[Noragami] I was not there

Huangquan Biliangzaka, that is the place under the wind hole.

A place with no light, no life, and nothing, surrounded by thick stench, muddy water, and endless fighting and devouring among monsters.

Such a place belongs to her at this moment.

"Were you thrown down too?"

The first person to talk to her was a young girl, and it is rare for such a well-spoken person to exist in a place like Huangquan.She told her that her name was Xunma, and after being suspected of stabbing her master, she was thrown out of Fengxue by Master Daobiao.

Xunma is very optimistic, even at this point she can still have some fantasies, no matter how unrealistic it is, and no matter how hard Jiu Yin is to cheer her up, she can always laugh and say something alone, about the past, about the future.

"I really want to take another look, the sky outside..."

Then slowly, as time went by, Xunma spoke less and less, and her voice became softer and softer——finally one day, she disappeared.

"...Inquiry?"

She tried to call her name for the first time, but there was no response.

Then she searched for the girl on Huangquan Biliangzaka like crazy, and it wasn't until then that she realized that what she lost was her last sustenance to the world outside of Huangquan, and the girl she didn't want to admit ended up in Huangquan after all.

Obviously such an optimistic and beautiful girl, why did she fall to this point?

She can almost be said to have made a big fuss in Huangquan Hirasaka, and of course alarmed the queen of the underground kingdom, Izanami. She originally planned to punish her severely, but after seeing her past, Izanami's The interest is hooked, and there is nothing more interesting than playing with people's hearts.

It's just that before Izanami made a move, a certain adult who hadn't seen him for a long time suddenly visited Huangquan Hirazaka, and took away Jiuyin who was supposed to live forever and never leave again.

"So are you the one who took me away?" Kanaki floated in mid-air, her expression was calm, but her mood was full of mixed emotions. Everything she experienced just now was so real, she couldn't help but look at Sanqian Uno With a three-point scrutiny, "Who the hell are you? Are you a god?"

"You can think so." Uno Sanqian looked ashamed, lowered his eyes and said in a low voice, "It is true that I took you away, just to make amends."

"remedy?"

"Well... you, no, it should be Shimoki. The reason why she can see the things on the other side is all because of me." It happened in a blink of an eye, "That's because I was still young, so I sneaked out of Gao Tianyuan and arrived at Xiaqi's village when the caretakers weren't paying attention. At that time, Xiaqi was only five or six years old. I didn't have a playmate and I saw her alone again." People came over and said that they wanted to be friends with her. She was not wary at all, and played with me for a long time with a smile. Later, my beacon found me and asked me to go back to Gaotianyuan. The matter should have ended here. But I..."

Uno Sanqian paused, met Kanaki's eyes and continued: "But because I had selfishness for a while, I didn't want the friends I just made to forget me soon, so I did some tricks on you, You will not forget the communication with the gods, and you will also be able to see the things on the other side that have no intersection. The arrogant queen, the emperor, don't be proud."

Kanaki suddenly understood everything. Her uniqueness and her subsequent encounters were largely due to the whim of the god hiding under Uno Sanchi.

At the end of Uno Sanqian's words, her voice was crying, and she rubbed her eyes with her sleeves in a hurry, and solemnly apologized to Kanaki with regret and regret: "I'm sorry, Axi...Although I have said it countless times, But it’s the first time for Kanaki to say it, I’m sorry. It’s all because of my willfulness that I changed your fate and caused you to suffer so much suffering and pain that you shouldn’t have.”

"It sounds so, it is true." Hearing this, Kanaxi only gave a wry smile. All the misfortunes may be because of this god, but all the developments in the future seem to have nothing to do with people, but she really doesn't know What should I use to say forgiveness.

"I told her everything after I took Xiaqi away. I really wanted to save her, but once I set foot on the other shore, I couldn't turn back. I thought of many ways to give Xiaqi back a human life."

"Then you thought of a way?"

"Yes." Uno Sanqian nodded, and continued, "I brought everything back to the original point, and let your memory of monsters fall asleep, including the people and things related to you. I have also corrected everything. In other words, I erased your existence."

"So... Yato and the others have no memory of Xiaqi at all."

"Well, in fact, this is the result she wanted at that time. Although she is a monster, Yato still has fetters. In addition, she thinks that she is a real artifact, so she conceptualizes her own existence. Yato God is also true. Due to Shimozu's illness, she was severely injured both physically and mentally, and was increasingly deteriorating... Of course, this is not what Xiaqi wants to see, so she chose to entrust her memory to me for safekeeping." Uno Sanqian sighed , staring at her hand in a daze, as if Xia Qi, who was already out of human form at that time, was holding her hand, "Forget it, if that can really end everything."

"..." Kanaki could feel Shimoki's despair from Uno Sanqian's narration, which was the last humble wish of a woman who had never been happy in her life.

"I promised Xia Qi, and I did. It's a pity that Xia Qi cannot be reincarnated, so I can only reshape his physical body and arrange relatives and friends for her in this world. I hope she can live like an ordinary girl. For a lifetime, I will reap everything that Xiaqi lost. Unfortunately, her power cannot be completely wiped out, so the eyes can still see things on the other side, and the only thing that can break the seal is her own denial of the name "Kanaki". The presence."

No wonder Li Linjun would take such painstaking efforts to make her say that her existence is meaningless, but that is indeed the truth.

She raised her head slightly, "... Kanaki is really a false existence in this world?"

"If you have to get to the bottom of it, your parents are indeed my artifacts, and your friends are also virtual shells I created." Uno Sanqian will not deny the facts, but there are more important things besides this. "Love is not fake, do you remember the old couple that Xiaqi helped?"

"It's the couple who asked to find their daughter?"

Uno Sanqian nodded and smiled softly: "After that, they were taken in by me and became my artifacts. After knowing about you, I came to ask me to be your parents to repay your kindness."

Kanaki looked at Uno Sanqian in disbelief: "...It's them?"

"Yes, so they love you, and I love you too. No one can replace Kanagi's existence. Please don't give up on yourself and your new life." Uno Sanqian He hugged the girl tightly in front of him, as if the distant past and the girl's smiling face when they first met appeared in front of his eyes, "Axi, let's go back together, shall we?"

go back?

Yes, she remembered how her parents had to prevent her from saying those words when she was taken away by Li Linjun.

——"Axi, you are my daughter! Our family of three has lived together for 16 years! You are not the strongest concubine with nothing, please be good, my lord!!"

How could the 16-year relationship be false?

The father's strict and kind teaching, the mother's gentle and caring care, the memories of the past are vivid...how can it be false?

And Sanqian, and Yukine... and Yato, all they met and acquainted with was Kanaki.

Her tears suddenly burst at this moment, and she hugged Uno Sanqian tightly, obviously she could rely on others a little more.

"Thank you." Kanaki cried until he couldn't make a sound, "I won't easily deny myself anymore, I may be Shimoki, maybe Jiuyin, but I am even more Kanaki, you have done enough for me .”

"Stupid Axi, we are friends since the first time we met."

Kanaki and Uno 3000 hugged and cried for a long time before they separated. She wiped away her tears, knowing that there are more important things to do now.

"Sanqian...can I still call you Sanqian?" She asked hesitantly.

"Well, I'm used to it too, you should call me Sanqian."

"Okay." Kanagi nodded in response, and continued, "Sanqian, what's the situation outside now?"

Kanaki refers to the current Huangquan Hirasaka. At this moment, she was brought to this independent space by Uno Sanqian, and she didn't know what was going on outside.

How is Yato?How is Xueyin?Will Izanami let them go so easily?Also, what happened to Kuribayashi Jun and Nora who escaped from the underworld?She has always had a lot of questions about them. She remembers that Kuribayashi Jun said he was Yato's father, and the man who took in the residence, Yato also called him father... Could it be that Kuribayashi Jun was the man back then?Is he really just human?

Uno Sanqian frowned after hearing her words: "Well, he is indeed a human being, although he is inextricably linked with gods and monsters, and can even appear in different postures in different eras."

"As a human being, he can still do this. Who the hell is he?"

"He can even avoid my modification of Xiaqi's existence, so he and Nora have never forgotten Xiaqi. Fortunately, they didn't know that I rescued Xiaqi from Huangquan until you and Yedou were killed by me. It was only when the severed relationship continued to be revealed again."

A human being that cannot even be controlled by gods, that is, this person designed to make Xia Qi degenerate into a demon, so——

Kannaki looked at Uno Sanqian firmly, she already knew what she should do: "If there is anyone who is absolutely unforgivable, he is the only one."

In the past and present life, all the grievances and grievances should be broken.

"Let's go back."

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Yato is lying on the ground, the smell of his own blood lingers in the tip of his nose, but there is nothing in front of his eyes. In that gloomy and cold Huangquan Hirazaka, he may never be able to see the outside world, and the endless blackness shrouds his head. It seems that everything in the land of hell is about to be eroded gradually.

It turns out that this is what you saw. You struggled through the most painful days alone in the cold Huangquan Kingdom.

Yato raised his hand and stared blankly, clenched it, opened it, clenched it again, opened it again...why didn't he hold her hand tightly at that time?If only I could hold on a little tighter...a little tighter...

The corners of his eyes were warm, and he lowered his arms in despair to cover them.

"Hey, are you crying?"

Xue Yin's voice came from next to his ear, he didn't let go, but after a slight pause, he replied slowly: "...there is no love affair, my husband, don't make trouble."

He obviously said that, but the warmth flowed from the corners of his eyes to his ears.

"...Asshole, instead of crying here, why don't you hurry up and get Axi back!"

Xueyin struggled to stand up from the ground in pain, and wiped off the dust on his face, but before he stepped forward to pull Yato from the ground, a pair of soft arms that seemed to be boneless wrapped around his neck.

His whole body was stiff, he even stopped breathing, like a seductive sweet goddess protruding from his left shoulder——

"Little brother, don't worry about Axi, why don't you stay with him and play with me."

"Snow! Come here!"

The boy under Izanami disappeared in an instant, and she raised her eyes boredly to the man who had an extra knife in his hand not far away, and the serious gaze made her feel uncomfortable.

"Hey, don't beat me, you can't beat me, that little girl is like that, she should stay in Huangquan, why don't you stay together?"

It's just that as soon as her words fell, a knife flashed in front of her eyes, she tilted her head and easily avoided the cut, and met his eyes——

"It's not good at all. Whether it's Axi or Xueyin, I will take them out of Huangquan."

"Do you mean to defeat me?" Izanami laughed, reached out to caress the man's hand holding the knife, and touched the handle of the knife, "But your artifact seems to be afraid of the dark. "

"...!!" Yetou was in a bad mood, put away his knife and jumped out, and the moment he landed, the surrounding area suddenly became dark, and the light from the distance was gone, and the snow weapon in his hand was violent. trembling.

Too bad, if this continues, there is no need to fight at all.

"Xueyin! Calm down!"

The surrounding area was too dark, and it was impossible to distinguish the food in front of me by sight, and the wet smell penetrated into the nostrils was even stronger. Izanami's laughter came from all directions as if it had been added with a 3D effect, which made people nauseous.

At this time, you can only rely on your intuition. Yato swung his knife and slashed twice, but only heard the sound of his clothes flapping. The woman came out from behind unexpectedly, and licked his ear with her wet tongue. He wanted to raise his hand and swing the knife, but found that something emerging from the ground was tightly wrapped around Xue Qi, unable to move.

Therefore, when Kanaki returned to Huangquan, what he saw was such a picture, a woman with Shiki's face was climbing on Yato in an infuriating posture.

Yes, the Izanami in her eyes is Shizuki's face, but at this moment it doesn't matter, the important thing is——

"What are you doing—?!!"

Ye Dou hit him fiercely with a shock, his scalp went numb, and the snow weapon in his hand trembled violently, he turned his head and saw the girl, he was stunned for a long time before he believed his eyes: "Ah, ah happiness?!"

Kanagi didn't respond to him in a leisurely manner. She was looking forward to the reunion at first. After all, she and Yato had been separated for almost a lifetime, but now she cared more about the fact that this woman who used her face in theory was confronting him. Her man does this kind of thing.

The more angry she was, the calmer her face became. She walked over and violently pulled Izanami's annoying hair with her remaining left hand: "I said, stay away from them."

"Women can't be too fierce, they will frighten men." Izanami didn't care about her hair, and with a wave of her head, the hair slipped away from Kanaki's hands.

Yato saw this opportunity and used the snow weapon to cut off the thing that was entangled him, but he was already dulled by the darkness, and she easily dodged it with her agility, and only swept Izanami's clothes.

Kanaki simply opened his big hands and stood in front of Yato, looking at Izanami with unfriendly eyes: "Anyway, if you have something to say, don't make any moves, I'm dating the zombie god of war Baiqi."

"……A Xi?"

Kanaki was startled when he heard the voice behind him, he lowered his head and waited for a few seconds before replying, "Yes, Yato, I'm back."

Hearing this answer, Yato's expression finally relaxed. He put down the hand holding the knife, hugged the girl from behind, and buried his head in the socket of his shoulder. The warm and familiar smell was indeed Kanaki is right, she is finally... back.

Kanaki was a little stunned when he was hugged, but then he reached out and stroked his hair, and said softly, "I'm fine, really."

"Ah."

"I went back in time and knew everything."

"……Um."

"But it doesn't matter, we can slowly calculate the past."

"Ah."

"……Fool."

"Aren't you too?"

She suddenly wanted to cry, but she still raised her head and pretended to be funny and changed the topic: "I said your eyes are red, you are crying because of me, right?"

It was rare for Kanagi to say some jokes. In fact, she couldn't really see the ignorance. She just wanted to adjust the atmosphere, which was obviously not very good. It's a pity that the jokes would change from her serious face. She soon realized this, too.

But unexpectedly, the person she asked answered her immediately——

"Well, I cried for you."

"..." Kanagi was taken aback, according to her understanding of Yato, even if he really cried, he would definitely turn his back and wipe his eyes with his sleeves, and would never admit it so readily.

Yato saw her empty right sleeve, his blue eyes were moist again, but he still had a smile on his lips, and hugged her tighter: "But it's all right now."

As long as you come back you'll be fine.

But the picture didn't last long, the sharp and slender black hair struck them again, Yato's eyes changed, but the snow weapon in his hand was already blunt, and he knew that the hair had been chopped off, so Kanagi hugged him One of them dodged the attack, while Izanami on the other side was obviously unhappy because she had been ignored for a long time.

"It's really annoying. You have to have a bottom line when you talk about love."

Kannaki covered her eyes, she knew that in such a dark environment, Yukine couldn't use her strength at all, let alone actually fight Izanami, even a simple defense would be very difficult.

If so, then the only way is——

"Night Fight."

"Huh?" Yato looked at the girl who suddenly called his name.

"I never tried it back then."

"Eh?"

Kannaki raised the corners of her mouth towards him: "Use my feelings."

Yato's eyes widened suddenly, but soon he smiled knowingly: "Ah, indeed."

Kanaki closed her eyes, white light radiated from her body, her figure gradually disappeared in the air, before she completely disappeared, she curled up her mouth and said softly: "But I may not be very easy to use, after all, I am missing a right hand. "

As soon as the words fell, the light flying in the air condensed into the shape of a sword in Yato. It was a Taidao. The only difference was that she was a Taidao without a handle. Sad, the picture of the girl's severed hand falling into the wind hole flashed again and again in his mind, he closed his eyes, then switched the snow weapon to his left hand, stepped forward and grasped the blade of the Taidao, as if he would cut it first with a little force Hurt himself, but at this moment Yato showed a helpless and reassuring expression.

He said, "Hey, Jiu Yin, this time I finally hold your hand firmly."

……

Seeing the scene in front of her, Izanami blinked her eyes in surprise: "The demon is still turning into a knife, do you really think of yourself as a divine weapon? I really don't understand, what are young people thinking now."

She looked at the man holding two knives in front of her, and suddenly felt bored: "Do you really want to leave that much?"

"Of course, it's better to get out." Yato looked at her and answered without hesitation.

Izanami thought for a while, and then raised a finger and shook it: "Okay, then I will give you a chance. If you can cut me down, I will let you go."

The wind blows head on.

The blade in the man's hand glowed with a cold light, and the front edge had been deeply cut into the middle of the woman's beautiful head.

Everything happens in just an instant.

"This is really a beautiful cutting technique."

Izanami's face was split in two, peeling off from both sides to the ground, but what was revealed was countless squirming long hairs, as if they had life, the two sides of the face were barely put together, and the lips were covered with bright red rouge Divided into four halves but still smiling and speaking clearly.

"In this case, I have no choice but to let you go as I said just now."

Yeto frowned, he didn't expect that he could cut to such an unfathomable depth with just one knife, but since she said so, no matter whether there is a trick or not, it's better to leave as soon as possible.

He stared at Izanami vigilantly and took a few steps back, after confirming that she hadn't moved, he turned around and ran towards the exit of Huangquan Hirazaka with the blame weapon and the snow weapon as fast as possible.

Izanami looked at the man's disappearing back, the smile quickly disappeared from her face, her voice became low and old: "Can I stop standing behind him?"

Uno Sanqian stood up from behind Izanami and walked in front of her, somewhat inconceivable: "I didn't expect you would really let them go."

"I'm worried that you, who appeared quietly behind me, will suddenly do something rough to me. I can't stand it when I'm old." She yawned lazily, raised her hand and caressed stroking his neck.

"Come on, I don't think you're vulnerable enough to be really threatened by me."

"Well, it's really not my usual style to let them go like this, but it's not impossible to have small bugs slipping away in front of my eyes occasionally." Izanami didn't deny it either, she took a puff of cigarette and then Putting down the pipe, she lay down on the luxurious couch, "I'm sleepy, so I won't see you off."

"..." Seeing the woman slowly falling asleep, Uno Sanqian didn't say anything more, turned around and disappeared into this land of hell.

At this moment, the sleeping woman opened her eyes again. She just suddenly remembered the man who was scared by his rotten body and fled a long time ago——

"It turns out that not all men are as bad as you."

She looked up at the underground world she had stayed in for thousands of years and suddenly smiled, and raised her hand upwards as if to grab something: "Next time, you must come and be my friend."

If there is a next time.