Miss Zashiki

In a blink of an eye, nearly ten days have passed since we left Hanamachi, and Fu Xiaoyue and Inugami stopped in a small town.

After sleeping in the open for a few days with mountain springs and wild fruits, he finally settled down temporarily in the specific residence. After drinking hot tea, taking a hot bath, and sitting under the hot quilt, Fu Xiaoyue felt an overwhelming sense of satisfaction.Since becoming a monster, she still habitually maintains the eating and resting habits of a human, preferring soft and warm things.

They lived in an ordinary inn.Except for buying a bottle of counterfeit medicine and the little sparrow that she had no chance to take out of the building, she never spent half of the silver taels she borrowed from Oi Chuan, but after all, there was not much left, so in order to save After entering the inn, she only booked one room.

It was also at this time that Fu Xiaoyue finally started to feel regretful - when he met the drug seller that day, it would have been nice if he had been tied up with him!At least that guy will still cheat and sell fake medicines to make black-hearted money, unlike now, she and Inugami are completely idiots who only know how to keep expanding the deficit!

But it was just a thought, because she knew very well in her heart that even if she really offered a peer invitation, the other party would still refuse.

When she was still in Lanxing Building, one day when she was free, she once asked him like this——

"Mr. Yaolang, where are you going after the trouble here is resolved?"

At that time, that person looked at the medicine box under him, and answered her in a fixed voice: "Go to the place where I can really draw the demon sword."

Fu Xiaoyue felt that the drug seller himself might not have realized that the expression on his brows and eyes at that time was so serious and pure that it could be called pious.

Form, truth, reason...

At that time, she suddenly had such an idea—maybe, in fact, like Inugami, the medicine seller also has a deep-rooted sense of protection in his heart.Because of this, she never asked the second half of the sentence.

Everyone has different things they want to pursue, and there is no need to forcibly go in the same direction.

——What's more, she is actually not sure where she should go next.

Fu Xiaoyue still doesn't even know why he came to this world.It seems that when she opened her eyes one day, she found that her body suddenly shrank to that of an eight or nine-year-old child, and she was surrounded by a completely unfamiliar era.

In the dark, a voice told her that the body of "Fu Xiaoyue" in another world had died, and now she was "Zashiki Doji" who was a monster.She needs to find "certain" monsters in this world and sign a "contract" with them, so that she can "resurrect" - these contents are all vague, and if she asks too many questions, she will simply keep silent and stop answering her.

Who is the opponent?Only she can hear the few voices that have been made so far; for the time being, it seems that there is no malice towards her; and every time the other party speaks, she can faintly see a crescent moon in her mind. Mo Lan Shadow——she arbitrarily called him "Mr. Yue"—other than that, that voice was a complete fog to her.

What is the specific range of "certain" yokai?Mr. Yue asked her to think about her experience in another world—Fu Xiaoyao thought she was just an ordinary citizen, and had never run into monsters, let alone subdivided into "Zashiki Doji"—so in the end, What she locked on was a card game with a Japanese style monster theme that she had come into contact with.So, this is actually the world in that game setting?The so-called "certain" monsters refer to the card shikigami in the game?So far, Mr. Yue has refused to make a definite statement.

As for signing "contracts" - in the game, she only needs to summon shikigami through the identity of "Onmyoji" to sign contracts with them - but the current situation is that she is also a monster, so she should How to operate?Mr. Yue still never told her.

There is also the theory of "resurrection", which means that she can change from a monster back to a human?Or can I go back to the original world?The meaning is also unclear.

Even if she tentatively identified the target she was looking for as "the card shikigami in the game", she still didn't know - where to find them?At least there will be a novice guide for map setting when playing games, but now she has no direction, no supplies, no strength, and even the only companion around her has been saved through untold hardships——

Will it always be like this in the future?Does every step have to be so hard?Fu Xiaoyue just sat on the bed with the quilt in his arms and thought about life, the more he thought about it, the more confused he felt.

After an unknown amount of time, the window of the room was knocked open from the outside, and the bang only woke her up from a daze.

The black dog that pounced on the ground turned into a young man's figure. As soon as he saw the slender figure on the bed, his dark eyes were so focused that they were about to shine: "Master! I'm back!" He said with a proud face Looking at her, he wanted to wag his tail at her, but suddenly realized that the current form does not have a tail, so he just stared at her, "I checked around here and found nothing unusual! This place is safe!"

"Ah, thank you for your hard work." Fu Xiaoyue's originally mournful state of mind was suddenly interrupted, and he responded subconsciously.Then I blinked a few times before remembering to smile at him, pointed to the screen at the other end, and raised my voice forcefully: "There is hot water for you, if you feel hungry, there is food on the table. "

The young man let out a gurgling moan from his throat in high spirits, obediently walked towards the direction she pointed, and went to take a bath.

After a while, watching the other party go in and come out naked, and sit down to eat at the table with arrogance, Fu Xiaoyue tried hard to maintain a kind smile on his face, and at the same time couldn't help but sighed again in his heart ——

Similarly, because she was running out of money, she didn't even buy the clothes for Inugami in human form, and she could only keep him in the form of a black dog in front of people.

——Is there a more useless master than her in this world?

Fu Xiaoyue, who was bereaved again, couldn't help asking softly for a moment: "... Inu God, is there any place you want to go?"

Although he was eating, the boy heard her voice, but immediately turned his head back, as if with a sense of ritual, he had to look her in the eyes to answer her question - he shook his head.

...What is she thinking?Knowing that the other party will only act according to her will wholeheartedly, asking such words is just a futile self-evasion.

As soon as he met those two sincere gazes, Fu Xiaoyue immediately lowered his eyes and moved his lips slightly: "...I'm sorry."

"Master, person?" The young man silently knelt down beside the bed, looking at her helplessly.

"I, I have clearly said that I will carry your loyalty and lead you forward..." Her voice was still soft, but the tip of her nose was a little red: "—but even I I don't know where I should go...I'm very sorry."

The boy stared at her earnestly, with comforting emotions in his eyes, "Then don't go, where you should go," his slender and distinct fingers slid across the soft quilt surface, holding her clothes firmly, " Wherever you like, wherever you want to go, we will go."

Fu Xiaoyue pitifully and dejectedly read: "I, I want to go to Phoenix Forest, I want to go to Heiye Mountain, I want to go to Arakawa, I want to go to Snow Country, I want to go to Star Realm...but a I can't find it, and no one has heard of these places." At the end, she flattened her mouth, raised her eyes, the corners of which were red, and shouted with great aggrievedness and anger, "And! The most important thing is ! We're running out of money!"

Inugami listened to the names of the places that came out of her mouth, but when he heard it, his brows became more and more tight-it's over!He has never heard of any of the places the master wants to go to!It seems that the current situation is really serious - but at the end, when she suddenly heard a loud sentence "The most important thing is", the whole dog froze for a moment.

After two or three seconds of silence, he hesitated, cautiously, and tentatively asked: "...So, is the point actually the lack of money?"

Fu Xiaoyue covered her face in frustration: "Of course the point is that there is no money! Those places may be difficult to find, but we can find them slowly." Anyway, Mr. Yue didn't set a time limit for her, she Even if he was looking for it like traveling around, he can't control it!

"It's not like now, I can't even afford to buy clothes for you, and I let you run naked for ten days, it's so miserable! I think if this continues, in a few days, the two of us will be reduced to the streets It's a show!" Saying this, she inexplicably felt more and more annoyed as she spoke, so she simply huffed and pulled the quilt over her head.

Inugami stared blankly at the huddled doormat at the corner of the bed, unable to think of how to comfort him for a moment.The two stayed together for a long time, and he almost thought that when she was hiding in the room and crying secretly, he heard that slender voice muffled through the quilt——

"dog God......"

——no cry.

He breathed a sigh of relief, and replied, "I'm here."

The quilt moved slightly, and Fu Xiaoyue cautiously poked out a little of the top of his head, revealing one eye, and looked at him pitifully: "That, that is... If someday, we go out to perform, I want If I make you jump through hoops...you, can you forgive me?"

dog God:"......"

So, she hid inside for so long because she was thinking about the content of their show on the street...?