Hanako sorted out all the valuable hairpins and clothes in her room, leaving only the one she was wearing and the one on her head. Then she wrote a letter, thanking her family for their kindness in raising her in the past and her current survival.
Grace.
——She didn’t have the pride to cut off her bones to repay her father and cut her flesh back to her mother, so she could only leave like this.
Although she felt guilty and grateful, there was only so much she could do.
Hanako came back so quickly and calmly, which was beyond Yanji's expectation.
"I haven't seen you for a long time. Lord Monster, I've come to honor your appointment."
——The human named Hanako wants to dedicate his soul to the monster master of Yunwu Mountain.
She came to keep this promise.
Yan Ji paused for a long time, then narrowed her eyes slightly and said, "Oh? I remember, that promise is for your soul after death, right?"
——Although when she made this agreement, she thought that in a few days she would go to Hanako's house and kill her (...).
Regarding Yanji's reaction, Hanako was silent for a while, then smiled softly, turned around and walked down the mountain.
Yan Ji watched the slender girl leave step by step with a somewhat complicated mood, and then disappeared into the smoke.
——Well, forget it, for the sake of her temporarily providing him with some fun, it’s not impossible to just let her go.
Yan Ji told herself this in her heart, and then she was surprised to find that Hanako did not leave the mountain.
When she came here, she was wearing very ordinary and monotonous clothes, and covered her appearance with soil. Then she dug some wild vegetables in the mountains, picked up some firewood, and carried them to the town below to sell them.
Hanako just settled down at the foot of Yunwu Mountain, where he lived for more than forty years.
Hanako never saw the beautiful monster again, but she always remembered her.
She remembered that when she finally climbed up to the tree to pick the fruits, she deliberately shook all the fruits to the ground. When she picked them up from the ground, she let the wind blow them around and saw that she was lost.
Time blew them back again.
She remembered that when she was working so hard to catch fish in the creek, she deliberately drove all the fish away, and then let them jump out of the creek on their own when she was tired, panting, and rubbing her belly hungry.
She remembers...
She remembers a lot.
Obviously she only lived with her for less than a month, but she remembered him for a lifetime.
——What a pity.
I can't see the youkai-sama again.
——Although she is a monster, she is also a very gentle big sister.
Hanako lay weakly on the creaking bed. The wind outside made the leaves rustle, and sometimes there seemed to be a pattering sound mixed in.
She moved her fingers, wanting to sit up and take a look outside the door.
——This sound sounds like it’s raining?
This Yunwu Mountain is filled with thick fog all day long, and it rarely rains.
Thinking about it carefully, it seems that she has never seen a rain in the decades she has lived here.
Hanako thought about this and felt more and more regretful in her heart.
——It’s a pity that it rained so rarely that I didn’t have the energy to get up and take a look.
"Want to see it?"
"It's raining."
——Ah, it’s that monster-sama’s voice!
Hanako struggled to control the corners of her mouth and revealed a gentle smile. The wrinkles on her face made her expression look less gentle than expected.
"You're here, Yan Ji."
She called Yan Ji's name softly.
This was the first time she shouted like this - and probably the last time.
Yanji was silent, then nodded in response. Unexpectedly, she did not use her demonic power, but instead leaned down and hugged the thin Hanako.
The moment she picked up Hanako, Yanji was a little stunned.
——Humans, are they so light?
Yan Ji placed Hanako on a slanting branch. Thin and dense raindrops fell from the sky. The fog in the entire Yunwu Mountain seemed to be washed away, and even the sky became brighter.
Hanako looked up at the sky, her eyes curling up uncontrollably.
"The gray-blue sky, I saw it."
The raindrops were controlled by the monster and did not fall on Hanako. Her silver-grey hair was neatly combed, and she was wearing a gift that Yanji gave her during the half-month period when she lived alone with a monster many years ago.
.
Gorgeous flowers bloomed on the purple kimono. Hanako trembled and took out a hairpin from her arms - it was a very ordinary hairpin that Hanako had bought as a return gift to Enhime.
But she didn't send it out at that time.
Yanji lowered her head and looked at Hanako's trembling hands and the hairpin.
Hanako took a quick breath, and then smiled: "I'm about to die. Look, is my soul still the way you want it to be?"
Yanji looked at Hanako's soul seriously and said nothing.
"Still?"
Seeing that Yanji didn't speak, Hanako seemed a little anxious, so she asked again as if to urge her.
Yanji: "..."
Yanji just suddenly felt a little uncomfortable - unexplained discomfort.
Hanako thought that she and Yanji had never seen each other since then, but that was not the case.
Yanji kept watching her.
Yan Ji has been watching her as long as she has lived under the Yunwu Mountain.
The mist that fills the mountains and forests in the early morning is her, and the mist floating on the stream at dusk is also her. She is a monster born from the smoke. Wherever the smoke reaches, it is as if she exists.
When Hanako got up early this morning and took out the purple kimono from the cabinet with difficulty, Enji saw it.
Then she watched silently as Hanako washed herself at a very slow speed with the water she had accumulated in the past few days, put on the kimono, and used a comb to arrange her hair neatly, and finally became weak.
lying on the bed.
It suddenly started raining in Yunwu Mountain.
In fact, it never rains in Yunwu Mountain.
Because of the existence of Yanji, the thick fog blocks almost all weather conditions from the clouds and fog, and the changes in the four seasons can only be reflected in the temperature.
But it suddenly rained in Yunwu Mountain today.
Yan Ji heard many little monsters on the mountain scattering in panic. She heard some little monsters asking her companions why Yan Ji was unhappy.
She was a little angry.
This little monster is so bold.
Why isn't she happy?
He's just a little monster, but he speculates on her thoughts!
Yanji, who was thinking this way, threw the little monster into the water in a bad way. When she saw Hanako trembling and wanted to get up and look at the door, she couldn't help but say something:
"Want to take a look? It's raining in Yunwu Mountain."
——Hanako has never seen rain in Yunwu Mountain. She will be very happy to see it before she dies, so that her soul will become more dazzling.
Yan Ji told herself this, then walked into the room and hugged Hanako.