[Noragami] I was not there

Hey, do you know the legend of the ghost mother?

It is said that 500 people met a pregnant woman on the way to the meeting, and the woman accompanied her, but they miscarried halfway, and all 500 people left her.The woman made a poisonous oath that she would be reborn in Rajagha City in the next life and eat all the children in the city.Later, as she promised, she was reborn in the city of Wangshe and gave birth to five hundred children, and she captured and fed the children in the city every day.

When Sakyamuni heard about this, he took away her favorite youngest son and hid it in a food bowl while she was out.After Guizimu came back, she couldn't find it everywhere, so she had to ask Sakyamuni for help.

Sakyamuni said to her: "I hid your child in the bowl with supernatural powers. Now you also feel the concern of mothers in the world for their children. You kill babies in the world every day. Don't you know the pain of the mother who victimized the child?" If you swear that you will never kill a human child again, I will release your child."

Guizimu replied, "I kill babies for food. If I don't kill them, what will my children eat to survive?"

Sakyamuni replied: "Okay. As long as you swear never to harm the baby, my monks will give you food every day from now on."

Since then, Sakyamuni Buddha's sangha has had the tradition of giving food to hungry ghosts first at every meal, and this ghost mother who was enlightened by the Buddha's mercy was later called "Ghost Mother God".

Therefore, she only loves her own child from the beginning to the end, and she can ignore the kindness of Buddha's enlightenment for him.

"Nanying... I'm sorry, I won't let anyone hurt you anymore." She hugged her artifact and her child, tears kept falling, all sad, "It's all my fault, my fault .”

There are many artifacts of the ghost mother god, most of them are underage children. Although most gods do not like to accept undead of this age, but the mother of ghosts is by nature, and can take good care of all the artifacts with her mother's love, but There will always be exceptions. It is rare for a hundred years for Guizimu God's artifact to become a demon, but once it happens, even Xie can't do it, because Guizimu who dotes on the artifact can't bear to let her child suffer that kind of pain.

Whether it's an artifact or a demon, as long as he is still her own child, she must protect him.But why can't these people understand?Want to separate their mother and child for no reason? ...But they are all insignificant humans.

She stroked the giant baby's head, and then said desolately to the young god who was clutching her back neck, feeling uncontrollable pain but still trying to attack again and again: "God Night Fighter, why don't you accept my attack?" What about the proposal? As long as you don't care about the affairs here, I can let you leave safely."

"Shut up." Yato knelt on the ground with one knee, the big sword held in his right hand plunged into the floor, the sweat on his forehead fell into his eyes, and his vision gradually became blurred in the pain, "...Hong Yin."

"Ye Fighting God, it's alright, your knife can't cut anything anymore."

"..."

Yato, who is one with the Sacred Gear, knows better than anyone——

The Hongqi may no longer be usable, but it's not what Guizimu thought.

The blade has begun to rust, but it is not so much rust, it is better to call it a disease, once the artifact has a huge negative mood swing, it will appear, and in the end it will even pull its owner into the abyss and become a demon, until die.

His hand holding the handle of the knife was gradually stained with the same rust-like black spot, his heart seemed to have stopped suddenly after being bluntly hit, and he could feel Hongyin's body covered in cuts and bruises, and the extreme physical and mental pain was eroding him All sanity.

The knife in his hand is not rusted and blunt as it appears on the surface, but just the opposite. The current Hongqi is stronger than ever. Hatred has forged its blade, and anger has washed it back to the bone. , even the strongest Valkyrie can't dodge it lightly.

But in that case, Hongyin... will never be able to turn back.

Empathy, the emotions transmitted from Hongyin also made Yetou furious, but he had to maintain his final calmness, while resisting the evil words of the ghost mother while being stabbed, he had to restrain himself from going berserk artifact.

"Don't go there...Hongyin, don't..."

Burning pain began to appear on the palm of his hand, but Yato did not let go, he believed in Hongyin, since he met him and gave him his name, he had no intention of giving up his divine weapon in the past, no matter what happened——

"...Hirone! You still have something to protect---!!!"

The artifact in Yato's hand emitted a grand light, white and warm, as if it could illuminate the whole world. The rust covering the blade began to crack, and the fragments scattered all over the ground. After that, it slowly condensed into a human shape and fell to the ground. Beside Kanaki who is holding Yuu Itagaki.

Kannaki and the others looked at Hong Yin who suddenly came in front of them. His expression was so strange, and there were eyeball-shaped marks on his hands, feet and body—the so-called ailments, but fortunately, there were signs of gradually fading.

"...Mr. Hongyin?"

"Mr. Hongyin."

"Mr. Itagaki?"

Kanaki and Yuki were taken aback at the same time, and looked at Kawamura Yousuke, who said a completely different name from them, and the latter looked at the man in front of him in shock, and they finally understood what happened——

Hong Yin's name was Itagaki Yusuke before his death, and he was Itagaki Yuu's husband. If what Gui Zimu said was true, then Hong Yin had indeed beheaded his parent and child with his own hands.

Kanagi understands why Hongyin was crying at that time.

……

"Things that can be protected..." Hong Yin's expression softened a little, and after slowly uttering a few words, he turned his head to look at Yato, who was seriously stabbed because of his wavering——

...what the hell did he do?

That's right, there is not only one thing he guards——

"...Yato."

Yato struggled to stand up clutching the back of his neck, and stretched out his right hand to his artifact: "...Hong Yin."

"..."

Ah, it was exactly the same as that night, and he stretched out his hand to him who had nowhere to go... Maybe he can turn back now, but can he really do it because he can't even perform the curse and is wearing a curse?

"Hiroki, come here!"

"..."

"Hiroki, come here!!"

"..."

Hirone closed his eyes and let out a long sigh——

What an idiot, do you still want to use him at this point? ...Obviously, it is possible to perfunctory the ghost mother and end everything, but it is also because of this that he will always be by his side.

"Thank you...for not giving up on me."

Hongyin opened his eyes again, and the resentment that once destroyed his reason in his eyes was gone at this moment. With a relieved smile on his face, he slowly melted into the air, but the blade that condensed again seemed to have changed. The original blade was as long as The big swords over 90 centimeters are now the size of ordinary swords.

Maybe this is...

"Is this really all right?" The woman's cold voice appeared untimely and interrupted everything.

Guizimu, who sees everything in her eyes, of course understands that the next situation seems to be very difficult, she is not stupid enough to sit still, she still has a hand, although she does not know what is going on, but she can see that this It is his artifact that wants to use this to deter Yato, but does not want to be really disturbed, so now she just needs to remind them kindly——

"If Nan Ying died, that woman would not be able to survive. Her internal organs were severely damaged in the car accident. It is thanks to my child that she can survive until now."

"..."

Hongyin, who was condensing into shape, paused, Guizimu's words did give him the final blow, the light faded, he knelt down on one knee in defeat, and looked angrily at the woman who was smiling triumphantly——

"...you're so despicable."

"Whatever is fine, let's talk." Gui Zimu looked at Ye Dou, who no longer had the magic weapon in his hand, "Are you still unwilling to leave here?"

Hongyin turned his head to look at Itagaki Yuyu who was still in a coma, the repeated heavy blows had already made him unable to think——

... What should he do? ... What should he do? !

"Or do I still want to stay and kill that woman like killing her child?! And me, who is also a god?!"

...he simply couldn't do it.

……

Yeto gritted his teeth tightly, and he glanced at Hongyin, but his heart to kill the ghost mother's artifact still remained unshakable: "I'm really sorry, but I will definitely do what I say after I accept the deposit."

"...Yato." Hong Yin clenched his fist and stopped him, "...please, go back."

"..." Yedou was stunned for a moment, looked at his artifact and was silent for a moment, then closed his eyes, "Hongyin, I respect your choice, but the only thing I can do is not let you face it in person."

He paused, turned his gaze to the blond boy over the others, and then shouted: "Xue, do you want to come to work as a temporary worker?!"

"...Huh?" Xue, who was suddenly named, looked at Yato in a daze, "What do you mean?"

Yato is not used to using spirits of this age as artifacts, and there are too many unstable factors, but if it is Snow who has experienced so many things, he thinks he should be able to give it a try. Splitting and sending the others away, the most important thing is that there is no better way now.

"but……"

Yuki still hesitated, but Yato, who was still a little far away, had already come to her in a flash——

"Give me a place to return to you who have nowhere to go after death. My name is Yato, and I have been given a taboo name. It ends here. I have been called by a false name. I am my servants. From now on, I will honor my name and use my voice to listen to me. Life, transforming my artifact." Ye Dou drew a seal character "Xue" in the air facing Xue, and continued to read, "The name is Xue, and the instrument is Xue."

The word flew towards Xue's body, and finally landed on the position of his collarbone, and was deeply imprinted on it—the contract was reached.

"Come on! Snow device!"

In response, Snow turned into a white light and flew towards Yato, condensing into a sheathless Japanese sword.

Yato held the knife in both hands and pointed at Kishimu again——

"I will definitely chop off your head."

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Finally said that.

Hong Yin looked at Yato who used the snow weapon to fight with Kishimu and the giant baby again. Although Xue was a complete novice as a magic weapon, Yato gradually gained the upper hand.

The mother of Guizi is not a martial god, she has no power to restrain a chicken, and what appears here is actually her similar existence, and it is precisely for this reason that she uses more verbal stimulation to try to force them back .

On the other hand, he became a spectator.

"Mr. Hongyin."

Hongyin raised his head and looked at the girl who came in front of him and handed Itagaki Yuu back to him. Obviously he didn't shed tears, but she cried into tears instead——

"You're an idiot too."

"I'm sorry..." Kanaki wiped the tears carelessly, and said with a sob, "I can't help you with anything, and I don't even know how to say words of comfort."

Hong Yin took Itagaki Yuyu into his arms, put his chin on the top of her hair, and said softly: "Do you know? In fact, most gods have multiple artifacts, and the gods will choose people with good conduct as beacons. For a person like Yato who only has one divine weapon, I am naturally his current beacon."

Kanaki didn't understand why Hong Yin would mention this matter at this time.

"Gods themselves have no distinction between good and evil, so the road sign is the guide to guide the master not to deviate from the path of goodness." Hongyin closed his eyes, his voice was low and hoarse, "but I said that to my god , I am... I am the one who can't do anything..."

Hongyin's last words were stained with tears, his hands holding Itagaki Yuu couldn't help shaking, and the body of the person in his arms gradually became cold, he knew that Guizimu was not lying - he was going to lose again.

……

"……Feel sorry."

Hearing Hongyin's heartfelt voice, Yato paused for a moment in the hand holding Xueqi, and then raised the knife and dropped it in the next second.

"Night Fight!"

At that moment, Xue couldn't help calling out his name, but it was too late, the cold blood of the demon sprinkled on his body.

With the last blow, the ghost mother who was standing in front of the giant baby was chopped off, and his head was in a different place.

"No--!!"

The blood of the gods and demonized artifacts were intertwined, and the raised blood mist drifted around. The painful screams of Guizimu were mixed with incomparable anger. The young gods near at hand—

"Yato! I will never let you go!"

It wasn't until the last hair ends disappeared that the giant baby's body turned into crystals and shattered in this space.

Hongyin stared blankly at the head of the giant baby that rolled down in front of him, until it disappeared, those empty eyes were still looking at him mockingly until he died——

You can't protect anything.

Feeling the person in her arms move slightly, Hongyin immediately looked down, suppressed all emotions and called her name in a low voice: "Yuyu?"

Itagaki Yuyu slowly opened her eyes. After seeing the person in front of her clearly, she raised the corners of her mouth and smiled lightly: "...Mr. Hongyin."

Hongyin froze for a moment, but quickly nodded and smiled back: "Well, it's me."

"It's too bad, I seem to have forgotten to bring the book... I wanted to ask you to sign it..."

"It's okay, I will definitely sign for you next time."

Itagaki Yuyu showed an annoyed expression, but when he was about to speak, his throat was sweet, and the pain all over his body was conveyed to his brain with a mouthful of blood.

Hongyin hastily wiped off the blood from the corner of her mouth with her hand, but she wiped more and more, more and more...

Itagaki Yuu looked at the front in a daze. She may have sensed that she was dying, but she still cheered up and said with a smile: "Mr. Hongyin, actually, I have always wanted to ask you a question."

"what?"

"Did Hina and Naoki get together in the end?"

Hong Yin also laughed when he heard this: "Of course, they are together and have a brand new life."

Suddenly there was a feeling that everything could be let go, Itagaki Yuu looked at the man in front of him, and couldn't help reaching out to caress his face, weakly unable to say a complete sentence, but still trying to maintain a smile, always feeling Don't make him worry--

"This, this way, that's really great..."

"Well, Zhihui will not be angry with Yangcai again, he will tolerate her well, cherish her, love her..."

"..."

"They will have many, many children in the future, in the house that Yangcai said he likes very much..."

"..."

"They will live happily together forever." Hongyin was still laughing, and he held tightly to the woman who had stopped responding for a long time. Tears finally fell after these words, "...I'm sorry."

He really couldn't protect anything anymore.

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Losing the support of divine power, the space they were in slowly began to lose its color and transformed into reality.

Be it dreams or creatures, the figures of Kanaki, Ichihi and Kawamura Yusuke gradually became blurred, and the last thing they saw was a man sitting with a woman in his arms who could never wake up again. The back on the ground...