Miss Zashiki

When Fu Xiaoyue recovered from the shock of the information he had learned, the girl wearing the mask in front of him and the other members of the team had already fallen into a rather tense atmosphere of stalemate.

It wasn't because of what she said earlier, but because she immediately made another request - she only allowed single medicine sellers to enter Rose Castle.

"...Why? You brought us here?"

——Bring them to the place, but not let them in, what is the reason?

The other party, however, seemed to turn a blind eye to the imminent atmosphere in front of him: "I brought you here together only because of the requirement of the Yin-Yang Master's prohibition technique - only those who have been approved by the other six barriers can approach here... Now, you guys The others are useless."

--useless.

Fu Xiaoyue suddenly remembered what she had done to the "useless person" before, and felt a little cold in her heart, and couldn't help but start thinking about the other party's real intentions.

Why only let the medicine seller in?Compared with others, what is so special about the medicine seller?If the vampire imprisoned inside is dead, how can the person who enters get out?Is she trying to help them, or is she trying to prevent them from breaking the barrier?

Thinking in such a mess, Fu Xiaoyue suddenly had a thought in his heart, and blurted out for a while: "Is there something strange inside?"

——In the final analysis, the most special thing about the drug seller is probably that he has a sword to ward off demons, right?

However, the answer given by the other party was completely beyond her expectation: "No."

Seeing her surprised look, the smiling face on the mask revealed a bit of lively and mischievous meaning, and said leisurely: "However, it will be there soon."

……What's the meaning?

"Well, you guessed right on one point. I do need to borrow the power of the Demon Exorcism Sword. However, I don't like to let irrelevant people enter with me. Please forgive me."

——"Follow me"... Is she going in too?

Seeing her doubts, the other party nodded calmly: "Because, without my help, even with the Exorcism Sword, it is absolutely impossible to get out of it."

- "Help", "Get out of it".

Noticing the words in her words one after another, Fu Xiaoyue roughly guessed in his heart: No matter what the purpose is, at least the other party has no intention of harming them.As for why she didn't want to let extra people in, could it be because of some sense of territory... Could it be that the building in front of her is her property?Maybe she used to have a cooperative relationship with that yin and yang teacher, but now she has collapsed and wants to tear down the place...?

Embarrassed by her own brain hole, Fu Xiaoyue cleared her throat, summoned up her courage and said, "Well, you don't have to let other people in, but at least I have to be with Mr. Yao Lang."

As soon as she finished speaking, before the girl in front of her could react, Inugami and Jiumingmao next to her immediately expressed fierce opposition.

While she was busy appeasing the two who had completely exploded, she heard the girl in front of her draw out her tone and playfully said, "—Oh? What can you do for me?"

"I... have no other use." Fu Xiaoyue pursed his lips, glanced at the always calm face of the drug seller beside him, and said in a low voice: "But without me, his Demon Exorcising Sword probably won't It's useless..."

As she spoke, she didn't care about the other party's reaction, while bearing the accusatory look of "you are cruel and ruthless, you are making trouble for no reason" from the domestic cubs, she stretched out her hand and rubbed the hairs of the two heads into a mess, trying to hold back the feeling of guilt :

"Okay, be good, there is no other way... Well, I will at least try to get out before I faint..."

-

Because he put all his energy on comforting his two cubs, Fu Xiaoyue didn't even remember how he got into Rose Castle.

Being hugged by the drug seller and drifting away from the team, looking at the four heavens falling behind him, disheartened, and unrequited eyes, it seems that the surroundings suddenly darkened, and the scene in front of him suddenly disappeared. There have been earth-shaking changes without warning.

Fu Xiaoyue's breath quickened slightly, and he subconsciously grabbed the skirt of the drug seller under him.She glanced at the back of the girl who continued to lead the way before carefully looking around.

This building looks bright and beautiful from the outside, but inside it exudes a full of ancient atmosphere, and everything is empty and gloomy as far as the eye can see.

The dome was built very high, and she was looking up, when suddenly there was a dense flapping sound of wings above her head.At first glance, it turned out to be a group of bats, and the blood-red eyes stared at her coldly, but after a closer look, it was empty, obviously nothing.

"..."

Fu Xiaoyue's whole monster was slightly dumbfounded by this sudden change, and a scream was stuck in his throat.

"Those are illusions, don't be afraid." The girl in front of her seemed to be aware of her emotional fluctuations, and kept on stepping, but turned her face slightly, revealing the corner of the mask.

The original soft and sweet voice, in this quiet and spacious space, showed a bit of ethereal and strange feeling: "——Don't worry. There are only three of us alive here."

"..."

——Damn it!It made her even more scared, okay? ?

However, after being frightened once, Fu Xiaoyue became honest, buried his face on the shoulder of the drug seller, and no longer dared to look around, and could only silently listen to the very clear footsteps as he walked forward.

There was silence for a long time, until the girl's voice sounded again, and the pace of progress finally stopped—"Okay, I'll send you here. Whether you can get out alive or not is up to you."

Responding to the meaning of the other party's words, Fu Xiaoyue raised his head, only to realize that what they had just passed was a long corridor, and where they stopped now was a door full of thick dust forward.

"Hey! Wait a minute—" She didn't care about guessing what was going on behind the door right now, she just opened her eyes wide and stared at the slender figure in front of her: "...What do you mean it's up to us? You, didn't you say you would?" Do you help us!"

Fu Xiaoyue deeply felt that he had been deceived.

Hearing the words, the other party fell silent. After a while, he raised his hand and tapped on the mask again, then turned around—this time, all the expressions on the dog-head mask disappeared, and it became a blur. Completely blank.

When she spoke again, the tone of the girl's words became inexplicably flat: "I came in with you, and I was already helping you... I wish you good luck."

-

Fu Xiaoyue stared blankly at the figure of the other party, and disappeared behind the door in front of him without saying a word. His mind was blank for a long while before he recovered from the state of holding his breath.

……what?Just slipped away like this before I finished explaining the cause and effect?

——This npc is too unqualified! ?

Trying to use complaints to suppress the flustered feeling in his heart, Fu Xiaoyue looked at the drug seller with no confidence: "Mr. Yaolang..."

In the dim light all around, the brows and eyes of the young man in front of him, the glamorous feeling of the crimson makeup faded away, instead showing a kind of quiet beauty.He looked at her lightly, his expression still as calm as before.

"Are you scared."

"...Afraid." She immediately pouted her lips, and confessed timidly without thinking.

The drug seller's expression remained unchanged, and he nodded slightly: "Then, why, come in together."

"Hey! Isn't it because that guy just said that you need to use the demon sword!" Speaking of this, Fu Xiaoyue couldn't help being angry, and stared at the closed door in front of him slightly annoyed. , "It's good now, she ran away without saying anything! Has the relationship been playing with us all the time!? It's poisonous!"

The drug seller was noncommittal to her anger, but nodded again, and said in a deep voice, "There are more."

"What else? What else?"

"Besides the need to use the demon sword, there are other things." Seeing that she still couldn't understand, the young man raised his eyelashes slightly, and fixedly looked at her: "Now we are separated from the dog god and the nine-life cat, can you distinguish clearly? , I am different from them, and to you."

"..." Fu Xiaoyue was stunned for a few seconds before realizing what he meant, and suddenly he was speechless in disbelief: "You, you... is it time to say this?"

The other party's face was calm and calm, and he didn't seem to feel that there was anything wrong with talking about this topic at this moment.

Fu Xiaoyue was speechless and choked, while her heart was still feeling chilly, while her face began to burn hot again. Under the entanglement between the two, she couldn't hold back for a moment and gave him a fierce look: "You really are poisonous!"

-

Because he resolutely did not cooperate with the opponent's attack rhythm, he simply hid his face on his shoulder and pretended to be dead, and refused to answer this question. Fu Xiaoyue waited for a long time like this, and finally waited for the drug seller to make further moves.

"Squeak-"

With a slight sound, the old and heavy wooden door in front of him was pushed open, and the drug seller also walked in.

"Hmm..." Fu Xiaoyue cleared his throat emptily, raised his head confidently, and looked forward without squinting. The subtext in his eyes was clear at a glance: normal operation.Just act like nothing happened.

But looking forward like this, she happened to quickly see the situation in the space inside the door.

This seems to be a room similar to a shooting range. In front of the other wall on the opposite side, there are seven or eight thatched archery targets lined up. The blood-red circles in the center of each are particularly eye-catching, and there are scattered bows and arrows on the sides. s things.

Fu Xiaoyue clearly watched the girl push the door and enter the room before, but now that the two of them followed into the room, she found that there was no third figure in the whole space——she quickly looked around, and the whole room There was only one exit where they came in, and there were no windows.

—Where did that guy go before?

Puzzled, she was about to turn her head to ask the drug seller, but suddenly felt that one of her sleeves was gently pulled by something.

Both of her hands were on the shoulders of the drug seller, so it was absolutely impossible that the drug seller was pulling her sleeve.

"Mr. Yaolang...?" Fu Xiaoyue yelled with a trembling voice as a feeling of trepidation surged in his heart.

She turned her neck back bit by bit stiffly, and then she saw the pale and thin hand with sharp nails silently pinching her cuff.

"..."

In Fu Xiaoyue's impression, the last clear picture he saw before him was the rarely turbulent look on the drug seller's face.

——In the next second, her eyes were plunged into complete darkness.

It's not that she fainted from fright and lost consciousness, but that in an instant, her eyes and ears seemed to be covered with a closed black hood. She was clearly conscious, but she couldn't see or hear anything. Even the feeling of relying on the medicine seller's body became more and more unclear.

Floating in this unreal vague feeling for a while, Fu Xiaoyue's inner fear was far away from her. Her rationality told herself that she was still afraid, but she didn't feel panic in her heart—as if, she herself Consciousness and emotions are suppressed by other people's will.

After having such a thought, Fu Xiaoyue felt light all over his body, and all the senses that had gone away suddenly recovered.

I can see the light again in front of my eyes, there are noisy voices around me, and the bow and arrow held between my fingers can be clearly felt.

--and many more.

...what the hell?

In front of me is still the shooting range for practicing archery, but it looks much brighter and brand new than what I saw before, and there are more than one voice chattering in my ears.And she herself was standing in front of an archery target, drawing her bow and nodding her arrow, quietly aiming at the target in the distance.

"..."

Fu Xiaoyue looked at the archery target in the distance, and the whole demon fell into complete shock.Her body moved on its own, completely disregarding her consciousness.

——No, look at the hand on the bow and arrow, this is not her body at all.

--what happened?What about the pharmacist?

——She couldn't be frightened out of her body and possess someone's body! ?Or have you crossed over again?

She had just finished thinking about it, and the owner of this body seemed to be ready. Once the finger that nocked the arrow was loosened, the entire arrow would go forward through the air.

While his thoughts were chaotic, Fu Xiaoyue accidentally took a glance at it, but just a second before the arrow completely left the string, he suddenly saw something that seemed familiar.

That kind of thing disappeared as the arrow tip left the string, Fu Xiaoyue didn't have time to grasp it and think about it, when he heard the sound of "chuck", he looked up - the feathers at the end of the arrow trembled slightly, Hit the bullseye!

Thoughts were completely messed up, Fu Xiaoyue was in a daze, but there were several cheers suddenly sounded beside him.

Following the owner of this body and turning around, I saw a young girl who looked to be in her early ten years old, came forward with a smile, put one hand on "my" shoulder, and praised: "You are indeed Xiaodie! It's still the same as before." It's amazing!"

"..."

The owner of this body seemed to answer something, but Fu Xiaoyue couldn't care less to hear it clearly.Because the moment she heard the other party spit out that title, her whole demon seemed to be enlightened.

--Butterfly!

The arrow just now had a lifelike butterfly-shaped engraving on the tail of the arrow body—exactly the same as the two arrows Kuroba Hideki showed her before.