juvenile onmyoji

Qingming took the red leaf and glanced at the words on it, "The speed is pretty fast."

"She groped into the carriage." A trace of worry slipped across Lizi's brows.

"Well, this monster is provoking me. It means that even if I am here, I will take your life. She is coming out."

"what?"

Seimei crushed the leaves calmly, red smoke drifted out from the crushed powder and condensed into the appearance of the monster red leaves.

"Ah." Lizi let out a low cry, stepped back quickly, and slammed into the box wall.

Qingming chuckled, "I remind you that she is coming out, don't be afraid, it's a phantom." He casually picked up a fan and threw it over, and the fan immediately passed through Hongye's body and fell at Lizi's feet.

"Hongye" covered her mouth with her sleeve and smiled, "As expected of Master Seimei, he set up a big formation in the courtyard of our house, and I was almost killed just by getting close." Then she turned to Lizi and said quickly with a smile, " Hide well, the game of hide and seek has just begun. Don't be caught by me, you will be torn to pieces."

"I'm afraid you don't have long." Qingming said lightly, "Leaving the vines, your nutrients will gradually decrease."

"That's right," Hongye said with a smile, her speech speed was a little faster, "Although Master Seimei is very powerful, we monsters have survived until now because we have many secrets that humans cannot know."

"Therefore, my time is not as short as adults guess." She looked at Li Zi again, tilted her head and patted her hands lightly, "Then, the greetings are over, and the hunting begins." After speaking, it turned into smoke Disappeared.

Lizi's face was pale, and her palms were full of sweat.Originally thought that leaving the vines and without the support of nutrients, the monster Hongye would die because he couldn't afford to spend so much time.But now it seems...

"She is lying, there is no secret to increase the time at all." Qingming said in a deep voice, "If you listen carefully just now, you will find that she speaks very fast. This is because she does not want to expend too much energy on the phantom. Because she doesn't have much time left."

"Really?" Lizi thought about it carefully, "It seems to be oh, she sped up her speech twice." She suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, "Then I am with the witches during the day, and there is Seimei-sama at night, does that mean that So I don't have to worry about Hongye?"

"On the contrary," Seimei thought, "youkai are different from humans. Especially hunting-type youkai, they don't do meaningless things. The reason why Hongye dared to come to demonstrate is that she has absolute certainty. But for It's safe, and she hopes that you will be vigilant."

"What is she going to do?"

"I think it should be a puppet." Qingming guessed, "Don't forget that she is a puppeteer. If there is a suitable puppet, she can approach you."

The carriage drove to the gate of the mansion, and Lizi listlessly followed Qingming out of the carriage.

Walking into the yard, two servants whispered in the corner, "Ah, look, the broom is moving by itself again."

"I told you when I hired you. It's the son's shikigami. You'll get used to it after watching it for a long time."

"Although I said so, it is also constantly rustling and sweeping the floor at night."

Lizi glanced up subconsciously, and saw a woman in fiery red clothes bent over and sweeping the floor with a broom.Feeling someone watching her, she straightened up and gave Lizi a friendly smile.

"That's Suzaku, my shikigami. I have worked under Zao's father, and my favorite thing is sweeping the floor."

Kitchen Father, Kitchen God?Lizi looked at Suzaku again, "Ah, it disappeared."

"Well," Qingming said without surprise, "I went to sweep other places again."

Inari sushi made with fried egg in tofu skin, served with pickles and seaweed soup for dinner.The upper echelons of Heian-kyo like to eat vegetarian food, and believe that being close to nature is the most noble.No wonder everyone is so thin, eating this every day, where there is appetite to eat more.Lizi sighed and rubbed her stomach.

When she was in Omi, Sushi Granny used to think about making some delicious food with her.Including the unagi rice of later generations, nigiri sushi and so on.There's even food from her hometown.But here, she is already very satisfied with life, and dare not ask for food at all.

After dinner, Seimei taught her a new spell, Thunder Control.Throwing the talisman summons a bolt of lightning.But it still has to do with spiritual power.Qingming said that with her current spiritual power, the talisman paper she threw could at most paralyze the opponent for a while, and it would not be able to achieve the effect of splitting into coke.

But Hongye belongs to the wood-type monster, and thunder and lightning still have a restraining effect on her.

"Why not use fire?" Lizi asked curiously while practicing writing spells.

Seimei was silent for a while, "I'm afraid you'll set Heian-kyo on fire."

Lizi froze for a moment, "That's right, even a small spark can easily cause a fire."

"I'll teach you how to use fire when the rainy season comes."

pear:"……"

Qingming watched her keep writing on waste paper, and reached out and pushed the wooden table with paper light bulbs on it towards her, so that the light could shine more clearly, "Lightning Control is a high-level spell. It's hard to write for sure." Yes, it’s normal to waste a few baskets of paper.”

Lizi nodded, and changed to a new piece of talisman paper.From the corner of his eye, he saw Qingming propping his face with one hand, and holding the little paper figurine with the other to prevent it from getting up.The little paper figurine waved its arms in protest, and Qingming smiled happily.

Ever since she discovered that her little paper figurines could work, Qingming asked her how many of them she had left.Occasionally going to his room, she found that the little paper figurine had learned to carry water, fold quilts and other tasks.Two of them even learned to wrestle, rolling from one room to another with their arms around each other every day.

It's really... bad fun.

In the middle of the night, Qingming was going to go back to the house to rest.He stood up and pushed open the side door, which was connected to his room by a plank bridge. "correct……"

He stopped walking as if thinking of something, "The food in Omi must be different from here. I've already told Suzaku that she will come over tomorrow to ask you what you like to eat. Don't be shy, Suzaku likes to sweep the floor. What I like is cooking. She prepares all the meals at home."

Lizi was slightly taken aback, her heart was as warm as if soaked in hot spring water.It turned out that she ate little food every day, and Qingming noticed it all and wrote it down quietly.

……

Onmyoji classes are not held every day, basically every five or six days.When not practicing Onmyoji, he always studied at Ise Shrine.

Ise Jingu is deep in the dense forest, but there are many people who serve the gods.Villages were even established not far away.The villagers come and go every day, bringing fresh ingredients to the witches.And Lizi always receives the things that Hongye brings her.

On the fiery red leaves, there will always be words "I saw you today too." "The girl who gave you pine nut candy is your friend, right?" "Master Qingming didn't come to pick you up today. What about the one wearing the same color dress?"

These leaves are undoubtedly telling her that the monster Hongye has been hovering around her, looking for opportunities to strike.

Yuan Chuyue thought that Lizi was secretly in love with someone, "Wow, who is it? Every day, people will bring you leaves with Waka. But it's a bit strange, it's spring now, where can I get red leaves? Is it A certain nobleman asked someone to ripen the maple tree, and pick off a piece every day, wash it and write something?"

Riko was defeated by her imagination and romantic feelings. This is not a waka of courtship, but a threatening letter.

The quiz for the apprentice shrine maidens finally came.At night, under Seimei's supervision, she performed two knot seals.One is the enchantment technique, and the other is the binding technique, which can use everything around to temporarily bind the opponent.

"Yes, that's it. You did a good job." Qingming casually glanced at the ribbons that bound her.With one hand making a seal, a gleam of light flashed, and the ribbon was broken into pieces.

"What is this?" Lizi was taken aback.

"Slicing technique." Qingming said, "But it's too late for you to learn it now, so I'll draw it for you first, and you can read it when you have time." As he said so, he stretched out his hand and took a pen to draw the casting trajectory on the paper.

"Actually, you know enough to cope with the exam now, don't worry."

Lizi reached out to take the drawing paper, and drew on it with her fingers.After a while, she said softly, "I got red leaves again today."

"Where?"

"It's in the monster album."

Seimei picked up the book with a hungry ghost on the cover and glanced at it, the corners of his mouth slightly raised, "The cover was changed? I remember it was Shuten-douji."

"Well, it's said that because the girls are always staring at the cover and giggling, Saio-sama thinks that everyone won't hate monsters anymore, so he changed it." Riko kept her eyes on the drawing paper, always tracing the trajectory with her hand.

"I see. Saio-sama's worries are justified. Shuten-douji is indeed the most handsome monster among monsters." Seimei flicked his fingers lightly, and the pages of the book immediately flipped to reveal the red leaves.

He took out the leaf and read the words on it softly, "O crimson moon, reflecting the maple trees by the river." He frowned slightly, "What does this mean?"

"I don't know." Li Zi was not thinking about the leaves, she was almost paralyzed by the red leaves.She put down the paper and began to try to seal.

"It doesn't work like this," Qingming said with a smile, "You have to tie yourself up before you know whether the incision technique has been successfully released."

"That's it," Li Zi quickly found out a long ribbon and handed it over, "Then Master Qingming, please tie me up."

Qingming gave her a strange look, and raised the corners of her lips, "Don't say strange things at night. I'm going to bed, and you have an exam tomorrow, go to bed early." After finishing speaking, she put down the red leaf and turned to leave.

"Is it weird?" Li Zi frowned and muttered, "Or what is the saying about kidnapping people at night? Hey, never mind." She bent down and tied her legs, and sat on the tatami mat to practice the knot mudra.

The night wind blew in along the window lattice, the pages of the book rattled and turned, and a damp breath rushed over.

"It's windy, is it going to rain?" She jumped to close the window.The leaves blown by the wind on the desk behind him happened to land in the opened monster album.

There is a beautiful girl painted on it, wearing a red dress, it is the monster Momiji.