Kishijiro wasn't a strange story at first.

According to various legends, ghosts and monsters turned from humans were like carp crossing the river, especially in the late Shogunate and early Meiji years. The system changes day by day, and the wrestling between the two government power organs can only suffer from the common people.

In fact, Yoshijiro is not a common man, he is a retainer under the command of a certain city lord near Kyoto, and he works hard with a force, and he earns 100 koku a year and has several families.

However, these are all past histories that will not be mentioned, and the important thing is that Kishijiro became a strange story.

At that time, Kishijiro was devoted to bushido, and he was willing to try any method in order to increase his strength. Someone said to him, "At the end of dusk, west of the moon, when the fog rises, the sacred mountain appears." There are gods on the mountain, and the bushido is the world's god book, and there are gods and soldiers, and the living are horrified when they see it, and they can kill ghosts and gods."

As soon as he heard the legend, Kishijiro was immediately intrigued, and the preparers began to search for this sacred mountain. Later, he really found it.

This sacred mountain is the mountain that Tsukasa Kurihara sees today.

found the sacred mountain, and the divine soldier also appeared quickly, the one that Kurihara Tsukasa used and said was easy to use. But Kishijiro never found the divine book, and continued to explore it alone.

It is rumored that there is also the next sentence "Cherish the majestic posture of the mountain, but the living cannot enter, only use the sky to cover up the leopard in the tube".

Living people can't enter the sacred mountain, and even if they do, they can't stay for a long time. Kishijiro was completely attracted by the existence of the book and ignored the last two sentences of the rumor, and when he came back to his senses, he could not leave.

In this way, Kishijiro became the native of Mount Kinabalu. The strange talk that Tsukasa Kurihara saw came in later, and there was no one else in the mountains when Kishijiro first came. This group of strange talk seems to have been thrown into the mountains, and suddenly appeared in a pile.

After some fighting, these people were left behind, and I don't know who stopped first, and the monsters tacitly began to build the house they lived in to form the current town.

Because of the magic sword, those strange talks didn't dare to trouble him, and Kishijiro became a bystander and watched all this coldly.

The strange talk of the village was built and they were trying to find a way to leave, but like Kishijiro, none of them could find an exit. Yoshijiro didn't intervene because he wanted this group of weirdos to find an exit so that he could also leave.

But failed.

"It's a prison." After listening to Kishijiro's description, Tsukasa Kurihara immediately thought of this word.

Hearing Tsukasa Kurihara's words, Kishijiro fell silent, detached from the state of storytelling, looked at the village in the distance and then spoke: "Prison... I see. ”

What Kishijiro had never figured out quickly became clear after Tsukasa Kurihara's point of view, this is a sacred mountain that only strange stories can exist, and it is also a prison where they are held.

Kishijiro's errand made him part of the prison. Or, the existence of that magic knife is the executor. Tsukasa Kurihara thought of something more, but he didn't say it, instead pulling the topic back to the shrine: "So, this shrine was built by the weirdos?" Or are you? ”

"Nope." Kishijiro shook his head, "This shrine existed when I came, and it is what it is now. The same goes for the red lacquer of the torii. When I first arrived, I didn't have a place to live, so I simply stayed and was in charge of cleaning the shrine. ”

"Always there?"

"It's always been there." Surely Kishijiro continued, his eyes falling on the katana beside him, "The divine sword is an offering in the shrine. My original knife was badly damaged due to land reclamation, and later I used the magic knife as a saber. ”

"I can't use it easily, its power is two-sided, and if I use it too much, I find that my mind will be controlled, and then I will control it. When the strange talk came, it was also the time when I was the most eroded, and it seems that I killed a lot of strange talk, and I can't remember it clearly. ”

Tsukasa Kurihara's gaze also fell on the katana. He felt that he was using it quite well.

Since the shrine is mentioned, Kishijiro took the opportunity to talk about what Tsukasa Kurihara cared about: "The shrine is dedicated to the Demon Lord, who has the ability to fulfill wishes. ”

"As I said before, I was looking for the Divine Book, so I found all the books I could find. Information about the shrine is in the book. Kishijiro said, without Tsukasa Kurihara reminding him that he had already taken a step, "I'm not eloquent and can't speak clearly, you can see for yourself." ”

"Hmm."

Kishijiro took Tsukasa Kurihara to the side hall, and as soon as he opened the door, the musty smell of books mixed with dust and dust came to his face, and then Tsukasa Kurihara saw the bookshelf facing the door.

The shelves weren't full, and only a fifth of them were filled with books, which was all Kishijiro could collect.

The two entered, and Kishijiro pointed to a row along the bookshelf: "Of course, the most are the books that describe the shrine, and these are." ”

Tsukasa Kurihara swept over to remember the title of the book, took a book and flipped through the two pages at random, and asked as if he remembered something: "Nishijima, if they don't go back to that side, will the world be like you?" ”

"Hmm." Kishijiro nodded without hesitation.

The two worlds seem to be distinct.

So how did he and Watanabe Nishijima get over? And Sato·······

Tsukasa Kurihara frowned: "Sacred Mountain is not allowed to be entered, but how did Sato get in?" He has nothing to do with me. What about the sale you are talking about? ”

"There is a strange story that if you sacrifice a living person, the gods enshrined in the shrine will appear." Kishijiro looked at Tsukasa Kurihara, his face still unwavering, "I have a god who fulfills wishes." ”

All the events were strung together in Tsukasa Kurihara's head.

Including his sudden appearance, Nishijima's call, Kiritaro's plea for help, and everything that Kishijiro said now, as well as shrines and sacred mountains. It was as if there was a large, invisible net over him.

Tsukasa Kurihara got goosebumps, and a sword of Damocles dangled brightly above his head.

He had been thinking too simply.

Tsukasa Kurihara didn't speak for a long time, and unexpectedly this time Kishijiro broke the silence and said, "Sometimes thinking too much can make you stagnant. In fact, there is no need to study a lot of things. It's enough to be alive and still be active in the world, isn't it? For me now, that's a luxury. ”

Kishijiro smiled for the first time, and his serious face became twisted: "This is also my wish, Lord Demon." I hope to be able to return to the human world. ”

"Huh?"

"If there's a weird talk that can get out of this prison, there's no one else but you." Kishijiro used the same phrase Kurihara Sti just now, "It doesn't matter what price I pay, it doesn't matter if I die." ”

"If you could scatter my ashes at the foot of Mt. Fuji, I would be very grateful, Lord Mako." After saying that, Kishijiro smiled slightly, pulled out the katana and plunged it into his abdomen, slashing sideways to the right.

Seppuku.

Tsukasa Kurihara really didn't expect Kishijiro to commit suicide directly, and stepped forward to save him, but in this short period of time, Kishijiro began to shatter into ashes.

In the end, only a light dust remained.

Tsukasa Kurihara looked at Kichijiro's "corpse" with a dull expression.

"This, this will do????"