After pretending to be blind in front of the cursed king and being exposed

Rina still remembers traveling to the Heian era.

At that time, "she" was wearing a rich kimono, and the furnishings in the room were all high-quality mahogany.

Even the red rope for hanging in front of her is made of the best silk cloth.

The hanging red rope is better than the curse spirit on the roof and the villagers who want to burn her to death with a big fire.

Rina maintained the original movement from the moment she opened her eyes.She hugged her knees and huddled in the corner of the wooden cage, watching the villagers point and point at her without hesitation.

"It's not enough to kill my parents, but to continue to harm our village. This witch must be the source of a series of incidents in the village."

"I saw her talking to the air in the woods with my own eyes. Our village was angered by the mountain god in the afternoon."

"Should we invite an onmyoji or a magician to deal with this demon girl?"

"It's too late. If we don't execute this demon girl, the mountain god's anger will reach our village."

At this time, the sky was gloomy, and the sun's rays could no longer be seen in the sky.

But on the other side of the woods in the distance, the burning light and the burning smell are very obvious.

The wrath of the mountain god?Oh, it's a forest fire, the mountain god is really to blame.

"That..." The villagers did not expect that the witch who had been silent in the cage suddenly spoke out.

She raised one hand and pointed her fingers at their backs. The focus of her eyes seemed to be looking far away, "Is that black shadow behind you the mountain god?"

Horror climbed up the expressions of every villager present, as if they were being strangled by the neck, they screamed and turned their heads in panic to look behind their buttocks.

It's as if there really are man-eating monsters out there.

"Where! Where!"

The girl in the cage tilted her head: "What, you obviously can't see anything, why do you blame all the disaster on me?"

"Quickly lock up this witch first!" It seemed that she had angered these foolish people.

Linai, together with the cage, was thrown into a dark and damp abandoned house, and the door was locked.

The owner of this body can obviously also see the curse, so it is regarded as the source of disaster by people of backward times.

This situation and conditions seem to be worse than Aoi.

Looking at the old and ragged clothes on her body, Linai suddenly missed the red rope used for hanging.

She clenched her fists and clearly felt the magic power flowing in her body.

It turns out that the mantra will really run with the soul.

She exerted a little force, and the wooden cage shattered into pieces.

At the same time, the cracks on the wooden wall directly opposite seemed to be trapped in a swamp, and a low-profile figure slowly appeared from the swamp.

A one-eyed mantra, with a protruding forehead and a pinch of green grass on his head, and a little turtle at his feet.

"Little friend, old man, I will save you..."

So Rina, who punched the wooden cage into pieces, looked at each other with the magic spirit who came to rescue him.

"..." Looking at the broken boards at the feet of the thin girl, the mountain god formed by the power of the curse fell into deep thought.

"..." Looking at the mountain god who was still waiting for her to make tea in the shrine during the day, Linai was also lost in thought

A curse and a human looked at each other for about three seconds. The human girl suddenly put her arms around herself, and said weakly, "I'm so scared, Grandpa Mountain God, help me."

The mountain god reacted for a full three seconds, convincing himself that he was the one who dazzled when he broke the board, and that the "scaring" one was the real one, then coughed and motioned for Linai to follow him.

So Linai watched the mountain god go back through the wooden wall again.

Grandpa Mountain God, your rescue seems unreliable.

Probably because after waiting for a while and not seeing a human head popping out from the other side of the wall, the mountain god finally realized that the structure of human beings and curse spirits seems to be a little different.

At this moment, the guarding villagers saw that the door where the demon girl was imprisoned bounced open by itself.

The demon girl limped out of the house.

She didn't even look at the villagers and walked in one direction.

"Come quickly! The witch is gone!" The guarding villagers finally came to their senses.

Lina also took a step before realizing that her right ankle was swollen, and every step she took was painful.

It's a pity that the mountain god who rescued people didn't seem to know the victim he rescued very well. He walked so fast that he didn't look as slow as in the shrine.

Even the tortoise next to him was flying with its four legs.

Rina began to suspect that she might have misidentified the magic spirit.

Before he had gone two steps away, the nearest villager had already picked up a hoe and chopped straight at Lina.

Linai didn't expect the villagers to be so fierce, and she was still thinking about how much force she should use, but the villagers fell to the ground with a cry of pain.

The mountain god walking in front threw the small stones far and accurately, and each one hit the villager's elbow or ankle accurately.

Perhaps the mountain god thought that he had already struck lightly, and Linai could clearly hear the sound of small objects hitting or even penetrating bones.

——"More than 1000 years ago, villagers in a village wanted to kill a little girl who could see a curse, so I rescued the little girl and accidentally hurt someone."

???

No, it can't be such a coincidence, can it?

Although I don't know what year and generation it is now, there is no doubt that the one who saved her was indeed the mountain god more than 1000 years ago.

And she transmigrated into a girl who could see the curse and was regarded as an unknown and disaster by the whole village.

At this time, Rina and the mountain god have already entered the forest, and the village has been left behind them.

Linai continued to follow behind the mountain god, and finally she saw that the mountain god had no intention of stopping, so she said, "Grandpa mountain god, I can't walk anymore."

Only then did the mountain god turn around, showing a suddenly realized expression: "Oh, I forgot, you are still following."

Rina: "..."

"This place is far away from your village. You are safe and you can go." The Mountain God touched his head, "Also, as I have already said, don't call me Grandpa Mountain God. I am still young and only a few years old. Hundred years old, I have the same name as you humans, my name is Guizhi."

In the deep mountains and forests, unknown beasts roared from time to time.

...It's not at all safe for an unarmed human girl.

The mountain turtle must have misunderstood the word safety.

Rina could only wrap her ankles with mana to relieve the pressure she was under, and continued to follow.

Turtle was the only thing she could believe in until she figured out what era it was, and where she could go.

If I knew she should have studied the healing technique used by the two-faced Su Nuo before

After walking for an unknown amount of time, the turtle finally stopped.

Three curse spirits appeared in front of them. The one in the middle also had only one eye, and its head was like a volcano about to erupt. On the ground lay a meat worm in the shape of an insect larva, bending its body and looking around.

"Long time no see, Leuhu, Huayu, Tuogen."

As soon as the turtle opened its mouth, the three curse spirits looked at him at the same time.

"Turtle, what does that weak human behind you do?" The curse spirit with a head like a crater spoke first. Judging from the shape, Linai assigned him the name Lehu.

"You haven't left yet." The tortoise turned around, looked at Lina behind him, and then turned back, "The human child I rescued, you all know that I am a curse of the mountain god's beliefs. I can’t help but shoot if I’m talking about something.”

After thinking about the scene where the wooden plank was smashed under the girl's feet, the turtle just felt that the word "weak" did not apply to this human being.

Then the curse spirit with branches protruding from its eyes spoke: "■■■■■■■■■■."

It was clearly a text that Linai couldn't understand, but the meaning appeared in Linai's mind: "Human beings cannot live in harmony with nature. Sure enough, compared to Lehu and Tuogen, I still can't fall in love with you."

If the curse spirit is Hua Yu, then Tuo Gen was the last one to speak: "Where is the forest fire you mentioned? We heard that the forest was on fire, so we came from all over the night."

The turtle only pointed in one direction, and the three curse spirits disappeared together.

Save the last curse spirit?It was the first time Rina heard about it.

The turtle turned around again: "Little friend, you can go, they don't welcome humans."

The mountain tortoise can only hurt people, and the three curse spirits are not necessarily.

This situation is indeed untenable.

"Kame, do you know who the emperor of human society is now?" Rina asked.

Turtle didn't seem to expect to be asked this kind of question. He stayed in the mountains every day and knew very little about most things in human society.

"I don't know much about human society. I just occasionally hear a place name mentioned."

Place name?

"It seems to be called... Heianjing."

Linai couldn't tell what it was like, it was like a thunderbolt passing through her mind.

Ping An Jing?

Of course she is familiar with this place name, it is the place where she has been staying for half a year.

So the tortoise just looked at the human child and said "thank you", and then the magic power under its feet showed, and it drove in the direction of reciprocating with the strength of one foot.

... Is this really the human being who begged him to save her?

Before dawn, although the demon girl guarded by the villagers of Pingle Village ran away, the anger of the mountain god was extinguished instead.

The forest was no longer blazing, and finally fell into peace.

The mountain god saw our efforts and forgave us.

This is how the villagers explain themselves.

But there is another strange thing, every household has been stolen.

Some people lacked clothes and food, and some lost money bags.

There must be other monsters coming out to make trouble again.

But this is nothing compared to the disappearance of the mountain god's anger.

***

Compared with the previous ancient times, the handicraft industry in the Heian period was more developed.

It's a pity that the means of transportation in this era is still the bullock cart.

Farmers also tend to be self-sufficient, and it is difficult to find places to stay and eat on the road.

Under such difficult conditions, Linai relied on the strength of the conjurer's feet and spent a few days to reach Heian-kyo.

When she heard about the distance from Heian-kyo, she breathed a sigh of relief, if it was farther north, even to the modern Hokkaido.

It is estimated that Rina will almost be able to go back when she arrives in Heian-kyo.

Compared with remote non-capital areas, Heian-kyo has a lot more shops and shops.

Some storefronts were even familiar to her.

In other words, in terms of time, there is not much difference from the time when she first came here.

Rina suddenly felt that it was hopeful to see her teacher again.

But before that, she has to solve the problem of food and accommodation, she is no longer the eldest lady of any family.

In distress, Rina saw people gathered on the commercial street looking at the contents of the bulletin board.

So she also squeezed in to see if there was any gain.

The notice on the left is actually the news that the Onmyoji is recruiting apprentices. Apprentices are provided with food and lodging, and are well paid.And this onmyoji who recruits apprentices is the person Linai misses day and night—her former teacher, Abe Seimei.

She still remembers the first time she came here, with a red rope in front of her and a letter under her feet.

The letter was left to the parents, and it said: Father and mother, I am sorry for you, I have someone I like, he is an ordinary person without spells, even so, I love him very much.I will never marry Abe Seimei even if I die!Please forgive me.

That was the first time Rina heard the name, with a dramatic start.

On the right side of the bulletin board, there is also the content of recruiting apprentices, the treatment is similar, and the recruiter claims to be a magician.

Conjurer?Rina clearly remembered that the conjurers and onmyojis of this era belonged to the same family, and the name of onmyoji was more popular.

She immediately asked someone from the side to ask.

"What? Curse masters and onmyojis belong to the same family? You are from the countryside, right? Onmyoji-sama Abe and conjurer Enokido-sama, everyone in Heian-kyo knows that these are two curse-removing masters who cannot compete with each other. "

What... Enokido-sama?

Reina was taken aback when she heard her surname.

Her gaze returned to the bulletin board, and sure enough, she saw a name on the lower right of the content of recruiting magicians on the right—Enokido Sakurako.

……

Probably not what she thought.

She will be the apprentice who includes room and board.

Abe's family or the main family, which one is better?