save the judge

Although the weather is still a bit cold, but the calendar has clearly shown the fact that spring has arrived, because the mountain is getting warmer earlier than the mountain, so when the cherry blossoms at the bottom of the mountain are about to wither, the flowers on the mountain are just a little bit late. open.

Akita came out of the kitchen with a bowl of grass jelly ice. This kind of dessert from the present world has been very popular among the knives recently. Every time he travels, he buys a lot——

Akita scooped up a spoonful of the crystal-clear dessert, and the translucent dessert bounced tremblingly in the spoon, which whetted the appetite just by looking at it.

"Ah... forgot to add taro balls."

The short knife with pink hair stuffed a mouthful of sweet sugar water into his mouth, thinking angrily.

"Akita? Do you want to go out to pick flowers together? Brother Yiqi will teach us how to make flower and leaf bookmarks!" Ranto Shiro, the most lively, stood at the entrance of the shrine, dressed in a youthful sports girl outfit, with a cute hoodie on his long orange hair. Polka dot rabbit ear headband.

Akita hurriedly stuffed the cool dessert in the bowl into his mouth, and waved vaguely: "Wait...wait for me!"

"Hurry up!" Ranto Shiro jumped up and down on the spot, watching Akita rush back to the kitchen to put bowls and spoons, and dragged him down the mountain, "The cherry blossoms on the mountain haven't fully bloomed yet, but the flowers at the foot of the mountain have already bloomed." Very good! And there are many special shops there! It’s rare to come out to play, and I’m going to bring some souvenirs back to everyone in Honmaru..."

Akita followed in the footsteps of his brother, the soft flesh on his face trembling: "Hey, souvenir... Xiaoye seems to have said that she wants persimmon cakes..."

Luan clenched his fists with great enthusiasm, his eyes sparkling: "The most important thing is to buy a beautiful skirt for the lord! And a cute headdress! It's the first time you see the lord as a girl, so dress up well!"

What Akita wanted to say was blocked in his throat. After thinking for a while, he replied seriously: "I heard that girls like crystal balls that can glow. How about giving one to the Lord?"

The voices of the little knives gradually faded away, and the center of their topic was skillfully putting on a priestess costume.

Yep, get yourself a miko costume.

After that war ended, everything was going in a good direction. When Yaoken and their memories were all restored, Honwan A[-] began to live with salted fish for the elderly again.

But soon, the days of retirement had to be suspended again.

The matter stems from a new invention of current affairs.

This thing can capture the time and space fluctuations in human beings, and send people to places he has been to. It is a job benefit for the gods.

Originally, the God-inspectors stayed in this pill for many years, faced with many affairs, and even asked for leave to return to the present world. There are strict approval procedures. The family-visiting leave approved every year is only five days, let alone the dream-like travel. fake.

However, after the war ended, the retrograde army put less pressure on the current affairs, so the benefits that the god-inspectors had been delaying for a long time began to gradually come into place. Among them, the fastest approved was travel leave, and this instrument was for the convenience of the god-inspectors. Those who went back and forth.

As long as certain time-space fluctuations in human beings are captured, people can be sent to that place. Although the premise is that they have to go to that place first, this also greatly saves the time and energy wasted on the road by the examiner. For the gods, traveling in this world is nothing, if you want to play, of course you have to go to a special time and space!

The time and space that they have been to when they are in the battle are all good choices for tourism. Although in order not to change the course of history, they cannot have too much interaction with the locals, and they have to memorize various precautions that are five centimeters thick, but these are all I can't resist their heart yearning for time travel!

Jingujiquan is different from them.

His choices... are more, and he doesn't have to worry about the issue of retrograde troops.

However, the research and development personnel of Shizheng probably did not expect that Jingujiquan could go to other worlds. The instruments they made obviously did not have such powerful functions, so after Jingujiquan found out where he was, he looked down and found the instrument caused by "little glitches".

Very good, male to female, just treat it as a small surprise on the journey.

Izumi Jinguji, who has been a cat, dog and auntie, was only surprised for a second, and quickly accepted this fact.

It's nothing to change your personality. If you can't change back to Honmaru, don't worry about it.

He accepted it so calmly, and those Fu Sangshen who didn't care about gender at all were even more calm.

Since the lord himself doesn't care, then they don't have to make a fuss.

There were not many Fusangshen who came out to play with Jingujiquan this time. In the first phase, he led the short swords out to play. The old swords who were a few vibrations occupied the best place in the shrine early and began to drink tea and chat. Other swords also Knowing how to enjoy life, I went into the mountains to soak in the hot springs with my bathrobe in my arms.

Jingujiquan pulled up the belt around his waist and walked out with a lantern by the door. This is a medium-sized shrine built on the mountainside. The wooden building is very old. There are grass in the courtyard. It is luxuriant, mixed with colorful wild flowers, which is quite wild.

There is a small wooden sign nailed to the door, one foot long and one finger thick, with the words "Guochang Road" written in ink, showing the name of the owner of the shrine.

Guochang Road...

Izumi Jinguji once again recalled the wonderful people he met in this world, and couldn't help laughing. This time, he didn't have enough time, and he wasted another two days messing around in the mountains with Higiri. You can go and see how they are doing.

Especially the horrifying reunion with Munakata and Fushimi in that abandoned hospital, probably left a lot of psychological shadow on them who thought they were dead, maybe this time it can explain...

Thinking so happily, Izumi Jinguji greeted Umaru Mikazuki who was drinking tea by the corridor, and opened the gate of the shrine with a lamp.

Before he could take two steps, the small copper bell hanging on the shrine door jingled.

The crisp bells rang playfully and lively, not solemn, but agile enough.

There is a small yin and yang on the bell, which connects the shrine and the cemetery behind the shrine, and is used to remind people in the shrine that someone has come to worship.

On the first day we came here, the short swords scoured the surrounding area. The cemetery behind the shrine was relocated two years ago. In that cemetery, there is only one tombstone erected later. The person in it "died" two years ago .

Jingujiquan stopped in his tracks.

Someone came to worship "him"?

He thought about it and changed his course.

The road in the back mountain is not particularly easy to walk. The mountain road is rugged. It rained yesterday, and the winding path became even more slippery. Jingujiquan grabbed the lantern, pushed the grass leaves and walked forward. When he was approaching, I heard two familiar voices mocking each other.

"...Do you need the approval of the youth group to see friends?"

"Oh, does a savage like your Excellency have friends?"

"... After all, there are people like you."

The indistinct voice became clearer as the distance got closer. After listening to a few sentences, Jingujiquan could accurately distinguish the two unique voices.

Zhou Fangzun.

Munakata Rishi.

Is this a fateful meeting from thousands of miles away?

While thinking wildly, while walking forward, he didn't notice that he was already a step ahead and smiled when he heard their voices.

It's always nice to see friends.

In front of the suddenly leveled cemetery, Jingujiquan smiled at a group of people who were looking at them at the same time.

Even though they were doing the same thing of sacrifice and sweeping, the red group and the blue group were still unwilling to stand together properly as before, and had to draw a clear line in the middle.

He noticed that Munakata Reiji pushed down his glasses when he saw him, and although he maintained his usual unfathomable smile, that bit of vigilance could still be discerned.

alert?

Jingu Jiquan's mind suddenly flashed a sentence that the other party said casually when he was talking to Munakata in the abandoned hospital last time. What was it?

...Three years...Three years ago?

The Munakata in the abandoned hospital is the Munakata three years after his "death".

And now, only two years have passed since the death of Izumi Jinguji in this world.

——That’s for later.

The timeline is too messy, next time we must urge the people in Shizheng to put the time positioning disk on it.

Thinking of this, in order to prevent the logic of Munakata and Fushimi from creating a paradox, he had no choice but to temporarily give up the idea of ​​revealing his identity regrettably, imitating the appearance of those shrine maidens, then rolled up his sleeves politely, and faced them squarely Bending down to salute: "Are you all here to visit Master Quan?"

He looked at the pile of fiery red roses and blue gentian flowers in front of the grave, and felt in his heart the irreconcilable grievances and enmity between the two groups of people, and couldn't help showing a little ridicule in his smile: " So beautiful...those flowers."

Of course, Kusanagi, who has the gentlest personality, can't expect his own king to do these diplomacy, so he smiled reflexively, and his tone was quite natural with the tenderness towards young girls: "Ah...you are here to see Quan-kun?" Wrong, but I never thought there would be such a beautiful girl in the mountains, may I ask you..."

Finally, he tentatively asked about the identity of the unexpected guest.

Jingujiquan almost laughed, and lowered his head a little bit shyly: "I am a maiden serving at the Guochang Lujia Shrine. It is almost nightfall, so come light a lamp for Master Quan."

"Lighting?"

All eyes were on the lamp in her hand.

Jingongjiquan covered his lips with his sleeve and began to talk nonsense: "That's it. This is the rule of the Guochanglu family. After a person dies, a lamp should be lit in front of the grave. With the guidance of the light, there will be a day when he will come back. I have been doing this kind of thing for Guochanglu family members for many years."

At the end of the nonsense, Jingongjiquan looked at this group of guys who couldn't see it on the surface, but still blamed themselves in their hearts. He was a little soft-hearted, blinked his eyes, and reminded: "And, like everyone, I also Came to visit old friends."

His words obviously embarrassed Kusanagi, the other party frowned tightly, biting his cigarette butt and staring at the girl who appeared suddenly.

Coming to visit an old friend?Are you a friend of Jinguji?I've never heard of it...

Seeing Kusanagi's appearance, Jingu Jiquan knew that he was thinking about it. Since Munakata was present, he couldn't go into details, so he just smiled at him implicitly.

From the corner of his eyes, he noticed that Munakata narrowed his eyes slightly, and he couldn't help sighing quietly in his heart for the other party's sensitivity. He really deserves to be a man who likes to play the puzzle of ten thousand pieces in the pure white hell... However, the one who spoke first was always Ten bunches of speechless, this delicate young man said something abruptly: "Then...can the dead really come back? Isn't that..."

Ten Shu's face was obviously tangled and bewildered, as if he was expecting and doubting at the same time. This kind of expression showed a kind of bewildered fragility on the face of this always cheerful young man.

Seeing Shishu's dilemma, Jingujiquan suddenly regretted it. The way he chose to save Shishu at that time probably caused the young man to feel extreme pain, but he seemed to be unable to do anything except say some weak words at the moment. He could only hint with guilt: "Of course others can't. But for him, this is just the beginning, so don't worry about him."

He repeated emphatically again: "Don't worry."

Ten beams opened their eyes wide, and eagerly took a step forward: "Why do you—"

A pinch of conspicuous pink hair was exposed in the forest not far away, and Akita ran over here excitedly, obviously coming to find him specially, seeing Jinguji Izumi standing here, he raised his hand excitedly Showing the round glass ball with strange colorful luster in his hand, he opened his mouth——

Seeing that the "Master" was about to blurt out, Jingujiquan quickly bent down and placed the lantern beside the bouquet, shook his head slightly at Akita, folded his sleeves and saluted again: "Then, I will go first, and look forward to seeing you again."

The hand in the sleeve dialed the button of the small metal instrument, opened his eyes again, and he appeared in the courtyard of the shrine.

"It's really useful..." Jingujiquan sighed, and waved to Higakiri, Umaru, and Mikazuki who were sitting in a row in the corridor, "I'm back, you have been chatting for so long."

Sanriyue smiled and said, "My lord is also very happy. Reuniting old friends and revisiting old places are all things worth smiling about."

Akita, who ran back after chasing the fluctuations of time and space, stepped into the door: "Master! You run so fast! This is a gift from me! The store said it is the most popular gift this year."

Jingongjiquan took the glass ball that was still shining with colorful lights, and was silent for two seconds. Suddenly, his eyes lit up: "It's too uncomfortable not to say anything. How about giving ten bunches of a gift? The next time I come, I should There will be no problems, so please apologize when the time comes!"

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Ten beams got up in the morning and went downstairs to see a foam box next to the bar counter. Brother Kusanagi was standing behind the counter as usual to wipe the cups, and there was already a plate of steaming rice bowls on the table.

Seeing him coming downstairs, Kusanagi raised his eyes to say hello, then gestured to the box with his chin: "I found that at the door this morning, and there is a note for you."

Ten bundles walked over rubbing her hair. The box was not carefully sealed, and the tape came apart as soon as it was pulled. There was only a thin photo inside, which looked a little thin at the bottom of the box.

Shishu picked up the photo. In the photo was the deep orange light of twilight, covering the mountains and the cherry blossom trees in full bloom. It looked like an ordinary landscape photo.

But Shishu's eyes stared at the photo for a long time without looking away.

He likes to take pictures, and his grasp of the scenery is also very accurate. At a glance, he can see that this is the mountain when he worshiped Jingujiquan yesterday. The corner of the photo seems to accidentally shine into a small corner of the building, a unique building of the shrine The lines are full of ancient colors, and a bird with snow-white wings rests on the eaves.

Ten Beam's hands suddenly began to tremble, and he didn't know what he thought of. His heart beat faster than his reason, and when he turned over the photo, there was only a smiling face scribbled with a pen on the snow-white back, with a chic elongated at the end of the stroke. , exactly like a certain person's unique flying and unrestrained smile.

Seeing him standing still for a long time, Kusanagi couldn't help looking over it curiously: "Ah, what an old photo, is it someone who likes retro culture like you?"

Ten beams were stunned for a while, then smiled relievedly: "It should be, it always feels like an old friend I haven't seen for a long time is back."

Kusanagi listened, nodded, and put the last cleaned glass back into the cup holder: "That's a good thing...but why hasn't Anna woke up yet?"

Ten bundles blinked and tried to get away, but was caught by Kusanagi: "You took Anna to play games again last night?! How many times have I told you! Children need enough sleep to grow their bodies! That's right, how can you be so childish at such an adult! Do you really treat me like an old mother..."

The gentle Kansai accent chattered around Shi Be, and the flaxen-haired youth carefully put the photo back in his pocket, looking at the beam of golden sunlight streaming in from the door.

Today is also a good weather.