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Sunset and moon returned to the shrine, stood on the bone-eating well, aimed at the bottom of the well, and drew a bow and arrow.

She took a deep breath and thought about what her aunt had taught her.

The aunt of Higurashi Jieyue, named Higurashi Kagome, is a great woman who settled in the backward Warring States for her beloved one. She is a wolf who can even quit playing games ruthlessly... No, that's wrong, she is a A shrine maiden who changed jobs by chance at the age of 15.

Over the years, although Aunt Kagome is still accurate in the use of bows and arrows, unexpected oolong accidents will happen from time to time, but when it comes to the power of purification, I am afraid that few people have more say than her, after all, she is Lord Miko who purified the jade of the four souls!

and so--

"Concentrate on it, get rid of distracting thoughts..."

Recalling what my aunt said, Higurashi Jieyue closed her eyes.

At this moment, the subtle spiritual light fluttered beside the sun and the moon, from tiny firefly dots, little by little, gradually expanded, until it turned into a dazzling torch!

"Then……"

whoosh-

The demon-breaking arrow carrying pure spiritual power shot towards the bottom of the well. Although the arrow was ruthlessly bounced off the moment it touched the iron-like skin of the "vine", the purification power carried by the arrow , but the filth and obscurity on the surface of the "vine" melted away like snow, and the true face of the "vine" was restored - a section of pitted flesh and blood that looked like tentacles!

Ri Mu Jieyue took a look, frowned, subconsciously displeased by this disgusting scene, but her stomach suddenly tightened, sending a signal of hunger to her.

Sunset and Moon: "..."

Her complexion changed, and when she looked at the flesh and blood at the bottom of the well again, her eyes were all wrong.

Just now... there must be something wrong, right? !

Why did she suddenly think of grilled octopus feet?

Higurashi Jieyue patted his face hard. "I must be too tired." She muttered to herself, "It must be that I am too tired after strenuous exercise and haven't eaten... This is the hallucination..."

It must be so... must be because she is so tired!

Otherwise, how could she have the idea of ​​"delicious" towards the twisted and blurred mass of flesh and blood at the bottom of the well?

terrible!

Such a thought is more terrifying than the bloody mess at the bottom of the well! !

This must not be true... It must be because she is too tired! !

"It seems that after exercising, I really shouldn't force myself... I should have dinner first, and then sleep..."

When she wakes up... everything should be fine.

Yes, that should be it.

Hard to accept the reality, Sunset Jieyue returned to her room in a trance, fell into the bed, and even forgot to eat dinner.

After an afternoon of exercising, she, who was already physically exhausted, did fall into a deep sleep very quickly, and did not wake up in the dark snow scene until the next morning.

It was winter at this time, and the dawn was extraordinarily late.

After staring blankly at the blinding window for a while, Sunset Jieyue touched his favorite luminous alarm clock from his bedside and pressed it on.

"It's only past four o'clock..."

No wonder it was still dark outside the window.

Higurashi Jieyue touched his empty stomach, first went to the kitchen to touch two slices of toast, and then went to the bathroom, took off his pajamas, threw it into the washer-dryer together with the priestess clothes, and pressed the start button , walked into the bathtub, ready to take a bath.

But just as she walked past the floor-to-ceiling mirror in front of the bathroom, she inadvertently glanced at herself in the mirror, and was stunned.

"what is this……"

Sunset and Moon stopped, turned his back to the mirror, then turned his head, looking at his own back in the mirror.

And on her back, near the heart, there was a bright red vertical mark.

The color of such vertical marks is so bright and weird, it suddenly makes people think that there is an extra eye on their back, and it seems that someone once pierced her heart with a sharp weapon from the back and cut her open...

But how is this possible? !

And more importantly, when she took a bath last time, she didn't have this strange thing on her back.

Ri Mujieyue was very dazed, and reached out to stroke the vertical marks on his back.But such a scar with a strange color and a hideous appearance didn't feel the slightest under her fingertips, as if it didn't exist at all...

Things are getting weirder.

Sunset Jieyue stared blankly at the red scar in the mirror, unable to remember when this scar was left.

But when she was thinking hard, a strange scene suddenly flashed in her mind:

Many years ago, in the dark, when everything was silent, the young Higurashi Yutsuki was sleeping soundly in his old residence in Shizuoka Prefecture.But at this moment, in the shadows, a filthy obscurity gradually condensed into shape, approaching the sleeping her quietly, suddenly violently | drew the knife, and stabbed her from the back, killing her with one blow!

At this moment, Higurashi Jieyue suddenly remembered this matter:

"Sunset and Moon" actually died long ago, when she was six years old.

But... no.

This is not right.

If she died at the age of six, who is she now?

And, more importantly, this memory is too strange, as if it was inserted into her mind abruptly, with a strong sense of disobedience.

Rimu Jieyue pondered for a moment, thought of something, and stopped.

So the memory with a strong sense of disobedience faded away in her mind, like illusory bubbles.

"There is indeed a problem..."

Sunset Jieyue once again reached out to touch the red scar on her back, so another scene of "new memory" appeared in her mind:

On a summer evening, seven-year-old Higurashi Jieyue was walking alone in a secluded alley with her schoolbag on her back.And when she walked through the shadow of the tree, a glaring knife light descended from the sky, pierced her back, and killed her with one blow!

This time, "Sunset and Moon" died when he was seven years old.

Then nights at age eight, mornings at age nine, afternoons at age ten, eleven years old...

From the age of "Sunset and Moon" to 12 years old, there are people who want her life every year, and they seem to succeed every time, and every time they stab her heart accurately from the back with a knife, One-hit kill--

But she is alive and well.

why?

Are these memories real?

If true, why is she still alive?Why would someone try to put her to death over and over again?

And if it was fake, why did such "memories" suddenly flood into her mind?

——What happened to her?

Higurashi Jieyue pondered calmly, trying to figure out the matter from the beginning.

For example, when did this "abnormality" start.

When it comes to "abnormality", the first thing that comes to mind is the inexplicable "flesh and blood of the ghost king" at the bottom of the Well of Bone Eater and her inexplicable time travel.

Since the Well of Bone Eaters has the power to travel through time and space, at the time of the first time travel, the sun and the moon were very peaceful, which is normal, but looking back now, this incident is obviously unreasonable, because a person travels through time and space and a shrine Traveling through time and space is completely different in concept, and the Well of Bone Eaters does not necessarily have such a huge power.

So the first "abnormality" is her time travel with the shrine.

And the second anomaly, of course, is the "flesh and blood of the ghost king" at the bottom of the Well of Bone Eaters.

After learning the truth about the "vines" at the bottom of the Well of Bone Eaters, Yuki Higurashi once thought that these things were thrown from the other end of the Well of Bone Eaters, that is, from the well of Bone Eaters in the Warring States Period .I would have such an idea, one is because there is no such terrible thing as the ghost king in the peaceful modern age, and the other is because the "vine" is too quiet and does not do anything superfluous.

But think about it carefully, is there really no ghost king in modern times?

Even a superpower like Qi Mujun who can change the earth exists in modern times, so why can't the ghost king live to modern times?

And then, the third anomaly, of course, is the breathing of the sun and...

No, not right.

and many more.

At this moment, Higurashi Jieyue suddenly woke up.

——No, that's not the case.

The first anomaly she encountered was actually not her crossing with the shrine at all, or even the exploding package she received in Mihua Town, but earlier—when she was 12 years old, she The moment her mother Higurashi Mao disappeared before her eyes.

Since then, whether it is the death of the grandmother's family in a car accident, the closure of the Well of Bone Eaters, the decline of one's own spiritual power, and other abnormalities, they all belong to the "follow-up" part.

The beginning of the real "abnormality" is that moment, that moment!

Yes, that's right, that's it!This is the real beginning of the "abnormality" she encountered!

But... why?

What happened at that moment?

At sunset and at the end of the month, I thought hard about it, and then——

Ding!

Suddenly, a familiar voice sounded in her ears again, just like the sound of her mother throwing a coin into the sky when she was 12 years old.

[Summary month, do you still remember what to say before each game? 】

The coins swirled in the sky, reflecting the dazzling light in the sun.

But outside of this light, there are shadows coming from all directions.

【Games start. 】

Slowly, Rimu Jieyue put his hands on the mirror, looked at his steel-gray pupils in the mirror, and muttered to himself as if possessed by a demon.

"Games start……"

zizi——

Like the harsh noise of an old TV.

Like the signal tone that a fax machine waits for when it's connected.

It was like an icy electric sound coming from a distant world.

But this sound disappeared quickly, just like before.

"Is it an auditory hallucination again..."

Higurashi Jieyue rubbed the aching brows.

After that, she sneezed suddenly, and finally woke up that she was naked now, so she hurried into the bathroom and started to take a shower.

Because she walked too quickly and quickly, she didn't see the mechanical words that slowly appeared on the mirror after she left.

[The game is loading... The game is loading at 59%, and some functions are restricted. 】

[Start functional self-test. 】

[Self-inspection completed, reason for game restriction: The ability is not complete and cannot be compatible with the current subject. 】

[Start self-inspection of different abilities. 】

[Segmented self-inspection of different abilities is completed.Test result: The transfer of the supernatural ability has not been completed, and there are still 262: 45′3″ from the complete transfer]

[The overall self-inspection results of this time: the abnormal ability **** is not unlocked (0%), the game link is abnormal (20%), the function area is abnormal (45%), the projection area is abnormal (75%), the illustration area is abnormal (15%) %), the channel area is abnormal (15%), the analysis area is abnormal (5%), and the game startup is abnormal (59%). 】

[The self-test is completed and enters sleep mode.There are still 262:45′3″ until the next game start]

【Please wait……】

【Please wait……】

The words that slowly emerged from the mirror, stayed for a few seconds, and then slowly disappeared from the mirror, as if they had never appeared.

Those undercurrents that gushed out silently finally subsided silently.

as usual.

"Jieyue~I'm coming~"

Not long after that, as the sky brightened, Nezuko's voice rang happily outside the shrine.

At this time, Higurashi Jieyue had already walked out of the bathroom, her long hair was coiled up, and she was wearing a dry maiden costume.She walked towards the entrance of the shrine, stood at the end of the approach, and nodded slightly to Nezuko.

"Good morning, Nezuko." She greeted.

as usual.