Chapter 21: Your Highness

"Am I going to die?"

Deep darkness, never ending to fall.

The abyss seems to have no bottom line.

I vaguely remember that I felt as if I had passed through a long corridor·······

After that, the memories, the emotions, gradually drifted away.

In my consciousness, I only felt the constant fall.

Even thinking is gradually moving away.

It seems that if it continues like this, it will disappear completely.

"No, I don't want it!"

Like drowning, a panic surged into my heart for no reason.

Realizing his situation, his spiritual sense shook suddenly, and his originally vague consciousness was awake for a short moment.

"Teacher, senior sister, and everyone's ·······"

The deepest scene in my memory was surging in front of my eyes, it was a round of sun chasing down from the sky, completely destroying the shrine.

In the shrine, the few cherry blossoms that I remember my favorite, Xiaobai, who likes to eat fried tofu, the teacher who teaches her witch cultivation, and the sisters who treat her gently and often play together·······

All memories ended in the dazzling white light·······

"I don't want to die!"

"I want revenge!"

As soon as I thought of this, I instantly stopped falling, and my consciousness gradually returned.

There was a blur in front of me, and everything seemed to be separated by a layer of frosted glass.

"Your Highness, Your Highness, are you alright?"

There seemed to be a figure shaking around him, with a familiar voice.

"Ah······· It's Noko······"

On the sickbed, there was no blood on the girl's pale face, but she squeezed out a smile, trying not to let others worry about her.

At this moment, this beautiful face looks quite a sick beauty.

Qingyuan Nuozi was disgusted and helped the girl to sit up.

The thin figure, wearing only beige silk pajamas, thinner than leaves, makes people worry that a light breeze can blow her away.

"Your Royal Highness, what's wrong with you?"

Noko only entered the forbidden palace last month and served as the female official next to Prince Miyuki.

She listened to the advice she had at the beginning of her house in the Flower Blossom Temple, and instead of serving the queen, she went to the side of the inner prince who had been ordered to practice at the shrine all the year round.

Prince Miyuki, the princess of the royal family, is unmarried.

She is also a very inspired shrine maiden who practices at the shrine of Amaterasu.

The female officials who can follow her will also be looked down upon by her husband's family when they marry in the future, which can be regarded as a good way out.

In this era, even for aristocratic women, there are not many ways out.

"Noko, ······"

The green silk was scattered and hung down to the tatami mats.

Miyuki was a little uneasy, hugged her knees, and muttered:

"I saw again the resentment of the dying man········· The deceased was a shrine maiden, the same shrine maiden as me. ”

She had palpitations, the feeling of falling into the abyss, and the feeling of drowning, it was very uncomfortable, it was very uncomfortable·······

"She wandered outside the underworld, refusing to go down, just to wait for someone to know about her resentment."

She whispered.

"Your Highness, I don't understand this, can a dead person still deliver news to the living?"

Noko asked curiously.

"Ordinary people naturally can't."

"Their souls are confused, their spirits are unconscious, and they are instinctively attracted to the underworld and go to the netherworld."

Miyuki sighed softly.

The flames of the oil lamp lit on the desk in the room jumped sharply.

"A person who has undergone cultivation, such as a witch maiden, such as a strong-willed swordsman, can regain his clarity in just a short moment after death, and this is the awakening of the soul."

"Monks who practice the Tao, if they can cultivate the Buddha to the depths of the essence, it is claimed that they only need a breath after death to return to Qingming."

"We shrine maidens can also do it, and if we are proficient in meditation, we can stay awake after death······ There is a practice called the ghost body, which was created based on this principle, and it is possible to enter and exit yin and yang with a spirit body, so for the shrine maiden, the death of the body does not mean anything. ”

"I'm worried that she will return to the world because she is too resentful, and at that time, we may be facing a demon witch who has fallen into an evil spirit!"

Once the deceased returns to the world with resentment and resists the fate after death, then there will be a price to pay.

If it is tracked down by Hades, it is considered light to go to hell.

From the restart, it may be even worse.

"Sister Shrine Maiden, do you know the consequences?"

"Of course I know."

"I know that this is the case, but I still have to do it, I think there must be a reason why I have to do it."

Noko comforted Her Highness Miyuki.

"Others have other people's affairs, Your Highness, you also have your own affairs, today is a very important itinerary!"

"It's still early, do you want to get up and wash up now, or do you want to rest for a while before you go?"

It's okay not to say it, but as soon as she says it, Miyuki feels sleepy.

All night, I didn't sleep well.

Shrine maidens with strong spirits often come into contact with a lot of information in their dreams that others can't feel.

In other words, they are inspired.

While it is convenient to sense divine power, it is also easy to come into contact with more external pollution.

Therefore, the orthodox shrine maiden must go through rigorous training to keep her heart clean and consciously resist external negative forces.

As the inner prince, the reason why Miyuki still came to practice as a witch is because of this super inspiration, which is easy to attract evil spirits.

It is precisely because of this inspiration that the soul of another witch in the dark world has high hopes and tells her resentment, so that she has nightmares for several days.

"No, I'm going to sleep a little longer."

The girl suddenly covered her face with a soft quilt, and said angrily:

"Nuozi remember to call me, today I want to discuss the important matter of exterminating demons."

"Exorcism? Is that the one the priests are talking about, the stranger who was repelled by the two royal bodies? ”

Noko knelt beside him and exclaimed:

"Such a dangerous character, only God can deal with it! Your Highness, you actually want to fight against such a monster? ”

"It's not······ I'm just going to sit in on the ······."

The girl under the quilt continued to cover her head.

"Exterminating demons is just talking, and won't let us really go."

"What good is it for witches like us to go to war?"

"That stranger is said to have been seriously wounded, but he still killed hundreds of famous swordsmen in a row, escaped the encirclement, and hid in a remote place."

"I heard that the ministers of Kyoto have already scraped together a sum of money and are going to chase and kill the ninjas in the light ninja village."

"The so-called exterminating demons is just to raise a sum of money and recruit more people, those ninja in the ninja village, and other ronin, don't dare to take risks without enough pay."

"I see."

Noko breathed a sigh of relief.

If he didn't have to face the enemy head-on, he should have returned safely.