Those days in Honmaru

Eliminate disasters, purify filth, my name is Ishikimaru.Although judging from my name, I am known as a magic sword that can cut even stones, but because I have stayed in the shrine for too long, I am better at doing some divine things than fighting, such as removing swellings and the like .

Before I arrived at Honmaru, Taro Tachi was doing these jobs. After I came, he seemed very happy that someone could replace him, and then he applied to the master to participate in the battle.It seems that he is different from me, he prefers fighting, maybe he was influenced by his former master.

Smiling Qingjiang seems to be very calm these two days, but it is also possible that he is too good at hiding himself. The matter of the magic sword should be his heart knot, and he will discuss it with the master when he returns from the battle this time.

If it can be resolved, that would be the best.

——Ishikiri Maru Honmaru Diary

"Oh!" Natsume's foot tripped over a tree root, he took a step forward and stabilized his body, looking back at the obstacles on the ground that would block his footsteps with some distress.

No matter how strong his spiritual power is, he is still a human being after all. Even with enough moonlight at night, it is difficult for him to see everything clearly, not to mention that this place is in a very remote mountain forest.Natsume carefully identified the way forward. Fortunately, the distance between him and the Fusangshen was already very close.

Speaking of which, why didn't the positions of Saya and Sosan move?The question in Xia Mu's heart popped up.He walked around a piece of overgrown grass, only to find two familiar figures lying down not far away, and the smiles he hadn't shown froze all of a sudden.

Natsume never expected that when they reunited with those two, the other party would be in such a state.

"Zongsan! Saya!"

Natsume hurried over, knelt aside and took a rough look at the state of the two of them. After confirming that there was no obvious trauma, he breathed a sigh of relief, and then continued to check the appearance of the two of them.

Zong San hugged Xiao Ye and fell to the ground. Judging from his movements, it should be Xiao Ye who fell first, and Zong San was also hit when he checked Xiao Ye's status.His expression couldn't be called calm, his brows were tightly furrowed, and his thin lips were tightly pursed without leaving any gaps.

And Xiao Ye looked even worse, his arms were tightly hugged and trembling, and he was muttering something in a low voice.

Natsume also took out their knives and looked at them. There was no scar on the blade at all. He tried to use healing methods, but he still couldn't wake them up. Natsume couldn't find what the problem was.

"What exactly is going on?"

Unexpectedly, a voice answered his question.

"They're in a dream."

Natsume followed the voice and saw a little girl in a red kimono walking out with slow steps.

She wore a dark purple coat, combed her hairstyle, and tied the excess hair behind her head. A pair of butterfly wings almost as big as her were behind her head, following her walking movements Flapped slightly.

Seeing the girl's appearance, Natsume understood: "Are you...youkai? What did you do to them?"

The little girl froze for a moment, holding the tambourine in her hands a little aggrieved, she looked at Natsume, as if she didn't realize that she had done something bad, "I just have something to say to you alone."

"Eh?"

The little girl took a few steps forward and said eagerly: "I know, you don't know me yet, but it doesn't matter, I just hope you can think about one thing!"

Unbelievably, Natsume trusted the monster's words very much, and always felt that she would never deceive herself.

And the most amazing thing is that they have just met, but the other party seems to have known him for a long time. This kind of feeling is not the first time, and the person who gave him this feeling last time was Tsurumaru.

But the situation is different now. Natsume has no time to guess what this girl is thinking. He said apologetically, "I'm sorry, can you wake Sosan and Saya? I still have an important partner, and he needs us to help him."

After hearing this, the little girl drooped her head and said a little depressed: "So, are we still a step too late?"

Natsume frowned, not knowing what the other person meant: "What are you talking about?"

The little girl was silent for a while, and finally compromised: "Don't worry, that Fu Sangshen will be fine, my good friend is going to help him." Seeing that Natsume still didn't understand, she added, "It's Fu Sangshen who is wearing a tattered white cloth."

She put her hands on her waist, and said angrily: "In the end, what's so good about Fu Sangshen? They are fierce, and when it comes to cuteness, of course girls are cute. Even if they are boys, they still talk about themselves." The cutest thing, it’s really annoying. Onmyoji-sama, it’s good that you like us.”

"Wait a minute, did you meet Yamabashiri? Did you mean California? By the way, why do you call me Onmyoji-sama?" He used the identity of Onmyoji as a cover to deceive Oda Nobunaga.

The little girl's words made Natsume's mind in chaos, and countless questions popped up one after another, and he wished he could get all the answers immediately.

"It's not surprising that you don't know, even it's been a long time since I parted with you last time."

The little girl saw Natsume's confusion, and said with a smile: "I am a butterfly spirit, a monster who can connect to dreams. Next, let us explain to you in the dream. After all, the time in dreams is much faster than real time." Much longer."

"This time, please don't resist us, we will never harm you."

The purple mist filled the air again, gently enveloping Natsume, causing him to close his eyes uncontrollably, and when he opened his eyes, only the butterfly spirit was left in front of him, Zongsan and Saya did not know tracked.

Not far away, a pink creature took a peek at Natsume, and kept hiding itself behind the tree, but was finally pulled out by the butterfly spirit. She happily introduced: "This is a nightmare, it is the one that takes everything away. The time-traveling army is not immune to the people brought into the world of dreams, it is very powerful!"

"You even know about the time-traveling army?!" Natsume was completely stunned. How much does this butterfly spirit know about him?

Butterfly Spirit didn't answer Natsume's question, but happily ran over and hugged Natsume's arm, and said, "Welcome to the dream world, Master Onmyoji. Anyway, let Butterfly Spirit show you around~"

"Wait a minute! Xiao Ye and Sosan are gone!" Natsume immediately saw through Butterfly Spirit's attitude of trying to change the topic, "Where did they go?"

Butterfly Jing glanced at Natsume, pouted and said, "...They are here too, or in other words, this is the dreamland of that child. As long as I search a little, I can find him."

She rapped the tambourine, listened carefully to the response the bell gave her, then pulled Natsume along and said, "I'll take you to find him."

Natsume followed Die Jing all the way, and when he was halfway there, he finally felt embarrassed and struggled a few times before saving his arm from the opponent's arms.

Butterfly Spirit was not discouraged either. She faced Natsume and walked backwards, occasionally patted the tambourine to confirm the direction. In the end, Natsume felt that she would have trouble walking like this sooner or later, so she gave her her hand in compromise, and the little girl smiled happily Get up, take Natsume's hand and walk obediently beside him.

The nightmare-eating tapir twisted and followed behind the two of them, and when it reached the dreamland, the bell on its back rang automatically, maintaining a certain frequency, and the sound waves invisible to the naked eye expanded round by round.

The little girl explained the dream world to Natsume in various whispers along the way.

"To put it simply, the nightmare-eating tapir and I are both monsters living in dreams. In reality, what you see is just a shadow of us. The smoke of the nightmare-eating tapir can make all creatures enter a dream state, and now you The reason why you can stay awake is because the nightmare is with us, and it relieves you of this state."

Natsume turned around and looked at the nightmare-eating tapir. This pink creature looked very shy. When Natsume saw it, he immediately became at a loss. His footsteps were so flustered that he almost fell down. Natsume held back his smile and stopped looking at it.

Butterfly Essence also covered her mouth and laughed, and then said: "As for me, I have the ability to travel freely in the dream world, and occasionally guide those who have strayed into the dream world to leave the dream world."

Natsume praised sincerely: "The butterfly spirit is also very powerful."

"Of course!" The little girl raised her chest proudly, and the butterfly wings behind her fluttered excitedly, and she continued: "In the dream world, you don't have to worry about time. No matter how long we spend here To reality, the time is but an instant.”

Butterfly Fairy had a bitter expression when she said this, and murmured: "Time is too much for us monsters, but time is too short for humans."

"Butterfly spirit..." Natsume didn't know how to comfort her, and he was still troubled.

When Natsume's tenure as a god judge is up, Natsume will also leave Honmaru, and sooner or later he will leave this world before all the Fusangshen, and this is the final relationship between humans, monsters and Fusangshen. Fundamental gap.

But the little girl shook her head, and quickly cheered up again. Seeing Natsume's sad face, she comforted her, "It's okay, Master Onmyoji! As long as I can see you, I'm satisfied!"

She didn't know what Natsume was worrying about, but Natsume understood her mind, so she smiled at her and didn't speak.

After that, apart from the dream, Butterfly also talked about a lot of things that only the God Judge and Token Fusangshin would know, and even Natsume didn't know some things that she didn't know.

"Sure enough, have I ever been to your era?" Natsume can only guess in this way. As a god judge, in the future, in order to complete the task issued by the Government of Time, he will travel through time and space to the past, and then get acquainted with Butterfly Spirit and Nightmare Eater .

This is not impossible, and such behavior is not considered to change history, otherwise when Natsume and the monsters of the Nuragumi come into contact, the track of history will be destroyed.

Natsume sighed and said, "Butterfly is very familiar to everyone."

"Of course, I won't forget them, they are all bad guys who snatched you from us, especially those two brothers, they are the most annoying!" Butterfly Jing replied decisively without thinking for half a second.

Natsume began to filter in his mind the words of sword Fusang in his home maru, which are commensurate with brothers, but it is hard to imagine who would be so disgusted by the butterfly spirit.

Natsume tried to defend everyone: "Could it be a misunderstanding? Everyone is still easy to get along with..."

"Actually, I've only met your five fusangshen."

Butterfly stretched out her fingers and counted, nodded affirmatively, and then she paused for a while, thinking of something, and then continued: "Well, it's still six? I'm not sure if that person is your Fu Sangshen."

"However, he is also an annoying guy!" The little girl finally came to a conclusion.

Yingcao squatted in front of Yamabukiri, and the dandelion was casually placed on the ground. She rested her chin on her hands and puffed her mouth to stare at Yamabuakiri... the knife in her hand, and said unwillingly: "Anyway, I have used my ability many times. , there is no way to repair your knife."

"The repair of the blade can only be done by the owner."

Yamabuchi looked left and right, but he didn't look at Yingcao, and then he couldn't help it anymore and asked, "When will you return my things to me?"

Yingcao tilted her head and said, "You're not talking about that rag, are you? I threw it away."

At this moment, Yamabuchi seemed to feel a lightning strike directly on his head, and he couldn't calm down for a long time.

"Puhahaha~ You're so funny~" Hotarucao laughed happily, she stood up and took Yamabugiri and led him directly outside the house.

The outside world also made Yamabuchi incomprehensible. The sky was approaching dusk, and it looked gray, and all the people walking on the road were white figures in the shape of human beings. Occasionally, there would be some strange-looking little ghosts holding iron forks to drive away the figures.

"Where... is this place?" Yamabuchi stared at everything in front of him stiffly, but those little ghosts nodded friendly to Yingcao and Yamabuki.

"I moved you here with a few friends, and her shop is here." Yingcao dragged Yamabagiri to a simple shop and stopped in front of a simple shop, knocking on the door.

The door opened quickly, and a short girl with two very large red ghost horns ran out, shouting, "Welcome~ah, what, I'm not a guest."

"You woke up pretty fast." She looked up and down Yamabuchi, "Welcome to Huangquan Road~ I'm Po Meng."

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Yamabukiri Theater:

Hotaru cured Yamabukiri, pulled Yamabuakiri's cloak and dragged him away

I bumped into stones and branches several times on the road, and fell into pits several times...

Yamabagiri was seriously injured again, Hotaru waved a dandelion again

In the end, it was the arrival of Po Meng who saved Shan Baqie.