[Onmyoji] I may have met a fake big tengu

Aqing is a little girl from the same village as Axue, one year older than Axue, but Aqing was much luckier than Axue when she was a child. Like the children in ordinary families in the village, her parents are healthy, and she barely has enough food and clothing for three meals a day. Live simply and happily.

As a 13-year-old girl, Ah Qing’s hobby is to collect strange stories. Although there are folk legends that bad things will happen if you collect a hundred strange stories, Ah Qing, who is stubborn and cheerful, never cares about these. They will gather friends from the village and go to an abandoned house at the back of the village to talk about ghost stories.

That night, as usual, Ah Qing made an appointment with her friends in the village to share strange stories together. That night was the 77th strange story Ah Qing collected. There came the sound of weeping, appearing and disappearing intermittently, and it seemed very strange in this quiet night.

Ah Qing herself is very interested in monsters, coupled with her boldness, her fear could not overwhelm her curiosity in the end, so she followed the voice to find it.The sound came from a small wooden hut built next to the main house of the village chief. It was probably used as a firewood warehouse or something. There were windows on both sides of the wooden hut for ventilation.She went to the window, put her feet on her feet, looked out, and then saw A Xue curled up in the haystack and weeping softly.

From that day on, Ah Xue and Ah Qing knew each other.

Ah Xue envied Ah Qing very much, envied that she had parents who loved her, envied that she could play freely, envied her happy and carefree childhood, and envied all that she had but did not have.Ah Qing loves A Xue, this girl who is one year younger than her but has almost nothing, so Ah Qing secretly visits A Xue every once in a while, and brings her a strange story that she has collected every time.

If you want to ask Ashe the happiest time in his short 13-year life, it must be this time.For the first time, someone really cares about her, someone loves her, and will tell her a story.

"A Xue, have you ever thought about escaping from this ghostly place?" Ah Qing once asked Ah Xue.

A Xue hesitated for a long time in silence, and finally shook her head: "Where can I go if I leave here? I can't go anywhere."

Penniless, she will eventually die outside, no one knows, no one cares, so it is better to stay here, although it is sad, but she can still live.

Ah Qing was silent for a moment after hearing her words, then she smiled, poked her head into the window and looked at the thin figure of Ah Xue in the room.

"Okay, don't talk about such a deep topic, Axue, let me tell you, I have collected the 98th of my ghost stories, and I can collect all the hundred stories in two! It's not easy!"

Hearing Ah Qing's tone full of excitement and excitement, Ah Xue also seemed to be infected by that joy and slightly raised the corners of her lips and smiled, "That's really good, Ah Qing, I will tell the whole story when the time comes Listen to me, you're only now telling me the... 41st."

"Of course, you are my friend. When I collect the 100th one, I will share it with you as soon as possible!"

"Is it agreed?"

The very thin body due to long-term malnutrition tried hard to stand on the tiptoes and stretched his arms out of the window, and then a little finger that was slightly cold at first and then warmed gently hooked her little finger and shook it three times. Immediately, Ah Qing's voice full of laughter sounded outside the window:

"Ah, it's agreed."

Yes, they made an agreement that when she collects the hundredth ghost story, she will share it with her as soon as possible.However, this sentence unconsciously seemed to be a curse. Ah Qing, who had clearly agreed to visit her every two or three days, never showed up again after that night.

On the seventh day, Ah Xue was a little confused, but didn't think much about it. Maybe Ah Qing is very busy recently.

On the 14th day, Ah Xue was a little uneasy, but there was nothing she could do.

No.20 One day, Ah Xue's uneasiness reached the extreme. She begged her stepmother to let her go out, but the stepmother beat her up and locked her in the woodshed.

No. 30 days, Ah Qing finally appeared.

At that time, she was still standing under the window where they secretly met and chatted before, and a ray of green light penetrated through the gap in the window, projecting the slender figure outside the house onto the wall, which looked a little weird.

"Ah Qing??"

Seeing the familiar shadow cast on the window, even though she didn't see anyone, Ah Xue still recognized Ah Qing at a glance.

"Ah Qing, you're finally here. I'm worried about you being away for a month... Ah Qing...you...?"

Ashe leaned out of the window on tiptoe as usual, and then saw the figure standing more than three meters away from the window at a glance, with such a beautiful face, but no matter whether it was hair color, pupil color or lip color Everything has changed.She was sitting on the handle of a large candle lamp, and the candlelight shrouded her faintly, which was obviously very weird, but Ah Qing seemed to have merged into the faint green candlelight, and it didn't seem disobedient at all, and she just Looking at her like this, his eyes are cold.

"Ah Qing..." Ah Xue didn't know what to do for a moment.

Hearing this, Ah Qing smiled at her, the smile was not alienated, but it was not as close as before.

"I'm sorry, it's been so long, I've made you worry. As you can see, I...have become like this."

"..."

"Axue, I have collected the hundredth ghost story, and then I will never see the sunrise again." Ah Qing said softly, with a calm and cold tone: "Axue, I have become a monster, and you still... Am I a friend?"

"..."

Ah Xue didn't speak, but the hot tears that were brewing in her eyes finally couldn't help falling down in big drops, and soon wet her pale cheeks.

From that day on, A Xue's only friend, A Qing, became a monster, a monster who could only live at night and could not live without candle lights, named Qing Xing Deng.

After becoming a monster, Ah Qing seems to have grown up a lot. Her delicate and beautiful face no longer bears the childishness and innocence of a girl before. She has a calm expression and always smiles lightly.She said that after becoming a monster, her emotions as a human being have been eroded a lot, so although she has all the memories of before becoming a monster, she has lost her previous strong emotions for things or things before her. friendship, too.

But even so, since Ah Qing appeared in front of her as the monster Qing Xingdeng, as if fulfilling her promise, Ah Qing would still visit her every once in a while, sometimes once every three days, sometimes Sometimes it will come once every seven days, and sometimes it will come only once a month, but every time she comes, she will bring new strange stories to her.Ah Xue has no objection to this, as long as Ah Qing can treat her as a friend and tell her stories, she will feel very happy.

Time passed like this, and as the younger brother in the family grew older, Ah Xue's position in the family became more embarrassing and weak, and the living environment became more and more harsh. Looking at her was also like looking at garbage, cold and disgusted.

The firewood house where Ah Xue lives is made of wood, so although it does not leak rain, it is ventilated on all sides.Summer is okay, but once it comes to winter, it is extremely cold, and the cold wind seeps into the house from all directions, so Ah Xue can only shiver on the haystack wrapped in a thin bedding every night, and hope that the sky will dawn soon.

The winter of that year was extremely cold. Snowflakes began to fall in Kyoto as soon as December entered, and it became heavy snow in the middle of the year. In the first few days, the snow piled up on the open space higher than ankles. When the snow stopped, many children in the village came out to build snowmen and have snowball fights. However, when the snow fell more and more frequently, the snow piled up higher and higher, and soon covered their calves. People finally realized that this year’s snow was extraordinary. .

Under such weather, many people in the village fell ill, and Ashue's ten-year-old brother was one of them.

In ancient times when medical skills were backward, a small cold and cold could take away a fresh life at will, so even if the younger brother's condition was not very serious, the whole family would do their best for him. Suffering from irritability, no matter whether it is the father, grandma or stepmother, they become more and more ruthless towards A Xue, as if to vent their inner rage and worry about his younger brother.

"You lose money, why are you not the one who is sick? Why are you still so well? My poor grandson..."

"Why didn't you take good care of your brother that day? Are you happy that he is like this now! Bitch!"

"Axue, I'm not in the mood to care about you now, go back to your woodshed and don't hinder me from taking care of your brother."

Why do you treat her like this, why do you hate her so much? Is her existence so meaningless? Will they be happy if she gets sick or even dies instead of her brother...

"Ah Qing, do I...have no meaning in this world." She asked.

"..." Ah Qing glanced at her in surprise, this was the first time she had asked such a question of her own existence since she had known her for so long.

"Why is there no place for me in this world, why no one needs me, father, grandma never think I don't exist, what is the meaning of my existence? Why am I... was born. You say, I will tell you Is it good to be a monster as well, is it a little bit useful and will be needed?"

Ah Qing looked down at Ah Xue, who was covered with scars. It was not her wish to become Qing Xingdeng, but she didn't know how to respond to the crying girl in front of her. She finally reached out and touched the girl's hot forehead, whispering softly road:

"Silly boy."

The younger brother's illness gradually worsened, and the situation at home began to sink into grief from the irritability at the beginning. My father, grandma, and stepmother no longer cared about her existence.

The stepmother and grandmother knelt and wept by the younger brother's bed, and the father looked sad.

Such a disease in such an age in a ten-year-old child was doomed to die.This is something the whole family understands.

"If... if we can pick that snow lotus... my poor son..." the stepmother wailed loudly, her tone full of grief and despair.

With a heavy face on his face, his father covered his eyes with his hand: "Stop talking, it's impossible to go up the mountain in such weather, let alone find snow lotus, it's fate."

"Ah, my poor grandson, my poor grandson..." The grandma was holding her brother's hand and crying heartbroken.

A Xue stood outside the door and listened. After a while, she walked out.

"... Snow lotus, I'll pick it."

The choking sound in the room stopped immediately, and the three looked back at her in surprise.

It is undoubtedly a good thing for grandma and stepmother that someone is willing to take the risk of picking snow lotus in such a heavy snow day. Even though Ah Xue is only 14 years old, even if there is almost no hope, at least... it gave them a little bit of hope.Although his father didn't agree very much at first, he was persuaded by his stepmother and grandma in the end, so the three of them, who had always been sneering at Ah Xue, watched Ah Xue, who was wrapped so tightly for the first time, leave.

There have always been such rumors in the village that on the top of the snow mountain behind the village grows snow lotus that can cure all diseases. This is the purpose of Ah Xue's trip, and that is the only hope for his younger brother.

In fact, Ah Xue herself didn't know why she wanted to take this matter down, she just thought of the sentence of her grandmother at that time:

——Why are you not the one who is sick, why are you still fine?

Then if she worked so hard to save her brother, wouldn't she...will change her opinion a little bit and love her a little bit more?

After all, this 14-year-old girl still has hope in her heart. She really wants to be loved by her family once.

The situation on the snow-capped mountain was a bit more severe than that at the bottom. The wind and snow covered the sky, even blurring Axue's vision. She was walking in the waist-high snow with difficulty. The cold wind eroded every inch of her skin, sinking into the In her thin and frail flesh and bones, it was the biting cold that no matter how thick she wore, she couldn't resist it.So she finally fell on the snow, and then passed out.

I don't know how long it took, maybe it was only a short moment, or maybe an hour or two later, Ah Xue finally woke up after struggling. Shake off the snow on your body and continue walking up the mountain.Unexpectedly, after waking up, Axue felt that her body was much lighter than before, and the wind and snow were not as cold as before.She couldn't help but wonder, did she come back to life?

Her luck is very good. It can be said that the best luck in her life is spent at this moment. She doesn't know how she crossed the snowstorm, climbed up the snow mountain, came to the top of the snow mountain, and then picked the snow lotus in the crack of the rock.

Finally, I finally got it. This is my brother's life-saving medicine, and it may also be a turning point in her life.

All she wanted was to go back quickly, take the snow lotus back quickly, take it back, and then with this thought in mind, she went through the snowstorm again and went down the mountain to go home.

Father, grandma, you see, Ah Xue is not useless, she can pick snow lotus, she can save her brother, so can you take a look at her?

She carefully carried the snow lotus in her arms and went down the mountain full of expectations. On the way home, she stepped into the house, and then she saw a home with a different atmosphere from before.

"God bless, bless my grandson to survive, God bless..."

"Mother, the medicine is too bitter and I don't want to drink it."

"What did you say? It's hard for you to get your life back. Drink it soon, or father will be angry."

"No, no, your father was nervous when you were alive, so drink the medicine obediently, and your mother will accompany you to drink."

A happy family of four, the father and grandma both showed reassuring smiles because the younger brother recovered from his illness, the naughty younger brother wanted not to drink the harsh medicine, and the stepmother coaxed him lovingly.

No one remembered her who risked her life to pick snow lotus, no one cared about her, there was never a place for her in such a family of four.

"It's evil to say, my grandson will be fine as soon as the money-losing goods go away, maybe it's a nemesis, killing her mother and coming to harm my grandson."

"Yeah, my mother-in-law is right. Maybe it's a monster or something. You said that there is nothing wrong with sleeping in the woodshed. My son almost..."

"Hmph, it's a good thing she's gone, so let her die outside and don't come back. Anyway, she's been kept as a loser."

Father frowned, but in the end he didn't say anything, as if he had acquiesced, and then the harmonious atmosphere in the room returned.

Axue stood outside the door listening to the conversation inside, she was still holding the snow lotus plant in her arms, she was silent, with no joy or sadness on her face, she put the snow lotus at the door, then turned and left again .

It turns out that she really has no value in existence. You see, even if she desperately went to pick snow lotus, so what, my brother doesn't need it at all, so what is the point of her desperate effort?No one needs her at all...

There is no place for her in this world, she is not needed anywhere, and she cannot be accommodated anywhere, so in the end she returned to the snow mountain, stumbling up the mountain facing the wind and snow, then she tripped and looked down. , she saw a small figure covered by thick snow, her expression changed, she pushed away the snow covering her body with trembling hands, and then she saw herself.

His thin body was submerged by the wind and snow to a depth of at least half a meter, his whole body was already stiff, and his dirty and delicate face had been frozen dark purple, obviously dead for some time.

Ah... So she was already dead at that time... Whether it was picking snow lotus or sending it home, it was just her obsession, but she had already fulfilled her obsession, and there was no more She has a place to live, so so be it, sleep peacefully on this snow mountain forever, let this snow mountain be her final destination.

"This is the story of Xue Nu's life as a human being."

The author has something to say: _(:з」∠)_I always feel that the real snow girl is a bit miserable...

I hope Xue Nu's daughter can forgive me... I didn't mean it, and I love her!Um……

The voting results of the previous chapter have come out. It seems that our Qingming father has won the right to be the protagonist of the next article with an overwhelming number of votes.

Okay, then as everyone wishes, the next new article will be the one by CP Seimei.

I'll let you know after reading the copy in a few days.

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Thank you for the nutrient solution of the above little angels (bow)