My name is Alaya,
I felt like a butterfly.
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Ryunosuke Ubu's parents were the first builders of Fuyuki's new capital. They keenly sensed the opportunity when this coastal town, which was originally just a remote fishing village, was about to expand and decided to move with their family.
Facts have proved that their vision was correct. Although it was difficult in the early days, after the dock and train station were built, Fuyuki's prosperity skyrocketed like its cargo throughput, and even in the new capital, the prosperity was no less than that of In other first-tier cities, the city government is still ambitiously planning to continue to expand the town.
But precisely because of this, it is difficult for Mr. and Mrs. Yusheng, who have become the backbone of Fuyuki after several years of struggle, to be idle. Their children have almost grown up taking care of each other.
Because of the lack of parental education and the school's teachers not having the responsibility to help students shape their worldview, both siblings have hidden psychological problems under their seemingly reassuring appearances as top students.
Although Yusheng Dahe has a rather masculine name, she actually has a petite figure and a delicate and cute appearance. When she and her brother stand together, they are often mistaken for brother and sister. She is very annoyed by this and often forces her brother to "walk squatting" ".
Ryūnosuke Ubu is a cheerful and optimistic guy who can see into the subtleties of other people's moods and never gives up because of failure. He has strong curiosity and thirst for knowledge. He can always tolerate his sister's unreasonable troubles.
But that's just their appearance.
Ryuu nosukeo has an extraordinary insight into the concept of "death". In his eyes, whether it is a dying old man or a big tree that will be cut down for construction projects, they are all surrounded by a dark vortex of "death" But this was not a prediction, because when he witnessed a car accident, he found that the victim was surrounded by a "vortex" after being knocked down.
Because of this, he sneered at all horror and ghost movies, saying, "It's all fake." He always said this to his frightened sister.
Yusheng Dahe is very afraid of ghost stories, monsters or ghosts, but she always likes to listen to horror stories or watch related movies. Even if she is frightened and trembled nine times out of ten, she never gives up. In her words, "I am in Learn how to protect your brother if one of these things does show up."
Putting aside the psychological problems of the younger brother being keen on observing death and the older sister being fond of talking about ghosts, their own problems were actually caused by the Yusheng family having a thin magic bloodline and the fact that their house was located above a shallow spiritual vein.
If no magic association or church discovers and guides them, the most likely outcome is that the sister fakes it while trying a certain psychic ritual.
Really, after the younger brother found out that his sister had been replaced by "something", he killed him - or was killed, no matter what, the remaining one would become a crazy murderer with reason due to the awakening of blood abnormality.
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Recently, Ryunosuke Uyu, who always mocked his sister's enthusiasm for rituals as a "sickness", found that he was also "sick". He wanted to see more "deaths" and considered making them himself.
The reason is that Fuyuki's death rate suddenly dropped a lot during this period, and the "whirlpool of death" was almost completely invisible. Ryunosuke Uyu, who had never noticed that he was addicted, took a leave of absence to go to the construction site on the outskirts of the city, but found out that because of environmental protection As a result of organized protests, deforestation was temporarily suspended, and the "death" of natural trees no longer occurred.
As a non-smoker and drinker, he felt anxious about quitting smoking and drinking.
After killing many insects and destroying many flowers and plants, Ryunosuke used great perseverance to stop himself from submitting an internship application to the slaughterhouse because he found that he had chosen the wrong way to relieve his anxiety - choosing to make "deaths" himself. ", the ultimate target can only be "people", so if he doesn't want to become a murderer, he must find another way out.
Ryunosuke tried to participate in several of his sister's "rituals", but found that the situation was more serious. Taiga thought that she just purely liked mysterious things, but her brother, who had already stepped half of his foot into another world, keenly discovered that Almost all "safety measures" in the ceremony were ignored. If the ceremony was successful, the participants would be basically dead.
Therefore, her purpose is to enjoy the feeling that she may die at any time under the mysterious ritual with no guarantee. In other words, she is seeking death.
Could it be that our siblings have been cursed by something? If this continues, sooner or later I will do it myself—no, absolutely not.
Ryunosuke, who doubted whether there was something wrong with his family's bloodline, went to the basement where many old things were kept to look for clues, but even he himself didn't know what he wanted to find.
"Hundred Stories of Peace"
This is a miraculously well-preserved Japanese-style thread-bound ancient book, and it is not a printed matter. It should be a personal note. The date inside is written in the second year of the shogunate calendar. In addition, it is full of Chinese characters with almost no katakana, and there are a lot of references in the text. Judging from the deeds of monsters and the methods used by Onmyoji to summon shikigami, it should have been written during the Heian period more than a thousand years ago.
This thing was originally supposed to be classified as a "strange psychic method" that my sister liked, but Ryunosuke saw a "whirlpool of death" in the book that was almost imperceptible without looking carefully. How does a book die? Could it be that these are not my sister’s playful rituals but the real thing?
Ryunosuke, who was very interested in this, tried all the summoning methods mentioned in the article, such as drawing psychic arrays, paper-cut figures, or chanting spells, etc.
Unsurprisingly, they all ended in failure. It is natural to think about it. If this child's play-like behavior can really summon things, how can the profession of Onmyoji disappear?
"Ha, I knew I shouldn't step into my sister's territory." Finally realizing that he had fallen into Yusheng Dahe's usual enthusiasm for strange rituals, Ryunosuke shook his head and closed the book: "Let's try this last one, and... If it doesn’t work, just leave it to the tiger.”
The last one I tried was a ritual and spell that could summon [heroic spirits] that a modern person mentioned in his comments. Because his patience was about to run out, he didn't take it seriously during the ritual.
To draw the magic circle, he just found a few glasses of red wine and poured it into a circle. He also recited the summoning spell in a messy manner, and finally input magic power into the magic circle - hey, what is that?
But it worked.
The wind blew, and the air flow turned into a fierce whirlwind the moment it appeared, blowing the entire basement into chaos.
The red wine that was poured carelessly on the ground flowed by itself at some point and formed a blood-red magic circle with a five-pointed star surrounding the moon and sun as the center, and it was not blown away under such wind pressure.
The hurricane roared, and it seemed that there were countless different voices repeating the mantra. They were mixed but not chaotic, as if countless people were performing the same summoning ritual at different times, and the mantra was different under the multiple chants. Instead, the content became clearer. Although the languages used were different, the meanings they expressed were exactly the same.
【Swear here】
The strong wind weakened, and Ryunosuke Uyu's vision dimmed. What followed was a pain that felt as if he had been severely run over by a truck, and as if his bone marrow had been extracted. He fell to the ground involuntarily, but his eyes blinked. Looking at the magic circle without blinking,
[I am the one who accomplishes all the good deeds in the world, and I am the one who destroys all the malice in the world——]
He suddenly had an unshakable premonition that whatever was about to happen would change the course of his life forever.
[Your body obeys my command, and your fate is with my sword——]
Lightning thundered, wind and clouds rolled, and the young man who fell on the ground had his eyes hurt by the wind pressure, and had to reach out to block it, while the summoned pattern on the floor began to shine with red light.
[The guardian of peace comes from the Wheel of Suppression! 】
The incantation came to an abrupt end, and the channel connecting the source and the real world opened. From the blood-red light that spurted out like substance, a delicate figure appeared.
It was a girl with long silver hair and red eyes, snow-white skin and a stern expression. She wore a pure white nun's uniform that reached her ankles and had wide sleeves. She also wore a fur-edged cloak with buckles on her shoulders. Two rose-red satin ribbons embroidered with gold ornate patterns hung forward, and she wore a bright gold crown that was a little too big for her.
From an ordinary person's perspective, although this girl is dressed a little strangely, she can still be called very cute, but in the eyes of Uyu Ryunosuke...
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He never thought that he would see so many vortexes of death. Those countless "deaths" could not have been caused by mere accidents, wars, or disasters. His intuition told him that its scale was even far beyond the Hundreds of times the total population of the earth as recently calculated.
At this moment, Ryunosuke suddenly understood the strangeness between himself and his sister - both siblings have the ability to exist on the other side of the world, but that hidden world is stingy about opening the door, so that they are in this unexplained situation. Doing all kinds of strange things when anxious.
If you do it yourself, you will never be able to catch even a fraction of the death vortex in front of you in your lifetime.
Feeling endless death, even if he might be swallowed up in the next moment, he still showed a happy expression of getting what he wanted.
"Just a question."
The girl blinked her red eyes that were as bright as gems, and turned her gaze to the young man who had stood up at some point and looked dumbfounded.
"Are you my master?"
