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Chapter 82 (Catching Bugs) (1)
【"Carp companion?"
"He is the future master of ghosts and monsters, Nuliang Kouban."
In the 18th year of Tianzheng, spring.On the day when the camellias bloomed in the yard, Mrs. Yingji handed over the infant child to her hands.
"It's okay, Otome. I'll still love you even if I have a carp companion."
You may not believe it when you say it, but Nura Kotomo, who was born as the future second generation of the Nura group, was a stinky fart when he was a child.
Until he was 11 years old, Erika complained to Shirley about how annoying he was.
The black-haired boy looks exactly the same as the slippery ghost Nuliang Huapiao of the previous generation, but he also inherited the nobility of Mrs. Yingji's birth name. When he was ignorant, he won the favor of all the women in the Nuliang group.
Except Erika.
"Originally, I was the most popular existence in the Nura group."
Relying on her height advantage, every time Xiao Liban came to ask her to tie her hair, Erika would squat down and poke his forehead viciously.
"It's all your fault."
Obviously the behavior is extremely bad, but the 11-year-old Koi Ban doesn't care about Erika's behavior at all.
"Sister is also very popular now."
Li Ban squinted one eye, his golden pupils were shining, his black hair like algae was loosely tied with a red rope, and he smiled at her with curved lips.
"I like my sister the most."
The gentle and tender tone scratched her palm like a feather.
Erika was in a trance for a moment.
So she felt more and more annoying that Nuliang carp accompanied this child.
That's how Mrs. Yingji was deceived by that annoying rogue monster, Nuliang Huapiao!
She is not the pure and kind Mrs. Yingji, no matter what, she is better than the famous monster in the group. Although she is only two years older than him, she will not be fooled by him.
Slicks are bad enough to deceive people.
She poked his forehead again, "Xiao Li Companion."
"Ok?"
"I won't be fooled by you like Xueli."
At that time, Nuliang Liban was poked back a few steps by her. He raised his hand and rubbed his red forehead, with some doubts between his brows and eyes.
Erika thought he must be angry now.
Children, you should lose your temper.
Then she can go to Mrs. Yingji to file a complaint and make up bad things about Nuliang Liban for everyone to hear.
"I know."
"My sister only believes what my mother says."
The figure of the young boy dissipated, and the black [Ai] spread out like ink. It was the [Mingjing Zhishui] handed down by the slippery ghost. Erika thought it was a bit like an illusion, which was specially used to deceive people's eyes [Ai]. .
The 11-year-old Nura Kaiban appeared behind her at some unknown time.
The wind chimes under the veranda jingled, and in an instant, a black head poked out from behind her shoulders.
"Actually, my mother was looking this way just now."
"..."
The reminder-like words fell into the girl's ears and quickly turned into provocations. Erika pondered for a moment, then moved her lips.
"Carp companion."
"Oh."
"You're going to be ugly when you grow up."
Erika is the Nuragumi who came before his birth.This matter was the news that Nuliang Carphan inquired from Tengu.
It is said that her mother picked it up when she was still a princess in the city. She was only a few years older than him, and her legs were broken by a house attendant for stealing food, and she was lying in the rain covered in blood waiting to die.
"What do you all know? Mrs. Yingji is the noble and untouchable moon in the sky, so she won't let it go to you."
Nuliang Carphan often heard her say this.
He was hiding behind a tree at that time, watching the little monster with his waist pierced was picked up by his father by the collar.
Nuliang Huapiao didn't have the habit of sympathizing with little ghosts. He shook Erika in his hand, and finally grinned provocatively and said, "It's a pity that Yingji likes me, so you are not angry."
So the little monster cried out in anger.
Nuliang Liban saw her kicking the stones by the pond angrily, but accidentally twisted her foot too hard, screamed, and rolled into a ball on the ground.
Nuliang Koban remembered that Erika was wearing a light cherry-colored Furisode kimono at that time, which was made for her by her mother herself. She liked it so much that even when she fell, she landed on her face first.
The short girl had waist-length black hair, and under soft and curled eyelashes, a pair of obsidian-like eyes were foggy with water vapor.
"It will be bad luck for Nuliang Huapiao to go out today."
He heard the girl's cursing voice with a crying voice, her black hair fell down, covering her gray cheeks due to the wet soil.
Nuliang Carphan, who was hiding behind the tree, still couldn't help laughing.
Thinking about it carefully, Erika seems to have hated him since then.
The girl who was called the Thousand Faced Demon by the children got up from the ground, her [fear] was not of the fighting type, her wrists were white and slender, and when she picked up a stone and threw it at him, she almost slipped.
"Don't be so angry, sister."
He caught her effortlessly, put one arm around her waist, and rolled her firmly into his arms.
Erika bit him on the shoulder angrily, although the bite was not hard, Nuliang Carpan still showed a pitiful expression.
He asked her why she didn't like her so much, but the other party felt that he had ulterior motives in this question, hid in the bushes like a hamster and watched him for a long time, then quietly revealed his head again.
"You don't understand me."
Nuliang Liban heard her mutter.
"Youkai, who can easily be liked by others like you, don't understand me."
She looked like she was about to cry, and even her voice weakened.
Nuliang Liban remembered what Xuenv said to him before, because he is a child of his mother, so no matter what he does, his mother will always love him. This kind of love is increasing day by day, it is unfair, and it is difficult to share it equally.
"Then I'll marry my sister when I grow up."
Nuliang Liban's voice made the little monster in the bushes look up, she didn't seem to expect to hear such words, her face was full of astonishment, and her eyes were filled with doubt and confusion.
"Then the mother is also your mother."
At that time, Nuliang Liban didn't know what he was talking about.
He just felt as if he was taking care of a poor little animal, the kind that fell out of a tree, and she was crying, so he held out his hand.
Nura Koban held her hand.
"So, don't cry anymore."
After Nuliang Liban became an adult, he chose to become a demon between a human and a demon.It was at that time that Edo Castle prospered centered on Nihombashi.
Nuliang Huapiao is getting old day by day because the heart was dug out by the feather fox.Not long after, Nura Huapiao abdicated, and Liban took over the Nura group from the former, officially becoming the second generation.
Even so, Li Ban doesn't like to stay in the main house to deal with affairs, he doesn't even bother to hold meetings, so Shouwu's daily work is either looking for him or on the way to him.
But for slippery ghosts, hiding their tracks is a piece of cake.
Nura carp partner lazily wanders back to the Nura team only after drinking every day. It is like this every day, and it is also the same today.
"Oh, the second generation is back."
The prostitute Mao Chang who was helping to sweep the fallen leaves at the door covered his mouth and laughed when he saw him. As soon as his voice fell, Shouwu jumped up the high fence and jumped behind him angrily, chasing him and asking where he went. .
"Just wandering around."
As he spoke, he yawned lazily, lowered his slender five fingers, turned his face sideways, and looked at Shouwu with lowered eyes.
"Where's my sister? I brought back the hairpin she mentioned last time for her."
Hearing this sentence, the leader was taken aback, he subconsciously thought about Erika's trail in his mind, and it took a few seconds before he realized that he was led astray.
So Shouwu became even more angry immediately. He wanted to yell "Don't change the subject" or something, but his voice was interrupted by the prostitute Mao at the side.
"Should be working."
Mao Changji said, her loose hair fell on her chest, and she smiled thoughtfully.
"It's said that I'm working hard today to surpass Koban-sama."
Nuliang Koipan thought for a while, and threw the flagon in his hand into the arms of Shouwu who was frantically following him.
Amid Shouwu's roar of "Where are you going again!", the slippery ghost disappeared again.
The first time Erika heard her name was from people cursing her.
They said that she had a thousand faces, and she was dedicated to seducing men with fancy stomachs, and occasionally even children.
Erika found them extremely boring, and although she was indeed a liar, she had no interest in cannibalism.
Among their rumors about the "thousand-faced demon", only she has a thousand faces is correct.
She can become a man or a woman, and she has had such a magical ability since she was born.
So much so that she couldn't even tell which face was her real face.
However, in her memory, the monster who created her called her "Yamabuki Otome", and the monster who can be called "mother" kissed her forehead before she died, holding her tenderly like Mrs. Yingji. her face.
"Slippery."
"You have to remember their names."
In the darkness, her "mother" seemed crazy.
She repeated the name of the slippery ghost over and over again, her beautiful face became hideous, and the blood-red nails dug into her face, tightening bit by bit.
"But I don't have that name."
She retorted suspiciously, and as soon as the words were spoken, the "mother" stopped.
The "mother" said that this was an order given to her by the god named Bailan Jiesuo. Only by becoming "Yamabuki Otome" can she avenge her "mother".
Erika thought for a while, and said that her head must be caught by the door to believe that there is really a god in this world.
So the "mother" almost broke her neck, and she lay in a pool of blood, looking at the "mother" holding her heart in her hand.
——If it can't be done, her existence is meaningless.
Erika thought, she must have had bad luck for eight lifetimes to have such a thing happen.
Yamabuki Otome, just Yamabuki Otome, it's the same for everyone anyway.
She doesn't bother with revenge or anything else, Erika still likes Yingji more than the monster holding her heart.
A human with magical healing powers hugged her when she was dying.
If everyone must have a mother, she would rather be like Mrs. Yingji.
Because Mrs. Yingji's hand is very comfortable when stroking her head, so even if Mrs. Yingji chose to follow the slippery ghost she hates the most, she still followed.
But despite this, the life span of human beings is only 100 years.
Yingji did not live to be a hundred years old.
On the day she closed her eyes, Erika was waiting at the door, and Nura Kobi came out and said that her mother wanted to see her.
So she rushed in.
She has a lot of things she wants to say to Yingji, for example, she has found clues to the god that "mother" said, as long as Mrs. Yingji persists, she will definitely find a way to make her live a long life.
But Yingji just smiled when she heard her words.
The human princess was no longer young and beautiful. She stroked her cheeks with those warm hands and wiped away her tears.
"There were a lot of things I couldn't let go of, but when I saw Otome, I felt that it didn't matter again."
"Please accompany Li Ban for me."
She said, smiling one last time at the wide-eyed Erika.
"If it's you, you can do it."
From that day on, the last human that Erika liked also left.
Not a single word about her was left behind, and the opening and closing of his mouth was all the responsibility of Nuliang Liban.
She was depressed for a long time, and she was so angry that she was dying. When the matter developed to the end, she even felt upset when she heard the name "Nuliang Carp Companion".
Under such circumstances, Erika received the task of investigating the origin of a large number of new monsters that suddenly appeared in Edo Castle.
Dressing up as an oiran was a breeze for her. She smiled prettily, poured wine to the strange men in front of her, and found out the name "Yamamoto Gorozaemon" from their mouths.
Originally, everything went smoothly, if it wasn't for the sudden appearance of Nuliang Koipan who knocked off the man's hand on her shoulder with a cigarette stick.
Erika looked at the frightened man shouting "There are monsters!" and ran away, her brows twitched, but she didn't even vent her anger.
But Nura Kotomo looked at the man rolling down the stairs and laughed. He clutched his stomach, and the green striped kimono was tied loosely. He didn't stop until he saw Erika's face getting darker and darker. .
"Sorry sorry, did I go too far?"
Confession without the slightest hint of repentance.
Before Erika had time to lose her temper, Nuliang Koipan knelt down.
His fingers were placed on the bun she rolled up, and with a slight pull, the girl's black hair fell down.
Erika raised her eyes, and glanced at her appearance in the bronze mirror.
The kimono that had fallen off her shoulders was effortlessly pulled back by the black-haired monster, and Nura Kobi sat behind her and carefully combed her hair again.
Luoluomei's hairpin was inserted into her hair, and Nuliang Liban hugged her.
"Edo is very dangerous recently, don't do this kind of thing alone again."
"...Don't talk to me in a childish tone, no big or small."
"okay."
"Don't forget to call me next time when the ghosts walk in the night, I will be the one who leads the way, the one who walks in front of you."
"But my sister is too weak, she will be killed by other monsters if she is not careful."
"..."
Nura Koban's face was pinched and distorted by the girl in his arms.
"If you talk about it again, I'll cut off your braids while you're sleeping."
Nuliang Liban laughed a few times, and he lowered his eyes to look at her, "Sister, don't you think you can threaten me by doing this?"
Erika thought about it for a while, and felt that Nuliang Liban should be strangled in the cradle when he was young. The older he grew, the more annoying he became. The saddest thing was that she still couldn't beat him.
"But if it's my sister, it doesn't matter if you cut it."
Nuliang Liban said nonchalantly.
Anyway, using the power inherited from the mother, it will grow back soon.
This should have been a complete sentence, but Nuliang Liban didn't say it.
"I'll take care of my sister."
He freed up a hand and brushed away the sweat-soaked hair on the forehead of the girl in his arms.
Under Erika's astonished eyes, all ghosts jumped up, and the monster hiding in the attic that had been staring at her was turned into ashes.
Nura Koban covered her eyes.
"Just like mother used to be."
In Nura Koban's memory, Erika is always angry.
She doesn't like anyone, especially humans, but she only gets close to Yingji.
Nuliang Koipan is also occasionally jealous, but after discovering that Erika blushed when she became angry, his little negative emotions disappeared completely.
She hated him, so he just wanted to hang out in front of her.
I can't tell if it's a child's natural inferiority, or it's interesting.
Before he was an adult, Nuliang Carp would always appear suddenly when the other party was putting on clothes and going to bed, watching her run around the room in fright, and then put on an innocent look, saying that he wanted to chat with her because he couldn't sleep due to nightmares Class words.
She always said that children are annoying, but she won't really drive him away.
"Look, look, for the sake of your hard work every day as the second generation of the future..."
The girl who was stammering and speaking covered him with a quilt. She hugged him carefully through a thick quilt, and her voice was soft, accompanied by the sound of water falling drop by drop outside the corridor. He told stories that he didn't know where he heard them.
Nura Koban watched her fall asleep.
He stretched out a hand from the quilt, and there was an itchy feeling across the fingertips between the eyelashes of the other party. Nuliang Liban stared at his hand for a long time, and then smiled softly.
He put the quilt back on the sleeping Erika.
"Good night, sister."
So Nura Koban began to test Erika's bottom line more vigorously.
At first it was to tie hair, and later it became sewing clothes for him.
The grown-up girl cursed him just like she cursed Nuraba when she was a child. He withdrew his breath, sat outside the door and listened patiently. "Isn't it too vicious?" Then he started to regret it.
This is probably the only joy of Nura Kobi's childhood.
He forgot exactly when it started, his height surpassed the girl who always liked to poke his forehead. Anyway, by the time he realized it, Erika had to stand on tiptoe to reach him.
It wasn't just him who discovered this, but also Erika who froze when she discovered the cruel truth a step too late.
Nuliang Liban blinked in confusion at first, then bent down and brought his forehead closer to her.
Erika's face turned red instantly.
"You, you are not allowed to let me!"
She yelled in shame, pursed her thin lips, and between her straight nose, her eyes were the color of honey in the setting sun.
Nu Liangli smiled and hugged her into his arms.
From that day on, Nura Koban began to braid her hair just like Erika.
He didn't know exactly what kind of feeling this was, but he just felt that it felt good to be by the other party's side.
Maybe because they grew up together, Nuliang Liban can only feel at ease when he holds her in his arms and smells the faint fragrance in her hair.
The year Nuliang Koipan chose to become a human or a demon, he jokingly told Erika that he chose to become a demon because he didn't want to be hated by her.
Erika took it seriously.
Until now, Nuliang Carphan can't forget the look in her eyes at that time.
That was the first time she took the initiative to touch him.
"If you want to become a human, I will help you and tell Xiandai."
Those swarthy eyes stared at him motionlessly, with a serious and serious expression.
"This is a matter of a lifetime, little carp companion."
"I'm going to beat you up if you get mad."
Nuliang Liban recovered from his astonishment.
What did he ask then?
Ah, just remembered.
"But if I become a human, everyone will hate me because I evaded my responsibilities."
Erika, who didn't seem to expect him to say that, was stunned for a moment, and Nura Kobi felt her hold her hand tightly.
"...I will stay with you."
"Anyway, I don't like anyone. I will stay with you until you die."
"So, be the guy you want to be."
She paused, and seemed to realize that she had said something terrible, so she turned her face away and added "for Mrs. Yingji's sake" in vain.
Nuliang Koipan watched her, and suddenly remembered [Long Arms, Long Legs] what they said jokingly, "Secondaimu must be because the lady always bullied him when she was young, so she has been secretly tripping her lately".
Not revenge.
Nura carp partner thought.
At least not about wanting to kiss her eyes.
Nuliang Liban only shared this incident with Yingji before she died. She looked very shocked, and then smiled relieved at the end.
"I know."
"When Li Ban was young, I let that child hug you."
"The child looked so serious that she seemed to be facing an enemy. When you cried, she panicked to death, and finally cried together with you."
Listening to his mother's memories, Nuliang Liban couldn't help but curl the corners of his lips.
"In fact, she doesn't hate you at all. When Li Ban and Xueli play, she hides behind the stone and watches secretly, very envious."
Yingji seemed to lose her strength when she said this, she paused, and slowly raised her hand.
Nura Koban held her hand.
"When I picked up that child, she was so cramped that she didn't even dare to enter the room. She was worried that the muddy water on her body would stain the floor, but she forgot that she was covered in wounds, and she would die if she didn't get treatment."
"Let her be more coquettish, Li Ban."
Coincidentally, when Nuliang Kobi went to play in the mountains, he saw the real Yamabuki Otome in a private school.
Same hair, same eyes, same name.
But Nuliang Liban could tell at a glance that she was different from her older sister.
Yamabuki Otome is gentle and strong, a standard Yamato Nadeko-like woman, just like a thin willow.But his elder sister always had a bad temper. When she fell down, she would hide in a place where he couldn't find her and cry secretly.
Nura carp partner suddenly became very angry.
For 100 years, he didn't even know what she really looked like.
In the end, he was no different from the group of men she had lied to.
Thinking this way, Nura Koban asked for a flower from Yamabuki Otome, and swung back when dusk came.
"It was given to me by Otome."
"……I?"
"No, it's a real otome."
Nuliang Kouban looked at the girl in front of him with satisfaction and was stunned.
His gloomy mood improved a bit, and with the corners of his lips curled up, he said to Nuliang Huapiao, who was beside him with a beard, that he had someone he wanted to marry.
Nuliang Huapiao was so frightened that he sprayed out the wine from his nose.
Nura Koban looked forward to the expression of the girl in front of him before turning his head.
Whether it's shock or guilt, he will definitely apologize.
But Erika was unusually calm, pinching her chin, recalling the recent financial situation of the Nuliang Group, and came up with a perfect wedding plan in less than 5 minutes.
"Ah, by the way, I remember that Mrs. Yingji left a lot of jewelry. I'll look for them later. That lady must look good in them."
As she spoke, she raised her eyebrows excitedly.
Nuliang Carp has not seen her smile like this for a long time.
"why?"
"……what why?"
"Sister looks happy."
"Ah, of course." She recalled, "Mrs. Yingji's last wish is for me to take good care of you, but if you get married, the task of taking care of you will be handed over to that young lady."
"I haven't seen it outside of Edo Castle yet. Do you know that there is a new oiran in Osaka Castle, and I heard that it is prettier than all the girls here. I want to join in the fun..."
Nuliang Koipan heard her say a lot of things, all about leaving the Nuliang group.
His throat suddenly became dry.
"No."
Nuliang Liban didn't know what was wrong with him, he couldn't control his emotions, the black [fear] jumped up from his shoulders, blurring his figure.
"Didn't my sister say that she will stay with me until I die?"
Erika was a little dazed, she tilted her head and thought for a long time before she remembered.
"Ah, that means what happens after you become a human. Monsters are not like humans. A monster's life is so long. I won't be with you all the time."
She spoke flatly, as if this was something she had planned long ago.
"No."
Nuliang Lihan said it again, he pulled out his knife, and blocked Nuliang Huapiao's attack to calm him down.
The confrontation between the two generations of slippery ghosts obviously startled Erika, Nuliang Koipan pursed her lips, and simply threw away the knife in her hand.
He hugged her, activated [Mingjing Zhishui], and returned to her room from the courtyard.
The decorations are exactly the same as when he was a child, and even some things are missing.
She was ready to leave anytime, never intended to stay.
"If you hug me casually, I will..."
Erika raised her hand high as she did when she was a child, trying to grab his cheek.
But this time, Nura Kobi blocked her movement.
The hand on her wrist kept tightening, tightening again.
"From now on, I won't let my sister go."
"If I keep letting my sister, it seems that my sister will always treat me like a child."
The monster's golden pupils shine, and Erika remembers the appearance of Nuliang Carphan leading the Hyakki Night Walk in a trance.
Standing in Edo, with a total of more than 1 monsters under his command, Nuliang Koban always loves to hug her when standing on a high tower and commanding all ghosts.
After a long time, she even forgot that she, a weak monster, was the only one who could stand beside him on an equal footing.
The warm and soft lips were attached to her eyes, and her rolled up hair was once again ripped off harshly by the other party.
Nuliang Liban held her waist, his eyes were lowered, the loose smile on the corners of his lips disappeared, and the ink in his pupils was thick for a moment, and then disappeared suddenly.
Obviously he is the master of demons and monsters, but Nuliang Liban showed an expression of admitting defeat.
"It doesn't matter if you don't tell me your name, anyway, no matter what you become, I can recognize you at a glance."
He buried his head on the side of her neck, and there was a bit of coquettishness in his voice.
"Like me a little more, sister."
Erika didn't know why, but at the end of the matter, Nura Kobi turned out to be the one she wanted to marry.
Until the moment before Mao Changjue put on Bai Wugou for her, she was still doubting whether Nuliang Liban had quarreled with the person she really liked, so she used her to anger him.
"So my sister misses me so much? Then I'm really sad."
He braided her hair, and brushed her ear with his fingers inadvertently.
"I have wanted to do something excessive to my sister since a long time ago, but I was worried that my sister would get into the bushes again like an ostrich, so I have endured it until now."
Erika covered her face, not wanting the other party to see her embarrassing appearance.
But Nuliang Liban didn't speak again, she thought he was gone, so she quietly removed two fingers, and looked into the mirror tentatively.
As a result, he was caught by the opponent.
Erika became even angrier all of a sudden, but something flashed in her mind, her pursed lips loosened, and even her expression calmed down.
"But I'm not the one who will stay at home and wait for you, Li Ban."
"I've always been a restless person. If you slip away to drink again and let Shouwu search for two or three days and you can't find it, I'll slip away in the opposite direction to you."
Erika, who is familiar with Nuliang Carp's temperament, said.
He always looks like a playboy, with a face that pleases women. He often lives in other people's homes for two or three days at a time, and he never pays.
Erika thought, she said so, and the freedom-loving Nuliang Kaiban should think about it clearly.
"Then I'll take my sister with me."
"...Do you live and eat for free with you?"
"Dad used to sneak to the Onmyoji's house to steal food."
Nuliang Liban said indifferently, hugging her in his arms and rubbing against her.
"Mom sometimes comes with Dad."
Erihua was immediately hit at the dead end, she thought for a long time but couldn't think of a word that could condemn such behavior without damaging Yingji's image, so she just said "rascal" dryly.
After Edo came the Meiji, and after the Meiji came the Taisho. After the Showa era and the Heisei era, Erika watched the trams whizzing past being built, and schools built one after another.
This is already the age of mankind.
When Nuliang Koipan went to deal with the occasional monsters who tried to break the peace, Erika went out shopping with Mao Changji and the others.
As the mistress of the Nuliang group, although she is not very good at communicating with other monsters, every time Erika goes out, she will bring some presents to the cadres and little monsters of the Nura group in a decent manner.
"Just leave this kind of thing to your subordinates, you don't have to worry about it."
When Erika asked her for her opinion, Mao Changji said with a gentle smile.
"...Leave me alone, Mao Chang prostitute." Erika sighed with some headaches, "Then I will really be made into a useless person."
Mao Changji covered her mouth and laughed out loud, she didn't say anything against her, instead she really made a present for her seriously.
It was at this time that Erika realized that someone seemed to be watching her.
It was a child, a child surrounded by a group of people in formal and dull black kimonos.White hair, blue eyes, and an indifferent expression, as if nothing could arouse his emotions.
But he was looking at her.
Erika lowered her head, looked at the candy in her hand, and then at him.
"Eat?"
She mouthed silently, the white child paused for a moment, frowned maturely, and subconsciously walked towards her.
But before he could take a step, someone behind him stopped him.
"Master Wu, where are you going?"
He obviously bent over respectfully, but he used an uncompromising tone.
Then the white child stopped again.
Erika took note of his aura, she had nothing to do recently, so it would be no trouble to follow her aura and give him some gifts at night.
"What are you thinking, sister?"
Just as she was thinking this, the person who suddenly appeared behind her hugged her.
Erika has connived at Nura Kobi's foul behavior to the point of turning a blind eye. She watched the white child leave and put down the candy in her hand.
"Carp companion."
"Ok?"
"You'd better marry another human being, I don't want the future of the Nuragumi to be ruined in my hands."
More than 200 years have passed since she married Nura Kobi.
The cadres who went to the main house came and went, and at first they greeted her respectfully, but after 50 years, they looked at her with a bit of hidden dissatisfaction.
Although monsters age much slower than humans, they are not immortal.
After the Nuliang Carp Companion, there must be someone to succeed the Nuliang Group.
Every time she brought it up like this, Li Ban always prevaricates it with random things. Once she is in a hurry to ask, Li Ban just pats her on the head comfortingly, saying that there will always be something. Class words.
But Erika knew clearly that this was the curse of Yuyihu.
It is impossible for slippery ghosts and demons to produce offspring.
Their bloodline will become more and more rare in the combination with humans, and finally become weak and mediocre, and will be killed by their subordinates.
How could she not know.
The "mother" who clamored for her to take revenge on the slippery ghost was Yu Yihu.
She was resurrected countless times, and Nuliang Kaihan killed her countless times, and her resentment became stronger each time, so Erika became more and more painful every day.
"Please let me go, mother."
After being crushed by the other party in dreams countless times, she begged.
Yuyihu's expression turned cold, maybe 200 years of torture made her lose interest, she squatted down, and her crazy face regained its beauty.
"Okay."
she said with a smile.
The child of Nuliang Liban was born with anticipation.
The lifeless Nuliang group came back to life during that time. Every time Erika fell asleep exhaustedly, when she woke up, she was already hugged by Nuliang Carp, sitting on a tall tree and basking in the sun.
The wind chime under the porch was replaced by the Tengu team. Shou Wu and Mao Chang prostitute took turns to tell her the stories that happened outside every day, and at the end they vowed to report to her that every time the mission of Nuliang Carp Companion was over, they would immediately pick him up. back.
Erika just smiled at this, she put her hand lightly on her stomach, closed her eyes, listening to the small birdsong on the branches.
In a trance, she returned to the day when Mrs. Yingji, who was sweating profusely, handed the carp companion to her.
She was only two years older than him, so she couldn't hug her at all, so she gritted her teeth and exerted all her strength, her posture was twisted and twisted, making Nuliang Huapiao beside him unable to help laughing at her.
——The future Lord of Demons and Monsters.
It doesn't matter if he looks like anyone, but since he is going to inherit the youkai of the Nuragumi, it's better to look like Koban.When he is born, she will be like Mrs. Yingji, hug him to sleep, sing "Song Longzi" to him, and teach him not to learn from that old hooligan Nuliang Huapiao.
She can teach him to draw, teach him to read, teach him to sing - of course, if he wants to become an ordinary human being in the future, then she will sneak away with him.
She just wants him to be healthy and happy.
But why?
Her child died as soon as he was born.
In the heavy snow all over the sky, he withered like a plum blossom whose branches were knocked down.
She didn't even see one side of him, listening to Xue Nu
"He is the future master of ghosts and monsters, Nuliang Kouban."
In the 18th year of Tianzheng, spring.On the day when the camellias bloomed in the yard, Mrs. Yingji handed over the infant child to her hands.
"It's okay, Otome. I'll still love you even if I have a carp companion."
You may not believe it when you say it, but Nura Kotomo, who was born as the future second generation of the Nura group, was a stinky fart when he was a child.
Until he was 11 years old, Erika complained to Shirley about how annoying he was.
The black-haired boy looks exactly the same as the slippery ghost Nuliang Huapiao of the previous generation, but he also inherited the nobility of Mrs. Yingji's birth name. When he was ignorant, he won the favor of all the women in the Nuliang group.
Except Erika.
"Originally, I was the most popular existence in the Nura group."
Relying on her height advantage, every time Xiao Liban came to ask her to tie her hair, Erika would squat down and poke his forehead viciously.
"It's all your fault."
Obviously the behavior is extremely bad, but the 11-year-old Koi Ban doesn't care about Erika's behavior at all.
"Sister is also very popular now."
Li Ban squinted one eye, his golden pupils were shining, his black hair like algae was loosely tied with a red rope, and he smiled at her with curved lips.
"I like my sister the most."
The gentle and tender tone scratched her palm like a feather.
Erika was in a trance for a moment.
So she felt more and more annoying that Nuliang carp accompanied this child.
That's how Mrs. Yingji was deceived by that annoying rogue monster, Nuliang Huapiao!
She is not the pure and kind Mrs. Yingji, no matter what, she is better than the famous monster in the group. Although she is only two years older than him, she will not be fooled by him.
Slicks are bad enough to deceive people.
She poked his forehead again, "Xiao Li Companion."
"Ok?"
"I won't be fooled by you like Xueli."
At that time, Nuliang Liban was poked back a few steps by her. He raised his hand and rubbed his red forehead, with some doubts between his brows and eyes.
Erika thought he must be angry now.
Children, you should lose your temper.
Then she can go to Mrs. Yingji to file a complaint and make up bad things about Nuliang Liban for everyone to hear.
"I know."
"My sister only believes what my mother says."
The figure of the young boy dissipated, and the black [Ai] spread out like ink. It was the [Mingjing Zhishui] handed down by the slippery ghost. Erika thought it was a bit like an illusion, which was specially used to deceive people's eyes [Ai]. .
The 11-year-old Nura Kaiban appeared behind her at some unknown time.
The wind chimes under the veranda jingled, and in an instant, a black head poked out from behind her shoulders.
"Actually, my mother was looking this way just now."
"..."
The reminder-like words fell into the girl's ears and quickly turned into provocations. Erika pondered for a moment, then moved her lips.
"Carp companion."
"Oh."
"You're going to be ugly when you grow up."
Erika is the Nuragumi who came before his birth.This matter was the news that Nuliang Carphan inquired from Tengu.
It is said that her mother picked it up when she was still a princess in the city. She was only a few years older than him, and her legs were broken by a house attendant for stealing food, and she was lying in the rain covered in blood waiting to die.
"What do you all know? Mrs. Yingji is the noble and untouchable moon in the sky, so she won't let it go to you."
Nuliang Carphan often heard her say this.
He was hiding behind a tree at that time, watching the little monster with his waist pierced was picked up by his father by the collar.
Nuliang Huapiao didn't have the habit of sympathizing with little ghosts. He shook Erika in his hand, and finally grinned provocatively and said, "It's a pity that Yingji likes me, so you are not angry."
So the little monster cried out in anger.
Nuliang Liban saw her kicking the stones by the pond angrily, but accidentally twisted her foot too hard, screamed, and rolled into a ball on the ground.
Nuliang Koban remembered that Erika was wearing a light cherry-colored Furisode kimono at that time, which was made for her by her mother herself. She liked it so much that even when she fell, she landed on her face first.
The short girl had waist-length black hair, and under soft and curled eyelashes, a pair of obsidian-like eyes were foggy with water vapor.
"It will be bad luck for Nuliang Huapiao to go out today."
He heard the girl's cursing voice with a crying voice, her black hair fell down, covering her gray cheeks due to the wet soil.
Nuliang Carphan, who was hiding behind the tree, still couldn't help laughing.
Thinking about it carefully, Erika seems to have hated him since then.
The girl who was called the Thousand Faced Demon by the children got up from the ground, her [fear] was not of the fighting type, her wrists were white and slender, and when she picked up a stone and threw it at him, she almost slipped.
"Don't be so angry, sister."
He caught her effortlessly, put one arm around her waist, and rolled her firmly into his arms.
Erika bit him on the shoulder angrily, although the bite was not hard, Nuliang Carpan still showed a pitiful expression.
He asked her why she didn't like her so much, but the other party felt that he had ulterior motives in this question, hid in the bushes like a hamster and watched him for a long time, then quietly revealed his head again.
"You don't understand me."
Nuliang Liban heard her mutter.
"Youkai, who can easily be liked by others like you, don't understand me."
She looked like she was about to cry, and even her voice weakened.
Nuliang Liban remembered what Xuenv said to him before, because he is a child of his mother, so no matter what he does, his mother will always love him. This kind of love is increasing day by day, it is unfair, and it is difficult to share it equally.
"Then I'll marry my sister when I grow up."
Nuliang Liban's voice made the little monster in the bushes look up, she didn't seem to expect to hear such words, her face was full of astonishment, and her eyes were filled with doubt and confusion.
"Then the mother is also your mother."
At that time, Nuliang Liban didn't know what he was talking about.
He just felt as if he was taking care of a poor little animal, the kind that fell out of a tree, and she was crying, so he held out his hand.
Nura Koban held her hand.
"So, don't cry anymore."
After Nuliang Liban became an adult, he chose to become a demon between a human and a demon.It was at that time that Edo Castle prospered centered on Nihombashi.
Nuliang Huapiao is getting old day by day because the heart was dug out by the feather fox.Not long after, Nura Huapiao abdicated, and Liban took over the Nura group from the former, officially becoming the second generation.
Even so, Li Ban doesn't like to stay in the main house to deal with affairs, he doesn't even bother to hold meetings, so Shouwu's daily work is either looking for him or on the way to him.
But for slippery ghosts, hiding their tracks is a piece of cake.
Nura carp partner lazily wanders back to the Nura team only after drinking every day. It is like this every day, and it is also the same today.
"Oh, the second generation is back."
The prostitute Mao Chang who was helping to sweep the fallen leaves at the door covered his mouth and laughed when he saw him. As soon as his voice fell, Shouwu jumped up the high fence and jumped behind him angrily, chasing him and asking where he went. .
"Just wandering around."
As he spoke, he yawned lazily, lowered his slender five fingers, turned his face sideways, and looked at Shouwu with lowered eyes.
"Where's my sister? I brought back the hairpin she mentioned last time for her."
Hearing this sentence, the leader was taken aback, he subconsciously thought about Erika's trail in his mind, and it took a few seconds before he realized that he was led astray.
So Shouwu became even more angry immediately. He wanted to yell "Don't change the subject" or something, but his voice was interrupted by the prostitute Mao at the side.
"Should be working."
Mao Changji said, her loose hair fell on her chest, and she smiled thoughtfully.
"It's said that I'm working hard today to surpass Koban-sama."
Nuliang Koipan thought for a while, and threw the flagon in his hand into the arms of Shouwu who was frantically following him.
Amid Shouwu's roar of "Where are you going again!", the slippery ghost disappeared again.
The first time Erika heard her name was from people cursing her.
They said that she had a thousand faces, and she was dedicated to seducing men with fancy stomachs, and occasionally even children.
Erika found them extremely boring, and although she was indeed a liar, she had no interest in cannibalism.
Among their rumors about the "thousand-faced demon", only she has a thousand faces is correct.
She can become a man or a woman, and she has had such a magical ability since she was born.
So much so that she couldn't even tell which face was her real face.
However, in her memory, the monster who created her called her "Yamabuki Otome", and the monster who can be called "mother" kissed her forehead before she died, holding her tenderly like Mrs. Yingji. her face.
"Slippery."
"You have to remember their names."
In the darkness, her "mother" seemed crazy.
She repeated the name of the slippery ghost over and over again, her beautiful face became hideous, and the blood-red nails dug into her face, tightening bit by bit.
"But I don't have that name."
She retorted suspiciously, and as soon as the words were spoken, the "mother" stopped.
The "mother" said that this was an order given to her by the god named Bailan Jiesuo. Only by becoming "Yamabuki Otome" can she avenge her "mother".
Erika thought for a while, and said that her head must be caught by the door to believe that there is really a god in this world.
So the "mother" almost broke her neck, and she lay in a pool of blood, looking at the "mother" holding her heart in her hand.
——If it can't be done, her existence is meaningless.
Erika thought, she must have had bad luck for eight lifetimes to have such a thing happen.
Yamabuki Otome, just Yamabuki Otome, it's the same for everyone anyway.
She doesn't bother with revenge or anything else, Erika still likes Yingji more than the monster holding her heart.
A human with magical healing powers hugged her when she was dying.
If everyone must have a mother, she would rather be like Mrs. Yingji.
Because Mrs. Yingji's hand is very comfortable when stroking her head, so even if Mrs. Yingji chose to follow the slippery ghost she hates the most, she still followed.
But despite this, the life span of human beings is only 100 years.
Yingji did not live to be a hundred years old.
On the day she closed her eyes, Erika was waiting at the door, and Nura Kobi came out and said that her mother wanted to see her.
So she rushed in.
She has a lot of things she wants to say to Yingji, for example, she has found clues to the god that "mother" said, as long as Mrs. Yingji persists, she will definitely find a way to make her live a long life.
But Yingji just smiled when she heard her words.
The human princess was no longer young and beautiful. She stroked her cheeks with those warm hands and wiped away her tears.
"There were a lot of things I couldn't let go of, but when I saw Otome, I felt that it didn't matter again."
"Please accompany Li Ban for me."
She said, smiling one last time at the wide-eyed Erika.
"If it's you, you can do it."
From that day on, the last human that Erika liked also left.
Not a single word about her was left behind, and the opening and closing of his mouth was all the responsibility of Nuliang Liban.
She was depressed for a long time, and she was so angry that she was dying. When the matter developed to the end, she even felt upset when she heard the name "Nuliang Carp Companion".
Under such circumstances, Erika received the task of investigating the origin of a large number of new monsters that suddenly appeared in Edo Castle.
Dressing up as an oiran was a breeze for her. She smiled prettily, poured wine to the strange men in front of her, and found out the name "Yamamoto Gorozaemon" from their mouths.
Originally, everything went smoothly, if it wasn't for the sudden appearance of Nuliang Koipan who knocked off the man's hand on her shoulder with a cigarette stick.
Erika looked at the frightened man shouting "There are monsters!" and ran away, her brows twitched, but she didn't even vent her anger.
But Nura Kotomo looked at the man rolling down the stairs and laughed. He clutched his stomach, and the green striped kimono was tied loosely. He didn't stop until he saw Erika's face getting darker and darker. .
"Sorry sorry, did I go too far?"
Confession without the slightest hint of repentance.
Before Erika had time to lose her temper, Nuliang Koipan knelt down.
His fingers were placed on the bun she rolled up, and with a slight pull, the girl's black hair fell down.
Erika raised her eyes, and glanced at her appearance in the bronze mirror.
The kimono that had fallen off her shoulders was effortlessly pulled back by the black-haired monster, and Nura Kobi sat behind her and carefully combed her hair again.
Luoluomei's hairpin was inserted into her hair, and Nuliang Liban hugged her.
"Edo is very dangerous recently, don't do this kind of thing alone again."
"...Don't talk to me in a childish tone, no big or small."
"okay."
"Don't forget to call me next time when the ghosts walk in the night, I will be the one who leads the way, the one who walks in front of you."
"But my sister is too weak, she will be killed by other monsters if she is not careful."
"..."
Nura Koban's face was pinched and distorted by the girl in his arms.
"If you talk about it again, I'll cut off your braids while you're sleeping."
Nuliang Liban laughed a few times, and he lowered his eyes to look at her, "Sister, don't you think you can threaten me by doing this?"
Erika thought about it for a while, and felt that Nuliang Liban should be strangled in the cradle when he was young. The older he grew, the more annoying he became. The saddest thing was that she still couldn't beat him.
"But if it's my sister, it doesn't matter if you cut it."
Nuliang Liban said nonchalantly.
Anyway, using the power inherited from the mother, it will grow back soon.
This should have been a complete sentence, but Nuliang Liban didn't say it.
"I'll take care of my sister."
He freed up a hand and brushed away the sweat-soaked hair on the forehead of the girl in his arms.
Under Erika's astonished eyes, all ghosts jumped up, and the monster hiding in the attic that had been staring at her was turned into ashes.
Nura Koban covered her eyes.
"Just like mother used to be."
In Nura Koban's memory, Erika is always angry.
She doesn't like anyone, especially humans, but she only gets close to Yingji.
Nuliang Koipan is also occasionally jealous, but after discovering that Erika blushed when she became angry, his little negative emotions disappeared completely.
She hated him, so he just wanted to hang out in front of her.
I can't tell if it's a child's natural inferiority, or it's interesting.
Before he was an adult, Nuliang Carp would always appear suddenly when the other party was putting on clothes and going to bed, watching her run around the room in fright, and then put on an innocent look, saying that he wanted to chat with her because he couldn't sleep due to nightmares Class words.
She always said that children are annoying, but she won't really drive him away.
"Look, look, for the sake of your hard work every day as the second generation of the future..."
The girl who was stammering and speaking covered him with a quilt. She hugged him carefully through a thick quilt, and her voice was soft, accompanied by the sound of water falling drop by drop outside the corridor. He told stories that he didn't know where he heard them.
Nura Koban watched her fall asleep.
He stretched out a hand from the quilt, and there was an itchy feeling across the fingertips between the eyelashes of the other party. Nuliang Liban stared at his hand for a long time, and then smiled softly.
He put the quilt back on the sleeping Erika.
"Good night, sister."
So Nura Koban began to test Erika's bottom line more vigorously.
At first it was to tie hair, and later it became sewing clothes for him.
The grown-up girl cursed him just like she cursed Nuraba when she was a child. He withdrew his breath, sat outside the door and listened patiently. "Isn't it too vicious?" Then he started to regret it.
This is probably the only joy of Nura Kobi's childhood.
He forgot exactly when it started, his height surpassed the girl who always liked to poke his forehead. Anyway, by the time he realized it, Erika had to stand on tiptoe to reach him.
It wasn't just him who discovered this, but also Erika who froze when she discovered the cruel truth a step too late.
Nuliang Liban blinked in confusion at first, then bent down and brought his forehead closer to her.
Erika's face turned red instantly.
"You, you are not allowed to let me!"
She yelled in shame, pursed her thin lips, and between her straight nose, her eyes were the color of honey in the setting sun.
Nu Liangli smiled and hugged her into his arms.
From that day on, Nura Koban began to braid her hair just like Erika.
He didn't know exactly what kind of feeling this was, but he just felt that it felt good to be by the other party's side.
Maybe because they grew up together, Nuliang Liban can only feel at ease when he holds her in his arms and smells the faint fragrance in her hair.
The year Nuliang Koipan chose to become a human or a demon, he jokingly told Erika that he chose to become a demon because he didn't want to be hated by her.
Erika took it seriously.
Until now, Nuliang Carphan can't forget the look in her eyes at that time.
That was the first time she took the initiative to touch him.
"If you want to become a human, I will help you and tell Xiandai."
Those swarthy eyes stared at him motionlessly, with a serious and serious expression.
"This is a matter of a lifetime, little carp companion."
"I'm going to beat you up if you get mad."
Nuliang Liban recovered from his astonishment.
What did he ask then?
Ah, just remembered.
"But if I become a human, everyone will hate me because I evaded my responsibilities."
Erika, who didn't seem to expect him to say that, was stunned for a moment, and Nura Kobi felt her hold her hand tightly.
"...I will stay with you."
"Anyway, I don't like anyone. I will stay with you until you die."
"So, be the guy you want to be."
She paused, and seemed to realize that she had said something terrible, so she turned her face away and added "for Mrs. Yingji's sake" in vain.
Nuliang Koipan watched her, and suddenly remembered [Long Arms, Long Legs] what they said jokingly, "Secondaimu must be because the lady always bullied him when she was young, so she has been secretly tripping her lately".
Not revenge.
Nura carp partner thought.
At least not about wanting to kiss her eyes.
Nuliang Liban only shared this incident with Yingji before she died. She looked very shocked, and then smiled relieved at the end.
"I know."
"When Li Ban was young, I let that child hug you."
"The child looked so serious that she seemed to be facing an enemy. When you cried, she panicked to death, and finally cried together with you."
Listening to his mother's memories, Nuliang Liban couldn't help but curl the corners of his lips.
"In fact, she doesn't hate you at all. When Li Ban and Xueli play, she hides behind the stone and watches secretly, very envious."
Yingji seemed to lose her strength when she said this, she paused, and slowly raised her hand.
Nura Koban held her hand.
"When I picked up that child, she was so cramped that she didn't even dare to enter the room. She was worried that the muddy water on her body would stain the floor, but she forgot that she was covered in wounds, and she would die if she didn't get treatment."
"Let her be more coquettish, Li Ban."
Coincidentally, when Nuliang Kobi went to play in the mountains, he saw the real Yamabuki Otome in a private school.
Same hair, same eyes, same name.
But Nuliang Liban could tell at a glance that she was different from her older sister.
Yamabuki Otome is gentle and strong, a standard Yamato Nadeko-like woman, just like a thin willow.But his elder sister always had a bad temper. When she fell down, she would hide in a place where he couldn't find her and cry secretly.
Nura carp partner suddenly became very angry.
For 100 years, he didn't even know what she really looked like.
In the end, he was no different from the group of men she had lied to.
Thinking this way, Nura Koban asked for a flower from Yamabuki Otome, and swung back when dusk came.
"It was given to me by Otome."
"……I?"
"No, it's a real otome."
Nuliang Kouban looked at the girl in front of him with satisfaction and was stunned.
His gloomy mood improved a bit, and with the corners of his lips curled up, he said to Nuliang Huapiao, who was beside him with a beard, that he had someone he wanted to marry.
Nuliang Huapiao was so frightened that he sprayed out the wine from his nose.
Nura Koban looked forward to the expression of the girl in front of him before turning his head.
Whether it's shock or guilt, he will definitely apologize.
But Erika was unusually calm, pinching her chin, recalling the recent financial situation of the Nuliang Group, and came up with a perfect wedding plan in less than 5 minutes.
"Ah, by the way, I remember that Mrs. Yingji left a lot of jewelry. I'll look for them later. That lady must look good in them."
As she spoke, she raised her eyebrows excitedly.
Nuliang Carp has not seen her smile like this for a long time.
"why?"
"……what why?"
"Sister looks happy."
"Ah, of course." She recalled, "Mrs. Yingji's last wish is for me to take good care of you, but if you get married, the task of taking care of you will be handed over to that young lady."
"I haven't seen it outside of Edo Castle yet. Do you know that there is a new oiran in Osaka Castle, and I heard that it is prettier than all the girls here. I want to join in the fun..."
Nuliang Koipan heard her say a lot of things, all about leaving the Nuliang group.
His throat suddenly became dry.
"No."
Nuliang Liban didn't know what was wrong with him, he couldn't control his emotions, the black [fear] jumped up from his shoulders, blurring his figure.
"Didn't my sister say that she will stay with me until I die?"
Erika was a little dazed, she tilted her head and thought for a long time before she remembered.
"Ah, that means what happens after you become a human. Monsters are not like humans. A monster's life is so long. I won't be with you all the time."
She spoke flatly, as if this was something she had planned long ago.
"No."
Nuliang Lihan said it again, he pulled out his knife, and blocked Nuliang Huapiao's attack to calm him down.
The confrontation between the two generations of slippery ghosts obviously startled Erika, Nuliang Koipan pursed her lips, and simply threw away the knife in her hand.
He hugged her, activated [Mingjing Zhishui], and returned to her room from the courtyard.
The decorations are exactly the same as when he was a child, and even some things are missing.
She was ready to leave anytime, never intended to stay.
"If you hug me casually, I will..."
Erika raised her hand high as she did when she was a child, trying to grab his cheek.
But this time, Nura Kobi blocked her movement.
The hand on her wrist kept tightening, tightening again.
"From now on, I won't let my sister go."
"If I keep letting my sister, it seems that my sister will always treat me like a child."
The monster's golden pupils shine, and Erika remembers the appearance of Nuliang Carphan leading the Hyakki Night Walk in a trance.
Standing in Edo, with a total of more than 1 monsters under his command, Nuliang Koban always loves to hug her when standing on a high tower and commanding all ghosts.
After a long time, she even forgot that she, a weak monster, was the only one who could stand beside him on an equal footing.
The warm and soft lips were attached to her eyes, and her rolled up hair was once again ripped off harshly by the other party.
Nuliang Liban held her waist, his eyes were lowered, the loose smile on the corners of his lips disappeared, and the ink in his pupils was thick for a moment, and then disappeared suddenly.
Obviously he is the master of demons and monsters, but Nuliang Liban showed an expression of admitting defeat.
"It doesn't matter if you don't tell me your name, anyway, no matter what you become, I can recognize you at a glance."
He buried his head on the side of her neck, and there was a bit of coquettishness in his voice.
"Like me a little more, sister."
Erika didn't know why, but at the end of the matter, Nura Kobi turned out to be the one she wanted to marry.
Until the moment before Mao Changjue put on Bai Wugou for her, she was still doubting whether Nuliang Liban had quarreled with the person she really liked, so she used her to anger him.
"So my sister misses me so much? Then I'm really sad."
He braided her hair, and brushed her ear with his fingers inadvertently.
"I have wanted to do something excessive to my sister since a long time ago, but I was worried that my sister would get into the bushes again like an ostrich, so I have endured it until now."
Erika covered her face, not wanting the other party to see her embarrassing appearance.
But Nuliang Liban didn't speak again, she thought he was gone, so she quietly removed two fingers, and looked into the mirror tentatively.
As a result, he was caught by the opponent.
Erika became even angrier all of a sudden, but something flashed in her mind, her pursed lips loosened, and even her expression calmed down.
"But I'm not the one who will stay at home and wait for you, Li Ban."
"I've always been a restless person. If you slip away to drink again and let Shouwu search for two or three days and you can't find it, I'll slip away in the opposite direction to you."
Erika, who is familiar with Nuliang Carp's temperament, said.
He always looks like a playboy, with a face that pleases women. He often lives in other people's homes for two or three days at a time, and he never pays.
Erika thought, she said so, and the freedom-loving Nuliang Kaiban should think about it clearly.
"Then I'll take my sister with me."
"...Do you live and eat for free with you?"
"Dad used to sneak to the Onmyoji's house to steal food."
Nuliang Liban said indifferently, hugging her in his arms and rubbing against her.
"Mom sometimes comes with Dad."
Erihua was immediately hit at the dead end, she thought for a long time but couldn't think of a word that could condemn such behavior without damaging Yingji's image, so she just said "rascal" dryly.
After Edo came the Meiji, and after the Meiji came the Taisho. After the Showa era and the Heisei era, Erika watched the trams whizzing past being built, and schools built one after another.
This is already the age of mankind.
When Nuliang Koipan went to deal with the occasional monsters who tried to break the peace, Erika went out shopping with Mao Changji and the others.
As the mistress of the Nuliang group, although she is not very good at communicating with other monsters, every time Erika goes out, she will bring some presents to the cadres and little monsters of the Nura group in a decent manner.
"Just leave this kind of thing to your subordinates, you don't have to worry about it."
When Erika asked her for her opinion, Mao Changji said with a gentle smile.
"...Leave me alone, Mao Chang prostitute." Erika sighed with some headaches, "Then I will really be made into a useless person."
Mao Changji covered her mouth and laughed out loud, she didn't say anything against her, instead she really made a present for her seriously.
It was at this time that Erika realized that someone seemed to be watching her.
It was a child, a child surrounded by a group of people in formal and dull black kimonos.White hair, blue eyes, and an indifferent expression, as if nothing could arouse his emotions.
But he was looking at her.
Erika lowered her head, looked at the candy in her hand, and then at him.
"Eat?"
She mouthed silently, the white child paused for a moment, frowned maturely, and subconsciously walked towards her.
But before he could take a step, someone behind him stopped him.
"Master Wu, where are you going?"
He obviously bent over respectfully, but he used an uncompromising tone.
Then the white child stopped again.
Erika took note of his aura, she had nothing to do recently, so it would be no trouble to follow her aura and give him some gifts at night.
"What are you thinking, sister?"
Just as she was thinking this, the person who suddenly appeared behind her hugged her.
Erika has connived at Nura Kobi's foul behavior to the point of turning a blind eye. She watched the white child leave and put down the candy in her hand.
"Carp companion."
"Ok?"
"You'd better marry another human being, I don't want the future of the Nuragumi to be ruined in my hands."
More than 200 years have passed since she married Nura Kobi.
The cadres who went to the main house came and went, and at first they greeted her respectfully, but after 50 years, they looked at her with a bit of hidden dissatisfaction.
Although monsters age much slower than humans, they are not immortal.
After the Nuliang Carp Companion, there must be someone to succeed the Nuliang Group.
Every time she brought it up like this, Li Ban always prevaricates it with random things. Once she is in a hurry to ask, Li Ban just pats her on the head comfortingly, saying that there will always be something. Class words.
But Erika knew clearly that this was the curse of Yuyihu.
It is impossible for slippery ghosts and demons to produce offspring.
Their bloodline will become more and more rare in the combination with humans, and finally become weak and mediocre, and will be killed by their subordinates.
How could she not know.
The "mother" who clamored for her to take revenge on the slippery ghost was Yu Yihu.
She was resurrected countless times, and Nuliang Kaihan killed her countless times, and her resentment became stronger each time, so Erika became more and more painful every day.
"Please let me go, mother."
After being crushed by the other party in dreams countless times, she begged.
Yuyihu's expression turned cold, maybe 200 years of torture made her lose interest, she squatted down, and her crazy face regained its beauty.
"Okay."
she said with a smile.
The child of Nuliang Liban was born with anticipation.
The lifeless Nuliang group came back to life during that time. Every time Erika fell asleep exhaustedly, when she woke up, she was already hugged by Nuliang Carp, sitting on a tall tree and basking in the sun.
The wind chime under the porch was replaced by the Tengu team. Shou Wu and Mao Chang prostitute took turns to tell her the stories that happened outside every day, and at the end they vowed to report to her that every time the mission of Nuliang Carp Companion was over, they would immediately pick him up. back.
Erika just smiled at this, she put her hand lightly on her stomach, closed her eyes, listening to the small birdsong on the branches.
In a trance, she returned to the day when Mrs. Yingji, who was sweating profusely, handed the carp companion to her.
She was only two years older than him, so she couldn't hug her at all, so she gritted her teeth and exerted all her strength, her posture was twisted and twisted, making Nuliang Huapiao beside him unable to help laughing at her.
——The future Lord of Demons and Monsters.
It doesn't matter if he looks like anyone, but since he is going to inherit the youkai of the Nuragumi, it's better to look like Koban.When he is born, she will be like Mrs. Yingji, hug him to sleep, sing "Song Longzi" to him, and teach him not to learn from that old hooligan Nuliang Huapiao.
She can teach him to draw, teach him to read, teach him to sing - of course, if he wants to become an ordinary human being in the future, then she will sneak away with him.
She just wants him to be healthy and happy.
But why?
Her child died as soon as he was born.
In the heavy snow all over the sky, he withered like a plum blossom whose branches were knocked down.
She didn't even see one side of him, listening to Xue Nu
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