"I know where the storyteller you are looking for is," she said, "but you have to promise not to come back again."
"I promise." Kiryu nodded: "Don't forget, there is an agreement between us, and we will never tell anyone else about your identity."
"He is resting in a ruined temple fifty miles away. We have met once before."
Kiryu suspects that there is some kind of aura connection between monsters. Unfortunately, his "Zashiki Warashi" skin is just a skin and will not really turn him into a monster. He cannot join the monsters' contact network.
"Then I'll trouble you."
The snow girl "hummed" and her body turned into white. She stretched out her hand to grab Kiryu and flew into the sky with a burst of snowflakes.
Waves of cold wind penetrated his body, and Kiryu couldn't help shivering. He turned around to see the smile on Yuki-onna's lips, and knew that this was definitely her revenge.
When we landed, there was a bamboo forest in front of us. There was a ruined temple in the bamboo forest.
A light rain fell from the sky.
Kiryu rubbed his arms vigorously. Although he could not freeze to death, the fine layer of frost on his arms made it uncomfortable.
The temple door opened automatically, and Kiryu glanced at the Yuki-onna beside him. Yuki-onna entered first, and Kiryu followed after seeing that there was no danger.
Inside is a Ksitigarbha stone statue, half a man tall, but no one has cleaned or worshiped it, and it is covered with cobwebs.
A man wearing a bamboo hat sits in front of the Ksitigarbha statue.
Kiryu looked at the bipa placed next to him.
"Your Excellency is a storyteller?"
"That's right." The man nodded.
"I wonder if you can sing The Tale of the Heike?"
"Yes, if you want to listen, I will sing for you, but it is very long and cannot be finished in a short time." The man replied.
"Then just sing one paragraph." Kiryu raised his finger and said, "Just make people cry."
The man picked up the pipa and strummed the strings with bamboo pieces, and a plaintive singing came.
Kiryu suddenly discovered that sadness came from the bottom of his heart. It was not that the song was sung with sadness, and he still couldn't appreciate the howling like a ghost, but that the voice contained a special power that could affect his mood.
It's like, a sad and magical sound.
Finished the song.
Kiryu did not receive a reminder that [Part-time job] was completed, but a few words did flash, as well as a certain red "①" mark.
mission completed.
He turned to look at Yuki-onna and found that Yuki-onna was wiping her tears.
"It's raining heavily outside, why don't you listen to a story?" the man said.
Indeed, when I turned to look outside, I saw heavy rain falling, and the bamboos were bent down.
"please"
Kiryu nodded, the mission was completed, and he still had two or three days to return to his own world, so he could waste this time however he wanted.
"About a few hundred years ago, seven hundred years ago, a few years after the Battle of Dannoura, a blind storyteller named Hoichi came to a village. His ability to play the pipa and sing at the same time was very good, and he was very popular. The surrounding villagers are so fond of him that even the rich local lords are vying to invite him."
"One night, a samurai suddenly came to invite Hōichi. He said that a princess liked Hōichi's singing very much and asked him to set off immediately. Hōichi did not dare to refuse, so he had to go with him.
When they arrived at the house, the princess asked Hoichi to sing The Tale of the Heike, but Hoichi said that the song was very long and could not be sung in one night, so the princess asked him to sing it for six consecutive nights, and Hoichi could only agree.
After singing all night, the samurai sent Fang Yi home and ordered him not to tell anyone else about the incident. If he didn't keep his promise, he would die. "
"After Fang Yi rapped for two consecutive nights, he was so exhausted that he even turned down other invitations. The villagers felt very strange about this, so they followed Fang Yi quietly. However, they did not expect that what the villagers saw was Fang Yi sitting on the grave and singing, surrounded by Will-o'-the-wisps dance."
"So when Fang Yi returned home at dawn, the villagers immediately told him about Fang Yi singing in front of the grave last night, and Fang Yi confessed his identity.
He used to be a samurai of the Taira family and was ordered to protect the princess, but because he was greedy for life and afraid of death, he killed the princess and used the princess's head to ask for credit from Genji. Unexpectedly, Genji looked down on Yoshiichi's selling out for glory and stabbed Yoshiichi blindly in the eyes. , Fang Yicai slowly became a storyteller. "
"The villagers found a monk to preside over him, and wrote the Prajna Heart Sutra on his chest, back, head, face, neck, hands and feet, all over his body, telling Fang to stay still until the ghost of the Taira family could not find Fang. He will leave after a while, and he will be safe from then on, but the host forgot to write a scripture on Fang Yi's ear."
"The Taira ghost warrior came again at night and couldn't find Hoichi, but could only see a pair of ears floating in the air, so the ghost warrior pulled off Hoichi's ears. The ghost of the princess also cursed the greedy Hoichi to live forever, but He wants to tell the story of the Heike forever."
After the man finished telling his story, he felt calm and the rain outside stopped.
Kiryu glanced at the side of the man's face, but didn't see his ears.
Wu Erfang Yi, it seems that it is him.
He nodded and left the ruined temple with the snow girl.
"What a sad story." The snow girl was still sentimental.
Regardless of whether they are banshees or female evil spirits, they all have filters for stories. Kiryu deliberately persuaded the other party to repeat the words he said to the female evil spirit Isora, so as to open up the minds of the female monsters in this dungeon world.
After all, the female monster story is different from the women of this era. They have the ability and do not need to rely on the era.
Women can also hold up half the sky and can even realize their own value in life.
But if I think about it carefully, if Xue Nu no longer cares about Si Zhiji, she will definitely break up with herself. Maybe the first step to realize the value of life is to fight with herself.
So... let her be a love-minded girl who is willing to show up for love.
When leaving, Yuki-onna left Kiryu behind.
Kiryu glanced at the earless Yoshiichi in the ruined temple. It was quite stressful to spend the next few days with an immortal cursed person.
He carried the bamboo basket and continued to move forward.
Before evening, we finally arrived at a temple. There was only an old monk and a young novice monk in the temple.
Kiryu took out the money from his "brother-in-law" Mizuki Gisei and used it for incense. He was immediately warmly welcomed by the old monk and the young novice monk, who enthusiastically cleaned a side room for him.
At night, Kiryu drank hot tea and ate a pack of biscuits. When he came out to use the toilet, he happened to meet the old monk chanting sutras.
"Thank you very much for your charity." The old monk stood up politely and handed a piece of paper over: "Please accept it."
On the paper is a word written with a pen.
"Ghost", just without a flick of the head.
"This!" Kiryu suddenly remembered the missing child case mentioned by Officer Fenghai. The unknown criminal sent a word through the photo, just like this word.
"Excuse me, Master, what is the special meaning of this word?"
"This is the word," the old monk said, "Our temple enshrines the Ghost Mother Goddess, and the Ghost Mother Goddess is a ghost who has corrected evil, so the ghost horns on her head have been removed."
