Tomo-sama's Rescue Plan - Hell Chapter

The sound of water?

The sound of gurgling water gradually occupied the hearing, and it sounded like a stream.

The vision in the darkness slowly turned from gray to white, and a light from nowhere pierced my eyes, and I instinctively blocked it with my hand.

The touch of the cloth falling on the face is very real, wet.

My mind paused for a moment, and I realized that it seemed to be a sleeve that was wet with water.

How strange, how could I get wet.

Water droplets flowed down my cheeks, and I moved away from the strange touch, and the inexplicable light became more raging, as if something was forcing me to wake up.

Please, I'm dead, can't I rest in peace?

Wait, I've been dead for 200 years, and I don't seem to have rested?

What happened in the end?

Ah, yes, I ate Izanami.

No, I haven't eaten people for a long time, this must not be true, not to mention she is so scary, now she will be wanted by the whole hell, right?You have to run quickly!

The light flooded my consciousness completely, and I flung my eyes open.

In the field of vision is a blue-black sky, with countless tiny light spots all over it, and the light spots surround a round of silver-white full moon.

Ah, where is this again?Where is my knife?

I reached out and touched it, but couldn't find it.So I had to sit up.

Well, it really is sitting in the creek.The bottom is full of pebbles, and the ankle-shallow water is constantly hitting the bottom of the water.The water smells nice, like... like...

The taste of Arakawa.

I opened my eyes wide, looking at the surrounding forest and rocks, yes, this place is...

Chichibu...The source of Arakawa.

Here, countless streams in the mountains converge into a big river, running south, south, all the way to the sea.

The night wind blows through the treetops, bringing the smell of leaves and flowers.Above the head... those things called stars have not been seen for a hundred years.

...is this true or false?Is it an illusion again?

I stood up and found that my clothes were completely soaked in water, and my hair was also full of water, so I instinctively used my spiritual power to dry it, and it took me a long time to make myself look decent.Walking along the bank of the stream to the meadow, I saw the endless forest under the moonlight, and heard other voices.The sounds of various night birds, the sound of animals stepping on dead leaves, the sound of insects crawling in the soil...

This illusion is so realistic, stronger than that of Necromancer Hell.

No, I remember that I have already left Necromancer Hell.

I felt a little confused, so I walked forward, and suddenly tripped over a few steps, and fell face down on the ground.

"Ouch!"

A crisp voice, but not mine.

"Who?!"

I jumped out a few steps nervously, only to find a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl sitting on the ground in front of me, wearing a plaid kimono, a turban on her head, a pair of dark round eyes like shiny obsidian, staring unblinkingly. with me.

Then we both burst into screams at the same time.

"Ahhh, where did the human come from?!"

"Ah, are you a monster?!"

"Monster? Me?" I looked down at myself, "Where am I like a monster? I'm a water god, okay? But you, why are human girls sitting in this kind of place? It's dangerous, do you know?"

The opponent also jumped up, with his hips akimbo unceremoniously, not tall, but full of momentum.

"Obviously you stepped on me, okay? This is my grave!"

I took a closer look and found a weedy little bump on the ground, almost certainly not at all recognizable as a... grave?

"I'm sorry, sorry, I didn't see it...wait a minute, spirit bodies don't need graves in hell, where did they come from..." I felt that something was wrong with my brain.

"What hell, what nonsense are you talking about, this is Yunqu Mountain!"

"Yun, Yunqushan?" I struggled to search for the name from my memory, "You mean... this is not hell?"

The girl's expression became a little sympathetic.

"Did you fall off the mountain and hit your head?" she said, "This is Mount Untori, where did you come from? What's the color of your hair? Is it a fox? Hey, I'm stuck here It's been 400 years, and it's the first time I've seen a fox turn into a human!"

I stared at her blankly: "You mean, this is the world?"

"Miss Fox, are you really okay? Of course this is the world!"

"How come, how did I..."

I swayed and sat on the grass.

I should have completely disappeared.

In the end, it should be eaten by someone...

Who is it?Damn, can't remember anything.

"Miss Fox, Miss Fox?"

The girl shook her hand in front of my eyes, "Are you okay? No one lives around here, and there is no fox shrine. Ah, I remember there was a charcoal-burning family over there. Are you hungry? The children in that family are very kind, why don't you go find something to eat?"

"It's been said that I'm a god, not a fox." I wanted to cry without tears, "Are you a ghost? Why didn't you reincarnate? A ghost that doesn't reincarnate is not a good ghost, don't you know?"

"I'm waiting for my husband." The girl smiled shyly, "That idiot didn't know where he went after I died, even though I knew he was an idiot, I still decided to wait for him to reincarnate together, but After waiting for 400 years, I still haven’t seen him, alas.”

"Four, 400 years?" I was shocked, "Then you were here during the Warring States period?"

"Yes, my family lived here before." She said confidently.

"Are there no other relatives?"

"No, all my family died in the plague. My husband ran away from home, and we grew up together." The girl said proudly, "I'm good at farming and picking wild vegetables, so I never let him go." That idiot is hungry."

"Ah... that sounds great." I was a little envious, "Excuse me, how far is it from Edo?"

"Edo?"

"No, it seems to be called...Tokyo?"

"I know Edo, it's a big city! But I've never been there, I heard it takes a day to go from here."

"Understood, thank you! I'll go first!"

"Hey? I'm leaving now? It's not easy to meet someone who can talk..."

I climbed to the top of a mountain.Under the moonlight, Arakawa stretches into the distance like a winding jade belt.

Arakawa, my Arakawa.We finally meet again.

Tears flowed down almost instantly.

I rushed to the river without hesitation, plunged into the water, and turned into a snake and water.

Finally... home.

The flow of the river was not slow, so it felt like a village appeared on the bank after a while. It was still late at night, and there was no other sound in the village except for a few dogs barking, only the wind lanterns on the wooden boat flickered in the dark night.

I float among the water plants and waves, and the moonlight shines on me.

This feeling of being in another world is too strange, as if you have gone to a far away place and returned to your hometown after many years, everything is very familiar and everything is also very strange.

I seem to belong to this river, but I have a bond that I can't forget no matter what.

What kind of entanglement is it?

Relying entirely on instinct, I walked to a dilapidated torii gate.

His body was trembling, but he still tried his best to walk up the mountain step by step along the steps covered by weeds.

The lamps on the side of the road are like bones that have been sleeping for a hundred years, looming among the weeds. 200 years ago, lamps and the light of the stars and the moon once illuminated this stone path, but now there is nothing left but barren.

Stepping on the last step, there is waist-deep grass in front of you, and you can vaguely see... some decayed and shapeless pieces of wood.

There is nothing, this place that has been completely integrated into the earth is where the Arakawa Shrine used to be.

I stood in a daze for a while, then pushed aside the weeds and walked forward.The copper bell in front of the shrine is half buried in the soil, and the stone hand water house is still there, but there is no drop of water, and a nest of chicks are waiting to be fed inside.

No colonnades, no doors, no eaves... nothing here.

Everything of human beings is short-lived, and will eventually be wiped out under the scour of time.

I sat on a side of white stone, which was the foundation under the former altar. It was said to be a stone transported from Izumo, and it was extremely strong.In this forest of wild grass, it is like a small isolated island, and I sit on it, looking at the wreckage of the shrine I have been thinking about...

The moonlight shone down, and there was silence everywhere, only the chirping of insects.

Not bad.I was originally the god of vegetation, and I am quite comfortable being with vegetation, besides, this is the taste of life, everything here is so vibrant.

I am back.

I said silently.

I'm back…

I don't know how long I sat there, the sky gradually turned pink, then white, then golden, and a round of sun rose.

I stared intently at the slowly rising sun disk in the mist, a sight I hadn't seen in 200 years.

sunrise.Just like the beginning of the world, chicks break open their eggshells, carp spit out their first blisters in the lake in early spring, earthworms drill out of the soil, and babies are born in the world.

So nice... to see the sun again.

I stared until my eyes were almost shaken blind, and then I lay down on that rock.Only then did I realize that it might be winter now, the grass is withered and yellow, and the sun is not very warm, but it does not prevent me from basking in the sun.

The winter sky is blue, blue sky.

In the distance, human voices began to be heard from the foot of the mountain. There were cries of hawking, quarreling, some kind of strange flute sound, and the cry of children... It was human fireworks.

I didn't want to do anything, I didn't want to go anywhere, I just felt peaceful in my heart.

Tranquility to emptiness.

Don't you have to fight?Don't you need to run away?Don't need to hide?No need...are you missing someone?

Nothing... don't you have to do it?

This feeling is really strange, it is obviously alive, but it seems to have just died.

I lay there, watching the sun climb up to the middle of the sky little by little, and then go westward a little bit.The sun shines on the face, and the whole body slowly heats up, as if light is flowing in the blood vessels.

A wild rabbit ran out of nowhere, with its furry nose arching around my face.I laughed itchy, reached out to touch it, but it ran away.

I stared at my hands and froze.

It was a white and slender girl's hand, no longer a spirit body, but a milk-like skin, with pearly luster on the fingertips, and even the blood vessels under the skin could be seen.It was real flesh and blood, the body I had dreamed of.

A blue aura rose from the palm of my hand, and I tried to run my spiritual power, and it was so weak that it could be ignored, but it was barely enough to cast a small spell or something.

Even the shrine has collapsed like this, I can't expect more, right?

It's just that under the wrist of the left hand, there is a blood-red symbol, which looks like a word or a painting.

It is a lotus flower.

A special feeling suddenly arises in my heart, what is it?Why do I have this?

It seems that I forgot something very important.

But I just want to lie in the sun and do nothing.

It wasn't until the sun went down that I stood up and walked down the mountain.

The first person I met was a woman in a strange dress who froze when she saw me, then burst into a deafening scream.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhh!"

I looked at the mountain road, there was no one in front or behind, could it be me?

Ah, I seem to have forgotten the mimicry!

So I changed the color of my hair and eyes to black, thought about it, and adjusted my white kimono, and asked her sincerely:

"Sorry to bother you, but do I look more human now?"

She simply rolled her eyes and passed out.

... Sure enough, no matter what age, human beings are equally mentally fragile.

I dragged her to the side of the road.Then continue down the mountain along the road.

The appearance of the road has completely changed.There are more and more people on the road, some are riding two-wheeled vehicles, some are wearing strange clothes, strange poles appear on the side of the road, and the appearance of the house seems to have changed...

I just go all the way.Good thing no one is screaming hell anymore.

Because I was a little confused about the direction, I stopped a woman who was holding a child and asked politely: "Sorry, how can I get to Tokyo?"

"Huh? What did you say?"

"I want to go to Tokyo." I explained, "It should be a city with gates, walls, and a moat."

With an unbelievable expression on her face, she hurried away with the child in her arms.

...What's going on with the people of this era! Not seen in 200 years, no manners at all!

The third person I asked was a man. He looked at me lewdly and nodded:

"Miss, did you just come to Tokyo Prefecture from the countryside? Would you like me to introduce you to a job?"

"What job?" I asked curiously, "Wait, are you saying this is Tokyo already?"

The man laughed: "Of course, Tokyo Mansion is huge. You haven't been here before, have you?"

"Who said, I grew up in Edo Castle. Isn't Edo renamed Tokyo?"

"Edo? Oh, you're talking about Edo Castle! Are you going there? How old are you this year? Have you got it?"

"Ah?" I was taken aback, "I... almost."

"It's fine if you're an adult, and it doesn't matter if you're not. Come with me, that's a rare good job."

"But I'm not looking for a job, why should I go with you?"

"Aren't you going to Edo Castle? I'll take you there now."

So he stopped a car being pulled by someone, and half-dragged and half-dragged me up.

The people pulling the cart started to run. I saw shops on both sides of the street. There were many pedestrians, some of whom were riding two-wheeled vehicles. There were also iron-box-like cars running on the road. The road surface gradually became brighter. The lights were on, but there was no fire.

"That... is called a tram, right?" I said in surprise, pointing to the car with several wheels.

The man laughed, "That's right, it's a tram. Miss, where are you from? The accent is a bit strange, Kagoshima?"

"No, I am a native of Edo." I said strangely, "By the way, what is the current era?"

The man gave me a strange look.

"Taisho, Taisho six years." He said.