Tomo-sama's Rescue Plan - Hell Chapter

I had a very long dream.

Somewhere in the human world at an unknown age, there was a wide and calm river, and there were many towns on the plain that flowed through. Because of the abundant water nourishment, the nearby farmland was particularly rich, so the ancient daimyos built forts here one after another. And the city, use this place as a granary for the royal family.

But everything has a price.The local people believe that in order to get good weather, they must offer sacrifices to the water god who rules the river, so as to ensure that the huge river will not lose control during the rainy season.

The most precious among the sacrifices is the young girl who is in her prime.

These girls were recommended by the local daimyo, and when they were four or five years old, they were taken away from their parents and raised in shrines, where they drank wine and were given rituals such as scriptures, dances and music, and were called "witches".Five years later, on the day of the summer solstice, during the sacrifice ceremony of the water god, the maiden was carried on a bamboo raft decorated with flowers and offering fruits, and pushed to the center of the river.

Without exception, they will all be accepted by the Lord of Arakawa.It is recorded in a book that someone once saw the so-called water god "Lord of Arakawa" revealing his true face at the climax of the sacrifice. It was a big blue snake with a single horn on its head, and it already had the appearance of transforming into a dragon.

The water god gently stirred up waves in the middle of the river, devouring the bamboo raft carrying the maiden and offerings.The crowd on the shore knelt down piously, stretched out their hands to the sky, and prayed for the blessing of the water god.

The sacrifices are quite effective. For decades, the river has never flooded, and because of this, people believe in the power of the water god even more, and there is a steady stream of offerings to the witches every year.

Until the end of the reign of a certain shogun.In the summer of that year, the heavy rain lasted for several months, and the rivers in various places swelled sharply, but the dams burst one after another.In fact, there were early signs of this. In order to make better use of the water source, the local people built too many dams and cofferdams under the order of the daimyo. As a result, the river course was blocked. When it caught up with the heavy rain, flooding was an inevitable result.

If people and animals are transferred in advance, it may not cause much loss.However, in order to keep his own manor property, the daimyo ordered people to blow up the dam, so that the Arakawa, which had never flooded, engulfed nearly ten villages in the nearby low-lying areas with lightning speed.

Then, something weird happened.

One night a few months later, dozens of members of the daimyo’s family died at home for no reason. What’s even more frightening was that daimyo’s body was incomplete, with only a head and a few stumps remaining.The rest of the people were even more weird, not even the corpses were left, only the wet clothes all over the floor, and the traces of some huge creature crawling.

Such a big event happened to the noble family, which shocked the whole country, and even revealed the terrifying inside story of the so-called water god devouring young girls as sacrifices for decades.The capital judged that evil spirits were responsible, so they invited an onmyoji enshrined by the royal family. On a summer solstice night when it was raining heavily, after a lot of twists and turns, the big snake named "Lord of Arakawa" was killed with sky fire.

Humans worshiped the water god, but ended up cursing its name.

I seem to be sinking all the time.

Above my head is a piece of light like the mouth of a well. I stretch out my hand towards it, but I can't reach it.

Ah, why?I'm just a law-abiding ghost.

I have been honestly staying in hell, being a ghost with no past and no future.

Why should I be punished like this?

In the haze, something seemed to gently push the lips and teeth apart, and some kind of icy liquid dripped into the throat, with a strong fishy sweetness and a weird lotus aroma.

It's strange, but the fishy-sweet liquid stopped my endless falling, my chest and throat seemed to be poured with ice water, and seemed to be ignited by flames, a burst of scorching pain brought me back to reality in an instant.

"Cough, cough, Tongmo, what did you give me to drink?"

The beautiful monster with iridescent eyes and white oak hair sticks out its tongue to lick the bright red corner of its mouth, and its smile is as carefree as ever.

"Welcome back, Xiaoran is really worrying to death."

I wiped my mouth with my hand, and it was blood.

This lunatic, what kind of blood is he feeding me?It made my throat sore.

It is located on the edge of a cliff, and I saw a huge red moon rising in front of me. Under the shadow of the moon, there seemed to be a strange red lake.

The cold night wind blows in my face, and I wake up a lot.

It seems that there is something to say to him?

I clearly remember it very clearly, and when we meet again, I must tell him what I said.

I turned my head and stared at the ghost, he had a look of incomprehension: "What's wrong? Xiaoran looks so strange."

Looking at the pair of beautiful eyes that were so close but empty, I felt angry for no reason.

Snapped.

Raising my right hand, I slapped him hard.

Actually hit.However, probably because the ghost's face was too thick, he didn't even have a basic reaction, he just blinked.

"Why did you jump down?!" I gritted my teeth and stared at him fiercely.

He seemed to hesitate for a moment because he couldn't read my emotions, but he quickly put on his usual smile.

"Is Xiaoran angry at me? Ah, I shouldn't have handled the food so roughly, did it scare you? Next time I will use a gentler way, a way that won't scare you. But what I ate Very clean, nothing wasted."

I was so angry that I just wanted to slap his innocent face.

"Your way of fighting is dangerous, understand?!" I clenched my fist, almost wanting to punch him in the face again, "Are you used to this? It's just for stimulation, right? You don't feel scared at all, and you feel Not happy, right?"

At that moment, all the expressions on Tong Mo's face disappeared, as if a delicate mask had suddenly burst.

His whole body sank into the shadows, leaving only a pair of dreamy and empty eyes like ice crystals.

"It's so hurtful, Xiao Ran actually talks like this."

His tone remained calm, approaching slowly, staring at me quietly, exuding a huge and terrifying sense of coercion from the inside out.

It's hard not to be intimidated, like some kind of strange, out-of-this-world creature.I think even back then, the ghost king who turned this alien into a ghost probably loathed and even feared him to some extent.

The so-called aliens probably have special souls. They were unable to live like human beings since birth, but they just put on a human skin. So far, their life in the human group is doomed to be full of hardships.

Transforming into a ghost is more suitable for him.Now even I don't know what this ghost named Tong Mo has become, maybe he is as smart as he himself can't figure it out.

"Why? The last girl who said such a thing made me quite sad. Hey, Xiaoran, shouldn't friends get along well? Why do you say something vicious and incomprehensible like humans? Woolen cloth?"

My clenched fist finally loosened weakly.

Yeah, he doesn't understand at all.This is a heartless ghost.

He is just imitating as much as possible, imitating the emotions that human beings should have.But what's wrong with that?The world is so big, and all living beings, why do we have to understand the principles of human beings, and have the love and hatred of human beings?Do mountains and rivers have human emotions?What about trees, flowers, birds and animals?Does one have no right to exist in the world without possessing human emotions?

Besides, as an inhuman, what right do I have to ask him to understand my words and the feelings I want to express?

Human beings have their own way of existence, ghosts and gods have their own way of existence, that's all.

I sighed and gave him a helpless smile.

"I'm sorry, I didn't express clearly. I'm not blaming you. Even if you don't feel emotions, there's nothing wrong with it. Don't force yourself. The Son of God is a unique existence. I believe that one day, you don't have to imitate anyone. , I can also find a way of survival that suits me. But before that, as your partner, I hope Master Tong Mo can learn to protect himself well, that’s all. After all, without you, it would be very difficult for me to escape alone .”

"From today, when you don't want to laugh or cry, you don't have to make that expression. Even if you don't have any expression, you are still you. For me, you are still my friend."

Tong Mo tilted his head and pulled out a slightly weird smile.

It's strange how the man manages to keep his mouth smiling.

"Ah, sure enough, you found out." He said.

"Yeah, I found out." I wanted to laugh a little, "Do you care about this so much? Master Tong Mo also cares about something, I'm very happy."

The monster and the monster looked at each other, as if they were confirming whether the other was their own kind.

The silence lasted for a moment, and in the darkness, I was suddenly surrounded by a pair of arms.

"I knew that Xiaoran would not hate me! Xiaoran likes me the most, right? After all, I am the child of God, I can understand, I can completely understand your feelings! Ah, you even asked me to protect myself Is it? What a lovely child, so cute!"

The ghost's embrace is cold, and there is always a faint smell of blood and lotus on my body, just like the liquid poured into my throat in the chaos, it is nectar, and it is also highly poisonous.

I hugged him back a little stiffly.

After living for hundreds of years, the first time I was hugged was by a ghost in hell.What kind of strange encounter is this?

"In this case, Xiaoran will stay with me forever, right? It's fun to be with Xiaoran! That's it, if you run away, I will eat you!"

Tong Mo smiled and showed four fangs.

Alas, this ghost is fine with everything, but the brain circuit is really abnormal.

"Okay." I answered him with a smile, "If Master Tong Mo needs me, I will always be by your side."

"Hey, that's what you said." He said with a little surprise, "Obviously Xiaoran needs me, but I'm the only one who can guide you to bliss!"

Hehe, everyone is non-human, who is afraid of whom when compared to brain circuits?

I imitated his appearance and made a salute:

"My lord taught me that it would be my honor to follow you to bliss."

somewhere in hell.

"What's going on, Yuedu? The world of fire and fire is just flying around!"

The beautiful black-haired girl sat on the high throne and kicked off her clogs unhappily.

"The Santu River is actually flooding! What happened to that Fallen Angel? Didn't he always behave obediently before?"

Below the throne, a young man dressed as a clerk waved his hand helplessly and pulled out a record: "That's true. There has been no abnormality in the past 200 years. After all, the divine body has been sealed very well, but recently there seems to be signs of awakening. Probably because I met... that?"

"That? You mean the other one?" The girl's face completely collapsed, "How long has it been, that guy named Tong Mo hasn't pleaded guilty yet? I thought you guys had already dealt with it. And shouldn't he be locked up?" How did you get out? Seriously, that kind of scum who has nothing but good looks, why on earth would he run around in hell like a street?"

"It was when he was transferred to the bottom layer, passing through the realm of fire and fire, and his soul slipped away due to a negligence." The clerk explained: "He can't understand the difference between living and dying, let alone love and hate. Persistence, he doesn't even have emotions like sadness or fear, so he has no intention of repenting at all, and the chain of karmic fire can hardly trap him."

"Can't it be erased?"

"This is the second point I want to say." The clerk called up another record, "As far as the soul is concerned, that existence is indeed very strange. It has been tested countless times before, even if it is cut to only one head or Burned with karmic fire, he will recover quickly, and he will not feel the pain at all, and he seems to have mastered some method of quickly absorbing power... Anyway, unfortunately, we have not yet been able to determine its classification."

"It's really a disgusting guy, maybe he came here with those strange Western priests. Ah, there are too many abnormal elements, and those guys in Gao Tianyuan only watch the fun." The girl covered her head with a headache, "Try Let's use 'Zhenwu', first let that Fallen Angel continue to sleep, and get rid of one by one."

"There is only one treasure belonging to 'White', if you use it up, it will be gone. Why don't you just use the divine body..."

"We don't have that kind of authority." The girl said dissatisfiedly, "No matter how you say it, she's a demigod. You don't have to do that, just let her sleep."

"Of order. But they are about to reach the blood pool, do you want to use the town thing there?"

"Okay, let Soul Hunter get ready." The girl sneered, "I'd like to see how these two very strange existences will react when they discover each other's true colors."