[Ghost Lamp] The dark humor of hell

"...That, bone girl-san, why did you come here..."

The wood spirit pulled the belt exposed from the bone girl's waist, and followed her, walking on the black fire rock path.This is the depths of the forest, and it is also a place that humans outside cannot reach. Several decomposed skeletons and various suicide props can often be seen on the ground.

"Because I used to live here, I remember I left a spare human skin there just in case...is it so scary? Aren't you an elf?"

"Fear has nothing to do with me being an elf, okay! Young lady is also afraid of ghosts!"

"Miss Zhizi is called a cute attribute."

At the foot of Mount Fuji in Japan, the sacred place of suicide, Aokigahara Tree Sea——

It is a forest without a god of the land.

According to Mu Ling, after the former land god disappeared mysteriously while guarding this place, no god in the mountain god family is willing to manage this land. Now Master Ishihime from Mt. As for perishing so soon.

As for the reason for the bizarrely high suicide rate here, the wood spirit said that it had nothing to do with the gods, and it was definitely not Shi Ji who disliked beautiful women and let a big tree fall down to kill her.

"So, the bone girl-san lives in the sea of ​​trees in Aokigahara, do you know anything about the suicides that appear here every year?"

The wood spirit stared at the bushes that felt like something was about to pop out, and rubbed his hands uneasily.

"Suicide? It should be caused by monsters, because there is no land god. There have been many monsters wandering in this forest since before, and there are also many monsters passing by in the city."

"a lot of?"

"That's right...it's better now. The total number of monsters has generally decreased. But before, the Aokigahara trees were full of sea monsters, and even the daytime was dark. It's very suitable for monsters to live in. Mu Lingsang has never been here before. Is it? The monsters are rampant, no matter what, the gods have to come and take a look, even if they don’t care about them.”

The bone girl glanced at Mu Ling unexpectedly, and stepped into an open space filled with mist, which seemed to have been cleaned by someone specially, the ground was very clean, black flaming rocks spread out in front of her, and two stone lanterns were built on both sides.

A stone lantern with a sinister face that looks like Fusangshin.

"I once came to watch because of Shuten-douji, and...after being stared at by it, I didn't know where to go after cleaning up the food in my house....Actually, Shuten-douji is better. There might be nothing left of my house."

Mu Ling smiled awkwardly, she hadn't been here since then, to avoid bringing any strange monsters into the house again.

The bone girl went to the stone lantern on the right and knocked on its stone eaves. Fu Sangshen seemed to be sleeping, and her movements paused, but she decided not to disturb them to rest.

According to Mr. Ghost Lantern, once Fu Sangshen sees a living thing, he will be so excited that he can't choose what to say, in short, it is very noisy.

"Shua Piao... Actually, he is a very good monster. He will apologize when he bumps into anyone. When buying breakfast, he will go there to pay back the money when the boss is not there. He doesn't look like a general of monsters at all."

Digging and digging inside the stone lantern, the bone girl took a long time before she took out a human skin that was sealed with a film bag like clothes. From Mu Ling's point of view, it was similar to a modern storage bag.

"Have you seen Bone Girl-san? Actually, I've always been curious about why Hua Piao organized the Hyakki Night Walk."

"It's not a slippery ladle. It's already gone to hell. I watched it pass through the gate of hell, and the bull's head and horse face didn't notice it at all. As for the night tour of the ghosts, it's not as serious as it sounds. I saw it once, it seems because of the monsters Lianyi got drunk and ran to the house of Onmyoji, and was chased to seek refuge in the sea of ​​trees in Aokigahara."

The bone girl tore open the film bag, shook the human skin in front of her, and a layer of ash scattered, but the sense of presence in the foggy forest was not strong.

"The fellowship of monsters...it turns out that the world of monsters is as cruel as humans."

Mu Ling sighed softly, and took two steps forward to pull a pair of human skin in the hand of the woman who pulled the bone. I don't know what kind of treatment it has undergone. In short, it is different from the balloons in the world, and it will not break so easily.Finding that she couldn't tear it apart, the wood spirit touched the human skin's hand again, and the delicate sense of touch made her curious, "How is this done?"

"Cut the complete corpse from the abdomen to open the blood, pay some money to the ghoul for large-scale processing, and then carry out relatively simple modification work after it is recovered, and finally repair it with demon power and add the special medicine made by the bone girl to put it in the small warehouse Store it, and when you take it out to use later, you only need to use your own demon power to spread a layer of illusion and you will be a human being."

The bone girl put the human skin on the still resting stone lantern, picked at her fingers, and saw a trace of red light overflowing from her fingertips, forming a line-like thing. As the red light disappeared, the bones disappeared. The human skin on the female fingertips is also gradually falling off.

"I thought it was the job of the soul-binding ghost to rot the corpse,... so is this the power that monsters are proud of?"

Mu Ling pointed to a red light that shot out from the fingers of the phalanx woman.

"...No, it's just a very common chemical agent, which is used to increase the hardness of the fingers in the hand." The bone girl emphasized blankly, glanced at the new clothes on the eye stone lantern, and pushed the wood spirit, "Sorry, I Now I want to change clothes,...can you avoid it for a while? Or Mu Lingsang, do you have a hobby of voyeurism? Uh wow, are you a pervert?"

"Don't think that if I say nothing, it means I admit what you said!"

In the sea of ​​trees in Aokigahara, at the notice board at the entrance——

Mu Ling stared at the person in front of him with an embarrassed expression. Is this any different from the one just now? !

"Of course there is. Didn't you see that I changed into a suit? To be honest, it feels very bad to be wrapped up like a spinning top."

With an appearance that is not much different from before, the bone girl with short black hair and white mourning clothes and calm eyes is the only difference from before. The neck that was exposed in the air has now changed back.

"Bone girl-san, is your appearance mass-produced..."

"It's a long story. This probably happened in the Edo period. In fact, the previous one was my younger sister, but now this one is my older sister. My older sister originally had a fiancé, but she was returned by her husband's family before she got married, and married her younger sister instead. , the unwilling older sister took the younger sister who had a good relationship with her to the sea of ​​trees in Aokigahara, and then ran into Shuten Doji who was driven to the deep mountains by Minamoto Raimitsu..."

"Why does this story have a strong sense of sight... By the way, didn't Minamoto Raimitsu bring his Four Heavenly Kings to destroy Shuten-douji..."

Mu Ling discovered too many facts that she didn't know, the truth is always cruel, and reality can always disillusion people's illusions.

"According to Shuten-douji, he was considered a bad monster after eating two glutinous rice balls at Minamoto's house... Fortunately, the Four Heavenly Kings understood the reason and let him go. In fact, two of the Four Heavenly Kings are monsters La.

"After the sisters met Shuten-douji who was in a bad mood, the mischievous Shuten-douji took away the food, wandered in the forest for a long time and finally died. I picked them up and processed them after seeing that their figure matched me. Take a moment. Shuten-douji is very regretful about this matter, he has changed his foodie nature, and now he is doing odd jobs in the kingdom of heaven."

"...I always feel that no matter what happens in this world, I won't be surprised..."

The wooden spirit drooped its shoulders, staring weakly at the black flaming rock path under its feet, and many ghosts gathered at the entrance of the forest. Every time it came from hell, it could find a large number of wandering souls here to go back to communicate.At this time, twos and threes gathered around the two of them, who were rare to be real, and danced in circles...

"Bone girl-san... are you going back now?"

"I have three days off, and it's only been one day now... I went to the street to do some shopping, and these ghosts asked Mu Lingsang to find the escort department."

The bone girl stepped forward and tripped the drunken ghost circling around to the ground, rolled up the sleeves of her mourning clothes, and handed over the work to the wood spirit who was not an employee of hell.

"No! You will only scare people when you wear this dead man's clothes on the street!!"