So who did Misaku Sahara get the order to bring Nishikiyo back to the city during this period? What was the purpose of bringing him back?
The answer is also obvious... Sahara Anji tried to sacrifice Nishikichiyo urgently to stop the tide.
Some people may feel a little confused when they see this, because from the previous article, Sahara Anji seems to be a very kind person. After all, he spared Nishikichiyo and her son again and again.
But in fact, everything Anji Sahara did had nothing to do with whether he was personally benevolent or not. All of his decisions were made from the perspective of family interests and after careful consideration.
You can tell from Nishikiyo's age that he was born a year before his father was "sacrificially sacrificed", which means that his father had an intimate relationship with his mother at least two years before his death; and the two
The relationship between people was revealed when Nishikiyo's mother gradually couldn't hide it... At this time, there were only a year and a few months left before the next sacrifice.
Just imagine, in that situation, if you were the head of the Sawara family, how should you deal with Nishikichiyo's mother?
Kill her directly? What if the sacrifice commits suicide?
Abort a child who is five or six months old? In terms of the medical technology of that era, the result of this operation may be worse than killing her directly.
Even if she is imprisoned, there is no guarantee that the sacrifice will do something out of worry and resentment.
Therefore, Sahara Anji could only put Nishikiyo's mother under house arrest first, feed her with good food and drink, and then say some nice words such as "I will support you as your wife" in front of her father, the "sacrifice".
By the way, he added a few words such as "The elders of the family have forgiven you for your 'impure' things due to my hard pleas" so that he could wait for the sacrifice with peace of mind.
With this PUA method, it is no problem to defeat a young man.
Whether Nishikiyo's father was feeling ashamed or for the safety of their mother and son, he naturally had no choice but to accept his fate.
As for why Sahara Anji did not harm Nishikichiyo and her son after his death, there is a good reason - Nishikichiyo, as a direct descendant of the previous sacrifice, could be kept as a "spare product".
If something went wrong with the next sacrifice, it would be better to have Nishikiyo come to the rescue temporarily than to send it to other children or even adults in the family.
As long as Nishikichiyo's mother abides by the promise "not to talk nonsense", Sahara Anji is indeed prepared to accept Nishikichiyo as a family general and give him a name when he comes of age.
To put it bluntly, there is no personal grudge or emotional motivation from beginning to end...
Over the past few hundred years, everything the Sawara clan has done, including these efforts to maintain and continue the "sacrifice", is all for their family to continue to rule the Sawara Kingdom for a long time.
With this as the "highest goal", no one can be sacrificed, and no means cannot be used.
Then, it was the first harvest tide.
It was the autumn of the second year of the festival year. Because Nishikiyo's destruction failed, the previous year's festival went smoothly. Nishikiyo, who had a falling out with the Sahara family, also lost his original living conditions and was thrown into a secret dungeon.
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If nothing else happens, he will still be kept as a "spare product" for many years. After all, as we said before, all the heads of the Sawara clan know in their hearts that the age limit of "sixteen years old" is optional.
Theoretically, it doesn't matter if you raise him until he dies naturally, since he won't consume much resources in this dungeon anyway.
Unexpectedly, Sawara ushered in foreign enemies this year and was about to be destroyed by outsiders, so Anji Sawara negotiated a deal and presented the "Ama Cong Yun Sword Fragment".
But even the fallen man didn't know it before he came into contact with it. This "Tian Cong Yun Sword Fragment" is something that is extremely harmful to it in terms of chemical properties. This hazard is equivalent to human beings encountering cyanide, so after absorbing it,
Afterwards, the fallen man's body immediately began to "rescue itself". This is the truth of the first wave of death.
"Tide tide" is what humans call it. From the perspective of a fallen person, this phenomenon is roughly equivalent to vomiting and diarrhea after food poisoning... Of course, after taking cyanide, humans cannot be saved by just vomiting and diarrhea, but fallen people
The dead are a different kind of creature, and they can still survive at this level.
What? Are you saying that human vomiting and diarrhea will not cause widespread damage to the surrounding environment and organisms?
Then put yourself in my shoes and think about it. What if you were not vomiting and having diarrhea in the toilet at home or in the hospital, but instead arrived on a planet with a completely different ecology from the earth, accidentally ate something poisonous, and then had a wave of diarrhea in the wild?
Spray, can you guarantee that there will not be a large number of alien ants around you that will die due to your spray? Or in order not to dehydrate after spraying, you quickly found some alien vegetables that you often eat to replenish some water.
Are these vegetables consumed in excess?
What happens during the tidal wave is a similar physical stress response to the fallen.
This reaction will affect the surrounding time and space, and it is only bizarre from a human perspective. Creatures like the Fallen, which are half a dimension higher than humans, will not find this difficult to understand.
Just like when the fallen ghoul falls, its reaction when it touches the ground, and Huang Donglai's reaction when he spirally kicks the fallen ghoul, and Huang Donglai's reaction when it touches the "top" of the fallen ghoul, are actually the appearance produced by the same principle, but humans will feel
The former is the interaction between the fallen being and the environment, and the latter is the interaction between a creature and the fallen being.
And if people understand it, they will understand... "The tide" cannot be completely regarded as "the influence of the fallen ghoul on the surroundings", it can also be considered as "occurring in the body of the fallen ghoul".
The "faint fragrance" that Sun Yixie, Huang Donglai, Keijiro and others smelled was actually the smell inside the fallen ghoul's body, but to the human sense of smell, this smell was just "fragrant".
As for those "Shadows" who look no different from normal people on the outside, in fact, just like the name Nishikiyo gave them, they are a kind of people who seem to be in the same dimension as you, but are not actually in the same dimension.
things, so the "killing" or destruction of them can only be temporary.
Of course, not everyone will turn into a shadow, there are some exceptions.
For example, people who have a close blood relationship with the Sawara clan... and people who experienced the tsunami and finally left alive.
At this time, someone must have wanted to say, what will happen to those who are related by blood but cannot leave? And among these people, what is the difference between those who live and those who die?
Then you can take a look at "Another Nishikichiyo" and Misaku Sahara who appeared before and think about it for yourself.
Let’s go on to talk about the first tide...
After the tidal wave occurred, Sahara Anji immediately sent Misaku Sahara to the Buddhist temple to pick up people, hoping to use "spare supplies" to make an extra sacrifice to appease the anger of the "gods".
Then, according to the "original timeline", he also met Soga Sahara of later generations, and learned that there would be a second wave of tsunami in the future.
What? You asked, wasn’t Huang Donglai the cause of the second rice wave? What else is the “original timeline”?
Let’s talk about an important point here, that is...the two time travelers, Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai, are not the people who should be in the "original timeline". Their appearance not only changed the second wave of
The causes are also changing the results of the two droughts before and after...