juvenile onmyoji

"Monster-hunting picture?"

"Yes, it's to teach you to identify monsters from their lips." Qingming hurriedly folded the paper and put it in the skirt of his clothes.

He sat down again, looking seriously at the girl with tears on her face.Intuition told him it was not that simple.She seemed to have just experienced some great joy and sorrow, and she looked extremely tired.

"Did you not rest yesterday?"

"No." Li Zi shook her head, she looked down at the crumpled Sunshine Doll in her hand, and quickly stretched it out.Afraid that it has a glass heart and it will turn black again.

After carefully placing it on the low cabinet, Qingming's voice came from behind, "Ah, you made a sunny doll, this kind is actually a monster, a long time ago..."

"I know," she answered immediately, "there was once a monk named Rizhao. His head was cut off and wrapped in a white cloth, and he became a sunny baby."

"Hey, you know." Qingming leaned back, leaned on the low table and looked at her with a smile, "Really, don't give me a chance to show off at all."

"Of course I know, not only that, but I also know that you are going to ask me to cut something new?"

"Hey, how do you know?" Qingming was a little surprised.He was indeed going to ask.Because Xiaoli's wooden cards were just full, he wondered if there would be any changes in the paper-cutting technique.

"I can make the flat paper look like a real object and have life at the same time." She took out a piece of paper and scissors, and pinned the hair behind her ear with her hand. "What animal does Master Qingming want?" She smiled asked.

"I want……"

"Fox." The girl said the answer directly, and said while cutting with a smile, "And a fox with pear blossoms."

"Hmm..." Qingming's eyes were full of puzzlement, didn't she let people talk?

Ten seconds later, looking at the little white fox jumping happily on her lap, Qingming frowned slightly, "Your favorite food..."

"Persimmons." The girl answered again, picking up the scraps of paper on the ground without raising her eyes, and putting them into a small basket.I thought to myself, tomorrow I will be able to eat the persimmons Master Qingming has ripened, right?

"How do you know I'm going to ask about fruit, not other things?" Qingming was completely stunned, "Have you awakened any other abilities, such as being able to hear the other person's inner voice?"

"Pfft." The girl smiled softly and raised her eyes to look at him, "Well, that's true, so Master Qingming, please be careful, you must hide the secret in your heart, and don't let me hear it."

Qingming's expression changed, and he subconsciously covered his heart.When he looked at the kissing picture just now, he thought of many scenes that he shouldn't have thought of.These, will not all be known, right?

In the following time, Seimei also collapsed.For several small things, Li Zi seemed to have heard his heart, saying or doing it in advance.

During dinner, he couldn't help it anymore, "You, you can't really hear the voice in your heart, can you?"

Li Zi bit the radish in her mouth, her cheeks were bulging and she couldn't answer.

The little pear blossom is so beautiful. "Did you hear that?" Seimei asked.

She tried hard to swallow the carrot, "What?"

The young man looked at her seriously, with a faint light shining in the raised pupils at the end of his eyes.Little pear blossom is really cute, I seem to like little pear blossom. "Did you hear that?"

"What?" Lizi bent down laughing, and after a long time, it turned out that Master Qingming was testing her.

Can't hear it, or are you pretending not to hear it?Qingming stared at her, "I really want something for a lie detector right now. If you don't tell the truth, I'm afraid I'll be worried all the time."

Lizi couldn't straighten up with a smile, "Okay, I said. I can't hear it. How could anyone hear the voice in my heart? Maybe there is, but it must not be me."

"That's it, what a pity," Qingming said with some regret, "I finally had the courage to say it."

"What was on your mind just now?" she asked curiously.

"What I'm thinking is... I won't tell you." Qingming said lightly, picked up the chopsticks on the table and picked up a glutinous rice ball. "If you can't guess, I'll never tell. I'm a proud man, too."

Eh?It seems that she is not happy, Li Zi bit her chopsticks and thought.

The rain stopped, and the sound of insects resounded in the courtyard.She turned her head and glanced outside the house. The water on the ground reflected the starlight falling from the stars in the sky.

"It's getting dark." Her eyes flashed in thought.It was today that Hashihime killed the first person.How could she reasonably stop Hashihime?

She can't tell Seimei about going back in time now.Because this kind of thing is unbelievable.Hashihime hasn't committed a crime yet, and Sunshine Doll hasn't destroyed Heianjing either.There is no way to talk about it.

It's better to wait for the hair of Inari God in Hashihime's hand, then Seimei will also have doubts based on her "abnormal" behavior one day.At that time, she will tell him about going back in time.

"Master Seimei."

"Yeah." Qingming drank the last soup in the bowl, and gently wiped his mouth with the handkerchief placed beside him.

"I heard that a monk who is very good at playing the flute has come to Xiguan Temple. Let's try our luck. If we can hear it, it is a very elegant thing."

"Hey, you've heard that too?" Qingming blinked her eyelashes lightly, why did she feel a weird feeling?It seemed that she knew everything she wanted to share with her in advance. "Want to go?"

"I want to go." The girl nodded.

"Well, I'm going to tell my father right away." Qingming stood up and frowned slightly, wondering why this incident seemed familiar?

After reporting with Abe Masai, they got on the bullock cart.

After leaving Tuyumon Avenue and walking in the direction of Sanjo Avenue, the rain started to fall again.Pedestrians on the road opened their umbrellas again and ran quickly.Shops also began to close, and the windows were boarded up.

Lizi saw that the arch bridge was getting closer and closer, so she stuck her head out of the window.Facing the drizzle, she saw a woman holding an umbrella standing on the arch bridge.

That umbrella, that dress, that posture, she knew without any confirmation that it was definitely Hashihime.

"Master Qingming, please stop, I'm going down."

"Going down?" Although Qingming was surprised, he still asked the driver to stop the car.

The two of them got out of the car, Qingming held the umbrella and gave most of it to her, "And then, what are you going to do?" He could see that she didn't want to hear the flute sound at all, and she was coming for this bridge .He glanced over the bridge, and there was only one unremarkable man with an umbrella.

Riko was a little nervous, seeing Qiao Hime alive again made her feel unreal.I am afraid that I have made a mistake, or that something has gone wrong in time retrospect.

She led Qingming to the bridge, and Qiao Ji looked at the river below the bridge leisurely with her back to them, waiting for someone who would take the bait.

"That..." she said to Qiao Ji.

Qiao Ji turned around, the umbrella tilted to cover half of her face, and said delicately, "My ears fell off..."

Huh?Qiao Ji was slightly taken aback.It's a bit difficult for two people.

"Even though it's gone, you don't need to pick it up." She added a few words and then turned around. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw an orange enchantment rising above her head.

Qiao Ji and Qingming were taken aback at the same time, and looked at the girl who pulled out the barrier together.

Seeing that the barrier covered Qiaohime, Lizi heaved a sigh of relief, jumped back and shouted, "Master Seimei, she is a monster."

Qingming's eyes sank, and a spell immediately appeared in his hand.The powerful spiritual power emitted by the spell made Qiao Ji take a few steps back in a panic, "Oh, don't, don't. I'm just a poor little monster, the kind that doesn't even deserve to be included in a monster album. Eh? Why should I would know such a thing?"

"Lord Seimei, don't let her go. She has killed many people. Her name is Hashihime, the kind of monster that tricks people into drowning under the bridge. She has half a bunch of Inari's white hair on her body."

Hearing Inari, Seimei immediately let go of the spell.The huge light instantly swallowed Qiao Ji, and there was no suspense in winning.

Qiao Ji was purified into fragments of demon power, which quickly dissipated into the air.Half a bundle of pure white hair floated out from the light and slowly landed on the bridge.

Qingming bent down to pick it up, twirling it between his fingers, his eyes complicated, "Could it be that after the grooves on the wooden sign are filled, the new ability is to foresee the future."

"It's not meeting the future, it's going back in time. But it's not my skill." Lizi said, she pursed her lips, "I don't know how to tell you."

Seeing her troubled look, Qingming smiled slightly, "Don't worry, talk slowly." He stretched out his hand to reinforce the barrier, "It happened to be raining, and no one passed by. We'll clarify the doubt here Bar."

Lizi nodded, organized her words, and began to speak slowly.

The more Qingming listened, the more shocked she became, and her long and narrow eyes were full of incredible emotions, "Qingtian Doll said that the wooden sign in the bell can talk?"

"That's what it said." Li Zi nodded.She originally wanted to tell the fact that the wooden sign was a lock to lock the evil spirits of the Shura Dao, so that she could explain why the wooden sign could speak.Because it was transformed by the ancient gods.But when she thought that all the gods, ghosts and people were looking for the lock, she swallowed the matter back.

The wooden sign carries her hope of returning home, so it cannot be handed over anyway.

"It's unbelievable," Seimei whispered, "You killed Hashihime, half of Inari God's consciousness was taken away by Yinyangliao, and Qingtian Doll burned Heianjing..."

Lizi was a little nervous, "It sounds really hard to accept, but I swear what I said is true. Otherwise, why did I guess many of your reactions today?"

"If you don't believe me, there are still a few days before the Sunshine Doll burns Heianjing, and I can continue to tell you some things I know. For example, when you are practicing Yin Yang tomorrow, everyone picked the existing fruit tree saplings to practice Time lapse spell. Only you picked the persimmon seeds."

"You know that I will learn the spell of passing time tomorrow?" Qingming was surprised again.He knew in advance because the teacher told him.No one will know about this except him.He digested what he heard, "There is no need to prove it, I believe you."

Lizi was about to give another example, and she was relieved when she heard him say that.There is a feeling that a secret is finally being shared with someone.

She smiled easily, "That's great, Master Seimei. I suddenly feel that I am not alone anymore. I have experienced so much, and no one remembers it. Everyone was thrown back to the original time, only my memory Stay there."

"It hurts, right?" Qingming reached out and touched her cheek lightly.

"What?" She froze suddenly, feeling the heat of the other's palm.

"You said that we were separated, and you supported the barrier to cover the three warriors alone. After the barrier was broken, you were exploded. The heat wave of the explosion overturned... It hurts?" Qingming looked at her seriously, There is a gentle light in the pupils.

Lizi was slightly startled, but immediately understood that Master Qingming really asked her if she hurt when she was injured.

"Actually, it's okay, I've forgotten. It hurts for a while."

Qingming was silent for a while, and said softly, "I'm sorry, I will definitely not do this again next time. I will definitely not separate from you next time."

She paused and turned her head slightly, her pupils reflected the gentle and self-blame look of a young man.Tried to say something, but couldn't.The voice of the sunny baby seems to be still echoing in my ears, that little brother who has been with you all the time, he is crying.

At that time, Master Qingming probably thought she was dead.

"By the way, Master Qingming," she remembered one thing, "At that time, Qingtian Doll gave me the half of its white hair. But when I came back, I found that I didn't have it on my body."

"This is normal," Qingming wasn't surprised at all, "I've seen records about going back in time in ancient books. When time goes backwards rapidly, it will dutifully wipe away all the things that don't belong to the past."

"But occasionally some imprints are left. But those are very deep obsessions. It is said that things that can not be erased by time have never appeared. If there are, then it must be the obsession carved into the flesh and blood. .”

"So that's how it is." Li Zi smiled, "I kept thinking about bringing Baimao home over and over again. I thought it would be successful."

"In this way, the things in your bell can be judged as the most precious treasures in the world. No wonder those monsters are chasing after you. I just don't know what the relationship between the person who gave the sunny baby the white hair has to do with God Inari. I don't even know, What is his intention? Could it be to lead to the matter of going back in time?"

Lizi's heart skipped a beat immediately.

Seeing her pale face, Qingming comforted her, "Don't worry too much. It seems that this time regression only retains your memory. Everyone else has no impression of it."

"I don't think the person behind the scenes can remember. Even if it feels like something has been done once in a while, it's just a flash of thought."

"Does Seimei-sama have such a fleeting thought?" Lizi asked.

"Don't we often have this feeling? Feeling that someone seems to have known each other, that something seems to have been done before. I thought about this problem, and I think this is the secret of time. Maybe it secretly It was restarted, we just didn’t know it.”

On the way back, Qingming was silent all the way.Heian-kyo was destroyed by monsters.Everyone no longer remembers such a big event.Only Xiaoli remembered such a heavy thing.

If she doesn't tell him, she will bear the memory alone.After a long time, she will doubt herself, thinking that this is an imagination.Imagination breeds delusion, and delusion breeds evil.The final damage will be incalculable.

What made him most unacceptable was that he missed her experience.She said lightly that she was not in pain.But she experienced the firelight and saw death.That's not something that can be explained in a few words.Is she very scared?If you close your eyes, will you see the scene at that time?

He couldn't help her, he couldn't remember, it was the last thing he could forgive himself for.

……

When going to bed at night, Suzaku finished spreading the bedding, picked up the lamp and was about to leave.

Lizi immediately shook her head, "I, I still need to read for a while."

Suzaku put the lamp back on, "Go to bed early, reading at night will hurt your eyes."

Li Zi nodded, Suzaku's character was reticent.But he is a caring and gentle person.

Pushing the door closed again, she sighed softly and lay down.I thought that if time went back, nothing would happen.But as long as you close your eyes, the thick smell of blood and fire will reappear in front of your eyes.

Ugh, I can't fall asleep no matter what I do.The scene of that night was running back and forth in my mind.

There was a soft knock on the side door.

She immediately sat up and looked at the place where the door was pushed.Opening the side door is Banqiao, and beyond that is Lord Seimei's room.

What is Master Qingming doing here at this time?

With doubts, she opened the door, Seimei's smiling face was reflected in her eyes, with the quilt under her arm.

He walked sideways by the girl blocking the door, walked into the room very naturally, and spread out the mattress.

"Master Seimei, your house isn't here, is it?"

"Well, that's true," Qingming said with a smile, "but, tonight, I suddenly feel a little afraid of the dark."

Master Seimei is afraid of the dark?

Lizi's eyelashes moved slightly, and a warm current gushed out of her heart. She was actually worried that she would not dare to sleep.

She closed the sliding door silently, and when she turned around, Qingming was already lying down on the mattress.

She walked over and sat down, not knowing how to sleep.

Qingming didn't take the pillow, and looked at her with one hand behind her head, "Just sleep like this, you don't have to draw the curtain like in the dorm. Anyway, I can't do anything to you."

Lizi's cheeks became hot all of a sudden, and she mumbled, "I didn't mean that. I know Master Qingming is afraid that I will be afraid." After she lay down, Qingming covered the lampshade, and the room was suddenly dark.

In the darkness, Lizi heard Qingming pat her pillow and ask, "What is this? Why are you sleeping on the small mattress?"

"It's not a quilt, it's also a pillow." Because things from the Tang Dynasty were very popular in Fusang, everyone likes porcelain pillows, jade pillows and the like.

Lizi has never been used to sleeping, even when she lived in the countryside of Jinjiang, she still slept on soft pillows.After coming to Heian-kyo, I also sewed a simple cloth pillow by myself.

"It's so strange." Seimei's voice with a smile came from beside her ear.

At this time, the pears have slowly adapted to the darkness.Moonlight spilled in through the paper-covered windows, and she could see Qingming just by turning her face sideways.

The boy leaned sideways on his arm and kept looking at her.

In the dimly lit room, she heard her heart beating violently.Afraid that the other party would hear it too, she hurriedly lay on her back, and gently pressed her hand on the position of her heart to prevent it from beating so violently.

"It's really comfortable." Seimei sighed from behind.

"what?"

"It's much better for two people to sleep together than alone." Qingming said softly, "Isn't this what I always wanted when I was a child?"

Lizi chuckled, "Is it because I'm afraid of the dark?"

"Actually, there are fears of the dark, but it's mostly because of loneliness." Qingming lay flat and looked at the ceiling and said, "Because my mother passed away early, and my father was always sad. I did everything to make him happy It's best not to let him. Worry."

"As a result, I sacrificed a lot of time for playing. Other children were playing in the street, and I was always sitting in the yard by myself learning Yin Yang. I had few friends, and most of the time, I talked to myself."

"Talk to yourself? Will you agree?" Lizi asked.

Qingming was silent for a while, "When he was ten years old, he agreed. He said he was lonely too. If I wanted, he would come out to play with me."

Li Zi suddenly turned around and looked at him, "Is it a monster?"

"I thought so before, and I told the teacher about it. The teacher said it was a demon. When you admit that there is another you in your body, that person may separate you and come out. This kind of situation is rare , but not special. The teacher asked me to gradually forget that voice and pay more attention to myself.”

"Later, did that voice speak again?"

"No more. I made new friends, and I no longer locked myself in the yard to read. Later, the teacher gave me a shikigami because of this incident, and I recovered a shikigami myself. The yard gradually Live it up."

"What about you, what were you like when you were a child?" Qingming asked.

"When I was young, I can't remember the previous things. I only remember my life in the country. It was very comfortable. I would go to the woods with my friends to play, pick wild fruits, mushrooms, and catch fish. I would also help grandma with things. Well, It seems that there are only these, my life is very monotonous, basically in Zhuangzi."

"It sounds very good," Seimei said with a smile, "It's really strange when I think about it now. It was difficult for us to meet each other, but we live together in this way. Fate is really a wonderful thing."

Lizi slept soundly all night without dreaming.

Waking up in the morning, she opened her eyes in a daze, and Seimei's dilated face was reflected in her pupils.She rolled back suddenly, hit the cabinet and sat up.

While rubbing his shoulders with his hands, he was speechless, when did Seimei-sama sleep on her pillow?A small pillow, he takes up most of it.

She was so close just now that she could count his eyelashes.However, Seimei-sama's eyelashes are so long.Whenever he blinked lightly, it was a pair of amorous eyes.

After eating, Qingming stretched her body, "It's so comfortable, I haven't slept so solidly for a long time."

Teng Snake, who was cultivating the cherry tree in the yard, heard it and asked curiously, "Why did your lord say that? Was there anything special yesterday?"

"Nothing special." Seimei said unnaturally, "Just sleep in your own room."

"That's really strange. I thought the adults had discovered the secret to sleeping peacefully."

"There's no secret." Qingming said immediately, holding a satchel and urging Lizi who was sitting on the porch to put on his shoes slowly, "If you don't leave, you'll be late."

Today, I'm going to He Mo's house to practice Yin Yang, and I will go with Seimei.Li Zi responded, picked up the satchel beside him and walked out of the yard with him.

After they left, Suzaku, who was in charge of cleaning up the room, came out, holding a quilt in his hands and muttering to himself in doubt, "Why is Master Seimei's quilt in Lijiang's room?"

Soaring Snake: "..."