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【"Lotus? What is that?"

"It's a flower that blooms in ponds in summer."

"is it?"

The child in a large kimono tilted her head, she looked a little confused, her golden hair was loosely tied at the end with a string.

In the third year of Tianming, Erika was only four years old.

She is the child picked up by Tong Mo in the heavy snow, and she is also the only survivor in the village massacred by ghosts.

According to the believers at the time, when Tong Mo carried her back, she shrank into a small ball in her arms, but she tightly grasped the strap hanging from Tong Mo's Pilu hat.

A little child had a high fever in the cold winter, her bare hands and feet were pale from the cold, only her face was flushed.

"Because it's fun."

Sitting on the lotus seat, Tong Mo held his chin with one hand, tilted his head and said with eyebrows bent.

"Erika was terrified at first, but as soon as she caught the strap of my hat, she threw herself into my arms."

From childhood to adulthood, Tong Mo was always called the Son of God, what's more, he bowed down in front of him and worshiped him as a god.

But it was the first time he was called Mr. Good Monk.

Although his Eri tweed was dirty when he picked it up, his face was covered with snot and tears, and his clothes were tasteless, but he didn't care about it.

His disciples used fine fabrics to make cumbersome kimonos for the little cub, and taught her etiquette, reading and writing.

Later, his little Erika became the current little Erika.

Her blond hair is soft, with a dazzling luster in the sun, on the slightly protruding eyebrows, the small forehead is smooth and delicate.

"This is the prettiest person I've ever seen except Mr. Tong Mo."

His disciples knelt on the ground, their foreheads pressed against the cold ground, and their expressions were outrageously pious.

Tong Mo sometimes thinks, he might as well bring Erihua with him when he goes to work next time.

But only this, his believers strongly opposed.

"Then, is the lotus flower the same color as Master Tong Mo's eyes?"

The innocent child raised her head slightly, and the top of her fluffy head lightly brushed against his chin, her gray eyes were full of doubts.

Tong Mo said softly "Huh?" "Why do you ask that?"

"Because Master Tong Mo said that lotus flowers are beautiful, and everyone said that Master Tong Mo's eyes are the most beautiful existence in the world."

Xiao Erika spoke eloquently, but Tong Mo couldn't help laughing.

His chest trembled, and the resonance it caused was accurately transmitted to Erika's ears along with the sound.

"Not."

Tong Mo stroked her head and said with a smile.

"The lotus is the same color as Erika's clothes."

Erika lost her eyesight.

Even she herself didn't remember whether she was blind at birth, or she couldn't see until she got sick.

She didn't care about this, because whether it was Tong Mo or other people in the Bliss Cult, when she asked, they would patiently describe the shape and color of things to her.

The gold is the warm sun, the white is the cold snow, and the green is the color of the grass she smells after the rain.

As a child, Erika was full of curiosity about everything.

First it was the fallen leaves that would wither in autumn, then it was the little birds jumping around in the garden, and finally, Erika's object of curiosity became Tong Mo.

"Huh? Me?"

Tong Mo, who was treated as a research object, was not angry at all, he tapped his chin with a fan, with some feigned surprise on his face.

After Tong Mo listened to their suffering, the worshipers bowed their heads in gratitude and left. Tong Mo quickly laughed. He stepped off the high lotus platform and squatted in front of the slightly confused Erika.

Tong Mo grabbed the child's immature wrist and led her to put the warm palm on his face.

"I am like this."

Tong Mo's voice clearly carried an undisguised smile, but it was as gentle as jade, Erika recalled in a trance the words that the maid who taught her had repeatedly told her.

——Miss, if you can see it, you will understand.

——Sir Tong Mo is an inviolable existence like a god.

The child's fingertips slid down from the other's protruding browbones, brushed against his raised eyelashes, and finally landed on the corner of his curved lips.

"What did you think of, Erika?"

Tong Mo pinched her soft cheeks and asked curiously.

Four-year-old Erika frowned, "I was thinking about why everyone respects Master Tong Mo."

"why?"

"Because when my mother was alive, she always said that everyone liked monks because monks would give food to poor people, but Mr. Tong Mo said that he was not a monk, and he didn't give anything to others."

Erika's face showed a rare sophistication, she wrung her fingers and analyzed solemnly.

"Miss Ah Chun said that if I could see Master Tong Mo, I would understand, so I was wondering what Master Tong Mo looks like."

Tong Mo laughed out loud.

"I learned something strange, Erika."

"what?"

"Could it be that Erika also likes me because I'm good-looking?"

Erika's eyes widened in surprise upon hearing those words.In her round almond eyes, the clear irises are covered with a layer of light gray, but it is still not difficult to see the originally blue color like the sky.

Xiao Erika, who thought that Tong Mo had misunderstood her, was so anxious that her neck turned red.

"it's not like that!"

she loudly denied.

"I don't like Mr. Tong Mo just because I heard that Mr. Tong Mo is good-looking."

As if to increase the convincing force of her words, she counted them bit by bit.

"Master Tong Mo picked me up from the village, dressed me in nice clothes, and told me bedtime stories..."

Before Erika could finish her words, Tong Mo poked her eyebrows.

The unsuspecting child was poked and staggered two steps, almost stepping on the long hem of the clothes and wrestling.

Tong Mo laughed happily, he picked up the little girl before she fell down, and brushed her loose blonde hair behind her ears.

"That would be great."

Just because he was born with white oak-like hair and glass-like eyes, those stupid parents brought him to this position.

"I'll only be angry if Erika becomes like them."

——Please forgive me, Tongmo-sama.

—lead us to bliss.

The group of guys who could be called human looked at him with devout and fiery eyes.

Tong Mo listened to all this quietly, and couldn't help but shed tears for their stupidity.

What a pity.

The guy who has some false hopes, the sooner he dies, the better he will be relieved.

"I don't understand what you're saying, Master Tong Mo."

The little girl who couldn't figure out Tong Mo's words after thinking for a long time said distressedly, she looked a bit depressed, and her long eyelashes drooped listlessly.

He didn't care about the stupidity of the little animals at all.

To be more precise, compared to the child who sees through the truth and shows fear, Tong Mo prefers the appearance of the other party throwing himself into his arms vigorously every day.

"Erika just needs to like me as much as she does now."

Tong Mo gently rubbed Erika's head like petting a small animal, his eyes drooped down, and even his thick eyebrows rippled gently.

"I like Erika too."

Erihua grew up to be 14 years old in the Bliss Church, and the maids around her changed from batch to batch, and even the uncle who always taught her "don't be rude to Master Tong Mo" disappeared at some point.

Tong Mo told her that everyone went to the Land of Ultimate Bliss because they solved the suffering in their hearts.

That was the first time Erika lost her temper with Tong Mo.

"But I don't want the new guy with me."

The girl in the delicate sakura-colored kimono broke the hairpin on her head, and the small pear flower was broken into two halves on the ground. It was given to Erika by Tongmo on her 14th birthday not long ago. In order to celebrate, she has grown into a big girl who can be betrothed to others.

Erika doesn't understand what betrothed to others is, and doesn't care what betrothed to others.

The girl who received the gift ran all the way according to her memory, and she excitedly opened the room of the maid Ah Chun who grew up with her, wanting to show off Tong Mo's love for her.

But unlike before, Ah Chun neither called her name loudly nor stopped her behavior.

Erika tripped over something soft.

The viscous and slippery liquid spread on her sleeves, and she stared at her hands with those empty eyes for a long time before she suddenly realized what it was.

"Chun?"

"..."

"Chun!"

"Ah Chun, Ah Chun, Ah Chun—!"

The long dark night, the piercing screams, and the tearful exhortations of the mother when she kissed her forehead.

Erika was once again wrapped in fear.

It was made by ghosts.

According to the legend, the ghost ate Ah Chun like his mother.

The girl who was spoiled and brought up had no strength, but hugged the decapitated corpse tightly on the ground.She shook the other party over and over again, as if as long as she tried to call the other party's name, the other party would scold her with the same complaining tone as before.

Everyone said that Chun committed suicide.

--no.

Because I found the meaning of existence, it doesn't matter even if I leave this pedantic world.

--it's not like that.

If he found the meaning of existence, how could he be willing to die like this.

But no one believed her.

Even her favorite Tong Mo is the same.

She grabbed the other party's sleeve and begged him to find the murderer who killed Ah Chun.

The believers outside the door yelled at her not to make trouble for Master Tong Mo.

"Master Tong Mo is already very busy, how can he deal with such insignificant matters!"

——A Chun is not an unimportant matter!

"Erika has also reached the age of rebellion."

Unlike the angry believers, Tong Mo tolerantly forgave her disrespect.

The weeping girl froze.

For the first time in her life, she felt out of place in this place.

"Why don't you believe me?"

"I don't believe you."

Erika shrank back, but Tong Mo grabbed her wrist.

He wiped the blood off her palm bit by bit with a handkerchief.

The evidence that symbolizes that Chun lived has disappeared.

She didn't even catch Ah Chun's body.

When everyone took Ah Chun's body away, Tong Mo reinserted the loose hairpin for her.

"Erika."

Tong Mo's voice called the dazed girl back.

His fingertips stroked the corners of her eyes, his movements were gentle, but filled with a piercing chill.

"It's got a nasty smell."

Erika fell down uncontrollably.

"If you don't like it, just find a child who is like Ah Chun."

After that, Tong Mo brought back two people from nowhere.

One is Yu Ji and the other is Taro the prostitute. It is said that they are brothers and sisters, but their personalities are completely different.

Erika said that A-Chun is A-Chun, and no one can replace A-Chun, so she doesn't like Fallen Girl, nor does she like Taro the prostitute.

The prostitute Taro didn't say a word when he heard this, but Luo Ji jumped up angrily: "Who wants you to like it!"

Fallen Princess and the prostitute Taro were left behind as Erika's playmates in the end.

Erika refuses to be taken care of by others, probably because she lost her eyesight when she was very young. She is used to being invisible, and she can live well even by herself.

Luo Ji wished she could be alone.

Every time Fallen Princess mentions her name, it will bring the name "Ghost Dance Tsuji Wumi" with her.

"If it weren't for you, a troublesome ghost, I should be by Mr. Wu Mi's side now!"

"When I was not around, there must have been some ugly female ghosts sticking to Mr. Wu Mi's side. Damn it, it's all your fault!"

And so on, in short, not a good thing.

Erika endured it for a while at first, but in the end it turned into a curse from Luo Ji, and she followed suit.

She made rapid progress in this area, and by the time she was 15 years old, Luo Ji could no longer scold her.

So Luo Ji began to call her ugly, a useless blind, and a blind fool.

With a click, as Luo Ji's voice fell, it seemed that something heavy fell to the ground.

The prostitute Taro silently picked up the severed head of his younger sister, and then put it back on the beautiful body of Fallen Princess.

He covered his younger sister's unconvinced mouth, pressed the other's head forcefully, and respectfully said "sorry" to Tong Mo.

Erika asked what happened, but neither Yu Ji nor the prostitute Taro was willing to answer her. Only Tong Mo put away his fan with a smile, hugged her like he did when he was a child, and said, "What about barefoot in the corridor?" I'm going to catch a cold" or something like that.

"When Erika grows up a bit, I will take Erika to the temple fair."

"what is that?"

"Well, there are probably fireworks and apple candy. I always think Erika would like it."

"Are the fallen princess and the prostitute Taro also together?"

"If Erika is angry, she won't take them with her."

"……angry?"

"I heard that Fallen Princess always calls Erika a useless dwarf. Isn't Erika angry? I am very angry."

Erika was taken aback.

"No."

She flinched in Tong Mo's arms, lowered her eyes, and couldn't see the teasing smile in Tong Mo's eyes.

The blond girl whispered softly.

"Falling Princess is actually not bad."

Fallen Princess likes Ghost Dance Tsuji Mumi very much.

Although I don't know who Oni Wu Tsuji is, but in short, he is Yu Ji's sweetheart.

In Yu Ji's description, Ghost Mai Tsuji has a pair of wine-red eyes and curly black hair, always a superior existence.

"Does Onimai Tsuji-kun like Fallen Princess?"

"...Damn it, are you humiliating me!"

Luo Ji's high-pitched voice suddenly became gloomy, and she jumped up, speaking with a bit of gnashing of teeth.

Erika didn't understand why she was angry.

She simply felt that Luo Ji was good-looking and had an active personality, so there shouldn't be any men who would dislike her.

But when she told Luo Ji so, the other party was silent for a long time.

"Even if you praise me, I won't like you, a troublemaker!"

Luo Ji blushed, snorted and turned her face away.

Erika immediately opened her teeth and waved her claws.

"You're the troublemaker!"

"You dare to scold me!"

"I'll scold! Luo Ji is not only a nuisance, but also a nuisance!"

Fallen Princess was so angry that she wanted to fight Erika, but the prostitute Taro who had been sitting in the corner stopped her.

Tong Mo, who had been eavesdropping outside the door for a long time, still couldn't hold back his laughter. He clutched his stomach, shrugged his shoulders, and strode into Erika's room with strides.

"Master Tong Mo?"

Erika smelled a familiar smell, she paused, and shouted with some hesitation.

"It's me."

"...Does Master Tong Mo want to ask me for something?"

"Hey——" Tong Mo dragged out his tone aggrieved after hearing such words, "Can't you find Erika if you have nothing to do?"

"How cruel, I have worked so hard for a long time."

Erika was already used to Tong Mo's acting like a baby from time to time, so she restrained her appearance in front of Luo Ji and sat respectfully.

But Tong Mo didn't like her appearance very much.

"Erika has grown up too~"

He sighed, and abruptly poked Erika crookedly.

It wasn't until the other party's exasperated look was reflected in his colorful irises that Tong Mo smiled with satisfaction.

"Do you have a sweetheart?"

he asked with a smile.

"...?"

"Erika always talks about love with Xiao Luoji. I'm very open-minded. If Erika has a sweetheart, I will prepare a dowry for you."

Tong Mo spoke happily, but Erika felt unrealistic.

"Onimai Tsuji-kun?"

The air was silent for a moment, and Tong Mo tilted his head, as if he was seriously thinking about the possibility of tying up Oni Wu Tsuji and giving it to Erika.

Tong Mo's appearance annoyed Luo Ji.

"Ah, ah, I'm going to kill this stinky girl!"

Her nails got longer, and she yelled angrily, but Erika laughed triumphantly.

"Just kidding."

The girl who achieved her goal turned her face to look at the thoughtful Tong Mo, her almond eyes were curved into two crescent moons, and there was a cute little dimple around her lips.

"Onimai Tsuji-kun is more suitable for Fallen Princess, I don't want to marry."

As if realizing something, Luo Ji fell silent.

She stretched out her hand subconsciously, trying to block Erika's gaze from looking at Tong Mo.

But the prostitute Taro held her wrist tightly and shook his head at her.

Half of the face of the girl in the middle of the Japanese room is illuminated by the bright moonlight.

Erika lowered her head.

"Please let me stay by your side to serve you, Master Tong Mo."

Erika didn't know why, but since then, Luo Ji has been angry with her for a long time.

She yelled "Idiot, idiot", and didn't care what Erika said after she finished, but she just refused to talk to her.

Erika felt that it might be the reason why her joke that day might have gone too far.

According to the prostitute Taro, Fallen Princess likes beautiful things.

If she can find a gift that suits Fallen Princess's wishes, Fallen Princess will forgive her.

Erika who thought so, sneaked out while Tong Mo was accepting worship from the crowd.

When Chun was still alive, he often took her out to play.

Outside the Bliss Church, walk 500 meters down the mountain road and you will find a town.Walk along the main road of the town, turn right for 300 meters, and this is the place where Ah Chun often buys accessories for her.

Erika touched the bulging purse, thinking that she would definitely be able to buy the most beautiful gift.

However, when she came back with the "gem" that the store called, Luo Ji snorted, asked her where she bought it, and left angrily.

Taro, the prostitute, kindly told her that her "jewels" were all black and, though crystal clear, certainly had nothing to do with real gems.

Erika was a little puzzled.

Obviously Ah Chun told her when she was still alive that the owner of that shop was a rare good man, at least he was not like other profit-seeking businessmen, he never lied.

The shopkeeper told her that it was a stone that had been passed down from a distant family of spells.

will be her guiding light.

Erika hesitated for a moment, and didn't tell Tong Mo about it, but secretly hid it under the pillow.

The day Tong Mo promised to take her to the temple fair is coming soon.

Kanji 13 years.Edo.

Erika overheard the believers saying that the world outside the Bliss Church has undergone earth-shaking changes. The peasants abandoned their land and fled, and the samurai became increasingly impoverished. It won't be long before the flames of war will come here.

This is probably the last temple fair of the year.

Erika was a little nervous, but Tong Mo didn't care at all.

He disliked that Luo Ji's workmanship did not conform to his aesthetics, and amidst the other party's exasperated roar, he braided Erika's hair like he did when he was a child.

"Erika was the cutest when she was young."

"why?"

"Because Erika always liked to act like a baby with me when I was young, and would cry and throw herself into my arms when it thundered." Tong Mo said, with a bit of distress in his tone, "I don't know when it started, Erika Hua only smiled at Xiao Luo Ji."

Erika pursed her lips and did not answer his question.

Her vision was dark, and she couldn't see Tong Mo's expression when she said this, nor could she see her own face in the mirror.

The girl wore the light cherry-colored kimono that Tong Mo had chosen for her, and held his hand obediently, allowing Tong Mo to lead her to the viewing platform.

"Erika was only this small when I first picked it up. At that time, Erika didn't know the way. She often lost her way and broke into my room suddenly."

"Is there? I don't remember."

"Well, there are many things that Erika doesn't remember. When she was young, Erika would secretly hide the vegetables she vomited. Every day, some believers would come to complain to me."

"...that sounds embarrassing."

Tong Mo laughed, and gently rubbed Erika's head as if comforting.

"It's okay, I like Erika the most, Erika is just like my sister, she is cute in everything she does."

Erika squeezed the hands in the sleeves tightly.

"I also like Master Tong Mo very much."

The fireworks in the distance bloomed in the night sky, and the tourists in the audience exclaimed the beauty of the fireworks, but what Erika heard was only the ear-piercing explosion.

"Can you hug me, Master Tong Mo?"

She tugged the other party's sleeve carefully, and said coquettishly uncharacteristically.

Tong Mo said "Huh?" in surprise, but in the end, he didn't ask why.

"sure."

He smiled and said, wrapping the thin girl into his arms effortlessly.

Erika was trembling all over, and slowly raised her hand hidden in her sleeve, and the silver hairpin shone strangely under the reflection of the fireworks.

Everything fell silent at this moment, and the moment her hand dropped, Erika almost exhausted all her strength.

She could indeed smell blood, but the person holding her did not fall down.

"Why are you crying, Erika?"

The warm fingertips brushed the corners of her eyes, Tong Mo bent down, bent his eyes, and looked at her tenderly.

He effortlessly pulled out the hairpin that pierced his neck, and he didn't even groan in pain. Instead, he stared at his own blood on it and let out a regretful sigh.

"Don't you like this one too?"

Just like a real elder brother, Tong Mo's voice was full of blatant pampering.

"Then when Erika can see it, Erika will choose it herself."

It was a kind of despair spreading from all limbs, Erika took a step back, but Tong Mo hugged her tenderly again.

"You're getting stupid, Erika. Just pretend you don't know anything."

"Don't worry, I will forgive you."

"Because Erika is different from those people."

Tong Mo raised his drooping eyelashes, he looked at the crowds of people wearing ghost masks on the street, no emotion could be seen in his clear eyes.

"My Erika is different from those people."

He repeated it again, and the light shadow fell into his glass-like pupils, making his already pale skin even whiter.

"So, you can't be bored for too long, Erika."

——If only you could see it, miss.

——If you can see it, you will understand why Master Tong Mo is a god-like figure.

The shrine maiden's Kagura bell rang lightly in the air, and people were having their last carnival during the Hyakki Night Parade.

At that moment, Erika suddenly remembered the red goldfish floating in the pond.

The so-called eternal bliss seems to be the coldness born from the overwhelming red, like a black lotus flower spinning under a golden Buddha statue.

"Please kill me."

she begged.

When Erika woke up, Luo Ji was sitting beside her bed and getting dressed.

"Can you see who I am?"

She asked.

Erika glanced at her, then silently stared at the ceiling, and gave a soft "hmm".

"I'm not happy to see it." Luo Ji patted her forehead and said dissatisfiedly, "What's wrong with being a ghost, even if you can't awaken the blood ghost technique, I think you are pleasing to the eye." Come on, I'll cover you."

Erika grinned, she poked her eyes blind again in front of Luo Ji, the pain made her faint, but in less than 10 minutes, when she woke up again, there was not even a single wound on her body up.

So Erika couldn't help crying.

Luo Ji stayed with her in silence for a long time, and after a while, she asked her when she found out that Tong Mo was a ghost.

"From the time Ah Chun died."

Erika said calmly.

"I begged him for a long time, but he said I had a nasty taste."

"Am I stupid, Fallen Princess?"

Erika, who has eyesight, finally sees Rakuhime.

She has beautiful silver hair, and her upturned eyes are full of breathtaking bright red.

"In that village that was slaughtered by ghosts, I really believed that miracles would happen."

When Erika was four years old, when she was most desperate, she prayed to the gods to wipe out all those disgusting creatures from the world.

So the god descended to the human world in pity, he asked her name, shed tears for her, and then stretched out his hand to her like alms——

But to strangle her throat.

Ever since Erika turned into a ghost, Tongmo would bring her food called "human" from time to time.

Erika let them go again and again, but Tong Mo took the trouble to help her catch them back again and again.

"You'll be hungry, Erika."

As Tong Mo said so, he turned the food he brought her into a broken limb and arm.

Like a patient teacher, he dismembered the crying people in front of Erika.

Warm blood splashed onto her face, Erika watched all this calmly, but she was still unable to shed another tear.

Erika was losing weight day by day at a speed visible to the naked eye. She was destined to live a long life, so she began to consciously reduce her activity time and often slept in her room.

Tong Mo would come to see her at first and sing her a lullaby like he did when he was a child.

He would lean down tenderly, kiss her forehead, and blow out the little candle.

Later, as Erika's waking time became shorter, Tong Mo rarely came to see her again.

Luo Ji told her that Tong Mo took in a human named "Qin Ye", who was an idiot like her, and looked passable, but hugged a child named Inosuke all day, which was a bit of an eyesore.

Erika didn't respond to this, but Luo Ji was afraid that she would be unhappy, so she offered to take her out to play secretly.

Then Luo Ji's beautiful head rolled twice on the ground, and rolled to her feet.

"I didn't expect Xiao Luoji to come up with such an idea."

Tong Mo shook his head and said regretfully.

"Obviously they are all children raised by me, why have they all reached the rebellious stage together?"

Erika held Fallen Princess's head in her arms.

Even though the body was separated, Luo Ji still challenged Tong Mo without fear.

"It's so noisy! Who was raised by you!"

Tong Mo immediately put on an expression of distress.

Erika met Qin Ye one month after Qin Ye joined the Bliss Sect.

The beautiful woman was a little surprised when she saw her, and then a little worried appeared between her brows. Her soft black hair was blown up by the night wind, and she took off the coat on her body under Erika's slightly puzzled eyes. and put it on Erika's body.

"I heard from Master Tong Mo that you rarely come out to meet people because of your poor health."

"Be careful of blowing the night wind."

She said to Erika with a smile on her face, and lowered her head again, teasing the baby with open eyes in her arms.

"Right, Inosuke?"

As if feeling the joy of his mother, Inosuke who was called by his name could not speak yet, but giggled. His big eyes turned around in the night, looking curiously at everything in the courtyard, just like Erika Same as when I first came here.

The only difference was that the curious baby held out his hand to her.

"Oh." Kotoha exclaimed, "Inosuke likes you very much, Miss Atobe."

Fresh life just born in this world.

Her cold fingertips were wrapped by the other's immature palm, Inosuke said something, and finally blew a snot bubble.

"Ah, I'm so sorry I made you laugh."

Qin Ye's smile was a little more embarrassed, she wiped Inosuke's snot with a handkerchief, but Inosuke was a little dissatisfied with this, his legs kicked wildly, but he had no strength, and he couldn't break free from his mother's embrace.

Erika seemed to be touched by something.

"Do not."

She curled up her four fingers and gently shook Inosuke's hand.

From Edo to Taisho, since Erika regained her light——

"Inosuke is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen."

Erika was determined to protect Kotoba and Inosuke, but when she said that, Fallen Princess was so angry that she fought with her.

"That woman is stupid and stupid, she's still a human being, what's the matter!"

"Luo Ji, you were not human before."

"Hmph, I'm different. I'm much prettier than her."

The conversation between Erika and Yuki ended badly, and before Yuji jumped out of the window, she yelled "I don't care about you anymore".

After Luo Ji's aura completely disappeared, Erika took out the stone that had been hidden under the pillow for a long time.

This is a talking stone.

Erika didn't tell anyone.

The first time she heard it speak, the person inside drew out the end, complaining that he was bored to mold.

In the subsequent conversation, Erika learned that the other party was Wujo Satoru, the strongest magician in the world, but he made a small mistake and was accidentally imprisoned in the prison gate.

For Erika, Gojo Satoru is a good person. Although he is a little naive, he has taught her a lot.

It's a pity that she doesn't have spell power, otherwise she might be able to learn some spells and the like.

This is the first friend Erika has made besides Fallen Princess.

"Since Mr. Tong Mo said that he can support the guy you mentioned until the end of his life, then there is no problem."

Gojo Satoru said indifferently.

"If you're really worried, Erika will take them away and find someone stronger than Tong Mo-jun to protect them."

Erika thought for a while, as if she had never heard of that kind of existence.

So Gojo Satoru let out a regretful "Hey".

"That must be because the people on Erika's side are too good."

He snorted triumphantly, sounding very confident.

"If it were me, with just one move, Mr. Tong Mo would be wiped out."

Erika was amused by his words.

"Okay."

She imitated Gojo Satoru's tone and said.

"If something happens to Kotoba, I will take Kotoba and Inosuke to join Gojo-kun."

For Erika, Kotoba's existence is like a mother.

Obviously it looks soft, but sometimes it is unbelievably strong.

"No matter what you hear, don't make a sound."

The vague shadow in memory raised a finger at her.

"Grow up well and become a sincere and hardworking person."

"If you encounter difficulties, ask others for help. There are many kind-hearted people in this world. You have to believe in the greatness of love."

"If you feel lonely, just look up at the sky. Isn't Erika likes birds the most? My father and I will become birds and stay by Erika's side all the time."

The wooden door made a thud, and my mother closed the closet door amidst my father's anxious roar.

She was crying, and it seemed that a heavy weight was placed on her thin shoulders, which made her unable to straighten up.

"One day, you will understand me and Dad."

The last thing Erika heard was the sound of the wooden door being kicked open, and the limbs were brutally torn apart along with the clothes. Even if the father and mother died, they piled up the corpses in front of the closet.

They were protecting her until death.

Just like Erika trying to protect Kotoba and Inosuke.

"Even if you tell them the truth, once they walk out of this door, they will be torn apart by the ghosts gathered at the foot of the mountain."

Luo Ji said to her indifferently.

But even if she doesn't say it, the truth will always be vulnerable.

When Erika accompanied Luo Ji back from Flower Street, she met Qin Ye who was running out frantically.

When Qin Ye saw her, she was stunned for a moment, followed by anger and fear accumulated in those beautiful eyes.

"Liar, liar, liar——!"

She stepped back step by step, hugging Inosuke tightly.

"Why don't man-eating monsters like you die!!"

Luo Ji was enraged, she gritted her teeth, pulled out her belt and wanted to kill Qin Ye, but before she could do it, Erika grabbed her wrist tightly.

"Help me, Fallen Princess."

She heard Erika's faint voice.

The blond girl stood upright in the night, her pair of