Azusa River Fukatsuki walked into Chitori Shrine, and there were many girls wearing kimonos who were taking pictures everywhere.

She didn't have much interest in kimonos, not at all, and even going to the shrine was just the beginning of the new year.

There's nothing to see in the shrine grounds, and it's not even as good as the huge ruined flower garden outside.

Azusa Tsukawa thinks that the huge flower garden is undoubtedly a great masterpiece, and the scenery is too beautiful to be realistic, but if it is a phantom, the details are too vivid.

She walked to the front of the worship hall through the gap in the crowd, and at this moment there were already long queues of travelers, constantly throwing different amounts of money into the chest.

Azusa River Fukatsuki stood in place and looked around, even after experiencing a major earthquake, everyone still continued to live on this land as a matter of course.

In one corner of the courtyard, there is a small black chidoll, and pilgrims who come to worship form a line to pour water on the hina idol and wash its body.

At this moment, she found a striking figure in the corner of her vision.

She was a shrine maiden wearing a mask of a chick, and she was extremely conspicuous, but the pilgrims passing by didn't even look at her.

It's like a distangible, illusory shadow.

Azusa Kawa Fukatsuki's gaze crossed and stared at her, but it was only for a moment that he looked away, and he didn't look at it a few more times.

After waiting for a while, it was finally her turn to come forward and pray for blessings.

He took out a fifty yen coin from his small purse, closed his eyes with his hands together, and finally reached out to pull the string.

But he didn't make a sound.

She was startled, thinking that it was a mistake, but wasn't this thing just shaking? What could go wrong?

The person behind him looked at her with some irritation, and Azusa Chuan Shenyue's heart was finally a little anxious, because no matter how she shook it, the bell would not ring.

"If there's a problem, please change the rope." A shrine maiden in her thirties stepped up to her.

"Hmm." Azusa Kawa Fukatsuki nodded.

As a result, he shook his side, but did not make a sound.

"Huh?"

Even the witch was stunned at this moment, she had seen the last pilgrim shaking before, why did she suddenly lose her voice?

She leaned forward and looked at where the bell was hanging.

But there's a bell somewhere.

Azusa Kawa Fukatsuki didn't really understand why it was like this, and tilted her head at a fifteen-degree angle in confusion.

However, the witch didn't pay any attention to him, and went down directly to call someone to hang up the bell again.

- Am I not popular?

I can't help but have this idea in my heart, but I never believe in this, so I can be regarded as going both ways with the gods in some sense.

After silently praying in her heart for her deceased mother, she turned around and left the shrine.

When he walked to the door, the young girl from before was holding her hands in front of her, and even through the mask, she could still be seen staring at her.

When Azusa Kawa Fukatsuki passed by her, she suddenly spoke.

"Are you having a good time now?"

Her voice sounded lonely, and Azusa Fukatsuki couldn't detect the true meaning of her sad words.

"What? Are you talking to me? ”

The passer-by suddenly glanced at Azusa Chuan Fukatsuki, who was talking to herself, which made her understand that this young girl next to her could only be seen by herself.

Azusa Kawa Fukatsuki immediately realized that there was something around him that shouldn't have appeared.

- What is it? Superpowers? Or is it God?

"The only person I can rely on is you, I know it's selfish, and it's not good for other people, but I can't do anything about it." The tone of the young puppet girl at the moment is also crying.

The inexplicable state of affairs made Azusa Kawa Fukatsuki scratch her head, her words seemed to be true, and she could even feel strong affection in them.

At this time, she suddenly reached out and grabbed Azusa Chuan's wrist.

Her fingers were soft and as cold as ice cubes, making Azusa Tsukawa stand in a speechless manner.

"Use this thing after it leaves the Divine Realm, just throw it out." The chick girl put a piece of white paper into the palm of Azusa River Fukatsuki's hand.

It's a paper figure.

On the paper figure, the name of "Silent Sea Deep Moon" is written in black pen and ink.

Azusa Chuan Shenyue stared blankly at the paper figure, he used to follow his mother's surname to "See Deep Moon at Night", but who is this "Silent Sea Deep Moon"?

She was about to raise her head and ask why, but the young girl from before disappeared.

Azusa Kawa Fukatsuki held her breath, what happened to her usually felt incredible even in her imagination, but now strange things appeared in front of her truthfully, making her fall into the feeling that reality was distorted.

The paper figure in his hand was like a gummy, so dead that it was clinging to the palm of his hand, and Azusa River Fukatsuki still thought it was a prank by some people in the shrine.

She walked briskly out of the shrine and down the stone path.

At the bus stop, there are various types of recycled garbage cans on one side, and Azusa Kawa Fukatsuki takes the paper figure from the palm of her hand.

When she was about to throw the paper figure into the trash, a fierce wind blew, causing her to subconsciously squint her eyes, and the paper figure in her hand broke away from her palm and rose into the air.

It seems that the wind has been coming for a long time, but the temperature has not changed.

When Azusa Tsukasu finally opened his eyes, that moment seemed to be permanently frozen in the gap between day and night.

Standing in front of me is another self.

Azusa Chuan Shenyue was like a taut bowstring, and the appearance and demeanor of the girl in front of her were exactly the same as herself, and she even suspected that an invisible mirror appeared in the space, but the backgrounds of the two were completely different.

And the self who appeared out of thin air was expressionless.

"Why are you only coming back now? In five years, you haven't been back once? She spoke suddenly, with an undisguised accusation in her tone.

A strange cold crept up Azusa Chuan's back and made her unable to react to the current state of affairs, and countless question marks piled up in her mind.

"Who are you?"

Azusa Chuan Fukatsuki used all the strength of his body to squeeze out a meaningless question, and his palms were wet with a clenched clench.

"I'm you."

A calm and calm voice squeezed out of Jinghai Shenyue's white throat,

"I'm another you who traveled time and space, where I used to be the queen of Zhiniao Island, but Jiang Yuanshen replaced me and gave birth to you."

Azusa Kawa Fukatsuki showed a surprised expression, her words were like raging fire, burning her reason to the ground at all.

"Who is trying to play a prank on me?" Azusa Chuan Shenyue frowned, still having a trace of luck in his heart.

"No one." Jinghai Shenyue clasped her arms in her hands, raised her eyebrows dissatisfied, and said, "It's you, why are you only coming back now?" ”

"Why should I come back?"

"Well, it's useless to think about it, I thought you'd come back often, but I didn't expect it to be five years from now."

"Wait, what you said is too inexplicable"

"You will be confused now, that's because the memories of that world are all on me, I am the memory soul living in the paper figure, and I have no memory in the original world."

Jinghai Fukatsuki walked over awe-inspiringly, and her slender hands stretched out from both sides of Zichuan Fukatsuki's waist, and then hugged her gently.

"The Empress and the Emperor can only interfere in the world they have changed, and I don't exist in the world he has changed, and even if I get here, I will soon disappear.

But you can, because you are in his world right now. ”

The moment the words fell, it was as if her soul and body were merging, and her body was absorbed into Azusa Kawa Fukatsuki's body.

The words that burst out of her teeth pierced the heart of Azusa River Fukatsuki, and a steady stream of memories came up like a tidal wave.

I just wanted to ask her who that young girl was.

However, he salvaged the answer in the sea of memory.

- Jiang Yuanshen's sister, Jiang Yuan Kyoko.

(End of chapter)