It's Auntie Benmaru!

Episode 5/あなたと私

5.1/おやすみのキッス

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In the middle of the night, in Honmaru's dormitory.

"...your hands are still so cold."

The two who haven't been alone for a long time hug each other. At first it was a goodnight kiss, but later it turned into a rain of lingering kisses.

Onikiri has been caring for her earnestly and piously, until he noticed that her palms were abnormally cold, and he asked a little dangerously.

"Recently, I have consumed a little more energy." Tian Qing looked away guiltily, not daring to face Onikiri's questioning.

"Oh?" Onikiri didn't seem too convinced.

In the next second, an electric shock-like numbness spread from near Tianqing's dantian to the top of her head, causing her to bow uncontrollably and exclaim, "Ah!"

"Are you sure it's just a little bit?"

"This one……"

"I've said it many times, you can only deal with the entrustment from the gap between the demon world and the one I entrusted to you."

"But..." Tianqing still wanted to fight for it, but Onikiri's hand had already moved.

His intentional punishment was in her vulnerable area, so that she could not utter a complete sentence.

"No! Yes, I'm sorry, don't be angry..."

"So you knew I would be angry."

"Next time I..."

"You always say that."

"This time it's really, really..."

"No, I've already decided."

In the dark room, Onikiri, who briefly forgave her, raised his head again, and slowly rubbed the tip of his nose along his elbow to his wrist.

It was obviously the same hand, but it had become much warmer now.

The touch of the tip of Onikiri's nose was light but tormenting. Tianqing was controlled by a wicked monster who knew every inch of her body, and her mind was already blank.

She could only look at the hunter pitifully like a prey caught in a trap, waiting for the other party to deal with, and even begging the other party to give her a good time.

"Ghost cut..."

"Don't worry, I will definitely teach you enough lessons."

Onikiri announced with an overly charming and magnetic voice.

——After that, before her cowardly chick pecked and kissed his lips, a more domineering good night kiss blocked her trembling lips.

Under the dim moonlight, Onikiri's blood-red pupils and perfectly shaped lips filled with strong emotions under the half-sagging eyelids.

seem--

In order to solve the problem of cold hands, this good night kiss will last for a long time.

……

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5.2/line of sight

……

Recently, Zhaoxi has been quietly playing a game of "observing father".

After a week of secret research, she found that her father had a single behavior pattern and could basically report the results of the game in one sentence.

It's their father, it's right that their eyes and actions cannot be separated from their mother.

Whether it was the day when he agreed to teach them how to fight together, or just doing housework and playing together in Honmaru, no matter how well he did with them, he still couldn't help but look at his mother in the distance.

"...It's amazing! My father is tied as well as my mother!"

During the day and night thinking, a cheer came from a distance, it turned out that Chaoyang's hair band was loose, and Onikiri naturally let Onikiri tie it again.

I took a closer look day and night, and found that my father's "work" was indeed tied close to that of my mother, and there was basically no difference.

"Father, did Mother teach you to tie your hair?"

Onikiri was startled, and replied with some belated awareness: "...No."

"It turns out that Father's attention to Mother is so careful that even Mother has learned..."

Whispering thoughtfully day and night, these words seem to be talking to Guiqie, and also seem to be reporting to something——

Onikiri, who didn't know about the "observation game", was at a loss. Even Chaoyang could only look at his father in a daze, and after thinking about it for a few seconds, he caught up with his sister.

Then in the courtyard, Onikiri was left suddenly.

There was no one around. Thinking of what happened just now, he looked at his hands thoughtfully—he even tied Chaoyang's hair just now, and he never imagined that these hands, which are used to holding knives, could tie the child's soft hair. Headband.

It's because of observing too carefully——

Zhao Xi's words suddenly appeared in Onikiri's mind, making him understand what his daughter meant.

Because he loved and cared too much, he even learned what she was good at.

No, there may be more.

Small habits and hobbies that are too subtle to be called "skills", and "views" on the world's plants and trees that are invisible so that they cannot be felt by the five senses.

very many.

Too much too much.

……

5.3/おはようのキス

sunny.

...Did you oversleep?

Tianqing looked at the place next to Onikiri, the mattress and quilt had been folded and neatly put aside by him, it seemed that he had left the room for a long time.

"No, he said last night that he agreed to practice with Ah Shi..."

Tian Qing yawned, she didn't know what time the father and son left, but she didn't notice it at all.

So she put on her coat slowly, and just as she stretched out her hand and slowly opened the door of the bedroom, the sound of their footsteps and low voices could be heard from the end of the corridor.

"It has ended?"

Tianqing looked at the person in surprise, the tall and short figures formed a huge contrast, but no matter how many times she saw these two people, she would feel better.

"...Mother, good morning!"

When Chaoshi saw Tianqing coming out of the room, a smile appeared on his little face.

Although he was sweating profusely at the moment, he wasn't tired at all—instead, he ran towards her very contentedly.

"Are you going to wash your hands?"

"Well, my lord father said that I need to change clothes."

The corners of Asahi's mouth are raised slightly, and he looks like Onikiri with the unique vigor of a child, even his eyes glow when he is happy.

"……it is good."

She tidied her temple hair for Chaoshi, nodded with Onikiri and did not intend to disturb the time between father and son.

As soon as Chao Shi took a step forward, Tianqing felt her wrist being pulled hard——

She raised her head in surprise, but what she got was a short, breathless kiss.

Tianqing's eyes widened a little unresponsively, and she was about to ask for an explanation, when Onikiri thoughtfully explained herself——

"A falling good morning kiss—"

"I want to make up."

……

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5.4/thinking

……

The rain was pouring down.

After a trip with Onikiri to Manya and back to Honmaru, she found one of his shoulders was drenched, Tenharu hurriedly urged him to take a bath.

"No, there's more to come."

"Eh?"

"hell."

Onikiri still occasionally suffers from laziness when speaking, and only spits out key words too briefly.

It's just that Onikiri once said this, so Tianqing immediately thought of it: "Ah! You said that you would take Ah Shi to find Lord Onikiri today..."

"Yeah." Ghost Lantern put the wet umbrella aside, and was about to call his son.

However, Tianqing followed behind him sadly: "I don't even remember that you are going to travel far away, why didn't you remind me this morning, if I knew it, I wouldn't let you accompany me to Wanwu... This will delay you journey."

"This trip will have to stay in hell for a few days, and it's okay to delay."

Ghost cut his head and didn't look back. Others would think that what he said was nonsensical, but Tianqing naturally understood the meaning of "Because I can't meet you for a few days, so I will accompany you".

After being told by Onikiri, she felt a little uneasy: "That's right, you abducted my son this time..."

She pouted a little aggrieved, and Gui Qie felt a little helpless when she heard the words: "I will come back as soon as possible."

"Just talking, of course the safety of you and Ah Shi is the most important thing."

"When I'm away for a few days, you should rest more, you just recovered from your illness."

"I know, it's your turn to miss me? It's you, don't mess around with Ah Shi, and don't mess around with yourself—"

She fought back, but Onikiri didn't interrupt her listening carefully, and let her follow to the front of the time-traveling device, and travel in the rainy season.

……

For the next few days, it rained in Honmaru.

The rain made the floor of the dojo wet and dirty, and the animals in the animal house could not graze as usual. Seeing that many housework such as drying clothes and cleaning were in vain, the knives basically slept together after breakfast every day. Forget it.

The main hall was bustling for several days in a row, and Taidao told stories and performed funny performances with swords. In addition, Kuritaguchi played various children's favorite games with short swords from other sword schools. Tianqing also let the two The two daughters went crazy together.

There are strings of sunny dolls hanging on the door leading to the courtyard. Although it is the Rihefang made by the sunset sisters, she doesn't think the two sisters are looking forward to the sunshine - they don't have to practice the life of playing every day. wish for it.

So Tianqing also inspected Chaoyang’s Rihefang on the third day—as expected, the skirt of the doll wrote “Don’t let the sun shine” on the hem of the doll’s skirt. The technique is even weaker, but it achieves miraculous effects in being funny.

Tianqing laughed out loud, and then sat on the corridor resentful of iron and iron, and closed her eyes with her coat on her pillow.

The pattering rain just overwhelmed many noises, and she soon fell asleep.

……

In her sleep, she dreamed of Tomoyo, Yuanhui and Natsume whom she had not seen for a long time.

They stopped and walked on Edo Street, talking about what happened during the period, and then sat down at a tea house recommended by Tomoyo.

"It's only sunny today, which is rare."

"Because Onikiri went out."

"But Tianqing always wears a coat when she goes out."

"Because Onikiri hangs up the haori specially before leaving the door, I always feel that I will be known if I don't wear it..."

While the two girls were talking, the owner of the teahouse had already served the dessert, Tianqing casually picked up a cup, and frowned after taking a sip—

It was too hot to drink—and she wasn't used to drinking this kind of tea with tea.

She put down the teacup carefully, but the sweet soup in front of her was actually added with salty kelp.

Tian Qing sat at the table in a daze, smelling the unnatural incense and the sudden drop in temperature in the room, she suddenly felt a sharp pain in her head.

By the way, she was seriously ill in winter, Guiqie told her to rest more...

"Tianqing, what's wrong?"

"It's a bit cold here..."

"Then let me lend you my stove, would it be better?"

Tianqing took Zhishi's special stove, which was also a hand stove that exuded warmth, but she still felt that something was missing while holding it in her palm.

"It's sunny?"

"I……"

"Is it still cold?"

"Do not……"

She felt her thoughts were confused, but she still came up with an answer after looking around carefully, and her voice choked up.

"It's probably because I discovered that Onikiri usually secretly prepares too many things for me. Only when Onikiri wasn't around did I know I had these habits..."

"Pfft, Onikiri-sama knows yourself better than Tianqing."

Zhishi in the dream also understood Tianqing's meaning as smartly as himself, telling the truth with a gentle smile, which made Tianqing even more aggrieved.

"Well, I want to see him."

"I want to see him now, I miss him."

This was a thought that was so uncomfortable that she was about to cry—it wasn't that she couldn't take care of herself without Onikiri's care, it was just that when she found that that person's thoughtfulness had already been integrated into every detail of her life, she couldn't help but learn from every detail of her life. The details miss him.

When are you coming back?

when……

Tianqing stood up from the tea house, ran to the shop, and ran hard on the street.

The rain is still pouring down——

squeak-

……

...!

There was a harsh wooden sound of "squeak", which made Tianqing open his eyes from the corridor.

The world outside the dream has cleared up since sometime, and at night from the eye level of the floor, you can see the sky with a few thin dark clouds remaining.

It's just that the rain must have stopped, because the sunlight has fully leaked into her yard, and the plants still hanging from the rain are shining like a treasure in the sun.

Without the cover of the rain, the lively sound of Honmaru became clear again. Tianqing sat up from the corridor with a sore back, and suddenly slipped a familiar dark-colored haori from her body. Tianqing recognized Genji above I noticed that there was still warmth on the jacket.

"coat……"

She couldn't react, and even confused the dream just now with this moment. Did she not wake up yet?

Why did she remember that she didn't cover herself with a quilt before going to bed, and now she even used Onikiri's coat to use it...

Until a voice that she had been longing for day and night inserted from behind——

"Although I want you to rest, I never thought that you would fall asleep in such a strange place."

It was that person's helpless voice.

Tianqing's heart tightened, and she immediately turned her head in surprise—and met Onikiri who was packing her luggage in the dormitory.

"You're back? I'm not dreaming, am I?"

"Dream?" The ghost was puzzled: "You have a strange dream again? We came back half an hour ago."

"Did you encounter anything in hell?" The sky cleared up, and then approached the slender figure holding Haori in his arms.

"No, it's you, the past few days... um!" Onikiri was going to ask her about her daily life, but before she finished speaking, she was already hugged tightly.

She suddenly hugged him tightly like a child, needless to say anything, Onikiri has already sensed her missing.

His eyes softened, and there was no need to ask follow-up questions.

Instead, he lowered his head carefully and placed a kiss on the top of her head.

"Sorry to keep you waiting."

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5.5/あなたを爱してる

……

Another night.

"...Wake up!"

Waking up from the nightmare, the first thing Tianqing did was to wake up the ghost beside her - she would not do this normally, who made her feel so upset today?

"……Um?"

Onikiri, who was used to light sleep, quickly woke up under the call of Tianqing. He opened his heavy eyelids, and then turned slightly to look at Tianqing who had something to say, with curiosity in his eyes——but he was disturbing her most of the night. There is no complaint about the behavior of people who have cleared their dreams.

Seeing that she remained silent, Onikiri asked, "...what's wrong? Are you dreaming?"

"I dreamed that you didn't love me and ran away!"

"……Then?"

"That's it!"

"...?"

Onikiri, who was lying on the bed, was suddenly puzzled, and raised his eyebrows "That's it?"

Facing Onikiri's overly cold reaction, Tianqing moved towards him a little unhappy: "Onikiri, don't you deny it?"

"Why?" Onikiri was a little helpless: "That can't happen."

After all, he didn't pay much attention to her dreams, pulled up the quilt she had wiped off, and stuffed her back into it well.

He intended to let her go back to sleep quickly, but she seemed to be particularly obsessed with dreams tonight.

Although he was not good at dealing with these situations, after thinking about it, he tried his best to dispel his drowsiness.

"Are you still upset?"

"You actually learned to use the word 'uneasy'?"

"I always will."

"You didn't know how to say these ambiguous words before."

"...Indeed, because I don't speculate on other people's thoughts randomly, this behavior is meaningless to me."

Onikiri looked sideways at her slightly, and closed his eyes again halfway through speaking, but continued to explain to her.

"I'm only telling you this because I know I know you."

"..."

Tianqing was startled when she heard the words, the uneasiness just now dissipated, but it was replaced by guilt and a sore nose——

"what happened?"

"Onikiri, you really don't think I'm troublesome?"

"why?"

"Because I keep asking this and that, and I still struggle with many small things, and I force you... The you in my dream hate me because of this."

"That's impossible." Onikiri smiled helplessly before he finished listening.

"But I have so many flaws..."

"I know who you are."

Onikiri stretched out his hand to hug her tightly, and his subsequent words became very light, but they were extremely solemn and serious.

"...And I can prove my feelings for you in a hundred years, a thousand years, or in the future."

His lips were on top of her head, his tone was affectionate and moving.

Yes, he is confident that in the future, he will still be by her side, understand her, and protect her.

For a monster like him, it should be complicated and difficult to understand a woman, but he knew he could do it.

Know her better than her, know everything she needs than her.

I hope for her happiness, and regard her as more important than anything else.

He can do it all.

Although, as she said, she occasionally gets cranky.

But that doesn't matter anymore, there are occasional uncontrollable, unsteady thoughts, which are also part of her.

He loved her anyway.

It will also use a hundred years, a thousand years, and all the time in the future to witness.

"We will be like this in the future."

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(End of the book)

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