[Comprehensive] Natsume Reiko's trip

"Then what happened next?" After a brief loss of speech, Reiko continued to ask dutifully.

Yu Liang covered her face with her hands, looking too embarrassed to see anyone: "Damn, of course I ran away!"

Yes, after feeling the fluffy touch, Yura instinctively pinched it twice, and it was not until a few seconds later that she reacted with horror, and fled there in a panic.

However, early the next morning, Yu Liang saw Ah Cai setting up a wine stall again, as if he didn't know anything about last night.

To be honest, except for the tail, Yu Liang has no evidence that Ah Cai is a monster. Everyone in the village likes Ah Cai who is cheerful all day long, and nothing strange happened in the village at all.

But Yu Liang, the only one who discovered the truth, was still in panic all day long. When he knocked over a guest's food and drink at work again, he finally mustered up the courage to secretly report the incident to Yinyangliao—this is also where Seimei and Reiko came here. s reason.

"That's a harmless monster, isn't it? How do you want us to deal with this?" Seimei covered his face with a fan, and looked at Yura with slightly narrowed eyes.

"Uh, how to deal with it?" Yura flinched under Seimei's gaze, and subconsciously repeated Seimei's words.

"That's right, do you want the Onmyoji to drive away the monster, or seal it? Or... kill it?"

Reiko looked at Seimei in surprise when she heard the words, it seems that Seimei's attitude is extraordinarily fierce today?But because of her trust in Seimei all the time, Reiko didn't intervene for the time being.

"Kill, kill?!" Yu Liang seemed taken aback, "I definitely didn't mean that! I just... don't know what to do."

"Heh! Because of your own cowardice, you can push the responsibility to others. After the matter is over, if everyone blames you, you can evade 'I didn't expect Master Onmyoji to do this'; if everyone appreciates you, you You can show off your achievement of being the first to discover a monster, what a plan!"

Seimei's mocking words were like a sharp sword, piercing Yura's body.Yura wanted to refute, but he didn't know where to start. It was some thoughts buried deep in his heart, which he didn't even realize.

"Qingming, are you a little strange today?" Reiko frowned and grabbed Qingming's clothes, preventing him from continuing.

Every human being has some shady dark places in his heart, Seimei knows it, and Reiko knows it too.But some people know how to use reason to control these shady desires, while others let those desires control their minds—this may be the difference between good people and bad people.

Usually Qingming is not invisible to those whores, but most of the time he will choose to understand, and when he can't understand, he will deeply bury the disgust in his heart, but today he speaks it out for some reason.

"...I just feel a little tired." Qingming was stunned for a moment, then rubbed the space between his brows.

"Leave the monsters to me, and now I can help to some extent. Since the monster has turned into a human, maybe it just wants to experience the life of a human." Reiko Said empathetically.

Qingming often wears a mask to socialize with people he doesn't like, and it's normal to not want to wear a mask occasionally.Just like Reiko used to vent her anger on monsters when she was tired, it is completely understandable for Seimei to get a little emotional.

"Okay, please, Reiko." Seimei resumed his usual posture.

"Leave it to me!" Reiko smiled.

It's not that Reiko can't see the darkness of human nature. In fact, she sees it far more thoroughly than ordinary people.It's just that she is more willing to understand than resentment; she wants to see beauty rather than ugliness.

Seimei looked away from Reiko and lowered her head slightly.

What happened to that voice that came to mind just now?Why did he feel like he couldn't control his emotions just now?

He is not a good person, Seimei knew it from the beginning.But he knows how to restrain himself, what to do and what not to do.

He has endured uglier things in the past, why today...

The air outside hit Qingming's face, and he squinted slightly to look at the clear sky.

The sun is about to enter the winter, and it is a little bit cold.

"A jug of wine, okay!" The flesh on Ah Caiyuan's face wrinkled slightly because of the bright smile, squeezing her eyes, making her eyes into a lovely crescent-like shape.

"Haha, Ah Cai, you really don't plan to find a man to marry?" A middle-aged man wearing a straw hat seemed to have just returned from the fields, and was holding bundles of rice stalks, ready to take them home as firewood use.

Ah Cai swiftly put the wine in the wine tank into the empty wine jar, sealed it with a red cloth, and handed it to the man: "No, I have someone to wait for."

After the man paid the money, he waved at Ah Cai with the hand holding the wine: "Then I wish you the best of luck!"

"It will." It will definitely, Ah Cai squinted his eyes and thought, because it hasn't apologized to that person yet.

"Are you selling wine here just to wait for someone?" Reiko who had been standing beside her for a long time suddenly asked.

Ah Cai turned his head and saw a woman and a man in blue kimono and blue safari respectively, standing side by side, looking incomparably harmonious.

But at this moment, Ah Cai no longer had the heart to appreciate the scene, because he could feel the surging spiritual power from those two people.

"It's an onmyoji... It's so strange, I should have perfectly transformed into a human, but where did I show my flaws?" Ah Cai muttered alone.

"Are you not afraid?" Reiko asked.

"The big monster in the mountain said that onmyojis won't take care of monsters that don't hurt people. Otherwise, there are so many monsters in this world, and the number of onmyojis can't be managed even if there are ten times as many onmyojis."

The day belongs to humans, and the night belongs to monsters. This is an unwritten rule between humans and monsters.

When human beings fall asleep in the house, the monsters that are usually hidden become active and linger in the wine shop of monsters.

The onmyojis in Heianjing are well aware of this situation, but as long as monsters appear in front of ordinary people in an open manner and cause panic, they will turn a blind eye - because this is not a world that only belongs to humans.

"But your identity was discovered, so you can no longer stay here." Reiko deliberately showed a embarrassed look.

"Ah, that can't be done, I haven't waited for A Chai yet! Obviously he said that he often buys wine in a wine shop owned by a plump woman, but I have stayed here for so long, and I have never seen A Chai come to buy wine .”

Ah Cai...Ah Chai, it turned out to be like this.

"Tell me about the person you are waiting for. If possible, we can help you find it together." Reiko's smile carried a touch of melancholy. The distance between humans and monsters has never been race, but time.

"This is really great! Let me invite you to drink, and listen to stories while drinking. This is A Chai's favorite thing." With a warm smile, Ah Cai poured a glass of wine for Lingzi and Qingming.

"It was a winter night not so long ago..."

As for how long "not long ago" was, Ah Cai didn't know, because for monsters, it was really a short period of time that they didn't want to record.

A chubby civet cat galloped on the field ridge. It was so unlucky today that it even provoked a monk with powerful magic power.

There are many tanuki monsters, but most of them are weak. Tanuki who can perfectly transform into human form will sneak into the village and go there to make a living in a human form; while those who cannot transform will scare pedestrians in the mountains and forests, or go to the village to carry out Steal to get food.

Of course, in return, they will also help humans drive away some dirty things, or give directions to people who are lost.

As the protagonist of our story, the civet cat who has just become a monster, when he frightened passers-by to grab food for the first time, he bumped headlong into the hands of a monk who has the ability to eliminate monsters.

Facing the monk who shouted to "transform" it, the only thing the civet cat could do was to run away.

The civet cat started to run along the path in the mountain, shuttled back and forth in the bushes by virtue of its size advantage, and finally left the monk far behind.

It was only when it came to its senses that it realized that it had come to a human village at some point.

In the eyes of Tanuki who lost the first battle, human beings are a very terrifying creature.The civet cat that accidentally came to the human world is like a fat sheep breaking into a pack of wolves, carefully looking for a place to hide.

It and A Chai met at that time.

A Chai is a human being with a poor brain, who usually makes a living by chopping firewood.Among all the private houses, the house where A Chai lives is the most dilapidated.

Leaky planks, dripping roofs, cramped dwellings, and penurious possessions.

But this is an extremely bleak scene in anyone's eyes, but A Chai doesn't take it seriously, and even has a bright smile every day, and he smiles cheerfully when he meets everyone.

As a result, A Chai became a "fool" in people's eyes.

The civet cat mistook this room for an abandoned and useless warehouse, and got into it to hide from exhaustion.

Human beings are so terrifying, why are most of those civet cat seniors with a certain level of cultivation willing to live in the human world?If it weren't for the desire for human food, it wouldn't have thought of coming to such a dangerous place.

While the civet cat was lying there resting and thinking wildly, the tall and honest A Chai pushed open the door with a bundle of firewood on his back, and saw the brown hair ball with black stripes lying on the floor of his house at a glance.

The raccoon immediately stiffened, and the hatchet in A Chai's hand still had a metallic luster, and it looked very sharp.Could it be that the civet cat is going to die here today?

"I, I'm a monster! If you get closer, I'll eat you!" The civet cat threatened A Chai without any aura, and the straight tail behind it clearly showed its nervous mood.

A Chai looked at the civet cat in confusion, and then showed a silly smile: "A Chai is not delicious, if you want, come and drink with me! When you are unhappy, drink a little wine and you will be happy."

ha?

It is a monster, has this human figured out the situation?

But... that thing called "wine" is really delicious. Since this human being has sincerely asked, it will reluctantly agree!

Yes, it just needs a little booze, just a little.