Hundred Ghosts Journey · Life is like summer flowers

On the outskirts of the town, a man in a pitch-black cloak walked silently toward the forest alone.And the passers-by he passed as if they didn't see him at all, no one noticed his existence.However, as a monster, the human aura pervading here made him feel uncomfortable, and a kind of disgust also emerged spontaneously.

"..." Ibaraki Doji walked quickly into the forest, but unexpectedly found someone following behind him.At this moment, he glanced back quietly, and found an arm hidden behind the tree—Ibaraki Doji pulled out the Taidao at his waist at this time, turned around and chopped there—"Wow!" With a clear and loud shout, Ibaraki Doji immediately stopped his movements and placed the sword between them. What was in front of him was a fox demon who looked like a 15-year-old girl.

"Brother, keep someone under the sword!" Two white ears stood up between the silver hair, and the blood-red eyes looked so pitiful at this moment, the fox demon shrank his whole body together at this moment, not daring to move rashly, " I'm just passing by! Seeing humans, it seems like I didn't see you, so..."

"..." Ibaraki Doji frowned at this moment, he couldn't understand what the fox meant at all.But if you have to talk about the difference between youkai like him and most youkai, Ibaraki Doji can understand a little bit.

There are all kinds of monsters in the world, some are transformed by animals, some are naturally formed invisibly, and he himself is just a monster conjured by powerful resentment, but human beings will crown monsters like Ibaraki Doji as "ghosts" 'The title simply refers to those human beings who have special abilities and do all kinds of evil... But there is another race, they are also 'ghosts', but that race seems to be all descendants of gods, lonely and isolated from the world, so People nowadays have forgotten about this tribe.But they are the real 'ghosts', and Ibaraki Doji himself can only be regarded as a kind of monster.

"Can't you see that I'm also a monster?" Ibaraki Doji put down his sword at this time, but he still didn't let go of his vigilance.

"I can't see it." The fox demon shook his head at this moment, and looked up at Ibaraki Doji with a smile on his face: "But I can sense that you have such a strong demon power, you must be very powerful!" He said expectantly: "That... please accept me as an apprentice!" "As soon as the words fell, Ibaraki Doji was stunned for a few seconds, and quickly retracted the sword, ignoring the vixen in front of him, turned and walked away.

"Ah! That! Master!" The fox immediately rushed up and hugged his arm tightly. I found that there seemed to be countless pairs of eyes looking at me around me.

"..." Ibaraki Doji immediately pulled his hand away vigilantly, keeping a distance from the fox in front of him, "Are you trying to attack me?" Having said that, several foxes ran out of the jungle and approached him one after another. There was a bit of timidity and fear on his face, which made Ibaraki Doji very puzzled.

"No, we really want to be a teacher!" The fox who hugged his arm just now said, "We want to live on our own strength. In the battle more than ten years ago, too many of our own people died... ..."

ten years ago?When Hoshikuma Doji died?

Ibaraki-douji was stunned for a moment, and immediately stretched out his hand to grab the fox demon in front of him and asked, "Could it be that you went to Dajiangshan more than ten years ago?" The hatred from before still hasn't subsided, and the full 40 years are like forty days to him, and that hatred has been suppressed for too long following his hatred of human beings, even to the point where even Hoshikuma-douji and Ibaraki-douji could not The point of imagination.

"Kill them all."

As if it happened yesterday, Ibaraki Doji still remembers how the crazy Shuten Doji rewrote the war 50 years ago.Shuten-douji's power is actually beyond his control, and once it erupts, it will not be easy to end, and he even doesn't remember what he has done afterwards—and Hoshikuma-douji, in order to prevent him from dying with Concubine Natsu, at that time At the same time, Xia Hua was taken out of Dajiangshan by herself who was seriously injured.

"...you..." Ibaraki Doji was silent for a moment, then suddenly said: "Do you know who I am?"

"What?" The fox demons all looked at each other at this moment, turned their heads and turned their eyes to Ibaraki-douji—"I am the subordinate of that Shuten-douji, Ibaraki-douji." Ibaraki-douji lowered his voice and let go Looking at them, an inexplicable sense of guilt emerged in his heart.

In fact, Ibaraki-douji has followed Shuten-douji for thousands of years, and he has deeply experienced the cruelty of Shuten-douji invisibly. At least during the millennium, while following Shuten-douji himself, he has been killing all monsters other than Shuten-douji and Hoshiguma-douji. regarded as its own enemy.

But what Hoshikuma Doji did to change Shuten Doji was also affected.In the Heian period, Hoshikuma-douji strongly opposed Shuten-douji's attack on human beings, but Shuten-douji did not listen to him, and eventually he was attacked by the people. 50 years ago, Jiu Tun Douzi accidentally decided to start from the demon world, fulfilling the long-cherished wish of the king of all demons.Here, what Hoshikuma Doji said was finally affirmed.

Although the resurrected Shuten-douji is different from him thousands of years ago, even though he has lost his interest in ruling the world, his personality and behavior have changed greatly.Perhaps Shuten-douji doubled his cruelty to humans to conquer the demon world, so the current Shuten-douji inevitably makes himself feel strange.

But no matter what happened, Ibaraki Doji and Hoshikuma Doji never intended to betray him...

"I don't hate it." The fox demons shook their heads one after another, and one of the fox demons also stood up and said: "It is true that we lost a lot in the war more than ten years ago, but there is a monster who said this to us. ——If everyone in this world continues to hate each other, the pain will never end."

"So even if we want to hate, what we hate is Shuten Doji." The fox demon in front of him reached out and pulled his cloak, and said with a smile: "Although it is difficult to understand what he said, but the words that can let go of hatred , It’s really not painful anymore.”

"..." Ibaraki Doji did not speak in silence, but the dark blue figure standing with him at that time involuntarily appeared in his mind-"I want to see a world without hatred, where there will be no more hatred. sad."

The first words suddenly echoed in his ears, and Ibaraki Doji couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief when he looked at the fox monsters in front of him, and said in a flat voice: "Aren't you going back to the fox clan?"

"Fox clan?" The fox demon in front of her closed her eyes and shook her head at this moment. She replied instead of everyone: "After going back, everyone will definitely want to gather together again to fight Shuten Doji. In that case, sacrifice and hatred It's going to be endless."

"That's right..." Ibaraki Doji thought about it, and he suddenly felt that it was great that he could come out.Being able to see the fox demons who guarded together with Hoshiguma-douji again, Ibaraki-douji now feels as if Hoshikuma-douji is standing beside him.Of course, the gentle and virtuous Concubine Xia also accompanied him - when they left, they didn't have any regrets, nor did they hate Shuten-douji.He just entrusted himself with the only Xia Hua that he couldn't let go of...

They didn't want Xia Hua to live in hatred, and they didn't want her to wander back into the abyss of pain with Shuten-douji.If possible, it will be like what Concubine Xia once said, "Xia Hua may be able to let Shuten-douji out".There is no endless pain and hatred in the world, and you are the root of evil that cannot make you happy.Shuten-doji actually cares about Xia Hua very much, but the thoughts that have been unable to be sorted out for too long cannot be expressed through his complicated personality. In fact, he himself also needs Xia Hua very much.

On the one hand is the "daughter" entrusted to him by his best friend, and on the other is the "brother" who is the first to accept him. Ibaraki Doji keeps telling himself that he must protect them. For him, the two existences that are more important than himself now are them.

"Then, let me be your master..." Ibaraki Doji thought of this, and looked at their number in a blink of an eye, and couldn't help but feel like running away.

"It's not urgent! As long as you are willing to be our master! We welcome you anytime!" At this moment, the fox demons were jumping around happily, and Ibaraki Doji didn't want to stay here for a second when he looked away. But there is an inexplicable expectation in my heart: if Shuten-douji can change because of Xia Hua, Dajiangshan who let go of all hatred is actually not bad...

It's just that he never expected that at this time, Dajiangshan has been destroyed...

——in the courtyard—

"Brother." The long jet-black hair fluttered in the sunlight, and the snow-white costumes all over the body were inlaid with golden patterns, shining brightly under the sunlight.His bright eyes looked at the silver-haired man sitting cross-legged under the illusory cherry blossom tree.

"Everything is a foregone conclusion." After waiting for her to come in front of him, the man reached out and stroked her cheek at this moment: "I promised Hua Piao to delay the time, and deliberately let Ibaraki Doji leave Dajiangshan..."

"..." The woman stretched out her hand to hold his hand at this time, and a trace of unbearableness gradually flashed in her eyes. At this time, her voice suppressed the intolerable pain, and said word by word: "In the prophecy...why didn't brother say Come out with your own part..."

At this moment, the man lowered his eyes, with a wry smile on his lips: "Hua Piao is actually... a very cunning monster... but as long as you cooperate with him... you will be fine." He smiled wryly, and said in his heart The endless suffering can't be vented: "Ibaraki Doji...will definitely blame me, but it's also to protect him."

"...Brother..." She reached out and hugged his body, leaning her head against his chest and whispered, "He won't blame you...he really won't blame you..." She His hand touched the opening on his back that was cut open by a sharp weapon, and black and red blood immediately stained his fingers. "Brother...Brother..." She called softly over and over again, and the man who was hugging her couldn't bear to stroke her head: "You have been unable to see things in the distance since you were a child... because of Zashiki Waruji's ability I took away your original health, but at least I can give you a piece of freedom... After I die, you can walk out of this house..." He looked at the person lying on the ground behind the sliding door of the veranda Patriarch, he has already sensed that the power that bound him here has begun to weaken.

"There is nothing that can restrain us anymore, and you can take my place to see the outside world." He kissed her forehead as he spoke, and then quickly disappeared into a mass of floating cherry blossoms in front of her eyes.At the same time, somewhere in the mansion suddenly caught fire, and the fire was raging, quickly surrounding the mansion.

"Patriarch! Patriarch!!!"

All of a sudden, the inside and outside of the mansion were in chaos, shouting, busy fighting the fire... But at this moment, she was under the cherry tree, looking indifferently at the burning fire beside her, and her eyes seemed to be unable to shed tears anymore, "Above Yuzao Before... Agni Zashiki... the whole situation is settled... no survivors." She said this sentence silently, turned around and walked into the distance, dissipating her figure.

Volume [-] The Land of the End