[Noragami] I was not there

He can control everything, as long as he is willing, even a god will become a pawn in his calculations.

It doesn't matter if he is self-righteous, his plan has always been perfect, because time will prove everything, no matter a hundred years ago or a hundred years later, there will be no deviation with this pride.

Unexpectedly, this time he missed a bit at the last moment.

"I really took it lightly." Li Linrun scratched his hair in annoyance, with a smile still on the corner of his mouth, but a faint killing intent flashed in his half-closed eyes, "Let me think about it, then What should I do when I go down?"

"Ah, Hiiragi." Unaware of the chill under the man's smile, Honma Nanami leaned over and snuggled into his arms, her heart full of warmth and anticipation for the future, "I figured it out, I will never think about it anymore, you love me, so you don't care about those superficial things, I will never be angry with you because of those things again, let's be together well in the future."

"Let go." A man's voice came from above.

"Eh?" Honma Nanami paused, she looked up at the man in front of her, his voice was still as gentle and pleasant as before, but there was something different.

Li Linrun smiled and lowered his head to look back at the woman who was still hugging him: "I'm in a little bad mood, if I do this, I can only kill you."

Honma Qihai looked at that smile and her whole body was cold, she immediately let go of her hand, stared at the man in front of her in horror, and backed away in embarrassment.

She knew that this man would really kill herself.

Li Linjun patted the place touched by the woman just now, looked up at the group of people who had been watching this side, and said apologetically, "I'm really sorry, I forgot to say hello to everyone."

"you really are……"

Hearing the uncertain voice around him, Li Linjun fixed his eyes on the most familiar person, and the smile on his face immediately deepened: "Ah, it's great to see you here, Yato."

Yato frowned tightly: "It really is you...father."

"Daddy?!" Xueyin yelled in astonishment, and together with Xiaofu and Dahei looked at the handsome young man in front of him. What Yato told him in the car just now, many things that happened before suddenly became no longer simple.

No one can understand this feeling better than Yato, and this is not the first time, the man he calls Daddy exists in the world with an identity he is completely unaware of, even lurking around him.

Yato clenched his fists tightly: "So everything is your fault?"

To say that he never knew it was a lie, but he thought it all started with Guizimu in the hospital. He saw the face of Guizimu's fallen demon's artifact after it died, which also explained Guizimu's death. Mother can also control the magic weapon that is already a demon, and the disappearance of Hong Yin and the appearance of Nora later proved that he did everything, not to mention the sudden appearance of Bishamon.

But now it seems that this game of chess was played much earlier than he thought.

Li Linjun smiled, and at this time he no longer needed to hide anything: "It's almost what you think, but at the beginning my goal was simply that brat Dong Zeliao, and I've been looking forward to getting his Ability, it's a pity that the word 'death' never exists in his dictionary, so not being able to transform into a demon means nothing to me. The extra gains in exchange are not bad, compared to him, I am still more interested in Axi."

"Axi?" Yato still hasn't understood the meaning of Kuribayashi Jun's obsession with Kanaki. The only reason he can think of is himself, "If it's because of me, you don't have to bother."

Kuribayashi Jun clicked his tongue, raised a finger and shook it twice: "Yato, you belong to me. Even if it's punishment, I won't bother so much."

"……so?"

"So?" Li Linrun repeated these two words, and then laughed, propping his knees with one hand, rubbing his face with the other hand and laughing loudly, he seemed to have spent a lot of effort to stop the laughter, coughing dryly After a few moments, he said, "So I just think it's more fun to do this."

The killing intent and the sudden chill on his neck didn't stop his laughter. He looked up at the man who was pointing at him with a knife, and the sharply constricted blue eyes burst out with hatred instantly. And disgust, he showed a slightly sentimental expression: "It's awesome, this is the look I most want to see as a father."

As if seeing the traces of death, Yato let go of his expression. If the knife in his hand really swung down, it would definitely be able to chop off the man's head.

Ah, let's do it.

But the moment he clenched the handle of the knife, his wrist was covered with a cold touch, and he saw the girl wearing the crown lightly holding him, still smiling calmly.

"Yato, it's not something a good boy should do to attack his father."

"..."

"So I'd better apologize." Nora moved his hands away after noticing that the people under him began to relax, and tilted his head at him with a smile behind his back, "My lord father will forgive you."

Yato was stunned, removed the knife on Li Linrun's neck, lowered his head and said inaudibly: "...Sorry."

"Hey! What are you apologizing for! Why do you have to be polite when dealing with this kind of guy!" Dahei, who had been watching for a long time, finally couldn't help but shouted, wanting to go forward and beat the guy with an obtrusive smile into a rotten cabbage, but Just after taking a step, he was stopped by Xiaofu beside him.

"Xiaofu?"

"We are not this man's opponent now." Xiaofu's expression was not good. Her gaze was the same as that of Yeto, all of her eyes were on the wind cave opened by herself. If Dou really fights, the consequences may be far from what he thought.

Nora is really kindly reminding Yato.

Yeto lowered the hand holding Xueqi, and had to lower his tone and said, "Where is Axi now?"

"Of course I'm still in Huangquan." Li Linrun stood up and patted the ashes on his body, and said indifferently, "Maybe he is still waiting for his hero to save her, but I don't know if her life will be so big. gone."

"...You must have a way to save her, daddy?!"

"Yes." Li Linjun didn't have any reservations, pointing to Honma Nanami who was shivering in the distance and said, "As you can see, 'calling his real name' is the same as calling the soul. That is the only way to come back from the underworld, to hold the other party from the other side to this side by calling the name, but only the people on the other side who have formed a relationship with it can do this, that is to say, only human beings can do it."

"Human." Yato read it again, hurriedly ran to the only human present, grabbed her in front of the wind cave again, and shouted, "Woman! Call Kanagi back to me!"

"F-what are you kidding! Why did I help that stinky girl... hiss—" Honma Nanami's voice changed instantly after seeing the gleaming knife, her body trembling uncontrollably, she hastily changed her words Said, "Okay, okay...I, my name! My name!"

It's just different from expectations, no matter how loud Honma Nanami shouted Kanaki's name at the wind cave, there was always a deathly silence below, and no one was brought back from under the wind cave.

Yato's forehead was already covered with a thin layer of sweat, he turned his head and shouted loudly to Kuribayashi Jun who was pinching his shoulders by the roadside: "It's useless at all!"

"Tsk, they say I won't lie." Li Linrun sighed, shook his head and said, "And you saw it too, that's how I left from Huangquan."

"Then how could it be..." Yato clenched his fists, and finally grabbed Honma Nanami's arm with an "ah", "Is it because your pronunciation is not standard?!"

"Ah, let me remind you a little bit." Li Linrun propped up his chin lazily, and let Ye Liang continue to help him pinch his shoulders behind him, "It's her real name, and only her real name can call her back."

"Real name?" Even Yato, who could recite Kanaki's student number and quiz results for three consecutive weeks, didn't realize it all at once. How could there be a problem with Kanaki's real name.

"Hey, can't you really remember anything?" Li Linrun grinned and opened his smiling eyes, "Axi's real name."

"The real... name?"

Yato was stunned, Kuribayashi Jun's deliberate guidance was like a key, or maybe something had reached a critical point, some strange colors emerged from the depths of his memory after a momentary blank, accompanied by severe pain that made him endure He couldn't help but leaned over and covered his head, and what passed through countless mottled spots was a long, dazzling dizziness.

He seemed to see something, he seemed to hear something——

That was the woman's sad gaze, the determination after losing everything: "Yato...why did you lie to me?"

The fleeting memories were wiped away again, and the pain gradually faded away. Ye Dou stared blankly at the bottomless wind acupoint in front of him: "...Axi."

In the cold, lifeless depths of the Yellow Springs, the water of the Yellow Springs gurgles, and the dead souls who drowned in it scream in pain from time to time. The urge to gag, and the world in front of my eyes is painted red, which may be infected by the blood she shed.

"What, so you forgot your own name." Izanami approached, and she touched the girl's face, showing a slightly sad look, "What a poor child."

There was no life in her eyes, and she let the fingers that felt like slippery snakes slide over her skin. In the blood-red vision, she could barely see the parents who were used by Kuribayashi Jun to lure away the monsters. The original remnant...

Ah... In the end, I couldn't do anything.

It hurt so bad, the pain spread from the broken wrist to the whole body.

She seemed to be shouting loudly, but she couldn't make any sound from her open mouth, and there was a noisy sound beside her ears, which was the sound of murderous greed.

They are underground monsters attracted by tempting negative emotions. They have been slumbering in the depths of the underworld for a long time, and they have rushed out. Their goal is only one, the girl locked up by their queen, as long as one mouthful You will gain incredible power.The saliva left behind by their greed meandered all the way, cutting through the air at an alarming speed, slowly eroding her body from fingertips, from hair tips, without leaving a blank space.

Her gaze moved down very reluctantly, and then she saw the misery below her neck, from the chest cavity to the lower abdomen was cut open with a perfect midline, and all the organs in the abdominal cavity slid down to the ground in embarrassment, only the heart was still there under the protection of the ribs. Faint beating.

This is really... a horrible sight.

"There's nothing to worry about. You're not a human being in the first place, and now your thread was strangled by that man with the same hand, so there's no possibility of going back." Izanami covered her mouth and smiled happily, stretched out He licked her earlobe with his long tongue, "Although it looks terrible, in fact, you can't feel too much pain."

"..."

Yes, Izanami was right, she did not feel the pain commensurate with what she saw in front of her eyes, but it came from a deeper pain that tore her soul.

No, she can't just die in Huangquan like this.

The group of monsters enjoying the best food is still not satisfied, this is not enough, this is not enough, her will still exists, and she has not yet been able to completely swallow her up... just a little bit, just a little bit up.

"Hey, give up." Izanami, who saw the clue, wrapped herself around the body that was almost devoured by the monster, "No one will come to save you, even if you forget the name, you will not forget this This kind of feeling, the helplessness of being thrown down by the master, the helplessness of being knocked down into the underworld, the trembling, breathless despair."

"..."

Izanami narrowed her eyes slightly, opened her lips and teeth after a short thought, and slowly pronounced two syllables: "Ye, Dou."

"..." Her gray eyes brightened up in an instant.

Izanami couldn't help chuckling, she really exposed her inner thoughts too easily.

"I remember that you really kept chanting this name at that time." Izanami's body did not move, only the stretched neck circled from behind her to her eyes at a strange angle, "He is really cruel, no matter what happens What's the matter, you can't throw your own artifact into the wind hole."

"...It's not like this." She looked forward blankly, only shaking her head, trying to deny everything she heard.

"No? Did he lie to you again?" Izanami showed a bit of pitiful expression, "Men are all creatures who are born to lie, and no matter how nice the love words are, they must never believe."

"Yato won't lie to me." She raised her head and smiled at Izanami with a wide grin. Only this smile still had a taste that a human being should have.

Well, no matter how confused and induced she was, the only response she gave to Izanami was this sentence. This may have been the only belief that supported her to live, and the last hope she did not want to let go of.

——Yato, he will never lie to me.

"What an idiot, obviously it would be easier to stay here." After Izanami left this sentence coldly, she retracted her neck, pulled away from her side and returned to the soft couch that appeared again.

Forget it, her depravity is only a matter of time anyway.

The demon's food sharing is not over. No matter how strong her willpower is, she will become vulnerable in the depths of the miasma-filled underworld. They have patience and time to corrode a soul that is already tainted with the underworld.

Her consciousness began to become blurred, and all she could feel was the tearing of flesh and blood and the splashing of blood. Her little body was being swallowed by big mouthfuls. Blended with the average.

"Yatou...Yatou..." She called his name, tears had already flowed out, but she looked very miserable with the bright red blood.

- has reached its limit.

After she was fully dragged into the ugly, monster-made flesh, the only arm that could still be extended gradually slipped down, trying to grab something but couldn't.

——everything is over.

Izanami lazily tapped the cigarette stick, and it seemed that the back of the man who fled thousands of years ago appeared in front of her eyes, and her heart had already become cold: "That's why, men can't be trusted."

"Axi—!" At this moment, a man's shout came from far and near.

Izanami paused her hand knocking on the cigarette rod, looked up, and saw the hole in the ceiling from a distance, and the weird man in sportswear who jumped out of it, she suddenly smiled: "What, isn't this here?"

Yato didn't pay attention to the queen of Huangquan who was looking at him at all. After looking around for a while, he finally locked his eyes on the girl wrapped in a lot of meat balls. His eyes widened instantly and turned red, and he drew his sword After jumping up, the layer of monsters was cut open, and the girl who fell out of it was no longer human, her limbs and torso had long been integrated with those things, and only the shadow of a human could be seen above the neck.

"Ah...ah..." His eyes overflowed with soreness. He wanted to call her, but found that he couldn't even make a sound, and the trembling from his fingertips couldn't be stopped no matter what.

As if sensing something, the girl who had already lost her breath opened her eyes, but they were no longer human eyes, but golden vertical pupils like snake eyes. She smiled happily after seeing the person coming: "Night Dou... I knew you would come to save me."

As if he didn't want to disappoint her, Yato pulled the corner of his mouth and smiled, but tears had already flowed from his eyes: "Sorry, I'm late."

"How could it be?" She shook her head slightly, trying to reach out to wipe away the tears on his face, but she retracted after seeing her right hand, showing an embarrassed smile, "I'm sorry, I forgot that I have no hand."

Yato looked at her hidden hand, it was not without it, but it was replaced by something that could no longer be regarded as a "hand". He hugged her into his arms, not letting her see more, he could feel her In fear, she is afraid of herself.

"Xueyin is right. I am so stupid that there is no cure. Why did I find out that you were missing so late? Why didn't I come to rescue you quickly? Why didn't I realize that bastard was always by my side?" Yato hugged She tightened her grip more and more, and he blindly attributed all the faults to himself, crying helplessly like a child.

"It's okay, Yato, you came to save me in the end." She patted him on the back, comforting him in turn, "I knew that what Kuribayashi Jun and Izanami said were all lies, Yato, you will never lie to me, you will never lie to me."

"..."

Sensing his momentary stiffness, she also paused, tilting her head with a confused expression: "Yato?"

It was a long silence.

"……sorry."

However, these three words were the answer she was waiting for.

"Did Yato lie to me too?" She asked in a particularly innocent tone.

"Well... I lied to you." Yato hugged her hands tightly, buried his face in her shoulder sockets, and showed a sad expression after recovering a certain memory, "But——"

No but.

The icy sharp blade pierced his chest, and the sweetness gushing from his throat blocked everything he wanted to say. Before he slid to the ground, he heard the whispering of the person in his arms——

"So... Yato lied to me too."