You say this is a love game?

……

Mizutani Makoto looked at the monk in front of him, and at this moment he felt as if he was traveling through time and space.

But as the other party nodded slightly at him, those peaceful eyes quickly calmed him down.

The monk in front of me calls himself "Luzhou" and his Buddhist name is "Luzhou Duyan".

Mizutani Makoto carefully observed Luzhou Duyan. The old monk's face was exactly the same as the monk he saw in Gu Chun's memory nine hundred years ago. Time had not left any traces on his face.

"But I am just an obsession."

He spoke gently to Mizutani Makoto.

“…Obsession?”

"The will that has lingered for hundreds of years can most accurately be described as an obsession."

He said.

Mizutani Makoto nodded, and the old monk in front of him smiled slightly. The faint Buddha light shone over and covered him.

Suddenly, everything around him seemed to fall silent. Mizutani Makoto looked around in surprise, only to discover with astonishment that the air had stopped flowing, and even his heart, strained by the strain, had ceased beating.

Only consciousness remains active.

Not only him, but also Chidori and Kako, the spirits of the two Shikigami broke free from their stillness, and together they were enveloped in the Buddha's light, stepping into the intersection of the consciousness levels.

"Here, the little donor doesn't have to be so anxious."

Obviously, this is the work of Luzhou Duyan.

At this moment, Mizutani Makoto could feel that time in the outside world was still passing slowly. His heart, which he thought was completely still, was actually beating slowly... But this slowness was real slowness. The tiny movement that should have passed in a second was infinitely stretched, as if it had been extended a hundred times or a thousand times.

This is the "mind", a place similar to the "mind space".

Mizutani Makoto calmed down and said straight to the point: "I want to know what happened here."

He walked towards Luzhou Duyan, but found that he had walked out of his physical body like a spirit. He simply sat cross-legged in front of Luzhou Duyan and talked to the old monk face to face.

He had so many questions to ask.

"The Great God of War, His incubation has officially begun."

"Why so sudden?"

Mizutani Makoto seemed a little hesitant.

"Because of me?"

"It has nothing to do with the young donor's actions... It's more like 'finally' than 'suddenly'. Three years later, as her soul regained consciousness, the remaining sealing power of the goddess gradually weakened. The shikigami that had managed to survive at the time also broke through the barrier between the rift and the real world tonight."

"Thus, the 'Solar Eclipse' ritual that was supposed to have taken place three years ago has finally begun again."

"finally".

Everything that happened tonight had nothing to do with Shui Gucheng’s behavior.

Regardless of whether he is in the rift tonight or not, the shadow girl will open the portal to the rift, and Yajimazu will definitely communicate with the shadow girl, the ceremony will still be activated, and the shadow girl will obey Yajimazu's will and kill Mizutani Makoto when Mizutani Makoto is off guard.

He didn't have the undead ancestral ability to destroy the seal, so there was no option of "delaying for a few days".

The final and biggest BOSS in this rift, driven by the psychological shadow three years ago, in order to avoid all accidents, after waking up, he made an almost foolproof judgment and brazenly entered the final plot CG.

After Luzhou Togan's explanation, Mizutani Makoto finally understood what happened tonight.

He was still exploring the loopholes step by step, but the appearance of the shadow girl pushed the final plot forward.

"So, it's Yashimazu who has been resurrected."

"He is merging with the divine body."

"Divine body, solar eclipse, what on earth is going on?"

“This is a story from a hundred years ago.”

Luzhou Duyan's gaze passed over the boy's shoulder and fell behind him, as if he saw something through his figure.

"Amitabha."

He chanted in a low voice.

Mizutani Makoto finally understood the final feud that took place at the private Hiiragigaoka Academy a hundred years ago.

That is, the last story of the student union.

Yajimazu took over the body of Soichiro Hiiragihara and used the student council as a sacrifice, intending to revive Nue again and start the "Solar Eclipse" ceremony.

"Nine hundred years ago, the ancestors of the Hiiragihara family combined the hatred and obsession of 42 children with the power of their spiritual veins to create the devastating Nue. They intended to use the Nue to conquer the lands, but the Nue turned against them, and the entire family was wiped out, leaving only one young child."

"The Nue was eventually slain by us, and its vengeful spirit passed away to paradise after eight hundred years of inheritance and atonement."

The head of the Yajima family, Yajimazu, was attracted by Nue's nature as a "beast of disaster".

He wants to resurrect Nue.

The rituals and formations of Onmyoji also require "symbolic meaning". Just like Western magic, all elements must be complete to achieve the purpose... and the monsters created by the resentment of these 42 dead souls should naturally be reshaped using 42 special dead souls.

The Student Union was the sacrifice he chose.

A hundred years ago, when Soichiro Hiiragihara's body was taken away by Yajimazu, no one could stop Yajimazu. He used his influence in Yotsugu City to directly open a school, and wantonly carried out all his ideas in the school until everything was ready, and the student council of that class became a victim.

If Soichiro Hiiragihara's soul had not awakened in the vibration of the spiritual vein, handed the paperweight to Hanako Koizumi, and followed Aue to the private Hiiragiyama Academy, opening the last path for the poor girl, this matter would have ended a hundred years ago.

It was the appearance of Hanako Koizumi holding a paperweight and the fact that she became the "43rd person who should not have died" in that incident that ruined the entire ceremony.

At that time, the Yajima family's ceremony was not even called "solar eclipse", nor did it require a solar eclipse to accompany it.

What they have to do is to push Nue to transform into a semi-finished divine egg in one go, and then have Yashimazu take control of the divine egg and merge with the chaotic divine soul to become the young body of the god. He will then personally bring disaster to the Night Lantern City to complete the final legend of the divine name "Daigozu Hikami".

Legends, deeds, rituals.

Match the corresponding legend with the nature, and finally put on the "name of God" of God, making itself an extremely cruel and evil god of disaster.

In the time of Luzhou Duyan, he had never seen this kind of practice.

“This is not going to work.”

According to the old monk's understanding, how can this method of practice be successful?

Countless ambitious individuals have racked their brains to ponder this idea: if adopting the legend of a monster offers a chance of becoming a half-demon, then adopting the "name" of a god would guarantee immortality. If this were truly possible, the world would have been in chaos long ago.

But Yashimazu succeeded.

The path he took was not so much to become a god, but rather to possess the body of a god under extremely harsh conditions... It can be foreseen that there must be a lot of tricks involved. At least since Yashimazu dared to make such a desperate effort, there must be a possibility of success. However, these inside stories were not something that Luzhou Togan could understand.

All he could see was the process of the story.

The ceremony was considered a success.

The existence of Nue has been branded with the divinity of "Dahuojin Sun God". It has become the egg of God, and the chaotic soul is also being nurtured in its body. It is the best egg of God.

But that ceremony was also a failure.

The suppression of the paperweight, the riot of the spirit vein, and the appearance of the 43rd deceased caused a great disorder in the ceremony, almost causing the God's Egg that was supposed to be condensed to collapse, and seriously injuring Yashimazu as well. This led to the subsequent plan of planning a fire and transferring the God's Egg that was about to collapse into the crevice for re-cultivation.

In Yashimazu's rage, Sato Ayako had her vocal cords cut and sunk to the bottom of the lake. Koizumi Hanako's soul was detained, trapped among the corpses and tortured for a year before being consumed by fire and falling into the rift, becoming a key obsession that formed the rift.

“That’s where the cracks come from.”

"This alternate dimension, formed by obsession, originates from Nue's disintegrated body, the divine egg that never hatched... That body has been buried deep beneath the cracks of the earth, seeking to be reshaped into a divine body in this deserted place."

"This wait lasted for a hundred years."

"Over the past hundred years, the cracks have undergone changes that cannot be influenced."

"The body and soul of the Great Huojin Sun God are now completely separated."

The divine body is the divine egg.

And the divine soul... was supposed to be composed of the souls of 42 dead people, but the souls of those dead people fought to the end, preferring to be shattered rather than become the cornerstone of the divine soul.

They have disappeared.

Only the most primitive obsession remains.

The terrifying obsession and hatred made Yashimazu mistakenly believe that his soul was still there. Only when the cracks were completely constructed, the resentment caused by the obsession would be infinitely magnified in the cracks formed by the obsession, and the part belonging to the soul would fall into collapse.

How can one become a divine soul if one doesn’t even have the foundation of a soul?

This was equivalent to the complete collapse of the foundation of Daihozu's Sun God. Instead, those obsessions, wrapped in a will to resist, lingered on the edge of the paperweight that was on the verge of shattering, forming a second force in opposition to the God's Egg... This was the cursed land that even Yajimazu found difficult to deal with.

The power of the death curse truly comes from the power of "Dahuojinri God".

This is not the same kind of power as the snowball's power to negate the curse of death.

"What about the soul link? Yashimazu must have made some repairs... What did he do?"

Mizutani Makoto said this, as if he had realized something.

Chidori, who had been trapped in the cracks, was also listening quietly.

On this land, nine hundred years of cause and effect and grudges finally formed a very long story, in which old monsters appeared one after another... Even she, the demon sword princess who was born a hundred years ago, looked like a well-behaved child in front of these old things.

Luzhou Duyan whispered, "Young benefactor, you've guessed it, right?... That's right. Since the old soul has collapsed and escaped with the original god's power, it's natural that a new soul must be nurtured for the integrity of the Divine Egg."

"That is the soul of the God's Egg."

The birth of Nue was conscious.

Just like the Nue that wreaked havoc nine hundred years ago, its consciousness did not belong to the 42 undead, but was a brand new soul formed by resentment that hated the entire world.

Since the old soul has collapsed, we can only use local materials and use the remains of the God's Egg to hatch a new soul that best fits the God's Egg.

"And that divine soul was born incomplete. The power of the divine soul was basically swept away by the obsessions, leaving only the power of the divine body... But Yashimazu would never let him touch the power of this divine body."

The divine egg, the divine soul hatched from it, is the true divine soul of "Dahuojinri God".

He was hatched with the form of Nue as the cornerstone, and all his strength was swept away by obsession. Even due to the existence of the soul power on the side of obsession, this chaotic consciousness hatched from the egg of God can only be regarded as half a soul, and cannot be complete, and even self-awareness cannot be born.

This chaotic soul absorbed hatred and filth in the cracks for an unknown period of time, and finally climbed to the level of a strong superior.

Until three years ago, he was taken away and turned into a mask attached to the body of a dead girl. Through the girl's life and memories, he created his true "self".

He had a name, "Mai Yajima".

A new consciousness, a broken soul of God.

A sad god who was destined to be a sacrifice from the moment he was born.

Three years ago, the "Solar Eclipse" ceremony, which had been planned for nearly a hundred years, was a remedy for the original ceremony.

Cultivate new divine souls, hatch divine eggs, create rituals of disaster, and push Yajimazu to abandon his mortal body and ascend to the realm of gods.

But with the arrival of a goddess, even the ritual of reparation was disrupted.

"You should understand everything that happens from now on, young donor."

Mizutani Makoto was silent for a long time and nodded slightly.

In this spiritual conversation that passed extremely slowly, he finally understood the cause and effect of the matter and figured out the next direction.

So, at this point, what about Mai Yajima, the soul?

Luzhou Duyan raised his head slightly, looking across the land in the direction of the cherry blossom tree: "It's where the God's Egg is."

"I want to stop this."

Without any hesitation.

Mizutani Makoto looked at Luzhou Duyan with a sharp gaze. The effect of the [Secret Medicine of Boiling Blood] had ended, but it did not affect his boiling will.

He had no way to retreat, and now there were people paving the way for him, and people waiting for him to save them... How could he stop here because of fear?

There was a love-brained idiot who once talked to him about such childish topics as knights and princesses.

She was like a newborn baby, sticking all the beautiful stories she could imagine onto herself, as if if she stuck enough of them, she would be able to obtain the same enviable happiness as the protagonist in the story.

Stupid, so stupid.

He took a deep breath, pinched the badge on his chest and asked softly:

"This badge... what about them? What about the obsession that carries the power of the soul?"

That cursed land where there is neither death nor life... He vaguely grasped some information, a path that would allow him to become a "knight".

"They're asking you for help."

"What do you want?"