Yaeji licked his chapped lips, subconsciously swallowed, but there was no sweetness to moisten his throat.
The girl with ear-length pink hair... The boy looked towards the highest place on the hillside, with disappointment in his blue and purple eyes.
"That's right. The water in the river has dried up. If the cherry trees can still bloom, then it's a ghost."
The delicate boy muttered in a low voice, raising his eyes to look up the hillside from time to time, as if he wanted to wait for a miracle to happen.
"How do you tell Rin? When the cherry blossoms bloomed last year... I seemed to be sleeping under a tree?" Yaeji recalled carefully, and came to the top of the hillside not long after.
Looking around, there is a piece of bare tree branches there, and the ground under the feet has cracked in some places, not to mention the cherry blossoms in the sky, not even a petal can be seen. Yazhongji looked at the ground pitifully with a small face.
Yaeji touched the small bag he carried with him. He had promised Rin before that he would fill it with a small bag of cherry blossoms and take it back. Now this plan can be said to be completely ruined.
"Ka~"
The slender branches lost the toughness of the past, and they were easily broken when they were broken.
withered. If there is water, Yaeji would have to use all his strength to break off these branches.
The sun was high in the sky, and the season when the cherry blossoms were blooming was far from being so hot, but without the supply of water, a thin layer of sweat had already appeared on Yaeji's white forehead.
Almost all the cherry blossom trees on the hillside are like this. There are bare tree branches all over the mountain, without any vitality, which looks very desolate.
Yazhongji found a stone and sat down, touched the small bag tied around his waist, put his hands on his cheeks, his little face was full of sorrow.
"How to explain to Rin?"
The cherry blossom tree planted in the shrine did not bloom, and he vowed to his younger sister who was seriously ill at home that he would fill the mountain with cherry blossoms and return.
"Ah~"
The little hands frantically rubbed the hair, making a mess of the beautiful pink hair.
"Ah!"
Yazhongji was taken aback, he didn't yell so loudly. The little face was full of vigilance. I don't know when it started, there were more and more fierce beasts wandering outside the village. Every time he walked out of the village, he would carry a special sachet from the shrine to cover up his smell.
'Who is so careless? '
Yazhongji glanced at the village below the mountain, then identified the source of the screams, gritted his teeth, and sneaked cautiously towards the source of the screams.
The hillside was too far away from the village, and when he ran over to inform his father, the villagers would be done! As a family that serves the gods in the village, he naturally has the responsibility to protect the village. This is the idea that his father had instilled in him since he was a child.
Of course... Seeing that the form is wrong, he will not foolishly level up.
Pressing the training wooden knife slung across his waist with his left hand, Yaeji bowed his waist and searched for it all the way.
Taking advantage of the bare cherry trees and other withered plants, Yaeji poked out half of his head and looked down the mountain.
A huge, bear-like ferocious beast bit the upper body of the young man, shaking wildly!
Yae Ji's pupils constricted.
There are obvious purple crystals on the limbs of the "bear", and under the sunlight, those crystals faintly reflect pink light, which is extraordinarily beautiful.
Yaeji doesn't think so.
That's a monster! The villagers of Yae Village call them 'monsters'! These monsters are extremely powerful, and the priestess who guarded the village last time died at the claws of monsters.
Yazhongji's small face turned pale slightly, he thought it was an ordinary beast, how could he think it was this kind of monster! This hillside is close to the village, and once the patrol team in the village finds youkai, they will notify the shrine to deal with it.
However, there are generally no monsters around the village, and there are quite a lot of beasts that are slightly larger in size. If he has a sharp knife in his hand, he will dare to step forward to fight.
But the monster... .
Yazhongji vaguely remembered that when the monster was killed for the first time in the village, people happily carried the monster's body back to the village. In this era, there are very few opportunities to eat meat, and the beasts that appear outside the village from time to time are rare delicacies.
People only think that monsters are bigger beasts. After the barbecue and eating... Some villagers turned gray and turned into monsters that only attack people! There are also some villagers whose physique has been slightly enhanced, but after eating too much meat, they will still turn into monsters.
The monster has no consciousness and only attacks humans. My father said that it was caused by the hatred of the dead monster.
Ya Chongji didn't know the truth, and he couldn't tell anything.
According to common sense, he should return to the village as soon as possible and tell his father, let him lead the young and strong to kill the monsters.
But Yazhongji didn't dare to move, his pupils constricted to the extreme! This was the first time he had seen a monster eating people!
The smell of blood easily covered up the smell of dust, the corpse lying on the ground remained motionless, and the monster devoured the man completely with just a few mouthfuls.
After the monster left, it took another ten minutes before Yazhongji dared to get up.
When he came here, the bear-shaped monster was biting the man's upper body and shaking it wildly, as if something flew out of his pocket and fell to the side.
And... other than the screams, he could only understand roughly what the man said.
Even the poor man's clothes were very different from theirs.
"Why do foreigners come here?"
Yazhongji walked towards the pool of blood, and there was not even a bone residue left besides the torn pieces of clothes.
The blood splashed on the blood beach and other places always reminded Yae Ji of the ferocity of monsters devouring people. Suppressing the discomfort in his stomach, Yaeji searched for the black shadow that was thrown away.
Not far away, Yazhongji found the "black shadow" under a dead tree. It was a weird rectangular thing, it should have been thrown out of the man's pocket, hit the tree trunk and fell down.
Yaeji saw some familiar images from the weird rectangular object above.
"Roar!"
The roar of a ferocious beast was heard in the distance, and Yazhongji immediately stuffed the oblong strange thing into the small bag, and turned back up the mountain road from before. Don't think too much, it seems that the smell of blood will attract many beasts.
All the way back to the top of the mountain, Yazhongji could see the scene in the village from above, and Yazhongji felt relieved. Get the oblong oddball out of the pouch.
"ah?!"
One side of the strange rectangle is shining brightly, and the people on the screen...
"Sakura?! Why is Sakura in there?"
Yazhongji's little face turned pale with shock, isn't this much better than seeing monsters eating people
"Sakura won't be sealed inside this evil box, right?!"
"No!" Yazhongji took a few deep breaths, and carefully looked at the evil long box in his hand.
Sakura is his younger sister, who have been living together since childhood, how could he not know her
Although the girl sealed in the evil long box is 80% similar to Sakura, Sakura is obviously much smaller than her!
What's even more bizarre is that the "Sakura" sealed in the evil long box actually has a pair of pink donkey ears!
The girl "Sakura" was wearing the shrine maiden costume in the Yae Village Shrine, which surprised and delighted Yae Ji.
"Are you Sakura?"
"Why don't you talk?"
"Are you sealed inside?"
"If you are sealed inside, just blink your eyes, I will find a way to get you out!"
"Sakura" in the evil long box still didn't speak, Yaeji was in a hurry, and his little hand suddenly touched some button.
A wonderful music suddenly came out from the evil long box!
Yazhongji shook his small hand, and almost threw the evil long box out.
Yaeji suddenly remembered the legends of various monsters in the shrine. Could it be that the "Sakura" in the evil long box was actually transformed by a monster that seduces people's hearts
Yazhong Ji glanced at the evil long box with apprehension, and stretched out his small hand to "touch" the pair of "donkey ears".
"Um?"
The girl "Sakura" in the picture suddenly changed her posture, and the expression on her pretty face became disgusted. She stood sideways with her hands folded in front of her chest, and an ominous black gas was emitting from her whole body!
"The captain's supplies are all guaranteed, and the captain's copy is zero."
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