Cupid

After passing the news of the main body, the baboon skin puppet beside you turns into a black ash, and a poisonous insect like a bee flies out from under the furry fur, "The Most Vigorous Victory".This poisonous insect hums continuously, and uses body language to signal you to go with it.

Under the guidance of "The Most Vigorous Victory", you go to the place where Naraku's true body is located, a majestic city shrouded in purple miasma.

It's really a fine and comfortable place, only a distinguished daimyo can have such a magnificent mansion, right?

When you were a child, you learned from your parents that noble adults would hire powerful onmyojis or warlocks to pray for the prosperity of their homes. If you can be better, you might be able to go to a bigger place to see the world.

Since then, the seeds of dreams have been planted in your heart, but it's a pity that you were displaced during your lifetime, living mostly in small places like thieves' gathering places and monster lairs, and after you died, you were afraid that the powerful onmyoji would pull you out. So I chose the cabin in the woods.

Today you finally realized your dream of entering the city openly and aboveboard.The eyes that had been fixed on the ground couldn't help looking around.

Naraku and the black witch Tsubaki, who are sitting by the window, have a panoramic view of you, a village girl entering the city.

Fifty years of time have dyed the maiden's long hair the color of frost and snow, but it has not detracted from her glamorous beauty. Compared with the previous reputation of red toon, she is now more like a red plum blossoming on a snow branch .

You couldn't help but hold your breath as you were locked on by her tourmaline eyes.

However, the expression on Tsubaki's face when I met you was not so friendly. This new type of arrogant woman doesn't like to be interfered with by others. This kind of behavior that doubts her ability is even more convenient when I meet you. Raised the corner of his mouth and looked at Naraku and choked:

"Naraku? Is this the 'partner' you mentioned, a nameless priestess who can't show her true face?"

……

It's over, I'm going to be hated by idols.

"Yes, I'm sorry, Master Tsubaki, I'll take it off right away."

In front of the honorable black witch, the knowledge of so-called etiquette rushes from the depths of your memory.You hurriedly tore off the black veil that you hadn't taken off in front of Naluo, bent down on the ground, and saluted the sitting woman.

"Oh? Not bad, it seems that you still have basic knowledge."

Your respectful appearance made Tsubaki's face brighten a little.Without the veil as a cover, the clear scent of wine that is unique to your technique, wrapped in the gloomy and ominous power of the curse, diffuses in the room.

This wonderful combination made Naraku's eyes stop on you, and it also attracted the attention of Tsubaki, who is proficient in spells.She squinted her cat-like eyes and sized you up carefully, figured out your details skillfully, and showed some curious expressions——

"Are you a dead person? Can you survive without an entity? Is there such a curse spirit?"

"...Obviously the magic power is not strong enough to materialize."

The idol delights you.You, who are not too smart, have no intention of hiding your secrets in front of Naraku, and you took the initiative to tell your own history like pouring beans.

"Yes, yes. After I died in an accident 50 years ago, I woke up like this."

"I'm wearing a maiden costume, and this wooden box for brewing wine."

……

You are like a stray dog ​​kicked by an urchin on a rainy day, and since then you look pitiful and weak with one leg limped.

You, who were going to hide in a corner in a panic when you saw someone, met a cold woman, and started to stick behind her step by step, looking at her trustingly with a pair of moist eyes, woo woo Barking to her all his admiration.

"I have always admired you...you have always been the driving force for me to live."

"Compared to Kikyo, you are the most suitable candidate for the Jade of the Four Souls..."

For the first time since you were born, you find that you can be considered a "good talker" person, and you can chat with people for so long with excitement.

It has been suppressed for too long.

Those words and imaginations are rebellious and pitiful, they can only be deeply pressed in your heart.

But the more depressing this kind of thing is, the more turbulent it is. They are like small bubbles constantly gushing out of the river bed. No matter how hard you try to press them with your palms, they will slip away from your fingers with a "gurgling" sound. Hovering in your mind.

……

"You do understand."

Your attitude of wanting to write down everything she said in a small book as a proverb greatly pleased this priestess.

"Fifty years, it's been 50 years... It's thanks to you for remembering these little things."

A sad expression flashed across the woman's face.

Over the past 50 years, most people who have heard the legend of the two witches have been reduced to a slope of loess. Only a few survivors know about these sorrows and unwillingness.

——Licking dogs has everything.

In front of you who are eloquent, Tsubaki's attitude shows signs of melting snow.

She played with your wooden box, observing Shikigami's reaction to drinking "chewing wine" from the connection of the master-servant contract.

It was a translucent silver-white dragon-like spirit body. After licking a few sips of the wine, its body began to emit a black air similar to yours.The invading mantra and Tsubaki's contract wrestled silently within Shikigami's body, making the poor little guy twist in the air like a hemp rope.

In the end, your technique still prevailed. Seeing that the shikigami was about to turn completely black, Tsubaki, who was in charge of obeying the power of life and death, decisively ended the shikigami's call——

The body of the black flood dragon gradually turned into fragments, but at the same time these fragments reassembled at a faster speed.

"...Can the soul be reunited after being scattered?"

The sudden unexpected situation made Tsubaki look slightly ill.Facing your apology of "yes, I'm sorry, I'll just try to make it disappear", thinking of a little affection for you, Chun stretched out his hand to show his tolerance as a high-ranking person, and responded: "Oh, I have as much of that kind of little thing as I want, and I will give it to you as a meeting gift."

As for the effect of your spell "imprison the soul", Chun summed up his evaluation after pondering for a moment:

"You do have some talent, no wonder you were 'educated' so hard."

"...Since you have worked so hard to get to me, it's not impossible to teach you."

"However, the same name is really annoying. The title of Miko Tsubaki is only for me. You are not qualified, so you can be called 'Little Tsubaki'."

You guys made your debut in this way. Although you seem to have been downgraded to "little tsubaki", but thinking that you have a "big tsubaki" as a sister, you feel willing.

In addition to Tsubaki's sideways glance at you, you also feel the invisible gaze from the owner of the castle beside you——

"Excellent spell."

Naraku, who was forced to be sandwiched between two women and listened to "The Adventures of the Black Witch Tsubaki", showed full patience to you.The gloomy black-haired beauty silently stares at you who can still linger in the world after death, and even exert more power than before you were alive. There is no emotion on your pretty face.

When he originally invited you to join, he advised you to act as soon as possible, so as not to miss the opportunity, but he suddenly showed a considerate and hospitable side. He suggested that Tsubaki should make sufficient preparations and cultivate enough tacit understanding with you before going out.