[Comprehensive] Natsume Reiko's trip

Heian-kyo is a chessboard-like city, surrounded by mountains and rivers. The Kamo River, which is dyed golden red in the setting sun, flows slowly between the cities. Ancient bridges witness the sadness and joy in the city.

This round of samsara is different from any monster Reiko has encountered before. Resentment and sorrow have eroded her mind. Apart from the instinctive act of looking for her family, she no longer has any rationality to speak of.

Everyone who becomes a monster has a sad past, but not every monster can start a new life like the Demon Sword Girl, and more of them will wander in the mountains forever, or be sealed and eliminated by Onmyoji .

Xiaobai shrugged his ears, sniffing around the edge of the river listlessly, while Yaodaoji pushed Lunrudao, who was stunned again, to follow closely behind.Seimei, Reiko, and a group of shikigami formed a mighty team. If it weren't for the small number of shikigami, passers-by who accidentally peeped would think they were wandering ghosts and flee in panic.

"Xiaobai, come on, I'll make you dried fish when you go back!" The virgin girl, who rarely had to look after the house, was very excited and kept urging Xiaobai.

"No, I don't have any interest in Xiaoyugan." Xiaobai said in a depressed mood, obviously the Nine Lives cat has a very sensitive sense of smell, doesn't it?Why do you have to let it do such a shameful thing?It is the majestic White Tibetan Lord! ——Even though it’s still in its infancy.

"Thank you, Xiaobai. Because you are much more reliable than the Nine-Life Cat, I can only entrust this matter to you." Qingming noticed Xiaobai's mood, and comforted him.

After hearing this, Xiaobai's ears instantly perked up: "Yes, Master Qingming! Xiaobai will not disappoint Master Qingming!"

Sure enough, only Xiaobai is Master Qingming's most capable assistant, hehehe!

How simple!The boy shook his head and sighed.

It was not easy to find the place where the body was dumped. Although it hadn't rained in the past few days, the crowds of people had already washed away the only smell.

Xiaobai walked round and round around the river beach until the sun set and darkness enveloped the earth, and then he sat down on the ground panting: "I'm very sorry, Master Qingming, Xiaobai has tried his best."

Qingming squatted down and rubbed Xiaobai's head, then looked at Reiko: "Forget it, Reiko."

"En." Reiko replied sullenly, but immediately smiled again, "Really, I accidentally meddled in my own business. So what if we found the place where the body was dumped? The rivers in Heianjing are full of running water, maybe The corpse has long been washed out of the city, and I trouble you to accompany me to find it for so long."

"Don't say that, Master Reiko. Both I and the virgin are very happy to be able to come out with Master Seimei like this." The virgin restrained his blue wings and spoke in a mature tone that did not match his appearance. Comforting Reiko.

"Brother is right, the virgin is so happy to be with Master Qingming like this!" The virgin flew around in the sky, and then landed next to the virgin.

Qingming tapped Reiko's head with a fan: "Don't think about it, I didn't have much expectations from the beginning, I just took them out for a walk. Didn't Xiaobai, Tongnan, and Tongnv say they wanted to follow me before?" Come out together?"

"Master Qingming, are you teasing Xiaobai?" Xiaobai, who had been a "dog" for so long, protested angrily at Qingming.

"I didn't expect much, but there is still hope, isn't it?" Qingming made a rare joke.

Reiko picked up Xiaobai who was a little depressed, and ran along its fur: "Okay, okay, Seimei teasing you is just a sign of getting close to you!"

"Huh? Is that so?" Xiao Bai was instantly comforted again.

The gloomy sky made Reiko somewhat unable to see the expressions on other people's faces, but obviously, everyone was not unhappy because of Reiko's capriciousness, but everyone was happy because of this rare "group outing".

It's great, in this place, she doesn't have to carefully hide her true character, because there are people who can tolerate her and understand her.

But the more because of this, the more she wants to help those people and demons who are in pain, and wants to let other existences in this world experience the same tenderness and happiness.

"Go back." Reiko lightly touched the edge of the wheel, there was still dark red blood stains there - perhaps that part, which took her son's life.

Not all souls can be saved, but Reiko sincerely hopes that the chakra in front of her will be liberated one day.

"En." Seimei glanced at Reiko, and then responded.

"Go back, go back~" The virgin flew up happily, but her body suddenly became stiff, and she shrank into the virgin's arms suddenly, "Brother, brother, yes, there is a ghost!"

"Obviously you are a monster..." Xiaobai, who was in Reiko's arms, looked in the direction the virgin pointed, and saw a white shadow slowly floating on the bridge, "Qing, Master Qingming!!"

Reiko also looked over, and there was indeed a white shadow on the bridge not far from here, but besides that white shadow, Reiko always felt that there was something else there.

She narrowed her eyes slightly, trying to perceive the strange aura that made her feel a little bit, two translucent things, one tall and one short, gradually appeared in front of Bai Ying.

"Seimei, besides Shirokage, there are two...ghost-like existences." Reiko weighed her words and tried to describe the scene in her eyes.

Xiaobai trembled in Lingzi's arms: "This joke is not funny at all!"

Qingming put her fan against her lips, and pondered for a while: "Then go and have a look. It just so happens that I have been researching a special barrier recently. If it goes well, I should be able to see things from the underworld."

This world is divided into three layers: Gaotianyuan, the residence of gods; Weiyuan China, the residence of humans; Huangquan Kingdom, where the underworld is, where ghosts stay.

These three levels do not interfere with each other, but are interdependent with Weiyuan China as the core.

The enchantment that Seimei tried was to change a small area in the enchantment from the yang world to the underworld, so that even ordinary people without psychic physique can see the soul.

Everyone walked to the bridge with Qingming, and the appearance of the white figure was gradually visible—it was a monster in white clothes, a white hat, and a white spirit-calling banner.

But no one saw the two translucent ghosts Reiko mentioned.

"Spirit Vision!" This is Qingming's name for his enchantment.

As soon as the spirit vision barrier was opened, Reiko was keenly aware that the surroundings instantly became cold, and the moon and stars in the sky disappeared, replaced by thick black clouds.

"There really is something!" Xiao Bai exclaimed in disbelief.

Those two translucent souls were a middle-aged man and a three or four-year-old child, and it seemed that they were talking with the monster in white.

The white-clothed monster also noticed Qingming and his party at this time: "Are you an onmyoji? You have the ability to reverse yin and yang, which is really amazing. I am the ghost messenger white, and I came here to take away the souls wandering in the world. I hope you don't disturb me." .”

According to legend, the soul who acts as a ghost messenger in the underworld will be bound forever and will not enter reincarnation until he finds the next person who is willing to be a ghost messenger.

After Ma Sheng's death, the body was thrown into the river, and the soul has been wandering near the river.He saw with his own eyes how Mazi was devastated by the death of him and his son, and he wanted to tell Mazi not to be sad anymore, the dead cannot be resurrected, but the living must continue to live, so... live well Go on, and live with his and his son's share.

However, he couldn't touch Mazi, and Mazi couldn't see him.

Aso held his son's soul, unable to reincarnate with peace of mind, so he waited here, waiting here, but Mazi never came again.

When Ghost Messenger wanted to take them to the underworld, Aso offered to see Mazi again. In exchange for this condition, he was willing to replace Ghost Messenger Bai as Ghost Messenger.Just halfway through the conversation, Seimei and his party suddenly appeared.

The wheel in Yaodao Ji's hand ignited flames again, and a face with green face and fangs and disheveled hair emerged from the wheel axle: "You guys, have you seen my son and Aso? Where is my son... Where is my Aso... ..."

Perhaps the lovers will have a strange feeling in the dark, otherwise why would Mazi, who has been in a coma, wake up again at this moment?

"Oh, is it Mazi?" Aso's trembling voice came over.

Mazi seemed to be choked by the throat suddenly, and the continuous muttering came to an abrupt end.She was silent for a long time before finally letting out a breath, with a whimper-like sound in her throat: "Don't...look at me..."

A woman's mind is mysterious, and so are the banshees and ghosts.When the person who turned into an evil spirit and wanted to meet him before really appeared in front of him, he would be ashamed to meet him because of the fact that things are different at this time.

"No, don't do this, Mazi. In my eyes, you will always be the most beautiful. I'm sorry, Mazi, I didn't come back in time. I always owe you a word: I'm back, Mazi." Aso staggered a little He walked towards Mazi, he stretched out his hand, wanting to hug his wife, but he couldn't do it because of the flames on the wheel.

"...Welcome back, Aso."

The flames on the wheel were gradually extinguished, and an equally translucent soul gradually stepped out from that blue-faced, fang-toothed face, and then embraced the figure with its arms outstretched.

The love of the little people does not have the romance of the nobles, does not have the love of the past and the moon, and does not have the countless sweet words, but only the real life and the mutual trust.

The little child tugged at the corner of his parents' clothes aggrieved, as if wondering why he was left alone.

Mazi laughed through his tears, and took his child into his arms.

Qingming looked at the family embracing each other and raised his head: "Ghost Messenger Bai, can you take the three of them away together?"

"Okay." Even though he lost the chance to be reincarnated, Ghost Messenger Bai was not annoyed.

Gui Shibai has no memory of when he was alive, but deep down in his heart, he seems to have had someone who could rely on each other like this.

I don't know if it is his parents, or his brothers and sisters, or even the existence of the child, is it waiting for his return somewhere?

Is it also related to the wish that he would rather become a ghost envoy and fulfill it?

Gui Shibai can't remember, this kind of ghost life without past and future is extremely lonely and difficult.But as long as he thinks that a certain close relationship will be saved, he will not regret it.

The ghost sent Bai to take away the Aso family, Seimei also undid the enchantment of the spirit vision, and the brilliant moonlight and starlight sprinkled on Qingming and Reiko again.

"Now you don't have any means of transportation." Reiko said jokingly.

After the wheel lost its resentful soul, it would naturally turn back into an ordinary wheel, and the shikigami Seimei wanted was lost again.

"Such shikigami should never be found." Seimei shook his head and looked at the moon in the sky.

May the tortured soul find a new home; may the wandering spirit find a companion.