Tomo-sama's Rescue Plan - Hell Chapter

"Hey, why are you back again?"

The ghost of the girl stared at me with wide eyes.I threw the fan in my arms to the grass next to her, and sat down beside her shabby little grave.

"There are too many people in the city, it's not what it used to be at all." I hugged my knees and said blankly, "The person I like is gone, and I don't know where to go, so I'm back."

"Ah, I knew it would be like this. After all, it's been hundreds of years." The girl looked very appreciative, "Don't be sad, if you can't, you can stay here with me, and I'll take you in."

I smiled: "You are so kind. My name is Ran, how about you?"

"My name is Shi." The girl said with a smile, "It's a pity that there is nothing to entertain you. What does Miss Fox like to eat?"

"My favorite food... there used to be a shop selling dango in Edo Castle, and when the cherry blossoms were in bloom, they would sell sakura dango with icing sugar." I said dumbly, "I can't find it now, probably long ago. Alright."

"Wow!" the girl named "Poetry" said in surprise, "Can you actually eat candy? How happy! I have never eaten that kind of thing since I was a child, I just heard about it, but there is a straw that grows grass that bites open. It's also sweet."

"Was the Warring States period so miserable?" I immediately felt a little sympathetic to her, "My teacher was also from that time, but he didn't talk about it, but he wasn't very talkative at first."

"Haha, you are indeed a fox-turned lady! How could you ask someone from our time to be your master? If you say you don't like to talk, that idiot in my family is really not like to talk. He didn't even respond to thunder. At first I thought he was a change from Jizo or something, but after a long time I realized that he is just a dull-tempered person, but he is actually a very gentle person, even the civet cats and little birds in the forest like him very much."

The girl named "Shi" rested her chin and her eyes were shining. She didn't look like a ghost that had been dead for 400 years.Maybe it was because I was really lonely, but I somehow had a good impression of this girl, so I smiled and said:

"Sounds so cute, how did you meet?"

"That's a long story. Hey, don't you think I'm annoying! I haven't talked to anyone in 400 years, and I'm almost bored to death! I used to be a talkative person, but now It's about to become a wooden stake!"

I was teased by her, "Hahaha, no, no, actually, I also like to talk to people, but not as good as a guy I know. Tell me, I am idle anyway, It’s also good to chat with you.”

"When I was young, my family members all died in the plague. I was really lonely, so I went to the fields to catch tadpoles. I always felt that it was pitiful to separate them from my family. When I didn't know what to do, there was a The boy asked me what I was doing, and after talking to him, the kid said, 'Then I'll come home with you', and then he really came home with me."

This girl is really lively, and she chatted with me so enthusiastically.

"At the beginning, he didn't know how to do anything. I even had to teach him such trivial things as transplanting rice seedlings and finding wild fruits, but he was quite strong, so I never had to work hard to chop wood. After ten years, we were married. gone."

"That idiot doesn't seem like he likes to laugh or talk, but he's actually a very laid-back person, but sometimes it's very annoying, once the pot burned dry, the house almost caught fire, and that idiot actually played the flute in the yard! You can’t count on him at critical times.”

"Such a man is the most troublesome." I couldn't help interjecting, "You have to worry about everything, and things will always go wrong at critical moments, which can make you angry enough to beat him, but as long as you see his face, you can't get angry again Alas, why are you so unlucky."

"Yeah, yeah," the girl complained, "I'm going to have a baby that day, and I told him to get a midwife. It's such a trivial matter. That idiot went out in the morning and didn't come back until dark. I'm dead." After I died, he sat on the ground holding my dead body for ten days. No matter how much I shouted at him, it was useless. Please, I almost thought he was going to starve to death! Finally, a warrior-like person came and persuaded me. He buried me so I can rest in peace. Hey, I don’t even know how that idiot survives alone after I’m dead!”

"Who is it? It's too much!" I said dumbfounded, "How can you leave the wife who is about to give birth alone at home for so long? In the end, you are... Dystocia?"

"That's not true. I was killed by a monster called 'ghost'..."

"...Ghost?" I frowned, "Are you sure?"

"I also heard from that samurai later," the girl said gloomily, "It was too dark at the time, and I died before I could see anything clearly. I just remembered that the monster smelled like blood, like a wild beast or something. But certainly not a bear."

I silently glanced at her.

Animals in the forest generally try their best to hide their breath, even if they are stained with blood, they will try to clean it up as much as possible.But the smell of blood on the ghost...I am more familiar with it than anyone else.

It was the smell accumulated by the resentment of the dead.This is why ghosts are easily discovered by humans.

"I'm sorry." I said to her seriously, "Ghosts are creatures that... can't live without eating people. Just like a pack of wolves, ghosts are always competing with each other. If they don't eat people, they will become weaker." , will be eaten by other ghosts. I personally sympathize with your experience, is there anything I can do to help you?"

"It's okay, I've been dead for 400 years, and I don't have any grudges anymore." The girl said with a big grin, "When that idiot comes back, I'll just reincarnate with him, and I'll give him a few more births in the next life." My child, tell him to go around busy, haha! How about you, Miss Fox? I heard the story of a fox getting married when I was young."

"I'm not a fox, I'm actually a god."

"God?" The girl suddenly realized, "I said, how can you see me, hey, should I bow down or something..."

"That kind of thing is completely unnecessary. I have been away for 200 years, even the shrine has collapsed, and I don't want to be enshrined by humans anymore, so this is very good."

"So does Miss Shenling also have someone she likes? I seem to have heard you talking about it just now."

"Yes, and he's also... an idiot who can't be counted on at all."

I touched the fan beside me and smiled.

"So miserable?" The girl looked sympathetic, "Did you also grow up together?"

"We knew each other when we were young, but we didn't grow up together... If we had grown up together, maybe he wouldn't have become what he was later on."

"I met him when I was eight years old. He was a very smart and kind child. I was beaten by someone on the side of the road. He stood up and rescued me. We played together for a few days afterwards. The child was very good-looking. , I also read a lot of books, and he was outstanding no matter what he did, so I liked him at that time... But then he was going back to his own home, and we agreed to meet again in Edo Castle in the next year." I sighed, "The result The next year I died and became a god, and something happened to his family, so he forgot our agreement."

"Hey? Why is this?" Shiyi said angrily, "He actually forgot, which means he doesn't care about you!"

"How should I put it, he has a problem with his brain, it's not easy to understand other people's feelings, and he doesn't feel lonely or afraid. But in fact, he is a gentle child, knows how to comfort others, and will try his best to help others." I said softly, "It was a long time before we met again and he was a completely different person who couldn't remember who I was, but I didn't blame him at all because I knew he had just seen too much pain. thing, closed my heart."

"He...doesn't have parents?" the girl asked, "or is he dead too?"

"His parents don't love him, or in other words, what they love is the 'god' in their eyes, not the child himself. They made a strange religion and used him as a cash cow and a tool to cling to the powerful. I sighed, "Even so, as soon as he turned eight years old, his mother killed his father in front of him, and then committed suicide."

"Ah... this is too pitiful..."

Poetry's big eyes were filled with tears.

"Isn't this very lonely? How can such a small child survive without a family?"

"Yeah... I also want to know how he survived. He has no friends, and he has to comfort many people every day. When he was a child, his mother even forbade him to eat candy, saying that he was afraid that it would damage his teeth and make his smile look ugly. I smiled, "But the way he smiles is really cute, very innocent."

"But you like him so much, why did you separate from him?" The girl said a little seriously, "If you like someone, you must work hard to stay by his side."

"Ah, for some unavoidable reasons," I said awkwardly, "I accidentally died again."

"Hey? You are too useless! You are not human, why are you still dying!"

"No way, if you don't do that, you won't be able to save him."

I lowered my head and hugged my knees tightly, "At first I thought it was okay if I disappeared, because he wouldn't care, as long as he can live happily, that's all I thought."

"What kind of nonsense!" The girl jumped up and said loudly angrily, "I tell you, that kind of idiot just can't do it by himself, just like a kite, no one is holding the string, so he doesn't know where he's going to go Don’t you worry? That kind of person might starve himself to death!”

"It's okay to starve to death, he can still eat, but he did have food poisoning..."

"Look, I'll just say it!" She sighed, "Men are really unreliable!"

"Yeah, men are really unreliable..." I also sighed.

I just lived next to the grave of this girl named "Poetry". Every day when the sun went down, we would lie on the grass in front of her grave together, chatting while looking at the stars.More than ten days passed like this.

"Some people in this world are just weird." The girl said one day, "That idiot in my family is that. After being with him for a long time, I realized that everything he sees is transparent. Don't you think it's weird?"

"Transparent?" I felt something was wrong, "What is transparent?"

"I can see bones, internal organs, and blood vessels. Isn't it amazing?"

I sat up in shock.

"May I ask... what's the name of... your idiot...?"

The girl looked at me in surprise, "What's the matter? His name is Yuanyi, do you know him?"

I cover my face.

What kind of karmic retribution is this?

"...I don't know him, I just heard that he is a very famous ghost-slaying swordsman."

"No way, that idiot really went to kill ghosts..." Shi murmured, "What an idiot..."

"It should be because you can't let go of your death." I whispered, "He is very famous among ghost killers, and taught many people how to kill ghosts. But I heard that his brother also became a ghost later. so…"

"...I didn't want him to be like this."

The girl covered her eyes with her sleeves, but I saw transparent tears rolling down her cheeks.

"That idiot must be in pain... He is obviously a soft-hearted person. He doesn't like to fight, and he doesn't even want to take a knife. It's hard for him to kill a fish... His brother is his only relative, the most cherished person... he What should I do…"

——My elder brother turned into a ghost, my wife and children were killed by ghosts, and I failed to protect any of them in the end...I'm just a worthless man.

Thinking of Master Hei Si Mou and the lonely back of that swordsman, I couldn't help but feel sad for a while.

Everyone has unknown pains and difficulties in life. If people stand in opposite places, no one can see the pain of the other.

"Sorry, I shouldn't have told you this."

"I don't blame you, and I don't know who to blame for this." Shi put down her hand covering her eyes and sniffled, "Ghosts are also very pitiful. I know bears can hurt people in winter, because I can't find them." food, but people can only kill bears. Everyone just wants to live."

She choked up and said, "However, the dead actually hope that the living can live well..."

I looked at the stars in the night sky, they were like the eyes of gods, looking down on the world, without sadness or joy.

As long as there is a life with feelings, there will be moments of happiness and heartbreak. This is an inevitable thing, but it is also a part of life.

After all, even the sons of gods yearn for the warmth of the world.

"Don't talk about me, do you plan to live in the mountains in the future?"

"I want to go back to the shrine again," I said, "because I have left so many unforgettable memories there, I am a little bit reluctant to just give up."

"Don't be discouraged, maybe the person you like is waiting for you." The girl's ghost said solemnly, "I have waited for 400 years before. Ms. God is not as patient as a human like me?"

"What are you saying, I have waited for 200 years, okay? But... I don't know where he is, and I'm not sure if he still remembers me." I sighed, grabbed a straw stick in my mouth, "But I will work hard. I will go back to the shrine tomorrow, but I will come back to see you. Do you really need to make offerings?"

"Hey, you did this on purpose, right? I'm a ghost, not a god. Even if you offer it to me, I won't be able to eat it. I'm so anxious."

"That's right...then do you want to go to Tokyo with me? I should have a way to take you there."

"Go for me, if you have any delicious candy or something, eat more for me." The girl's ghost smiled, "I still have to wait here for that idiot to come back."

The next day was a fine day, probably because winter was about to pass, and even the snow in the mountains seemed to have melted a little.I'm going to say goodbye to the girl named Shi.

Being able to become friends with a ghost who can talk about everything, I am very proud of my communication skills, but it is also because this girl is really quite cheerful, and I can't stop chatting, which makes me think that humans may not be as good as I thought Oops.

"Your grave is too ugly. It's covered so tightly by snow that you can't even see it." I looked at her grave, and it seemed awkward no matter how you looked at it. "How about I help you make it more beautiful?"

"No way, it's winter now, just wait for spring. Will you still come in spring?"

"I don't know, I will definitely come back to see you if I have time, but is it really okay for you to be alone?"

"No problem, I've been doing this for 400 years." The girl stood in front of her grave and said with a smile, "Didn't I say that before? My old house later lived in a charcoal-burning family. They The children at home are very good and will come to help me pull weeds or something, but I haven’t seen them for a long time, they may have moved away, and maybe they will come back in a few years.”

"No, your grave looks too shabby, wait for me. Although there is no power left, this thing can still be done."

I ran to the frozen creek, picked up a handful of water, and ran back quickly.

Gently scratching my fingertips, I mixed a little of my own blood into the water, and explained to her while doing it: "I used to be able to use this spell with pure spiritual power, but now the spiritual power has not recovered. We can do this first. Fortunately, this is the source of the Arakawa, and the power of the water is abundant."

Then I picked up the water and read a sentence:

"Mosasaur, everything revives."

The clear water turned into a fine mist in my hand and sprinkled towards Shi's small grave.

"Wait a minute, I don't play this very often, it's beautiful," I boasted.

A crow flew overhead.

"What will happen?" Shi asked expectantly.

"Just wait and see."

Two crows flew overhead.

"What will happen?" Shi said excitedly, "Tell me quickly."

"...wait and see!"

Three crows flew overhead.

"There seems to be no response, Miss Shenshen, your spell is not working."

"Impossible! I am the god of forests and trees. I was in hell before..."

The snow-covered place on the tomb suddenly moved, and a cluster of green seedlings grew out of the soil, looking thin and weak, like ordinary grass.

"Here it comes," I said happily, "I just said don't worry."

More fine green grasses drilled out of the ground, they grow against the wind in the cold winter, and their branches are drawn out, as emerald green as miniature bamboos.

"Wow, it really grew. Is this a brushstroke? The scrambled eggs are delicious." The girl said in surprise.

"...What pen grass? How could I grow that kind of tasteless thing!" I frowned, "It stands to reason that it should be a flowering plant nearby. Could it be that there is something wrong with the spell?"

Those thin, bamboo-like grasses suddenly made a slight crackling sound when they met the sun, split from the middle, and pulled out thin and tall flower stems. At the end of the flower stems, long finger-sized flower buds grew.

I proudly announced: "Look good, it will bloom soon!"

The first flowers popped in the sun.

Followed by the second flower, the third flower...

Soon, dozens of flowers with slender petals bloomed in the sun on the ice and snow at the end of winter in Yuntori Mountain.

"This is... a flower that I have never seen before." Shi said in a daze, "It looks like the flower of Lycoris, but why is it blue?"

"Yeah...why...is it blue?"

I also froze in place, and I could clearly hear the bang of the wheel of fortune turning in my ears.

That seems like a distant legend.

A flower that had never been seen before was written in a prescription by an unknown doctor and dedicated to a frail and sick noble son in the Heian era.

The noble young master didn't have the patience to wait for the medicine to take effect, so he killed the doctor, but after that, his body recovered day by day, and he gained strength beyond ordinary people, but at the same time he became afraid of the sun and longed for human flesh and blood.

So throughout his thousand years of life, he has been looking for the flower that can make him perfect and walk in the sun.

That was his hope.

It is also the family that has walked in the dark night for thousands of years, the untouchable dawn that everyone is looking forward to.

Cyan...the other shore flower.

Those flowers bloomed in front of me, swaying in the sun, like the salvation bestowed by the gods.

I fell to my knees and wept loudly in the sudden light.

That's how it is, that's how it is...

Human blood can't bear the power of ghost blood, and human beings will become ghosts.

But the blood of the gods is different. The gods themselves are pure and powerful existences, and cannot be transformed into ghosts, but they do not have any reaction to ghost blood. The blood of the gods perfectly blends with ghost blood, plus the purification power of the water god. , transformed into this kind of blue Bianhua, which can be used as an antidote for ghosts.

It has not appeared for a thousand years, just because no god would be willing to accept the pollution of ghost blood on itself, and no god would become the dependent of ghosts.

But I do, I like him, I want him to have the happiness he never had.

It seems to go back to that day, in the yard of the small house in Necromancer Hell, to make him happy, the day I first used this spell to bloom a yard of flowers.

The ghost sat on the porch, its eyes wide open like a child's.

—Is this for me?Xiaoran gave it to me?

At that moment, in his beautiful, ice-like eyes, there was a shimmer that I had never seen before.

——I like it very much.

——I like Xiaoran's gift very much.

We were doomed to this bond when we were all human beings.Even if fate separates us, this bond still goes deep into the soul and never fades.

Just like the red lotus engraved with blood is still blooming on my left wrist.

What the onmyoji who pretended to be a doctor wrote in the prescription was just a prophecy about the "future".

None of us can change the past, but we can create the future.

"I've decided." I wiped my tears and stood up, "I will try my best to live. As long as both of us are alive, there will be a day when we meet again."

I will definitely see your smiling face standing in the sun again.

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