[Comprehensive] Light and Shadow

Humans are human because they cannot survive alone.

Every human being must live in the environment and have more or less inevitable connections with others, and such connections will also weave unique thoughts and feelings, and each person's life will be closely intertwined with another acquaintance or Strangers have an impact.

Even if you are repelled and out of place because of the ability to see monsters, the feeling of loneliness is also given by others, and at the same time, there will be warmth corresponding to the sense of isolation. There is always some warmth and love that cannot be let go, which makes people move Human beings give the feeling of wanting to protect.

Correspondingly, the reason why gods are gods is because they have always been alone above human beings.

Human beliefs have become the shackles of gods, limited to human society but invisible to human beings, and even if they are given to human beings, they cannot gain the value of their own existence.The gods do not have ordinary human emotions, do not understand the ordinary life of human beings, do not understand the daily requests of human beings, and can only look down on human beings from above.

A god is a god even if he is moved by a human being who can see himself.Even if you leave, you can't touch human life, even if you reach out, you can't hold the hand of your loved one, and even if you ask, you can't let the promised person return to the original place.

After all, there is a big difference between gods and humans.

The crimson torii is like the gap between humans and gods, clearly dividing the two worlds that do not intersect.

It's just that I have already stepped into the world of witch gods, haven't I?

【Natsume, I will die with you. 】

Is it really impossible to live together?

Natsume looked at the figure of the fire, his eyes were stung by the blurred heat, and warm tears rolled down his cheeks drop by drop.In the golden-red flame, Natsume felt that the figure was becoming more and more ethereal, if he didn't hold on tightly, he would regret it.

It is obviously dragged into the hand of death, but just holding it like this makes me feel relieved and sad for no reason.

"Master Witch God, three days..." Natsume held the Witch God tightly with trembling hands, stood in the circle surrounded by the fire waves, and then held the Witch God with both hands to pull the man closer to him from the fire.

Even though he was deep in the sea of ​​flames, the witch god's white robe was not stained by the flames at all. He just stood there indifferently in the flames like a sacred and noble god, looking at the young man who was holding him tightly with puzzled eyes.

Does this mean begging himself to let him live for three more days?

"That promise hasn't ended yet, has it? In five days, I will find what the Lord Wu Shen wants!" Natsume raised his head, his golden-brown pupils were covered with mist from the smoke from the flames, and there was a tremor in his voice and excited.

"I want you to die." The witch god looked at Natsume firmly, and said the harsh words again in a cold voice, but the boy's eyes were still firm and serious that the witch god couldn't understand.

You obviously said it at the beginning, didn't you?

If the witch god does not find what the witch god wants in five days, the witch god will make the lives of those human beings who are bargaining chips disappear, and at the same time, Natsume will be left alone to live alone.

So, no matter what, what the Lord Witch God wants is not my life.

It's just that, Natsume also understands - the only person in this world who can leave the shaman god is himself. This is probably the only remaining bond between the shaman god and this world.

"I want to live with Lord Wushen." Without further explanation, Xia Mu stared at Wushen with light eyes. The young man's face looked extraordinarily pale in the firelight, but there was a different kind of brilliance in those eyes.

The face of the young man in front of my mind gradually became the most profound impression in my memory. The long flaxen hair was disheveled, the eyebrows were curved, and she always had a confident and energetic smile. The cheerful female voice said many things in my ear. human affairs.

But, it wasn't her after all.

But what I've always wanted to hear came from Reiko's descendants.

[Whether it is tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, or in the future, I will always come to worship you. 】

[Human life is very short, but I still hope to be able to accompany Lord Wushen in my lifetime. 】

[I want to live with Lord Sorcerer God. 】

……

Natsume Takashi?

The sorcerer's gaze fell on Lixiamu in confusion, he opened his mouth and did not say a last word, but the surrounding flames gradually dissipated, turning into a wisp of smoke in the wind and drifting away in the dark night together with the petals of the cherry blossoms.

At that moment, unprecedented fatigue and exhaustion swept the whole body, and the body trembled and fell down. In the darkness of vision and mind, I could vaguely hear someone calling myself loudly.

Reiko, I'm already very tired, why can't I leave this world until now...

On the other hand, Madara, who is a bodyguard, is in an extremely impatient state.After Natsume went out, Madara, who was planning to catch up with the account of friends, sneaked out of the window and kept following Natsume secretly, waiting for Natsume to be taught a good lesson by the witch god at the shrine before saving that troublesome human being. Coming out can also make Natsume have a longer memory.

Unexpectedly, watching Natsume stepping up the bluestone steps, Madara who followed secretly seemed to break into a barrier, and returned to Natsume's room in the next second.I tried it several times like this, but it seemed that I had encountered some kind of transparent barrier before returning to the original point.

Only then did Madara suddenly realize that he had also been tricked by that monster.

It's just that with such a powerful ability, even if the god becomes a monster, is it the same as having a cheat?

At this point, Madara was very irritable, tried many methods but couldn't get close to the shrine, and couldn't even see Natsume's situation.If Natsume was killed by that monster just like this——Damn it, it deserves it!Who told Natsume not to listen to her at first!

Once again, Madara, who was knocked back home unconsciously, turned back into a cat, patting the cover of the account of friends angrily.

Later, the cat sniffed hard with its nose, clearly aware of the smell that was getting closer to Natsume.The cat immediately turned into a black mist and flew towards Natsume's position at high speed. Sure enough, he saw the boy trotting through the alley at night, holding a smaller boy in his arms.

"Teacher cat..." Natsume didn't feel surprised when he saw the cat with a fierce expression that suddenly jumped to the ground. See what happened to Lord Wu Shen? I don’t know why he suddenly passed out.”

"Sorcerer God?" Naturally, the cat has seen the appearance of the Sorcerer God, but the fainted Sorcerer God?The cat froze for a moment, then stared at the boy in Natsume's arms with wide eyes in disbelief.

Like a sleeping teenager, dressed in a white shrine uniform, his figure is a bit smaller than Natsume's. At this moment, his pale face is being held by Natsume with his eyes closed. Leaning against Natsume's chest.

This is the witch god?When did the witch god become so small?Looks like a sickly little monster!

"You..." The cat looked at Natsume's eyes and became unfathomable. I didn't expect Natsume to have some skills. He was able to single-handedly fight high-level monsters, and even brought them back after defeating them.

"Witch God, is he alright?" Natsume looked at the cat eagerly, with a bit of panic and worry in his voice.

"Maybe it's because the demon power is overdrawn." The cat felt a little irritated, especially when he saw the bruises on Natsume's neck that were obviously pinched out, but seeing Natsume's eager look, he still jumped on Natsume's shoulder, unwilling He looked carefully at the small version of the witch god in Natsume's arms.

"Overdraft? Is it right, as long as you rest?" Natsume was stunned, and then looked at the cat in confusion.

"Probably." The cat gave an ambiguous answer, but felt better.Although I don't know what kind of barrier the Sorcerer God has set up outside the shrine, and even though I made myself go back and forth several times, the Sorcerer God still fainted because of this!Hmph, as expected, it's no big deal for a god to become a monster.

Hearing Mr. Cat's answer, Natsume couldn't help feeling a little more at ease, and carefully hugged the witch god with both hands.

Looking down at the sorcerer's pale face, he recalled the appearance of the sorcerer not long ago. At that time, the sorcerer liked to eat wagashi, and the sorcerer who liked to be irritable and awkward and asked himself to worship. He was curious and wanted to try everything in the night market. The Witch God...

The corner of Natsume's mouth curled into a faint smile. He still likes the appearance of the witch god boy, and it would be great if he could return to his original appearance.

"Hey, hello, Natsume! You don't mean to take him home, do you?" The cat sitting on Natsume's shoulder was still condescendingly looking at the witch god, and wanted to step on the witch god who had just set him up. Two feet, but when seeing Natsume walking home with the witch god in his arms, the cat had a bad feeling.

"Yes." Natsume replied calmly.

"Did you forget to curse? You were also strangled by the witch god on your neck. He wanted to strangle you!" If possible, the cat also wanted to stretch out its two paws to pinch Natsume's neck, choking to wake this girl up. Guy's ass head.

"I still want to bring the witch god out of the shrine..." Natsume turned his head and smiled apologetically at the cat, but he couldn't leave the fainted witch god in the shrine.What's more, he didn't want to let the witch god stay alone in the shrine and look into the distance.

"Natsume, even so, the witch god won't live with you." The cat paused, and finally said slowly.

Even if they were reduced to monsters, witches and gods were still gods. The innate status and abilities of gods made them have a subtle relationship with humans. They coexisted but could not live together, and gods hated entering the human world.

What's more, the person the witch god likes is Natsume Reiko.

"At least I want to take the witch god home to have a look."

Xia Mu's pace suddenly slowed down, and his golden brown eyes fell on the face of the boy in his arms.Moreover, the shaman god might want to take a look at Grandma Reiko's relics.

He sneaked back home and carefully placed the witch god on the bed. The witch god under the quilt was like a human teenager.With a pale face, the light purple hair that had turned into short hair was messy and scattered on the white pillow. Natsume reached out and touched the hair of the witch god, and it was as soft as the last time he touched it.

The boy on the bed slowly opened his eyes, those purple pupils looked at the ceiling in a daze, and then looked at Natsume lightly.The boy's eyebrows were curved, and there was a soft shattering light in his purple eyes. He stretched out his hand to touch Xia Mu's face, and opened his mouth slightly——

"Reiko."

The smile at the corner of Natsume's mouth froze for a moment, and finally nodded slowly, and touched the eyes of the witch god with trembling hands.

"Well, I'm here."

Wu Shen's body trembled, the smile on the corner of his mouth disappeared, and finally he reached out and grabbed Natsume's wrist.

"Natsume."

Natsume smiled wryly when he heard the words of the witch god, and then stretched his hand back. He knew that the name he called this time was for him.

The Witch God sat up from the bed, looked around indifferently, and then got out of bed, as if he was going to leave and go back to the shrine.

"Master Wushen, can you wait a moment? I have something I want to show you." Having anticipated this situation, Natsume called out to stop Wushen, and then took out a box, "This is the relic of Grandma Suzuko."

The witch god glanced casually, and didn't seem to care too much.But when he saw a glass ball in the box, he was stunned, and then his eyes fell on the glass ball.

"Is this from Lord Wushen?" Natsume was stunned, and then lifted the glass ball in the box with both hands.

"Hmm." The Witch God nodded, and then stretched out his right hand to take back the glass ball. The image through the glass distortedly showed the Witch God's face, "Human beings can see what they want to see from the inside under the moonlight at night. scene."

"Master Wushen gave it to Grandma Reiko?" Natsume looked at Wushen suspiciously.

The witch god didn't answer, just stared at the glass ball in his hand and walked to the window, looking at the glass ball quietly through the moonlight.

"I once asked Reiko what her wish was, and asked her to make a wish come true for her, but after thinking about it for a long time, she said that she would give this wish to me, and give the god a chance to make a wish?" The witch god looked at the glass lightly. Ball, the smile on the corner of his mouth is slightly ironic.

"What wishes can the gods have?" The witch god turned to look at Natsume, as if asking Natsume this question.

It’s just—that is indeed the first human being to see himself, the first human being to talk to himself, the first human being to be by his side, the first human being not to make a wish to himself, the first human being to ask himself a wish What kind of human being.

"Did the shaman see the wish from the glass ball?" Natsume suddenly understood that the reason why the shaman gave the glass ball to Reiko was because Reiko didn't want to make a wish, so she hoped that one day Reiko would see the wish from the glass ball Then go back to your hometown and make a wish.However, as a god, can the witch god also see the expected scene from the glass ball?

"Oh, I've never seen any wishing scene." The witch god sneered, the glass ball through the moonlight seemed to be coated with a layer of light silver light, and the clear and transparent glass ball seemed to reflect the most real dream in his heart. world.

The witch god who listens to the prayers of human beings day after day, looks at the empty self through the glass ball day after day.

After meeting that human being, the scene in the glass ball finally began to change, but it was blurry. Until the night when the human being said he was leaving, the face of the girl was clearly reflected in the glass ball through the moonlight.

Inside the glass ball, the girl in a student uniform has grown up beautifully and married an excellent man, surrounded by a pair of lovely children who are smiling happily and acting like a spoiled child.And the woman in the apron reached out and hugged a girl similar to her from the ground, pampering the child's head and smiling like a fool.

As for me, as long as I watch quietly like this, I feel very satisfied, and I want to keep watching like this.

It's just—it's all over.

The glass ball in the right hand of the Witch God suddenly shattered. The shattered glass reflected the shattered night sky, and the shards of glass reflected the shattered starlight.From the moment Reiko left, he had already lost the opportunity to watch, and the wish of the gods was always just a wish.

The gods shouldn't have fallen in love with human beings in the first place, so, use a little memory of her to spend the long and indefinite years after that

——This is retribution.