Incorrect usage guidelines for the magic perimeter

Lei Di dragged the ox cart along the road at such a fast speed that no electronic equipment could capture its figure—the equipment was temporarily short-circuited or lagged behind for several seconds by the few strands of electric light.

When it slowed down and stopped, the weasel brothers outside started calling.

"Master Seimei, we are here."

"Although Lei Di can't run as fast as us."

"But barely pass."

Lei Di: ...

Yu Ling, who turned into a bull, stared at the three blatant idiots fiercely, and decided to shock them.

Several people in the car got off, and Hiyorubo stayed in the car like the other Shikigami.

Shibukawa Yao looked suspiciously at the old house in front of him, wondering why Seimei brought him here, when he suddenly saw the surname sign at the door.

【Tengchuan】

Shibukawa Yao's face changed slightly. In her memory, there was only one acquaintance with this last name.

Mr. Landlord, the other party's full name is Saburo Tengawa—Yao Shibukawa knows this.

She showed an unbelievable expression, and looked at the white-haired Onmyoji beside her with a bit of pleading.

"I'm sorry." Qingming knew what her eyes meant, but shook her head sadly, "In fact, when we were attacked, our home was attacked by another force of unknown origin. Qingguang can help I testify."

"Yes, yes, I was washing the dishes, and they broke in suddenly..." the black-haired and red-eyed Fu Sangshen said aggrievedly, "—they smashed your bowl! Searched everywhere, and finally And set fire to the house! It's just too much!"

Finally, the black pot was thrown out.The young man secretly praised his witty behavior.

Thinking of how much those second-hand furniture can sell for, Shibukawa Yao trembled with anger, but she also felt new confusion: "You just watch them smash, loot and burn in my house?"

"How is it possible!" said the famous sword at the end of the Tokugawa period with righteous indignation, "I made those guys pay the price!"

"That's good." Shibukawa Yoshi let out a bad breath, "As expected of Kiyomitsu."

Whoa whoa!The master called him "Qing Guang"!Instead of the more polite and distant "California King"!

Daojian Fusangshen was elated for a moment, if he hadn't worried about the wrong occasion, he would have laughed out loud.

But Shibukawa Yao didn't care about the subtle changes in his demeanor, and turned to look at Seimei, "That is to say... After realizing my true identity, they found Mr. Saburo? After all, those who know the specific personal information and address, except government agencies Apart from these official forces, they are also landlords.”

"That's right, so I asked Lei Di to come here to see the situation." Qingming nodded, "But we don't have much time, do you want to go in?"

Do you even have to ask?

With a pinch of the index finger, he summoned the [Master Assassin Set], and after re-feeling the sense of abundance with unlimited physical strength, Shibukawa Yao began to subconsciously compare with the lame Xiaowa in the parallel world... It's been a long time since such a fast-moving Feel!

Compared with the leg exoskeleton armor condensed with high-tech power, she still prefers the original product.

Qingming didn't follow her in, but chose to stay outside to let her out.

At this time, the Purgatory Ibaraki Doji, who was sitting on the roof of the car, appeared and asked him bluntly, "Hey, Onmyoji, do you really want to go in with that little girl? Why are you standing here with a hypocritical face?"

Seimei was too lazy to complain about his inaccurate words, he just quietly watched the figures of Shibukawa Yao and Qingguang disappear behind the gate of the mansion, and then said: "She must... face some things alone, even without me, without Qingguang , and have to face those things.”

The big monster shook his head incomprehensibly, "I don't understand."

A helpless smile appeared on the corner of the Great Onmyoji's lips, "Because we are running out of time."

California Kiyomitsu put his hand on the handle of the knife, and followed Shibukawa Yao into the back of the gate with a vigilant face, for fear that there were some traps in the house that would cause harm to the weak master.

Halfway through the courtyard, the girl thought about it and hung the witcher's wolf head pendant around her neck.The color of the hair and pupils under the hood changes instantly.

At this moment, Qing Guang could feel her demeanor suddenly become indifferent.

The reason why I wear a witcher pendant is because every witcher is an expert in tracking, investigating, and hunting, and with the blessing of [Calm] BUFF, it can make girls notice many things that they usually don't notice. details.

Sure enough, through eagle eyes and witcher vision, she suddenly discovered new traces.

"There is mud on the threshold. This mud is the same as the soil in the garden... It should have been broken in from the fence. If you come in from the main entrance, there is no chance to step on the mud."

She opened the wooden door and walked in, and found a new situation in the shoe cabinet at the door.

"One, two, three... There are three visitors with malicious intentions, and the shoe prints are of different sizes."

Shibukawa Yao took a few steps forward, and his sight suddenly stopped on a hard-to-find trace of wear and dust on the wall next to the entrance of the living room.

"Mr. Saburo came out of the living room after hearing the noise, and was knocked down with a punch, and his head hit the wall, which abraded the damp and powdered wall."

"That's right, the height and wear position also match."

California Kiyomitsu followed her into the living room with a face of shock, listening to Shibukawa Yao continue to investigate various traces of details.

"After the assailant knocked people out, they dragged Mr. Saburo to the living room. To prevent outsiders from seeing them, they also closed the balcony's floor-to-ceiling glass doors and drew the curtains...Obviously, that guy doesn't know how to use this relatively primitive method." Glass door locks, you only need brute force, otherwise you wouldn't have made finger marks on the lock..."

"They beat the old man in the living room and tortured him for information about me. To make room, they also moved the tea table away—after all, the color difference on the tatami is so obvious that it is difficult to ignore it."

"Mr. Saburo tried to resist, but he still couldn't hold back these bastards. They took some water from the kitchen and poured it down until he vomited."

"The group of people finally got my house information, and Mr. Saburo is bleeding..."

Shibukawa Yao straightened up and walked towards the direction of the blood in silence.

It was a TV stand on the wall, a common design in many old-fashioned homes, and the door could be opened to watch TV.

She closed her eyes, and finally opened the cabinet door expressionlessly.

The blue-faced old man slumped on the TV, his clothes were soaked, black blood spilled from the corner of his mouth, but his eyes were still staring at her and California Qingguang.

At this moment, Yao Shibukawa quickly recalled all the scenes of meeting this kind landlord in his mind, calmly like a bystander-he came from the stairs to take back the apartment originally rented to Osamu Dazai, He sat on a chair and asked about his recent situation with concern. He knocked on the door of her house with the local products and vegetables sent from his hometown...

The pair of eyes that are always gentle, happy, and kind in memory... Would they also show such angry, helpless, and desperate eyes before dying?

Shibukawa Yao lowered her eyes unbearably, curled her fingers into her palm one by one, and squeezed it hard.

When the girl raised her head again, there was no trace of fluctuation in her eyes, as if it was just a stranger who died.She stretched out her hand very coldly, probing the wounds on the opponent's body.

"Judging from the blood stains and the face of the corpse, Mr. Saburo should have been dead for less than an hour..."

"There are three fatal injuries, the neck, the spine, and the heart. They were all destroyed by external forces and then covered with knife wounds as a cover. The person who did it was very cautious and wanted to kill him completely. But it can also be said... in the first stage of inducing follow-up investigators An impression."

"The left hand behind the back seems to be holding... is it holding something?"

Shibukawa Yo pulled the old man's hand over with his left hand wearing a wolf glove, and forcefully opened the corpse's fingers, and finally found a man's iron ring in his already stiff palm, with a certain badge engraved on it.

Obviously, during the fight, Tengawa Saburo took the opportunity to tear off the ID card from someone's finger and hid it in his palm.

Did not let go until death.

Shibukawa Yao silently stuffed the ring into her pocket. At this moment, she heard the knocking sound of the broken glass door from the balcony outside. When she looked up, she found it was a weasel.

Through the glass door, Kamaitachi gestured to them—that was the agreed meaning of [someone is coming].

Girl pulls out her phone and hacks a nearby camera on this street...it's a police car!

It turned out to be the case.

Generally speaking, the police in this country are not that effective at finding dead people living alone in their homes, unless someone... knows in advance that the owner of the house is dead.

Of course Seimei and the Shikigami couldn't call the police when they were full and had nothing to do, so the guy who called the police was either the murderer himself or someone related to the murderer.

——Those people actually wanted to plant the crime of "killing Saburo Tengawa" on [Huanwu].

A trace of anger flashed in Shibukawa Yao's dark eyes.

She took one last look at the dead body of this old man who had helped herself and her former owner, cared about her health and work, and was willing to be in arrears with the rent for several months. She raised her hand and closed her eyelids for him.

It seemed so much more peaceful.

"I'm sorry, it's all my negligence, and I've caused you trouble." Shibukawa Yao said in a low voice, "...Don't worry, Mr. Saburo, I will pay all the 'room fees' in arrears for you in time. "

"Let's go, Qingguang."

They escaped before the police car arrived, and Shibukawa Yao took off the wolf head pendant from his neck until he jumped into the bullock cart.

As her hair color and pupils returned to normal, she seemed to relax all of a sudden, and the expression on her face instantly became more active.

Shibukawa Yao took out the old men's ring and played with it in his hand, thinking about something.

California Qingguang kept watching her expression changes worriedly, and asked tentatively, "Master, are you okay?"

"Huh? I have no problem." Shibukawa Yao replied with a smile on his face, "Qingguang, you are worrying too much."

"Yes, is that so..."

Qing Guang lowered his head embarrassingly. He actually wanted to say—when the master was playing with the ring just now, the expression on his face was like wearing an iron mask, cold and false.

I don't know how long it took, but the speed of the bullock cart slowed down significantly.At this time Shibukawa Yao suddenly heard Seimei say to herself: "Get out of the car, boss, and Qingguang."

The girl looked up at him suspiciously, "...What about you?"

The white-haired Onmyoji looked sad, "I won't get out of the car."

"Where are you going, Seimei?"

"I have to go," he replied mildly. "You know the answer."

Shibukawa Yao stared at him, speechless for a while, and Seimei also looked at the girl with gentle and generous eyes.

"Is it the 'price'?" Shibukawa Yao finally asked, "Is it...the price for breaking free from the figurine base and summoning shikigami to come here? You have a time limit, right? When the time limit is up, you have to leave this world."

Faced with this series of questions, Seimei just smiled and said nothing.

——Who said the boss is stupid?It's clear that I just like to play dumb in normal times.

Shibukawa Yao raised his hand tremblingly, wanting to touch his forehead to see if he had a fever, or maybe it was just a dream.But in the end she resisted the urge to deceive herself.

"...I'm going to lose two friends today, right?" she said sadly.

"You will always be my friend, Abe Seimei, Boss. You never lost me, not today, nor in the future. As long as it is engraved in each other's hearts, our friendship will never be erased." Seimei comforted, " But there is no banquet in life, I just regret that this time came too early."

Rihefang and California Qingguang on the side were stunned and didn't dare to say anything.

Shibukawa Yao, who didn't care about other people's emotions, pulled out a wry smile: "No wonder you were so confident in facing those ghosts and Ze when you were in Shenxiang Village earlier... It turns out that you can break free from the base at any time and come here with your original posture world. That’s why I’m full of confidence.”

Qingming slightly nodded apologetically, "I'm sorry for keeping you secret until now."

"It's nothing to hide, although I guessed a little bit. But I didn't dare to confirm your strength until today." Shibukawa Yao muttered and lowered his head, feeling his nose faintly sore, "I'm just... just... a little sad."

No, it's not a little sad, it's sad, super sad.

It's not that the pain of losing Seimei, who was both a teacher and a friend and who spent many days with him day and night, would be more painful than that of the relatively unfamiliar landlord, Mr. Saburo.It's just that... she couldn't let go of the multiple blows that came to her this night.

Yao Shibukawa suddenly remembered a foreign movie he watched many years ago. The protagonist in it said to his friend very sadly: "My life is like riding a Ferris wheel. One second I was on top of the world, and the next second I fell into the world." Bottom."

Now, she seems to be at rock bottom.

"...I'm sorry." The girl said with sobs, she raised her hands to cover her face, hiding all the tears and regrets deep in her palms, "I'm sorry."

She didn't know who she was speaking to, whether it was Mr. Saburo who died innocently, Seimei who was forced to be expelled from this world, or herself or someone else.

But there was a hand that gently pressed the top of her head pityingly, and rubbed it vigorously, just like when Qingming was still a figurine, he would rua her hair every day when he had nothing to do.

The white-haired onmyoji said helplessly, "It's not your fault, boss. Why do you always take all the responsibility on yourself?"

"In fact, not all endings in this world can be perfect. You are a good boy with a kind nature, even death can't erase it, but maybe this quality makes you do a lot of things that are unnecessary for a criminal. What happened to you... also made you suffer a lot. But it's not your fault that you were born kind."

"Besides, it was the enemy who came to you first, not you who took the initiative to hurt others. I have seen many bad examples of people depraving and indulging and wantonly hurting others when they have power, but I don't think you will be worse than them... because you understand better The power of 'restraint'."

"In the end, I chose to break free from the base to protect you. Thanks to your psionic power, otherwise I would not be able to succeed."

"As for Mr. Saburo's matter...I'm sorry, but we didn't expect your real name to be revealed in advance. But we are not saints, as long as we are alive, we will make mistakes. I have seen your hard work along the way Here, those hard work are definitely not meaningless."

At this point, Qingming paused for a moment before continuing: "The so-called life is made up of regrets and things that are not so regrettable. Regrets cannot be avoided. We can only do what we want to do in our limited life. "

"Boss, stop blaming yourself. I can see that you will become a great person. All the pain and suffering you endure today will crown you tomorrow." He said softly, as if he was firmly condemning an iron man The fact that "it will."

Shibukawa Yao slowly raised his head, his eyes were red, "...Where do you mean, Seimei?"

"All. Wherever you want to excel, you'll become an expert in that field. You'll do all the things you set your mind to, and you'll end up with the peace of mind and peace you've been craving."

Seimei said to her very solemnly, "This—is the prophecy I made to you, Shibukawa Yo. This is the future I saw through divination!"

"You will live a happier life than you imagined, child."

It is not so much a prophecy from a great onmyoji to his friends, but rather a blessing.

They got out of the car.

Outside the car is the beach, the sea, and the dark sky.

Before leaving, Qingming brushed aside the white silk with a fan, and said to the black-haired, red-eyed young man outside the car, "Take care of her, Qingguang. I'll leave this task to you, don't let me down."

"Yes, Seimei-senpai!" California Qingguang replied very seriously.

Shibukawa Yao on the side didn't speak, she just quietly looked at the sea not far away.Lei Di pulled the ox cart to the seashore, at this time the darkness was about to dissipate, and a new day was coming.

"Boss." Qingming called her.

"Ok?"

"Don't worry, I will remember you." The Great Onmyoji said with a smile, "When the 'Fate' comes again, we may meet again."

"I guess you still have a lot of questions you want to ask me. About your ability, about my origin, about the world you went to when you were unconscious, about all of this... right?"

Shibukawa Yao stared at his absolutely handsome face, as if he wanted to engrave it deep in his mind, and finally nodded, "Yes, but I think even if you don't tell me, I will find the answer one day. "

"That's right." Qingming showed that familiar look of a fox-like sly smile, "Those answers are hidden in your heart, you just forget them temporarily, and when the time comes, you will understand the truth behind it." All stories."

"So... goodbye, boss. Remember what I said... Never give up on yourself."

When the first ray of the sun shines on the sea, Lei Di has already pulled the ox cart and stepped across the sea. In the sea breeze and sunshine, these travelers from other worlds disappeared in this world like bubbles. .

"I feel..." California Qingguang said in a daze, "like a dream."

He still can't believe that senior Qingming just disappeared from their lives.

Shibukawa Yao suddenly remembered Seimei's insistence on summoning the Fusangshen in front of him. Has he counted this day already?Considering that he will leave this world sooner or later, he must choose a new successor as soon as possible.

...Forget it, it doesn't make sense to think about it now.

"Yes, Qingguang. It's so strange..." The girl seemed to respond to the words of her previous companion. Her eyes reflected the golden-red glow on the sea waves, as if even her soul was glowing. like.

"How did these seemingly unconnected stories... shape my soul?"