Human dimension reduction

Since His Royal Highness Zhang Zi's physical condition is very bad, the maids know that she must never be left alone, and the medicine stove must be kept warm at all times, but...

In front of the sliding door, two maids were kneeling, packing up the old clothes of His Royal Highness Zhang Zi, talking in a low voice, and turning their eyes to the room from time to time. In fact, there is a screen inside, so you can’t see the specific things at all, you can only see it vaguely. Some vague figures floated.

"...that Onmyoji has been following His Highness."

A maid repeatedly turned her head to see what was going on inside, but was blocked by the screen, so she had to chat softly with her companion.

This remark resonated with another person: "Yes, although he is an Onmyoji, His Highness is not married after all, so this is too..."

"I don't know what His Majesty thinks."

Their words are not unreasonable. Since the Ashiya Road has come, some of the maids around His Highness Zhang Zi have lost their use. He has a flexible tongue, and he has been traveling among the people for many years, and he has learned countless strange and interesting secrets. These things are most interesting to the boring women in the palace. In just a few days, he became the favorite of the maids. figure.

However, most of the women in the palace also had sharp eyes, and they soon discovered from some clues that this commoner onmyoji with a low background seemed to have ulterior motives for His Royal Highness Zhang Zi.

His Majesty ordered him to guard His Highness day and night, but he is a foreigner after all, and he should not be allowed to directly meet His Highness Zhang Zi's real face. The maids asked him to stay outside the screen, and he stayed there very peacefully at first. Smiling, he didn't raise any objections, and talked about some folk anecdotes, which easily won the favor of the maids. Later, even His Royal Highness Zhang Zi began to turn his attention to him.

Two days later, this onmyoji was treated as being with His Royal Highness Zhang Zi—the kind that doesn't need to be separated by screens and bamboo curtains.

The maids faintly sensed something, but they shut their mouths tactfully. Even His Majesty the Emperor, who loves his daughter the most, didn't say anything, and they didn't need to persuade His Highness Zhang Zi extravagantly.

After all, no matter how you look at it, it is impossible for an onmyoji of this level of background to marry the honorable Prince Nei, so if you just get along for a while, the future husband of Prince Nei must not mind.

And this onmyoji is really good at taking care of people, he is even more considerate and considerate than the full-time maids on this trip. After a long time, even the most vigilant maids have to relax. Turn a blind eye.

"It was the last cup just now, we agreed, Akira." Ashiya Michimi lightly took the teacup from the hands of Prince Uchiha, and put it upside down on the tea tray, with a gentle tone, as if he was coaxing a stubborn child.

"You should add an honorific title after my name, Lord Daoman." Prince Nei, who had his teacup taken away, did not resist, looking at this man who had obviously broken the distance of normal etiquette.

"Ah... so Zhang Zi is angry?" Ashiya Domitsu is the best at observing words and expressions, he didn't find any signs of anger in the girl's voice, so he took a step forward cunningly, looking at Prince Nai with a pair of dark eyes with a smile His eyes keenly caught the other party's wandering sight.

A young, inexperienced girl who is innocent because she is well protected can never resist such a strong man, but Zhang Zi comes from a noble family, and being too strong will also arouse her resentment.

Ashiya Michiman stopped when he saw the deal, and slowly stepped back for a distance, clasped his hands, and opened them suddenly, a plump and snow-white bird poked its head out from between his fingers, and pecked at it with its bright red and tender beak. Pecking at his tiger's mouth, he opened his mouth and let out a series of tender chirping sounds.

"Oh! This is..." Zhang Zi's attention was indeed diverted, love appeared in his eyes, and he exclaimed, "It's really a remarkable yin and yang technique——"

As soon as Ashiya Michiman's smile touched the corners of her lips, she heard her continue: "As expected, he is an Onmyoji who can be as famous as Master Seimei!"

Ashiya Michiman's smile froze in the middle. Although there was no abnormality on his face, his heart seemed to have been severely slashed. He looked at Zhang Zi for a while, and found nothing unusual on her face. There was only Very normal praise and longing, this is what she said casually, but...

He and Abe Seimei are two completely different onmyojis. Abe Seimei was born in an aristocratic family, and he could easily enter the Onmyouliao to serve the Emperor, while he was born in a commoner, and he relied on his own efforts to find his way up. The Yin-Yang spells he produced were not so compliant. According to the classification of Yin-Yang Liao, he was more like that kind of evil Onmyoji.

Being as famous as Abe Seimei is purely a folk rumor. In fact, Ashiya Michimitsu has only been in Kyoto for a short time, and the two of them have never met each other so far.

Ashiya Domitsu didn't mind people comparing him to others at first, but now, he suddenly felt that he couldn't bear this kind of situation. plans have had a considerable impact.

At least for now, it's been...

He glanced at Zhang Zi, raised his hand and sent the snow-white bird to Zhang Zi, let the girl stroke it lightly, and when Zhang Zi wanted to touch it a second time, he suddenly moved his finger away and met Zhang Zi's suspicious gaze : "Zhang Zi has been praising Abe Seimei, I haven't seen this great onmyoji yet, has Zhang Zi seen him? What kind of person is he?"

Zhang Zi wore a Su Fang-colored robe on his shoulders, and leaned against a large pile of cushions. His long black and thick hair hung loose, making his pale face smaller and smaller. My lord... He is very gentle and has superb skills, the palace has always praised him, he is the greatest onmyoji in the world."

"The most remarkable in the world, yes, the Great Onmyoji..." Ashiya Domitsu repeated this sentence slowly, the mask-like smile on his face froze for a moment, and when he was thinking, he was delicate and frail and even raised his hand Prince Zhang Zinei, who was almost out of breath, glanced at him, the emotion in his eyes was very different from his expression, full of interest.

In this hunt, it is uncertain who is the prey and who is the hunter.

There was the sound of cloth being rubbed behind the screen, and a maid with low eyebrows came in with a warm medicine. Ashiya Michimitsu raised his hand skillfully, and the maid naturally handed him the medicine bowl. There was no verbal exchange, apparently this behavior was normal for them.

The maid backed away silently, Ashiya Michimitsu gently stirred the soup twice with a porcelain spoon, Zhang Zi frowned and looked at the bowl, and sighed softly: "When will I not need to drink medicine... and I feel that drinking medicine is nothing Use it, people are going to die sooner or later, it would be great if we could get rid of it sooner."

"Daoman, what kind of disease do I have?"

Faced with this young woman's problem, Ashiya Road remained calm and comforted her gently: "Your Majesty attaches great importance to Zhang Zi, and will definitely try his best to treat you. If you feel lonely, don't you still have me to accompany you?" Is it? According to His Majesty's order, until you recover, I will stay by your side every step of the way."

Zhang Zi lowered his eyes and whispered pitifully, "Have you been by my side all the time?"

"Yes," the young man lowered his voice even more, his viscous tone seemed to be whispering to his lover, "As long as you want, I can fulfill all your wishes and be with you forever."

Zhang Zi raised his eyelids, stared at Ashiya Daoman for a moment, and said: "Do you have a wish? I have one now. I haven't slept well for a long time, but I found that as long as I am by Daoman's side, I seem to be able to sleep peacefully." Go through the time when there are no nightmares in peace."

Saying such words probably made the young and introverted Prince Nei extremely embarrassed. A faint blush flew on her pale and ischemic face, her crossed hands were clenched unconsciously, her joints were thin and pale, and her chest heaved and became tense.

Ashiya Michimitsu did not laugh because of her embarrassment, but still waited quietly for the next article. This attitude obviously reassured Zhang Zi a lot, and his breathing was no longer so fast: "...Although it is very impolite, but if, if it is possible , can you please stay here tonight?"

The Emperor ordered Ashiya Michimitsu to guard Akiko day and night, but it is obviously impossible for her to accompany Prince Uchiha at night, so this "day and night" is actually daytime. The sleeping hall is a little closer, so that it is convenient to hear the maid's summons.

Ashiya Michiman remembered that Zhang Zi seemed a little sleepy during the day these days, the original reason is here, Prince Nai wanted to catch up on sleep while he was around, so as to make up for the time when he was awakened by the nightmare at night.

"Of course I would like to, but it will really hurt Zhang Zi's reputation..." the magician said with a little hesitation, vaguely revealing a bit of a dilemma.

Of course, you can’t promise too readily, the magician who is skilled in the way of communication thought, if you agree without hesitation, you will feel regret when Zhang Zi calms down, but people who do wrong often don’t admit that they have brains. If he is hot, she will feel that he is planning to do something wrong, and it is best for him not to make mistakes in front of Zhang Zi. Although the emperor does not care about Zhang Zi's thoughts, what he wants now is not only the trust of the emperor.

So he had to let Zhang Zi speak out to cut off the way out, and then step by step, consciously and actively, he walked towards him.

"Fame?" As Ashiya Michiman expected, Zhang Zi, who was pampered by the emperor to such an extent, looks gentle on the surface, but he is also proud in nature, and doesn't care about nothing like fame. Since she allowed him to approach him these days, he can see it. "Is Daoman such an old-fashioned person? If so, why do you insist on calling me 'Zhangzi'?"

The young Prince Nei's language is gentle and hides sharpness.

The Onmyoji was taken aback, his eyes flinched subconsciously, and then he realized that he was not calling himself, so he was silent for a while, and then sighed helplessly: "Okay, I surrender, everyone wants to be in front of their important people. Do you want to be a unique existence in front of you? Zhang Zi is so smart, he has already seen it, and it is cruel to insist on me admitting it."

He used a soft, complaining tone, which sounded like he had completely surrendered, revealing his youthful mood, and letting the other party dispose of him. This act of entrusting all of himself to others and waiting for the result can easily make the other party feel dominant This person's physical and mental satisfaction and the pleasure of becoming the master are indescribable in words. Ashiya Michimitsu knows the way of it very well, and quietly handed over the initiative.

Compared with this kind of empty initiative, he is more aware that once he feels the pride of dominating other people's emotions, he will involuntarily get closer to this relationship, even if he does not intend to invest any emotions, he will instinctively invest more in it attention.

He wants Zhang Zi to pay attention to it bit by bit, and then become the one who cannot leave him.

Sure enough, Zhang Zi's reaction was just as he expected. She didn't expect him to admit it so frankly, but she was a little at a loss. Sir, there is no need to worry so much, the maid will accompany me."

There was nothing wrong with Ashiya Michi's mask-like smiling face, his eyes narrowed in satisfaction, yes, that's right, that's the reaction, she would instinctively use the change of address to distance herself, but it was only temporary.

Even Zhang Zi didn't realize that the tone she used in front of him was more intimate and natural.

That day, Ashiya Michimitsu stayed overnight in the outer room of the dormitory, and the inner room was Zhang Zi and two maids. The inner prince, who had not had a good rest for a long time, had a rare sleep until dawn, and Zhang Zi, who had gained rare peace, became more and more attitude towards Ashiya Michiman. The better, even to the point where the entire palace knows that "Prince Zhang Zinei has a very trusted folk onmyoji".

And soon, the news that was only delivered in the palace was also delivered to Abe Seimei through the mouth of the little miscellaneous demon.

The great onmyoji guarding the ghost gate in Kyoto is actually not interested in the private affairs of the inner prince. What he wants the little miscellaneous monsters to inquire about is actually the news of the encoffiner, but Lan Yin seems to have evaporated since entering the palace, even if It was the little miscellaneous demons everywhere who didn't get any more news about him. They only knew that the magician had won the trust of the emperor and was kept very close to the emperor.

Around the emperor's residence, Yinyangliao put a lot of effort into setting up barriers. Abe Seimei would not cause trouble by himself, so he didn't release Shikigami to investigate. After the little monsters returned in vain, they temporarily put aside the thing.

There is a more important thing waiting for him to do, which is the task entrusted to him by the emperor to clean up the ghosts in Kyoto for the arrival of the general.

Seimei Abe took the lead and held a night parade around Kyoto every night, forcing the ghosts in Kyoto to hide in peace. All the flags and drums died down, and this kind of night tour of the ghosts lasted for half a month, until the day before the general entered the capital.

It was the first day of October.

The gods go to Izumo for feasts and gatherings. The human world will lose the protection of all the gods this month. Demons and ghosts have no taboos. Kyoto relies on powerful onmyojis to maintain the balance between the two realms.

Kannazuki has arrived.