[Shaoyin] like a short-lived epiphyllum

Fireflies are flying in the sky.

In the rain, among the dark clouds, countless fireflies streaked across.

Below that is a burning river, very red, and the clear and surging river is probably dyed red by a certain terrifying substance inside.

very scary.

This was Zhang Zi's first reaction, but when she saw the people going up and down inside, she was too shocked to speak.

That, that is...

The boy who said before leaving that he would come back safely.

"Why... are you there?"

Stretching out his hand tremblingly, Zhang Zi wanted to get close to the pale face, but it seemed that someone stopped him, even if he tried his best, he couldn't reach him.

--can not go!If you go...

"Please, let me go..."

——Why can't you listen to my advice?

"Because he is a very important person."

--yes……

The strength that restrained her was gone, and Zhang Zi felt very light, as if he could dance in the air.But what she didn't notice, who was worried about Changhao at the moment, was that Gouyu was looming around her. She hurried to follow Changhao, and what made her even more surprised was that she could touch the things here.

This is the wetness from accidentally touching the river.

Seeing the rock that was about to hit not far away, Zhang Zi frowned and lifted Chang Hao up with all his strength.Then she ran out of strength at the moment before crossing the rock, but fortunately, she happened to be hooked by a branch on the rock, which made her breathe a sigh of relief.

But why is there only Changhao alone?Will God not be with him, has something happened to them?

Caressing Chang Hao's cheek, Zhang Zi worriedly looked at him who was blushing.The sound of a branch breaking came from behind, Zhang Zi turned around vigilantly, and stood in front of Chang Hao.

"who is it?"

"Ah I……"

It was a young man about the same age as Chang Hao, and what he was wearing was not the hunting clothes that Chang Hao and the others wore, but some ancient clothes that were worn by the gods in the murals.Standing next to him was a wolf, and it seemed that it was also very vigilant towards them, with its fur all over its body standing on end.

"Who... are you...?"

Zhang Zi's vigilance was lessened by his hesitation. She felt that the young man in front of her should be a person who lived in Izumo, and then he should be a person who believed in Taoist gods, at least so far.

"I...my name is Zhang Zi, can you help me, save him?"

Zhang Zi looked at him beggingly, which seemed to make him more nervous, and he nodded and walked over here to help Chang Hao from the branch to the ground.Then under his guidance, Chang Hao was carried by the wolf into the cave.Then, under the surprised gaze of the young man, he stretched out his hand to heal Chang Hao's injuries.

"Are you a god?"

"Eh? Why do you think so?"

Zhang Zi was very puzzled by what he said, and he smiled and pointed to his hair and eyes.

"Your hair is as white as a fairy, and your eyes are beautiful, ice blue?"

"Ah...this..."

Seeing the current state from the boy's eyes, Zhang Zi clenched his fists a little nervously.

"Maybe... I'm a youkai. Are you... not afraid?"

"Hmm... why are you afraid? And even if that's the case, maybe you're a good youkai. After all, you're so cute, and you have such a strong healing ability."

Hearing the boy's words, Zhang Zi thought of Chang Hao at that time, blinked and she covered her mouth and laughed.

"You're really weird. He said that too. He said he wasn't afraid of me..."

Zhang Zi looked at Chang Hao who had fallen asleep peacefully with a soft face, and she stretched out her hand to stroke the bangs on his forehead to the side.

—You should go back.

The voice sounded again, and Zhang Zi watched in shock as his body continued to turn into fireflies.But quickly accepted this fact, she lowered her head and kissed Chang Hao's forehead lightly, and said to the surprised boy who was speechless.

"He... just leave it to you... I..."

Before he finished speaking, the girl in front of him turned into a firefly and disappeared in front of him. The boy reached out to touch the firefly, but it disappeared the moment he touched it.

"Higu...she..."

"Um……"

The boy named Bigu held the girl's hand that he accidentally touched when he was carrying the boy. He pursed his lips and clenched his palm tightly.

>>>

After waking up, Zhang Zi blinked his dry eyes in confusion, and stroked his face, which was still damp, which was a symbol of crying not long ago.

She sighed deeply, stroking the hair accessories on her temples, feeling very uneasy.

"Ji" under the moonlight...

Then her name is probably a combination of head and tail. It is obviously the first time I heard it, no... I have heard it more than once.

"Tsukihime..."

Kong Huan, Liu Ying and Yan Yi have all mentioned the name.

The name is the shortest spell, but no matter what she said, no matter what tone she used to call, that person did not respond to her.Is it dead?Or can she not hear?

But I can't think about it anymore, she has to go back to Abe House today.Since that dream, she has been a little uneasy, so she wants to go back.She told Kong Huan so, Kong Huan seemed to think of something, after bowing his head and thinking for a while, he nodded and agreed with her to go back.

But before getting on Xue Ling's car, she saw Ayako who came out to see her off. She had large and small wounds, and some of them were still bleeding.When she wanted to ask, she rubbed her head and smiled, but Zhang Zi felt a little relieved by her smiling like this.

"Then, I'm leaving."

"Well, be careful on the road."

Zhang Zi nodded.It was not the first time to fly in the sky late at night. Feeling the cool wind blowing on his face, Zhang Zi stroked Xue Ling's hair.

I don't know how it is now, I don't know if Grandpa Qingming is in better health now.

It was already early in the morning when we arrived at Abe's house, and when the sun was about to rise, the general was also out of breath at this moment, so he must have gone to rest.Thinking of this, Zhang Zi recited the spell silently, and then the girl who resembled her just disappeared into the air. She exhaled and hugged the Void that had become like a small fox.

Looking around, she closed her eyes and felt the atmosphere around her. There seemed to be fewer generals, and it seemed that only the Queen of Heaven was left by her side, and the general who had been staying in Qingming's room, which frightened her a little.

Although Qinglong would not be angry with herself knowing that divine general, but the furious aura in her eyes all the time still made her feel a little uncomfortable and afraid.

"Master Zhangzi, don't you want to continue sleeping?"

As soon as she opened the door, she met Tianhou who was preparing things. Zhang Zi nodded to show that she was no longer sleepy. After some hesitation, she asked.

"Where's Grandpa Qingming?"

"..."

Tianhou was stunned for a moment and didn't know how to answer, then the sudden wind of a general made Zhang Zi know something instantly, and she also bowed her head not knowing what to say.After all, Tianhou must be very unwilling now. I heard from Tianyi and Suzaku that Grandpa Qingming is sometimes very stubborn, and he will not change his mind no matter what they say.

So this time, with his newly recovered body, he went to Changhao's side.

"It's good to be a little bit more concerned."

The queen raised her head suspiciously.

"Waiting here for them all the time, it's actually not very pleasant."

After Tianhou heard something, she felt something was about to flow out of the corner of her eyes, and she hugged the thing tightly in her arms.

"yes……"

Later, Tianhou left in a hurry because she had to prepare something. Looking at the place where Tianhou disappeared, Zhang Zi held the red jade in her arms tightly, and she murmured with lowered eyes.

"It would be great if I could talk to Grandpa Seimei, so that I can know Changhao's current situation."

"—Your Majesty——"

"—Your Majesty——"

Hearing these unheard voices, Zhang Zi raised his head and saw that although it was already the moment when the sun was rising, the figures of miscellaneous ghosts constantly jumping appeared on the other side of the wall.

"—Your Majesty——, Hey, Your Majesty—!"

The ape ghost jumped up high and then waved its arms, followed by the unicorn ghost who jumped up immediately.

"Can you—"

After the one-horned ghost fell, the dragon ghost jumped up again.

"Let us in—"

"Well……"

After Zhang Zi opened his eyes wide, he lowered his head and thought very distressed.Normally, she could ask the general near her, but this time because of what the Empress is doing, Suzaku doesn't know where she is now, Qinglong's words...

Thinking of that terrifying look, Zhang Zi couldn't help trembling a little more while hugging his arms.

"What, these guys are here again."

"Hmm... seems to want to come in, what should I do, Xue Ling."

Xue Ling looked at Zhang Zi who was frowning in distress, sighed helplessly and shouted to the other side.

"Hey, you don't want to do anything, do you?"

"Do not--"

"No way—!"

Seeing the three miscellaneous ghosts jumping very hard, Xue Ling jumped onto Zhang Zi's shoulder helplessly.

"The child also said that you must never step out of Abe's house without the company of the general."

"Um."

Zhang Zi nodded.

"Then there's no problem in the barrier. Right, Suzaku."

Xue Ling suddenly turned to ask the general with golden eyes who appeared behind Zhang Zi at some unknown time.Suzaku shrugged helplessly and stroked Zhang Zi's hair.

"There is no problem inside the barrier, but just in case, I will hide by your side."

Zhang Zi nodded in relief and smiled.

"Thank you, Suzaku."

In order not to disturb Mrs. Lushu, and not to make the ghosts wait too long, Zhang Zi decided to walk along the wall to the door.Walking along the fence of the courtyard, Zhang Zi hesitated when he reached the door and asked Suzaku, who was hidden.

"Suzaku, can I... go outside the door to see the shop where I got off the bus?"

Chezhipu is not long ago, at the risk of being discovered, Zhangzi asked Changhao to take her to visit Aunt Xue and Junzi's new monsters.It was a cowardly monster with a huge face beside the wheel, who was scolded by Xue Ling as useless at first, and Chang Hao also said that the monster had said the same thing about the shop of cars at the time.

And since she came here, after so many things happened, she didn't go to the market much, and she would fall down with a fever after a little activity. Now if it wasn't for this bead given by Kong Huan, she would probably fall down immediately yes.

So finally there was such an opportunity in front of him, Zhang Zi wanted to take a look, just to see that there shouldn't be any problems.Suzaku looked at Zhang Zi's pleading eyes, and while he was silent, he saw something shaking in the corner of Zhang Zi's eyes, and he could only nod immediately to let him go.

"Thank you, Suzaku!"

Zhang Zi showed a joyful expression, and then pushed the door open with his hand.

"Your Highness!"

"I'm coming--"

"Sorry for making you come here on purpose, Your Highness—"

Zhang Zi nodded, and squatted down after closing the door.The miscellaneous ghosts watched Zhang Zi close the door, and their eyes widened in surprise.

"Are you all right?"

"Your Highness, are you alright when you come out here?"

"I heard from my grandson that your health is not particularly good, Your Highness."

"And you can't do without a jacket!"

When they said this, Xue Ling patted his forehead with his forelegs a little carelessly, while Zhang Zi smiled helplessly.

"Ah... well... maybe... it's okay... and it's only for a while, so... it shouldn't be a problem..."

Zhang Zi, who said so, didn't notice that some of the hair he had placed in front hung down and dragged to the ground.The ape ghost, who was aware of this, stretched out his hand and picked up Zhang Zi's long hair.

"Thank you, ape ghost."

"It's nothing, there's no need to thank you for such a trivial matter!"

Afterwards, the miscellaneous ghosts talked about a lot of things, starting with Qingming saving them, and when they said that they were ordinary kind monsters, Xue Ling pouted in dissatisfaction, but was stopped by Zhang Zi.After all, their expressions are very serious, so it's better not to refute.

They kept begging Zhang Zi not to tell Qingming and Changhao what they said in words, although Zhang Zi felt that they didn't say anything bad, but they were just laughing when they said it, there would be nothing wrong with it.

"However, Your Highness—"

"Um?"

"When did you become the wife of your grandson?"

Hearing what the miscellaneous ghosts said, Zhang Zi's cheeks blushed instantly. She waved her hands at a loss and wanted to say something, but immediately lowered her head while covering her cheeks.It's just that Xue Ling on Zhang Zi's shoulder clearly saw the exposed, very red ears.

The miscellaneous ghosts who were interested in Zhang Zi like this kept teasing Zhang Zi with words.

Suzaku, who was invisible beside her, looked at Zhang Zi among the miscellaneous ghosts, and couldn't help smiling when he heard the words of the miscellaneous ghosts.

Are all the women in Abe House actually different?

Seimei's wife, Ruolai, is a cowardly person. Whether it's ghosts, monsters or even generals, as long as they are not human, they will be afraid and don't know what to do.But although Jichang's wife has no talent for seeing ghosts, she still has the guts to deal with the Abe Mansion, which is called a demonic land outside the world.Although he has some special feelings for the miscellaneous ghosts that he has never seen before, he knows Seimei's Shiki or the generals, so he naturally accepts their existence.

Then there is Zhang Zi.

This girl who has lived in Abe Prefecture since she was a child, this girl has been accompanied by powerful spiritual power since she was born.I heard from Xue Ling that the child said this to the mother and daughter.

It is said that they are not monsters, but very pure existences.And she wasn't particularly scared when I saw her for the first time, and she readily accepted it and smiled at her like that.So I don't feel afraid of the miscellaneous ghosts, and they can even smile.

And even without anyone's notice, Zhang Zi can sometimes sense Chang Hao's crisis.Even though she was in the stronghold of demons and goblins, she said calmly that it was okay, and she believed that they would protect her.

To be honest, Zhang Zi was probably the one who impressed me the most.

Even though he was so scared, he didn't say anything, didn't tell them anything, and endured the pain silently.

So he was very curious as to what kind of identity such a girl would stay by Changhao's side.

but……

Although this is just a hypothesis, he hopes from the bottom of his heart that this child can...

As the ghosts said, I'm staying here as Chang Ho's wife.

The author has something to say: Fruit Baa! ! !I'm really sorry for updating now because there are many things to deal with!

Also, I'm sorry for pushing it for three days [Dogeza]

And about Zhang Zi's previous life...

I feel like I'm a little confused

Eh hey!

So if you don't understand, I apologize again here!