Dark Fallen Honmaru Strange Talk [comprehensive]

The long, long silence.

There was no sound of turning the pages again, and the movements of the first issue and the vibration froze when the first page of the book was opened. Both Horiguchi Chisato and Yaken Sensei didn't bother to make a sound, just waiting for him back to God.

"...Master," he finally said after a long while, "this is..."

Seeing Yiqi Yizheng's expression, Qianli guessed what he was going to say.

"Not a joke."

She wondered if this was the case every time a "newcomer" came.

"Brother Yiqi," Yao Yan said with a look of embarrassment, "This place is indeed... haunted."

Horiguchi Chisato looked at him with great interest—it was rare to see this expression on Yaken's face.The same is true for Yiqi Yizhen. Although she hasn't gotten along with him much, she can roughly infer what kind of character she is just from the gentle smile and conversation before.

I also want to know how rare such a blank and disbelieving expression is.

"Well, my spiritual power has attracted some strange things."

She considered it for a while, and summed it up like this.

"However, there are rules to follow. What happened in Honmaru can be roughly summed up like this. I remember you used to have a separate room-no one moved in after that, right?"

The second half of the sentence was directed at Yaoyan, and he nodded.

"Then do you want to continue living there now, or stay with your brother?"

Although it still seems a bit difficult to accept the fact, Yiqiyizhen has indeed recovered from the initial shock.

"I can't fit into the room of my younger brothers," he said still politely, "If possible, please help me arrange it in the original place."

"It can be..."

As the instigator of the haunting, Chisato Horiguchi felt obliged to remind him.

"No one has lived in it for so long, I can't guarantee that nothing will be moved in."

The flickering smile froze.

He looked down at the note next to the fifth item.

"...It's okay," he finally said, his tone sounding a bit difficult, "I'll do my best."

really?

Chisato Horiguchi stared at him.

Now that I have made such mental preparations——

"I see."

"Let's put it in your place first." When she stood up, she didn't take the handbook that was handed back by Yizheng. "Afterwards, new people will come, or someone will meet someone else, just hand it to them."

"I'm going to ask them to help clean the room."

It seems that the judge came here just to say these two things, but these seemingly simple words were enough to cause a lot of shock in the first phase.He held the thin booklet like he was holding a piece of hot potato, and he couldn't figure out how Honmaru had changed during his absence.

"Brother Phase One?" Yao Yan couldn't hide his worry about him who was still in a daze.

"Ah, it's okay."

Hearing his younger brother's voice, Yiqi Yizhen showed a smile that was no different from before.

Indeed, it is not an exaggeration to describe the changes in Honmaru as "shattering", but not only these changes, but also the relationship between the swords and the god judges.

He had just met his younger brothers and confirmed that they were all well, and that was enough.

Although haunting sounds a bit...

he thought uncertainly.

But it's not necessarily true that we will meet... right?

It is said that someone will tidy up the room of the next issue, but in fact, Awataguchi has been taking care of it in order these days, sometimes even more serious than cleaning their own.At this time, Dagger and Wakizashi were in the excitement of "the first-stage brother is finally back", and they were spontaneously busy checking if there was anything missing.

Seeing how busy they were, Chisato Horiguchi felt that he couldn't help much as he stood there, so he let them go.

When she came out, she accidentally saw Yamato Shou'an standing under the dead tree in the courtyard through the window.

Looking at each other, both of them were taken aback.

Not long after, Horiguchi Chisato nodded slightly indifferently.

And Yamato Moran Ding looked away.

He recalled an hour ago when they had just returned to Honmaru.

I heard from Kiyomitsu from California that when he set off for Mount Houkan, the Awataguchi who were not in the queue were always looking forward to their return with good news.This time, seeing the main body held in Yaoyan's arms, Luan and the five tigers retreated and called out "Brother Phase I", and the other people who rushed forward did not make a sound for a while, enduring complicated emotions to themselves.

Cattail murmured: "Finally found... Brother Yiqi."

The examiner let out a "hmm".

The location she gave without blinking was the second location they had ruled out in this search.

At that time, Yamato Shou Anding heard her and gave her a sideways glance.

'Humans are different from humans. '

What Kiyomitsu had said came to mind, and Yamato Mamoru couldn't help but raised his hand and pulled his ponytail.

"Really," he complained, "why should I be lectured by Qing Guang?"

It is too early to say whether to trust or not based on these.

He looked up and saw that the sky was divided into fragments of different sizes by dead branches.

If it was Okita-kun, what would he do in such a situation?

That night.

In order to celebrate the comeback of the first episode, Candlestick Kiri and Hasebe prepared a very sumptuous dinner.However, no matter how exuberant they were, it would turn into silence as night fell.As soon as the curfew time came, the swordsmen, whether they had understood the power of ghosts or not, returned cautiously to the lodge.

The minute hand of the clock hanging in the corridor walked round and round, reading most of the night's time.

In the room of Yiqi Yizheng, Fu Sangshen, who was lying quietly on the bed, sat up suddenly.

At the same time, he couldn't help but startled.

For a moment, he seemed to hear two dull impacts in the room.

He listened again, but there was no sound.

...Did you hear me wrong?

The breathing has not yet calmed down for a while, and the flames of Osaka Castle in the dream are dyed with a large amount of blood on Houkan Mountain.However, what frightened him the most in the dream was not the broken knife he might face, but how his younger brothers would be treated by the god judge after he failed to return to Honmaru.

He looked around, only to realize that he was already in Honmaru.

……came back.

Realizing this, the uneasiness has not completely faded away.No matter what, he couldn't suppress the idea of ​​going to Awataguchi's house now. If he didn't go now, he might not be in the mood to close his eyes in the middle of the night.

I have to make sure my brothers are okay.

Yiqi Yizhen sat on the edge of the bed and put on his coat, and paused when he saw the manual on the table.

Luck prevailed.

It doesn't have to be such a coincidence, like nothing in his room has actually moved in.

He wasn't far from his brothers' room, so he turned a corridor and went to have a look and come back, he thought.

With this in mind, Yiqi Yizhen carefully pushed open the door.

There were still lights in the empty corridor, and when he turned to close the door, something seemed to rush past the corner.

He didn't know whether it was a piece of fabric or something else, he was thinking about the regulations he read from the manual during the day, and he froze on conditioned reflex, and in the next second he heard a faint shout coming from a distance.

"There is someone! Yamabuchi, help me!"

One issue, one shock: "..."

I heard that Yamabashi Kiri Kunihiro and Smiling Qingjiang are both newly forged knives by the God Judge.

The voice sounded very strange, but could it be a newcomer?

But why did he shout "someone"...?

Although he was still a little confused, hearing the familiar name made Yiqi Yizhen temporarily relieved.He kept his footsteps as low as possible, being cautious along the way, but luckily he didn't see anything beyond his imagination.

He stopped in front of his brothers' quarters and gently unscrewed the doorknob.

Suddenly thought of something, and froze for a moment.

Although he told his brothers not to lock the door before, he might come and check.But this is the situation in Honmaru now, let them lock the door at night tomorrow.

The sound of breathing in the room was long, and with the help of the light from the corridor, the six figures could be roughly recognized.

The heart that has been carrying it is finally let go.

He closed the door again and walked back to his room.

Empty corridors at night are infiltrating enough, even more so if you know they will be haunted.While he wanted to control his gaze from looking around so as not to see something he shouldn't see, he couldn't help but pay attention to the movements around him—even the detection of the ether knife was unlikely to find any subtle movements at this time.

The door lock settled in front of his eyes, and he let out a sigh of relief.Even though the journey back and forth was not long, he was still under a lot of pressure psychologically. Now that he was back in the room, he could truly relax.

He was about to walk over to the bed, but just as he took a step back, he bumped into something on the back of his head.

Hard and cold.

...?

Before that, I was trying to remember, is there something hanging here?

A chill came up from behind.

He remembered the notes in the handbook.

—pretend nothing happened.

A second before Yiqi Yizhen wanted to walk back with his back directly to this thing, it wobbled around behind him.

The hanging skull magnified in front of his eyes.

It stared at Yiqi as if it still had eyeballs, but the bones of the back of the head could even be seen in the black eye sockets.

With a "click", the teeth that were not covered by any skin and flesh opened an arc.