juvenile onmyoji

Shuten had a long dream.

He dreamed that his mother was missing.The children in the village stopped coming out when they saw the woman who usually protected him.Immediately boldly threw mud and stones at him.

"A child that no one wants. No father and no mother."

"I heard that his father is a monster. His mother didn't dare to let others know, so she carried him to our village. The head of Zhuang took pity on them and allowed them to build a house on the edge of the village. But I don't want to live in the same village with the monster's child." .”

"I don't want to either."

"I don't want to either."

"Kids of monsters get out of the village quickly."

Seven-year-old Xiao Jiutun has his hair tied high on his head.He was very thin, and when a stone was thrown on his body, it was thrown on the bone, making a thumping sound, and immediately smashed a bruise.But he didn't pay any attention to it, just gritted his teeth and bent over to look through the pots and jars in the yard.

"Where is it? Where is it hidden?"

With veins bulging on his forehead, he kept sweating and muttered to himself, "Come out quickly, the people from Huang Quanguo are gone. Mom, come out quickly."

Seeing that his body was covered with a lot of mud and his forehead was bleeding from the stones, he just flipped the yard frantically.The children in the village were shocked.

"Is he crazy?"

"Is she a monster? We've all thrown a basket of stones, can't he feel the pain?"

"That's why he's crazy. His mother is also a freak, and she mutters to Ibuki-san every day with folded hands. My mother said that his mother is a woman abandoned by men."

"Ah! He looked over."

Jiu Tun's eyes on the bear children changed from indifference before to gloomy now.He bared his teeth, "What did you say? Say it again."

"You want us to talk, so we're going to talk?" The bear child looked at the wine-swallowing expression, although his legs were trembling a little, his mouth was still stiff.

"Did his eyes turn red just now?" a child asked.

"Is it red? I didn't see it clearly."

"It doesn't matter whether he is red or green. With so many of us, are we still afraid of him alone? He can be killed in an instant. Right?"

The rest of the people made a guilty sound of approval.

"Oh." "Yeah, that's it." "Of course, right?" "Hmm..."

"You guys really don't know how to live or die." Jiu Tun twitched the corners of his mouth, "I didn't have the same knowledge as you in the past, did you think I was weak? Now that the people who control me are gone, I don't care about patience."

"what--"

A child fell into an open cesspit a few meters away.

"You dare to touch me? My dad is Zhuang Chang. Ah—"

"No, don't come here. Ah—"

"You wait," the remaining children backed away with horror on their faces, "we will go back and find the adults to clean you up."

Jiu Tun smiled lazily and didn't bother to pay attention, then turned and walked into the room.

The moment the door was closed, he put his hands in.He crouched down in his hair, with a painful expression, "Where is it, where was I put?"

He didn't care if he would be kicked out of the village, he only cared about where his mother was hidden by him.

Not long after, he was ordered to get out of the village by the head of the village who went to the cesspit to pick up his own child.He packed everything in the house carefully.Because he was worried that his mother might be in there.

The life of a monster is very long, and it takes several times longer than that of a human to grow from a child to a teenager.He wandered a lot aimlessly.

I have also been bullied by many people or demons.Every time, he hit back hard.In this way, after a long time, his record has increased, and he has become a famous monster, occupying the great rivers and mountains.

But, it's still lonely.

In the long years, he has tasted too much bitterness.That guy Ibaraki only knows to ask him for warmth.So who should he hug in order to feel the warmth.

Jiu Tun stopped in his tracks, his lowered eyes resting on the hands holding the clothes.

"It's for you, I can't refuse it. Always open your clothes and arms like this, it will be cold."

He raised his eyes, and stared blankly at the girl in front of him with slightly raised peach blossom eyes.She was wearing a red kimono with bright smiling eyes, as warm as a handful of flames in winter.

His eyes moved slightly, and he reached out and obediently took the clothes and hugged them in his arms.

"Is it warm?" The girl asked with a smile.

"Very warm."

Saying so, he opened his eyes.The scene in front of me went from blurry to clear.

The girl in the dream sat warming wine by the small clay stove by the door.She lowered her eyes, her eyelashes fluttering slightly.Qi bangs, two small braids hanging from the left and right temples, and the long black hair is loosely tied with a red hair rope.Very gentle and cute.

The surrounding low tables, screens, and furnishings also looked familiar to him.It's neat and cozy.The charcoal fire in the brazier made a crackling sound.

It turned out that he was home.

Moving his gaze to her side again, a young man came into view.He was wearing a white safari suit, sitting cross-legged, looking out at the courtyard.Always have a casual smile on your face.What an annoying existence.

He moved slightly, and his clothes made a rustling sound when they touched the mattress under him.

"Are you awake?" Lizi turned her head and said with a smile when she heard the voice, "It's not bad, I only slept for half a day."

"Half a day?" Jiu Tun frowned and sat up, feeling a bit fragmented in his head.

"I remember... I remember I was pierced through my chest by Yamata no Orochi. Then there was darkness in front of my eyes. Didn't I die?" He lowered his head to touch his body. The place that should have been penetrated is now flat skin.

"It's dark because I took you back, the small black room is dark." Lizi smiled very much on her face, "Thanks to Master Seimei, if he hadn't got the crystal chip of Yamata no Orochi, you would have saved your life." But come."

"A crystal chip from Yamata no Orochi?" Shuten repeated in doubt.

"That's right, it's the power that Yamata no Orochi stored in the main tower. But it didn't condense out and the tower fell down. Seimei-sama picked up a piece the size of a fingernail and put it in your wound. Your wound will heal." How do you feel now?" Lizi asked.

Shuten stood up and touched his chest lightly, "I feel very good. Even better than before. I can feel the strength in my body is very abundant. Hey, why is my wine gourd bigger than before?"

Lizi cast her eyes on the wine gourd on his waist.The wine gourd, which was originally the size of a palm, has now doubled in size.The color also changed from light red to dark red.

"Maybe it's the effect of the crystal." Seimei, who was sitting behind the low table, said with his chin resting on one hand.

Jiu Tun was slightly taken aback, and turned his head to look at him. At this moment, he felt mixed feelings.

"Xiaoli, come out and help me." Suzaku shouted in the courtyard, she was filling a big hole.That was the trace left by the blood column before.Now that the blood column is gone, there is an unsightly dirt pit in the courtyard.

"Here we come." Lizi went out, "How can I help?"

"Just help me support this stake, and I'll pound it in."

Jiu Tun withdrew his gaze from the courtyard, and moved it to Seimei's face, "Obviously you can keep that kind of thing for yourself. Even if there is only a little bit of crystal crystal refined by Yamata no Orochi, it contains huge power. Why should give it to me?"

"Because you are her shikigami." Seimei simply replied.

Because it's her shikigami, that's why she did this.The purpose is not for him but for Xiaoli.If he wasn't Xiaoli's shikigami, Seimei would definitely stand on the sidelines.

"I see." Jiu Tun nodded comprehensibly, "Then if this is the case, I will not repay you."

"Well, just repay what I owe to her." Qingming picked up the wine warmed on the small clay stove, poured it into two small porcelain cups, and invited the wine to be swallowed.

Jiu Tun sat down unceremoniously, picked up the wine, "You are at a loss, I was going to serve her as best I could. I would do it if you gave me the crystal or not."

Qingming hooked the corners of her lips, "It's not a loss, just think of me as prolonging the lifespan of her shikigami."

Jiu Tun: "..."

When Riko finished her work and came in, "There is one more thing," she said to Shuten, "I don't know what happened, I can't summon it no matter how I summon it. Do you know why?"

Jiu Tun twitched the corner of his mouth lazily, "Why else, come out without a face."

Lizi's eyes showed worry, "It's not his fault, it's the problem of Hongjingbing. But what should I do now, how can I tell him these words and let him come out?"

Shuten was raising the wine glass to deliver it to his mouth, he paused, the wine glass rested on his lips, "Don't bother. My lord, just let him stay inside, and call him again in spring. He will definitely cry It flew out of tears."

"Then let's put it away first." Li Zi pursed her lips and smiled, "By the way, Master Qingming, this is for you." She took out a sealed envelope and pushed it over.There was a confession written on the envelope, and there were two or three drops of blood spattered on it, which had dried up.

"Confession?" Qingming took it and frowned slightly, "Whose is it?" Before Lizi told him, he understood, "It was written by Fujiwara Kane's house? Did you go to his house?"

Riko nodded and told him in detail what she saw at Fujiwara Kane's place.

Qingming didn't speak for a long time after listening, and he said after a while, "Sometimes people's desires are terrible. The evil god uses greed to get what he wants. It seems to take advantage of the evil god. Actually In the world, as long as you trade with the evil god, you will lose everything."

"That's right." Riko nodded thinking of Fujiwara Kane's family with only a piece of skin left in the end, "He wanted to stay with his wife forever. But in the end, his wife had no chance of reincarnation."

Seimei's eyes moved slightly when he heard this sentence, and smiled slightly, "Actually, I don't blame Fujiwara Kane. This deal is too tempting. If it were me, I'm afraid I would do it too."

"Master Seimei." Lizi called him disapprovingly.

"That's all I said." Qingming said quickly.

"Seimei." Abe Masaki walked in from the outside.

Seeing Abe Masaki who never came to this courtyard, Riko and Seimei were startled and stood up quickly.

"Father, what's the matter?" Qingming asked.

"People from Yinyang Liao came at the door, please go and tell what happened in front of you." Abe Masaki said.

"Thinking about it carefully, I'm not an onmyoji, but I'm always doing onmyoji work." Qingming said flatly, with a trace of rejection on his face.

"Go quickly, I just want to enter the palace too," Abe Masaki said with a worried face, "His Majesty asked me to explain the Heian-kyo formation. Why would someone enter the formation to sacrifice the entire Heian-kyo? I think this time is miserable .If it’s not Qingming, don’t go, pack up the gold and silver and run away with Xiaoli.”

Xiaoli: "..."

"Take this." Seimei smiled and handed Fujiwara Kane's confession.

"What is this, is it written by Kane Fujiwara?" Abe Masaki was surprised.

"Xiaoli brought it back. It contains the whole story of the Heian capital battle." Seimei said, "With this thing, father, you can be cleared of unnecessary charges."

"Really?" Abe Masaki wanted to take it apart excitedly, but a trace of reason stopped him.It's not time to tear it down yet.If it is to be disassembled, it must be dismantled by His Majesty.

"Xiaoli, thank you so much." He looked at Lizi with attachment and gratitude, "I was worried that you would go to Zhenyan to find Qingming that day. I didn't expect you to find evidence for me. Now think about it, Qingming will take you back to Heianjing, It was really the best decision he ever made in his life."

"Of course I made a wise decision." Qingming smiled and patted his father's shoulder. "I've made this decision seven times. Alright, father, let's go back early."

"What seven times?" Abe Masaki didn't understand, but he understood the last sentence, "Yes, you can't keep His Majesty waiting too long. Xiaoli, I will thank you again when I come back."

"That... there's no need for it." Lizi said a little embarrassed.

Seimei had destroyed half of the Heian-kyo formation before, and then it was completely destroyed by Tamamo-mae.Now not only the big formation, many places need to be refurbished.

Those are all ruined by those who magnify their desires with red mirror cakes.In addition to pursuing accountability, the government also has to count the people who were swallowed by the blood column in this incident.Almost out of breath.

Abe Masaki was reactivated.Li Zi got another house on Er Tiao Dao and a box of gold and silver.Qingming, as the main person who destroyed the main tower, regained the title of high-ranking Onmyoji.The emperor declared to the outside world, "The wrong things his mother did can't be blamed on him. We have to be tolerant."

When the emperor's words came out, some people immediately began to mock Seimei's rescue of Heianjing as a weasel giving a chicken New Year's greeting.Maybe he is in the same group as Yamata no Orochi.

"It wasn't made by God Inari at all," Riko said indignantly. "The river Styx under the shrine was made by Izanami."

"Just look at the fur of the fox." Seimei said indifferently.For him, he doesn't care what outsiders think of him.He just can't stand the vilification of his parents.

"Huh? You finally decided to watch it?" Lizi was a little surprised.After so long, she almost forgot about the fox fur.

"Well, I'm already mentally prepared. However, it still needs to be strengthened for two days." Qingming said softly, "Let me do two more days of mental construction."

He confirmed that Yamata no Orochi's body was indeed fused with Xiaoli's brother.If the man behind the fox fur show is Yamata no Orochi, he will never make the same mistake as in his dream again.

"Do you need to be mentally prepared to see fox fur?" Li Zi whispered, holding her chin.

……

The next morning, Riko went to the shrine, and Seimei also went to visit Kamo Tada.He was a little worried that the teacher was injured in the Hongjingbing incident.So simply ride in the same car with Lizi.

The bullock cart rolled over the snow on the road and ran towards the three avenues.Unlike the bustling streets of the past, today's Heian-kyo looks like it has been bombed.

The road was full of potholes, and the ground was full of tiles and debris.The same is true for the houses on the side of the road. The signboards of many shops have fallen off, and the doors have been smashed to pieces.The goods inside were trampled to pieces, and the shopkeeper wept while counting the goods.

There is a decline everywhere, but there is also the rejoicing and joy of being reborn after the catastrophe.The family hugs each other and cherishes each other even more.Everyone is reviewing why they had such a big desire before.

"I'm afraid it will take until spring for Heian-kyo to return to its past." Seimei said looking out the window.

"Master Seimei," Lizi blinked her eyelashes lightly, "I remembered something that I didn't tell you."

"What?" Qingming asked lightly, his eyes still looking at the scene outside the car window.

"Before I entered the formation, I remembered something. I think it seems to be the memory of a certain life before going back."

"What?" Qingming turned around immediately with unbelievable emotion in his voice.

"Actually, it's not a lifetime, but a memory from a certain day. A memory that happened in the big formation." Lizi organized the vocabulary, thinking about how to say it better.

The most important thing is that the way she died was really embarrassing.Even being bitten to death by Yamata no Orochi is better than that.Walking and walking, ah, I am going to die.This method of death is really hard to say.

"In short, I failed to enter the blood column and died in the formation. The reason is that the guardian of the Inari God did not respond at all. The method helped me isolate the heat of the blood column, and I couldn't get in."

"Why didn't Mamoru respond?" Seimei asked.

"I guess it's because there were only two tadpoles on my wooden sign in that life. It's strange, the time is the same, but the wooden sign is different. I don't know what hindered it." Lizi said.

Qingming's heart skipped a beat, wasn't it because of him that hindered the upgrade of the wooden sign?

He clearly remembered that when Riko and Shuten Ibaraki sneaked out that night, he actually noticed them all.

He was going to prevent them from killing monsters and filling in wooden cards, but his eyes caught the rubbings on the table.It was the rubbing that said "Don't hinder".He hesitated slightly at the time.With such hesitation, he missed a good opportunity to catch up.Later he went to look for them and they were nowhere to be found.

The life that Xiaoli mentioned may be the first life.There is no such thing as rubbing, so there is no hesitation.So he ran after her to stop her from filling the third tadpole.As a result, she couldn't get into the blood column and died in the big formation.

Qingming was suddenly entangled. If this is the case, should he stop it or not?Stop it, worrying that she will encounter similar things again.Don't stop, worrying that the wooden sign is full and she will return to the world that he will never reach.

"Master Qingming, what's wrong with you?" Seeing that he has been silent, Lizi asked in confusion, "Did you remember something?"

"No," Qingming said calmly, "I was just wondering why you died."

"Uh...then you should keep thinking about it." Lizi said dryly.

……

Ibaraki lay alone in the darkness and drifted.

"It's been three days, and the child has not been picked up for three days. Does the adult want me?"

"You deserve it," the tears from the corners of Shikigami's mouth beside him had long been wiped away, replaced by a sneer, "Who told you to do it. There must be a better shikigami to replace you."

Ibaraki: "Hey, hey."

"Have you ever thought," another shikigami had a whim, "maybe your master called you that day when she was in danger. She was bleeding all over while avoiding the pursuit of the enemy, while writing a blood book to call you. As long as you In the past, she could be saved. As a result, she wrote over and over again, but you pretended to be blind here..."

"My God, is your master already dead?" The shikigami with tears at the corner of his mouth opened his mouth wide in surprise, "After the master dies, the shikigami automatically cancels the contract. The same is true for the shikigami in our small black house. But because only the master can call Ritual, if she dies, you won't be able to get out."

"Can't you get out?" Ibaraki's eyes flashed with horror.His mind is in a mess now, and he can't tell whether it's frightening that he can't get out, or that it's frightening that Xiaoli died. "If we can't get out, what are we? Are we still Shikigami?"

"It's a wild monster."

"Wild monster?"

"Well, the kind no one wants."

Ibaraki has lasagna tears in his eyes, so he is a wild monster now?woo woo woo...

In fact, if you think about it carefully, there are also advantages to not being able to get out.If he goes out, he will be hunted down by Seimei and Shuten.

Eh?No, is it because Jiu Tun died in the battle and Xiaoli summoned herself?In the end, because he thought about his face, he didn't go out, and Xiao Li died.

Thinking of this, Ibaraki cried even harder.Woohoo, it's all his fault.

When the other shikigami heard the cry, they also touched their hearts, remembering their tragic fate.I want to go out, I really want to go out.The feeling of being forgotten is so poignant.No matter who it is, as long as they can release them, they will be willing to be cows and horses.

At this moment, a door lit up in the dark space.A warm light flooded in instantly.Shikigami all know that it means summoning.

All shikigami start to be jealous at the same time which lucky guy is going out?Even Izuku thought so.

Want to go out, really want to go out.If he could go out, he must have the cheek to follow behind Xiaoli.Death does not come in.

"Hey," shouted the shikigami next to him, "that guy who can't go out as a demon, is that your name written on the door? I remember you said your name is Ibaraki Doji. Isn't it written on it? Ibaraki Doji? Your master came again to ask if you want to go out."

Ibaraki's eyes lit up, and he shouted loudly, "I want to."

The moment the voice fell, a ray of light flashed, and he stood in the familiar courtyard.Shuten's mocking expression reflected in his pupils, Seimei's smile, and Xiaoli...

came back?I'm really back?Ibaraki looked at the garden in disbelief.

Two seconds later, "My lord, don't give up on me." He rushed over and hugged the girl's leg, "I need your love."

pear:"……"

Is this red mirror cake so powerful?She saw that everyone else was back to normal.Are monsters different from people?

She hesitated for a moment, and said cautiously, "Ibaraki, are you still well? Why don't you go back first."

Ibaraki: "..."