[Comprehensive] This onmyoji is a bit European

When the sealing barrier in the shrine loosened, the turbid evil spirit shrouded in the mountains behind Yayuan began to gradually dissipate.Natsume, who was waiting anxiously outside the barrier, stood up nervously when he felt the barrier behind him faintly showing signs of opening.

The small red door of the shrine opened slowly, and streams of white light gushed out from it, and the transparent sealing barrier burst like shattered glass.

The white light gradually faded, and familiar figures appeared one after another. Seeing that everyone was soaked in blood but came out of the sealing barrier intact, Natsume finally let out a breath of relief, but when he saw the one standing at the back with loose red hair When the man hugged the blood-stained boy, his pupils constricted suddenly, and his body moved subconsciously. When he ran over in a panic, the first thing he noticed was not the hideous wound on Touya's body, but the one holding him. The man's eyes were full of death.

"Mr. Shuten...?" Natsume's tone became difficult. In his impression, this man was always strong and unruly, but now he showed an undisguised look of despair, and his heart felt cold. Could it be—— —

Looking at Touya who closed his eyes tightly in Jiu Tun's arms, Natsume's voice trembled slightly, "Kirishima... is he alright?"

Only then did Jiu Tun have a slight reaction. He raised his head and glanced at Natsume, seeing that the other party was staring at the little devil in his arms, his eyes were full of worry and panic, Jiu Tun shook his head, his complexion returned to normal, his eyes All the dead energy inside dissipated, as if what Natsume saw just now was just an illusion.

"He's fine, the wound on his body will be healed by the shrine later." A flat voice sounded after the wine was swallowed, and an ice-blue soul appeared.

Natsume looked at the soul that suddenly appeared in surprise. He had heard Mr. Cat mentioned that there were other souls in Kirishima's body before, and today he saw this mysterious soul for the first time.

Unlike the soul whose breath was weak and barely felt before, at this time, Abe Seimei once again found the feeling of full spiritual power before the body was destroyed. He could feel the shikigami sleeping in the shrine because of his spiritual power The skyrocketed and he began to wake up, but the feeling of spiritual power recovery filled his heart with an indescribable sense of sadness.

Seeing the scarlet blood on the body of the child in Jiu Tun's arms and the gradually fading breath, Abe Seimei's already heavy gaze became even more dim.

He should have expected this kind of thing to happen a long time ago, if Shuten could tell him the truth before he decided to carry out the plan he had in mind, the child would not... fall into this fate.

"Hey, your shikigami should be awake now, go back and treat this brat now." Ibaraki said impatiently, he didn't quite know what happened, all he knew was that this brat seemed to give all his spiritual power to him. Abe Seimei... But now he only felt that the other party's blood-stained appearance was dazzling.

"Then let's go back now, Firefly and the others should be waiting." Abe Seimei sighed imperceptibly, now his mental connection with Touya has been completely cut off, even if the other party has temporarily lost consciousness, he His soul can also exist independently of Touya's body.

"Now that the matter has been resolved, the old man's task is considered complete." Bai Baiye tapped the crutch in his hand, and his wrinkled face became even older, "But the old man never expected that Master Shuten would deliberately let Baba Orochi Qi broke through the rift in the underworld and then took the opportunity to get its body stuck between the cracks... The scene where the heads of Yaqi fell one after another really made me feel admirable from the bottom of my heart. Maybe the next time the rift in the underworld opens again Another thousand years later, this period of time is enough for the Yin Qi in the gap to swallow the Yamata no Orochi, it seems that our goal this time has been overfulfilled."

"...If that stinky snake hadn't been disturbed by its demonic power due to its early awakening, I wouldn't have thrown it into the crack of the underworld so easily." Jiu Tun's tone was unmoving, and he didn't feel the excitement of victory in the war at all. The large and small wounds on his body are still oozing blood, and the already numb nerves can't feel any pain at this moment. He just wants to go back to the shrine quickly so that the eye-catching red on the damn kid in his arms can be washed away. .

Lifting his feet, he left the forest behind the mountain first, and Shuten's tall and steady figure disappeared here.

Looking at the back of Shuten holding Touya and leaving, Natsume subconsciously wanted to stop him, but Madara beside him bit the sleeve of his clothes and said to him in a deep voice: "Let's go back too, the night is already late, the nearby I don't know how many monsters will come and go, I won't have the energy to protect you later."

Ibaraki, Ootengu, and Ichimokuren also left the forest following Shuten's figure, and Toya's pale, lifeless face appeared in his mind just now, and Natsume couldn't help but feel a little dazed. Didn't he already win? Why, He felt no emotion of joy in these returning ones.

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It was late at night when I returned to the shrine, and Firefly was the first to wake up among the sleeping shikigami. When I saw Shuten gently laying Touya, who was soaked in blood all over his body, on the bed, the little girl's expression frightened suddenly one white.

"Firefly grass, please help Touya-kun heal the wound." Abe Seimei said softly, his illusory soul stroking the head of Firefly grass.

"Master Qingming...you are finally back..." Yingcao's voice was choked with tears, and she hadn't seen the real master for a long time. "Everyone misses you very much. It's about to wake up."

"Well, you have been wronged by being away for so long." Abe Seimei sighed.

Yingcao wiped her tears, summoned Maple Leaf to mobilize her demon power, and the warm healing light filled the dim room. Before she had time to ask why Ye was so scarred, Yingcao could only use the maximum healing light Let Touya's wounds heal as soon as possible.

Seeing that the blood oozing from Touya had stopped, and the healing light of the firefly grass was also slowly healing the wound, Abe Seimei left the room with peace of mind for the time being, and looked for Shuten in the courtyard. He hugged Touya just now. When he got here, he left the room, and when Abe Seimei found him, Daitengu twisted his face and grabbed Shuten's lapel and shouted:

"What the hell did you do? Why is Touya-sama's aura getting weaker and weaker now?!" Otengu's trembling voice was filled with panic. As a shikigami, he most intuitively felt the aura belonging to Touya in his body. Gradually diminished, thinking of Touya's lifeless look just now, Ootengu couldn't restrain a sense of panic that suffocated him.

"Calm down, Ootengu." Ichimokuren stepped forward to block the two people who were on the verge of sword fighting. Although he also had the same doubts as Ootengu in his heart, Jiuten's strange state from the beginning gave him a bad feeling.

The only one who didn't participate was Ibaraki leaning against the tree in the courtyard with folded arms and staring indifferently at the arguing guys in front of him. It can be said that he was the only one who knew a little bit of the truth.

The mirror of the present world that his best friend stares at day and night in Mt. Oe, the human beings appearing in the mirror, and the agreement between his best friend and Abe Seimei——

Raising his hand to caress the strawberry scrunchie that tied his white hair, Ibaraki felt frustrated for the first time in his history. The aura belonging to that little devil in his body was slowly fading. No matter how much he blocked the demon power before, he still couldn't stop that The breath dissipated, and he looked up at the wind chimes under the eaves fluttering in the wind in a daze, but the crisp sound of the wind chimes was like a huge boulder weighing him down.

"Tsk, I've already stepped into an adult form, why is my temper still giving me the same headaches as when I was a child?" After a long silence, Jiu Tun pushed aside Yi Mulian who was in the middle, raised his hand and waved away the arm holding his skirt at will. , "You have also suffered a lot of injuries, why don't you hurry back to the room to rest? The kid is still receiving treatment in the room, if you don't want to disturb him, please be quiet."

"You—" Enraged by Jiuten's indifferent attitude, Daitengu couldn't restrain his anger and clenched his fists to swing at Jiuten, but he was easily blocked by the opponent's five fingers.

"Okay, do what you have to do, don't get in the way here." Let go of the hand holding the big tengu's fist, Jiu Tun turned around, then turned his head to the side and said in a cold voice: "You should also prepare to leave This world is gone...of course, so is my uncle."

Shuten's figure disappeared into the courtyard after leaving this unclear sentence, leaving the three of them silent.

Taking a panoramic view of the scene just now, looking at the gray-faced big tengu, Abe Seimei's heart tightened suddenly, and he bowed his head in silence for a moment. He came to the room on the far right of the shrine, and saw him leaning against the door holding a bottle of wine. Jiu Tun, who was drinking wine on the plate, had red hair loosely scattered on his shoulders, and even a strand of hair was hanging down in the wine plate, but Jiu Tun didn't notice it at all.

The hazy moonlight hit the man through the open paper door, and there was still half of the sake in the wine dish, so the man maintained this movement without moving, thinking that the child had injected all his spiritual power into him in the sealing barrier Abe Seimei's breath was suffocated in the scene of the soul of the child. He didn't know what kind of mentality he should use to face the man who protected the child in his heart at this time.

After a long silence, Abe Seimei still sighed, "Do you regret it, Shuten?"

The sake in the wine dish trembled slightly, and Jiu Tun turned his head to look at Abe Seimei who was looking across from him, and sneered after a while, "That stinky snake has slept forever, why should I regret it?"

The icy blue soul trembled undetectably for a moment, and Abe Seimei said in a difficult tone: "You know that's not what I'm talking about."

Approaching Shuten who was looking at the night view outside the courtyard, Abe Seimei pursed his lips and said, "It was my negligence that I didn't tell you about this before...but I didn't expect Shuten to do that at all. .”

Abe Seimei's spiritual power revived Touya who should have died. He originally planned to let Touya repair his broken soul by repelling the monsters and transforming those evil spirits into spiritual power. After the child was given a new life, his spiritual power exceeded Unexpectedly powerful, his soul is also gradually recovering, and it is only a matter of time before it is fully recovered. What Abe Seimei did not expect was that Yamata no Orochi would wake up early, so he could only take the risk and let Touya use formations to make up for it. The rift in the underworld was used to delay time, and what made him even more unexpected was the bold action Shuten had planned long before.

Before going to the sealed place, Abe Seimei knew that the current Toruya could not seal Yamata no Orochi again, so he could only conservatively let Toruya fill the gap in the underworld to delay time, but Shuten actually let the child directly put all the poison in his body All the spiritual power was injected into his soul, and he wanted to use his spiritual power to suppress Yamata no Orochi.

The goal was perfectly achieved, Yaqi no Orochi was thrown into the reopened crack in the Yin world by Jiu Tun, and the Yin Qi inside allowed it to be swallowed up, and what would be the consequence of the exhaustion of spiritual power in the child's body... He thought Shuten should know by now.

Putting the wine dish aside casually, Shuten took out a broken chain in the skirt of his clothes, which was given to him by Touya to bind his hair before, lightly rubbing the cold metal, Shuten said lightly: " It has nothing to do with you, it's because my uncle almost forgot that that little ghost is a dead person, he didn't disappear in front of my uncle immediately... It's very good."

The decadent aura on the man suppressed the atmosphere in the room, and Abe Seimei smiled wryly: "That child's will is stronger than you imagined... But there is something I still want to tell you."

Closing his eyes, Abe Seimei recalled the illusion he saw: "The illusion that Yaki cast on Toya-kun when he transformed into a human form allowed him to see the truth of the past...including the scene of the car accident, and Shuten you wearing it privately. Touya-kun saw the scene where he crossed the gate of the underworld and met him as a child..."

"...Including the scene where he lost his life countless times at the hands of those disgusting monsters?"

"Ah, he has seen it all. Yaqi originally wanted to stimulate Touya-kun's nerves through these scenes, further crush his psychology, and then plan to swallow Touya-kun's consciousness in one go, but I didn't expect Touya-kun to be unmoved It directly broke the illusion."

Jiu Tun didn't speak, but his heart ached when he heard that the kid saw him dying in the hands of monsters countless times when he was young.

"Touya-kun probably already knew the consequences of losing his spiritual power in the illusion. Even so, he listened to your words and insisted on giving me all his spiritual power... Shuten, what kind of consciousness does that child have to do this? What was decided?"

"... How could my uncle know."

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When Touya regained consciousness, the shrine was much more empty and lonely than before.

The harsh sunlight outside shone on his face through the paper door, and Tou also slowly opened his eyes. The wound on his body was no longer painful, but the bandage extending from the neck all the way down made people look at it. Scalp numb.

Sitting up with difficulty, clutching the thick and heavy bandage wrapped around his abdomen, he couldn't help cursing who tied the bandage for him, and now he couldn't even straighten his waist.

"woke up?"

The paper door was opened, Jiu Tun walked in with loose red hair, seeing Touya struggling to sit up, Jiu Tun frowned and walked over and sat down, letting Touya's back rest on his chest Reduce the strength of his body.

With the humanoid cushion of Shuten, he finally moved his stiff arms comfortably. After a while, he said a little restlessly: "It's so boring to lie here all the time. I want to bask in the sun outside."

"Tsk, why are there so many troubles?" Jiu Tun complained impatiently, but still picked up Touya carefully and walked out of the room.

Holding him and sitting in the corridor, Touye saw the sunshine outside for a long time, because it was already late summer and early autumn, the weather was no longer hot, the cool breeze brushed his cheeks, and Touye squinted his eyes comfortably.

Picking up Touya's limp wrist, frowning and looking at the transparent nails growing on his fingers, Shuten picked up the nail clippers and trimmed Touya's nails.

Seeing Shuten awkwardly trimming his nails with a small nail clipper, Toru couldn't help laughing: "I was the one who trimmed your nails before, I didn't expect Jiuten to use this thing."

"It's long-winded, it's rare for me to serve you, a troublesome brat."

He yawned sleepily, stared at Jiu Tun's red hair hanging around his neck for a moment, and suddenly asked as if he remembered something, "Where are the big tengus?"

"gone back."

"Go back? Where did you go back?"

"Of course it's back to the world over there." Putting down the manicured hand, Shuten held the other hand and continued without raising his head: "They don't belong to this world at all, and the rift in the underworld has opened again. The gate of the afterworld also appeared, allowing a few guys to return to the original world... By the way, Abe Seimei and his group of shikigami also left."

In fact, those guys wanted to wait for Touya to wake up, and the big tengu and the others didn't want to leave this world, but the gate of the underworld forcibly sucked them all in, and he couldn't stop them, so he could only let those guys go.

"Well... they're all gone." His eyes dimmed, and Tou also felt an inexplicable space in his heart. He raised his head to look at Jiu Tun's tight jaw and asked again: "So what about you Jiu Tun? Are you not Belongs to this world? Why didn't you go with them?"

There was a pause in trimming the nails, Jiu Tun said flatly after a moment of silence: "I have already said before, no matter what happens, I will be with you."

Without responding to his words, Toruya showed a shallow and soft smile, and relaxed on Shuten's chest.

After trimming the nails of both hands, Jiu Tun put down the nail clippers, looked down at Touya's pale complexion, thought for a while and said, "The festival you mentioned earlier... are you going tonight?"

"Huh?" Tou was stunned, and then realized what the other party said about the festival, "Do you want to go with me? But it's surprising that you pay attention to this kind of thing with your temperament."

"Tsk, it's the human named Natsume who came here every three days and told me about the festival all day long. It's hard for me not to remember."

Natsume wouldn't gossip about such things.

Tou also slandered helplessly in his heart, and did not expose Jiu Tun's clumsy lies. He nodded, and covered Jiu Tun's hanging hand with his right hand and said softly:

"Then let's go together."

After eating a bit of Shuten's plum rice balls, Touya went back to the room and took out the moon-white yukata from the closet, changed into the yukata, put on the clogs, and walked out of the room to find that Shuten had already Be ready to lean on the wooden post and wait for him.

Without the last reminder, Shuten consciously changed into a dark striped bathrobe, and his pointed ears became rounded. From a distance, he looks like an ordinary person.

"Slow to death." Looking up at Touya walking over, Jiu Tun frowned and looked at the thin bathrobe on the other party, "It's windy now, be careful not to catch cold if you dress like this."

Having lost all his spiritual power, his body is getting weaker and weaker now, and he will definitely catch a cold when he returns from wearing such thin clothes.

"It's okay, there should be a lot of people participating in the festival, and the temperature won't be too low." Toru shrugged indifferently, took Shuten's arm and walked out of the shrine together.

He and Shuten came to the torii gate in the back mountain. They also came here to participate in the festival before, but compared to the last time today, the scale is larger. In the distance, they saw a lot of colorful lanterns and streams Constant crowd.

"Tiri Island."

Looking up at the lantern hanging on the torii gate, Toru was unexpectedly patted on the shoulder, and turned around in surprise, and found that it was Natsume who was also wearing a yukata.

"Natsume." Toru also greeted him with a smile. He hadn't seen Natsume for a long time.

"Sure enough, Mr. Shuten brought you here." The shy boy smiled softly, and then his eyes dimmed again.

Sure enough, as Mr. Cat said, Kirishima... really lost his spiritual power.Usually, if someone patted Kirishima's shoulder from behind, the other party would always be able to perceive who it was in advance, but when he was patted on his shoulder just now, Kirishima didn't realize it was him at all.

The chest became stuffy, and Natsume tried hard not to look so uncomfortable, "Let's go to the festival together! By the way, is your injury okay?"

"It's almost healed, but the bandages on my body are a bit uncomfortable..."

The two teenagers whispered to each other and walked up the stairs. Jiu Tun behind him folded his arms and looked uninterested, but his eyes never moved away from Touya.

The bustling crowd filled the narrow road, Touya and Natsume went to the food stalls to buy a lot of delicacies, handed the takoyaki in the box to Shuten's mouth, looked at Shuten with a stinking face and lowered his head to take a bite of the takoyaki After eating it, Touya smiled with his eyebrows curved.

Seeing the curved corner of the boy's mouth, Shuten snorted coldly, and put all the remaining takoyaki in the box into his mouth three times.

"Ah, I haven't eaten yet." Tou Ye looked at the empty box in his hand, with a bit of resentment in his tone.

"I'll save you from letting me eat those sweet and greasy things later." Jiu Tun didn't feel guilty at all for eating all the takoyaki.

Shaking his head helplessly, Tou also threw the box into the trash can, this man always plays childish temper regardless of the occasion.

Walking around the festival with Natsume from the beginning to the end, the stomach that was empty before coming here was swollen because of eating a lot of snacks along the way, probably because the wound has not completely healed, at this time Touya’s forehead was already oozing cold sweat, and his breathing became weak. He had to get up in a hurry, walking non-stop all night was already his limit.

Jiu Tun, who has been paying attention to the situation here, let out a "tsk" and immediately stepped forward to hold Touya in his arms, seeing his paler face, Jiu Tun said in a bad tone: "I told you that I don't listen to you too much, It’s almost time to go shopping, now we can go back.”

"But there will be fireworks later..."

Tou also wanted to stay a little longer, but swallowed his words after seeing Jiu Tun's dark eyes.

"My uncle took this kid back. Your cat was eating at the takoyaki stall over there. Hurry up and catch him before it causes a commotion."

After lazily putting down these words, Jiu Tun half-supported Tou and was about to take him away from here. Looking at the thin figure, Natsume's throat tightened, and finally he said loudly:

"I will wait for you when school starts, you must come, Kirishima!"

Looking back at Natsume, whose face was slightly red from shouting, Toruya showed a soothing smile.

"I will."

The night breeze began to cool down slightly. After returning to the shrine, Jiu Tun found a blanket and put it on Touya's shoulders, wrapping it around his shoulders so that Touya could lean comfortably in his arms. Said that he wanted to see the night scene outside, but Jiu Tun could not help but let him go.

"What kind of night scene are you looking at in the pitch black?" Shuten put his chin on Touya's head, trying to warm the other's body after closing the blanket that had slipped down.

"I said I want to watch the fireworks, so it's time to start..." Touya said in a daze, the extra weight on his head made him inexplicably at ease.

The two were silent for a long time, just when Touya thought that the other party had fallen asleep, Jiu Tun suddenly said: "Did you see everything in the illusion of that stinky snake?"

This is the first time Shuten asked this sharp question since Touya woke up. I thought he would at least be depressed for a while, but Touya didn't show any strange expression on his face, his tone was casual as if he was describing today Like what you had for dinner tonight.

"I saw a lot of scenes that I never imagined... But Shuten, you are really ruthless, just watch me being torn to pieces by monsters so indifferently."

"Tsk, at that time, my uncle couldn't move at all, okay? Besides, those monsters that once attacked you, my uncle, have been torn to pieces one by one."

"That's it...that's a bit of a surprise."

The two discussed the obviously heavy topic in a casual tone, Touya kept a light smile on his face, while Shuten still looked impatient, but the strength around Touya's shoulders was constantly tightening .

Tou also leaned against the man's chest and raised his head and asked, "What was it like at that time?"

"what?"

"What's it like watching me die over and over again?"

Jiu Tun remained silent, obviously not wanting to discuss this topic, he turned his head and said in a blunt tone: "I'm thinking about why you little brat has such a short life, that's all I have in mind."

The expected answer.

Tou also chuckled, but sleepiness gradually came up, looking at his eyelids that were about to droop, Jiu Tun frowned and said, "If you want to sleep, go back to sleep."

"Wait a little longer, the fireworks haven't started yet." Tou also insisted on waiting for the fireworks to finish.

Jiu Tun stopped talking, closed his eyes and hugged the boy in his arms tightly.

"Will you regret it, Shuten?" Touya asked coldly.

"Regret what?"

"I regret agreeing to meet me with Seimei, and watch me die again and again in boredom... Don't you think it's a waste of time?"

Tou also heard the man chuckle, and then a low and hoarse voice sounded in his ear:

"Indeed, rather than agreeing to take care of you, a troublesome little ghost, I might as well stay in Dajiangshan and be the feared ghost king."

"No one cares about how much wine this uncle drinks every day, and no one makes trouble for this uncle to worry about boring trivial matters every day, and no one will make this uncle... Willing to put everything down and come to this world to be your shikigami. "

I don't know if it was Touya's illusion, he felt that the man's voice seemed to choke, and then there was an extra weight on his shoulders, and Jiu Tun buried his neck and continued hoarsely:

"But there is no way, who made this uncle hopelessly unable to leave you, thinking that you may disappear in a place where this uncle can't see at any time, this uncle can't wait to end your life with his own hands immediately!"

Hearing the words that Jiu Tun nearly yelled at the end, Tou also vaguely remembered the dead silence in Jiu Tun's eyes when he saw the gunshot wound he had suffered when he came back from the rice flower market... It turned out that at that time he had already hugged this Have you realized it?

The heavy breathing gradually calmed down, Jiu Tun raised his head, and gently squeezed Touya's cheek with weak hands.

"No matter how many times, I will never regret meeting you."

As the last word fell, there was a sudden loud "bang" in the sky, and a mottled firework burst out from the dark night sky, instantly lighting up the entire sky. Fireworks of different colors bloomed one after another, bright and beautiful. The colors burn in the night sky to their heart's content, blooming their own splendor and magnificence in a short time.

Touya opened his mouth slightly, and was overwhelmed by the grand and beautiful fireworks. He couldn't help but sigh softly: "It's so beautiful..."

After a while, a muffled "hmm" sounded behind him.

The bright fireworks lit up the entire area of ​​Yayuan, and the faces of the two were flickering under the light of the fireworks. Looking sideways at Shuten's blurred face, the memory of that time in the illusion of Yaqi suddenly sounded in his mind. Touya's heart was at peace with what he said.

Lifting his head with some difficulty, Toruya leaned closer to Shuten's ear, even with the loud sound of fireworks in the sky, he still heard what Touya said clearly——

"Thank you, and I won't regret it either."

The fireworks in the night sky are still changing colors, and the two people who embrace each other are like lovers who have never been separated.

Shuten gently stroked Touya's soft lips, his heart ached so badly that he could hardly breathe, he repeated the same words over and over again, regardless of whether Toru could hear or not.

The piece of jade that Touya gave him ten years later, which he kept well in the skirt of his clothes, was emitting a faint light. As the last fireworks fell, the night gradually returned to silence.

And the body of the boy who peacefully closed his eyes in his arms had already become icy cold.