1855.
August 3rd.
Although at the end of July, Samura, Ryoma, and Miss Aaron came to the town closest to Kurokawa Mountain.
However, a few people stayed here for about a week before setting off again.
The reason...
"Oh! Zuo Cun! Is that white monster lady beautiful?" The girl with light pink hair asked Zuo Cun, who was walking in front, with her eyes twinkling.
"... Hair like snow, eyes like ice, that's the monster lady." Zuo Cun looked at Kurokawa Shimomura located at the foot of the lush mountain from a distance, his eyes narrowed slightly.
Ah, as expected, it still looks like that.
It is full of deception. It is obviously a place of death like purgatory, but it looks no different from an ordinary village.
Different from the season last time I came here, Kurokawa Shimo Village is not hidden in the wind and snow, it is more conspicuous, and there must be more pedestrians approaching, wanting to stay overnight or ask for some rice and porridge.
However, the final result is...
Arriving at the entrance of the village, the four of them looked at the stone with big red characters on it and couldn't help but feel chilled.
"This place is..." Ryoma's hand involuntarily grasped the handle of the knife.
He is a good old man who never thinks about hurting anyone or killing anyone. Therefore, even though his swordsmanship is not weak, the sword is basically not unsheathed, and he does not have the habit of putting other samurai's hands on the handle.
However, after learning about this place through Zuo Cun's mouth, Ryoma just saw these words and felt...
Not scared, but heartbroken.
Such a tragic tragedy is entirely due to disgusting bad habits.
The innocent girl was captured, her limbs were cruelly cut off, sealed in a mud pillar, and sunk in the water.
If I can successfully cleanse this country, I must eradicate these bad habits...all of them!
Miss Aaron doesn't feel anything else.
She has seen too many killings between humans and monsters killing each other.
Humans, in a sense, are far scarier beings than monsters.
And what about the monsters transformed from resentful people?
Moreover, I heard that there seems to be a powerful bear demon here?
Miss Aaron's hair was flying in the air.
Having said that, although it is comfortable and happy to be with Ryoma, but...
She hasn't really done anything for a long time.
The showdown with Zuo Cun a while ago ended in an anticlimactic manner, and Miss Aaron didn't enjoy it at all. I wonder if this time...
Ms. Okita has a liveliness unique to a 13-year-old girl.
But Okita Souji is no ordinary thirteen-year-old girl.
In order to run out and play, she practiced shokudi endlessly.
And she is a samurai.
Okita Souji carried his luggage and headed southwest from Edo aimlessly.
Then unexpectedly, he met Zuo Cun in this small town who was maintaining his knife on the roadside, and then naturally joined the team heading to Kurokawa Shimo Village.
The blood vessels in Samura's right hand holding the handle of the knife bulged.
Zheng——
The large stone with the words "Kurokawa Shimomura" written on it is divided into two.
Hoshikuma Yukina... I'm here to fulfill my promise and end this madness that has lasted for fifty years.
"This place will enter another state after entering the black sky." Zuo Cun walked in front, "Okita, Sakamoto, Miss Aaron, thank you for being willing to accompany me to this hell that does not belong to the human world."
"...I want to cleanse this country, so let's start from here." Ryoma's heart was heavy.
"Don't worry, Miss Aaron is very reliable!"
Okita didn't speak. She held the handle of her knife nervously and looked around.
"Please remember that after dark, no matter how inconspicuous or weak the people who appear in the village are, their inner beings and themselves are just evil spirits still attached to the drowned corpses. Please... ..Be sure to kill without mercy." Zuocun said thoughtfully.
Several people nodded to express their understanding.
Zuo Cun looked at the horizon to the west.
The sun was already faltering.
A drop of cold sweat ran down Ryoma and Okita's faces.
Zuo Cun narrowed his eyes.
The sun... sets.
Dark night - begins.
In Kurokawa Lake, the long hair of the monster Hoshikuma Yukina is traced back, a human pillar protrudes from the water, and nearly 600 drowned corpses emerge from the lake.
The world of evil spirits has arrived.
"Here we come." Zuo Cun said.
Darkness fell, and the lights of Kurokawa Shimomura suddenly lit up.
Pedestrians appeared on the road, and the sounds of villagers communicating could also be heard.
It's as if this village is still alive.
In the Kurokawa residence, the fifty-year-old man frowned.
Hideo Kurokawa, as the village chief of Kurokawa Shimo Village, even after being killed by Yukina Hoshikuma's evil spirit, he was still the village chief and the evil spirit's village chief.
Occasionally Hoshikuma Yukina doesn't want to appear in the village, but Kurokawa Hideo has certain command authority over these evil spirit palms.
It's not the rights given to him by Yukina Hoshikuma, but even among the evil spirits, Hideo Kurokawa is the worst.
He felt that four strange auras appeared in Kurokawa Shimomura.
In the past, several people appeared together in Kurokawa Shimomura, but today these four...
Anno Samura, Ryoma Sakamoto, Souji Okita, and Miss Aaron stood back to back in the square of Kurokawa Shimomura.
Some "villagers" seemed to sense the breath of living people, and walked out of their homes one after another, looking greedily towards the square.
The evil spirit that takes the living to the back mountain will be rewarded with a piece of "resentment" from Yukina Hoshikuma and become more powerful.
"Hey, when did these guests come to the village?" A villager who looked like an old man approached the four people with a smile.
"No need to talk nonsense, remember, these things are not human!" Zuocun pulled out the pheasant feathers and shouted loudly.
The old man also realized something was wrong and retreated a little.
"Guest, what are you talking about?" The old man looked scared and raised his hands.
Ryoma couldn't bear it and was still hesitating.
The old man narrowed his eyes and his hands became swollen: "Catch someone who is careless!" Then he rushed towards Ryoma.
Poof——
"Hey...what do you want to do to Ryoma?" Miss Aaron's eyes were dark, looking at the old man who was pierced by her own claws.
"Haha - damn it, who are you?" The old man turned into a drowned corpse and looked at Miss Aaron in disbelief.
At this moment, more villagers gathered in the direction of the square, including people who clearly didn't look like villagers.
That was a traveler who was dragged into the water, an innocent person who did not belong to Kurokawa Shimomura. After being killed, his soul was stuffed here.
They clearly saw that these four people were not simple, and they showed their malice unabashedly.
"Who are we...the ones who end purgatory." Zhiyu flashed by, and Zuo Cun said expressionlessly.
