Death fan talker

In the outskirts of "Weili" in the first area of ​​Nanliuhun Street, there are many low-lying hills.Residents living in Liuhun Street generally seldom come to the back suburbs. There are not only pleasant low grasses on the hillsides, but also deep forests at the foot of the hills.

It was dusk, and the sounds of birdsong and crickets could be heard from time to time in the forest.Dressed in white and red hakama, Ji Yang Zhiwu walked slowly on the mountain path, and there was a hill in front of her.Facing the setting sun, the only sycamore tree on the top of the slope is full of shade, which is in stark contrast with a slightly raised small grave next to the tree.

There is a lot of grass growing around this small tomb, and a long wooden board inserted in front of the tomb looks still new, with a few figures carved on it with an unknown knife, three points into the wood, and the handwriting is very neat: Kitazawa Yuka.

"I'm sorry I haven't brought you back to Shennong."

Ji Yang Zhiwu stood in front of the grave, whispering to the slightly raised mound.

"I could have taken you back earlier, but Mao is not allowed to ask for leave or skip classes, and I can't attract others' attention, otherwise all previous efforts will be wasted. So... for two months, I have really wronged you for leaving you here alone."

She reached out and touched a corner of the top of the wooden plank, feeling the smooth wood that had been touched from time to time, and then slowly sat down leaning against the edge of the grave.There was a breeze, and the dense leaves of the sycamore tree above the head swayed with the wind, and a few leaves fell down.

When a sycamore leaf falls, everyone in the world knows autumn.

"Tomorrow is the official summer vacation, and I can take you back to Shennong tonight. Then, let's endure the last sunset for a while."

This is the end of summer and early autumn, and it seems that autumn is coming soon.Ji Yang Zhiwu slightly raised his hand to block the western sky with his palm, his dark blue pupils narrowed, and through the gaps between his fingers, he could catch a glimpse of the sunset against the backdrop of the sunset, which was warm and red.

"Ah, I can actually see someone here at this time."

It was a peaceful sounding voice.Jiyang Zhiwu looked back, and saw a woman in a purple kimono with a high bun holding a small pot, standing in a mountain valley not far from her, and was looking at her with her face in surprise.

Jiyang Zhiwu stood up, folded his hands, and bowed slightly: "Hello."

The woman also returned the salute, and was very surprised when she saw her white clothes and red hakama school uniform: "Good afternoon. Your clothes...are you a student of the Zhenyang Academy of Spiritual Arts?"

"Yes." Jiyang Zhiwu simply replied, perhaps out of politeness or out of curiosity, she also asked, "Excuse me, why are you here?"

"Oh, my husband likes to drink the water from the stream here." The woman's eyes shifted to where she came from and then back, she lowered her head to look at the pot in her arms, and smiled slightly, "So I come here every morning. Take a small pot of water from the creek. I was delayed by something in the store today, so I have to wait until now. This is what makes me feel strange. If I hadn’t come in the afternoon, I would not have known such a thing.”

Ji Yang Zhiwu tilted his head slightly: "What?"

Speaking of this, the woman in the purple kimono seemed to be interested, and said in a gentle voice: "Every morning when I pass by here, I will see your position. There is a young man standing there for half an hour, completely motionless. Coincidentally Coincidentally, he is also dressed in Maouin uniform."

No need to think too much, Ji Yang Zhiwu already guessed who it was.

"However, it seems that it was before your college's holiday. I only saw that child for the last time, and I haven't seen it since then." The woman frowned darkly, with a look of worry on her face, "Excuse me... Yes, it is your friend. Since you are here, you should know that child, but what happened to him?"

"He's fine." Jiyang Zhiwu's face was determined, and he seemed to be a little relieved, "He just got admitted to the [-]th Team of the Guarding Court and performed his duties."

The woman smiled reassuringly: "That's the god of death, it's really amazing. And what about you, you are still wearing the Zhenyang courtyard uniform, you should still be a student?"

"Me," Ji Yang Zhiwu lowered his eyes slightly, his voice was low, "I'm just an anonymous person."

"Don't say that," the woman comforted. "Maybe you are not famous now. When you become the God of Death, your hometown, relatives and friends will be proud of you."

The fingertips trembled for a moment, Ji Yang Zhiwu nodded: "Thank you."

"If I'm not mistaken, you come here every day, right?" After the girl responded affirmatively, the woman smiled again, "You are very similar to that child. It's just that one is in the morning and the other is in the evening. Maybe they haven’t told each other yet. You’re really young... If you don’t have a place to go now, why don’t you come to my shop, “Xu Kun House”, which is currently quite famous in Weili’s restaurants. "

"Well, in the future, I will go when I have time." Ji Yang Zhiwu thanked him.

"Okay, I still need to take care of my shop, so I'll take my leave first." Not far away, the woman in the purple kimono bowed, and the girl returned the salute, and the former left in the direction he was going, gradually The line drifts away.

The sun is setting.Looking back at the slowly setting sun, the girl in Maou's uniform didn't look away for a long time, and gradually lost her mind.

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The admission test for Maou Academy of Spiritual Art can be described as thrilling.

When he came out from the south gate of Jinglingting, Kitazawa Yuka felt that his feet were about to go limp.It was still noon, and when the two were standing at the intersection of the Sancha alleyway, Ji Yang Zhiwu made gestures and squinted at the sun: "The test is over, where do you want to go now?"

Kitazawa Yuka weakly pointed to the left: "Whatever. Let's go here."

"But..." As soon as Kitazawa Yuxia's voice fell, Jiyang Zhiwu raised his right hand, pointed in another direction, and said calmly, "I want to go here."

"Turn left, right?" Kitazawa Yuka was dissatisfied.

"Why didn't you choose to turn right?" Jiyang Zhiwu also refused to give up half a step.

"But I prefer to go to the left..." Kitazawa Yuka sighed speechlessly.

"Then, use this." After arguing again and again, Ji Yang Zhiwu went to a tree and broke a branch at random, "Throw this into the sky, whichever direction the broken part points to, it will go in that direction." .”

"Well, a good way! But," Kitazawa Yuka stared carefully at the branch with a few leaves, and said with a little worry, "We just broke branches in the area of ​​Nanliuhun Street not long ago, and we won't be caught. Law enforcement adults drag it away..."

Jiyang Zhiwu half-opened his eyes and expressed helplessness: "You think too much." Then he pointed to the tree just now and explained like an endorsement: "The world of corpses and souls is rich in spiritual power, and there are many spiritual seeds in the air. If it is broken, it will absorb spirit seeds and grow new branches and leaves by itself."

"Hey...it's amazing." Kitazawa Yuka felt a little unbelievable, "But why do you know, Zhiwu?"

"You forgot the "Notes to the Soul Realm" issued by the District Elder, it's written all over it."

"That kind of thing...Although every newcomer will receive this guide book from the district elder, how can we, who died in the war and were illiterate, read it?" Kitazawa You Xia Yan smiled, and urged his friend to quickly throw a branch to make a decision.

Throwing the branch to the sky lightly, the two blocked the glare of the sun with their hands, looked up at the branch being thrown straight to the sky, and then watched the branch turn and fall.While staring at the branches slowly falling, the time in the world seemed to slow down, Ji Yang Zhiwu opened his eyes slightly, and seemed to be in a daze for a moment.

It's as if what was thrown up was not a branch, but a short, wooden, white one...

"Zhiwu, you cheated, this is clearly going in your direction!" Kitazawa Yuka picked up the branch unwillingly and shouted.

"If you lose, you lose. It's God's will. Let's go." Jiyang Zhiwu quickly came back to his senses, and gestured happily, "Since we're going this way, why don't we eat ramen noodles. It's a big steaming bowl with rich ingredients. You have to shake the noodles twice, it’s full of elasticity, and then you suck it into your mouth.”

"Zhiwu is still in the mood to think about this, and the question is, is there any ramen in the Ruhun Street area?" Only cheered up, Kitazawa Yuka turned into a powerless look who had just come out of the test, "That test, It's hell... evil spirits..." When she thought about the test, she couldn't help shivering.

Ji Yang Zhiwu got the strength from nowhere, grabbed her collar with one hand, and walked straight to the right: "Okay, let's put the test aside for now, didn't we pass it anyway? Let's go to a ramen eater." Great place - well, found it the other day."

Kitazawa Yuka didn't care about her procrastination, and kept chanting, "I'm almost exhausted now, I was scared to death...I want to go back to my quilt to make up for the fright I received, I want to catch up on sleep~ Ah, what if I can't sleep at night, my eyes will definitely have dark circles, my face... what should I do, what should I do, what should I do?"

"Don't worry, as long as you eat ramen, no matter how bad your spirit is, you will recover." Ji Yang Zhiwu, who was dragging her, said indifferently.

"It's so amazing..." While walking, Kitazawa Yuka suddenly realized a problem: "No! We don't have soul coins, how can we eat ramen?"

Soul coins are the common currency in the world of souls. Except for the areas behind Liuhun Street, which only need to barter, other areas have basically developed to the point where currency can be used to exchange items, let alone the souls that are closest to Jinglingting. The street is a block away, and this is the representative of prosperity, and there are the most gods of death coming and going.

"It's okay, it's okay, we'll talk about it when the time comes." Jiyang Zhiwu looked like he didn't take this issue to heart at all.

"What?!" Hearing this sentence, Kitazawa Yuka suddenly became very uneasy, "God, what if we eat ramen but don't give soul coins... What should we do? Should we run away? It's scary to think about it! Keep eating like this After finishing the ramen, the shopkeeper will definitely leave us to wash the dishes to pay off the debt, or use our clothes to change, or—— we will be beaten up and thrown out..."

Associating with his own words, Kitazawa Yuka couldn't help but see many black lines appearing in the back of his head.

"What's the matter?" Ji Yang Zhiwu suddenly stopped and stopped in front of a stall, probably not listening to what she said, looking at her strangely.

"Uh——" Kitazawa Yushara lengthened the ending, and was about to express his thoughts in one breath, but Jiyang Zhiwu said surprisingly: "It's already here, it's this place."

With a click, Kitazawa Yuka instantly petrified under the intense summer sun.

"Well...it's delicious." Sitting in the ramen room separated by a red curtain, Kitazawa Yuka tasted the steaming hot and rich ramen in the bowl in front of him, and was greatly impressed by the unexpected deliciousness of the ramen. marvel. "Hey, how did Zhiwu find this ramen shop? It seems that there are many alleys to go around." Kitazawa Yuka couldn't wait to ask vaguely, no matter the noodles were still in his mouth.

"The smell of wine is not afraid of the depth of the alley, and the smell of ramen can also spread out." Jiyang Zhiwu seemed to be in a good mood, with a rising ending sound, shaking the chopsticks holding the noodles, and then tried to inhale it into his mouth.

The owner of the ramen house, an obviously elderly uncle, bent his eyes and smiled while making the ingredients and said, "Guest, you are really flattering~ Now the business of the shop is down."

"That's okay, we will definitely come here often in the future, what a delicious ramen." Kitazawa Yuka said without hesitation.

"People used to come here often," the owner continued with a smile, "but after so many years, those people who came here often stopped coming one by one." After he finished speaking, he went to the back of the house, and soon Then there was the sound of rolling noodles.Kitazawa Yuka and Jiyang Zhiwu looked at each other, the former snapped his fingers and started another topic:

"By the way, today's test, do you think... which one is the scariest?"

Jiyang Zhiwu thought for a while: "Well... let's go to the first level."

"The first level is just to release the "bullet" to test the level of spiritual power, as long as you release the spiritual power, that's nothing.The scariest...it should be the last level! ! ! Thinking of the test, Yuka Kitazawa almost screamed, "God knows, when he entered the dojo for the test, there was only one god of death, so why did he appear empty when he drew his sword!"Why is there such a terrifying sense of oppression!Why did you tell us that it was an illusion after a panic!It turned out that it was just a false alarm... Bastard!When I become a Grim Reaper, I will definitely beat him, this hateful Grim Reaper, a hateful test! "

The two of them just said one sentence to another, and they didn't finish the test until they finished eating the ramen.However, when he was about to pay the bill, Kitazawa Yuxia suddenly remembered that he was penniless.

"Zhiwu," Kitazawa Yuka kindly held Jiyang Zhiwu's hand and said with tears in his eyes, "I suddenly remembered that I left something in the test place of the college. I'll go back and get it now."

"I don't remember what you brought with you." Ji Yang Zhiwu pulled her hand back with a strange expression on his face.

Kitazawa Yuka patted the back of Jiyang Zhiwu's hand lightly, with a half-smile and half-cry, and said: "Ah~ You must have a bad memory, I really have something with me, why don't you go get it with me ~"

"I don't want to make another trip." Jiyang Zhiwu shook his head and said solemnly, "Go get it, I'll wait for you."

Kitazawa Yuka immediately grabbed her hand, starlight flashed in her eyes and said excitedly: "Then I'm going."

"Well, hurry up and come back."

After watching Kitazawa Yuxia galloping away at lightning speed, Jiyang Zhiwu reached out and took out a small bag from his arms, poured out a few soul coins, and handed it to the owner: "Pay the bill, owner Riya."

The elderly uncle who had been squinting his eyes opened his eyes in surprise: "Guest, how do you know my surname?"

The girl pointed at a certain direction in the house with her chin: ""Riya Ramen House", that is the signboard from before.Why not take it out?Next time I have a chance, I would like to try your Tamazaka delicacy ramen with shrimp balls. "

"I obviously put away the signboard..." The uncle muttered a few words when he heard the signboard at the beginning, but when he heard the second part, he couldn't help leaning over from behind the table, his eyes widened: "The name of this dish... To be honest, I haven't cooked it for a long time, and the skills are rusty."

Ji Yang Zhiwu got up and bowed slightly, saying goodbye to him: "Then goodbye."

"Oh... oh, thank you for your patronage." After a moment of stunned, the homeowner came to his senses and hurriedly said his congratulations.When I looked again, the girl had already lifted the red curtain with ramen written on it, and left without haste.

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"Hey, Boss, let me have a bowl of ramen, I want a big bowl, my stomach is almost flattened~"

A dark-haired and blue-eyed Grim Reaper opened the red curtain, and while calling familiarly, sat directly on a high wooden chair.

"Oh, Vice-captain Shiba." Hearing the familiar voice, the homeowner knew who was coming without even raising his eyelids, and he kept on working, "Okay, now."

They were the only ones in the ramen house.But soon the red curtain was lifted again, and a blond and blue-eyed death captain also walked in.He was covering his stomach, looking like he had been hungry for a few days, and when he saw the black-haired and blue-eyed Grim Reaper, he immediately showed a big smile, and waved his hands: "Ah, ah, I didn't expect that Vice Captain Zhibo came a step earlier than me." Woolen cloth."

"It's early for you too, Urahara." The black-haired and blue-eyed Grim Reaper stretched out his left hand to compare his index finger and middle finger, and stroked the bangs on his forehead casually, with the corners of his mouth slightly raised at the same time.Because of raising his left hand, his sleeves slid down, revealing the strange black lines on his left forearm.

"Please come to a bowl of ramen." The blond Shinigami first ordered a bowl of ramen, and then sat next to the black-haired and blue-eyed Shinigami, and then responded to his previous words: "It's not early, it's already getting to the top of the club. "

Only when the blond Reaper got close could he notice the fatigue under his thick dark circles, the black-haired Reaper raised his eyebrows: "It seems that Urahara has been in the laboratory for several days, no wonder Sifengyuan called you come out."

When mentioning the laboratory, the eyes of the blond god of death immediately glowed, and the whole person seemed to be a hundred times more energetic: "Recently invented a very interesting thing..."

These two geniuses who came from well-known families since childhood, one completed the six-year course of the Zhenyang Spiritual Art Academy in only two years, and the other completed the swastika in only three days. We had a great time.

"Hey, Xisuke, Haiyan. I heard your voices from outside." Another Captain Death came in, with curly and handsome short purple hair flying in front of his steps. At this moment, her greeting just interrupted them if.

Following behind the purple-haired Grim Reaper was a vice-captain of Grim Reaper with blue-green long hair. After entering the house and greeting his friends, he smiled and nodded at the owner of the ramen: "Master Riya." She Taking out the folding fan in his arms, he sat down casually, "As usual, two servings of ramen."

The owner of the house looked at the two men and the two women strangely, and said pleasantly: "The captain of Sifengyuan, the captain of Urahara, and the vice-captain Jiang Zhu and the vice-captain Zhibo... Our store unexpectedly visited two captains and two vice-captains at the same time. , what an honor."

"Haha." The purple-haired god of death smiled brightly like the sun, "If there are six more people from different families, then you will have all the ten nobles of the Jingling Court here."

The blond Grim Reaper squeezed his chin, and seriously considered her words: "So should we invite the leader of the Beijing Band, Captain Ukitake, and Captain Kuchiki..."

"Stop, stop." The purple-haired Grim Reaper rolled his eyes at him, and said angrily, "Kisuke, I'm just talking."

Although there are gaps between the four people's positions, they are facing the same table and the same direction. When chatting with different sitting postures, they sometimes beat the table endlessly, and sometimes laughed loudly. Waiting for the ramen to be served.

The owner simply finished all the ramen and served them all together.From left to right, the ramen was lined up. After getting the chopsticks in their hands, the four opened them one by one. The scene was very tacit and joyful.

"Huh~" The purple-haired god of death picked up a large string of elastic ramen, shook it twice, and then slid it into the mouth, exclaiming that it was enjoyable. "Hey, let me say," she started after swallowing a big mouthful of noodles, causing the three of them to look at her at the same time with their faces in their mouths, "Today I suddenly decided to invite everyone to eat ramen together. Let's go too."

Bifa Reaper said sincerely: "This is really the best."

"Well~ I don't care anyway." The blond Grim Reaper who had already swallowed the first bowl of ramen shrugged, ordered the second bowl and added: "Of course, it's best after the experiment is done."

The purple-haired god of death immediately scolded him with a smile: "Today is just an exception. Who told you, an experimental freak, to stay in the office for a few days and let your cute vice-captain come to me and scold someone bloody?" .”

"I'm afraid that Urahara will fall into the experiment one day," the black-haired Reaper said jokingly, "you must remember to give him a hand at Sifengyuan when the time comes."

The purple-haired god of death raised his head and laughed loudly when he heard the words: "Haiyan, don't worry! One day, I will pull him out without hesitation, hahahaha."

"Yeah." The black-haired Reaper rubbed his hair, and when he thought about eating ramen together just now, he looked a little embarrassed, "However, I'm afraid I can't be there at any time, I will be on duty in the next few months .”

"It's only been a few months." The Purple-haired Grim Reaper didn't take it seriously, and continued to pick up the ramen full of chopsticks, "I've been here with you for hundreds of years, and this time is just a flick of a finger in front of us, and it's fleeting."

"That's true." The black-haired Reaper was relieved, and also sighed, "After all, the days to come are still long."