No.357

The dark curtain symbolizes the eternal severing of the Yellow Spring, and Izanami, who has fallen into the Yellow Spring forever, sings and dances to remember the divine marriage.

At that time, the continent had just risen from the sea, and there was only one jade pillar in the desolate land, and they asked about fate, asking if they would be able to marry and reproduce as brother and sister.

Fate says that you should walk around the sides of the pillar, forget who you are, and when you see each other, it will be as if it were your first encounter.

So they each walked around the pillar, and when they met, Izanagi acted as if he were just a girl who had met by chance, and said in surprise, "Oh, what a beautiful woman!"

Izanami also responded, "Oh, what a handsome man!"

So they made a marriage contract and had countless offspring.

"Later, the resentment was so deep, just because the first meeting was so beautiful."

The Wagtail commented softly, it was not that she had not heard this story, but Hayakawa Ogata interpreted it with an indescribable taste.

The song echoes all around, and just closing your eyes can make Hayakawa Ogata think of a sad woman, singing and dancing in hell in corpse clothes, surrounded by nothing but dry bones.

The audience was silent, and several guests who were good at kabuki performances were silently weeping.

During the intermission, there was no noise in the lounge. Everyone was immersed in the performance just now, some people were stunned, and some whispered.

The second half is a cheerful and majestic story, telling the feat of Susanoo who killed Yaki Orochi.

The mythical Susanoo is a brave boy who wanders alone with the Tenba Feather Slash to a place called "Izumo".

Here he meets a beautiful girl named Ki Inada Hime, the last daughter of an old couple whose seven older sisters are devoured by the Yaki Orochi, a monster as huge as a mountain and with eight heads.

The Yaki Orochi devours a young girl every year, and this year it's the turn of Ki Inada Hime.

Susanoo likes Ki Inadahime and decides to kill the Yaki Orochi to eliminate the harm of the locals.

He prepared eight jars of spirits, turned the strange rice field into a comb and stuck it on his head, and waited for the Yaqi Orochi.

Yaki Orochi was drunk after drinking the spirits, Susanoo took the opportunity to cut the snake one by one with the Tenyu Feather Chop, and when he cut the snake's tail, he found that the divine sword such as the Tenha Feather Chop also broke a gap, and only then did he find that the tail of the Yaki Orochi hid a sharper sword "Tencong Cloud" than the Tenyu Feather Chop.

Susanoo dedicated Tencong Cloud to his sister Amaterasu and married Ki Inada Hime.

This time, Hayakawa Ogata plays Yagi Orocha, who wears a scaly robe over his plain clothes and dances exactly like Izanami, except that he doesn't sing lyrics.

There was a lot of talk in the audience, which is rare in the ceremonial Kabuki performances, but the second half of the performance was so weird, the battle of the snake slayer was supposed to be a fierce confrontation, but the audience saw a woman and a boy dancing.

Susanoo's sword slashed at Hayakawa Ogata repeatedly, bright red dye flowing along the scales.

Eventually, Hayakawa Ogata collapsed in the center of the stage, and Susanoo knelt beside him and raised the Tenfeather Feather Slash, stabbing him through the heart after a second of pause.

Cold fireworks erupted from all sides of the stage, and Susanoo tore off Hayakawa Ogata's colorful robe to reveal a blood-colored woman lying quietly in the light in the center of the stage, like a falling maple leaf.

The voiceover sounded Hayakawa Ogata's low singing, resentful and desolate, like a lonely soul crying in the well:

"Tired and tired, ghost-faced gentleman, the way to come is gone, and looking back is empty."

"Broken Dan floating in the sea, looking at the lonely city, still remembering the kindness of the past years, hating the water and the east."

After a brief silence, an old man in a kimono stood up and let out a long roar of admiration, followed by a thunderous applause from the audience.

The ending is unbelievable, it turns out that the Yaki Orochi is the incarnation of Izanami, and many years later she returns to the world in the body of a snake, or to avenge the abandonment of her husband back then, but Susanoo ends her path of revenge.

The so-called "New Ancient Chronicles", the innovation is at the end, this is the revenge of an abandoned wife against her husband and the whole world he created, although the revenge itself is evil, but the thought of the pain she has suffered is unbearable.

Hayakawa Ogata's appearance is too beautiful, his singing is too sad, and the gloomy mist fills the Kabukiza, taking the audience to shuttle between myth and reality in an instant.

Excited Kabuki critics took to the stage to hug Hayakawa Ogata and hoarsely exclaimed that it was the most perfect kabuki performance he had ever seen in his life, and the audience burst into tears, with low sobs echoing through the audience like a tidal wave.

In the dark, the Tibetan antelope and the duck left the venue quietly, and as soon as the performance was over, the waiter sent a white envelope into the box.

Inside the envelope was a special invitation card inviting the Tibetan antelope and the wagtail to visit backstage.

The zigzag hallway sinks backstage, and a group of people in black suits who look like security guards bow in the middle of the road.

They all had manju sarva-like badges nailed to their chests, which reflected bright light in the lamp.

Respectful, silent, and courteous.

This is the most intuitive feeling of the Tibetan antelope after seeing these people.

At the end of the corridor is a black wooden door, and a woman in a black kimono kneels outside the door, young and beautiful, and a bright person.

She pulled the door open, prostrate herself on the ground and saluted the antelope and the duck, and closed the sliding door behind them.

Behind the door was a large, well-lit room, and the audience was still cheering for the exciting performance, but the room was empty and empty.

Hayakawa Ogata is wearing a scarlet robe, and he is removing his makeup in front of the mirror, and the makeup on the left half of his face has been removed, and the person in the mirror is between a plain white boy and a miserable white woman, and the distorted beauty is thrilling.

"You're here?" Hayakawa Ogata said without looking back. "Please sit down for a while, let me finish my makeup and chat with the two of you."

"Antelope!" As if sensing something, the duck tugged at the sleeve of the Tibetan antelope, starting from just now

"I'm afraid that by the time you finish removing your makeup, we will have become the souls of those people outside the door."

The Tibetan antelope grabbed the hand of the wheat, and while comforting the girl, he said in a cold tone.

The moment he stepped into the room, he had the power of the waveguide, and he keenly noticed that those samurai who bowed in the middle of the road were now waiting outside the door, and they would rush in if they didn't agree with each other.

[Damn, after breaking through the championship, I'm a little too confident, I should have thought of it a long time ago.] 】

Integrating the cause and effect, the Tibetan antelope cursed in his heart, in fact, there are many things that reveal the true identity of the other party, the painting on the invitation, the content of the performance, and the symbol of the Manzhu Shahua.

"Mr. Shiraishi, why do you say that?"

Hayakawa Ogata brushed his hair a few times and turned around, "As long as you cooperate, I promise you'll be our [other side]'s best friend." ”

"After all, we were friends 1,000 years ago, weren't we?"