Onmyoji Shikigami Don't Cry

Chapter 64 The Story of the Lantern Ghost
The owl and the lantern ghost flew over rivers and mountains.

Finally came to a small village.

"Hey, Lantern Ghost, that woman is in this village."

"Huh, do you know what that woman has to do with me?"

Lantern Ghost asked.

Lantern Ghost has not thought of that woman for a long time.

Even if I deliberately think about it now, I can only find a very vague appearance in my memory.

That look, even just a few touches of light color.

"Hey, when you see her, you should be able to remember it."

The owl flew down slowly and landed on a branch.

"Huh, well..."

At this time, in the village, a group of people in white mourning clothes walked slowly up the mountain.

Amidst the mournful music, the owl turned its head away, with a distressed expression on its face.

"Hey Kaoru, what's wrong with you?"

"Hey, I'm fine. She'll be here soon..."

Kaoru answered in a low voice, almost covered by the mournful music.

The men passed under the tree where the Lantern Ghost and the Owl stood.

In such an atmosphere, no one will pay attention to an owl and a lantern hanging on a tree...

After the funeral procession left, a woman appeared on the mountain road that the funeral procession had passed.

The woman looked at the team with gongs and drums, gradually going away, her face was full of loneliness.

"Hey, it's her... Do you have any impression?"

The owl looked at the woman on the mountain road and asked the lantern ghost.

The woman's body was translucent, as if it would be blown away by the wind at any moment.

Gives a very fragile feeling.

The lantern ghost looked over, and the woman also looked over at the lantern ghost.

Four eyes facing each other...

The wind in the air disappeared, and the lantern ghost's body stopped fluttering.

All the memories flooded into it...

The last self in memory is an old man with gray hair.

And that woman is a young girl of seventeen or eighteen years old.

In my memory, the seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl called herself father.

She and the girl's mother have always raised her.

Although the family of three is poor, they live a happy life.

A peaceful life, ending when a girl.

The girl fell in love with a salesman.

The shopkeepers at that time basically wandered from one village to another.

Selling some little things that children and women like.

No one knows where they come from, and no one knows where they are going.

However, the days when they come can always bring rare happiness to the village.

The mother of himself and the girl, just this one daughter, naturally didn't want her daughter to leave with the shopkeeper.

The daughter decided that the shopkeeper was her lover and insisted on leaving.

I said, "If you leave, don't come back." Something like that.

And locked her in the room.

It's just these, how can it be difficult to live, a daughter who yearns for love.

Looking at the broken window glass and wooden sticks scattered on the ground.

At that moment, I knew that my daughter might not come back...

"Hey, lantern ghost, do you remember?"

"Well, I remember..."

Lantern Ghost replied.

After her daughter left, she never came back, and the Lantern Ghost began to regret what she said.

Why do you say something like "you go, don't come back."
One night, Lantern Ghost's wife said to him, "Go and find your daughter."

So, he embarked on the road to find his daughter.

Thousands of mountains and rivers, stepping on the stars, but also stepping on the morning sun.

On the way, I also met many shopkeepers and many girls.

It's just that the salesman is not that salesman, and the girl is not that girl.

He knew that his wife was waiting for him at home in order to go back as soon as possible.

He walked faster and further.

The rhododendrons on the mountain have bloomed and thanked for countless times.

All I know is that my hair is gradually graying, and my steps are gradually faltering.

In the end, he... fell.

"Goo, what's the relationship between her and you?"

asked the owl.

"Yes... it's my daughter..."

After the lantern ghost finished speaking, he slowly floated towards the woman...

The environment around the woman slowly changed, the funeral procession disappeared, and the sound also disappeared.

Day turned to night, with a waning moon and a few dim stars in the sky.

In front of the woman, there appeared a rugged path, winding and winding, facing the distance, and the end of the road could not be seen...

The lantern ghost glanced at the woman, then slowly drifted away along the path.

The owl flapped its wings and came to the lantern ghost.

The woman silently followed behind the Lantern Ghost and the Owl...

……

"Master, the lantern ghost hasn't returned yet..."

Several days have passed, and the first sentence Zashiki Warji said every morning is exactly the same.

"The owl outside the window also disappeared for several days."

Zashiki Doji continued.

"Zashiki Boy, don't worry too much, the lantern ghost will definitely come back."

Chen Beibei patted Zashiki-douji's head and said to her.

Although Chen Beibei himself was not sure whether the Lantern Ghost would come back.

However, he felt that the Lantern Ghost would come back.

Chen Beibei didn't notice the disappearance of the owl.

After all, he got off work every day, and it was already very late, chatting with his shikigami and playing with his mobile phone.

There is not enough time, how can I have time to care about an ordinary owl.

"Firefly, Zashiki-douji, let's go, we're going to kindergarten."

Chen Yan's voice sounded outside the door.

The work in the kindergarten is quite satisfactory, and the children are still very cute in her eyes.

"Well, here we come..."

……

Under the deserted moonlight, the lantern ghost floats slowly, the owl slowly flies, and the woman walks slowly...

In silence, no one spoke, and the Lantern Ghost found his daughter.

Didn't show a trace of joy.

On the contrary, the atmosphere is heavy...

After so many years, the seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl has turned into a woman over fifty years old.

Presumably, the wife waiting at home has also passed away...

Lantern ghost, the ghost that guides the way.

A spirit transformed from the obsession of wanting someone to go somewhere.

Now it finally did it, although it was a bit late, but it was finally possible to let go of the obsession in my heart.

When they came to Lantern Ghost's former home, the dilapidated house was still there.

It's just that the woman inside is no longer there.

On the mountain, a mound, a monument.

engraved with her name.

"We're back……"

The lantern ghost said slowly, and then the flames on his body went out.

The red lantern fell to the ground, turned into ashes, and disappeared in front of the owl...

The woman bowed her knees and knelt down, her soul returned to her hometown, her old friend was dead...

There is no right or wrong in everything, there are only some obsessions and fetters.

　When writing, I kept thinking about not writing the Lantern Ghost to death.However, once you enter the state, you bring yourself into it.A lot of plots are developing on their own... I really don't want to write it to death... I swear... (cry~)

　　
　
(End of this chapter)