Cupid

Ten years later, Otsubaki and Kagura woke up on the same day.

As the performer of the spell, you also woke up once after they were revived.

But you are so tired.

Force the dead to stay in the world, and use the soul as the spiritual core to make the cursed skeleton.

The revived two can use the spells they used in life smoothly, and they don't even need to replenish their souls like Kikyo. They just need to collect spell power in time and move freely.

——This is the result of your painstaking efforts over the past 70 years.

In the absence of Su Nuo as a supply of spell power, the effect of the "Dirty Soil Reincarnation" level of spells is almost perfect, and the loss caused to you is astonishing.

So this time you just woke up for half a day and fell asleep again.

Taking advantage of this time, before you even explained the situation, Otsubaki and Kagura took the initiative to make a promise to you.

"As your master, I will never leave you alone this time... I will take good care of you, and go to sleep with peace of mind."

"You have worked hard for 70 years to create a body for me. In return, I will protect you for 70 years..."

According to them, your wooden box seems to be your birth domain, and the two people living in it as spirit bodies actually know very well what happened to you.

This saved you a lot of explaining effort, and you closed your eyes again under their comfort.

As a result, 70 years later, Kagura is still by your side.

"You're still here."

"What? I said 70 years is your 70 waking years."

That's really your honor. You don't even know if you should sleep for a few more days when she said that.

Then there are 100 years. You sleep longer and longer each time, but correspondingly, the time you are conscious each time after waking up will also be extended correspondingly.

As the black witch, Otsubaki's appearance is the same as before, but the Kagura you see every time you wake up will be a different Kagura.

She is a youkai who only seeks freedom.

Freedom is manifested in every way, in her clothes, in her hairstyle, in her identity and occupation disguised as a human being—

Sometimes she is a private school teacher, sometimes a tea ceremony master, sometimes a warrior, and sometimes a dancer...

This is no longer the bloody era when only strength speaks.

In order to help you recover as soon as possible, the two have a clear division of labor. Kagura mixes into human society to make money, while Datsubaki wanders around the fringes of society as a black witch to collect mana.

Because of Kagura's interest in social development, the task of explaining the current situation to you every time you wake up falls on her.

"The world has changed now. Humans have invented the steam engine, and are now researching electricity. Maybe in the future, everyone will be able to fly in the sky without magic power."

"It's a pity that they used their invention in other places. There is a war recently, and life is not very peaceful. You should go to bed first."

The outside world changes with the passage of time.

Your little bedroom has changed too.No matter how wars are raging outside, this place will still belong to the three of you, a quiet and beautiful corner of the world.

At first they slept on simple tatami mats covered with dry quilts, but now they have become fluffy and soft European-style princess beds with light yellow silk curtains and delicate lace trims.

At least that's how Kagura describes the furniture.

There are bright red roses in the gold-rimmed white porcelain vases, classical patterns are drawn on the creamy white wallpaper, and the flower-shaped ceiling lamps are exuding soft light.

"I think young girls like to decorate like this now, do you like it?"

Kagura talks about it, listen to it, but you can’t understand it anyway.

You just hugged the fluffy pillow on the bed, watched her bright red lips open and close obediently, followed her movements and nodded to her to express your understanding, and finally showed a happy smirk.

Looking at your smile, Kagura fell into a subtle silence. She quickly turned her head and complained to Otsubaki who was guarding the other side:

"I don't think she understands. Is she pretending to understand to fool me?"

Otsubaki gave Kagura a dissatisfied look, and unceremoniously stretched out his white palm to push Kagura aside.

"She just woke up, don't ask so much from her, okay? Xiaochun, come and eat this. It is said that the jewel that cursed and killed 48 people is very powerful."

Datsubaki pinched a ruby ​​that exudes black resentment with his fingers, as if feeding a candy, and handed it to your mouth, then smiled at you charmingly, and said:

"what--"

Kagura rolled her eyes at Otsubaki.

"Forget it, if I want to be a novelist and a painter, I will study both civil and martial arts!"

"Look forward to it, when you wake up, there will be popular science picture books to read."

In order to infuse some necessary common sense into your empty head, Kagura's ever-changing career with mood finally has a stable trend.

She started writing.

Eat and sleep, sleep and eat, and call Otsubaki to hug you when you wake up. This kind of life is so comfortable that every time you see Kagura who is at home writing and writing besides making money outside, you feel very happy. guilt.

You brought Kagura a cup of steaming milk, blushed to express your gratitude to her, and then nervously expressed your uneasiness.

In response, Kagura shrugged at you with a nonchalant expression.

"How did I plan? I think it would be nice to be with you...so I have no intention of leaving."

"What? Did I bother you?"

"Well, if you really want to thank me, just read the book I wrote, and then tell me your impressions after reading it seriously."

She boldly drank a glass of milk, licked the water stains at the corner of her mouth, and then handed a thick stack of manuscripts in front of you.

……

Storybook?

Your favorite thing to do when you were alive was to listen to your parents tell those anecdotes.

After death, you chased a ghost spider/Naraku love-hate relationship.

After that, you encountered a lot of things, and it has been a long time since you read a story you like...

It's really nostalgic.

You take Kagura's manuscript with both hands in awe.

After that, it was out of control.

As a monster who has lived for a hundred years, Kagura has too many interesting stories to share with the world.

She is a free-spirited woman, and she never sticks to a fixed form when speaking, so her writing style is particularly full of vitality, giving people a refreshing sense of impact.

You like the world described in the Kagura book very much, and you even have the idea of ​​"wanting to go out and see for yourself" by the scenes depicted in the story.

"What is the world like now? Can I go out and see?"

The contemporary writer, who was so exuberantly exaggerated by you, touched his chin and murmured:

"Well...it's hard to say. At present, I'm still investigating this world."

"Speaking of which, I've been drawing manga recently."

The fresh vocabulary aroused your curiosity, and you asked excitedly:

"Manga? What is manga? Is it the new name for illustration?"

It's nice to be cared about so much, but she's going to blush when you keep looking at her so adoringly.

Kagura awkwardly looked away from your gaze, pinned a strand of hair on her face behind her ear, and explained slowly:

"It's just to tell stories by drawing. Do you just know? I think cartoonist is a very free profession."

"I want to be the freest cartoonist in history."

She cleared her throat, and after grandly announcing her goal, she briefly introduced the specific plan for chasing her dream:

"This time I plan to use you as the prototype. Anyway, I am a well-known character. I just use my work to help you do a little social research to see if the current world is suitable for you to survive."

"The name of the work is... How about "Poor and Cute Little Chun Ji"? Romantic plot, gorgeous painting style, and some sexual stimulation. I think it can be done, and it will definitely be popular!"

Your real name popped up in the conversation!

Da Chun, who was sitting on the side, frowned delicately, expressing his dissatisfaction.

"Hey, it's not right to use the name directly? Although it's just a nickname, it still feels weird..."

To this end, Kagura also explained.

"It shouldn't be a big problem. The real name has a certain direction. By the way, collect some magic power for her to make up for her health, isn't it?"

"Replenishing the body...that's okay"

The benefit of replenishing mana made Da Chun, who was actively collecting mana in order to fully recover you, choose to give in.

And as the person involved, he even said, "It's okay! If I can subsidize the family and reduce your burden, I can do anything!", making this matter a final decision.

Da Chun said, "There's no need to work so hard," stretched out his hand and pinched your face.

It pushes you into the double sweetness of "I become useful" and "Da Chun likes you".

Will I be able to see works based on me when I wake up next time?

Although it feels embarrassing, but considering that the quality of Kagura's stories has always been guaranteed, you can't help but feel a little excited!

……

Although Kagura's plan is very feasible and beautiful, she has worked very hard to implement it.

When she went out, she was a glamorous and fashionable female writer, but when she came back, she was a poor wretch with dark circles under her eyes and messy hair.

If it weren't for your connection to the mantra, you'd hardly recognize it as Kagura!

You carefully held the crumbling Kagura by your arm, and helped her to the bedside.

"Are you okay? You look, a little... haggard."

Kagura lies down directly on your lap as you move.

Unconscious, she seems to use your legs as a pillow, and while rubbing her cheek against you, she grunts and complains:

"It's okay, it's not a big problem. It's just that I haven't slept for seven days."

"I found that cartoonists don't seem to be so free. It turned out that when someone urged me to write, as soon as I heard him ring the doorbell, I plucked my feathers, turned around and flew away."

"But now the editor actually breaks in through the window. It's not easy for me to expose my identity as a monster, so I can only be caught by him."

"Rushing the manuscript is really not a crime that people can bear, and neither can monsters."

You wiped Kagura's dirty face with a hot towel, and comforted you:

"...It's been hard work."

"Well, it's okay. If you sleep a little longer, you'll be able to see my finale. Because it's sold well, it's now on volume No. 20."

Kagura finally reported the last sentence to you, and then closed his eyes tiredly, falling into a dark and sweet dream.

You patiently wiped Kagura's body clean, changed into pajamas, and covered the two of them with the quilt next to her body, and fell into a deep sleep again.

……

When you wake up again, Kagura's manga has been over for three years.

"Do you like my story?"

Book sales should be good, after all, your bedroom has become visibly more luxurious.

However, the expression of Kagura who was asked about the reaction of the story by you is not very good-looking.

"I like it, but I didn't expect that the way humans express their love for characters nowadays is to publish scripts. You and the rest have been pushed to be the queen and heroine of the year. It's still three years in a row! Three years!"

"Obviously when I was a writer, they preferred to send me letters to write after reading."

"Why is there such an extremely complicated emotion in my heart, love and tyranny are intertwined, reason and passion are fighting to the death? Listen to what kind of nonsense comment is this?"

She clenched her fists tightly when she said this, and at the end, she was so angry that she thumped the table with a "duang" sound.

You looked at the water glass that was smashed off the table in horror, and replied honestly:

"...I, I don't understand!"

Kagura reached out and rubbed your hair twice.Your cuteness seems to have given her some comfort, and her speech speed finally slowed down like a cannonball.

"It's right if you don't understand, who should pay attention to their ghost logic."

"This world really sucks, so you should sleep a little longer."

"At least wait until I finish banning these batches of books. Good guy! I've already paid the publisher, and then Dachun also dispatched to curse them! Hehe, let me see who dares to draw for me..."

As a person who is good at finding the key points in a conversation, if you catch a new word that you don’t understand, you will ask, “Book? What is a book?”.

……

The scene fell silent.

Just when Kagura's face was blue and he couldn't return for a long time, the furious Otsubaki suddenly broke into the door, and uttered a roar at Kagura that didn't care about his appearance——

"Forget about the notebook, Kagura, come here quickly, what do you think I received?"

Kagura used this to escape the inexplicable predicament.

She grabbed the letterhead in Dachun's hand and looked at it seriously.

"A letter from an ordinary reader, at most it has some magic power. What? Limei? Let me see what he wrote. Huh? Your heroine really looks like a friend of mine named Xiaochun?"

"Hey—that's disgusting, is he a man who can read shoujo manga?"

"Then he should also read the book? Oh my god, I'm going to throw up!"

"Men are all shit. They seem to be gentle, but are they a gentle scum? What shit!"

A name that was very familiar to everyone present made disgust creep up on Kagura's face again.Without saying a word, she threw the letter in Da Chun's direction, even pulling you back a few steps.

"Don't bring that kind of thing home! Take it away, take it away quickly! The house will smell like a stinky man!"

Dachun dodged Limei's letter with quick eyes and hands, and loudly defended like a cat with fur.

"Of course I know! I've already done the purification ritual and defiled it!"

The scene is up and down, only you are stunned, trying to digest the massive amount of information——

Although they said that Limei did a bad thing that seemed inferior to an animal, he still seemed to have fulfilled his duty as a curse master. He cursed people when he closed the book, and his lethality was much greater than that of Dachun, or he directly Indirectly caused the tragedy of hundreds of people falling into a coma.

You just became the cursed heroine!

Maybe Rime's name aroused your fear of the past, or Kagura's manga gave you enough mana.

Anyway, after such an incident, you will not be able to sleep at all.

One of Kagura and Dachun was busy committing suicide under a pseudonym, changing their appearance and style of painting, and the other was busy cleaning up and tracking down Su Nuo and Pailimei's activities. The two of them were obviously very busy during this time.

As the most useless person in the family, it is not good for you to ask questions with the worries in your heart.

Now is the electronic information age!Although the Internet is connected at home, you have not yet learned the input method you are using now.

There are really too many things that I don't understand!for example--

book.What exactly is a notebook? !