It's Auntie Benmaru!

#21

The crooked moon hanging over Hiraizumi is as peaceful as a virgin at this moment.

The white moonlight penetrated the gaps between the branches and leaves and fell on the ground, forming spots like fireflies.

At first glance, this place is beautiful, but it is also strangely ethereal.

Sword Fusangshen and his team immediately sensed that something was wrong, and Sankaiyue, who was behind the team, even turned around and pulled Tianqing's arm, pulling her, who was lagging behind, closer to them.

"Don't stay too far away from me." Sanriyue smiled calmly, but looked at the distant tree with deep vigilance.

After all, this open space is unfamiliar to them who have leveled Kamakura several times in 1189.

Because of repeated missions, they should have been quite familiar with this area, but no matter what the mission status and search were, they had never seen this open space in Hiraizumi before, nor had they seen such a weird big tree.

"...This is not Hiraizumi."

Xiao Ye had already drawn her sword and guarded the dagger in front of her body, and also took a step back, forming a protective formation with other swords to protect Tianqing.

The atmosphere suddenly became tense, and Tianqing immediately used her yin and yang eyes to observe the surrounding environment—who knows, the moment her eyes opened again, a dark figure suddenly passed over their heads aggressively, and landed with precision. In front of that thick big tree!

The leaves are rustling—

Tianqing looked up, and saw that the other party was holding two children in short kimonos under their armpits. There were several eyes on their distorted faces, and one of them had "Xiawu" written inside.

... It's a ghost!

Even the stinking smell of blood and evil on his body is the same!

When the other party saw a group of five people appearing here, he was also surprised for a moment, and a sharp laugh came from the mouth full of exaggerated animal teeth.

"Oh, it's lucky that there are so many fools who came to make wishes tonight... It just so happens that I only need to eat a few more bites of human flesh to usurp the position of the fourth in the bottom string."

After all, he licked the unconscious child on his right hand with his blood-red wet tongue.

This was the first time Yamabuchi and the others saw a creature like a ghost, not a human being, but it was definitely no less terrifying than the retrograde army.

After all, the retrograde army will not attack ordinary people!

It was not the first time that Tianqing had encountered a "ghost", but she reacted faster, and she had already touched the magic talisman of Rihefang with her right hand.

"God judge, no!" Honosuke grabbed her arm: "If this is not caused by the retrograde army, we can't interfere!"

[How could that ghost eat that child! ]

Tianqing turned around and stopped Foxnosuke, stuffed Foxnosuke into Yamabuki's arms, and summoned Rihebo: "Hihebo! Go show him some color!"

"……learn!"

Rihebo appeared from the light, and the ghost that was planning to attack seemed to sense something wrong with the light, and half of the outstretched hand was burned off, and it couldn't even grasp the prey in its hand-the child just fell to the ground up.

"This is... sunshine?! Impossible, how could there be sunshine at this time..."

The ghost muttered, and didn't have time to explore why there was sunshine under the moonlight night. After all, it was the fifth of the last string. Its instinctive reaction to natural enemies was faster than other low-level ghosts, and it tore at the big tree behind.

And a wonderful thing happened in an instant, I saw that the ghost tore a gap out of thin air with its claws—it turned out that the big tree was just an illusion on the surface, and the ghost tore open the space just by digging lightly.

In order to escape for his life, he ignored the child he threw on the ground, and fell into the pitch-black space in an instant.

As for Tianqing, looking at the entrance of the space that was about to close, and smelling the strong resentment coming from inside, she gave a new order without thinking.

[Yamato Mori, save those two children first! ]

Yamatomori ran immediately, and Hiyorubo tried his best to catch up, using the sunlight to barely hold the open state of the entrance. At the same time, Hiyorubo noticed something strange...

"Master Tianqing, I feel that your fragments seem to be in this space!"

[In this space? ]

Tianqing approached, and indeed felt that there was a familiar aura in the strong bloody smell.

Foxnosuke's eyes widened when he heard the words. Although he wanted to remind Tianqing that their actions had seriously deviated from the tasks arranged by the Toki Government, he couldn't say those words.

After all, the fragments are as important as the soul to Tianqing, if it stops Tianqing here, she doesn't know when she will be able to piece herself together.

It wanted to suggest that a whole row of swords and swords should go in with Tianqing to find the fragments, but when he took a step, the bell on his neck suddenly made a warning sound, which he knew meant that the retrograde army was about to appear.

The tinkling of bells seemed to be urging everyone to make a decision.

Xiaoye originally wanted to keep up with Tianqing, so her footsteps stopped, and Sankaiyue did the same.

In this situation, Fox had no choice but to grit his teeth: "Go, God judge, just leave three strikes here, I can guarantee that the task will be completed safely! If we don't complete it, we will come back next time!"

Tianqing turned her head in surprise, she didn't expect that Foxnosuke, who is usually most worried about this and that, would bear the brunt of making up her mind for her.

But restoring her spiritual power is still the most important thing for her, so she nodded and agreed: "Mr. Nayamabagiri, you come in with me!" ]

"Okay, I see."

[That is, Yamato Mori just walked away, and here are Mr. Saya and Mikazuki...]

No, to be honest, she is actually not too worried about Xiao Ye, that is, Crescent Moon—he hasn’t spoken much since the start of the mission, and she doesn’t know whether Dark Fall will actually have any impact on his body or combat ability .

Or maybe Tianqing's worried eyes were too obvious, San Riyue smiled heartily after seeing it: "Hahaha, master, don't worry, I will do it well when I have to do it."

[That was not what I meant. ] Tianqing was not worried about San Riyue's strength at all, but worried about him forcing herself.

San Riyue was stared at by this pretty face and familiar eyes under the moonlight, as if seeing "that girl" in a trance, before she went away—the eyes always looked at him like this, with a faint look , Unspeakable reluctance.

At that time, he didn't frankly raise his hand to keep her. Now, seeing Tianqing's back facing the entrance of the dark space, for some reason, a phantom of her disappearing appeared in his mind.

Sanriyue's heart skipped a beat, and almost by accident, she raised her hand and grabbed it in her direction.

"Sanriyue?" Xiaoye next to her felt strange and raised her innocent face and asked.

The crescent moon wearing black leather gloves almost touched Tianqing, and his thoughts suddenly returned to reality. He looked at his awkwardly raised hand, and then realized the confusion caused by his longing.

A gust of wind brushed against Sankayue's cheek again, messing up his long blue hair at the temples.

He was suddenly very worried that his "state" would be invisible in front of Tianqing and his partners, so he withdrew his hands in a panic.

But just as his big hand was hanging down, he felt that his hand was suddenly grabbed by a small hand.

The warm little hand burned his palm through the glove, and the slightly warm temperature came, and Sanriyue's eyes were dazed, and the next moment... there was a scorching feeling on the back of the hand!

He looked down, and immediately took off the leather gloves - he saw the same flying bird pattern on the back of his broad and beautiful hand as on Tianqing's clothes.

At the same time, one appeared on the back of Tianqing's own hand.

"This is..." Xiao Ye blinked and looked up at Tianqing.

[This is my family crest. With this seal, when you are in danger, I will rush back no matter how far away you are. ]

Tianqing explained with a smile, that firm smile wiped away some of Mikazuki's mess in an instant, and then turned her attention to Honosuke. She didn't choose to explain to Mikazuki and Saya, but just passed the words directly to Honosuke heart.

[… Conversely, if the family crest suddenly lights up when they are not in danger, you can take them back to Honmaru first. ]

Foxnosuke understood what Tianqing meant, didn't say much, just nodded obediently - not showing any clues in front of Mikazuki and the others.

With a satisfied smile on Tianqing's face, she entered the tree cave entrance together with Hiyorubo and Yamabukiri.

Under the moonlight, since the girl brought Shikigami and Fusangshin into the entrance, the entrance of the ugly tree quickly closed like a living thing.

In the next moment, the space seemed to be sucked into a vortex, and even the positive lawn and big trees disappeared.

What Foxnosuke and Sankayue saw before their eyes suddenly returned to the Hiraizumi street they knew.

The sunny breath disappeared without a trace.

There was silence.

the other side.

After entering the space, Tianqing and the Shikigami ran forward all the way, and finally reached a place with light.

"...What is this?!"

In the space where he can see things, Yamabuchi bears the brunt of the shock and exclaims, then raises his head and looks around in astonishment, not even paying attention to the sheets that he has been wearing stubbornly slipping off his body.

Just because this space is too permeable.

I saw that in the space, there are some moss-covered tree roots and vine branches growing here and there, and the dark green tree trunks like a jungle are interlaced to form a dome.

The road under his feet is uneven, and there are pits on the ground woven with tree roots and giant vines. The pits are filled with muddy water, exuding bursts of biting chill.

The key point is that on the dense and opaque top floor, vines of different thicknesses and lengths hang down one after another, and at the end of some vines, like snakes, children in kimonos are tightly tied up.

Those pale-faced children tightly hugged their tokens. Anyone could tell that the children who were hung were dying, and only had their last weak breath left.

As for those who have died, they are cruelly and incompletely abandoned at their feet, as miserable and humble as worn-out rags.

Yamabachi was really taken aback, even Yamata no Orochi, who was in Tianqing's pocket, smiled and said, "...these are sacrifices, right?"

"Sacrifice..." Yamabaki subconsciously drew his sword and wanted to cut off the vines and save the children, but was stopped by Tianqing: [Don't waste time. ]

"...Why?" Yamabuakiri's pupils expressed despair. Although he had been fighting as a blade for a long time, he had never seen such a cruel thing.

[Because this is not a normal space, if we don't solve the owner of the space, we won't be able to take the children out, so... let's go straight to Huanglong. ]

She closed her eyes and looked at Rihefang again: [Rihefang, can you summon sunlight in this space? ]

"It is possible to summon the sun...but it has no effect on the trees here. It seems that the trees here are not ghosts' spells."

[Sure enough, I also think the owner of the enchantment should be a monster. ]

Tianqing's eyes were serious: [...Could it be another incident of ghosts encroaching on the enchantment of monsters to do evil? ]

She walked forward with serious eyes, not looking at the cruelly twisted corpses on the ground like broken dolls, and walked through many winding bends.

Suddenly, she felt a familiar breath at one of the forks in the enchantment.

Tianqing immediately walked forward without saying a word, ran through many curves and boundaries, and finally... After 10 minutes, she arrived at a space similar to the one before.

In the inner room made of countless tree trunks, there is a strange tree that is abrupt and low. The big tree grows crookedly, like a hideous human face above.

Then... In front of the strange tree, there was a figure about the same height as her.

The other party just stood quietly in the distance, but it made Tianqing's heart skip a beat.

I saw that the other party had black hair that did not reach his shoulders, and a short braid on his head—and he was wearing a black and white men's hunting jacket embroidered with Yuanjia's family crest on his thin body.

The little boy was holding something in his hand, even the blade that he always held by his side was casually stuck on the ground by him. He looked up at the strange tree, lowered his head as if thinking about it, and dug a hole under the big tree to remove the thing. buried.

Tianqing looked at him, and suddenly remembered all the dreams she had in the past.

Those tiny fragments emerged in my mind, including the little boy staying alone in the dark, and the appearance of the little boy arguing with his master in the sunny courtyard, and the dispute when the master was dying...

The emotions of unwillingness, persistence and pain were intertwined on him, making him irreversible. She suddenly understood what the familiarity she felt was—it was just that she didn't expect that she would see the entity of the monster here.

She even wondered if she was in a dream now.

What happened after that?

Tianqing approached slowly, thinking whether she should hide the fact that she knew him.

It's just that before she got close, a glaring figure stretched out its sharp claws from the sky, stabbing fiercely at the boy's neck!

Tianqing's eyes widened, her footsteps changed from slow to hasty, she rushed forward without thinking, and stopped in front of the boy with her arms outstretched.

"... Onikiri, get down!"

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