Chapter 57 Death and Migration 1

It was the Heian period a thousand years ago.

The streets of Heian-kyō are always busy, with people populating the streets even before the morning mist has cleared. The green tiles, red pillars, drooping cherry blossoms and neatly arranged streets and lanes are like a chessboard, creating a new scene.

A young man in court robes rode slowly past in a beautifully decorated ox cart. The low-key yet luxurious curtains fluttered in the wind. Passers-by on both sides stopped, bowed their heads, and saluted respectfully without saying a word.

Sugawara no Michizane, who was sitting in the ox cart, was hailed as the god of learning of this era. The talented young man from a prominent family was deeply trusted by Emperor Uda, but he was never arrogant or impatient and had a very good character.

The ox cart seemed to be affected by something and had to stop at a very fast speed.

The young man in the car was reading. Due to the long journey to Beijing, there were traces of blue under his eyes. After being hit by the ox cart, he seemed to stop for a moment and lost his balance, and the book in his hand flew forward. Fortunately, he caught the book in time and did not let it fall to the ground -

he just fell himself.

Touching his forehead which was slightly red from the collision, Sugawara Michizane slowly got up and carefully checked his book - fortunately, it was not damaged.

Wait, is someone calling him?

The driver was almost frightened to death and kept asking "Sir" several times. He was relieved only when he heard that the people inside were fine.

Sugawara no Michizane asked again: "What happened?"

The driver glanced at the little boy in front of him who had stitches on his head and was dirty all over. He frowned with a little disgust, and said with a bit of flattery in his tone: "It's nothing serious. There was just a little beggar who stole someone's fruit, was beaten, and accidentally bumped into an adult."

"I see."

Sugawara no Michizane sat back in his seat, holding his forehead and said: "How old is he?"

"He looks like six or seven years old."

"Give him some money and let it go."

"Sir?"

"Give me two cents of silver and don't pursue it any further. This matter - it's just that the wind disturbed the spring flags and woke me up from a dream."

After that, he flipped through the book again and said nothing more.

Lord Sugawara has spoken, so there is no reason for the driver not to obey. Giving the child two coins was enough for the matter.

But Sugawara Michizane himself didn't know that his fate with the child with sutures on his head would even involve his descendants thousands of years later.

Noso was really fed up with this mentally retarded kid's body - he had some pretty good techniques, but because he was a beggar with a weak constitution and was still young, it was better not to use his techniques.

So he tried his best to strangle a ronin sorcerer outside the city gate, and from then on he changed into an adult male.

At that time, he was sitting in a tavern outside the city, drinking, thinking about the newly obtained information about Sukuna and what to do next.

After all, he was really boring.

The technique is to replace the body. As long as the sorcerer preserves his own brain, he can use his own brain to parasitize the body of another person through his own technique, and inherit the other person's body and enjoy the other person's technique and cursed power. Therefore, Nosozo, who should have died, survived for many years.

Perhaps it was because he had lived too long and he really felt bored -

there was no fun in life at all.

He has seen too much suffering in the world. Men and women in the world are heartbroken because of love, and they suffer the consequences of their evil desires such as greed, anger, and ignorance. They are also miserable because of the joys and sorrows of life, and the poverty and sadness of life. It is simply boring to the extreme.

Even if this group of people were thrown to feed the cursed spirits, Zuo Suo would not see any problem -

to him, these were just defective products of human beings.

It is something that can be consumed and used as feed.

So, Xusuo couldn't help but think:

What if there really is the most perfect human being in the world?

First of all, he must be a sorcerer.

There is no powerful force, but civilians are so weak that they can be crushed to death at any time.

Secondly, he must possess the most powerful strength and the most outstanding spirit - not sad for the sufferings of the world, always rational, always clear-headed, and the most perfect human being.

So, the question is -

how should he create such a human being?

At this moment, the shrine maiden from the Kagura family who was in charge of the Harmony Ceremony came into his sight.

As a shrine maiden who has close ties with the royal family and is responsible for religious ceremonies within the palace and maintaining social religious beliefs in local shrines, the Kagura family shrine maiden who is good at music is simply his best experimental subject -

sacred, noble, and approachable.

It all started with a festival at Takashima Shrine.

The shrine maiden in white kosode and red hakama touched the strings lightly with her fingertips, as if bringing the words of God into the world, and the ethereal melody echoed in the hall -

"Tonight the moon is bright, the wind has stopped and the rain has stopped. The Kagura family presents pure music and respectfully plays it to the gods. May this sound purify the foul air and protect the imperial land and all the people. After the performance, kneel down and kowtow nine times, so that the gods will calm down and their souls will be at peace."

With every stroke of the strings and every whisper, the silver bell-like music and human voice seemed to cleanse people's hearts, and lines of curses emerged faintly in the air - unfortunately, ordinary people can't see them at all.

Luosuo scratched his ears out of boredom, watching the heaven and earth become silent at this moment with the sounds of the piano and the chanting. He followed the people around him and prostrated himself before the witch, kowtowed three times and kowtowed nine times, but his heart was not at peace at all.

He stared at the compassionate Buddha statue, his heart filled with indifference, neither happy nor sad.

He thought:

"If you really have such divine power, let me see the existence that goes against the world, the most perfect human being. For this, I am willing to pay any price."

At that time, Noose did not know that all the results of fate have causes, just like the saying -

all the gifts of fate are marked with a price.

Once you have an idea, you can make a plan; once you have a plan, you can execute it. Noso has always been a man with strong action ability, so he executed it without hesitation.

The rain was pouring down, and the witch "Miss Li" who returned at night got off the ox cart. The servant beside her held up an oil-paper umbrella for her. The young and kind witch leaned down and looked at the dying ronin warrior in front of her. She glanced at the bloodstains stained red by the rain with some anxiety, and gently shook the warrior's body.

"Hello? Hello? Sir?"

The young man with a huge scar on his head looked extremely weak, but his will to survive allowed him to force himself to wake up in great pain.

He leaned in the witch's arms, a painful and weak smile appearing on his pale face.

“Please, save me…”

After saying that, he closed his eyes, his fingers dropped to the ground, and he fainted.

The shrine maiden, who was always gentle and kind, was a little anxious, and ordered her servants to help carry the poor ronin samurai into the courtyard of the Kagura family.

As a side witch, Rei never had to work as hard as her elder sister Kagura. As the main witch, Shenle, she cannot marry after she has purified herself. She needs to remain pure forever to serve as a vessel for the gods.

But the Pangwu ritual is different. Li is a shrine maiden who assists in the sacrifice and is the continuator of the bloodline. She needs to get married and have children to train the next generation of shrine maidens for the family.

So it was only natural for her to fall in love with the melancholy, gentle, yet kind, tough and bushido-spirited ronin.

Although the head of the family was dissatisfied with Rei's behavior, he finally agreed to Rei's marriage with the samurai who called himself Kenji with the help of his eldest sister.

When talking about this, Li ran to the eldest sister like a cheering bird, squatted beside her and looked at her with a smile, "Eldest sister, I'm getting married."

The eldest sister just smiled gently when she heard it, put her palm on the top of Li's head and touched it lightly, and spoke in a melodious voice like singing: "Li, I hope you will be happy."

But everything went against her wishes -

at least for Li, that was the case.

My husband seemed like a different person after marriage.

It’s not that his behavior has changed, but something is wrong - that’s what Li thinks.

He seemed very determined to have a child between them. At first, Li was looking forward to giving birth to a new child for the family, but she was still instinctively afraid of her husband's words and actions.

It wasn't until the day she became pregnant and gave birth to Mio that she saw

the almost uncontrollable, eerie, yet grateful look in her husband's eyes.

At that moment, Li was so frightened that she stood frozen at the door -

and her husband, the gentle and elegant warrior who pursued the righteous path, just showed a sinister and weird smile, stared at her motionlessly with the corners of his mouth twitching, then wrapped her daughter in a swaddle and walked towards her step by step.

"Rei, what are you worried about? Mio is our child... She is destined to become the most perfect human being."

"Don't worry, my dear Rei, when the new century comes, everyone will respect you as the mother of the new God."

The last thing Rei saw before she died was her hungry daughter blinking her big eyes at her, as if she had a thousand words to say.

Funny enough, it was Sugawara no Michizane who discovered the abnormality.

He was already over 40 at that time, but the moment he saw the current shrine maiden Mio at the Kagura family's festival, he felt something was wrong from the bottom of his heart and couldn't help but notice this young girl who was famous all over the world and could resonate

with others. Her technique was different from that of other people in the Kagura family. Because of this, the Kagura family prospered and once became a high-ranking family of sorcerers.

However, she seemed to be entangled by something - not so-called demons or monsters, but a very strange cause and effect, as if someone had forcibly reversed the cause and effect and entangled fate with her.

With this in mind, Sugawara no Michizane invited the newly promoted Kagura shrine maiden to have a chat.

It turns out that Kagura Mio is an extremely outstanding shrine maiden - she has all the qualities that a shrine maiden should have, but Sugawara Michizane just feels something is wrong.

Before finishing the tea on the table, Sugawara Michizane looked at the gurgling water on the Kamo River and the falling cherry blossoms outside the window, blinked gently, and used his own infinite magic to protect the girl in front of him layer by layer.

"May the tea be as clear and bright as this one."

This was his blessing to Kagura Mio, and it was also the last straw that broke the camel's back for Kagura Mio to go to destruction -

Kagura Mio felt something was wrong since she was very young.

She remembered the terrified look on her mother's face before she died, and how her father, who killed her, took off his brain in front of her, revealing a disgusting mass of white brains. She could also feel the cursed energy in her body uncontrollably trying to devour her sanity and humanity.

She is being disciplined by this force little by little and is losing her humanity, which is the most terrifying thing.

So after drinking all of Sugawara Michizane's tea, Kagura Mio knelt down earnestly in front of Sugawara Michizane, saying sincerely: "With this grace, I hope to dispel my wish to say goodbye. With my thoughts, I will fulfill Sugawara's feelings and the world's fruits."

Then -

one month after saying goodbye to Sugawara Michizane, Kagura Mio chose to commit suicide without hesitation.

She would not allow such cause and effect to entangle others, she wanted to understand such cause and effect here.

When Zuosuo learned about this, his first reaction was speechlessness -

too fragile.

However, as the first experimental subject, it is acceptable to be able to achieve this.

He never felt that he was wrong, he just felt that -

she was not enough.

Looking at the death of his so-called daughter Mio, Nozomi frowned and stared at her for a few seconds with a critical perspective, then turned his head and looked at Kagura Mio who was standing in the pure land of music.

He smiled, his tone meaningful:

"You are here?"

"My dear, Mio-chan."