Kyoto Shenyin Love Story

Chapter 3 The Fugitive

The cold wind and rain were at their peak, and the doors and windows of the old house were rattling.

In the silent corridor, noises came from all directions, and the sound entered my ears.The two standing side by side looked at each other, held hands together, and hid the amulet in their palms.

Floors, walls, sliding doors...

Akane Kirino turned her gaze from left to right, and finally landed on the face of Soya beside her.

"Have you left?"

Looking at the empty corridor in front of him, he could only shake his head.

"I do not know."

"awesome……"

He understood what she was saying, and nodded his head in agreement.

"Thanks to this amulet."

The moment he stretched out his hand to hold her, the daughter of Huangquan in front of him disappeared, and she couldn't see anything.

"but……"

The fear subsided, Kirino Akane immediately became concerned about the reason, "Why?"

"It's just my guess."

Soya looked down at the hands that were holding each other, "Although it is not very appropriate, you can tentatively understand spiritual perception as an aura covering the body.

If the spiritual sense is strong, the range of the aura will be large; if the spiritual sense is weak, the aura cannot even cover one's body.Perceiving the existence of others through spiritual perception is actually the contact of each other's auras. "

"And this amulet seems to suppress this aura."

He shook his head, "No, it's right to suppress all abilities related to spiritual perception."

Even the aura on his body was completely concealed.

"The daughter of Huang Quan is a spirit body, so I can't see her suddenly?" Kirino Qian asked.

"Yes."

"But she can still see us? After all, Soya-kun and I have physical bodies."

"Well, but it's only visible."

Soya looked at her, "Since Ms. Kirino has read "The Chronicle of Ancient Matters", she should know something about the daughter of the underworld. She is not interested in ordinary people."

"All I know is that she is a servant sent by Lord Izanami to chase after the 'unscrupulous man'..."

Thinking of something interesting, Akane Kirino suddenly laughed, "But Mr. Soya said just now that he is not Izanagi-sama, so why did he become the target of the daughter of the underworld?"

"This is where myth and reality exist."

The invisible daughter of the underworld might still be lingering by her side, and Soya didn't dare to release the amulet to confirm, so he simply used this time to explain to her.

"The Daughter of Huangquan is a high-level spiritual body unique to Huangquan Kingdom in the other world, born from the will of the gods, before Izanami became the master of Huangquan.

The meaning of their existence, apart from obeying the orders of the master of Huangquan and maintaining the order of Huangquan country with the Huangquan army, is to act according to instinct. "

"instinct?"

"Monitor all kinds of spirits in Huangquan Kingdom, and arrest those who escaped from Huangquan. In short, we must not let them return to the world to cause trouble."

"..."

Akane Kirino was stunned for a moment, and after understanding the meaning of the words, the way she looked at him changed a little.

"No... I'm still alive, not a spirit body."

Soya quickly understood her thoughts and just looked at her calmly.

"Two years ago, I fell into the gap between the other world and the human world, and accidentally ate the food of Huangquan. Since then, I have been contaminated with the atmosphere of Huangquan. Even if I am still alive, I am regarded by the daughter of Huangquan as a member of the kingdom of Huangquan. People, keep watching."

"It wasn't until more than a month ago that the evil spirits in Huangquan State made trouble and tore open a rift leading to the human world, so I took the opportunity to escape."

"It may be that the powerful ominous spirit has been captured back to the other world, or it may be that more servants have left the underworld. They started chasing me within a few days after escaping. I haven't had time to return to my hometown..."

"Hometown?" Akane Kirino suddenly interjected.

"Well, it's over there in Miyagi."

This is the shore of Lake Biwa in the Kinki region, and it is only about half an hour's drive from Kyoto, while Miyagi Prefecture is far in the center of the Tohoku region.

"So far!"

"So I, who only care about fleeing, have no chance of going back there."

"Mr. Zonggu has been missing for two years, and his family must be very worried, right?" She thought further, "Didn't you contact them after you left Huangquan?"

"No."

"why?"

Soya glanced at her, "I have no family."

"Huh?" Akane Kirino was stunned.

"When I was seven years old, my parents died and I had no relatives to adopt. I was raised in a child welfare institution in Miyagi."

With ten years to accept the reality, all he has left is peace.

"Rather than saying that I want to go back to my hometown, it's better to say that there is only one place for me to go. Maybe before being arrested and returned to Huangquan, I can take another look at the welfare home teacher who took good care of me and..."

Tong Yeqian's hand suddenly clenched a little tighter, and the warm mahogany talisman pressed against the palms of both of them.

"However, if you have this amulet, you will be fine, right?"

The two looked at each other, and she smiled at him.

"Although until now, I still have some doubts about the existence of such things as gods and hells in the world... But since Mr. Soya needs it more than me, I will give it to you."

"..."

Soya was silent for a while.

From the conversation just now, he already knew what this amulet meant to her.

"Thank you. When I fulfill my wish, I will come back and return it to Ms. Kirino."

"Really?" She laughed, "If you give it back to me, Mr. Soya will be taken back to hell."

"I promise."

Soya nodded, solemnly responding to her kindness.

"The daughter of Huangquan will not linger for no reason. If she can't feel my breath all the time, she will leave—just lend me a period of time occasionally to avoid the limelight."

"That's it... Mr. Soya has to stay here in Kinki."

"As long as it's not in Huangquan, it doesn't make much difference where it is."

"Then we'll talk about it later."

Akane Kirino thought for a while, "If you go to the relief center or the police station, they should send you back to Miyagi, right?"

"I'm not sure. It should be."

"It's raining too much now, let's go to the city center tomorrow afternoon."

"it is good."

"Before this..."

Her gaze shifted to the corridor in front of her again, "Is the daughter of the underworld still here?"

"I do not know."

Soya still said the same thing, but moved the hand holding her slightly, reminding her that she can witness by herself.

"..."

The girl glanced at him and slowly let go of her hand.

"Ah, ah, it's still here!"

"excuse me."

Akane Kirino was changing her shoes, "I have no one at home, please be more casual."

Soya came in, folded his umbrella and leaned aside.

"Don't close the door yet."

Putting on her slippers, she stood on tiptoe and looked outside the rainy door for a while.

"I really didn't follow."

"If there is no order from the master of Huangquan, the daughter of Huangquan will only act according to instinct, and cannot cope with this situation of appearing and disappearing." Zong Gu explained.

The daughter of Huang Quan, who followed the breath to the old house of the Kirino family, still lingered for a long time after Soya's breath was hidden by the amulet, and Akane Kirino simply took him back to her home first.

"Isn't this just like a robot... Close the door, it's freezing."

Although bringing Soya back home is enough to trust him, it is still inappropriate to let him enter her room. Kirino Akane asked him to stay in the living room first, and went upstairs by herself;
Back downstairs, besides a string, she also had a pair of silver scissors in her hand.

Soya was holding the amulet, she pulled the red thread, and pulled it twice before threading it on, "Although this thread is very strong, you should pay more attention to it."

"If the amulet is dropped, the spiritual sense will be released, and I will notice it immediately."

"Really? I don't feel anything."

"Miss Kirino's spiritual sense has been suppressed all the time, like a numb arm that has not returned to normal sensitivity when sleeping."

"So that's it... okay."

Soya hung the amulet around his neck, stuffed it into the neckline of a somewhat wide sweater, and patted it through the clothes.

"This is my uncle's clothes. It doesn't seem to fit well."

"It's ok."

He held up his gray sweater. "I'm so grateful to have clothes to keep me warm."

"yes."

Akane Kirino looked at him, "By the way, Mr. Soya's clothes are too torn to be washed, so I threw them away, okay?"

Zongya was startled, nodded quickly, and his eyes fell on the scissors beside him.

"Is it right here?"

"No, let's go to the sink. It's easier to clean up there, and if there is a mirror, Mr. Soya can feel at ease, right?"

"I don't really care."

Soya followed her to the washing room, and the girl asked him to stand in front, and brought him a stool to sit on.

"Beforehand..."

She took out the apron from the cabinet under the sink and carefully tied it around his neck, "I just learned it not long ago, and I only cut my father's hair. But he said he was quite satisfied."

"Do you cut it often?"

"No, Dad only let me cut it once."

"..."

Looking at the shoulder-length hair on the left and right, and looking at the smiling face behind his eyes in the mirror, Soya didn't say much.

"Then please."

"Good~"

Click, click—

After the pruning started, Akane Kirino stopped talking and moved the scissors around his head. Every time the opened blades were closed, a bunch of hair fell off;
The girl in the mirror opened her eyes wide, frowned slightly, with a serious and focused expression, Sogu stared at it for a while before moving her eyes to her own face.

There were a lot of skin care products on the washbasin, and after staying in the underworld for more than two years, his complexion was even fairer than hers.

Until two hours ago, he was still fleeing in the wind and rain.

Both the present and the past are like a dream, and it is hard to tell which is more real.

"Ah, wait...don't move around."

He touched his chest through the clothes and apron before he let go.

"Sorry, please continue."

Click, click, the scissors continued to walk, and the stubble of black hair slipped down the cloth under the watch;

Soya raised his eyes and looked at himself in the mirror.

Can this amulet really bring him back to a peaceful life?

　At six o'clock in the morning, two updates a day, the stable update has begun!

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　　Baidu [Izanami], you can understand what these girls have done in a few minutes, just have a general understanding.

　　In addition, the parts of this book that involve Japanese mythology are basically based on the "Kojiki", which contains both nonsense and random fabrications. Have fun, don't take it too seriously.

　　The title and introduction of the book have been harmonized and will be revised.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)