[Comprehensive Manga] Zero Consciousness

"You, ghost?" Natsume couldn't help but widen his eyes.

"Yes." Kuze Linghua nodded, "I died a long time ago, but I didn't die because of some complicated reasons... Well, how should I put it, I didn't choose to reincarnate, but chose to be a ghost stay alive."

Seeing the sad expression on the other party's face, Kuze Linghua couldn't help reaching out and touching his head, "Don't worry, I'm now the secretary of the assistant officer of Yan Mo King in hell. It's all very free."

"But..." Natsume didn't doubt the existence of hell, he thought that there should be such a place, and after seeing that scene last night, he didn't have the slightest doubt about it.

But, even so, the boy didn't think that the situation like yesterday would be something that would make people happy.But Chang Yehai had to be suppressed by others. If he didn't do it, a catastrophe would happen, but if he did it, he would be so sad.

Linghua stretched back his arm with some emotion, and looked at Natsume Takashi seriously, "You are really a good boy, Natsume, thank you. I know what you are wondering, but ah, since a certain ceremony failed and backlash occurred, I just decided that innocent people can no longer be brought in."

"Backlash?" The young man froze for a moment, then raised his head in confusion.

"Yeah, this ceremony can calm the movement of Changyehai, take away the longing, and make the living less sad, but the price to be paid is just the eternal sleep of a witch. Don't you think such a simple price is too much?" Is it too simple?" Kuze Linghua sighed and said, "What's more, as a priestess who is suffering, even if she has no attachment to the world, who will bear her pain?"

"Did you know? The biggest risk of this ritual is that once the maiden begins to feel nostalgic for the human world after receiving the tattoo, all the pain she has endured will rebound in one go. This situation is called breaking the precept. At the very beginning, the members of the Kushi family also predicted what would happen if they relapsed, but what they didn’t expect was that the destructive power caused by relapse far exceeded their guesses.”

"They never thought that the people who came to visit the shrine left their thoughts to the witch, so who should bear the miss of the witch? The thoughts that no one can bear are left behind year after year until they break the precept. happened."

"Not only the thoughts of the witch who broke the precept, but also the thoughts of those witches that have been passed down for so many years of rituals. So many thoughts burst out in one breath, many people died on the spot, and many people died because of Died due to the relationship of breaking the precept. There are many, many people, so many that you can hardly imagine, and the scope of the spread is far beyond this place." Kuze Linghua turned his head to look at the sky beside him, and he didn't know if he was recalling What, the eyes became very deep, "Seeing so many people die because of this, I..."

"Forget it, let's not talk about it." Linghua turned his head and saw the boy who was looking at him intently. He couldn't help but reached out and hugged the cat teacher beside him who was picking his teeth, rubbed it in his hand, " This job is really hard to do, it's tiring and hard work, and it makes me feel sore, but, just because there are people like you, Natsume-kun, I feel that such a thankless job is No matter how hard it is, it is worth it.”

"I..." Natsume Takashi looked at the smiling eyes of the other party, and suddenly he couldn't say anything. The person in front of him was doing the right thing, no matter from what point of view, it was extremely correct However, as he himself said, who will bear his pain?This kind of thing that would make people feel sad just knowing it, he has undertaken it alone for so long, is it really right to do this?

When Natsume Takashi walked out of the mansion, he was in a daze. He glanced at the cat teacher at his feet, and reached out to hug it.

"Hey, Teacher Cat, let's go back."

"Ah."

"Mr. Cat, don't speak ill of them anymore."

"Well, wait, when did I speak ill of them!"

Although it was just going down the mountain as always, there were more or less changes between one person and one cat.

"Natsume-kun is really a good boy." Seeing them leave, Linghua laughed again.

"So you lied to him?" Kotomine Kirei who didn't know when appeared from the side suddenly said.

"So how dark you are!" Linghua couldn't help but snapped his fingers, and four pairs of arms immediately stretched out from behind Kotomine Kirei, grabbed him fiercely, and then began to fist him His temples turned vigorously.

"Who lied to him!" After bullying this annoying guy, Ling Hua turned and walked away, "Forget it, you can think whatever you want."

Kotomine Kirei struggled to get up, his originally neat clothes had turned into a wrinkled mess, he raised his head with some doubts, he didn't understand why there is such a person in this world who is willing to sacrifice everything for others people exist.

"Go and have a cup of tea with Axiang." Ling Hua stretched vigorously, "It's almost New Year's Eve in hell."

Because of the relationship with the present world, the current hell has a very high acceptance of Christmas. After arriving in hell, you can just see the introductions of the special Christmas activities on the shopping street, and many merchants have directly made them out. Shuangdan activities to promote their own products.

"Are you finished with your work?" Gui Deng knew about Kuze Linghua's affairs, but his greeting at this time did not have any sympathy in it, but a very ordinary greeting.

"I'm done with my work. Master Ghost Lantern, do you want to have some cake together?" After Linghua entered Hell, he still wore the cool men's bathrobe from before. The average temperature of the Eight Great Hells was above 30 degrees. This is still the temperature in the office. If you go to the hell where the punishment is executed, the temperature will generally range from more than 30 degrees to more than 100 degrees. The hottest area will burn criminals just by walking in. This is completely different from the present world. It's different. Fortunately, the jailers are very heat-resistant guys.

"Forget about the cake, I'd be more than happy to participate if there are other salty snacks." Ghost Lantern thought for a while and said.

"It's salty..." Ling Hua thought for a while, "Then let's eat sukiyaki together later, today is Christmas."

"Tsk, it doesn't matter if you don't pass the holidays from the West." Ghost Lantern said with a slight frown as he glanced at the pile of documents on the table.

"Don't be so old-fashioned." Ling Hua laughed, "I'll go and book a seat, let's have a drink together at night."

"Okay." Ghost Lantern looked at the back of the other party walking out, and nodded with a faint smile.

To be honest, for foreign festivals like Christmas, most of the civil servants in hell are as uninterested as ghost lights, except for one person.

That is Izanami.

Izanami has fallen into hell since being betrayed by her husband Izanaki. It can even be said that the formation of hell is almost entirely dependent on the divine power of Izanami.Izanami God has a very high prestige in hell, but as the mother god of the eight hundred gods in Japan, she is also the oldest god. After resenting her in hell for a long time, she felt a little bored.So she simply ran to work as a staff member of the hell that was just established at that time.

Thousands of years ago, she was the assistant officer of King Yan Mo.And even though she was called an assistant officer at that time, many of the actual laws were promulgated by her on a whim.

It wasn't until Ghost Lantern went to Huaguo and India to study in hell that she went to talk to God Izanami about her life for a long time, which made her give up Yan Mo King reluctantly. position of assistant officer.Only then did the laws of hell return to a more normal state.

And Izanami, who has nothing to do again, is wandering around in hell every day except staying in his palace.

Therefore, as a lazy and moldy god, Izanami is very interested in those festivals and celebrations.

In addition to the few inherent festivals in Japan, those foreign festivals are also things that she finds interesting.

After Kushi Linghua invited the ghost lamp, he met this great god who was running around when he had nothing to do not long after he went out.

"Hey, aren't you that Kuze? Why did you suddenly wear men's clothes?" Izanami's original face was very beautiful, but since she fell into hell, she abandoned her original beautiful face and turned herself His face was frozen in a terrifying position.

"His Royal Highness." Linghua greeted with a smile, "I just finished the sacrifice today, so I should dress a little more lightly."

"Oh, the priest of your family." As the god of Huangquanjin, Izanami naturally knows about Chang Yehai. After she got it done by herself, she treated those things as non-existent.

"Let's have a drink together later." Seeing her bored look, Linghua couldn't help but make a suggestion.

The new year in hell is different from the new year in the present world. For hell, the most important festival is the Obon Festival, because the dead are released to visit their families. That day is equivalent to the new year in hell, and it is the only festival. A day off for everyone.At other times, the civil servants in hell have no rest, and everyone can only work honestly.

The New Year is no exception, because celebrating the New Year in hell is too boring, Linghua still ran back to the present world.