On the degree of compatibility between Guardian Egg and Yokohama

She didn't force Xia Youjie to give an answer now, after all, not everyone wanted to return to the original world.What's more, she and Xia Youjie have only met each other a few times, and they have only been together for a short period of time, and they don't know each other well.

After confirming that Xia Youjie is the person who traveled through time and space, Suzuki Aoi became more and more sure that there must be something wrong with the City Lord's Mansion.Because Xia Youjie uses the power of the guardian spirit, and the monster that can only be exorcised by him, and other demon masters can't get rid of it, should be the curse spirit.

In other words, it is an incomplete curse spirit, but it already possesses the characteristics of a curse spirit.The reason why it is judged not to be complete is because the world consciousness has not yet strangled her—that is, the task has not failed.

Suzuki Aoi has no doubt that she has already arrived in Stranger World. If she loses her last hope, she will drag her to death without hesitation and let her be buried with the whole abandoned world.

About the half-finished mantra

Spiritual power cannot harm them, but the power of the guardian spirit transformed from mantra can work on it.

Why was the curse spirit born?Can she find the answer in the City Lord's Mansion?

Sitting on the bullock cart on the return journey, Suzuki Aoi shared the view with the second twig.

It ran around almost every corner of the city lord's mansion, and finally found traces of runes in the city lord's room.

City Lord's Mansion

Holding a lamp in her hand, the dark-haired woman pushed away from the room at the end of the corridor.

She went up the steps and knelt on the platform, toppling the runes on the altar as usual.Suddenly, her fingertips touched something.

click-

It is a branch with a green leaf dotted beside it.

In this room where needles can be heard, any slight sound will be ruthlessly captured.

The woman's eyes fell on the rough branch.

She picked up the branch and put it in front of her eyes to observe carefully, then raised the corners of her mouth

"The gods I enshrine"

"Your sacrifice has fallen into a trap and cannot escape."

Back at Beicun's residence, Suzuki Aoi spread a piece of white paper in front of her eyes, picked up a brush and outlined the runes seen in the Santo's Mansion.

For this rune, which she had never seen before, she decided to draw it herself to judge its true function.The current guess is that it can absorb life force and supply the black mist in the room.

After the rune was drawn, Suzuki Aoi placed a dead seed in the center of the rune, and then drew the pattern found in the lord's room on the bonsai beside it.

Inject spiritual energy——

Nothing happened.

The dead seeds are still motionless, and the pine and cypress bonsai are still green.

Then, she placed a living seed next to the dead one, and reinfused it with spiritual energy—nothing happened.

Suzuki Aoi withdrew her spiritual power.

It seems that the function of the rune is not as simple as absorbing life force directly as she guessed, or in other words, the driving force of the rune is not spiritual power.

Thinking about this, Suzuki Aoi turned and injected the power of the guardian spirit into it.

Still nothing happened.

The experiment with no progress made her frown slightly - what is the function of the spell, even the control variables cannot be carried out smoothly.

What is that black mist?

Recalling the scene in the room, Suzuki Aoi only felt that the platform on the few steps was more like an altar.

After putting the talisman paper into the brazier, and wiping off the pattern on the bonsai, Suzuki Aoi decided to go to the Santo's Mansion tomorrow.

However, before that, you have to go to the Forest of the North to inquire about the news about the 'spiritual grass'.

While this news is not very reliable, there must be more clues in the forest-even if it is obviously a trap.

"Are you really planning to go in?" The tree demon was a little puzzled.

It is strange for human beings to go to the tiger mountain knowing that there are tigers in the mountain.

Suzuki Aoi had her own considerations. She asked the tree demon, "Is there any exorcist in Beicheng who can beat you?"

The dryad shook his head, so proud, "Of course not."

Although she is not warlike, she also occupies a large territory in the forest of the northern border, and is a shelter for many weak monsters.Human monster exorcists will basically take a detour when they see her.

Except for someone as powerful as Suzuki Aoi.

After getting a positive answer from the monster, Suzuki Aoi responded, "The monster inside can't beat me either."

If the trap inside is set by humans, then hand it over to the dryad.If it's a monster, then she can solve it by herself.

It's not that she thinks too much of herself, but that the branch world that has been disconnected from the main world cannot breed monsters stronger than her.

Compared to encountering humans, Suzuki Aoi hopes that the things waiting for her in the forest are monsters.

after all

"Sometimes, humans are scarier than monsters"

Before dawn, Suzuki Aoi set off with the dryad after simply packing up the herbs and putting them in the corresponding drawers.

Goblin forest in the north, this time going in is not just as simple as picking herbs.She wanted to go deep into a place in the forest that no one had stepped on—this was the place where the so-called 'spiritual grass' grew, as the castellan's wife had told her.

The dark night makes the lush forest in the daytime feel a little more dangerous.

Sitting on the paper shikigami, Suzuki Aoi flew to the sky above the forest, and quickly swept deeper.

The cold winter wind blew on his body and face mercilessly.If it weren't for the spiritual power package, human beings would be frozen into popsicles in this extremely cold environment.

The dryad sat behind Suzuki Aoi, her long green hair lifted by the cold wind.

She asked Aoi Suzuki, "Do you want to go deeper?"

"Hmm." She didn't find anything unusual in the place she passed before.

Suzuki Aoi's answer was very affirmative, but the dryad flinched a little - even a hundred-year-old monster like her had never been to a deeper place.

What is certain is that human beings basically cannot survive in the depths, because the monsters here are much more terrifying than those on the periphery—warlike, bloodthirsty, and cannibalistic.

Weak monsters are also on the recipe.

The dryad thought about it and said, "I probably won't be able to help you if I go here."

Suzuki Aoi replied, "I will protect you from those monsters."

With Suzuki Aoi's guarantee, the Dryad heaved a sigh of relief, but at the same time felt even more puzzled "Actually"

She hesitated.

Aoi Suzuki responded "What?"

The tree demon continued, "With your strength, you shouldn't need to hire a monster like me as a bodyguard."

Suzuki Aoi did not intend to tell her the truth, but simply stated "I will not attack humans."

It's not that it won't, it's that it can't.

The dryad just found it puzzling, "Is this the so-called sibling love?"

However, there are too many puzzling things about Suzuki Aoi, and this little thing seems insignificant, and the dryad is no longer obsessed with it.

just

Looking down at the dark forest, there will still be a little anxiety and apprehension in my heart-this is the instinct that is stimulated when creatures face natural enemies.

It wasn't until the tree demon's leaves couldn't help trembling slightly that Suzuki Aoi controlled the paper shikigami to land from the air.

She felt the abnormality of the dryad, and turned around and asked, "Can you still hold on?"

The dryad wanted to take a deep breath, but held his breath halfway, "I'm fine, I'm just not getting used to it."

She really doesn't like the smell here.

At the same time, she was surprised that her contractor was not affected.

Suzuki Aoi's eyes fell on the dryad, and then she took a step forward to close the distance between the two.

She raised her hand and placed it on top of the Dryad's head.

"Don't resist my spiritual power."

After a moment, she withdrew her hand.

"All right."

She wrapped the tree demon with spiritual power, which should be able to isolate it.

The moment Suzuki Aoi's hand was placed on her head, the dryad only felt comfortable.

This feeling is like a lemon-flavored air freshener, and it's like having mints in your mouth.

But the dryad didn't know how to describe his current feelings, he just felt that he was much more refreshed than before.The miasma in the woods could no longer affect her.

"Thank you very much."

Suzuki Aoi nodded lightly, "I promised to protect you." Removing the effects of miasma is also part of this contract.

One person and one demon continued to walk deep into the forest.Suzuki Aoi had no intention of having unnecessary conflicts with the monsters here, and directly created a nodule to isolate the breath.

But along the way, they didn't encounter monsters, and the whole forest presented a lifeless atmosphere, lifeless.

Silently observing the surroundings, Suzuki Aoi frowned.

The moon fell from the top of the mountain to the branches of the trees, and they finally reached the place where the miasma was most dense.

This is probably where the city lord's wife mentioned—the spirit grass that grows in the miasma-filled swamp?

It was indeed a trap.

Leaving aside whether the spirit grass can survive here, at least for now, it seems that there is nothing alive in this swamp, only a few sparse white skeletons protruding.

The smell should not be pleasant.

But the spiritual power barrier is a natural filter, and the air inside the barrier is already a fresh smell from the outskirts of the forest.

The Dryad poked his head curiously, and stretched his neck to look at the center of the swamp, "How? Is there anything in it?"

Suzuki Aoi squatted down, reached out and decided to inject spiritual power into the ground to investigate.

The golden filaments spread from the ground below to the swamp in front, drilling deeper.A fine web of spiritual power began to weave in the swamp.

"found it."

The dryad was puzzled, "What is it?"

The filament wraps the thing detected, and is entangled and brought out of the swamp.

A sarcophagus slowly emerged.

The lines carved on the sarcophagus are exactly the same as those they found in the Santo's Mansion.

Suzuki Aoi walked to the side of the sarcophagus, and opened the lid on it—there was a boy lying inside.

Long black hair, pale skin, bloodless lips, dressed in a white safari.

The next moment, he opened his eyes—it was a gorgeous red like a pigeon's blood ruby, but it was full of pure evil.

Suzuki Aoi was a little taken aback, because the boy's breath was somewhat familiar.

The creepy malice made her wake up in an instant, and she pasted the talisman paper she had prepared on the suppressed and immobile dryad.

"Get out of here," she ordered.

The power of Yan Ling made the Dryad leave this black evil vortex at the fastest speed in his life. Under the protection of spiritual power, the Dryad was not eroded by this strange power.

The person lying in the coffin sat up, put his hands on the side of the neck, and stretched the cervical spine left and right like a person who has just woken up from a long sleep.

"Ah, what a fragile human body."

Then, he said that his eyes fell on Suzuki Aoi, and the corners of his mouth were grinning, revealing shark-like canines.

"You're still alive, Demon Exorcist."

The sacrifice that woman prepared for him was stronger than expected.

That's all for now, though.

The swamp turned a blood-red color, and the sludge was covered in thick, slow-flowing blood.The white skeletons piled up into a mountain, the sarcophagus became a throne, and the black-haired boy sat on the top of the mountain, condescending.

"Be my nourishment."

It should be an honor to be the first sacrifice on his road to becoming a god.

Two tentacles stretched out from the blood pool to wrap the human demon exterminator and try to devour him, but the picture he imagined didn't happen.

The golden spots of light dissolved the walls made of blood and spread around. Every place touched boiled and twisted until it disappeared.

The human exorcist stood under the bones, looking up at the black-haired boy, with the corners of his mouth slightly raised

"It's you, the two-faced Nuo."

The reunion after a thousand years, the first meeting a thousand years ago.

The blond girl stood at the school gate, watching the pink-haired boy slowly approaching.

The human exorcist stood in the sea of ​​blood and corpses, looking at the young man on the throne.

"haven't seen you for a long time."