It's Auntie Benmaru!

#51

Clang!

Clang——!

After Baishan Yoshimitsu said he wanted to "execute the order", he chopped down the door in front of him with a gust of speed, and chopped off an arm of the ghost in front of him without hesitation!

Losing the hand he used to beat the drum, Baishan Yoshimitsu swiftly cut the ghost's eyes, and before the opponent could react, he stepped on the drum to shorten the tendon of the other arm, and in just a moment, let the ghost The ghost lost the ability to beat the drum.

Tianqing didn't expect Baishan Jiguang to force a ghost several times his size into such a desperate situation so quickly after he appeared, but then he thought about it—this calm young man was only observing with a spirit body. For all the details of the mansion, it is only natural that he knows the information on how to deal with ghosts.

She saw hope from the predicament, and she forcibly suppressed the exhaustion of running around. In order to find Hiyorubo and Yukidouji, and even escape the maze to retrieve her partners and go back to the original era, she must now assist Hakuyama Yoshimitsu!

So she got up from the tatami, recalling the wind attribute demon power she learned from Ichimokulian today, summoned a strong wind in the room, and blew one of the drums cut down by Baishan Yoshimitsu far away!

They must now want to prevent the ghosts from using blood ghosts to change the terrain. The next step is to overcome the power gap between Baishan Yoshimitsu and the ghosts themselves, and then reduce Baishan Yoshimitsu's burden.

Tianqing quickly built different wind-attribute barriers in the room to increase the foothold for Baishan Jiguang. Soon, he had already cut a lot of marks on the ghost's neck.

"Baishan Jiguang, can you cut it in?"

"..." He raised his eyes and seemed to analyze it for a while, and then replied: "It's very difficult."

Baishan Yoshimitsu knelt on the ground again, and then tried to go forward and chop the neck of the drum beating ghost—this ghost's movements were actually inflexible, it can be said that it was completely inferior to Baishan Yoshimitsu's mobility, plus Baishan Jiguang's attack Point accurate and purposeful, ghosts are basically impossible to fight against.

That's the key problem, Baishan Jiguang's sword can't cut off the ghost's head.

The sword is short, and it was originally used for stabbing and assaulting. The neck of this ghost is stronger than any structure of the time retrograde army. It is really difficult to force Baishan Yoshimitsu to achieve the existence of killing ghosts.

"Master, do you want to continue trying?"

After a few moves, Baishan Yoshimitsu jumped on top of the ghost's head again, aiming at the ghost's side neck with the sword and piercing straight in, but the wound was still not big enough, and the ghost could cut through the incision at the same time as long as it exerted all its strength. Recovered, and even bit the blade fiercely!

Baishan Jiguang seemed to frown: "I still have strength."

Tianqing took the situation into consideration and did not issue new orders, but fell into deep thought.

"There is still physical strength" means that the physical strength has a chance to bottom out. This ghost is not the final opponent they need to face. There is Wu Mi that is ten times more terrifying than this outside, so they don't necessarily need to kill this ghost as a top priority. , on the contrary, I should find Rihefang and Yukidou...

Is there any way to safely join Rihebo and Yukidoji in this space?

Tianqing thought for a long time, and suddenly her eyes fell on the beating drum in the distance.

She opened her mouth: "...No, Baishan Jiguang, let's take the drum and run away!"

Baishan Yoshimitsu, whose hands were stained with blood, was startled, and instantly understood Tianqing's plan, and understood——

"Master, this is a good idea!"

……

Yoshimitsu Hakuyama knows how to use drums to manipulate room changes.

So after Tianqing came up with this idea, he targeted the drum hanging on the back of the ghost, and the drum that was shot down in the distance on Tianqing's target, one person and one sword grabbed the drum into his arms at the same time, and the next step was to leave with a tacit understanding. !

Baishan Jiguang hugged Tianqing and beat the drum four times nimbly with his hands. Before the ghost behind could catch up, he was forced to enter a new space.

Next, Tianqing was put down by Baishan Jiguang, and the young man looked down at the two drums, and then knocked a few more times.

The sliding door between the two of them opened and closed, and the newly created room was closed with a bang. After searching for one room after another, they finally met Xuetongzi.

"Master Tianqing!" Xue Tongzi came from afar. In order to find Tianqing, he had already used his awakened state—but he searched for one room after another, but he was still suppressed by the room reinforced with the sealing stone. Strength, no matter what, it is impossible to find Tianqing effectively.

He blamed himself quite a bit: "Are you hurt?"

"No, where is Rihefang?"

"Rihefang was kidnapped by a ghost just now..."

"It is impossible for Rihefang to be imprisoned by ghosts. We have snatched the drum, and we will definitely be able to find Rihefang!"

Tianqing said this, while Baishan Jiguang, who was next to him, beat the drum quickly and expressionlessly, with a few bangs, all the extended spaces were closed by him, and all the doors were open, but there was no Rihefang everywhere. figure.

"Strange..." Xue Tongzi noticed the strangeness of the space. They had been searching for 10 minutes, and it was impossible not to see any trace of Rihefang.

"If we meet Wu Mi before Rihefang returns, it can be said that we have no chance of winning..."

"Speaking of which, we have all obtained the dominance of the space, will Wu Mi allow this to happen?"

"If I am Wu Mi, my next step is..."

Tianqing frowned and thought—now that they have obtained this space, even if Wu Mi came, they could throw Wu Mi into the maze as easily as they did before, would he seem to allow this to happen?No, he doesn't look like such a fool, if so...

He will terminate this large-scale operation!

Thinking of this, Tianqing immediately turned to look at Baishan Jiguang, and ordered: "Baishan Jiguang, that ghost beating the drum is in danger now! Don't let Wu Mi find him!"

"Once Wu Mi kills that ghost and sends us back to our original mansion, the next step may be to kill us!"

When Tianqing said this, Baishan Jiguang naturally started to find the ghost that was abandoned by them just now, but their actions were obviously one step too late. At the moment when the last pair of wooden doors opened, Wuyou had already walked to the ghost. In front of him, the elder's sharp clawed hand slashed forward cruelly, and the ghost's head fell off.

At the same time, the two drums in their hands were wiped out, and the space was shaken!

Baishan Yoshimitsu and Xuetongzi blocked Tianqing at the same time, even if they couldn't resist the ghost dance Tsuji Wumi who was approaching step by step, he stared coldly at Tianqing's direction, obviously blocking two Fusangshen in front of him, He treats it like nothing.

"...Excessive resistance."

With a trace of ridicule, he spit out words from his mouth, he just waved his hand, and the suddenly extended arm violently slapped Xuetongzi and Baishan Jiguang away, and pinched them precisely on Tianqing's slender neck!

The hand that was used to kill the ghost just now was covered with sticky blood, and the stench made Tianqing's stomach churn.

The lack of oxygen made it difficult to see things normally, Tianqing struggled and kicked her feet desperately in the air, and noticed that Wuyou had brought them back to the original house.

Sure enough, the disappearance of ghosts is equivalent to the disappearance of space. Tianqing realized that the sky outside had completely darkened in the confusion. King of the night without any weakness.

"I didn't expect that we would meet again so soon."

"You still dare to appear in my lair, you are really brave."

Wu Mi's pupils reflected the painfully struggling girl in front of her, and her superior tone reminded Tian Qing once again of the strength gap between her and Wu Mi.

In front of Wu Mi, what she knew didn't seem to work.

Being strangled by the neck, Tianqing's entire face turned bloody due to lack of oxygen, she desperately searched in the room, except for Yukidouji and Hakuyama Yoshimitsu who had been fainted by Wuyou just now, Onikiri, Yaken, and Yi Neither Qi Yizhen nor Wuyoshi Zhenzong were in this room.

"Your partner was thrown into the same maze by me from the very beginning."

Wu Mi seems to have understood all of Tianqing's thoughts, and even explained it kindly.

"In the maze, I arranged a sufficient number of ghosts for them...and I didn't pay attention to their life and death."

"If they are alive, they should be back in this city house by now."

"... What I arranged for them is another hell."

Wu Mi calmly talked about every mechanism she arranged like a high-level chess player. Tianqing remembered that this was the first time Yaken and the others faced ghosts, and fierce battles are inevitable. Fortunately, she has felt it until now. Yaken their souls are still around here.

Just onigiri?Onikiri has no contractual relationship with her, only a piece of her body, how would she feel about Onikiri's situation?

Under the condition of lack of oxygen, Tianqing's thoughts became more and more confused - this seems to be the first time Onikiri has fought against Onikiri without Hiyorubo, although she doesn't think that ordinary opponents can tie Onikiri's footsteps ...

But what if he was seriously injured?

The more she thought about it, the more frightened she became. She was afraid that she would not be able to return to that monster's side, and she was also blaming herself for not being able to save him, and she still wanted to rely on him at this juncture.

She wants to save Onikiri, she wants to return to Onikiri.

She wanted to see Onikiri—

Tears finally came out of her eyes, and her desire for power finally triggered the wind-attribute blessing power she had just obtained this morning.

A gust of wind appeared beside her, suddenly and sharply severed Wu Mi's arm, her body fell powerlessly into an embrace that smelled like a forest, it was the one-eyed god who protected her extremely preciously .

"...Sorry, I didn't expect you to call me at this moment."

"If I had known that he would hurt you like this, I should have set the Blessing Form as a form that I can take the initiative to come over."

……

#52

What appeared in the strong wind was a single-eyed Ming with a dragon beside him.

He stood gracefully on the dragon, all his tenderness was given to the human girl in his hand.

After recovering her physical strength with wind power, he took a small gourd from his waist and opened the cork, two warm rays of light floated out from the hole and naturally merged into Tianqing's body.

"this is……"

Feeling that these two small balls of light quickly restored her physical strength, Tianqing naturally recognized them—they were all fragments of her soul.

"After seeing you today, I have plans to retrieve the fragments for you."

Yimulian explained with a smile, his indifferent tone sounded like "I'll buy you a steamed stuffed bun" quite casually.

Sitting on the ground, she suddenly saw a black shadow approaching behind Yimulian——

"Master Yimulian, behind you...!"

Unexpectedly, when he raised his right hand, Shenlong had already built a solid barrier first, blocking Wu Mi's attack.

Yimulian then patted Tianqing's head, then straightened his body, and cast his eyes on Wumi's shadow.

"Ghost Dance Tsuji Wumi, I can't annihilate you, but it's more than enough for me to trap you here."

The gust of wind blew up Yimulian's bangs slightly, he stretched out his big bony hand, and seemed to draw a circle in the air carelessly, with Wu Mi as the center, suddenly a tornado blew up around him!

All the furniture and furnishings in the house were devoured by the tornado like food, and the blade-like wind indeed trapped Wu Mi in the center. This spell that can smash everything into pieces and infiltrate the terrifying killing intent is nothing like Yimulian will use skills, but Tianqing knows that he did all of this for her.

He is a god who cares too much about human beings, or, Yimulian has already noticed.

she is his...

She knelt behind Yimulian, and while the tornado trapped Wu Mi, he pointed to the two surrounding rooms. The wind opened up several rooms, and gathered several injured figures together.

Yakuken Toshiro, Ichiki Ikshin, Mukichi Sadamune, Hakuyama Yoshimitsu, Yukidouji, and Hiyawabo who was tied up with a sealing technique...

Tianqing watched her partners approaching one by one, but the last person was missing no matter how she counted——

What about Onikiri?

Where is Onikiri?

Tianqing panicked for no reason, but at this moment, the door behind her was split open by three silver lights!

With a bang, the bloody samurai with purple blue hair appeared in Tianqing's sight, she saw that he was not even steady on his feet, so she rushed up to support Onikiri.

"... Onikiri, are you alright?"

Worry was written on her small face, and Onikiri, whose eyelid was smeared with blood, opened one eye. Even though he was embarrassed, he asked in a sullen voice the moment he saw her: "Are you hurt——"

"But it's all right now, because Master Yimulian rushed over, I found Jianfu Sangshen, Yaken and the others gathered together, now let's go straight back to Honmaru!"

Tianqing explained in this way, but Onikiri's body was always in a tense state. The muscles in his arm holding the knife in his back hand were surprisingly hard. If Tianqing was not in front of him, he might have already rushed forward to fight the trapped In the tornado, Onimai Tsujima is fighting to the death.

"... Onikiri! I'm fine!"

Tian Qing didn't know how to calm down the warrior monster, she just hugged his arm and signaled him not to be nervous.

Feeling the trembling body of the person in his arms, Onikiri's pupils that were shining with blood just now finally subsided a little. He put his eyes on Tianqing, and noticed that her feet were trembling from exhaustion, and his heart softened. Come down and pick her up.

"Onikiri...?"

"Do not talk."

Still holding the knife, he approached step by step and used the wind screen to block Kibu Tsuji's Yi Mulian.

His eyes were extremely cold, he looked this god up and down, and finally gritted his teeth and said a word: "Thank you."

Ichimokulian didn't expect Onikiri to say something nice—even though he still had a fierce look on his face, it made him feel the frankness in Onikiri's soul.

It seems that Tianqing is really the most important thing to Onikiri, and for her sake, Onikiri is as proud as he is willing to bow his head to thank someone he doesn't approve of.

With an indifferent smile at Yimu Lian, he answered gracefully: "You are welcome..."

"But next time, I will protect her personally!"

Onikiri frowned and interrupted Ichimoren, speaking in a hoarse and low voice that Tianqing herself had never heard of a promise.

She deeply understood the weight of the monster's promise, and her smile immediately turned red: "Oni, Onikiri, what are you talking about..."

"you shut up."

"I know, I know..."

Tianqing was inexplicably interrupted by Onikiri's words, obviously she did not do anything wrong, but she was extremely guilty.

The interaction between the two fell into Yimulian's eyes, and it obviously became a very interesting scene, a hearty and gentle smile appeared on his handsome face: "It is quite a wonderful thing to have someone to accompany me through the long years. "

His ambiguous comment made Tianqing blush even more: "One, Master Yimulian, what are you talking about!"

"I don't mean anything." He smiled so much that his brows and eyes curled up, and that generous smile made Tianqing even more guilty.

She wanted to say something, but was interrupted by Yimulian: "Okay, now, you should go back as soon as possible..."

"Ah, yes..." Tianqing climbed off Onikiri, and signaled the slanderous Yaken to adjust the channel and return to Honmaru as soon as possible, and during this time, Tianqing kept looking at Ichimokulian—a feeling of reluctance Love, anyone can see it.

Yimulian also understood the thoughts in her heart, and said with a smile: "You and I will meet again."

"Really? No, it's true, it's just... I actually want to talk to you more, I..."

"I know."

He lowered his eyes and said, his eyes were extremely tender and gentle.

Neither of them said anything more.

Tianqing knows that there are still things she can't say to Yimulian in this era - because her every move will affect the future every minute.

Yimulian also deeply understands this.

So he just pulled the topic away without a trace: "What you lost, I will pay attention to it for you in the long years to come."

"The matter of the fragments... Thank you very much." Tianqing thought of the "meeting gift" he gave her just now, and her heart warmed: "You, you too... sooner or later you will meet someone who will stay with you."

"Okay, then let's meet again in the future."

"Well, see you in the future."

A ray of light appeared between Tianqing and Yimulian, her eye sockets were moist, pay attention, she and all her partners have returned to Honmaru.

……

Tian Qing did not expect the purpose of this trip to be so successful.

Not only was the large fragment of Wuhutui found, but he also brought back the only sword Fusangshen for Honmaru.

It wasn't until Tianqing checked Yaoyan's injuries that he found out that after they parted from Tianqing and his party, they soon fell into the trap of Wu Mi's agency, and spent a lot of effort to get the five tigers back. The wounds on Yanhe Wuji's body will take at least half a day to recover, and as for the first stage and one shock... they will have to lie down for two days and enter the room with their hands.

Busy with Wuhutui and Baishan Yoshimitsu, plus Yaoken and the others to treat the wound, Tianqing quickly exhausted her energy even with the help of fragments. On the first night back to Honmaru, she didn't even have dinner Eat and sleep.

"... Onikiri!"

In the middle of the night, Tianqing, who didn't know what nightmare she had, sat up from being startled by the group. At the same time, the door outside the dormitory was also pushed open violently. The lingering fear of the nightmare was still there. The standing samurai monster can't distinguish reality from dream for a moment.

"what happened to you?"

The man didn't seem to be able to figure out the situation, but walked to Tianqing's side in three steps and two steps, knelt down on his knees, straightened his waist, raised his hands to hold her cold sweaty face, and examined her carefully. Are there any clues.

Seeing his extraordinarily serious face, Tianqing finally realized that it was probably because her dream babble just now continued into reality, so she called the ghost outside the door in.

Onikiri held her face with both hands, her long black hair hung loose behind her, and Tianqing, who slowly adjusted her breathing, noticed how nervous and anxious Onikiri's eyes were, even more flustered than her.

Feeling the warmth from his palm, she felt more at ease, and raised her hand to cover the back of one of Onikiri's hands.

"...Did you not sleep just now?"

"I've been staying outside."

"Come back from the mission, you should have a good rest..."

"I won't be able to hear your call after sleeping." Onikiri interrupted Tianqing: "What happened to you just now?"

"Ah, I..." Tianqing tried to take off his hand. Under his serious questioning, she had no choice but to tell her unremarkable dream: "I dreamed of the maze under Wu Can's house today, everywhere Go, walk around... I can't summon Shikigami and I can't feel everyone's breath..."

"Then the door of one of the rooms opened, and I saw you in the middle, but you were injured and couldn't move..."

He frowned and listened to the girl describe her dream, recalling what happened today, he was still quite unwilling.

And this is also the reason why he didn't close his eyes just now—because when he closed his eyes, he remembered the scene of Tianqing being thrown into the black hole by Wu Mian today. He knew that Wu Mi was an opponent he couldn't beat. I was afraid that Tianqing would make any mistake and he would not be able to get to his side.

It's just that he didn't expect that he was thrown into the same maze, and all the surrounding rooms were the same, and no matter how he walked, he couldn't find the girl in front of him.

He instinctively felt hostile towards Yimulian, but sadly, today Yimulian saved Tianqing with his own hands - if it wasn't for him, the girl in front of him would definitely be gone.

Onikiri stretched out her hand to cover Tianqing's fair and thin neck. When she rushed towards him today, he saw that her neck was covered with bruises and sticky ghost blood. moment, but he doesn't know it.

So what's the point of his training?

Afterwards, Onikiri couldn't listen to Tianqing's description of the dream. On the contrary, the unwillingness that had been entrenched in his heart since he came back from the Kamakura period began to condense, and the accumulated negative emotions made his eyes turn red, and his body Muscles tensed up.

Why is he not strong enough?Why can't he protect this girl who has always been protecting her, why even in her dream, he appears as a wounded figure instead of her samurai——

The more Onikiri wanted to breathe, the more messy his breathing became. Tianqing was in front of him and noticed that his long hair was turning white little by little. Down, shake his arm immediately.

"Onikiri, Onikiri!"

However, his hair became whiter, feet emitting hot smoke grew from his forehead, and his lips began to turn an evil purple. She was worried that Onikiri would run away here, so in a panic, she simply threw it away. The whole group threw himself into his arms, hugged his head tightly and gave him a smooth hair over and over again.

"Onikiri! What's wrong with you, calm down, I didn't say anything just now..."

"It's okay, calm down..."

She comforted him over and over again, and the ghost who had fallen into an awakened state suddenly woke up, feeling that she was more.

Feeling that he was in her arms, the irritability and anger just now dissipated in an instant, replaced by nervousness, unable to get used to why her fragrance and breath suddenly became so close.

His lips moved, wanting to pull away the person who stuck to him and caused him chaos, but he was reluctant to let go.

The bodies of the two were cuddling together, he suddenly gave up all his defenses, and only knew to let her touch her over and over again.

At night, Onikiri watched the shadows of the two projected on the wall, almost fused together, and heard his soft voice.

"Today and just now, I was very scared. I was afraid that I would not find you..." She told her fear, the more she trembled, the more Guiqie blamed herself. Who knows, she quickly added: " But not next time, right?"

"...Well." Onikiri responded softly, no matter what the next time is, since she asked not to do it next time, then he won't do it next time.

"As long as Onikiri is still Onikiri, whenever I..." Tianqing blushed quietly as she spoke, and she only spoke in a breathless voice, but it seemed as if all her courage was spent: "I will wait with you."

Her voice was as light as a feather, but it easily caused ripples in Guiqie's heart.

"It doesn't matter if you come later, I will wait for you."

she said so.

The soft moonlight shone on the two of them. Listening to the girl's consolation and promise, Onikiri, who was being hugged, softened his figure, which was always tense like a mountain. He even closed his eyes, and just boldly let go of his hands. On her back, holding her in his arms.

Not the usual princess hugs, nor any hugs made to catch up with the enemy.

Instead, they hugged each other in a real sense. He felt her thin figure, and for a moment, it seemed that he had all the peace and beauty in the world.

"Ah."

……

#53

The sound of the girl's even breathing came from his arms, Onikiri gently let go of his hand, and carried her back to the soft bed.

The sleeping Tianqing looked silly, and her defenseless appearance actually infected Onikiri himself to let go of his defenses.

He also became able to kneel and sit beside her, looking at her sleeping face meaninglessly but obsessively, as if just doing this simple thing was enough to give him a sense of satisfaction that he had never had before.

Because it was her, the one he had finally found.

Onikiri lightly touched her cheek with the back of his finger, lowered his eyes and stood up, carefully leaving her room.

Recently, he felt that he had become complicated, becoming a human being as complicated as Tsuna Watanabe.

It must be her fault.

He is willing to die.

……

Tianqing was awakened by the sound of birds chirping in the early morning. After she got up from the bed, she walked out of the room with her soft black hair on.

So she put on her coat slowly, and walked slowly to the hall with tired steps.

On the way, she always felt that her eyesight had improved a lot. Several Oguri Taguchi who got up early saw Tianqing, and their eyes seemed to be a little dazed.

Luan even raised his cheeks: "Although I always thought the master was good-looking before, but now he is really too good-looking... I am so envious..."

Akita: "Master really looks good..."

"Why are you bustling around so early in the morning? Ah, it's the master..."

Yaken, who came out of the room with cute curly hair at the end, saw Tianqing approaching, his eyes were dazed unconsciously, and the pinnae of his ears turned red.

He almost subconsciously hid back in the room, trying his best to flatten his sleepy hair before he dared to go out and say respectfully, "General, Ji'an."

Tianqing was a little confused, so she said, "Why do you have weird eyes today?"

"Hahaha, it's nothing, the master is going to the main hall to prepare breakfast right now? I'll take you there!" Shinano also walked over sticky, took Tianqing's arm, and led her to the God Inspector. The chairman sits down.

Tianqing just sat in the most sunny position in the hall, lowered her eyes while discussing the arrangement with Foxnosuke, while waiting for other swords to enter the table.

She didn't notice it, and she didn't know it was her own fault. Later, all the swords and swords that entered the dining room focused on her. The dining room, which was always bustling in the past, was all because of the way Tianqing sat at the dining table today. And quietly became quiet.

There was a warm feeling in everyone's heart, and envy in their eyes.

Because Tianqing, who has become an adult, is so dignified and elegant. Just sitting there and talking with her eyes downcast, she looks like a fairy coming from the sun, and her every move is so beautiful that it attracts their eyes away. up.

This girl seemed so different from the silent protagonist they had first known.

She walked step by step, and step by step, she became the current Pillar of Honmaru who can hold her head up and hold her chest high, making them trust and admire.

"... Everyone, what's the matter?"

On the other side, Tianqing seemed to feel that there were more eyes on her today, so she asked curiously.

At this time, all the swords and swords in Honmaru blinked their eyes guiltyly, only Tsurumaru, who had been with Tianqing in Edo for a while and knew him better, laughed heartily: "Haha, everyone was caught by the master, you suddenly It’s frightening to see how grown up it is.”

"Really, do I look strange now?"

"No, no, no, it's so strange!" The swords below retorted in unison, especially Hasebe who pressed and cut them, and corrected them very seriously: "...On the contrary, you are so beautiful, master."

Tian Qing was a little surprised, she blinked her eyes shyly and then looked away: "You guys are exaggerating."

But how can a girl be unhappy when she is praised?

So she was in a very good mood all day long. After eating, she even went back to the dormitory to change into a better inner suit, and rolled up her sleeves very seriously before going to the forging room to try to carry out the soul recall of the five tigers. Work.

Just before she went in, a snow-white figure suddenly came down from the eaves, that light and beautiful movement made Tianqing stop, and when she looked back, she met the purple-blue haired warrior.

Because she was in a good mood, she didn't expect to embrace a large box of gravel in her hand, so she smiled at him: "Onikiri!"

That smile seemed to be melting into the sunlight, so bright and cute that Onikiri was startled.

His pupils were slightly rounded, and he suddenly remembered that on the second day when he came to Honmaru, he had imagined that when she grew up in the future, she would turn around to herself and smile as warmly as the sun.

It's just that he didn't expect this day to come so soon, and her appearance was even more beautiful than he imagined.

He clearly felt his heart being squeezed hard by someone's hand - he was obviously not attacked by anyone, or was hit by any spell, but he felt like his body was hit by something, and he couldn't move.

Just because she found herself and smiled at him.

"..."

Onikiri stood in front of her like that, trying to find a suitable word to tell her how she felt at the moment, but couldn't.

In the end, he could only curl the corners of his mouth helplessly in the warm light.

- lost to her.

It was the first time Onikiri took the initiative to smile at her, that smile was as lazy as the spring breeze, half of it was almost covered by the sun, but occasionally it was extremely clear.

There was a tender and gentle light in his eyes, the eyes that were obviously only looking at her, directly smashed into her heart with a smile, making her heart beat non-stop.

This almost made Tian Qing lose her footing, her cheeks were red, she accidentally stepped on a stone while backing up, and fell to the ground holding a large amount of gravel with a wow.

There was a blooming pain in her buttocks, which made her little face wrinkle up.

Onikiri had no choice but to rush to help her up immediately, and at the same time picked up the scattered stones back into the box one by one.

"...You can fall down no matter how well you stand."

He approached her, speaking in a low and hoarse voice, and his breath fell on her face a little.

Tianqing's face became hotter and redder, and she began to stammer, trying to explain but couldn't - after all, how could she explain to him.

Explaining that she recently put Onikiri in a very important position in her heart, so even though he just smiled just now, it was just a smile...

But she was very happy because of this, and hoped that she could always see him smiling at her like this.

"……What’s wrong with you?"

Onikiri wanted to say that she looked a little weird, but finally stopped.

Tianqing's ears were red: "No, it's nothing... it's because of you... no, it's all right, I'm going to the forging room, can you help me move things there?"

"Yes." Onikiri nodded slightly, and his reply was still as simple as ever, but she felt that his voice was terribly sweet, and just listening to it made her heart skip a beat.

"...too cunning."

She covered the cloth on her chest and lowered her eyes.

"Damn that idiot."

……

After the episode happened, Tianqing had no choice but to piece together the soul fragments of the five tigers retreating.

She took quite a long time to deal with it this time, and she didn't really wake up the five tigers until she accompanied her back to the Kamakura era, Baishan Yoshimitsu, and after they got better in the first episode.

She had fantasized many times about the time when Kuritaguchi's family was finally tidy, so when the five tigers with short white hair and five cubs walked out in front of her, she was also a little excited.

"That... I am the five tigers retreating. That... I didn't actually repel the tiger. I'm sorry, because the tiger is so pitiful."

The little boy with tears in his eyes hugged a little tiger and talked, while some other cubs hugged Tianqing's clothes and howled mischievously. She didn't care, just blinked and asked him: " Tui-kun, do you still remember what happened before you came to Honmaru?"

"Yes...it's about the time before I broke the knife, I remember it."

Wu Hu retreated to look at his hands, then looked up at Tianqing.

"It may be that the master has magical powers, so when the master poured spiritual power... into my body, it came back together with many thoughts of everyone."

Wuhu retreated and hugged the little tiger, as if recalling something terrible, his face turned pale—then, he suddenly raised the corners of his mouth: "At first it was a little scary memory, but then, I felt master's Strength, especially warmth... tenderness..."

As he said this, a smile appeared on his small face.

Tianqing also smiled gratifiedly, and stretched out her hand to rub the top of his head: "Then you also know that there are more brothers waiting for you than me... Go and surprise them now."

"En!" Wuhu Tui smiled brightly, and then rushed out of the forging room with the little tigers.

Tianqing untied the cloth strips that tied up her sleeves and forged a new knife again