juvenile onmyoji

Holding the snow-white fox fur, Qingming repeated it hesitantly, "I don't want to see it."

"Why don't you look at it?" Lizi was a little puzzled, "We came from such a far away to find out who framed Inari God as an evil god. Knowing this, put two bundles of fox fur together and give it to Yinyangliao judges. Seimei-sama can get rid of the reputation of the son of the evil god. God Inari can also get the vindication he deserves."

"I'm worried..." Seimei lowered his eyelids and said softly, with complex lights shining in his eyes.

"What are you worried about?" Pear asked.

"I don't know, I always think it's a bad thing." Qingming looked up at her and asked, "Do you have a feeling that we are walking on the road we have walked before. Although I don't remember how the road was taken , but that feeling is very familiar."

"The road you have traveled?" Li Zi repeated incomprehensibly.

Qingming glanced at Xingren who came out from behind the firewood pile, and frowned slightly, "Let's not talk about this for now, let's talk about it when we get back to Zicheng."

Xuenv released some people, and these people stood timidly not far away, looking at Lizi and Qingming.They spent some time as icemen.Suddenly appearing in the world, his expression and brain can't turn around.All he knew was to stand up straight, his eyes scanning the surroundings hesitantly.

Xingren ran to hug his brother.Zhenren also embraced him excitedly, "I never thought I would have the chance to breathe the air of the world again. I can still stand on the ground with a strong body. Fortunately, what is going on here?"

"Those two adults saved you." Xingren said loudly.

"My lords?" Zhenren cast his eyes on Lizi and Qingming.

"That's right, it's the Onmyouji-sama and Miko-sama. They are so powerful, they convinced the monster with just a few words. The monster promised to release my brother and the others. I didn't believe it at first, but you really came out, brother."

Lizi pursed her lips and smiled, as long as Master Qingming was not labeled as being with Xuenv, Master Qingming could not add any new charges now.A son of evil god is enough for him.

Seimei smiled slightly, "Since everyone has come out, let's go back. Ah, that's right." He took out a golden cherry blossom from his pocket and threw it at Yukito.

Xingren caught it, and glanced at his face with astonishment, "No, no, I can't take your gold. If it wasn't for you, my lord, my brother would never come back. Speaking of which, we should be the ones to repay you .”

"This is the agreed remuneration," Qingming said. "The two things have nothing to do with each other, so keep it. You deserve this money, and you have helped me a lot."

"I did you a great favor?" Xingren repeated in a vague way.

"That's it." Qingming didn't want to waste time on gold, he had more important things to do now.He turned around and took Li Zi and walked down the mountain.

When Lizi turned her head, everyone was still standing there stupidly, only Zhenzhen and Xingren were kneeling on the ground, their lips were moving, and their eyes were full of tears of gratitude.

They went down the mountain, and when they passed by the sea, Lizi suddenly glanced at the sea level.

"What's wrong?" Sunny asked.

"I don't know, I just suddenly want to look over there."

In the direction she was looking at, in the thin mist, a tall torii stood on the reef in the sea.Behind him is the splash of milky white waves.The waves beat against the huge mottled torii gates, turning the spray into white foam.The salty and cold wind immediately poured into the nostrils and mouth.

"Why are there torii gates there? Could it be Inari God?" Riko said as she walked towards that place, carefully crossing along the protruding black reef.

Qingming pulled her back, "Walking over like this will definitely get your clothes soaked." He took out a piece of talisman paper from the talisman bag and threw it out.

The talisman paper exuded a strong cold air, and when it fell into the sea water, it immediately froze the sea water under their feet.Immediately afterwards, the cold air began to spread far, and all the sea water near it turned into solid ice. "Ka Ka Ka" made a freezing sound, and it didn't stop until it was under the torii gate.

Looking at the icy road leading to the torii gate, Lizi couldn't help but praise, "It's amazing, is this the ice talisman?"

"Well," Qingming walked up first, turned her head and stretched out her hand in front of her, "it's slippery, be careful."

Lizi was slightly startled, looking at Qingming's eyes that were always smiling, and suddenly remembered the way he took out a fox rattle from his pocket to coax her not to cry when they first met.Always so gentle, she couldn't help but raise the corners of her lips.

"What are you laughing at?" Seimei took her hand and walked carefully along the ice towards the torii gate.

"It's nothing, I just remembered the first time I met Master Seimei."

Seimei also raised the corners of his mouth, "Thinking about it, it's also very strange. Why would I suddenly think of taking that road? In fact, there is a shorter road to Harima. It is probably the arrangement of fate. Some people have certain things that cannot avoided."

Saying so, they walked under the torii gate.Looking at the mottled orange-red torii gate, Lizi touched the pillar lightly, "Which god was enshrined here? Why is it that only the gate is left now?"

Seimei walked around the torii gate, fixed his eyes on a certain place, "I know whose torii gate this is."

"who?"

"My mother."

"Eh?"

"Look, your name is still here." Qingming gently touched the words engraved on the pillar with his hand, but his eyes froze immediately in the next second.

Lizi came to him and looked at the pillar, her eyes immediately showed surprise, "Master Qingming, what is the extra word after this?"

There is a strange stroke engraved on the back of Qingshui Lihuazi, which looks like an unfinished character.

Seimei frowned slightly, stretched out her fingers and traced on it, trying to recover the word.

Lizi didn't dare to disturb his thinking, she stood quietly by the side, drawing in her heart.

"Is it Hui?" "It's Hui." The two blurted out at the same time.

Seeing that Qingming guessed the same word, Lizi immediately read it completely, "Qingshui Lihuazi, do you want to say it?"

Qingming frowned, "Who would write like that, your brother?"

"Then I don't know," Li Zi shook her head, "He has long since disappeared."

She looked up at the torii gate, "Inari God's consciousness can only be opened in her shrine. This is her shrine. Although the main hall is gone, as long as there is a door, it is still a shrine. Let's take out that ray of consciousness."

Qingming stared at the handwriting, showing a trace of hesitation, "Do you want to read it?"

"You need to see," Li Zi nodded, "Isn't that why we came here?"

Qingming took out the snow-white fox fur under her urging, "Why do I have the idea that I'm doing something wrong?"

Lizi was slightly taken aback, "You said a lot of similar things today, why do you think so?"

"I can't tell." Qingming stretched out his hand to rub her hair, his face was full of melancholy, "It's just worrying for no reason. It seems that there is a voice in my heart telling me not to do this."

Riko glanced at the fox fur, then at the torii and began to hesitate, "If a thought recurs, I think I have to stop for a while. It sounds like a bad premonition."

"I think so too. I am restless now, and I can't find out the truth of that matter."

Lizi glanced at the city in the distance, "Why don't we stay here for another day, and we're very tired going up and down the mountain. We'll think about whether to come tomorrow morning."

Seimei was already struggling, but when he heard Lizi's suggestion, he immediately put away the fox fur, and looked relieved, "That's it. Let's take a day off and make plans."

The two returned to the dormitory where they stayed before.

At night, it is still Tangchi.Seimei once again saw Seimei in black from his reflection in the water.As red as him.The upper body is naked, but there is no small cloth towel on the head.

Qingming pulled out a barrier, "Why don't you have a cloth towel?"

Qingming in black sneered, "I'm not from the country of mirrors, and I'm still responsible for taking pictures of you."

"Is the water the way you walk?" Seimei remembered what Lizi told him, and Seimei in black walked in the land of darkness and mirrors.

"That's right, but it must be water at night."

"I see." Qingming nodded, "Didn't you fall asleep, why did you wake up again?"

"You touched the torii gate during the day, and I was awakened." The boy in black stretched his arms lazily.

"What does it mean?"

"I don't know either. Anyway, I woke up feeling very uncomfortable."

Qingming thought for a while, like asking for advice from the other party when he was a child, "Do you think I should go to see the truth about fox fur tomorrow?"

"It shouldn't be." Heiyi Qingming said without hesitation, "If you just read it unprepared, you will definitely regret it."

"You think so too?" Qingming was a little surprised.

"Ah."

"What do I need to prepare"

"It's hard to say, that's how it feels. Didn't you see half a word on the torii gate today? I think you should look at a few more torii gates, and maybe you will find something from them."

"That's what I think." Qingming slowly leaned on the stone, "I always feel like I've overlooked something. Today's handwriting reminds me." He looked at Qingming in black, with a hint of interest in the corner of his mouth, "Speaking of it , Where did you come from? I have been trying to figure out why there is another independent person in my body?"

"Maybe you are fake and I am real." Heiyi Qingming snorted lightly, "Didn't you realize that there are more and more places where I can walk now?"

"What do you mean?"

"Whenever you have a negative emotion, that emotion becomes my strength."

Qingming was taken aback, but asked with the same expression on the surface, "You are so kind to tell me?"

The boy in black raised the corner of his mouth lazily, "It's hard work, that feeling of desperately suppressing it? You don't have to work so hard, you can release it as much as you want..."

"Lord Qingming." Li Zi's sweet voice from the other side of the fence interrupted him.

Qingming in Heiyi dimmed his eyes, and said reluctantly, "I'm calling you."

With a slight movement of the water surface, he disappeared completely.

Qingming removed the barrier, looked at the fence, "Xiaoli, what's wrong?"

"I'm done washing, I'm going out first."

"Let's go together." Qingming stood up, and the water splashed.He pulled the blanket on one side to wrap around his lower body, and walked towards the men's room.

Riko changed into a pale green yukata embroidered with oranges and came out.Seimei was already waiting in the lobby.The placket is tightly covered, only revealing the thin and white collarbone, abstinent and lazy.

"Master Seimei, I've been thinking about one thing just now." She wiped her hair with a cloth towel and walked towards the corridor.

Qingming followed her, "What's the matter?"

"I think we should go to the place where Inari Shrine is located tomorrow. Maybe we can find more characters."

"I think so too." Qingming said with a smile, "Let's start with Mito next door. I know there used to be one there. The main hall is no longer there, but I hope the torii gate is still there."

"Master Qingming, you seem to be in a good mood?" Lizi looked at Qingming curiously, feeling that compared to him who was a little melancholy before, he is much more cheerful now.

"Because I feel like I did the right thing," Seimei said.

"So what's not right?"

"It's not right to look at the fox fur directly in the morning. That kind of feeling is very bad. Although I can't say it, I don't think I can do that."

"In this way, I seem to understand a little bit. If you look directly at the truth behind God Inari, it may lead to bad consequences."

"That's right, we need to find some more hints before reading. If we read it directly, I think we will definitely regret it."

In the middle of the night, Lizi was awakened by a slight movement.By the moonlight, she saw that half of Qingming's body went over the curtain and fell asleep in her place.

She complained in her heart that Qingming's sleeping products were not good, and stretched out her hand to slap her back.As soon as his hand touched his face, he opened his eyes, and there was an indistinct emotion in his narrow eyes.

Startled, she quickly closed her eyes and pretended to be asleep.In the next second, the whole person was pulled into his arms.

Are you trying to strangle her with so much strength?

"Master Qingming, I didn't want to hit you just now, I wanted to push you back behind the curtain. You're going to squeeze me out of the mattress." She immediately struggled to explain.

"I had a nightmare." Seimei tightened her arms and said sullenly with her chin resting on her head.

The husky boyish voice with a little fear made her stop struggling immediately, "Nightmare? No wonder. I just saw you sleeping on your stomach with your hands on your heart. Of course you will have nightmares."

"Is that right?"

"That's right. So next time you should sleep on your side and stop rolling around."

Qingming laughed softly, "Afraid I'll sleep on your side again?"

Lizi pursed her lips lightly, "What kind of nightmare is it?"

Qingming let go of her hands and sat up, looking down at her, "I dreamed that I was angry with you for some things and did something irrational. In the end you ignored me."

"What made you angry?" Li Zi wrapped herself up in the quilt and asked curiously.

Seimei hesitated for a moment, then said softly, "I dreamed... Yamata no Orochi is your brother."

"This is truly a nightmare." Lizi gasped, "I hope I don't dream about it for a while."

Seimei smiled softly again, and continued, "I opened my mother's consciousness with fox fur. I saw that the person who framed her behind the scenes was Yamata no Orochi. Because he is your brother, I took my anger on you. I I couldn’t forgive myself for being with the sister of the man who killed my mother. So I did something irrational.”

"And then?" Lizi blinked slightly.

"The dream was intermittent, and each fragment was jumping and incoherent," Qingming recalled with a slight frown. "It looked like my dream, but I didn't have self-awareness. It was more like I was looking at another self."

"In short, it seems that we don't care about each other in the following episodes. You moved out of my house and went to the house on Santiao Avenue. Even if I really want to find you, I always miss it because of some things."

"Then, why did you suddenly wake up?"

Seimei gently fluttered her eyelashes, hiding the sadness caused by the nightmare, "I saw you dead, in front of a very high door. It was very dark around, and I couldn't wake you up no matter how I called you."

"Not only you, but many people. And your shikigami, Shuten and Ibaraki. Everyone lay there as if asleep. The blood under your body flowed like a river, and I know you will never wake up again. "

"What's even more frightening is that I found out that the facts are not what I saw at the beginning. Yamata no Orochi is not your brother. I regret the one in the dream. I saw him crying heartbreakingly, holding you there and crying The tears that flowed from the eyes were all blood."

The boy's speech was very slow, with a hint of sadness, flowing slowly over Lizi's heart like ice-cold water in the darkness.Let her calm down, and the two of them were silent for a while.

After a while, Lizi cheered up and comforted Qingming, "It's just a nightmare, probably because of thinking too much during the day. We always like to think about bad things, that's why we have nightmares."

Seimei remained silent.

For Lizi Eryan, it was just a retelling dream.But for Seimei, it was as if he had just experienced it.

"When I was dreaming, I thought, I must not be like him. I only see one side of things and draw conclusions." Seimei said.

Lizi pursed her lips and smiled, "So this nightmare is actually not bad, and you can gain insights from it."

Qingming also smiled, and he fell back on the mattress, looking at Lizi's face by the moonlight, as if he had lost it and found it again.

It took a long time before he closed his eyes and said softly, "Go to sleep."

Lizi lay on the pillow. Although Qingming didn't snatch her pillow again, she didn't go back behind the curtain either.He kept a little distance from her, but grabbed the corner of her quilt.

The moonlight shone dimly on his face, Lizi couldn't fall asleep because of what happened just now, she silently looked at Qingming, at this pretty face.

If she died, Seimei-sama would be sad about it.Although this is not a good thing, she is a little happy.Probably occupying a place in the heart of the person you like is the feeling of inexplicable joy.

Mito's Inari Shrine is at the foot of the mountain.Unlike other places, the main hall and torii gates here are very complete.It's just that the paint on the wood is almost gone.In the thin winter sun, it looks very cool.

Seimei found the engraved characters on the top of the torii gate, and he rubbed it out to show Riko.There is a long space behind the words Qingshui Lihuazi, which says do not go.

"Why don't you go?" Lizi asked.Now she feels that these words are not simply engraved with her name, but more like a reminder.But who to remind?And who carved these words?

Seimei frowned deeply, staring at the handwriting in thought.

"It would be great if I could find my brother," Lizi said, "we will know who carved it. But if it wasn't for him, I really can't think of who carved it. It seems that these words seem to have been weathered It must have the feeling of several decades, or even longer."

"Let's go." Qingming gave up a little bit, "There are too few clues, I really can't think of it. I can only feel that someone is warning something. After returning to Heianjing, we will release all shikigami. Let them take all the rice they can find. Look at the Lotus Shrine. Maybe there are as many extra characters as you can get.”

"Yeah, just do it."

"Not only that," Seimei said, "I also want to ask Yamata no Orochi something I care about."

"Hahaha," Lizi couldn't help laughing, "Looking for Yamata no Orochi? What are you asking? Is he my brother?"

"Yeah." Qingming nodded.

Lizi continued to laugh, "That's dangerous, right? The other party has always been full of malice towards you. It's like asking a tiger if it eats meat. Master Qingming sent me to the door."

Qingming also smiled, "Of course it won't be so abrupt. I will find a chance."

"But if we go back like this without the truth about God Inari, Seimei-sama will still fall into Heian-kyo's malice."

"I don't care about that kind of thing. As long as Xiaoli doesn't look at me that way, it doesn't matter." Seimei said with a smile.

"Of course not."

……

The bullock cart drove steadily back to Heianjing.

The narrow street, which is neither wide nor narrow under the white winter sun, is one of the forks leading to Seimei's Iatumimon-dori.Quite different from the bustling streets located in the business district, here is full of lively fun of life.

Vendors shouting food, sugar sellers playing the shamisen, wagashi shops where girls gather, soba noodle shops wafting out the aroma, etc., all skillfully greet business in their own different ways.

In the midst of this energy, Riko leaned on the window and looked out with great interest, "I really like Heian-kyo."

She waited for a while, but she didn't wait for Qingming's reply, and immediately turned around and said dissatisfiedly, "Master Qingming, you have been in a daze all the way."

Seimei recovered, "I've been thinking about the Torii and yesterday's dream. I always feel like I'm missing something."

Riko thought for a while, "We can't guess what the torii said now. We can only wait for the shikigami to bring back all the handwriting. As for the nightmare, I was actually quite happy after hearing it."

"Happy? Why?" Qingming was a little surprised.

"Because Seimei-sama will be sad because of my departure, I feel inexplicably happy."

"Because Xiaoli has always lived in my heart, it will be very sad once she leaves." Qingming said naturally.

"Do I live in Master Qingming's heart?" Lizi asked happily, her beautiful apricot eyes were like shining gems.

"Live here." Qingming said slowly.He paused for a while and added in a somewhat concealed manner, "My father and mother also live there."

Although there are two more people, Lizi still said enthusiastically, "I hope I will never move out."

Qingming smiled slightly, and gently rubbed the girl's hair, "The person who lives in my heart will always live in my house."

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