[Comprehensive] Natsume Reiko's trip

Qingming sat on the stone table in the courtyard, holding a brush, and kept scribbling on the scroll.

Kagura who puts the pink umbrella on the ground and sits in a daze under the cherry tree; sits on the front porch and sits quietly with a cup of tea; holds a bow and sets up a shooting range in the open space , Yuan Boya who keeps practicing archery.

Everything is so harmonious.

It's just that for some reason, after finishing drawing the composition of the courtyard, Seimei was unable to continue drawing for a long time.

The courtyard in the picture scroll is empty, only the beautiful but lifeless scenery.Originally, Seimei should draw characters and give it life by himself, but Seimei always has a strange intuition—the people in the painting should not be like this.

Whether it is the person sitting under the cherry blossom tree or the person who stays there and shoots the arrow, it should not be like this now.

"Seimei, what are you thinking?" Kagura walked up to Qingming's side at some point, raised her head and asked suspiciously.

Kagura is the first person Seimei sees after losing his memory, and he is also the one who has the same illness as him.

It is Kagura who has accompanied him to this day, who has nothing, and re-established the fetters and memories that were lost in the past. Therefore, Kagura is his most important person, and he is absolutely irreplaceable.

— But, is that really the case?

"Seimei, you're in a daze again. Is it because of Kuro Seimei?" A trace of worry flashed in Kagura's eyes. Ever since Ibaraki Doji came to visit suddenly that day, Seimei's distracted time has been getting longer and longer.

In the withered maple leaf forest, in the memory of the little demon next to the ghost girl Hongye, they saw Hei Qingming who was dressed in black.

Seimei touched Kagura's head reassuringly: "I'm fine, don't worry, but there are some things I care more about."

"So you are the famous onmyoji, Abe Seimei? I knew I had a fight with you when I met you in Maple Leaf Forest! Speaking of which, what about the woman who was with you before? Won't she die? Ha! Human beings are really weak, I still want to discuss with her about how to win the heart of my best friend!"

When Ibaraki Doji visited the garden suddenly, he said something like this.

From Ibaraki-douji's mouth, Qingming knew that he and Ibaraki-douji had met two years ago. When Ibaraki-douji said the word "death", Qingming suddenly felt an unprecedented panic.

Someone very, very important to him is gone.

But Qingming knew nothing about who this person was and what kind of relationship he had with him.

Maybe he really did something wrong in the past, so that Qingming could feel Hei Qingming's mocking eyes looking at him even through the memory of one person.

"Reiko..." Ibaraki Doji called the person who was with him back then.

"What are you talking about?" Kagura tilted his head, puzzled.

"No, nothing." Qingming shook his head.

Whether Hei Qingming or the lost memories, one day, he will get them all back.

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Reiko finally stepped onto the familiar Tsuchimikado path again.

"Finally back!" Reiko stood in front of the familiar door and sighed with some emotion.

In her memory, she just bid farewell to Qingming a few months ago and embarked on the road to find the fragments of the Kusanagi sword, but for Qingming, more than two years have passed.

After she "died", Seimei must be very sad, right?

Thinking of this, Reiko took a deep breath, patted her cheeks, then raised a big smile, and walked into the courtyard surrounded by the enchantment.

"I am back!"

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"I am back!"

The crisp and brisk voice came to mind suddenly in this quiet courtyard. The four people plus a fox looked at Reiko in unison. There was a very embarrassing atmosphere in the courtyard.

"Uh..." Reiko, who didn't expect that there would be so many "guests" in the courtyard, was at a loss for a moment. She looked at this, then that, and finally fixed her gaze on Seimei.

It was Xiaobai who broke the silence first: "Excuse me... who are you?"

"Who are you?" Reiko repeated this sentence subconsciously, and then vaguely noticed that there seemed to be some changes that she didn't understand, "Xiaobai, are you kidding me? I'm Reiko, Natsume Reiko. "

Xiaobai shook his ears, apparently unfamiliar with this name: "Sorry..."

"You know me." Qingming interrupted Xiaobai's words, with some urgency in his words that he himself didn't realize.

Reiko was a little puzzled: "Of course I know you! Why, I haven't seen you for two years. Could it be that you lost your memory?"

"Yes, I lost my memory. Are you my former friend? If you know something, please tell me." Qingming pleaded earnestly.

"Unexpectedly, Qingming, you would know such a beautiful woman!" Boya on the side said very strangely.

The eight hundred bhikkhuni still sat there quietly, with some thoughts in his eyes that others could not understand.

"Seimei..." Kagura walked up to Seimei, and pulled his sleeve a little uneasy. Seimei touched Kagura's head and comforted her with his eyes.

The joy and longing along the way, the timid apprehension of being close to the hometown when walking on the Tuyumen trail, and the guilt that Seimei was worried because of his sudden "disappearance", and even the grievance that he almost died, are all now. It was like being splashed with a basin of cold water, making Reiko feel cold from head to toe.

What does this feel like?

By the way, it was as if she was still staying at the Tian Yuan couple's house and living under the fence—she was a complete outsider.

This is the feeling Reiko hates the most. She is more unwilling to be a superfluous person than the disgusting eyes of others.

There is no place for her in this courtyard.

After seeing the interaction of the four people in the courtyard, especially Seimei's gaze at Kagura, Reiko really realized this.

"I went to the wrong place." Reiko instinctively chose to escape, this is the way she has always faced all this.

Looking at the back of Reiko leaving resolutely, Qingming burst out with an impulse in his heart: "Reiko!"

Reiko stopped in her tracks and turned to Seimei.

After instinctively calling out Reiko's name, Seimei's reason all along returned to Seimei's mind, and he raised his own question in the most rational manner: "What's your relationship with me?"

Only the ever-increasing frequency of the fan's slapping palms revealed Qingming's inner anxiety.

Reiko almost laughed angrily: "Abe Seimei, do you know what I want to do most now? That is to punch you directly in the face!"

What are you kidding?After she went to great lengths to help him retrieve the fragments of the Kusanagi sword, instead of receiving a word of comfort, she became a superfluous person.

Even the person who kept saying "wait for her to come home" turned into a stranger who looked at her with strange eyes and asked seriously "Who are you to me?"

Is she Natsume Reiko easy to bully?

Although after getting down gradually, Reiko also realized that there must be a reason for Seimei's amnesia, and she would not doubt Seimei's feelings for her.

But Reiko is also human, and a very emotional person, so she will be angry and sad.

"Listen clearly, Abe Seimei, I have nothing to do with you from now on." At least not until her anger dissipated.

Yuan Boya, who originally wanted to ridicule Qingming, shrank his neck, and began to look at the sky with nothing to do with himself.

Why does this scene look so much like a young couple arguing?

Even Kagura silently let go of Seimei's small hand, looking at Seimei and Reiko curiously.

Just as Lingzi and Qingming were staring at each other, a blue printed Tang paper umbrella that had been sitting in the corner suddenly floated over and landed at Lingzi's feet.

"Tang Paper Umbrella Demon?" Reiko stretched out her hand to hold the handle of the umbrella. The Tang Paper Umbrella Demon shook twice in Reiko's hand, and then fell silent again.

In the end, the only thing in the courtyard that remembered Reiko was an umbrella.

The anger in Reiko's heart gradually calmed down, replaced by the sourness that gradually surged up in her heart: "I'm sorry, I must be very lonely for leaving you here for such a long time, right?"

"This umbrella..." Kagura thought thoughtfully.

Kagura was naturally impressed with this umbrella.

When I first came to this courtyard, the only shikigami in the courtyard, except Xiaobai, was this umbrella.

Tang Paper Umbrella Demon hopes to make a simple umbrella, and then protect her master from wind and rain.Therefore, most of the time, it is motionless, just like a real umbrella, quietly waiting for the day when the owner picks it up.

When the news of Reiko's death came, under Seimei's driving, Reiko's other shikigami chose to leave, only the Tangzhi Umbrella Demon chose to stay.

Because it believes that Reiko will definitely come back.

Kagura was the first person to realize that Tang Zhisan is a monster. Her special psychic physique made her keenly aware of Tang Zhisan's soul fluctuations, so she often stayed by Tang Zhisan's side, trying to communicate with it .

Tangzhi Umbrella Demon told Kagura that it was waiting for its "master", but the umbrella demon never explained who that "master" was.

Kagura gradually fell in love with things like "umbrella" because of the existence of the Tang paper umbrella demon, so she asked Seimei to buy a pink paper umbrella.

Since then, Kagura has discovered that the Tang Paper Umbrella Monster's mood fluctuates strangely. After inquiring, it is known that the harmonious appearance of Kagura's pink clothes and pink umbrella reminds him of his master.

A beautiful woman in a blue cherry blossom kimono, this is Kagura's initial impression of the unknown "master".

The current Reiko is naturally not dressed like this. The old clothes have been soaked in the sea for a long time. Now she is wearing a plain kimono that she bought again. Such coordination.

"Are you sad?" Surprisingly, it was Kagura who extended an olive branch to Reiko first, "You must be sad because no one remembers you after you come back?"

It was the first time that Reiko looked at Kagura carefully. After putting aside the slight jealousy at the beginning, Reiko unexpectedly found that Kagura gave herself a very close feeling.

This kind of intimacy is not some unfounded intuition, but the magical feeling that can detect the other person's mood.

This is the resonance of two people with the same psychic physique.

Kagura touched his chest with one hand: "I can feel that you are sad here."

Reiko smiled, and then made the same gesture: "I can also feel that you are very anxious now."

Kagura was stunned for a moment, then looked at Reiko with bright eyes: "Aren't you going to stay?"

"No, I still have some things I want to investigate." Reiko's mood gradually calmed down, and one question after another began to pop up in her heart.

Why did Seimei lose her memory?Why didn't anyone tell Qingming about the past after he lost his memory?

Qingming will go to Yinyang Liao to report every day, even if the amnesia happened suddenly without anyone knowing, Kamo Baoxian should be aware of something wrong, so he will tell Qingming about the past.

But now, it's clear that constitutionalism isn't doing that.

Staying in this courtyard has no effect other than embarrassment. Rather than staying with Qingming who doesn't remember anything, it's more useful for her to clarify some things by herself first.

So now she is going to ask He Mao Baoxian about the situation.

"Where are you going?" It was Seimei Abe who spoke this time.

Reiko, who was still angry, rolled her eyes, and then smiled brightly at him: "I'm going to complain to Ge Ye!"

After finishing speaking, he turned around and left with the Tang Paper Umbrella Demon.

The courtyard fell into silence again.

After a long time, Yuan Boya said uncertainly: "In the legend, Ge Ye seems to be..."

"Qingming's mother." Eight Hundred Bhikkuni happily continued the second half of the sentence.