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In the evening of summer, Mihua Town.

12-year-old Rimu Jieyue sat quietly on a bench in a corner of the park, with her knees folded, her little hands neatly placed on her lap, her expression blank, as if she was wandering.

Some kind-hearted people passing by saw that she was alone, so they walked over worriedly, bowed their heads and asked her what she was doing.

But she could only hear a buzzing sound that was suddenly near and far away, and saw moving blocks of color.

She raised her head in a daze, her empty eyes focused little by little, and then, the buzzing sound like tinnitus finally became clear.

"...kid, how old are you? Where are your parents?"

"I..." She opened her mouth, "I'm playing games with my mother."

"Where's your mom?"

The thinking of the sun and the moon stopped.

She looked down at a coin tightly clenched in her hand, her mind was blurred, and she couldn't remember the expression on her mother's face when she said she wanted to play games with her.

Mom is smiling.

Of course, mom is always smiling.

But there should be something else.

……can not remember.

Can't remember anyway.

No matter what, I don't want to think about it.

The young Jieyue suddenly jumped up from the bench, pushed away the kind passers-by, and ran towards the direction she came from without looking back.

She is going home.

She wants to go back.

Want to go back to the past - back to before the age of 12!

……

When he was 11 years old, Higurashi Jieyue woke up one night and did not find his mother in bed.

It's a little embarrassing to say, maybe because there is no father, Himu Jieyue has been a child who is very spoiled and clingy to his mother since he was a child. Even when he was 11 years old, he didn't want to sleep alone. Even if he had his own room, But I would often wake up in the middle of the night, quietly climb to my mother's bed, get into my mother's quilt, and then fall asleep sweetly.

But this night, Sunset and Moon woke up twice rarely.

When she woke up for the first time, she tiptoed into her mother's quilt; when she woke up for the second time, she found that her mother was gone.

She rubbed her eyes and got up, followed the light to find a certain room, in that room, the voices of her mother and Aunt Kagome floated.

"You are so messy!" This is Aunt Kagome's voice, she seems a little angry, "Jieyue is just a child, how can you put so many dangerous things with her? Xiaojieyue is just A human child! Human, human!!"

"So Kagome has a better way?"

"..."

"So, that's the only way to go."

"But, Mao, I still don't think this is okay. There must be a better way? And, isn't there you? You can protect her too, can't you?"

"Kagome, there's something I haven't told you all this time because I don't know how to say it...but now I think maybe it's time to say it."

"...What? What's the matter? Why do you suddenly look so dignified?"

"Kagome...Actually...five years ago, there was no such thing as the 'Sunset Clan' in this world."

"……what are you saying?!"

……

At the age of ten, Higurashi Jieyue woke up in a daze in an alley, standing in front of him was Saiki Kusuo.

Saiki Kusuo is her neighbor and her rare good friend.Although he looks very cute, he seldom makes any expressions. He is always a cool and handsome guy with a deadpan expression. I don't know what you're talking about" face.

It's so much fun, and it's getting cuter.

However, for a moment, the lovely Qi Mu-jun looked at her face and showed a third expression——

It was an expression almost frightened and terrified.

Higurashi Jieyue was confused and couldn't figure out what was going on.

Ten-year-old Saiki Kusuo should have heard her heartbeat, but he didn't make any answer, but grabbed her hand nervously and looked her up and down.

"Jieyue, are you alright?"

His questions are also very strange.

Ten-year-old Higurashi Jieyue became more and more confused.

Then she followed Saiki Kusuo's gaze to look at her chest.

And on her school uniform, at the heart, there was a trace of being pierced by something like a sharp sword, from which the thick red "red" was smudged to the outside layer by layer, dyeing her school uniform a dazzling red.

Rimu Jieyue "touched" her chest, and under her torn clothes, her skin was smooth and there was nothing.

"Whose...is this a prank?" The ten-year-old Higurashi Jieyue was stunned for a moment, and when she came to her senses, she even forgot about her inexplicable dizziness just now, and said indignantly, "It's too much! You knocked the dye over me. Forget it, even the clothes are scratched! It’s too much! How can this be done!! Dorai Axiong, do you know who did it?! Please, help me find it, he is really too much ...Huh? That's strange...Did I tell you something similar?"

The young Saiki Kusuo looked at her and didn't answer.

But his expression was very ugly.

Like bewildered, like sad.

……

Nine years old.

eight years old.

seven years old.

six years old.

……

When she was six years old, she vaguely remembered that she must have had a serious illness, so serious that she was hospitalized for a long time.

She doesn't quite remember what happened, and she doesn't know what kind of disease she has - it seems to be related to the heart, but it doesn't seem to be.

The only thing she could think of was the angry voices of the family members outside the ward.

"...What the hell is going on?! How could someone be so cruel and do such a thing to a six-year-old child?!"

"Could it be...could it be me..."

"No, Kagome, don't blame yourself, it should have nothing to do with you, don't think too much."

"That--"

"Don't worry, just leave it to me. My daughter, of course I will protect her."

"That's right! Mao, if it was you, it would be fine...you already know who did it, right?"

"..."

"Huh? What's wrong with you, Mao?"

"……Feel sorry."

"what happened?"

"I'm sorry, Mom, Kagome, and Sota...I'm really... very sorry..."

"Why did you say such a thing suddenly?"

"For... everything that may happen in the future..."

·

The night was getting deeper and darker, and the dark clouds gathered again, covering the bright moonlight.

In the collapsed Higurashi Shrine, under the gaze of everyone, Higurashi Yutsuki's figure shrunk at a speed visible to the naked eye, retreating step by step from a 15-year-old woman, first 14 years old, then 13 years old, and finally turned into a Became a six-year-old child, lying quietly on the ground.

Her wounds gradually healed, and the tragic blood disappeared on her skin, as if being swallowed by something.

From the appearance, the six-year-old Higurashi Jieyue at the moment is like the most ordinary human little girl, lying quietly and sleeping in ill-fitting clothes.

But on her body, the last bit of human aura disappeared, replaced by an increasingly stronger and thicker ghost aura.

Tomioka Yoshiyuki tightened his hand holding the Japanese sword, his whole body tensed, but under the gaze of the man in red, he slowly let go of his hand.

However, as the ghost aura on Rimu Jieyue became more and more intense, and gradually crossed the ghost moon of the waning moon, and when it changed to the waning ghost moon, and even changed in a more terrifying and unimaginable direction, he finally couldn't help it and made a bold move.

Clang——

The man in red who was sitting on the roof came before him at some point, and replaced his longbow with two knives to block all his attacks.

Tomioka Yoshiyuki said in a deep voice: "Now she has become a ghost, do you want to cover the ghost?!"

The man in the red clothes shook Tomioka Giyuu far away with his hands, and stood in front of Higurashi Jieyue.

He was silent for a moment, and said, "I promised her that if she turns into a ghost, I will kill her."

"then you--"

"So this matter has nothing to do with you."

The man in red turned the blade in his hand and pointed it at Sunset and Moon.

"No! No! No!!" At this moment, Nezuko, who was tied up by the man in red and thrown in the distance, struggled again, "You can't kill Jieyue! Absolutely not!! You were also summoned by Jieyue Right?! Why did you kill her?! Do you know that Jieyue—”

"I know." The man in red yelled suddenly, "I know what she did! I know what kind of effort and determination this idiot put in to save others and what price he paid!"

This kind of thing, he understood as early as the first time he saw the sun and the moon.

He even knew that Higurashi Kiyue summoned him with the determination to protect ordinary people, protect the world, and prevent the world from being poisoned by monsters like Naraku.

He knows all these things!

Because this person... this child... she is...

"But that's why she had to die."

The man in red closed his eyes, his voice calmed down, almost cold.

"If her desire is to protect others and protect the world, let her die with such a desire—going to the end as a human being whose wish is fulfilled, not as an ugly ghost, dying as an avenger under the knife."

"You heard it too—ghosts can eat people. This kind of thing can't be changed by just saying 'I believe she can't eat people' without any responsibility. If you don't kill her now , Then when she can't help eating people one day, what will you do? How will you face those who lost their families because of her? How will you face her as a human being?!"

Death is never the scariest thing.

The most terrible thing is to live in a way that goes against one's own wishes, and then become the kind of person one hates the most.

Nezuko's struggles all this time finally stopped at this moment, tears rolled down her face, and the last bit of expression was lost on her dusty face.

The man in red said: "Since she doesn't want to become a man-eating ghost, then let her die like this. She has already seen her end, and she has come to the end... If you really like her, then respect her." Her choice, respect her death."

She doesn't have to go through the same end.

This is his deepest compassion.

The blade of the man in red fell.

But at this moment, a red shadow suddenly rushed over, blocking the sun and the moon.

It's Fox's help.

At this moment, Foxnosuke was no longer as soft and cute and bullying as he was in front of Higurashi Yuzuki, but was extremely serious.

Foxnosuke said: "My lord, are you really going to kill Yuzuki-sama?"

The man in red looked cold: "Get out of the way, or I don't mind killing you together."

Foxnosuke looked directly at him: "Are you sure? Master Mao has disappeared, are you sure you want to kill her only daughter?"

The man in red tightened his hand holding the knife, and finally looked at Honosuke squarely, his gaze was extremely sharp: "What do you know?!"

Foxnosuke said: "Because of various reasons, I know very little now, but at least I know that Lord Jieyue should never die here, let alone be killed by you."

The man in red said: "That's not a reason."

"This is the reason! She is the only daughter of Lord Mao, and also your only daughter! Do you really want to kill your only relative?!"

As soon as this sentence came out, not to mention Nezuko, even Tomioka Yoshiyuki was stunned.

They couldn't help looking up at this man, but the man in red was not shocked, and even his expression was as ruthless and cold as ever, like a stubborn stone, and he would never be shaken by anything.

He was silent for a while, and then under Fox's expectant gaze, he said again:

"That's not a reason."

Foxnosuke finally panicked, and hurriedly said: "But——"

"No buts."

The man in red didn't want to listen anymore, so he threw Fox's help away, and the blade fell again.

However, when his blade touched the girl's neck on the ground, the little girl, who had shrunk to six years old, opened her eyes, and looked at him with steel gray eyes that were exactly the same as his.

His figure froze.

The little girl looked at him, with a round face and round eyes, she was extremely cute, even the cold steel gray pupils melted into honey in her eyes. People are warm and sweet.

She ignored Dao Feng who was right in front of her eyes, and only looked at him curiously with a pair of honey-like eyes, and asked happily, "Who are you?"

She paused, and asked curiously, "You look so familiar...so strange...could you be your father?"

The man in red looked at this familiar face and those familiar eyes with a blank expression.

The little girl blinked, and didn't mind the silence of the man in red. She smiled happily, with round dimples on her cheeks.

She stretched out her hand to him, but she said cutely, "I want to hug you!"

At this moment, the knife of the man in red couldn't fall anymore.

He gritted his teeth, and the veins in the hand holding the knife were exposed. Finally, he squeezed hard, and the short knife turned into a light spot and dissipated.

"Sorry……"

He stretched out his hand and hugged the child on the ground deeply into his arms.

"Sorry……"

"……what?"

"Sorry..." for everything.

Tomioka Yoshiyuki watched this scene silently.

Although he didn't know anything, but at this moment, the sadness flowing from this man made him lose his words.

He raised his head, looked at the obscure dark clouds in the sky, and the unreachable bright moon behind the dark clouds, and once again had this thought:

It would be nice if there were no ghosts in the world.

If only there were no such sorrows in the world.

The night is getting darker and darker.

Just before the sun jumped out of the horizon, the man in red stood up holding the little girl.

He looked around and said in a deep voice, "I will take her away."

Although Tomioka Yoshiyuki couldn't bear it, he still wanted to remind him: "She is a very powerful ghost now, if she goes to attack—"

"That's my business."

After leaving these words, Hongyi hugged the young Higurashi Yuzuki, jumped off the broken peak of the mountain shrine, and disappeared completely.