[Comprehensive] Natsume Reiko's trip

It was a night when the moonlight was not very clear, and the moonlight was flickering, faintly hidden in the clouds.

"Rustle, rustle"!

On the silent street in the middle of the night, there was a sudden, scalp-scratching sound.

"Swish, Swish",

"Swish, swish, swish"!

One after another, little snakes no more than the thickness of a finger, wandered quickly in the streets like ghosts, climbed up branches and walls, and entered those dark or oil-lit houses, looking for unknown existence.

Where?Where is it?

Come out quickly!

She's been waiting a long, long time, so...

Come back soon!

A small snake climbed over the wall and entered a huge mansion.

Two sleepy servants stood outside the door of the master bedroom, and two lanterns were placed at their feet, emitting a faint light.

The little snake lingered in front of the door for a while, shuttled down the corridor, and came to the window on the side of the master bedroom.

A candle was lit in the corner of the master bedroom, illuminating a living room. A man in his forties and a beautiful woman in her thirties were rolling on the couch. They met each other frankly, and gasps overflowed from the room. .

The little snake drilled a small hole in the paper window, and then crawled in with a "squeak".

"Master Ono, you weren't here a few nights ago, is there any new woman out there?"

"How is it possible, my wife is the only one I love."

The snake slowly crawled into the warm bed, and then wrapped itself around the woman's leg.

"What's slippery and sticky?" A shivering woman, stimulated by the little snake's cold body temperature, hurriedly pushed away the man beside her, lifted the quilt to check - it was a black snake baring its fangs and spitting out a letter. snake!

"Ah!!!" The ear-piercing cry pierced through the clouds, and the dim moonlight shone brightly.

The man grabbed the snake and threw it to the ground, then pulled out the spear from the knife holder and chopped the snake in half.

The servant outside the door was awakened by the screams, and rushed in with a look of panic, and the silent mansion was full of noise.

The broken snake was still writhing on the ground, and there seemed to be a happy smile on its face.The man looked into the eyes of the not dead snake and understood what it wanted to convey.

"finally found you!"

Amid the trembling of the man, the snake turned into green smoke and disappeared completely.

This is Reiko's third day in this era.

It was March at this time, and the cherry blossoms in the courtyard were in full bloom. Reiko was wearing a cherry-colored kimono bought by a virgin, and looked at the "River Picture" in her hand bitterly and bitterly.

"Hetu" and "Luoshu" are not so much books as albums. Inside are pictures of gossip and nine palaces one after another. Perhaps because Qingming often reads them, there are densely written with a brush next to the pictures. Notes below.

In Seimei's words, whether it is drawing symbols or enchantments, or even divination and sacrifice, one must understand the knowledge of gossip.Because when you seal the monster, if you draw a small character wrongly, it may even lead to the reversal of yin and yang, and the consequences are extremely unimaginable.

Although there are troublesome aspects of such days, Reiko feels unexpectedly fulfilled.Here, there is no need to worry about whether it will cause any trouble to others, and no one will look at her with disgust. Although they are worried about the situation of Tian Yuan and his wife, and miss her friends, but Perhaps, this is the life she has always longed for.

"Master Lingzi, you have occupied Xiaobai's usual sleeping place again." Xiaobai rubbed against Lingzi and said with some dissatisfaction.

Reiko pointed to Qingming who was sitting on the edge of the stone table and wrote something: "Don't you like your Master Qingming the most? Why don't you go to sleep beside him?"

"Hmm...it's better not to bother Lord Qingming." Xiaobai hesitated for a while, and decided to continue competing with Reiko for the spot under the cherry blossom tree.

For some reason, Reiko always felt that while Xiaobai and other shikigami liked Seimei, they also deeply respected and feared him.So far, Reiko feels that this famous onmyoji in history is a good person.Although she always looks expressionless, she will arrange her life in an orderly manner, and she will take the initiative to guide her onmyoji at ordinary times.

However, even with the company of Shikigami, wouldn't it be lonely to always stay alone in the huge courtyard like this?

"Lord Seimei, Lord Sahei Ono is here to visit." The boy flapped his wings and came to Seimei's side, delivering the news respectfully.

Boys and girls are Seimei's shikigami. Boys are older brothers with more stable personalities, and girls are younger sisters with innocent and innocent personalities.

Qingming put down the brush in his hand: "Let him in, virgin, to make tea."

"Okay!" The virgin flapped her wings and flew to the kitchen.

Reiko has always been amazed that the virgin can do all kinds of things flexibly with the wings full of wings. She got up and followed the virgin: "I'll help too, I can't just do nothing."

Seimei nodded slightly, expressing her acquiescence.

When Reiko came to the reception room with tea, Seimei and the visiting Sahei Ono were sitting across the short table, facing each other.

Ono Zuobei is a third-rank official of the imperial court. He looks about forty, with a saber on his waist, and he looks like a samurai.

After Reiko put the teacup in front of the two of them, Ono Sabei looked at Reiko unceremoniously: "Is this the new shikigami that Seimei-sama has acquired? It looks a bit like a cat demon. Those wild eyes are really alluring." ah!"

Reiko raised her eyebrows, looking at the obscene old face with a mustache, her hands felt itchy for no reason.

Qingming put the fan on the back of Reiko's hand, and shook his head at her imperceptibly: "This is indeed my new shikigami, but the cat demon has a strong desire for revenge. Her people, Lord Ono, please be careful."

Ono Zuobei heard this and shrank his neck.Although Seimei can control his shikigami, what if one day he doesn't want that shikigami and cancels the contract?The less trouble, the better.

After hearing this, Reiko obediently played the role of Shikigami, and stepped aside obediently.But she secretly decided in her heart that she must find a cat demon as a shikigami in the future, and cats are not the only ones who are strong in revenge.

Qingming pressed her fan against her lower lip, and got to the point: "Master Ono, let's continue telling the story of the snake. After you killed the snake on the first night, what happened afterwards?"

"Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes!" Ono Zuobei heard this, and a trembling expression gradually appeared on his face.

That night, the snake was chopped into two pieces by Zuobei Ono with a gun, but the ominous premonition lingered in Ono's heart all the time.Sure enough, the second night, the snake reappeared.

"Rustle, rustle"!

Snakes roamed the streets in groups, but this time they were no longer scattered aimlessly, but had a clear goal - Ono Sabei's mansion.

At this time, the lights in Ono's house were brightly lit, and Ono, who felt uneasy, mobilized all the servants to patrol everywhere as if facing a big enemy.

Ono had a hunch that the snake would definitely come back!

Sure enough, in the light of the fire, a small black snake crawled into Ono's house through cracks in the door, walls, and trees.These snakes were not afraid of the high flames, they just spit out their words and looked at Ono Sabei.

"Hiss", "rustle".

The sound of voicing the letter and the sound of the snake's belly rubbing against the ground complement each other, making one's hair stand on end. In those overlapping sounds, Ono seems to have heard something different: "Come back..."

"Come back soon..."

"She's waiting for you..."

"Wait for you……"

"I don't know what you're talking about at all!" Ono yelled to embolden himself, and at the same time he drew a knife and slashed at a snake. The snake's corpse turned into green smoke and dissipated in the air just like last night.

The servants who couldn't hear what the snake said looked at Ono with surprised eyes.

"What are you looking at? Hurry up and kill these snakes!" Ono waved his gun with all his might, and one snake after another turned into green smoke and disappeared.

Although these snakes had no fighting power, the number of dozens of snakes allowed Ono Sabei and his servants to clean up until midnight.

But on the night of the third day, the snakes appeared again, and this time the number was greatly increased.Hundreds of little snakes swarmed into the mansion, writhing around.Because it was too late to clean up in time, some snakes even crawled into the women's house, and the whole mansion turned upside down.

Moreover, the words spoken by those snakes have also undergone new changes.

"Bring it over, bring you over there, that's what the snake said. I was so scared that if I let the situation go on, it would definitely get out of control. So I went to Yinyangliao, and the people there recommended it to me. Seimei-sama." Ono Sabei put aside his frivolity in front of Reiko, and respectfully saluted Seimei.

Even though Ono looked down on Seimei who was only seventh grade in his heart, at least on the bright side, he absolutely must not offend an onmyoji, especially a capable onmyoji.Because you never know whether they will suddenly cast a vicious curse on you, causing you to suffer unexplained bad luck.

The dignitaries in Heianjing have complicated attitudes towards Onmyoji: they want to win over them, but they are afraid to get close to them; they despise their non-noble blood, but respect their unpredictable abilities.

Qingming tapped her palms with her fan, and fell into deep thought: "'She is waiting for you', does Ono-sama have any idea about this sentence? Did you make some unfulfilled promises and forget them? Especially... women. "

Ono Zuobei opened his mouth to deny it, but suddenly he closed his mouth as if thinking of something, and changed the subject: "Anyway, I hope Master Seimei can come tonight, I will entertain Master Seimei graciously. "

Seimei closed his eyes, concealing the sarcasm and boredom in his eyes, and responded to Ono's request in Furui Wubo's tone: "I will go over tonight."

This kind of thing is nothing more than a man abandoning a woman, and then the woman turns into a ghost in resentment to take revenge on the man.Seimei would feel a little bit about this kind of thing at the beginning, and feel sorry for Yue for those infatuated women and fickle men.But after a long time, only deep burnout and impatience remained.

Those nobles, in order not to hurt their face, often ask Qingming to keep silent, and even do everything possible to cover up the fact of stealing in the middle of the night; and women, for a man who doesn't love her, abandon her family and become a demon, isn't there such a thing in this world? Are other things worthy of their nostalgia?

Men are not worth saving, and women are also not worth saving.

But he is an onmyoji affiliated to Yinyangliao, and it is his duty to serve the nobles, which he cannot refuse.

With Qingming's promise, Ono left with peace of mind, and went back to prepare for the exorcism according to Qingming's instructions. Qingming picked up the teacup in front of him and twirled it, wondering what he was thinking.

"Qingming, can I go together at night?" Reiko walked to Qingming's side and asked with great interest.

"Aren't you afraid of snakes?" Qingming asked back.

"Monsters are much scarier than snakes. I'm not afraid of monsters. Why should I be afraid of snakes?" Lingzi was puzzled.

Seeing the vivid expression on Reiko's face, Seimei nodded and agreed, "That's fine."

Perhaps this time, eliminating demons will not be so boring.

The author has something to say:

The monsters in this chapter are not in the game for the time being. I want to give Reiko a transition, a chance to understand Seimei and the Heian era, and at the same time show Seimei as a part of getting along with humans.In the next chapter, the monsters in the game will appear, and the story will basically turn to monsters.