Hundred Ghosts Journey · Life is like summer flowers

Far from Kyoto, there is a mountain called Ibuki near the sea, and it is said that many monsters gather there.In fact, before the monster Shuten-douji existed on Mount Ibuki, people were already terrified of that mountain.

"Master Yibuki! Master Yibuki!!" There was no starlight in the dark night sky, only the cold moon hung alone in the sky, casting a thin veil on this monstrous mountain with a strange color. "I have something to show you!" And at this moment, there were shouts from somewhere.A little demon is holding a picture scroll, which he stole from the human world earlier - "Hey! Show us too!" Followed by several little demons, they ran quickly along the mountain road to the mountain Under the tallest tree, he raised his head and looked at him sitting on the tree pole admiring the moon.

"I still thought it was something..." The slender eyes shifted their gaze from the moon, and there was a bit of darkness and coldness in the dark blue eyes: "You guys... have you gone to play in the human world again?" A faintly gloomy voice sounded at this moment, the white body under the moon set off a touch of silvery white, the long dark purple hair fell straight on his back, and the broken hair on his face perfectly outlined his An extremely handsome face, it seems that it does not exist in the world.Perhaps he, like the monsters, should have existed in a world of nothingness, as those onmyoji said, but he came here by accident and built his own stronghold in the mountains.

Ibuki-san, he claims to be the mountain god here, but he doesn't crowd out monsters like other mountain gods.Because he is an evil mountain god, the monsters he summoned have caused many large and small injuries to human beings—killing people, setting fire, flooding, torture, and even more cruel things.

Now the name of Mount Ibuki has spread to Kyoto, and there are many voices of shock and fear.This made him and the monsters happy. After all, there would be desperate onmyojis coming to seek death every day. It would be a great thing for him to free them from the corrupt world as soon as possible.

"Master Ibuki! I saw a very beautiful picture scroll of a woman in the human world! But it is a very famous lady from the family at the bottom of the mountain!" As soon as the little demon finished speaking, she stretched out her hands and held it respectfully—"Human ?” Ibuki Mountain God has no interest in this at all, so the other little monsters grabbed the scroll and opened it one after another.

"Hey! I told you that this is for Master Yibuki's sake!" The group of monsters ignored the little monster's shouts, and even Yibuki Mountain God himself was there with a cold smile, and said with a corner of his mouth: "I have no interest in human beings at all." No."

"But... this woman is..." Before the little demon could finish speaking, another monster spoke at this moment: "It's all going to be taken into the mouth anyway, why not give this woman to us." The Ibuki mountain god jumped down from the tree at this time, and a silvery white flashed across their eyes—"That's good, I'll leave it to you. You can eat it or torture it as you like." Ibuki mountain god glanced at a few nearby Around the rock, white bones lay scattered here and there, and there was a miserable bright white scene in the middle of the moon that made him drunk for a while.

A few days later, in a town near Mount Ibuki, the news that a daughter was kidnapped by a monster spread quickly.This made no family in the entire city willing to let their daughter go out. At this time, on the street, there were men and old people, not even a girl.But the monster still didn't give up, and the continuous hunting activities intensified.Gradually, the smell of blood from Mount Ibuki also filled the air.

On this day, people in the city decided to choose a woman every month to send to the mountain as a sacrifice to the monster, hoping that the city would not be attacked again.But everyone was unwilling to sacrifice their daughters, so they could only choose the first victim under the push and hustle and bustle.

"The monster on the mountain said that it must be a beautiful beauty at the young age of sixteen. If they are not satisfied, they will attack us again." At the door of a noble mansion, people gathered together to watch several people go in and pull the lady in the mansion. After sending them off to the top of the mountain, the cries of the owner of the mansion and the maidservants knelt down continued to be heard in their ears. Many people were heartbroken at this scene, and they all decided to leave here immediately.

So after sending out the first living sacrifice, some people had quietly left here when the second living sacrifice was about to be selected.But the monsters on Mount Ibuki will rush over soon—killing those who left or eating their bones as a warning... So soon, the people in the city gave up and begged the monsters on Mount Ibuki to calm down At the same time, it was finally time to select the No.20 six living sacrifices——

The crowd was surrounded by a woman dressed in pot attire. In fact, under the city girl's hat on her head, the light veil hanging down her face covered her face, and no one could see what her expression was at this time. looks like.

"Send it to the foot of the mountain, please let me go up alone." As if she had already made up her mind, her voice was unimaginably cold, as if she had lost hope, and her heart was disheartened.

"...Princess..." The guards beside him looked at each other. This is the only Jun Ji with noble blood in their city.Although the city lord also thought about finding an onmyoji to cure the monsters on Mount Ibuki, he knew that none of the onmyoji who had been to Mount Ibuki could come down.The one who originally decided to be the living sacrifice was a young lady from another rich house, but she was refuted by the question "Why didn't the princess sacrifice herself".

"There is no way around this..." The princess's voice was filled with uneasiness: "This city...my lord father must be well maintained." She looked at the figure in front of her, but couldn't see his face clearly under the veil : "Please take good care of your father..."

"..." The man in light-colored straight clothes nodded silently, and the knuckles of his clenched fingers turned white: "Sister... have a good journey..." Facing the people in the pool around, the princess turned around and said: " I will not run away, please rest assured." Maybe she knew that she would be sacrificed one day, but the princess had already escaped many sacrificed decisions under the protection of her father.But only this time, the common people complained one after another, and the father's rule was also in dire straits and vacillated.

I... I am doomed...

As night fell, the princess was still sent to Mount Ibuki by the attendants, because a few good-natured people ran over on the way, and kept saying that she would tie up the whole body of the princess like the previous living sacrifices so that she could not escape.

"The princess is the body of a thousand pieces of gold, how can she act like this?!" Many of the people who ran here were actually the ones who had sent out their own ladies before. When the two sides were about to quarrel, the princess nodded and accepted and tied herself up. requirements.

"Princess, don't resent us, if you want to resent..." "It's the monster of this mountain." Seeing that their goal has been achieved, everyone carefully looked around for fear that the monster would appear, then turned around and fled immediately . "Princess..." The attendants looked at her one after another, and one of them saw that she was tightly tied to a dead tree by hemp rope, and he really couldn't bear to let Her Royal Highness, the princess, be treated like this.

"It's getting dark, you guys go down the mountain..." There was a burst of uncontrollable pain from all over the body, and even more indescribable pain emerged in my heart.She knew that if she let them leave, she might be bitten to death by monsters here.At the end of the day when people are about to die, they don't feel anything at all...

Or it would be a much worse pain...

As night fell, the mountain was surrounded by a strong evil spirit. At this time, there was no one standing in front of the princess. Tonight, she would die in this mountain.The wind-like wailing sounds from all around made her startled—wanted to leave, wanted to live... didn't want to die here...

"..." The princess's whole body seemed to be stiff, and it was difficult to even make a sound.She couldn't believe her current situation, and she didn't even know how to shed tears in her eyes.At this moment, she heard footsteps behind the tree, and her mind went blank.

Monsters... Monsters appeared?

Just when she wanted to move, the rope that was tightly tied to her body was so tight that she felt a pain.And I seemed to feel that some fishy smell began to permeate the air, and a large amount of mist suddenly appeared in front of my eyes, "...uh..." At this moment, the princess felt that her eyelids were gradually getting heavy, and she was covered by the thick mist. She couldn't see anything... But the princess felt something touching her from behind in a daze when her sight was dimmed and her consciousness faded away...