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Chapter 193 Evil Ghost Face and Ghost Princess
Heian period, Hakone.

The nobles are fighting each other, the classes are divided, and the common people are like grass.

In this context, Hakone gathered a group of homeless people who wandered here.

Hundreds of people lived here at the time.

They are very poor.

Life is hard, hungry and full every day, but life is still peaceful.

"Xiao, come here and help me chop the firewood."

"coming."

The girl named Izumi Sae responded and ran over.

The girl is 14 years old this year. Although she has been living in Hakone, she has longings for the outside world and is eager to go out. She really wants to go to the outside world and see the bustling Chengdu that adults say.

One day, she was washing clothes by the river.

Washing and washing, a strange creature floated down from the upper stream.

It was a huge face.

The face had three horns on its head and fangs in its mouth,
Its skin is crimson, with patches of red hair around its face. It has only one face and no body.

The girl was frightened by the alien creature in front of her, and hid in the bushes.

As she watched the face float down the river, she saw it was wounded, with cuts on its face, bleeding.

That face saw the girl and made a sound, calling for help from the girl.

It said it promised not to harm her.

The girl's heart softened, and she saved that face, and then hid it in a cave in the mountain, picking herbs every day to apply medicine to that face.

As time went by, the injury on that face gradually improved,

It said that he wanted to repay the girl, so he told the girl a place where the treasure was hidden.

The girl dubiously went to hunt for the treasure, but she didn't expect to find the treasure.

The girl brought the treasure home, and the villagers were very happy.

They traded part of their wealth with a nobleman and obtained land that could be cultivated.

The girl thought about leaving Hakone and was very happy to see the outside world.

The villagers are looking forward to a better life.

However, that part of the wealth was simply not enough to satisfy the appetite of the nobility.

So, on a dark and stormy night, the nobles arranged for their men to disguise themselves as thieves and attack the village. They killed and set the village on fire.

The girl's mother was killed by noble men in order to protect her.

And she escaped because of her good looks, and was taken away together with four other girls.

The firelight caught the face's attention, and it saw the burning village, knowing that its good intentions had caused disaster.

It chased after the nobleman and tried to save the girl.

However, its strength is not strong and it is easily defeated.

It is a special monster. It is very weak in itself, and can only exert its strength when combined with other creatures. However, once combined, it can no longer be separated.

The girl didn't hesitate, she wanted to avenge her dead mother, so she chose to combine with that face.

after combining.

The girl who gained power killed all the nobles' subordinates, and killed the nobles as well.

Then, she disappeared from this world, never to be seen again.

Because of the horrible mask on her face and the massacre of the noble family, the girl is called Ghost Princess.

And that face is the monster named Evil Ghost Face.

……

"Is this the legend about the face of the evil ghost?" Jiu Nanya asked.

"That's right." Guguan City Shino said. "In this legend, Gui Ji disappears from the world in the end, and what I'm going to tell you next is the story after the legend."

"The story after that?"

Furudate Ichinosumi continued: "Onihime didn't really disappear, but kept guarding the four surviving girls. With the help of Onihime, the four girls survived in Hakone, and as time passed , developed a village, which is now Jinshan Village. Jinshan Village has been able to continue from the Heian period to the present, and it is the ghost princess who guards them. "

"So this is the origin of Jinshan Village." Jiu Nanmi said clearly.

In this way, it can also explain why every household in Jinshan Village enshrines the evil ghost face.

Because that is their patron saint.

Always keep them safe.

This is much more useful than any Bodhisattva.

"The old man said that he witnessed it with his own eyes, so you have seen the existence of Gui Ji?"

"I have indeed seen Onihime." Furudate Ichinosuke looked at Kunan Yaichi, "Actually, you have seen her too."

"I've seen it too?" Jiu Nanmi was taken aback for a moment.

For a moment, he thought of the woman who fought Mansai.

No, the old man didn't know that he had seen the masked woman.

With a flash of inspiration, the face of the old woman appeared in Yaichi Jiunan's mind, "Could it be that the mother-in-law is Izumi Sae back then?"

A love spanning thousands of years?
"Cough cough cough..." Furudate Ichino continued to cough, "My wife is indeed an Onihime, but she is not Izumi Sae, her name is Kuji Mai, and she is the No.19 Onihime."

"The nineteenth generation ghost princess?"

Furutate Ichinoshin explained: "After the evil ghost mask has changed its form, it can no longer be restored. It will die if it is separated from Izumi Sae. However, the combination of the two is not really integrated, and it still maintains a certain degree of unity. independence.

In other words, Izumi Sae's lifespan is still the lifespan of a human being.

And the evil ghost face is a monster that can live for many years.

When Izumi Sae was dying, he discussed with the villagers of Jinshan Village and chose a girl in the village as the successor. Thus, the second generation of Ghost Princess appeared.

Gui Ji's task is to protect the safety of the village. For the villagers of Jinshan Village, this is a supreme honor.

Anyone who is chosen as Onihime will become the patron saint of Jinshan Village and use this power for the village.

Then Ghost Ji was passed down from generation to generation, until the No.19 generation.

At this time, I was also transferred to Hakone as the branch manager.

Here, I met her. "

Seeing Furudate Ichino Susumu feeling a little lost in memory, Kunan Yaichi had to cough twice, interrupting his memory, and asked:
"Whether it's a legend or a story told by the old man later, the evil ghosts in it are not evil monsters. Even if the nobles are massacred, there is a reason for it.

But now, there is the Jinshan Village Shenyin incident and many disappearance cases. Is there any reason for this? "

"That's why Mai and I came back." Shinoki Furutate said, "The evil ghost face is definitely not a bad monster, I can guarantee that. Mai became Onihime, and should have become the protector of Tsusugi Village, but, After learning that she and I were in love, Xie Guimian chose to let her go free, and re-selected a girl to become Gui Ji."

"Although Xie Guimian didn't blame Wu Wu, the residents in the village couldn't accept her giving up her position as Gui Ji. This was a very serious act of betrayal, so they exiled her."

"Wu blamed himself very much. He felt ashamed of the people in Jinshan Village, and he always held a grudge in his heart."

"When she learned that the ghost had disappeared in Jinshan Village, she was a little worried, and then the disappearance happened. She knew that something must have happened to the evil ghost, so we returned to this place."

"What did you encounter in Jinshan Village?" Kunan Yaichi asked.

(End of this chapter)