Weather Blade

It was 13 years ago that Miniya and Chiharu met for the first time.

The strange thing is that he has been tortured by more terrible things in the past few years, and he only has a vague impression of the neighborhood of his hometown.The first encounter that year was vividly imprinted in the depths of my mind, as clear as what happened yesterday.

Occasionally, when he was dozing off with the sword in his arms, he would dream intermittently of some fragments, allowing him to temporarily forget the bloody reality.

That year, Immortal Kawa Minami was five years old, because his younger brother was still unborn in his mother's growing belly, so he was still the only child in the family for the time being.

Because her mother's belly was so big that it was inconvenient to move around, that year's New Year, Immortal Kawa Miniya didn't want to go to the temple to pray for blessings.

"Mom's body can't go now, can I ask Shi Mi to go to the temple to pray for the family?"

The woman leaning against the yellowed wall stroked her belly, which was more conspicuous on her petite body, and smiled softly: "Can you pray for this child, and let God bless him with a safe and happy future?"

"...I see, leave it to me."

At that time, Immortal Kawa Miniya, who had just passed the corner of the table, solemnly promised his mother that he would go to the temple to worship with the neighbor's children on the right day.

However, on New Year's Eve, after helping his mother clean the house and eating a bowl of buckwheat noodles with half an egg—originally, his mother cooked him a whole one, but he insisted on sharing it with his mother——Bushichuan Minami took care of her mother to sleep, and after leaving the door for her father who was wandering around, she quietly went out.

Although her mother asked her to go to worship with her neighbor's house on the morning of the first day, that bastard father probably came back drunk in the middle of the night, and he couldn't help at all during the day, so he could only rely on him to take care of her mother.

Therefore, blessings must be prayed for, but I have no time to take care of my mother during the day, so I can only go at night.

Under the bright moonlight, Immortal Kawashimi walked through the brightly lit street—in order to keep the year old, no matter how poor people are, they would light oil lamps today. A bright warm orange.

A few years ago, Minya also watched the New Year with her mother, but after she became pregnant, her mother was extremely lethargic, and she fell asleep after cleaning up after dinner.But fortunately there are no other symptoms other than this, if you vomit and can’t eat like the neighbor’s aunt——

no!We are almost at the temple, why is he thinking about unlucky things!What if the Lord God heard it!

"Boom-thump-thump-"

The thick and long bell pierced through the silent night, Shimi, who had just passed through the bustling streets around Tokyo, paused and quickened his pace.

The small white figure sank into the pitch-black forest and quickly disappeared.

At midnight on New Year’s Eve, the bells in the temple will ring in unison, with a total of [-] strikes, implying to eliminate past troubles.

After that, the first person to visit will get extra good luck.

For this reason, Shimi specially came to a relatively unpopular temple dedicated to a temple called the God of Weather.

But because I only heard about this temple from the chatter of the neighbors, when Shimi pushed aside the bushes and carefully prevented them from cutting his only unpatched clothes, when he sprang out of the woods and stood outside the red torii gate, there was a long The bell had already stopped, leaving only the whistling cold wind.

"Fufufu——" Supporting the cold torii red pillar, Shimi panted, with a smug smile on the corner of her mouth.

No matter how independent and self-improving, Shiya is only a five-year-old child, running alone from the street in the center of Tokyo to this temple in the edge of the forest, the psychological and physical pressure is not small.But now he has finally reached his destination, and it is as cold as he expected, and no one can successfully achieve his goal, which is enough for him to be complacent for a while.

good!The next step is to go in and pray for blessings——

"Good evening~ Are you here to hear the midnight bell too?"

When one foot stepped into the red torii gate, a soft and boneless petite voice suddenly came from the other side of the torii gate, which scared Immortal Kawasami to jump!

what!

He turned his head abruptly, and then saw a small white figure who was unusually conspicuous in the dark night.

Immortal Kawa Miniya has never seen such a delicate and beautiful person.

She was wrapped in a snow-white and soft fur cloak, which was too big for her. Not only was a large section dragged on the ground, but she was shrunk inside and only showed her round face, perhaps it was already outside. After staying for a while, her delicate face was flushed by the night wind, and her sleepy black starry eyes were full of curiosity.

"……Yes."

After confirming that this is a person and not some mountain spirit, Immortal Kawa Minami's heart sank, and he answered her question uncomfortably.

Immortal Kawasami, who grew up fighting with people in the market since she was a child, has never dealt with this kind of Miss Jiao who looks like she was raised by a rich family. Seeing her ignorant and stupid look who has not woken up, I can't help it. Open your mouth to ask.

"Where are your parents? Why are you here alone?" Be careful of being abducted by traffickers.

Considering the vocabulary of the young lady who is not familiar with the world, Immortal Kawa Miniya did not say the second half of the sentence.

"I don't have parents, I'm the weather maiden Chiharu, big brother, who are you?"

Contrary to Immortal Kawasami's expectation, this delicate little glutinous rice dumpling seemed to have a bit of common sense, and answered his question with a serious manner.

"I'm Shimi."

On the first day of the new year, the little girl without parents sat alone at the gate of the shrine and fell asleep.

Under the cold moonlight, the sympathy in Shimi's heart that was almost suppressed by the ruthless and cruel life resurfaced a little.So, instead of rushing to visit the shrine, he walked up to Xiaotuanzi and chatted with her.

"You've been here since you were born... as a priestess?"

Getting closer, Shimi saw a small cuff from the gap in the cloak, which was embroidered with rich and ancient patterns with gold thread, which didn't quite match the small and delicate ball.

"Yes!"

Qianqing, who was being stared at, didn't know that she had been labeled as delicate by the little brother she met for the first time. It was the first time she saw a child of the same age, and she stretched out her right hand and happily unfolded her cloak, signaling for Miya to sneak in.

"Shimi, come in too! This cloak is so big that it can hold two people."

After the cloak was half unfolded, Chiharu's face was also exposed.

She wasn't wearing a red and white shrine maiden outfit, and her waist-length hair was casually loose and untied with a headband. If she hadn't introduced herself first, Shiya would never have thought that this little group would be a shrine maiden.

The little witch with crooked eyebrows is wearing a high-quality silver-white kimono, which faintly glows in the moonlight, and the folded hem is embroidered with gold threads similar to the cuffs. It is luxurious and bright, but it is far less dazzling than the girl's romantic smile at this time. .

"come on in!"

Seeing him not moving, Qianqing seemed a little anxious, and hurried forward two steps as if she wanted to cover him directly in the cloak, but unfortunately her calves were short, and her legs were numb after sitting on the ground for a long time. As soon as he took a step, he staggered and fell forward with an unstable center of gravity.

"...Before worrying about others, you should take care of yourself first."

He stretched out his hand to support this reckless little dumpling, God knows how he has survived to such a big size, and seeing her shrunk her neck out of fear of the cold, but she persisted in opening half of her cloak to signal him to get in, Immortal Kawasami was caught After a night of cold wind, my heart gradually warmed up.

It seems that multiple worrying little guys will make life much more interesting.

In order to prevent a certain glutinous rice dumpling from being frozen into a snowball, Shimi helped her stand firmly, then bent down and got into the warm fur cloak, and took the soft, unrealistic white fur from Qianqing's right hand, With a flick of the long arm, they surrounded the two of them again.

The warmth of a fine fur fur is not comparable to that of an old cotton coat, plus a little one clinging to his chest, the moment the cloak is put on, Shimi feels like he has jumped from the cold winter snow into the scorching heat desert, A ball of fire spread from the neck that was rubbed by the soft hair, and burned to the base of the ear with a whoosh.

In order to quickly end this inexplicable and uncomfortable situation, Undead Kawa Miniya coughed lightly, and said:

"The bell on New Year's Eve has already been struck, are you sure you want to stay here to enjoy the cold wind?"

Thinking of the little group's question that startled him when he just stepped on the steps, the undead Kawa Miniya, who was still a child, suddenly felt a bit of vengeance, and told the truth directly.

"It's over..."

Xiaotuanzi, who was huddled in Fushimi's chest, seemed to have heard some earth-shattering news, her little head lowered, and her voice was no longer as vibrant as before. Even if she couldn't see her expression, she could still guess that she was lost.

Uh, it seems a little overdone?Today is still the first day of the new year, so it's really not good to make Xiaotuanzi sad like this... What do you want to do to coax her?Since she's sad because she missed the bells on New Year's Eve this year—

"...Don't be sad, I will accompany you next year—"

"Liar, liar... big liar!!! He clearly said that he would come back to celebrate my birthday with me before the bells run out!"

Immortal Chuan Miniya hadn't finished his promise that he thought he had suffered a big loss, and the little dumpling who had been listless just now suddenly exploded!Throwing off the wrapped shawl aggressively, stomping his feet, at the end Shang felt puzzled, so he jumped heavily on the spot twice, but one of them landed badly, and directly stepped on Shimi's foot behind him.

"pain--"

Qian Qing, who had grown into a small dumpling after eating delicious food, was quite heavy, and Minya, who was wearing straw sandals, was stepped on by her wooden clogs firmly, and she cried out in pain, her eyes turned from surprise to anger.

What a trick this little group is doing!Even if the road is unstable, it still jumps!And from what she said, the reason why she was jumping and screaming in the middle of the night was because some guy let her pigeons go?So you came to him to vent your anger? ! ! !

Although the biggest scene Shimi, who was only five years old, had experienced was chasing away two teenagers who tried to snatch his oil bottle, but at any rate, he was a kid who grew up in the market and dealt with many messy people, so Shimi was very angry He glared viciously with all his strength, and he really had the aura of a pillar of the future.

Then it scared Xiao Qianqing to tears.

"Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow

In the deep and silent night, the little girl's sharp cry was so penetrating that it caught Undead Kawa Minami standing beside her by surprise, with a look of bewildered despair.

But this is not the end. Qianqing had just cried for a while before she had time to settle the hundred and ten crimes against Shiya, when the sound of clogs rattling came from behind her, and Shiya, whose scalp was numb, raised her head, and she was wearing a red and white kimono. , the grey-haired, serious-looking miko met her gaze.

"Which family are you from? Why did you make Qianqing cry?"

"……"He is not!He didn't!It was this guy who stepped on him and the villain complained first and started crying!

After 13 years, Immortal Kawa Minya can still clearly recall the urge to jump off the hillside and roll back.

It's really wrong.