【Light Cut】Playing hard to get

Chapter 26

Before Seimei returned, Onikiri left the Onmyoji's courtyard.He returned to Dajiangshan one day later, passing by his hut but not entering.Following the guidance of the blood contract, he arrived at the glade where Raikou was trained, where the queen of the night, Takiyasha Hime, was explaining to Raikou the way of attacking and defending the Moonlight Blade.

The young man listened attentively, and asked Takiyasha Hime questions from time to time, humbly asking her to demonstrate again, without noticing that his sword was on the verge of the second complete shattering—the heart shattering.

"Onikiri." But Guhuo Niao, who was waiting quietly, sensed his evil spirit, turned around and walked towards him, "Today, Laiguang has mastered my umbrella sword, he is really a smart child. But recently I haven't seen Laiguang with you, did something happen between you?"

The banshee, who is fondly called "aunt" by many monsters, has a gentle tone, which makes the dazed Oni Qiechuer shed a tear, and opened her mouth in a strong cry: "I am not worthy of being the 'Xeon Blade', I am not worthy at all." .I'm so stupid, so stupid, so stupid that I want to kill myself... I'm so useless, I always do something wrong, I deserve it, I'm a piece of shit, I can't do anything, I It's worse than broken copper and iron, no wonder Minamoto Raiko doesn't want to see me, no wonder Raiko wants to leave me..."

Seeing that he was about to burst into tears, the keen bird quickly raised its wings to cover his face.The banshee whispered to Tozhifuku who was full of pain: "Shhh! Don't let your child discover your fragility. Come, follow me, don't be seen by Raikou, let's go to another place to talk."

Gu Huo Niao took Onikiri to the depths of the jungle, helped him lean against a flowering tree, patted him on the shoulder, and said gently: "It's okay now, Onikiri. If you have any sad things, I need aunt to help you resolve them." Is it?"

Onikiri clenched his fists to wipe away his tears, sniffed his nose several times before muttering sullenly: "Once upon a time...someone once regarded me as his child, and wanted to give me all good things, including his blood, including a new life of freedom, including The title of 'Xeon Blade'."

"It was he who made me quenched and reborn and gave me the opportunity to choose. He had waited for me to grow up, but I made him wait too long... I didn't know until after his death that compared to the vanity of the 'Xeon Blade', What do you really want."

"After he died, I waited for me, ten years, 20 years, 50 years, 100 years, one hundred and one years... I didn't give up, so I waited until Raikou, I was finally able to chop up my regrets, I would like to All good things are given to Raikou, just like that person once gave me blood, freedom and strength, I am eager to give everything for Raikou."

"But... I am not that person after all. The only thing I can't give to Laiguang is freedom. Why can I, as that person's child, make choices, but Laiguang, who is my child, can't? I After thinking about it for a long time, I realized...because Laiguang is the 'Sword of the World', his master is a weak human being, the people who pray to him for protection, and the three thousand desires that never stop in the world."

"I can wield it with my heart, and I can judge good and evil with my own will, but Laikou, as a weapon of human beings, can only obey the common pursuit of human beings - I want to live, you have to protect me, as my knife, You have to protect me even if you break yourself—Laiguang, like that person, can always hear the best and worst voices of human beings. If "even if I sacrifice my knife, I will live" is the common instinct of human beings, then even I, Onikiri, can't cut off that evil ghost-like delusion for Raiko..."

"Will I lose, aunt? As the 'Xeon Blade', lose to humans?" He raised his tear-stained face, and asked the female monster with red eyes, "I can only kill ghosts, but I don't know anything 'Tianxia', I don't know what 'great righteousness' is, I just want to save my master."

"I just want to give Laiguang freedom. I hope that he will be happy. He will eat when he is hungry and drink when he is thirsty. Whether other humans live or die has nothing to do with him. I hope Laiguang will not be like that person, in order to meet human expectations , I still have to lie before I die, I hope that Laiguang chooses the half of the demon, live with me in Dajiangshan, and never leave."

The remaining tears in the corners of Tonofusangshen's eyes were drying up, he breathed a long sigh of relief, and said slowly: "If my only wish is also a delusion like an evil ghost, then I would rather abandon the name Onikiri and become an evil ghost. "

After he finished speaking, he slowly lowered his head, the shadows of his eyelashes were like hibiscus after the rain, Gu Huo Niao looked at him for a long time, and suddenly felt that compared to Lai Guang, he was the fragile child who needed to be coaxed more.

"Because Laiguang's mission is to help the world, he is a blade of compassion with the heart of a god and Buddha, and he only cuts for the common people in the world, so do you think your real enemy is the existence of 'humanity' itself... ...So, I understand." Guhuo Niao caressed the top of Onikiri's head with its wings, and the gentle voice gradually brought a smile like a wind chime, "But, Onikiri, how can you forget that we ghosts are also like this Part of the 'world'? Humans have 'righteousness', but ghosts don't? Our selflessness is by no means inferior to that of humans, and the sacrifices we can make are by no means less than humans. Also, you are so sure that Lai Kwang is the only one A sword that wards off evil that belongs to humans, rather than a guardian blade that is willing to fight for a chance of life for ghosts?"

Onikiri raised his head abruptly, opened his eyes wide, and Kutori met his trembling gaze, and smiled deeper, "I don't know much about the past between you and that person, but it's like the time you spent in Genjia. The past ten years are an indelible memory for you. Why not the years that Laiguang spent in Dajiangshan? If you are worried that Laiguang is like you and turns against the people who raised and cultivated you, Auntie will blame you You are worrying too much."

The banshee lovingly touched Guiqie's temples that were wet with tears, and said leisurely: "We did not follow the example of that one, using lies to guide Laiguang to kill fellow human beings. On the contrary, we have nothing to hide from Laiguang, and we have nothing to do with the children we love. There is no barrier. Although Laiguang is young, his heart is more transparent than most human beings, and he must have seen everything we have done for him."

"When human beings cry out to him for protection, we must make the same loud voice to keep him."

"When human beings push him into the abyss of murder in order not to dirty their hands, we will definitely spread our wings and rush towards him, catching him before he falls."

"When human beings use their own weakness as a fig leaf and pour endless delusions on him, even if we are ghosts, we will incarnate 'Onikiri' for the children we love."

"You are never alone, you still have us. In order for you to stand up and cut off the selfish delusions that entangle Raikou, we are all your whetstones."

"Become sharper, Onikiri! For yours, Oeyama's, and our children, have an upright duel with humans and win Raikou back!"

Guhuo Niao handed out her own umbrella sword, raised her eyebrows and smiled at Onikiri, Toshifu Sangshen also called out her natal sword as if suddenly enlightened, and lightly collided with Gu Huo Niao's sword, the sound was as clear as a sonorous oath.

"I will, aunt, I will definitely do it." He withdrew the knife, turned around with one step, raised his feet, and strode forward to where he should go.

There, he found the half-demon boy whose silver ponytail was dripping with sweat after his sparring with Takiyasha Hime. He handed out his natal sword to the boy with his right hand and challenged him: "Raikou, when you only use a mustache Che, defeat my Yukiri and the son of the lion, and I will give you the title of 'Blade of the Strongest', my master."

The silver-haired boy who was only as high as his chest raised his eyelashes, and his fighting spirit gradually condensed in his crimson pupils, "Oh, my sword, it sounds like you want to temper me? Even if you want to be my whetstone, Be careful not to be cut by me."

The boy stretched out his left hand and caught the knife he handed over.Immediately, he drew the sword out of its sheath with his right hand with the demon pattern, painted a bright moon with the light of the blade, and said proudly to him: "Only the owner of the 'Xeon Blade' can surpass the 'Xeon Blade'. Even if you If you don’t lose to me today, that day will come soon.”

Onikiri looked down at the boy just like Minamoto Raimitsu once looked down at him, and the corners of his mouth leaped up like the flames of a forged blade, together with his thoughts.He watched his natal knife flow like fire, and the blade light drawn by the young man was like the most perfect reincarnation after love and hatred were written.

He suddenly looked up to the sky and smiled, and said to the boy, "We'll wait and see."

(To be continued)