spooky love

Behind the pillars, the fire should be hard to get there, quick! "

When Dema opened his palm to let the mulberry leaves come back, the water splashed on his feet with a "slap", and with another "slap", the fire at Dema's feet was probably extinguished, reaching the fur of the mulberry leaves. Too.Yuan threw down the bathtub and stomped out the remaining flame. Once the fire was extinguished, the room without the seat lamp became dark.

"It's so interesting, why are you spoiling my fun?"

In the dim light from the next room, Yuan shook his pale face from side to side:

"You, how did you do such a cruel thing? You actually planned to burn people to death? Jane... is just like a monster."

Xue Jiang's eyes suddenly hung up, staring at Yuan.But inadvertently, she showed tenderness again, and untied the waist button that used to fix the undergarment but now only hung around her waist, approached Yuan with a smile, and wrapped the waist button around Yuan's neck as if she wanted to hug him.

"Mr. Yuan! No way!"

Dema spoke up too late.When he came back to his senses, Yuan's neck was already wrapped around his waist and tightly tightened.

"No no no!"

Yuan rolled his eyes, and sprayed bubbles from his mouth.

"Please, please stop! Mr. Hara will die! Stop..."

Dema yelled, but Xuejiang didn't let go of his hand. Just when he thought "Maybe it won't work", a black thing flew into the room instantly, knocking Xuejiang away, and Xuejiang was knocked into the alcove, and he let go of his restraint. Raw neck hand.Hara was laid down on the tatami, and after a loud "hee--" sound came out of his throat, he began to cough violently "cough cough cough".

Ryoichiro, who was drenched all over, stood in the middle of the room, and stood on the tatami without even taking off his leather shoes.After confirming that Xue Jiang was slumped in the alcove without moving, Ryoichiro untied Dema's bound hands and feet.

"Untie me too, young master."

When he found Mulberry with a cat-shaped grimace, Ryoichiro yelled "Wow":

"What is this cat!"

"Yes, it's my ghost, it's not something scary, please untie it."

Ryoichiro untied Mulberry leaf with a fearful expression.After Ryoichiro let the two go free, he turned to look at Hara and Xue Jiang.

"What's going on here? Didn't you tell me that Dema didn't come? I went home first after hearing what you said. But I was still worried. I came back to check and heard screams. I thought something was wrong, When I entered your house, I saw this appearance, what are you doing?"

Yuan lowered his head, Xuejiang clicked his tongue depressedly.

"I asked what you did!"

"Your concubine almost burned me to death! Look, I'm burned like this!"

Xue Jiang slowly removed the bandages on his face in the dim light, and the face exposed under the bandages was burning red and rotten, which was too terrifying to look at.Seeing this scene, Ryoichiro held his breath, but squeezed the corners of his mouth tightly, and roared at Xue Jiang:

"It's impossible for Dema to do this for no reason, it's your fault."

Yukie stared at Ryoichiro with bright red eyes.

"Do you want to cover up the murderer?"

"Not only did you not die, you were still alive even though you were burned, didn't you? You actually tried to kill Hara, you are the murderer!"

"Your concubine is the monster that drives that ghost over there!"

Xuejiang pointed at the mulberry leaves.

"Whether it's a ghost or a monster, as long as Dema is still Dema, I don't care. Compared to a woman like you who doesn't know how to behave, Dema is more lovable!"

Yuan stared blankly at the two, Xue Jiang gritted his teeth hard, and dragged his feet out of the room.Ryoichiro let out a "hum" through his nose, and asked Tokuma, who had fallen on the spot, "Can he stand up?"

"...I think it's fine."

Dema didn't want to worry the other party so he said this, but Sang Ye briefly whispered "his feet were burned".

Even though Dema was reluctant, Ryoichiro still lifted the hem of his kimono hakama, and his feet were blackened and red from the ankle down.

"What's going on?"

"I can't avoid the fire..."

Seeing that the tatami mats around Dema were scorched black, Ryoichiro finally understood.

"Who did this?"

Receiving no immediate answer, Ryoichiro turned to look at Hara.

"is it you?"

Dema looked at Yuan who was frightened, and interjected:

"It's not Mr. Yuan, Mr. Yuan helped me put out the fire."

However, once Ryoichiro's anger is ignited, it cannot be appeased.

"Why go so far, set him on fire? If he hadn't set the fire, Dama wouldn't have been burned!"

Thunder rumbled outside, as if expressing Ryoichiro's anger, Hara didn't say a word of reason, clasped his hands tightly, and lowered his head.

"I don't understand you guys! Dema, you too! Whether it's burned or not, explain to me..."

Ryoichiro stopped abruptly in the middle of his words, and the front of his line of sight was the figure of Xue Jiang.She left the room earlier, and now she is back.Ryoichiro gulped, only to see that she was holding a kitchen knife in her hand.Xue Jiang raised the kitchen knife high, and ran towards Yuan who was hanging his head.

"Yuan! Run away!"

Ryoichiro roared angrily, grabbed the mulberry leaf at hand and threw it towards Hara, who was startled and turned around to avoid the mulberry leaf.

slap!

The kitchen knife grazed Yuan's arm and cut into the tatami. Yuan screamed loudly and stood up, fleeing to the corner of the room.Xue Jiang clicked her tongue and pulled out the kitchen knife that had been cut into the tatami, glanced at Hara who was trembling in the corner of the room, and then confronted Ryoichiro who stood up and tried to protect Tokuma.

"Master Ryoichiro, please run away."

Dema cried out in a voice that was about to cry.

"How could I leave you behind!"

"I'll run away too... I'll run away too!"

"Your feet are obviously burned, can you still walk?"

Ryoichiro, who was staying by Dema's side, picked up the almost burnt-out seat lamp, probably intending to fight the kitchen knife with it.Xuejiang's strength was great, and when Dema was pressed to the ground in the courtyard and his neck was pinched, he felt it himself.Thinking that Ryo Ichiro might be hurt or even killed, Dema became extremely worried, and suddenly didn't understand why he planned to eradicate Xue Jiang.

The two approached each other little by little.Yukie rushed towards Ryoichiro first, and although Ryoichiro blocked him with the seat lamp, he gradually backed away because he was pushed and shoved by Yukie's huge strength.

"Whoaaaah!"

Yuan, who was squatting in the corner of the room, rushed out and hugged Xuejiang's stomach from behind.Seeing Xue Jiang wavering, Ryoichiro rushed towards her arm, trying to grab the kitchen knife, but was knocked down.Sang Ye also jumped up with her front foot and bit Xue Jiang's head, but was thrown down.Hara, who grabbed her waist, was also thrown out.

Ryoichiro fell to the spot, and Xue Jiang attacked him.Dema stood up and ran forward. The skin on his feet was worn off, as if walking on needles, but he didn't care. He rushed to grab Xuejiang's right arm, but was easily swung away. Boom on the tatami.

"Dema!"

Ryoichiro ran over and threw himself on the fallen Dema, trying to protect him.

"Ryo...Master Ryoichiro."

Dema struggled under the man.

"No, don't! Please run away, Master Ryoichiro!"

If he was hacked, he would die immediately——it was because he knew this that Ryoichiro would protect himself.

"Please leave me alone, run away, run away..."

Ryoichiro covered Tokuma, and Tokuma beat his chest.If Ryoichiro was hacked and died for protecting himself... just imagining that moment would drive him crazy.

"You really dote on this male concubine."

He heard Xue Jiang's laughter coming from his head.

"I'll send you to the west one by one!"

Dema looked over Ryoichiro's shoulder and saw Xue Jiang holding the kitchen knife high.Ryoichiro's fingers hugged Dema's head tightly as if protecting him.

"Gahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"

In the darkness, Xuejiang's screams and rumbling thunder resounded almost simultaneously.Lightning seemed to land nearby, and with a bang, the room shook.Xue Jiang held the kitchen knife in his hand, and he was still like a stone, and then he fell back with a thud.

Not sure what happened.Ryoichiro turned his back and slowly approached the fallen Yukie.Xuejiang's eyes were wide open, his mouth was half-open, motionless like a puppet.

"She...is she dead? What's wrong?"

In front of the eyes of the three of them, Xue Jiang disappeared as if being sucked into the air.There was a rustling sound, and all that was left was the white undergarment and the bandages wrapped around her body.

"I don't understand."

Ryoichiro scratched his head.

"Is what I saw an illusion? What is that woman? Yuan, explain to me what's going on."

"Could it be..." Dema pondered, then used all fours like a child, crawled on the ground, and opened the sliding door.Ryoichiro walked over to him and asked, "What are you doing?"

"Please open the rain window."

The six-fold great room with alcoves faces the courtyard.After opening the rain window, De Ma breathed a sigh of relief, and Principle Principle who looked at the courtyard from behind De Ma whispered, "Ah!"

"Camellia..."

Lightning struck the blooming camellia tree, and the trunk split in half from the middle, and white light smoke that could not be extinguished by the rain was faintly floating upwards from the crack.

The soles of Dema's feet were burned, and the skin was worn off, making it difficult for him to walk an inch.

"It's so late at night, it will cause trouble for the doctor... I can wait until tomorrow morning, it's okay."

Even if he said that, Ryoichiro turned a deaf ear.The rumble of thunder in the sky has not yet subsided, and he walked silently with Dema on his back.The raindrops landed on the Japanese umbrella that Dema was holding and bounced off again, making a crackling sound.

Ryoichiro didn't care if it was the middle of the night, and brazenly knocked on the crown wooden door of the doctor's house (Note 54).

Although the doctor said that the feet will not rot or break due to the burns, but after all, the injuries are on the feet