[Onmyoji] Chronicles of Heianjing

It was the sound of water, and a woman was struggling and crying.Such a familiar voice, who is it?Why is it so painful!Even his own heart felt uncomfortable.

The inexplicable dizziness gradually receded, and Shiyasu Noguchi stood up while supporting the wall.In front of him was the solemn Ujihashi Hime Shrine. He looked around suspiciously, and the people were kneeling quietly.He never believed in these ghosts and ghosts, so he was about to leave the shrine quietly, but when he was about to step out, he somehow felt someone was watching him, so he subconsciously looked back, and the enshrined Uji Bridge Hime disappeared in an instant. Turning into the appearance of Haruko, she stared in horror, as if she wanted to ask Noguchi for help.But in the next second, she returned to the solemn and gentle goddess Qiao Ji.

Noguchi rubbed his eyes, looked at the statue carefully, but there was nothing abnormal, as if the scene just appeared was a hallucination, but he was always a little uneasy, so he decided to turn around and pay homage to Ujihashi Hime, for his mother Pray with Chunzi.

"I ask you to bless Chunzi and her mother in safety and health."

Noguchi said that he was pious, but his inner uneasiness was getting stronger and stronger.The candles lit in the shrine were blown by the wind, and the shadows swayed in the dim light, looking terrifying like ghosts and monsters.Noguchi knelt on the futon, couldn't feel the wind, but felt cold, which was really weird here.In the end, he left the shrine as if he had fled, wandering the trails beside the Uji River.

He couldn't remember why he was here. He usually fished on the boat at this time. Could it be that he was so tired that he couldn't even remember what he did?Noguchi was puzzled.He stepped onto the Uji Bridge, and he felt a sense of familiarity sweeping over him at this moment, as if he should have stood here in the first place and had never left.

Noguchi felt that today was really weird. He rested on the bridge pillar, but found that the peaceful river suddenly became turbulent, and it seemed that something was about to float over. It was a cabbage wide belt embroidered with pink cherry blossom patterns, which was caught by a stone. , Swaying in the water like a snake.Noguchi couldn't look away because it was Haruko's belt.They went shopping together at the beginning of last year. Chunzi took a fancy to this belt. It was a very popular style at the moment. Chunzi liked it very much, but gave up because of the lack of money at home.Therefore, he worked hard for a month, and finally bought it and gave it to Chunzi. He still remembers her expression at that time, as happy as if she had obtained the most precious treasure in the world.She said to Noguchi very seriously, Zhikun-kun, the belt is very beautiful.Noguchi knew what she meant, and everyone knew what she meant.

Such a precious thing should not be thrown in the river at random. Pale hands stretched out from the river, with black hair faintly visible.That hand grabbed the belt and kept pulling it downwards. After several attempts to no avail, the owner of the hand came out of the water. Noguchi met her gaze, and the woman showed a sad expression and shouted, "Zhikang-kun, water So cold."

Although it was far away, the woman's words seemed to ring in his ears, with a wet chill wrapping around his body, and he also felt a bone-chilling chill in an instant, a feeling of pain and despair.Noguchi fell to the ground, and when he got up from the ground, he looked into the water again but saw nothing.

The water in the river clearly looked like Chunzi.

"Chunzi Chunzi!"

Noguchi ran as hard as he could, and almost collapsed when he got home.He lay down on the porch, and the newly changed tatami mats pulled him back to reality from a drowsy state.Yuriko was busy cleaning the house, and she laughed when she saw her son's weakness. She helped Noguchi up, and carefully arranged his messy sleeves and hair.Noguchi broke free from her hand, and she immediately showed a gloomy expression.

"Where is Chunzi? Where is Chunzi?"

"already dead."

"Impossible! You're lying to me!" Noguchi shouted, his hand tightly grasped his mother, and he couldn't accept what she said.

"Why did you lie to you?"

Yuriko was too calm, Noguchi looked at her face, as if a basin of cold water had been poured on her, he let her go, "You are not my mother, who are you?"

"Ah," Yuriko was surprised, her face suddenly changed into that of Haruko, and the cabbage cherry blossom belt was tied around her waist. This change made Noguchi keep backing away, the woman grabbed his hand, and this happened again A cold feeling, like a poisonous snake, "Zhikang-jun is not that stupid."

Chunzi smiled.The environment around them suddenly changed, and the two sat on the edge of the Uji River. Noguchi wanted to escape, but Haruko grabbed his hand with surprisingly strong strength, "Shiyasu-kun, please be patient."

"What are you going to do? Where is my mother?"

"Mr. Zhikang has too many questions." Chunzi shook his head, "Please be quiet."

Chunzi looked towards Qiaotou, and Noguchi followed her gaze, and the woman who appeared at the bridgetou was Chunzi.She had a smile on her face, and her two dimples looked full of vitality.This is Haruko, Noguchi thought to himself.Chunzi was waiting for something at the bridge, Noguchi guessed that she was waiting for him, but after a while, a man came from the other side of the bridge, it was not his figure.

"Does it look familiar? It's Jiro Hirakawa, you were once very good brothers, right?" Haruko next to him spoke with a trembling voice, and Noguchi suddenly opened his eyes wide.No, everything was wrong, it wasn't like this, he finally remembered.Haruko was dead, and Hirakawa Jiro was killed by the banshee summoned by the third-rate onmyoji a few days later.

So what appeared here was Chunzi's ghost?Noguchi lost his fear, he approached Haruko, felt the coolness of the hands holding him, and wanted to use his hands to make them warm, just like last winter.Chunzi's health is not good, and her hands and feet are always cold. He often holds her in his arms and warms her hands.

"Have you remembered? I thought it would take longer." Chunzi pulled out his hand and smiled miserably, "It's useless, Mr. Zhikang. Ghosts don't have warmth."

"Help!"

The screams kept repeating, and Jiro Hirakawa at the other end threw Haruko to the ground and dragged him to the woods by the river.Noguchi wanted to turn his head away from the heart-wrenching scene, but he found himself unable to move.Haruko in the woods tried to escape several times, but was caught by Jiro Hirakawa. Finally, Jiro Hirakawa, impatient, hit her ankle with a stone and blocked her mouth with a belt.

The kimono was scattered all over the place, and the afterglow of the evening shone on Haruko's numb face. Jiro Hirakawa got up and put on his clothes.He looked at Chunzi's bloody ankle, and without any emotion lifted her up and walked towards the river.Chunzi didn't struggle anymore at this moment, she tightly grasped the wooden hairpin in her hand as if trying to embed it into her flesh.

"Why." Chunzi's voice was hoarse, Hirakawa Jiro didn't answer her but just walked forward, "Why! Why! What did I do wrong!" Chunzi cried, and the wooden hairpin in his hand tied Hirakawa Jiro's back tightly. The pain caused Chunzi to fall to the ground.

"I can't help it." He stepped on Chunzi's fingers, and Noguchi could hear the sound of bones breaking. Hirakawa Jiro kicked Chunko, who was about to get up, off the river bank. She didn't struggle in the water for too long, and soon sank.Hirakawa Jiro looked at the river indifferently, turned and left, and Noguchi almost despaired when he heard his last mutter.Noguchi's mother asked for it, he said.

"You just don't understand your mother's obsession with you. I can feel such strong feelings. She lied to me to wait for you on the Uji Bridge, but when Hirakawa Jiro came, I knew something was wrong. I will never forget the wolf-like eyes, he is a ghost! He is going to hell!" Chunzi screamed heart-piercingly, but finally calmed down, "No matter how much I begged him, he would not let go. Do you men have so-called morality? Do you hurt the lives and dignity of innocent people in order to repay another person's kindness?"

"No, that's not the case." He knew that his mother had been kind to Hirakawa Jiro, but he didn't expect that she would let Hirakawa Jiro do such an inhumane thing.

"It's too late," Chunzi shook her head, and slowly got up and walked towards the river. She didn't wear clogs, and the kimonos were retreated one by one, and the scars all over her body were displayed in front of Noguchi. The scene where they meet under the cherry tree in Nara.

The immature girl was wearing a pink kimono and walking on the streets of Nara with delicate lanterns. In the dark of night, amidst the crowds of people, he met her by chance under the cherry blossom tree, which was a predestined fate.But his Chunzi, with the departure of Chunri, has disappeared like cherry blossoms.

"Mr. Zhikang, the water is so cold."

Chunzi in the river looked back, in fact everything was hazy, but the ending was so clear that Noguchi woke up with tears.

"Mr. Noguchi? Mr. Noguchi, are you finally awake?" Kagura showed a worried look, "You suddenly passed out after the barrier was broken. Everyone is very worried."

"I'm sorry." Noguchi choked up, "I met Haruko's ghost, and she told me everything in her dream. It's all my fault. If I could have realized it earlier, it wouldn't have happened, wouldn't... "Noguchi couldn't speak at all, and Kagura patted his back, sighing with regret.

"She invaded your dream?" Da Tengu frowned, and looked at Qingming again, "A female ghost alone is not capable of doing this, presumably—"

Qingming took the big tengu's words, he smiled lightly at a place in the white mist, and said, "Qiao Ji has appeared."

"I've been waiting for you for a long time."