In terms of appearance, the boy does not seem to be an adult yet, but the aura on his body is very powerful and at the same time very gentle - as gentle as the sea water she touched when she was born.
Sakura looked at the young man smiling through the gap in the clam shell. The other monsters talking around him seemed to have disappeared, leaving her eyes only with the young man smiling and reaching out towards the clam shell.
attitude.
At that moment, in Sakura's eyes, the curves of the boy's gorgeous light purple hunting clothes looked extremely gentle.
Sakura desperately wanted to get out of the clam shell and hold the boy's hand that was reaching towards her.
However, she is too immature, and her strength in the cub stage is not enough to support her in opening the clam shell.
She is a monster in the deep sea called "Jiaotu".
Jiaotu is a very strange monster. There is only one Jiaotu in the world. Only after the previous Jiaotu dies, a new Jiaotu will be born.
Newly born monsters are always very fragile. In order to ensure their inheritance, they are born with an extremely hard clam shell to protect their immature bodies until they reach adulthood.
Before he reached adulthood, Jiao Tu could only sleep in a clam shell. Occasionally he would wake up and stare at the vicissitudes of life outside through the cracks in the clam shell.
When it reaches adulthood, the clam shell will open automatically, so every Jiaotu becomes a powerful monster that can control wind and rain when it appears, and there is no need to worry about the survival rate of the cubs.
But Yingliu didn't want to wait that long, she wanted to touch him, and she wanted to do it now - this desire was so strong that she forcefully opened the clam shell and stood up.
The boy is the Fengyue God worshiped by humans on this mountain. He was born only a few decades ago. In terms of monster time, he is undoubtedly a cub.
But teenagers are different from ordinary cubs.
His spiritual power is powerful yet gentle, and his eyes seem to glow when he looks at other things.
Sakura stood in the open clam shell and stretched out her hand to the young god. Sure enough, the god handed over her finger just as she hoped.
——Touched.
——It’s so warm...
Sakura, who was still in her infancy, smiled happily, her chubby and tender little hands tightly grasping one of the boy's fingers, as satisfied as if she had grasped the whole world.
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There has never been a Jiaotu who opened a clam shell as a cub before, and the memories passed down by Sakura-ryu did not mention how such a Jiaotu should live.
So Sakura followed her own will and followed the boy.
The young man's character is as gentle and tolerant as his temperament.
When he couldn't speak, he gave her a name with a narrow-minded meaning - although as Jiao Tu, she already had a name, but who made him Lord Fengyue God? Even if he liked it, it sounded a bit
She can also accept silly names.
Because her Fengyue God is really the best and gentlest person in the world.
He would sit under the corridor and laugh while watching a bunch of little monsters playing with him in the courtyard.
He would buy soft fabrics in the human market and make clothes for himself.
He would recite poems like songs seriously at dusk.
When he tripped over his uncontrollable long hair, he would carve a hairpin with his own hands to pull it up.
He will teach himself how to control the monster power more quickly. He will draw a picture of himself playing with the monsters in the courtyard and hang it in his study as a souvenir...
He is so gentle and beautiful, just like the sea water warmed by the sun. As long as you touch it, you will be addicted to it and reluctant to leave. It is also like the breeze and bright moon, which makes people feel happy when they see it, but feels hopeless.
And out of reach.
When Sakura came back from her training, she found that the monsters in the shrine were sleeping and leaving, and the Toyuki God she cared about most was also missing. She couldn't help but start to panic.
She searched alone on the mountain for a long time, but did not find the familiar monster or the young man with a warm smile. At a loss, she began to sit at the door of the shrine and wait.
"What are you doing here?"
The unknown monster with jet-black wings stood on a withered branch and sneered in a hoarse voice without concealing its malice.
At that time, Sakura was still underage, but she already looked like a human child of five or six years old. She just sat at the door of the shrine, as quiet as a statue.
The humans who come to worship cannot see her, but the monsters who are friends with Fengyue God know that Fengyue God is not here, so they rarely come here; and those who are not familiar with Fengyue God always stay away from this place.
At first, she could still hear the conversations between the humans who came to worship. Gradually, Fengyue God no longer performed miracles, and the number of humans who came to worship gradually decreased, and Sakurai could rarely hear the voices of voices.
——It’s so quiet.
Sakura sat on the steps in front of the shrine, staring at the bare branches in front of her, and couldn't help but think like this.
She waited in the shrine for a long, long time. She didn't know if it was more than ten years, or perhaps tens or hundreds of years. After such a long time, the monster with jet-black wings was the first being to speak to her.
Sakura ignored it at first, but the monster was very familiar with it. He ignored Sakura's reaction and just stood on the branch and kept talking to himself.
"What are you doing here?"
"Are you waiting for someone?"
"Do you know where this place is?"
"This place used to be very lively. Fengyue God still lived here at that time."
"There are fewer monsters on the mountain. I heard that there was a dog general in the Western Kingdom who established the Hundred Demons at Night. Everyone ran to join him."
"Are you listening? Why don't you speak?"
"Okay, forget it if you don't say anything, but I'm telling you, you should get out of here as soon as possible."
"This shrine has been abandoned. I heard humans saying that they want to demolish this place..."
"..."
"Will not!"
They hadn't spoken for a long time, and Sakura even felt uncomfortable in her throat when she opened her mouth, but when she heard the monster say that the shrine was going to be knocked down, she couldn't help but retort.
The monster was startled by her sudden voice, and flapped its wings. The last yellow leaf on the dry branch slowly fell to the ground with his flutter.
The surroundings were so quiet that the sound of a fallen leaf touching the ground seemed to be amplified. After a long while, the monster said in surprise: "So you can talk?"
He seemed to have discovered a new world, his interest became more intense, and he couldn't stop talking.
"Why didn't you speak just now?"
"Do you know, Barabara..."
He talked for a long time, from bright sunshine to dark sky, but Sakura only retorted in the middle and fell silent again, sitting with her legs curled up at the door of the shrine. No one knew whether she listened again.