[Onmyoji] Bo Qing

The next night, four people stood under the dark Luocheng gate.

A fine, needle-like rain fell from a soft, somber sky.Qingming, Boya and another man and woman stood in the drizzle.

The man was a samurai named Kashima Kiji.He hangs a broadsword at his waist, holds a bow in his left hand, and a few arrows in his right hand.He is very capable. About two years ago, he used this bow to shoot and kill the cat monster that appeared in the palace.

The woman is Yucao, with big pupils and a straight nose, she can be called a beauty, about ten years old.

Qingming was dressed as yesterday.Just no more wine.

Boya's attire has not changed, but he does not bring a bow and arrow.

The sound of the piano played melodiously above the four people's heads, and the four people listened silently.

After a while, the sound of the pipa stopped.

"I've been waiting for a long time." The voice came from the top of the head.It was the voice from yesterday, but there was an unconcealable joy in it.

"We came as promised." Boya said to the city gate.

"It's a different man." "Cicada didn't come. We kept our promise, but I don't know if you keep it. So we invited another man to come with us." "Is that so?" "Then, the woman can give you , can you hand over your pipa?" "Lady, come here first." The voice said, dangling a string from above.

"Let the woman hold the strap. I will pull her up, and after confirming that it is correct, I will put the lute down." The voice said again.

"Okay." Boya and the woman stood in front and let the woman grab the strap.

As soon as she grabbed the belt, the belt wobbled upwards, and in a blink of an eye it had already reached Luocheng Gate, and then the figure of the woman disappeared.

Soon, a sound of "Ah--" came. "Sydney ah!" trembled ecstatically. "It's her!" After a while, a black thing tied with a belt hung down from above again.

Boya undid the belt.

"It's a mysterious elephant!" Boya returned to the two of them with a red sandalwood pipa, and showed Qingming the mysterious elephant.

At this moment—a terrible cry sounded from Luocheng Gate.It was that gnashing, pained roar of a beast.

"You lied to me!" Howled the beast.

A dull sound was faintly heard.Immediately afterwards, there was the creepy scream of a woman.

Then, the woman's cry suddenly stopped, and a bloody smell came from the ground.

"Jade Grass!" Qingming, Boya, and Guici yelled together and ran down the city gate.

I saw a black stain on the ground, and turned the lamp to look closely, it turned out to be bright red blood.

Creak, creak... A hair-raising sound came from above his head.

"Boom!" There was a heavy blunt sound, and something fell to the ground. It was a woman's forearm connected to her wrist.

"Oops!" Guiji yelled loudly.

"What's wrong?" Boya took Guiji's shoulder.

"Jade Grass failed!" "What failed?!" "I asked her to use the dagger with the aura of Higa-san monk to cut off the monster's head. She failed." Kiji said while bending his bow and setting an arrow . "Yucao is my younger sister. I feel that if my younger sister throws herself into her arms even though she knows she is a monster, it would be a great shame that cannot be washed away by the family..."

"That's right!" When Boya spoke, a faint green light shot from the gate of Luo City into the dim sky.

Kiji pulled the bow hard, aimed at the center of the green light and shot the arrow.

"Ow!" With a cry that resembled a dog's bark, the green light fell to the ground.

I saw a man with a grotesque appearance standing there.

Dark complexion, high nose bridge.Tall and thin, with lean chest and ribs clearly visible.Two twinkling eyes stared at the three of them.The corners of the mouth are split to the sides, exposing the teeth.His own blood and the woman's blood stained the mouth around it scarlet.The body has animal hair from the waist down, and the lower body is animal legs.There are two sharp protrusions on the forehead, like horns.

It was indeed a ghost.

Blood and tears flowed on the ghost's face, looking at the three of them with eyes full of hatred and sorrow.

Guiji shot an arrow, and the arrow pierced the ghost's forehead.

"Don't do this!" When Qingming yelled, the ghost rushed forward.

It pounced on Guiji who was about to shoot again, its sharp teeth bit into Guiji's throat, Guiji fell on his back, and the arrow shot into the dark night sky.

The ghost looked at the other two with mournful eyes.

Boya pulled out the long knife from his waist.

"Don't move, Boya!" the ghost yelled.

"Don't move, Zhengcheng!" the ghost said to Qingming again.

Boya maintained the posture of drawing the knife and did not move.

"It's so sad." The ghost murmured in a hoarse voice. With a "huh", faint green flames floated out of the ghost's mouth. "Sad, sad..." Every time the ghost spoke, faint green flames swayed into the night from the ghost's mouth.

Cold sweat oozed from Boya's forehead.He held the knife in his right hand and hugged Xuanxiang in his left hand, as if he couldn't move even if he wanted to.

"Eat your flesh, and return with my Xuanxiang..." When the ghost said this, Qingming said, "I can't give you my flesh." A calm smile appeared on his face.

Qingming stepped forward and snatched the long knife from Boya's hand.

"You lied to me, Zhengcheng!" the ghost said in surprise and anger.

Qingming smiled but did not answer.

Even if the person being called is a fake name, as long as the other party calls out your name and you agree, you will be cursed.Boya said his real name last night, and he agreed when he was called, so he was cursed.However, what Seimei said was a fake name.

The ghost's hair stood on end.

"Don't move, Mrs. Han!" Qingming said.

The bristly-haired ghost—Hando froze.

Qingming stabbed the long knife into Han Duotai's abdomen effortlessly, and blood gushed out.Then, Seimei took out a mass of blood and flesh from Mrs. Han Duotai's belly—it was a living dog's head.

The dog head bared its teeth and wanted to bite Qingming.

"So it's a dog." Qingming said to himself.

"This is the real body of a ghost. The 'ghost' of Han Duotai found a dying dog somewhere, so he attached himself to it." As soon as the words fell, Han Duotai's frozen body began to change.

The face was deformed, long hair grew all over the body, and the place where the face was originally became a dog's buttocks, and two arrows were stuck in the dog's buttocks.

Suddenly, Boya's body could move freely.

"Sunshine!" he yelled.The voice trembled.

A dry, shapeless headless dog fell on the spot where Mrs. Handow stood just now.Only Qingming's bloody dog's head was still moving.

"Take Xuanxiang..." Qingming opened his mouth, and Boya immediately came over with his pipa in his arms.

"Just let it attach itself to this lifeless lute." Qingming held the dog's head in his right hand, and stretched out his left hand in front of the dog's head.

The teeth made a sound, and the dog's head bit his left hand.

At that moment, he let go of his right hand and covered the dog's eyes with his right hand.

However, the dog's head that was biting Seimei's left hand did not fall off.

"Put the mysterious elephant on the ground." Qingming said to Boya.

Boya obeyed and put the mysterious elephant on the ground.

Qingming squatted down, and put the dog's head that was biting her left hand on top of the black elephant.Blood dripped from the hand bitten by the dog.

Qingming carefully looked at the dog's head from top to bottom.

"Hey, listen to me..." Qingming said to the dog's head with a pleasant face: "The sound of that pipa is really nice." He gently moved his right hand that covered the dog's eyes.

The dog's eyes have been closed.

Seimei withdrew his left hand from the dog's mouth, bleeding.

"Qingming—" Boya called out.

"Han Duotai is possessed on the mysterious elephant." "Did you cast a spell?" "Yes." Qingming replied in a low voice.

"Is it just using the words just now?"

"You know, Boya? Gentle words are the most effective curse. If the other party is a woman, it will be more effective..." Qingming said with a smile on his lips. "Besides, he is an unfortunate man, let him enjoy the beautiful sound of the piano."

Boya looked at Qingming carefully.

"You are incredible..." Boya murmured.

The dog's head on the mysterious elephant had unknowingly turned into bones.It was a dilapidated, yellowed skull of a dog.

Qingming started to move suddenly, muttering: "By the way, there should be still time." Then, he said to Boya who was puzzled by his actions but always wanted to keep up: "Wait here for me. , Boya."

Boya stopped obediently, watching Qingming enter the Luocheng Gate and climb up the stairs.Seeing that Qingming's figure was about to disappear into the darkness, Boya felt a sense of panic, forcing him to say something: "Qingming, what are you doing? Your hands are still bleeding."

The stairs creaked, and Boya shouted again: "Hey, be careful, the stairs are about to rot."

Seimei turned a deaf ear, and finally his figure disappeared into the darkness.

Boya was waiting downstairs. Although it was only less than a minute, Boya still felt that he had been waiting for several hours. He was relieved when he saw Qingming again.

Qingming was holding a disheveled woman in her arms. She was unconscious. Even though it was night, the mole on her forehead was still very obvious.Apparently, this woman is the dead Kashima Takaji's younger sister, Tamagosa.

She is still alive.

"Yucao just passed out." Qingming said.

"Huh? What about the arm just now?" Looking at the unscathed, but slightly embarrassed woman, Boya was a little puzzled.

"It's full of dead bodies, so that arm belongs to someone dead." Qingming hugged Yucao and walked out.

"Wait." Boya hurriedly asked, "Then what should Mr. Guici do?"

"It's just another dead body. Is there any problem?" Qingming seemed very puzzled why Boya asked such a strange question.Then, he reminded Boya: "When you are about to leave, don't forget Xuanxiang."

Seeing Qingming stepping out of Luocheng Gate, Boya couldn't think of anything else for a while, picked up the Xuanxiang and ran out.Then he found that an ox cart had already parked at the door.

Qingming got into the car with Jade Grass in his arms, and Boya followed. Seeing that Qingming put Jade Grass on the car without being gentle but not rude, Boya sighed again: "You are really incredible... ..."

Boya felt that it was not certain that he would say this sentence often in the future.

Suddenly, through the curtain blown up by the wind, Boya saw the woman in twelve singles leading the way, obviously the honey bug who was hurt by Han Duotai last night.

Qingming, is this person gentle or indifferent?

The more Boya gets to know Qingming, the more he feels that Qingming is a mystery.But on the contrary, he just wanted to explore this mystery, and he also had an urge to wait.

The author has something to say: the foregoing are all original works.