Miss Zashiki

Fu Xiaoyue stood in front of the closed wooden door in a daze, his mind was confused and empty, and he didn't know what to do for a while.

A few minutes ago, the cold fragrance from the bosom of the woman with a big belly inside the door still faintly lingers in her nose.Even the comforting soft smile seemed to be heard in the ears——

"Don't be afraid. You are Zashiki. You are my child, there is no doubt about that."

She had no idea how long she had been standing like this.Even when another figure silently appeared beside her, she didn't feel much frightened.

"little Master."

The man dressed in a dark samurai uniform was tall and burly, with a rigid and serious face. Only when he knelt down and half-kneeled to look at her, there was a bit of imperceptible tenderness on his cold and hard face.

"Little master, welcome home."

Fu Xiaoyue silently stared at the strange uncle in front of him with a look of iron blood and tenderness, he didn't even have the thought of sighing, and said weakly, "...May I ask where are you here to take me again?"

The other party's generous palm gently stroked the top of her hair, and there was a kind of indulgent smile in the eyes of a child, as if watching a child lose his temper, and his tone was gentle that did not match his face:

"Little master, please don't worry, Mr. Ge Ye shouldn't bother you too much now, so he ordered me to come and take you to find that Yin-Yang teacher—he can answer any doubts you have."

-

A room full of luxury.

Without any notice, the tall man beside him stepped forward, and without hesitation opened the thin and light bamboo curtain in front of him.Then he half turned around and nodded respectfully to the slender figure behind him:

"Little master, please come in."

The sound of gurgling water could be heard faintly inside. Fu Xiaoyue was a little hesitant, but obediently walked in. Then, behind the indoor curtain, a certain young man was reclining on the wooden slum, quietly closing his eyes and resting his mind. The figure instantly came into view.

Fu Xiao just felt that this person looked familiar to him yesterday, when he heard the sound and opened his eyes to look over, he realized that the person was exactly the one he had seen through the vision of "Adie" in the illusion of Rose Castle. A young onmyoji.

However, compared to the slightly haughty and cold look in his impression, the young man leaning on the couch in front of him was dressed in silver placket and wide sleeves, and the belt of his robe was slightly messy, full of amiability and leisure.

Faced with their trespassing and disturbing his rest, he didn't seem to show any signs of getting angry. He just raised his forehead with one hand, looked at her lazily, and smiled slightly:

"Hey, is this the legendary little Ji Jun... It's really better to meet you than to be famous. It's a pleasure to meet you."

The taciturn tall man beside him supported the edge of the scabbard at his waist with one hand, and said in a deep voice: "Mr. Ping Gong, I am sorry."

The young Yin Yang teacher smiled warmly on his face, and nodded in response: "It's easy to say."

Fu Xiaoyue gave up thinking the whole time and quietly watched the two of them play charades with each other.Immediately afterwards, the man who brought her backed out without saying a word—inexplicably, only she was left in the room, and a young man reclining gracefully on the couch a few steps away.

"..."

And almost the next second that the uncle lifted the curtain to leave, she just stared at the onmyoji in front of her, the warm and soft smile on her face faded away like magic.

The young man propped his elbows slightly, and stood up slowly, with a blank expression on his face, looking down at her faintly, with a cold tone:

"You can really run, the pride of the short-legged world, huh?"

Seeing his sudden change of attitude, Fu Xiaoyue was so frightened that his eyes widened instantly, and he looked at him helplessly.

As if teased by her like this, the young man leaned his upper body slightly, and sneered silently, with a hint of a half-hearted smile, and in a soft voice, he cast a thunderbolt:

"Miss Zashiki, how are you...is the other world fun?"

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The young man flicked his sleeves, sat down on one side of the desk, and at the same time stretched out his hand to invite the other side: "Please."

Fu Xiao was not sure for a while yesterday, whether the other party did it on purpose...

The layers of clothes she is wearing now are very cumbersome. With such a small body, she wants to sit on her knees on the other side of the desk "elegantly and politely" (at least without making a fool of herself), no matter how you look at it, it is not a small piece project.

Although she wanted to refuse in her heart, saying that she should continue to stand, but in the end she sat down obediently, and when she succeeded in settling down, the whole demon was so tired that she couldn't help panting.

The young Onmyoji quietly watched the whole process, with a smirk on his lips, poured a cup of tea and pushed it in front of her: "Thanks for your hard work."

Fu Xiaoyue didn't bother (and didn't dare) to stare at him, and drank his tea without saying a word with his head down.

"Okay. You have a lot of questions, which is understandable, but my time is very precious and limited... How about this, I will only answer your ten questions today, please think carefully before asking."

Fu Xiaoyue silently looked at the clear water in the teacup, feeling an indescribably depressed feeling in his heart.

——What is "time is very precious and limited"?What is he rushing to do?continue to sleep?

——And why are all these guys I met today so egotistical?She can do whatever you want her to do?If you ask her to ask, does she have to ask?

——Well, she does have a lot of questions she can't figure out...

As if she couldn't see her entanglement at all, the young man on the opposite side said clearly:

"First question, please."

Fu Xiaoyue put down the cup in his hand, twisted his fingers silently, and after a long time passed, he asked in a low voice without raising his head:

"...Who was that person just now?"

"To be precise, it's not a 'person', it's a monster named 'Kidoumaru'."

Onmyoshi smiled slightly at the corners of his mouth, but there was no smile at the corners of his eyes and brows: "He is a mad dog under Seimei Abe. He loves houses and birds, and he is also very protective of you. So, you probably don't need to be afraid of him. second question--"

Fu Xiaoyue blinked a few times in a daze, and said, "So the Demon Sword Fairy... is also...?"

She asked intermittently, but the other party understood her meaning without any effort: "She is not Abe Seimei's shikigami, but a demon transformed from a blade refined by you yourself. From the beginning, she has recognized you as the master."

Seeing her looking up in surprise, the young man smiled inexplicably, and continued unhurriedly: "After you died more than 300 years ago, she went berserk and killed hundreds of people... When she woke up, she Unable to accept the fact that the lord is dead, on the other hand, he feels guilty about the crimes he committed, so he closed his self-awareness, and has been sleeping in the palace in the form of a knife for hundreds of years... he was just awakened recently."

Fu Xiaoyue was dumbfounded when he heard the whole monster, and then he heard the other party's slow words——

"The third question."

She was stunned for a while in confusion, and almost couldn't think of anything to ask. When she saw the surrounding decorations, a word suddenly appeared in her mind——

"The Pinggong family! What's going on here? Isn't it the number one family today? Why are everyone dead?"

Yin Yang Shi raised her eyebrows slightly when she heard this, as if a little surprised, she would ask this point: "As early as more than ten years ago, on the day Kaga Ichiro was executed, the Heimiya family was completely exterminated. The tit-for-tat confrontation between the palace and the Huakai family, as well as the decline of the royal power, are just illusions. As for the gimmick of the so-called 'first family', it is at best the royal family of the current dynasty who spent more than ten years in cooperation with monster forces to construct a gimmick. It’s just a fat bait... So far, it’s useless to talk about it. The fourth question—”

Fu Xiaoyue secretly swallowed her saliva immediately, the more she thought about the short passage she heard just now, the more she felt terrified:

"What about Qiangwei Island... Since the confrontation between the Heimiya family and the Huakaiyuan family is just an illusion, why does Huakaiyuan Xiuyuan bother to destroy the enchantment of Qiangwei Island?"

Hearing this, the young man immediately sneered slightly mockingly: "Rose Island, that is indeed a thing built by me... The kid from Huakaiyuan's family didn't demolish it to fight against the Pinggong family, it's just that he The eight-direction formation that was being built recently happened to be blocked by Qiangwei Island, so it had to be dismantled."

Speaking of this, he paused for a moment, and looked at her with a smile: "A few days ago, you were also on the territory of Yujiajin, so you must have heard about it. If I guessed correctly, the flowers are blooming now Yuan Xiuyuan's big formation should have already been prepared, right?"

Fu Xiaoyue stared at him blankly.

——The eight-direction formation... what is that?

At that time, on the day when Huakaiyuan Xiuyuan first arrived at the Killing Temple, he had an inexplicable conversation with the drug seller. He did mention some formations, a lot of place names, and "the barrier of Rose Island" Yes... Is this what he was referring to when he said "the work he is preparing recently"?

If so, it seems that he is ready to leave Killing Temple and return to Kyoto, then he is probably ready, but——

"What kind of formation is he, what exactly is he going to do?"

After hearing her question, an inexplicable smirk soon appeared on the corner of the Onmyoji's mouth in front of him: "Oh? Are you sure you want to ask this? That's the fifth question."

Fu Xiaoyue was suddenly a little confused, should she waste her curiosity on this question that may have nothing to do with her...

After struggling again and again, she gritted her teeth and said: "Leave this question first! I'll ask other questions first! What's going on with Abe Seimei? Isn't he already dead? Why do you say he's coming back soon?"

Facing her sonorous and forceful speech, the other party was calm from beginning to end, and he was still very calm at this time:

"It is true that Abe Seimei died hundreds of years ago, but he has not re-entered reincarnation. Ge Ye kept his body in the underworld, and has been using his body as a dish to nourish his soul and spirit body, waiting for the opportunity to want Resurrect him... As for now, it's probably almost ready."

Fu Xiaoyue just felt it was unbelievable and couldn't explain it: "How did she do it? Why is she going to be resurrected?"

——She is not a Peach Blossom Demon, where did she get the resurrection skills?

Yinyang. Shi Wenyan smiled slightly: "I don't know the specifics, but I guess it probably has something to do with the setting of Yuyihu... Speaking of which, you also met the slippery ghost and Huakaiyuan Xiuyuan before. Couldn't they guess at all?"

Fu Xiaoyue looked at him blankly, completely unable to understand what he was talking about.

The young man in front of him looked up and down suspiciously at her, and hissed lightly: "I said...you walked around in another world, so you haven't watched "The Grandson of the Slicker Ghost" yet?"

"..."

--What it is?

Fu Xiaoyue shook his head foolishly with a blank face.

In the next second, she saw the disgusted look of the young man in front of her, shaking her head and muttering in her mouth—"Tsk tsk tsk, it's really unprofessional to not make up the joint works..."—— Kind of strange words.

When he finally finished expressing his emotions, he finally straightened his expression and looked at himself again: "Hey, you must have heard of the name 'Nuryo Lusheng', right?"

Seeing that she nodded again foolishly, he continued, "The Nuliang Yubao you met before is his grandfather; and the 'Yuyi Fox' I mentioned is Abe Seimei's mother. However, in this In the setting of the world, Abe Seimei's mother is "Keba", so I guess, Geye may overlap a part of the setting of the feather fox, which can make Abe Seimei reborn... If you don't understand this, I don't Got it. Seventh question—"

Fu Xiaoyue stared blankly at him without any response. After a long while, he finally choked out a sentence for no reason: "You...you can't be 'Mr. Yue'...?"

Don't blame her for making such unconstrained conjectures, it's really because the guy in front of him, his words and expressions are too weird...

The young onmyoji asked a few questions about the origin of "Mr. Yue" in her mouth with some puzzlement, and looked at her with a complicated expression after a while, and did not speak for a long time.

Seeing Fu Xiaozhang's heart tremble all the time, he smirked and said again: "If I were him, I would probably be mad at you at this time."

Seeing that her shoulders flinched slightly, he curled his lips, "If you guessed right, the 'Mr. Yue' you mentioned should be Huang."

After finishing the sentence, the girl in front of her fell into a daze again.The young man almost felt a little funny, and shook his hand in front of her, "hello? The eighth question, hurry up."

Fu Xiaoyue had a doubtful expression on Yaosheng's face, and his voice was weak: "...Who the hell are you?"

"I...Miss Zashiki, as you know, this world is a game."

The young man said, lightly clasping his fingertips on the desk, the sound he made was as clear as his voice:

"And I am the player."

Fu Xiaoyue shook his whole body in a trance: "You are also a time traveler..."

Hearing this sentence, the young man in front of him slightly raised the corners of his mouth with some unknown meaning, and said in a serious tone: "I am indeed a time traveler... the next ninth question, is there anything you want to ask?"

Fu Xiaoyue's thoughts were ups and downs in a state of being empty-headed, and when he finally recovered after an unknown period of time, apart from his dizzy head, there was almost a feeling of indignation in his heart.

--what!

——After doing it for a long time, I was being tricked by a similar kind of pretending to be a ghost!

Hearing the other party's understatement again, the anger in her heart became more and more intense, and the aura of admitting cowardice and showing weakness disappeared instantly.

She glared fiercely at the other party with fiery eyes: "Ninth question! Did you kill the vampire princess's father!? You crazy scum!"

——Just because this is the game world, can you tm kill people casually! ?

The young man in front of him seemed to choke at the question, rolled his eyes imperceptibly, and said, "Have you never read the biography? It was obvious that his wife killed himself, but all of them have poor psychological endurance. Inexplicably, he dumped the blame on me... Heh, I feel wronged."

"..."

Seeing that his expression does not seem to be fake, Fu Xiaoyue still couldn't help but feel baffled: "Then why don't you deny it? If you are slandered and murdered, you will obediently take the blame? What kind of operation is this?"

The Onmyoji paused for a moment, and his tone seemed a bit complicated when he said it again: "I don't deny it, it's just because, when I realize it, there is no need to deny it... She already has the intention to die."

As she spoke, there was a hint of sigh in her words, "Since she is doomed to die, it will be more comfortable for her to hate me than to die with hatred for her mother."

Fu Xiaoyue looked at his distant and dazed expression, as if he was immersed in some memory, and suddenly recalled in his mind, what he saw with the eyes of Adie at that time, when the other party proposed to marry him, that sincere and affectionate appearance.

"so you……"

——So you really fell in love with Ah Die?

She stopped asking halfway through the question.

She was meditating silently, but onmyoji's misty and trance expression quickly disappeared as if it was just an illusion, and in a blink of an eye she returned to her calm look, and said in a deep voice:

"One last question, please."

Fu Xiaoyue was not so calm, he hesitated for a longer time, and when he finally spoke, his voice was so soft that it was almost inaudible——

"I... Who the hell am I... What is my relationship with Ge Ye and Abe Seimei... Why do you know that I am from 'another world'?"

"Hey, have you finally asked this question?"

The young Onmyoji sneered inexplicably: "I thought you were going to keep running away. How did that woman tell you?"

Did he mean Ge Ye...?

Fu Xiaoyue lowered his head silently, recalling what the other party said when he was in Ge Ye's room earlier——

"The lifespan of human beings is always pitifully short. When their wishes are not fulfilled, most of them seek the afterlife and believe in reincarnation. However, the afterlife is elusive, the reincarnation is vast, and there is no trace... Instead of relying on such illusory things, I really I still prefer to seize the current world."

Saying this, the woman with beautiful eyebrows and eyes gently held the cheek of the girl in her arms with one hand, and gently caressed her abdomen with the other hand. In her soft voice, there was some kind of unspeakable firmness:

"What I like—whether Qingming or you—I will never allow you to die without permission."