Miss Zashiki

The boiling hot blood is rushing in every corner of the body. For a while, it feels that it is carrying the sun on its back, and for a while, it feels that it is chasing the sun. It seems that its feet will never feel tired, and it just keeps looking towards the sky. Running in the direction where the orange-red afterglow falls.

The wind is blowing by my ears, and the soft hair has light and smooth black ripples all the way. The scenery passing by around me gradually evolves from the edge of the lit village to the silent wilderness and forest.

The trees and bushes under the afterglow were faintly shadowed, and the ground occasionally had some uneven ups and downs, but the animal's instinct quickly adapted to every place.It even feels that it doesn't need to look at the road at all, as long as it puts all its will in a small corner from the neck to the back—that trace of weight that is almost completely imperceptible—the body will automatically pour out endlessly. With great energy, he galloped in the correct and bright direction.

Finally, after it jumped across a river blocking the way again perfectly and smoothly, there was a faint voice from the small corner on its back——

"Mr. Inugami, Mr. Inugami... can we stop for a while, I, my hand... I'm running out of strength..."

Like the weight, the voice is also thin and small. At the end of the sentence, it seems that because of feeling ashamed or guilty, there is a trace of weeping.

It's so strange that it hears every word clearly in such a small and weak voice.Then, with a happy, almost dreamy state of mind, it stopped gently under the faintly rising moonlight in the sky and in the cool endless night wind.

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Finally stopped.

Fu Xiaoyue has no doubts, as long as it behaves like before—as long as it jumps like that one more time, he will definitely fly out.

Along the way, she kept grabbing a piece of soft and thick fur on the back of its neck. She had no idea how long she had been tugging on it. Now she was finally able to let go of her hand. She only felt her fingers were stiff and her legs and feet were numb, so she took a breath. , the whole person slipped down from the long and soft back hair.

For a second or two, what she perceived from her perspective was that she seemed to have fallen from the top of a hill—before she could utter a cry, two seconds later, her body fell into a lump. In the thick and soft meat pad like a blanket.

He was held and gently lowered to the ground—like taking a cable car down the mountain...Fu Xiaoyao, who finally touched the ground, suddenly had such a strange association.

As if aware of the inconvenience of her viewing angle, after safely putting her down from his palm, the monster as tall as the trees beside him turned back into a black dog the size of a dirt dog.It saw a trace of mud sticking from its own palm on the corner of her clothes, so without thinking, it leaned forward and licked off the mud.

Fu Xiaoyue subconsciously took a small step back, saw it retracted again, looked at him with eyes full of unfulfilled desires, and immediately discussed with some distress and stumbled: "Uh, that's, that, in the future, can you... ..don't lick me casually..."

She knew that this might be a habit of dogs showing affection, but she still felt that she should correct the other party, after all, it was unhygienic!

It didn't seem to repel dissatisfaction after hearing it, as if it was considering the specific feasibility of this proposal, it let out a docile sound from its throat for a while, expressing its agreement with her words.

In the next second, Fu Xiaoyue watched helplessly as the black dog in front of him turned into a human form.

The young man's handsome face was clear and pleasing to the eye under the moonlight, his eyes were slightly lowered, his innate fierce and savage wildness was hidden behind his long eyelashes, his whole face almost revealed an illusion of fragility.I saw him holding her right hand politely, lowering his head delicately and reservedly, and then lightly licked that fine powder fingertip.

Fu Xiaoyue: "..."

...Don't you think this is not "casual" licking! ?Fool!

Resisting the urge to cover her face, she stuttered to explain to him again—"Don't lick casually" means "not to lick"——Facing the shocked expression, she sternly set her heart, He continued to add: "Don't stick out your tongue, let alone bark."

That's right, she is so ruthless and unreasonable.

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In the first step of communication, a violent consensus was reached. Seeing the other party's ears almost drooping yesterday, Fu Xiaoyue felt inexplicably guilty, so he tried to find a topic to coax him.

"Uh, since you can understand what I say, can you say it yourself?" So far, the only "word" she heard from him was just that "woof".

The young man looked at her for a moment, as if he was still a little unaccustomed to speaking, there was a pause in his voice, but his tone was completely serious: "...Master, man."

"Oh?" Fu Xiaoyue was slightly stunned, and quickly waved his hands: "I'm not your master, the two of us should actually be counted as—um... companionship."

Although the original declaration of "falling the demon for me" was extremely ambiguous, the other party did realize this, and Fu Xiaoyue regarded him as his true partner in his heart, and exchanged mutual loyalty from then on.

There was a bit of confusion in the boy's eyes, and he repeated the word: "Companion?"

She didn't know how to define this word for a while, and she thought about it: "Companions are, uh, trust each other when encountering difficulties, take care of each other when sick and injured, help each other when there are difficulties, and help each other when you feel sad." Talking to each other—something like that.”

Mutual trust, care, help, talk.

The boy considered every situation she said very carefully, and then felt more and more that this "companion relationship" was really terrible——

He should obey his master's will unconditionally, instead of relying on the so-called "trust", that is an insult to his loyalty!

And, he actually made the owner "sick and injured"?Then what face does he have to take care of his master, shouldn't he consciously cut seppuku in the first place! ?

Helping each other...Does it mean that he got into trouble and couldn't handle it by himself, so he actually asked the master to help him solve it?Imagining that possible occurrence a little bit, he couldn't help but start to doubt his own existence value...

And talk to each other when you're sad... The possibility of not being able to please the master is already a nightmare, and you want him to spread negative emotions to the master... Then he might as well go back to Hanamachi now It was smashed by that axe.

Therefore, Fu Xiaoyue in this room didn't know what the other party was thinking at all. He just watched his brows getting tighter and tighter, which seemed to be a bit disgusting, and then heard his sincere tone that was almost begging: "Don't be a companion. ...I just want to be your dog."

Fu Xiaoyue: "..."

...what's the matter with this guy?Why have there been more and more slots since I became a monster? No, when I didn't become a monster before, I seemed to be a thieves and difficult to serve...

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Fu Xiaoyue failed to persuade him, and the bottom-line title of "Master" did not make him change his mind after all.Moreover, she firmly believed that anyone would be helpless in the face of such a determination that he would rather "strike the tree to show his ambition" than be a "companion".

——Although until many years later, she still failed to get where the word "companion" poked the thunder point of this bastard.

In short, at this moment, she could only sigh deeply, and stretched out her hand to him: "Then, let's introduce myself formally again, my name is Fu Xiaoyue, and I should be called Zashiki Doji among monsters, please take care of me in the future." .”

The Inugami boy stared blankly at her movements, and there was no movement for a few seconds. After a while, some unbelievable, shy, flattered surprise appeared in his dark eyes, and then he solemnly She lowered her head and licked lightly on the tip of her outstretched right finger.

Fu Xiaoyue: "..."

...I didn't mean to lick you!Fool!

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Hanamachi.The mayor's mansion.

"...The Lord Supervisor came to visit in person, which really made the poor house flourish, and the officials were terrified!"

In just a few days after losing his beloved son, Master Tsukada's well-maintained face looked much older.At this time, he was kneeling obediently in front of the person in front of him, with his usual high-spirited eyebrows and eyes lowered in a very humble way.

"Don't mention empty words. This is just to inquire about the urgent report you submitted to the capital the day before yesterday. The 'dog demon' rebellion has already attracted the attention of that adult, so I limit you to tell the reasons behind this matter together, and don't allow any omissions. !"

"That lord? Difficult, could it be..." Tsukada stammered a few times, his whole face flushed rapidly, and his forehead was densely covered with sweat: "The humble official is so frightened that he disturbed... ....." The original urgent letter was to send someone from Beijing to hunt down the demon dog and avenge Aizi. Who would have thought that such a trivial matter would attract the attention of that person..... .

It suddenly occurred to him that he had neglected to report on his son's desire to refine monsters, but now he felt depressed, so he hurriedly threw away his luck and added honestly: "As for the dog monster, I know everything about it. It was submitted in an urgent letter, but recently I heard rumors... This dog monster seems to have some relationship with the unfilial son of the humble job... I can't believe it, and the son died at the hands of the dog monster , because I have never written this matter in the letter."

The other party pondered for a long time, and then said: "The lord ordered me to come, and asked me carefully what happened on the execution ground that day."

On the execution ground?The letter only briefly mentioned that the execution failed that day, and that the monster was rescued by his accomplices and escaped together. As for the others—he was sweating profusely at this moment, and his mind was spinning rapidly, but the more flustered he was, the more he couldn't recall that day. The details of the escape of the dog demon.

In the end, the samurai on the side was brave enough to try to add: "I remember, after that child entered the torture field, he yelled...'Heart, Heart Sword Flurry'... "

Only then did Tsukada's purple-red face relax, and he nodded repeatedly as if saving his life: "That's right, she let the dog monster use the 'Heart Sword Flurry', and then the monster suddenly went berserk!"

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The room is full of extravagant decorations, and there are graceful figures reflected in the thin and light bamboo curtains, drinking alone.

After listening to the message from the person outside the curtain, the movement of the figure pouring the wine into the cup paused slightly, and after a long time, a deep, unintelligible voice came out——

"Oh, Heart Sword... Flurry... It's really surprising."