[Shaman King] He has a cat

In 1972, Shimane Prefecture, Izumo City.

The eternal humming of cicadas is noisy in the shadow of the trees. At noon, there is no one in the back mountain. The Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva with low eyebrows is gazing at the moss on the roadside. The red scarf around his neck has turned white and faded in the washing of years.

Hearing the sound of footsteps nearby, the figure hiding behind the shrine squatted down, wanting to hide deeper in the shadows.

The footsteps stopped.

"Miss Stem..."

"I'm not going back!"

It was the first time for 12-year-old Asakura Kaneko to speak with such a loud voice.

She shrank her shoulders subconsciously, ready to receive the lecture, closed her eyes and raised her head for a while, but did not wait for a reply, so she had to secretly open her eyes.

nobody.

After pausing for a moment, she moved her gaze down a little.

"Miss Ganzi." The voice was calm and polite, "If you don't go back, your family will be worried."

"...Ah," she blinked, "the cat is talking."

"To be precise, it's Maoyou."

Dappled light and shadow passed through the gaps in the leaves, and as the cat spoke, its tail emerged from behind the cloak.The black-striped tail dangles gently in front of the eyes like a forked ear of wheat.

"Xiaosheng is a cat and stock sect. He has served the Ma Cang family for nearly 1000 years. He used to wander all over the world. It is rare to return to his hometown this time. Please don't blame me for disturbing you in the next few days."

Asakura Kanko: "...the legend that a cat will grow a tail after 1000 years of cultivation is true."

Then, she recovered.

"Did your father send you to find me?"

"Lord Ye Ming is very worried about you."

Ma Cang Yeming is the current head of the Ma Cang family, and he regards his only daughter as the apple of his eye, but Ma Cang Ganzi, who just graduated from primary school this year, obviously has his own ideas.

"Lie." She clasped her arms around her chest, building up her momentum, "She said she was worried, but actually she just felt that I couldn't fall behind the practice of a witch. I've had enough of this kind of life! I'm going to Tokyo!"

"So, what do you want to do after going to Tokyo?"

She paused; "I want to be a white-collar worker in the company."

That's right, that's it.

"Being a witch is too tiring. I am obviously not a child anymore. They just refuse to understand my thoughts and always want to arrange everything without authorization."

"Only children like to emphasize that they are not children."

The cat opened the book in its hand again, only then did she notice that it had been holding a book.

A cat that walks upright, wears a kimono and a cape, and talks like a human is rare enough that it also likes to read.

"Is this why you ran away from home, Miss Ganzi?"

Asakura Ganzi unconsciously let go of his hand, and brushed the hair that fell to his ears like a cover-up.

"...That's not all."

"For the Winter Olympics to be held in Sapporo this year, I heard that Master Ye Ming bought a color TV for his family." Mao Youguzong turned a page and mentioned casually, "Didn't you invite your friends to come to your house?" ?”

"No..." She clenched her fists and then slowly released them, "There is no such person."

She said in a relieved tone: "I can see ghosts, but people around me either think I'm lying or I'm scary."

"Being born as the heir of the Ma Cang family is not my own choice."

Asakura Kanko sat down on the steps in front of the shrine, the mottled broken light swayed on the ground with the summer wind, like ice cubes in a glass, refracting fine and beautiful luster.

She crossed her arms and rested her cheek on her knee.

"I'm tired of hearing stories about the ancestor of the Ma Cang family."

Thousands of years ago in the Heian period, Ma Cang Ye Wang, who was conferred the title of Great Onmyoji by the imperial court, founded the current Ma Cang family.

It is said that Ma Cang Ye Wang is proficient in all yin and yang arts in this world. He not only masters the laws of nature, but also freely drives shikigami that can subdue even ghosts and gods. His powerful power is unparalleled in the world, even if he was regarded as a god in that era. Too much.

"How much do you know about that person?"

Mao Yougu looked up from the book.

"What do you mean?"

"You said just now that you have served the Ma Cang family for 1000 years, so you and that Ma Cang Ye King should be contemporaries, right?"

Asakura Ganzi folded his arms and leaned forward a little.

"Didn't he go crazy later?"

Why Ma Cangye Wang fell from a god to a ghost is a very important point. She has never given an explanation for the big stories she heard since she was a child.

It felt like putting together the last step of a jigsaw puzzle, only to find that she was missing a key piece of the puzzle, and sometimes it even made her unable to sleep at night.

As long as she can remember, people in her family will remind her repeatedly that the Great Onmyoji who died thousands of years ago will come back again. He has mastered the forbidden technique that can control his own life and death, and he will be reincarnated every 500 years. Terrible and bloody.

Stopping Ma Cang Ye Wang has been the mission of the Ma Cang family for thousands of years, and every heir of the Ma Cang family has been educated to grow up in this way.

When her peers began to read and practice calligraphy, she had already listened to the story of the ancestor of the Macang family countless times, and her ears were calloused when she heard it.

The crimes of the Ma Cang family must be redeemed by the Ma Cang family. She felt that there was some truth in this sentence, but after thinking about it, she felt that there was something wrong.

Maoyouguzong didn't answer her words.

Asakura Kaneko suspects that this is an unspoken trick of all adults who, when asked a question they don't want to answer, skillfully begin to play dumb and subtly divert the questioner's attention.

Although Gu Zong is not a human being, it is the strangest cat she has ever seen.The Asakura family with a profound heritage has many shikigami holding spirits, but none of them is like the stock sect, whose clothes and speech are infinitely close to human beings.

Therefore, cat spirits who have lived for thousands of years can barely be classified as adults.

"Why didn't you invite your classmates over to your house?"

"...Because I don't want to." Asakura Kaneko said, "Even if they are willing to accept the invitation, those people don't like the real me, they just want to come to my house to watch TV."

The cat closed the book again, and she found that the cat could also smile.

"Xiaosheng takes back what he said before."

"Which sentence?"

"'Children like to emphasize that they are not children'." The voice paused, and Mao Youguzong continued, "Miss Ganzi is already an outstanding adult."

She didn't answer the phone for a long time.

"... Stock Master, how long will you stay here this time?"

"Xiaosheng will stay with Miss Ganzi until your parents finish their work."

In summer, the days are short and the nights are long, the sunset is magnificent, and the clouds are layered with fire, as if the sky has lost a big fire.

The recent criminal case that shocked the whole country was played on the TV, and the last body has not been found for a long time. The head of the Ma Cang family, Ma Cang Yeming, has many contacts with important officials in the political circle, and his wife, Ma Cang Mu Nai, is extremely talented. Shizi, the husband and wife were entrusted with the important task of investigation by the government, and they will not be back for a few days.

This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. The Ma Cang family's tutoring is very strict, and she rarely has the opportunity to act alone.

The flickering candles lit up the stone steps, and the cat following her said, "Xiaosheng doesn't think this is a good idea."

"But aren't you curious?" Asakura Kanko was holding a candlestick.

The Asakura family's mansion in Izumo covers an area of ​​[-] square meters. The historic building complex hides countless secrets. Her parents forbid her to explore the forbidden area of ​​the clan because she is still young.

The stone steps spiraled downward, sinking into the labyrinth-like darkness of the underground.

In the darkness where you can't see your fingers, suddenly there is a soft pop, and orange candlelight jumps up from the rock wall one after another, illuminating the path leading to the depths of the forbidden area.

When he came back to his senses, Asakura Kanko found himself standing in front of the vermilion torii gate, with pentagram patterns painted on both sides of the torii gate, the huge underground space was illuminated by fire, and a shrine stood at the end of the long approach , The door of the shrine was closed.

"This is Ye Wangtang." Mao Youguzong's voice came from behind.

The cat spirit with a pipe in its mouth seemed to sigh.

"This place was built in 1005 AD. For you now, it would be too early to come here, but if you really want to know..." Mao Youguzong stopped in front of the shrine, "As the Asakang family Heir, you have the right to know."

After hesitating for a moment, Ma Cang Qiangzi stretched out his hand, and the restriction on the door was released silently. With a soft creak, the door slowly opened, and the candle inside lit up without wind. The long light and shadow dispelled the black shadow, and outlined the A scroll in an alcove.

She raised her head, her gaze slowly followed the figure of the great Onmyoji depicted in the hanging scroll, and finally landed on the offerings on the altar.

"what is this?"

In a pile of offerings, a tattered book was placed in the center, and the four corners of the pages corroded by the years were pasted with vermilion charms.

"That's "Super Occupational Judgment", which records all the spells that the adult has used."

Asakura Kanko shook his head: "That's what I'm talking about."

She pointed to the altar next to it. The dull red rope was cut in two, the metal bell was incomplete and dented, and there were scorched black marks on the surface, as if it had been burned by fire.

"..."

Asakura Kanko turned around: "What is this?"

"...It's a relic."

"who?"

"The lord's wife."

"...Why are her relics enshrined here?"

"Who knows." The cat raised its head again, and its reason for raising its head was different from hers.

"Perhaps," it said after a long pause, "maybe it was to appease the lord's anger and sorrow."

After becoming a spirit, the body becomes light.

After removing the heavy shell, the aging body will get rid of the shackles of the years, and the limbs will be full of vitality and strength again.

For nearly 1000 years, it has never experienced the burden of the first life.

But Maoyouguzong always remembers the feeling of running on the burned ground.

The fire burned all night, and the houses and people were reduced to ashes.After the fire disappeared, the choking smoke did not dissipate immediately, and the bleak dawn was shrouded in mist, making it difficult for people to distinguish whether they were in the world of the living or the land of the dead.

Not here, not there.

It passed through collapsed houses, stepped on broken wooden beams, bypassed unrecognizable corpses, and ran from night to dawn, and the gray smoke covered the ruins left by the fire.

The first thing I saw was the broken bell, and the broken red rope was scattered like blood, quietly falling beside the charred ruins.

Then a corner of Kari, then a finger, then an arm, and once found, removing the wreckage of the house was a matter of seconds.

The memory has no sound, maybe it is selectively forgotten.The hunting clothes were stained with blood, and the figure in the memory bent down, holding the person he found into his arms, as if trying to gather the broken things together, as if putting the broken things back together, he slowly hugged the person into his arms inside.

The Great Onmyoji sat in the ruins for a long time, and after regaining consciousness, he raised his hand, as if out of habit, he wanted to straighten the hair of the person in his arms, but the black hair and the blood clots on his face were coagulated together, He is inseparable.

He is inseparable.

At that time, there seemed to be a string in that person's body, which suddenly broke with a snap.

—— "Stock sect."

The voice of reality pierces through the memory, Ma Cang is holding the candlestick, still looking at the broken bell.

"What kind of person is she?"

"..."

"Where is she from?"

"It is said that he grew up in a coastal city."

"Ah," Asakura Kaneko said, "isn't that a city like Izumo?"

Thousands of years ago, the world said that King Ma Cangye, who wanted to destroy all human beings, was crazy.

The author has something to say:

Note: Asakura Kanko, the great beauty with the seal of the official book, was born in 1960, and gave birth to the reincarnated Asakang Ye Wang at the age of 25, as well as the protagonist of the Shaman King comic. , Asakura leaf and the villain [? 】 Ma Cang Yewang is twins in this life.

In 1971, Japan began to have color television.

In February 1972, the Winter Olympics were held in Sapporo, Hokkaido.

……

On May 1985, 5, King Ma Cangye and Ma Cangye were born.

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