Chapter 143: Sleeping Together Trip (16)
“Hahahaha~ Is this actually a fox? I thought it was a dog, isn’t the carving too ugly? Let me dress it up...hehehe , That’s good, come and take a photo with us.”
“It’s interesting~ Yangcai, we’re about to take a photo, let’s talk about it. Shiba."
"Shiba~Shi~"
Wearing a fashionable navel-baring outfit, Ono Hina proudly leaned against the fox statue with lipstick on her face, facing Inuyama Heita's A V-sign was raised in the direction, and beside him, a blurry figure held a camera and took a photo of Ono Hina.
"This is..." Inuyama Heita stood aside, looking at this scene and said incredulously: "Did it happen last year? Is this how she was marked by the fox?"
Aken touched the fat With a fat chin, he said doubtfully: "Why are you showing us this? Do the foxes want to prove that she deserves it?"
Ono Hina, who was wearing a white fox mask, did not answer. She started from this Walking through the frozen scene, I came to the next scene.
A field appeared in front of Inuyama Heita. Under the moonlight, standing figures stood quietly in the field, motionless.
Ono Hina walked into the field, with funny fox-like lines painted on her face with lipstick. She walked up to the scarecrow wearing her clothes expressionlessly, and stretched out her hand to pull it. Take off the top clothes.
But at this moment, dense crowds of scarecrows appeared around her. Those scarecrows were wearing various styles of clothes, and their heads turned into old faces. Those faces were really old, with wrinkles like ravines. It was also deeply engraved on the face.
The scarecrow stretched out his fingers made of dry straw and took her hand, begging and crying.
“Stay here...”
“Don’t leave, okay?”
“Isn’t this village a good place?”
"Big cities will eat people, and they will eat people until no bones are left."
"Please stay, if you continue, the village will be empty..."
< br>"Stay, stay..."
Ono Hina was overwhelmed by the scarecrows Come, she started struggling like a wild beast, and then, a white fox was pulled out of her body by the scarecrows and torn into pieces. At this moment, Ono Hina seemed to wake up and saw the scarecrows. face, she let out a scream of terror and fainted.
"So this is what happened to Ono-senpai last year!" Inuyama Heita's eyes widened, and the context of what happened gradually became clear in his mind. He murmured: "Because of the relationship between the fox and the scarecrow. The pull of Ono-senpai's control has shocked Ono-senpai's spirit... But how did those scarecrows appear? "
"There are fewer and fewer people in the village..."
An old voice came, and Inuyama Heita and Takeru suddenly looked back, only to find that they were already standing in front of the main hall of the shrine. There are white clouds floating in the sky, and the main hall of the shrine has not collapsed yet. Although it is a bit old, it is very clean, as if someone cleans it frequently.
An old man dressed as a priest stood next to the fox statue with his sleeves rolled up, looking up at the sky and talking to himself.
“Everyone has gone to the big cities...If this continues, the village will soon be deserted, right?”
“No one comes to worship here anymore, fox, wait a minute. After I die, this shrine will probably also Abandoned? But why, why don’t even those old friends from the village come?" Heita Inuyama looked at the scene in front of him and speculated: "This should be a scene a long time ago, when the shrine was not abandoned."
Aken thought thoughtfully: "I feel that the fox at the shrine should want to tell us something."
As soon as he finished speaking, the figure of the old priest disappeared, and in the same scene Next, at different times, the sky turned into a hazy color, and two vague figures came to the shrine and had a conversation.
"This is the White Fox Shrine in our village. The shrine owner has been taken away. Is there any problem here?"
"Well, the problem is quite big. If you want to use my teaching If I give you a way to preserve the luck of the village, then this shrine will be the biggest obstacle.”
"But... this shrine has been around for a long time, and the summer festival is held here every year. Wouldn't it be a pity if it was just abandoned like this? What if the gods enshrined in it were blamed..." < br>
"Can the gods keep those young people from leaving? Can the gods prevent this village from becoming like other villages? If you don't follow my method, your place will be like those villages. First of all, The young people left, and there were not even a few children left. In the end, only you gray-haired old people were left. After you are almost dead, the village will be abandoned, and this shrine will be the same."
"I understand... This village is everyone's treasure. We have been living here for generations. No matter what, we cannot let it become a wasteland."
"That's good, since I have made up my mind to do it according to my method. I will tell you the location of erecting the scarecrow. You must strictly follow the requirements. After you die, you can turn into a guardian spirit and continue to protect this village. Also, don’t forget to drive away all the foxes here to prevent them from destroying the magic circle.”
The light and shadow dissipated, and the shrine returned to its tattered and abandoned appearance, wearing a white fox mask. Ono Haruna stood in front of Inuyama Heita and looked at him quietly.
"So, you don't want to take revenge on Ono-senpai, but..." Heita Inuyama said in surprise: "You want to save her?"
"Who do you want to...save?"
Hearing the voice, Ono Haruna made a beast-like threatening sound in the direction of Inuyama Heita. Like a fox entering a stress response, Inuyama Heita turned around suddenly and found Kawasaki standing at the door of the shrine. , under the moonlight, Kawasaki's glasses reflected white light, making his expression unclear.
"Kawasaki-senpai? Why are you here!" Inuyama Heita said in surprise.
"Because I'm worried about you. I just heard that you wanted to save people, but..." Kawasaki raised his head, revealing his eyes with cloudy lenses, and said decisively: "There is no one who needs saving here. ”
"Be careful! Inuyama clan!" Takeru said in horror: "That's not the scapegoat! It's something else!"
"Stay." Kawasaki said: "Let's stay in this village together. , compared with big cities, this place is like a paradise. There is no anxiety and no worries. You will be like that girl and forget what happened tonight. . In a short time, maybe a year or two, maybe a few years, you will not be able to bear the hustle and bustle of the big city and come back here. So, come with us..."
"No!" Taken said: "Who wants to stay in this ghost place? There is no Internet. Let's run away, Inuyama!"
"We can't escape." Kawasaki said.
Heita Inuyama suddenly felt that the world was turned upside down. Before he fell into coma, he saw the figure of Miyamoto Yushi who knocked him down, and Yui Komaeda who hugged Ono Hina tightly from behind.
And in an unknown field, two scarecrows wearing new clothes stood quietly, their clothes fluttering in the wind under the moonlight.
(End of this chapter)