Chapter 423 Because He Forgot You
Not finding Xia Yu's human form, the little girl with white hair was confused for a moment. Seeing that the little girl seemed a little embarrassed, Xia Yu asked, "What is a human form?"
"The human form is the remains of the couple."
The somewhat embarrassed little girl naturally took the question, restored her previous attitude, and replied seriously: "And the dolls are those dolls with souls."
"A doll made to resemble a living person will contain that person's soul. If the doll is damaged, it will cause harm to the person himself, but..."
At this point, the little girl stared at Xia Yu and said, "Brother clearly entered the shrine, why didn't his human form appear?"
"Well... maybe this shrine can't bear my soul." Xia Yu guessed, touching his chin, and then grinned.
"After all, a person as dazzling as me must have an equally dazzling soul, and a dazzling soul is extremely important."
In response to Xia Yu's boastful words, the little girl looked at Xia Yu carefully with her red eyes for a while, then lowered her head and whispered: "You are lying, it is obviously black."
Xia Yu: “?”
Little girl, do you know that your path has become narrow?
"Haha, little girl, you might be dazzled. Can you take another look?"
As he spoke, Xia Yu directly used the power of holy light in his body. A pair of holy light wings spread out behind him, and his eyes turned pure red.
The soft holy light spread, illuminating the originally gloomy interior of the shrine, and the gloomy energy surrounding the shrine was also swept away.
"ah--!"
However, under this soft holy light, the little girl screamed, and an ominous black aura emerged from her body. After all, she was half a vengeful spirit, so she would naturally be hurt when facing the holy light.
The injured little girl immediately wanted to hide in the doll to avoid her soul being exposed to the holy light.
But Xia Yu suddenly reached out and grabbed her, then increased the shining of the holy light. The soft light was holy and noble, and its sacred majesty was inviolable.
Along with the baptism of holy light, the black gas on the little girl's body evaporated faster and faster. In just a few seconds, the little girl's body had become so transparent that she was almost invisible.
After expelling all the accumulated or contaminated resentment, Xia Yu introduced holy light into the purified soul of the little girl, allowing it to be directly transformed into a holy spirit.
Holy Spirit, referred to as the Holy Spirit.
Then, the excess holy light flowed to the back of the little girl's right hand and turned into a small flower mark, which stored rich holy light power.
“I am…”
The pain of baptism slowly disappeared, and the little girl looked at the back of her right hand in surprise, feeling a sense of relief she had never felt before.
"You have been purified now, and your soul is as dazzling as mine." Xia Yu retracted his holy wings and explained casually.
In fact, he could have used a gentler method to help the little girl transform her soul, but who made the little girl say that his soul was black?
Humph, this is the result of talking nonsense!
"Purification?"
The little girl stared at the scratch on the back of her hand, her eyes full of confusion.
But the gentle power in her body, which was completely different from spiritual power, and the transformation of her soul, all told her that she was no longer the same as before.
"Who are you? Why are you helping me?"
"Well, that's a long story."
As Xia Yu spoke, he pulled the little girl to sit down, then looked at the little girl and said, " Let me tell you a story."
"That's a story that happened a long, long time ago. It happened on a mountain called Yangyan Mountain. There was a village on the mountain, and in the village, a special little girl was born."
"The little girl was born with snow-white hair, red eyes, and pale skin, but at the same time, she has the spiritual power to become a witch."
"So, the little girl became a young witch, but unlike other young witches, people found out through examination that the little girl would not live long. Therefore, the little girl has always been alone and has not been able to make friends."
"However, things always take a turn. Suddenly, a little boy appears. Not only is he not afraid of the little girl's unusual appearance, he is also willing to play with her. Gradually, the little boy becomes the most important person in the little girl's heart."
When Xia Yu said this, the little girl already understood that the other party was telling her story. Although she didn't know how Xia Yu knew it, she didn't stop him.
Because those happy memories and the promise she made with the little boy are what keep her going until now.
Xia Yu continued, "But happy times are always short-lived. Moreover, because of her own specialness, the little girl could hardly live past the age of seven. Therefore, before her death, the little girl, who had extraordinary spiritual power, was finally sent to Mt. Hijo as a 'coffin-enterer', where a 'powerful human pillar' was needed."
"It is the tradition of the people living here to use a miko with spiritual power as a human pillar to suppress the Higurashi Mountain. Only in this way can the night spring on the top of the mountain not overflow."
"The little girl understood the meaning of the sacrifice and accepted her fate. However, the witch who performed the sacrifice also had her own comfort, which was the ghost marriage ritual."
"The so-called ghost marriage is the wedding between the dead and the living. The priestesses who were locked in coffins and sunk to the bottom of the lake to suppress Kurosawa, because of the underworld, their time will be stopped and they will always remain in the same appearance as when they were sacrificed. Therefore, they are also called eternal flowers."
"And in order to comfort the everlasting flowers, they can leave their portraits and wait for their destined lovers, or they can choose the man they like and marry him/her in a ghost marriage ceremony. After the marriage, the man will enter the coffin with the shrine maiden and endure the pain of suppressing Kurosawa together until their spirits collapse and merge into the night spring."
"And the little girl has already decided that her ghost marriage is with that little boy, the one who doesn't despise her and is willing to accompany her."
"As time passed, the coffin-entering ceremony finally arrived. The little boy led the little girl to the Sunrise Mountain Ceremony. The little girl asked the little boy to cut off a strand of her white hair. When the little boy took the white hair and went up the mountain again to find her, it was the time for the two to be married in secret."
"The little boy did not refuse. He accepted the little girl's white hair. Then, with this wish in mind, the little girl entered the coffin and was drowned by the black water of the underworld."
"But alas, a hundred years have passed, the little boy has not appeared, and the little girl has been waiting bitterly until now."
"In terms of human lifespan, the little boy has now turned into dry bones. He did not fulfill his secret marriage agreement with the little girl."
This is basically the entire story of the white-haired little girl in front of me. At this moment, the little girl is trembling and tears are welling up in her eyes.
It's not that she hasn't thought about why the little boy hasn't come yet, but since he hasn't come, she had an idea, but at this moment, this idea was ruthlessly displayed and torn apart by Xia Yu.
“Why…why…”
Tears dripped from the corners of the little girl's eyes and she bit her lips tightly, as if asking herself, or asking Xia Yu.
"Alas, it's because Aso Kunihiko has forgotten you, Baiju." Xia Yu sighed and told the cruel truth.
