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Even in island countries that advocate the culture of "mono no aware", few people are willing to plant poppies in front of their homes.
The hillside where poppies are in full bloom is a place where life and death separate and it is difficult for us to meet again in this life.
"Hongxiang, what's your last name?"
"Last name? I don't have a last name."
She had no father since she was a child, and even the villagers didn't know who her father was, so she didn't have a surname. Everyone called her a wild child, and no one wanted to play with her.
"What about your mother? Her last name is Isayama, right?"
"Do you know my mother? My mother's name is Sayaka Isayama."
it is as expected.
At the foot of the mountain, a group of ZAT team members, led by the head of the vigilante group, walked up the hillside.
"Look, those flowers on the hillside are so beautiful."
"That's poppy, planted by Hongxiang's mother in the past." said the team leader.
"So who is Hongxiang's father?" Kotaro asked. Before, he had always mentioned Hongxiang's mother, but no one had ever mentioned Hongxiang's father.
"She has no father."
"No father?"
There is no one in this world without a father.
"Her mother, Sayaka, is a shrine maiden at the shrine on the hillside. A working shrine maiden."
Kotaro shut up. The shrine maiden in office must be the purest woman. But Sayaka got pregnant and gave birth to Hongxiang. No one knew who her father was.
No wonder the villagers disliked her. If she had gone back a hundred years, she would have been punished even more severely.
"But, when her mother disappeared, no one came to claim her?"
Araki still didn't quite understand. Even if he had had sex with the miko and didn't want others to know, Hongxiang was innocent. For three years, did her biological father really not care? After all, she was his own flesh and blood.
"When I said Hongxiang has no father, I meant it literally. The doctor who delivered Sayaka said that she is still a virgin." The captain stopped and said with a complicated expression.
"Ah? How is this possible?"
"It's true. The doctors and nurses all know it. That's why everyone says Hongxiang is the child of a vixen."
That wasn't her mother.
After her mother's accident, no one dared to adopt her, everyone was afraid. Only the people from the autonomous association would arrange her food and accommodation every day.
"We've arrived at the shrine."
A shrine located on the top of a mountain.
Although it is called a shrine, it is actually very simple. In addition to the main room for worshipping the gods, there is only one side room for the clergy to live in. The entire shrine is only 50 or 60 square meters, and it is so dilapidated that it is unknown how old it is.
"The hillside opposite the shrine is where Hongxiang often stays. You can see her when you walk over there."
Now that we're here, there's no need to rush.
Araki glanced into the shrine.
"What deity is enshrined here?"
"It's Amaterasu. But rather than worshipping, this shrine is said to be for suppression. According to the legend of Tamamonomae eight hundred years ago, the nine-tailed demon fox was killed here by the Yin-Yang master and the army. After death, it turned into a killing stone."
"When the Killing Stone appears, poisonous water will flow everywhere, and the whole area will be in turmoil. Therefore, Nasu Shrine will regularly send shrine maidens to guard here."
"Although modern people think that the Killing Stone is just superstition, this tradition has lasted for eight hundred years, and the shrine has been sending shrine maidens here continuously."
"The one who came sixteen years ago was Sayaka, the miko. Her last name was Isayama, and I heard she was a direct descendant of the Nasu Shrine. She was a very pretty child, and was willing to help the villagers. Her ability to treat illnesses was better than that of the village doctor. So everyone liked her at first, but who knew this would happen later."
On the hillside, Ling sat on the ground among the poppies.
"Hongxiang, you know? Poppy comes from the country across the sea. It's a story from more than 2,000 years ago. A girl named Yu Ji committed suicide for her husband Xiang Yu. The flowers growing next to her tombstone are slender and graceful, as if they are dancing. So this flower actually blooms for the person you can't let go of the most."
"The one you can't let go of the most?"
“Yes, even if everyone has forgotten it, it will still bloom after forgetting it.”
Life and death may separate us, but there are some things that we cannot let go of even with the separation of life and death.
"See that thick fog in the forest over there?"
Of course Hongxiang saw it, she had seen it since morning.
"what is that?"
Ling also stood up and brushed the grass clippings off her skirt.
"That was a battle. The legendary nine-tailed fox can corrupt people, and once the Killing Stone is touched, one will fall into the abyss. But your mother used her body to seal it for three years after the Killing Stone was born. As a priestess, she protected this village, this town. But in fact, the one she wanted to protect the most should be you."
She is not a god but a human being. However, Tamamonomae, who once dared to challenge the gods, was sealed by her in a human body for three years just because she is a mother.
But that was already her limit, so a week ago she used her last bit of human consciousness to go to the Nasu Shrine, thinking that the shrine's priestesses could help her seal the Killing Stone.
Unexpectedly, the shrine maiden of the main shrine, her sister, Isayama Mei, was unable to resist the power of the Killing Stone even for a moment. She was tempted by eternal life and eternal youth, and became a puppet of the Killing Stone and a vessel of Tamamonomae.
The fighting in the forest continues.
The sun sets in the west and a full moon hangs in the sky.
When the moon is full, the power of the Killing Stone reaches its peak. Tamamonomae enjoys the moonlight from the sky, and feels her demonic power rising continuously. The posture of Isayama Mei can no longer be maintained, and a furry tail grows behind her.
One, two, three
When the nine-tail grows, she will be truly born. It is not enough, if she can get the Eight-foot Mirror.
The Eight-foot Mirror is neither a weapon nor a protective gear, its real function is to hold Shinto rituals. With the Eight-foot Mirror as the center of the formation, she can receive the legendary Emperor's Lava and restore her true form.
Today was the night of the full moon. If she missed tonight, she would have to wait another month. She couldn't stand it any more.
Similarly, under the full moon, Kamishizawa Huiyin also changed her appearance, with two horns growing out of her head and her face also subtly changing a little.
Inuyasha, Seshomaru and the Bull-headed Demon were completely unable to intervene in the battle at this time. They were just little demons who had practiced for hundreds of years. Even Momiji Kari was very reluctant.
Only Huiyin, a mythical beast recorded in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas".
In normal times, Huiyin can attack by erasing history, but on full-moon nights, she can create history.
"Spirit-producing ancient pyramid!"
The spiritual power belonging to Bai Ze turned into countless runes and poured towards Tamamonomae like a barrage of bullets.
There was no room to dodge, Tamamonomae could only flap his wings with his fox tail, and the tide of spiritual power made the forest bumpy.
"Stop it, Tamamonomae. This is not the era of Heian-kyō. The gods have promised us in Gensokyo that as long as you are willing to let go of your hatred, even monsters will be allowed to exist."
"Fantasy Township? It's just a cage! Why should this land belong to weak humans? Weak and extremely greedy, humans are only fit to be pigs and sheep in our captivity! Eight hundred years ago, I almost succeeded. The demon country on earth, Bai Ze, you destroyed all of this! Do you still want to hinder me now?"
Bai Ze understood that Tamamonomae was beyond redemption because the world would not forgive her.
Rather than letting this world destroy her, if she dies at her own hands, Tamamonomae at least has a chance for reincarnation.
This is the mercy of fellow demons.
"National Talisman·Three Divine Swords·Ame-kun!"
Kagura in the barrier was a little surprised.
The Murasaki Sword? Like the Yata Mirror, it is one of the three sacred treasures.
Although it was a spiritual power illusion, it was indeed the aura of the Ame-no-Kume sword, a divine weapon that could slay demons and even kill the Yamata no Orochi.
This is what is called creating history. As long as something has existed in history, it can be summoned as a projection.
Bai Ze, the auspicious beast, used her advice to dissuade the king from his moral faults and stabilize the fate of a country. She was able to carry the national treasure, the sword of Ame-no-Murasakumo. She did summon Ame-no-Murasakumo from history.
Chapter 402: The Last Mercy
The spiritual energy in the sky condensed into a sword shape, shaped like a fish bone.
The Kusanagi Sword, also known as the Kusanagi Sword, is one of the three sacred treasures and is said to be enshrined in Atsuta Shrine, but the real sword has never been seen and replicas are used in the enshrinement ceremony.
So I haven't heard that anyone has actually seen this sword.
Only Kagura knows that the sword of Ame-no-Murasakumo is real.
However, it is not clear whether it is related to the legend that Susanoo killed the Yamata no Orochi and obtained this sword from the snake's belly.
Just like whether the Eight-foot Mirror in Ise Jingu is really the incarnation of Amaterasu, no one can tell. A mirror is just a mirror, and a sword is just a sword.
It doesn’t matter whether the original source is from myth or a blacksmith’s shop.
Since it exists, there are people who witness it. Regardless of whether it is true or not, what is witnessed by people and recorded in history books is "history."
History doesn’t have to have happened. As long as people follow the crowd and it becomes a convention, even if three people say something, it is history. After hundreds of years of sedimentation, if many people believe it, then it is true.
History is the source of Kamishizawa Huiyin's power. She borrows the weight that history carries.
The incomparable Tian Kusanagi is the first of the three sacred weapons. It is also the pinnacle of the power that Bai Ze can borrow in this land.
The National Symbol: The Sword of Three Sacred Weapons is a sacred weapon that can suppress a country's destiny.
The sword scares the gods and ghosts.
Tamamonomae wanted to use her demon country to overthrow the dynasty of the human race on the island. She had failed in the past, but she thought it was not her fault.
Legend has it that her predecessor did the same thing, using the body of the Nine-Tailed Fox to overthrow the Shang Dynasty, which was born from the black bird that fell from the sky. This is just an island country.
But this time, when she really faced the national treasure, she felt the fatal threat in an instant.
She is not Su Daji, and is not as powerful as she thinks she is, able to challenge the destiny of a country. Tenmu Yun can really kill her.
The earth was cut open, a chasm opened up deep in the forest, the mist in the forest was dispersed, and the broken fox tail could be vaguely seen.
Inuyasha used his sharp claws to hold onto the exposed rocks to stabilize his body, so he was not blown away by the wind pressure. For a monster like him who had practiced for less than a hundred years, any aftershock from the battle between the two sides would be enough to kill him.
"So dangerous, so dangerous."
Inuyasha heard the voice of the Boli Miko, and Reimu was hiding behind another rock not far away.
"Hori Miko, you are here. Aren't you going to teach that Tamamonomae a lesson?"
Of course she is here, she has always been here.
She also wanted to teach Tamamonomae a lesson, but outside of Gensokyo, unless she was fulfilling her duties as a guardian, she was just an ordinary person.
She couldn't even fight with the hooligans. She couldn't get involved in a fight like this.