God judge, her career is paramount

The first ray of morning light appeared from the sky, and the monsters belonging to the other side retreated like a tide in the darkness.

A young man in white hunting clothes half-kneeled on the eaves, his forehead was covered with cold sweat, and his bare hands were covered with black and purple spots. The stabbing pain that penetrated into the bone marrow made him almost unable to hold the handle of the knife.

"Onikiri...?" Higakiri put his body back into the sheath with all his strength, his hands trembling and hissing, "I'm really more suitable for Onikiri, after all, Onikiri..."

He stood up slowly, looked down at the eaves under his feet, tapped his toes twice, and said to himself: "Did you have a good dream? I hope there is me in it."

"Now, it's time for me to take a break..."

In the room, what Rie is having now is really not a good dream.

During this period of time, her dreams became more and more bizarre. Sometimes she fought with him, and sometimes she faced him with swords. One night, she dreamed that she was standing in a pool, and the opponent was half naked in front of her. , Water droplets flow down from the thinned muscles... The emotions felt in the dream are also very complicated, there are rewards and helplessness, and most of them are itchy teeth from anger.

The same is true of dreams now.

She saw that he was wearing a white hunting suit with a black base, with gentian patterns embroidered with gold thread on the neckline and sleeves, which would reflect brilliant light from certain angles, and he was wearing black leather gauntlets and leggings. The tightly wrapped calves have smooth lines, and the long sword hanging from the waist swings slightly. The whole person is gorgeous and heroic.

He half-kneeled in front of her, his golden eyes sparkled with starlight, as if he was asking her for credit, and the words he said were sincere and had a trace of special power: "I... swear by the god of Fusang... I will... Forget the true name of my Lord, and never again..."

This should have been a solemn scene, but it was ruined by shrugging his shoulders pretending to be helpless: "In this way, you should believe me."

She seemed to say something, the man in front of her mouth curled up, and when he smiled, his eyes were almost pure: "So you already know, well~ Of course it all depends on your wishes."

It's up to...my will.

In the dream, Lie felt a complex emotion for no reason, with mixed flavors, and many emotions that had been suppressed for a long time erupted in her chest, and quickly dissipated into nothingness.Among them were anger and helplessness, but also relaxation and emotion. The biggest impulse was to reach out and grab the collar of this small and beautiful man in front of him, and yell at him with all his strength——

Alert rings.

Rie got up and turned off the alarm clock, without entanglement, skillfully put the dream behind her, and took her slippers to the bathroom to wash up.

It's just a dream, she just watched it as a morning drama, and she didn't want to be too lazy to get serious and forget it later... After all, it would be bad if it affected her daily training and study life.

After washing up, Lie went downstairs to have breakfast. Her brother was already toasting toast on the dining table. Seeing Lie come down, she glanced at her face and raised her eyebrows: "Did you sneak out for a date in the middle of the night? Why doesn't it look like that?" Like waking up?"

Rie rolled her eyes and didn't want to speak.

My mother said beside me: "It would be great if we went out on a date, I'm afraid it's time to get up to practice at night, so pay attention to rest, Rie."

Rie sat down on the chair, and said angrily: "How is it possible! It's going to be spring high soon, and I pay great attention to sleep time!"

"Hahaha, that's good." The mother smiled, put a plate of fried eggs and bacon in front of Lie, and rubbed her daughter's hair.

Heiwei Tielang said leisurely: "I only asked this question when I saw the chocolate ingredients and molds in the refrigerator."

Li Hui took a toast and heard her brother continue: "When cooking the chocolate, be careful not to burn it. I remember that you seemed to have a make-up exam for the baking class last year? You really received the chocolate People are worried."

The veins on Lie's forehead jumped up: "It has nothing to do with you! You can't even do it!"

Heiwei Tielang laughed and said, "But the chocolates I receive every year can be eaten next year."

"Huh?" Lie dragged her voice: "No wonder you are getting fatter every year, and your brain probably can't move anymore, because it is full of cocoa butter!"

Seeing that a brother-sister war was about to break out, my mother shouted in the kitchen: "Tie Lang, I'm going back to Tokyo soon, so don't mess with your sister anymore, let's get along well."

"Understood—" Heiwei Tielang replied indifferently, he was studying in Tokyo, and he came home during the spring break to spend New Year's Eve with his family.

"Then we will meet at Chungao next time." Heiwei Tielang raised his eyebrows at his sister: "I will go to the game, come on~"

Lie snorted coldly: "Don't come, anyway, the video of the champion's game will be replayed several times on TV."

"Yo, so confident?"

"Of course it's not like someone, who played his best game in three years of high school and only made it to the quarterfinals."

"Then I'm really looking forward to it. Thank you Rie-chan for helping me fulfill my long-cherished wish of becoming a champion. I'll take Grinder and them to watch it together. We college students are very busy, so thank you."

"No need! Go write your thesis!"

"Oh? Are you afraid that you will be so nervous that you will serve out of bounds with me?"

It was the prelude to the outbreak of another round of war, and my father had no choice but to say: "Get along well, a high school student and a college student, why do you quarrel as soon as you open your mouth?"

The two said in unison: "It's not because the guy is too naive!"

……

The morning sun is slightly cold, and white air will form when breathing, and flower buds the size of rice grains have just begun to appear on the cherry blossom trees beside the road.The flower shop's Valentine's Day bouquets are launched at the same time as the restaurant's couple's dinner. From time to time, high school students who go to school laugh and run to take a look.

Lie is not interested in any of these, and what is in front of her now is Chungao, at most adding the year-end exam and the recent weird dreams and flashbacks, but compared with Chungao, the latter two are nothing.

But today is destined to be no ordinary day.

Before class in the morning, Rie glanced at the seat beside her—it was empty, and she thought it was a transfer student who was late, but the owner of the seat did not show up until lunch.

Li Hui intends to ask the teacher, but he is afraid that he will get into trouble by exposing the transfer student's work outside, and the classmates in the class have not expressed any abnormality about the vacancy behind the classroom. If I go to the teacher specifically for this ...it always feels weird.

The transfer student didn't come all day. After school in the afternoon, Rie went to the shoe cabinet to find the other's cabinet. When she opened it, only indoor shoes were quietly placed inside, without other traces.

After all, why should she care about this?Lie was a little annoyed, the strange transfer student didn't come to class, even the teacher didn't care, it was her turn to care?She didn't even have the phone number or line number of the other party.

Even though she thought so, Lie stayed for the afternoon training until the end. She changed her clothes and walked out of the training ground with her schoolbag on her back until the sky darkened and the distant sky was burned red by the sunset.

Looking at the school road with very few students, Rie sighed secretly, thinking that she actually had such a little hope, thinking that he might appear before she was about to leave as usual... What was she thinking, should it be earlier go home.

The abnormality happened on the way home... Rie stood at the intersection, and was stunned to see a three-story crocodile lying in the middle of the street in front of him.

The scales on the crocodile show a magnificent fluorescent green to purple gradient, so gorgeous that the eyes of anyone who sees it will be shocked. There are dozens of eyes on the head, and the smallest eyeball is the size of a basketball. Turn in all directions.

Lie froze in place, suspecting that she had misread it, because no one around her responded.

She stretched out her hand and rubbed her eyes, and when she opened her eyes again, she found that the giant crocodile in front of her had disappeared, and the pedestrians were still walking.

...was it a hallucination?

Just as Lie breathed a sigh of relief, she suddenly heard the sound of wind breaking behind her, followed by a strong pull on her right arm—"Get out of the way!"

The visitor dragged her aside violently, and almost fell into the grass beside the road due to inertia, and a crocodile fell from the sky where she was just standing, and when its limbs hit the ground, the ground shook.

Lie was stunned, unable to recover for a long time.This should just be her hallucination, right?Or dream?But she could even see the small stones on the ground that were shaken by the crocodile, including the dizziness that she almost fell just now, everything was horribly real.

"Is there still time to daze?"

A chuckle came from behind her, and Rie turned her head suddenly, and it turned out to be the transfer student who had been missing for a whole day.

The condition of the transfer student is not good now, the school uniform is messy and torn, the collar of the shirt is half open, and the exposed collarbone and neck are covered with black and purple spots.He also held a long knife in his hand, which was a bit longer than the wooden knife used in the Kendo club last time.

Lie blurted out: "You go today..."

"There's no time to talk about that now."

Higakiri's left hand, which didn't hold a knife, grabbed Rie's right hand and led her forward.

What else did Riei want to say: "Wait a minute! You..."

Mustache cut behind them with a knife backhand, and kept walking: "That guy is chasing him, and now I can't kill him, I have to find a shrine to hide."

Rie looked back, and saw the colorful crocodile's four thick and short claws moving quickly, and it fell ferociously not far behind them, with more than a dozen eyeballs staring at her intently, with a grinning mouth Saliva splashed everywhere.

Pulled by her mustache, she ran forward all the way, and none of the pedestrians around expressed surprise at their behavior, and didn't even give them half a glance.

The crocodile that followed was even weirder. It passed through the traffic, and the cars and pedestrians didn't enter its body when it came. When it passed, it came out from the other side safe and sound.

Rie only felt that her world view was gone: "What the hell is that?! Does it really exist??"

"Of course they don't exist in this world, they exist on the other side." Mustache said without looking back.

In front of them, monsters with strange shapes appeared again, all of them were beheaded by Mustache with a knife.Occasionally, a little demon would pounce on Rie, but Hishikiri had no time to use the knife, so he had to let go of Rie in a flash, separated the monster's minions with his own arm, and then raised the knife to chop.The monsters killed by him turned into white light and dissipated.

"your hands!"

It was only a split second, but Rie saw black and purple marks on the back of Higakiri's hand that had blocked her just now.

"So I have to find a shrine quickly."

Higashiki ran ahead without looking back, his injured left hand tightly grasped Rie's hand, and pulled her to turn towards the path.

Behind them, the crocodile-shaped monster saw that it could not catch up with them, its big mouth suddenly opened, and a black shadow shot out from the mouth.

Hidekiri pulled Rie and rolled on the spot, fell on the steps of the street, and narrowly dodged, the black shadow passed by them, and a large fluorescent green stain was stuck on the tree trunk it scratched. Slime, hissing and corroding.

It wasn't until the black shadow shrank back that they realized that it was actually a crocodile's tongue, which was more than ten meters long.

This is completely beyond the scope of Lie's understanding: "The crocodile also has such a long tongue!? It's not normal to run so fast just now, isn't it a frog with a long tongue?"

"These are all monsters from the other side, how can we use human common sense to judge."

Hidekiri turned over and got up, quickly pulled Rie up as well, and led her to run up the steps.

The bluestone stairs are only more than one meter wide. Higakiri kept pulling Rie up the stairs. At the end of the stairs is a small vermilion torii gate, quietly located in the mountains.

After running back and forth for such a long time, only Rie could still keep up. If it was a girl who usually doesn't like sports, she would have fallen down halfway.

The crocodile monster stopped outside the intersection, peeking into the path with a few eyeballs. After judging that it was not easy to go up, it backed up a few steps and opened its big mouth, and the long tongue popped out again.

There are still three steps away from the torii gate!

Sensing the turbid breath coming from behind him, Hidekiri pulled Rie's left hand and exerted force suddenly, pulling the person to his side in the air. Semicircle snow practice.

There was only a swish, and then two heavy objects fell to the ground. Higakiri grabbed Rie's waist, used himself as a cushion, and fell into the torii together.A purple tongue as thick as a bucket fell down the steps, and it was rolling down the steps. The corrosive saliva was only half a step away from their feet.

Outside the trail, the crocodile withdrew its broken tongue, smacked its lips, and rolled its basketball-sized eyeballs several times in all directions, as if confirming that it was impossible, then turned around and dragged its huge body away slowly.

The two sat on the edge of the torii stone steps and panted until the crocodile's wagging long tail disappeared. Then Rie dared to let go of the heart that he had been carrying just now, and breathed a sigh of relief.

As soon as she relaxed, she immediately realized something, looked down at her waist, but only caught the phantom of someone quickly withdrawing her hand.

Lie: "..." She understands that this is to save herself, but why does he seem a little guilty?

Rie looked at Higakiri and asked, "Thank you just now... so what's going on?"

Hidekiri sat cross-legged, stretched the knife out of the torii gate, shook off the remaining mucus, and said in a natural tone: "Being able to see monsters means that you are awakening your spiritual power, and every time you see them, it is equivalent to Walking in the gap between this world and the other shore, when you see monsters, monsters will also see you, and your spiritual power and aura of strangers are their best supplements."

This series of words explained everything, Rie opened her mouth wide, and said after a long time: "But I have never..."

Mustache shrugged and said: "I know you may not be able to accept it for a while, don't worry, take your time." Anyway, you will know everything after recovering your memory.

"OK then……"

Rie's eyes fell on Higakiri's neck and hands, all his bare skin was stained with black and purple spots to varying degrees, the contrast between white and black and purple was strong, it looked shocking.

Lie couldn't help but said: "Are these wounds on your body? How should I deal with it?"

"These things..." Mustache also looked down at his hands, and suddenly smiled: "I still need your help."

Lie was taken aback: "Do you need me to buy some alcohol and bandages?"

"No." When Huqie pursed his lips and smiled, there was a sense of mystery in his eyes: "Well, you will understand soon."

He stood up, reached out to Lie, and pulled her up.

Hikiri led the way to the interior of the shrine, and Rie followed behind him. They were in a small shrine, which enshrined an unnamed god here.

This shrine is so small that it is pocket-sized. Not to mention compared with the Tenmangu Shrine, which has its own collection, it is only about ten meters from the torii to the shrine, and there are no more buildings behind the shrine.

The stone road under their feet was worn out and uneven. Although the wooden shed was dilapidated, it was not in a state of disrepair. I wondered if there were still people helping to take care of it.

Higakiri walked towards Tesuisha next to the shrine, and said, "Although I don't know which god this place belongs to, I'm sorry for trespassing."

Rie was a little hesitant. With the experience of being chased and killed by monsters just now, she could no longer firmly believe that there are no gods and monsters in this world. Hearing what Hikiri said, she asked: "Since monsters are real... Is that god real too?"

Mustache raised his eyebrows and said: "Of course it is true, otherwise what do you think I am?"

Rie opened her mouth wide and was speechless. In her imagination, the gods should be like the statues of the gods in Tenmangu, not to mention the fluttering white beards, at least wearing hunting clothes and hats... instead of looking like the gods in front of her eyes. Like other people, he was wearing a high school uniform with torn and dirty corners, and the collar was not even buttoned.

Seeing her looking at him like this, Mustache knew she didn't believe it: "Actually, you saw me slaying demons a few days ago, right?"

Lie was surprised and said, "So that was you? But it looks like..."

"You mean the age is wrong?" Mustache chuckled slightly, and said: "After all, I want to protect you personally, and it will be more convenient to use the current appearance. To the gods, men, women, old and young don't matter at all, they are just a body."

"Personal protection..." Lie repeated, and suddenly remembered the strange things that happened in her life from time to time a month ago, and couldn't help but widen her eyes: "So you did those things?!"

Mustache said unsurely, "It seems that I did it? Well, don't care so much now."

Higakiri raised his arms and rolled up his sleeves, taking a breath during the movement. Rie saw some scratches on the outside of his arms, all of which were injuries he suffered while protecting himself from monster attacks on the road. The edges of the wounds spread out. Large black and purple spots.

Riei became nervous: "This, is this poisoning?"

"This is pollution." Higiri replied, "The youkai just now are essentially monsters generated from human emotions and thoughts. For gods, it is not an exaggeration to say that they are poison."

Higakiri's tone was understated: "If you are polluted by this kind of thing to a certain extent, even gods will die."

This time even Rie took a breath of air. She looked at Hikakiri up and down, and saw that not only his arms were covered with black and purple spots, but also on his neck where the collar was exposed, which almost spread to his chin, so her heart tightened: "Then what should we do now? How can we cure you?"

"It's simple."

When he came to the Tesuisha next to the shrine, Higakiri had been carrying the long knife in his hand against the edge of the pool, and he didn't even retract it into the scabbard, or he didn't have a place to carry the scabbard on his body.

Higakiri picked up the bamboo ladle from the pool, and smiled at Rie, "I need your help now."

Lie swallowed involuntarily: "What should I do?"

Hidekiri smiled and handed the long handle to Rie, with clear and sincere eyes: "You just need to scoop water from the pool and pour it on my polluted place. Although I can do it myself, the efficiency may not be up to you Come high."

For some reason, Rie had a strange premonition when looking at Higakiri's clear eyes. This look always reminded her of a guy with clear eyes who could behave but was extremely wretched...

Seeing her hesitation, Mustache sighed and said: "At any rate, I have protected you for more than a month. Recently, because your spiritual power has increased, I have been sleepless for several days. I have to protect your house from monsters at night, and protect you during the day." You will also be blamed for being late and asking for leave..."

Lie was ashamed by what he said, and immediately put the premonition in her mind behind her, took the water scoop and said, "I'm sorry, I'll help now!"

Mustache immediately put away his sad expression, put his left arm on the sink, smiled at her and said: "Then let's start, please do it for me."

Rie carefully scooped up a ladle of water from the pool, and then moved the ladle over Higakiri's arm, and said anxiously: "Are you sure you can use this water to rinse? These are just ordinary tap water, and they have been placed in the open air. I don't know." how long……"

Hidekiri said in a relaxed tone: "Passing the torii gate is the domain of the gods, and the water in Tesuisha is also the water of the domain of the gods. Although it does not conform to your common sense, it is most suitable to use it to cleanse this kind of pollution."

"Since you're sure..." Lie gritted her teeth, and poured a ladle of water on the black and purple spots on Mustache's arm.

Hikekiri: "Uh! Uh..."

The moment the water full of spiritual power touched the scorpion, there was a burst of burning pain and numbness from the wound that went straight to the brain. The wound seemed to be scorched by fire. Compared with being cut by a sword in battle, it was more unbearable for him. Couldn't suppress the groan from his throat.

Especially compared with the bone-eating stimulation in the memory of the distraction, the pain I feel now is definitely greater than the pleasure, and there is almost no enjoyment at all.

Seeing him leaning against the water tank, his head almost fell into the pool, Lie asked nervously, "Are you alright?"

Higakiri hadn't recovered from the stimulation just now, but Rie found that most of the scars on his arm had faded away, leaving only some edges and corners, and couldn't help but be surprised: "It's really effective..."

Immediately afterwards, she scooped up another ladle of water, grabbed Mustache's left arm with her right hand, and looked into his eyes earnestly and apologetically: "It's only a little bit close, bear with it a little bit."

Higakiri's pupils dilated: "Wait..."

Rie had already poured a ladle of water on it, and Higakiri slid down the pool trembling all over, only his left hand was still held by Rie, his face turned red in order to hold back his groans.

Seeing that the traces of pollution on his arm had completely disappeared, Rie breathed a sigh of relief, and then looked at Higakiri's neck, where there were also large black and purple spots.

Mustache trembled twice when she saw him, and involuntarily grasped his open shirt collar tightly, just like a helpless little girl who was raped, feeling in her heart the pain of Fen Ling facing a pool of recovery water full of spiritual energy. fear.

Lie tentatively asked, "Do you still want me?"

Mustache: "...Thank you, I'll do it myself."