total eclipse of heart

A lamp like a bean.

Under the dim butter lamp, there are figures of people, like the monsters and ghosts rampant in this era.

"People's hearts are sometimes even more unfathomable than monsters and spiritual power." After learning about Odakura's forced intrusion, Tsurumi said with a slight sigh, still holding on to the pen for approving official affairs, and there are many cases piled up official documents.

The young man who knelt before his case and reported the matter straightened his back and did not dare to relax for a moment.After hearing his words, his tall and straight back hunched slightly, his head lowered helplessly, and his long black crow-like hair flowed down his shoulders like a flowing spring.

"Tsurumi-sama...things have come to this point, next...do you want to continue like this?" Asakura murmured.

"Continue like this. No one will be allowed to see Master Ye Wang until he recovers from his injuries." Tsurumi agreed, and raised his pen to prevent the ink from smearing on the paper. His warm eyes fell on the dejected Mu, and he encouraged , "This is also what Lord Ye means. Mu, just like you defeated Teng Snake to protect Lord Ye, continue to protect Lord Ye."

Hearing this, the young man couldn't help clenching his hands into fists, and murmured in an almost inaudible voice: "It's not like this..."

"What?" Tsurumi didn't hear clearly.

The boy shook his head and changed the subject, "Thank you Tsurumi-sama for teaching me, I used those words to deal with Odakura."

Tsurumi shook his head with a smile and said, "These words are actually what Master Ye Wang told me to deal with in anticipation of his injury situation. Speaking of which, when Odakang was about to force his way in, Mu you also came up with it yourself." Did the words frighten him? So, if you want to thank, thank Mr. Ye Wang for your thoughtfulness and your own wit."

Mu smiled, but reluctantly.Seeing this, Tsurumi reminded him: "The Odakang incident was instigated by someone behind the scenes, and there will probably be more such incidents in the future. All forces will try to test the extent of Mr. Ye Wang's injury, and will also try to get rid of you, the person involved. The truth is revealed in the mouth. Mu, I do not doubt your loyalty to Master Ye Wang, but I still remind you, the young and innocent, that you must not relax your tone."

Someone has already done this, and he did not hesitate to shatter his firm belief, Asakura Mu thought sadly.He finally raised his head and nodded knowingly.

Even if he is naive, he also knows that Ye Wang is the most trusted person of His Majesty the Emperor, the so-called "below one person, above ten thousand people".Standing in this position, it would be fine if he was a mediocre person, but he was such a magnificent figure as Lord Ye Wang.Dark and distorted emotions such as resentment and jealousy arose in the hearts of some people. Mu had seen them turn into demons with his own eyes. He was powerless to resist at that time, but he could only pretend to ignore them, but he heard them represent those people cursing Ye Wang.

"Pushing someone into the limelight is not really admiration or liking, it's just a red herring and a sort of scapegoat."

Mu looked at Tsurumi Godao in puzzlement.As a domestic servant, he doesn't understand the melancholy hidden in Tsurumi-sama's deeply frowned brows, let alone understand that everything is not pure jealousy or dislike, but cruel politics.

Seeing the boy looking at him puzzledly, Tsurumi let out an ah, and smiled: "I was just muttering to myself just now. Mu, you only need to protect Master Ye Wang, and I'm here for the rest."

Asakura Mu nodded heavily.

is a dream.

Mu told himself this, hoping to calm down immediately.

However not.

Facing a burning sea of ​​flames, he still wanted to run away immediately.His leg was held by a hand, and he froze for a moment, as if he understood what it was, he kept shouting in his heart that he could not turn his head back, but he still turned his head and murmured to the person lying on the ground holding his foot Said: "Mom..."

"Mu... my child..." The woman who was unconscious by the thick smoke managed to pull up her upper body, raised her head to look at her son, and pulled his leg He suddenly grasped his hand tightly, and his face suddenly became ferocious, "Let's die together!"

Sharp nails dug into the flesh of the boy's leg.

The dream has been repeated many times, so Mu didn't struggle to back away, nor cried and shook his head, but quietly lowered his head, looked at his mother with a grim expression, and said, "No, I have someone I admire. Human, not alone anymore... So, I can't die, sorry mom. Sorry..."

The boy choked up and apologized repeatedly, but he clearly understood that this was a dream, so he waved his hand mercilessly.The woman's ferocious expression froze, her eyes widened, she didn't seem to have thought of this blow, and fell to the ground slumped.Then, her body shattered into pieces, and then the whole dream was shaken, and with a bang, everything shattered into pieces.

Among the countless fragments are countless memory pictures, for Mu, these are meaningless.He stood in the darkness, knowing that the dream was not over yet.

The darkness surged, surging into the shape of a burning flame, and it was a whole sea of ​​fire.Black flames flew up and fluttered in mid-air.After pushing away a swirling black flame, Mu saw himself and the man with red hair and red eyes.

It is Teng Snake.

His chest was pierced by a huge fist, and he lowered his head powerlessly. He raised his head as if he had exhausted all his strength, and looked at the huge monster behind Asakangmu who raised his fist to open his chest, and murmured : "A demon that exists by gathering countless evil thoughts, even if it is driven by people, it will devour the person who drives it..."

"I know." Hearing himself in the firelight, Mu replied firmly, "However, if it is used by Mr. Ye Wang, it is good."

"——And, you killed that lord!" With the roar of grief and anger, the demon behind him spun and pierced into the fist of Soaring Snake's chest. Soaring Snake wailed because of the pain, and his whole body turned black, and then gradually Dissipates into smoke.

After killing Soaring Snake, ignoring the monsters behind him, he staggered to the side of the dead King Ye, took back King Ye's head, and put it together with his body.Facing Ye Wang's detached corpse, he sobbed in pain because he didn't know what to do.

"Meow~" The cat jumped down from the top of his head again, and landed lightly beside Ye Wang's corpse. He tilted his head to look at it for a while, then "meowed" again, and raised his head to stop looking at the corpse.

Only the young man looked at the detached corpse helplessly, neither hugging nor putting it here, his heart was extremely sad.

A pale hand rested on his shoulder.

Mu turned his head and opened his mouth wide in a daze.Even in a dream, Mu also wanted to see Master Ye's calm smile again, as if nothing could knock him down.

"Master Ye Wang..." He murmured, thinking it was a dream, he looked at the smiling face in disbelief, and his eyes slowly moved to the corpse on the ground, it was the Shikigami former ghost owned by Ye Wang .

A blindfold?

Ye Wang in front of him nodded slightly, "That's right."

Facing Mu who was so excited that his body was trembling, Ye Wang seemed to feel that all this was not worth mentioning, and said indifferently: "Do you know, Mu, this is just a pediatrics in the Yin-Yang Dao, the most powerful is the 'Taishan Mansion' Lord', and such a spell is hidden in this book."

What he took out from his sleeve was "Slightly Determined Things".

After a quarrel, Mu, who was sitting guard at the door but fell asleep due to exhaustion, was slapped awake.

The person who came attacked was very ruthless, and Mu's ears were buzzing for a long time.The person who came was not polite at all, and didn't talk nonsense with Mu, this little thing, he just pulled him aside and stepped into the room. Seeing this, Mu ignored the ringing in his ears, walked around in front of the person, opened his arms to stop him, and said respectfully: "You can't go in."

Up to this time, no one had even looked at him.He is a tall, middle-aged man with stern features. He wears a que armpit robe, a tasseled crown on his head, a purple flat belt inlaid with exquisite jacquard embroidery around his waist, and a gold, silver, mother-of-pearl, etc. Knife, the front train is very long.There were three or two people behind him, also wearing Que armpit robes, curled tassel crowns, and a standard military officer's attire, but there were no ordinary belts around their waists.It seems that middle-aged men are the most official among them.

The kind of sword decorated with gold, silver, mother-of-pearl, etc., I have only seen in pictures, and it is a saber that can only be worn with the permission of the emperor. It is called Taidao.Even the gorgeous and dignified details on the costumes, judging from the calm and majestic expression of the middle-aged man, it is also the posture of a powerful person.

His ears were still buzzing, so Mu couldn't hear what the military officers behind the middle-aged man were yelling.He just stretched out his arms and said firmly: "I'm sorry, Mr. Ye Wang doesn't want to see guests, everyone please go back."

"If there is someone who doesn't seem easy to mess with, try to delay the time and secretly use a psychic medium to notify me to deal with the situation." Before, Tsurumi instructed him.

Mu nodded, then shook his head again.

"If that person must meet Lord Ye Wang on the spot, then it will be too late, so I will try my best to face it."

"This is in Kyoto, and Lord Ye Wang is not the only master in Kyoto." Tsurumi reminded with a slight sigh, "So if there is such an unavoidable situation, Mu, I think you should avoid it, Ye Lord Wang will stay behind."

Mu nodded again, then shook his head again.

"It is true that Lord Ye is not the only one in the capital, but in my heart, there is only Lord Ye. Therefore, I will try my best to prevent Lord Ye from wasting extra energy on this."

So at this moment, I will try my best to stop it.

But the middle-aged man snorted coldly, and suddenly raised his foot and kicked Mu directly, Mu's thin body flew up, hit the wall with a slamming sound, and then his body slowly slid down.This time, the tinnitus stopped.

He heard a click in his body, and then clearly heard the arrogant words of those people.

"Hey, you bastard, do you know who this lord is?"

"This is General Saito, the general of the Imperial Guard. You really dirty his feet when you kicked him!"

"King Ma Cang Ye taught a domestic servant like you, so it can be seen that it is not a well-educated thing!"

Mu kneeled weakly on the ground, supported his body with his hands on the ground, and then wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, realizing that the kick just now had probably broken his ribs.Then he raised his head to look at the group of people, General Saito stared down at him expressionlessly, then rolled his eyes up arrogantly.

Konoe General Saito is the first military officer and the leader of the military officers.As humble as a shepherd, I have also heard of this lord.But according to the rumors he heard, this lord and Lord Ye Wang were extremely at odds, yet they came to visit at this moment.

"His Majesty the current emperor attaches great importance to Yin-Yang Dao and only favors Yin-Yang Liao. Many adults can't see it. Therefore, if this is the case, don't confront them head-on and follow the trend. This is also for the good of Lord Ye." Previously , Tsurumi Wudao told Mu Qian ten thousand times, for fear that he would offend those adults.But it is not possible to change other people to guard Lord Ye Wang, because Lord Ye Wang does not trust other people.

Recalling Tsurumi's words, Mu's hand on the ground changed from a palm to a claw, and finally clenched into a fist.

"I (Note 1) are humble people, but I have heard of General Konoe General Saito. The general is the first military officer, and his military exploits are illustrious. Even a woman in a boudoir probably has heard of it." A flattering speech, It made the military officer behind the general nod repeatedly.And the general also looked down at him extra, but it wasn't because of the kind of words that he was tired of hearing, but because of the calmness in the boy's tone.

Fist suddenly clenched.

Mu's tone was still calm, "However, I didn't expect to see with my own eyes today that the general first trespassed on other people's houses, and secondly, he was arrogant and rude, which is what a general should do, even worse than ordinary people. "

As soon as the words fell, the military officers behind General Saito couldn't hold back, shouting and rushing forward, determined to clean up this lowly thing that offended the general and insulted the general with words.

But Mu just looked at them indifferently, and summoned Shikigami monsters.

What qualifications do they have to slander Lord Ye Wang?Clearly a group of incompetent people! ——Since he was able to kill his mother, he could naturally kill them too!

Although Saito and the others couldn't see the shikigami, they saw the dark clouds outside the house, covering the sky and the sun, and the wind was blowing, blowing the entire roof over.And the darkness in the house gradually became thicker, swallowing all the light and turning this space into a dark kingdom.A military officer behind Saito couldn't bear it anymore, and suddenly shouted and drew his sword, "Go to hell, you monster!"

Mu snorted coldly, stretched out his sleeves, and the military officer's saber suddenly fell out of his hand, and it was nailed straight into the colonnade.Seeing this, the people on General Saito's side almost couldn't hold back their faces. They all drew their swords, and relying on excellent night vision to disperse and change into formations in the dark, they were about to kill Asakangmu in the center of the formation.

When the two sides were about to fight, a voice came from the screen: "Stop, Mu."

——It was the voice of King Ma Cang Ye.

The author has something to say: [For Teng Snake's forced exit, the author is deeply sorry to everyone who loves him, bow.But this is part of the protagonist's growth, and come to think of it, Teng Snake lived well in the main drama of "Young Onmyoji", and can still be in love with Chang Hao for 1 years XD. 】

[Note 1: Regarding the self-proclaimed Japanese servant, the author searched around and found that "私わたくしwatakushi" is an honorific used by people who compare their seniority or status.わたくし (private): It is also a common saying, but it is more solemn than "わたし".It is used on more solemn and serious occasions or when people with higher status and seniority than oneself speak.

Because the author is blind in Japanese, so I am learning and selling now, if there is anything wrong, please point out XD. 】