[Comprehensive] Natsume Reiko's trip

Five minutes later, Komatsumaru hugged his head pitifully and curled up together, looking at Reiko like he was looking at some prehistoric monster.

Reiko casually threw the stone she picked up on the ground, and patted the ashes on her hands: "I'm really sorry, because I was often thrown by others in the past, so I also practice how to hit people accurately when I counterattack."

"Despicable and shameless human..." Komatsumaru whispered indignantly.

"Okay, I have scolded and scolded, and I have been beaten. Now can you explain the ins and outs of the matter? If you don't want to say it, we can try again. If you win, Qingming and I will leave immediately; if you If you lose, you have to tell us everything."

Reiko squatted down, tilted her head and looked at Komatsumaru, feeling eager to try for a moment.

"I won't lose! What are you talking about?" Komatsumaru was really hooked.

"Hmm...let me think about it." Reiko looked around, then pointed to one of the directions with her finger, "Do you see the tallest fruit on that tree? Whoever gets that fruit first wins. "

"Huh?" Komatsumaru looked at Reiko with weird eyes, "You said you want to compete with me in climbing trees? Are you insane?"

"I didn't say that. Why, you wouldn't dare, would you?" Reiko raised her eyebrows with a provocative look.

Reiko's provocative method worked instantly: "How is it possible! Look, I will definitely win!"

Reiko's eyes revealed a little cunning: "Qingming, how about you being the referee?"

"Okay." Qingming replied with great interest.

He knew that Reiko would not fight unprepared, but it was absolutely impossible for a human to climb a tree against a squirrel monster, unless... it was really cunning, Reiko.

"After I count to three two one, your competition will officially start, understand?" Seimei, who had already figured out Reiko's intentions, naturally didn't worry about anything, and instead took the job of referee seriously.

"three……"

Komatsumaru stepped back with one foot, arched his body, and made a ready posture; Reiko stood aside very casually.

"two……"

Komatsumaru's center of gravity further lowered, while Reiko continued to stand casually.

"one!"

Komatsumaru rushed out like an arrow from the string, and jumped onto the tree trunk in an instant; Reiko picked up a stone from the ground, aimed at the fruit and threw it.

When Komatsumaru was halfway up the climb, the fruit had precisely fallen into Reiko's hands.

"I won!" Reiko smiled easily.

Komatsumaru stared blankly at the fruit in Reiko's hand for a while, then shouted angrily: "You cheated!"

"I don't. Do you still remember the content of the competition?" Reiko closed one eye, lifted the fruit to her ear, and looked at Komatsumaru with a smile.

"Of course, whoever gets the fruit first... wins..." Komatsumaru's voice became softer and softer, and finally fell silent.

Reiko hugged Komatsumaru who was lying on the tree trunk and put it on the ground. At the same time, she sat cross-legged facing Komatsumaru: "Now, tell me your story!"

"Despicable human..." Komatsumaru seems to have not fully recovered from the blow. Reiko has never lost in a competition with a monster. In addition to using force directly, picking fruit is also a common method for Reiko to compete. The monster with one finger competes in boxing, and the monster with slow speed competes in running and so on.

Although it's not fair, every time the monster will foolishly agree, and then hand in his name respectfully.

It is precisely because of the innocence and cuteness of monsters that Reiko never tires of competing with monsters.It's just that Reiko didn't know that in this kind of child's play competition, she unknowingly took away the most important thing from the monster.

"Okay, okay, I'll tell you everything. But can you stop telling Fengshen-sama that I did these things? If Fengshen-sama finds out, he will be angry." In the end, Komatsumaru explained everything weakly.

Komatsumaru told Reiko and Seimei what a powerful god Yimulian was, how he lost an eye in order to save the village in the flood, and how he turned from a god into a monster in the end.

"Now, you can understand what I did?"

"I can't understand it at all." Reiko ignored Komatsumaru's angry gaze, "Although I also think that Fengshen-sama is a great god, are you all idiots? Just stay on this mountain like this A whole hundred years?"

"Otherwise? If we don't stay at the shrine, where else can we go?" Komatsumaru showed an angry and sad expression.

Reiko sighed helplessly. Although the innocence and stubbornness of some monsters are a great quality, their overly thoughtful behavior can sometimes make people laugh and cry.

"Why is Lord Fengshen unwilling to leave the shrine?"

"That's needless to say? Because Lord Fengshen still wants to help those shameless humans."

"But Fengshen already knows that there are no villagers at the bottom of the mountain, so why waste time here? It is understandable for gods to stay in their own shrines, but you are not gods anymore! You are monsters. Since you want to help Humans, why don't you take the initiative to go down the mountain and go to the human world?" Reiko asked in puzzlement.

If what Fengshen wants is faith, why should he take the initiative to become a monster?

If what Fengshen wanted to do was to help mankind, why did he stay in this deserted place for a hundred years?

Reiko has no intention of judging the right and wrong of gods and humans.

Believers who stand on the side of the gods and give everything to help themselves are undoubtedly great; but are they wrong to stand on the side of humans and take the initiative to leave dangerous places?

Just like the fact that Reiko can see monsters, from Reiko's perspective, ordinary people who can't see monsters are undoubtedly wrong; but from the perspective of ordinary people, they are always surprised and doing weird things in the air Reiko is the abnormal one.

If some things get to the bottom of it, the only one who suffers is yourself. Rather than letting yourself be filled with resentment, it is better to just let the past pass by like this.

If a person wants to keep moving forward, he cannot keep looking back.

"Leave, leave?" Komatsumaru was a little dumbfounded.

"Fengshen said to let you go, right? Since you can go, why can't he go with you? Don't you guys still want to let go of the ruined shrine?"

Komatsumaru shook his head desperately: "Absolutely not! But... I still don't want Lord Fengshen to help humans again."

"By helping others, in exchange for others' gratitude and my own happiness, this is a very cost-effective thing." Reiko thought of the warmth that filled her heart every time she helped monsters, "As long as you feel happy, What's wrong? Of course, if you really meet some greedy people, don't be polite, just beat them up, and after the lesson is over, they will know what to do."

"Hmm... It should be considered as a kind of help to make people correct evil and return to righteousness through fists, right?"

Komatsumaru thought of Yimulian who stood on the top of the mountain with a calm expression every day.

How long has it been since he saw Lord Fengshen laughing?

When Ichimokulian was still the god of wind, various faces appeared in front of the shrine every day.

The old, the young, the women, the men...

"Thank you, Lord Fengshen!"

"Thank you so much, Lord Fengshen."

"Lord Fengshen!"

"Master Fengshen..."

When looking at those glowing faces, Yimulian's expression is so gentle, the arc of the corner of his mouth never falls.

He gently stroked Komatsumaru's head, watching the scene of people coming and going in the shrine: "Komatsumaru, it is because of this that I like human beings and want to help human beings. Whenever I see the happy faces of human beings, expression, I will feel the same happiness."

Yimulian doesn't care whether he is a god or a demon, or whether he has one eye or two eyes, the only thing he wants to do is to guard that happiness.

"Was it my fault? Did I take away the happiness of Lord Fengshen?" Komatsumaru looked at Reiko helplessly.

"Maybe it's not like that. Let's go, confess to Fengshen, and tell him that you are willing to go down the mountain with him and re-understand the world with the eyes of monsters."

Reiko raised her head and seemed to see an eye overlooking the earth.

When Reiko finally reached the top of the mountain, the sun had already begun to set.In the golden sunset, rows of birds flitted in the air, returning to their nests tiredly.

Yimulian still stood in front of the dilapidated torii gate of the shrine, looking at the sky indifferently, as if all the meaning of his existence was to observe the birds in the sky.

"Are you back?" Yimolian nodded to Komatsumaru, not surprised at Seimei and Reiko's arrival.

Komatsumaru walked to Mulian's side slowly, and said anxiously: "Master Fengshen, I have something to tell you."

"Needless to say, I understand."

Yimulian used to be the god of wind, and wind is a part of his body.Those winds blowing through the mountains and forests will turn into Yimulian's eyes and ears, telling him everything that happened in the mountains.

Those humans who came to pray to him, Komatsumaru's behavior of driving away humans, and the arrival of Seimei and Reiko are all known at a glance.

"Komatsumaru, I'm not as great as you think. Maybe I haven't even seen it through myself. I have been staying in this shrine not because I want to help humans, but...I have always resented them."

Because of resentment, I am unwilling to disappear just like that; because of resentment, I can't let go of this shrine; because of resentment, I have been waiting here, waiting for the confession that... will never appear.

But again, because of resentment, Yimulian is not happy.

"It's time to let it go, 'Fengshen' has become history, and the only one alive now is the monster called 'Yimulian'." Yimulian closed his eyes, then opened them again, "Humans, thank you for letting me understand this, In return, I have something to give you."

A glowing fragment appeared in Yimulian's palm, and his eyes fell on Seimei: "I picked this up when I went to Gao Tianyuan to participate in the divine meeting. I was able to survive the fall of the gods because of this fragment." Power. I feel the same breath in you as the fragment, maybe you can use it."

As soon as the fragment appeared, Qingming's eyes were tightly glued to the fragment, and his face became very ugly.After three or four deep breaths, Qingming gradually calmed down: "Thank you, this is very important to me."

"What's that?" Reiko asked worriedly.

Qingming shook his head: "Let's go back and talk, but I'm afraid we're in trouble."

"The past is over, Komatsumaru, would you like to accompany me to see the world under the mountain?" Yimulian stretched out his hand to Komatsumaru.

"Hmm!" Komatsumaru put his hand into Kazanimulin's.

Three days later, in a certain village.

A skinny girl with big watery eyes, looking at her mother who was wiping tears and her father who was unconscious, sat at the door with her knees folded, looking around in a daze.

A gust of wind blew a pile of herbs, which fell in front of the girl.In that wind, there seemed to be a very gentle voice telling the girl how to use the medicine.

"Is it Lord Fengshen? It is Lord Fengshen! It is really Lord Fengshen!"

In the girl's dim eyes, a little light suddenly appeared, and then spread to the whole body.

The wind didn't answer the girl's question, but just blew past as usual.

The girl stretched out her hand, wanting to catch the breeze, the wind flowed through the girl's fingers, leaving only a little warmth.

"Lord Fengshen! Thank you! Thank you so much!" The girl put her hands in the shape of a trumpet to her mouth and shouted to the sky.

The girl's cry woke up the dazed mother, and she staggered to the girl's side: "What's wrong?"

"It's medicine! It's the medicine sent by Lord Fengshen!" The girl pointed to the herbs at the door, with a happy smile on her face.

Komatsumaru clutched his hat in frustration, so in the end, Fengshen-sama went to help humans!Lord Fengshen, you are completely hopeless!

"Let's go!" Yimulian took one last look at the revived home, and left contentedly.

Komatsumaru was dazzled by Ichimolian's smile, which was more beautiful than a rainbow. This is the first time Fengshen-sama has smiled in more than 100 years, right?

Forget it, for the sake of making Master Fengshen happy again, he will reluctantly accept those annoying humans!