[Silver Soul Earth Silver] Demon World Chaos-A Hundred Ghost Story

The author has something to say: In a safe world, a hundred ghosts travel at night.

Yagi unloaded the bamboo basket on his back, counted in it, and found that the herbs collected today were not enough.He looked up at the sky, and wanted to roughly estimate the time, but later realized that the trees here were too lush.The roots of the tree are deep, the trunk is extended, and the leaves are thick. The sunlight can't penetrate the gap, and can only wander outside and peep here.

A dry branch was stepped on under his feet, and there was a "creak" sound, which startled him.He carried the bamboo basket on his back, and continued walking with lingering fear.

This mountain is the closest to home, but the elders in the village refuse to come here.Yagi once went to ask the reason, but they all faltered and refused to answer, or they just entered the house and bolted the door to shut him down.Yagi knew the temperament of these villagers, and he always thought that everyone was like this.Until that day, a person came from the village.

It's a very cold day now, and everyone has put on jackets outside the sheets after drying out the water.I heard that you can wear straight, round collars and skirts of the same color when you are an adult, like those gentlemen in the capital, with their belts flying on the road.Therefore, Yagi is always counting with his fingers when he will be truly an adult. In the past few years, whenever he patted his chest and said that he was actually an adult, he would be slapped by his father.

Dad said, "You can't even count."

Looking at the man who came to his house to borrow a place to rest now, Yagi always felt very strange.At only nine years old, he walked around the man, his beady eyes fixed on the man's chest, extremely curious.It's cold outside, and it seems to be snowing.Snow hit the face more painful than a needle prick, if it was him, he would cover his face and dance endlessly.

But this man was not only naked from the upper body, he didn't even wear shoes, only a belt around his waist, and a gray skirt on his lower body.He wears strange things around his neck and limbs, pale gold, and Yagi can't open his eyes when he looks closely.When Yagi turned around behind him, he saw a knife on his back.The knife went through the belt and stayed there firmly.

"Hey, who are you?" Yagi had never seen this hair color before, but he didn't think it was awkward at all.The man is not only good-looking, but also quite domineering when he holds the wine bowl. He has a strong chest and an expressionless face. Only those eyes... When he is stared at, his soul will be sucked away.

The old man just handed the man freshly warmed sake, which was poured out of a narrow bottle, exuding a faint willow fragrance.It's homemade by them.Other people's houses pick cherry blossoms to make wine, but their family's ancestral tradition is to get things nearby. Whoever told them that there is a big willow tree growing in front of the house.I don't know how old that tree trunk is, but I only heard my father say: "It watched me grow up."

Yagi waited for a long time, thinking that the man would answer him calmly, but he only heard a gust of wind coming in through the gap of the wooden window.He shivered and sneezed immediately.He rubbed his nose, roughly thinking that this man is not from the village.The children in the village don't like to play with him, let alone the adults, who stay behind closed doors every day, and don't know if there is something hidden in the house.

The man put down the wine bowl, wiped his mouth and turned around without saying a word.Seeing that he was about to enter the wind and snow again, Yagi followed step by step, shouting, "Hey, where are you from? Why don't you speak, are you dumb?"

The man's back is straight.I don't know if it was Yagi's illusion, but he found that the snow was scrambling to surround the man, circling and rising, and it was clear that there were only the two of them here and now, but he heard a few sudden laughs.Lingling's laughter was better than the tone of mother and father flirting in the middle of the night, so he stood on tiptoe and pricked up his ears.

This village is located at the foot of a big mountain, and he doesn't know what's on the mountain, although he has lived here since he was a child.Yagi had thought several times that it was impossible for him to enter the mountains in his life, and he had no interest in mountains.What he yearns for is Kyoto. There are so many legends about Kyoto. The villagers who have been there are always showing off, which arouses his longing.

At this moment he thought the same thing, he thought he just wanted to hear the source of the laughter, nothing else really.However, in the blink of an eye, the man who was still in front of his eyes disappeared.Melting into the wind and snow, what replaced the figure was wave after wave of black, mixing with those white snowflakes, as if to swallow the snow that filled the sky.

Yagi was startled and fell to the ground.

That was the direction of the mountain, and the black smoke was heading there.The laughter also faded away, but there was still one lingering in his ear, as if mocking him.Yagi hurriedly covered his ears, shaking his head, but the other party wanted to fight against him, and slipped through his fingers to escape his eardrum.Laughter echoed in his head, as if his body was not only inhabited by one person.Yagi was terrified by the thought, and crawled back home.

After that day, Yagi didn't go out for three days.The old man said, "Boy, you are finally a member of our village." Yagi rolled his eyes, stuffed everything he had messed up into his pocket, and let out a breath in his hand.From then on, he gave up the idea of ​​going to Kyoto. He felt that the man had killed him, so he had to ask for an explanation.

--who are you?

You haven't asked your name yet, have you?

Three years have passed, and the only thing that has changed is Yagi's age.If it wasn't for Dad's illness today, he might still be as trembling as before, daring to speak out and dare not do anything, with his legs trembling.He is also trembling now, holding a wooden stick he found somewhere, "Shua Shua Shua—" Sweeping the withered and yellow leaves along the road.

Yagi doesn't know how to distinguish medicinal herbs, he thinks that the grass grows like that, so he collects the thorn grass as well.The things lying in his bamboo basket can be described as everything, including a few mushrooms.He looked around, blinking in surprise.He had discovered a while ago that there was more than one raised mound here, and he hadn't heard from his father that there were dead people buried here.It's not that he has to come here, it's just that this wooden stick seems to understand his thoughts, or maybe he was guided by this wooden stick.

Yagi even imitated those onmyojis in Yinyangliao one day, and said vaguely with seals on his hands: "East is west, south is north, and those who chase me will never get it..." He wondered if these spells could appease What about the dead?Is he trying to transcend?It must be.Yagi shook his head arrogantly, ignoring the fact that he said "finally not available" as "finally available".

Yagi's eyes dimmed a little, he sighed that he was 12 years old, and then he would be 20 years old soon.He still didn't have the guts to find out, although he really wanted to know who that man was.

"Crackling——" Another dead branch was trampled and a few earthworms crawled out from under the dead branch, wrapping around his ankles one by one.He muttered "go, go, go", and slapped the wooden stick in his hand vigorously.

The forest was a bit gloomy again, and occasionally a few crows were heard.Yagi knew to some extent what the crow symbolized. After weighing the weight of the bamboo basket, he was about to descend the mountain.He lifted his foot and just took a step forward when he was suddenly stopped by the movement under his feet.

This time it was no longer an earthworm, but a snake.They broke through the ground, spitting snake letters, and climbed up his calf.There are about four of them, each of a different color, with a foul-smelling mucus flowing from their bodies.Yagi was dumbfounded, opened his mouth wide and forgot to shout, lowered his head mechanically, and stared at the snakes.