Hundred Ghosts Journey · Life is like summer flowers

Outside the black barrier, Shuten-doji, who was sitting cross-legged under the red maple tree, looked at the black-haired woman in the barrier and didn't speak for a long time.

"Master Shuten-douji? What's the matter with you?" Ibaraki-douji sat beside him, reaching out to fill up the wine.

"Is it right for me to do this?" Shuten-douji reached out to bump his own wine bowl against Ibaraki-douji's, and drank it in one gulp: "Ibaraki, every time I see her, I think, Will she be the second her?"

"..." Ibaraki Doji didn't speak, but silently raised his head and looked at the king in front of him.He has followed him for thousands of years, and he is very clear about what he is thinking. "I just think it's strange that you want to marry her..."

"Strange?" Shuten Doji sneered coldly at this moment: "Is that... because I watched her grow up?"

"No..." Ibaraki Doji shook his head, "The one you really like... shouldn't be Kasahara Natsuka."

"..." Shuten-douji was silent for a while, and then sneered with embarrassment: "This guy was going to be my wife when I was young, didn't you hear Hoshikuma-douji say that?"

"...Yes..." Ibaraki-douji looked at them from an outsider's point of view, so he knew something even Shuten-douji himself didn't know.For example, on the wedding night, Jiuten Doji hugged her and called the fox demon's name...

"If this goes on, don't you think it's a torture to her?" Ibaraki Doji actually still remembers that when he was called Uncle Ibaraki by Natsuka, he was told: "Because Kasahara Natsuka likes Shuten Doji, so in the future to be his wife. '

When the word 'torture' came to his ears, the red-haired monster in front of him couldn't help but burst out laughing: "Yeah, it's just torture for her." Shuten Doji said while ignoring his own heart. A kind of inexplicable heartache, a faint cruelty appeared in the golden eyes and said: "She said she would kill me, so let her do it. But ah, she is mine, so I will not let her leave me .”

"But have you ever thought about it... If she still likes you—" Ibaraki Doji didn't go any further, because he felt surprised that he would speak for that girl. This kind of uncontrollable behavior is probably a He himself regards her as his niece.

Ibaraki Doji still remembers that when Xia Hua was just born, Hoshikuma Doji stood there stupidly motionless—"Hey! Go and see your child!" He hit the idiot's head hard with his fist superior.

"From now on, your daughter will be my daughter."

Seeing Hoshiguma Doji holding the child in silence, Ibaraki Doji wondered if he was too excited to speak, "Did you hear me?! I said your child is my child!!"

"Then his wife is your wife?" The boy deliberately taunted him, and Ibaraki-douji turned his head to see a red-haired boy standing behind him with a sneer.

"Ah! Shuten-douji-sama, I don't think so!!!"

"I don't expect her to like it..." Shuten-douji's voice suddenly brought him back to reality, and there was a hint of darkness in that deep voice: "I just hate when something leaves me... That's why I did this " Shuten-douji was actually somewhat shocked when he heard Ibaraki-douji's words, if Xia Hua really liked herself as much as before, then the pain she had suffered was really great...

It was he who killed her parents himself, he was the one who forcibly married her, and he hugged her and called her another name on the wedding night...

Shuten-douji's figure that has never dissipated in the depths of his heart is still aching in his heart.And now if you want to add another one...

No... maybe there was already her place.

Maybe during the time when she killed her parents, her own cruelty killed her from the heart.So when he saw her, he forced her to his side along with the loneliness and possessiveness he had accepted before losing Tamamo.

In this way, he himself is really cruel enough...

"..." Ibaraki-douji looked at him and didn't speak, but silently filled his and Shuten-douji's wine bowls.

If you hate being betrayed and abandoned...

Shuten-douji's eyes turned cold at this moment, and the terrible possessive desire regained control of his thoughts—"Imprisoned by my side forever."

At this moment, the figure sitting on the verandah within the barrier leaned weakly on the pillar.Now Xia Hua finally has no Shuten-douji and can't help but heave a sigh of relief looking at herself, but what followed was that she began to entangle in her heart about what happened before Shuten-douji and Yuzao...

Could it be that Tamamo left him at that time because of Shuten-douji himself?So why did the two of them kill each other...

The smiles of the fox sisters came to mind, and the person among them felt very nostalgic for some reason.

It's been a long time since I saw them, I really miss them...

But when Xia Hua looked at the barriers around her, she also told herself in her heart: If you want to see them, you can only do so in your dreams now...

Then have a good dream...

"At least in a dream..." Xia Hua murmured, closing her eyes and falling into her own world...

On the outskirts of the distant capital, a monster was about to approach and touched the barrier, which for a moment alarmed the onmyojis lurking around.

"What are you doing here?!" I could only feel the words in my ears one after another, and Hua Piao dug her ears with an impatient look on her face: "Although I know that the whole city of Kyoto is on alert, but in this way I You can't go in and look for Chitose Ashiya." Seeing the onmyojis in front of him taking out amulets from their sleeves one after another, Hua Piao couldn't help being startled: "I said, you don't plan to deal with a monster with so many people, do you?" As soon as the words fell, Hua Piao felt a white light appear below him, and immediately jumped up into the sky.

"Humans in Kyoto are really unfriendly..." Hua Piao took out a pipe from his arms and took a puff. The white gas he exhaled suddenly turned into a cloud of mist and surrounded the place.

"This is sorcery, everyone be careful!" An onmyoji shouted at this time, and golden lights appeared everywhere in the fog to disperse the white fog.After the white mist completely dissipated, the Onmyojis immediately searched for Hualao's whereabouts.But when they saw that the barrier hadn't been destroyed, they breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that the monster had escaped just now.

"A group of idiots." Hua Piao in the barrier at this time disappeared his figure, looked at the group of onmyojis behind him with contempt, turned around and walked towards the town of Kyoto.

But when he didn't take a few steps, he stopped suddenly.Because Hua Piao suddenly remembered that Ashiya Chitose is now in Iori's mansion, presumably the chief onmyoji is also there, I'm afraid it will be troublesome to go in and find him.

At this time, Hua Piao rubbed his temple, reached out to find something in the cuff of the other hand, and quickly pulled out a talisman.This talisman was actually given to him by Chitose Ashiya. If he needs to find him when necessary, he can directly contact himself with it.

But Hua Piao looked at the talisman for a long time, constantly recalling the password given to him by Chitose Ashiya at that time.I couldn't think of anything for a long time—"Ah... why can't I remember..." Hua Piao looked at the talisman in his hand with black lines all over his face, and in desperation hit the root of the tree, suddenly a white light flashed However, the slider was taken aback.

"..." Hua Piao immediately took a few steps back and pulled out the half-sword. He was startled when he saw the figure standing in the light gradually became clear—isn't this the Chitose shikigami Ayi?

"..." Ayi blinked suspiciously a few times, raised her head and stared at Hua Piao in a daze for a moment before saying, "Master Hua Piao, why did you come to Kyoto?" Summoned here knowing nothing.

"..." Hua Piao suddenly thought about it at this moment, and then remembered that he complained that he couldn't remember the password at all, so Chitose canceled the password and changed to the simplest method.

For a moment, Hua Piao had a strong blow to his memory, and while silently resenting himself, he looked at A Yi, that kind of eyes also carried deep resentment - A Yi was startled when he saw it: "Master Hua Piao, what the hell is going on?" What's wrong?

"That...Master Hua Piao's wound is all right now." Ayi asked here, and then Hua Piao returned to normal and replied, "It's all right." After answering here, Hua Piao went straight to the topic: "Where is Chitose?" , I have something to find him."

"He's already at Iori's mansion, why don't I go find him and arrange a time for you to meet outside." Ayi said this, Hua Piao took a breath and continued: "That's the only way, please. Hua Piao took a few steps, then turned to look at Ayi and found that her expression was a bit gloomy.

"What happened in the previous battle?" Hua Piao asked at this time: "Why do you seem so worried?" Just as the voice fell, the person in front of him was about to say something: "No." The matter of flowers has nothing to do with Hualao.

"That's right..." Hua Piao looked indifferent, but at this moment he already knew that something must have happened.But the shikigami in front of him seemed unwilling to tell him, and he didn't force it.

Why don't you ask Chitose face to face...

Hua Piao thought of this, and strode forward.

At this time, the plan to find Yasuna's successor in Iori's mansion is also secretly going on, and there are so many samurai onmyojis who come and go every day that they almost broke through the threshold, and there are various news from all directions.Some say that some of the descendants of ghost-killing warriors managed to take refuge and fled to Edo and other places, and some say that they lived in obscurity in those remote villages...

All kinds of news flooded into my brain for a while, and the four onmyoji were worrying in the main hall at this moment—"Toshi, you go and rest." Speaking, looking at his legs, a faint pain appeared in his heart immediately.

"It's okay, I'm fine." When Toshi Kusakabe said this, Abe Shingon stood at the entrance of the main hall and looked towards the courtyard, and said silently: "Now the news is messed up, which is very bad for us..."

"But there is always a way." Ashiya Chitose put his hand on his chin at this time, and said slowly: "If... his descendant is still alive, then Shuten-douji will kill him... because he is afraid that there will be a The second one uses An Gang to kill himself..."

Ashiya Chitose always felt that he could think of something, but his thinking seemed to be blocked by something, and he couldn't think of it.And just as the four were troubled, Iori Hime came in with tea at this moment—"My lords, why not take a break." Iori Hime filled the tea with her own hands and delivered it to the four onmyojis one by one. around.

"It's really a shame to let Iori Hime-sama do it herself." Toshi Kusakabe said to himself after taking it. "Please don't say that, I'm just doing my part, although it's very small..." Iori Hime lowered her head and looked at the distant legs of the grass wall, and said softly.

"It's nothing like that, Iori Hime-sama is already very good." Shingon Abe said at this moment, and the girl's eyes that looked at Shuten-douji at that time were so sharp and terrifying flashed through his mind...

"..." Just when Abe Shingon fell silent for a moment, Ashiya Chitose looked carefully at Iorihime and suddenly felt that she overlapped with someone in his memory.

"..." Iori Hime collided with Ashiya Chitose just as he shifted his gaze, and said softly, "Master Ashiya?"

"..." Chitose Ashiya sighed softly at this moment, and raised his head to look at her, "Actually, I have something to hide from everyone..." Chitose Ashiya decided to explain the reason why his behavior became so weird that day, because Now, Xia Hua is taken away by Shuten Doji.But is it out of the onmyoji or the love for the apprentice? Chitose Ashiya is out of a dilemma.He didn't want to hurt Xia Hua, and he didn't want to see her become a monster...

"Shuten-douji... the girl I was holding at that time was actually my apprentice..." Ashiya Chitose slowly told everything, including the thing that Xia Hua claimed to be with Shuten-douji when she was a child.It made the four people around me stare wide-eyed, not because that girl is Chitose's apprentice, but because this girl actually lived with Shuten-douji when she was young?

"That apprentice of yours..." Abe Shingon also understood Chitose Ashiya's pain now, and silently looked at the two colleagues beside him and nodded silently: "In the next battle, let's snatch your apprentice back together."

"..." Chitose Ashiya raised his head at this moment, his eyes widened as if he didn't understand what he just said.According to the mission of Onmyoji, no matter what kind of monster it is, it must be repelled and wiped out within the five elements.But when he heard his companion say that, he didn't know why a big stone was finally put down.

"I'll leave her to you." Toshi Kusakabe said at this moment, looking at Chitose Ashiya with a faint smile: "That apprentice of yours, even as a monster, wanted to seal Shuten-douji away. In the eyes." Having said this, Ashiya Chitose was taken aback for a moment, and then immediately frowned with self-reproach.

"In short, if you can say it, it means that you trust us." Kawain Goshi walked towards Ashiya Chitose at this time, reached out and patted him on the back to make him look up.

"Thank you..." Chitose Ashiya didn't know how to express the gratitude in his heart at this time, but at this moment he could only organize a few words to say thank you continuously.And Iori Hime, who was standing silently by the side, had a faint smile on her face at this time, covering up some kind of worry in her heart...