"Are you okay?" Axi asked me.

"It's okay." I said with a smile, "Why do you ask that?"

A Xi didn't answer, everything about him just stopped there.

"..."

"If it's okay, I'll leave. After all, I still have a lot to see." I said to him with a smile, and then passed him.

A Xi didn't move much, so I took a few steps and saw Xi Xia when she was a child. She was playing with the children, and then she showed an innocent smile in my direction.

I smiled back and walked forward again.

This is the season when cherry blossoms are flying. Xixia is dressed in white and has a happy smile on her face, but the other person is not a young man, but an old man with a stooped figure.

When Xixia grew up, she was attracted by the city lord. There was a famine in the village. In exchange for the village's food rations, the villagers offered them to the city lord, and she accepted it willingly.

Xixia saw me, and the smile on her face became even brighter.

I knew that as long as I took a few more steps, I could see Xixia's body dumped in the mountains. But...

I squatted next to Xixia's head and saw the rotten flesh eating away at the smiling face.

Even if she relied on her wisdom to survive for a few years with the city lord, she was ultimately no match for the power. Her parents had died long ago, and she died like this without anyone to rely on.

I stood up and continued walking forward.

"Can't go there!"

Xixia stood in front of the soldiers, with a mountain behind her. Because she was protected by a divine envoy, she escaped from the mountain with evil spirits. In order to prevent more people from dying, she lived at the foot of this mountain.

down to better alert passers-by.

However, this time she stopped the troops who were rushing to support them. They pierced the chest of Xi Xia, who was trying to stop them even if she fell.

This time, Xixia also saw me. When she was dying, the bleeding corners of her mouth were still raised.

I smiled back and walked forward again.

seaside.

"Eight hundred!" Xixia shouted to a girl while stepping on the waves, waving to her vigorously.

The girl blinked, waved happily, ran past me, and stepped on the waves side by side with Xixia.

Xixia saw me and waved vigorously to me.

I watched them leave and also saw the fish in Xixia's basket.

There was not much fishing that year, and there was another year of famine. Such a fat fish was obtained with the help of the divine messenger. Unfortunately, Xixia did not eat it. The fish was taken away when she reached the entrance of the village.

.

Or, because they were soft-hearted, they distributed the fish to the fleeing villagers in other villages.

Until one day, a girl named Babai found a "big fish" stranded on the beach. Encouraged by the villagers, she also took Xixia to eat fish with her.

I watched for a while. The girl named Babai was eating fish. But I knew very well that the fish she was eating was not an ordinary fish. It was...

Mermaid meat.

And what about Xixia?

In such a famine year, being too kind will only lead to death.

So, I saw her body lying on the ground, still laughing until she died.

I stopped for a while and then moved forward.

The Liren Pavilion moved slightly in the candlelight, and Xixia, who was still a young girl, was a little stunned.

She turned to A Li, who was a former singer, and said with a smile: "Miss A Li, that young man is here."

A Li reached out and touched Xi Xia's head: "Will you come together?"

"I don't want it." Xi Xia made a face at A Li and ran away.

She knew very well what the young master meant to Miss A Li. If possible, she very much hoped that the young master could take Miss A Li away from the Liren Pavilion as soon as possible.

After A Li left, Xi Xia lay on the railing again and looked at the dimly lit place in the distance.

At this time, a small boat sailed out of the calm water under the railing. If you didn't look carefully, the small boat would have left quietly.

Xixia laughed again.

I looked away and took a few steps forward, and I could see her being swallowed up by the fire again.

I stood there and watched Xixia push the other girl away. When she turned around, she could see a red-hot wooden pillar hitting her.

Maybe you have thought that if you hadn't done that, you might still be alive?

Maybe she didn't think about anything, she just turned her head and smiled in the girl's direction at the last moment of her life.

I turned around and continued walking forward.

The scroll is slightly tilted, on the dark side of the screen, in the backlight, Xi Xia, who is elegantly dressed, is half-kneeling in front of a child, placing her hands gently on the child's shoulders, as if she is saying something.

The child was listening carefully, and Xixia saw me.

I knew she would still smile, so I turned my head.

That child will become the great onmyoji of Kyoto in the future, and she will die at the hands of monsters. Is it the hatred caused by the onmyoji's failure to eradicate the monsters, or is it because of her negligence that the monsters come to her door. In short, I'm going to

I went there before and all I saw were burning houses.

The scroll was broken, the screen was half broken, surrounded by fire, and blood came out of Xixia's belly——

Until the end, she still believed that the young man who called her little aunt could come to help in time, so even though the monster brutally cut open her stomach and dug out her internal organs, the remaining consciousness still remembered it all.

But the fire was too big.

They came too late.

In her short life, she left so many regrets for that child.

When I left there, I saw Yuxia, who was still a child again, and... Chiyo. There, I also saw Konguri, but they never met.

In the blink of an eye, it was just Konguri running around looking for the missing miko, while Yuka continued to grow up in the shrine, worshiping the gods with her sister Chiyo.

Later, Chiyo met Tamamo-mae. It was also at that time that Tamamo-mae met Yuka.

Chiyo died as a punishment from heaven, and Tamamo Mae became anonymous because of the child, taking on the appearance of Chiyo to raise the child, and often visited Yukari who was still at the shrine.

Tamamo Mae may think that Yuka doesn't know the fact that Chiyo is dead, but she has always been smart, but she just thought about it and stayed at the shrine to atone for Chiyo's sins.

She could not live to be twenty, but because of her desire to atone, she looked pitiful.

When the fire caused by the loss of her child swept through Kyoto, she wanted to go to Kyoto to find out about Tamamo Mae because she noticed "Chiyo" who had not visited for several days.

Maybe you feel that it will be very tiring to keep hiding it and pretending to be stupid all the time.

Therefore, when the fire broke out, her heart of atonement, which had nowhere to put it, made her use the protective object Tamamo-mae gave her. It is precisely because of this that she protected many people.

only……

There are always people who covet her, there are always people who have ulterior motives, and there are always people who at that time think, "She was actually saved by a monster", "Even if she is not a monster, she is definitely not a good person" and so on...

She was not wary of those she saved.

When those people shouted "Monster" loudly and pushed her into the fire who was protecting them, the protective object also lost its effect.

The fire consumed them all.

Tamamo-mae transformed into Chiyo and returned to the shrine again, wanting to tell Yuka the truth, but found that Yuka had already left for Kyoto. Naturally, he did not find Yuka, nor did he save her.

That's why, in the very beginning, he came to see me in the form of Chiyo.

I stopped and felt tired.

Tired?

Well, tired.

But there is still so much to read.

That kind of thing...

Try to move forward. After reading her story that has gone through thousands of years, you can be like her.

Yeah……

As perfect as her, as kind as her, as brave as her, as desperate as her, as...

I don't want to be like her...

But the body is no longer one's own, and there is only one way to go on. If you don't do this, you won't even be qualified to live.

alive...

Yamata no Orochi doesn't want the real god to appear, so it doesn't matter what it looks like. However, the god envoy doesn't think so. Since the body has been integrated into one, can it be considered that the divine power will also become more powerful?

powerful?

For this reason, Yamata no Orochi will undo all my remaining seals...
To be continued...