[Onmyoji] Deep Sea Girl

That night, Qingming tossed and turned on Yeyue's bed for a long time, although it was still difficult to fall asleep, but the once confused and restless heart was exceptionally calm.

He stared at the moon and thought a lot. From the moment he first stepped into the Raksha Sea to now, all kinds of time pictures flashed before his eyes.Over the past six months, my state of mind has undergone tremendous changes.

We met in late autumn, and parted in early spring. The withered grass and trees are now full of green, which seems to make the parting less sad. Perhaps this is the most suitable time.

However, he never regretted coming to Raksha Sea. On the contrary, this experience made him see clearly what he really wanted in his heart. He felt lucky to meet this sea area and the monsters in the sea area.

Seimei firmly believes that even if he merges with Abe Seimei in the future, this will not change.

After resting for two days and adjusting his mentality for the time being, Seimei found Abe Seimei to talk alone in private on the holiday.

"You...are you willing to go back with me?" Abe Haru was obviously very surprised by his sudden change of attitude.

Qingming nodded, crossed his arms and looked at Luoying in the courtyard with a gloomy expression, "Although I'm very reluctant, I have to admit that you really can't do without some things."

"Besides, there are a lot of important things that have not been dealt with in Kyoto Prefecture. You have lost your memory, so you can't bear it."

Abe Seimei was silent for a while, facing the first half of Seimei's ambiguous words, he didn't open his mouth to ask.

He could see that Qingming didn't want to bring it up, and in fact he didn't need to get to the bottom of it, as he would naturally know everything when the two merged.

Seimei was willing to take the initiative to go back with him, and Abe Seimei's expression became much gentler. He stopped pressing him eagerly and asked instead, "Then when do you plan to go with me?"

"...At the end of the month, I will go back with Luochahai's send-off team at the end of the month." Qingming hesitated for a moment, then said softly, "I will return to Kyoto with you after I have attended the wedding banquet of Qionglang and Datengu."

Even though they were alone, he still wanted to attend the wedding banquet of those two with this special capacity.

Abe Seimei heard the words, looked at him and nodded slowly.

The two reached an agreement, and Qingming heaved a sigh of relief, found Eight Hundred Bhikuni, and directly showed her cards.

Unlike Abe Seimei's surprise, what Seimei said when he came to the door this time can be said to be within the expectations of the eight hundred monks.

Even though he had known for a long time that this might be the result, when he heard Qingming say those words himself, the eight hundred bhikkhuni's heart still couldn't restrain the endless despair.

She stared fixedly at Qingming with a calm expression, the other person's eyes no longer had the heat and desire at the beginning, they were as calm as water.

"Mr. Qingming's thoughts change really quickly. It seems that you are not as firm as I thought."

"I'm sorry..." Looking at this strange woman who was considered her companion before, Qingming said apologetically, "Bhikkhuni, although our ideas sometimes differ, I'm still very glad that I got to know you. You and I As a shrine maiden and an onmyoji, I originally stood on the opposite side of youkai, but I can also see the unknown side of youkai, and I am determined to change the status quo."

"In fact, I once considered you a half-confidant."

Hearing this sentence, Bhikkhuni Babai thought of something, her eyes moved slightly, and she smiled self-deprecatingly at an angle that no one could see.

"Mr. Qingming can think so, I am very happy." She said cheerfully, as if she was really very happy, but the chill in her heart was even worse.

"But I found that what we pursue and what we want are actually different, so I will not do the matter of reversing yin and yang anymore." Qingming said this sentence slowly, with a very serious look on his face.

He wasn't worried that the eight hundred bhikkhuni would continue to go his own way, and he didn't want to forcibly reverse the eight hundred bhikkhuni's thinking, because it was meaningless, and he was the only onmyoji in the world who could do this kind of thing, and there was no second one.

In other words, after he withdrew, the plan must die.

The smile of Eight Hundred Bhikkhuni gradually faded, "Mr. Seimei is right..."

In fact, since the very beginning, their goals have been different.

No matter whether it is this Qingming or that Qingming, they are all concealed by her deception, but they also regard her as a trustworthy and reliable companion.

Is this her luck or her sorrow?

"So, you can retrieve the power of Yamato no Orochi from me at any time. This power is no longer useful to me."

Eight hundred bhikkhuni paused for a moment, then looked up at him slightly, "Can you tell me why? What made you give up staying here and go back to that dreary place in Kyoto Prefecture willingly?"

"I...I want to find the answer to a question, a question to which only the truly whole me can find the answer."

Qingming didn't want to say more, but just looked at Eight Hundred Bhikkhuni fixedly, and said in a slightly lowered voice: "You can take back that power, and I will return to the capital in a few days."

"Bhikkhuni, I don't want to forcefully change your mind, but I have to say that our previous mind was wrong. If you still persist, we may be enemies the next time we meet."

"No...Mr. Qingming, you don't understand at all..." Eight hundred bhikuni was a little lost in thought, she murmured, and then quickly recovered and smiled at him indifferently, "Forget it, anyway, without Mr. Qingming, who You can't do that, so there's no point in arguing."

That's what makes people so desperate.

"In this case, on the day you and I part, I will take back the power that the lord bestowed upon you."

Leaving this sentence behind, Bhikkhuni Yabai didn't want to entangle Qingming any more, but returned to the room alone.

In the dimly lit room, she calmly looked at the token in her hand, with spiritual power surging in her hands, a peacock appeared behind her at some point.The blue-purple tail feathers of the peacock were slightly black, exuding a mysterious and dangerous beauty.

If you experience too much despair, you will calm down.

- But as long as there is a little way, she will not give up. In this endless life, nothing can stop her from pursuing the direction of death.

*****

After three days of busy work, Qiong Lang finally had some free time and was able to accompany his son while taking a breather.

After the spring cherry feast, Jinyu Ji and Kaguya Hime returned to play in the Raksha Sea. Although Jinyu Ji is a child of the uncle Arakawa's family next door, but because of her good friend Kaguya Hime's love for Raksha Sea, most of the time now she will stay in the Raksha Sea. here.

This time, he also brought back a strange monster that Qiong Lang had never seen before.

The woman named Yanyanluo was holding a pipe, sitting in the banquet with a lazy expression, her whole body also had a misty feeling like smoke, she was watching Jinyu Ji complaining to Qiong Lang with a smile on her face.

"Master Qiong Lang, he is really fierce! Just like that big man, the Lord of Arakawa, he only bullies children, it's too much!"

Jinyu Ji chattered and complained in front of Qiong Lang, while Huang who was being accused stood aside coldly with her arms folded.

"I'm not lying, Yan Yanluo and Kaguya Ji are both witnesses, you can ask them if you don't believe me!"

Qiong Lang twitched the corners of his mouth, no wonder he brought a new friend here, he came here as a witness for the purpose of suing.

"Uh... Lord Huang is actually alright... But although Jinyu Ji is a little headstrong, she is still a little girl." Kaguya Ji said coyly, she was originally introverted, and she didn't know who to help.

Yan Yanluo crossed Erlang's legs and blew out a few smoke rings, and said lazily, "Yes, he is a big man after all, making children cry is not a good thing."

Hearing that Huang made Jinyu Ji cry again, Qiong Lang had no choice but to coax Jinyu Ji, and then reprimanded Huang a few words.Tan Sheng didn't understand anything, and listened with relish in her arms, clapping and applauding from time to time.

Huang's face suddenly grew long, but he didn't want to stare at Qiong Lang in front of Qiong Lang, so he just gave Yan Yanluo a gloomy look.

After Qiong Lang scolded Huang, Jinyu Ji felt that she was outraged, and happily took her good friend to find Aihua and the others to play.

Seeing that the lunch break was coming to an end, Qiong Lang handed Tan Sheng over to Mu Jing and asked her to take the child to play with Hui Yeji and the others.

Walking out of the door, Huang looked at Yan Yanluo who was following a group of little radish heads with a dark face, and said abruptly: "You are protecting that girl very much, you actually came with her."

"Is Huang Zai dissatisfied with being criticized by Qiong Langji because of me?" Yan Yanluo raised her eyebrows, as if she was not affected by the low air pressure around Huang.

"Then you made a mistake. I just came here to meet a friend I haven't seen for a long time." She waved the cigarette stick and shook it. "Speaking of which, where is your library in Luochahai?"

Seeing that she looked like a normal person, Huang's face suddenly became darker, "What are you doing in the library? Aren't you with those kids?"

"I'm very interested in Rakshahai... Jinyu Ji said that there is a job advertisement in the library, and I'm going to have a look." She also met her old friend by the way.

Hearing this, Huang raised his chin slightly and squinted at her, "Don't tell me you want to stay in the Raksha Sea? The job openings in our sea area are not easy for any monster to be selected, and...unfortunately, I'm also one of the people in charge of recruitment and selection."

His tone was flat, but the contents of his words were faintly dissatisfied with Yan Yanluo's revenge.

But Yan Yanluo looked at him with a half-smile, "Really? So it's so troublesome. Then I might as well ask Lord Yan Mo to write a recommendation letter for me to Lord Qiong Lang, my friend Qing Xingdeng Saying that’s how she made it.”

"..." Huang couldn't help but twitched the corners of his mouth, he couldn't do anything about this kind of backstage relationship for a while.

Yan Yanluo seemed to like to see him slumped, so he held up the cigarette stick and blew a few smoke rings at him, "Then respected Lord Huang, can you show me a way?"

Huang dodged the oncoming smoke with a black face, paused for a moment, then turned around and walked towards the library with a straight face, "If you want to go, follow me quickly, I don't have so much time to waste on boring things."

Yan Yanluo narrowed her eyes with a smile, retracted the cigarette stick and followed, a soft, low and lazy voice faintly sounded.

"The appearance of you being reprimanded by Qiong Langji is really cute."

"Don't use that word to describe me!"

"...Okay, okay, that kind of stuffy look that doesn't dare to refute...it's interesting, is that okay?"

"...I don't find it funny."

"You look like you like being bullied."

"……enough."

That's all your weird illusion, okay?

*****

Qiong Lang leisurely flipped through the scrolls in the study, remembering that the wedding will be here in a few days, a smile could not help but appear on his lips.

While flipping through the scroll, Seimei unexpectedly came to see him.

"You came to me suddenly during work hours, did you encounter any problems?" Qiong Lang motioned for him to sit down, and offered Qingming a cup of tea with his own hands.

Qingming thanked her in a low voice, and with a slight movement of her fingertips, she took out the letter paper from her skirt and put it on the table in front of Qiong Lang, and then she didn't speak.

Qiong Lang picked up the letter paper casually, it was a letter of resignation, a letter that every monster in Luochahai who had a job change was required to hand in.

After reading it calmly, she sighed softly, and said softly: "It seems that you and him have reached a consensus."

Hearing this sentence, Qingming's eyes moved slightly, but he remained silent and did not speak.

Qiong Lang folded the letter papers and put them away, and said softly, "That's fine...with his innocent appearance, without you, I'm afraid it will be difficult to gain a foothold in the capital."

"But to be honest, I really don't want you to leave Rakshahai like this."

Qingming's figure moved slightly, and finally raised her half-drowned head to meet him, and after seeing the reluctance in Qiong Lang's eyes, she froze in place.

"Qiong Lang... my lord, would you be reluctant to leave me?"

"Why do you say that? I already regard you as a monster of Rakshahai."

Qingming was silent for a while, and said softly: "But... I have been hiding many things from you before, so that you can't feel at ease. Even so, does Master Qiong Lang think so?"

"What happened before?" Qiong Lang shook his head, "Don't take it to heart, everyone didn't care about it for a long time. On the contrary, you have helped everyone a lot during these days in Luochahai, but I I still owe you a 'thank you'."

"Lord Qionglang, don't say that." Qingming seemed a little restless, and after a moment of hesitation, he said, "If I said... I still have something to keep from you, will you be angry?"

Qiong Lang raised his eyes and looked at him calmly, Qingming's heart tightened immediately.

After a long while, she shook her head lightly and smiled helplessly, "What... You bastard, you still have something to hide from us?"

"Forget it, if you say it, I won't be angry." Qiong Lang held her chin and raised her eyebrows, "Who told you that you are a partner who has lived and died with us? Based on this, I will Please forgive your deception."

Qingming breathed a sigh of relief, and was amused by her words, and then said softly after a while, "Thank you, my lord."

"Thank you, my lord, for letting me understand a lot during this time together. If it weren't for you, I might have embarked on the wrong path..."

Seimei sighed leisurely, took a sip of tea, and slowly explained how he was separated from Abe Seimei's body, and how he gained strength, and cooperated with another eight hundred monks lurking beside Seimei, step by step. carry out their plans.

Qiong Lang listened carefully, and the brows would move slightly from time to time.

After a while, she laughed and said, "Eight hundred bhikkhuni? So you guys have known each other for a long time, that kid Abe Seimei is really unlucky, he was deceived by another self and his companion."

There was no other meaning in her words, with a somewhat joking tone, and Qingming couldn't help but smile lightly, with a hint of self-mockery.

"Yeah, it sounds weird and ridiculous to be with someone else against another self, isn't it?"

"Fortunately, you woke up in time, before everything happened." Qiong Lang smiled slightly, and after learning the whole story, he couldn't help but focus on the eight hundred bhikkhuni.

"Eight hundred bhikkhuni... That witch heard that she has the strange power of immortality, she would cooperate with you?"

Hearing this, Qingming thought she was worried about this moment, so she quickly said, "Your Excellency, don't worry, Eight Hundred Bhikkhuni can't do much by herself, and she also talked to me, and she will leave Rakshahai Sea with us at the end of the month." .”

Qiong Lang shook his head slightly, and said softly: "No... I just find it strange."

Onmyoji and witches, according to common sense, are opposite to monsters.

The reason why Seimei wants to become the master of the underworld is that he, as an onmyoji, was bred by evil thoughts in his heart. Eight hundred bhikkhuni is a witch, so why would he do this?

But this strange woman will leave Rakshahai soon, Qiong Lang didn't put too much thought on unrelated people.

Qiong Lang recovered from his thoughts, and blinked at Qingming, "I approve your resignation letter. In view of your good performance these days, I will arrange for the scholar to give you a generous bonus."

Her light tone dispelled Qingming's original sadness caused by the separation.

However, Qiong Lang's expression changed, and he sighed leisurely: "But once you leave, the newspaper office will be put on hold for the time being. Now everyone is used to reading the articles you write every day. If you leave, the people in the sea area will be in danger." Those monsters must be very sad."

"So, don't let them know about this, otherwise the doors of the library and newspaper office will be crushed."

Qingming couldn't help but chuckled, "It's not that exaggerated..."

"I'm not talking exaggeratedly. You seldom go out of the house. I don't know how much the monsters in the sea area like you." Qiong Lang smiled slightly, with a confused look on his face, "Among them, many monsters will take you Every issue of the newspaper I write is collected, and I don’t even need the money for recycling.”

"It seems that you really don't know that you are our official most popular person." Qiong Lang saw him at a loss, and gradually put away his smile, "Everyone will miss you very much."

Qingming stared at her blankly, her originally light hearted mood became heavy with sadness.

"I'm also very reluctant to part with the newspaper office." He looked down at the steaming tea, with a trace of sadness hidden in his expression.

During this time in Luochahai, although he was very tired, it was the happiest and most fulfilling time for him.And the newspaper office, where he put a lot of effort and energy, has no one to take over after he left, which is also what worries him.

If only I could stay.

"It would be great if you could stay, if you were Seimei, not Abe Seimei..."

Before he finished speaking, only a shallow sigh was left.

If it is only if after all, Abe Seimei will always be Abe Seimei, and he is indispensable in the human world.Regarding his departure, Qiong Lang had already expected it, although it was very regrettable, she couldn't make any excuses to keep him.

This shallow sigh was like a feather, gently falling on the peaceful river of heart, but it stirred up a turbulent ripple.

"Qiong Lang." Staring at her for a moment, Qingming called out abruptly.

Qiong Lang raised his head subconsciously, "Huh?"

"Let's make an agreement." He took a deep breath and said slowly.

"...What?" Qiong Lang looked into his gentle eyes, as if there was a flash of light in them.

"You said that you already regarded me as a monster of Rakshahai." Qingming said seriously, "However, I have something to go out for a while now, maybe 50 or 60 years, or maybe It's 80 years, 100 years."

"But no matter how long I leave temporarily, Seimei will always be a monster of Rakshahai, right?"

Qiong Lang looked at his extraordinarily serious appearance, and suddenly his heart skipped a beat, a faint sourness suddenly pervaded.

She couldn't help but nodded with a smile, and said softly, "Okay... I've given you permission for this business trip. Don't worry, there will always be a place for you in the newspaper office."

While talking, she slowly picked up the resignation letter and put it in the lit lamp.

Qingming stared blankly at the piece of paper slowly turning into ashes, couldn't help closing his eyes slowly, and showed a satisfied smile.

The author has something to say:

Qiong Lang: Cry!Cry for me!

Gouzi: == I just want to beat the gongs and drums to say goodbye.

Hei Abba: Didn’t expect that?Huh... my black man three will come back!

Eight hundred bhikkhuni (indifferent): I am tired and want to do something.