[Comprehensive] A murder caused by a feather

Yayoi's hometown is not far from where she lives now, and it only takes two hours to get to that town by tram, and it takes a while to walk to the town after arriving at the station.

The forest in summer has a fresh smell. When Yayoi came to that path, it was noon and the sun was shining brightly.The sound of the cicadas is very powerful, and the whole town exudes a vibrant atmosphere.

When Yayoi was young, she lived with her grandma for a while.I can't remember the grandma's appearance in my memory. Yayoi can only think of her gentle smile. She always likes to touch Yayoi's hair, which is neither long nor short, and speak to her words that she doesn't understand at all.

Yayoi didn't remember those words.

The jungle on the right side of the asphalt road made rustling noises, and Yayoi, who was walking alone on the country road, stopped vigilantly, staring nervously at the pile of shivering grass.

"Who is there?"

No one answered Yayoi's question, the grass soon stopped shaking, and Yayoi breathed a sigh of relief, but in the next moment, a boy in a white shirt rolled out of the grass with his head in his arms, with a stick stuck in his short light chestnut hair. A few green grass blades.

He stood up staggeringly, turned his head and looked at Yayoi several times.

"Stop, give me back my name—" A strange deep voice sounded in the forest, and then, a huge monster rolled out like a ball. It didn't know what it hit, and it passed the boy's body in an instant. Overhead flew towards the forest on the other side.

Yayoi and the boy with short light chestnut hair watched the monster crash into a tree trunk.

"Monster?" The red-brown haired girl murmured, seemingly unable to respond.

Her luck was indeed not very good. She met a monster when she first came to this town...

Some dazed youkai quickly stood up, several times the size of Yayoi, it seemed to be irritated, its mouth opened wide.

"I'm going to eat you!"

Wait, wait!What's the matter with her? !

Yayoi, who was lying on the gun, felt that she was too innocent, but it was a pity that the monster would not give up the attack because she did nothing.Compared to Yayoi's unfamiliarity, the boy with light chestnut hair and short hair was more agile in running away. He rushed over when the monster pounced on Yayoi, grabbed Yayoi's wrist and ran desperately.

"Wait a moment--"

"Run away first!"

When dealing with a monster that is chasing after you, it is useless to just run away. Yayoi and the boy with short chestnut hair ran for a long way, but she still couldn't get rid of the monster who persisted to the end. extreme.

It's all the monster's fault, otherwise she wouldn't be so unlucky!

There are many branches in the forest, Yayoi simply threw her bag into the hands of the light chestnut short-haired boy, picked up a thicker tree trunk and smashed it down hard at the bulky monster.

"Go away!"

The girl who once learned some fur fighting with her friend Mo Lilan, a Kanto Sai karate champion, burst out with strength that even she herself could not imagine, and beat the monster with one blow so that it ran away crying.

The boy with light chestnut short hair is slender, his skin is very fair, his slender fingers hold Yayoi's bag tightly, and his pupils of the same color as the hair are shining.

This is a very gentle and beautiful boy, he is staring at Yayoi with warm eyes, expressing emotion like a chant.

"Amazing."

After killing the monster, Yayoi panted heavily, the shriveled bark of the hand holding the thick branch felt tingling, she looked at her red hands, and threw it under the tree casually.

Yayoi who returned to normal twitched the corners of her mouth, looked at the boy who had been looking at her, and extended her hand in a friendly way.

"My bag." She took her own bag and slung it across her body. "My name is Yayoi Kinoshita. How about you?"

"I am... Natsume Takashi."

This young man, who could see monsters like her, twitched his eyelashes twice, and the corners of his mouth curled up in a gentle arc.

>>>

Shared adversity will produce different friendships. This fact is actually correct, at least it works for Yayoi and Natsume.Both of them can see youkai, and there is no companion who can see youkai.

The two hit it off right away, their auras matched, and they were not at all awkward when chatting, let alone being cold - even though the topics were all about monsters.

Even if the two people's experiences are very different, things like fate cannot be explained clearly with words.

And for Yayoi Kinoshita, she has just stepped into the category of being able to see monsters, and she doesn't understand many things like Natsume, so she may go the wrong way.

"Hmm... Kinoshita-san only saw monsters yesterday?" Takashi Natsume has a slender figure, his skin is as fair as Yayoi, and he looks like a weak and beautiful boy, "Actually, I don't know much about these things either. .”

"Ah...that's it." Yayoi, who was not gentle with men, rarely showed a gentle smile, "Well, I'm hungry, there is a shop in front, Natsume-san, do you want to go together?"

After taking such a long time in the car, and fighting off a monster on the way to the town, Yayoi's stomach began to protest, she tilted her head and asked.

"No, thank you very much for your invitation," Natsume pursed his lips slightly, and politely refused, "It's time for me to go back."

"...Please wait a moment," Yayoi quickly took out the mobile phone from her bag, "Although such a request is impolite... But, Natsume-san, can you tell me your home number?"

Seeing Natsume Takashi's confused expression, she added another sentence: "Natsume-san said that he doesn't know anything about monsters, but to me, you are a senior...is that okay?"

As a novice who has just seen youkai, Yayoi Kinoshita must feel uneasy.Being able to meet a boy similar to her current situation so quickly, even if the other party's gender prevents her from having a close friendship, but... it's better than being alone, right?

"...Okay." Takashi Natsume hesitated for a moment before agreeing to Yayoi's request, which made Yayoi heave a sigh of relief.

Getting a call from Natsume's house made Yayoi's uneasy heart a lot easier. Natsume-san will be safe or, at any rate, he will have some special skills to repel monsters.Yayoi didn't think that she could defeat all the monsters with her half-baked self, so whether she would call or not in the future, it was good to have a guarantee.

Maybe she will come to her hometown in the future to find relevant information about her "power in the body".

>>>

Coming out of Nanatsujiya, Yayoi is still reminiscing about the taste of food in this rural town.The steamed buns are soft, sweet but not greasy, the outer skin of the fried buns is crisp but not burnt, and the inside is full of fragrance.

Invisible foodie Yayoi Kinoshita thinks she can have another fried bun before leaving.

The Kinoshita family’s old house has been in place for a long time. Grandma Kinoshita has only one son, Yayoi’s father, so after grandma’s death, the old house was not taken care of, and Yayoi’s father did not sell the house because he was reluctant. Lose.

From the outside, the old house looks no different from the surrounding ones. The roof is made of brick-red tiles.There is also a vegetable garden full of weeds around the old house, and the clothes poles are also aging and corroded black.

Yayoi Kinoshita stood in front of the door of the old house, unable to describe how she felt, she stretched out her hand and opened the paper door.

"Excuse me." She said politely, regardless of whether there was anyone in the door.There was a thin layer of dust on the paper door, and when it was pulled open, the dust inside was blown up by the breeze.

There was light gray dust on the floor of Kinoshita's old house. Yayoi hesitated for a while, but walked in without taking off his shoes.

The furniture inside were all covered with white cotton cloth, and the windows were tightly closed, so the sunlight could only get in through the tiny cracks and sprinkle on the gray floor.

There was no information Yayoi wanted in these places, and when Yayoi saw those unidentified furniture, she was just a little emotional.

Time goes by, and the dead are gone.

Grandma's room was on the second floor, and the door was still a Japanese-style paper door. Yayoi bowed towards the room before opening the door and walking in.

"Little Yayoi...has grown up too." When Yayoi looked around, an ethereal voice with a familiar exclamation sounded from behind her.

It would be a lie to say I wasn't intimidated, but...

Yayoi Kinoshita turned her head in astonishment, and saw the translucent grandma wearing the white kimono she wore before she died, her gray hair combed meticulously, with a gentle smile on her face, staring at Yayoi's face with nostalgia.

"Grandma, grandma?!" Yayoi's lips parted wide, and her dark green eyes almost widened into round shapes.The instant she turned around, she was so forceful that she almost fell to the ground.

"Oh, oh, can little Yayoi see grandma?" Grandma opened her eyes wide in surprise, and looked carefully at 15-year-old Yayoi.

When Grandma Kinoshita passed away, Yayoi was only 8 years old, and 7 years have passed.

"Great--"

"Didn't grandma... pass away?" Yayoi stood up straight with some difficulty, and pursed her lips, "Why..."

"Hey, because grandma wants to see the little Yayoi who has grown up get married and have children," grandma said with a smile, touching the red rope on her wrist amidst Yayoi's blushing muttering. A dark red enchanting bead, "Since Xiao Yayoi can see grandma...can you help grandma take this bracelet off?"

Yayoi was brought back to her thoughts by the inexplicable commission from grandma, she blinked in confusion, her green eyes were full of puzzlement: "Why?"

"It's time for me, the old woman, to leave..." Grandma rubbed the red string twice as if nostalgic. If it's the current Yayoi, she will definitely be able to help grandma."

"what……?"

"Little Yayoi's power is something that even an old woman like me would want." Grandma said feelingly, "This thing can definitely protect Little Yayoi."

"Grandma..." Yayoi was almost dizzy from the huge amount of information in her grandma's words. She scratched her head and asked with a sigh, "What is the power in my body...?"

Grandma Kinoshita was stunned for a while, then shook her head: "I don't know either."

"The thing in grandma's hand...?"

"Oh, old people are useless, and I almost forgot the most important explanation," Grandma Kinoshita lowered her head, but she could vaguely see the shadow of a young beauty on her no longer young face, "This thing is According to the family tradition of the Kinoshita family, it is called the 'Soul-fixing Orb', as for its purpose..."

She pointed at herself with a wry smile: "Maybe it is to condense the dead souls?"