It's Auntie Benmaru!

#69

In the morning, the gray-blue sunlight gradually filled the room.

Tianqing, who slept very well, opened her eyes from the bed, and replaced the kimono that the proprietress gave her yesterday with her own. After washing and washing, she opened the door of the bedroom and probed into the dining room of just the right size.

The rhythmic sound of swinging a knife came after she opened the door, and she followed the sound, and saw that the door next to the dining room directly leading to the hotel courtyard was wide open, in the elegant and green garden, There is a figure with blue-purple long hair tied up high, naked upper body, swinging a knife.

The morning sunlight evenly sprinkled on his back, refracting the sweat on his body, making his whole figure look like it would glow.

This is not the first time Tianqing has seen Onikiri exercising, but he hasn't seen it since he came back from hell—from this angle, Onikiri's body seems to have grown stronger and taller .

Sweat dripped down with his sloppy chopping movements, he was so focused that he didn't notice that she was up.

Thinking of this, a thought came to Tianqing's mind.

With a sly smile, she covered herself with a protective formation, and used the defensive formation that should be used in battle to completely protect herself, erasing her aura.

Then, she carefully pulled up the hem of her kimono, moved her hands and feet towards him, and when Onikiri raised her hands, she reached out and hugged him: "...Good morning, Onikiri!"

Onikiri, who was tensing up the muscles in his hands and preparing to swing the knife, shuddered, and his first reaction was to immediately look back at Tianqing - confirming that the person hugging him was only her, and then he relaxed.

"How...how did you get behind me?"

"Hey," she smiled dejectedly: "When I woke up yesterday, my spiritual power had recovered a lot. After I slept, my powers were all reconciled. I just need to create a small enchantment for myself. It's a trivial matter to hide your breath."

Guiqie frowned when he heard the words, and responded in a deep voice: "...don't use this kind of trick on me."

"Otherwise, how could I go around behind you, and you would definitely avoid it on weekdays!"

After Tianqing complained, she smirked again—it seemed that she was proud of her success in scaring Onikiri, that cute little thief made Onikiri a little helpless, although she wanted to reprimand her, but every time she saw her happy Laughing, he couldn't say anything.

No, there is still a little...

Onikiri noticed Tian Qinghuan's hand on his body, he was exercising just now, and he just didn't have any clothes on - thinking about what happened last night, Onikiri's face turned blue, and he immediately took off her hand: "...don't mess around .”

At the same time, he quickly put on his shirt, and put his hand against her forehead before Tianqing approached, preventing her from approaching.

It's just that the girl didn't know the reason for Onikiri's wavering, she just thought it was just his daily awkwardness, so she tried harder to pester him: "Are you angry? Don't be so stingy."

"I do not have."

"Then you turn around and let me see your face?"

"No."

The tall samurai youkai lowered his head slightly and entered the room. Regardless of the girl who had been a little too lively since waking up, he changed into a new outfit carefully before rushing her to have breakfast.

Of course, Onikiri himself didn't need to eat, he just sat in front of her with a particularly upright posture, drinking tea while watching her eat.

Since the morning Onikiri seemed to be consciously avoiding her physical contact, Tianqing was feeling puzzled—but she felt that Onikiri and Onikiri were not angry with each other, so she didn't get to the bottom of it.

So after messing around all morning, Tianqing still got down to business: "Onikiri."

He casually raised his eyelids.

"Don't be so indifferent..." She muttered, and then said: "I think, since I've woken up, let's go and find Master Yimulian today."

Hearing this, Guiqie's eyes really became serious, he took a deep look at the girl in front of him, then nodded slightly: "Okay."

"Let's settle the matter as soon as possible, and then we'll go back to Honmaru together." Tianqing smiled at Onikiri, "After looking for Master Ichimokuren, maybe we have to set off to find Mr. Hui and Tomoyo and the others. We'll be leaving the hotel today Bar."

"it is good."

"Speaking of which, it's really lucky that you were able to book here. When I woke up, I found that I was placed here... I was also shocked."

"After arriving in the city, I asked passers-by for information."

He answered sternly, it seemed no different from usual, and he wasn't in a bad mood or wondering at all, but Tianqing calmed down as she spoke—she had been with Onikiri for so long, how could she not see him? Worried?

Thinking of this, Tianqing gently put down the bowls and chopsticks she was holding in her hands, her eyes softened: "... Onikiri."

"……what?"

"Don't worry, it's not just the two of us who are facing this matter, Master Yimulian and Tomoyo are powerful helpers."

Guiqie just lowered his eyelids when he heard the words: "...I won't pay attention to other people."

"Onikiri! If we don't cooperate with everyone, we can't..."

"What I mean is," Onikiri raised his eyes, looked at her with extraordinarily calm eyes, and every word was very clear: "Even if it's just me, I won't let you have another accident."

His voice was not as emotional as usual, as if he was just talking about an ordinary daily trifle, but the torch-like eyes conveyed his words to her heart steadily, making her feel clearly his awareness.

Tianqing sat in front of Onikiri in a daze, realizing that there were too many Onikiri's emotions behind these words, but she couldn't explain clearly—she might not understand Onikiri's psychological state well enough after returning from hell, maybe He, far more than she imagined, would consider things for her.

This sudden sense of security made her a little overwhelmed.

She didn't think of how to respond to Onikiri's determination, her small face just blushed quietly.

And Onikiri didn't continue to explain, but suddenly raised his hand into his cuff, took out a small short knife from inside, stood up and walked to her side, bent over and stretched his arms around her waist In the meantime, without saying a word, he tied the small knife to her waist seriously.

Tianqing was puzzled by Onikiri's behavior, turned her head to look at his seriously lowered eyebrows, and asked, "What is this?"

"The blade head that I carry with me." Before he looked up, his slender fingers were still tying the last thin knot.

"Does this allow me to protect myself when I encounter danger?" Tianqing raised her knife, looked at Genji's family crest above, and asked with a tilted head.

At this time, Onikiri had already dealt with it, so he knelt in front of her and raised his head, looking at her with deep and serious eyes—really serious, Tianqing could even feel Onikiri's gaze on her face everywhere Cruising, first brows, eyes, nose, lips...

He was carefully tracing her facial features with his eyes, and the extra focused eyes made Tianqing nervous, and the tips of her ears turned red.

"...What the hell do you mean?"

"This," Onikiri withdrew his gaze, and looked down at the knife pinned to her waist: "Although I gave it to you, I won't let you use it."

"...Then what do you do for me?" Tian Qing was at a loss.

"This..." Onikiri said, while slowly standing up from her side, he glanced at her meaningfully: "You can investigate by yourself."

"Ghost cut??"

"Anyway, don't lose it—and don't try to take it off."

Without saying a word, he turned around and packed their luggage.

sunny? ? ?Sitting kneeling in front of the dining table, although there were many things that mmp wanted to say in his heart, he seemed to be in a better mood after seeing this confusing behavior, so he didn't ask any more questions.

……

After breakfast, as Tianqing said, they set out to find Yimulian.

In Yimulian's original words, Tianqing's body recovers quickly, and to fully master the power of the wind, she only needs to practice according to his method, and it is estimated that with her aptitude, she will soon have an epiphany.

Tianqing thought that Yimulian's words meant that she must live in the mountains for a few days, but when Yimulian heard Tianqing's question, he showed a dumbfounded expression: "That's not necessary, Onikiri explained to me long ago. Next, I’m going to find friends from the Yuan family, I’ll just go with you.”

"Really? Master Yimulian, don't you...don't like leaving the mountains?"

"...It was indeed like this in the past," Yimulian smiled at Wenyan, with helplessness that Tianqing couldn't fully understand written in his eyes: "No, it's also like this now. It's just... since she left, I have always regretted it. I I don't want to let the same thing happen again."

"Master Yimulian..."

"I used to spend too much time worrying about my degenerating into a demon. If I hadn't been obsessed at the time... maybe I would have... promised to leave this forest with her."

"..."

"So, this time, I have to find her myself. The current me is neither a god nor a monster, but a simple... Ichimokulian that belongs to her."

He spoke in an extremely gentle voice, even though the person he spoke to hadn't existed for a long time, the love in his eyes remained undiminished.

He didn't even hear from her that he dreamed of Bai Niaochu, but he always believed and put her in the softest place in his heart.

A gust of wind blew by, Tianqing was moved by the man in front of her, her heart itched.

"Alright, then Onikiri, me, and you, let's set off together now."

……

After that, they didn't have to go to Yuanhui's house. Instead, they took Yimulian's Fenglong and arrived at the Daosi's house mentioned in Yuanhui's letter in a blink of an eye.

Reunited with Daodaoji Zhishi after a long absence, knowing that the last time Tianqing experienced was just crying the moment she saw her, Yuanhui also rushed in from the door in a hurry - obviously it was only less than a few months apart, always Yuan Hui's eyebrows, which give people a sense of carelessness and poisonous tongue, are much more mature.

Before he saw Tianqing, his expression was tense, until he saw the girl let go of Tomoyo and turned to him, Yuanhui, whose mind was full of spells, curses, and incidents, finally felt what it meant to be relaxed.

Seeing her face, he was finally able to let go of the heart that had been hanging for several months. For a moment, his mind went blank, and he forgot many things he thought about telling her.

On the other hand, Tianqing, who has been "resurrected" for a long time, has long forgotten the self-awareness that she made the whole world worry. Instead, she approached the boy who grew a little taller with a normal face, and said hello with a smile: "Long time no see, I'm fine." You are back, the things in this world have really worked hard for you during this time!"

"Mr. Natsume is doing well in Honmaru, this is the letter he asked me to hand over to you..."

She took out a letter from her cuff, and handed it to Yuanhui solemnly, and the blond young man followed her hand movements to look down, noticed the short knife on her waist without any objection, and blurted out: "This short knife... ..."

"This? This was given to me by Onikiri before. It is probably an emergency weapon for me."

"...Impossible." Yuan Hui's eyes darkened, and he replied in a strange tone.

"What?" Tian Qing was startled, "What's wrong with this knife?"

Yuan Hui quickly concealed the shake on his face, and pretended nothing had happened to get away with it: "No, I'm just a little curious to see the family crest of Yuan's family on the knife."

After finishing speaking, he crossed Tianqing with a calm face, and explained the progress of the matter to Daodaosi Zhishi as seriously as usual.

Even though Tianqing thought it was strange, she didn't investigate further.

……

The days after leaving the mountains passed quickly.

Afterwards, Tomoyo Daodaoji arranged guest rooms for Yimulian and Tianqing. Although it didn't matter to Yimulian, he thanked him very kindly.

Knowing that Tianqing needs time to adapt to the demon power, Yuanhui also forbids Tianqing to leave Daodaosi's house in a reasonable way, and let her practice hard for a month, and then help him when she is fully prepared. Therefore, since Tianqing arrived at Daosi's house, her daily life is Practice and training, soon her spiritual power has far exceeded the original level——

For example, as long as she is serious now, the monster aura in the entire Heian town will not hide from her perception. She can tell exactly how far away from the Zhishijia house there are monsters, sitting in the hall of the Zhishijia. come out.

"A-Chu was able to do this at the time, but what you saw...was farther away than what A-Chu was at that time."

In this regard, Yimulian said so.

"It may be because of the fusion of demon power. But sure enough... you are her daughter, so you can do things like her that no one else can do. Today I finally feel it."

His gaze was filled with tenderness and nostalgia, and since that day, he has not supervised Tianqing's training——Yimulian disappeared from Daodaosi's house for several days, and when we met again, he had returned with the last fragment.

He seemed to be injured because of this, but he didn't let Tianqing know.

"I know that you spend time divination every day and sensing the location of your fragments. After the training, you want to get all the fragments back... But I said that I will help you find it, so this last part, I also want to do it for you personally. Finished."

Everything he did for her was always too warm, Tianqing took the fragments from Yimulian's hand in a daze, watched those last parts finally melt into her body, felt her most complete soul, she raised her hand to give A big hug at a glance.

"Actually, I saw my mother. In the dream after you gave me memory, she came to me."

She said softly, and the pupils of Yimulian who was hugged by her shrank——

"I will work hard to bring her back. You will never be alone. One eye... Father."

She spoke in a very soft voice, and then quickly and carefully called out a word that was quite unfamiliar to her.

Afterwards, as if she was a little shy, Tianqing let go of her hands before he could respond, left a sentence "I'll tell Onikiri that the fragments are back", and hurried away.

Yimulian naturally didn't try to keep up, but just looked at the girl's disappearing back, and the corners of his mouth curled up a little.

...and after Yimulian returned all the fragments of Tianqing, she rested early as usual. At night, she seemed to have a bizarre dream. When the light of the next morning came into the room, she woke up and continued to dream all night. Surprisingly, she didn't feel tired.

She got down from the bed, not surprisingly, she felt that her sight level was a little higher, so she walked into the courtyard without hesitation, and practiced the spiritual power breathing practice that she was used to in the morning, until she had sorted out the spiritual power flow in her body before Put on your clothes carefully and go to the living room to eat.

She remembered that today was the day when Yuanhui would come back from the mission, and all her pieces had returned, so today was a good time to ask him to join in helping.

Onikiri disappeared as usual, she knew he must have gone to the back mountain to practice—Ichimokuren not only guided her, but also guided Onikiri's practice during this period, so the two of them would occasionally disappear together, she I don't care too much.

She walked into the hall with unhurried steps like this, and Zhiyo seemed to be talking to someone inside, she looked from a distance, and her eyes met Yuanhui.

"You came back so early? Tomoyo, good morning."

The moment Tianqing saw Yuanhui, she burst into a smile, and the sun was shining brightly on her body. Yuanhui saw her appearing at the door from a distance, and saw her appearance change a bit, and couldn't help being dumbfounded.

And Zhishi also turned around when she heard the sound, and when she saw the clear sky today, she, who had always responded generously, also accidentally showed surprise.

After all, the soul has finally returned to the complete sky, which is really beautiful.

It even makes Zhishi feel that if someone wants to tell her that "Tianqing is the goddess Ming who came out of the sun", she will not be surprised - because at this moment Tianqing is standing in the light, that figure and her frown and smile Tomoyo has never seen such a breathtaking ability in humans.

Should it be because she is the little princess born of the original god and the most outstanding Onmyoji princess?

Even though she has never met her parents since she was born, has not even experienced good cultivation, and suffered a lot of fate after escaping from the family - she is still her, no matter what, she will still become the awe-inspiring and beautiful look she is now.

Zhishi's gaze gradually changed from envious to moved, she stood up slowly, said nothing else, just took her hand and smiled: "Good morning, the sky is fine."

"Well," Tianqing nodded, and also greeted Yuanhui behind him: "Mr. Hui, good morning."

She looked through the huge room and found the blond boy. Under the daylight, her eyes were full of aura, and her fair skin seemed to be translucent. Yuan Hui's heart tightened, and he nodded after a few seconds: " Good morning, well, I'm back."

"Welcome back, the thing is to talk to us after breakfast, right?"

There was still a smile on the corner of her mouth, and she sat in her seat without noticing Yuan Hui's gaze.

On the contrary, the tall blond young man, looking at this girl who always amazed him every time he met, seemed to be confessing the thought in his heart at this moment.

Yes, he felt that he couldn't bear it anymore.

So he walked up to her, looked at her with a pair of blue eyes under Liu Hai, and said seriously: "Yes, but I have something else to tell you."

"What?" Tianqing looked up and blinked curiously.

"After this matter is over, I actually want you to give me a chance."

"Chance?"

"Ah."

"what chance?"

She tilted her head, looked at Yuan Hui's hesitant expression, and suddenly felt that recently... her comprehension ability had become lower. It was the same with Onikiri and Yuan Hui. She couldn't understand what the two men were saying. .

"...You really are." Seeing her incomprehensible state, Yuan Hui smiled helplessly, ignoring Zhishi who was behind, just took a deep breath, and explained in the most tactful way he could think of: "I After thinking about it, I seriously want you to take off the dagger at your waist and replace it with mine."

After saying this, he turned around and picked up the haori that had been placed on the bench just now, told Tomoyo and left the dining room.

"I'd better take a shower and tidy up first. I just came back from out of town, and my clothes are too dirty."

"Ah, um, okay..."

Zhishi was actually still scared by what Yuanhui said just now, but her childhood sweetheart's expression was too firm and calm, so she couldn't say anything. The matter between him and Tianqing seemed to be left to Yuanhui One judges as well.

So Tianqing and Zhishi were soon left in the huge dining room.

Tianqing was still confused by what Yuanhui said just now, picked up the knife beside her and turned it over and over again, and finally had to turn to Zhishi for help.

"Tomoyo... What do you think Mr. Hui said just now? Why are he and Onikiri... so obsessed with short swords?"

The girl was so troubled that her little face was wrinkled, and Zhishi suddenly realized where Tianqing's confusion came from.

"So you don't know Tianqing... No wonder Master Hui specifically mentioned the short knife to you."

"Tomoyo, do you know? Please, I've been caring since the day Onikiri tied me up, and he didn't tell me when I asked..."

"Not telling you anything is indeed something Onikiri-sama would do... No, I should say, Onikiri-sama has already told you his most precious heart."

"What? Why can't I understand a word..."

Zhishi smiled helplessly when he heard the words, then walked cautiously to Tianqing's side, held her hands, and explained gently.

"The thing about short knives... is a folk custom that has become popular recently. In the era of Edo, when there were great samurai everywhere, it is a folk custom that everyone knows. It's just that you have never been in contact with the outside world, and you have never heard of it. normal."

"In short, there is a folk custom here, that is, the wife of a samurai will wear a dagger to show her status... Later, I also heard that some samurai would give their wives the closest dagger, and I also heard that Deliberately cast a short knife for his wife to wear."

"All in all, what the short sword represents...is the status of 'samurai's wife'."

"It sounds like Onikiri-sama made a domineering yet romantic confession to you."

Tomoyo explained with a smile, and the sky sitting in front of her turned red hot. Thinking of Onikiri's eyes and tone that morning, and the act of tying the knife for her very solemnly, she felt like a fool at that time. .

It's just more, the happiness and sweetness that almost pop out from the chest.

"It's obviously a monster from the Kamakura period. I really don't know where he found out about these folk customs..."

She muttered and complained, but the corners of her mouth raised uncontrollably.

Make her "his wife"?Just thinking about it made her overjoyed.

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The author has something to say:

It is true that the wives of samurai wear knives, it is a folk custom in Edo

When I saw it on the Internet, I felt very poked at me, and finally wrote this part, sobbing and crying!

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