It's Auntie Benmaru!

#59

"Because the moves of the Patriarch of the White Bird Family have the effect of destroying the soul, there is a great chance that her soul memory has been sent to the other shore."

"If you want to get it back, you have to go to hell."

"Of course, the other shore is a place deeper and wider than the current world. We can't predict where her soul will fall on the other shore."

"To find her back, it can be said that it is impossible to imagine..."

Before departure, Yamata no Orochi spoke to him with deep eyes, as if it was still echoing in his ears, but Onikiri didn't hesitate, just heard that she might be in hell, and got up from the tatami in the next second.

"Are you sure you want to go?" Yamata no Orochi crossed his hands and looked at Onikiri with a stern expression in front of him with unclear eyes: "You should be very clear, if you are not a monster born on the other side, you will not be able to stay in that place for a long time. will be affected as well."

"..." Onikiri's expression was unmoved, and the natural look in his eyes seemed to be telling Yamata no Orochi - "That's not important".

How could he allow her to maintain her current state, watching her sitting here with a blank face without a smile on her face?

No matter how long it takes, no matter how dangerous it is, he will find it, and...

"I won't die."

Onikiri suddenly spoke a thought that he had never thought about before, and repeated it inexplicably firmly: "I will bring her back alive."

There was no wave in his eyes, after all, this was already a belief he firmly believed in.

To be honest, Onikiri has never tried to have a moment as firm as this moment. In the past, he followed Watanabe Tsuna across the battlefield, especially since he was awakened. It is a kind of pride for him.

As a sword demon with the soul of a samurai, he has already made up his mind not to be afraid of injury and death.

Especially after Watanabe Tsuna left, he felt that he was not important countless times, and it didn't matter when his soul was broken.

It's just... since I met Tianqing.

At this moment, he can say with great firmness: He will not die, absolutely will not die.

He wanted to live, and he wanted to live by her side.

...and now it was fairly obvious what he needed to do.

Onikiri lowered his eyes slightly, turned around, and walked out of Tianqing's bedroom without hesitation.

"...When I'm not around, you take good care of her."

It was rare for him to speak in a calm and non-hostile tone. Yamata no Orochi looked at the back of the warrior monster, his snake eyes seemed calm, but there was still a little turmoil in his heart.

Then after Onikiri's figure completely disappeared, he raised the corners of his mouth amusedly: "You have changed, although you must have noticed it yourself."

……

The sea of ​​flowers on the other side is as red as blood, and clusters are blooming on both sides of the Santu River.

In order to find the entrance to hell, Onikiri spent several days investigating in the cracks of the demon world, and finally found the hidden entrance to hell near Heian Town.

But the hell at this time is different from what Onikiri imagined. For some reason, there are not many dead people waiting to cross the river and be interrogated, and there are not many jailers. rustle.

He pursed his lips and took a step forward, and the clogs made a slight rustling sound on the flower mud. The atmosphere here was too quiet and awkward. He planned to go to the place where the dead gathered, but who knew that there was no popularity here... …

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Just when Onikiri was seriously exploring, there was a sound that sounded like a pebble falling into the water from behind him, and he immediately put his right hand on the blade and turned around, but all he saw was the quiet Santuchuan.

"..."

But he did hear it.

It's just that there are no traces by the river. Onikiri looked around, and suddenly, a woman's laughter came from a distance.

"Ha ha……"

Onikiri turned around sharply, but still saw nothing, only the petals of the Higan flower seemed to float past the end of his eyes.

thump--

The sound of water came again.

"……Who?"

Onikiri frowned and pulled out the blade, his heroic brows were slightly frowned, he was in a bad mood because of Tianqing's incident, and he didn't mean to be polite at the moment, facing the teasing of the unknown person in hell, he also suddenly showed impatient.

"... I guess, are you looking for someone?"

This time, the female voice appeared again. Onikiri turned around without hesitation and pointed in one direction with the blade. After feeling that the tip of the blade had cut something, a graceful figure of a woman did appear. The sleeves were chipped off by the point of his knife.

Her hair and clothes were floating in the air, but the beautiful woman seemed unhurried, she even smiled and slowly pushed away Onikiri's hostile blade with her fingers.

"I really hope you don't get your position wrong. After all, you are standing on the flower mud of my wife... If my wife wishes, you will become the nourishment of this sea of ​​flowers at any time."

A dangerous and beautiful smile like a Higan flower bloomed on her face, Onikiri's face remained unchanged, but suddenly felt a tightness in her calf, and the Higan flower under her feet suddenly began to climb onto his feet as if alive, and at the same time began to absorb his soul force……

As soon as his face changed, he immediately cut off the flower with a blade——

It’s just that those Higan flowers can keep growing crazily and keep growing. Onikiri got impatient with chopping, so he could only open his mouth towards the direction where the woman disappeared: “You are Higan flowers, right? What on earth are you trying to say?! I don’t have time to make enemies with you! "

It's just that Onikiri looked up again, and the beautiful woman just now disappeared again, and she once again disappeared her figure, leaving only the voice echoing in the huge space.

"I just said that ordinary people will not arrive here directly through the entrance of hell...unless you have something you are looking for."

"If that's the case, my concubine suggests...you look in the direction of Santuchuan."

"It's just for me to have a look. The well-known incarnation of Genji Chongbao, who has buried countless monsters with his own hands, came to the other side for the first time with this expression. What is he looking for..."

Her voice became softer and softer, and soon the Higan flowers wrapped around Onikiri's feet scattered, and even the blossoming flowers bent to the left and right, as if guiding a direction for Onikiri.

He lowered his hand holding the knife in doubt, and then walked in the direction pointed by the Bana flower.

Until he reached the river, he saw a familiar and cute little girl in a bird-patterned feather weaving in the reflection of the Santu River.

Fang Fang's round and clear eyes stared straight at Onikiri, his bewildered and confused eyes seemed to be asking who he was, his little hands seemed to be carefully touching the river surface, and Onikiri's heart seemed to stop the moment he saw her jumping --

Almost without thinking, he plopped down on his knees by the river, his eyes widened and he touched Wang Chuan with his hand.

"Hi, is that you?"

When he opened his mouth to call her, his whole heart was hurting. He couldn't remember how long he had deliberately ignored his feelings since she woke up and looked at him with empty eyes. He only remembered now that he actually what a pain.

Onikiri opened his mouth to call out her name, but before he could say her name, he felt someone push his back hard.

"No—you can never tell her her name, otherwise both you and she will be punished and cannot return to the present world."

The voice of Higanhua's reminder sounded in his ears, and her name miraculously turned into a silent voice when Kigiri's mouth was on his lips. He couldn't pronounce the syllables related to her name, and his whole body fell into a heavy and cold amnesia in the next second. Sichuan water.

thump--

Biting cold water poured into Onikiri's sleeves, and the feeling of suffocation given to him by the Wangchuan River seemed to be heavier and faster than usual underwater, it felt as if countless hands were pulling his ankles and forcing him to Sinking, unable to lift both hands, feet and head.

So rough, so chaotic, and quite heavy——

Onikiri couldn't resist the lack of oxygen soon and opened his mouth, countless small air bubbles came out from his mouth and nose, he couldn't control his eyes and closed his eyes——

……

...

Then, he seemed to see many fragmentary but exceptionally clear fragments, or dreams.

He was quite aware that he had never been to these places in his life, but those places existed in his mind very clearly.

It is a very wide and high wall, like the basement of the house where Onimai Tsuji Musai lived, countless sliding doors like a maze mechanism, a Japanese room filled with a faint scent of incense, and a perfectly edited and elegant garden.

It is a very neatly decorated dojo. Apart from wooden knives and female naginata scattered in the corners, there are also many scarecrows, snow-white spells and writing brushes.

A little farther away is the room where many old books are placed. There are several books and wooden boxes with sealed charms, and there are patterns of flying birds painted on the corners of the charms.

Of course Onikiri recognized this family crest, and this small pattern was embroidered on her few personal belongings.

His consciousness seemed to become clearer at this moment, and he "landed" on the ground with a little concentration.

Surrounded by the elegant courtyard, the oversized house is exquisite but also gives people a feeling of indifference. He pressed the handle of the knife with his right hand and took a few steps forward tentatively. Suddenly, a white corner of his clothes passed before his eyes.

Onikiri's heart skipped a beat, and he immediately caught up.

"……and many more!"

He ran forward quickly, but the clogs didn't make any sound because of stepping on the sand and gravel on the ground, and the surrounding gusts of wind blew, but it couldn't lift his hair.

But Onikiri couldn't detect these details, and just stubbornly chased that little figure until he saw her again.

"Oh, who the hell didn't take a fancy to Mrs. Tianqing? Why did you let her come here? Send her back before the enchanter finds out!"

"Oh my God, we won't blame us, right? We just found her, and if we want to blame her, it should be a neglected maid..."

"You still said, take her back to the side courtyard!"

"Aren't you going with me? I don't want to go to the side courtyard alone..."

The two maids with their sleeves tied talked to each other, although they always mentioned "Lord Tianqing", they didn't even put their eyes on the little girl for a second, they just pulled her white lotus root in a very rude manner. like arms.

But the child who was only three years old didn't grow very tall, and was roughly pulled, and he could only stand on his toes with difficulty.

"That... I want to see Tianmi's... New Shikigami..."

Tian Qing, who was wearing a simple bun, pouted and begged in a low voice, but all her wishes and requests were not heard by the maids, and she stood there like a transparent person.

Watching the two maids shirk the responsibility of taking her back to the dormitory.

……

Afterwards, how the two maids shut the little girl back into the room like dragging goods, Guiqie no longer remembers, I just remember that when he blinked again, there was a little girl with an unfamiliar face in front of him, and a serious man stood behind the girl , and the sky is sunny directly in front of the two of them.

"Tian Mi, don't be afraid, just show your strength."

"...My lord father, I will definitely not let you down!"

Standing in front of her father and daughter, there was no one to guide Tian Qing behind her, she just rolled up her sleeves, frowning and concentrating her spiritual power.

Fang Tianmi's father frowned and clicked his tongue: "You can condense spiritual power at only three years old. It really is a monster. It is more annoying than your mother."

Hearing what his father said, Tian Mi looked at Tian Qing with more hostility, and puffed up his mouth to interject: "Father, I can do it too!"

After finishing speaking, she summoned a young ghost with her own strength. Under her command, the ghost raised its blade and rushed towards Tianqing. She didn't have any shikigami to stop her. Naturally, he rushed forward without hesitation——

However, the Onikiri directly penetrated Onikiri's body, and still fiercely attacked Tianqing's direction. Onikiri looked back in panic with rounded eyes, but the next second was a blue light, and the Onikiri had already been sent flying back to the sky Mi's side.

Tian Mi naturally burst into tears: "Father, Tian Mi can still summon a Shikigami..."

But the man shook his head: "Tianmi, you have done a good job, it's that monster that is different from ordinary people."

Looking at Tianqing with disgust and alienation, she stood there watching her father and daughter leave in front of her. Suddenly, with a ticking sound, blood dripped from her palm onto the ground.

"..."

Standing alone in the dojo, she clumsily rolled up her sleeves and found a small wound on her arm.

"It hurts... Feifei!"

She whispered to her arm, as if remembering what someone had said to her, her eyes were wide open, and she carefully left the dojo.

"Mother……"

Onikiri seemed to hear Tianqing whispering in an aggrieved voice.

……

The pain in his heart took Onikiri's breath for a second, and when he regained consciousness again, the scene in front of him changed again.

He saw that Tianqing was arranged in the most inconspicuous corner at the family banquet, and when she got gifts at Shiratori's house, the youngest toy she could get was often the last one left.

Then, during the annual cherry blossom viewing party at Shiratori's house, she was brought to the scene by her servants, but she was maliciously pushed into the river by her cousins, and she had to go back to the side courtyard where she lived. The servant carefully climbed up the tree without paying attention, and looked at Sakura in the main hall from afar.

He also saw her being taken to Shiratori Tianya's birthday party every summer, but Tianqing's own birthday hadn't been celebrated since she was three years old. Every year, her servants brought her a bowl of congratulations. Longevity noodles are gone.

He also saw... She sneaked to the study alone to read and learn to read, and then used sharp small stones to learn how to draw spells in the courtyard. How could a four or five-year-old child concentrate on practicing all the time?So as she was drawing and drawing, she actually drew a doll from the storybook on the sandy ground next to her.

She drew a little girl in haori with loose hair like her.

Then she drew a tall woman next to her with a married woman's hair bun, who knows who it is-but the two figures are very close to each other.

She seemed to want to draw something next to the woman and the girl, but she couldn't do it anyway.

……

There was also the incident where she sat alone in the corridor in a daze, used her dream ability for the first time, and accidentally used spirit words to hurt Tian Mi during training.

That girl who was dressed more exquisitely than her and was favored by thousands of people cried loudly in front of Tianqing, never giving up.

Without even a little sympathy or pity, the gazes of outsiders or monsters fell on Tianqing one after another. The pressure made the onlookers also get goosebumps. From his perspective, everyone in Shiratori's family looked like A huge black shadow pressed down on him like a mountain.

"She grew up too fast. We don't know what kind of monster a hybrid of human and monster will turn into in the end."

"The Shiratori family can't tolerate her existence."

"What if she hurts my daughter again! Patriarch, you must make the decision as soon as possible!"

"Get rid of her! Anyway, no one wants to see this wild child..."

The indifferent words kept lingering in her ears, there were too many ugly words, the overlapping voices gave Guiche a headache.

She was discussed unscrupulously like a garbage that shouldn't exist, an emotionless dead thing, discussing "disposal methods" in front of her without hesitation, listening to so much, she just stood up straight He didn't say a word in place.

Until Shiratori Tianyang opened his mouth at that time——

"It is impossible for the Shiratori family to exile her."

The majestic voice of the Patriarch stopped all the public opinion in the hall at once. Hearing the unexpected answer, including Tianqing herself raised her head stupidly, as if she couldn't believe it.

[—Didn’t grandpa hate me? ]

At the same time, Guiqie heard this question in his heart, he stood behind Tianqing, although he couldn't touch her with his big hands, he stood behind her as much as possible, with deep and serious eyes.

It was rare for her to raise her impeccable face and look at Bai Niao Tianyang with clear eyes. She had a slight thought in her heart that the other party was about to speak for her, but she didn't expect that something terrible would follow.

"If outsiders know that the Shiratori family has such a disgrace, how will we save face?"

Tenyo Shiratori frowned, got up from the seat in the deepest part of the main hall, and uttered extremely harsh words. Onikiri could clearly see injuries flashing across Tianqing's face—she usually kept her head down on purpose and hid her expression His face was numb, but this time he raised his head stupidly in order to hear what Grandpa said clearly.

It is inevitable that her grievances will be seen by others.

Although she quickly lowered her head and closed her mouth again, Onikiri still suffered enough for her.

"Why can't I hold you in my arms now?"

He looked at the lonely girl, and he didn't know how long he had seen her memory. He knew that he was a foreigner from the dream, but he still couldn't help talking to himself.

Naturally, Tian Qing couldn't hear it, her clear eyes were still red.

……

Then there was chaos again.

Onikiri followed closely behind Tianqing, and saw her being dragged into a secret inner room that had never been entered by the master. He asked two servants to hold her down, and after reciting the formula for concentrating spiritual power, he put her He slapped Tianqing harshly with his palm.

"Bastard...!"

Onikiri couldn't help cursing again, but no matter how he moved, he still couldn't affect the matter in the slightest.

Tianqing was brutally smashed into pieces of her soul by Bai Niao Tianyang, those snow-white pieces separated from her body, and soon scattered to corners where no one could find them, the extreme pain made Tianqing unbearable The cry, that heart-piercing cry, is also in the memory of the years that Onikiri has watched...

Her only shout and scream.

It was the first time he had heard her in such pain. She had been treated as a monster genius and finally lost. After being hit by a magic spell, her small body fell to the ground with a plop. Her face was covered with cold sweat. Pale.

"...Ha, ha, ha."

She was breathing hard, gulping, like if she let up any time, she would lose consciousness and never wake up again.

But Bai Niao Tianyang didn't care about her at all, just gave her a cold look, then turned and left the room - as for the girl who couldn't recover, she was carried back to the dormitory by the servants.

The memory of the soul afterwards is also nothing special.

Because since then, the family's dinner party will not go to the sunny day, and she will not attend the flower viewing party. She will only open the door a little when the music is over, to see the moonlight outside.

She will not run out of the room to practice writing symbols, even if it is just a small open space in front of her room that belongs to her, she will not run out again.

Most of the time, she was lying on the bed due to exhaustion of spiritual power. Fortunately, the ability in her dreams allowed her to occasionally contact monsters outside the barrier of Shiratori's house. In the dream, she seemed to have successfully solved problems for many monsters, at least During the dream, she will show a smile.

Occasionally, the door of her room would be opened by different people. Over the years, Tenya and other cousins, who had grown tall like ordinary children, would come to "visit her", for example, to show her their newly acquired shikigami , or yin and yang props.

"Heh, Tianqing, are you envious? This is the demon-subduing nail my father bought for me!"

"Does this dress look good? My mother gave it to me on the Seventh Five-Three Festival a few days ago!"

"Tianqing, have you ever watched the song and dance performance of 'Kaguya Ji'? That day when I came home after watching it, my mother bought me a flute!"

"Only you can use the bird binding technique? Now I can use it freely without reciting formulas, can you?"

"Why are you still wearing this outfit? It's been two years, it's too shabby!"

"..."

What Tianqing could do easily in the past, she couldn't do. On the contrary, the other juniors of the Shiratori family have learned the art, and the onmyoji hunting clothes they are wearing are getting more and more refined.

But she was limited to that day both in terms of body size and spiritual power.

Even if those cousins ​​tease her with yin and yang techniques in turn, she can only suffer and be injured in vain—these things are naturally pretended not to be seen by the servants, until one time, Tianqing, who is facing a life-and-death crisis, desperately activates it again. Spirituality...

After that, even the door of her room was enchanted, and she lost her freedom further.

Onikiri watched the door in front of him being closed by someone, the room was dark, and his most important girl was just kneeling in the middle of the room with her waist upright and tired face.

He didn't know what she was thinking, and suddenly felt that he might never have understood her before.

Her past was far heavier than he had imagined, and those things she never wanted to mention made his heart hurt more than anything he had imagined. No, still kneeling on the ground carefully on one knee.

Look at her dim eyes, and the quiet tears that flowed uncontrollably from their sockets.

Ghost knows that only he can see her tears.

She has been wronged.

Heartbroken, he stared at Tianqing's face earnestly, and then raised his hand to approach her cheek—but his hands couldn't touch her, so he could only hold her on her cheek, pretending He could wipe her tears with his fingertips.

But she had too many grievances, and he couldn't wipe them off no matter how hard he tried.

Guiqie bit his lips tightly, wishing he could not hug her, so he could only kneel in front of her.

"Why didn't I find you earlier?"

"The real you, where are you now?"

Onikiri's deep and hoarse voice sounded in the room, but the girl naturally couldn't hear it, just like the few years of Onikiri's memories just now, he was a non-existent bystander.

But also because of this, he can get close to her unscrupulously, very close.

At this time, he finally understood the name of the emotion in his heart.

"I want to find you."

"I want to see you again."

He said deeply, his hand was lightly placed on the tatami, piercing through the back of her hand, but it seemed to overlap with hers.

Almost instinctively, he looked at her, and carefully brought his lips close to hers, gently, piously and dotingly——

Kiss off...

……

...

"Mr. Samurai, Mr. Samurai, why are you here?"

Feeling being patted on the cheek by someone, Onikiri opened his eyes suddenly, and a face was magnified in front of his eyes.

Before seeing the appearance of the previous person clearly, Onikiri felt that his whole body was extremely cold, and his clothes were wet and sticky to his body. The dark room suddenly disappeared, and he seemed to be lying on a very real grass. , no Bianhua, nor tatami mats...

--He is back.

Onikiri thought this way intuitively, and then gradually focused on the appearance of the person in front of him.

Wearing a jet-black feather, with long, smooth black hair hanging loose, that familiar and impeccable little face was exactly the same as the girl he had been with for several years just now, but he felt that the other's hand was on his body.

... is an entity?

Onikiri's pupils shrank suddenly, and he sat up from the ground in shock, and stretched out his hands to support the shoulders of the girl in front of him: "Can you touch me? Do you recognize me? I..."

His voice had just come out, and the syllables related to the name were forcibly eliminated. Just now, the bondage of Bianhua was still there, preventing him from saying her name and everything.

Many things suddenly became difficult to express, but Onikiri looked at the cute and lively girl in front of him, and felt that the matter of the name might not be important for now, instead he hugged her extra hard.

He couldn't tell her that he had finished reading her previous memories, he just told her with a hug that he loved her and wanted to see her for a long time.

"Mr. Samurai...? What's wrong with you, are you too afraid of drowning?"

The girl was hugged abruptly by him, and seemed to be aware of Onikiri's emotional instability, but she didn't push her away, and vaguely felt that she felt some emotions of Onikiri.

He seemed sad and helpless—

"Mr. Samurai? What's the matter with you, where were you going? I can take you there."

Thinking of this, she smiled and patted Onikiri on the head, comforting him in a particularly cheerful way: "There are many people who accidentally fell into the river, but it's okay, as long as you want to, you can still reach your destination!"

"There's nothing to be afraid of."

Her childish and lively voice came from his ears, and she said no need to be afraid and comforted, which made Guiqie's nose sour.

She doesn't remember him, but at least she has a soul.

Onikiri bit her lip, carefully let go of Tianqing, and looked at her solemnly.

"...I'm here to find you, you follow me back."

His eyes were so serious that Tianqing was stunned when she heard the words, but she just froze and shook her head again: "Mr. Warrior, are you sick? I can't go with you, I have to go back to help Mr. Ghost Lantern today." I'm doing laundry."

When she spoke, there was an innocent smile on the corners of her eyes and mouth, and Onikiri suddenly felt that she was extraordinarily carefree like this, which was actually what he wanted to see.

But, who is Lord Ghost Lantern?What is she saying?

She also seems to... don't remember anything about him at all?

No, it's true that he never got along with her when she was young, but... what should he do if she doesn't know him at all?

Has everything come to naught?Did she forget him?He couldn't bear the pain.

No, not right.

It doesn't matter if she forgets him, but he can't watch her forget himself.

Anyway, there would be a way to get her out of hell first.

Onikiri gritted his teeth, and didn't know how to explain it, he just supported her by the shoulder and replied seriously: "No, I'm serious, you...come back with me."

He said it again, and Tianqing felt troubled when he heard it. This drowned and embarrassed person actually asked her to go with him?It's too suspicious, right?

So she bit her lip and looked around in trouble, and finally, she saw a life-saving straw.

"...Master Ghost Lamp!"

A smile bloomed on her face, and she immediately broke free from Onikiri's hand and ran to the side of the hell assistant officer called "Ghost Lantern", stretched out her arms and hugged the opponent's calf, while the man with a mace and a long forehead The man with horns and indifferent face looked down and hugged her.

"Ah San, what's wrong?"

"Master Ghost Lantern, can you help Mr. Samurai over there?" Tian Qing pointed at Onikiri in Ghost Lantern's arms, and added: "He asked me to go back with him, maybe he was drowned and confused!"

Hearing the words, Gui Deng raised his eyes, and met the sight of Onikiri in the distance.

"Oh?"

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There is no other reason, but the names of Onikiri and Onikiri are too fucking similar (sorry for being rude again)

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