God Judge's Blade

Jingzi spoke at the beginning, but was still hesitating whether to say the rest.Minai and Foxnosuke took turns to fight, one person and one fox flaunted cuteness on the left, and approached each other on the right. Shizuko couldn't hold on, and quickly raised her hand to surrender.

She wanted to tell these things, but she never made up her mind.

There was no one around, and Shizuko had confirmed it many times.She was very cautious. It happened that it was raining around, and the nearby islanders did not go out. Perhaps there were very few people who saw Mina entering the island.

They will not react in such a short time.

Jingzi was not in the right mood, she tried hard to suppress her fear and resentment, took a deep breath, and lifted the hair on the other half of her face.

The exposed half of the face is still cute, but the half covered by the hair, as if it had been burned by a fire, has mottled scars entrenched and distorted on the face.

Foxnosuke took a deep breath.

Mina was also stunned for a while.

One person and one fox stared dumbfounded, Shizuko smiled wryly, and let down her hair again.

"This is the curse of the island god."

Residents on the island in the lake believe in different gods from other places.They believe in the "god" with a human body and fish tail, and believe in legends handed down from ancient times.

——As long as you eat the meat of the mermaid, you can cure all diseases and even live forever.

People born on the island are used to eating "mermaid" meat.

They raised a poisonous mermaid in the lake of the island in the lake, saying that it was their "god". The "God" meat is not acceptable to everyone. Many islanders died of poisoning after trying the "God" meat.

The islanders called them "ungodly people", so they were punished by "God" and were not eligible to eat meat.

Jingzi was coaxed by her father to eat it. She didn't die, but half of her face was poisoned and ruined.

"Eating the meat of the 'God' has nothing to do with outsiders," Shizuko said briefly, before focusing on another aspect, "but... the 'God'... no, that monster is eating people of."

Those who were poisoned to death eventually became the rations of "gods".

There are no graves on the island in the lake, because after death, people become food for "gods".

I don't know when it started, the "God" was not satisfied with eating the flesh of the dead, she wanted to eat the living, and the islanders lured | coaxed foreigners to dedicate them to the "Island God".

Jingzi wanted to escape to ask for help, but the boat was in the hands of the village head, and without his consent, others were not eligible to use the boat.As for those outsiders... One by one, they never returned, so it was naturally impossible to take Shizuko out.

After her father died, Shizuko was like a walking corpse, living in silence and pain.When I recalled it late at night, I still hated my father. Why did I trick her into eating the meat of the "Island God"?

"...I don't want you to die like this," Jingzi whispered, "I will protect you tonight...so..."

"Why didn't you ask me to take you away?"

Mina couldn't figure it out, if Shizuko wanted to leave, she could also escape with Mina's boat, since she didn't like this village so much, why did she stay?

Jingzi was silent for a while: "...I am like this, even if I go out, I won't be able to survive."

Her appearance is too ugly, and this face that has been corroded by the poison of the island god is too scary.Every time she walks to the water's edge and sees half a rotting face, Shizuko can't wait to take out a knife and dig out those rotten meat pieces and throw them away.

Jingzi has passed the age of complaining about her fate. She knows what she can and cannot do. She knows that she will never be able to escape the curse of the island god in her life.

Her future has long seen the end.

"Even so... I want to help you."

Mina did not spend the night at Shizuko's house. After eating, she left under Shizuko's watchful eye.Jingzi's persuasion was ineffective, and finally closed the door with a straight face.

The girl who covered half of her face was really kind, Mina could smell that she wasn't lying.However, Shizuko's rare courage is temporary, and after being rejected, it disappears like a bubble.

Perhaps it was the past that left a psychological shadow in Jingzi's heart.

After confirming that Shizuko was not lying, Mina told the information obtained to the crow, and asked the crow to tell Enichi and Ji Guoyansheng who were scattered on both sides.

According to what Shizuko said, a lot of information can be deduced.

After the three of them got together, they checked the information they knew.

"That is to say...the villagers on the island in the lake are raising ghosts with human bodies and fish tails?"

"That's right."

Ji Guoyansheng pondered and frowned.

It is not uncommon for people to raise ghosts, or worship ghosts as gods, but this is the first time I have seen ghosts.

"Are you sure that Miss Jingzi you mentioned has indeed eaten ghost meat?"

"Yeah." Mina replied coldly, "She has a faint ghost smell on her body."

"What about you, Yuanyi? Have you found anything?"

"There are many solar knives near the lake in the west," Yuan Yi said.

"The forests to the east are rich in grog's feathers."

When the three pieces of information are spoken together, the direction becomes quite obvious.

Those members of the Ghost Killing Squad who came first may be in danger.The three of them felt a little heavy, and in the end it was Ji Guoyansheng who stood up first.

They're going to fix this.

Even if it might be blocked.

Ghosts don't dare to come out during the day, and I'm afraid it will be difficult to find them, so the three of them waited until dark before moving.

Mina's haori was already wet from the dew on the trees in the forest, so she simply took off her clothes and hung them on a branch.

Looking at it from a distance, the fluttering feathers are a bit scary.

Yuan Yi beside him lowered his head and asked, "Isn't it cold?"

Mina shook her head, "It's not cold."

Ji Guoyansheng watched silently from the side, guessing again about the relationship between the two.

Because they didn't attract other people's attention when they came in this time, and it was raining, the three of them quickly came to the lake.Mina could smell ghosts, as well as an unbearable fishy smell.

The drizzle was still falling, and as night fell, the air became colder and colder.It was rainy and moonless, making it impossible to see the surrounding scenery clearly. In the dim environment, only the sound of raindrops falling on the lake could be heard.

The three of them hid in the bushes by the lake, paying attention to the situation on the lake.

Not long after, a few islanders came over in the drizzle on the other side of the path. They carried a simple stretcher, and on the stretcher lay a person who was about to lose his breath.

"That is--"

Ji Guoyansheng's expression became serious.

"That's a dying man to be sacrificed to the 'Island God'."

The islanders put down the people on the stretcher, pulled out a small boat from a hidden place, and they put the people on the stretcher into the boat.

The boat is small, just big enough for one person to lie down on.Mina couldn't see clearly in the night, so she simply opened the transparent world and noticed a thin rope on the small lake, which couldn't be seen clearly in the night.

There is also a thin rope on the boat, hanging directly above.The thin rope in mid-air was pulled slowly, Mina turned her head, saw several islanders by the lake, and pulled the rope on the shore extremely carefully.

She understood.

Just like the operation of the tram in Asakusa Prefecture, Tokyo, the string hanging in the air and the string tied on the bow are tied together to form a slipknot.Once you need to take the things on the boat, you only need to move the string, and the rope tied to the bow of the boat will drive the boat to walk automatically.

In this way, there is no need for the boatman to go there together.

The destination of the boat is a small island in the lake.

It is not so much an island as it is a small rock with a house on it.A small house is built on the stone, and there is even a statue in front of it.

It looks decent, just like ordinary people worshiping gods, there are not only shrines, but also statues.

Now that you know how to do it, you don't have to wait too long.The three of them worked together in a division of labor, quickly knocked out the person pulling the boat, and snatched the rope.

The boat returned to the shore again, and the unconscious person inside opened his eyes in a daze. When he saw three strange people, his eyes suddenly widened.

"You, you—"

"Don't worry, we won't let you die."

Ji Guoyansheng comforted him subconsciously, but the people in the small boat didn't appreciate it at all.He was breathing hard, staring at him fiercely.

"Who, who told you... to meddle in your own business...!!"

Unable to speak, Mina knocked out the people in the small boat with quick eyesight and hands.

"..."

silence.

"Who's going to be the bait?" Yuan Yi cooperated to take out the people in the small boat and put them aside.The man's breath was weak, and there was a lot of toxins on his body.Mina took a sniff and judged that there was no way he could be saved.

Even with good care, this person will not survive the second month.

Members of the ghost killing team save people, but they can't save people who are desperate for death.Just like this village, sacrificing living people to the "Island God" subverts ordinary people's knowledge.

The most frightening thing is that almost everyone has a ghostly aura, even if it is faint, it cannot be ignored.

"I'll go."

Ji Guoyansheng got on the boat without hesitation. He was taller than the boat, and he couldn't stretch his body in the boat, he could only curl up.

"...Let me do it." Mina said after being silent for a while.

"..." Ji Guoyan Sheng silently climbed out of the small boat.

He is about the same height as Yuanyi, and the two brothers' physiques are too big for this small boat.Just as Miina was about to lie down, the little fox quickly grabbed Yuanichi's haori, insisting that he take it off.

"Master God Judge, wait a minute!" Foxosuke took Yuanyi's feathered fabric, jumped, and quickly spread Yuanichi's feathered fabric on the bottom of the boat, "It's done!"

It was the first time Ji Guoyansheng heard Honosuke speak, but what shocked him more was not the ability to speak, but the behavior of the little fox snatching Yuanyi's coat and laying it on the bottom of the boat.

Pretty humane.

"...What's the matter with this fox?"

Mina, who was lying flat in the boat, was splashed with water from the drizzle.

"Let's talk about irrelevant topics later," Mina said, "Can you pull the rope first? It's uncomfortable to be hit in the face by the rain."