[Comprehensive] Natsume Reiko's trip

As the sound of the flute stopped, the slide show in front of Reiko also gradually disappeared, and she returned to the intersection of the fork in the road, and there was a white-haired old man in front of her.

"Master Lingzi, why are you crying?" The virgin's worried voice came from Lingzi's ear.

"Probably...seeing that beautiful moonlight." Reiko wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, and replied in a melancholy voice.

The virgin looked at Reiko strangely, but in the end she didn't investigate further. The days she followed Seimei taught the virgin to restrain her curiosity.

"Speaking of which, Kaguya Hime said that she is also a monster living in the bamboo forest. Every time she wakes up, she will hear the beautiful sound of the flute. I wonder if the person playing the flute is the one in front? "The virgin said jokingly.

Speaking unintentionally, but listening intentionally, Reiko couldn't help frowning slightly when she heard the words.

She carefully recalled the bamboo forest like a paradise, and seemed to want to see every scene inside.

In the cluster of bamboo facing away from Wannian bamboo, there is a bamboo node like emerald jade.It swayed slowly in the wind with the dreamlike flute sound, as if echoing the rhythm flowing like moonlight.

That is a spiritual bamboo, could this bamboo be Kaguya Hime?

The magical intuition tells Reiko that if she returns to the bamboo forest with Wannianzhu, she will find the answer she wants.

"Maybe it's true, not necessarily." Reiko rubbed the girl's head and said.

"Huh? Master Reiko?" The girl opened her eyes slightly, staring at Reiko in disbelief.

"You miss your little friend back then, don't you? Why don't you go to that bamboo forest, anyway, you won't waste much time." How far can a four or five-year-old girl go to and from the bamboo forest every day from this town?

"Really? Is it really possible? Thank you Reiko-sama!" The virgin showed an extremely excited expression.

"Of course." Reiko looked at the blue sky, reminiscing about the beautiful music that had not been exhausted, and Abe Seimei who was far away in Heian-kyo.

Hey, Qingming, she's going to "medd her own business" again. If you were here, you would helplessly accompany me again, right?

I really want you to listen to this beautiful flute too!

"That adult won't see you." The old man guarding the fork in the road, who is also Xiaozhu's only son, couldn't help admonishing Lingzi and others when he realized that Lingzi and the others planned to find Wannianzhu.

Reiko didn't care about this powerless stop: "There are some things, how will you know if you don't try? Just like your mother, Xiao Zhu, if she didn't go to the bamboo forest day after day, how could she be with Wan Wan?" Nian Zhu forged this friendship?"

If she hadn't taken the first step to find the exorcist, how could she have come to Ping'an capital where light and darkness coexist?

If the virgin did not choose to believe in human beings again, how could she walk out of the painful memories again?

So, the seemingly impossible future, as long as you have the courage to take that crucial step, is no longer out of reach.

The old man fell silent. He even forgot to ask Reiko how she knew about her mother's past.

He took out an old tobacco rod from his pocket, twisted some shredded tobacco and put it in, finally lit it, and took a deep breath.

The curling green smoke carried some faint sparks, casting the old man in the shadow.

Is he regretting something?Does he also have something that he has no courage to pursue?

Perhaps only the old man knows this secret.

When Reiko and his party finally arrived at the house where Xiaozhu lived, Wannianzhu was no longer there.

Have you left?Or are you temporarily hiding?Reiko guessed it was probably the latter.

"Your name is Wannianzhu, right? Do you know Kaguya Hime?" Reiko's voice sounded in front of the empty house, but there was no echo.

"Whether it's monsters or humans, they are all fools." Reiko said with some slight complaints in her tone, "You... no, we are always like this. Only when we lose, do we know how to cherish. Then blindly Going all over the place to find what's gone, ignoring what we still have."

When Xiaozhu was looking for Wannianzhu, she must have ignored her husband and children who were always by her side; and when Wannianzhu was looking for Xiaozhu, she also ignored Kaguya Ji who had been waiting for him to go back in the bamboo forest. .

So, when Reiko longed for human approval, did she also ignore the monsters waiting for her in the forest?

If she can go back, she must say "sorry" to those monsters; however, she probably doesn't want to go back now, because in this era, she has her "home".

"Whether you know Kaguya Ji or not, as a bamboo demon, you should understand that that bamboo forest is alive. Every bamboo there is blown by the wind when you blow the flute. The sound of the bamboo accompanies you. So, have you gone back to see it? Every year when you play the flute for Xiao Zhu, do you still remember that the whole bamboo forest is waiting for you to go back again?"

Yes, Reiko didn't know if Kaguya Hime also lived in that bamboo forest.But what she knew was that there were countless "Kaguya Princesses" in that bamboo forest, all of them were waiting for the return of the Wannian Bamboo, and then listened to him cast a piece of moonlight with his music.

"Who are you?" An inconspicuous bamboo pole by the side of the house turned into a ten thousand year bamboo. He was still as cold and aloof as Reiko had seen in the flute.

"Just a nosy passerby." But Reiko knew that under that indifferent appearance, there was a heart that was much hotter than most people.

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So lonely, really so lonely.

It was time to wake up from the dream again, and Kaguya Hime turned into a human being, sitting on a thick bamboo joint.

There was silence again.

The former Kaguya Hime was unwilling to turn into a human being. She would rather simply be a bamboo, absorb the nutrients of the earth, bathe in the rain and dew of the sky, and then wake up in the beautiful flute sound, and be there again. Fall asleep to the sound of the flute.

But since when did she stop hearing that beautiful voice?

Bamboo has no eyes, and everything around it is pitch black.But in that music, Kaguya Hime was never afraid of the dark.

Because just like her name, there is brilliance in her night; and that brilliance is the ubiquitous sound of the flute.

But after that voice disappeared, the light in Kaguya's life disappeared.

She began to be afraid of the dark, she began to be afraid of silence, and she became unbearable to live like a bamboo.

So she changed into a human form and became a monster.

After becoming a monster, Kaguya Ji saw the dazzling light of the sun and the gentle halo of the moon, but those were not the brilliance she was looking for.

The light she wants is that soft, silvery light curtain, ubiquitous, beautiful colors.

So she left the bamboo forest in order to find the light in her life.

The human world is far more terrifying than the silent bamboo forest.

When she plucked up the courage to ask a human about the whereabouts of Diyin, she was tricked into a strange formation and imprisoned in a small, dark room.

In that room, she met Zashiki warji, virgins, and virgins.

Zashiki Boy is very indifferent to everyone, he doesn't trust anyone, but Kaguya Hime can feel that he is not a bad person; boy and girl are a pair of brothers and sisters, they each have a pair of wings, but all the feathers are covered People cruelly pulled away.They would even tremble at the mere mention of the word "feather".

The world outside the bamboo forest is really scary, what will happen to her future?Can she hear the flute that lights up her life again?

Just when Kaguya thought she could never go back, the usually impenetrable door was shattered by a huge dragon, and a white-haired human who came in with the dragon seemed to be called "Seimei".

Qingming also had a very bright light on her body, but it was not the light she had been looking for.

The boys and girls became the shikigami of the person named Seimei, and Kaguya Hime chose to return to the bamboo forest.

Whether she is timid or stubborn, she doesn't have the courage to continue wandering in the human world alone, so she can only take the most stupid and stupid way-that is to return to the original point and wait continuously.

Will that beautiful flute sound, that light, favor her again?

If she could find the flute player or monster again, she would never let go again.

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"Kaguya Hime!" The virgin immediately saw the lonely figure sitting in the bamboo grove, and rushed over excitedly.

"You are... boys and girls!" Kaguya Ji widened her eyes in disbelief, as if she had seen something extremely miraculous.

"That's right, that's us!" The virgin flapped her wings and hugged Kaguya Hime, and wrapped her arms around her neck and circled excitedly in the air twice.

The boy also waved his wings and fell from the sky, and nodded reservedly at Kaguya Hime.

"Great, your wings have grown, it's really beautiful!" Kaguya Ji happily touched the virgin's slightly hard wings, then suddenly thought of something, and suddenly withdrew her hand, "Sorry, I can't help it At once……"

"It's okay, it's okay, you can touch it if you want, I'm not afraid anymore!" The virgin rubbed the feather on Kaguya Ji's face twice, and then let go of the arm holding Kaguya Ji, "This is Lord Reiko, the person Seimei-sama likes; this is Demon Sword Girl, Lord Reiko's shikigami."

It looks like virgins and virgins have found their light too.

Kaguya Hime looked at the chattering virgins and sincerely blessed them.

"And this..." The girl pointed in the direction of Wannianzhu, and blinked mischievously, "His name is Wannianzhu, and he is a very good flute player."

"Eh?" Kaguya Ji tilted her head in confusion, and then Wannianzhu immediately attracted her attention.

There are always some people, maybe you have never seen him, but you just know that the person in front of you is the "he" you have been waiting for.

Wannianzhu looked at the petite girl sitting in the bamboo, which was a completely different type from Xiaozhu.

Xiaozhu is like a lark that is always chirping and chirping, lively and curious; while Kaguya Ji is a quiet pearl bird standing aside, delicate and sensitive.

But whether it's Xiaozhu or Kaguya Hime, they all look at Wannianzhu with the same eyes - they are all so focused, as if only Wannianzhu exists in the whole world.

"Want to listen to the flute?" Wannianzhu ghost asked such a sentence by accident.

"Me, me?" Kaguya Ji suddenly blushed, looking a little overwhelmed. After looking around in a constant panic, she responded weakly, "Yes, can I? I want to hear it!"

Wannianzhu put the flute made by Xiaozhu back into his waist, and picked up his own body again.

The smooth sound of the flute is once again thought of in this bamboo forest. When the wind blows, the bamboo leaves "rustle", as if accompaniment, and as if welcoming the return of the ten thousand-year-old bamboo.

The sound of the flute, which was like a fairy sound, turned into a band of light and surrounded everyone. Although it was still daytime, the sunlight was also eclipsed.In this world, the only light left is the silver light made from the flute of Wannianzhu.

Finally, she finally found her brilliance again.

Kaguya Hime slowly closed her eyes, immersed in the wonderful music, and swayed her body involuntarily following the bamboo behind her.

This time, she will never let go!

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"Is this okay, Master Reiko? I'm afraid Wannianzhu..." Yaodaoji asked worriedly on the way out of the bamboo forest.

"Are you using Kaguya Hime as someone's stand-in?" Reiko continued, "It's okay, because they have enough time."

Time is a very magical thing, it will gradually erase some profound things, and it will keep remembering some shallow things.

The small bamboo was originally the insignificant drop of water in the life of Wannianzhu. When it dries up, it disappears.But even if it is a drop of water, with perseverance, it can still drop through a stone.

Xiaozhu's figure will not disappear in Wannianzhu's heart, and Kaguya Ji will not replace Xiaozhu's position in Wannianzhu's heart.

However, Kaguya Hime has something that Kotake does not have, and that is time.

Years, decades, hundreds of years, as long as Kaguya Ji is always by Wannianzhu's side, she will not be the second Xiaozhu, she will only be Kaguyaji in Wannianzhu's heart.

Probably Xiaozhu also knew this, so he desperately wanted to leave his mark in Wannianzhu's heart.

Reiko pushed a lock of messy hair behind her ear: "Let's go, if you don't look for a place to live, it will be dark soon."

"So... I'm hungry, Master Reiko." The virgin pursed her lips, showing an aggrieved expression.

"Master Reiko, I too..." Yaodao Ji also said embarrassedly.

"Let's compete to see who will get to the town first!" Reiko waved her arms, and the desire to compete was ignited again.

"Okay, three two... Hey! Reiko-sama, you fouled!"

"Virgin, you can't fly!"

"I don't care, Yaodao Ji, didn't you say you were hungry? Why are you still running so fast?"

When the sun was gradually setting, figures of different heights ran wildly among the bamboo forests, and bamboo leaves and grass clippings rose in the air and then slowly fell down.

No one knows what tomorrow will look like, so try to seize today, face the sun, and run!