The self-cultivation of the passer-by hero

"I have never seen the sea, not once."

Lying on the ground and looking up at the sky, what the unprecedented loftiness brings is not the broadening of the horizons but the heaviness in the heart that is finally relieved. The girl's self-report is not to change anything, it is just a small hope.

"There is a small island on the other side of the sea. I have always thought that it is the end of the world. The sun rises from the east and sets in the west. The final place it reaches is that small island. That is probably the end of the world for me. Have you ever had the greatest wish—”

The girl stretched her hands to the sky, trying to get closer to the unreachable distance: "One day I will find a hundred guys who have nothing to do like me, and we will look for the island where the sun sets."

"One hundred?" After hearing what the girl said, the boy joked: "Is it too much?"

"Not much talent. As the saying goes, you need to make a hundred friends to make enough friends." As she said that, the girl slowly closed her eyes. There was no loneliness or sadness on her face, but only the calmness of returning to dust and returning to dust: "Well , if there is really no other way, it’s not impossible to have just one.”

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Probably, this is the one—

When I saw hope and was about to go all out, suddenly a basin of cold water was poured on my head. After I calmed down, I realized that the dawn had long been replaced by this piece of debris. That feeling was not disappointment, but despair.

Now, what Takeya can feel is the pain like a hole in his heart, perhaps the taste of despair.

He didn't understand why so many things happened in such a short period of time. When he handed over the problem of the Moon Capital to Yakumo Murasaki and returned to Kyoto, he was blocked by the huge double ending.

And after that, this is the scene in front of me.

On the broken earth, monsters and humans are clearly separated. I am afraid that only Seimei is still conscious. However, among them, only Seimei is about to die.

That is a fact that can be seen at a glance. Qingming is like a porcelain doll that was smashed and then barely stuck together. The pieces of her body that are peeling off like glass are exactly the bits and pieces of her lost vitality.

Little by little, little by little, life floated into the sky like fireflies. Qingming was just waiting quietly for it to happen.

In the silence, Qingming suddenly spoke: "Actually, I'm a little regretful. I still have something to say to that Reimu guy."

"What is it?" Wu Ye stepped forward and sat down next to her. He didn't know what kind of expression he had under the mask that no one could see.

Qingming closed her eyes and said softly: "Lingmeng - I have always regarded her as a friend. Isn't there a saying that says, 'We share blessings and share hardships'. I will be betrayed by my best friend. So, As a friend, she must be the same, sooner or later she will be betrayed by her best friend."

He said the cruelest curse in the warmest tone. At the last moment, Qingming's warmth without a hint of coldness was actually three points colder than the ice hell.

"Really?" Takeru raised his head and looked at the sky: "I didn't expect that a weird guy like Reimu would be your best friend. Your taste is really special."

The corners of Qingming's mouth couldn't help but curl up. She opened her eyes and looked at Takeya: "You are overthinking. Although Reimu and I can talk, it's just because we are both weirdos in the eyes of others."

An unknown chuckle came from his mouth, and the next second, like a tide, the warmth on Qingming's face quickly faded: "I'm talking about you, Aaron."

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Hearing Qingming's words, Takeya's pupils shrank little by little. He twisted his slightly stiff neck and looked into Qingming's bright eyes.

At first, there was indeed a suffocating feeling that tied Takeya's throat, making him unable to breathe, but this feeling soon disappeared, and he felt as if something had finally been put down by him.

"So you already know." Takeru's tone sounded relieved.

"I'm not an idiot. It's impossible for so many coincidences to happen at the same time. It's just that I never dared to confirm it." Qingming's smile slightly faded: "Along, you are the guard of the Daughter of the Westward Journey, then In other words, Miss Yuko is really a disaster."

"Since when did you start to suspect?" Wu was a little uncomfortable. Although he knew that this was an inevitable fact, Qingming's tone of rejection still made him very disappointed.

"When you were kidnapped from Kyoto by that monster." Seimei's answer was beyond Takeya's expectation.

"Don't understand?" Seimei glanced at Takeya and said calmly: "No matter how powerful the monster is, it is irrational to break into Kyoto and rob people. That guy doesn't look like a fool without any plan. Besides, she There is no need to take action against you, that would be too deliberate."

"Hey, you're too scary, aren't you?" Takeya smiled bitterly. Unexpectedly, Yakumo Murasaki's actions to eliminate suspicion became the basis for Seimei's suspicion. This was probably a real miscalculation.

"I do not understand."

Seimei's tone revealed deep incomprehension: "As the successor of Master Saigyou, Miss Yuuko's status is unparalleled in Kyoto except Her Majesty Hime Miko. Why did she choose to go the same way as youkai?"

"Yuko wants to create a future where everyone can be happy." This is the only fact that Takeya can speak out with a straight chest.

"Even if this future uses the corpses of countless people as the cornerstone?" Qingming said sarcastically.

"Yuko will not let everyone die for no reason."

"In that case, wouldn't it be better to eliminate all the monsters directly?" Qingming asked with stern eyes: "If we can work together, we can definitely eliminate the monsters completely."

"." Takeru didn't say anything this time. He chose Gensokyo to create a paradise where everyone could be happy, but this paradise essentially belonged to monsters.

If you want to say why, it's just because Yuko's best friend's name is Yakumo Murasaki.

"Aaron. Hey, what a disaster. I didn't expect that I have been fighting monsters all my life, but my best friend is actually a monster."

Wu Ye was silent for a long time, then suddenly said: "What if I say, I am a human being?"

".It's so disgusting it makes me want to throw up."

This was probably the most important thing Seimei had ever said to Takeya. At this moment, her eyes did not hide the deep disgust: "The moment you choose to attack humans, you are already You're a monster, so please stop using Aaron's appearance to make such ridiculous excuses."

"Yeah, that's right." That was a fact that he never wanted to admit. Even if his strength, body, and thoughts all tended to be on the side of monsters, Takeya was still determined in his heart that he was a human being.

But when this layer of hypocritical self-control was mercilessly peeled away by Seimei, Takeya was surprised to realize that underneath this human skin, there was always the flesh and blood of monsters.

Qingming may just want to deceive herself and others, and in the end she is unwilling to give up the beautiful image of "Along" in her heart, and Takeya probably has the same idea.

But it's all self-deception.

"That's right, Seimei."

While speaking, Takeru took the initiative to take off the mask on his face. The red eyes were not from the bloodthirsty murderous intention of the monster, but from the tears that he was unable to shed as a human.

Putting down his mask and no longer escaping, the young man said: "This is the first time you introduce yourself, Miss Seimei. This is the first time we meet. I am Takaita Takeya, and I am a monster."

"Ah."

It seemed that the previous heaviness was all an illusion. Seimei's face showed a smile again. Looking at Takeya after taking off the mask, she finally smiled: "Takaita Takeya, as expected. As expected, you bastard monster."

"Even if everything before is a lie, create a future where everyone can be happy - this is the only thing that is true, so please believe me." Takeya said seriously looking into Seimei's eyes.

"It's obviously a monster. What can you say to make everyone happy?" Qingming sneered, as if he was not interested in this topic, and slowly looked away.

Takeya was silent. He was no longer "Along" but "Taketsu". He had nothing to say to Qingming. The atmosphere fell into an unnatural silence for a time. Only the sound of Qingming's broken body could be heard little by little. sounded.

"Why."

Qingming, who looked away, suddenly asked: "Why did you save me at that time?"

Takeya lowered his eyes. He knew that Seimei was asking about Yakumo Murasaki's attack on her before. I'm afraid she had already identified herself by that time, right?

"Didn't you say that you regard me as your best friend?" Wu Ye closed his eyes, as if he didn't dare to look into Qingming's eyes: "I'm probably the same, I regard you as a friend, that's why I saved him. you."

Qingming was stunned for a moment, and then said sarcastically without hesitation: "You are obviously a monster, but you actually treat me as a human or an Onmyoji as your friend? Haha."

Seeing Seimei like this, the heavy feeling in Takeya's heart seemed to lighten a little. He joked: "Monsters can treat shrine maidens as friends, why can't Onmyoji do the same?"

"Witch? Oh, that's right."

"So, if I apologize, can you forgive me?" Although his face was full of jokes, Takeya's expression was extremely serious.

"Forgive? What do you mean?" Qingming looked at Wuye with a smile.

"It should be, all of them, all the time."

"You are so shameless," Qingming's eyes narrowed slightly and he said word by word, "I will never forgive you, not you, Yuuko, or Reimu."

"." Wu Ye's breath was suffocated, and the smile on his face gradually stiffened.

"I curse you, curse you. After your death, you will fall into boundless purgatory and pay for the sins you committed in pain and torture." Qingming smiled and said the most vicious curse.

"." Wu Ye looked sad.

"hehe--"

Seeing Wu Ye's appearance, Qingming laughed out loud and changed the topic: "However, when it comes to sin, I am the same. I did not choose to retreat and treat you directly, and I am also guilty."

"Qingming." Takeru looked at the broken palm that the girl held out to him in surprise.

At this time, Qingming's eyes have lost focus. Her life has come to an end at this moment. All she can do is to leave her last comfort in the world of the living before her body is completely broken.

"So don't worry, I will also fall into purgatory. After endless reincarnations, if there is still a chance, let's go find it together again. The island where the sun sets. Now, do you agree, Takeya?"