Chapter 10

Even if he is a person with a "relationship" now-when the bell rang after school, Rin still mustered up [-]% of his energy to face all possible gods in the future-the last time he came from the locker She still remembers the hand that came out, and it's hard to forget it for a while.

It's not the duty week, the club is on holiday, the teacher has no chores to deal with, the library committee, the health committee, the health committee, etc. All the class committee members are still alive-everything looks so good, and none of the possible emergencies that may occur in school have occurred.Rin could hardly believe her eyes, isn't she dreaming?

"Do you know that person?"

"Which one?"

"On the other side of the street, holding a fan in her hand, wearing twelve singles, a woman who has been looking at you."

"..."

Rin raised his head helplessly, looking in the direction Minano indicated.At dusk, the trees on the side of the street cast quiet shadows, gently covering the shadows under the trees, like a picture scroll of classical beauty.Not to mention who still walks on the street in twelve singles now, just the amazingly long light purple hair shows the fact that she is not human.

At this time, the woman also sensed the sight of the two, covered her face with a fan, lifted the side of the pleated skirt, and walked cautiously along the street.The twelve sheets with complicated folds did not cause any inconvenience to her actions. Almost in the blink of an eye, she was already in front of her, and she half-bent and bowed softly: "But Lord Xuecun?"

"I don't know you." Rin was unmoved, and secretly clenched the high-voltage electric shock device in the student's bag. "Who are you?"

The woman raised her head and smiled at her, "My concubine's name is Hua Yu." Her accent was gentle with the meaning of Kyoto, and her eyes showed a light apricot color in the setting sun. "A sudden visit, I really want to ask for something..."

——So, is this guy a crow mouth?Out of the corner of his eye, he saw the unchanging expression of the person beside him, Rin rolled his eyes in his heart, and said, "I refuse..."

Before the last syllable could be uttered, the monster in front of him raised his skirt again, with long light purple hair hanging down, he actually knelt down and bowed his head to the ground—there was a sound of thumping, and the concrete floor seemed to shake a few times.Rin stopped, she had a bad feeling: "What's the matter with you?"

dong dong dong...

Students not far away began to look around inexplicably, and inquiries about the earthquake kept coming and going.Glaring fiercely at Nanye, whose mouth was almost up to the end of his eyes, Rin turned his head: "Stop knocking!" Her tone slowed down, "Aren't you a monster, you actually come to beg humans... At least tell me what it is first I can help you."

"Thank you very much," a mournful sigh. "After all, even monsters have wishes that cannot be fulfilled."

As soon as the words fell, Nanye suddenly grabbed her wrist.At the same time, a hurricane suddenly blew up on the street outside the school gate, and the strong wind speed seemed to be like many hands pulling outwards.Rin subconsciously squinted her eyes, the strong wind made her unable to open her eyes, but she could vaguely see some white debris drifting by - what was that?

"she left."

The wind calmed down and the tree stopped, and the woman who was lying on the ground disappeared.Nanye did not let go, "The other party is very strong." He lowered his head, frowning slightly, "If it wasn't for me, you would have been taken away by her."

"Yes, yes, saving one's life is better than building a seven-level pagoda. Thank you so much." Rin followed his gaze, and at some point in her hand, there was an elegant letter.What is left is a haiku, which roughly means that there is something to discuss, and I can't finish it in a few words, so I promise to see you in the middle of the night.

"..." No matter how you look at this time, it really doesn't look like anything good will happen.

The time left on the letter was three o'clock in the middle of the night, the alarm clock on the bedside table turned to two o'clock, the pillow was stuffed under the quilt, Rin opened the window, and carefully turned it out.The Yukimura family lives on the second floor of the Yukimura cafeteria, and if they adjust their landing movements properly, they will not make a sound. As the bad accomplices who hide Keiko, she and Yusuke have rich experience in this.

As soon as he landed on the ground, cold water droplets fell on the side of his face, and Rin was stunned, it was actually raining.A slight mechanical sound sounded, and the crimson umbrella cut off the continuous drizzle, replaced by raindrops falling on the umbrella, tapping leisurely.

Rin turned her head and saw Minano standing beside her holding an umbrella. "Has Yusuke not come back yet?"

"No." Rin frowned unconsciously, "Kingko is very worried about him."

"After all, it takes time to grow up." The other person pursed his lips and smiled softly. "Maybe when he comes back, he won't be the person you know."

"Compared to this, I'm more curious about why you are holding such a... well, beautiful umbrella."

Nanye shook his wrist, and the umbrella surface splashed like beads of water. "It belongs to my mother."

Already guessed it.Rin pretended not to hear, "Do you know what I thought when I saw you?" She paused, "Shoji Shimada's The Woman Who Folds the Umbrella."

"..."

The location on the letterhead is not easy to find, especially in the middle of the night when the subway stops.Nanye borrowed a bicycle from nowhere and drove her through the darkness before dawn.It would be a desirable romantic scene in either a late-night anime or a morning drama—if it wasn't for the guy in the backseat holding an umbrella so hard his hands were sore.

"It's here." With sharp eyes, he saw the old-fashioned courtyard hidden in the alley ahead.Huayu stood in front of one of the rooms holding a white oil-paper umbrella.An ancient white flower tree was planted in the center of the courtyard. The petals covered the ground with the continuous night rain, and some of them fell on her dark hair. Her eyes showed the long-awaited silence.

She didn't know how long she stood in front of the house, surrounded by petals as fine as white snow, only under the umbrella was blank.Hearing the sound of the bicycle in the dark night, his eyes moved, he looked very happy, he rolled up the hem of his skirt with his empty hands and bowed, turned around, and gently opened the door.

The moment the old wooden door with missing corners and faded color was opened, and the warm orange light, at the same time, was the rich smell of medicinal herbs.In the center of the three-ping-sized living room, a pale young man was lying on a thick quilt with his eyes closed.Books and sundries were neatly piled up in the storage box in the corner, and the electric kettle was roaring, Huayu quickly walked to it, bent down and turned off the power.

...So, all the monsters these days take the route of warmth?Rin thought silently.How lucky is she to be stabbed by a monster in such a peaceful world, she should go out and buy a lottery ticket.

She asked, but her tone was affirmative. "Your eyes can't see?"

The woman gently tucked the corner of the quilt for the young man lying on the bed, raised her eyes and smiled, but did not say a word.

"I was surprised before that if the power of the hurricane was concentrated in one point, it wouldn't be so easy to stop." Rin subconsciously glanced at the red-haired boy, and the other nodded slightly. "...Moreover, the posture you just turned off the power of the kettle is too strange, it's more like a habitual action than seeing where it is and reaching out to touch it."

"But when you were at the school gate, you did 'see' me..."

Under the warm orange light, the almond-colored eyes still glow with soft and lingering waves, like blooming petals.Maybe it's because the color in the pupil is too mellow, it's easy for people to ignore the fact that it lacks agility.

But this kind of thing, as a human being, would ignore it, but Kurama, a youkai, would never. "On the other side of the street, holding a fan in her hand, wearing twelve singles, a woman who has been looking at you."——In Hanaba's blind eyes, what he saw was "Rin Yukimura"?or something else?

Rin took a step back, and Kurama blocked half of his body in time.The interior of Sanping House is still full of the unique and fulfilling atmosphere of human life, but the person who created them is an undeniable monster:

"There are too many details in this house that are inconvenient for the blind to move. Its owner is not you. Who is the person lying there, and what is your relationship?"

"His name is Shinnosuke, and he is my lover."

The woman who had been silent for a long time bowed her head again. "Boom", isolated from other abnormal noises, was slower and more determined than the earthquake at the school gate, "Master Xuecun, I beg you to save him."

cold:"……"

She and Kurama looked at each other, and both of them saw "true words?" "Are you kidding?" "Now youkai also like to play pranks?" "...Anyway, let's just say no." hesitation.

"I've never saved anyone, did you find the wrong person?"

"I know you hold the sword—the sword that can turn cut humans into monsters."

"I must have that sword, and use it to save my lover's life." The female monster explained her pleadingly, "Shenzhisuke has been lying in bed for half a year, and I have been running around all day seeking medical treatment, but I still can't find any The cure is a wonderful medicine. In the past few months, the condition has become more and more serious, with intermittent consciousness and unconsciousness. I am heartbroken and wish to experience the pain of the disease for him... Then, I suddenly thought of it. "

"Why don't I feel pain and die of illness, only him?"

Boom—three knocks.There are no more words, only pleading and helplessness that dug out the whole heart.

"I beg you, Mr. Yukimura, please give me the sword, I can give anything. Only by turning him into a monster and possessing the healing power of a monster, can we continue to be together."

"First of all, we don't have that sword." Kurama said, "Secondly, even if you are lovers, Shinnosuke became a monster of his own will, and using the three secret treasures of darkness to turn humans into monsters is also against the rules of the spirit world."

"Please don't lie to me."

Hua Yu didn't get up, she raised her head, and the moonlight reflected in the center of those blind pupils, like two empty wells. "Master Xuecun still has sword energy remaining on his body, so how could he not have the Demon Subduing Sword? Although I can't see it, I can feel it...I can find you accurately, and this is the proof."

"that is because--"

Rin stopped talking halfway.What can she say?I don't have the Demon Sword but I was hacked by it?Because I haven't been healed by any spiritual power, I have its breath left on me... But how can I explain that I am still a human being? "Wait, you said you found it? How did you find it?"

Huayu seemed to be stiff, and the red-haired boy sighed, "It seems that you were behind the manipulation of the monster that appeared in the King's Academy before." He had already clenched a blood-red rose between his fingers, "It's a pity, I don't want to hurt women."

Oh oh oh, here comes a textbook-level prince.

Rin backed away quickly, she didn't feel that she could really be useful at this time, after all, she was just an ordinary human being.It is true that the electric shock device can protect itself, but who knows what level of monster Hua Yu is, so don't cause trouble.

"It's a pity? What's the pity?" Hua Yu smiled distraughtly, and at the end of the laugh, there was a desolate look between her brows and eyes, "I just want to save people..."

"You don't need to save him." Rin said solemnly, "After death, people will enter reincarnation. If you and him are true love, why don't you wait for the next life to find him."

Zangma glanced at her with some surprise, and glanced at the "Spiritual Guides and Guides: How to Convince Wraiths" with a corner exposed behind the girl, and his expression suddenly returned to speechless.

"Karma retribution, reincarnation of life and death."

"But in this way, I will go different ways with him." Hua Yu said softly, "Is this the 'rule' advocated by the spirit world?"

Rin couldn't deny it.

"I don't know who I am... the love of a lifetime, the love of a lifetime, how can it be counted as cause and effect, and how can it be repaid with retribution?" Hua Yu hooked the corners of her mouth, and raised her eyes again, but the gentle apricot color was covered by fierceness, " If it’s only following the rules if you betray your love, why bother to follow these old teachings? Human ethics, let it be torn apart!”

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