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But wait, if I put it this way, fulfilling my duty as the guardian of Gensokyo...it doesn't seem impossible.
"Inuyasha, how about you hit me, gently?"
Her duty is to supervise the monsters that come to the human world and prevent them from doing evil. Beating the supervisor herself, this must be considered evil, right?
So can she temporarily gain the power of the Hakurei Miko?
I just don't know if he will force Inuyasha to retreat after gaining power. Forget it, it always feels a bit bullying.
Inuyasha also shuddered. Of course he didn't dare to hit the Hakurei Miko. Although he couldn't figure out what the woman was thinking, he always felt that it was not a good thing. He just thought it was a joke.
So Inuyasha laughed twice.
"That's an ugly laugh, stupid dog."
He was scolded by Seshomaru.
Inuyasha wanted to curse back, but he quickly lost the energy.
Tamamonomae didn't die! It wasn't because she couldn't resist Ame no Murakumo, but because the sword didn't hit her.
"Hehe, hahahaha."
There was a burst of shrill laughter. Seshomaru dared to mock Inuyasha for his ugly laughter, but he did not dare to offend Tamamonomae.
"Bai Ze, I know you like humans, but I didn't expect it to go to this extent."
The sword of Ame-no-Murasakumo did not hit her because she was hiding behind the puppets controlled by the Killing Stone.
Those humans, young and old, men and women, were just puppets, and there was no possibility of rescue. Bai Ze was so pedantic that he avoided the attack because of these humans.
"Do you think you are the savior? You are just a monster, hated and feared by humans. What's the difference between you and me?"
"Of course there is a difference, because you don't understand destiny."
"Destiny?" Tamamonomae was so surprised that she even forgot to laugh. How could someone actually believe such a stupid argument?
"History scholar, are you going to have a long lecture with me again? Do you think this is your lecture hall?"
No, it's not. The destiny that Bai Ze talked about has nothing to do with what Tamamonomae thought.
Then, a voice was heard in the woods. It did not belong to anyone who was originally present. It was the voice of a little girl.
"There is no destiny in this world. Everyone can control their own destiny. But there are laws. It is not allowed to hurt others wantonly."
Do monsters need to obey human laws?
Maybe not. But if she is the one holding the law, then everyone must obey it.
Bai Ze collected his spiritual power and stopped attacking. It was no longer necessary.
"who are you?"
Tamamonomae didn't quite understand. The girl who appeared here was a little girl. She wasn't a monster, and she probably wasn't a god, because she didn't have the smell of incense and faith. So she was just an ordinary person?
She could kill hundreds of ordinary people like this in an instant, but her body refused.
Dare not move, cannot move!
"I'm Oshima Reiya. I'm the shrine maiden of Tsukimine Shrine."
Even if she said it was Amaterasu or Susanoo, Tamamonomae would accept it. But she said a human name, which was meaningless to Tamamonomae.
She remembered what Kagura Chizuru had said before, the Sunday priestess of Tsukimine Shrine.
is her?
But it doesn't make sense, how could such a being be just a human witch?
Tamamonomae wanted to move. As a thousand-year-old demon, she was a great demon who once turned Heian-kyo into Demonic Kyo with her own strength. She dared not to challenge even if Amaterasu herself came.
But facing this human, every inch of her flesh and blood was terrified.
Ling also walked over to Kagura Chizuru and walked over easily, as if the barrier didn't exist.
The barrier really didn't exist. It wasn't broken. She felt it didn't exist, and it just didn't exist.
The so-called barrier is the study and application of the rules of the world by gods, demons, humans, and ghosts in the mythological era. It is also a rigorous discipline.
But what if the rules themselves do not recognize it?
Just like humans who believe in science, it is because they have mastered various scientific laws for hundreds of years. But what if the laws changed? F=ma changed, E=mc? changed, even 1+1=2 changed, then all civilizations created by humans would collapse.
This is what Tamamonomae faced, so the barrier disappeared.
Ling also looked at the people in the forest, hundreds of them, all of whom were parasitized by the fragments of the Killing Stone. Although they were only small fragments, they were not something that ordinary humans could accept.
They became puppets, like zombies.
Fortunately, they were not real zombies, because they were still alive. Even if it was true as Tamamonomae said, no one could save them, and they would be no different from being dead.
But after all, he is not really dead.
Those who have been fatally wounded and cannot be saved, and are only breathing. And those who have already died.
Saving the former is like a miracle doctor, and saving the latter is like a god.
Even though she knew she could bring the dead back to life, Ling was reluctant to use this ability and had restrained herself countless times in the past because she didn't know what the price of breaking the law of life and death was.
But since the person is not dead, it doesn’t matter whether he has half a breath or only one breath left.
It was just a normal job of curing illnesses. As shrine maidens, this had been their daily job for the past few hundred years.
Blue Mother -
Soft light rose, and those zombies stopped moving instantly, releasing a large number of blue butterflies from their bodies. Those were all "grudges", the essence of the Killing Stone.
The resentment lost its host, and the butterflies fluttered, supposed to return to Tamamonomae. But instead, the butterflies came to Reiya, fluttering and circling, and then disappeared one by one.
The Killing Stone should be immortal.
Tamamonomae felt her soul being torn apart, inch by inch, as the pieces literally disappeared.
The Killing Stone, which neither increases nor decreases, neither becomes dirty nor clean, has been sealed for hundreds of years, and no one has ever been able to truly eliminate even a little bit of it.
It will only move from one body to another from humans who succumb to their desires and feed on their desires.
Until Tamamonomae is completely resurrected.
But now the fragments are really gone.
They went where they were supposed to go.
Beside the beach of the Soul Sea, blue butterflies fluttered in the air, and soon they landed on the beach. As if weathered, they turned into crystal fine sand scattered on the beach, indistinguishable from other gravel.
On the hillside where poppies were in full bloom, Kotaro sat down next to the girl Hongxiang.
"I heard about your mother, Hongxiang. You should know that your mother has passed away."
She shouldn't wait foolishly on this hillside day after day. She is only eleven years old, and her life has just begun.
"I know, but I just want to talk to my mom again."
"Talk? Has your mother ever talked to you in these three years?"
"She did. Sometimes she told me to study hard, and sometimes she told me to learn to take care of myself. I had to learn to wash my own clothes and fold my own quilt. I'm already eleven years old, and I already know how to do all these. She talked to me a lot."
Kotaro wasn't sure if it was really the girl's mother talking to her or if it was all her imagination.
Her mother had been dead for three years.
"But in the past few weeks, Mom hasn't spoken to me. You said Mom was dead, I know, but even if it's a vixen or a ghost, I'm not afraid at all. As long as I can see her again..."
She just wanted to know if her mother had anything else to say to her. She just wanted to tell her mother that it was okay to be alone so that she could feel at ease.
She really just wanted to meet.
Kotaro didn't know what to say to comfort her. He could only look at the hillside full of poppies in silence.
But at this moment, a woman in witch's costume slowly walked among the poppy flowers.
The beautiful witch looked like she had walked out of a painting.
"Mom! Really mom?"
Hongxiang stood up. She wanted to run over, but she didn't dare to, for fear of breaking her dream, just like countless times in the past.
Kotaro didn't know if he should draw his gun. Hongxiang's mother had died long ago. That miko, she had no shadow.
"Hongxiang has really grown up." Sayaka stopped not far away, she bowed to Kotaro and saluted gracefully.
"Hongxiang, mom can't accompany you from now on. Is it okay for you to be alone?"
"Yeah." Hongxiang nodded. She knew she shouldn't cry and shouldn't make her mother worry. But she couldn't control her tears. She was obviously already an eleven-year-old girl.
"I can wash my own clothes, fold my own quilts, and now I have learned to cook. So, please don't worry about me, mom."
Yes, there is really nothing to worry about. The same goes for the Killing Stone and Hongxiang. Her life was a little short and a little hard. But Sayaka felt that she was very happy.
The poppies all over the mountains are clearly flowers that symbolize life and death, yet they are so beautiful.
"I'll leave the rest to you, Mr. Kotaro."
Sayaka left her last words and disappeared without a trace. Kotaro felt a little puzzled.
But the next moment, there was a huge earthquake in the forest and a huge monster appeared.
"Ah, it's a monster!"
A fox-like monster with nine tails.
This is the Killing Stone. Lingye allowed the soul bound in it to be reborn, and it turned back into the true form of the Nine-tailed Fox.
In the past they were monsters, but now, perhaps due to the changes in the world's rules, they have all become monsters.
She didn't transform into Gaia to fight, there was no special reason, just that she was in a bad mood after seeing Hongxiang saying goodbye to her mother. She was already eleven years old, a big girl, and could take care of herself.
This is true for Hongxiang and for her as well.
So, it’s okay to leave the monsters to Kotaro.
Chapter 403 Nine-Tailed Fox
"It's a monster! The monster is coming!"
A huge monster appeared in the forest at the foot of the mountain. Without ZAT issuing an evacuation order, the villagers rushed to take shelter.
Fortunately, ZAT has been there from the beginning.