Cupid

April 2005, Spring Day.

Amber River ushered in a long rainy season.

The last dreamy spring cherry blossoms ushered in the curtain call when the rain fell.Those pink or white petals were knocked down by the cold raindrops and fell into the clear river water.

These fragile flowers die on the branches and are reborn in the water.Finely and densely woven into the new spring clothes belonging to Amber River.

Like a girl dressed up, the pink cherry blossoms slowly flow to the far side.

This beautiful scene is entirely the result of Kagura's exchange of money.

In the modern age when material desires are gradually exuberant, like countless ordinary small villages, Huberchuan, which was originally isolated from the world, also ushered in a vigorous land reform before.

The youngest son of the village head's family who sold the pot for money went abroad for a few years to study abroad. He dyed his hair yellow and wore a suit. When he came back, he became the most prestigious young man in Hubochuan.

He blared about the severe birthrate in his country, and the mediocre farming life could not keep young people who wanted to work in big cities. There was only one way to change the status quo——

Develop tourism economy.

First transform the simple river of Amber River into a luxurious water park.Then post a few photos of the village's beautiful sisters wearing bikinis playing in the water on the Internet, which will definitely attract a large number of foreign tourists and turn Amber River into a new type of tourist destination.

His plan is amazing, making money so easy!

This kind of land planning that would damage the birthplace of Xiaobailong naturally attracted the attention of Kagura, a place where humans live in seclusion.

"...shit."

"What about developing the economy? I've lived in this place for so long and I don't know what this bastard is thinking?"

"He just wants to follow the public opinion to see the neighbor's Qingmei sister in a bikini!"

Kagura, who complained to you in this way, patted the table viciously.

She clanged and dragged a dusty box out of the storage room, rummaged through the waste manuscripts inside for a while, pulled out a cherry pink envelope, and rushed to the nearest newspaper office.

That was a story written by Kagura in the early days——

It is said that it was an afternoon of spring rain full of early cherry blossoms, and the milky white rain and fog blurred the boundary between reality and the demon world.

A girl returning to the village from a long vacation was walking home without knowing anything. When she stepped across the Amber River dyed pink by petals, she unfortunately crossed the two realms of yin and yang.

When she raised her head again, a completely different scene appeared in front of the girl.

A youkai who was standing under the cherry tree admiring the beautiful scenery found the beautiful girl.

Thus began a romantic and beautiful love affair.

But monsters and girls are people from two worlds after all, and there are family members waiting for the girl to go back at the other end of the bridge.

For the happiness of the girl, the monster finally chose to let go.

On the next foggy rainy day, they bid farewell on both sides of the cherry stream——

"Please wait for me. I will come back when my parents are old. At that time, please don't think I am no longer young and beautiful."

The monster gently handed the umbrella to the girl.

"Okay, I'll be waiting for you."

Standing alone in the rain, he smiled and made a promise to the girl.

……

This is the end of the story, although it seems that it is not complete, after all, no one knows whether the two people who made the reservation will meet again in the end.

But you still feel that this is a very romantic and heartwarming story.

But Kagura felt very modestly that this was a teenage romance novel that she was not good at.When editing the wording and revising the manuscript, she always felt that the description of the scene when she parted with the two was not beautiful enough, and the psychological description of the protagonist princess was not delicate enough, so she changed the book and it became an abandoned case.

Until today, due to the pressure of life, this "Sakura Stream" was able to reappear.

Kagura has always been a star player of the publishing house, and a special editor opened a green channel for her.

So before the idle second generation of the village in Amber River completed the bidding, Kagura brought the new book for a "homecoming".

Using Datsubaki's collective hints and the power of some money, Kagura's identity this time is the little girl who left the village when her mother remarried when she was young.

With fond memories of her hometown, she has been immersed in writing until today, when she happened to see the news of "land reconstruction" in the newspaper, and then hurried back with the novel, intending to protect her cherished Amber River.

Strictly speaking, Kagura can also be regarded as the green plum of the second generation of the village.

As we all know, the sky can overcome green plums.

The moment the silly son of the village saw the melancholy and intellectual female writer, he forgot the big-breasted green plum he was thinking about.

"I realized that the stimulation of the senses is only temporary, and it is the poison used by the capitalist society to corrupt the minds of good men."

"Only an elegant classical beauty like you is Yamato's treasure... It makes my heart flutter, and I can't help myself."

He seems to have brought himself into the role of the hero of Kagura's "Sakura Stream".In order to quickly shorten the distance between himself and Kagura, he also quoted the plot of the story sourly——

"Maybe I'm the monster who waited foolishly for feelings. I came back from the other side of the ocean just to wait for you!"

It took Kagura a hundred years of demon power to hold back the murderous heart that pushed him into the water with a slap and drowned him so that he could be sent to the other shore.

She could only smile and squeeze out "Oh hehe" from between her teeth, and then clenched her fists tightly.

Kagura, who is the head of a genius girl writer, bought Amber River with the money obtained from buying copyrights, and the first thing she did when she came home was to mutter "No, I think I'm not clean." The touched kimono was burned, and I rushed straight into the bathroom.

You heard the roar of Kagura resounding through the sky amidst the pattering water:

"Smelly shit!!!"

The matter is very complicated, as a consolation, you slept with Kagura who devoted himself to Kohakugawa for a month.

—you want her to bury her cheek in the crescent of your neck, and then run your palms lightly through her hair until she falls asleep.

You patted her on the shoulder and comforted her, "Thanks for your hard work."

The publication of the Kagura novel brought a burst of "sakura fever" to Amber River.

As long as it is raining and foggy, there will be beautifully dressed girls walking up and down the bridge of Amber River with umbrellas.

It was a lovely gesture.

Holding umbrellas, they seem to be delicate flowers blooming in the rain.

It makes you feel that rainy days are not so gloomy and annoying.

"No way, there are too few good men in human beings these days."

"It's better to dream about finding a handsome monster."

Kachi Kachi biting potato chips couldn't help sighing in this way, as a summary of the evaluation of the phenomenon of "rainy day walking craze" created by his novel.

Because this land has been guided by Kagura's romance novels for many years, the mood of the villagers living here is also very stable.

And this time, even if there is a supernatural event caused by the magic power on your body, the prerequisites are there, and the resulting magic spirit will not be particularly powerful.

At best, it is a ghost hitting the wall.

This translucent mantra will appear in rainy days, changing its shape in the thick fog to fake itself into the shape of a man.The magic power of the mantra blurs people's cognition, and most of the human beings trapped by him regard him as the so-called dream lover.

Human sexuality is free and innocent, so everyone sees things differently.

Rumor has it that some people saw "a beautiful young man with fox ears", some people saw "a cruel killer with snake eyes and scales", and some people saw "my lord who is blind and foolish"...

These people really dare to think.

Their strange identifications brought a lot of unnecessary troubles to Da Chun, who wanted to locate the curse spirit under the title of "Sorcerer".

More and more people are missing in the fog.

Fortunately, Kagura and Otsubaki finally found the humans imprisoned by the dense fog magic spirit before the magic world took action to solve the problem——

They were lying on the ground in a daze, smirking non-stop while immersed in the dream created by the curse spirit.

Obviously, the novel-reading style of the whole village brought by Kagura has enriched their sexuality and imagination virtually, and also helped them improve their courage.

This group of people even revived after Dachun killed the curse spirit, and after listening to the ins and outs, they were still full of energy and asked Dachun:

"There really are such things as shrine maidens and conjurers!!"

"Where's the handsome monster-sama? Hurry up!"

Dachun's beautiful face wrinkled into a ball because of disgust

As if trying to get the water out of their brains, she swung her fingers to force Shikigami to wave the paper fan, and slapped them hard on their heads.

"Wake up, wake up, all of you."

"If you want to dream, can't you just go home and lie on the bed!? Don't cause trouble for me by wandering around outside!"

In addition to this group of lovers, the victim also had two beautiful little girls who wore the same dress and had the same face.

These are a pair of lovely twins, baby flowers watered with love and cared for by their parents.The warm love can be seen from their clothes, the chest position of the soft and comfortable dress, and the names of the two are spelled out with colored lines——

Nanako, Mimiko.

The twin sisters are only seven or eight years old, and they are at the critical time when the conjurer is just awakening the power of spells and spells.

The breath from them unfortunately attracted the curse spirit, so they were kept in the lair as "advanced ingredients".

It is a lucky thing for a magician like them to be discovered by a warlock in front of ordinary people hiding in the magic power.

After all, judging from the demon-slaying stories that Datsubaki told you before, although people’s ideas have improved in this information age, there are still tragedies in every corner where people with supernatural powers are treated as monsters——

Just like you who were locked in the basement back then...

You really don't want that senseless thing to happen to this land again.

So when the time comes, let Dachun personally visit the house and introduce them to the magician's school as a witness.

In this way, the Amber River incident came to an end for the time being.You also have the opportunity to "walk".

You who come out with Otsubaki, although you can’t walk out of the enchantment bordered by the Amber River, you can still take a stroll beside the Amber River, and enjoy the "Sakura Stream" written by Kagura that only appears in spring——

The dreamy and beautiful pink river flows slowly towards the unknown distance.

You are engrossed.

Until the drizzle in spring came suddenly and continued.

You were accompanied by a real person in the past when you were wandering. After you died, you got a husband with a curse. Later, Limei was sent by Su Nuo to take care of you. Limei used Big Eyes and Ahu to change shifts when something happened. Now it is Kagura and Dachun. at your side.

There always seems to be no shortage of companions by your side.

This invisible doting makes you not a person with common sense in life.

You didn't bring an umbrella when you went out.

Fortunately, the banks of the Amber River are covered with large tracts of cherry blossoms. These trees are old and luxuriant, and when they bloom, they can cover the sky and the sun.

The delicate flowers kindly separate you from the icy rain and build a dry little world for you.

You can get caught up in aimlessly waiting in it.

Wait, wait, wait for Otsubaki or Kagura to finish the affairs at hand and bring you back to your warm home.

But the first thing that appears in your field of vision is a tall and thin man.

He has long black and smooth hair like a crow's wing feathers, and his slender, upturned eyes of the same color remind people of a fox.

Holding an umbrella, he stepped onto the small bridge and walked over from the other end of the "Sakura Stream".

Looking at the body shape that is so familiar to you, you somehow thought of the famous scene in Kagura "Sakura Ryu"——

If I were a monster.

Are you still willing to give up your identity as a human being and everything in the past to love me?

A man leaves on a rainy day and slowly walks towards you on another rainy day.

"Do you need an umbrella?"