[Inuyasha] Miko and Youkai

Do you want to enter a strange city shrouded in evil aura?

This is really a problem.

Dongqing stood outside the city gate with Shikigami for a while, before deciding to go in.

She is very tired now and needs a hot bath to forget the unpleasantness of being ignored by a demon just now.And in the vicinity, hot water is only available in the city in front of you.

Before she reached the gate of the city, a ray of light suddenly descended from the sky and landed in front of her, turning into a pretty little boy.

"It's Master Reiko's shikigami." Man took a look, and immediately revealed the identity of the person who came, and at the same time put down his guard.

Without further ado, the boy walked up to Dongqing, clasped his hands together, and said, "By the order of Master Lingzi, if there is something urgent, please come back quickly."

"What happened to the shrine?" Holly asked.

Reiko asked her to go out for a tour, and she probably wouldn't let her go back so soon, unless something happened to the shrine, she would specially send shikigami to find her.

The deified boy shook his head and did not speak.

He was originally a shikigami used to convey messages, so naturally he couldn't answer questions other than the content of the message.Seeing that the task was completed, a white light flashed, and he turned back into a piece of human-shaped talisman paper.

Holly bent down to pick up the talisman paper, silent.

"Master, are you going back now?" Man stood aside and asked.

Dongqing raised her eyebrows: "Of course. The shrine has something to do, so why not go back."

"What about the city?"

Dongqing raised her head, looked at the word "renjian" on the city wall, and muttered, "I'll talk to Master Lingzi when I go back."

……

Back at the shrine, the little goblins who were constantly rambunctious on weekdays were uncharacteristically nesting quietly under the eaves. When they saw her come back, they did not swarm up.

Dongqing was puzzled, but she didn't ask any further questions.Stepping into the shrine, I immediately smelled the smell of medicinal materials mixed with a faint miasma.

Even though the stench of miasma was so weak that it could hardly be smelled, it still couldn't escape her nose.

However, how could there be the smell of miasma?

And there is also the smell of medicinal materials, could it be that Reiko was injured?

Thinking of this, Dongqing quickened her pace and walked into Reiko's room.

Reiko lay in the center of the room with her eyes closed, her face pale.The faint miasma enveloped her, lingering.

Except for the time when Mao died, Dongqing hadn't felt flustered for a long time.

This woman who saved her from the mouth of the monster and taught her how to become a qualified priestess would lie on the bed so weak one day.

She is so powerful!how come!how come……

The hand in his hand was no longer as warm as usual, but had a slight chill on it.

Shikigami followed, standing silently behind her.

"How could this be?" Holly asked blankly.

She didn't know who to ask, and she didn't know who could answer her. She just went out for a while, why did she come back like this.

Is she dreaming, why is this dream so real?

"Holly..." A weak voice suddenly sounded.

The hand in his hand moved slightly, and turned to hold her hand.

"You're back……"

Holly lowered her head, Reiko woke up at some point, and stared at her sideways.

Dongqing pursed her lips: "I'll help you up."

Reiko didn't refuse, and let her help herself up.As if knowing what she was going to ask, she spoke first, "Holly, are you fifteen this year?"

"Well, in two months, after the summer solstice, it will be sixteen."

Strange to say, she didn't remember many things after she was rescued by Reiko, but she still remembered that she was born on the day of the summer solstice.

"Fifteen...not too young." Lingzi sighed, then turned to Dongqing and said, "You have seen what I am like now, and I can only last for another two or three days."

"Master Reiko, you must have a way..."

Reiko interrupted her: "I can't help it. This is an injury of more than ten years. These miasmas have remained in my body for more than ten years. I can no longer suppress it."

"Holly, I know you are reluctant, but life and death are the most common things in the world."

Holly stopped talking.

Reiko called her back this time, and what she said was basically her last words.

"Ever since I was plotted by that monster back then, I knew there would be such a day, so I wasn't surprised at all, so I used to urge you and Mao to hurry up and become my successor."

"It has been delayed until now, in fact, it is almost the same."

Lingzi spoke very slowly, Dongqing didn't rush her, and listened silently, something hot in her eyes blurred her vision.

"Holly, you are a good boy. From saving you back to now, you have never refused my request."

"I know you don't want to take over the shrine, so I raised Akiko so that even if you leave, someone will take care of the village."

"It's not that I don't want to..." Dongqing wanted to refute, but couldn't find any words to refute.She really didn't want to stay in a shrine all her life, she wanted to know her origin, but if Reiko asked, she would definitely not refuse because of the grace of saving her life.

"You don't have to rush to deny it." Reiko pressed her hand and said softly, "Holly, you have begun to suspect that the appearance of Western monsters has something to do with you over the years, right?"

Dongqing thought about asking Shikigami to investigate, and nodded silently.

"The timing of your appearance is very coincidental, and your identity is unknown, so it's really hard not to doubt it." Reiko sighed softly, "So, do what you want, the village is naturally taken care of by others, and I don't want to keep you here forever .”

"Just don't forget to go out, come back and have a look..."

……

That day Reiko held up her energy and talked to her a lot. Although Reiko was the one who said she was listening most of the time, it also made her feel her warm and kind heart again.

Reiko died two days later.

Without any pain or torment, she closed her eyes, as if it was just a light sleep, and she would wake up from the dream at any time.

But no matter how she comforted herself, it was impossible for Reiko to come back to life.

Although she is gone, life must go on.

Holly sat by the window and played with a pendant.

The pendant is in the shape of a water drop, light cyan in color, and it looks like an eye is spinning in the depths of the cyan.

Reiko said that this was the token she carried on her body when she appeared. In order to prevent the Western monsters from coveting, she put a seal on the pendant and hid it until she died.

But Holly looked at it for a long time and didn't see anything.

She hung the pendant back around her neck, and the cold feeling made her shiver.

A strange thought suddenly popped up in my heart.

This is not a pendant, but a tear.