Chapter 3: Fate
"Do you see there's a person standing there?" asked Shinokage.
Wait--how did this person look familiar? Suddenly remembered the yellowed photo that the proprietress showed her, a straw hat and a yellow fur coat, who else could it be if it wasn't the proprietress husband? But didn't the proprietress say that he had already died in a foreign country? Noticing the youkai circling around him and refusing to leave, Shinokage probably knew why.
"What kind of person, that's obviously a ghost!" What?!'s eyes widened in fright as soon as these words came out, "You, don't scare me!" Seeing that she was so frightened that she hid behind herself, I really don't know how she completed the task by herself before.
Shinokage slowly approached him, as if noticing that Shinokage and the others could see him, and subconsciously wanted to escape. Shinoying stopped him in time: "Please wait a minute, we have no ill intentions, your wife has been waiting for you!" The middle-aged man's body was stunned, and he couldn't control his tears anymore.
I saw him take out a gemstone fragment that shone like crystal from his bosom, and said slowly: "In order to make a living, I often go to the deep mountains and wilderness to find some valuable things such as ginseng and deer antlers, and my wife goes to the market to sell them. Once it snowed heavily, I got lost in the jungle, and before I died, I picked it up, because of this, I had a strong strength, and the imps of hell couldn't take me away, but what was the use, I just wanted to see my wife, my wife couldn't see me, and washed her face with tears all day long, and I could only be a lonely ghost, the world is so big, there is no place for me anymore......"
That's right, it seems that the power of this fragment allows him to continue to wander in the world, otherwise he will escape the capture of the imp in the underworld, and his soul will soon be scattered, and it is precisely because of this fragment that so many evil people have swarmed, but he doesn't know that his obsession may bring danger to his wife.
Stygian Snow was already moved to cry, Shinokage looked at her helplessly, and then said to him: "I can let you meet your wife, but your fragments need to be handed over to me for safekeeping, without fragments, you should also be reincarnated quickly." β
"What? I'll leave it to you for safekeeping, don't forget that I saved you!" Stygian Xue was not happy to hear that it was going to be handed over to her for safekeeping, if the fragments were really taken away by her, then the mission she carried out alone for the first time in sixteen years would be completely ruined! If this mission is not completed, I don't know when I will be released by my father! No, absolutely not, absolutely not by this woman!
Ignoring her words, he put away the fragments and said lightly: "Let's go see your wife for the last time......
The proprietress was very sad when she saw things and people tonight, and she cried on the table and fell asleep at some point.
"Yueyan-" The illusory voice sounded in her ears, the familiar voice that she thought she could never hear anymore was so familiar that no one called her that for a long time, since her husband left, no one hugged her, kissed her, and affectionately called her "Yueyan". Hearing the sound, the proprietress woke up slowly, and when she saw the person in front of her clearly, she covered her mouth in disbelief.
"Juro, is that you, is it really you, are you really back?" the man who was called Shiro rushed forward in two or three arrows and hugged her. "It's me, I'm back!" Holding her face with both hands, she gently persuaded her: "After I leave, don't be too sad, don't cry all the time, don't skip meals, I will always be by your side until you get old, and we will be husband and wife in the next life!" After speaking, he turned into a puff of light smoke and disappeared.
He ...... Reincarnated?" "Hmm-"
Chishino Shadow and Stygian Snow were outside the door, quietly watching the touching scene in front of them. knew that he was going to Huangquan to be reincarnated, but he still gave his wife a hope to live......
At dawn the next day, they left the inn. When parting, the proprietress smiled very sunny and bright.
"Hey, I'm begging you, give me this fragment, I see that you are also a demon slayer, which of us takes it differently, this task is very important to me, besides, I saved you at the beginning......" Stygian Xue chattered all the way in her ear, her mouth was almost worn out, I had never seen such a soft and hard person who didn't eat!
"By the way, I don't know your name yet, my name is Styx, I can't keep calling you 'hey' and 'sigh'!" Shinokage looked at her, and the corners of her mouth couldn't help but rise slightly, "My name is Qianshinoying!"
"What? You're Chishinokage, why didn't you tell me sooner!!"
"Hey, didn't you already know? You won't be fooling me all the time, are you!!?"
"You're too stupid!" he grimaced at her, and the snow lungs were about to explode.
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At this time, Grandma Qian came to the underworld family who had no contact with the Qian family for nearly seventeen years. Perhaps, it's time for these things to be broken......
"Grandma Qian, haven't you told Shinokage about her life story yet?" asked Lady Hades, her eyebrows furrowed, worried. "Hundreds of turns and thousands of glass bodies, sad love songs are sung several times" This is the oracle of a thousand grandmothers' divination, what reincarnation is to repeat the tragedy of the previous life.
"Alasβeven telling her would not have avoided the path she had been destined to take, and would only add to her troubles. "Grandma Qian doesn't have to worry, children and grandchildren have their own children and grandchildren, and the tribulations they should have experienced let them solve them by themselves!" The corners of grandma's eyes are slightly wet, this child was raised by her since she was a child, and she must have put her baby granddaughter on the tip of her heart, even if she tried her best to make this old bone not make her suffer the slightest grievance.
This entanglement must be the fruit of the previous life, but I am afraid that it is unavoidable, maybe the secret that our ancestors have kept for three thousand years has finally come to an end now! I am afraid that Qian Xiaoying still knows nothing about it, and is still wandering around Tongcheng as if nothing happened.
"This is the legendary glass fragment?" Because Miss Stygian Snow was really afraid that the mission would not be completed, she had been pestering Shinokage since she left the small mountain village, following her all the way.
Qian Shinoying played with the small stone in his hand, but he didn't expect such a small thing to have such a powerful power, just to be able to escape the pursuit of the imp in the underworld is already incredible, if the fragment is larger, maybe it is really possible to bring people back to life.
It's just that it's really a good thing to break the laws of nature by coming back from the dead? Thinking of this, Shinokage's eyes flashed slightly, and his heart was inexplicably a little sad.