187, the story of the Great Tengu, and the new neighbor
On June 13th, the day of the earth, the weather was fine, the temperature was 28 degrees Celsius, today was a day off, Takuya Aramura put on a short-sleeved shirt and beach pants bought from Amazon, and lay on a chair on the balcony, basking in the sun while holding a copy of "All Strange Tales: Ukiyo-e" and reading.
Toshi Fujiwara told him that "Onmyoji" will be dubbed in about a week, but the game company has not given him the script, and so far he knows only one name about the character he is going to dub - Otengu.
What if you don't have a script? It's impossible not to prepare, right? What's more, it's still a job in his homeland, and he wants to do it as perfectly as possible, so he has no choice but to go to the bookstore to buy a copy of "The Classic of Mountains and Seas of Japan" after consulting Miyuki Sawasei, which is the book "All Strange Talks: Ukiyo-e" in his hand now.
Not only does it tell a variety of stories about ancient Japanese ghosts, but it also features an ukiyo-e illustration every two pages, in which the demons and monsters are drawn in huge sizes and strange shapes.
Takuya Aramura skipped the others and went directly to the Tengu chapter.
The above said tengu does not actually refer to a single youkai, but a whole group, the most common of which are tengu, great tengu, and crow tengu, which mostly appear with wings, red faces, and long noses on their backs.
There is also an ukiyo-e illustration below, in which the tengu with a nose longer than Pinocchio's is flying through the air with the trunk of an elephant in both hands.
Takuya Aramura was a little speechless for a while, no matter how he looked at this painting, he felt like John Kramer in "Chainsaw" and Jack the Ripper in "From Hell" were competing to kill more people...
Turning over the other side, this introduces the Great Tengu.
It is rumored that the Great Tengu was incarnated by Emperor Shotoku, the 75th Emperor of Japan, and his relationship with his "father" and "grandfather" is extremely complicated.
He also suffered a lot because of this layer of doppelganger, and when he took over the position of emperor, he never had the opportunity to govern himself, and the authority fell into the hands of Emperor Toba, who didn't know whether he should be called father or brother.
Later, he was tricked into stepping down from the position of emperor and became the emperor, but he never thought that he would be the empress and still had no real power, and he fought with his "brother" who was supposed to be called his nephew, Emperor Shirakawa, and the Baoyuan Rebellion broke out.
Later, after a crushing defeat in the brutal ZZ struggle, he was exiled to Sanuki, now Kagawa Prefecture, where he spent three years writing five Mahayana sutras in his own blood, hoping to send them back to the capital of Kyoto.
After being rejected by Emperor Go-Shirakawa, he had a nervous breakdown, and finally died of hatred, praying that he would become the biggest resentful spirit in Japan when he died, and wrote a curse on the blood scripture he copied: "The king kills the people, and kills the king for the people."
The curse means "let the king kill the people, and let the people kill the king", and it also has another meaning, probably "let the king become the people, and let the people become kings".
When he saw this, Takuya Aramura couldn't help but applaud, this curse of Emperor Chongde was quite effective, and when Japan reached the shogunate era, the emperor's authority was basically lost, and he became a mascot, but it was the samurai class with a relatively low status who came to power.
This can be regarded as a disguised way to make the king become the people, and the people become kings.
But I have to say that Emperor Shotoku is also an old unlucky man.
After reading the entire Tengu chapter, Takuya Aramura began to think about it in his heart.
According to the prototype of the story, then the character of the Great Tengu should be the image of a somewhat melancholy, sad, and ill-fated noble son, and there will be a crazy side hidden in his heart.
In this way, he can use his own original voice for dubbing, and when he is emotional, he can pull a little guttural voice, so that the voice sounds like "this person is mentally abnormal", which is commonly known as "crazy criticism".
Although I haven't gotten the script yet, the games are all called "Onmyoji", and it's clearly a ghost theme, so the difference between this character and the prototype shouldn't be very big, right? There should be at least 50% similarity...
Thinking like this, Takuya Aramura got up from his chair and prepared to go back to the house and pour a cup of brown rice tea.
Snort –
Just then, a long white van with the word "Kira" on it stopped next door to his house.
Takuya Aramura stopped and took a look.
Have a new neighbor move in? He remembered that the apartment next door was also owned by Fujiwara Xun's cousin Takashi Fujiwara, but it was not a murderous house, and the rent was as high as 500,000 yen a month, so many people felt that it was not worth it, so it was always empty.
This time, which unjust boss who has money and nowhere to spend has rented it? With this money, you can make a down payment in areas where the housing prices are relatively low, such as Arakawa, Adachi, and Katsushika.
A woman in a white gauze skirt, a sun hat, and sunglasses jumped out of the passenger seat of the white van, brushed her hair, and looked over at Takuya Aramura's apartment.
Takuya Aramura hurriedly retreated from the balcony and returned to the house.
The woman... It's farming and raising... That perfect nose... That perfect mouth... That perfect facial contour...
Even if she wears sunglasses, Takushi Aramura can still recognize it at a glance, after all, this woman has been harassing him for months, and her face is too familiar to him...
How did she get here?
Is that villa in Setagaya Ward uncomfortable? Why do you have to come here and rent an apartment next to the murderous house?
Buzz Buzz –
Takuya Aramura took out his mobile phone and saw that it was a call from Risa Tanada...
"Alas..."sighed, he knew that according to her personality, if she didn't answer, then she would probably continue to fight next, until he was connected.
"Hey..."
"Aramura-kun, did you see me just now?"
"I don't understand what you're saying."
"Oops~ Aren't you ready to tell the truth? So let me change the question, where are you now? ”
Taku Aramura could also clearly feel that Risa Tanada on the other end of the phone was smiling.
So, he decided to lie, summer is the best time to lie, isn't it?
"A bookstore at the Edogawa City Nature Zoo."
It's almost twenty kilometers from the Edogawa Ward Nature Zoo, and Takushi Aramura doesn't believe that Taneda Risa would go so far for this trivial truth.
"Come on, you~"
"How?"
"I just saw a back figure about as tall as you on your balcony!"
"Hmm...," Takuya Aramura thought for a moment and decided to struggle one last time, "I'm in Edogawa Ward right now, so it's very obvious that that back isn't mine. ”
Risa Taneda sneered, and then said in a nonchalant tone, "Got into the thief?" Then I'll call the police for you. ”
“…”
"What's wrong?"
"No, it's nothing..."Takuya Aramura pinched his eyebrows with a little headache, "I didn't sleep well in the morning if I didn't have anything else to do." ”
"Come down and help me move something, Aramura-kun~"
"Forgive me for refusing."
"Deserted Village-san~"
"It's useless to say anything."
"I really can't move... It feels like my hand is going to break..."
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