My golden finger is not right

"I don't know what the storyteller was thinking about, that he would run to such a dead end." Masako stood up slowly, and walked up to Nadeshiko, "But then I understood..."

"It's not that he was unlucky and hit a dead end."

"But he bumped into it on his own initiative."

Nadeko's pupils contracted violently, she pushed Masako almost subconsciously, pushing her away from her.

Masako took a few steps back because of her actions, but she was not angry, instead a weird smile appeared on her face, which seemed to be satisfied and a kind of pleasure after revenge.

"When you are different from others, when you live among others like a monster, when you worry about whether you will be eaten every day..."

"You will understand what those women say."

She stepped forward again and put her face close to Nadeko's ear:

"'You will regret this.'"

"What do you think those people at the bottom of the mountain will do to you?" She stretched out her hand to straighten the messy hair beside Nadeko's ear, and her tone became softer, but it just listened to my ears, like a sticky and cold poisonous snake entangled in my body, At the same time, he tightly tightened his neck, "Should I cut your skin open and stew you raw, or suck your blood and bones?"

Nadeko forced himself to be calm: "They won't do that..."

"Because you have already sacrificed once, won't you do it a second time?" Masako showed an unusually exaggerated smile.

"If there is a first time, there will be a second time. Heroes are never used to respect and worship."

Heroes are used to protect the interests and sacrifices of others.

I silently completed what she had left.

Once disaster strikes, they will be pushed out by people like the least important stones, blocking thousands of torrents.People will impose the highest expectations and the most stringent standards on them, push them to the extreme, but push them down easily, no matter how painful the falling process is, how desperate the moment is.

They will only use the sentence "lived up to expectations" as the final conclusion of this fallen hero.

They only care about themselves from beginning to end, and the title of hero is just a reminder wrapped in sugar.

But many people can't see clearly, they are dazzled by the sugar coating, and they think that their hard work is worth the honor, and those small favors are what they need.So these heroes, under the prying eyes of others, happily drank the opium.

Drinking this, life is like being held in the hands of others.Once the public opinion turns against them one day, these heroes will be put on the stage like dolls to be rubbed and accepted by the world.

I once heard such a sentence - "Our era does not need heroes."

If everyone had their own way and obeyed the rules, why should there be a hero to accept people's worship? But it's not easy.

It's easier said than done.

Nadeko's face was completely depressed, her body was trembling, and she couldn't say a word for a long time.

"Did you know..." Seeing that the words had taken effect, she also straightened her body, put away those sinister smiles, and returned to her original indifference, "You are not the only one who wants to go back no matter what."

"You do it yourself."

She stopped wasting time, stroked her collar, turned around and walked towards the door.

"Wait—!" Nadeko said loudly.It's just that she didn't make any movements, and she still lowered her head, making it hard to see her expression.

"If I'm not the only one, then what happened to her, what happened to the person who wanted to go home, please tell me!"

Masako held her breath slightly, as if she was enduring something: "Not long after she left, Master Yamashita told us that she will never come back."

-

After the sound of Masako's footsteps completely disappeared at the end of the corridor, Nadeko raised her head again, shedding the confusion and disbelief on her face, revealing her truest emotions.

His face was full of indifference.

It's amazing that I can feel the deep contempt in her heart through her flawless expression.

She had seen dirtier, worse things.She has been tested by others, and she has tested the humanity of others.

She was already a seasoned warrior.

So Masako's inductive words just now are like the most superficial tricks to her, except for aggravating her dislike of the world, nothing else can shake it.

Nadeko sat down on the tatami with a blank expression. She lit a lamp, then looked at it, lost in thought.

After a long time, she came back to her senses and blew out the lamp in one gulp.

The room was immediately plunged into darkness.

In the blurred field of vision, I faintly heard the sound of "tick-tick-tick" water droplets.

It began to rain again outside the window.

-

It took several days for Yamashita to come to Nadeko. His condition didn't look very good, and his face looked haggard.

"Nadeko, I've been busy with some things recently, so I'm sorry I didn't come to see you." He wrinkled his face, and didn't dare to sit on the soft cushion, but straightened his waist and knelt on the hard tatami mat.Seeing that Nadeko didn't speak, he immediately put on a look of crying or not, and his tone became soft: "Are you angry? Are you angry? Don't be angry, okay~ If If you get angry because of me, I will feel so sad that I will cry..." His tone became lower and lower, as if he would cry as soon as Nadeko admitted it.

Although Fuzi was a little unhappy, facing such a living ancestor who couldn't be angry or cold, he had to take a breath first, and began to persuade him in turn.

Seeing that the other party's face was no longer angry, Yamashita quickly put away that expression and began to explain in detail: "A few days ago, Chanako came to me for help so that she can stay here forever."

Listening to what Yamashita said, it was obvious that he didn't know what Chanako had done before.

"Then it will take a ceremony to do it. This whole process will be extremely cumbersome and complicated, so the undressing will not be completely finished until today." Speaking of this, he glanced at Nadeshiko cautiously, but saw that she was indifferent to this. The indifference of the face.

"Whether Nadeko-chan wants to do this ceremony, if Nadeko-chan wants to do it, it doesn't matter how tired you are!" He said eagerly, but when he wanted to continue, Nadeko interrupted: "Why do you want to do it?" How do you do that?"

"what……"

"Why did you bring everyone here in the name of offering sacrifices? Why did you convert us into half-demons? Why didn't you let us go?" Nadeko seemed to be unable to bear the doubts in his heart any longer. Regardless of the other party's increasingly stiff expression, he spoke seriously. asked.

"It seems that you already know a lot of things..." Yamashita smiled wryly, "Are you unhappy staying here? Or did someone make you angry?"

"If not, why are you thinking about things that almost no one thinks about?"

"At the beginning, in order to fulfill their duties as sacrifices, no one mentioned that they wanted to leave, because they were afraid that if they left, I would be angry. There would be no harvest in the village that year, and everyone would starve to death."

"Later, with the passage of time, they gradually forgot the purpose of their coming, and they were no longer willing to leave."

"I didn't force anyone to stay. If they wanted to leave, I would never stop them. But..." His face showed extreme seriousness and importance, "If it was you, I would never agree."

"……why"

"Because if you think about the fact that you will leave one day, my place—" He pointed to the position on his chest, and said without half-joking, "It will hurt, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts so much that it's hard to breathe."

I take back what I said earlier, this guy's love talk skills are definitely at the full level, and more importantly, I can't feel even the slightest bit of hypocrisy from his words.

There was something very special about him, something that no one who was accustomed to lies could resist.

As powerful as Nadeshiko, at this moment, his mask was also shattered, and he was defeated.

But I know that in a moment she will put on the mask again.

Because no one knows better than her that there will never be a possibility between them.

"Then I won't leave, and will always be with you." She said half-truthfully with a mask on, "But you haven't finished answering my question yet..."

Yamashita was naturally overjoyed when he heard what was almost a promise, and he sat closer to Nadeshiko, seeing that the other party had no intention of objecting, he took the other party's hand further.

He held Nadeko's hand, as if he had obtained some priceless treasure, and smiled very purely, as if he would not be afraid even if the next moment was the end of the world.

I could feel Nadeko's hesitation. Instead of urging the other party to tell the truth, she looked at him softly.

"My adoptive mother is a monster." After a long time, he regained some joy, interlocked the other's hand and his own, interlocking his fingers, and inserted them into each other's fingers, "But, I'm not a monster. I am a human being, or, in the beginning, I was a human being."

"A human being adopted by a monster."

I got it right.

He is Hachisha-sama's first child.

-

The timeline has to be pulled back hundreds of years ago, on that full moon night, everything started from here.

The noble lady who ran up the mountain unwilling to have an abortion and the monster Hachisha who was looking for food had an almost impossible encounter on this night.

At the moment when the noble lady who was just born and covered in blood was handed over to Mr. Hachisha with only one breath left, a test that lasted 20 years kicked off.

-

"My adoptive mother hated me very much at first. She thought I could only cry, and the crying was extremely annoying, but she couldn't bite off my neck like other food, and had to feed some food and clean my body on time."

"She told me that many times she had put me where people would pass by, waiting for someone to take me away. But every time she just put me down, I would cry heartbreakingly and make her cry. I couldn't take it anymore, so I had to hug me back again."

“后来时间长了，她也习惯身边跟着我这么一个吵吵闹闹的小家伙，哪怕有妖精只是想舔一舔我尝尝味道，都会被她揍个半死。”

"From then on, I knew that the giant in front of me was someone who could protect me."

"Humans who live together with monsters, if the time together exceeds a certain limit, either the humans will be assimilated into half-monsters, or the monsters will perish."

"Fortunately or unfortunately, my adoptive mother and I are the former."

"When I was about ten years old, I discovered that once I swallowed something, I would get all the corresponding memories of the other party."

"At first it was fish and birds, then chickens, ducks, cattle and sheep, and finally, my adoptive mother shared her food with me—human beings."

"My adoptive mother only hunts once a year, and can only take away one human at a time. But since the beginning, she seems to have broken some prohibition, and the frequency of hunting has increased from once a year to once a month."

"But my adoptive mother is very smart. She knows that it is quite stupid to cause trouble. So every time she looks for food, she will go to a very far place and bring back some people instead of going directly down the mountain to bring people."

"The first time I ate a young man's meat, I only ate a small piece, and I got all his memories."

"I have been freed for many years and lived like an animal for many years, but after eating meat, my originally empty head suddenly filled with a lot of knowledge, of course, including one that made me at that time, Something that I find unusually novel—shame.”