[Comprehensive] Natsume Reiko's trip

On the top of the majestic and vast mountain, Yimulian stood in front of the decayed torii gate, stretched out his finger, and caught a bird that came to perch.

The bird sat comfortably on Yimulian's fingers, combed its feathers carefully, and flapped its wings from time to time, without any fear at all because of Yimulian's soaring demonic aura.

Yimulian was originally the god in charge of the wind. His shrine is very large, covering almost the entire top of the mountain; one after another gorgeous torii gates wind along the mountain road, looking like a red dragon from the top down.

It's just that time can make it all, and it can also destroy it all.

A hundred years of neglect has turned the torii gates and shrines into a pile of rotten wood, and only the dilapidated statues are laughing at the former glory.

"Master Fengshen, this is the food I found today, eat it quickly!" Komatsu Maru jumped off a tree, shaking his tail and dropped a pile of nuts.

Gods don't need to eat, but monsters do.

Yimulian is no longer the aloof Fengshen lord, he is just a fallen monster.But he couldn't let go of this shrine, and he couldn't let go of those who had prayed to him.

Because of Komatsumaru's sudden arrival, the bird flew to the sky again in fright, watched the bird turn into a black spot that could no longer be seen with a single glance, and then slowly fell on Komatsumaru's face .

"Isn't anyone here today?"

Komatsumaru immediately swollen his face into a steamed bun when he heard the words: "No, not a single one! Lord Fengshen, those humans have long abandoned you, why should you never forget them!"

"This is a good thing. Human beings have nothing to pray for, which just proves that they are living well now." Yi Mu Lian was neither angry nor happy, but looked at the clouds in the sky with a flat expression.

Komatsumaru pulled his hat with a broken face: "Ah, why do I have a master like you who is like a saint!"

"I'm no longer Fengshen, let alone your master. Get out of here, and finally have a second life, and you can go wherever you want." Yimulian stared at Komatsumaru with a gentle expression.

"No, I'm not going! If you hadn't given me my name, sir, I wouldn't know where I am. Besides, if I leave, won't you be lonely, Lord Fengshen?"

[Give it to you who have nowhere to return after death, a place to return to.My name is Fengyou, and I have been given a taboo name, and I will stop here. I will give you a false name, and I will be my servant.The name is pine, the vessel is pine, come loose the vessel! ]

Komatsumaru used to be just a wandering soul with nowhere to go, maybe one day he will be taken away by ghosts and reincarnated; or maybe he will disappear forever in this world without leaving a trace.

He was only five years old when he died, an age at which no god would accept it as an artifact. Although Komatsumaru, who became an artifact, had no memory of the past, his mind was still that of a five-year-old child at the beginning.

When evil thoughts arise in the god's heart, these evil thoughts will turn into a purple thing called "chigger" and appear on the god's body, and the god will feel very severe pain at that time.If the "sickness" cannot be cleared in time, it will continue to spread, and in the end, even the gods cannot escape the fate of death.

And how does a five-year-old child know what kindness is?What is evil?

But it happened to be such a wandering soul that no gods were willing to accept, and Yimulian took him into a divine weapon.

Yimulian's name at that time was not "Yimulian", he had two intact eyes, and humans respectfully called him "Fengshen", and his real name was "Fengyou", which means the blessing of the wind.

In the process of constantly suffering from "disorders", Yimulian finally taught Komatsumaru to distinguish between good and evil. Like a true saint, he endured silently no matter how painful it was, and used his endless efforts Kindness tolerates all actions of Komatsu Maru.

So Komatsumaru will never leave Yimulian, even if they have become monsters now, Komatsumaru will still never leave.

How grateful Komatsumaru was for Yimulian's kindness in the past, how disgusted he is now.

You are obviously not a god anymore, so why do you still try to do the things of a god?Even when sacrificing themselves helps humans, those humans never know enough.

Look at the consequences of Yimulian sacrificing one eye and forcibly using the power of the wind to divert the flood!

Instead of being grateful, those humans moved away from here and abandoned their gods.

The power of gods comes from human belief. When the belief is sufficient, the gods can be reincarnated even if they die; but when the gods are forgotten by humans, their power will continue to weaken, and eventually they will not even be able to maintain their own existence. .

In order to continue helping humans, Yimulian chose to degenerate into a monster when he was about to disappear.

This is an almost impossible task, because in the process of becoming a youkai, the gods will be infected with a large number of "sicknesses", and these "sicknesses" will kill the gods.

But Yimulian succeeded, he successfully became a monster, and Komatsumaru, who was originally a divine weapon, also turned into a monster.

"For more than 100 years, those hateful humans have completely forgotten Lord Fengshen, why do you continue to wait here?" Komatsumaru was very indignant.

"You don't understand." Yimulian said leisurely.

Komatsumaru will never understand the happiness of watching human beings live and work in peace and contentment, and the unwillingness to see human beings kneeling in front of him but being powerless.

Helping someone is actually much happier than taking revenge on someone.

"Master Fengshen, you are an idiot at all! A big idiot!" Komatsumaru hugged his head, and finally shrugged his shoulders weakly, and ran up the branch to leave.

In order to let Master Fengshen one day be able to despair of humans and no longer be hurt by those despicable humans, Komatsumaru drove away those humans who tried to enter the mountain day after day.

There were not many people at the beginning, but recently rumors about Fengshen began to spread again, and some purely curious humans began to come here, but it doesn't matter, no matter what purpose those humans have, he will not let humans approach Fengshen lord of.

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"Huh, I'm so tired." Reiko sat on a rock, knocked on her sore calf, looked up at the remaining half of the mountain road, showing a complaining expression.

On the other hand, Qingming was shaking his fan leisurely, as if he hadn't climbed the mountain for several hours just now, but was walking by the lake.

The blood of the half-demon brought Qingming not only doubled spiritual power, but also a much stronger physique.For Qingming now, not to mention climbing a mountain for half a day, even if he ran all the way up, he would not feel so tired.

"But speaking of it, those who built the shrine on the top of the mountain must have respected their gods very much. After all, every time they sacrifice, they need to carry heavy sacrifices and walk for a day or a night to reach the top of the mountain. If If it was me, if I have time to climb such a high mountain to pray to God and Buddha, I might as well figure out a way to solve the problem myself."

For Reiko, even though she knows that there are gods in this world, she has no idea of ​​asking the gods for help in everything. The gods are more like a spiritual sustenance rather than an exchange of personal interests.

"It's a pity that not everyone thinks so." Seimei said.

There are always some human beings who would rather kneel in front of the shrine for three days and three nights than find a solution to the problem by themselves.

This is a tragedy of an era. Ordinary people can do too little, so they unknowingly throw all their problems to the gods.

But gods are not omnipotent. They were born from human expectations, but were forgotten and disappeared because they could not satisfy human desires.Then new gods are born again, disappear again, and so on.

People turn to God for help when they can’t do it, so who can they turn to for help when God can’t do it?

"If that's the case, why do you guys come here to pay homage to the gods?" Komatsumaru, wearing a hat, was sitting on a branch, listening to Seimei and Reiko chatting, while looking at them condescendingly.

Seimei raised his head, and his eyes fell on Komatsumaru: "I'm Onmyoji Abe Seimei, and I'm here to investigate the incident of the god's anger. Do you know anything about this?"

When Komatsumaru heard this, the expression on his face was first stunned, and then endless anger: "Those shameless humans who were thrown out actually thought that it was Master Fengshen who drove them out? I really should eat them all !"

"So you threw those people out?" Reiko looked at Komatsumaru's small size, completely unable to imagine that he could do this.

Komatsumaru has no intention of continuing to communicate with Reiko: "Listen well, Onmyoji, this matter has nothing to do with Fengshen-sama, so just come at me if you have any means!"

Seimei looked at Komatsumaru's tail that exploded instantly, and shook his head amusedly: "Those humans are just comatose and not injured, so I won't do anything to you. Now that the cause of what happened has been found out, as long as you promise Stop preventing humans from entering the mountains, and our mission is accomplished."

"Impossible! I will never let humans see Lord Fengshen, and I will never back down on this alone!" Komatsumaru resolutely refused.

"Can you tell me why?" Reiko asked curiously.

Of course it was because Master Fengshen couldn't help helping them after seeing those humans kneeling in front of him!

He is obviously not a god anymore, and he has lost one eye, but he still has no hesitation and is ridiculously stupid!

Komatsumaru looked at Reiko stubbornly, but refused to explain.

He can't let Lord Fengshen see these two humans, and he can't let him know that he drove away all the people who came to worship. For this, he can do anything.

"Leave here, humans, I don't need to explain to you. If you don't plan to leave..." One after another pine cones emerged from behind Komatsumaru, pointing in the direction of Seimei and Reiko, "I just I can beat you until you leave!"

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ps: I don’t know why I suddenly got stuck today, how can I write it so that it doesn’t go well...

ps2: The part where Ichimoren named Komatsumaru is from "Noragami". When Komatsumaru was an artifact, the tool name was pine, and the clan name was Maru, so it was called Matsumaru, and because it was too young, it was called Komatsumaru.The shape of the artifact is a squirrel, which becomes a squirrel demon after being transformed into a monster. (The above is all the author's own imagination)