I, Seimei, can't be an audiophile

"Have you heard, the genius of the Gojo family?"

"I've heard, it's a rare spell called 'Six Eyes', which hasn't been seen for several generations, if they weren't twins..."

"Keep your voice down, you don't want to die?"

Noisy...

The noise swirled in his head, buzzing and buzzing.

"The older one is not bad, but the younger one is a waste."

"It doesn't matter whether it's character or ability, and it also divides the fate of the noble 'Six Eyes', if there is no him—"

It's so loud!It's so noisy, it's so noisy, it's so noisy!

Let all the sound disappear, in order to obtain complete silence, right?

"I'm sorry, woooooo...it's all because of me...because my existence dragged you down, if I wasn't here, you would be the strongest... woooooo..."

——It’s so noisy!

Restless restless restless restless restless!

All disappear for me!leave me alone for a while!

"Nothing like that."

Noise, fade away.

Those noisy voices disappeared, leaving only one voice that was extremely clear.

He wanted to know who was speaking, the chaos and blankness around him disappeared, and he could finally see the person in front of him clearly.

It was a man wearing a pure white onmyoji costume and holding a gilded black fan in his hand, making it difficult to distinguish whether it was a man from the light or from death.

Beyond life, beyond time, beyond gender and age, when the 'six eyes' see this person, they already know that this is a person from the 'boundary'.

If this world has a boundary, if this world has a shape, if this world floats up and down like foam floating in the sea of ​​time, and is extremely illusory, then this is an absolutely 'real' existence that transcends that boundary!

For a moment, his thinking also stopped, and the noise and distracting thoughts seemed to be something from another world.

"There is only one other person, but you are two... You can do what many people cannot do, and only you can do."

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The white man...name...his name is...he is...

"Yu?"

The call interrupted his memory of trying his best, the surrounding scenery dissolved like a tide, and he finally saw the scene in reality.

The familiar Japanese room, the man who looks familiar, the fruit and desserts on the table, but they are like clay made of clay, which makes him uninterested.

The so-called "seeing" is just a very vague feeling, and there is no fluctuation in his heart, and he is not interested in these at all.

He was still thinking about the name, but couldn't remember anything.

"Yu, these are your favorite desserts, come, try some..."

He moved past the man like he was just an object, a silhouette, not a real being.He pushed open the closed sliding door and looked out of the yard.

An annoying courtyard wall, an annoying yard, an annoying, unchanging scenery.

name……

That person never called me by my name.

"Yu! You can't go outside yet!"

The white-haired child swung his right arm, and the man quickly jumped back, but he still didn't dodge the close-range attack. He pressed the flesh on the wounded shoulder to stop the blood from flowing, and his eyes still didn't blink. to him.

Things that should not be forgotten must be found, retrieved, retrieved, retrieved, retrieved, retrieved!

"Sorry, Yuu."

The man took out the chain with the seal and threw it at him, binding him.

"Please wait for a while. I'm sorry, Yuu, I'm sorry."

Where is the coward crying?

Such thoughts are only fleeting, and quickly disappear into numbness.

The child's gaze is still out of focus, and the only remaining eye is looking at something far away beyond the courtyard wall.

Li Qingming and Mr. D came to the beach to confirm the situation with the people around them, and found that the information received by Onmyoji was too general, and what actually happened was more complicated than they thought.

There happened to be a few fishermen who knew the cause and effect, and under the reward of a lot of money, they complemented each other and told them the whole story.

It turned out that the mermaid's flesh did not appear suddenly, but a few days ago, a woman with long flowing hair and wearing a woman's kimono came to the fishing village.

"Just around here, a group of mermaids will appear soon. I want to hire you to hunt mermaids."

The woman told them so.

"Hunting mermaids is very dangerous. Mermaids will eat people who fall into the water, and smaller boats will be overturned quickly. Only big boats are convenient for travel."

The woman described in detail how to hunt mermaids, like using a speargun coated with special poison——

She has that kind of poison, like the poison can only paralyze the mermaid, the head of the mermaid must be cut off immediately——

Otherwise, the mermaid will always be alive and fight back like a wild beast. For another example, mermaid meat can make people live forever, and only special cooking methods can get rid of the poison.

If the mermaid meat can be brought back, she will tell them how to get rid of the poison and give them some meat.

live forever!The temptation is too great!Even if the fishermen know that there is danger, they can sell the mermaid meat even if they don’t eat it, or just get money. Money is very important to fishermen. With money, they don’t have to worry about wind, waves, and water affecting their livelihoods. , live happily with this money for a long time.

So some fishermen set off, and the woman hired a big boat for them to travel.

However, they did not return.

On the second day after they disappeared, many corpses floated on the sea surface, and some didn't look like mermaids at all, but the corpses of monsters who didn't know what kind of things they were.

What's even more frightening is that those monsters that seem to be corpses actually came back to life after staying on the shore for a while, and even attacked humans!

"They are like mermaids, they can die by cutting off their heads."

The woman told everyone, so the fishermen cut off the head of the monster together.

"What is this?"

"Could it be that there are no mermaids at all, only monsters, are you sending us to feed monsters?"

Angry at the death of their companion, the fishermen sought justice from the woman, but the woman told them so.

"It's because they didn't listen to me and ate the mermaid's meat. The mermaid's meat has a strong activity and can directly change the human body. Without my cooking method, eating the mermaid's meat directly is the end."

On the body of one of the monsters, they found the belongings of the fishermen's companions, which confirmed the woman's words, and these monsters turned out to be their original companions!

The fishermen were terrified, but also excited, that there was tangible proof that what the woman said was true, that merfolk really existed!

Those people turned into monsters and died. It was their fault. Why didn't they bring the mermaid back instead of eating the poisonous meat unprepared?

As for the special cooking method that can remove the toxicity, they also believe it.They know that there is a fish called puffer fish, and its ovaries and blood are poisonous. For those who don't know it, it is indeed a very poisonous thing.

But for those who know how to cook, take care to remove the poison, the other parts are extremely delicious.Mermaids may be the same, only those who know how to cook can get rid of the poison.

No one thought of such a stupid thing as holding a woman hostage and asking about cooking methods.Would you hold a fugu chef hostage, ask him how to make fugu, and then cook it yourself?

Knowing and actually operating are two different things. Only those who have actually operated many times can succeed.

And since the woman wants the mermaid's meat, she must eat it by herself. As long as she confirms that it's okay for her to eat it, then they can all eat it.

Thinking of this, the fishermen were excited!They want to travel again, to hunt merfolk.

According to the woman, the mermaid only appears in this sea area during this period of time, and if the time is lost, it will be difficult to find it again.The elixir of immortality is right in front of you, and you would be a fool to miss it.

However, because of the previous monster incident, the incident caused a lot of trouble. Many people heard about it, and some other people also wanted to set sail to snatch the mermaid.

Everyone was very anxious, afraid that the mermaids would be frightened away, and they were also afraid that the mermaids would be captured by other people and they would not stay.

At this moment, a boy with a doll's head appeared, about eight or nine years old.

The boy's hair is white, and he looks very unhealthy, albinism caused by living in a place without sunlight for a long time.His skin is also very fair, and his eyes are reddish brown, giving people a very mysterious and inhuman feeling.

Calling him "he" is based on the imagination of his easy-to-move men's clothes. In fact, his appearance is extremely medium-sized, and it is difficult to tell whether he is a man or a woman.

"I'm a conjurer, and I can help you get the mermaid." The boy said.

"In exchange, I would like to know a question. This question can be told to me when I get back."

The woman listened and agreed to his request to let him travel with the fishermen.

This time the fishermen returned smoothly and brought back a mermaid tail.

Hearing this, Mr. D couldn't help asking: "Only the tail?"

The fishermen nodded in agreement: "Only the tail is said to be because the whole mermaid looks too scary, and the upper body looks like a human. The fishermen feel terrible, as if they are killing people instead of monsters, so they all ask to lose the upper body. The human part. So they cut off the upper body and threw it straight back into the sea."

Another fisherman said: "I heard that they were not thrown back into the sea, but burned on the big boat on the spot."

Other fishermen objected: "How could it be possible to set fire on the boat? What if the boat is set on fire?"

Li Qingming said: "That is to say, no matter what you saw in the end was a piece of fish tail they brought back, it's hard to tell if it's a mermaid?"

The fishermen replied that they could indeed tell that it was a mermaid, because there was indeed a short section of waist that looked like a human being with the tail up, which could prove that it was indeed a mermaid.

The woman was very happy after getting the mermaid, and she said to the boy: "I know what you want to ask. That's right, just as you think, just sprinkle it evenly on it."

The boy said: "Will it really work? If it doesn't work, my life may be lost."

The woman replied: "It will really work. The vitality of the mermaid is very strong. Even if it is dead, it can form a curse that is more terrible than the curse."

This sentence reassured the conjurer, and the young conjurer left with the answer to the question.

That day the woman cooked the mermaid and invited the fishermen to share it.

Most of the fishermen coveted it, but some fishermen had a great psychological shadow on the mermaid, and decided to take the cooked meat away, not to eat it themselves, but to sell it to others at a high price.

Seeing that the woman ate the meat without any change, the other fishermen ate it with confidence.

After they finished eating, the woman said: "Actually, there is no special cooking method. No matter how the mermaid meat is cooked, the poison cannot be removed. Only those whose bodies can resist will live forever, and everyone else will die or become monsters."

The fishermen were horrified, but it was over, they had eaten the meat, and as the woman said, they were all monsters.

Other fishermen who didn't eat meat came to the government to round up and kill those monsters. They chased and killed the woman, and the woman laughed and jumped into the sea and disappeared.

"Jump into the sea and disappear?" Li Qingming felt that this was the end of a strange story, full of unreality, "What is she trying to do, just to trick others into eating mermaid meat?"

After Mr. D finished listening, his sleepy eyes instantly became full of energy.

"So it turns out that she is probably a mermaid on land."

—A mermaid on land?

"As I said before, there are many types of mermaids. Mermaids on land are very intelligent. They can transform into human beings to walk on land and live in water.

Mermaids, who can only live in water, cannot leave the water in most cases, full of wildness, and low IQ.

It is said that mermaids on land must return to the water when they give birth, because the cubs can only breathe with gills when they are first born.

Pregnant women need nutrition, just like humans need to eat pork, which is the closest to their genes, and mermaids on land need mermaids in water as nourishment to give birth to new life. "

Mr. D was extremely excited: "The mermaids come with the ocean current, and will soon leave with the ocean current! I'm going to track the mermaid group, shall we go together?"

Li Qingming: "You go, I have to track down the meat of other mermaids strayed in the hands of fishermen, to avoid more dead and monsters. If you are sure to go, please be careful, or you wait for me, wait for me I'll go with you when I'm done."

Mr. D refused: "If you wait too long, the mermaid will leave, then we will split up. Don't worry, I am very good at getting along with creatures other than humans, and they all like me. See you later!"

Watching Mr. D take the fishermen to hire a boat, Li Qingming was silent for a moment.

What does it mean to be good at getting along with creatures other than humans!Bring back the touch that he felt that Mr. D was easy to get along with before!

The author has something to say: the setting of the mermaid comes from Takahashi's mermaid series, the shadow of childhood!