Those days in Honmaru

Looking back now, it has been a long time since I was tricked by Foxnosuke into becoming a god judge.All kinds of things happened during this period. If I have to say, this accident really surprised me the most. Now that I think about it, maybe everything started from here.

In this era of the Warring States.

——Natsume's Diary

"Could it be that you know something?" Kagome wiped her eyes and looked at Kikyo.

Compared with Coral, who is a little wary of Kikyo, Kagome believes in the witch in front of her. Even though she has caused a lot of trouble for herself, this cannot deny the fact that the other party is indeed the strongest witch in this era. , at this time the other party appeared here, Kagome felt even more fortunate.

Kikyo took care of her own reincarnation, she approached Natsume and replied, "I guessed it roughly."

She knelt beside Natsume, raised her hands above Natsume, and the milky white spiritual power very similar to Kagome surrounded Natsume. After just a few seconds, Kikyo confirmed what happened to Natsume, and she withdrew her hand and whispered softly. Said: "Sure enough, he also lost most of his soul."

"What does this mean? Has this happened in other places?" Coral realized the meaning of Kikyo's words. If this happened on a large scale, could it be that Natsume just happened to be unlucky? up?

"I have been chasing similar phenomena, and the dead souls will lead me to find these people who have lost their souls." Kikyo shook his head, his words were very dignified, "Many times I was one step too late, and those people never woke up again. But come."

"As for him, I can only do my best."

Kikyo’s words made both Kagome and Coral very worried. No one knew whether Natsume would be able to get through this test safely. Kagome blamed herself quite a bit, and said regretfully, “It’s fine if I stay here. Nothing will happen..."

Kikyo directly interrupted her, cast a glance at Kagome and said bluntly, "You should be glad you're not here, otherwise you will be added to the recruit."

As she spoke, she read another sentence in a low voice: "Obviously just reminded him to protect himself..."

"I..." Kagome was a little speechless, Coral patted Kagome on the shoulder, and she asked Kikyo again: "So, what can we do to help Master Onmyoji?"

"Onmyoji?" Kikyo asked back, she seemed to find it a little funny, only then did Kagome and the others realize that Kikyo seemed to have known Natsume a long time ago.

"Could it be, Kikyo, do you know Natsume?" Kagome's eyes moved back and forth between the two, unable to understand the relationship between them.

"I'm not that familiar with him." Kikyo didn't deny it, but didn't elaborate either.

She then waved to the dead soul worms, and the two dead soul worms quickly rolled up Natsume and floated behind Kikyo. Surrounding Natsume all the time, Kikyo frowned at this scene and said: "His situation can't wait any longer, I'll take him away now."

"As for you..." Kikyo said to Kagome, "There is one thing only you can do."

Kagome stared at Kikyo, and said eagerly: "No matter what it is, I will definitely do it!"

"This person's ability is very special. He seems to have no evil spirit at all. I went to many places and couldn't find his trace. Plus the ability to absorb souls..."

Kagome guessed what Kikyo hadn't finished saying. Now Kikyo only has a body made of clay and a part of her soul. She herself needs to rely on a lot of dead souls to move freely. Once she meets this person, she will definitely suffer. It is bellflower.

Kikyo paused for a moment and continued: "I once saw a monster with the appearance of a girl next to Naraku. If I hadn't seen her with my own eyes, I wouldn't have noticed her existence at all. In addition, the monster named Kagura approached him Trouble."

"So, that girl is the one we're looking for!" Kagome immediately understood Kikyo's meaning, originally thought she was going to find a monster who didn't know where it was in the vast crowd, but now her goal was clear.

"Kagome, remember that no monster of any kind can resist the demon-breaking arrow used by a witch with a pure soul, but you must remember that only the first attack will be the greatest opportunity."

Kikyo looked at Kagome with a complicated expression, and said softly, "If I didn't have such a body, I could do this by myself."

"Biankyo..."

Kikyo leaves these words and leaves.

And not long after she left, Inuyasha's noisy voice sounded from outside, "Hey! Kagome! Coral!"

While still shouting, Inuyasha jumped in from the window, and Mica rushed back with Master Maitreya. He asked suspiciously, "What happened, calling us back in such a hurry?"

It didn't take long for them to understand what had happened, and it was obvious that there was one person missing from the house.

Inuyasha looked at Kagome and Coral blankly and asked, "What about the kid?"

-

On a fairly steep and narrow winding mountain road, Kikyo slowed down and walked, and it was rare that he didn't bring the dead soul worms with him.

She walked for a while, looked back, and asked lightly, "How is it, do you need a rest?"

A little distance behind her, a figure moved slowly. The weather wasn't cold, but he wrapped himself tightly and wore a heavy cloak.

His footsteps were unsteady, he held the mountain wall with one hand for support, and supported his knee with the other hand. He bowed down and panted several times, and made a low voice apologetically: "It's okay... I can persevere ..."

That being said, the man's speed hasn't increased much.

Kikyo finally stopped, turned around and stood there waiting for him.

The man moved to Kikyo's side step by step, and stayed for a long time before barely raising his head. He had a pure white mask on his face, which looked like a fox.He looked at Kikyo, tightened the cloak a little more, and said, "Miss Kikyo, don't worry about me."

"It is because I am so worried about you that I let you torment yourself like this, God judge."

This person wearing a fox mask, who at first glance seems to be weak to the point of death is none other than Natsume.

"Miss Kikyo, please don't blame yourself." Natsume shook his head, even making such movements was very slow, as if all the strength in his body had been exhausted, "It's my own problem to evolve to this point, obviously Miss Kikyo has already reminded me..."

Kikyo looked at Natsume, looked directly into the other's eyes through the mask, even when encountering such a thing as losing most of his soul, those eyes were not at all as peaceful as a young man should be, and he rationally took everything that happened to him He accepted it completely, and kept looking forward to it as always: Those Fusangshen who belonged to him will appear soon.

Kikyo waited for Natsume to breathe a sigh of relief, and continued to take Natsume up the mountain, saying, "Recently, I found out that the number of those guys has increased, and they are the time-traveling army you mentioned."

Natsume followed Kikyo, and asked quickly after hearing this sentence: "Where are their movements? Could it be that there are already targets?"

"Yeah." Kikyo replied very positively. Before Natsume could mention it, Kikyo said again: "For some reason, they have been targeting powerful monsters everywhere."

"...What?" Natsume was a little dizzy by the news, he didn't understand the intention of the time retrograde army.

Although powerful monsters sometimes have the ability to affect human history, if history is to be reversed, wouldn't it be more convenient to attack humans directly?After all, compared with monsters, humans are much weaker.

Isn't this practice causing trouble for themselves?

But Kikyo didn't finish his sentence, "Every time the time-traveling army is in action, it will be accompanied by Naraku's monster aura. Rather than speculating, I can be sure that they have reached a certain consensus with Naraku. "

And Natsume finally remembered something, he murmured in an almost inaudible voice: "...Could it be that...the mastermind behind the scenes?"

He felt as if he had pieced together some truth:

Natsume came to this era by accident, and the protective spell on his shoulder was mistaken for him having the jade fragments of the four souls, so he was targeted by Naraku;

The time retrograde army and the god judges have been on opposite sides from the beginning. If they know that there are alone god judges, it is a normal way of thinking for the time retrograde army to get rid of the god judges as soon as possible;

In order to achieve his own goals, Naraku and the time-traveling army assisted each other, which led to Naraku directly targeting Natsume again.

Natsume's footsteps paused for a moment, he didn't know if his guess was correct, but when he thought about it this way, he always had doubts like "Is my luck not very good".

Kikyo didn't notice Natsume's abnormality, and they didn't stop and continued walking towards the top of the mountain. Their destination was on the top of this mountain.

-

Natsume didn't know how long he had walked on the mountain road. When he finally stopped under Kikyo's signal, he felt that the physical strength he had recovered so hard had been exhausted.

"We have arrived."

Natsume raised his head in a daze, and in front of him was a place he was all too familiar with, the shrine.

"Let's go." Kikyo walked in on his own, and Natsume quickly followed. The moment he stepped into the torii gate, he felt as if he had passed through a non-existent membrane, and his body suddenly It's a lot easier.

Stepping on the stone steps and walking through the approach road lined with lanterns on both sides, Kikyo led Natsume all the way to the side hall on the left, raised his finger and said to Natsume: "You can live here, the food is your problem." Don't worry, you'll know later."

Natsume looked at the surrounding environment, whether it was the ground, houses, or other decorations, they were all very clean, as if someone was cleaning them up every day, but the entire shrine remained eerily quiet, those planted in the shrine The plants grew extremely lush, obviously without any care.

Natsume hesitated and asked, "Is there no one else here?"

Kikyo was silent for a while and replied in a strange tone: "Only you."

"This shrine has a very powerful concealment barrier. It is impossible for monsters from the outside to enter here. As long as you stay here, it is enough to ensure your safety." She looked around and finally stayed on Natsume's mask On, carefully instructed: "Also, this mask, absolutely do not take off."

Hearing this, Natsume reached out and touched the mask on his face. The touch in his hand gave him a strong sense of familiarity. If it wasn't for the fact that this mask didn't have those special patterns, he would definitely confuse it with his own mask.

"What is this...?"

"You won't forget that you lost more than half of your soul. This mask has a spell I specially set up before, which can seal the soul in the body, and now it has the ability to reduce the attraction to monsters."

What Kikyo said is obvious, this mask was originally prepared for herself, and this function sounds really familiar.

"...If Ms. Kikyo gives this to me, what will you do?"

"I won't let you worry about me." Kikyo smiled confidently, and then she didn't wait for Natsume to ask another question, and then said: "I have other things to deal with, your problem Kagome They will help you solve it, during this time, absolutely do not leave this shrine."

Natsume nodded, Kikyo was a little worried when he agreed, and said, "If you mess around again this time, you won't have such good luck, you know?"

"Well, I'll pay attention."

Kikyo looked at Natsume, sighed, walked outside the shrine, and suddenly remembered something and said, "If you have energy, clean up the main hall for me."

Natsume watched the figure of Kikyo going away, and then looked at the building at the end of the approach, "The main hall?"

-

Out of curiosity about Kikyo's last words, and feeling that he had regained a lot of strength, Natsume walked towards the main hall.

In the present world, the main hall of many shrines cannot be visited, because it is the most sacred place in the entire shrine and a place for worshiping gods, so it is the first time Natsume has seen the inside of the main hall.

"Unexpectedly... very ordinary..."

Natsume stood at the door of the main hall and looked in. The main hall was as clean and tidy as the outside. At first glance, it seemed that there was nothing to tidy up.

"Oh, a rare new face."

A man's voice suddenly came to mind in the silent space, and the tone sounded a bit pleasantly surprised.

Natsume was taken aback, he couldn't tell where the sound came from, and Kikyo didn't say that he was the only one here, what's going on?

"……Who is speaking?"

Natsume still couldn't help asking out loud.

"Ah...Sorry, sorry, did I scare you?" The voice replied immediately, "I thought you couldn't hear it."

The more Natsume listened to this voice, the more familiar it became.

"Aren't you coming in?"

Natsume walked in the direction of the sound, and what he saw made him almost not know how to breathe.

In the deepest part of the main hall, a snow-white Taidao is placed on an exquisite knife holder. Behind the Taidao is a disassembled sword in platinum and two colors. At this time, the Taidao is quietly exuding Rays of light, these lights gathered not far from the blade, forming a vague human shape.

He saw Natsume walk in, sat on the ground and waved at Natsume: "Yo~ can you see me~"

"you……!"

Natsume thought, so there really is such a coincidence in the world.