juvenile onmyoji

Meals are served in the lobby of the lodging house, and Lizi listens carefully to people chatting while holding the rice balls.

"I heard that Cat Island is a world of black and white, and nothing has color."

"Isn't even food black and white?"

"Oh, if only I could get one or two of them. Sell them elsewhere, and they'll make a lot of money."

"Don't think about it, Hitachi is forbidden to go to the island. If you catch it, you will be killed. And I heard that the island is called Cat Island because there are hundreds of wild cats. Since the island lost its color, the wild cats have also become cats. Monsters. They thank the islanders for feeding and take the initiative to protect these people. If you go up, you will definitely be chased and scratched."

"Ah, there is such a thing?"

After eating, Qingming checked out of the room.

"Master Seimei, how do we get to the island?" Lizi asked worriedly.

I don't know if the trick of stroking cats is good?

"Go buy dried fish first." Qingming said.

Half an hour later, they walked out of the shop with their pockets full of dried fish.Not only that, Lizi also made a cat teaser with bamboo strips and feathers.

"Is that enough?"

"That's enough." Qingming stuffed the small dried fish with its head back into his pocket.

Those slender fingers made her feel a little numb all of a sudden.

"Master Seimei."

"what?"

"When I woke up this morning, I found that my hand was held by you."

Qingming was stunned for a moment, "What kind of handshake is it? Is my hand wrapping yours, or are fingers interlocked?"

"Fingers crossed."

"Oh, then I can't tell who shook it first." Qingming said with a light smile.

pear:"……"

There is a piece of sea between Hitachi and Cat Island. You don't need to ask, no ship will dare to carry people there.Qingming summoned Hai Zuotou again, paid ten copper coins and boarded the boat.

They didn't even have time to sit down in the cabin when Sea Zodiac told them they were there.

Lizi walked to the deck, and a gray island was reflected in her pupils.All the trees and even the surrounding sea are all black and white.It seems to be a place abandoned by the gods.

Sea seat head put them on a very remote shore, and left.Before coming here, she just stayed in black and white films for the world that lost its color, and she felt nothing.But when she got here, she felt how oppressive the world without color was.

The sky is white, and the land is also white.Trees, mountains, flying birds and butterflies resting on flowers are monotonous and dead black.

Qingming walked in front, she followed behind, surrounded by unchanging scenery, for a moment she even thought she hadn't taken a step at all.

Qingming stopped suddenly, and she ran straight into it without stopping.

It seems to have hit Master Qingming's butterfly bone, she rubbed her forehead thinking.

A dark thing in the grass moved, turned around abruptly, its two round eyes shone brightly, and raised its claws in a vicious manner, "Who?"

Lizi poked out half of her face from behind Qingming, oh, what a big cat, it can still stand.

The cat demon was about the size of a seven or eight-year-old child, wearing clothes, a bamboo hat and clogs, and a dagger pinned to his waist.At its feet was a half-gnawed black fish.

Qingming threw a small dried fish, and the demon cat jumped on it happily with a meow.

"No, what am I doing?" It calmed down suddenly, "It's useless to follow suit. Huh?" Its eyes widened suddenly, and it sniffed its nose vigorously, "It smells like fish, how could there be fish?" taste?"

Because it is dried fish.

"It's the food outside," the cat demon said to himself while staring at the dried fish, "I can't eat it." It put down the dried fish, but picked it up again in the next second, "It's been a long time since I tasted anything tasty. No, I can't eat it."

Putting it down again, "Ah, how can a cat refuse this taste?" It groaned and threw the dried fish into its mouth, "Forget it, anyway, I am also a cat without principles."

"Is the stuff here tasteless?" Lizi asked suspiciously.

"Not only is it tasteless, even rotten food has no taste." The cat demon chewed on the dried fish and looked at them with his hips on his hips, "For the sake of the dried fish, I will pretend that I didn't see it, you guys get out of here .”

"What?" Seimei asked.

"You guys, leave, here..." The pupils of the cat demon began to slacken, and the whole cat staggered as if drunk, and finally collapsed to the ground.

"I sprinkled something easy to fall asleep on the dried fish." Qingming glanced at the cat demon who had started to sleep soundly, and walked around it, "I'll wake up in a while."

After walking a few steps, they were recognized as non-locals by the new cat demon, and Qingming threw out the dried fish as usual.

"I can't do this." Lizi looked at the dried fish in her pocket worriedly, "If there are really hundreds of cats on this island, our dried fish will be thrown away in a while."

"Hehehe." There was a laugh from above his head.

Seimei's face darkened, and he reached out and took out the talisman.

"Ah, it's an onmyoji, I was wrong, don't hit me." A pair of hands parted the branches and leaves from the top of the camphor tree, revealing a heavily made-up face.

Lizi has never seen anyone who uses powder as paint.Looking at the other party's face so painted that the facial features could not be seen clearly, she said softly, "Is it a monster?"

"Ah, I'm not happy when you say that about me. I have a name, and my name is Qianxi Nu."

"Qianxi girl?" Qingming frowned, "I've never heard of a monster clan with this name."

"You're right if you don't know." Qianxi Nu jumped down from the tree.

Riko noticed that she was wearing a dark red dress.

"I am from the state of Chu." Qian Xinv pulled her sleeves and covered half of her face.

"Chu State, is it the State of Chu in the Warring States Period?" Lizi asked, but she soon realized that she had made a mistake.The Warring States Period was set for that period by later generations, and she hurriedly changed her words, "I mean, are you from the Tang Dynasty?"

"If you're talking about the current country, let's just count it." Qianxi stared at Qingming with her two red cheeks in her hands, as if she was very interested in him. "Besides Song Yu, you are the most beautiful person I have ever met."

Lizi suddenly remembered, pointed at Qianxi Nu in surprise and said, "Are you the one who was lying on the wall and spying on Song Yu for three years?"

"Oh, it's me. I didn't expect me to be so famous." Qianxi covered her mouth and smiled.

She became famous for spying on Song Yu in the first battle, and turned into a female ghost after her death.But she couldn't change her habit of voyeuristically voyeuristic. She peeped at Bai Wuchang in the Underworld, and was kicked out after she couldn't bear it.

She searched for beautiful men everywhere, lying on the wall day and night, smiling foolishly at him.While harmless, it can be quite annoying.Finally, he was expelled from his homeland by Taoist priests.She took a boat and crossed to Japan.

Why are all the monsters who can't get along in the old country come to Japan?Lizi murmured in her heart.

"Why did you go to Cat Island?" Seimei asked.

"I heard that the people here are colorless, so I came here to have a look." Qianxi Nu wrinkled her facial features, "I didn't expect, bah, it's so ugly. My old lady is here for nothing." As a face control, she couldn't bear to look at it the most. A life without beauty.

"I see." Qingming nodded.

Seeing that they were about to leave, Qianxi girl smiled and stretched out her hand to stop them, "Let me tell you, the people here are ugly, there is nothing to see. But one thing is very interesting. When they reach the middle of the night, the whole village will cry together. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Wow, it's very lively."

"Why are you crying?" Lizi asked.

"Probably crying that I'm ugly." Qianxi Nu curled her lips.

No one believed her.

They decided to sneak into the village first to have a look.

"Do you want to go together?" Li Zi invited Qian Xi Nu, although she had passed away the year before last, to him it was as kind as seeing a fellow countryman.

"I won't go, hot eyes." Qianxi quickly shook her head.She jumped back on the tree again, "I'll find you when it's dark and cover the ugly faces of those people." She winked at Qingming, "I thought I was blind two days ago, but now I'm blind." I feel fine again."

What a dumbfounding ghost.

Lizi and Qingming walked along the hillside, carefully avoiding people, and sneaked into the village to see the situation here first.

Entering the village makes people feel more depressed and hopeless than the colorless mountains and forests.

People here live and work in silence.Almost no one in the entire village spoke.The expressions on their faces were calm and numb, like walking dead.It looked as if they were alive, but they were already dead.Adults work numbly, and children sit numbly in the yard in a daze.

Lizi grabbed Qingming and pointed to the window, "I've seen several houses, and the idols they enshrine are all foxes."

Seimei came to the window, his eyes moved slightly, "It's Inari God."

"Inari God?" Li Zi was a little puzzled, "Didn't it mean that Inari God has no believers? Why do people here still worship?"

Qingming pursed her lips lightly, and from the corner of her eye, she saw islanders coming in one after another at the entrance of the village.At this time the sky was already dark, worried about being hit by someone, he took Li Zi to hide in a remote place, and pulled out a barrier to block the sight of the outside world.

"We'll stay here for a while, and I feel that there is something wrong with this village," Qingming said.Not only the long-lost Inari statues, but also the breath of the village.It's the smell of being cursed.

The islanders who went out to work soon returned home one by one.As one window after another was lit up, Lizi also looked towards the house closest to her.

The white candles cast pale light, reflecting the black and white room, not only not bright but also kind of gloomy.

The whole village was silent, tasting tasteless food, no one talked, and even tried not to make a sound.

When the darkness completely enveloped the village, Li Zi thought they had just fallen asleep.Unexpectedly, a crying prayer came from the house closest to her.

This prayer seemed to be an order, and more and more voices joined in.The sound converged into a river, flowing slowly over the village.Containing endless despair and remorse, and even crying loudly.

The suppressed village seemed to suddenly have a gap in release, which made people's scalps tingle.

This noise lasted for an hour, gradually died down, and finally returned to calm.

"It seems to be praying for God's forgiveness." Lizi said with a frown.

Seimei pondered for a while, looked at the surrounding villages in the darkness and said, "It's still a while before dawn, let's rest for a while. I'll go to Inari Shrine again in the daytime."

Lizi nodded, and she looked around, "How do you sleep?"

Qingming patted the wall, "Just lean here, or you lean on my shoulder."

"Let's lean against the wall." Lizi said shyly.She adjusted to a more comfortable position, put her hands on her lap, and closed her eyes.

Qingming stood side by side with her and leaned against the wall, with his hands on his lap.

After a while, when Lizi was about to fall asleep in a daze, she took a special look at Qingming to make sure that he was asleep and that she didn't take the initiative to hold her hand.In order not to let herself make mistakes, she simply leaned sideways against the wall and put both hands at the place farthest from Qingming.

After doing all this, she closed her eyes in peace, not seeing Qingming moving slightly beside her.

Dawn broke again, and the movement of the islanders woke her up.She opened her eyes and saw that the enchantment was still there, so she relaxed.

However, it seems that the posture is a bit wrong...

The headrest is not in the right place either...

Seimei still maintained a well-behaved sleeping position.Only her head rested on his shoulder, her arm was wrapped around his, and she even crossed her fingers.

She immediately looked embarrassed, it was definitely not her.

Just when she was slowly trying to pull out her hand, a young man's chuckle came from her ear, "Let me catch it."