Hundred Ghosts Journey · Life is like summer flowers

The white scene was darkened, and the red maple leaves fluttering in front of him was facing a brown-haired brown-eyed monster.At this time, my voice and thoughts no longer belong to me—"Half-human, half-demon will be hurt no matter where they are, so you should keep her by your side and protect her..."

Looking at Xia Hua beside her like an unconscious puppet, although it hurts - but the blood red dripping from her palm made her heart ache even more.

"From the moment she was born, I always wanted to treat her as a human being... I wanted to be her elder brother to accompany her, and I wanted to treat her as my sister..." Suddenly came from my heart, the sight in front of me The screen then jumped...

"Indeed, your father Hoshikuma Doji once hesitated whether you want to be a human or a monster..." He grabbed her hand and looked at the resentment and anger in her eyes.She pursed her lips tightly, hating her own powerlessness.

'That's good, you hate me quickly... Come and kill me quickly——Kasahara Natsuka, if you can't forgive me like that, then hurry up and kill me. '

Shuten-douji's crimes cannot be erased, ridiculed, fooled and even persecuted, the deaths of Hoshiguma-douji and Kasahara Natsumi, the death of Tamamomae and even Tamadao Yin...

"When you are a little older, come and tell me in person." The picture has faded from the original color, and the child who is close at hand looks at the falling maple leaves and smiles, saying to himself that he will watch it together in the future, and will never stay Leave yourself alone.

'I don't want her to know her true nature, monsters are a very twisted existence-especially for me, when I kill the guy I care about, I can't love anymore. '

Not qualified to love, nor qualified to have...

"Master Shutendouji...do you also know?" All the ghosts dispersed in the magnificent palace of Mt. Dajiang. At this time, the face of the monster sitting in front of him showed a surprised expression and a certain hesitation at the same time. Said: "Sorry, I don't know if this will burden you..."

"..." Sighed lightly, the corners of the mouth raised a rather relaxed arc at this time: "I like Xia Hua very much... Although I have always wanted to replace that child by her side, after all, it is the pain of losing blood. , No matter what happens, it cannot be cut off..." There was a gloomy coldness in the golden eyes, and the birth of that child may be destined to be full of twists and turns.And ever since I met Hoshikuma Doji and Ibaraki Doji, and the moment the entire Ibuki Mountain was renamed Oeyama, it felt like home here—a feeling I had never had in the Heian period, and was filled with hatred in my heart. Buried for too long, it is really impossible for the current self to let go.

And the existence of Kasahara Natsuka was the first life born in front of her eyes.I really want to protect and take good care of me, but if I have to say that this is a sin - "I only have one request... I hope that child can keep a distance from me." 50 years ago, there was a poison called Yuzaoqian Forcing the darkness in my heart to emerge in my mind, the first time I hurt the existence I loved, the first time I beheaded the only existence in the world... Shuten Doji... I hope it will be the last time.

'So, if one day that child really likes me, I would rather let this child hate me first...'

The memories in my mind kept jumping, and the voice from my heart was not my own at all.This Shuten-douji, whom Natsuka calls 'Ibuki Soraki', has all his mind affected at this time, the past of that Shuten-douji and his pain - fear that he will be destroyed, afraid that he will be broken... …When everything becomes beyond my control, I will kill her just like I killed Tamamo, just like I killed Hoshiguma Doji...

And at this moment, evil words like a succubus suddenly echoed in my ears: "I know that you didn't kill Xingxiong Boy..."

"Because it was me who did it..."

"!" As if his consciousness came back all of a sudden, he seized the opportunity and immediately opened his eyes, and found that in front of him was the ceiling of Xia Hua's house. "Here..." His golden eyes looked at everything around him. The light coming from the sun was a bit dazzling. Shuten-douji quickly got up and looked at himself in disbelief—what happened just now?Is what that strange mirror is showing really his past?

And at this moment, he immediately got up and left the room: I want to see her, I want to ask her...Xia Hua, what kind of monster is Shuten-douji?Are you now all thanks to 'him'? ...

The moment he reached out to open the partition, an extremely dazzling scenery stimulated his sight and brain.For a moment, all thoughts stopped, and he stared blankly at the scene in front of him, unable to move his whole body...

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After getting off the bullock cart, Shuten-douji still didn't wake up, he seemed to be in a deep sleep.

"Is he too tired?" Xia Hua looked at his peaceful sleeping face, wanted to wake him up but couldn't bear it—"I'll take him in... this troublesome guy..." Ming Dou said Shi frowned slightly, approached him and carried him into the room to rest.

"It's really heavy..." When he thought that he was the cruel and unforgiving Shuten-douji, Ming Dou felt that every cell in his body was rejecting him.

"That... thank you..." Xia Hua also knew Ming Dou's thoughts very well, she couldn't help but swallowed and stood for a long time, until she watched Ming Dou close the partition of the room, and then tried to let herself out.

"..." Ming Dou's dark golden pupils looked at her at this moment, and sighed softly: "You...are you really planning to do this..." He approached her until there was only a gap between them. He stopped at an arm's length away.

"..." Xia Hua was stunned for a moment, and when she heard Ming Dou's words, she felt as if her whole body had been stopped, unable to move.At this moment, she raised her head and looked at him with a face of questioning herself: "I..." She wanted to say 'enough', but the appearance of Iori Hime made her hesitate.Xia Hua, she was surprised and happy that Iori Hime was her biological sister, but this further deepened her pain for Shuten Doji.

"Do you regret it?" My inner self was questioning her, just like Mingdou in front of me conveyed to her—she regretted being by Shuten-douji's side...

"No...I..." Xia Hua shook her head, denying her inner self. Why must she endure such pain?

It's true that I want to stay by his side, but now my identity is a monster... Iori Hime, she is a high-ranking aristocratic girl, she has the ability to purify and is so dazzling that Xia Hua has to give up even if she wants to admit her relationship with her .

She knew that Ashiya Chitose and Mingtou didn't care about her identity, and so did Iorihime.But if the outside world knows her blood relationship with Iorihime, not only to herself, but also Iorihime will be looked at differently... The sister of the monster, the younger sister of Natsuka Kasahara.

At the very moment before the purification ceremony, Iorihime must not be influenced by foreign affairs...

"Shuten-douji...do you like him..." Ming Dou looked at her without going on for a long time, took a deep breath and asked in a low voice: "Even if he doesn't exist...became a human being..."

"..." Xia Hua lowered her head silently, just about to speak after a while.A heavy weight suddenly fell from her shoulders—"?" Xia Hua's whole body trembled suddenly, and the next second she saw the body in front of her leaning against her.Ming Dou put his arm around Xia Hua's shoulder at this moment, and leaned his chin against her cheek: "I lost..." He laughed at himself, and there was a bleak wry smile on the corner of his mouth...

Only then did he realize that compared to Jiu Tun-douji, he really didn't even have the right to step into Xia Hua's heart - Xia Hua didn't love herself, no matter how much she accompanied her, her heart already belonged to that monster... ...I used to think that if Shuten-douji could be killed, Natsuka could be with her... But——Shuten-douji died, and Natsuka did not leave the human who was once a monster.

"..." Xia Hua was stunned for a moment, and the surprise on her face quickly faded away. At this moment, she didn't know what to do.But in my heart, I can feel the sadness conveyed by Ming Dou beside me, that kind of sadness is so insignificant that I can really understand him now...

All the time...really...thank you...

Xia Hua really wanted to say that sentence, but she was afraid that it would hurt Ming Dou.His heart may have been deeply wounded at the moment of Yu Daoyin's death, but now, the decision he made is also like a sharp knife piercing deeply into his wound.

Ming Dou's movements froze, and it took a long time until she heard a soft breath in her own ear, then let go of Xia Hua and straightened up: "I'm leaving." There was a faint smile on his face, as if returning to Looking at her smile a long time ago—Xia Hua, I haven't seen him smile like this for a long time.

From now on, I will still protect you...

Ming Dou glanced at Xia Hua with a smile on his face, and his golden eyes showed a trace of sadness and intolerance in the dark—at this time, he decided to hand Xia Hua to that Shuten Doji (Ibuki Sora).If he dared to hurt her again, he would never show mercy.

"Hmm..." Xia Hua lowered her head and nodded.

And all of this, Shuten-douji next to the partition saw from beginning to end.At this time, he was motionless as if he had been frozen, but his eyes were fixed on the two people in the courtyard in front of him... For some reason, a strong sense of guilt suddenly surged in his heart, as if he didn't Should be the same here.

Seeing Xia Hua lower her head and remain silent, a voice seemed to echo in Shuten Doji's mind again - "If you fell in love with her, what would you do?"

"..." Shuten-doji from the past seemed to know what would happen between himself and Xia Hua... He knew that his possessiveness would destroy her sooner or later, but he was deeply afraid that she would be destroyed by him.He is afraid of losing, and even more afraid of betrayal... His distorted character is due to his past in the Heian era.Because there is no love, there is no qualification to love... Maybe when the human being has truly died once, the guy 'Shuten Doji' has been unable to truly love someone.So while he doesn't understand, once he comes into contact with the existence of that kind of love, he will hold on to it tightly, with a feeling of 'I would rather bear the world than let the world bear me'.If you can't grasp it, Shuten-douji will be destroyed before she is destroyed...

Thinking of this, Tamamo-mae is actually the best ending.Her stubbornness prevented her from being destroyed by him, and because Shuten-douji's first love existed, he couldn't do anything at all - if he attacked her fox clan, he could predict what would happen to her an expression.

Before and after Tamamo, Shuten-doji kept telling himself that he was used to the persecution of Kasahara Natsuka.So... I have always regarded hurting her as the way to love her - the more I love her, the more I want to hurt her.

"..." Jiu Tun-douji took a deep breath, looked at Ming Dou who had already walked out of his sight, and slowly lowered his eyes.And when he raised his head again to look at Xia Hua's back—another voice sounded in his heart: The current me...is not qualified to be by her side at all...

--Edo--

"Ah..." In Hualao's enchantment, outside the simple samurai room, the bone girl standing in the courtyard was holding a broom at this time, and whispered the falling cherry petals in the courtyard over and over again. "Master Hua Piao is really too, it's so reckless to suddenly say that I want to go to Kyoto alone..." She had just said this when Ugly Time's Daughter and Qiao Ji walked over.

"Bone girl, are you cleaning the yard again?" The ugly girl walked up to her with raised eyebrows and a smile on her face: "Ah~ It's been hard work, sure enough that guy Muichibo can summon other monsters."

"You two, as long as there is cleaning work, you will hide from anyone." The bone girl raised an eyebrow and looked at them contemptuously, while Qiao Ji smiled slightly at this time: "Cleaning every day, we don't have any cleaning work here." There's no dust at all... Look, isn't Yingnu hiding in everyone's shadows and not helping?"

"You two... I can't complain about you..." The bone girl wiped the cold sweat from her cheeks, turned her head and continued to sweep with the broom, completely ignoring Qiao Ji and Chou Shi who were watching in order to be lazy. daughter.

"The bone girl is very hardworking at this time. I don't know where I go to find skins..."

"Yeah, the bone girl looks like she likes to clean."

The ugly girl and Qiao Ji beside her were working hard there, and the bone girl pushed the broom aside at this moment, "Are you enough?" The sudden outburst of anger not only didn't frighten the two guys, but made them Laughing loudly—"Enough is enough! Don't laugh!!" The ugly girl laughed from ear to ear, and Qiao Ji also covered her smile under her sleeve.The bone girl took a breath at this moment, and put her hands tightly on her waist.

"But...it's really funny!" The ugly girl was about to continue, when she suddenly heard a voice passing through the grass—"Who is it?!" The bone girl immediately turned her head and looked around with wide eyes.At this time, the ugly girl and Qiao Ji also quickly suppressed their smiles and looked around vigilantly.

"Hey... this is..." The Ugly Girl of Time and the Bone Girl didn't find anything suspicious when they looked around, but Qiao Ji herself followed the direction where the broom fell on the ground, and suddenly saw a snow-white stone in the grass—— —This stone is different from the surrounding ones. There are red silk-like things appearing on its body, as if the stone will split along those lines.

"..." The Bone Girl and the Ugly Time Girl also noticed it, they didn't understand what it was.At this time, the bone girl swallowed, picked up the broom lying on the ground, and walked over slowly—"Hey, hey! What are you doing!" Seeing that she was about to touch the stone with the broom handle , the ugly girl grabbed her.

"What is this..." The bone girl looked at her suspiciously, then turned her head to look at that place, always feeling that the red marks on the stone made her feel very uncomfortable.

"I don't think it's better not to touch her." Qiao Ji's face also looked a bit serious, and she lowered her voice to whisper next to the bone girl.

"..." The bone girl also hesitated for a moment, but soon she said with a smile: "This is the place of Mrs. Hua Piao, and no monsters will harm us." The girl dissuaded her, and a broomstick touched the stone—for an instant, a piercing scream came from the stone, and then the bone girl and the others saw the stone split along the red marks.

"What... what is this!" The bone girl was surprised to see a black mist formed above the broken stone, and a pair of blood-red eyes were staring at herself—"Danger!!" The ugly girl shouted The moment she came out, Gu Nu only felt that her body suddenly fell to one side...