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That night, Tanjiro spent a long time rushing to the shrine on the top of the mountain.

He had tried his best, but he couldn't make it in time.When he was awakened by the roar in the mountains, it was the darkest time in the sky. Later, when he finally stumbled back home in the dark, the messy ruins in front of him almost made him lose his mind, until he jumped He went up to remove the ruins, and after smelling the blood on his cut palm, he realized that although his home had been turned into ruins, there was no smell of blood in the ruins.

His family was not at home that night.

That being the case, where did they go?

Tanjiro forced himself to calm down, followed the extremely faint smell, staggered up the mountain, struggled to cross the battlefield full of wooden thorn traps, and then finally climbed over the steep hillside that lost the mountain path.And when he finally reached the shrine, it was already daylight.

"Hu-hu-hu-"

Under the pale sun, there is white snow and red blood.

The vermilion lacquer pillars fell to the ground, the bricks and stones rolled down, and everyone looked extremely embarrassed.

but……

"Mom, Nezuko, Takeo, Shigeru, Hanako, and Rokuta... Great, everyone is here..."

But everyone is here.

After such a catastrophe, my family is still by my side.

There is nothing better than this.

Tanjiro looked at everyone, he was sweating profusely and panting, just "showing" a smile, Nezuko threw himself into his arms, hugging him and crying loudly.

"Brother... brother wahhhhhhhhhh!!"

"What's wrong? Eh? Nezuko? What's wrong? Don't cry, don't cry... What happened?"

"Why are you here?"

"By the way... and Miss Yuyue! Where's Miss Yuyue?"

In the ruined shrine, no one responded.

Only Nezuko's near-collapse cry dissipated in the wind.

·

In 2020, late at night.

Over the Higurashi Shrine in Shizuoka Prefecture, a cold ghostly aura suddenly gathered.

This is a powerful demonic aura that has not appeared in the past hundred years. Therefore, at the moment when such an extremely strong demonic aura appeared, some psychics in Tokyo were immediately alarmed: Onmyoji families, certain families of exorcists who are constantly developing their businesses, or some superpowers with various strange abilities.

However, after all, the Higurashi Shrine is the guardian place of the Higurashi Clan. No matter what happens, it must be handed over to the Higurashi Clan to deal with it first. The reporter happened to be not far from the Higurashi Shrine, but he could only hold his little notebook and hesitantly looked at the soaring ghostly aura on the Higurashi Shrine.

And this person is the heir to the Natori family of the demon-eliminating family, the current actor, Natori Monday.

In all fairness, Natori Monday doesn't really want to take care of Higurashi Shrine.

And there are historical reasons for this mentality:

About eight or nine years ago, at the initiative of some good-natured people, the first psychic exchange conference was held in the Tokyo area.At that time, Natori Monday, who was young and eager to revive the family's reputation, came to the exchange meeting venue. With a conflicted and utilitarian mentality, he wanted to restore contact with people in the industry and announce the return of the Natori family.And just when he was smug, a certain witch passed by the venue inadvertently from a distance. Her rich spiritual power without any impurities seemed to have dropped a bomb on the venue, which almost didn't call everyone in the venue. The ability user blinded the dog's eyes, and what was even more exaggerated was that the holding spirit of a certain onmyoji in the venue was almost purified and sent to become a Buddha just by being gently brushed by this kind of spiritual power!

Everyone looked at each other, standing under the same lemon tree, eating the same lemon fruit.

And later, when everyone knew that this uninvited passing priestess lived in the Higurashi Shrine and was only six years old, they wanted to bump their heads to death under the lemon tree.

——Too miserable, too miserable!

Your career and struggles for so many years are nothing compared to a six-year-old girl... It hurts my self-esteem.

Thus, the first psychic user exchange conference ended like this with a lot of thunder and a little rain.

The name was Monday, so he firmly remembered the name of this six-year-old genius psychic user: Sunset Jieyue.

Higurashi Yuzuki, known by the Higurashi Clan as the "God-given Priestess", possessed incredible spiritual power at birth, and was designated as the heir of the Higurashi Clan one year after birth, and is currently practicing in the Higurashi Shrine .

Such a person with psychic abilities can no longer be described as a "genius". She is just like the title given to her by the Higurashi Clan. She is a "god-given witch", a person who is truly favored by the gods!

Therefore, when such a powerful ghostly aura suddenly appeared on the site of this witch favored by the gods, due to work reasons, it happened to be nearby Natori Monday. Books, ready to learn how to slay demons nearby.

Although Natori Monday felt that a powerful psychic user like Higurashi Miko would not need all kinds of means of ordinary people at all, and would be victorious in all battles by directly using his own spiritual power a, but just in case, Natori Monday still put out With an open-minded attitude towards learning, I took out my small notebook and prepared to take notes.

but……

but……

this……

that……

Why has the Higurashi Miko in the Higurashi Shrine remained silent?

And that ghost is also super strange, why doesn't it leave after squatting at the Higurashi Shrine? ?

What are you guys doing? ?

Natori Monday fell into today's confusion.

……

In fact, what Natori Monday didn't know was that the ghostly aura he saw was the same person as the "God-given Priestess" in his impression.

Although... shrunk by many years.

……

Time goes back a few minutes.

When Hong jumped off the cliff from the side of the collapsed shrine, he realized something was wrong the moment he landed.

And when he stood still and looked around, he quickly realized what was wrong: in the blink of an eye, the sky changed from dawn to night again, and even the collapsed shrine changed from ruins back to The neat appearance is like... stepping back in time.

But is it really time to go back in time?

Red a climbed up to the roof of the shrine, looked down, took in the surrounding area of ​​Higurashi Shrine, and got an answer:

This is not going back in time at all, but traveling through time and space!

——From a secluded era with no electric lights and only wandering warriors, we have traveled to 2020.

Why does this happen?

Hong A looked at the little girl in her arms.

At this moment, this little guy with a round face was lying on his shoulders, yawning cutely, rubbing his eyes with his round hands, biting his head, looking extremely sleepy.

"Is it your ability?"

The sleepy little girl stared blankly, and it took a while to realize that he was asking her.

"what……"

The child made a confused sound, then bit his hands aggrievedly: "Dad, isn't it time to go to bed yet?"

Just like a kitten who can't wait to roll into a plush blanket and sleep soundly, it's so cute that it melts your heart.

Hong A sighed, showing a look of helplessness and gentleness.

"Don't bite your hand." He took the little friend's hand out of his mouth and wiped it for her, "You now..." He paused, "Forget it."

Some things are not in a hurry.

"Go to sleep first."

……

After taking care of the unreasonable children to sleep, Hong a stood in the courtyard, looking at the empty shrine, a little dazed.

He fell into the memories of a long, long time ago, thinking of people from a long, long time ago.

Among the people and things that belonged to the life of "Shirou Emiya", there was one thing that he never thought of anyway--Mao Tsukino.

This woman... this cunning, hateful, beautiful and changeable, and often looks like a crazy woman with a sick head, finally... gave birth to a daughter.

is his daughter.

This kind of thing still makes him feel a little unbelievable.

But soon, he sensed the strange aura, broke away from those distant memories and subtle emotions, came back to his senses, and said in a deep voice: "Come out."

After a moment of silence, a pair of fox ears protruded from behind a certain lacquer pillar, and then, a Foxnosuke jumped out.

"Your Excellency is so perceptive, you really can't hide anything from you." Fox Nosuke sighed.

It was obviously a compliment, but it was a bit jarring to Hong A's ears.

Hong A glanced at it, and said in a deep voice, "What do you want to say?"

Red A didn't forget that the fox had revealed his identity in one word before.As an unnamed heroic spirit, even he himself almost forgot who he was before he was alive, but this fox clearly knows his identity and his past, and even knows about Tsukino Mao clearly...

This fox is very problematic!

Foxnosuke saw Red A's coldness and vigilance, and sighed helplessly: "My lord, you are really like the legend, it's hard to be really trusted... But fortunately, my lord and I have the same goal, no matter what you say, your lord Believe me or not, as long as we are still walking on the same path, we don’t have to worry about being enemies... After all, I am not a one-shot enemy for adults hahaha..."

Hong A calmly said: "I don't remember any common goals between you and me."

Fox's help said: "Yes - to protect Master Jieyue, this is our same goal."

"Your Excellency, you may not know. Since Yuzuki-sama was six years old, she has been attacked by the enemy every year. Every time, she passed through the heart and killed her with one blow. If Master Mao hadn't found it for Yuzuki-sama The way to forcefully renew your life, I'm afraid you won't be able to wait for Master Jieyue to summon you... Later, even Master Zhenxu disappeared, and the last means she left for Master Jieyue to save his life was also due to various chances and coincidences It is void, so now, the only one who can protect Lord Jieyue is her father, that is, you, my lord."

Hong A's gaze sharpened suddenly.

"What are you talking about?!" He asked in a deep voice, "What do you think happened to Tsukino Mao?"

"Miss Mao has disappeared. Disappearance means that she is neither alive nor dead, no longer exists in the real world, and returns to her original place." Foxnosuke said calmly, "For some reason, I can't tell the truth. I can't even make any hints about the whereabouts of Lord Xu, but what is certain is that if there is no miracle, then she will never come back."

"It's impossible." Hong A frowned, "Her abilities doomed her not to disappear so easily."

The ability of Mao Higurashi, or Tsukino Mao, is a special power called "Ready Player One".This ability is very different from magic, and has a powerful ability to analyze the world and things.Rather than saying it is a kind of power, it is better to say that it is an omniscient encyclopedia and cheating tool.To use an analogy, everyone's ability is like doing the questions in the examination room in a regular manner. How many points you can get in the end depends on your talent and performance.But Tsukino Mao's ability is like flipping through a reference book openly. She knows what everyone knows, and she also knows what everyone doesn't.

Judging from what Hong A observed before she was alive, Tsukino Mao is almost omnipotent, she can even copy his infinite sword control, and she must play it in front of him, which is very annoying.

Such a guy, in the end, will end up "disappearing" as Fox Nosuke said?How can this be? ?

Red A would never believe such a thing.

Foxnosuke sighed: "Master, you are right. Master Mao's ability is unique and cannot be copied, so she will never be destroyed under 'power'. But... if you want to deal with her, Isn't it the use of 'power' to deal with the enemies of Lord Yuzuki?"

"What do you mean?"

"My lord, have you ever thought about changing the past? Have you ever regretted something about someone or something? Have you ever felt the urge to change the future by changing the past?"

"..."

"As a Heroic Spirit outside the world, you have jumped out of time, you no longer have 'past' and 'future', only 'now', so you probably don't have such thoughts."

"..."

"But for some people, 'changing the future by changing the way the past' was so real and strongly possible, so they did it...everyone strong , before becoming a powerful person, they all had a weak past, and as long as they were killed in this 'past', their glorious 'future' would naturally cease to exist-this is an enemy from outside time. "

"Both Yuzuki-sama and Mao-sama are their targets, because Yuzuki-sama... Sorry, I can't say any key words, so as not to be positioned by them in time, but I can be sure that Yuzuki-sama is The important person, the most important person, is more important than anyone or anything. This is not an emotional statement, but an established fact that exists objectively and can affect the past, present and future. So, I would like to implore as a human being Lord Guardian, at this time, in this 'past', take good care of Master Jieyue so that she can grow up smoothly until she has the power to protect herself and become the person who can shake the world in the 'future' .”