Chapter 41: The Black-Haired Shrine Maiden
After explaining to his sister for a long time, Xia Ruo successfully arrived at Tom and said that he would send it back in a few days.
The last crossing failed, but Xia Ruo still didn't give up, not once, just do it again.
Xia Ruo still has to continue to travel to the world of Inuyasha, and the difference between this time and the last time is that Xia Ruo has Tom with him.
With the opening of the passage through the passage, Xia Ruo once again arrived in the rice field where he had disappeared before.
After a day, although it was impossible for that monster to keep guarding himself for a day, Xia Ruo still cautiously crawled in the rice field, hiding his figure.
What if the other party really keeps squatting on himself, don't be afraid of 10,000, just in case.
"Tom, go out and see if there is any situation around, if you see danger, you will scream, and if you are safe, you will call three times."
Xia Ruo touched Tom and whispered to the cat in his arms, and then he let go of Tom, and he was still hiding in the rice field.
"Meow."
Tom was still dizzy, he didn't know how he was brought here, and what kind of travel and exercise he said, obviously he ate and slept at home, didn't he eat well.
Although helpless, Tom listened to his master and went out to explore the way.
It didn't take long.
"Meow meow."
After Xia Ruo heard Tom's three meows, he confirmed that the surroundings were safe, and he came out of the rice field.
"Well done, little Tom."
After praising the cat, Xia Ruo took Tom in his arms and continued along the road. According to those villagers, the village was not far away, but Xia Ruo encountered a monster on the road.
Perhaps, the target of that youkai is the village, but when it went to attack the village, it happened to meet itself, and maybe when he went back, the village had already been attacked by the youkai.
It seems that he is unlucky, but before there are other clues, these are all speculations, and Xia Ruo still plans to go to the village to see the situation first.
Xia Ruo hugged the cat, walked for about twenty minutes, and finally saw the traces of the village.
It's a small village, all of which are made of wood, but many of them are now in a half-ruined state.
There are still many villagers working in the village, cleaning up the collapsed houses.
As he thought, the village might have just experienced a youkai attack.
Xia Ruo stepped forward to inquire about the situation, but the people in the village were very vigilant, but after Xia Ruo showed that there was no hostility, some kind villagers still told Xia Ruo what had happened before.
"Our village was attacked by a group of youkai yesterday, many young people were injured and their houses were destroyed," said an old man with a sad face at the moment, but he seemed to have a high status in the village.
The old man also looked Xia Ruo up and down, especially the cat in Xia Ruo's arms, and the old man glanced at it for a long time.
In this era of war, the young man in front of him was dressed so brightly, he did not die because of robbers and monsters, and he could still carry a cat with him, either with a stunt or a lot of background, he didn't dare to slack off at all.
"And then?" Xia Ruo asked.
"It's also our luck, there happened to be a witch lady passing by here, and helped us solve the monsters that attacked the village, not only that, but the witch also said that the monsters left traces, and she went to eradicate the monster's lair, and she went yesterday, and she hasn't come back yet."
When the old man said this, there was a hint of gratitude in his tone, if it wasn't for the witch at that time, it is estimated that at least half of the people in the village would have died.
"Mikome-sama? Is it the legendary shrine maiden Kikyo? ”
Xia Ruo is very sensitive to the word witch, and when he mentions the witch, he naturally thinks of Kikyo, and he has heard rumors of Kikyo traveling around before.
"The situation was urgent, and the shrine maiden didn't say her name, and we didn't meet Kikyo-sama," the old man said after a pause.
"Isn't it a very beautiful shrine maiden with black hair?" Xia Ruo symbolically described the appearance of the bellflower.
"Yes, yes, little brother, have you ever seen Kikyo-sama? If you're right, that shrine maiden-sama should be Kikyo-sama," the old man was very excited after hearing Xia Ruo's words, but then, he frowned again.
Xia Ruo shook his head, "I haven't seen a bellflower, I'm just looking for a bellflower now." ”
"It turns out that the little brother hasn't seen Lord Kikyo either, but it's different from the rumors, before the witch chased and killed the monster, he also asked our village to prepare the demon removal gold, saying that he would take it when he came back, and the rumored Lord Kikyo did not charge money to remove the demon."
"Huh?"
After hearing the news, Xia Ruo also had doubts, isn't this description a bellflower?
But that's right, aren't the witches of the second dimension all black hair and beautiful?
"Alas," the old man sighed again, and said worriedly, "the recent days have been full of disasters, first the nearby countries were fighting, and then the village was attacked by monsters, and now we have to come up with a sum of money to eliminate demons, and in the future, our village's life will become more and more difficult." ”
"Miko-sama is back!"
When the old man was complaining, there was an exclamation from outside the village, some children were shouting, Xia Ruo also noticed that it should be that the witch who went to eradicate the monster's lair came back, so it caused such an effect.
Out of curiosity, Xia Ruo still walked over, wanting to see which witch it was.
Appearing outside the village is a very beautiful black-haired shrine maiden, obviously a beauty, but there is an atmosphere that no one should enter.
Long black hair, deep eyes, bright red lips, and a mysterious cold temperament exude around him, and there is an aura of death for those who oppose me. Dressed in a different style of shrine maiden, a dark purple top with a light purple hakama, and a string of emerald prayer beads around her neck.
This is a good-looking woman, but she is carrying the head of a demon monster the size of a large car tire in her hand, and her face is also stained with the blood of the monster, which makes people feel a vicious aura.
The iconic features and costumes made Xia Ruo recognize who this witch was at a glance.
Shrine maiden Tsubaki.
She is also a powerful shrine maiden in the original book, but she does not appear as a positive character, but a villain, because she is jealous of Kikyo and curses Kikyo, and later snatches the jade of the four souls and is seriously injured by Kikyo with a move, and curses Kagome again fifty years later, and is unlucky to be rebounded by Kagome.
has been failing, and finally went crazy enough to devour the big monster, but was defeated by the protagonist group, she didn't recognize herself until she died, and ended up with a miserable end of ashes.
The witch Tsubaki walked to the entrance of the village with an indifferent face, shook her hand, threw the head of the monster into the village, and rolled on the ground a dozen times before stopping.
"The monster's lair has been eradicated by me, what about the demon gold?"
There was a hint of unmistakable domineering in her tone.