juvenile onmyoji

"Go to the dreamland to find the shrine? But how do we get in?" Lizi asked, "Two people can't have the same dream? Unless we find Little Butterfly. She can send us to the dream."

"That way is very unsafe," Qingming said. "In other people's dreams, we are passive. As long as the dreamer is willing, he can dispose of us at will. He can even keep us in the dream forever."

"Then how do we enter the dreamland?" Lizi asked.

"Of course I went in." Qingming said with a smile.

"How to get in?"

"Enter from the intersection of dreams and reality." Qingming leaned on the short table with his left arm and said, "Do you know about dream-eating tapirs?"

Pear shook her head.

"It is a very strange animal. Its body is like a horse, its nose is like an elephant, its face is like a lion, and its legs are like a tiger. Some people say that the nightmare-eating tapir was created by the gods. Because too many animals were created, when the nightmare-eating tapir No inspiration. The gods had to use part of the previous animal to create a nightmare."

Seimei said, "Nightmare eaters can eat nightmares and leave good dreams behind. Every night, they enter human dreams to find nightmares as food."

"Since the nightmare-eating tapir can eat nightmares, why do I still have nightmares?" Lizi asked.

"Because there are not many nightmare-eating tapirs, the number of nightmares that can be eaten is limited. After they enter the dreamland, they will walk around randomly. When encountering a nightmare, they will stop and judge whether the nightmare is delicious. Go see the next one."

"Nightmare is delicious?"

"Yes, for nightmare-eating tapirs, the scarier the dreams humans have, the more delicious they taste. When they eat the nightmares, what remains are top-notch dreams. Sometimes if you dream, you will have endless aftertaste Maybe it’s a dream-eating tapir’s visit. We call it the lucky one.”

"If you keep a dream-eating tapir at home, will you be able to have sweet dreams every day?" Lizi asked with interest as she folded her arms on the table.

"In that case, the dream-eating tapir will probably starve to death." Qingming said with a smile, "You can't guarantee that you will have nightmares every day. What's more, if a person has good dreams every day, it will make him miss the dream world after a long time. You know , Dreams are fake after all, it’s not bad as an adjustment to life.”

Lizi said with some regret, "It's like this, what a pity."

……

When it was dark and everyone fell asleep, Lizi followed Qingming to the outside of the city.There is a cherry blossom forest under the river of Kamogawa.

In the cherry tree grove in the middle of the night, the moonlight casts a very faint light.The breeze blows, and countless petals fall quietly.

They walked deep into the cherry tree.The whole forest is extremely quiet, only the sound of "click" can be heard when the soles of the shoes step on the leaves.

"When you see the dream-eating tapirs in a while, don't make any noise, we just follow behind them." Qingming said in a low voice.

"Will they let us follow?"

"Yes, nightmare-eating tapirs are not very smart. As long as you don't speak, they will think you are of the same kind. Not only will they not block you, but they will lead the way enthusiastically." Qingming said with a smile.

After walking a few more steps, Lizi vaguely saw a large round bright spot in front of her.Round, like moving mushrooms.She was just about to ask aloud when she saw Qingming stop in her tracks.

Seimei pressed her lips with his fingers, signaling her not to make a sound.

The place where Qingming pressed was a little numb, she quickly pressed her lips tightly.

As they got closer, Lizi finally saw what the nightmare-eating tapir looked like.Sure enough, as Seimei said, it seems to be stitched together with various animals.

Hearing the sound of footsteps, the nightmare-eating tapirs turned their heads one after another.But just glanced back and turned back.It does seem to regard them as the same kind.

After a while, more nightmare-eating tapirs gathered.In the dark, their spots glow fluorescent.Lizi guessed that they might be afraid that the night would be too dark and easy to get lost, that's why the fluorescent circles grew on their bodies.

Not long after, a nightmare-eating tapir raised its head and screamed.Immediately afterwards, all the nightmare-eating tapirs cried out.Not only do they look strange, but they also sound strange, like whistling wind.

Suddenly, the wind stopped, and a door of light and shadow slowly opened in the darkness.Lizi couldn't see what was inside, but could only see heavy shadows.

The nightmare-eating tapirs walked in one by one.When it was the last one's turn, he looked back at them, as if he was urging to follow quickly.

Lizi followed Qingming into the Guangmen.The instant they entered, the door disappeared.A huge circular city wall appeared in front of my eyes.

The city is too big, too high to see the end.There are many arches on the city wall.Just like the door they entered just now, it was vaguely unclear.

The dozens of nightmare-eating tapirs that had led Qingming and Lizi in just now were lining up and walking towards one of the doors.There are also many nightmare-eating tapirs lined up at the other doors.

"These are nightmare-eating tapirs from various places, such as Harima, Ise, and Tosa." Seimei whispered in Lizi's ear, "We are following the nightmare-eating tapirs in Heian-kyo. The nightmare-eating tapirs in Heian-kyo special Nightmare eating Heian-kyo."

"Is this the place where the whole dream world gathers?" Lizi asked in surprise.

"That's right," Seimei smiled softly and said in a low voice, "In other words, this is the kingdom of dreams. We will enter Heian-kyo in the dream-land in a while. If someone dreams of Heian-kyo there, we will meet to him."

"If Shuten had dreamed of Oe-san, we would not have met him. If Ibaraki dreamed that he was at Yebisu Shrine, we would be able to meet him at Yebisu Shrine. Is that what it means?" Riko asked .

"That's right, that's it." Seimei nodded.

As they talked in a low voice, they got closer and closer to the door, and gradually a lot of noisy noises came from their ears.It's like thousands of people whispering at the same time.

"Someone is talking in their dreams," Qingming whispered, "We haven't entered that door yet, this is still the place where dreams and reality meet."

The closer to the door, the brighter the light from the door.It made people squint their eyes unconsciously, otherwise they would shed tears.

Lizi simply closed her eyes, pulled Qingming's sleeves and walked forward.

The ravings in the ear became louder and louder, and there were even roars. I don't know what terrible dream everyone had.

All of a sudden, all the babbling disappeared, and Seimei's voice at a normal volume came from next to his ears, "Okay, open your eyes."

Lizi immediately opened her eyes, and a spring image of Heian-kyo was reflected in her pupils.Bright and clean, no dust on the ground.There are bright lights and shadows everywhere.The sky is also bright white, like walking into a light bulb.But that's not the case everywhere.

Like the area on her left, it is a piece of orange, like Heian-kyo under the setting sun.And farther away, it was pitch black and nothing could be seen.

Different from reality, the street shops here are also different.It was the Tuyumen Avenue she was familiar with, but there were a few more unfamiliar trails.

The people walking beside them were also very strangely dressed.Some wore outdated clothes, and some ran naked naked.The way of walking is also very strange.Some rode on cranes, and some rode on oxen.Not only on the road, but even on the roof and in the sky, there are people flying past from time to time.

"It's not surprising," Qingming said with a smile, "When you dream, you don't pay too much attention to what you wear. Sometimes you can't find your pants after wearing a jacket. After all, many people can't control themselves in their dreams. "

"Yes." Lizi nodded and admitted, "Sometimes I dream of being chased by monsters. When I was anxious, I flew up, but the flight was very slow. I was very anxious, and I was about to be overtaken, but I couldn't control the speed .”

Seimei smiled and said, "That's it. Some people dream of Heian-kyo when they were young, and some dream of Heian-kyo that they have never seen before. So what you see is such a strange scene."

"Where are we going now?" Pear asked.

"I saw an empty ox cart ahead," Qingming looked towards the corner of the street, "let's drive that to find the shrine."

"Okay." Xiaoli nodded, in fact, she wanted to go home and take a look.It's all on Tuyumen Avenue, wouldn't it be interesting to go back and see other people's dreams?

Just thinking about it, a huge red bird slowly flew over.

Lizi recognized Suzaku at a glance, she wanted to call Suzaku's name, but worried that the person in the dream would not be awakened.Luckily, Suzaku also saw them, and came over in human form with a look of surprise on the ground.

"Hey, Qingming, why are you still here? Didn't you lock you up in a small dark room?" Suzaku looked Qingming up and down with his arms akimbo.

Lizi smiled slightly, and Suzaku in the dream called Qingming directly by name, and stopped calling adults.

"Close the small black room? Take me?" Qingming asked with some amusement.

"Yes, you are my shikigami here. If you don't behave well, I will put you away." Suzaku said naturally.

"I'm your shikigami?" Seimei asked again.

"It's really blah, blah, blah, blah." Suzaku frowned. "But Yin-Yang is still very powerful. It was so powerful in my dream, but I ran out of the little black room. Then I will collect it again."

Saying this, she stretched out two fingers of each hand and pressed them against her temples, "Ah—pick it up." After shouting, she pointed her fingers at Seimei at the same time.

pear:"……"

"Huh? Why is there no response? Ah——take it away." Suzaku continued to make a very second-handed posture.

"So you have such a dream every night." Qingming said with a smile while crossing his arms.

Suzaku's eyes froze suddenly.

"I'm going to do something very important now, and I'll settle the score with you tomorrow." Qingming jumped into the bullock cart and sat down on the driver's seat, reaching out to pull the pears.Lizi followed his momentum and jumped into the car.

"Aren't I dreaming now?" Suzaku's expression changed, "Could it be Master Seimei?"

Qingming didn't answer, just twitched the corners of her lips at her, took the reins with both hands and drove the bullock cart away from here.

Lizi didn't enter the carriage, but chose to sit beside him.

"Master Seimei, what happened just now? Wasn't Suzaku dreaming?"

"It's a dream." Seimei held the rein and controlled the direction, "but Suzaku is different from others. Her dream is a lucid dream. She can stay awake forever in the dream. So after listening to me just now, her face changed. "

"So that's the case." Lizi couldn't help laughing for a while. "It seems that Suzaku has a lot of resentment towards you. I never forget to lock you up in a dark room in my dreams. You are still her shikigami."

Qingming also smiled slightly, "This is the scariest part of Suzaku. As long as she wants, she can know everyone's dreams."

Lizi's complexion changed rapidly.

"What's the matter?" Qingming asked with a smile, "Did you dream about something unspeakable?"

"That's not..." She remembered that she often dreamed of the original era, which was her biggest secret.If Suzaku sees...

Qingming glanced at her lightly and knew what she was thinking.He hooked the corners of his lips, "As long as it is not dreaming of Heianjing, Suzaku has no way to know. Just like now, Suzaku needs to follow us in order to know what we are doing. Similarly, Suzaku needs to find you who are dreaming before knowing what you are doing." What are you dreaming about?"

It turned out to be the case, Pear breathed a sigh of relief.

The bullock cart was faster than she expected, but it left the city after running for a while.Seimei continued to drive the car towards the dense forest.

"Master Seimei, when are we going back? Is it when everyone wakes up?"

"When it is almost dawn, the nightmare-eating tapirs will open the door to reality from the dream world again. If we want to go, we will follow them." Qingming said.

"What if we want to leave?" Lizi heard a hint of ambiguity, "Aren't you going to follow?"

"Of course it would be the best if we can finish things before dawn. I'm afraid that after finding the shrine, it will not be so easy to leave." Qingming said.

Li Zi's body froze slightly, "What will happen if you don't leave?"

"It doesn't matter for a short time, but we came in in the form of flesh. After a long time, we will starve to death without food. And after dawn, we missed the opportunity to leave with the nightmares, so we can only wait for them to close the door again the next night." Open it to leave."

"So that's how it is," Lizi nodded, "as long as I can leave. I was worried that this place wouldn't exist after dawn."

"No," Qingming said, "The dream world will never disappear. If one day everyone stops dreaming, this place will slowly disappear."

"Hey, there's no way ahead." Lizi said.

Seimei frowned slightly, "The woods here are denser than I imagined." He parked the car next to a huge cherry tree and jumped off.

Lizi jumped down while holding on to the beam. After standing still, she looked at the surrounding trees, "What happens if the forest is dense?"

"I might lose you," Seimei said.

"No," Lizi said nonchalantly, feeling that Qingming was a little worried, "I'll follow you closely. This is not a market and there are not so many people, how can you get lost?"

……

Lizi wandered alone in the woods, unable to figure it out.She walked side by side with Qingming, still talking.But after a blink of an eye, he was gone.

Think carefully about why you had to blink more at that time?It seems that there are always cherry blossom petals falling slowly in the sky.Even when the two were talking, the petals were still floating.But now Seimei is gone, and so are the petals.

Is it a monster?

Feeling uneasy in Lizi's heart, she reached out and quietly took out a charm from her satchel and squeezed it in her palm.

"It's useless." A lazy voice sounded from above his head.

She looked up in shock, but a hand patted her from behind.

"Hiss." She gasped, and quickly threw the spell behind her.The wind talisman stirred up a gust of wind, causing the petals to flutter in the air again.

She turned around, her pupils reflected Seimei lazily leaning against the cedar tree, her dark eyes staring at her unabashedly.

No, it's not Seimei, it's Seimei in black.

"Where is Master Qingming?" Lizi asked.

"Strange, am I his conjoined twins? You always ask me such a question when you see me." Qingming in black twitched his lips.

"Didn't you make trouble just now?" Lizi continued to ask, "Why did you come out just after he disappeared?"

"Isn't this normal?" Qingming in black said with a half smile, "There can only be one Qingming in this world."

Lizi pursed her lips lightly, "I took out the spell just now, why did you say it was useless? Is there any difference between the dream and the outside? The spell won't work here?"

"No," the black-clothed boy said lazily, "I mean your spell doesn't work on me."

pear:"……"

Seeing that she stopped talking again, Hei Yi Qingming felt a sense of distress, "Hey, I finally saw you, so you should treat her equally. Why are the same faces not treated the same?"

"Because people are not the same." Lizi began to find her way in the woods while talking.Although I got separated from Lord Seimei again, as long as I find the shrine, I can find him, right?

"Are you going to find a shrine?" Black-clothed Qingming twitched the corners of his mouth, "That thing is hard to deal with, just let Qingming go alone."

"Do you know what He is?" Lizi stopped and looked at him.

"Don't use him, it's just it, it's not a god, it's just an evil spirit." Heiyi Qingming said, "I encountered it a long time ago, and it took a lot of effort to get rid of it. People who are not determined are easily bewitched by it."

Li Zi immediately hesitated, she is an unsteady person, "For example? If I keep reminding myself, no matter how nice it says, I won't give it a chance to speak. What if I hit it when I see it?"

"It is the center of desire and has no substance. I still don't know how to eliminate it." Hei Yiqingming said, "I suffered a lot that time and almost couldn't get out. So I advise you not to go."

"What exactly is it? I can't imagine the danger when you say that." Lizi asked curiously, "What made you suffer so much and almost couldn't get out?"

The boy in black hesitated, "It's desire. I saw something within my reach. It took me a long time to escape from desire."

"Then what kind of desire is it?" Lizi asked without shame.

The boy in black didn't know what to do when he kept asking.He couldn't really express his desire, so he could only say impatiently, "It's fine if you want to eat a kind of fruit."

……

Qingming sat next to the boulder and closed his eyes tightly.The atmosphere of dusk wafts around, because it is located in a dense forest, the surroundings are very dark.

A man in a black hunting suit and a white porcelain mask floated in mid-air.His mask is painted with smiling facial features, and his eyes are two arcs bent into a semicircle.There are even two mustaches painted on the top of the person.

A shrill voice came out from behind the mask, "How about it, isn't it hard? Humans are easy to surrender to lust. No one can escape the siege of lust. I advise you to give up early. Make a wish to me, and I will I can give you what you want."

Qingming panted lightly, even though he closed his eyes, he couldn't escape his desire for lust.

The shrine magnified his lust, made him want, want, want.I want to kiss her bright red lips, I want to hold her in my arms, and I want more.

"You dare not confess to her because you are afraid that you will not be able to keep her. You are afraid that in her heart, you are not as good as her desire to go home."

The shrine interpreted Qingming's heart and continued to bewitch, "But I can help you, I can help you keep her. I can make her divorce quickly and give Yuyu to you. I can make her forget about finding her way home."

"She refuses." Qingming said softly with some pain.

"Make a wish to me, and you will know if she will. Believe me, I am your good friend. I like helping human beings achieve their wishes the most."

"I can't find a good shrine in this world that is more generous and helpful than me. I can give you whatever you want." The shrine is like a drama actor, constantly making large body movements.

"I just want her." The boy opened his eyes, and the clear light in his eyes no longer existed.Although he still had that indifferent appearance, his voice was scorched by the fire of desire, overflowing with light gasps.The whole person has been completely controlled by lust.

"So, are you willing to trust me? Are you willing to let me read your heart more deeply?" the shrine asked, "Open your heart completely, so that I can give you what you want."

"Okay..." the boy said, and slowly moved his hand covering his heart away.

Just as the shrine was about to float over, there was the sound of footsteps in the distance, it paused slightly, "There are so many people here, let me let you go first."

Its figure turned into smoke and disappeared in the air.

Lizi saw Qingming sitting on the ground leaning against a boulder from a long distance.He closed his eyes tightly and looked uncomfortable.

"Master Qingming." She let out a low cry and rushed over.

With a pale face, the young man murmured softly, "I want to..."

"What do you want?" Lizi leaned over and asked.

"I want Xiaoli..." the boy said, reaching out and pulling her into his arms.His eyes were still closed, but he could accurately find her lips.

Lizi was pinched by him at the waist and couldn't move, she could only watch helplessly as he pinched her chin and kissed her.

"Okay, stop pretending." A cold voice came from behind.

"So there are still people?" Qingming opened his eyes, the chaotic lust had disappeared, and a clearness reappeared in his eyes.Although his voice was still hoarse, it could be seen that he was fine.

"Master Seimei, are you alright?" Lizi raised her head and looked at him suspiciously.

"What can he do?" Hei Yi Qingming said coldly, "Have you learned Yin Yang for so long?"

"It's okay, didn't you see that I was surrounded by lust and couldn't escape?" Qingming said with a smile.

"Tsk," the boy in black sneered, "Are you sure you are surrounded, not aphrodisiac?"