Sauichiro: rebuilding Ashina from the obliteration of the pillar

Chapter 41
"Miss Kanae, are you holding the sword used by samurai in the past?"

The two ran out of the village for a distance one after the other, and Yamasuke finally asked what he had been worried about.

He still remembered that the so-called extermination of ghosts was to use a special knife to cut off the ghost's head.

Thinking of that scene, he couldn't help but shudder.

"Yes."

Kanae nodded, removed the cloth bag outside the scabbard, and stuffed it into the pocket of the uniform, revealing the dark purple scabbard.

"This is the standard saber of our ghost killing team. It has the power to kill evil spirits. Because you didn't seem to like hearing similar words before, so I didn't mention it."

Said, Butterfly Chana Hui smiled: "What, little brother Yamasuke, are you afraid that I will hurt you?"

"Don't worry, the knives of the Ghost Killing Squad will only protect humans and will never be used against humans."

"This is our rule and our mission."

"As for what you said earlier, the fierce man who threatened the villagers, I guess he was just scaring people, please don't take it seriously."

Kanae already guessed who that person was.

It really fits your style, Mr. Fushikawa.

Yamasuke turned his head thoughtfully, his face full of doubts.

In the end, he still didn't choose to answer, but asked while walking: "Then, why did that uncle faint before?"

He was talking about Jinji Sase who was knocked out by Kanae.

In Yamasuke's mind, among the three people to be dealt with, this weak-looking girl should have been the best to deal with.

Although he didn't see the whole story clearly in the previous scene, Sansuke had a faint feeling in his heart that maybe it wasn't like this.

However, if they are in the same group, there shouldn't be conflicts, right?
So Yamasuke decided to ask for clarification.

"You said Mr. Sase..."

Butterfly Kanae's eyes flickered, pretending to look around, she couldn't lie without changing her face.

That's Genichiro's specialty.

Of course, she couldn't tell Cangsuke that "he is going to catch your parents", so she could only bite the bullet and explain: "He seems to have seen a strange animal on the roof, so he wanted to find out, but it turned out that Be careful falling off the roof."

"is it?"

Yamasuke seemed to suddenly remember something.

"That's right. In the past two days, many people seem to have said that they saw strange things on the roof. The village chief also said that he looks like the kappa in the story."

"is that so?"

Butterfly Chana Hui never thought that she could run into a dead mouse with a blind cat.

"Hey, why have I started to use lies to deal with others?"

She felt guilty.

In fact, the villagers said that Kappa is a chaotic crowd who goes from house to house looking for information day and night.

Under such high-intensity labor, they did not hide well, and were found, and they were also being cleaned up.

However, Butterfly Kanae's answer completely dispelled Yamasuke's doubts after all. He almost thought that this woman was a very powerful character.

"Maybe this time I don't need my brother to take action, I can..."

He knew that in order to maintain the temperature of the hot spring, his brother only rested for an hour or two a day.

If he is always called to deal with these bad guys outside the village, his brother's rest time will be sacrificed.

If I can do more things for my brother, it will definitely make him feel a little easier.

Shansuke secretly glanced at Butterfly Kanae out of the corner of his eyes, with a "justice" plan brewing in his heart.

In this way, the two, with their respective concerns in mind, quickly passed through the gloomy old forest on the southern slope, and came to the valley behind the slope.

"It's right in front, and that's the best hot spring in our village."

Yamasuke pointed forward, "When I left in the morning, Mr. Genichiro was still soaking in it."

At this time, it was two o'clock in the noon, and the sun hung high above the pool of clear spring water, completely rendering it into a beautiful bright golden color, which was very dazzling.

Seeing the sun, Butterfly Kanae finally felt relieved.

And her eyesight is very good, and she can see at a glance that Genichiro's very bright and gorgeous belt is hanging on the blue stone.

She remembered clearly that it seemed to be a gift from a girl to Genichiro, with the complete story of Taketori Monogatari embroidered on it, it would be an exaggeration to say that it was a precious work of art.

"Genichiro, are you in the hot spring? I'm Butterfly Kanae."

In order to prevent embarrassing things, Butterfly Kanae shouted over a dozen meters away.

However, a few seconds passed, and she received no response at all.

The little hope that had just been born was snuffed out again.

"Then I'm going over there!"

Butterfly Kanae didn't wait any longer, she frowned slightly, and walked straight forward.

After bypassing a few large bluestones, she found with anxiety that there was no one in the huge hot spring pool.

Only Genichiro's dark brown gold-embroidered haori and white yukata floated in the water.

If it weren't for the clear bottom of this pool, she would have thought that Genichiro had drowned in it.

"Where has he gone?"

Although it was daytime, there were always animals in the mountains, which made Butterfly Kanae couldn't help asking.

But even if it was an ordinary animal, it couldn't be Genichiro's opponent.

In the morning, the red leaves falling all over the courtyard still appeared in front of Butterfly Chanae from time to time.

"Mr. Genichiro, have you wandered around?" Yamasuke said, "The scenery here is very nice."

"Even if he wandered around curiously, he should put on clothes, right?"

Butterfly Chanel shook her head.

"The clothes are floating in the water, obviously encountered some unexpected situation. Could it be that he encountered a Kumamon bear?"

"Bears are hibernating this season."

Yamasuke approached Kanae slowly, and tentatively said, "He must not have gone near the spring of the hot spring. The water over there is relatively deep, and it is easy to slip and burn."

Sure enough, Kanae saw the bubbles on the other side of the pool, so she decided to go over and have a look.

But in this way, it is inevitable to enter the water.

At this time, Yamasuke said considerately: "It's inconvenient for Ms. Kanae to carry a knife. I'll help you."

"Then trouble you."

Kanae said gratefully, and handed the Sun Wheel Saber over.

She didn't think much about it, it just so happened that she could lift her pants with both hands in the water, so as not to get too wet and affect her actions after landing.

As for Haori, she stayed directly next to Genichiro Kishibe's belt.

It was only then that Yamasuke noticed that this woman had a gentle face, but her figure was not thin and thin, she was considered tall among women.

"Even so, she's just a woman..."

Thinking this way, Yamasuke followed Kanae into the water, wading towards the diagonal spring.

However, he stared at the big "Mie" character on Kanae's back, and suddenly slowly pulled the knife out of its sheath.

However, he is a novice after all——

"Chong!"

Although the knife was only five centimeters out of its sheath, it still made a short friction sound.

Yamasuke's heart stopped beating.

As expected, Kanae looked back and thought it was a child being mischievous: "Don't play with samurai swords indiscriminately, you will cut yourself."

Looking at the face that still cared about him until now, Yamasuke was frightened by the idea of ​​being discovered, but also had other emotions.

Do you really want to kill her?
She seemed like a totally nice person, unlike any of the previous ones.

"I've never seen a samurai sword, I'm just a little...curious."

He explained in a panic, inserting the knife back.

Although the sword weighs less than two kilograms, he is not Genichiro, has the strength of a normal adult, and has no experience in using a sword.

In this case, it is better to...

While Kanae turned her head away, Yamasuke raised it high with the sheath and aimed at the back of the woman's head.

Kanae looked at the spring, which was empty except for the water bubbles, and felt even more worried.

"Xianichiro is not an ordinary child, how could he make the mistake of being scalded by the spring?"

She felt that she really didn't want to let go of anything, and she was already in trouble.

However, just when she was about to turn around, she suddenly felt a sense of malice, and turned sideways instinctively, but firmly pinched the scabbard with her left hand, and then directly pulled the knife back forcefully.

The pink pupils and the dark brown pupils looked at each other, and the two looked at each other speechlessly.

The eyes of the former are full of doubts, shock and disbelief, but more of them are disappointment.

The latter is fear and growing shame.

"why?"

Perhaps because she was too excited and incomprehensible, Kanae's voice was hoarse.

She only felt an endless chill, piercing into her heart like a cold scalpel.

It never occurred to her that Genichiro's malicious conjecture could become a reality.

But the truth is that the ghosts and the villagers work together to deal with those who are not good for the development of the village's hot spring business?
Or are there no ghosts at all, just villagers?

Moreover, it was a child who attacked her.

At this moment, Yanzhu often talked about it, and the words that Kanae couldn't understand until now became somewhat clear.

"Children's hearts are always full of malice..."

However, Kanae Butterfly was not the only one who was too shocked to move.

Yamasuke froze on the spot.

He didn't expect that this woman could react so quickly even though her back was turned to her.

Moreover, her strength is really great, the moment she took the knife away, she almost dragged him down together!
After he reacted, he ran away without saying a word.

"Brother!" he shouted while running, "Brother! Where are you? Come and save me!"

He judges others by himself, and always feels that Butterfly Chanae might kill him.

After all, that's how he'd always treated people who offended the village.

Bring them here, or somewhere else, and let brother deal with them.

However, there was the sound of splashing water behind him, and Yamasuke felt his knee go soft, and he fell directly into the water.

That was caused by Butterfly Kanae stirring up the water skillfully through the Sun Wheel Knife.

She used her medical knowledge to hit the acupuncture points on Yamasuke's legs, making him unsteady.

But that's all, and no actual harm.

Looking at Sansuke, who was sitting in the water and kicking back in embarrassment, facing her, Butterfly Kanae asked for proof: "So, the ghost who makes people disappear is your brother Cansuke, isn't it?"

Hearing the words of Yamasuke calling for help when he escaped before, Kanae suddenly understood everything.

All the fragments suddenly pieced together into a whole map.

The disappearance of Cangsuke is not because he sacrificed himself and made a deal with the ghost.

Instead, he himself became a ghost.

So, shortly after his disappearance, the hot springs here became excellent.

Therefore, those guests would disappear only after checking out, the village and the hot spring hotel were therefore out of responsibility, and the police could not say anything.

For the same reason, most of the missing people were people who tried to hinder the development of hot springs in the village.

It was none other than his younger brother, Yamasuke, who communicated with Cansuke.

Although Kanae didn't understand why Canosuke would remember her brother and the village after becoming a ghost, the truth made her shudder.

Seeing Kanae just standing there, not intending to draw a sword, Yamasuke became more courageous.

He yelled at Kanae: "My brother is not a ghost, he is the god of hot springs in our village! He has been protecting this village from being hurt by you bad guys!"

Kanae knew that the child just didn't want to admit that his brother was actually a man-eating monster.

"I just want to ask," she looked at Sansuke with pity on her face, "Ms. Tamako and Mr. Yuya, they know that Sosuke has..."

Thinking of the haggard woman who cried when her eldest son was mentioned, and the middle-aged man who was drunk all day long and had dull eyes, the gentle Butterfly Kanae changed the way of saying, "Are you still alive?"

Perhaps touched by her expression, Yamasuke didn't continue to contradict, but shook his head silently.

"It seems that you also know that you can't tell your parents the truth."

"If you really think that your brother has become a god, why hide it from them?"

The most fragile barrier in his heart was instantly shattered, and Yamasuke's face turned pale.

"If you really think that brother is not a ghost, why did you sneak up on me?"

Butterfly Kanae squatted down, her tone was as gentle as the water in this hot spring, but each one was like a sharp knife cutting through Yamasuke's skin.

"This is because you have long understood in your heart that your brother is no longer the brother you used to be."

"But, when you know that the knife in my hand can hurt him, you can't help but protect him, right?"

Great fear surrounds Yamasuke.

The things he had been trying to deny all this time gradually surfaced in his mind.

He was only responsible for bringing people over, but he had no idea what happened to those people.

Until the morning, Butterfly Kanae mentioned that ghosts cannibalize people.

But Yamasuke still gritted his teeth and said: "My brother is not a ghost! He has never eaten people! We just wiped out all the people who hinder the village!"

If he admits that his brother cannibalizes, then he will really become a monster!
How can I say that he is a monster when he has almost given up on all his brothers for the sake of the village!
In that case, how pitiful my brother would be.

Although the voice was still firm, tears had flowed from the corners of Sansuke's eyes.

"I know you are a kind child, but I just hope that the village can turn around the bad situation."

"But Genichiro and the others are not bad people."

Butterfly Kanae continued to be emotional and sensible, "Tell me, before it's too late, where did Genichiro and the other missing people go? Okay?"

"You don't want your brother to hurt others with such a gesture and reason."

Her eyes were filled with anticipation, and she didn't seem to hate Yamasuke because of the sneak attack before.

She not only wants to help Genichiro, but also Yamasuke.

And all this just made Yamasuke feel more ashamed.

He lowered his head and said weakly: "I don't know."

He dared not look into Butterfly's eyes, nor would he betray his brother.

It's just that the teardrops as big as beans kept overflowing, dripping into the water, playing a sad rhythm.

"Don't cry, Yamasuke."

A gentle male voice sounded.

Butterfly Kanae suddenly looked at her feet, the voice came from under the rocks in the water.

The cyan stone surrounding the hot spring suddenly began to grow taller, and huge brown rocks rose up one after another around it, bending as if consciously, as if to completely cover the whole hot spring.

And in the center of the spring, a huge vortex appeared.

A coffin-like stone slowly rises from the vortex.

"Leave the rest to my brother."

The rock cracked open, revealing a magma-cast eye inside.

……

The battle on her side will affect the underground environment, which is the key to Genichiro's victory, so write her first.

At most two chapters to end the incident.

I guess.

(End of this chapter)