[Shaman King] He has a cat

Human beings, unlike paper, do not start burning immediately after catching fire.

The process of being burned to death by fire is long and painful. Starting from the thinnest skin on the outside of the human body, the scorching flames will peel off the remaining skin layer by layer until the yellow fat overflows. After the person dies, the burning body can still continue Burns for hours.

After the nerves were scorched by fire, people no longer felt pain, but most people died long before that.

Most of the time, the most direct cause of death for people buried in fire is not burns.

Sometimes it is carbon monoxide poisoning, sometimes the internal organs are melted by high temperature, sometimes it is excessive blood loss caused by capillary rupture, and the throat of the person burned by the fire will swell to the point that he cannot breathe, and finally he dies of suffocation.

Burning to death by fire is one of the most painful ways to die. The flame that drives away wild animals in the dark and brings light to human society is also used by people to punish criminals and eradicate dissidents.

—— King Ma Cang Ye never mentioned to her how his mother died.

In the Middle Ages in Europe, people would tie witches to the stake.

When people in the Heian period faced things they couldn't understand, they tied up a woman who could see ghosts and burned them clean together with the house.

The woman who was burned to death back then was named Asanoba.

Blood and flames flowed to the ground, and the bodies torn into several pieces by the ghosts were scattered all over the ground. The surrounding crowd screamed like a collapse. The big onmyoji with blood on his sleeves just stood there watching, like watching the fire from the other side, watching from the sidelines Like a ghost, watching the ghost rush towards the direction of the crowd, being pressed down by layers of barriers, and then break free again.

... Ye Wang.

Ye Wang!

This time, no matter how she called, the figure did not move.

It must be because there are too many voices around, the voices of the crowd are too noisy——

"...Killed!!" The hoarse voice boiled in the chaos.

"The onmyoji from Ma Cang's family killed someone!!"

A'Du raised his head abruptly, but that person sneaked into the crowd cunningly, ordinary people without inspiration could not see ghosts, only saw the corpse of the villager who identified King Ma Cang Ye separated in the next moment, and intestines flowed all over the ground.

The surrounding sight has changed.

The muddy light and shadow, the chaotic and noisy footsteps, the voice hidden in the crowd changed, and continued to shout:

"King Ma Cang Ye killed someone!"

The brain became blank, the blood surged up, and a strange voice cut into the chaos roughly——

"Shut up for me!!!"

The echo vibrated and hummed, and the world suddenly faded into a hot white in the metallic echo.

She didn't seem to be thinking. Someone took the scissors and cut a very important thread in her body with a click. The warning echo echoed in her head, and the blood surged so violently that she even felt that she might spit it out. up.

Once a lie has been uttered, there is no going back, and she has felt its side effects before she has even said it.

"...It's God's punishment."

Her throat seemed to be on fire, but for the first time in her life, she abandoned her conscience and chose to protect more important things with lies.

A'Du closed his eyes and shouted: "Those who spread rumors have been punished by God!!"

The onmyoji present looked over in amazement.

"This is the proof! That man lied!"

Her voice felt strange even to herself, hoarse and terrifying, tearing to the limit of blood.

But to communicate with people, you must speak the same language as them.

"Those who lie will be punished by heaven!!"

A'Du couldn't look into the eyes of other onmyojis, she felt like she was on fire, whether it was hair, skin, or bones, they were all being burned by an invisible fire.

"So..." Her throat became hoarse, and she panted, trying to look calm and convincing.

"If you don't want to die..."

"If you don't want to die, don't move."

Ma Cang Yewang's voice was very calm, as deep as calm well water.

The next moment, he raised his hand, and the barrier that suppressed the ghost suddenly strengthened.

The frenzied struggle was suppressed by a ruthless force, the crumbling barrier was shattered and recast, exploded and condensed again, and finally with a force of brute force, the ghost in the barrier was crushed and exploded.

Blood splashed all over the ground, and the ghost didn't even have bones left.

When King Ma Cang Ye left, no one made a sound.

But shortly after that, dark rumors appeared in the capital. Nearly half of the ministers who ranked as public ministers died due to the current plague. The court was facing an unprecedented situation. Take this opportunity to further consolidate your status and rights.

Those rumors became more and more mysterious, and finally even evolved into this plague is the result of human intention.

King Asakang Ye was appointed by the former emperor as the Great Onmyoji to guard Heianjing, the official residence of Sakyo Doctor, and now he has been promoted to Izumo Mamoru. As a person of non-noble origin, he has almost reached the limit of his power. To climb up, you must rely on unconventional circumstances.

People deeply believed in the self-interest of those in high positions. Once they heard that some people might benefit from the plague, those who were still a little bit hesitant immediately chose to turn against each other.

The onmyojis of the Ma Cang family are in a very difficult situation now. Although the people who are afraid of Ma Cang Ye Wang can't do anything on the surface, those secret sights are getting chills down the spine.

The crows circled down from the sky, and the number of corpses piled up on the banks of the Kamogawa River decreased. Those corpses that disappeared out of thin air seemed to be dragged away by large wild animals, leaving nothing on the ground except the traces of the dirt being dragged.

The onmyoji who was patrolling with her fell ill, and when she went to visit that person, the young onmyoji was speechless, his face was densely covered with lumps and pustules, and he looked deformed and ugly, which was terrifying.

There were many such in the monastery's asylum, and many more lay dead in the street outside, in the bare wilderness.

Asakura Yefu was dead, when she and Asakura Yeliang took over, he seemed to be possessed by someone who was no longer there, his expression and tone became serious.

"You need to rest for a while."

"What about you?" She sighed, "Do you want to rest too?"

The answer is of course no.

A rape almost happened in the shelter of the monastery. After it was suppressed, the tense atmosphere between the Onmyouji of the Ma Cang family and the people did not dissipate.

In the past, she would not close her eyes, fearing that crimes against vulnerable groups would happen where she could not see, but now she cannot close her eyes.

"You may not like it, but fear is always the most effective means of domination."

The flickering candle beeped, and A'Du thought he had misheard.

She turned her head, leaning against the big onmyoji sitting under the eaves with a gentle expression. In the night sky, which is extremely far from the ground, there is a moon hanging behind the dark clouds, and the cold and beautiful moonlight never shines through the empty courtyard.

"……What did you say?"

“Communication doesn’t work when people are panicking.”

A'Du opened his mouth and found his own voice: "At that time, you shouldn't let that person be killed by a ghost, he could have been an important witness."

"No matter what happened at that time, that person is destined to die." King Ma Cangye said with a smile, "Just like the monks who accused Fujiwara Zhouyi of cursing the royal family, he must die strangely."

Fujiwara Zhou Yi is the nephew of Fujiwara Michimitsu, a political opponent who was exiled from Beijing not long ago, and he committed suicide not long after he heard that he was exiled, and now the Fujiwara family has become the possession of Fujiwara Michimitsu alone. The excessive power in his hands has caused dissatisfaction with the emperor, but the situation of his relatives in power cannot be changed for a while.

The Asakura family would have been a pawn in the hands of the Emperor, and Fujiwara Michimitsu probably thought so.

"I don't like playing chess." Ma Cang Ye Wang said gently.

"Why should I follow the rules set by others and play chess with weak people?"

The weak candlelight was not enough to disperse the chill of ice and snow, the person on the opposite side bent his eyes and said with a smile:

"Those people are not worthy of mentioning my mother's name for the sake of a boring power struggle."

"..."

"Don't you find it strange? Why onmyojis are placed in the same chess game as ordinary people."

"……what do you want to say in the end?"

Ma Cang Yewang said casually: "The real plague is human beings."

A'Du watched him for a long time, his hands and feet gradually became cold.

"……are you serious."

"Yes, I'm serious." King Ma Cang Ye did not deny it, and there was always a gentle smile on his face, as clear and shallow as the breeze blowing over the branches in spring, but the words he said were more cold and ruthless than each sentence .

"It's human beings that need to be wiped out, don't you think so?"

"..."

"I……"

I can't agree.

"why?"

"People's good and evil will be affected by the environment. When the environment is bad, people's hearts may become extremely ugly, but as long as the times change, society will also..."

King Ma Cang Ye smiled softly, with the helplessness of pampering ignorant children.

"In your time, why were there no stars in the night sky?"

She stopped suddenly.

"You are very lucky. You have not experienced war or famine." He said slowly, "However, that was not a common situation in your era. You are just an extremely lucky few."

"As long as human beings still exist on this surface, the war will not stop."

"People will always be people." Ma Cangye Wang said with a smile, "People's hearts will not change, and I understand this better than anyone else."

Her throat seemed to be blocked by something, and the thing that blocked her was painful and hot, which made her vision blurred, but she forcibly endured the hot feeling.

"You're talking as if ordinary people and onmyojis are two different creatures."

A'Du clenched his fists: "Let's just think that people in the world can be classified according to good and evil. Ordinary people have a lot of ugly things, but don't Onmyojis have them?"

Since Fujiwara Michimitsu dared to suppress the Asakura family, it meant that the Yumo family must have secretly defected, otherwise how would the Fujiwara family protect themselves in today's plague-ridden world.

"Ten thousand steps back, even if human beings are going to become extinct, they don't need external force. How long has human beings existed? 1 years? 10 years? 20 years? No race will exist forever, and the earth will be destroyed. The sun will explode, even if human beings are going extinct, you don’t need to do it.”

"Even if human beings really have original sin, there is also the issue of sentencing. Some people deserve to die, but everyone deserves to die?" A'Du kept shaking his head, "I have no way to agree, I really..."

Her voice caught in her throat.

After a long time, A'Du lowered his eyes.

"Why don't you tell me the real reason?"

"... That's right." King Ma Cang Ye heard her voice, he smiled, the gentle expression on his face, and his warm voice, all became strange in the cold moonlight.

"Because I hate."

He said flatly: "In the final analysis, everything is for revenge on mankind."

For his mother who was burned to death.

"So many years ago..." A'Du tried, "The hatred so many years ago, why now..."

Then she stopped.

"It's related to spiritual vision, right? Because of the current plague, you've heard too many negative voices, that's why...!"

"Don't underestimate me." The smile on Ma Cang Yewang's mouth disappeared, and his voice cooled down, "I'm not someone who can be easily defeated by Spirit Vision."

"Don't listen!" A'Du said eagerly, "Don't listen to those hatreds, they are not the real feelings in your heart, because other people's voices have invaded your heart, so you feel such strong hatred, Ye king……"

She grabbed his arm, her fingers gripping the sleeve of his hunting jacket.

He laughed: "What do you know?"

What does she know.

A person without spiritual vision, relying on his own imagination, tries to understand and even explain his feelings here.

A'Du opened his eyes wide.

King Ma Cang Ye seemed to have come to his senses at that moment, and the short laughter disappeared immediately.He raised his hand, and she took a step back.

"...Sorry," she let go of her hand, "you are right."

There is no real empathy in this world, because she was too arrogant just now.

"A'Du."

"We're not in a good place to talk." She looked away, then tried to smile.

A'Du found her saber, and suddenly thanked her sincerely for needing to perform the task now.

"I have to go to watch." She breathed a sigh of relief and said the obvious truth.

The silence in the mansion was too strange, and she did not like the moonlight now, nor the shadows it cast on the snow.

Before leaving, A'Du paused, and quietly said to the people behind him:

"When we have calmed down and dealt with our emotions, let's try to talk again."

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