[Comprehensive] Natsume Reiko's trip

Leaving aside the chaos in the courtyard after Reiko dropped a bomb, Reiko is now going to Kamo Baoken's mansion while talking with Tangzhi Umbrella Demon about the past two years.

"...After the boys and girls brought back the news of Lord Reiko, Lord Seimei came back as quickly as possible. After the demon sword girl was sealed, she was sent to Lord Sugawara Michizane's shrine, and the nine-life cat clamored to go Looking for you, White Wolf and Yingcao also have the desire to leave. So Seimei-sama simply dismissed all your shikigami, and I am the only one who chooses to stay."

The Tang Paper Umbrella Demon carefully described everything after Reiko left in a soft voice. Reiko seemed to have witnessed the disintegration of that warm courtyard with her own eyes.

"If I really die and never come back, will you wait forever?" Reiko became depressed again.

"No, the contract has not been terminated, which means that Reiko-sama is still alive."

"Seimei knows I'm still alive?" Reiko stopped in her tracks.

"Well, Lord Seimei knows."

In this case, why Seimei still loses his memory?

Reiko looked in the direction of Tsuchimikado Koji again, restrained herself and rushed back to Seimei to ask what happened.

Originally, Reiko guessed that Seimei did some irrational things because of the news of her own death.But since she was alive, why didn't Qingming come to look for her, but let herself fall to this point instead?

Moreover, Qingming is not the only one who has amnesia, even Xiaobai does not remember her.

Questions are like the ripples produced by a stone thrown into a lake, which keep increasing and expanding, lingering in Reiko's heart and lingering.

What happened during the two years she was not involved?

The Tang paper umbrella demon only knows the things in the courtyard, and Lingzi can only find the answer to the mysteries outside the courtyard.

Unlike Seimei, Kamo Baoxian is a veteran aristocrat in Heian-kyo, so his mansion is naturally located in the most conspicuous places in Heian-kyo.

Kamo's house is also different from Qingming's deserted house, except for a few shikigami, there are more servants who come and go.

"Excuse me, is Kamo Baoxian-sama here?" In this era of clear distinctions between superiority and inferiority, Reiko also used the honorifics in a polite manner.

The servant at the gate looked at Reiko with probing eyes, and his slightly frivolous expression seemed to say: So, does Lord Baoxian also raise women outside?

"Master He Mao went to Yinyang Liao, but he hasn't come back yet, please... Mr. Mao, Mr. Maoyou!"

The cat with two tails came to the door with graceful steps. After seeing Reiko, it showed a little surprise: "So you are still alive? I said that a monster with no eyes broke into the enchantment here. It seems to be The umbrella demon in your hand."

"Long time no see." Reiko greeted the cat again, "I have something to ask Mr. Baoxian."

The cat glanced at the servants again, wanting to say something, but in the end it flicked its tail twice impatiently, and led Reiko into the house.

"About Qingming, do you know..."

"Don't mention him to me!" Mao interrupted Reiko a little more irritablely, "If he wasn't Abe Seimei, I would have tore him up!"

After all, he looked at Reiko with an inexplicable look: "Nine-life cat is your shikigami, right? You know, that bastard Abe Seimei took one of nine-life cat's lives!"

A cat has nine lives, and each tail represents a life. When all nine tails grow out, it only takes another nine years to transform into a cat and become the famous big monster.

But there are a lot of nine-life cats in this world, why are there so few cats who can become cats?The reason is that once the Nine-Life Cat dies once, it will forever lose the ability to advance to become a Cat.

What Qingming took away was not only the life of the Nine-Life Cat, but also the infinite future.

The cat really likes the Nine-Ming Cat, and it doesn't want to force the Nine-Ming Cat to submit to itself, so it doesn't keep the Nine-Ming Cat by its side. For shikigami, provide it with protection.

Although things have gone awry, and the Nine-Life Cat eventually became Reiko's shikigami, but the result is the same.

But the cat never dreamed that the Nine-Life Cat did not die in the hands of any monster, but the protector in its eyes—Abe Seimei, who took the Nine-Fate Cat's life.

"Just because the nine-life cat ate an ordinary sparrow, and that sparrow happened to have a friend named Inugami, should the nine-life cat deserve to die! It's only natural for cats to eat birds. Seimei Abe He Quanquan, go and claim justice for a sparrow!" The more the cat said, the more anger grew, and finally the anger burned on Reiko, "And you, since you are not capable of protecting Jiuming Mao, don't let it be yours. Shikigami! I shouldn't have trusted you humans!"

Qingming, he actually killed the Jiuming cat once? !

Reiko looked at the angry Maomata, her mind went blank in an instant.

Nine Lives Cat is Reiko's first shikigami in this world. It has a bad personality and hurt Reiko when it first met; The innocent and kind-hearted, has been bossing her around.

However, although the monsters in the courtyard often quarreled with the Jiuming cat, they never really hated the Jiuming cat.Because of its nature, it is always kind.

Reiko still remembers that when she first met, Jiuming Mao stared at those almond-like cat eyes, fiddled with the bell on her chest, and then said innocently, "It turns out that Xiaodouzi has turned into a bell".

"I'm sorry." Reiko didn't know whether she was apologizing to Jiumingmao or Maoyou.

No matter what the reasons are, Seimei took one of Jiumingmao's lives, and Reiko failed to protect Jiumingmao, this is an irrefutable fact.

"Huh!" Mao looked at Reiko and snorted coldly, then continued to turn around and lead the way, "Whether it can become Maoyou or not, it will become my partner, and I will never let you hurt it again."

"Yeah...thank you, Maoyou."

Reiko originally disapproved of Maoyou being with Jiumingmao. Apart from the superficial age factor, the bigger reason was that Maoyou fell in love with Jiumingmao because "it will soon become Maoyou".

So, when another more powerful cat appears again, will the Nine Lives Cat be abandoned immediately?

Now, Reiko doesn't worry about that anymore.

Nine-life cats are special to cats and irreplaceable, that's enough.

Whether it's Tang Zhisan's feelings for Reiko, or Mao You's feelings for Nine Lives Cat, they are all so pure and persistent.On the contrary, Seimei doesn't remember anything, and even seriously hurt Jiumingmao.

Reiko found that she could no longer be as magnanimous and considerate as before, and she found that her feelings for Seimei gradually became complicated.

"Maoyou, are there any guests?" A soft voice came from the room, a woman in twelve single clothes with long hair mopping the floor walked to the door with a slightly protruding belly, and there were two maids in the room. While protecting a stumbling child.

"Ms. Muli." The cat nodded slightly at Muli again, and then explained to Reiko, "This is Lord Baoxian's wife, Kamo Kili, and the child inside is Lord Baoxian's eldest son, Kamo Koei."

Kamo Korong was the child born in the winter of Reiko's first year in Heian-kyo, and it was also because Baoxian wanted to see the child born that he entrusted Seimei with the matter of the voodoo master. , At the same time established the relationship with Reiko.

"Are you a guest here to protect the Constitution? I'll make tea." Muli was very clever, and after seeing Reiko and Mao's familiar appearance, she guessed Reiko's origin and showed enough kindness.

"No need, Mrs. Muli, Reiko is here to receive me. It's inconvenient for you to do this kind of thing now." The cat stopped Muli who wanted to go out again, and took Reiko to another remote place.

The cat lived for hundreds of years, and becoming the shikigami of Kamo Baoxian was nothing but a boring pastime.Although it doesn't like being human, its mind is more transparent than most humans.

"Two years ago, shortly after you left, the seal of Yamata no Orochi was unstable, and Yin Yang Liao decided to seal it immediately. But on the day of the seal, Abe Seimei sent away all the onmyojis who assisted in the seal, leaving only the sacrifices and others. The two are on the Black Night Mountain. The seal is imminent, and there is really no time to argue with Abe Seimei, so I can only choose to trust him once..."

"Wait, sacrifice? What's that?" Reiko interrupted Maomata's narration, and her intuition told Reiko that these two words were very important.

The cat gave Reiko a strange look again: "The sacrifice is a sacrifice, a person with a psychic physique. The sacrifice this time seems to be called Kagura. It is a very small girl. I saw it when I was pressing against the night. Take a look."

Psychic physique... Kagura...

"Don't tell anyone about your ability." Seimei's stern warning to herself came from her ear.

Everything was strung together, and Reiko thought of the intimacy that Kagura gave her, that is, two people with the same physique are attracted to each other.

If there must be a sacrifice, then no matter how you look at it, this person should be Reiko, not Kagura who is still a child.Perhaps, Reiko's mission to come here through thousands of years is to seal Yamata no Orochi as a sacrifice.

"Sacrificing one person in exchange for a short period of peace, or risking tens of thousands of deaths to solve this problem once and for all, if it was you, which one would you choose?" Qingming once asked her like this.

Reiko can't remember the answer at that time, but it seems that she prefers Seimei to choose the second one, right?Because no one can determine the ownership of another person's life, and sacrificing a few people in exchange for the vast majority is an act of lingering, which is tantamount to quenching thirst with poison.

But to convert this choice, if Reiko is willing to exchange the lives of tens of thousands of people with Reiko's life alone?

At least, the person who sacrificed should not be that child.

"A shocking thing happened. Abe Seimei completed the seal. Not only did the sacrifice itself not die, but both Abe Seimei and the sacrifice lost their memory." The cat said again and paused here, "If it's just this, it can be attributed to Unexpectedly, but after that, a second Abe Seimei suddenly appeared, because that Seimei's hair was black, so we called him 'Black Seimei'."

"Hei Qingming contacted the big monsters to accumulate strength, and opened the originally sealed cracks in the underworld. Most people in Yinyang House suspected that Hei Qingming had some kind of mysterious connection with Yamata no Orochi."

Reiko felt that everything she heard today was like a fairy tale, completely beyond her comprehension.The cat didn't give Reiko enough time to digest, but continued talking on its own.

"That Abe Seimei of Tsuchimikado doesn't remember anything, and coupled with the rumors that Abe Seimei was originally a monster, many radicals tend to arrest Abe Seimei directly for interrogation. These people were later stopped one by one by Baoxian .”

"It's hard for Baoxian to be caught between Seimei and Yinyang, and he's not sure what's going on with Abe Seimei. After all, what Hei Seimei did is well-documented."

"Ensure that Abe Seimei's actions are not restricted. This is the best effort that the constitution can make. You understand why I tell you this, Reiko? As long as you bring it up, the constitution will definitely help you, but I don't want to He does."

As he said that, the cat looked in the direction of Baoxian's wife, Kamo Kuri, and his son, Kamo Koei.

If Homo Kamo is still alone, it doesn't matter if he stabs his best friend and younger brother Abe Seimei.But the current He Mao Baoxian is not only the head of the He Mao family, but also Muli's husband and the father of two children.

Once he desperately sided with Abe Seimei, and Abe Seimei did have collusion with Yamata no Orochi, then the whole family would be implicated.

Reiko couldn't hear such a complicated thing from Maomata's words at all. Fortunately, her original purpose was to simply inquire about the news, not to win any ally for Seimei: "Thank you for telling me this, it is enough, I will not do it for you." Constitutional protection will cause trouble."

The cat took another deep look at Reiko: "I would like to advise you, let that bastard Abe Seimei die on his own! My intuition tells me that he will definitely have a short life!"

As he spoke, the cat showed a vicious expression again.

"But history tells me that Seimei Abe will live to be 84 years old!" Reiko looked at Maomata pretending to be puzzled.

Maoyou's expression was as aggrieved as if he had eaten Xiang. It turned around and pointed its butt at Reiko: "Are you kidding! Do you think I will believe this? And you, hurry up, don't send me off!"

Reiko shrugged her shoulders and stopped teasing Momata.

Since she came to this era, she was probably destined to be unable to escape from these messy things.

After sleeping on the seabed for two years, Reiko has been rushing back to Heian-kyo non-stop. She thought she could go back to her "home" and have a good rest, but in the end she found that she didn't even have a place to stay.

Even Reiko felt a little tired at this moment.

Where else could she go next?Could it be possible to really go to Ge Ye?

Or... Hei Qingming?

The author has something to say:

Author: Mr. Hei Qingming, according to the plot records of "Onmyoji", the meeting between Bai Qingming and Inugami seems to be planned by you, right?

Hei Qingming (sneering): You know too much!

#今日黑清明 is also working hard to let Bai Qingming take the blame for himself~#

ps: There is a good news and a bad news. The good news is that Hei Qingming will appear in the next chapter~ The bad news is that there will be a family dinner tomorrow, and there will be no update (cover the pot). (The implication is that it will be updated in the future, ahem, the author will be a little more diligent during the National Day.)