There were several trees in the courtyard of Kurokawa's house. Zuo Cun leaned on the tree trunks and looked at Kurokawa Hideo below.
"Strange, this monster...seems like he can't see the little girl?"
The monster has strong jumping power and is very fast.
The little girl stood next to the monster, her face calm, and she didn't pay attention to the monster, just looking at Zuo Cun.
The monster hugged the tree trunk, trying to break the tree and throw Zuocun down.
Zuo Cun jumped up from the tree, stepped on the monster's face before the monster could react, and rolled to avoid the monster's attack.
Zuo Cun stood there, looking at the monster, his heart beating very fast, and there was nothing he could do.
In addition to wrinkles and swelling, the monster's flesh also had things similar to fish bones, and the black gas that was like a flame made Zuo Cun feel that something was wrong, and he did not dare to fight the monster hand-to-hand without a knife.
The monster was stepped on by Zuo Cun, and seemed to be angry.
"You... dirty and disgusting bastard——!!!" He roared and rushed over.
Zuo Cun stepped back quickly and did not come into direct contact with the monster.
At this moment, a voice appeared in Zuo Cun's mind.
"Do you need help?"
The sudden sound startled Zuo Cun. The monster fired black energy from its palm, and Zuo Cun barely managed to avoid it.
"Who are you?" He sorted out the situation and quickly asked, "How can you help me?"
"...Look behind you." The voice disappeared.
Zuo Cun resisted the monster's attack again. The monster looked even more terrifying and disgusting when he got closer.
Turning around, Zuocun looked behind him.
The girl with white hair and white eyes was standing not far behind him.
In her hands, she held two knives of her own.
The girl gently threw away the two knives and drew an arc.
Zuocun's eyes lit up.
He did not choose to get the knife, but instead caught the pheasant feather that had been with him for a longer time.
Zheng——
Zuo Cun seemed to be a different person instantly after getting the knife.
At this moment, the wind and snow seemed to have stopped.
Jump up like a feather, and then——
cut!
The monster transformed by Hideo Kurokawa separated its body and head with just one blow. After swaying twice, it fell to the ground.
Kurokawa Hideo's body seemed to melt and turned into a puddle of black water.
Zuomura let out a long breath and felt even more horrified when he saw the disappearance of Hideo Kurokawa's body.
Using the hem of his clothes to wipe away the remaining black blood on the pheasant feathers, Zuo Cun finally felt a little more at ease.
The pheasant feather returned to its sheath, and the girl with white hair and white eyes appeared next to Zuo Cun out of thin air again.
Zuo Cun didn't speak first, he just walked to the other side, picked up his sword, and put it in his belt with Zhi Yu.
"You are strong." The girl said.
"My level is not good enough, how can I be strong?" Zuo Cun shook his head and touched his left rib.
It was rubbed by a monster there, and I don’t know how badly it was injured.
"You are strong enough, but... now is not the time to end everything." The girl lowered her head.
"You seem to know a lot, can you tell me what exactly happened here?" Zuo Cun frowned, "If I hadn't been here today, I would have died here long ago."
"Do you want to know?" The girl looked very beautiful, with white eyelashes. She raised her head and looked at Zuo Cun intently.
"Please tell me." Zuo Cun held the handle of the knife and said without hesitation.
"..."
Silence fell in the air, leaving only the sound of wind and snow.
"Please come with me."
The white girl floated up, and Zuo Cun jumped up and followed.
The direction the girl was heading was to the east of the village, in the direction of Kurokawa Mountain.
"You are the only one who came to this village and survived the first night." The girl floated and said to Zuo Cun behind her.
"Really?" Zuo Cun jumped, thinking about why the girl was floating.
"He was also the first person to give me hope."
call--
The cold wind was blowing around the university, and Zuo Cun was wearing very thin clothes, but there was no time to make him feel uncomfortable.
"What's going on with that monster, and what's going on with that woman with long hair?" Zuo Cun asked.
"That monster is actually not dead. When it gets dark tomorrow, everything will be restored to its original state." The girl's eyes were a little dim, "Restored to the time when resentment truly engulfed Kurokawa Shimomura, a village that was inherently evil. .”
"As for that woman."
"Actually, that's me." The girl said calmly.
The two of them have arrived at the foot of the mountain.
"That's... you?" Zuo Cun frowned.
"Yes, or that is me driven by resentment, who has turned into a monster."
"......Yeah."
Two faces appeared in Zuocun's mind and he compared them carefully.
Both of them seemed to be sure that apart from age and hair and eye color, the black-haired woman had many traces of the white-haired girl.
"But she can't see me, and neither can what she drives."
"She used these villagers to hunt and kill people who passed by here. I wanted to put an end to this atrocity, but I couldn't directly interfere with them, so I never succeeded in saving the people who were trapped in the illusion... until you arrived. "
"Use these villagers... that is."
"Yes." The girl nodded, "She used her own power to kill all the villagers——"
"Clean."
"Then, he held the souls of the villagers close to him and drove these souls."
The two of them arrived halfway up the mountain.
"What's the reason why she did these things?" Zuo Cun walked quickly on the snow and asked, "You just said that she killed the villagers out of resentment."
"Where does resentment come from?"
"You and her are the same person. Why did you two become two entities?"
"Moreover, you want to end her violence. As her other half, what is your reason for stopping her?"
Following Zuo Cun's questions, the two of them arrived at the top of the mountain.
And Lake Kurokawa also appeared in their eyes.
"What's your name?" the girl asked.
"... Zuo Cun Annuo." Zuo Cun looked at the lake and felt... cardiopulmonary arrest.
"Listen to me telling a story, Zuocun Anno." The girl turned around and looked at Zuocun who was covered in cold sweat.
"...You tell me."
The surface of Lake Kurokawa is densely covered with water.
Strewn with bloated corpses.
Zuocun finally understood why this lake was called Kurokawa Lake.
Except there is a family named Kurokawa sitting nearby.
This is it, the black floating corpses are floating all over the lake.
"In June of 1802, the Kurokawa family decided to build a village at the foot of this unknown mountain."
"And after." The girl looked at Zuocun and said every word.
"As the village chief, Hideo Kurokawa captured a sixteen-year-old girl from another village."
"It was made into a human pillar and sunk into the lake."
