Tokyo Ghost Diary

Hoshino Gen opened the door of the palace, but it seemed like he had pulled up the curtain of the entire world.

Under the night, everything in the outside world was finally exposed to the eyes of everyone in the hall.

On the watery night, a huge bright moon hung alone, and the waterfall-like moonlight spread all over the sky, reflecting the rolling hillsides in the distance into wave-like silhouettes.

But behind the curtain, there is more than just this gentle night scene. On the horizon, the ruins of the collapsed city and the shrine's inner courtyard can be seen in a mess. Those silhouettes of people outside that were scattered in every corner of the shrine earlier are now very few left.

The thing that caused this situation was—the ancient behemoth that occupied most of the people in the hall.

It was currently bathing in the night, raising eight skeletal heads and roaring silently. The eight heads and sixteen eyes were all shining with frightening green light, just like sixteen big stars dotting the night sky, but The posture and appearance of the ferocious beast seemed to bite and devour the moon hanging high in the sky.

It is still far away from the shrine, but even so, such a size and such a sense of oppression still make people feel suffocated.

The eight-headed basilisk... or should I say, the skeleton. Yamata no Orochi. At this moment, his eight heads suddenly turned their direction, and eight pairs of green eyes locked on the place thousands of meters away in an instant. Hoshino Gen's location...

Or to be more precise, what the Skeleton Orochi was looking at was behind Gen Hoshino, lying on the bed, the most powerful miko of the time who had shouldered the burden of a thousand years, and the chief minister in charge of the Jiango Shrine, Chiyoho.

The big snake began to move its huge figure, like a continuous mountain range, rolling over the ruins and moving towards here.

At this moment, countless people who witnessed this scene subconsciously held their breath.

Hoshino Gen's eyes were half-closed, and in front of Tamamo, who was holding his clothes and standing next to him, a ball of crystal white light suddenly poured into his body.

A head of black hair turned into white, and little bits of light scattered around him. Until the moment when the illusory nine tails stretched out behind him, his figure slowly floated into the air. He stretched out his right hand, and the black and red demon sword turned from the flowing light into substance. .

If the skeletal Yamata-no-Orochi is a ferocious beast that has stepped into reality from ancient times, then Hoshino Gen, who merges with Tamamo-mae at this moment, is like a banished immortal who stepped into the mortal world from the ninth heaven, ethereal and noble.

The eyes behind him involuntarily shifted from the skeletal snake to his back. Even Sasaki Ayane couldn't help but stare at his figure in a daze at this moment.

She watched as Hoshino Gen's figure turned into a stream of light, watching the light cut through the dark night sky, and then hit the crushing snake like a meteor...

For Hoshino Gen... In fact, Sasaki Ayane herself doesn't know what kind of feelings she holds now.

Although they are an unmarried couple, they are really not very familiar with each other.

Before the engagement, the two had never paid attention to each other. After all, Hoshino Rin was naturally cold-blooded and did not like to socialize. Even if Hoshino Gen was quite famous in his grade, she had only heard of him.

However, the situation with Gen Hoshino was even more prosperous than hers. Before that, he had no idea about her, who was almost the second most famous person in the school...

It can be said that more than a month ago, the two of them were complete strangers!

Until that day, her mother sent her a photo of a handsome boy with strange heterochromatic eyes. Her mother asked her if she recognized this person.

She said she didn't know him, but she knew who the person in the photo was.

So, his mother asked him if she would be willing to marry the whole person in the photo if her family arranged it.

She was silent for a long time, and her final reply was, think about it, just give it three days.

So, after returning to school, she took the initiative to pay attention to a boy for the first time.

It was at that moment that the fate lines of the two people, which were supposed to be parallel, intersected.

In school, he was a very ordinary boy, nothing more than a little good-looking.

His academic performance is average, his athletic ability is average, he is taciturn and has few friends. If you ignore that face, he is really an autistic, unpopular, and lonely boy who looks very dark, not to mention... He had just caused the problem at that time A huge campus murder case.

To be honest, unless it is a YY work such as novels and animations, in reality, a normal girl would most likely not be too willing to let such a person become her significant other who will stay with her for a lifetime.

But Sasaki Ayane is different. Perhaps the difference in growth environment creates a different perspective on the problem.

In the eyes of others, Hoshino Gen, who seems to have almost nothing except his appearance, still has some shining points in the eyes of Sasaki Ayane. At least he has capital, but is not domineering or arrogant, but he also has his own persistence.

I won’t say how satisfied I am, but at least I’ve had a good look at it.

So, for the sake of her parents and the family, she agreed to the marriage.

The engagement was concluded in such a hasty and hasty manner, as if both parties were afraid that the other party would regret it.

On the night when the engagement party ended, Sasaki Ayane naturally spent the night in insomnia. After all, marriage is about the direction of a lifetime. Even the most rational people will have emotional moments, for the sake of their family, and for the sake of their family. Does she really have no regrets about sacrificing her own marital happiness to her family?

That's impossible. No young girl in the world can treat her marriage with completely rational thinking. Even if she doesn't show it on the face, she will be anxious. Even if she seems to be fine, she will be anxious. Sad, even if there is nothing unusual about it, she will be depressed.

Then, in the midst of such bitter and complicated emotions, she met this fiancé for the first time after her engagement, who was not actually what she wanted. All her impressions of him were chopped into pieces by her grandfather's knife. .

It turns out that there has always been such a group of "people with special abilities" around me, whether it was my fiancé or my grandfather who loved me and taught me the way of swordsmanship since I was a child, he was a member of it.

And the knife that grandpa used when meeting him seemed to cut through his disguise, allowing his true appearance to be revealed in front of him.

That was a completely different person from him in school. He was strong, arrogant, polite, and indifferent. The more he got along with him and the more he got to know him, the more complex her emotions towards him became in Ayane Sasaki's heart. One floor.

Like it? It's impossible to talk about it. After all, the time the two have been together is still short, and the communication between them is pitiful... But after all, they have a connection of "unmarried couple". After more than a month of understanding and getting along, the most basic I still have a good feeling.

But more, it seems, it is a longing for the strong that is engraved in the hearts of human beings...

"Ayane and Uzuki are staying... everyone else, please leave and perform their duties."

Chiyomiyaji's sudden voice woke Sasaki Ayane out of her trance.

She took a deep breath, retracted her gaze from the distant meteor, and turned to look at the person next to her who might bring her into the same world as him, but who had never appeared in her world before... …aunt.