There are several trees in the courtyard of Kurokawa House. Zuocun leans on the trunk and looks at Kurokawa Eio below.
"Strange, this monster...it seems to be unable to see that little girl?"
The monster's bounces very strong and fast.
The little girl stood next to the monster, her face calm, and she didn't care about the monster, but just looked at Zuocun.
The monster hugged the tree trunk and wanted to break the tree, so he threw Zuocun off.
Zuocun jumped up from the tree, and while the monster was not reacting, he stepped on the monster's face and rolled away from the monster's attack.
Zuocun stood there, watching the monster, his heart beat very fast and he could not do anything.
In addition to wrinkles and swelling, the monster's body also had something similar to fish bones. Moreover, the black aura that looked like flames, Zuocun felt something was wrong and did not dare to fight with the monster without a knife.
The monster was stepped on by Zuocun, as if it was so angry that it was ashamed.
"You... dirty and disgusting bastard-!!!" He roared and rushed over.
Zuocun retreated quickly and did not contact the monster head-on.
At this moment, a voice appeared in Zuocun's mind.
"Do you... need help?"
The sudden sound scared Zuo Village, and the monster fired the black gas out of his palm, and Zuo Village almost did not dodge.
"Who are you?" he sorted out the situation and asked quickly, "How do you help me?"
"...Look behind you." The voice disappeared.
Zuocun twisted the monster's attack again, and the monster got closer and became even more terrifying and disgusting.
Turning around, Zuocun looked behind him.
The girl with white hair and white eyes was standing not far behind her.
And in her hand was her two knives.
The girl gently abandoned the two knives and drew an arc.
Zuocun's eyes lit up.
He did not choose to get a knife, but instead caught the pheasant feathers that had been with him for a longer time.
Zheng--
Zuocun, who got the knife, seemed to have become a different person in an instant.
At this moment, the wind and snow seemed to have paused.
Jump like a feather, and then-
cut!
The monster that Kurokawa Eio turned into was separated by a single knife. After swaying twice, he fell to the ground.
Kurokawa Eio's body seemed to melt and turned into a pool of black water.
Zuo Village Chief breathed a sigh of relief and felt even more creepy as he watched the disappearance of Kurokawa Eio's body.
Zhuocun finally felt a little more at ease by using the hem of his clothes to wipe off the black blood left on the pheasant feathers.
The pheasant feathers returned to the sheath, and the girl with white hair and white eyes appeared next to Zuocun again.
Zuocun did not speak first, but walked to the other side, picked up his own knife, and put it in his belt with the pheasant feathers.
"You are strong." The girl said.
"My level is not enough, how can I get the strength?" Zuocun shook his head and touched his left rib.
The monster rubbed it there, I don’t know how it hurt.
"You are strong enough, but... now, it's not the time to end everything." The girl lowered her head.
"You seem to know a lot. Can you tell me what's going on here?" Zuocun frowned, "If I weren't here today, I'd probably died here long ago."
"Do you want to know?" The girl looked very beautiful, with her eyelashes white. She raised her head and looked at Zuocun intently.
"Please tell me." Zuocun said without hesitation, holding the hilt of the knife.
“…”
There was silence in the air, leaving only the sound of wind and snow.
"Please come with me."
The white girl floated up, Zuocun jumped up and followed behind.
The direction the girl was heading was to the east of the village, which was to Kurokawa Mountain.
"You are the only one who has lived through the first night in this village." The girl floated and said to Zuo Village behind her.
"Is that right?" Zuocun jumped, thinking about why the girl floated up.
"It's also the first person to let me see hope."
call--
The cold wind was covered with heavy snow, and Zuocun was wearing very thin clothes, but he didn't have time to make him uncomfortable.
"What's going on with that monster? What's going on with that woman with long hair?" Zuocun asked.
"That monster is not dead. When it's dark tomorrow, everything will return to its original state." The girl's eyes were a little dim, "Recovering to the time when resentment really engulfs Kurokawashita Village, a village that is sinful in itself."
"As for that woman."
"Actually, that's me." The girl said calmly.
The two of them had arrived at the foot of the mountain.
"That's...you?" Zuocun frowned.
"Yes, or rather, it was driven by resentment, me who had become a monster."
"......Yeah."
Two faces appeared in Zuocun's mind, and carefully compared them.
Both seem to be true, in addition to age and hair and eyes, the black-haired woman has many traces of this white-haired girl.
"But she can't see me, nor can she drive me."
"She used these villagers to hunt down people passing by. I wanted to end this atrocity, but I couldn't interfere directly, so I didn't succeed in saving people who were trapped in the illusion... until you arrive."
“Use these villagers…that is.”
"Yes." The girl nodded, "She used her own strength to kill all the villagers--"
“It’s all clean.”
"Then, the souls of the villagers are held by themselves and drive these souls."
The two came to the middle of the mountain.
"What's the reason for her to do these things?" Zuocun stepped forward quickly, questioning, "You just said that she killed the villagers with resentment."
"Where does resentment come from?"
"You and she are the same person. Why do you become two beings?"
"And, what's the reason you want to end her atrocities, as your partner, to stop her?"
With Zuocun’s problems, the two of them arrived at the top of the mountain.
And Kurokawa Lake also appeared in the eyes of the two.
"What's your name?" the girl asked.
"...Zuocun Annuo." Zuocun looked at the lake and felt... his heartbeat stopped for a beat.
"Listen to me to tell a story, Zuocun Annuo." The girl turned around and looked at Zuocun, who was covered in cold sweat.
“…you tell me.”
The lake surface of Kurochuan Lake is densely packed.
Covered with swollen corpses.
Zuocun understood why this lake is called Kurochuan Lake.
Except for a family named Kurokawa, located next to it.
It was this, the black floating corpse floating all over the entire lake.
"In June 1802, the Kurokawa family decided to build a village at the foot of this nameless mountain."
"And then." The girl looked at Zuocun and said word by word.
"As the village chief, Eio Kurokawa, captured a 16-year-old girl who is not Kurokawashita Village."
Chapter completed!