it was the biggest beast he had ever seen in his life, and the waves it stirred up made the ground tremble even a little.

So, he fixed his eyes on those things to see if he could still see the scene of his youth.

"That's ...... What the? ”

After standing for a while, a sailor holding an empty box walked to the stern of the ship. The box in his arms was already a little moldy, so he planned to throw it from the stern to the useless box.

By the way, I took the opportunity to look at the noble lady over there from a high place, although she looked like a child, she was also a beauty.

"Isn't it some black behemoth?"

If Yamaha didn't know the name of the creature he saw as a child, he wished that the sailor would tell him.

The sailor walked up to the two men with the box in his arms, but he did not dare to get too close, and after keeping a certain distance, he observed again.

The three of them just looked into the distance, and after ten minutes, the sailor's expression changed, with suspicion, but also fear.

"No...... It's not like the movement of a pod of whales...

Whales don't swim so densely, and, they seem, don't have tails? ”

There were no details to be seen from this distance, but the old sailor could distinguish some of the specific outlines.

The outer contour of the things over there has not changed at all, and there is no change in the dorsal fin that is most noticeable in whales......

"Two adults... Possible... It's a youkai..."

Throwing down the box in his hand, the old sailor said with a pale face.