Those days in Honmaru

Natsume didn't wake up for a long time in a day, so Tsurumaru carried him on his back for the convenience of movement.

Natsume put both hands on Tsurumaru's shoulders, and rested his head on the back of his hands, almost touching Tsurumaru's head, and slept soundly, almost drooling.

Along the way, I don't know if it was because of Inuyasha's actions that attracted Naraku's attention, or because of the girl's help. They didn't encounter any monsters or time-traveling army on the way back.

After several days of trekking day and night, the group arrived at the shrine on the top of the mountain unimpeded.

Tsurumaru stood outside the torii gate of the shrine, looking at the place where he had lived for an unknown amount of time, feeling inexplicably inexplicable, he murmured softly, "Finally...here we are."

Natsume on his back suddenly made a sound, slowly opened his eyes, looked at the torii with a little confusion, and then seemed to remember something and said, "I remember this place."

Tsurumaru put Natsume down, seeing that he was a little unsteady, he simply helped him to sit down slowly, and wrapped his arms around Natsume's shoulders so that he could lean on.

Natsume lowered his head not to look at Tsurumaru, and said to him, "You are here too...accompany me"

Tsurumaru turned his head to the side, gently stretched out his hand to support Natsume's chin so that the other party looked at him, smiled at Natsume and said, "Not only here, no matter where in the future, I will always be with you."

An ambiguous atmosphere spread little by little, Tsurumaru looked at Natsume's eyes gradually changed, for a moment he seemed to forget that there were more than just the two of them...

"Master!" Fudo Yukimitsu ran to Natsume and knelt down, patted his chest and said to Natsume, "Don't worry, Master! We will always be by your side!"

"Hmm~" Mikami Tsukimune, who had been watching for a while, looked at Tsurumaru with a smile, and the playful look in his eyes made Tsurumaru raise his eyebrows in a displeased way.

The smiling Qingjiang touched his lips with one hand, his eyes moved back and forth between Tsurumaru and Natsume, always feeling that he had discovered something.

The other Kemaru, who was so innocent that he didn't notice the problem, sighed silently that the relationship between them was really good, and Hikari patted Kemaru's shoulder and silently lamented that his younger brother was really naive.

Natsume was still staring at Tsurumaru before, his face was already blushing gradually, he was interrupted by Fudo Yukimitsu, he couldn't help reaching out and rubbing his cheek, and then said to Fudo Yukimitsu: "Of course, I also want to With you all the time."

While Natsume was talking, his body suddenly began to glow, and gradually became blurred. He closed his eyes, and his body curled up and suddenly turned into a glowing ball.

"What's going on here?!" Kagemaru had never seen a soul like this before, thought something happened, and couldn't help feeling nervous.

"The direction, this is because the soul and the body are close enough, and they are ready to be integrated into the body." Tsurumaru picked up the ball that Natsume's soul turned into, then looked at the torii and said, "This shrine has a shrine made by Miss Mikoto. The enchantment below, the inside and outside of the shrine are equivalent to two worlds, perhaps because of this, I can stand so close to me in this era."

Sanri Yuezong nodded knowingly and said: "Then it seems that the task of bringing the lord out will be entrusted to us."

He beckoned to Kemaru and Higakiri, signaling them to follow, the three of them didn't stop there, turned around and walked through the torii gate to the shrine.

Tsurumaru watched them enter the shrine, and whispered to the soul ball: "Just a little bit, you came back completely..."

-

After stepping into the torii gate, Mikazuki Munechi felt that, as Tsurumaru said, this was another world, and it was an exceptionally pure world. No wonder the priestess asked Natsume to cultivate here.

At the same time, since coming to this era, the blurred connection between Fu Sangshen and the God Judge finally became clear.

The three of them naturally sensed Natsume's location and were able to perceive that Natsume's current situation was far from ideal.

They rushed to the main hall where Natsume was, and saw that Natsume was leaning against the gate of the main hall with her eyes closed, as if she had fallen into a coma.

Sankai Yuezong took a few steps forward, half squatted beside Natsume and called softly: "Master? Can you hear my voice?"

Natsume didn't respond, and Kagemaru said, "Let's take the master out first. If the soul is fused, it should be able to recover."

"makes sense."

Mikazuki Zongjin was about to hug Natsume, but suddenly heard a voice from inside the main hall: "Who are you?"

This voice was very familiar, and Katsumaru was stunned for a moment, and immediately reacted and whispered to Hikiri: "This voice belongs to Tsurumaru-sama of this era."

Higekiri pointed at Komaru to keep him silent, then nodded.

Mikazuki Zongjin also thought that there should be no more communication with Tsurumaru here, but just as he was about to reach out to touch Natsume, a large amount of white light suddenly emitted from the door of the main hall. A way to reach Natsume.

Tsurumaru warned: "Get away from him."

Tsurumaru's tone was completely different from the one they knew, and it was no wonder, after all, there were hundreds of years of experience after this, and anyone would change.

Mikazuki Zongjin withdrew his hand helplessly, and said to Tsurumaru: "We will not do anything that is not good for the lord."

He paused for a moment before continuing: "My name is Sanriyue Zongjin. I guess, my lord should have told you about us, right?"

"Sankazuki...?" Tsurumaru of this era was silent for a while, and then continued: "You don't know... that is the family he mentioned."

"So, that's what the lord told you, hahaha, I really want to hear him tell us that in person."

Sanri Yuezong laughed a few times, knocked on the door of the main hall and said: "You have been with the lord for so long, you should have noticed it, the lord is very weak now. We have found the lost soul of the lord, and now we need to save the lord's body." Bring him back to heal him."

Mikazuki Zongjin waited for Tsurumaru to digest these words before saying: "If you also want him to recover, just leave him to us."

Tsurumaru didn't answer, but the fading light represented his thoughts.

"Thank you very much." Mikazuki Zongjin picked up Natsume, handed it to Kemaru, and said to Kemaru and Higiri, "Take the lord out first, I have something to say to him."

Kemaru and Hikari looked at each other, Hikari nodded and walked out first.

"If you have anything to say, just say it now." Tsurumaru's tone was a little eager, and Mikami Tsukimune waited until the two of them walked away before speaking: "If I guessed correctly, the ability you used just now has exceeded your limit Alright."

Tsurumaru didn't answer.

Sanri Yuezong sighed and said, "You always subconsciously keep secrets about yourself, and this hasn't changed."

Tsurumaru immediately realized something and said, "You know me."

"Yes." Sanri Yue Zongjin did not deny it, "But I have known you hundreds of years later."

"Let me give you a little advice. From now on, accumulate your strength and wait forever. If you still want to meet the lord, with the current you, I'm afraid you won't be able to last for too long."

Tsurumaru naturally understood what Sankayue said, and after a long silence, he said softly, "He will be fine."

"Of course, we will never let him have an accident."

"...Then he will be handed over to you."

Tsurumaru left a last sentence, and there was no sound at all.

Sanri Yue Zongjin promised: "You can rest assured."

-

Kagemaru hugged Natsume and walked quickly outside the shrine, but when he was halfway there, he stopped suddenly. He frowned and tightened Natsume's protection, and reminded Hikiri in a low voice: "Brother, there seems to be something wrong." What's there."

"It seems that there are still people trying to stop us."

Higakiri also noticed this, and he directly drew out his knife and pointed in one direction, "I didn't expect there to be a ghost in such a shrine... Do you want to hurt the master?"

A purple butterfly flew out from the direction pointed by Hikakiri, drew an arc in mid-air, and then landed on the ground, transforming into the appearance of a little girl, who was the Butterfly Spirit.

Butterfly stood in the way of the exit, looked at the two of them vigilantly, and said, "Who are you all? Where are you taking Master Onmyoji!"

"I don't think it's necessary to report this to the monster."

Hikiri is different from Tsurumaru, Tsurumaru has been here for a long time, and gets along quite peacefully with the little monsters like Butterfly Spirit, even if there is a conflict, he will not have the idea of ​​attacking each other.

And Hishikiri has long been used to fighting monsters, so he will not show mercy to monsters.

"Wait here." Mustakiri said to Kagemaru, and in the next second he rushed to Butterfly Spirit, and stopped right next to her neck with his knife.

"Hey!" Butterfly was startled, and for a moment she felt cold sweat breaking out all over her body.

Butterfly Jing didn't even dare to blink her eyes. She lowered her eyes little by little to look at the blade less than one centimeter away from her neck, took a deep breath, and without knowing where the courage came from, she shouted loudly: "You are not allowed to touch Master Onmyoji!" ! Put him down!"

Kemaru hesitated and said to Higiri: "Brother... this monster doesn't seem to have any malicious intentions, why don't you just let her go?"

"...forget it" Mustache cut stared at Butterfly Jing, confirmed that it was impossible for the opponent to fight back, and then moved the knife away.

Kemaru and Higakiri bypassed Butterfly and continued to walk outside, leaving Butterfly behind.

It wasn't until this moment that the Butterfly Spirit realized that all the strength in her body seemed to have been exhausted at that moment. She regained her composure and looked at Natsume again.

This is also the first time she saw Natsume's real appearance, just like she imagined, a very gentle young man, but at this time the young man's face was extremely pale, breathless, and extremely weak.

Before she knew it, tears began to accumulate in Butterfly Jing's eyes, but she couldn't bear to take her eyes off Natsume at all, she didn't even want to blink, letting the tears fall down.

After Kememaru and Hikakiri moved away a little, there was a little movement again from the direction the Butterfly came from, and the mountain rabbit ran to Butterfly with the magic frog and firefly grass, helped Butterfly up, and said to her: "Look, Fu Sangshen who told you not to get close to the sword, you almost died!"

"That's right~ People like Onmyoji are not something we can get close to, let's give up~"

"I don't want it! It's just that I don't have enough ability now, but it doesn't mean I won't be able to do it in the future!" Butterfly wiped his eyes fiercely, "I heard the words of Master Onmyoji and that Fusangshen before, Master Onmyoji really The era of life is in the future, that is to say, I will still have a chance to see Lord Onmyoji again in the future!"

The Butterfly Fairy flew away from the other direction as he said that. Shantu and Yingcao looked at each other and had no choice but to continue chasing after them.

-

Tsurumaru and Higakiri quickly returned to the torii. When Tsurumaru saw them approaching, his eyes lit up and he smiled, and took the soul ball to meet them, "It can be counted as returning."

Fudo Xingguang saw that there was one person missing, so he asked, "Where is Lord Sanriyue?"

Kagemaru put Natsume flat on the ground, looked at Tsurumaru with strange eyes and said, "Well, I'm still talking to Tsurumaru-sama inside..."

"Hmph, I know." Tsurumaru also remembered this matter, but his attention was obviously on another matter.

Tsurumaru put the soul ball on Natsume's chest, the ball floated for a while, and soon merged into Natsume's body, and then Natsume's face became rosy, and his breathing was no longer as weak as before .

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

"Oh, it seems that I missed the most important scene, Grandpa." Mikazuki Munekin's voice came from the side, he glanced at Tsurumaru and said to him: "But it seems that the purpose of this trip has been achieved, it's really gratifying Congratulations."

"...That's right."

Tsurumaru picked up Natsume again, took out a pocket watch-style time-space converter and said with a smile: "Anyway, we should go back, everyone in Honmaru should wait anxiously."