Hundred Ghosts Journey · Life is like summer flowers

The last day of the purification ceremony - just passed under the expected attention of the whole Kyoto.The sun was setting in the west, saying goodbye to the orange sunset and turning into the dark night sky. At this time, the bright moon was shining pale, and the cold moonlight cast a dim veil covering the entire city of Kyoto.

Ming Dou sent Xia Hua, Yu Daoan and 'Shuten Doji' to the hotel for a while, then told them to go to bed early, and then walked away alone on the way back to Iori's mansion.

"Well...there will be more time in the future..." Before leaving, Ming Dou deeply imprinted Xia Hua's unsatisfactory expression in his heart, and kept praying for her, sighing: From now on, she no longer needs to be here. Being at the mercy of any existence, Shuten Doji no longer exists, and I and Ashiya Chitose can no longer let her follow me, let alone being in a dilemma because I am half human and half demon... She is already truly free , and the only blood relative...

"Iori Hime..." Ming Dou raised his head to look at the cold moon in the sky, the full moon night of the Sixteenth Nights—it happened to be the day when Xia Hua and Iori Hime were truly united.

It's great to be able to find my loved ones... Xia Hua.

The corners of Ming Dou's mouth curled up slightly, and there was inexplicable sadness in his eyes.Xia Hua is already gone, so she doesn't need to protect her at all...

Thinking of how lonely he is now, Mingdou kept showing images of Xia Hua and Iori Hime standing together with that 'Shuten-douji' in his heart. He did not deny that he wanted to make Xia Hua Staying by his side, even if it is a tough move—but until now, everything that happened has finally led him to the extreme.

From now on, Xia Hua will definitely be with that 'Shuten-douji', and be together happily forever... Then what about myself... Will I just live alone like this with mourning for Yu Daoyin...

It's as if... I have nothing since I can remember, I'm afraid I didn't even die when I died...

"Ming Dou..." At this moment, what sounded in his mind was Yu Daoyin's gentle voice calling him in the past, flowing into his dry heart like a faint stream of water... It was so familiar to him, but also so intriguing. He was sad——"Ah...I'm fine..." He looked at Leng Yue, and said to the 'Yudao Yin' in his heart who existed because of him, "It's good that she is happy...so, I don't care anymore. "

At this moment, there was a drop of tears in his eyes that he couldn't even feel - Ming Dou... This name is just the writing on the amulet, where did he come from, and how will he move forward... It all depends on this. is unknown.

However, if he could stay with her and them all the time like today, he would have found a place to live in his life.

So no matter what happens in the future...we will never be apart...

In this case, it is for Xia Hua, and it is also for Yu Daoyin...

Just as he was telling himself this in his heart, Ming Dou looked at the sky and found a change—suddenly the rare starlight in the starry sky suddenly faded, and a large black cloud gradually covered it from nowhere. There was a dim cold moon, and a dim picture appeared in the sky in an instant.

"This is..." Ming Dou never expected that the divinations that had been predicting nothing unexpected for the past few days suddenly became disrupted because of this day.At this time, he looked at the night sky in the sky, and while the black clouds were pulling together, the mysterious illusion became more and more obvious-a man with long silver hair, with slender horns on his head, holding a knife to the other side. wave away.

Ming Dou immediately looked to the other side, but suddenly the mysterious illusion disappeared, and the surrounding black clouds also faded at the same time.Gradually, my vision brightened up again, Leng Yue also slowly recovered her original radiance, and the city of Kyoto was shrouded under it again.

"..." Ming Dou lowered his head slowly, as if he had just experienced an incredible fantasy just like entering a dream, but at this moment, he didn't know why he was confused and uneasy—as if there would be something big Disasters will come like...

Just when Mingdou was hesitating, Shikigami Qianru suddenly showed his figure: "Master Mingdou! I feel a strange aura approaching Kyoto!" Not only her, but even Takizawa Both Taiyi and Taiyi ran out of the talisman: "Mingdou, I think the ceremony will be destroyed!"

"..." Ming Dou's golden eyes widened in an instant, and he clenched his hands tightly without knowing when. The celestial phenomenon just now... He thought carefully for a while and finally noticed the features of the silver-haired man——and he could uniquely Affecting the existence of this ceremony...

"Shuten-douji..." Ming Dou muttered to himself, and immediately turned around and ran to the hotel where Xia Hua was staying——

At this time, the body seems not to be his own, but he is at the mercy of it.Pushing open the sliding door, an uncontrollable pain felt in his heart—"Uh..." Shuten-douji didn't take a steady step, and fell heavily on the verandah.At this time, Xia Hua and Yu Dao'an, as if they were under a curse, couldn't wake up even hearing the sounds outside.But only the cold moon, which was still bright in the sky, cast a pale scene as if mocking him, hitting his body which was hard to walk because of the severe pain.

"Ah... ah..." He breathed heavily, and stood up slowly while leaning on the railing on the outer porch—"It's almost here...It's finally here..." At this moment, the voice in his heart sounded, and he continued to guide He walks out of the store.For a moment, Shuten-douji's thoughts were all cut off. He clutched his chest, as if something was about to rush out of his heart, and left here step by step, step by step...

At this time, there was no one on the silent Suzaku Avenue, and the hateful Leng Yue still didn't stop playing tricks on him, and the falling scene became colder and colder.Throughout the capital, it seemed as if no one existed, and he was the only one walking slowly on the road...

"Xia..." Shuten-douji tried to call out this name, but his other consciousness seemed to be stopping him—no, rather than stopping, it might be better to say that his memory is slowly fading away...

The scene where she rescued herself from Yu Daoan's hands was dark...

In the dark scene when she and herself came to the hut for the first time...

The scene where she fell into the water that made him laugh darkened...

……

The scene where she was embraced by Ming Dou darkened...

……

After she told him that everything was over, the scene of marrying him was dark...

"No...don't..." Shuten-douji was like a naive child at this time, making a weak resistance against the existence somewhere in her heart that lost all her memories, but——she in her childhood...and that In the great rivers and mountains at that time, all the memories seemed to fade away in an instant.

"No!!!" Even in the last scene, the girl standing in front of me, covered in blood and with a dazed expression, also turned into darkness...

"..." Until the end, Shuten-douji fell to the ground without a sound like a figure that had been completely emptied.But very soon, in the bright white scene in front of his eyes, in the too cruel picture, he saw a silver-haired monster dressed in jet black... and a woman with an enchanting figure.

"Is it already like this?" Hua Piao looked at Shuten Doji on the ground and resisted the urge to laugh. That arrogant, cruel and domineering King of Ten Thousand Monsters actually fell into this place because of being cursed. Zhang Tiandi: "...Actually, I was thinking...why did you suddenly become a human?" At this moment, Hua Piao squatted down, reached out and grabbed his red hair and lifted it up: "Shuten-douji...you should quickly become a human being." Go back to your original nature... You have suddenly become a human being, and you haven't satisfied me yet."

"..." At this moment, Shuten-douji could no longer feel any pain, but his golden eyes could still see everything in front of him.Right now, he couldn't even speak, all he could give was silence.

"..." The cat looked at Shuten-douji like this again, and recalled that he was indeed much inferior in the Heian era... However, if Shuten-douji really became a human being, wouldn't it be superfluous to turn him back into a monster? ?

"Your wish, right from the start, is to get rid of Shuten-douji..." Maoyou said coldly at this moment, seeing that Shuten-douji hangs his head weakly and falls to the ground as soon as Hualao's hand is loosened: "Then he turned into Humans, why..."

"I told you—" Hua Bao interrupted at this moment, and turned to look at Maomata.What appeared in his eyes at this moment was a terrified coldness, including cruel: "We want to kill Shuten Doji."

"So..." Maoyou frowned slowly at this moment, looking at the figure in front of him: "Did you change him back again..."

"That's right... because of this guy..." At this moment, a cloud of black smoke suddenly appeared until it dispersed, and a man in a white hunting suit appeared at this moment—"Abe Mantra, I thought you forgot to ask It's time." Hua Piao looked at him at this time, dissatisfied with his late arrival: "Shuten-douji has arrived here as planned, it's almost time to start." He took a step back and let Abe Shingon step forward.

"..." At this time, Abe Mantra started to walk, looking at the powerless figure, he felt more and more excited: "Although it is the same fate... But I still can't stand by your side..." At this time, Abe Mantra A trace of bright red marks appeared on his face: "I have been thinking since I was a child, if Shuten-douji, one of Japan's three major monsters, were to be a shikigami, it would be such a powerful thing..."

"What?!" Hearing this sentence again, the cat immediately widened its eyes and looked at the back of Shingon Abe: "Youkai...youkai as shikigami?"

"That's right..." At this time, his originally dark and dim eyes instantly turned a terrible crimson: "All along, shikigami were only the responsibility of lower-level gods or spirit beasts...but no one wanted to obtain them." The idea of ​​greater power—that’s why I want Shuten-douji to be my shikigami.” To control it and dominate it, in fact, the sincerity of Abe’s mantra has been revealed.And what Hua Piao wants is--Abe's mantra tames him into a shikigami, and achieves the nominal "death" of Shuten Doji, so that he can become the king of all monsters with peace of mind.

But at this moment, Hua Piao was far from thinking of Abe Shingon's intentions. He just blindly thought that after completing this action, Abe Shingon would get what he wanted most—the revival of Abe's family.

"It's too messy..." The cat looked at the onlooker again, and while talking to himself, he watched Abe Shingon pull out a paper symbol from his sleeve at this time-"Goodbye, Shuten-douji... I don't even have... the qualifications to stay in the human world..."

"..." These words seemed to wake up Shuten-douji who was in a blank.At this moment, he opened one eye and looked up at Abe Shingon who was looking at him excitedly, and the blood-red eyes were as terrifying as staring at a prey.I can't escape, and I don't have the strength to run away—— Shuten-douji lowered his eyes, looked at himself, and couldn't help showing a dark arc at the corner of his mouth: I don't even have the qualifications to stay in the human world... Sure enough...

Remember a man who was born unblessed...

I still remember a person who was arrogant and domineering, and cruelly killed people who went against his will...

I still remember that there is a person who keeps hurting another person, and has reached the point where he is no longer qualified to cherish...

So……

If that person hadn't been born...if that person hadn't come into this world...

Shuten-douji...doesn't exist anymore...

But at that time, the besieged in hell, strangled his monster skin, leaving behind only one heart - the human self...

Hoshiguma-douji...it was because the 'heart' didn't die that he successfully revived himself--and Tamakaya...if he killed himself there, maybe the existence of 'Shuten-douji' would disappear forever ...

"..." There was a golden light around the amulet in his hand, and Abe's mantra seemed to be ready to inject this spell into his body-"The gate of the underworld will open, and more ghosts will appear than before. As long as you let them all turn into your power, you can still change back to your original posture." Abe Shingon snickered, and with the cold-eyed Sapphire and the cat...

"Enough!" Suddenly, a resounding voice came through the air, and Abe Shingon and Hua Piao who were present were startled, and it was Ming Dou who appeared in front of them.

"..." Hua Piao was taken aback at first, but quickly calmed down and said expressionlessly, "Oh, so it's you..."

"..." Ming Dou looked at Shuten-douji who was lying on the ground, he didn't expect that he had been enduring such great pain all this time.Raising his head, his golden eyes glowed angrily: "Shua Piao! Mr. Abe! I didn't expect you to be like this!"

"Ha! Hahahahaha!!" At this moment, Abe Shingon laughed loudly. He put a hand on his forehead, covering half of his face: "I didn't expect Chitose Ashiya's apprentice to be much smarter than him. Is it true that blue comes from blue and is better than blue?"

"Master Abe! I have always respected you as the queen of Abe Seimei! But you actually attacked a human being..." Ming Dou just finished speaking, and Huabao interrupted: "Actually, you know it too...It's wine. Swallow boy..."

"..." Ming Dou was momentarily at a loss for words, and looked down at Shuten-douji frowning.

Yes, he knew it was Shuten-douji...but he was completely...

"I really didn't expect... Abe-sama... You are such a person..." At this time, what was in front of him was no longer the highly respected onmyoji who he respected together with Chitose Ashiya, but a person like in the Heian era. The evil onmyoji Ashiya Michiman is a class.

"Since I know, there is nothing I can do..." Abe Shingon put down his hands at this moment, and looked at Ming Dou with a strange sneer.Ming Dou was puzzled, frowned at Abe's mantra, and secretly took out half a piece of paper talisman from his cuff—"Master Ming Dou!" Suddenly there was a voice from behind Qian Ru, and when Ming Dou turned around, he saw the man running from the ground. A few golden light beams shot out, straightly strangling the neck of Miss Qianru who suddenly appeared—"Ming...Master Mingdou..." Qianru tightly grasped the light beams in front of his neck, and reluctantly said: "I... ...I'm fine..."

Immediately afterwards, more light beams shot out from the ground and rushed towards Mingdou, and Takizawa and Taiyi also rushed out immediately—"Idiot, quickly find a way for me!!" Those light beams were tied to Shikigami's body like a fire It hurts the same, let alone a human being. Although Taiyi is ready to be entangled in all kinds of ways, he is almost reaching his limit.

"You guys..." Ming Dou widened his eyes and wanted to say something, but he didn't notice that Abe Shingon took out another paper talisman at this moment, recited a spell silently, and a red light gathered into different beams and rushed towards Ming Dou—"Be careful!!!" Takizawa shouted immediately, and everything stopped instantly...

"..." I don't know where I got the power, Shuten-douji himself doesn't know why he resists Ming Dou.Just looking at those light beams piercing into his body, a lot of blood dripped from his body.

"Shuten-douji..." Ming Dou, who was already on guard, stopped in mid-air with a talisman in hand, and what he saw with his eyes seemed to be an illusion——Shuten-douji?She came forward to save him?

"Idiot...are you an idiot!" The shame and inexplicable anger felt in his heart broke out instantly, Ming Dou saw the red-haired boy leaning back at this moment, and immediately reached out to help him up.

"..." Shuten-douji couldn't feel anything anymore, but it seemed that something was gushing out of his body quickly. He reached out and touched it, and the bright red liquid stained his hand: "I..." Ming Dou Let him lean on, but at this moment I heard Shuten Doji say: "Why... I like Xia Hua..."

"What..." Ming Dou widened his eyes, and immediately retorted: "Now is not the time to talk about this! What Xia Hua needs is you! Without you! What would she do?!"

"..." There was no shock on that face, but she just quietly looked at the people around her: "I...if I hadn't been born in this world...that would be fine..."

Shuten-douji is actually just a monster with an ugly heart.The monster's skin was obliterated, leaving this naked 'heart' at the mercy of others.

At this moment, he finally understood the relationship between him and the former Shuten-douji...

"I as a human being...if I can be loved by her as well, then please love her too..."

"So don't go down the same path as me... At this point I will be separated from you forever."

At the moment when my vision was dark, my whole body was covered with terrible bloodstains, and I couldn't breathe in pain—"Do you want to live..." The voice in my heart sounded, it was a voice I had never heard before, as if it was Another self, with resentment towards the world, revived in his heart.

In the city at the foot of Ibuki Mountain, no one has ever paid attention to him, monsters, aliens, sons of ghosts... many crimes that had nothing to do with him were thrown at him together.Even the 'parents'... the love they shared with that noble woman was forever drowned out by the abuse.

"Finally...it's over..." Shuten-douji looked at his hand, slowly stretched it over the top of his head and didn't move anymore. A look of extreme exhaustion appeared in those golden pupils, looking at the cold moon in the sky at this time , letting his sight be immersed in the last icy moonlight that belonged to him.

"..." Mao and Hua Piao looked at this again, without saying a word, but at this moment, Abe Shingon sneered in satisfaction...

"Are you going to leave Xia Hua alone!" Ming Dou held him tightly at this moment, and growled, "Enough! When are you going to play with her? Don't you think it's fun to separate and reunite like this!! !" Ming Dou roared angrily, not only for Xia Hua, but also because he had made too much sacrifice for the two of them—Ming Dou gave up Xia Hua, whom he had always liked, one of the reasons was because of Yu Dao Yin, The second reason is to keep telling myself that Shuten-douji is the one who can give Xia Hua happiness...

Mingdou has done too much ideological work to give the person he has always admired to someone he has never trusted, but now that he can finally let go a little bit, Shuten-douji said such irresponsible words.

"..." Ming Dou didn't notice that at this moment, Shuten-douji pursed his lips, and the corner of his mouth gradually raised into a bitter smile: "." Just as he was saying something, Shuten-douji's body suddenly A layer of red light appeared, and Ming Dou was instantly bounced away—"Master Ming Dou!" Qianru and Takizawa were stunned for a moment, watching Ming Dou being thrown aside and immediately resisting the light beam's strength, but they had to be overwhelmed. pinned down.And when they saw that Ming Dou was fine, they couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief as if a boulder had fallen.

"...Damn it..." Ming Dou only felt pain all over his body. He raised his head and looked at Shuten-douji who was facing away from him at this time: "Abe Mantra... What are you trying to do..." A faint light appeared in Shuten Beside the boy, looking at the Abe Mantra from the front, the 'puppet' has gradually gone to perish-as expected, let's do it quickly...

He ignored Ming Dou's question and raised his hand to the sky.At this moment, Hua Piao and Mao took a step back, and looked at Ming Dou coldly—"When the gate of the underworld opens, more and stronger Hyakki Yako than ever before will come to this capital..."

"..." Ming Dou suddenly widened his eyes, looked at Shuten-douji who had completely lost consciousness at this time, and suddenly understood everything: "Wait...wait!!"

Naturally, Abe Mantra did not listen to him, and built a golden barrier with his own hands, summoning a ball of black light, which was the key he carefully cultivated to open the gate of Hades.

"The so-called Hades... is the purgatory that includes everything in hell..." Abe Shingon looked at Mingdou at this time, with an evil arc on the corner of his mouth: "I don't know if Chitose told... Open that What is the way of the world..."

"...What is it..." Ming Dou looked at him, and heard him say: "There are so many fresh lives..." Ming Dou's eyes widened suddenly, and he saw black smoke floating around the light ball. Come here, and in a blink of an eye, people's souls formed a vortex and poured in a large number of people's souls in the entire city of Kyoto—"You bastard!!" Suddenly seeing the light ball forming a beam of light only leading to the sky, Ming Dou immediately stood up and took out The paper talisman wanted to stop it, but was knocked down by the palm of Hua Piao who suddenly appeared in front of him.

"You... you..." An unbearable pain came from the back of my neck, Ming Dou's consciousness instantly went blank, and he fell down with a muffled sound...

"Hmph...hahahahaha!!!" Seeing that no one could stop him, Abe Shingon began to laugh wildly at this moment, yes, this moment has finally arrived, after waiting for a long time...

He looked at the original night sky that was slowly fading, and a group of deep purple, swirling caves began to emerge—the gate of purgatory finally appeared...not just the ghosts of hell, those who can rival Shuten Doji The miscellaneous ghosts will form a powerful hyakki yako, let's return to this world.

From the Heian period to the current Edo period, all the monsters that have appeared will be scattered in various places in this Kyoto city carefully prepared for them...