Kyoto Shenyin Love Story

Chapter 371 Missing
It is already the tenth day.

Akane Kirino lay on the floor, staring at the ceiling with blank eyes.

Soya, Hongko, and Suzu have been missing for ten days since the incident at Hiei Pass.

For ten days, the police and the agency's shaman priests searched all corners of Mount Hiei, but they didn't find Soya and Hongko who suddenly disappeared.And the bell that went out the door that morning has not returned yet.

None of the three could be reached.

She was anxious, crazy, and vented hysterically. Ten days later, she had completely lost her former vitality.

"Where did you go..."

Akane Kirino raised a hand and held it weakly, trying to catch them in her memory and ask them clearly.

In the night of ten days ago, the evil spirits attacked the festival venue at the Hiei Mountain Pass, killing and injuring dozens of ordinary people, and a group of spiritual sense practitioners also died in the line of duty. The tragedy was unprecedented and shocking.

But at that time, in order to find someone she knew earlier, she bid farewell to Hongzi while queuing, turned into Liuliguangyuan first, and went straight to Noma Minami and others.

However, the maidens of Fuyun Shrine were ordered not to leave, so she had to come out alone.Returning to the gate of the courtyard, what I saw was a messy and tragic scene.

The dead and wounded outside the hospital fell to the ground, but the murderer had not yet left, and was staring at her again.At the critical moment, a large number of psychics poured out from Liuliguangyuan, scaring away the evil spirits.

Surviving a near death, she secretly rejoiced, but she couldn't find Hongzi no matter what.Not only that, but Soya, who was left at the festival venue, also disappeared.

The two of them disappeared completely, and they couldn't reply without reading the messages. When they called, they could only hear a reminder that the other party was not in the service area.

A large number of police officers came and took control of the entire venue.

Two days later, as the incident temporarily came to an end, all those who participated in the ceremony were able to see the person or the corpse, but the two of them were listed as missing persons.

And she couldn't do anything except ask the police and the witch over and over again.

Ding-dong-

"..."

Ding-dong-

The doorbell rang a few more times before Akane Kirino suddenly recovered, got up and went straight to the door.

"Songya!"

However, when the door was opened, it was not Soya standing outside, but a priestess with an expressionless face.

"Excuse me, Kirino-san."

"Miss Sugawara..."

Akane Kirino looked at her blankly.

"Can I go in?" Kyoko said.

"certainly……"

She walked in, "Excuse me."

"Sister, have you found Soya and Hongzi?"

With her back turned to her, a trace of sadness flashed across Kyoko's face, and she didn't hide it after turning around: "I came to Kirino-san just for this matter."

Akane Kirino opened her eyes wide, "What do you mean?"

"I need something to help me find Fangming. Can I go upstairs to his room?"

"Of course!"

The two walked upstairs, and Akane Kirino turned around and asked, "Is the matter with Senior Sister over?"

Kyoko was silent for a moment, then nodded.

"ended."

It was the day after the Hiei Pass incident that several shrine maidens from Fuyun Shrine were allowed to leave Rurikoin, and Kyoko learned that Soya had disappeared during last night's chaos.

However, before they had time to do anything, they were dispatched by the organization to participate in the siege operation. The evil spirits who committed evil deeds at the Hiei Mountain Pass were not completely killed, and two of the evil spirits fled into the forest.

It wasn't until the afternoon of the day before yesterday that the last ominous spirit was found and killed, and Kyoko was able to withdraw to investigate Zongya's disappearance with all his strength.

Taking information from the police and colleagues from the agency, she found that the witness records of Soya all stayed at the incident of him fighting against the evil spirit in the festival venue.

He was seen saving a girl (Akane Kirino), setting a stall on fire and causing a small explosion, and teaming up with another psychic to kill a murderous Spirit, and then there is no record at all, it seems that he disappeared out of thin air after leaving the festival venue.

As for the other missing person, Hongzi, there are even fewer records left.Only one person said that she left here suddenly half a minute before the ominous spirit attacked the crowd gathered at the gate of the courtyard.

Jingzi continued to investigate, and it was not until this morning that she learned from a colleague who had just woken up that the daughter of the underworld appeared briefly that night, but few people noticed it.

Some of her worst guesses suddenly became possible, but she still needed to do something to confirm.

For this reason, she has now come to Kirino's old house.

On the second floor, the first room belongs to Asagiri Rin.

Kyoko looked back at Akane Kirino, "Has Asagiri-san still not come back?"

She nodded.

Kyoko thought about it.

"Ling left the house that morning."

"I see."

Kirino Akane walked over quickly, opened the door of Soya's room, "Please come in."

"Thank you."

Kyoko rarely came to Kirino's house, and this was the first time she entered Soya's room, so she didn't have the heart to look around at this time, so she bent down and began to search.

"What is senior sister looking for?" Akane Kirino asked.

"Hair." Kyoko said, "I need Yoshiaki-san's hair, the more the better."

She also squatted down to help search, "What does senior sister want hair for?"

"There is a precious talisman paper that is extremely sensitive to spiritual power. It burns together with the hair of the spiritually aware person. Observe the color of the smoke, and you can know the state of that person."

Akane Kirino thought for a while, "Is it only useful for those who are spiritually aware?"

Jingzi understands that she is also very concerned about the whereabouts of her best friend, but she can only tell her regretfully that ordinary people cannot leave traces of spiritual power, so they cannot be detected.

"All right……"

Kirino Akane was a little disappointed, and then comforted herself: "Hongzi should be staying with Soya. It's the same to know Soya's state."

Jingzi nodded without saying anything, and continued to search on the ground, but he didn't find a single hair for a long time.

She thought for a while and asked, "Where is Fang Ming's pillow?"

"Ah, yes..."

Akane Kirino opened the closet and took out Soya's pillow for her.

Kyoko took it, and at a glance saw a few long black hairs lying on the white pillow, which obviously did not belong to Soya, but came from a girl with long hair.

"..."

The one who handed her the pillow was a girl with long hair.

"Has Kirino-san used this pillow recently?"

"Huh? Well, I sleep in Soya's room every night."

"..."

Akane Kirino leaned over, narrowed her eyes, and immediately noticed her hair.

"Ah, I'm sorry..."

She twisted the hair, threw it away, and found a shorter hair on it, "This one is probably Soya's hair."

Jingzi was silent for a while, raised his hand to take it, and held it in his hand for a few glances.

"That kind of talisman paper is very difficult to make and is very precious, so I only have one. So, if you make a mistake, there is no second chance."

Akane Kirino grabbed her hand and took the hair back. The more she looked at it, the more she felt that it might be her own hair.

After all, she had "exchanged" rooms with Soya before he disappeared, and this pillow was only used by her recently.

"Please wait..."

She went to her room next door and brought another pillow.

"Before Zongya disappeared, he used this pillow."

Kyoko took the pillow, feeling a little complicated.She vaguely guessed that the two probably switched rooms, but it's not the time to investigate carefully.

She picked up four or five short hairs that were relatively hard, and Akane Kirino leaned over and smelled them again, "This should be Soya's hair...It smells like him."

Kyoko couldn't help but glanced at her.

Akane Kirino misunderstood what she meant and thought she still had doubts, so she said, "I can guarantee it!"

"Ah."

She took a deep breath, took out a piece of dark blue talisman paper, wrapped the few hairs in it, folded it into pieces, and then lit the talisman paper with spiritual power in Sogu's room.

Kirino Akane watched with wide eyes.

The spiritual fire burned, and Kyoko dropped the talisman until the tongue of flame was about to lick his fingers.

The dancing flames quickly engulfed the entire piece of talisman paper, and the color of the flames was constantly changing between deep red and faint blue, leaving only a wisp of smoke in the end.

black smoke.

"..."

Jingzi bit her lip, unable to speak for a long time.

Akane Kirino didn't know why, she kept staring at the ashes on the ground until the last wisp of smoke dissipated, then looked up at her.

"Senior sister... have you got any results?"

"The black smoke means that the talisman paper cannot sense the spiritual power of the person being probed."

She looked at her, "So..."

A tear fell, and Jingzi managed to maintain a calm voice: "Student Fang Ming died, or went to a place isolated from the world."

"..."

Akane Kirino opened her mouth and slumped on the ground, "Impossible."

The first half of Jingzi's sentence was all in her mind, and she couldn't accept it.

"There's no way Soya will die..."

Twirling the paper ashes with the fingertips, the other hand continued, but there was always something that could not be twisted, and Kyoko repeated in vain.

After a while, she finally said, "I don't believe Fang Ming is dead either. So, I think it's another possibility."

"..."

Kirino Akane looked at her with teary eyes.

"That night, a colleague saw the daughter of Huang Quan appear briefly. Perhaps Fang Ming was brought back to the other world by the daughter of Huang Quan."

"Yellow Spring..."

Jingzi nodded, "The human world is isolated from the other world, and the magic talisman can't sense the other side, at least it makes sense."

"Has Soya been taken back..." Kirino Akane understands that falling into the underworld is a happy result only when compared with death, but she still has doubts, "But Hongzi is an ordinary person?"

Jingzi frowned, and said: "Even ordinary people may fall into the underworld if they are not careful, especially when the daughter of the underworld opens the passage between the two worlds. I guess that Yoshikawa may have seen Fangming's invisible Things to take away, trying to hold him, but let himself into a desperate situation."

"Hongzi..."

Akane Kirino pursed her lips, "If this is the case, what should I do to save Soya and Hongzi?"

There was only one way Kyoko could think of.

"Go to Yueyue-sama."

"Month... read?"

Kyoko walked out of the room and went to the innermost part.

Akane Kirino was stunned for a moment, "Confinement child?"

"Ah."

Coming to the innermost room, Kyoko knocked on the door, "Master Tsukiyomi."

The door opened quickly, and Yuedu looked at the two of them inside, and said without asking, "I know your plan, but I can't do it."

Jingzi was taken aback, and he continued, "With my current divine power, I still can't open the passage from this world to the other world."

She pursed her lips.

"Even if you barely open a gap, do you know how big Huangquan is? Finding two people inside is not as easy as finding a needle in a haystack."

"Even so... I still want to rescue Fang Ming."

Her determination is firm, but even the gods say there is no way, so what should she do?

Kyoko fell into deep thought, silently looking at her toes.

Tsukiyomi glanced at her, then looked at Akane Kirino, who was dazed and bewildered, and said, "If he can escape once, he might be able to escape the second time... It's much easier to come out from the inside than to go in from the outside. .”

After all, there would occasionally be fierce spirits who tore through the boundary and escaped from the underworld, such as himself half a year ago.

Jingzi was comforted a little, but only a little.

"If Tsukiyomi-sama thinks of another way, please tell me immediately."

Staying here is not an option, she is going to go back and search for information, looking for other ways to save lives, "I will leave first."

Yuedu nodded, and said to Akane Kirino: "If you have anything you can't understand, you should ask her."

"..."

Akane Kirino looked at him, then turned and followed Kyoko.

"Miss Sugawara--"

After closing the door, Yuedu went back to the computer and sat down, but didn't care about playing games, but turned to look at the sky outside the window.

"It's been ten days, and there should be a result..."

Even if he only got a glimpse of it, he almost guessed that person's plan.The whole matter is under her control, it's not her turn to care about it, and it has nothing to do with him.

"..."

Does it really have nothing to do with him?
Moonlight took a deep breath.

Sitting there until the sun set and the moon rose, he came back to his senses and heard footsteps in the corridor outside.

Soon, the door opened, and Akane Kirino came in with a plate.

"Master Yueyue."

"..."

Yuedu looked back at her and realized that she already knew her identity, "Just put it there."

Kirino Akane put down the dinner plate and didn't go out.

"Isn't Tsukiyomi-sama a god? Is there really no way to save Soya and Hongzi?"

"I'm already dead, not as bad as you think."

"But Yuedu-sama himself escaped from the underworld..."

"Because I was full of divine power at that time, and I was killed by him once after escaping, and I became what I am now." Yuedu said, "And as I said in the afternoon, even if the passage is opened, I don't know Where are they, there is nowhere to be found."

"Let me go in and look for it." Akane Kirino looked at him firmly, "I will definitely find Soya and Hongzi."

"..."

Yuedu shook his head, "Stop talking stupid things. If he finds out, he will definitely kill me again."

Akane Kirino wanted to say something more, so he followed up: "Don't forget the premise - even if I agree, I can't open the channel, so you should give up this plan."

After a moment of silence, she left a sentence and came up to get the plate later, turned around and left.

Yuedu picked up the plate and went back to the computer desk to eat.

After finishing the dinner, he sent the plate down by himself, and then found Akane Kirino sitting alone in the kitchen in a daze.

"Master Yueyue...is there a way?!"

"Do not……"

He lifted the plate in his hand.

She sat down again.

Putting the plate into the sink, Tsukuyomi thought for a while, then turned on the faucet to wash it up.

Akane Kirino looked at his back in surprise, "Just put it there."

Monthly reading didn't stop, but I didn't know how to continue, "It seems that I can't wash it clean..."

Akane Kirino got up and went over, picked up the dish soap and squeezed a little, then silently washed the dishes beside her.

Yuedu followed suit, cleaned the plate in his hand, rinsed it twice, and put it aside to wait for it to dry.

"If I become a spirit body, will I be able to go directly to the underworld?" Akane Kirino, who seemed absent-minded, startled him as soon as she spoke.

"Of course not."

"why?"

"There's only one way you can become a spirit, and that's death. It's irreversible."

Akane Kirino fell silent.

"Besides, if you become a spirit body, you will definitely lose something, such as your memory, and this is uncontrollable." Yuedu looked at her earnestly, "If you become a spirit body and forget your purpose, Wouldn't that be a complete tragedy?"

She pursed her lower lip and nodded after a while: "I just think about it..."

She smiled again, "Master Tsukiyomi's way of persuading people is really similar to Soya's, even the tone of voice is the same."

Tsukiyomi looked at the plate in his hand, after rinsing, it was so clean that his face could be reflected.

"I was also greatly influenced by him... I would also be very sorry if I never saw him again."

Kirino Akane turned her head to look to the other side, sniffling.

The two finished washing the remaining few dishes in silence, and Akane Kirino sat in the living room, and continued to be in a daze in another place.

Before Yuedu went upstairs, he heard her answer the phone.

"Mom? I'm fine... No, I won't go back, I'm still sleeping here today. Maybe Soya and Hongzi will come back suddenly at night..."

Back in his room, Yuedu also stared blankly for a while, and then decided to take a look at it.

Ten days ago, when he noticed the boundary fluctuation, he immediately spotted the daughter of Huangquan who appeared at Hiei Mountain Pass.With the projection of divine power, he naturally saw the process of Zongya and Hongzi falling into the underworld one after another.

Not only that, but he also "looked" at Tianzi Tangerine who was hiding in the dark.

Realizing that this was her arrangement, he naturally didn't dare to peek any more. To this day, he still doesn't know what happened to the two people who fell into the underworld.

After making a decision, Tsukiyomi locked the door behind him, and then used his hand as a blade to cut open the air in front of him.

A slit the length of an arm appeared out of nowhere, and there was dead silence on the other side.

He lied.

It is not difficult for him to restore the divine power to the present level and open the boundary between the world and the underworld.

"It must be in that place..."

Not only that, but he was also very sure of Zong Gu's current position.

A small hole was secretly opened in the mid-air where the Netherworld Hall was located, and he quickly saw Zonggu who felt as bright as a candle.

"One, two, three, four... seven divine powers? They have all reached this level, why is the last divine power missing..."

"—Yeah, why. I want to know too."

"..."

Creepy, Yuedu reacted instantly, and then he was about to close the tiny crack in front of him.

However, halfway through the closing, a hand stretched out from inside, and after a little support, the crack stopped closing, and instead became bigger.

Ju Tianzi came out from inside and looked down at him with a cold expression on his face.

"Obviously it was only the last point, but Fangming let the child's spirit go away... I'm also a little angry."

(End of this chapter)