【Light Cut】Playing hard to get

Chapter 24

I thought that these comfortable and joyful days would last forever, but a letter from Seimei broke the inner peace of Onikiri.

Qingming said in the letter: "Don't forget the covenant with me. Three years later, on the day of Laiguang's coronation ceremony, let him come to see me alone. On that day, Laiguang will make his own choice, whether to return to human Heianjing, or continue to stay in the big rivers and mountains of demons and ghosts."

"Three years go by in a blink of an eye, so prepare well, Onikiri."

Fu Sangshen of the sword did not forget the agreement, but he tore the letter into pieces blankly, hiding the matter of "giving him a choice" deeply in his heart, and never told Laiguang at all.

But on the night he destroyed the letterhead, he had an extremely ominous dream.

He dreamed of a tall and handsome man with silver hair and white clothes holding his little master's hand, walking unhurriedly in front of him, as if he wanted to take his little master to a place out of reach.He immediately tried to catch up, calling out Raikou's name, but he couldn't close the distance between the silver-haired man and Raikou.

"Master! Raiko! Master—" He was insanely anxious, his feet flew like flying, and there was a sharp fear in his heart. "Wait for me, Raiko! Where are you going? Why don't you take me with you—" He tried his best, but he was still getting farther and farther away from the silver-haired man and the half-demon boy. The appearance of the scene reached its peak, and it was actually the main residence of Genji like a labyrinthine iron city!

Immediately, his heart was like a mirror, and he understood everything: the man with silver hair and white clothes, Yuan Laiguang, wanted to bring his little master back to Yuan's house, but he didn't even let his own reincarnation go, and he still wanted to force Laiguang to bear the burden. Genji's surname!

He was anxious and angry, and he drew his sword out of its sheath in his dream. The redness in his eyes seemed to drip from his sockets, and he yelled at the man with long silver hair, "Let go of him, Yuan Laiguang! His name is not Yuan, he It's mine! Don't take my baby away!"

Even after such a long distance, he still heard Minamoto Raimitsu's deep voice: "Onikiri." He saw the man in white covering Raikou's ears with his hands, and when he looked back, he revealed the familiar half-smile With an expression on his face, he said to him coldly and gently: "I have given you the freedom to choose, but the other way around, you can't."

"You can have a truly free new life, but I can't."

"Even if this child becomes a half-demon because of your blood, he will return to Yuanjia and become a ghost-slaying knife to protect mankind."

"What I owe the Yuan family, 'I' will repay it, there is no other choice."

Minamoto Raimitsu finally smiled and looked away.He took the young man's hand again, and led him step by step into the lacquered door of Genji. The bright red gentian emblem bloomed at their feet, but it was by no means growing lotuses every step of the way. The road to clearing the slash, to win glory in the bloody killing.

"Don't! Yuan——" he screamed in his dream, then woke up suddenly in reality.His back was drenched in cold sweat, but when he raised his hand to touch his side, he suddenly found that Lai Guang, who always liked to sleep with his arms around him, was gone!

"Master!" He was so frightened that he almost fell out of bed, but at this time, is there any etiquette and restraint to worry about? "Master! Laiguang! Where are you!" He rushed out of the hut, and followed the half-demon boy's body and his blood breath farther and farther. Finally, he found Laiguang beside a high cliff, and the boy He was staring blankly into the distance, his gaze penetrating the dark night like a returning bird—he was looking in the direction of Heian-kyo, Genjia, and humans.

Seeing him like that, the big demon couldn't restrain the trembling in his voice: "Lai, Lai Guang... you, why did you come here..."

The young man heard the big demon's words, but he only looked back slightly, without saying a word.The big demon had no choice but to be heartbroken, and blurted out: "What did you dream about?"

The long wind that passed the cliff was blowing, and the boy's expression was as cold and hard as winter, like the old dream that Da Jiangshan most feared.Even though he didn't answer, the big demon already knew the answer.

Ever since he dreamed that Minamoto Raimitsu took Raimitu away, Onikiri suffered from severe suspicion. He always felt that every time the half-demon boy left him three steps away, he had listened to Minamoto Raimitsu's bewitchment and wanted to fly away from his side and return home. Yuanjia worked hard all his life.

"Laikou, look into my eyes." Every so often, the demon would clasp the boy's shoulders tightly, and ask him the same question stubbornly and paranoidly: "Is the Yuan family not good to you? Is Da Jiangshan not good to you?" ? Will you leave me? Will you?"

At the beginning, Laikou would patiently answer: "Bad. Good. No. No." But after Onikiri repeated more times, the boy's temper came up, and he became impatient: "I don't like you asking The tone of my question, Onikiri. Where to leave, where to stay, where to choose, and where to give up, I have the final say, and you are not allowed to intervene."

His rebellious answer was like adding fuel to the flames, making Onikir who was already anxious even more frightened.What's worse is that after that dream, Laiguang seems to have a lot of secrets out of thin air. He no longer has nothing to say about his sword, but falls into a thoughtful state from time to time, and even suddenly reveals a mysterious expression. Smile, as if whispering to someone in your head.

Ghost couldn't wait to grab his hands and asked him: "Are you talking to Yuan Laiguang? Is he lying to you that Yuan's family is very good, clean and noble, and a righteous family? Did he tempt you to come back? The Minato family? Or is it persecuting you? Did it happen, Raikou, did it happen!"

But Da Yao also found that the more he was obsessed with "Don't go back to Yuan's house", the more Lai Guang felt that he was wordy, and the young man even said coldly after he couldn't bear it: "I don't need to tell you the content of every dream, and I don't need to tell you the content of every dream. There's no need to explain every thought I have to you. Even if you are my sword, I hate being controlled by you. How about this, Onikiri, let's spend some time apart, I need to be quiet, and you, need to be calm."

The young man resolutely moved out of Onikiri's hut, and the enthusiastic Dajiangshan demons invited him to stay overnight. He was still a "child of Dajiangshan", but he was no longer "Onikiri's treasure", which broke the demon's heart .

The big demon really doesn't understand, why all the guys have malicious intentions and come to grab his Laiguang?Could it be that those guys are all blind and didn't see his emblem in Lai Guang's eyes and his demon pattern on his arm?And more importantly, there is only one person connected by Laiguang's blood, and that is him!Half of what ran continuously in Laiguang's veins was his blood!

The more the big demon thought about it, the more aggrieved he became, and the more he thought about it, the more annoyed he became.When the so-called irritability, drinking cold water would get stuck between his teeth, and he was alone in the room, grinding his teeth angrily, eager to find an outlet for his anger. Finally, after cursing a certain deceased countless times, he thought of a new object of anger ——The Great Onmyoji of Heian-kyo, Abe Seimei.

With the heart of Xingshi to inquire about the crime, Onikiri ran from Oeyama to Heianjing and broke into Seimei's courtyard.But it's not a full sense of "breaking", because Qingming is not at home, and according to the timid report of the little paper man who stayed behind, Qingming will return at least in the evening.

Onikiri raised his eyes to see the warm winter sun, pursed his lips, and began to wander aimlessly in the courtyard.

Strolling around, he wandered into Qingming's study room, which reminded him that he visited Qingming on a moonlit night in late autumn, and walked into the study room by accident in order to get a coat for the elderly great onmyoji. He saw the letter that let him know where the old master's reincarnation was.

But seven years ago, it seemed like a lifetime away.He couldn't help but be afraid, if he hadn't had a sudden kindness to get Seimei's coat, if he hadn't gone into the study and picked up the letter, would he have missed the "Laiguang" in this life?Will he have nothing, own the title of "Blade of the Mightiest" alone, and waste his life in endless remembrance and pain until he dies alone?

Fortunately, he suddenly had a kind heart, fortunately he walked into the study, but most fortunately, he reunited with Laiguang, that little snowman-like child made him have everything from nothing.

With emotion for the past, Onikiri quietly walked into the old place.Seimei's study room was extremely tidy due to the daily cleaning by Shikigami, but a lotus water bowl placed in the corner of the desk emitted a faint red light very abruptly, which even attracted Onikiri's attention.

The big demon walked towards the small water bowl, glanced down, and saw a fingernail-sized fish fry swimming in the bowl.The little fish is soft and light, and its whole body is snow-white, except that there is a faint glowing red on the forehead on the right side, which makes Onikiri think of Raiko, and can't help but stretch out his finger, and touch it lightly——

The moment he touched the little fish, the big demon was pulled into a memory, which belonged to Seimei, the owner of the study, and that little fish, just like Raikou's left eye, was also endowed with the effect of holding memories by Yin Yang .

After all, the big demon had experienced the training of spells in the Minato family, and had been taught by Minamoto Raikou and other famous teachers. After a brief surprise, he quickly calmed down and decided to read this memory calmly. From Seimei's perspective, Re-live a part of the past.