"Born in the realm? Cruel?"

As I walked along the path to the end, I talked to him, "You are talking about something from your world, right? This should not be the case, but we also call this independent space a domain."

Because the path is too narrow for two people to walk side by side, Gojo Satoru followed me with his hands in his pockets, lazily saying, "If you look closely, there are no traces of the victims, and no traces of the magic power... just one It's an unpleasant smell."

"No trace doesn't mean no victims."

With this kind of power that can form a domain, it is more than enough to open up additional space to hide humans.

"Huh? There is a shrine at the end..." He stretched out his hand to his forehead and looked into the distance, complaining, "But there are no living people inside, and there is only empty sea water around."

I was surprised: "Can you see that far?"

"Yes, yes, it's amazing."

He nodded, and found that I didn't look back at him at all, so he deliberately turned me around by breaking my shoulders, and folded his hands on his chest: "Are you amazing?"

...are you asking for a compliment?

I raised my hands and applauded: "Yeah."

Gojo Satoru smiled proudly, raised his legs and walked towards the sea water next to him...then stood firmly on it.

"Great, right?"

"Awesome." I looked at him in amazement, "How did you do that?"

"Because I... am the strongest."

Does it mean that because he is the strongest, he can do anything?

I thought about it and thought that was what he meant, so I took advantage of the situation and made a request: "Can you let me play too?"

"sure."

Gojo Satoru stretched out his hand and pulled me over to stand beside him. I stomped my feet vigorously, and found that it was no different from stepping on the ground.

"I thought there would be a 'slapping' sound when I stepped on it."

As soon as I finished speaking, I felt that I fell a little bit, and then the soles of my shoes touched the water. If I stepped on it deliberately, there would be a clear sound of water.

I looked up to see Gojo Satoru's expression, he had an arrogance of "what's so difficult about this kind of request", and he raised his chin at me.

Like a proud cat that wants to pet its head.

So I followed my heart and asked, "Can I touch your hair again?"

"No."

"Just touch it."

"I'm going to throw you down."

"Okay." I sighed regretfully, stepped on the water a few more times and returned to the muddy path.Just tread water and play, normally I prefer land.

But Gojo Satoru saw me going back again, and said unhappily, "Why, are you afraid that I will really throw you down?"

I:"……?"

Me: "No, because I'm more used to land."

"Huh? Yeah. Maybe."

Well, it feels more like a cat.

I tilted my head and reached out to him: "Then you pull me over again?"

He squeezed the legs of the sunglasses and pulled them down, revealing half of his blue pupils, with a wicked smile on his lips: "Reject."

"Forget it." I calmly withdrew my hand.

Wutiaowu: "..."

Half an hour later, we came to the end of the path, where a smaller blood-red torii stood firmly on the sea, and further inside were two neat rows of palm trees on the left and right.

The shadows cast by the tall and dense branches and leaves cover the entire road, as if a natural cage wraps the innermost shrine.

The moment I stepped over the torii, the heavy dark red on the clear moon cage in the sky, and the thin red light poured down to add a touch of strangeness to the originally red shrine.

The pillars at both ends of the Aoshima Shrine are covered with mottled dark red traces, as if uneven paint has solidified on them, and the white lanterns hanging on both sides of the eaves are also dilapidated, and there is only a little lamp oil left where the candle should be lit.

The original main worship gods should be Hikohohidemisun, Fengyu Bimaiming, and Shioto Old Man, but now there is only an exquisitely carved nameless statue in the center of the shrine.

"..."

The palm trees on both sides move without wind, and the rustling sound of leaves makes the shrine even more silent.

Just when I stepped into the outer gate of the shrine, the nameless statue began to melt a little bit from the top of the head, and the liquid flowed down the ground into the courtyard, and then solidified layer by layer into an exact human shape.

【Sure enough, Fusangshen】

"Well, the main body should be the Aoshima Shrine." I echoed Hei Ni's words, "It has been hundreds of years, and I have received the service, respect and resentment of countless humans during this period, and it is inevitable that I will become a monster after absorbing the power of fragments. "

Gojo Satoru quickly took out his mobile phone, clicked on the camera to take a picture, and said in surprise, "Can I actually take a picture?"

He immediately turned his back to the shrine, held up his phone to accommodate himself and the newly formed Fusangshen into the screen, made a yes gesture and pressed the camera button.

"Hahaha, it's really interesting, send it to Jie..."

Jay?Is it a person's name?

I looked sideways curiously, only to find that Gojo Gojo was standing there holding the phone in a daze, then turned off the screen and put the phone back in his pocket, looking at me with raised eyebrows: "What?"

Before I could reply, the gloomy sky suddenly cleared up, and the muddy path returned to a normal approach. A man and a woman in old-fashioned kimonos were walking along the approach to the shrine.

Gojo Satoru took off his sunglasses, folded them and hung them on his index finger, staring at the oncoming men and women: "Is it a hallucination?"

I didn't make a sound, and stood aside to leave a place on the road for this illusory pair of men and women.They carried each other through the courtyard and knelt down in front of the temple, pious and solemn.When getting up, the man carefully supported the woman, and then smiled at each other.

The two figures gradually disappeared transparently, and a new figure reappeared on the approach outside the torii—it was still the man and woman just now.But the man walked ahead angrily, while the woman followed behind with her head bowed in small steps.

When paying homage, the woman saluted solemnly, but the man bowed casually in a perfunctory way, and forcibly pulled the woman's arm to lift her up, regardless of the embarrassment that the latter almost fell down.

After they disappeared again, figures also appeared on the back path, this time only the woman walked alone on the path, approaching the shrine step by step with stiff and slow steps.

I originally thought that the hallucination was about the process of human beings being hurt by Fusangshen, but it turned out to be unimportant men and women visiting the shrine, so I stopped paying attention and looked straight at Fusangshen not far away.

"The Aoshima Shrine, which witnessed the love between Yukihiko Yama and Toyama Hime, is rumored to be able to protect marriage, so newlyweds will visit here specially, so it is also called the 'Society of Marriage'."

"Shrine, did you absorb power and become Fusangshin just to pay attention to this boring daily life?"

Fu Sangshen, who had been quietly watching the hallucination, heard the words and looked over, his eyes were warm and peaceful, but he did not answer my question, "Every 100 years, I wake up for a while, and pay attention to the human beings who pray to me for good luck. The sincerity can be felt even when I'm asleep, and I'm just fulfilling their wishes."

Not far away, the woman who was kneeling on the ground and weeping bitterly seemed to have a body, and her voice gradually became clear: "...God, the man who made an oath to me in the past abandoned me, but I did nothing No... I can neither save him nor take revenge on him, I can only live in pain day after day..."

The beautiful Fu Sangshen smiled and made a helping gesture, and the sad woman was lifted up by an invisible force.

"Do you want to save him?"

Mysterious and ethereal voices came from all directions of the shrine, melodious and long-lasting.

"God...?" The woman seemed to grasp the last hope, clasped her hands tightly, and tremblingly said: "I...I want to be with him forever...he promised!"

On Fu Sangshen's chest, there was a shard of golden light shining, but that light appeared and disappeared, and even disappeared in its heart a few times.I'm not sure if it's a complete fragment if I dig it out directly, I plan to wait and see what it wants to do.

With a heavy shoulder, a white hair raised its chin and pointed at the increasingly solid illusion: "Wow, the illusion looks more and more real, can't it be a real person?"

As soon as the words fell, the woman scattered like a shattered mirror, withering into the dark ground.

I replied to him: "It should be a real scene in the past, that is to say, she used to be a real human being."

"Ever? What about now?"

"Pray to the monster for help, I should be dead."

Fu Sangshen stared at the place where the woman disappeared, and said with a smile: "People pray to me, and I help them. She wants to be with her lover forever, so I create a unique space to put them together, so that Men can no longer escape."

"Oh, it's scary." Gojo Gojo answered in a cheap dialect.

"Fusangshen is not a real god. You claim to be a god, but you are actually a monster turned into a shrine. You lock up human beings to satisfy your own selfish desires. Stop covering yourself with a fig leaf. They are hidden by you Didn't you cry and beg you to let them go?"

Fu Sangshen looked at me silently.

I chuckled, "Please, but you ignored it, didn't you."

Gojo Satoru joined in: "That's right."

"Gojo Satoru, stop pressing on my shoulders, your head is heavy."

"Huh? Impossible, I don't feel it."

"Because it's me who suffers."

"Cut~"

"I gave them a chance." Fu Sangshen said in a very soft voice, "If they beg, I will let the one who broke the promise explain their faults to the sea. If they can alarm the god of salt cones who controls the tide, it will be clear. TA is sincerely remorseful...but unfortunately, no one has ever succeeded."

Gojo Satoru stood up straight, hooked the corners of his lips, but there was no smile in his eyes: "Huh? Really. What did you do to those who failed?"

Suddenly the wind blew up somewhere, and Fu Sangshen's pure white feathers moved with the wind, and it still had that gentle expression: "Since there is no sincerity, we can only let the tolerant sea purify their dirty hearts."

"It's really... so disgusting." Gojo Satoru said blankly, "The last question. Are the humans locked up by you still alive?"

Fu Sangshen let out a soft "ah" and said, "It's only when you say that that I realize... Humans need to eat, right? I've never given them food... They should all be dead."

boom--

A streak of crimson energy instantly passed through Fu Sangshen and crashed into the old shrine, and the wooden building was destroyed into wreckage under the impact of the majestic energy.

Gojo Satoru's raised fingertips were still emitting fine smoke from the burst of energy, but the target he attacked turned back to its original shape after a moment of twisting.

"Human power is useless to me." Fu Sangshen laughed, "Unless..."

The sound stopped abruptly.

puff.

"Unless it's the same power as yours and a higher level." I slowly pulled out the long knife inserted into its heart, and took off the debris attached to the long knife, "Is that right?"

Fu Sangshen, who had his back to me, let out an unknown sound, and fell down stiffly.

There was a big hole in its chest, I reached out and took out the heart, and after crushing it, a golden fragment with slightly larger mass appeared.

"Potatoes, are the pieces intact?"

[Incomplete, part of the power has escaped, and I will have to find it again in the future]

I shook off the disgusting pieces of meat: "It really isn't complete, I knew I couldn't bear it for so long."

[No way, this Fu Sangshen has absorbed a lot of fragment power, it is difficult to dig out the fragments completely]

"Wouldn't it be complete if it took the initiative to dig out the heart and give it to me?"

【Stop dreaming】

"After all, it's a shrine. I thought it would be somewhat divine." I kicked the doll that fell to the ground, "Sure enough, monsters are monsters."

【Even if there was divinity, it disappeared after killing people】

Gojo Satoru came over, lowered his eyes to look at Fu Sangshen who was lying on the ground, and asked, "Is this the limp monster you mentioned that oozes black stuff?"

I retorted: "No, that is a relatively low-level monster. This kind of monster that combines the power of fragments to become a monster is considered a higher-level monster."

The surrounding scene was cracked inch by inch, and the boundless ocean receded into strange-looking rocks, revealing the real Aoshima Shrine.

A gap suddenly appeared in the sky, hundreds of dead bones fell out of the sky, and the sound of the bones colliding with the ground was extraordinarily clear in the night.

Gojo Satoru was dazed for a while before opening his mouth: "...Is this within the scope of abnormal disappearances? But I have never seen any missing reports of these people."

I took out a special box and put the fragments in, explaining: "This is a 'hidden spirit', their disappearance is silent, everyone who knows them will forget their existence, naturally no one will notice something is wrong and call the police. "

After the domain was shattered, Fu Sangshen who fell on the ground quickly dissipated and annihilated, and the pile of tall dead bones not far away also disappeared with it.

Gojo Satoru was rarely quiet for a while, and I also let go of my thoughts for a while.

This isn't the first time I've encountered a shrine-turned-fusangshin.

The Fusangshin that I saw for the first time turned into a shrine can be said to be a real monster-no human form, but two extra eyes on the eaves of the shrine, calmly watching the human beings coming and going.

But what that monster did can be called a "god". After obtaining the fragments, it conscientiously used new power to protect the human beings under it, and there has never been any abuse of power.

Even if I found it to take back the fragments, it simply dug out the heart, and I was still worried until it disappeared——

"Will the children live kindly and well in the future?"

Because of it, I usually have a little affection for Fusangshin transformed into shrines.

It's a pity that I have never encountered a god-like existence like it again.

The island was so quiet tonight that the undulating sound of the waves could hardly be heard.Probably due to this environment, or some other reason, Gojo Satoru rarely felt irritable.

"Speaking of which, isn't this the best example of praying for a wish from a 'god'? In the end, even the existence is erased."

He stopped in his tracks with a sarcastic tone, "So don't talk about fulfilling your wishes anymore, and even talk about reversing time. Do you think you are a god?"

I didn't know what was causing his sudden boredom, so he said calmly, "I'm not a god, and the essence of making a wish is actually an exchange of equal value. The price you can pay to achieve your wish is related to time." The price that needs to be paid for the wish is the most expensive."

"You specifically mentioned this, did you feel moved?"

"..."

Gojo Satoru suddenly pressed his forehead with his palm, and smiled, "...I'm not moved~ I just thought of it suddenly."

"This price is really expensive, but your eyes are treasures, right? The price is enough, but you refused."

"These eyes are really bad."

While saying that he was not moved, he was answering my question.

The thin moonlight fell gently on his white hair, and the reflected silver shimmer bounced around his head with naughty steps. Those eyes, which were always as deep as the deep sea, watched quietly. distance.

As if aware of my gaze, the owner of the eyes turned to look at me and made a questioning expression:?

I tilted my head: "You are really beautiful-how about it, let me touch it and help you lower the price."

He was strangely silent for a while: "...Where did you touch?"

I:"……"

Me: "Of course it's the head..."

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【Little popular science】

Shioshii God: The god in charge of tides in Japanese myths and legends (the story of Yamasachihiko and Umisachihiko)

Fu Sangshen: Refers to the utensils being left alone for 100 years, absorbing the essence of heaven and earth, accumulating resentment and getting souls to turn into monsters.

Monsters: One level higher than monsters, also known as monsters, with emotions and intelligence, Fusangshen is also a kind of monsters (private setting)

Monster<Fusangshen<Things and monsters (private design)

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