As we all know, winding zero is a human being

"Master Tsujiya, do you want to wait for the New Year's Eve bell tonight?"

Oni Wu Tsuji was lying on a bed with three quilts, and many layers of bamboo curtains and curtains were added to separate the inside and outside of the room.

In this way, a slightly more comfortable environment during the day can also make Gui Wu Tsuji feel better.

"Do you even want to ask me about this kind of thing?"

Turning his head to look at Zero who was covered with a quilt, Onimai Tsuji supported his body and leaned up on the soft cushion.

"Yes, yes~ The bell of the Buddhist temple will wake up Master Tsujiya, let's wait for the New Year's bell to ring, and then have a peaceful dream, shall we?"

"...Speak normally, Zero."

"okay."

Except for the occasional crackling and crackling in the charcoal brazier, the two of them had nothing to say during this boring night of waiting.

The communication between Zero and Oni Wu Tsuji is usually in the form of questions and answers. The truth is that it is only plain and simple. As long as there are no problems in understanding, it is still very comfortable to be around Oni Wu Tsuji.

Zero lowered his eyes and yawned. He chatted with the system whose humor value was increased one by one in his mind, just like the various electronic pets he had played with before. for some time.

Oni Wu Tsuji stared at the new painting hanging on the wall for a long time, turning it over and over again. It was an ink painting of Heian-kyo after the snow, except for a round of red sun, it was not stained with other colors.

"...Tell me about what Father and Mother are preparing for today."

"As for the head of the family, he rode a carriage into the palace wall in the evening. He was probably invited to a banquet held in the palace. Madam will go to a nearby temple to perform her first vows as usual, and visit the gods to pray for safety."

Oni Wu Tsuji nodded, he always frowned, but today there was a rare trace of confusion in his eyes.

"In this world, are there gods?"

This confusion lasted even shorter than the blooming of the cherry blossoms. Before Ling could figure out how to answer, he continued on his own: "Sure enough, it's all an illusion of self-deception."

"My mother goes to the shrine every year to pray for my recovery. If there is a god, why doesn't my condition improve?"

"Everyone prays to the gods to fulfill their expectations. If the two wishes go against each other, how will the gods make a choice?"

"If a god chooses to respond according to his own preferences...how can he be called a god?"

...What a wonderful speech, Mr. Tsujiya.

Zero also thought about it carefully. The environment he grew up in did not have any strong religious beliefs. The only unscientific thing he encountered after becoming the successor of socialism was the system.

And the will of the great world mentioned by the system is probably not the god that Onimai Tsuji wants to question.

The bell of New Year's Eve has already sounded, and the [-] bells seem to be longer and longer under their expectation.

On the first day of the new year, the gods did not send blessings, and purple fox fire suddenly rose all over Heian-kyo, turning night into day.

"That... what?" Even through the cracks in the bamboo curtains, the purple flames leaping through the window could be seen, maybe the house was already warm enough, and they couldn't feel the foxfire shooting across the roof together like a shooting star. What it brings is like a hot wave of anger.

"I'll go out and have a look, Mr. Tsujiya, please stay in the house and don't move around—"

Oni Wu Tsuji watched helplessly as his little servant took a decorative machete from the shelf on the wall, then nervously opened the door and walked out.

Guiwu Tsuji Wuchan was only disturbed by the sudden noise outside the house.

When Zero opened the door and walked out, he faced the glimpse of purple flames outside the house.

The fear that has never been extinguished in my heart flickered with the shadow of the flame.

The sudden fire in Heian capital broke the peace and tranquility of the New Year.

Leaving the house of Oni Wu Tsuji, the full air-conditioning drove away the drowsiness caused by staying up late, and he clenched the sword tightly in his hand, trembling in the purple flames that filled the sky.

Zero quickly turned over the courtyard wall, and now he has become more and more proficient in turning over the wall, and the practice of Kagura, the god of fire, put him in a special state, even if it is from Fangfangzheng, left and right He can run from one end of the city wall of Heianjing to the other side of the city gate without breathing.

He found a nearby high ground, and the perspective from above allowed him to see the terrible fire that spread throughout the entire Kyoto.

"Over there... is the shrine!"

Fortunately, Ubashiki's mansion was not destroyed by the fire. The purple flames visited the sky like a meteor, and then ignited the bright red torii gate in front of the shrine.

Near the solemn palace wall, there are barriers propped up by onmyojis who are waiting in battle. The mansions of the big nobles always support their onmyojis, so the purple flames that can be called Karmic Fire are intercepted by them in the mansion. Outside the mansion.

But in Heianjing, there are more unsuspecting ordinary civilians. The flames lick the flammable houses, and the water turned into snow is just a drop in the bucket.

Hidden in the shadows, monsters driven by the onmyojis also joined the carnival.

"!" Kagura, the god of fire, strengthened his perception, and Zero sideways dodged the attack that went straight to his throat, and his clothes were torn to pieces in the wind.

Turning his head, he saw a strange chimera-like creature, fragments of his robe hanging from the monster's claws, and scarlet eyes staring at him maliciously.

"Wait a minute—system, there are still monsters in this world?!"

Is it him or Ghost Wu Tsuji who lit up some kind of crow's mouth attribute?It was clearly discussed that there are no gods in the world, so you can't wait to come out and slap your face?

[Congratulations to the host for entering the hidden copy plot: Fireworks City (prequel)]

...The person who compares the karmic fire that burns Kyoto to a firework is a genius.

Zero didn't think he could kill the monster in front of him who was about to move, but if he wanted to run away, he felt that it would be no problem to get rid of it in the alleyways of Kyoto.

Sure enough, the monster's huge size couldn't squeeze into the narrowest road. He quickly searched for the path to Suzaku Avenue, and felt that the surroundings became more and more noisy.

The Suzaku Avenue, which leads directly from the shrine to the noble mansions in Kyoto, is indeed the hardest hit area for monster attacks.

Sharp-eyed, he found the carriage with the family crest of the Ubuyashiki family, and Zero hesitated for a moment. He just wanted to go out to confirm what happened and then hurried back, but he couldn't let his current nominal head family go.

Obviously, the roads leading to the scattered alleys in the surrounding areas have not been completely blocked, but the nobles who participated in the return of the first attainment were desperate to drive to Da Nei Li, which is the safest place at present, and their carriages and horses became the natural targets of these monsters.

Zero cut open the monster's eager claws with a horizontal slash, and the frightened horse ran wildly along the direction he had arranged.

The coachman gritted his teeth and looked at the route, then decided to turn around from Suzaku Highway and drove to the small road that could quickly return to the mansion.

Zero ran in the shadow behind the carriage, and from time to time used the god of fire, Kagura, to drive away the miscellaneous monsters who came to intercept the carriage by smelling the smell.

He couldn't turn back, the most he could do was to find a shortcut to the mansion for them, and to clean up so many monsters and the culprit who released the purple flames was something Genji couldn't do.

Inevitably passing Genji's mansion, a young onmyoji fell outside the barrier, dyeing the white snow into dark red.

There is no way around this, some well-known onmyojis in the Minamoto family now have a job in the onmyoji, and it is impossible that there will be extra manpower on such an important day as today.

The remaining onmyoji of the Genji family guarded a courtyard wall heavily, Ling only glanced at it, and could vaguely see the figure of a white-haired boy among them.

"clatter."

"What a hardworking kid."

The creaking sound of the clogs stepping on the snow should be very clear, but Zero was horrified to find that before he heard this low and soft female voice, he was completely unaware of any other movement around him.

Zero looked around pretending to be calm and seemed to please the owner of the voice. The red dress fluttered under the snowy night, and the woman stepped on high clogs, making no effort to hide the nine fox tails behind her.

She stood on the ridge of the roof, calmly as if separated from Heian-kyo by a world.

"Yes...it's the demon fox Yuzao—"

"Protect the young master—"

The demon fox known as Yuzaoqian suddenly laughed.

"My children, who will give you a chance to grow up?"

Her laughter said she was laughing, but also seemed to be crying. The interweaving of mourning and sharpness hit the sky of Heian capital, as if she was going to rain blood on this capital.

Like a magnificent fox mourning.