[Comprehensive] living to death

Monsters and humans are two completely different beings.

Infant, boy, youth...until final death; human beings may be born into very different classes, but often pass through the same age.Life is alive, at most, there is only a hundred years.

Monsters have a completely different life form.They live by strength, the weak are like mayflies who live and die in the blink of an eye, and life and death are in an instant; but the strong can burn forever like stars.Power builds the root of their lives, and being strong has become their most persistent pursuit: only the stronger they are, the closer they are to eternity.

—Be stronger.stronger.The power we have now will never be enough, and it will always be stronger.

This is how he has become stronger and stronger over a long period of time.The more powerful it is, the longer and longer the time it has.

Lonely and long.

Feelings and concepts are often contrasted: if you don't know what it's like to be accompanied, you don't know what loneliness is.So for a long time, he didn't feel that there was anything wrong with living alone in this world; all his thoughts were spent on pursuing great power, and he rarely thought about other things.Ibaraki no longer remembers the specific time point in which he was born, but there is indeed a large period of time in his memory. In addition to the boundless world, there is only the vast wind between the heaven and the earth and himself.

All he knew then was "I" and "creatures other than me."The world is a primitive hunting ground for him: different races fight each other, and he fights in the struggle according to the jungle law of the jungle, drawing strength from blood.He doesn't even have the concept of race, and he will never show mercy when he needs to kill weak monsters-you can't ask a naturally grown creature to spontaneously understand what "race" is.But there are not many such times, because his strength grows too fast, and soon most of the monsters are so weak that he loses interest in killing them.

In other words, most of the other creatures are so weak that he doesn't feel like fighting.

He began to feel that there was nothing to do all day.It is precisely because he did nothing that when he recalled later, this period of time seemed vague and short because of lackluster, and there were only some scattered fragments to prove that he had really had such a boring time.For example, once he went to a very high mountain, intending to challenge the legendary strong man who lived on the top of the mountain.He set off in the middle of the night with the sky full of stars, encountered a blizzard on the mountainside, and there were a few snow girls walking in the blizzard. Those ice-blue monsters hid away when they saw him. He took away the wind and snow, only a few snowflakes were still dancing in front of him, and some of them stuck to his eyelashes, and they were a little cool after melting.Finally, he climbed to the top of the mountain and indeed found the "legendary big monster", but the old strong man had already died on the top of the snow mountain, his body was frozen into an ice crystal by the ice and snow, his face was lifelike, but he had lost all vitality.Disappointed, he angrily punched the nearby pine tree, and as a result, he was covered in ice crystals and snow scum all over his face.He was depressed for a long time, and still planned to go down the mountain, but when he turned around, he saw a vast sea of ​​clouds beyond the cliff, and the scattered light reflected the sky and the snow around him.Stung by the light, he squinted his eyes and saw the sun jumping out of the sky at that moment.

There is only one sun, but it illuminates everything in the world.Under the sky, no one dares to stare at its brilliance.

An uncontrollable, shuddering excitement completely overwhelmed his urge to close his eyes, making him stare at the fiery ball of fire.At that moment, he suddenly understood, yes, this world should have an absolute overlord, just like everything in the world needs a unique sun.This is a world where power can only be obtained by plundering each other, and limited resources can only allow some creatures to grow freely.That being the case, then of course he must be the winning side.

Perhaps it was that accidental journey that gave birth to his later ambitions, but it's not good, because not long after that, he finally met Shuten-douji who was comparable to him in strength, or even better than him.That big red-haired monster has an arrogance that absolutely matches his own strength, carrying a rough wine gourd on his back, and looks over him with impatience and arrogance while drinking.They fought for five days and nights, and at last they made peace in the night when the stars were out, exchanging names and lives, panting.Jiu Tun told him that at some point, a race called "human" has rapidly multiplied in the world. Those creatures are weak but tough, and they are good at uniting together, using tricks to win the victory over the monster race.

"Monster race and...human beings..."

So he suddenly realized, and thoroughly understood many problems that he had vaguely thought about before.He felt that a new road was being paved in front of him, and the mission at the end was no longer just his personal strength, but to lead the entire monster race to the top of the world.

When his ambition suddenly swelled and he was eager to try, Shuten poured cold water on him with a particularly restrained and calm attitude, and analyzed the current world situation with him, and what the land on the west across the sea had to do with it. Influence.He has never listened to other people's words, and he has developed an overly arrogant character because of his overpowering power. However, Shuten's strength and brains make him very admired and even admired, so Jiuten's reprimand not only does not annoy him, Instead, it made him surrender.

After that, they traveled together for a period of time, and finally chose Dajiang Mountain as the stronghold of the Yaozu.Getting along during this period of time made him even more certain that only Jiu Tun could become the supreme leader of the Yaozu and achieve his goal.He completely chose to surrender, and felt that he was willing to be Shuten-douji's right-hand man and build a great cause for thousands of years with him.

He imagined a lot of the future, happily thinking about how to destroy the human city, and enthusiastically planning how to gather the scattered power of the monster race... Their plans did go smoothly, including several battles with humans and finally All ended in their victory.If it weren't for the sudden emergence of a special group called "Onmyoji" on the human side, who can greatly suppress the power of monsters, perhaps he can get closer to his ambitious goal.In short, due to various reasons, the war between the monster race and humans continued for a long time, and finally, somehow, those weak, ant-like humans won the victory.Human towns spread across the fertile land, while the monster race had to temporarily hide in the mountains.

His experience in those large-scale wars was accumulated during those years of war.Years of war made him develop the habit of wearing armor at all times, and it also made him more decisive in killing, arbitrarily acting like the hard armor on his body.No one dares to approach him as a little monster, and of course he disdains the pursuit of the weak; all he wants to do is to reinvigorate with Shuten-douji and fight a fierce and domineering king's road in the world.

The more he is eager and diligent about this, when he finds out that the most powerful king in his heart—Shuten Doji—is disturbed, even decadent, because of a humble woman, his anger is completely explosive erupted out.after……

There was nothing to talk about after that, it was nothing more than Jiu Tundoji's unintentional cause, and when he found out that he was trying to kill the culprit, Lei Ting was furious, unilaterally declared a break with him, and simply avoided him.Of course he wouldn't blame Shuten-douji, he could only curse the culprit while looking for Shuten-douji who was hiding.

Why on earth is he so obsessed with Shuten-douji?Sometimes other people (also a few strong men he can see) will ask this question, and he can't help but praise Shuten-douji, saying over and over that only Shuten-douji can lead the monsters to the top of the mountain. The top of the world.He repeated those enthusiastic praises so many times that he himself was convinced of it, and he believed that Shuten-douji was the only big youkai who was stronger and more capable than him, and that's why he used such a big The enthusiasm came to look for him everywhere, regardless of whether the other party said impatiently that he was not interested in his ideal many times.

He is a mighty monster, and his ambition is as bright as the sun; all his actions are motivated by the desire to be strong and eternal, and have nothing to do with anything else.He thinks so.He attributed all the reasons for chasing Jiu Tun to this kind of reason, and said it so many times that even he believed it.

But actually, maybe...he just didn't want to be alone again.Although he has walked alone under the mighty blue sky for countless years, but now that he is suddenly allowed to face the daily sunrise alone again, he actually feels a little dazed.

Why... He didn't understand his own vague, lingering sense of loneliness, and he didn't even have a good idea of ​​what it was called "loneliness."He had never been gifted with sentimentality, so this inexplicable sadness only made him more irritable.

Anxiety can easily lead to mistakes.If he hadn't been distracted, he wouldn't have accidentally been ambushed by a despicable onmyoji on the way back to Dajiangshan.That group of humble ants actually wanted to capture him as a shikigami, which really made him angry.Although in the end he taught the group of ants a lesson, he himself was seriously injured.

The night in Dajiangshan is as peaceful and tranquil as in memory, even the howling of wild animals in the mountains and forests is very friendly.He closed his eyes, slid on the ground leaning against the rock wall behind him, feeling the night wind blowing the water vapor from the nearby mountain stream onto his face, the faint coolness and familiar environment gradually cooled his anger.

That person appeared in front of his eyes at that time.He still remembers it.He never forgot.

——"This benefactor, I think there is a lot of fate between the two of us!"

She must not know that in the frosty moonlight, when she looked over with a smile on his face, his breathing actually stopped for a second.After everything had happened, he had long forgotten how vigilant, arrogant and arrogant he was that night, so their first meeting left only a scene in his mind, crossed by water mist, moonlight and him. The memory that has been polished for a long time has been continuously polished, and it is frozen into a phantom that is as flawless as jade.That's it.

She put her hand in his, as if she put her life in his hand.

"I am... Ibaraki Doji..."

"I am the Onmyoji who subdued you, so is He Mao Clan Mingyue."

She is still laughing.Ridiculous, cheerful, relaxed...she was smiling at him.

I will always smile at him in this scene in my memory, shining forever.