My shikigami is number one in the world

pale bones.

99 Chao knelt down on the tatami, with his back straight, one hand on the skull, his eyes closed, and he recited mantras in a low voice.

The hand wearing the black glove slowly stroked the hideous crack that almost runs through the zenith, 99 Chao's movement was very light, but even so, the visual effect brought by the crack seemed as if he would split in half as long as he exerted more force. ,split into two.

"...I'm talking about it now, for the sake of all living beings, for the sake of making all living beings think of good dharmas, for the sake of making all living beings free from worries, for the elimination of all living beings' illnesses, for the sake of eradicating all obstacles, calamities, strange nightmares, and dreams, Get rid of all ills..."*

The boy's voice was as clear as still water, and the power it contained was like a deep current, flowing out a clean wind of prayer in the cold morning.

The light wind wrapped around the pale and huge skull, causing the wide cuffs to move slightly, revealing the bumpy skin of the wrist bone between the glove and the cuff.

The scriptures rise and fall like new snow, slowly covering Bailu's life.

Reciting the Buddhist scriptures early in the morning made Xia Youjie, who was put on the porch outside the door with the reason of "you can't come in, what if you are accidentally rescued", sounded a little Buddhist.

His gaze moved from 99's cuffs to the back of his head and neck, and he saw that the ends of his hair were still a little wet.

Onmyoji has a saying of cleansing rituals in the morning, so 99 days after the injury healed, he picked today, saying that there will be a clean rain in the morning.

Before dawn, Xia Youjie saw him standing in the courtyard in white single clothes, his lips turned pale from the autumn rain.

"Clean rainwater?"

"There is little rain in autumn. If it rains in cloudless weather, there will be much less impurities in the rain."

"Didn't you not do that the day you went to Sagano?"

"So it's just a ritual."

Rainwater meanders from the tail of the hair to the skin, and also falls and wets the eyelashes.The boy who was bathed in rain looked extremely thin, but even if he didn't open the star map, his pair of black pupils still shone brightly, like two nail-like stars.

99 Chao told him, "Today I am going to face the dead, so there should be this ceremony."

Xia Youjie couldn't understand this kind of pious concept, but he knew that 99 Chao sometimes had a strong premonition, so did he do the same on the day he saw him.

Did it rain that morning?

Xia Youjie just got up and stared at the back of the neck of the person in the room without moving his eyes.

The collar of the new dry hunting clothes was black, which set off the white skin on the back of the boy's neck.This visual effect reminded Xia Youjie of the past few days after the nap time, Gojo Satoru wanted to wake up 99 Chao, so he casually reached out and pinched the back of the boy's neck.

As a result, 99 Chao reacted greatly, not to mention waking up, the whole person jumped up.

So sensitive.

The two unscrupulous men who witnessed this scene sighed in their hearts at the same time, which actually proved what it means to gather like birds and divide people into groups. They really are close friends.

Xia Youjie really thought about one more question, how could such a 99-year-old be drenched in the rain, showing such clear eyes that could penetrate people's hearts.

What kind of past created such a boy?

Suddenly there was a small "ding" in the living room.

There was no wind in the morning after the rain, but Xia Youjie, who was standing outside the porch with arms crossed, still felt a gust of wind blowing his sleeves, and the cuffs fluttered slightly, and a few red leaves flew out from the deep blackness of the green bamboos, and fell to the ground just now. A subordinate of the boy who left the deer bone.

With his eyes open, 99 Chao pinched a red leaf, and with the other hand he didn't know when he was holding the wind chime that was picked off the eaves yesterday.

He sighed, changed from kneeling to cross-legged, wondering.

Xia Youjie: "What's wrong?"

99 Chao shook his head. He had inquired about it. In the past, the Bailu Hualing appeared when he heard the scriptures. Now even if the bones of the lodging are broken, he should respond if he recites the mantra.

But now there was no response at all, even with Hong Yeshou by his side, Lu Ling didn't respond either.

A little frustrated.

He put the leaf on the dark crack in the skull, stood up slowly, and hammered his numb thigh, "I don't know why, it doesn't work just by reciting the mantra, it seems that I still have to find April [-] Day will do."

Xia Youjie walked in and asked, "When are you going?"

"It's the weekend. I have home economics class today. I should be able to make some desserts." 99 Chao said while stretching his hands behind his back. Xia Youjie looked up at the clock and found that it was time for school, so he helped put away the school uniform brought it over.

Pulling off the belt with gloved hands, 99 raised his chin naturally, "Help me carry the schoolbag, too."

"In the study?"

"Just put it in the porch for me, I can change clothes quickly."

That being said, the collar of the young man who had already taken off the outermost layer of clothes was loose, and the line of his neck showed a sense of elegance with the movement of his chin slightly, slender and smooth.

"..."

Xia Youjie went to get his schoolbag calmly, feeling from the bottom of his heart that he could feel a little bit of regret.

……

Tokyo also had a clean autumn rain.

A young man in a lotus pattern kimono and glasses stood in the courtyard of his shop holding an umbrella.

The umbrella surface is blue, and the newly painted hydrangeas and cornflowers are accompanied by green leaves that are soaked in rain for the first time. They are full of business. In the evening of autumn, they stretch out a good umbrella for the flowering season of midsummer.

When the rain was about to stop, he put away his umbrella.

"These two kinds of flowers are meeting and reunion."

Someone came out behind him and said, "They are also flowers that bloom in summer."

The store manager of the wish store turned around and pushed his glasses, "You remember the time a bit early."

The long-haired boy replied with a smile, but he was not as mysterious and sophisticated as he should be at this age. "This is probably the power of his 'blessing'."

After a while he asked again, "Then what is the price I have to pay?"

On April [-]st, he handed over the blue umbrella in his hand, "Just hand over this umbrella to him when necessary."

The long-haired boy smiled unchanged, "Necessary time?"

April [-]st said, "It's not difficult for you to calculate this time, Your Excellency King Ma Cang Ye."

"Okay," Ma Cang Ye Wang took the umbrella and said with a smile, "after all, the price is easy enough."

……

The wish store is in Tokyo, but because the store has some rules, it is impossible for 99 Chao to take Wujo Wu and Xia Youjie to the normal route.

Ignoring Gojo Satoru's questioning remarks, 99 asked each of them to hold a gift, and set off by himself holding the deer bone wrapped in cloth.

"Are we going to run around with you without knowing anything? There must be a reason, three-year-old kid." Gojo Satoru refused to let go, because there are no places in Japan where cursed lingering monsters are rampant. He has never been to Yes, it makes sense for a store to be ignored, but 99 Chao wants to take them a "shortcut".

A "shortcut" that can cross from Kansai to Kanto.

This is not something that can be solved by a small road.

Gojo Satoru was eloquent, "Riddlers are generally not welcome in novels!"

99 Chao looked at him with pity, that's over, the shop owner we're going to meet later may be the biggest riddle man in the world.

Walking out of Kyoto South Station, after passing the gate of Toji Temple, the three of them came to a trail.

The path is close to the junction of Qianben Road. In ancient times, Qianben Road was used to transport the dead. At that time, there were many tower-shaped monuments. Even now, they have not been completely demolished. It can't be seen that it is the prosperous and elegant Suzaku Avenue thousands of years ago.

There is also a stone stele road sign surrounded by iron fences on the side of the road, marked with the words "Luochengmen Ruins".

And the five-storied pagoda of Dongji Temple is not far away. In their eyes, it can be said that the Buddha's light shines everywhere, and the nearby streets are extremely clean, and there are few curses.

The three of them blew the northwest wind for a while, Wujo Wuyi put his arm on the young man's shoulder, "You can say it."

"We're going to Lijing District." 99 Chao said.

"Lijing District?"

If you spread out the map of Kyoto Prefecture, you can see the divisions of Shangjing, Xiajing, Zuakyo, Youkyo, Xijing and Dongshan District in the North and South Districts, and there is a Zhongjing District in the middle.

There is no Lijing alone.

When the sun was fading, the city of Kyoto was about to fall into darkness, and when the last ray of sunset was about to disappear among the clouds, 99 Zhao looked at Gojo Satoru, warned him never to show his eyes, turned his head and handed Xia Youjie a mask and took a step back.

This step greeted a gust of wind like a wave.

A flock of crows perched on dead trees and distant electric wires suddenly flapped their wings and flew towards the sky, but the sound of flapping wings was instantly pulled away as if the volume knob had been artificially turned. Darkness fell.

At the time of the demon, there was no one around, and boundless dense fog suddenly emerged from all directions, rolling in, submerging the trails, dead trees, and iron fences, and flowing over their ankles like a river.

The dark clouds in the sky were thick, and the heavy fear was instantly suppressed. They subconsciously looked at 99 Chao, but the young man's gaze was on a giant cloud rolling in from a distance.

Among the giant clouds, there are ghostly shadows, and a group of ghosts dance chaotically.

A long dragon suddenly broke through the clouds, nearly [-] meters in length, and the cyan scales gradually illuminated the ghosts in the fog around him.

This is a long line of countless ghosts marching forward. The strange and beautiful snake princesses are graceful and fragrant, and the burly and tall evil ghosts drag their long tongues and giant claws. The mountain-like skeleton bodies are hidden among the clouds and smoke. One sees will-o'-the-wisps and high-walled bones floating in his empty eyes, as if embracing the entire long team.

Hundred Ghosts at Night.

The clouds and mists surrounding the ghosts were thick and diffuse, but the gust of wind that came from nowhere was still blowing the three bystanders.

99 took another step back, the star map in his eyes spinning.

The sound of crisp footsteps called back the attention of the two young people, and they looked back.

The young man looked like a bird at the moment, and the snow-white ground under his feet became a hill on the pitch-black river where the three of them were.

The dark sleeves are billowing, and 99 faces are almost about to fly.

But he pressed his toes down, and his arches were slightly bent like a crescent moon, stepping on the dark wooden clogs.

The moment the clogs touched the ground, the snow-white seemed to expand——

This is a visual illusion, Yiwang Xuebai did not extend, but in this illusion, Gojo Wu and Xia Youjie's eyes followed the distance, so they could clearly see the back of the night parade of hundreds of ghosts.

That is a city.

The sense of distance in space was lost at this moment. They saw the outline of a huge city slowly advancing towards them in the clouds and mist.

But the outline of the city can't be seen as far as the top!

Gojo Wu and Xia Youjie opened their eyes wide.

"This is the hub where countless monster worlds gather, the thousand-year-old Ukiyo-e."

99 towards said.

"In Kyoto."

The author has something to say:

* "Eleven-faced Avalokitesvara Root Mantra"

*Ma Cang Ye Wang, the villain of Shaman King, is probably the kind of big guy at Seimei level, the adult version is very, very, very handsome

* Simplified some clothing nouns, for example, 9 is wearing a long undergarment, and the inner clothing should be called lining. Anyway, it is convenient to read when the meaning remains the same. I am super lazy (hey), and I usually don’t wear it when visiting in rainy days There are toothed clogs and you have to wear socks, but as an LSP, I figured out that today is suitable for the neck and arch of the 9 (hey!)

*Li Jingdu is another useless setting just like chanting the spell. I was so heartbroken when I cut it.