This lord is too weak but strong

"why?"

Hoshino Shugo's words obviously did not convince the boy Enichi, he looked at Hoshino Shugo without blinking, with a somewhat stubborn look in his eyes.

Is he about to be...abandoned again?

Juvenile Yuanyi couldn't describe what kind of emotion the sour feeling in his heart was, he only knew that this emotion made him different from usual.

And this kind of experience is not the first time for him.

When his mother died of serious illness when he was still young, Ji Guoyuan first realized the separation called death.

His mother passed away, and Yuanyi, who was born as a taboo child, did not obey his father's arrangement to go to a temple to become a monk, and ran away from home.

The starry sky outside the country is endless and beautiful. The young man Yuanyi ran under that starry sky for a long, long time, until the sun rose and set in the west, and the moonlight rose again. Finally, he met the coral family in the forest who were killing demons outside.

They brought young Yuanyi home, and let young Yuanyi know many things that he had never been exposed to in the successor country.

He thought he would stay there forever, where there was a serious but caring leader, a gentle and tough coral, and an amber who was a bit weak but worked hard all the time. warmth.

However, just half a month ago, such a beautiful picture was finally shattered.

The evil ghost who was beheaded again and again but revived again and again seemed to slash the young man Yuanyi's heart with a blade again and again, reminding him that he had experienced the second separation in his life.

He is an incompetent person who can't even protect the people he cherishes.

Until that time, Shugo Hoshino appeared.

The young man with a broken body, who looked like he was going to die in the next second, cut off the neck of the evil spirit with a single knife - the bright light of the knife made the young man Yuan Yi think of the starry sky he saw when he was young.

Free, without any constraints, beautiful starry sky.

"...Can you teach me swordsmanship?" The young man Yuanyi heard the words he said at that time.

If he can learn such sword skills, he will be able to protect the people he wants to protect, and will never be separated from them again.

Juvenile Yuanyi thinks so simply and directly.

Until Coral and Amber decided to "leave" him alone.

The young Yuanyi understood why Shanhu did this. Like herself, she wanted to protect him, and didn't want to involve him as "Jiguo Yuanyi" in that Naraku's conspiracy.

But in Ji Guoyuan's view, he was indeed "abandoned" again.

After all, he couldn't even protect his family.

At this time, Hoshino Shugo reached out to him.

The man's hand was pale and thin, as if it would be broken if he exerted a little force, but the young man Yuanyi held onto his hand tightly as if he had grasped the last straw.

"I'm sorry." Hoshino Shugo said in a voice that almost sighed: "Yuichi, I can't stay with you forever."

"You are very smart, you should have noticed that I am not from this era. I came here just to find what I lost." Hoshino Shugo put the truth of the matter in front of the young Yuanyi.

He couldn't even say the words "see you again someday", because his goodbye to "Yuan" was a desperate loneliness that spanned more than 400 years for Ji Guoyuanyi.

He can't give this kind of false promise, let him wait with a wish that can never be fulfilled.

That was a promise he, as Ji Guoyuan, could never wait for in his lifetime, and Shugo Hoshino could not be so cruel.

"...I see." Hearing Hoshino Shugo's answer, the pupils of the young Enichi's eyes dimmed instantly.

"I see." He repeated.

His calm expression was the same as in the past, but the hand on his side clenched into a fist uncontrollably, as if this would make him feel less uncomfortable.

Seeing his appearance, Shugo Hoshino couldn't help but think of Yuan's eyes looking at him, which gradually overlapped with the boy in front of him, no difference.

Whether it is the young Yuanyi in front of him, or the undead Yuanyi whose soul rests on the sword 400 years later, their essence is the same.

They carefully hold the fetters they have finally obtained, for fear that the fetters they hold in their hands will be lost, but for various reasons, they walk on the road that has been lost, walking alone.

Shugo Hoshino realized this deeply for the first time.

"Then, before you leave, can you tell me?" The young man Yuanyi asked in a very weak voice.

"Okay, I promise you." Shugo Hoshino nodded and agreed without hesitation.

The boy Yuanyi's expression was finally no longer so tense.

He lowered his gaze, only to find that his own shadow and Shugo Hoshino's shadow overlapped under his feet, making it impossible to tell each other apart.

He blinked his eyes, briefly feeling a little joy in his heart because of this kind of accident that can be called boring.

If possible, I really want to stop time at this moment.

In this case, this person will not leave his side.

His gaze was too secretive, Hoshino Shugo didn't notice it, but the boy Enichi looked extremely fragile with his head down.

Looking at Yuanichi like this, Shugo Hoshino felt a sense of pity in his heart, he stretched out his hand, pressed his hand on Yuanichi's head, and rubbed it vigorously.

Interrupted from his thoughts by his sudden movement, the young man Yuanyi raised his head.

"Don't show that expression of being abandoned by the world, Enichi." Hoshino Shugo met Enichi's bewildered gaze and said with a smile on his face.

"Even if there is a parting in the end, the past is not false."

Shugo Hoshino's tone of voice was as gentle as the breeze blowing the spring cherry blossoms in spring, stirring up ripples in Ji Guoyuan's heart.

"With this memory in mind, let's keep moving forward."

They will meet again in the Taisho era, which spans more than 400 years.

Shugo Hoshino knew that the current Ji Guoyuan could not understand the meaning of his words, but even if it could give him a glimmer of hope, it would be worth it.

It was as if he had been looking forward to seeing the spring cherry blossoms in the coming year.

"I..." Juvenile Yuan moved his lips, and as soon as he spoke, he realized that his voice was almost trembling.

"Hoshino..."

The boy shouted softly with a still immature voice.

He raised his eyes, and the too thin figure of Shugo Hoshino was reflected in the dark red pupils.

The transparent world was briefly closed under the owner's intentional control, and the young man standing in front of him was so beautiful that it reminded him of the moon in the night sky he saw when he ran away at night when he ran away from home.

Ling yet soft, close but far away, hanging high above the dark night sky, no matter how much you stretch out your hand, you can't touch the unreachable moon.

"Huh?" Shugo Hoshino looked at the young Enichi who was holding his sleeve in surprise.

"..." The young man Yuanyi didn't speak.He pursed his lips, a slight arc appeared at the corner of his mouth.

He caught his own moon.Even if it's just for a short...moment.

"It's time for us to go to Nijo Castle, let's go." Hoshino Shugo said in a conniving tone, and didn't let him let go of his clothes.