[Comprehensive] Peach blossoms are not cherry blossoms!

"What are you doing, Peach?"

A soft and tender voice came from the bottom, interrupting the girl who was in a trance, she blinked her eyes, looked down, and sure enough, she saw Sayoto standing under the tree looking up at her.

Leaping down from the branch lightly, she stood still and stroked the little boy's hair habitually like stroking her own dagger, "It's nothing."

"What's that?" Yato, who was no longer so restrained after getting acquainted, reached out and pointed at the thing held by Tao, and then grinned, "I want to see it too!"

"..." Tao glanced at him, thought for a while, and passed the thing over, "This thing is called a pocket watch, be careful, if you break it, you will die."

"Oh~" Nodding absent-mindedly, Xiao Yeto took the heavy round metal object with both hands, and turned it over curiously, "How do you open this?"

Tao sighed, squatted down, reached out and pressed the button on the side.

The case of the pocket watch immediately popped open, revealing the dial underneath and the photo inlaid inside the cover.

Yato's gaze was immediately attracted by the photo, he opened his eyes wide, pointed at it in surprise and asked, "Is this a painting?"

"...That's right." Tao didn't bother to explain, and nodded directly.

Yato tilted his head, "Who are they?"

"Hmm..." Tao pondered for a while, "The one named Chaoli Yuyue, the one with the lump on his nose is called Nakel, the one with the ice-block face is called G, this one is Arnold, this one and this one are still There's that woman I don't know, and the guy with the silly smile, his name is Giotto."

When she said the last name, her tone was slightly different from before, and her eyes were slightly softer.However, it is still difficult for the young Yato to notice any difference in these changes.

"...It looks really strange, and the name is also strange." He lowered his head and muttered.

"You think so too!" Tao shrugged, "Because he comes from a far away country, so his appearance is a little different."

"Who are they?" Yato returned the pocket watch to her, and asked curiously, "Are they also gods? Are they Tao's friends?"

"..." The girl took the pocket watch, her eyes fell on the photo again, and she said after a long time, "They are just ordinary humans. That person, the guy named Giotto—"

"He is my husband." She replied, but her water-red eyes dimmed.

But Yato's eyes widened suddenly, as if very, very surprised, "Tao's husband?"

"Yes~" Tao stood up, put away the pocket watch, and then stretched, "Although we haven't married yet."

——Hey, she turned out to be the same as Sakura in the end, she rushed to call the shameful title of "Husband" before she got married, but Giotto proposed, even though he hasn't waited for it yet she promised...

"Why?" Yato, who was full of [-] whys like ordinary human children, asked persistently.

"There's no reason! It's very annoying, if you continue to ask!" Tao glared at him, and folded her arms, "How is it, have you completed today's task?"

Yeto curled his lips in reluctance, put his hands behind his head, and said relaxedly, "It's done~ I helped Ali's mother-in-law chop all the firewood~"

Tao raised her eyebrows and smiled, "It's not bad, it's getting more and more efficient."

Immediately, she seemed to think of something, and looked around, "Your artifact is not with you today?"

"Well, Fei stayed at home with my lord father." When talking about this topic, Yato turned his head slightly as if he didn't want to bring it up, and didn't look into her eyes as usual.

Tao looked at him, "I remember your father is not in good health recently, right?"

"...Mmm." Yato nodded, and slowly lowered the hand behind his head, his expression also looked a little downcast.

"You really don't need me to take a look?" Tao asked suspiciously.

"No." He shook his head vigorously.

"Okay." Tao spread her hands indifferently, "Then, let's go to the mountains to see again today~"

"Hmm~!" Yato, who was happy again, took the initiative to hold Tao's hand, and walked up and down.

Tao looked at him, but couldn't help feeling thoughtful.

It has been almost 50 years since she first met Koyato in the Heian era. During this period, she also saw another artifact of the little guy. It is said that the name is "Fei", who is wearing a white kimono. A little girl with short hair who looks about the same age as Yato, although it is surprising that her voice is almost exactly the same as Kagura-sama, but when she first saw her, Tao had an instinctive dislike for her.

Especially afterwards, Fei once came to her when Yato was away, and asked her if she would like to accept her as an artifact.

The result was naturally rejected by Tao.

Tao once heard about "Nora", which is an artifact with several names and used by many masters, but she didn't expect that this little girl was also Nora.

Yato said that Fei grew up with him like a family, and it was "father" who raised them.

But that "father" is an out-and-out human being, and Yato is a little god born from his wish.

Tao once saw that "father" from a distance. He was a middle-aged man with a desolate appearance in a monk's robe. No matter how he looked, he looked ordinary, but he had such a persistent desire and obsession to be able to give birth to a god. It's hard to imagine.

But Yato attached great importance to them, so she couldn't say anything.However, almost 50 years have passed now, and the "father" who is a human being is also old. According to the current lifespan of human beings, he should not live long.

Humans... always like this...

Looking at Yato who was scurrying around in the woods to catch hares with her chin resting, Momo sighed.

——It’s been 50 years, I don’t know what happened to them...

——She really, can't wait any longer, it's too long...

She thought of the small courtyard, the corridor illuminated by sunlight, the young man who was always waiting for her arrival alone, and his eyes that seemed to be filled with sunlight.

What a pain to wait.

When she was a monster in the past, she never felt that time would be so difficult. Even hundreds of years would pass quickly, but why, now it is only 50 years...

——She still has to wait for a long time...

If she hadn't met familiar people like Yato and Meiyu when she was a child here, she would have started to doubt whether the things she had experienced before were true.

What a disgusting feeling...

"Peach, I caught it!"

Yato, who was wearing rabbit ears, ran back happily while waving at her. The warm spring sun shone on his fair and delicate face, bright and brilliant, and he could vaguely see the shadow of the innocent boy thousands of years later.

Tao looked at him, and also bent the corners of her mouth.

……

Two years later, Yato's father passed away, but neither he nor Fei seemed very sad. Although Tao was puzzled by this, she didn't bother to ask.

On the contrary, she herself became a peach tree and spent more and more time quietly in the shrine that people built for her. When Yato ran to find her, she always had to shout several times under the tree to make her show up. This made the little boy complain every time.

"Um... sorry." Rubbing the hair of the whining little boy, Tao sat down with her face in her hands, and sighed melancholy, "but no matter what I do, I can't cheer up... "

Yeto stood in front of her suspiciously, stretched out his small hand to touch her forehead, "Is Tao sick?"

Tao shook her head, her gaze fell vainly on the faces of the people who came and went to and from the shrine, as if she was looking at something but didn't see anything, "I just feel like I can't bear it any longer—"

"Patience for what?" Yato imitated her curiously and sat beside her holding his face, looking in the direction she was looking at.

—Be patient with solitude, be patient with the days of waiting, be patient with time...

Why is time passing so slowly? !

——She wants to go back to Honmaru, she misses the Candlestick Cut dishes, the bean paste buns at Nanatsujiya, and the noisy knives

In the future, she will never complain that they are annoying!

"Yato," Momo sighed again, she turned her head and looked at the boy who looked up when she heard her name, "Do me a favor."

Yato blinked his eyes, "Okay~"

Tao lowered her eyes, "I want to sleep for a while, when the time comes, come and wake me up."

"No problem~" The little boy patted his chest and asked with a smile, "How long will Tao sleep?"

"100 years." Tao looked at his froze face, "Wait until the first year of Wenzhi, you wake me up, this is what I want to ask you."

The smile on Yetou's face disappeared instantly, his expression was a little flustered, his eyes flickered, and he grabbed her sleeve, "Why, why did it take so long?"

Tao slumped his shoulders, and patted his head comfortingly, "Because I really can't bear it anymore, I always feel that if this continues, I will degenerate into a monster before that day comes."

The more time goes by, the more I miss it deeply, the memory can't fade with time at all, but every time I think about it, I feel empty pain in my heart.

She really wanted to do something to vent, seeing the peaceful and happy people, she even felt a faint jealousy and unwillingness.

If it goes on like this, it won't work...

"Must it be like this?" Yato had a sad expression on his face, as if he had lost something important.

"Well," Tao nodded and looked at him, "Please."

The author has something to say: ps. Yato’s father is a bit similar to the first generation Kirishu D Spedo in the family education. He can constantly possess human beings to experience life, old age, sickness and death, so he died here, Yato and Fei also don't feel anything...

In addition, Fei has the ability to make the artifacts injured by her gradually recall the memories of her life and degenerate into a monster. Later, it was because of this that Bishamontian, who was a warrior god, suffered a big loss.

But because Tao is not bound by a divine weapon, and she is not like ordinary gods who have to use a divine weapon to fight. Her own force value is enough to kill monsters, and she can't find a weakness, so Yato's father has nothing to do with her. After observing for a while I didn't bother to provoke her anymore

Of course these peaches don't know, she only saw it once from a distance and thought it was an ordinary person, and he was Yato's father, so she didn't go into it much.

Okay, the next chapter continues Time flies~ Then there is a sword coming out~