After choosing a big adventure at Lupine's Bar

Mokona lay on Yato's head, frowning his non-existent eyebrows.

"On April [-]st, I received a request from another world to find someone."

"I found it, but because this matter has something to do with Mingyin, he needs to be present for the matchmaking."

After listening to Mokona's explanation, Yato turned his thoughts that were a little sluggish due to the pain, "Ah, I see, is it that man?"

"That's right, that's the man you thought of."

"Then why does that guy have to be there too? It's not necessary, is it?"

Mokona was silent, as if he didn't know how to explain it, and was worried about something.

"Huh? Is it a business operation secret that no one can know?"

"That's not true," Mokona suddenly opened his eyes, looking a little scary, but fortunately no one saw him at all, "it's just because the wish of 'find him' was made by Mingyin from that world."

Mingyin is now in a wonderful "world".

Nothing at all.

Just like the initial state of the world in the legend, it is chaotic, nothing exists, and everything exists.

The only clear feeling is that I am falling slowly, fluttering, I don't know where I fell from, and I don't know how far I am from the ground.

In such a wonderful state, the sounds from the outside world gradually became indistinct.

He simply closed his eyes.

"The word 'empty' means 'everything that exists is caused by conditions, and there is no independent and unchanging entity'. It seems to be a Buddhist term? Well, let's forget about that."

"As for you who are named after Kong, I hope you can always remember this."

"The world is made up of connected threads, you can't live alone."

Natsume Nasora lived in a single-parent family when he was a child.

His unmarried mother and his similar-looking sibling sister, these two people built his whole world.

When I was in the first grade of elementary school, by virtue of my acting skills, I perfectly concealed the fact that I could see monsters and monsters in front of outsiders.

In this way, you can blend into the crowd, and you won't always make the younger sister who can't see those worry about herself.

So, from the day when the mutation broke out beyond his control, he has been thinking about one thing every day.

Is there a way to die without causing trouble to others?

It was a very ordinary day when nothing special happened.

He and his sister were playing in the river near the school.

Suddenly, a black shadow flashed in front of his eyes, his body felt as if he had passed through the icy water, his body felt cold, and then his consciousness gradually sank.

【So painful...】

【Help…! 】

【Why no one came to save me...】

Memories that didn't belong to me and the pain of flooding my mouth and nose, being unable to breathe, and being useless in any struggle entered my mind.

When I regained consciousness, there was a lingering pain on my forehead, and I guess it was packed.

In front of him, his hands were still pinching his sister's tender neck.

Ming Kong quickly let go.

The younger sister sat up, coughing continuously.She instinctively placed one hand in front of her neck to conceal it, and there were blue bruises between her fingers.

In a daze, he moved his gaze upwards, and Natsume Reiko, who had punched him hard just now, pinched his chin.

"Well, this side drove away."

Then, she knelt down to check on the other child.

"How about it……?"

"Cough...cough cough!"

"Well, fortunately the trachea is not damaged."

chased away.

According to this statement, he was probably possessed by something just now.

In case mom didn't rush over to save her...

A coldness much colder than the river water soaked through his whole body in an instant.

The world is about to collapse.

"Isn't it...!"

Before the words of apology could be spoken, he was embraced by a warm body.

"It's not...cough, it's a matter of name and space!"

She hadn't recovered from the fear and pain of suffocation just now, and her voice was still not very smooth, so she flustered and kept repeating every word in a firm tone.

"No, it's a matter of name and space."

"No... woo..."

As if talking to himself, he emphasized, but tears kept rolling in his eyes.

However, the person who was hugged tightly burst into tears.

Reiko hit Nakuro on the head with a hand knife.

"Why are you crying too, really."

Only after that did the two children hear about someone who drowned here 2 years ago.

"It is estimated that the water level has risen recently, which allowed her to climb up."

She touched the children's heads, "It's okay, mom has already driven her away!"

Mothers are strong.

Powerful as a person, as a mother, and as a psychic.

But Mingkong still felt uneasy.

"Ming Kong, do you remember? In fact, this kind of thing happened more than once, just because no one else was there at the time, I just violently expelled."

"……Eh?"

"So, Mom thinks, you probably have this kind of physique, so accept it as if you were born with eyes like burnt pot bottoms."

"No, right? You can't just accept it like this!"

He choked, remembering how his sister was strangled by "he", and squeezed out his voice from his throat.

"In case, that kind of thing happens again..."

Reiko leaned against the wall next to the corridor, grabbed Nasora with her arm, and hit her head on her thigh.

"Should not go to crowded places and places where people died in accidents or committed suicide not long ago...These places tend to gather unclean things."

"But it's impossible to guard against...Mom, I want to earn money to support my family, so I can't watch you all the time...So I decided to find a bodyguard for you on weekends!"

When she said this, there was still a clear smile on her face, and her long light-colored hair brushed past her face and floated behind her head.

Confident and calm, even this kind of self can accept it with a smile.

The same goes for my younger sister, who was obviously very scared, but tremblingly told him not to be afraid.

He thought, maybe he spent all his luck in this life being born into this family.

Mingkong was held by Reiko and led into the back mountain.

Reiko was holding a booklet with "Book of Friends" written on the cover.

In the book of friends, the names of monsters that my mother defeated at a naughty age were collected.

With these names, you can command those monsters.

But my mother never used it once in my impression.

"It's here." With a smile on her face, she stood in an open space that was not covered by vegetation.

It may be that the original building was demolished not long ago.

"It's really getting weaker and weaker, Lord Snake God."

As soon as the voice fell, a white figure appeared in the place that was originally empty.

Long white hair, white to transparent skin, and the same complex and flawless white robes.

Only those vertical pupils were as deep red as ripe berries.

It was as if the thick ink had dyed the night, the lights guiding the way forward.

"It has nothing to do with you."

The existence known as "Snake God" has a calm face, not like a living life, but something closer to vegetation and wind and frost.

It's really like the gods in the legend.

"Why do you stay here stubbornly? If you are no longer a mountain god, wouldn't it be better to find a more comfortable place?"

"I have nostalgia for this place, and besides..." He half-closed his eyes, and his silver-white eyelashes cast shadows, "My body is too large to move a little."

"So it's not that you don't want to leave?"

"..."

"If you hand over your name, your strength will be restricted by this curse, and your body will inevitably shrink..."

"Anyway, you're no longer a god. Why don't you give it a try? If you lose, hand over your name. Be my child's bodyguard. Ordinary ghosts won't dare to approach you."

"...Bodyguard...?" There was a subtle expression on his face.

Lord Snake God floated over, bent down in mid-air, and looked closely at Mingkong's face. His red eyes stared straight at him, his cold side hair swept across his face, and his clothes fluttered behind him, as if Slowly falling snow.

"...This physique is not a defect of the body, but a defect of the heart, which has to be filled slowly by time..."

"Alright, let's pass the time as boredom."

Seeing that he agreed to this competition, Reiko smiled and clapped her hands.

"Okay, rock-paper-scissors game will determine the outcome, let's start!"

"...?"

"...?"

"Didn't I tell you? It's a competition between you two."

The tense game has begun.

Master Zombie produced scissors and Ming Kong produced cloth.

Meikong looks like he's about to lose...!

At this moment, Reiko, who was serving as a referee, hit the snake god on the head with a baseball bat that she took out from nowhere.

"Okay! It's Ming Kong who won."

Seemingly feeling nothing wrong, Reiko took the winner's hand and raised it, declaring victory.

Lord Snake God was strangely not angry at all, he just rubbed his head and murmured: "Unreasonable as always..."

He handed the paper with his name written on it to Mingkong.

It was an unknown character, but Naku could understand it.

but……

"I am Naku, Natsume Naku."

He introduced himself.

"I will call you 'Dengguo' (Hika) from now on, and the writing is "Light-like fruit". Is this okay?"

"Pseudonym..." It's the complete opposite of the cold Him, a warm name, "It doesn't matter, you can call it whatever you like."

When the contract was formed, Dengguo's body gradually shrank and changed into a small white snake.

He hooked Mingkong's right little finger with his tail, exchanged a glance with him like this, got into his sleeve, ran all the way up, and finally chose the stable neck as his home, and coiled down.

"It has become so small..." Reiko looked surprised.

"Is it really big?"

"It's huge, bigger than you imagined," Reiko raised her head, smiling lightly as if thinking about something, "He's almost integrated with this mountain."

And just when life was gradually on the right track, misfortune happened suddenly like that.

Natsume Reiko is dead.

Because of an unreasonable traffic accident.