Miss Zashiki

Underworld.

Forget River.

One black and one white, two small stature envoys, one is holding a banner and the other is holding a chain of souls, both leading the long line of souls of the dead behind them, walking forward in an orderly manner.

When the whole procession gradually approached the Naihe Bridge, a young girl with a dark dress and a delicate face stood at the head of the bridge. Without raising her eyes, she fiddled with the shamisen in her arms a few times. .

She plucked a few lazily, but couldn't make a tune. Finally, she stopped and yawned, and tapped the sleeping cauldron with her fingers:

"Yaya, start working."

Every soul of the deceased, after leaving the world and entering the underworld, has to pass through the Naihe Bridge and drink Mengpo soup, so as to bid farewell to the cause and effect of this life and enter a new cycle.

Meng Po and her own pot are not only good friends in life, but also old partners in work. They work in a tacit understanding and are very efficient.

Not long after, the long line that was originally endless had already crossed half of the bridge.

Sending out a little red flower for herself in her heart, Meng Po scooped up another bowl of soup from the pot and handed it to her, thinking in her mind—if I leave work early, I can still go to the world to play with Little Mountain Rabbit today son...

Just as she was thinking about it, a voice with a smile suddenly came from in front of her, interrupting her thoughts:

"Miss Meng Po, long time no see."

After regaining consciousness, he realized that the soup bowl he handed out was never taken by the other party. He raised his eyes in surprise, and it was the rather familiar young face that he saw.

Granny Meng's eyes widened instantly, she almost knocked over the soup bowl in her hand, and exclaimed: "...It's you! Why did you come to the underworld?"

The young man in front of him was none other than Comrade Yin Yang Shi who died suddenly in the Ping Gong Mansion.

He let out a long sigh, his brows and eyes were full of hypocritical and exaggerated sadness, and he said in a sad tone: "...I will die in my next life, isn't it time to come to the underworld?"

The corners of Po Meng's mouth twitched slightly when she heard this, and she tried her best to resist the urge to throw the soup bowl in her hand on his face.

Thinking of something again, a little helplessness appeared in her expression, and she glanced silently at the two young figures, one black and one white, who were peacefully beside her.

Quickly sorting out the whole logic, she clicked her tongue impatiently: "These two brats are new here, and they don't understand the situation, why are you following along to make trouble? Hurry up and go back to your Yang Realm!"

The Yin-Yang Master just smiled: "To be honest, I am here to find Master Qingming, and I hope Miss Meng will lead the way."

Granny Meng frowned immediately when she heard this: "Abe Seimei? He's going back tomorrow. Why can't you wait for a day if there's anything else that you have to run down to find him?"

"It's work."

"..."

Seeing that his skin was so thick that swords could not pierce it, Po Meng couldn't help but silently cursed, turned around and dragged the black and white boy beside him, and stuffed the soup bowl into their hands:

"You two, here to supervise these guys to drink the soup, one bowl per person, no one is allowed to drink too much, no one is allowed to miss a drink, if you don't want to drink, you can force it!" Kouguo, "Yaya, watch carefully, don't make mistakes!"

The two children and the pot obediently nodded in agreement, and she rolled her eyes at the young man in front of her angrily: "Follow me!"

The two of them walked across the Naihe Bridge, twisting and turning all the way, and finally stopped in front of a secluded corner near the Wangchuan River.

"Well, it's just ahead."

The girl raised her chin in a gesture, and then glared at him ferociously: "Warning you to be careful, get out when the time is almost up, if you dare to stay too long, Lord Yan Mo will not be able to explain to Lord Huang , see how I deal with you!"

Before turning around to leave, she seemed to still be angry, and complained in a low voice: "Just say it, it's a good job to recruit a troublesome trainee ghost envoy, the business ability is not up to the mark, and all the messy things are hooked back, it's a mess I need to clean it up, really..."

-

The endless colorful tumi, the whole sea of ​​flowers on the other side, is like a red monster lurking in secret.

The Yin Yang master's soul body is no different from that of ordinary people, and it is also slightly translucent. Facing the beautiful sea of ​​flowers on the other side, it seems that it will be swallowed up in an instant.

He narrowed his eyes slightly, then walked inward.

After walking a few steps, two figures, one red and one white, came into view amidst the flowers.

The red one is a woman with a beautiful face, the eyebrows and eyes are as gorgeous as the manzhushahua around her body; the white one is a young man with silver hair and plain clothes, very elegant, indifferent and handsome.

Such two figures, sitting opposite each other in the sea of ​​flowers, quietly playing chess, the whole picture is pleasing to the eye.

It's a pity that the intruder was not a gentleman who watched the chess and said nothing, so he disturbed Fang Yaxing by saying without guilt at this time: "Master Qingming, don't come here without any harm."

Those two people acted as if they hadn't heard anything at all, their eyebrows and eyes never turned an inch to this side, and the speed of their moves was not affected at all.

The ignored young man raised his eyebrows indifferently, and then, in a tone that suddenly reminded him of something, he said briskly: "By the way, I finally saw your dear little sister before."

As soon as the words fell, Yubai's slender fingers held on to the dark chess pieces and stopped abruptly above the chessboard.

The beautiful woman in red and black hair looked up, didn't ask any more questions, just smiled knowingly, and then disappeared into the sea of ​​flowers together with the chessboard.

Only the silver-haired youth remained in place.

He looked sideways, and unlike his indifferent facial features, his voice was very gentle and soft: "Is she alright?"

"Okay, what's wrong. There are cats and dogs, and the monster wins—"

Ping Gong stepped forward and sat down in the woman's seat, and then added slowly: "It's just that I forgot all of you."

Hearing this, there was a very slight smile on the pale lips of the young man in front of him, and he replied softly, "En."

Seeing him like this, Ping Gong couldn't help but sneered: "I said, are you really planning to lie to her for the rest of your life? She is still sincerely believing that she is a visitor from another world just like me. "

The smile on the corner of the young man's mouth remained undiminished, but he didn't answer the question, and asked instead, "What do you mean, mother?"

"Oh, what else can they do? Forcibly pretend to accept the fact that she's 'amnesia'...Before, they just coaxed her into a fantasy world of flowers and birds, and each of them was watching the words and expressions, and being nervous...It's almost better than the other."

The young man nodded slightly, and said softly, "No matter what she does, just let nature take its course."

"Oh..." Pinggong dragged his tone, a bit unclear: "Then, what if she wants to die?"

After a moment of silence, the young man replied firmly and clearly: "No one is allowed to stop what she wants to do; no one is allowed to force what she doesn't want to do—including myself."

Hearing this, Ping Gong was rather disapproving: "Tsk tsk, you speak in such a Buddhist way, as if you were the one who let the demon sword girl slaughter the entire Hanamachi at that time?"

The young man seemed to be stabbed by a certain word in his words, his brows and eyes were slightly frowned, and his voice was a little colder for the first time: "Hanamachi...how is the situation there?"

"That's it. Anyway, more than 300 years have passed, no matter how dead a blade of grass is, it should be slowed down now-everyone lives and works in peace and contentment, and life is peaceful and good."

As he spoke, he paused, and then said: "Let me remind you, if Yao Dao Ji is still allowed to take action this time, the follow-up may not be as simple as last time—after all, this is no longer the era when Master Qingming covered the sky with one hand." gone."

The young man lowered his eyes slightly, and thought for a while: "Then let the puppet master take a trip."

Pinggong shrugged with indifference: "That's a good thing. The Rose Island I worked so hard to buy was destroyed by your little sister. Miss Puppet Master is recently complaining that her brother doesn't have enough fresh heart supply. Worrying, of course it would be perfect to let her out—”

"But you, Master Seimei, are you not afraid of being punished by God if you allow your shikigami to kill innocent people indiscriminately?"

"……innocent?"

The young man repeated it lightly, with an imperceptible cold sarcasm, he shook his head: "It's not innocent."

"There is the court of sin—the court of sin that is not eternal and not enough to atone for its sins."

"What about your own sins? In this way, the evil you have borne will inevitably be further deepened." Ping Gong told him in a cool tone: "As far as I know, Huakaiyuan Xiuyuan's grand formation has already been destroyed. After the deployment is complete, everything is ready, just waiting for you to enter the urn."

The young man's expression didn't change when he heard this, but instead he sighed in reminiscence: "The descendant of the Huakaiyuan family... This is indeed what he should do. As for myself, it's not bad for me to get what I want. "

"It's fine if you're sure, as long as it doesn't affect our cooperation, I won't bother you much." Heimiya responded lightly, and then stood up: "My little butterfly was brought back to the Forest of Demons by the wolf demon earlier. , now that you will return in a few days, it is time for me to get it back."

Before turning around to leave, he said one last sentence:

"There will be no date in the future, and we are happy to cooperate."

-

The next day, there was an unprecedented uproar in the entire Heian capital.

The first thunder on the flat ground began in the sky above the mansion of the first authority of the dynasty, the Pinggong family.

Thick clouds and ink rolls, heavy and pre-pressed, in such an abrupt and abnormal scene, a figure suddenly appeared out of thin air, at first glance it seemed like a god descending from tomorrow.

Just when people were panicking, those with sharp eyes quickly recognized that the person who landed in Pinggong Mansion was neither a god nor a demon, but it was clearly the number one person in history who had passed away hundreds of years ago and was shining brightly. Onmyo teacher, Seimei Abe!

The crowd was in an uproar for a while, and the onlookers surrounded the entire Pinggong Mansion several times, discussing endlessly.

It wasn't until the current patriarch of the Huakaiyuan family, the number one onmyoji family in Kyoto, arrived at the head of his guards after hearing the news, that he finally broke the deadlock.

"If something goes wrong, there must be a demon. It is related to the safety of the entire Ping Palace. Before waiting for the palace to give an order, I will go inside to investigate first, and I ask you to testify."

After the statement, Huakaiyuan Xiuyuan and his subordinates made a gesture to encircle the mansion.

Seeing this, the onlookers were apprehensive for a while, and they all fell silent.

One is to face these high-ranking people. As civilians, of course they don’t want to comment too much; second, I also thought about it. The connection between these famous names is inextricably linked—Pinggong and Huakai Needless to say, there has been a fruitless confrontation between the courtyards for many years, and even hundreds of years ago, Abe Seimei and the ancestors of the Hanakaiyuan family were notoriously competitive with each other-now it is so harmonious. In one place, the situation is really delicate.

Just when everyone was secretly guessing, without warning, the situation suddenly changed again.A group of guards headed by Huakaiyuan Xiuyuan stopped their movements when they saw another figure appearing above the Pinggong Mansion.

However, the figure that appeared this time gave a powerful shot of reassurance to the panic-stricken people present.Because, the other party is not someone whose position is unknown to them, but an existence that can give absolute trust——

That is the real god.

God Inari comes to Heian-kyo!

The solemn and holy girl with a bow and arrow on her back stood in mid-air, and the faint divine pressure that came down caused the people below to kneel down in an instant.Before kneeling down, someone discovered that standing next to Inari God was the peerless great demon who had been silent for hundreds of years, Tamamo-mae.

In front of Yuzao was a fox demon. It is rumored that Abe Seimei is the son of the fox demon...

Those who are daring secretly raise their eyes and catch sight of Huakaiyuan Xiuyuan's complex and indistinguishable expression, and see Yuzao who has folded his arms and watched from the sidelines since he appeared, smiling but not smiling, as if he was just watching the excitement Before, I couldn't help muttering in my heart, but I didn't dare to make wild guesses. After all, there are gods and adults present, and they only need to act according to the will of the gods.

Under the watchful eyes of everyone, Inari God, whom everyone relied on spiritually, spoke out.

The girl's face is kind and gentle, but what she announces is a shocking metaphor: the evildoers of the state, the chaos and chaos, and the sky and the sun are covered, but Seimei Abe came back to life by obedience to the will of the gods, and returned for the side of the Qing emperor.

Immediately, everyone was in an uproar. The evildoer that the gods spoke of as a catastrophe and ecstasy was clearly pointing their sword at the powerful Pinggong family!

——The Heimiya family is over.

In everyone's heart, such a sentence popped up subconsciously.

Regarding the fact that Pinggong has suppressed the royal family for many years, there have been complaints in the market for a long time, and there has always been a lot of angry people among the commoners, but their verbal arguments alone are naturally incomparable in influence compared to the intention of the gods.

And since it was God's will, Abe Seimei's return this time can be said to be justified, not to mention that the Heimiya family he conquered is also the old enemy of the Huakaiin family for many years.

...In this way, Huakaiyuan Xiuyuan, who led the people here, has completely lost his stance for action.

Someone raised his eyes cautiously, and looked at the overly young Patriarch of Huakaiyuan, who is known as "the most talented onmyoji after Abe Seimei"—as expected, the expression in his eyes was quite deep and obscure.

Just as everyone was sighing, the door of the Pinggong Mansion, which had been closed for a long time without a sound, suddenly opened, and it was the famous Great Yin and Yang Master Qingfeng Langyue who walked out from the inside.

However, to everyone's surprise, after paying homage to God Inari, Abe Seimei took the lead in turning to the Patriarch of Huakaiyuan, expressing in his words——

This time he was resurrected and returned, although adhering to the will of the gods, he actually received blessings beyond his own life.Everything in the world has its own reason for its operation. As a person who should be dead, it is not appropriate for him to ask about world affairs.Just wait until the matter of the Ping Palace is over, and if there is no accident, he will live in the Jagged City, disappearing and never appearing again.

At the same time, he took the initiative to express that he was willing to share a part of his strength. Avatar, and asked the family of Huakaiyuan to suppress it with a large array of eight directions, and supervise his words and deeds on his behalf.

After these words, everyone fell in love with the broad-mindedness of this faction, and secretly sighed: This senior Yin-Yang teacher who has been famous for hundreds of years and has been enduring for a long time, is really glorious and convincing!

Huakaiyuan Xiuyuan stared fixedly at the young man who was talking and laughing at Yanyan, and the young and handsome face couldn't help showing a bit of surprise.

Afterwards, the order from the palace came, and the stern and menacing military officer led the soldiers and horses, and ransacked Pinggong's house on the spot in front of the people.

Everyone looked at the chaos in front of them tremblingly, and even the older ones couldn't help recalling—what they saw before them was so similar to the scene in which General Kaga's house was ransacked more than ten years ago...

It can be said that 30 years in Hedong and 30 years in Hexi.

None of the hundreds of family members in Pinggong were exempted, and all of them were taken to the execution ground and sentenced to death on the same day—except for Yin Yang, the proud student of the mansion, the samurai who entered the mansion only found his body and a letter of seal. Letter of sin—it turned out that this onmyoji had foreseen this incident as early as the night before, and secretly committed suicide in fear of sin.

In this way, the Pinggong family, which was in power a day ago, was wiped out in an instant; the central royal power that had been "declining" for many years, was restored in an instant, and the monarchy was granted by the gods, and it was stable in the middle-all The onlookers secretly sighed that the political situation is really like the sea, which is unfathomable and unfathomable.

At this point, this grand game, which was secretly held by the royal family and lasted for more than ten years, finally officially closed today.

——The weather has changed.

Fu Xiaoyue could not help but think secretly while listening to the notifications coming from outside the door.

Before that, she was led to evacuate from Pinggong Mansion to the eighth inner city of Jagged City in advance. Now, listening to the successive developments, she felt indescribably complicated.

Tamamo-mae and Yuyatsu...

What's going on with these two guys...

Yuzao used to be Ge Ye's friend, and now his nephew came back from the resurrection, and it was barely reasonable for him to come to protect the Dharma to help out - but wasn't he exhausted in order to resist the punishment from the witch caused by the witch?Could it be that he has practiced again and recovered in the past few hundred years?

Furthermore, he came back to the world again, and appeared hand in hand with God Inari. In this way, can the grievances and entanglements between Sasshoji, Onmyoji, and the Fox Clan come to an end?

However, Yu Cuijin came anyway...

"According to the will of the gods, bringing Abe Seimei back to life, clearing the side of the emperor, and beheading the evil spirits that have plagued the country"-these words are clearly false.

Abe Seimei's resurrection was a plan carefully prepared by Ge Ye for hundreds of years, so there was no divine will... Then why did Yujinjin cooperate with them in lying?

Trying to follow this train of thought to reason logically, Fu Xiaoyue came up with a bold guess.

At that time, God Inari left the shrine, maybe it was not what he originally thought, because he could not bear the pressure and escaped or something, but it should also be part of Kuzuha's plan-in order to let Huakaiyuan Hidemoto go to Sashoji Temple I couldn't get the help of God Inari for a while, even if I got the power of the witch to make up for it, I managed to delay it for a few days...

But relying solely on Ge Ye himself, it must not be that simple to convince Inari God to personally cooperate with the game - from this point of view, there may be hints from Huang behind the scenes...

Then Fu Xiaoyue thought of Huakaiyuan Xiuyuan and Nuliang Huapiao.

These two rising stars are indeed extremely talented, but it's a pity that Jiang is still old and hot, and he can't fight these old monsters after all.

Perhaps, as early as Huakaiyuan Xiuyuan entrusted the drug seller to go to Qiangwei Island—or earlier, he entered the game himself without knowing it.

Now, it is only Abe Seimei's avatar that has been suppressed into the Eight Direction Formation—it is the avatar that he proposed to be suppressed on his own initiative.

However, Abe Seimei's avatar——how does this sense of sight sound so familiar...

Everything developed too quickly, and the more I thought about it, the more I felt terrified. Fu Xiaoyue felt an indescribable sense of unreality, and at the same time felt in a daze that all this seemed to have nothing to do with him.

The soul flew into the sky, and it was not until someone stretched out a hand in front of her and gently tapped her forehead that she was brought back to her senses.

"Okay, don't think about it anymore, look at this little face wrinkled, it makes my mother feel so distressed."

"..." Fu Xiaoyue looked helplessly at the woman who was acting like a baby towards him, and was speechless for a while.

Smiling, Ge Ye lowered his head, kissed her cheek, and coaxed softly: "Hey, my brother will solve all the problems outside, we just need to wait here for him to come back."

Fu Xiaoyue had nothing to do with her, Yiyan put aside a lot of messy thoughts in his head, and continued to read to her the travel notes in his hand in a soft voice.

It wasn't until halfway through a book that Uncle Kidomaru's voice came from outside the door again, with his usual meticulous tone, but at this moment he sounded obviously happy:

"Master Ge Ye, little master, Master Seimei is back!"

"..."

Fu Xiaoyue's voice froze when he was reading yesterday, his fingers pinched the spine of the book nervously, his eyes were asking for help without even realizing it, and he looked up pitifully at Ge Ye on the couch.

With a hint of silent encouragement between Ge Ye's graceful and beautiful eyebrows, he smiled and gently squeezed her hand.

There was no way to escape, so Fu Xiaoyue had no choice but to take a deep breath, stood up and turned to look at the people outside the door.

Different from the weird appearance with heavy makeup and ink dyed in the fantasy world of flowers and birds, the young man in front of him has a crown of silver hair, a long body, and Xiao Xuan's sparse posture, which is extraordinary handsome and elegant.

He stepped into the door and approached, fixed his eyes on the girl's slender figure, and walked up to her, just like before, squatting down slightly to look at her.

Yan Yan's smile on the corners of the young man's eyes and brows was as gentle as the warm sun, and he didn't see the decisiveness of killing outside, and his mouth was gentle and gentle like a sigh: "Xiao Zashiki... It's great to see you again."

"...It's a pleasure to meet you, too."

Fu Xiaoyue's cheeks were flushed, she pursed the corners of her mouth, and finally succeeded in uttering that address, her voice was as thin as a mosquito's moan——

"Brother."

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