Saw the light in the dark.
Kotaro slowly opened his eyes and saw an unfamiliar ceiling.
Then he looked to the side, and what caught his eyes was a beauty in a bright red and luxurious dress.
She was sitting on the floor, her long, soft and shiny black hair was vertical to the ground, and her appearance was so delicate and beautiful that no charcoal seller could describe it.
The moment she noticed his gaze and looked over, Kotaro who met those cold eyes unconsciously stopped breathing.
"You're awake." She said softly, "How are you feeling?"
Kotaro came back to his senses, recovered his breathing, and lowered his eyes involuntarily, not looking at the other person's face—he instinctively felt that it was a kind of blasphemy for his humble self to stare directly at the faces of such beauties.
"Okay... pretty good..."
After barely answering, remembering what happened before, he blurted out his sister's name: "Fuyumi..."
"She's over there." The gorgeous woman said.
Kotaro followed the direction of the other party and saw a huge complex pattern in the center of Noda’s room, which seemed quite mysterious to him. A strange dark red mist gathered within the pattern, while his younger sister Fuyumi was lying quietly. In the center of the pattern!
"Fuyumi!!" Kotaro yelled, getting up.
"She was just a little bit close to becoming a ghost." The beautiful woman in gorgeous clothes said, "It looks like she is hanging on the edge of a cliff, and she will fall to the bottom if she is a little bit closer. It is already a miracle that she can still maintain her human shape."
The soft words contained irresistible persuasion, and the charcoal seller fell into despair when he heard these words.
"What should I do..."
"Being transformed into a ghost is a disaster that people here can't get rid of, but this kind of disaster shouldn't have happened to your sister." The beautiful woman in gorgeous clothes continued, "It's because there are real evil ghosts here for us, she It will become like this.”
"A real ghost?" Kotaro murmured.
"Well. An existence that is completely different from us and does not belong to this world. Although it looks similar to us, behaves similar to us, and can speak our language. It looks like us, but it is actually a completely different person. things." The beautiful woman in gorgeous clothes looked at him, "Have you encountered such an existence?"
It looks the same as a human, but it's actually something different... Kotaro suddenly thought of that weirdo.
"I... have seen a strange person. He fell on the road at the beginning, wearing strange clothes, and carrying a knife..." Kotaro talked about his encounter with Yuan Ye and his companions.
"That's the evil ghost." The beautiful woman in gorgeous clothes said firmly, "He is the one who turned your sister into a ghost."
Kotaro seemed to be struck by lightning, his expression was completely dull.
"Yes... that... how could..." He couldn't believe that that weird but friendly person was actually a ghost!
He was the one who turned Fuyumi into a ghost!
It was he who caused the death of mother and brother!
"Although it's hard to believe, it's true. The evil spirits look the same as us, but they're completely different inside." The gorgeously dressed beauty said calmly.
"He is an existence from the outside world that cannot be tolerated in this world. Just coming here will bring disaster and destruction."
"If you don't kill him, everyone in the town will die."
Kotaro stared blankly at his younger sister who was in the dark mist for a while, and his mind began to function with difficulty.
"... If you kill the evil spirit, will Fuyumi be saved?"
"Maybe... there is only a sliver of hope." The beautiful woman in gorgeous clothes said softly.
"The evil spirits are so strong that if all the warriors in the town fight together, they may not be able to defeat them."
"To kill him, you need to use the same power as him, the power of ghosts."
"If you have the will to kill ghosts, I can help you obtain this power."
"However, no matter what the result is, you will definitely die in the end."
Kotaro's mind was in a mess.
Who is this beauty, whether what she said is credible, why he can get the power of a ghost... He couldn't think about a bunch of questions.
He is just a charcoal seller after all! Since he was born, he has been living an ordinary life that cannot be said to be very good, but it is peaceful enough. He has always done physical work, and he has not used his brain much, and no one has taught him to use his brain. What he knows, his ability to think is really limited, and everything he encounters now is completely beyond the boundaries that his head can handle.
There is only one thing that the charcoal seller named Kotaro wants to persevere at this time, and can persevere: protect his sister!
This is his father's order, which has been integrated into his life and has become his instinct as an elder brother.
My sister must be protected.
Even if she has become a ghost.
Even if there is only a glimmer of hope of salvation.
Even if the price of this glimmer of hope is his own life.
"...please...help me..."
…
Seiji walked into the shrine and saw a samurai standing in front of the hall of worship.
This samurai with a ponytail hairstyle is so handsome that it is difficult to distinguish between male and female. His standard is similar to that of Xingxiu, but his temperament is different. If the latter is a "cute girl", then the former is an "iceberg beauty".
Although there is only one person, his momentum is much stronger than all the warriors just now!
The scene just now was still replaying in his mind, Seiji had no intention of going to war immediately, and wanted to talk to the other party.
"Hello... My name is Yuanye, what is your name?"
After staring at him quietly for a while, the handsome warrior replied calmly, "My name is Junhu."
"It's our first meeting, Mr. Junhu, do you know how this place... how this town was formed?" Seiji continued to ask.
The handsome samurai was silent for a few seconds.
"A long time ago, a village appeared here." He said lightly.
"Almost everyone in the village lives as if they have always been alive, and they don't know that they suddenly appeared in the world."
"Only one person knows this, and wonders why the village was born, and why he is the only one who is more awake, and has power that no one else has."
"In the end, she attributed everything to the gift of God, built this shrine, lived here, and worshiped the gods."
"As time passed, the village gradually grew into a town, and then one day, a ghost appeared."
"The ghost ate several people. She used her power to kill the ghost, but new ghosts appeared one after another."
"She tried all the methods she could think of, but she still couldn't stop the ghosts from appearing. There will always be people who mutate into new ghosts."
"So she understood that this was a doomed disaster."
"After killing ghosts for a long time, she was tired of it, so she split part of her power and created a special person, a samurai, to fight ghosts in her place."
"In addition to killing ghosts himself, this warrior also trained some ordinary people to become new warriors."
"Though the samurai were not as strong as the original samurai, they were all heroic, fighting ghosts bravely, making sacrifices, and guarding the town... to this day in order to protect important people."
Junhu stared deeply at Seiji's face.
"An evil spirit from the outside world has arrived here."
(end of this chapter)