Onmyoji Love Curse Volume

"I haven't seen that person before."

The monster was completely restrained and could only tell what had happened.

Just as Qingming guessed, the thief was injured by Zhong Sheng and fell off the cliff a year ago. He didn't die immediately, but he couldn't move due to the serious injury.Two days later, the weak thief was bitten to death by poisonous insects at the bottom of the cliff, and his flesh and blood were devoured by the insects.

This method of death made him unable to die, nor could he become an ordinary ghost. His soul could only be trapped here, suffering day and night.

A year passed like this, until one night more than half a month ago, someone's voice suddenly came from a distance.

"Being bitten to death by insects, but unable to become a ghost, what a pity!"

"Who is it? Who's there?" cried the thief's spirit.

The voice didn't answer, but continued to ask: "I have a way to get you out of this place, and even make you a very powerful ghost, but you must obey my orders after it is done, are you willing to accept it?"

As soon as he heard that there was a way to leave this place, the soul of the thief immediately readily agreed.

Then the voice recited a spell and performed the "ossified worm" technique for him. Every night, the remains of the thief would turn into thousands of worms, and his soul would attach to these worms. Devour living things.

The time to become a bug is limited to the night, and he must return to the original place before dawn.

Every time he ate a living creature, he felt that his strength increased by one point.Not only has the body size become larger and the number of bugs has increased, but the speed has also become faster, so the distance that can be traveled has become longer and longer.

At the beginning, it could only be active in Chuangangshan, then gradually extended to Xuanwumen, and finally reached the residence of Zhongsheng in Jingzhong.

When besieging Zhongsheng's mansion last night, although he wanted to devour Zhongsheng on the spot, there was an invisible force at the door that stopped him from moving forward. That force made him fearful, so he had no choice but to leave at the door when it was almost dawn. .

After he returned to Chuangangshan, in the evening, the voice appeared again.

"Zhongsheng put the 'Buddha Zunsheng Dharani Mantra' in front of the door. With it, no ghosts can enter. But I have stolen this mantra, and you can enter his mansion tonight and eat it. him."

So tonight, he turned into a bug again and went to Zhongsheng's mansion. Sure enough, he did not encounter any obstacles this time, but he did not expect to fall into Seimei's trick.

"So you haven't seen the appearance of that person with your own eyes from the beginning to the end?"

"Hmph, not only have I never seen it, I don't even know its name."

"Then why do you obey that man and practice such a magic?" Boya on the side also stepped forward and asked.

"Hahahaha..." The skeleton lying on the ground laughed, his voice full of desolation, "Have you ever experienced the days when your soul is trapped in one place forever and tortured day and night? As long as I can get out of here, Not to mention a few living creatures, even if we eat up this Pingan capital, it doesn't matter!"

Boya bowed his head in silence.

"Onmyouji, now that the 'ossified insect' technique has failed, what are you going to do to me?"

Qingming glanced at Boya, thought for a moment, and said to the skeleton, "Do you really want to leave from here?"

"...Do you have a way?"

"Your soul is tightly attached to the remains, and I can cast a spell to pull it away, but you must let go of your resentment towards Mr. Zhongsheng."

"Now that things are up to now, don't tell me not to resent Zhongsheng..."

"If you hadn't had evil intentions in your heart and wanted to harm Lord Zhongsheng, you wouldn't be here today. Your resentment towards Lord Zhongsheng is nothing more than venting your anger. Now that the technique of 'ossified insect' has been broken, if you don't let go Hatred can only linger here, and can never be freed."

The skeleton was silent for a long time, and asked: "Onmyoji, if I can let go of my resentment, can you really let me leave this ghost place?"

"No, I can only separate your soul from your bones." Qingming said with a smile, "The one beside me is the one who can transcend you and the resentful spirits on you."

"Eh? Me?" Boya looked at Qingming in surprise.

"Bo Ya, can you play a song for them? Your flute has the power to soothe the dead."

"……Oh."

Boya took out Ye Er from his bosom, put it close to his lips, and began to play.

The mournful flute sound flowed out from Ye Erzhong, gradually spread out, and merged with the night.

The tree cicadas in the forest stopped singing, and even the wind stopped blowing, as if the only thing left in the world was the sound of the flute.

"I didn't expect... there is such a moving music in this world..." the skeleton who fell on the ground murmured.

The murderous aura and resentment hidden in the light around the skeleton also gradually disappeared, becoming extremely peaceful.

Qingming recited the incantation, and the blue light surrounding the skeleton began to disperse, like fireflies, gradually drifting towards the sky, until the last ray of light also left the remains.

"Thank you very much."

The thief's soul left these last words and finally completely disappeared into the night sky.

When dawn was about to break, Qingming and Boya boarded the ox cart for the return journey.

"Qingming, has that thief's soul really disappeared?"

"Well, I won't become a ghost anymore, so Mr. Zhongsheng can feel at ease."

"That's good."

"But it's Boya's credit to be able to save the wraith so smoothly this time." Qingming laughed.

"Huh? Why?"

"Did you feel sympathy for that thief just now?"

"I just think he's a little pitiful..."

"It is because of the compassion contained in your flute that the resentful spirit of the thief can let go of his obsession and accept the salvation." Qingming looked at Boya and said with a smile, "If he doesn't want to let go of his resentment towards Mr. Zhongsheng , I can only resort to more powerful means to get rid of the vengeful spirits, and that would not be the best result. That’s why I said, thanks to Boya.”

"Is my flute so powerful?"

"Bo Ya, as I said earlier, you have always possessed incredible power, but you never realized it yourself."

Boya scratched his head embarrassedly.

The sky has turned pale, and it seems that it is almost dawn.

"Hey, Seimei, why do people become ghosts?"

"It's because of the 'curse'."

"You mean, a spell like the 'ossified worm' spell?"

"No, what can make a person become a ghost is not the spell used in the spell, but the spell cast by oneself."

"I don't know……"

"For this example, when the thief died, he cast a curse called 'resentment' on himself, and the obsession formed by this curse made him unable to escape." Qingming said, "In the final analysis, What really prevents him from rebirth is not Mr. Zhong Sheng, let alone any spells, but the curse he cast himself. Only when he let go of his obsession, can the curse be truly unraveled."

Boya seemed to understand.

"It's a pity that in the end, I didn't know who the person who knew the 'ossification worm' technique was, and why did he do such a thing?"

Qingming restrained her smile when she heard the words: "I'm afraid...he wants to refine shikigami."

"You mean, the person who performed the 'ossified insect' technique wanted to turn the thief's remains into his own shikigami?"

"The ghosts formed by the bone insect technique will be much stronger than ordinary ghosts. If a contract is made in advance, they can be driven as shikigami after the technique is completed."

"So...the mysterious man did let the thief take orders from him in advance." Boya frowned, "Who is this person? He knows the secret technique that was lost 150 years ago, and he wants to create such a powerful formula." God, what is the purpose?"

Qingming looked at the faint light coming in through the cracks in the curtains, and sighed in a low voice: "It seems that there will be commotion again in this Heian capital."