It's Auntie Benmaru!

Extra Story 2/A Treasure

2.1 / Confidential matters

Seven years later.

Seven years have passed since I married Onikiri in Honmaru that day.

That day at the banquet, she was found pregnant by a drug discovery, and Ben Wan became a mess in an instant.

The beautiful wedding is completely messed up. On one side is Tianqing's biological mother who is watching the show, and on the other side is the sword group (candlestick cut, Xiaodou Changguang, etc.) who is moved and overflowing with joy. A glance.

Tianqing herself couldn't react, all she knew was that she found Onikiri who was also astonished in the crowd, and saw that he didn't even respond to being cut by Hasebe's head hammer, but just looked at herself with some surprise.

He didn't say anything to her in the crowd, and neither did she, just looked at each other.

At that time, the cherry tree in Honmaru floated gentle petals under the urging of Yimulian. She remembered that the cherry blossoms at that time were as soft as cotton wool, and everything in front of her was as beautiful as waiting for the first snow.

There was moisture in her eye sockets, and Onikiri's eyes also turned into a smile that reassured her.

The bustling voice was in my ears, and the sweet and glutinous aroma of food and wine was smelled at the tip of my nose, as well as the heavy wedding dress on my body.

The uneasiness and worry she felt, from the moment she found Onikiri, all turned into expectations and happiness for the future.

……

So it's been seven years.

Looking back, she and Onikiri planned to continue their trip after the wedding, but considering that it was her first pregnancy, she stayed in Honmaru at the suggestion of her mother.

Because Tianqing was pregnant with a child who combined the blood of a monster and a half-demon onmyoji—so her pregnancy was destined to be difficult.

For example, after she just found out that she was pregnant, Tianqing still had a way to walk around in the pill to maintain her physical and mental health.

Only half a month later, she began to have a catastrophic morning sickness reaction. She got dizzy when she got up from the bed all day long, couldn't eat, and had unbearable abdominal pain. Tianqing felt that she almost lost her life.

But what surprised her the most was that when she was enduring the expansion and impact of spiritual power in her body, she discovered that there were... two new lives in her body at the same time.

This discovery made Shiratori Chuhe Yimu so frightened that all the calmness on his face disappeared.

……

"Tianqing, do you know why there are not many half-demons like you in the world?"

"That's because many of the children of transhumane marriages died in the womb of their mothers before they were born."

"It's a taboo to combine humans and monsters, not only because of the convention between onmyojis and monsters, but also..."

"It is difficult to conceive a half-demon child with a human body. Since ancient times, there have not been many successful examples. Although you also have demon blood, I think your physical strength is still closer to human beings."

"I'm worried you won't be able to survive the whole pregnancy."

At that time, Shiratori told Tianqing with a very serious expression, and even showed a cold expression unprecedentedly, saying that she would rather take one of the children for Tianqing herself.

However, before Shiratori started to strike, Tianqing raised her hand to stop her, and shook her head with a firm smile.

"I'll do it, Onikiri and I will both see these two children born, and we'll make a pretty happy family, with no one missing."

Her voice was soft, but heavy.

Shiratori lowered his hands at the beginning, he didn't retort stubbornly and willfully as usual, but gave up struggling very quickly.

"You are going to tell me next, let me keep it a secret from Onikiri?"

"I think this is the moment when my mother and I have the best understanding."

"You really are," Bai Niaochu gave her a reproachful look: "...But forget it, if it were me, I would do the same thing as you."

"Mom, will you help me?"

"Don't worry, I will definitely be with you until the moment you give birth to both children safely."

As she spoke earnestly, Yimulian just sat quietly outside Tianqing's bedroom, and many scenes that made him uneasy and worried flashed through his mind.

But he still didn't say anything, just quietly and colorlessly blessed the whole mansion with the wind.

……

Later, Tianqing and Bai Niaochu whispered about the risk of having twins, Onikiri seems to be unaware to this day.

Tianqing also thinks this is good, because with the character of that stubborn samurai monster, she will definitely force her to give up the pregnancy if she finds out.

Especially after Shiratori Chu relentlessly strengthened her spiritual power, and after a month since Honmaru became a soldier, the child in Tianqing's womb seemed to have settled down.

Her morning sickness finally subsided, followed by the rapid growth of the baby in her womb. Not long after, even Onikiri guessed that they were twins from the size of her belly.

Seeing Onikiri's surprised expression, the last worries in Tianqing's heart disappeared, and she began to look forward to the future with Onikiri to welcome the new life together.

Or maybe it was because she was looking forward to the relationship too much. The worries at the beginning were completely forgotten by her. Her only complaint in the middle of pregnancy was that her feet were swollen enough to wear shoes, and taking a bath every day became a chore.

Fortunately, her female gods took turns taking care of her every day, whether it was taking her for a walk on time, taking her bath at night and dressing her up comfortably and beautifully, or Onikiri insisting on soaking her feet and massaging her muscles every night, Soon she got used to it.

Bai Niaochu also said that the baby in her womb was much more stable than she had imagined, even a little lively, kicking Tianqing's belly at night—it was just the fetal movement that ordinary human children would have, which happened to be The best proof of your child's health.

Honmaru also gradually changed from being in a hurry at the beginning, and gradually adapted and adjusted to the state of welcoming the little master. At that time, props and stacks of thousand-feathered cranes that Fusangshen used to pray for blessings would appear outside Tianqing's bedroom every now and then, looking at Kurita They asked her about the child carefully, and she really didn't have any space in her mind to think about it.

So the second trimester passed quickly in the blink of an eye—she remembers having a premonition the night before she gave birth, because the moon over the Honmaru looked round that day, but there was only one day left before the full moon.

And the next day, as she expected, she felt a sudden sensation in her abdomen when she woke up in the morning, had breakfast, took a walk, and took a nap. The bursts of tearing pain made her almost faint, but fortunately they were well prepared. There were no accidents in the delivery process.

So at dusk, two beautiful girls came to Honmaru, who happened to match the names she and Onikiri had agreed upon beforehand.

She once thought about naming her surname "Shiratori" for her child, but after thinking about it, she still wanted to get rid of the identity of the Shiratori family, and also wanted Onikiri to participate in the process of changing the name.

So Onikiri and her chose a surname "Chao" for the children, and named the two children "Xi" and "Yang".

Coincidentally, it is a name that is not limited by gender, and it also happens to be an indispensable existence.

That day, the room was warm.

……

2.2/Sister and Brother Chaoshi

Tianqing doesn't remember much about the days when she took care of her newborn, but Zhaoxi and Chaoyang haven't caused Tianqing much trouble since they were born.

Perhaps it is because the two sisters have been together for a long time in the womb, so as long as the two babies are put together after birth, they will basically not make noise-this is the concept that as long as the sisters are around, they will not be disturbed.

What's more, there are quite a lot of shikigami and monsters Fusangshin rushing to take care of the children in this pill, and there are also people who come to see dolls from hell and the present world. Apart from the fixed time for breastfeeding and sleeping at night, Tianqing basically spends time when she wants to rest. You can have a good rest.

Shiratori also stayed in Honmaru for a long time. In fact, she has fully recovered. After taking care of Tianqing until she was able to get out of bed by herself, she also left Honmaru and Ichimokuren to travel again.

The two babies with similar looks grew up day by day, and lived a life full of stars and moons. The busy and warm days passed quickly, and the two children were two years old in the blink of an eye.

Then, when Zhaoxi and Chaoyang were two years old, she became pregnant with her third child - Chaoshi, the younger brother she always regarded as "Little Guiqie".

Speaking of Chaoshi, he is really a worry-free and mature child, compared with his two older sisters...

"Mr. Kunihiro, where are you going?"

In the morning, Tianqing, who had just finished translating part of the monster's letters in the room, just recovered from the memories, noticed the footsteps outside the door, and called out to the tall figure curiously.

"……what."

The blond Fu Sangshen, who was wearing sportswear and covered with a yellowed sheet, was startled, the tips of his ears moved suspiciously, then he closed his eyes and responded with that steady voice.

"Recently, I made an agreement with Mr. Shi that I will go to the training ground to exercise with him on the days when I don't have to play."

"Soga."

Tianqing blinked, and when Kunihiro Yamabashi was about to pass her, she stopped him very skillfully.

Kunihiro Yamababa looked at the woman who looked him up and down, and suddenly the words he was teased when drinking with California and the others suddenly appeared in his mind.

"Although Yamabagiri is quite stable now, and he is also the most reliable fighting force among us, but for some reason——"

'do not know why……'

"In front of our master, the combat power is as if you have never practiced—"

Never practiced——

Shan Baqie looked at the woman who just happened to like everything in front of him, even after having three children, she was still as bright and attractive as before, and sighed in his heart.

She stopped her easily again, and even had the idea of ​​picking up the quilt to cover her face.

It's really the same as when I didn't practice.

"...don't keep staring at me."

He turned away uncomfortably.

"Because Mr. Kunihiro looks strange, what's the matter? I feel like you are angry with me."

"..."

"Mr. Kunihiro? My first valet, Mr. Kunihiro—"

"Name!" He interrupted her anxiously: "You suddenly changed your name to my name, didn't I say that I couldn't adapt?"

"It's something we can't help." Tianqing put her hands behind her back: "Because Mr. Changyi is here, I thought about just calling him by his name, but I just keep calling you Yamabukiri, and I feel a bit out of place ..."

"Strange reason." Yamabuchi said dissatisfied.

"But the last time I shouted 'Yamabukiri' in the main hall, two people really replied to me—the conflict between you and Mr. Changyi has not been resolved, and you have to be well separated during this period of time."

"..."

Kunihiro Yamababa gritted his teeth and wanted to say something to express his thoughts, but he knew in his heart that she had the absolute right and reason to do so.

And... he didn't actually dislike it either.

It's just that when she calls his name occasionally, he will feel a little itchy and strange in his heart.

He clearly made an agreement with himself, and only put her in his heart to admire and admire her.

"Is Mr. Kunihiro still angry?"

"I didn't, I just..."

Yamabuka Kiri Kunihiro suddenly ran out of words, and he also regretted bringing up this topic with her when he was alone, but the silence between him and Tianqing didn't last long, because soon a childish voice intervened. up.

"Mr. Yamabagiri."

Yamabukiri and Tianqing looked towards the end of the corridor at the same time, and saw a boy with shoulder-length short hair and a small high braid, who was looking at the two adults calmly with a bamboo knife in his arms while he was taller than him.

Obviously he is only four years old, but his gaze is as mature as that of an adult.

All the distracting thoughts in Shan Muqie's mind were wiped away in an instant, he nodded and said, "I'll come right away."

Tianqing witnessed two boys with extremely different heights seemed to be communicating with each other in low voices, and quickly disappeared before her eyes.

"...Really, when I was young, I was so picky in this book, but I just stuck to the one with the most boring and serious personality."

Tianqing shook her head and sighed, stood there thinking for a while, but the corners of her mouth still curled up.

"But the other party is indeed the most reliable man with a sword in this pill..." Her eyes were gentle, as if recalling something in the past that she missed: "At least, when I was young, I had a good eye for people, which is more reliable than his two sisters." That's it."

"...What is more reliable than two older sisters? Mother, you are secretly speaking ill of us again, aren't you?"

"Anyway, Mother must be saying that my brother is more reliable than us."

The voices of two girls complaining came from behind Tianqing. She turned her head and saw two beautiful girls. The guilt of being caught talking ill of her own daughter made Tianqing smile awkwardly.

This made the two girls even more dissatisfied, and they simply hugged Tianqing's thigh, coquettishly dissatisfied.

"...Mother! You are too much!"

"Master, you can't favor your younger brother just because he looks like your father!"

"This...I..." Tianqing almost couldn't hold back after being punctured by two six-year-old girls, but patted her daughter's butt helplessly: "I'm not partial, and if I really want to say, When I was young, I clearly looked like me!"

Although on closer inspection, the shape of the eyes resembles hers, but recently, the shape of the eyes and lips are more like Onikiri when I was young.

Also, the hair color that was the same as Onikiri's, and the back figure that even walks in a very correct posture, happened to be infinitely close to the "Kokikiri" she had seen in her memory.

Just now, watching him and Yamabukiri walk away from the back, it was like seeing a miniature Onikiri appear in front of her eyes, which made her very affectionate.

...Because in the past, in Onikiri's long past, she was absent.

So seeing him as a little boy, she couldn't control her doting heart at all.

However, even though a mother is full of such unseemly child-controlling thoughts, she still can't reveal her secrets in front of her daughter-not to mention she doesn't love her daughter, okay?

Thinking of this, Tianqing puffed up her chest confidently, pulled the two daughters away from her legs like a chick, and replaced the trembling voice with a dignified one: "Also, you two Need proof for anything more than hourly laziness?"

"That's brother is too extreme!"

"Yes, it is impossible for us to practice like my brother!"

"Besides, we have recently started Yin-Yang training, so my younger brother doesn't need to learn..."

"And today, didn't we come here obediently?"

The two sisters pouted and were particularly aggrieved. You said each sentence to each other—it is estimated that they have been inseparable since they were young. When these two girls talk, others basically don’t need to interrupt. Tianqing almost feels a little socially disturbed. She was a little out of touch with the conversations between her daughters.

... What a pair of daughters that made her helpless.

Like a boy, he is too lively and can play mischief. He has learned sophistry and self-justification at the age of six. The speed of his brain is the fastest in his family. Since his birth, even Tsurumaru has been able to deceive countless records.

He really used his talent and intelligence to play.

Let them practice swordsmanship and call them tired, let them practice yin and yang every day and find excuses to skip it, try to catch the two of them in the morning to refine their spiritual power at the spiritual vein of Honwan, they can't get up, finally catch the two sisters at night, but Because of lack of concentration, I kept yelling that I couldn't feel spiritual power.

She clearly checked them one by one, and the inspiration potential of the two sisters was no worse than that of her and her mother back then, but their heads were jumping too fast, and their minds were not at all on cultivation.

Compared with her who has been secluded and imprisoned since she was a few years old and tried her best to learn onmyoji, and Onikiri, who has been aiming for the strongest samurai since she appeared, she has a very different personality.

I really don't know how she gave birth to such a child, she herself felt that the two children seemed to be picked up.

However, the two children were delivered by the midwives hired by her houseful of female gods and Tomoyo, and she sometimes had to reflect on what went wrong.

but……

Looking at Tianqing frowning under the sun for a while, and showing a sly smile for a while because she understood each other, whenever she has a face with a pure smile on her face, her chest is warm.

An equally gentle smile overflowed from her eyes and the corners of her mouth. The two sisters felt their mother's gaze, and they were stunned when they looked up.

"Mother, what's the matter?"

"Mother, why are you laughing all of a sudden?"

Tianqing was startled, smiled helplessly and shook her head, then patted her daughters on the head.

"No, I suddenly felt..." Tianqing bent down and carefully squatted down, looking at the two girls at the same level: "Onmyoji and spiritual power refining, if you don't want to do it, don't do it."

"Eh?"

"Mother mother?"

The two sisters were so astonished that they asked questions at the same time.

Is this going to change the weather? Obviously, last night I couldn't say that I couldn't exercise or eat snacks.

Although Candlestick will secretly prepare snacks for them...

Zhao Xi and Chao Yang glanced at each other in confusion, and tilted their heads in unison.

That cute appearance and synchronized movements warmed Tianqing's heart, and she began to explain.

"I think, if the two of you feel happier playing, then play to your heart's content."

Tianqing smiled and took the little white hands of the daughters, and folded their hands together.

"My mother thinks it's good to have brothers and sisters by my side."

"In the precious time before you grow up, you should really have fun. You are all children, and there is no need to learn those body-protecting techniques."

"Mother and father will always protect you, so you just have to do things that make you happy, as long as you don't do things that will hurt yourself, the important people around you, or anyone..."

"I think you can do it. There are so many things in this world that are more miraculous than Yin Yang."

She lowered her eyes and said, those clear eyes seem to be able to see through many things, but it always makes people feel that she still wants to see more and go further, and can encourage people to accomplish more at any time.

Zhao Xi and Chao Yang's hands were held by their mother, and the two small bodies, which were always restless, stopped inadvertently, listening to the mother's words attentively, watching all the expressions on the mother's face and the opening and closing of lips.

They just like it, watching their mother smile and say something to them-no matter what the content is, they actually like to listen to it.

Compared with the concentration of the two daughters, Tianqing only spoke seriously from the bottom of her heart.

"As your grandma said, there are too many things you want to see with important people, so you are busy every day, and you have to move forward..."

"From your eyes, I feel it."

"Maybe you are really not like me and your father, but like grandma."

"So whatever you want to do, do it first, I support it."

She showed her daughter a particularly bright smile, both gentle and warm.

At this time, Chaoxi and Chaoyang thought in unison in their hearts, the last time they secretly followed the men with swords and swords in the morning training to the back mountain, and saw the first dawn at the perfect location.

The cold air before dawn suddenly melted, giving them the light that felt at ease and warm from the bottom of their hearts.

They thought the sun was very beautiful that day, and it was different from the "sunset" in their name, with a completely different beauty,

As a matter of course, they also like the orange-yellow color of the setting sun and the warm and domineering temperature. It's just the mother's smile...

How should I put it, it looks better than that morning and Honmaru's everyday dusk.

The two girls were stunned for a while, and after a long time, it was the elder sister Zhao Xi who came to her senses first: "...As expected, Xiao Xi still wants to be like my mother, and I don't want to be like my grandma."

"Yang too, I want to be like my mother, have many shikigami, and also want to become a god judge."

The two girls with pigtails suddenly expressed their innermost thoughts cautiously, but they didn't know that Tianqing's words stimulated them and made them suddenly calm down.

So honest, but Tianqing is not used to it anymore, and immediately raised her hand to cover her forehead: "What's wrong with you two, is there any discomfort in your body?"

"Mother mother!"

"Mother is too much!"

In return, of course, the daughters complained.

Tianqing blinked her eyes and withdrew her hand, and the two girls began to explain eloquently.

"Yang and I like to play, but we also want to be a powerful onmyoji like my mother!"

"A-Actually, Xiao Xi and I just want to learn Yin Yang art today," Chaoyang frowned, "Not only Yin Yang art, but we also want to learn swordsmanship with my father!"

"I heard from my grandfather that my mother can also manipulate black magic. I think that is very cool, and I want to try it too!"

"Yes, so...so..."

The two sisters looked at each other, and then burst into tears in front of Tianqing.

The two sisters don't cry very often, after all, it's stubbornness inherited from the family, so this crying scared Tianqing quite a bit.

"What, what's wrong?"

"Mother, please don't let me not learn Yin-Yang Art!!"

"I want to be like my mother, I like my mother the most!"

The two sisters sniffed, and threw themselves into Tianqing's arms in the next second, quickly finding a comfortable position, crying poorly.

Tianqing blinked her eyes, and it took her a while to understand what the two children were thinking.

Is it this emotion?It should be this emotion.

She also had a time when she looked forward to her mother "Shiratori Chu".

Although I couldn't help being curious about other things, I never thought that I wouldn't be a great onmyoji like my mother.

——Children always think that their parents are their own world, so the father believes that you only need to become a "world" that makes Xi, Yang, and sometimes adults feel at ease.

——In that way, they will dare to peek into the outside world with curiosity little by little from your arms.

——And in that, find your own place.

——And before that, parents are the pair of wings that protect the children who are not yet rich in wings to fly.

Suddenly, Tianqing's mind recalled the conversation she had with Karasuma after Asahi was born.

She was anxiously looking for the answer to "what are parents", and at that time Karasuma looked at her seriously for a long time and said to her, "It's enough for you to continue to be yourself"—if she hadn't been chasing after her After beating hard, Karasuma wouldn't even explain what was said above.

At that time, she was still a little confused, but now she suddenly understood.

She chuckled with the two children in her arms, and suddenly asked something she would never have asked before.

"Xiao Xi and Xiao Yang, do you like me, mother, the most?"

The two heads were nodding in her embrace, and Tianqing smiled helplessly after being tickled by them.

"Me too, no matter what you want to learn in the future, I will teach... We are all girls, and there are things that only we can do."

Tianqing lowered her voice and said "something only we can do", and the crying twins immediately looked up: "What is it?"

"What my father and Xiaoyang can't do, Xiaoyang and I can do?"

"My lord, tell me quickly!"

"...That is of course talking about protecting Shi and father." Tianqing smiled and stroked the heads of the two daughters, tidying up their messy buns little by little: "Both of them are too stupid. I need a girl to protect me."

The eyes of the two girls were full of tears, but when they heard Tianqing's words, they still looked at each other curiously.

On that sunny afternoon, looking at the other party's embarrassed face, he suddenly burst out laughing as if he understood something.

Afterwards, he plunged into Tianqing's arms again, announcing cheerfully.

"Then mother, I want to become the strongest onmyoji! Don't tell father and child about this."

"Xi and I will become the strongest, stronger than the boys, mother, you must keep it a secret."

"Master, do you trust us?"

"In the future, we will become super strong and protect you, mother!"

Tianqing blinked, and naturally smiled——and stretched out her hands and raised her little finger: "A promise."

"Agreement!"

"I made a promise with my mother!"

The two girls finally laughed through their tears.

After a long time, "Chao Clan" really made a name for himself in the world of humans and demons with his unique style of onmyoji, and became a frightening wandering onmyoji...that's all for another story.

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The author has something to say:

I really like this kind of warm, plain and warm story.

But if I don't finish it, I'm going to go bald.