Tomo-sama's Rescue Plan - Hell Chapter

Sure enough, as expected by the leader, the price of rice started to skyrocket in July, and in August, it even doubled within a week, reaching a price that really made people unaffordable.As a result, civil violence broke out everywhere, from Kansai to Kanto, and all human beings seemed to have gone crazy overnight.Police guarded everywhere in Tokyo, but even some shops in Ginza and Nihonbashi were smashed by angry crowds.The streets were full of slogans for the dissolution of the cabinet, and it continued until the fall. The Chinese cabinet really fell, and a group of people from the House of Representatives came on stage and formed a new political party cabinet.

One of the beneficiaries of this man-made disaster is that Mr. Tanaka.In May, under my arrangement, he met with the leader, and got some suggestions.Within a few months, I saw the news that he had won the party election in the newspaper of the cafe, and he became a senior official of the Metropolitan Police Department.Mr. Tanaka was cautious and low-key, and after a while, late one night, he was led by Yamada to the temple to thank him personally.I don't know what method the leader used. When Mr. Tanaka came out of the tea room, he was very grateful. He kept saying that he had seen the real god, and if he had the opportunity in the future, he would definitely repay the favor with his life.

So I roughly understood the reason why such a small heretical sect like the Bliss Sect could exist for 200 years in this country with constant natural and man-made disasters.After all, the teaching that our leader has always advocated is "don't have to do hard work, but live a stable and happy life". Whether it is Edo or Taisho, whether it is a high-ranking official or a commoner, this is the most fundamental desire of human beings.

Due to the chaos in Tokyo, I stayed in Mitake Mountain almost all summer. After all, this place is steep and inaccessible. In addition, I set up a hidden enchantment for the mountain where Gokurakuji is located. Even if outsiders can see the temple from other mountains The building can't come here.As a result, the sense of mystery was unexpectedly increased, so that many years later, some people said that there was a temple in Ontake Mountain that could "hidden the gods", and they could not see it without fate.

Summer in the mountains is peaceful and beautiful like another world.There are stars all over the sky at night, and the only sounds in the silent mountains are the chirping of cicadas and the sound of water from waterfalls in the distance.During the day, I took a little girl named mustard into the mountains to pick wild strawberries. I boiled them with honey and made jam.

The Eternal Bliss Cult, like its leader, stayed outside of time and the world, and it really looked like a shelter in turmoil.The believers are indeed living a stable and happy life. Anyway, the leader has plenty of money, so it is no problem to support the remaining dozens of people until they die.I can't help but think that in the past 200 years, there must have been desperate believers who really got the rare purity in the turbulent world in this temple, and went to bliss without regret.The son of the god who lost his innocence in the end, made believers happy in his unique way.

Only I know that Tong Mo still occasionally goes hunting in the middle of the night and returns before dawn, but he no longer smells of blood on his body, and is so clean that he can go directly to preside over the morning class.Human beings always think that the whole world revolves around them, and that even wild beasts should have their fangs pulled out, but they have only seen wild beasts, not humanoid monsters that can devour souls.In the face of those things that are truly beyond the scope of cognition, it is actually difficult for them to even perceive them.

And "ghosts and gods" exist like that.

Dozens of hundreds of lotus flowers are often in full bloom in the lotus pond of Kek Lok Temple. When Mr. Tong Mo came back from eating and drinking in the middle of the night, he would dance a fan dance by the lotus pond on a whim, and forced me to sing and beat the time, which made me become an idiot. A part-time kabuki is only short of a shamisen.

Because I went to Asakusa to watch Western opera several times before, I learned the arias there, such as the song that was popular in the cafes in the city:

life is in a hurry,

go love girl

While the red lips are not faded,

While the blood is young,

Just like tomorrow won't come.

life is in a hurry,

go love girl

While the blue silk is just right,

While the heart of spring is sprouting,

There is no more time today. *

It's just that I'm already over 200 years old. I'm helpless to be forced to sing this kind of sweet and greasy love song after losing a game of chess or Shuangliu.

One night at the end of summer, two uninvited guests came to the yard, they were Yizang Ranzun and Yue Duming.

I was taken aback, the presence of Goddess Huang Quanjin is no joke, and I have never heard that she can leave hell in a physical form.However, the charming black-haired girl has obviously regained the ability to move freely. This time, she not only wore a white dress in accordance with the trend, but also wore a lace umbrella. She looked as good as a doll, but she was just looking around Look around.

"Is that disgusting guy not here?"

I didn't react for a while, and I saw Tsukiyomi Ming said helplessly:

"My lord, please don't say such rude words."

"Why can't I say it, I feel disgusted when I think of him, disgusting guy, lunatic, pervert!"

Hearing this series of ugly curse words, I probably understood her mood, after all, His Excellency Komaji and Lord Wuyou had similar feelings before.

"That... are you looking for Tong Mo?"

"Not looking for him, looking for you."

Yizang Ranzun sat down on the veranda unceremoniously, and threw something in front of my eyes. The thing looked heavy, and it landed on the wooden floor with a bang.

It turned out to be a shrunken "time wheel".

"You ghosts don't want to stay in hell and not reincarnate, do you? Although it was agreed to assign the two realms of the dead and the ice to that pervert's local territory, who would have thought that that guy would leave them alone! Knowing that he is such an unreliable guy, I would not agree to cooperate with him!"

I said cautiously: "That's not right, Tong Mo said before that you... didn't need his help anymore, so you sent him back in advance?"

"Seeing that kind of person dangle in front of your eyes every day, who can stand it?!"

Yizang Ranzun didn't know what kind of stimulation he had received, and his face turned dark when he mentioned this matter.

"Don't count on that insanity anymore, Bai Ji, since we are all gods, I will leave this matter to you. Although there are not many ghosts left, reincarnation is still a big event, so you should take some responsibility, okay?" good?"

I, a god, was taught by my seniors to be responsible for a group of ghosts...

So I put on a sincere smile and poured a cup of tea for the goddess.

"Can you give me some time? The world has become more and more chaotic recently. Everyone suffered so much in their previous lives. I plan to wait for the situation to improve before arranging their reincarnation. Yizang Ranzun, although I don't know how you got your freedom, but The fact that you were free speaks for itself."

Yizang Ranzun glanced at me with a sneer on his face.

"God of Arakawa, have you seen it?"

"Don't dare, I'm just a water god. What you want to do to humans and gods has nothing to do with us in the final analysis, and Tong Mo and I don't intend to get involved in it."

"I'm just tired of continuing to be a garbage dump for Gao Tianyuan's gang. They sit and watch the show by themselves and throw all the dirty things at me. It's disgusting." Goddess Huang Quanjin said with a look of boredom, "Just Let human beings eat their own karma, it just so happens that I have to settle some accounts with that damn dog man, and I won’t let them have a good time.”

Well, it's better for outsiders not to intervene in the family conflicts between the great gods.I hope Yizang Ranzun will not cause a tragedy in the world like a schoolboy grinding his mother.

"The Kalachakra is a door, you should already know how to use it. You can figure out other things. Tell that crazy person to stop bothering me. I have never seen a ghost who talks as much as he does. It's just..."

She obviously wanted to swear, but she swallowed it because of the dignity of the goddess.

"Forget it, Yuedu, let's go, I don't want to meet that psychopath here at all."

Tsukiyomi bowed slightly and said, "I still have something to say to God of Arakawa, please allow me to delay for a moment."

Yi Zang Ran Zun snorted and disappeared.

"Yueye sees you, I want to thank you."

I took the first step and bowed deeply to the god in hunting clothes.

"You repaired my spirit body, right? Although I don't know why you, as a god, helped us like this, but thank you very much."

"Bai Ji, you don't have to be polite. I naturally have my reasons for doing this." Yue Duming smiled and said, "You can ask me whatever you want."

"Then I'll ask... The prophecy of the blue Bana flower, you wrote it with the hand of that doctor, right? You have already seen the fate of Mr. Wu Mi, right? Why do you want... to help the ghost?"

The truly hidden god sighed softly.

"Bai Ji, please answer my question first, how should gods treat human beings?"

I thought about it and replied:

"Humans are very complicated creatures. There are always beauty and ugliness in them, absurdity and truth, so I don't like them, but I am attracted to them. Although I love Mr. Tong Mo with a human heart, in front of human beings, I Still a god."

"Although it is a bit cruel to say this, after experiencing all this, I now agree with the actions of the gods. The gods have no obligation to redeem humans, because this salvation is endless. It is precisely because of the indifference and resentment humans have towards each other , let the gods bear the karma that did not belong to them, I... don't want to see the second little god son of the bliss religion anymore, he once grabbed those hands that stretched out to him, but was dragged into hell. And Human beings obviously devoured his aura, but in the end he was cast aside as a ghost, this kind of thing...is too unfair."

Tsukiyomi nodded: "So you should already know what Tongmo is?"

"I don't know, Yueye Jianzun, or rather, I'm still not completely sure..."

"Before a god is born as a god, it is actually just a seed."

Moon Reading Ming said slowly.

"This seed is unreasonable, colorless, heartless, just like ice and snow. What kind of existence it becomes depends on where it is put. For example, your seed came to Edo, and part of it became the water god of Arakawa, but there is still Part of it was reincarnated as a shrine maiden named Bai Ji."

"Eh? That's why my soul and Xiaobai's souls are so compatible?" I was surprised, "Is it really like what Mrs. Mingzi said? This is too amazing..."

"The transformation of gods is different from that of humans. Humans are creatures that live in reincarnation again and again, but gods are different. Gods can disperse their souls, and have many life experiences at the same time, and finally merge into one to complete their own evolution." Tsukiyomi explained, "That's why you can become who you are today, the god of Arakawa with a complete godhead."

"Wait, so that kid..."

"It is very rare for a god's seed to be directly reincarnated into a human being. Because it is an unreasonable, completely empty existence, and has the instinct to help human beings, it is extremely easy to be polluted by human karma and degenerate into a state of losing oneself. Even... become inhuman."

I remembered the dazzling aura that was like a rainbow refracted by ice and snow when I first saw it on the streets of Edo 200 years ago, and I couldn't help but burst into tears.

"Sure enough...is that so?"

The gentle child who reached out to me died in the darkness of the world.

Only the ghost named Tong Mo survived.

"It's not a bad thing." I wiped away my tears and said with a smile, "At least he lived a happy life afterwards, even in hell, he has adapted well. I won't let anyone hurt him again in the future."

Yue Duoming looked at me speechlessly: "Bai Ji, you should be more sober, it's good that he doesn't hurt others with his existence."

"Uh, sorry...so why on earth are you helping us?"

"I'm not helping you, but that adult just now."

I looked at Luna with deep eyes in surprise, and he smiled at me.

"You are not the only one who loses their freedom and falls into hell, Bai Ji, you once sacrificed everything to save Tong Mo, so you should be able to understand this feeling."

Ahh, I seem to have overheard something big...

"By the way, I met the emissary of Amaterasu in hell. He gave this to me, and asked me to help repair the broken soul inside. I have already completed it. If there is no problem, I will arrange it in due time. He was reincarnated."

Luna took out something from her bosom.

It was a rough bamboo flute, with a faint silvery light in the darkness.

Like the cold, arrogant and invincible silver moon blade, it belongs to the Shangxian who once taught me to cut off all weaknesses with a knife.

At the end of bliss and hell, there must be light.

I covered my mouth and couldn't help choking with excitement.

"That's really great...then I'll be counting on you, Moon Ye Jianzun, in the next life, please be sure...to make Master Hei Si Mou happy."

"The cause and effect of the brothers is also regrettable." Yue Duming shook his head, "Maybe we really won't meet again after reincarnation."

"Who knows, fate is always difficult to say. I just hope that no matter whether you are a human or a ghost, everyone can become your unique self and live proudly."

"Xiaoyuedu, why are you here? Hey, is Miko-chan here too?"

Yue Duoming obviously froze, turned around and was about to leave, but a ghost that suddenly appeared affectionately put his shoulders on his shoulders.

"Don't you all miss me? I have been thinking about you all. After all, you are all my best friends~ This is the first time for Xiaoyuedu to come to my place to play, right? I brought blood back today. Don't try it?"

"No need, thank you." The god pushed the hand on his shoulder away in disgust, "I still have something to do, so I'm leaving first. You should also try to restrain yourself."

"What's this called? He's always kept a low profile when he's a ghost, and he'll eat cleanly~ Hey, don't go~"

Luna has long since disappeared.Tong Mo looked a little aggrieved in the direction in which he disappeared, and seemed to have received another social blow.

"Xiaoyue reads so indifferently, she obviously wants to have a good relationship with them~"

I couldn't help laughing.

"I have prepared wine, Master Tong Mo."

"It's great~ I know Xiaoran understands me best~"

The ghost suddenly showed a child-like innocent smile.

"Let's put the thin blood in the wine and try it, it will feel very good~"

"Okay, I'll accompany you to drink, but I can't hold alcohol, you are not allowed to drink me!"

"Ahaha, if Xiaoran drinks too much, she will sing out of tune, not to mention how cute~"

"...shut up, you!"

"Don't~"

Time just passed by day by day.When I went to the city again in autumn, I got the news that Boss Paul wanted to transfer the cafe back to China.

It just so happened that the religious group sold several rice shops in Kagurazaka and got a lot of money back, so I bought this small shop called "Roslyn Coffee·Western Food House" on my own initiative.

No matter what age, it's time to do another business.

"Miss Arakawa, please forgive me, I am not optimistic about the future of this country."

The foreigner looked out the window at the bustling Ginza and said to me.

"The riots this summer made me see another side of Tokyo. There is an invisible wall between the poor commoners and the high-ranking bureaucrats. Something's going to happen."

I poked the cake on the plate with a fork, and said lightly: "This place has been like this since the Edo period, or in other words, this is the nature of human beings."

"Perhaps it is true, but it is precisely because of this that Jesus redeemed the original sin of mankind with his own blood."

I smiled: "I know the story you said, in the end humans crucified the Son of God for blasphemy, didn't they?"

The foreign boss shrugged, "You are too pessimistic, Ms. Arakawa, you are still young, this is not good, you should learn from your Mr. Tong Mo, he seems to be a very optimistic and positive person."

"Ah, you really... know him quite well..."

"When you come to the UK, remember to contact me." Paul handed me a card, "Your instinct for antiques is very good, maybe we will have opportunities to cooperate in the future."

I took the card with a smile.

"Okay, I'd also like to see what the real Rosslyn Church in your hometown looks like."

The cafe was understaffed after the summer riots, and the rebuilding of the Arakawa Shrine had begun. For a period of time, I went back and forth between the mountains and Ginza every day, and I was so busy.

"Miss Arakawa, actually... we are also happy to help."

One day Mr. Yamada was driving a car and suddenly said to me.

"Huh?" I looked at the stern-looking bald man, "What do you mean?"

"Although these words are a bit presumptuous... But after Ms. Arakawa came, I always felt that the leader has become a little different from before. We have been relying on the protection of the leader before. Only with the existence of the Kek Lok Si Temple can we have food and a place to live...I know this is the mercy of the gods, but maybe...we should also do something to repay the gods."

Mr. Yamada pulled out a slightly embarrassed smile.

"Seeing Ms. Arakawa working so hard every day, we who have been eating idle food all the time, feel a little ashamed..."

"You don't have to think like this." I said seriously, "Without your protection, the Eternal Bliss Cult would cease to exist. Although this may be a bit blasphemous, what I want to say is that gods also need a home , you have guarded his home for the leader, and that is enough."

"Ah, Ms. Arakawa's idea is really novel... Is it because she has worked with foreigners? If that's the case... please at least let that kid Akuko come out to see the world. She is almost 14 years old. Although she can read, But I have never been out of the mountain, so it seems a pity to put it this way.”

"No problem, if Akuko is willing, I can send her to a school in Tokyo." I smiled, "Even if she works in the store, my friend Mrs. Akiko should be happy to teach her."

"That's really good! I thank Miss Arakawa on behalf of the parents of the child who died!"

I clasped my hands reverently and said, "If you want to thank, please thank the leader, this is the blessing of the gods."

This is necessary. In the final analysis, what we spend on food and clothing is the money earned by that ghost's "hard work" for 200 years.

Ever since he bought the coffee shop, Master Tong Mo appeared in the shop even more grandly.Later, we simply agreed to take two days a week to work in the store.Of course, I'm the only one who works, and a certain ghost prefers to sit at the fixed table by the floor-to-ceiling windows, reading newspapers hypocritically, while eavesdropping on other people's chats with the keen hearing that ghosts only have.

"Information is money."

Once I asked him why he was so interested in human affairs, and he said plausibly.

"Xiaoran, you know, he has always paid attention to collecting information. It is because of this that he can be promoted to the second of the first string~"

No, it's also because you eat a lot, and because you are the son of a god, you have double the blood ghost talent than others.

I thought silently.

One evening in late autumn, when I was about to leave work, the glass door of the cafe was suddenly pushed open, and a stylish man in a black trench coat and white top hat walked in with a chill and the scent of cologne.

"Welcome, the shop is...closed..."

The man raised his head, revealing plum red eyes with cat-like pupils.

"Miss Bai Ji," he said with a sarcasm on his handsome face, "you are so amazing that you actually started business in Ginza?"

"What's wrong? I don't run a custom shop." I spread my hands, "Long time no see, are you alright, sir?"

"Hey, it's Mr. Wu Mi, I've been thinking about you~"

Master Wu Mi's complexion darkened just like everyone who heard this iconic opening remark.

He turned around, and stared coldly at the smiling ghost sitting at the table with the unique arrogance of a ghost king.

"Tong Mo, have you degenerated to this point? You spend all day in a coffee shop listening to human gossip? Huh? What is this? "Asahi Shimbun"? You waste your time on this kind of thing? I You said before that you don’t want to make progress, but now it seems that it is true!”

Alas, even if you become a ghost, you can't escape the scolding of your former boss, it's fate...

Tong Mo argued aggrievedly: "What do you call that? I have carefully read the newspapers in recent years, and have a lot of my own views on human affairs~"

Master Wu Mi narrowed his eyes, and suddenly said something unexpected:

"You have someone in the Metropolitan Police Department and the House of Representatives?"

"Hey, how do you know, my lord? There are indeed believers working there~"

"Heh, do you think you can hide it from me?"

Master Wu miserably gestured at me: "Give me a cup of coffee."

"Do you... add sugar?"

"Miss Bai Ji, asking such a ridiculous question, your shop is going to close."

"Oh." I was suddenly a little nervous, mainly because this customer was too difficult to serve, and the whole street might disappear if I was not careful.

There are two remaining ghosts, one is full of coercion, the other has a hippie smile, but the content of the conversation is very tacit.

"Did you dispose of that fret?"

"No, but he shouldn't be in the way. How's it going with you?"

"It has nothing to do with you...not a threat for now. What are you going to do with the remaining ghost hunters?"

"Anyway, they won't live long, they're too lazy to do anything else~" Tong Mo covered his face with a fan, smiling like a fox, "But you, my lord, if you keep using that imitation, you will get married in a few years Have a baby?"

"...I don't need you to remind me of this, I have a way to deal with it. What else do you find?"

"What's the matter... By the way, I ate the kid who ate Zhushi before, and found a lot of interesting medicine in his house~"

"Well done." Master Wu Mi said approvingly, "You really didn't disappoint me."

Tong Mo immediately shed two lines of tears.

"This is the first time you have praised me, my lord." He whimpered, "It's the first time in 200 years, I'm so touched, ah, my heart is beating so fast~ Sure enough, I The person I admire the most is Lord Wu Mi~"

The ghost king's expression looked as if he was going to spit out last year's coffee.

I duly brought a plate over.

"What is this?" Master Wu Mi looked at me gloomyly.

"Red bean bread, the store sells leftovers." I said honestly, "I think you might need something sweet."

"...Go away."

"……Oh."

At the beginning, the content of the conversation was normal, but then it gradually deviated.

"What do you think of the recent export of raw silk?"

"There is still room for price increases. But medicines will increase even more, and the human war will not be over for a while."

"What about stocks?"

"That's not very optimistic. There will definitely be major incidents within two years. It will be difficult for this cabinet to stabilize. If this is the case, things like this summer will still happen."

……

In the autumn of the seventh year of Taisho, the two remaining ghosts in the world are trying to blend into the torrent of the times.

* "The Song of the Gondolas"