juvenile onmyoji

Lizi felt that she was sinking continuously.

She knew she was in the water, but the breathing through her nose was still smooth.

There was a pleasant ringtone in her ears, and her hands were gently held, fingers interlaced.

The girl opened her eyes, Seimei held her hand, her hair was tied behind her head, dancing lightly in the water.Many bubbles rose up around them, and when a beam of light came down, they sank slowly in the light.

"Where is this?" Lizi looked around.Except for the beam of light, everything around is pitch black.Only the movement of water can be felt.

"We are in the stomach of a monster," Seimei said.

Lizi suddenly opened her eyes wide, Seimei laughed briskly.

"You lied to me?"

"I'm not lying to you. We are indeed in the stomach of the monster, but this monster is the dormitory we live in."

"House?"

"Well," Qingming looked at her thoughtfully, "I didn't think about it when I heard you talking to that female guest. I just thought that there would occasionally be monsters living in human dormitories. Little did I know, this This dormitory is for monsters."

"Then why do we live here?"

"Because the smell on your body awakened this inn. The inn thought it was a monster lodging, so it appeared on the street. So this explains why this inn is on a busy street, but there are so few guests."

"Since this house is made of wood, why does it still eat people?" Lizi asked again.

"As a hotel serving monsters, it is still a monster in essence, a special kind of monster. I think, as the female guest said, all monsters like your smell. But the hotel doesn't dare to mess with that person. Female guest, I can only eat you after she leaves."

"The smell on me?" Lizi's eyes fell on Ben Pingling involuntarily. Every time the wooden sign was taken out, it would emit a strange fragrance, which would take several days to dissipate.Could it be it?

"What did you think of?"

Li Zi hesitated, "I was thinking..."

"Do you want to tell me the secret of the bell?"

Having said this, they fell to the bottom of the water.The light illuminated the ground, and many small granulation sprouts wriggled on it, and began to secrete sticky things.

"Hiss." Lizi gasped, feeling as if the soles of her feet were being scorched by fire.

Qingming led her to float again, "It won't be long before this water area will become the stomach juice of monsters, and we will be melted."

He shifted his eyes to Lizi again, "I think, you should tell me what Ben Pingling is hiding. If you don't cover up this smell, I'm afraid you will keep attracting monsters in the future. Think about what you will meet tonight There are a few monsters." He looked into her eyes and said seriously, "Don't you trust me?"

It's all about this, and she feels that she really doesn't have the ability to solve this smell.She let go of Seimei's hand, ready to take out the contents of the bell.

Qingming hurriedly put one hand around her waist, "Don't let go, you will fall."

Lizi blinked, at this moment she was very close to Seimei, so close that she could clearly see how many of his eyelashes were there.She stepped back uncomfortably, but the further she stepped back, the tighter the other party's arms became.

"Is it because I can't hold it?" Qingming asked with a strange face, "Why do you keep sliding backwards?" He simply put his other hand around and locked the girl tightly in his arms, "Okay It's safe now."

Because of the sloshing of the water, and because Seimei hadn't fastened his belt before, his bathrobe was already loose.From collarbone to shoulder to chest.If she wanted to, she could see the whole Seimei by lowering her head.

Resisting her embarrassment, she stretched out her hands to cover the skirt of his clothes.Then it went around his waist, grabbed the belt and tightened it tightly.

Qingming chuckled, "You're like my mother. She never pulls back when she puts on my belt. Every time she strangles me to death."

"Is Master Qingming's mother?" Li Zi paused for a moment, another knot was tied until she had three big knots, and she stopped when she was sure that the other party would not run out of the bathrobe again. "Lord Seimei's mother must be very beautiful. Will we be able to see her when we arrive in Heianjing?"

"She has passed away."

"Sorry..." she whispered.

"It's okay, it's been a long time." Qingming didn't seem to want to mention it again.

Lizi was silent for a while, then stretched out her hand to untie Ben Pingling, and put it in her palm.A soft light flashed, and the wooden sign reached her palm.Immediately, there was a delicate fragrance in the water.

"Gulu Gulu" Countless bubbles rose up in the water, tumbling violently.It seems that because of this smell, Youkai Yakuya became excited.Gastric juice is also released more.

Qingming frowned, "Put it away first, let's talk about it after we leave here."

Lizi put the wooden sign back into Ben Pingling.Qingming's voice came from beside my ear, "Hold on tight, this time it's real water."

He made a seal with one hand, and with a "boom", a big hole was torn out in the darkness by an invisible hand.The icy liquid poured in, and the surroundings suddenly turned upside down.

There was a shrill roar from the house monster.

Qingming hugged Lizi tightly, and rushed out along the icy liquid.

Lizi instantly felt a slight pressure on the eardrums, and water poured into the nose and mouth.Air was forced from her lungs and gurgled from her mouth.She couldn't open her eyes, so she could only struggle and entangle Qingming like an octopus.

A few seconds later, the air rushed in violently, followed by the cold wind.She trembled and opened her eyes, gasping for breath, only then realized that they had already drilled out of the water.

The surrounding light is dim, and the moonlight casts down bleakly. This is a sea.

Seimei picked her up, stepped on the sea, and walked towards a torii gate that was half-submerged in the sea.

He placed her on top of the torii gate and released a small ward.The semicircular barrier covers half a meter of sea water around the torii gate.The wind stopped instantly.She no longer shivered with cold.

"Where is this?"

"Inari Shrine." Seimei said lightly.Seeing that Lizi didn't understand, he explained, "Inari God is a fox, and he will bless business prosperity and grain harvest."

"Why was it flooded by the sea? And there is no temple, only this door." Lizi asked again.

Torii is the door to the gods from the human world.Here is an empty sea, a lonely torii gate, a world abandoned by the gods.

"Because everyone doesn't like foxes anymore." The answer was also flat.

"Oh," Li Zi quickly put this matter behind her, and she held Ben Pingling again, "Can I take it out now?"

"Yes, I have set up an enchantment." Seimei replied briefly.

A gleam of light flashed, and the wooden sign appeared in the air again accompanied by a faint fragrance.

Qingming took it, held it up to his eyes and looked carefully, "This smell is indeed from the Shura ghost world. But I have never seen this thing before." He tried to inject some spiritual power into the wooden sign.But the wooden sign did not respond at all.The five tadpole-shaped holes are like a dead mass.

"Where did you get it from?"

"It got into my pocket by itself." This sentence Lizi was not lying.

She twisted her fingers uneasily, "Is there something bad going on?"

Qingming shook his head, "I don't know yet. But since monsters like this smell, it's better not to take it out lightly." He handed the wooden sign back to Li Zi, and watched her put it back into the bell.

"Master Qingming, won't you confiscate it?" the girl asked hesitantly.

Qingming smiled lightly, "Of course not, it belongs to you. So you didn't tell me because you were worried about being confiscated by me?"

Lizi nodded, the wooden sign is very important to her, she always felt that she was brought here by the wooden sign.Maybe the secret of going back is also hidden in the wooden sign.

"You said its smell will attract monsters?"

"It's true, but I found that the smell will only be released when the wooden sign is taken out. This smell will dissipate after a few days after being stained on the body. But I don't think that something that can fit into Ben Pingling will be an evil thing. "

"But what about the taste?"

"I keep a kind of incense in my house, which can make the smell of everything disappear." Qingming stood up at this point, reaching out to pull her up, "At first I thought about cleaning up that Gulushou before leaving. Now it seems that I have to go back immediately .”

He bit his index finger and quickly wrote a name in the bloody air.A puff of smoke suddenly rose outside the barrier, and a man around 20 years old appeared there.His hair was draped, his face was pointed, and his pupils were scarlet like snakes.

"Teng Snake, go to the dormitory and bring your luggage back to Heianjing. Also, give me your copper whistle and your money bag."

Teng Snake took out a thin short whistle and a money bag and offered them with both hands, then glanced at Li Zi, bowed down and disappeared.

"Who is he?" Lizi asked in surprise.Is it the one she heard Seimei talking in the house last time?A person who seems to be a retainer.

"You can see him?" Seimei was more surprised than she was.

"I can see it." She was not blind.

Qingming paused for a moment, with a bit of amused expression on his face, "The child I picked up this time is really amazing. Although it looks like a trouble, it's not bad."

"what?"

"Teng Snake is my Shikigami, ordinary humans cannot see his existence."

Pear blinked slightly.

"Only people with spiritual power, such as onmyojis or witches, can see him. And you can give life to paper-cuts. Thinking about it this way, it's not surprising that you are always accompanied by special things." Qingming said with a smile , "Then, the rest of the trouble, let's solve it when we return to Heianjing."

"Why? Are you still using the short-track talisman?" Lizi asked.

"That's too slow." Qingming picked up the copper whistle that Soaring Snake had given him, and blew it on his lips.

Obviously, the sound of the copper whistle was thin and quiet, but the surrounding sea suddenly stirred up, violently beating the barrier, and breaking into milky white waves.

"Woo--" There was a strange horn sound in the distance.

A ship-like shadow floated on the sea.This is a tattered ship wrapped in something like an octopus, which looks very strange.A blind monk with a qin on his back stood at the bow of the boat and looked towards them with his eyes tightly closed, "Ah, Qingming, it's you again, you really like running around."

"It's a monster ship, but it's a kind monster. When encountering fog, Kaizatou will point out the direction of the fishermen. Unlike Kaibozu, he is a bad monster who will forcefully demand the fish that the fishermen catch. No capsize the ship."

As the boat approached the torii, Kaizato stretched out his hand to Seimei, "Fifty copper coins, thank you for your patronage."

"Aren't there five coins per person?"

"Ah, you call me in the middle of the night, and I'm not allowed to raise the price? You can do whatever you want, I'm the only one in this sea area." The kind monster turned the bow of the boat to leave while threatening.

It turned out to be a taxi, or a black taxi.

Qingming handed over the money, and Kaizuo put his head down on the boat.

"Okay, let's go back to Heianjing." The young man held out his hand to her.

Rika stood up from the crossbar of the torii gate, and when she turned around, she caught a glimpse of something carved on the torii gate.Her eyes moved slightly, and she leaned down to take a closer look.

Under the moonlight, on the mottled torii, a name is deeply engraved, Qingshui Lihuazi.