Chapter 25: The Changed Text
"Wait a minute, who is it...... Yakumo-sama? ”
As the only big family among people, the barnyard family naturally has people to visit on weekdays, but youkai are not among them, because there are not many overlaps in the lives of the two.
So today, when the ninth generation of the barnyard family, when the barnyard field Aqiu heard that a monster came to visit her, she was really a little surprised, and after seeing that the person who came in the study was actually the realm monster Yakumo Zi, she was even more shocked that she couldn't close her mouth.
"Long time no see, Ah Qiu."
Yakumo's face still had the same unpredictable smile as ever.
"Yes, we haven't seen each other in a while, Yakumo-sama ......"
Ah Qiu's expression was a little restrained, because the other party was an elder in a certain sense of her own in terms of strength and seniority, and as the head of the family who abided by the rules, she had to take it seriously.
But in fact, Ah Qiu has an inexplicable rejection of Yakumo Zi, which is an extremely uncomfortable instinct engraved in her heart.
In the eyes of ordinary people, Barnyard Aqiu is just the ninth-generation heir of the Barnyard Family, but the real situation is not like this.
She is indeed the head of the first barnyard family, the ninth generation of the barnyard field Ali, but she is not the heir of the Ali lineage, to be precise, she is Ali himself, and she is the "heir" of the ninth reincarnation of the barnyard field Ali.
The head of the barnyard family will always be just a barnyard field Ali, and the next eight generations of family heads are just the reincarnation of Ah Li, and the same is true for Ah Qiu.
So as soon as Ah Qiu was born, she inherited the ability of the first generation - the ability to remember, through which she can clearly remember what happened in the past, but because she has been reincarnated too many times, her memory is also confused.
In order to avoid such a situation, she will get used to recording all the stories she has experienced as a preservation, and the consequences of this are twofold, one good and one bad.
The good thing is that the memories inherited from the first generation of Ali will not be lost again, but the disadvantage is that the independence of the reincarnated personality will increase with each subsequent generation.
The most obvious side is manifested in the body of the contemporary head of the family, Barnyard Aqiu, if you count according to the turn of the body of Ari, she is a person from the Nara period more than 1,300 years ago, although there has been a fault of hundreds of years in the middle, but she and Yakumo Zi should barely be able to get along with the same generation.
But what about the facts? Aqiu stubbornly put herself in the identity of Yakumo Zi's junior, that is to say, she subconsciously denied the fact that barnyard field Ari = barnyard field Aqiu.
Memory loss caused by turning around is an inevitable premise of this phenomenon, but the act of writing memories as stories is the root cause of all this phenomenon.
Ah Qiu has changed himself from the position of a protagonist to the position of an audience.
"Aqiu ......"
Yakumo Zi's expression was faintly sad, although she had the memory blessing of the reincarnation of the past, it was still too tender for Ah Qiu to hide her true heart in front of her.
As one of the former friends, but having to watch her move away from him step by step, no one can know the pain in Yakumo's heart.
I'm afraid that after three or four more reincarnations, the first generation of Barnyard Ari will disappear completely, right?
Yakumo Zi's eyes flashed with a look of struggle, but in the end, it turned into nothingness with a sigh of nothingness, and after a short silence, her face returned to its original state.
Yakumo Zi said lightly: "Ah Qiu, we have something I want you to investigate." ”
"What is it?"
"Is it about the past, are you still ...... Ah Li," said Yakumo Zi quietly looked away, avoiding the inexplicable look in Ah Qiu's eyes well, and then continued: "Let's remember, you used to be the sheren of the imperial family, right?" ”
"Yes," Ah Qiu sighed silently and said slowly, "Lord Ali...... I, because of my ability to read and memorize, was once responsible for recording and compiling something for the royal family. ”
"When?"
"If I'm not mistaken, I guess it was between Nara and the Asuka period."
"So in that case, you should have heard a little about that person's records, right?" Yakumo Zi narrowed his eyes and said word by word: "Kaguya-hime." ”
"Kaguyahime......"
Ah Qiu closed his eyes, recalling this familiar and unfamiliar name, and only opened his eyes again after a long time and said: "At that time, the right minister Fujiwara was a powerful figure, and I naturally knew the story of that legendary beauty. ”
"That's good, you should have recorded this history, right?"
"Nature."
"We need you to help me investigate a man, or a god, in it." The aura on Yakumo Zi's body changed faintly, and the original plain like water was transformed into a strong sense of oppression in an instant.
"Ryujin ......" Yakumo Zi said with a calm face, "Did this guy appear in that period of history?" ”
"Dragon, god?"
The appearance of this name really made Ah Qiu stunned for at least three seconds, and after she hesitated again and again, she still asked Yakumo Zi a question that she herself felt was idiotic:
"Who is the dragon god? Surname, is it a dragon? ”
"No......" Yakumo Murasaki shattered the joke with one word, and she said with a calm face: "It's the dragon god, the patron saint of Gensokyo." ”
“......”
Anything that has anything to do with the gods will never be beneficial, this is Aqiu's idea, and the higher the status of the gods, the greater the trouble.
As a god who has never appeared in any mythological record, the mystery of the dragon god is incredible, but he can always directly destroy the power of the entire Gensokyo.
If he could, he would have respected the dragon god for the rest of his life, but he definitely didn't want him to appear in front of people again, because this was the result that satisfied everyone.
"I don't understand what you mean, Yakumo-sama."
Ah Qiu frowned, making a final struggle: "I believe that it is absolutely impossible for the dragon god to appear in this history, there is no reason for this. ”
"Whether you believe it or not, it doesn't matter to us."
At this moment, Yakumo Purple completely gave up her personal feelings, and she was using her identity as a monster sage to talk to Barnyard Aqiu.
"Whether the reason exists or not, it is up to us."
“...... If that's what you're sticking to. ”
Ah Qiu lowered his head gloomily, got up and walked to the inner room and began to rummage through the cabinet for past records, while Yakumo Zi sat in place and waited without saying a word.
The history of the past was compiled into a book, and it didn't take much effort for Ah Qiu to find the text of that history from countless scrolls.
With some memories left in her body, she spread out the scroll in front of Yakumo Murasaki and found the records of the years when Kaguya-hime appeared.
But at this time, an amazing scene happened, the colorful light curtain in the sky suddenly shone brightly, and even the brilliance of the sun could not compete with it, and the entire Gensokyo was covered by a strange halo for a while.
But what shocked Ah Qiu even more was that the historical record in her hand had changed in front of her eyes.
The words on the scroll seemed to come to life, and they wriggled on the scroll with countless inks, and a new record appeared in the originally blank part.
"Is this ......?!"
The words between the lines are inadvertently changing, and in a daily record about Kabayahime's residence, which was originally featureless, there is actually such a sentence:
"The servant led the guest here, and wanted to visit Kaguyahime, and in a moment, the house was on fire, and the fire phoenix fell from the sky."