Hundred Ghosts Journey · Life is like summer flowers

A few days later, the town below the mountain has been reduced to ruins.The small town, which was quite lively at first, has suddenly disappeared like a puff of smoke. "Ibuki mountain god's haunting" - people at that time surrounded this mysterious disaster with such a topic.

"Ibuki Mountain God..." He sat on the top of a tree with a red body, looking at the distant Kyoto area.mountain god?what is that?He doesn't want to use other names to call himself, he is neither a human nor a god, but a demon?But he wants to be the best among demons, he is a ghost, the ghost king who leads all demons.

Don't call him Ibuki Mountain God lightly—"Wine replaces the sky, swallows the clouds and drives the dawn..." His golden eyes are now staring at the starry sky above, and his voice is so soft that only he can hear it.Thinking about what I want to be called——Juten-douji, from now on I will be called Shuten-douji.

If the world still doesn't know how to accept yourself, then you can change it yourself.

Just like that...

"..." Jiu Tun-douji looked at his hands, but there was a voice in his heart telling himself that he needed a lot of strength, needed his own ghosts, and became a high-ranking ghost king. Now he might not have any strength at all...

"Hmph..." He sneered at this moment, Hundred ghosts?It feels good to be above all monsters: "I will make them all submit to me, even gods can't stop me..." His red hair fluttered in the wind, faintly setting off a dark crimson under the moonlight , the smile hanging on the corner of his mouth at this moment seems to be exactly the same as him more than ten years ago.

"Are you Shuten-douji?" At this moment, a face very similar to himself suddenly appeared under his line of sight, which made Shuten-douji a little shocked.

"...Is it the mountain god of Mount Ibuki?" The golden eyes fell on him for a long time, and then there was a bit of cruel chill: "It turns out that you were the evil mountain god who made trouble in this area back then, what a surprise."

"You...have experienced so much pain in the human world. Although this is expected—but not all of them are guessed." Ibuki Mountain God looked at his face, and another figure appeared in his mind: "Humans really— ——It’s not kindness, if she can understand this, how can she die wronged?”

"..." Shuten Doji's heart was so numb that he couldn't feel anything, but he still remembered a little bit of the woman who often came to visit him at that time—"Good boy..." Those loving and gentle eyes looked at him, and his slender hands rested on his shoulders. He stroked his head for a while.

monster……

I'm a monster...

Suddenly there were too many voices in my mind - "Princess, it is better to go back immediately, if the Lord City Master can't find you..."

"We will take good care of this child. He must be very good and obedient."

No, those are fake...

Shuten-douji shouted in his heart, there was no need to think about his past at all.These little things, even if they are fake on the surface, are really real, whether you are loved or not-it doesn't matter. 'Shuten-douji' is the current self, and he hates this world.Shuten-douji wants to become the king of all monsters.

At this time, a cold smile suddenly appeared on his face.Shuten-douji turned his eyes to the Ibuki mountain god in front of him, and put his hand between them: "Ibuki mountain god... I accept your Ibuki mountain." Instead of recalling the past, it is better not to miss any chance to kill now.The current self has become a monster that exists because of killing.For the sake of power, for the sake of rights, he will not let anyone around him--people who know his past, even gods...

Red flames instantly surrounded them, making it impossible for anyone to escape.But the face illuminated by the red light is so indifferent, Ibuki seems to know what Shuten-douji wants to do.

"Kill me?" There was a frivolous sneer on the corner of his mouth, and a dim light appeared in his eyes in the flames.At this time, he drew the sword from his waist and accepted Shuten-douji's duel.

"Kill all...all the guys who know about my past will die..." Shuten-douji was talking to himself at this time, his golden eyes had already lost his reason, "you didn't accept me...you didn't accept me when you died I——I hate you all, and I hate that I was born in this world." The flames were burning and beating violently like his unstable heart, and when they were pressing on Ibuki Mountain God - Ibuki Mountain God jumped out at this time From the air, holding the Taidao, he stabbed fiercely at Shuten-douji below. In an instant, the fiery red flames formed a barrier, leading straight to the sky...

— many years ago —

Beside the bridge, a young girl in a gorgeous twelve-single dress is admiring the lotus in the pond. She steps on the rocks by the pond and leans out with her hands on the willow tree beside her.For her, Lianhua, who was praised by her father, has always longed for her. In the ordinary world, it is quite rare to have a person who has an unstained temperament. If Lian is a person, she must be honest and upright. man of.

"..." Bright eyes stared at the lotus in the pond in front of him for a long time, and for a moment he almost ignored the surrounding voices.The footsteps of people coming and going, the sound of talking and laughing, including the voices of the servants in the mansion looking for themselves.Under the warm sunshine, she was intoxicated in her own world without waking up—and what was even more amazing was that, for some reason, no one seemed to notice her existence, which made her even more desperate to get close to the lotus in the pond, and then Looking at it up close...

"If you continue like this, you will be caught by the kappa." At this moment, a big hand suddenly wrapped around her waist, stopping her who wanted to move forward. "Hey..." She was taken aback suddenly, and immediately turned around to look at the person behind her: "Who are you?" Those deep dark purple eyes implied a touch of coldness at this moment, and the extremely handsome face Can't help but let her stare dumbfounded.

How could there be such a beautiful person in the world?

"What's the matter?" Seeing her staring at him closely, a faint smile appeared on his face: "Is there anything strange about me?"

"...Thanks...thank you." Perhaps noticing that this was impolite, she immediately turned her gaze away.Seeing such a child, the tall young man in front of her had an unknown smile on her mouth—"Are you, Ji Jun of this town?" The sound of 'princess -! ''Where are you?Princess--! '

"Holding... I'm sorry!" A layer of blush could not help appearing on her face, she was so ashamed for a moment that she had no time to answer the other party's question and immediately ran away.

In the next winter, after a few days of heavy snowfall, she came back from outside the city at the foot of Mount Ibuki. Because the attendants wanted to push out the ox cart that was stuck in the deep snow, she walked around the foot of the mountain by herself.

Standing at the foot of a slightly higher mountain, she looked down at the falling snow in the forest, which made her excited and curious from time to time in a vast white world.She stepped on the snow, leaving footprints one by one, immersed in her own play.The warm single clothes were tightly wrapped around her body, which made her not feel cold at all in the snow—at this moment, a crisp and beautiful flute sounded in her ears, like a nightingale singing softly in the deep mountains, giving her It was a peaceful and soothing atmosphere, and she couldn't help but be attracted by the beautiful flute sound.

She wanted to follow the sound of the flute to find him, but she could only hear the sound of the flute but could not see the person.Although she was somewhat disappointed, she still admired: To be able to play such a delicate and beautiful flute sound must be a person with good intentions.

She spoke softly, looking around but suddenly found herself lost in the vast white snow.Thinking that the attendants were anxious to find her again, she immediately turned around and walked towards the foot of the mountain.But no matter where they looked the same, she didn't know how to leave.

"What should I do..." She looked anxiously at the vast expanse of snow, longing for the voice of one of the attendants to be heard.But at this moment, the sound of the flute suddenly sounded from the other side for no reason. The sound seemed to be emotional, as if reminding her of the way back—"This...is this guiding me?" She asked herself Talking to himself, I couldn't help thinking of the legend about ghosts on Ibuki Mountain that I heard when I was a child.However, there was another feeling in her heart telling her that the owner of the flute was not malicious.

At this time, she took a deep breath, hesitated for a long time in the snow, and then slowly moved forward following the sound of the flute...

"Princess?! You are finally back! We are all anxious to death!" The white snow stretched as far as the eye could see, and the attendants looked around and saw a familiar figure—"Sorry...for making you worry." She apologized Smiling, he raised his head and saw that the bullock cart had been pushed out of the snowdrift in the distance: "Just now, did you hear any flute sound?"

"Flute sound? No." The attendants were puzzled and shook their heads.

"..." She couldn't help being stunned for a moment, and turned her head to look at Ibuki Mountain behind, but she didn't feel any fear in her heart. "That... thank you..." Maybe it was a god or something, she thanked the owner of the flute softly with pure thoughts.

"..." At this time, the man in white clothes in Yibui Mountain put down the bamboo flute in his hand, and watched the bullock cart continue to move down the mountain.Although he hates this world, he doesn't hate this child.This child's pure qi is like a lotus flower that is out of the world, and I knew it that day.

"..." His lips were tightly closed at this moment, and a layer of gloom appeared in his eyes.If possible, he hoped that this child would not be born in this complicated world.Ji Jun at the foot of Ibuki Mountain should have been dragged into the deep water by a kappa and drowned last year - this is something he should have known as Yan Mo, maybe he was soft-hearted and didn't take the child away.

"..." The red flames gradually dissipated, and at this time, drops of blood dripped from the corner of Ibuki's mouth, and his chest was pierced by Shuten-douji's hand—and Shuten-douji was also pierced by his dagger shoulder.

"Cough..." Yibuki Mountain God coughed fiercely, and more blood dripped from his mouth and even from the wound, gradually staining the ground red.

Six years later, he summoned a large number of youkai on Mount Ibuki to perform cruel acts on the humans in the town.But he never thought of hurting the grown-up child.And becoming a sacrificial offering was something he had never expected...

Seven years ago, I liberated her from the clutches of death because of a moment of kindness, so it is only natural for me to return to my side now.

"Marry me as a husband and wife." Seeing her yearning for the life in the world so much, he couldn't bear her to be sad by this false world.Although her frailty made him love him so much, but his inner strength made him unable to break through.

"You can't forget everything in the world." When we were together that night, she cried hesitantly, and the moment he hugged her into his arms, he already knew that one day she would leave him.

If you go back, that's fine...

Compared with his self-satisfaction of occupying her, Ibuki Shanshen still prefers her feelings.No matter how painful it is, she chooses to accept it alone... If there is such a day to be separated, he hopes that she will choose to hate herself.

Sorry...if that day hadn't stopped you...your misery might have ended by the river...

And you... you don't have to die in the end...

The dark eyes looked at him at this moment, the ghost with red hair and golden pupils in front of him was too similar to himself...

Yes, he is her and her child...

He disappeared from her face that day, and he has been wandering back and forth in this Ibuki mountain.If she can't stand the outside world, she can bring her child to him... But after so many years, what Yibuki Mountain God has been waiting for is a brutal killing.

When the princess died, her soul never returned to Mount Ibuki.Her older brother, who chased after pleasure in the later period, had a guilty conscience and invited a senior mage to directly transcend her to heaven because of separating her from the child before she was alive, and did not return to his own death world.

Even in the end, I didn't even have a chance to apologize...

"How could it be..." The picture stayed on this scene, Shuten-douji watched all this happen but was unable to take any action, but at this moment the picture suddenly darkened, and the sound of a heavy body exploding came from beside his ears. "This... this is..." Immediately afterwards, the figure that appeared in front of him was dripping blood all over his body at this time - that blood was the mountain god Ibuki...

In the gap between the red hair and the blood, those dark golden pupils didn't shine at all—"I...killed my own..." Shuten-douji looked at himself in the picture and sneered , the sneer that resounded in his ears was so piercing, the unchangeable fact, the reality that must be accepted, kept beating in Shuten-douji's heart - he couldn't stay here, if this continued...he might not even Summer flowers will be forgotten.

"Ahhh!!" With the sudden pain in his heart and the unbearable pain in his mind, Shuten-douji looked at the scene in front of him and shouted there—"It doesn't matter who it is! Take me out of here quickly!! "

At this time, white light suddenly appeared around him, and the white light gathered and quickly rendered his eyes into a bright white scene...

Volume Eight