Chapter 17: Blood Feuds, Responsibilities, and Narrow Encounters

[Once, I had a happy family. Every day at sunrise and sunset, I could see my father plowing in the fields, my mother, who was a little weak, would weave cloth and make clothes in the room, tie her braids, and walk staggeringly, and my sister, who couldn't even shout clearly, always asked me to hold her so that she wouldn't cry. 】

[I am grateful to the Heavenly Maiden for weaving clothes, it is the white silk he gave that saved us all. Every year during the Tangram Festival, I envy the villagers who are selected to go to Sword Mountain, and fantasize that one day I can also be selected. 】

[I want to become an oracle, return to Onimucho, take my father, mother and sister, away from the troubled times and strife together, and live a happier and more comfortable life. 】

[Eight years ago, on the Qiqiao Festival, the frail mother and sister were actually chosen by the divine envoy at the same time, put on a black cloak, and followed them across the Ghost Mother River to Sword Mountain the next day, becoming the attendants of the weaving goddess. 】

[Three years have passed, and my father and I have not seen my mother and sister again. We are so eager to become a divine messenger and go to Sword Mountain. After the rules for sacrificial sacrifices to compete for a place came out, the desperate father finally couldn't hold it anymore and began to kill the strangers, take their internal organs, and try to snatch the place. 】

[I also want to go to Sword Mountain, but I remember my mother said that even in such a bad and troubled world, we should be honest and kind people, and we can't be bad people, because bad people will eventually go to the land of Yellow Springs to suffer the punishment from Izana's beautiful life, and they will live and live, and there will be no ** return. 】

[Four years ago, my father failed. 】

[Three years ago, my father failed again. 】

[Two years ago, my father still failed. 】

[Until last year, he finally succeeded! Got one of the spots. And among the angels who came, the figure of the mother was also there! But she has to live in a gorgeous house, and she can't be reunited with us. 】

[I didn't hold back that thought, and secretly ran to the house where she lived at night, wanting to see my mother, whom I hadn't seen for so many years. 】

Kitahara quietly listened to the voice coming from the phone.

Taro Kamiya's voice-like voice was originally very good, but when he recounted this past experience, all he heard was hatred and remorse, as well as a faint nervousness.

[Hah, guess what I saw?] Your Excellency the Psychic. 】

Well?

Kitahara shuddered.

He...... Are you talking to me?

Isn't he talking to himself?

Kitahara Shu waited for a few minutes, without any sound, and the game paused after this sentence as if it had crashed.

After a while, he still didn't react, and replied softly, "So, what did you see, Kamiya Taro." ”

[I saw, hahaha, with countless dark black eyes, ugly like a monster's mother, with a round body, like a big pumpkin, holding my father's body and head, nibbling and gnawing, just like me gnawing on bread, eating so happily, so happy, so ...... Enjoy. 】

[They are not oracles, they are just monsters dressed in the skin of people I know well, and only internal organs and flesh are left in their heads!! 】

[He is not a weaving goddess at all, he is evil, and he can only deceive people's hearts!! 】

Hiss –

Kitahara Shu listened to Taro Kamiya's roar, and his heart was mixed.

[Will you expel these monsters for me?] Are you willing to help me kill that demagogic ghost who claims to be the goddess of weaving? I know I have nothing to give you, Your Excellency, the Psychic, but I still have my life, and I am willing to give it to you as a reward. 】

[Do you accept the side quest to kill the mysterious ghost disguised as the Weaving Maiden?] 】

[You accepted the side quest to kill the mysterious ghost god disguised as the Ori Celestial Maiden, and you gained the favor of Taro Kamiya.] 】

[Obtained the side quest: Revenge of the Kind Boy (Kill the mysterious ghost disguised as the Weaving Maiden), Difficulty: Xin Level]

It's actually a Xin-level mission.

The difficulty of the task is divided into 10 levels, and the time-limited task of finding the corpse of the Hejian Rock Tiger is the Ren level, and the difficulty of this task of killing the mysterious ghosts and gods has been increased by one level.

Is this really good for him, a rookie psychic who has not yet completed the task of returning to the Spirit Court?

Kitahara always felt that he was being targeted by the game.

Or rather, as a descendant of the sword-wielder, it seems that he can't escape this kind of fate.

Things force the physique, where you go, things follow.

I don't know how other psychic players completed the task of returning to the Spirit Court after they passed the novice quest.

Now that this is the case, let's help poor Kamiya Taro smash this mysterious ghost who doesn't do anything.

Although it is only a game, the game props and skills are embodied in reality, adding a sense of realism to the game [Hyakki Night Walking], as if there is indeed an ancient Japan, the country of Reedahara in the Heian Dynasty era.

Onimucho is also real, and Taro Kamiya still has a voice, as if someone who has existed in real life.

For what happened to him, Kitahara Shu was quite sad.

He also has a beloved sister, if Kitahara Aoi was taken away like this, his mother became a monster who was not a ghost and came back and ate his father, and he was also witnessed by himself, and everyone still firmly believed that when the gods went to Sword Mountain, they lived a happy life.

He absolutely can't accept such an experience.

has been taking the benefits of [Hundred Ghost Night Walking] before, but Kitahara Shu has never really claimed to be a psychic.

But this time.

For Taro Kamiya, who has a deep blood vendetta, there is nothing he can do but hatred, remorse and helplessness, and the only hope is that he can expel the psychic who kills the ghosts and gods.

He may have waited a long time in Onimucho before he got to himself.

For the first time, Kitahara Shu began to face up to the worldview of [Hyakki Night Walking], the plot of the game, and the responsibilities of being a psychic.

The game is full of disgusting psychics, and even the creator of the Spirit Court, the Spirit King, is finished, and the worldview is full of despair and helplessness.

Psychics are more of a vulnerable group than powerful and ubiquitous ghosts.

But the game also gives psychics a longer lifespan, so that psychics don't die quickly.

On closer thought, psychics are more like torches, a ray of light that cuts through the sky in the dark.

[The sympathy of the descendants of the sword wielder who is not self-sufficient is overflowing, and he takes on a task that doesn't seem like he can complete it, and he doesn't know how many times he will die before it can be completely finished.] Psychics who have just woken up are often so arrogant, thinking that they are the natural enemies of ghosts and gods, and they can easily kill them, but as everyone knows, psychics who hold this idea have lost their souls forever, and have become unconscious red candles of life, which are inserted in the soil of the Yellow Springs Country to make fertilizer for the flowers on the other side. 】

[The flowers on the other side are blooming so bewitchingly, it's like a mockery of you arrogant psychics. I hope you, poor descendant of the Sword-bearer, don't lose your little life forever because of this mission. 】

Kitahara Shu rolled his eyes on his phone, good guy, is this plot text so unoptimistic about himself?

And what does this mocking tone that is about to overflow the screen mean?

Thinking of the mysterious ghost god who kneeled and licked the identity of the ghost god who defiled itself before, it seemed to be able to understand again.

[Hundred Ghosts Night Walk Beta], it can't be made by some ghost, right?

Anyway, go to Tsuburaya Shishiro first to get the equipment first.

[You said goodbye to Taro Kamiya, and as soon as you walked out of the Orihime Temple, you bumped into the ghost god ape who had attacked you before! 】