Tomo-sama's Rescue Plan - Hell Chapter

Taisho 12 years, early autumn.

The water in the iron pot on the charcoal stove was about to boil. I scooped it into a bowl with a long-handled wooden spoon and washed away the green tea powder. With the stirring of the tea whisk, the fragrance of Uji tea diffused in the air. , A dense layer of foam floated in the tea bowl.

I put the tea bowl in front of the ghost and said with a smile, "My lord, please."

A kite floated in the clear sky after the rain, and the breeze came, sending the last cicadas in the forest, and the copper bells under the eaves echoed a few clear chimes.In the temples of Kyoto, it is a good time to taste tea all year round. Drinking tea under the verandah in autumn can enjoy maple leaves and flowers, which is a rare beauty.

Tong Mo put down the newspaper in his hand, picked up the tea bowl gracefully, and said absent-mindedly:

"The Prime Minister is dead."

"What, I thought you were going to praise me that this tea has the Zen style of Sen Rikyu." I glared at him, "Don't be distracted when tasting tea."

"Sorry, sorry~ I forgot that Xiaoran has become obsessed with the tea ceremony recently." The ghost said with a smile, "Hey, did you prepare chestnut cakes? You also made them yourself?"

"It's made of seasonal chestnuts, try it."

"It's so sweet! Put less sugar next time!"

"How can the tea not be sweet? If it is not sweet, it will be full of the bitter taste of tea. Sweetness and bitterness complement each other like sorrow and joy in the world. This is also the Zen in tea." I took a bite of the pastry, "Okay Eat! What did you just say? So the cabinet is going to be replaced again?"

"That's inevitable. If the economy is like this, it will be a matter of time before you step down."

"Have you withdrawn all your money from the market?"

"Withdraw early, it's the right time to buy gold."

I sighed, "I don't know what to do with the shop in Kagurazaka, and I'm too embarrassed to drive out the tenants."

The ghost smiled indifferently: "Those shops are not worth as much as the land, so don't worry about it."

"Mr. Yamada said on the phone yesterday that Mr. Tanaka sent an invitation to the temple recently, saying that he still has a few colleagues who want to come to Kyoto to meet you. I haven't agreed yet. It depends on your wishes."

"They can come if they want, but it's meaningless." Holding the tea bowl, Tong Mo looked up at the kite, "The weather is going to change~"

As soon as he finished speaking, I suddenly felt a slight shaking.

"earthquake?"

"Ah, is it finally here?"

"What's coming?"

The ghost made a "shh" gesture, its iridescent eyes gleaming like ice crystals.

"It's God's punishment~"

he smiled.

"Is it in Tokyo? The earthquake is really big, no, I have to go back." I stood up, "Where are the car keys?"

The ghost took a sip of tea calmly.

"Xiao Ran, something is wrong with your brain? The road is already broken." He said unhurriedly, "Besides, you told me that human beings are not worth saving, right?"

"I…"

I was speechless for a while, and finally lowered my head.

"But I'm...a god after all."

"The gods can't save them," Gui Tan spread his hands, "there's nothing they can do."

That's right, the gods can't save them, not to mention I'm not enshrined by humans.

The shrine is the link between the gods and the world, similar to the role of an "anchor".If it is a shrine that is formally enshrined and holds regular ceremonies, the gods can also directly descend or do something through apparitions. However, although my Arakawa Shrine has been repaired, it is an empty shell without a god body. I didn’t plan to Let humans sacrifice to me again, so naturally I can't go to Tokyo in the way of a god descending.

or…

"There is a way!" I drew a spell in the air and said loudly, "Miss Naruto! Please help me to be teleported to Arakawa Shrine, thank you!"

"Eh? Isn't this too foul? Miss Pipa is not Xiaoran's family!" The ghost immediately protested, "Then I want to be with you..."

"We're not considered dependents, we're just friends." I smiled triumphantly in front of the suddenly opened space passage, "You stay in Kyoto honestly, and you're not allowed to go anywhere!"

When I arrived, I barely recognized it was the Tokyo I remembered.

Since the Edo period, this city has been plagued by disasters. Floods, fires, and plagues have taken turns, but I have never seen such a miserable scene.

The whole city turned into a sea of ​​flames.Later I heard that because the earthquake happened just in time for making lunch, many people’s charcoal stoves overturned and ignited the wood and paper in their homes, and most houses in this city were full of wood and paper .

The reason for the fire is very Edo period style. After all, at that time, the longhouses in the castle town also caught fire every three days, and sometimes even the shogun’s Ooku could not escape.But this time with the earthquake, the result is completely different.

Arakawa Shrine is on the mountain, surrounded by my power, it is intact, but looking around from the shrine, the scene is extremely terrifying, as if...

It was as if the hell of karma had descended on the human world.

I instinctively felt that I should do something, after all, I am a god in charge of rain, but just as I was about to use a spell, my raised hand was held down by a slender and white hand.

A charming black-haired girl appeared in front of me, smiling sweetly.

"Ah, Bai Ji, why are you here again? You really can't get in my way this time. After all, this was an agreement with that annoying guy in your family, and it's one of the conditions for our cooperation. "

"Yizang Ranzun..." I lowered my head helplessly, "Do you have to vent your resentment in this way? Many people will die."

"My resentment? Bai Ji, you are wrong."

Goddess Huang Quanjin looked deeply at the endless sea of ​​flames, "This is the 'karmic result' of all the resentment in this city and this country in history. Human beings polluted me with them and created hell. Now I just Give them all back, to my lovely, poor, dying children."

She stretched out her arms and twirled in the air with a playful smile: "Of course, I would be happier if I could make that dog man and Gao Tianyuan's bastards who watched my jokes feel pain. But they obviously didn't, if you don't believe it, Just stand here and watch, to see which god will come to save these humble humans?"

"You know they won't come, why do you say such a thing?"

Yizang Ranzun smiled: "This time I will teach you the first lesson of being a god, Bai Ji, gods are ruthless existences, human beings are no different from ants in their eyes, and human beings often think that only their enemies will suffer When it comes to scourge, people who think this way are simply foolish, and they will not care who is who when the real scourge comes."

"Then it seems that I have nothing to do here." I sighed deeply, "I wish you a good time."

When I arrived at Kek Lok Si, I breathed a sigh of relief. Except for the collapse of rocks on the mountain road and a few cracks on the road, there was no loss in the temple. The believers were all kneeling in the main hall to pray. When they saw me coming, Yamada The teacher immediately burst into tears.

"Miss Arakawa, how did you get in here?"

"Ah, of course... I rely on the blessing of the gods." I smiled brazenly, "My lord sent me to see everyone, are you all alright?"

"It's all thanks to the blessing of the leader, everyone is safe and sound! It's just that Ying is still in school, I don't know what's going on..."

Thinking of the hellish scene in Tokyo, I felt a chill in my heart: "Aying is in the city? I'll go find her!"

"They're back!" Suddenly someone shouted outside, "It's that kid Yue Yue! He brought Ah Ying back!"

I rushed out and saw Huang Yue standing in the yard with a cold face, holding the girl who seemed to be in shock in his arms.

"Great job! Yanyue!" Mr. Yamada said loudly, "As expected of a child of our Bliss School!"

Huang Yue snorted and turned his head away:

"I am willing to save this stupid woman. What does it have to do with you? Don't be sentimental."

This kid, his face is blushing, and his mouth is still stubborn, he is really stubborn as hell.

"It's good that everyone is fine. Ying, you and Mr. Yamada and the others stay here and don't run around." I nodded at the young man, "Yue, come with me."

"Huh? That's what you called me here for?"

Yan Yue stood beside the collapsed boulder on the mountain road, crossing his arms in disdain, "Why should I help you move the stone?"

"What's the matter? Everyone has to go in and out of this road." I followed his example and folded my arms, "You wouldn't let a woman do such a thing, would you?"

"Are you a woman? Stop joking, Lord Water God, I have never seen a woman who can beat people like you."

"Xiao Yueyue, being helpful is one of the creeds of our Eternal Bliss Cult," I put on a sincere smile, "Why don't you ask the leader to come and explain it to you personally?"

This trick really worked, just look at him gritted his teeth and said,

"Get out of the way, and be careful not to be stoned to death."

Breath of Thunder · Two Shapes · Rice Soul!

The boulder blocking the mountain road was shattered into countless pieces under the high-speed slash of black lightning. I waved my hand and summoned a torrent, which rushed the stone pieces down the valley. Then I clapped my hands. Vines and branches began to grow rapidly, quickly filling the cracks in the road.

"It's safe now, let's go."

"Aren't you going to use a knife in the future?"

Yan Yue walked behind me with a knife in his hand and asked.

"What are you kidding, there is a ban on knives in the city." I said, "Besides, my public identity is the proprietress of a cafe. What does a knife look like? You are the same, human beings have long started using foreign guns, no matter what All knives are outdated."

"I know, but I still like to be a swordsman." The young man was a little downcast, "I didn't expect to come back with great difficulty, but the sword skills are useless."

"Who said it's as useful as meeting enemies. I think you're still young and should learn something new." I explained to him, "In this regard, I think it's better for you to follow Mr. Wumi. Western technology is the most, and he is strict, and you can grow quickly by following him."

"...Aren't you afraid? What if I stand on his side to deal with you in the future?"

"Why should I be afraid? I welcome you to hit me at any time, Xiao Yue, do you want to apply for a bloody battle?"

"That's enough, you're not a ghost, why did you learn the tricks of a ghost?"

"I can't help it, who told me that I am a member of the ghost..."

It has been three days since I returned to Tokyo.But the scene in front of him was still horrible.

The whole of Tokyo was basically razed to the ground. The high-rise buildings in Ginza were all gone. The ground was cracked with huge gaps. There were corpses everywhere on the scorched earth burned by the fire. There were wailing and cries for help from the ruins.However, those who survived were too busy to take care of themselves. The water pipes in the urban area were shattered, and there was no drop of water, and the river water was too turbid to drink.Most of the surviving people gathered together in a daze, as if they could not accept the disaster in front of them at all.

The smoke and dust billowed, the city was filled with the smell of burnt flesh, and countless black souls lingered on the ruins. They didn't know that they were dead, and they were still wandering around like living people.

It looked like a living hellscape.

At night, I saw that ghostly man on the half-collapsed Lingyun Pavilion in Asakusa.

The plum red eyes looked down at this dilapidated city, the windbreaker in the western style spread out like dark wings in the night wind, the ancestor of the ghost let out wild laughter, not even my arrival could stop it He laughed out loud with excitement.

"Miss Bai Ji, did you see that? This is a natural disaster!" The man named Gui Wu Tsuji Mumi pointed at the city under his feet and shouted at me, "Those despicable ants, I told them to treat me as a natural disaster, They just want to make trouble with me under the name of hypocrisy, what should they do now? Hmm? Who should they blame, whom should they hate, and whom should they take revenge on? I am quite looking forward to whether they will hate Where are you gods? Hahahaha..."

I smiled and said, "What are you thinking, Lord Wuyou, at this time, they will pray to the gods more. However, the shrines and temples in the urban area have also been seriously damaged, so the gods will not come."

"I said earlier that I have lived for a thousand years, and I have never seen any gods and Buddhas. They just don't believe it. Hahahaha, I was right! I really want to see, if the man in the obstetric house is still alive, seeing all this What kind of expression will it be? 'The will of human beings is eternal'... Hahaha, I really want him to use his rotten face to see how human beings are immortal, and he also said It is impossible to tell such nonsense!"

"Ubuyashiki, my dream has come true!" Onimai Tsuji Muchan shouted to the endless night sky, "You can't defeat me! Death and hell can't defeat me! I am destined to live forever! And you These pathetic ghost hunters will be forgotten by everyone!"

I couldn't help pouring cold water on him: "My lord, your company in Asakusa must have been burned down... Don't you feel it's a pity at all?"

"Miss Bai Ji, what stupid things are you talking about?" He turned his head, his cat-like pupils glowing in the darkness, "I have lived for 1000 years, do I still care about such a trivial loss? After all, business is just It’s just a deceptive thing, and one day I will take back everything I want, and I will never give these ants any chance to humiliate me!”

"Ah, then I wish you to realize your dream as soon as possible." I smiled, "Also, I want to remind you to restrain your appetite. This earthquake is the result of human karma, and all the dead souls will be contaminated with great resentment. It will cause other disasters. If you eat people now, I will give you another round of exorcism, which will be too troublesome."

Master Wu Mi looked at me deeply.

"Actually, I have always had a question, Miss Bai Ji. That is, why on earth did you save me? What exactly do you want from me?"

I spread my hands: "It's just because no one saved you, can't you? I'm a god, and gods are merciful."

"Hehe, do you think you can deceive me with this kind of lie? In the final analysis, gods are no different from ghosts except that they don't eat people. There must be other reasons for asking you to save people."

I sighed lightly.

"I know that no matter what I say, you won't believe it easily. So what about this reason? I saved you because you once saved Tong Mo."

Master Wu Mi was obviously taken aback, and then, a sarcastic smile appeared on that handsome face.

"It really surprises me. Is this the reason? Miss Baiji, you are the first person I have ever seen who regards transforming ghosts as salvation. I have to admit that even my Twelve Ghost Moon , and some of them can't understand what I'm doing. Can you tell me why you think so?"

"The seed of the god itself lacks strong self-awareness, can't understand human feelings, and was inadvertently swallowed up by the darkness of the world. According to my guess, before meeting you, his heart should have been about to collapse. Even if Without becoming a ghost, the Son of God of the Bliss Sect is destined to usher in other sad endings." I said lightly, "It was you who gave Tong Mo the most important 'name' of his 'self', and you gave him the most important 'name' as The cognition of "ghost" allowed him to retain his last will. Becoming a ghost was his only way out at that time. It can be said that when Tong Mo was still a human being, no one could save him, only you did it , you are his god, so I must repay your kindness."

The ghost king stared into my eyes and said coldly: "Although your words moved me, but Miss Bai Ji, I never had the idea of ​​saving anyone. The so-called companion is only something that weak creatures like human beings need. , I created the twelve ghost moons, and even all the ghosts, just to help me find the blue Bana flower, you should know this."

"I know, but so what?" I said, "No matter what your purpose is, the result I want has been achieved. Just like Tongmo's Bliss Cult, although he has eaten many people in 200 years , but there are also many people who have really been comforted and rescued. There is no absolute perfection in the world. My lord, darkness and light are often just two sides of the same thing, but people often only want light and do not accept darkness. It's unreasonable."

Master Wu miserably looked at me for a moment, "Although I don't want to admit it, I appreciate your intelligence, and I can't ignore your strength. Miss Baiji, I hope our cooperative relationship can continue. What are your plans for the future? ?”

"I haven't figured it out yet. After all, this is not my business alone. What about you?"

"I've booked a boat ticket in three months' time."

"Huh? Where are you going?"

"United Kingdom. A business partner in London invited me to discuss the trade of medicines."

At this moment, the king of ghosts seemed to be the shrewd boss of the trading company. He pulled up his windbreaker and said calmly: "I don't want to waste any more time at Miyashiki's house. The reason is that I am stuck in this place, and the endless entanglement with ghost hunters has made me tired of everything here. Whether in terms of technology, medicine or other aspects, I think there will be better development in the West, if you You can come with me if you want."

I looked at him in surprise, and felt that this lord seemed to have changed somewhat since he returned from hell.

"Thank you very much for your invitation." I showed him a sincere smile, "I will go back and discuss this matter with Master Tong Mo, he will be very happy."

"Oh, don't get me wrong, Miss Bai Ji, I don't need your thanks, our relationship is just business partners."

"Of course, we are just business partners." I smiled and stretched out my right hand, "I hope we will have a happy cooperation in the future, my lord."

The ghost king narrowed his eyes and finally took my hand.

"May we have a happy cooperation in the endless years to come, Miss Shenming."