Miss Zashiki

Fu Xiaoyue and his group of monsters stayed in the Shasheng Temple for a few more days.

During this period, after repeated questioning and persuasion, she finally inquired about the so-called "three generations of witches, the grievances and entanglements between the fox tribe and the Yin'yang master" from the mouth of the little monk Iron Mouse.

Ju said that the witches of that generation were originally from a poor family, and their parents died early, leaving her alone with her young sister.At that time, in order to protect her younger sister from growing up safely, she willingly worshiped under the sect of the Shasheng Temple, and even served the gods as a witch after Jiji.But unexpectedly a few years later, she accidentally discovered that her beloved little sister met a three-tailed demon fox at some point, and they secretly hooked up with each other.

Fearing that the three-tailed fox would use charms to confuse the younger sister and intend to harm her, the witch drove him away and set up a spell to prevent them from seeing each other again.After several months of this, on a certain morning, the monsters in the Shasheng Temple found the cold, dead body of Miko's sister in the corner of the wall outside the temple.And a wall away, at the same place, was leaning against the same dead three-tailed fox.

After the death of her sister, the witch was deeply ashamed and troubled, and she died of depression not long after.

As for the next second generation of witches, while inheriting the "fate of the fox", they also brought in the influence of Yin and Yang masters.

Having learned from the past, the Shasheng Temple has always tried to minimize the contact between the shrine maiden and the outside monsters.However, the fox demon who had entanglements with this second-generation witch was not a monster in the beginning, but a little fox that grew up beside her before she became a witch——

Miko-sama has a deep and inseparable relationship with her little pet. Of course, the monsters in the Shasheng Temple are not easy to talk about it-so no one thought that the accident would happen like this.

The second-generation witch raised an ordinary fox with extremely ordinary talents. Even after being nurtured by its spiritual power for many years, there is no possibility of it falling into a demon—it just keeps getting old year by year in the eyes of the witch. , dying.

Then, without the knowledge of all the monsters, the witch secretly practiced the onmyoji's technique.She refined the dying fox into a tube fox.

The so-called "Guanhu" is "a shikigami who was cruelly tortured and tortured to death during his lifetime, full of resentment". If he wants to forcibly refine it, it is an extremely dangerous technique, and it is recognized as a forbidden technique even among onmyojis. .Although the witches are very talented in spiritual power, but due to time constraints, she has not long practiced spells. If she wants to complete such a dangerous spell, she must pay a corresponding price—and the price paid by the second generation witches is She lost all her cultivation and half of her life.

It was too late when the monsters in the Shasheng Temple found out.Miko-sama has lost all her spiritual power, no matter how embarrassing she is to bear the heavy responsibility.Moreover, she took half of the life she swore to serve the gods, and thus lost the protection of the gods, and even died before half of her life.

As for the Guanhu little demon that she bought with half of her lifespan, she ended up snuggling up beside her and dying...

——Although the above two times ended in tragedies, they can still be regarded as trivial incidents.However, the next third generation of witches really caused a lot of chaos, and it was also the root cause of the formal enmity between the three parties.

It's just because, this third-generation witch, what she provokes is not an ordinary fox demon, nor is it an immature little fox, but the most powerful, unique and famous monster with nine tails in the history of the fox clan so far— — before Tamamo.

Priestesses were supposed to serve the gods, and they were not allowed to marry for life, but these three generations of witches made a private life with Tamazamae, and even gave birth to a pair of children, and because of this, attracted the punishment of God——

Hearing what the little monk Iron Mouse said, Fu Xiaoyue finally had some familiar sense of seeing, and then he added, "Afterwards, the witch died for her husband and children, right?"

But to her surprise, the little monk Iron Mouse shook his head and denied it:

"No matter how powerful the witch is, she is only a mortal body after all, how can she resist the power of heaven's punishment... The one who can withstand the wrath of heaven's punishment is naturally that fox demon, Yuzaoqian."

"..."

Fu Xiaoyue stared blankly at him, unable to recover for a long time: "You mean... Yuzao died before...?"

As a result, under her non-momentary stare, the little monk Iron Mouse shook his head again, clapped his hands together and continued unhurriedly:

"The strength of the fox clan's innate monster power is determined by the number of its tails. It is the upper-middle aptitude to reach the third tail, and it is a recognized elder among the fox clan. The higher you go, the more you practice. It is difficult, and every time we reach the hurdle of raising the tail, it is even more dangerous than life and death... From ancient times to the present, there has only been one before Yuzao who bears the Nine Tails."

Speaking of this, the little monk paused for a moment, and then whispered as if whispering: "What's more, Yuzao was born with nine tails... It is rumored that he is a divine body cast by heaven, and his demon power is as powerful as a god-given. The status and prestige in the fox clan is even higher than that of the gods, and all the fox demons believed that under his leadership, the entire fox clan is bound to reach an unprecedented peak..."

Fu Xiaoyue listened in a daze. Although she knew that Yuzaoqian was very powerful, it sounded like a fantasy, so she guessed: "That is to say, he has withstood the punishment of heaven." huh?"

"Yes. I endured it." The little monk replied in a low voice, "However, as a price, the body was almost completely destroyed, the nine tails were cut off, and the demon power was also exhausted."

Fu Xiaoyue opened his mouth slightly when he heard this, and his heart tightened: "... Isn't that useless?"

"Even if you recover from your injury, you still need to practice from the beginning from the tailless state... It's okay to say it's useless."

The little monk clasped his hands together, sighed and said: "After that, the three generations of witches were even more determined, and soon they took their two children and followed the seriously injured Yuzao to leave... So far, there has been no news about it in the world. Regarding the slightest trace of the two of them, life and death are still unknown."

Fu Xiaoyester fell into silence.

Compared with the setting of the game plot, is this kind of development better or worse?She couldn't tell; compared to the twin deaths of the previous two generations of witches, is this pair really less tragic?She's not sure either—

After all, as Iron Mouse said, it is still unknown whether the three generations of shrine maidens, Tamazamo, and their two children are dead or alive.

She pondered silently for a long time before she was able to get away from the sense of loss brought about by this open ending——

Only then did I have time to think of another question:

"In this way, it is understandable for you to have feuds with the fox clan - after all, you have lost three generations of witches in succession, and the three priestesses you enshrined have betrayed the gods one after another directly or indirectly because of their entanglements with the fox demon... and The Fox Clan probably thinks that because of your witches, the spiritual leader of their entire clan will fall..."

She pondered slowly and said: "But, how could it be related to the Onmyoji again? Although the second generation of witches secretly practiced the forbidden technique of the Onmyoji - but based on this alone, it is still not enough. As for enmity with them?"

"Small yesterday's benefactor, I don't know. The entanglement between my Shasheng Temple and the Yin-Yang Master is naturally far from simple."

The little monk Iron Mouse seemed to be thinking of something serious, "At that time, not long after the three generations of witches left with Yuzaoqian, a yin and yang master came to the killing temple... He couldn't help but shoot the regular The two-faced Buddha who is stationed in the back mountain of my temple has sealed it! It has not been unlocked yet!"

"This……"

Fu Xiaoyue looked at him filled with indignation full of entanglement.

Although it seems that he has indeed heard him mention this before—as the land god under God Inari, the two-faced Buddha was sealed by an onmyoji, but——

"Is it so sudden? Is there any antecedent foreshadowing?"

"...If we talk about the antecedent, it's the fact that Yuzao was seriously injured in my Sacrificing Temple and spread to the outside world."

The little monk lowered his head sullenly, and drooped his shoulders: "With Yu Zaoqian's prestige among monsters, there are countless admirers. At that time, everyone wanted to come to my Shasheng Temple to ask for an explanation. Big fight..."

"Well... what about that onmyoji? Could it be that he is also an old friend of Yu Zaoqian, so he vented his anger on you?"

The little monk suddenly snorted, and muttered angrily: "Although he is not Yuzao's former friend, he is the son of Yuzao's former friend! There have always been rumors about that onmyoji, saying that he is actually a Son of the Fox Demon!"

"...Huh? Wait—"

Fu Xiaoyue blinked a few times in a daze: "Master Tieshu, the Onmyoji you're talking about refers to—"

The little monk had some unconcealable anger in his brows and eyes, and he seemed a little daring to speak out. He held back for a long time before whispering: "Isn't it the famous Abe Seimei!"

Fu Xiaoyue: "..."

——Speaking of which, in the setting of the game plot, Abe Seimei seems, looks, probably, did seal and suppress the Two-faced Buddha...

The little monk Iron Mouse recalled these obviously not very pleasant past events, his face was a little red with anger, and his hands clasped together in front of his chest were trembling.

"Based on the situation in the temple at that time, it was difficult for the witch to accept it, and the two-faced Buddha was sealed again. Every day, all kinds of monsters came to the door to fight and seek revenge... All the brothers and sisters were all seriously injured."

As he spoke, he sniffled, and almost the whole monster felt a little aggrieved, "If Lord Inari hadn't abandoned us, I'm afraid the entire Shashoji Temple would have been devastated by now!"

Fu Xiaoyue looked at this little monk with a little embarrassment, and didn't know how to comfort him for a while.

After all, she didn’t experience it personally, but only heard it from the perspective of others. Not only could she not empathize with these successive tragedies, but also because she heard some familiar names one after another... she kept feeling that the drama was not spoken, and even from time to time I still want to complain a few words, but I finally endured it until now I haven't said anything...

Instead of looking at the angry little monk Tieshu in front of him, Fu Xiaoyue turned to look at the sky silently——

It has to be said that the current relationship between the Shasheng Temple, the Fox Clan and the Onmyoji can be said to be incompatible, they are called enemies, and when they are mentioned, they are always jealous of each other... The whole process of its origin and twists and turns...

——It's really extraordinary dog ​​blood!