Astartes of the Bear School

Chapter 1473 1445. Possessed Spirit
"monster?"

Lan En tentatively held up the ball of flannel, moved it left and right, and then tentatively put it on the ground.

The big round cat ball rolled on the ground, always following the position of the fluffy ball.

At the same time, it made cheerful noises as if it was playing with someone.

From time to time, it jumps up and down, as if trying to get closer to the ball of fluff.

When the fluffy ball heard Lan En calling the big cat ball, it looked very confused and shrank in Lan En's hand, not wanting its paws and tail to be put on the ground.

"Youkai. Is it a monster, meow?"

"It should be, but," Lan En stroked his chin, "it doesn't feel like it."

Seeing that the fluff ball didn't want to be put on the ground, Lan En simply put it on his shoulder.

The big cat ball rolled its body and gently touched Lan's leg.

It feels warm and soft.

Completely different from the hungry ghost Lan En saw last night.

Hungry ghosts can call upon the power of the [eternal world]. The suppression and consumption of human life by that power will make people feel extremely depressed.

It is a double depression of both physical and psychological nature.

But when the big cat ball came close to him, Lan En felt relaxed and open-minded, and even his body felt lighthearted.

The demon hunter's eyes grew darker.

He looked at the big cat ball spinning at his feet, and the little raccoon with water and fire patterns on the unicorn's head, who was still holding the teapot and taking a sip from time to time like an old man.

"They are connected to you." Lan En analyzed. "And now, I can no longer see the power that was always entangled with you."

"In other words, the forces that are entangled with us will eventually shape this thing?"

Lan En was also a little confused about this: "What does this mean?"

After arriving at a place, you are entangled by some kind of force, and the final result is that a supernatural spirit that is invisible to ordinary people appears around you?

Lan En was not sure what they were, so he speculated based on his own observations that they should be some special spirits.

Why does this sound a bit like 'possession'?
The fluffy ball lay vigilantly on Lan's shoulder, looking down at the big cat ball that was chasing him with its soft cat meows.

The jumping big cat ball looked like an invitation to play, and gradually it began to attract the lively and happy Elu cat.

Plus, as Lan En said just now, it doesn't feel like a monster.

So the fluff ball began to carefully climb down from Lan's shoulder, tentatively stretching out its claws to make contact with the big cat ball.

"Meow meow?"

"Meow meow!"

The two little guys started to communicate.

But the Qilin next to it was still shaking its head unhappily, it still couldn't see anything.

“When did they appear among you?”

Watching the fluffy ball and the big cat ball gradually playing together, Lan En crossed his arms and asked Qilin.

"Huchi~"

'I can't see it, but the fluff ball is fussing when it wakes up this morning.'

The Qilin's hooves were rubbing on the ground boredly, which was very synchronized with the expression of the raccoon with water and fire patterns on its head.

Lan En took a closer look and found the Chinese characters "分福" (meaning "divide blessings") written on the teapot.

"So what did you do at night?" Lan En straightened up and asked from a different angle, "We arrived in this world together, why were you two possessed so quickly?"

Lan En thought that this was probably related to the blocking of these forces by his [body light], but he still wanted to see if there were any other factors.

"Xilulu."

'I slept and ate normally, and the flannel ball was also normal. Oh, it found a firefly in the woods and played with it for a while.'

It dawned on me.

Lan En looked at the Water and Fire Pattern Raccoon and Kirin who were equally lazy, and then looked at the Calico Cat playing with the big cat ball.

In due time, the biochemical intelligent brain has automatically begun to collect last night's data and check it frame by frame.

Finally, Mentos presents a time period to the subject.

"Sir, please note this period of twenty-three seconds, and there are several subsequent periods of no more than half a minute."

The biochemical intelligent computer's voice was as calm and pretentious as ever.

Lann quickly glanced at the time period that Mentos had found.

During that time, the power that was swirling above his body and seemed to be outlining some kind of pattern suddenly accelerated.

And those time periods were exactly when Lan En sighed for the hanged man and felt something breathing at the back of his neck. "Because of the resonance between will, mentality, and mood, can the possessed spirit appear faster?"

Although he knew that the spirit possessing him had not yet fully manifested, Lan En still subconsciously turned his head and looked behind him.

Is spirit possession a common phenomenon in this world? I haven't seen it happen to Daisuke Kikuchi and the others.

"However, it seems that these powers are not bad things. The feeling provided by my [Body Light] is quite accurate."

Lan En said as he poked the little raccoon with water and fire patterns on Qilin's head with his finger.

These spirits did not seem to be on the same level as the living beings in the world under normal conditions, so Lan En's fingers did not feel any touch and passed through directly.

Shaking his head, Lan En jumped onto the horse.

It is impossible to figure out the reasons for these possessed spirits by studying them on your own, so you might as well look for opportunities to see if you can get in touch with local people who possess supernatural powers and get information from them.

The newly improved harness made for Qilin perfectly fixes the high-energy crystals protruding from its shoulder blades without causing any damage to the harness itself.

When the fluffy ball saw Lan En had mounted the horse, it immediately stopped playing.

It waved at the big cat ball, then suddenly jumped onto the horse's back.

"Hmm?" Lan En raised his eyebrows, "Can you put away the possessed spirit now?"

"I don't know, meow!"

The fluffy ball also looked in surprise at the place where it had just waved goodbye to the big cat ball, and spoke in surprise.

The little raccoon with water and fire patterns that had been lying on the Qilin's head and the big cat ball next to the Elu cat had now disappeared in a burst of illusory light.

"I was just thinking about doing something, and then it disappeared. No, meow."

The fluff ball closed its eyes seriously, touched the empty space beside itself with its little paws, and nodded.

"It's not disappearing, it's just temporarily disappearing, meow! How can it be like this!"

Qilin snorted and said that his thought just now was the same as that of the fluff ball.

In other words, this kind of possessed spirit will not even affect normal life, and will only take effect at certain specific times?

It’s quite smart.

They temporarily put aside the newly arrived spirit that possessed Lan En and the others, which made them feel confused.

This time we are going to Iwamura Castle which is owned by Ando Morinari. After all, he is one of the 'Mino Three'. There should be an knowledgeable Onmyoji or priest in his castle, right?
We'll see if we can communicate then.

Before that, the demon hunter must first make himself trustworthy.

Following Daisuke Kikuchi's directions, we walked along a road through the wilderness.

My nose was filled with the earthy smell of the loess road and the grassy smell of the woods and bushes.

Although the world is in turmoil right now, there have been no large-scale battles between daimyo lords near Iwamura Castle recently, nor have there been any reports of any famous bandits entrenched in the area.

So you rarely see dead people on the road.

Occasionally, a few corpses were seen lying in the weeds and bushes outside the road, and most of them were just skeletons.

The scattered bones clearly showed that they had been gnawed by wild dogs or something after death.

According to Gosaku, the chief priest of the Thirteen Sakura Village, after such a long time, the "filth" around the corpse should have been naturally consumed by the vitality of the human world.

If you pass by these corpses, or even just fiddle with them for a while, it is impossible for you to be stained with a strong sense of [filth].

The leader of the caravan said that the man who hanged himself was a coachman who rarely left his carriage on the road.

The only few times I ran under the road was to pee.

Even if he really wasn't paying attention, or was foolish enough to pee on those bone racks, the [filth] he would get contaminated with wouldn't be enough to drive him to suicide.

【Residue】It is just the remaining filth, without any human emotions or feelings.

Rather than urinating on the bone rack and getting the residue on it, it might be better to pick it up directly with your hands, after all, you're closer and have more intimate contact.

Insults, disrespect, these emotions have nothing to do with [filth].

They will not get angry when being insulted, but at the same time, they will not let go just because the person who touches them has no relationship with them in their previous life.

Once it is stained, it will become dirty and entangled.

Iwamura Castle is located in the southeast corner of Mino Province. It is a mountain castle located in the Komao Plateau in the Kiso Mountains.

This is a fortress whose military purpose is overwhelmingly dominant.

Therefore, unlike many commercial towns that have emerged in recent years, it does not have a large castle town where commercial activities are carried out.

It's a more traditional style.

So when Lan En arrived at a place quite far outside the city, he had already dismounted and walked towards the city gate.

(End of this chapter)