tokyo creator

Chapter 285 The Fate of the Fox
Witnessing the whole process of the deaths of Priest Lin and Priestess Noko, Kiyoyuki Tsuchimikado tried to take a deep breath for a long time, with complicated emotions that were hard to describe.

Of course, he would not sympathize with Priest Lin and Miko Noko.

Originally, from the standpoints of Qingxing and Priest Lin, Priest Lin was the murderer who persistently tried to kill him twice in a row and almost succeeded.

Qing Xing is the victim. Even if the murderer is killed, why should the victim sympathize with the other person?

What's more, everyone who enters Heianjing should be enlightened, either killing people or being killed... Anyway, they are all dedicated to the Lord Fengguo.

But if you want to hate, you can't hate it.

Because people from small shrines like him and Priest Lin did not enter Heian Kyo with the fearlessness of devotion to Lord Toyokuni...

From this point of view, the two of them can be considered similar in terms of struggle and unwillingness.

……Again.Regardless of whether you are willing or unwilling before entering Heian-kyo, after entering, only awareness is meaningful - killing is normal, and being killed is also normal.

Various feelings, thoughts, life, and death are intertwined, as if forming a mist net, covering Qing Xing.

After all, before today, he was just an ordinary boy.So at this time, his biggest feeling was that he was at a loss and not adaptable.

At this point, the ceremony is over.

Hui Yuanchu and Ibuki Laixiang walked towards him.

Qing Xing looked up at this scene and immediately shuddered. All the confusion disappeared like ice water.

The scene when the two people walked in was like hell.

In the fight just now, the body of the priest of Heqi Shrine who had been killed and dismembered by Priest Lin before became more and more broken and splattered, with flesh, blood and tissue almost covering the entire ground.

So the two of them walked all the way, and with every step, there was a "crunching" sound under their feet. It was either sticky or something was crushed...or it was sticky because of something crushed.

But in such a scene, Hui Yuanchu's expression was distracted as always, with his hands in his pockets.Lai Xiang hugged Hui Yuanchu's arm, complaining softly all the way that the socks were stained with blood.

Judging by their expressions, the two look like an ordinary student couple going shopping...

...Really, it’s so normal that it’s abnormal.

Qingxing resisted the urge to vomit, and the thought came to his mind, and fear arose at the same time.

At first, he thought that the other party was just an ordinary person who was involved and wanted to live a normal life.But now, no matter how stupid he is, he understands after this series of things happened.

Hui Yuanchu, who created two corpses without changing his expression, and Ibuki Rika, who danced happily around the corpses, were not ordinary people.

...Priest Lin at least said one thing correctly.

To say "same kind", their gradually revealed nature... they are not the same kind as ordinary people like Qingxing who have ordinary people's joys and sorrows.

——It is "Zhaigong".

Just as Priest Lin had declared, Qing Xing was almost certain that the other party was "Fox Zhai Palace".

Priest Lin recognized it from the sacred branch of rice ears, while Qingyuki recognized it because when he was watching Ibuki Rika's kagura dance, a long-standing memory suddenly triggered in his mind.

It was a few years ago that Kiyoyuki went to Inari Mountain to pay a visit because of Shinto Headquarters affairs.

After going up the mountain, in front of the worship hall of Fushimi Inari Taisha Shrine, Kiyuki glanced at the crowd, and then saw a... fox witch? ?

The bright girl in white clothes and scarlet hakama has long hair dyed orange-brown, and the outline of animal ears is vaguely visible on the top of her head.She was like a gust of wind running through the tourists.If she accidentally bumped into someone, she would squint her eyes like a fox and laugh. She would turn around and make a cute face to the other person and apologize loudly.

As a result, most of the disturbed pilgrims were infected and laughed together, forgave the fox girl, and waved to her.

But this is just a glimpse.

When Qing Xing took a serious look again, the bustling crowd of pilgrims gathered together again, and the figure no longer left any trace.

That glance was so brief that Kiyoyuki was confused for a moment, unable to confirm whether it was the fox miko who had disappeared into the crowd, or whether he was temporarily dazzled...or maybe he was so lucky that he bumped into the Inari God. The prank of the fox caused by the god?
Until today, Qingyuki suddenly remembered this incident and the appearance of the fox witch who was dancing like an elf.

Now, she is here.

She is Ibuki Laika.

"Kusasaigu Shrine" from Fushimi Inari Taisha Shrine.

From this, perhaps because of the confirmation of the previous relationship, Tsuchimikado Kiyuki's fear of these two people subsided.

Thinking about it carefully, Hui Yuanchu had indeed not done anything detrimental to him so far.No, on the other hand, Hui Yuanchu saved his life twice in a row from Priest Lin's sword, and was the real savior.

Therefore, the shame that was almost going to the ground replaced the fear, and rose in Qing Xing's heart.

He almost couldn't bear to look back, when he first met Hui Yuanchu and Yi Chuilaixiang, he even thought about protecting them, and even boasted about Haikou saying that meeting him was Hui Yuanchu's good luck!

In short, Qing Xing still controlled his urge to turn around and run away.

Hui Yuanchu came over. He mumbled and didn't know what to say, but in the end he squeezed out his thanks first: "Thank you... thank you."

"I promised you." Hui Yuanchu said casually.

In comparison, he seems to be more concerned about another issue.

Hui Yuanchu asked seriously: "By the way, do you really not know Guan Xu?"

Qing Xing's mood had to be interrupted.He thought about it seriously: "You just mentioned this name, and I have the impression that I may have seen it in some document. There is indeed a Mi Yi with this name in the shrine. But other than that, I have not interacted with this person." Guan Youyi has dealt with him before."

"So, you haven't heard of other stories about this person?" "Well..." Qingxing carefully recalled it again, and finally confirmed, "No, I haven't heard of it at all."

"Weird..." Hui Yuanchu muttered, "I thought that guy would be famous for his annoying personality..."

Then he asked again: "Then, there is another question - before you met us, did you exorcise the Yuliu soul? If so, tell me the conversation you heard between them."

"No, when I met you, I had just found the first jade soul." Qingxing answered honestly.

Hui Yuanchu nodded, and then said in a non-negotiable tone: "Then, when things here are over, I will send you to Jinhui Hall."

"...what is that place?"

"The location of Guan Niyi and Saioudai... So, in other words, it is probably the shrine's guarding place in Kyoto during the Kamie Festival. At this time, there is only one exit from Heian Kyo."

"Huh?" Qing Xing was stunned, "What do you mean-"

"Yes, it's time for you to leave Heianjing."

"But the exorcism of Yuliuhun should not be enough..."

"That's enough." Hui Yuanchu pointed to his pocket, "Look at your sacred branch."

Qingxing took out his own magic branch and saw a small ball of comet light flying around it.He said unexpectedly: "When-"

"After all, you and the two people just fought face to face. Coupled with the amount of jade souls exorcised before, the ruling domain... no, the rules of the divine domain have been met, and you can leave safely."

Hui Yuanchu's way of speaking was a little strange, but Qing Xing could understand that Hui Yuanchu meant that Lord Feng Guo was satisfied.

So he also breathed a huge sigh of relief. He was a little dizzy for a moment and almost fell down.

"In that case, Harumi and I..." Qingyuki just wanted to show that he was following the arrangement, but suddenly he felt something was wrong. He looked at Ibuki Rika, "Wait a minute, Haibara-kun, Ibuki, Harumi... where is Harumi?"

Just now, Harumi left with Ibuki Rika, but now, why is Rika alone?

Hui Yuan thought for a while, and seemed to see something: "It was tied up by Lai Xiang and stuffed into the cabinet under the kitchen sink."

"..."

Qingxing couldn't understand what Hui Yuanchu meant at all, and for a moment he simply thought he wasn't speaking Japanese.

"Well, it's too troublesome to explain. So I tricked Chunhai into drinking the water from the sleeping pill." Yibuki Laixiang smiled brightly and made a victory gesture.

"So that's it. Because the situation was urgent, Laixiang was a little rough...but don't worry, if you handle it this way, she will be safer in the next thing."

Although he didn't understand it, Qing Xing instinctively had an ominous premonition.

"...Is the situation urgent? What's next?"

"Tsuchimikado, if you hadn't met me, I don't think you would have survived for long." Hui Yuanchu played with the sacred branch in his hand like a pen, while looking back at him, "Don't you ever think about a question? But why do the people from Fuku Shrine and Heki Shrine happen to be here?"

Qing Xing opened his mouth, and suddenly, a sinister thought came to his mind, ready to come out.

Kobayashi did not happen to be here.But from the very beginning, Kobayashi, and even Shibata... planned to use Tamarihun as bait to ambush him.

"But isn't Xiaolin already..." he said in a trembling voice, "is it over?"

Hui Yuanchu smiled at him, perhaps expressing his approval for his quick thinking.

Then, he asked again: "Have you ever heard of a story about 'the mantis watched the cicada, but didn't know that the oriole was behind, but in the end they were all caught by the cat'?"

Qing Xing was completely stunned and horrified for a moment.

But Hui Yuanchu suddenly turned his head and looked at the window covered by curtains.

Outside the window, some kind of low rolling sound gradually sounded.It was like a huge stone mill grinding between heaven and earth.

Hui Yuanchu suddenly turned around and said to him: "Go and hide with sister Chunhai."

Qing Xing didn't remember to answer before he came, but he heard a "whoop" sound, and the curtains that were originally nailed to the window frame were violently blown away.

In an instant, the pouring rain poured in violently, along with the howling sound of the wind squeezing through the narrow window frame.

Qing Xing was startled and turned to look out the window. He was surprised to find that it was already storming outside at some point.

"Get down." Hui Yuanchu suddenly said.

Qingxing didn't react for a while

——But as soon as Haiyuan shouted those two words, Ibuki Raika licked her lips and lowered her waist. She jumped forward quickly, and at the same time, she extended her hand into a claw shape and grabbed Qingyuki's back foot.

For a moment, Qing Xing felt as if someone had suddenly pulled the rug away, and he instinctively screamed and fell to the back of his head.

In his shaking vision, he suddenly saw a tornado suddenly pouring into the window from the window, and then quickly expanded in size, swallowing the entire floor in one breath.

In just a few seconds, the entire second floor of the house was swept away, and the roof was instantly lifted off, lifted into the sky and torn to pieces in the blink of an eye by the violent wind.

The field of vision suddenly opened up.

But from the unobstructed sky, the majestic and solid rain fell instantly, flooding Qing Xing's mouth and nose.

(End of this chapter)