Vientiane Senro

Sakiko Morikawa took a last look at her brother and the lantern-shaped monster. She bit her lip and didn't stay any longer, because her brother had a secret but she didn't know it. She would feel sad because of this. Sure enough, she was the closest brother It's too close, so I can't help but have some extravagant hopes?She lowered her head and looked at the bright mobile phone screen again, and returned to her room.

"Master Qingming!" Lantern Fire finally spit out this title that has been suppressed for thousands of years, but soon, it closed its mouth. Ji Qiu raised his index finger and placed it on his lips. Although he did not breathe out, But the lantern fire immediately understood what he meant, and it immediately stopped talking.

"My name is... Morikawa Hisashi." Ji Qiu slowly walked down the wooden steps, with the moon-white long clothes scattered behind him, he walked to the sofa in the living room, sat down, and Looking at the lantern fire without any emotion, under such gaze, the lantern fire recalled the fear and awe from thousands of years ago, and remembered the things he had done recently, and the lantern fire shook like chaff.

"Are you afraid?" Ji Qiu sighed, and he did not use his aura to suppress the lantern demon in front of him. It was his own decision to keep it in the past, so no matter what he has gained now, the current self will continue to be up.

"Morikawa...no, Master Jiu!" Lantern Fire's one-eyed quietly raised up to look at Ji Qiu with an unclear expression, and he didn't seem to get angry when he saw "Master Seimei". Using this more intimate title, it justified itself: "Just now my light was shining, which attracted the monster for Mr. Ji Jun. Although the little monster had already disposed of it as soon as possible, it disturbed Mr. My younger sister, it’s my negligence on the lantern fire... Huh, it’s been 1000 years, and I still can’t do anything, little demon..."

Speaking of the latter, it suddenly couldn't help sobbing: "The same is true for the monster in the swamp, and so is the 'Sen Shenhui' behind. Obviously, the Lord sealed me to protect me, and I ran out of it by myself..."

"Shut up." Ji Qiu said flatly.

The lantern choked on fire.

"You are too noisy." Ji Qiu turned his head away, too lazy to look at it.The lantern fire can only nod up and down.

"The matter of the Mori God Association is another matter. Let's stop the matter of creating monsters for now," Ji Qiuyuan looked at the bright moon hanging high in the night sky. The stars also emitted their own light, but no matter which one it was, it was not as good as It is bright and clear, "I am different from a thousand years ago. At that time, I needed external power to bless me, so I formed the Hundred Ghosts that run amok at night in Kyoto," Ji Qiu seemed to be saying to the lantern fire, also like It's saying to yourself: "But now I don't need that power anymore."

"What?!" The lantern fire turned pale with shock, it wanted to form a hundred ghosts to welcome the long-lost return of the adults, but was it all just useless efforts?It asked anxiously: "You don't need us anymore? Are you going to abandon the lantern and fire me?"

abandon?Didn't such a thing happen once a thousand years ago?Ji Qiu turned his head and looked at the little monster strangely, but in the end he just snorted coldly: "Hundred ghosts travel at night since ancient times, using the fear of human beings to create the 'fear' that only exists among the ghosts." , in this way, at most, it can only enhance the strength during the battle."

Back then, when I was trying my best to make myself stronger, I remembered all kinds of plots I had seen in my previous life. After trying many kinds, I finally settled on the plan of "Hundred Ghosts at Night".But now it seems that some things happen, not without any reason.At that time, I should have thought that 600 years later, there would be the birth of a monster group like the Nuragumi, which would carry forward the existence of "awe" to a more profound level.The title of Lord of Demons and Monsters has also become a specific title that has been handed down.

"But now, what I'm looking for is not that kind of thing anymore." Ji Qiu didn't say any more, the lantern fire will not understand the higher level, and what it wants is not those, Ji Qiu has understood from a long time ago , Everyone pursues different things, but everyone's vision is narrow, so they are often confused by other people's goals. Once the paths of practice are intertwined, conflicts will follow.

"I know!" Lantern Fire said with surprise on his face: "It must be Qing...Master Jiu has become stronger, and we don't need our assistance anymore!"

Beneath the face of joy is a sudden deep anxiety. If Master Qingming no longer needs the followers of monsters, what use is the current self to Master Qingming?

Ji Qiu may have noticed it too, but he didn't say much, he just said lightly: "My identity must not be revealed to anyone, no matter who you met at the shrine that day."

"Master Ji Jun too?" Although he didn't understand, the lantern fire was only used for fulfillment.

"Naturally." Ji Qiu replied.

……

Sakiko Morikawa hid under the blanket and continued to count words in the chat room. The horror story she just finished was quickly appreciated by the "ghost story fan". Because she is a newcomer, she also got some encouragement. "There were not many people, and the "Schisandra" with whom she had a good chat was still there, but Yatagarara, who was the manager, suddenly jumped out and bubbled.

"If I remember correctly," Yatagaragi mused, "Kurihara Kodera once said that you are the younger sister of the second Asakawa-kun, so you should be a young lady who is not too old, right?"

"Eh?" Sakiko Morikawa asked suspiciously and vigilantly, "Well, I'm really young, but, Yata-kun, why did you suddenly ask this?"

"I just remembered something that happened in Kyoto recently," Yatagarao sent a comforting expression: "The place is about to become chaotic recently, as the only girl in the club whose gender has been confirmed, Ms. Kurihara should try to stay away as much as possible in the near future." That place is better."

Sakiko Morikawa thought of Mrs. Aso who attacked her just now, she shuddered, and quickly asked, "Did something happen?"

In order to prevent the other party from being unwilling to tell, Sakiko Morikawa added another sentence: "Someone knocked on my door in the middle of the night just now. If it wasn't for a friend of my brother who happened to come to visit..."

"Oh?" Yatagaragi sounded like a serious person: "I know some friends who are capable, it seems that your brother is indeed a person with his own strength just like what he has shown. However, the troubles in Kyoto I am talking about will not be so 'polite' knocking on other people's doors, they will only forcefully kidnap people, young girls and sweet children, these are their goals, so, society If there are other girls here, it’s better to be far away from Kyoto recently.”

"Did something happen?" Schisandra interrupted suddenly.

"Well, are you interested in those too?" Although the chat room connects many people with demons, it is not the creator after all, and Yatagaragi does not know what the real identity is hidden under the code name of this person. , he was quite surprised and said: "If I remember correctly, there should be only a little grandson who hasn't grown up in Schisandra in your family, right?"

"Hey," Schisandra didn't say much, just casually said, "As an old man who has lived for a long time, who doesn't have one or two friends? Because I'm worried about them, I want to ask more clearly."

Schisandra is actually an old man with a grandson! !Sakiko Morikawa was shocked by this fact for a moment. In the chat room, she was the one who could chat with herself, and it was also because of this Schisandra that she could quickly adapt to this group. She also thought about who the other party was , the only thing I didn't expect was that Schisandra, who behaved a little carelessly and sent some trendy words from time to time, was actually a person who could be his own grandfather at an age!

"Raw liver." Yatagaragi said.

"What?" Sakiko Morikawa didn't understand.

"The monsters who kidnapped them said they needed their raw livers." Yatagaragi sent an explanation: "The more noble the status of a woman, the more 'welcome' they are."

Sakiko Morikawa, who suddenly saw this line of text, for some reason, suddenly remembered the honorific name that the lantern monster called out to her ten minutes ago: Ji Jun.

She shrank back.

"That's it." Schisandra exclaimed, "I see. Thank you for letting me know."

"Hmph," the Yatagaraku also sent an inexplicable message: "It looks like Schisandra, you want to get a hand in it."

There was no reply, and the old man seemed to have gone offline.Yatagarasu, who didn't want to embarrass himself, didn't speak anymore.

Sure enough, there are everyone on the Internet, and no one knows whether the person you thought you were having a good time with is an old man who can already be your grandparent.

Sakiko Morikawa sighed, tossing and turning, unable to fall asleep.After thinking about it, she got up again, put on her clothes, and walked out the door.

The lights in the living room have been extinguished, and the lantern monster who came to visit seems to have long since left.But Ji Qiu didn't leave, he sat sideways in front of the window with his clothes on, as if admiring the night scene under the starry sky, and also seemed to be thinking about some things of his own.

The night wind blew past, shaking the hem of his clothes, Morikawa Sakiko gathered her clothes, she felt a little cold.

He didn't look back, and Sakiko Morikawa didn't know why he ran out again.Before Ji Qiu asked about it, Sakiko Morikawa stammered out the news she got from the night talk club... Sakiko Morikawa felt that she couldn't bear it because she had received new urgent news. I wanted to report to my brother, but it was definitely not because I was curious about the relationship between the Lantern Demon and my brother.As an obedient younger sister, she wouldn't peek at her brother's secrets.

"Raw liver?" Ji Qiu finally turned around, a strange smile appeared on his face, like mockery, ridicule and disdain, but in the end he returned to calm, a kind of silence that is more peaceful than the night .

Sakiko Morikawa couldn't understand what that fleeting expression represented.

"Heh," Ji Qiu said indifferently, "It's getting late, go to sleep."