Kamiya woke up from the big bed in the master bedroom, quickly got up and went downstairs.
He had to go and see what happened to his little apprentice.
Quickly walking to the door of the living room, Kamiyakawa saw the strange monsters in the house, Xiaolu and her shikigami all gathered here.
In addition, the Dream-Eating Tapir is also in the living room.
Because Kamiya needs to go to Takamagahara to "log out" when he comes out of the ordinary world, but as Kamiya's shikigami, the little tapir can use Kamiya's body left in the real world as a basis to appear directly and move freely within a certain range.
.
So she got there faster than Kamiya.
In the living room——
The little tapir, which has transformed into an adult form, is sitting sideways with its slender legs together.
The little apprentice Tsurumi Aoi rested her head on the little tapir's thigh and seemed to be in a deep sleep, but her breathing was very steady.
Beside the two of them were Kanoya and Kosodete, who had taken on a human form.
The fawn was holding the little pink-furred weasel in its arms, and was stretching its neck to look at the peaceful sleeping face of the junior sister.
Xiaoxiu Shou sat quietly and dignifiedly, lowering his eyes to quietly observe his master's condition.
Observing the emotional changes of the two of them, it can be seen that their emotions have changed from the original nervousness and anxiety to stability and curiosity.
In the corner of the living room, Ayori, Hayami Obara, and the little kappa Miyako were gathering together.
Caizhi held a roughly carved wooden dragonfly in her hands, and colorful and gorgeous oil paint flowed down from her hands and the hem of her princess dress.
The three girls all tilted their heads and looked at the wooden dragonfly seriously.
"How is Aoi?"
Kamiyagawa walked into the living room.
"It's okay, owner, look, Aoi is sleeping soundly."
The little tapir was the first to reply. As she spoke, she stretched out her hand to help Tsurumi smooth some soft, black strands of hair around his ears.
"Is this a question of whether you sleep well or not..." In fact, just looking at the state of everyone in the living room at this time, and the atmosphere that has become less tense, Kamiya can know that Tsurumi must be fine.
, “What happened?”
"Master, let me tell you! Well..."
The deer hurriedly spoke.
As someone who had been staying with Tsurumi just now and saw the entire incident, she did have the right to speak.
However, as soon as the words came out, he paused.
I saw the little deer hurriedly gathering up the several drawings spread out on the small table in front of him and stuffing them all into his handbag.
Her expression looked slightly guilty, but she tried to straighten her expression:
"Xiao Kui was sitting here just now, reading notes related to the art of controlling spirits. I was also reviewing that with her! Then suddenly, the wooden dragonfly on the TV cabinet flipped over, and I smelled a metal smell.
The smell rolled around the two of us, and before I could react, Xiaokui fell down with a thud!"
Probably because he had learned from Little Tapir that his junior sister was fine, Kanoya relaxed his mind and used his body movements to describe the incident vividly.
Kamiya glanced helplessly at the handbag at Xiaolu's feet, and then turned to look at the wooden dragonfly being held by Little Crayon Aori.
Is it really the influence of that thing?
Honda Tadakatsu’s Wood Dragonfly.
This old handicraft was a trophy obtained by Kamiyagawa when he took his two apprentices out on a mission to remove ghosts earlier.
It was obtained by the young apprentices after they defeated two ferocious red basin monsters.
Later, after identification, it was found that the wood dragonfly itself was not a particularly valuable prop, and could at most be used as a support for weak wandering spirits.
However, considering that the wood carving was made by the famous Japanese Warring States general Honda Tadakatsu, it can be considered to have certain humanistic value and collection significance. So after acquiring it, Kamiyagawa casually placed this wooden dragonfly on the TV cabinet in the living room as a
Decoration.
"Just now in Santu River..."
Kamiyakawa thought of what happened in Santuchuan just now.
Xiang Yuexun said that some souls of human heroes who were about to decay but were powerful during their lifetimes were guided by the power of Yama's bones and passed away first.
Are Honda Tadakatsu among the souls of human heroes who passed away?
Think about it this way, what happens in the ordinary world and reality is not a coincidence, but a chain.
"So, it may be that Honda Tadakatsu's soul left Santukawa and was about to pass away, but it came back and attached itself to this wooden sculpture carved by him during his lifetime?" Kamiyakawa thought this way.
So, why did Honda Tadakatsu drag Tsurumi, who was beside the wooden sculpture, into a dream?
Do you have some unfulfilled wish?
"Little Tapir, Tsurumi, what did she dream about?"
"I can take everyone to see Puff."
The little tapir gently touched Tsurumi's head with his hand, and immediately a complex and confusing rainbow light overflowed from both of them. The dreamy colored light spread to all parts of the living room, flickering on and off, making the surrounding people
Everything seems dreamy and unrealistic.
Then, those arc lights were extinguished one by one, and the surroundings of Kamiya and others suddenly became empty.
Looking at the surrounding environment, it is no longer the living room at home.
Instead, it is a dry landscape style courtyard decorated with finely raked sand, stone lanterns, evergreen trees, moss and other scenery, without any modern elements.
Although the little tapir usually likes to sleep and is not active, he is particularly attentive to the instructions of his owner Kamiyagawa.
Because of the owner's words, she directly brought everyone in the living room into Tsurumi's dream, or in other words, she directly moved the scene in Tsurumi's dream into reality.
After becoming a god, the little tapir became more and more able to control these virtual and real authorities.
…
"here it is?"
Tsurumi Aoi narrowed her eyes and looked around, finding that she was in a completely unfamiliar environment.
An antique spacious courtyard.
The ground is covered with white sand, and a unique stone group stands in the corner of the courtyard. It has a Zen-like dry landscape courtyard style, which is somewhat similar to the courtyard at Yoshikoji's house.
The landscape of this courtyard is clearly clear and vivid, but upon closer inspection, there is a vague sense of unreality and illusion.
At this time, Tsurumi's consciousness was very clear.
She remembered what happened just now, she remembered it very clearly——
This afternoon, it was rare for me and my senior sister to take a half-day break and not have to do any special practice.
As usual, even on his day off, Tsurumi spent time at Kamiya-sensei's house, but the teacher left for his usual life at noon.
Teacher Kamiya is very busy.
Tsurumi was staying in the living room at home with her senior sister. She was looking through past notes on spiritual control knowledge points, while her senior sister was sitting aside and drawing.
Painting seems to be one of senior sister's daily ways to relax.
As for Xiaolu's paintings, Tsurumi was also lucky enough to read them. They are comics about exorcism.
The protagonist is a young exorcist, a bit like... Mr. Kamiya from the Shota period?
The senior sister painted the little boy protagonist very cutely.
Then, my senior sister is very talented in painting and can draw comics very well.
The only flaw is that the hand-drawn comics that Xiaolu showed Tsurumi are all incoherent. Often after the protagonist encounters a monster, turning the next page will show the ending of the battle, and the exorcism battle is completely skipped.
Already.
Tsurumi also asked why he didn’t draw the plot related to the battle against ghosts.
The senior sister has never answered directly.
However, Tsurumi didn't worry too much about this aspect. Considering that drawing comics is just a way for his senior sister to have fun, and it is not officially published, it doesn't seem to matter what content he likes to draw or how complete the plot is.
Anyway, as long as senior sister is happy.
Anyway, back to the topic, this afternoon was originally a very peaceful rest at home.
Until that moment just now.
Tsurumi felt a cold wind blowing behind her, and then, like a scene from a movie, she "seamlessly connected" directly to the dry landscape garden.
"Did I leave Teacher Kamiya's house, or...am I dreaming?"
By observing the surrounding environment, Tsurumi's judgment of his own situation is more inclined to the latter.
She had had strange, extremely lucid dreams before, about the Kamiya River and Mary and the others above the snow-capped mountains.
He also has some experience with dreams affected by extraordinary powers.
In addition, I later came into contact with the dream-eating tapir, the master of dreams, from time to time, so I gained more experience in this area.
Since it was a dream, Tsurumi was not too worried about her situation. After all, before she fell into the dream, she was staying at the home of Teacher Kamiya, and the teacher's shikigami, Dream Eater Tapir, is now the god who dominates dreams.
It was unlikely that any fantasy could trap her.
Immediately afterwards, Tsurumi checked his own status again.
The three famous swords Ichimonji, Smiley Aoe, and Hotaru Maru are not around. Since it is difficult for her to learn the spirit control technique very deeply, she cannot sense the presence of the shikigami Kosodetsu. However, she can still feel Mari.
of blessing.
In other words, even in a dream, Mary can still calmly give her power to Tsurumi.
This kind of fantasy trick is really worthless in front of the real gods.
And just when Tsurumi, who was a bold artist and a master of arts, was considering whether to take the initiative to explore this dream, he suddenly saw a figure slowly emerging from under a big pine tree in the corner of the courtyard.
It was a thin and capable old man, sitting cross-legged under the tree. He was wearing a jet-black trousers, which was based on black threads and thick-colored Iyoza, with a large number of gold ornaments in key parts, and even sleeve armor.
Both the leather cage and the leather cage hand look exquisitely crafted.
The most conspicuous thing about this overall attire is the pair of black antlers standing on the star bag on his head.
In addition, beside the black-armored veteran, there was a square flag.
The picture on the flag is Zhong Kui.
Tsurumi, who came from a noble family, was quite familiar with historical knowledge. She felt that the flag should be a horse seal, a symbol that indicates the position of military commanders on the battlefield.
I seem to have read in a book that generally speaking, only warriors with more than a thousand troops are qualified to use horse seals.
The antler pocket on the head...the flag hangs the seal of Zhong Kui's horse...
"Honda Tadakatsu?"
Tsurumi then remembered that there was a dragonfly wooden sculpture carved by Honda Tadakatsu in the living room at home.
And if I think about it carefully, it seems that the cold wind blowing from behind just now came from the direction where the wood carvings were placed.
So, the one who brought me into the dream was the Warring States general known as the "Unparalleled Eastern Kingdom"?
"Little doll, can you recognize me?"
Honda Tadakatsu slapped his thigh and stood up from the ground with a laugh.
This famous Warring States general is not tall, and due to his old age, he looks to be more than half a head shorter than the tall Tsurumi. But even so, Tadakatsu, who wears Huajia, still has
A majestic momentum.
His eyes were stern, and he couldn't help but nod at Tsurumi, as if he was very satisfied: "Very good, very suitable. Just like me back then, I have the heart of a warrior. Baby, I'll teach you how to use a gun."
"With a gun?"
"Yes. If you want to learn, you have to hurry up. I don't have much time to stay here."
Honda Tadakatsu said this and pointed to the courtyard wall on one side.
I don’t know when there were two long spears leaning against the white wall. They were both typical Japanese big guns with thick heads and huge sizes. They were also large spears with spikes like spear leaves. The front end was sharp and the middle was wide and the tail was narrowed. The blade was sharp.
Sharp, reflecting cold white light.
"Is this a dragonfly cut? Are there two of them?"
When talking about Honda Tadakatsu, one cannot fail to mention Dragonfly Kiri.
This is a famous gun that is as prestigious as its owner.
The Dragonfly Kiri is one of Japan's three most famous guns. It is said that the tip of the gun is so sharp that it can instantly cut off a flying dragonfly even when standing still, hence the name.
This gun was specially made by Tokugawa Ieyasu as a gift to Honda Tadakatsu. A fierce general equipped with a sharp gun is naturally more powerful than a tiger. When Honda Tadakatsu was at his peak, he broke into the enemy's formation wearing a deer's armor, holding a dragonfly cutter, and the Three Kingdoms Black under his crotch.
, like entering a deserted place.
As long as there are enemies who see Zhong Kui's horse seal, they will shout: "The one who cuts the dragonfly is Honda Heihachi!"
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"Little baby, you also know that you are in a dream now, right? Since it is a dream, it is not strange to see two dragonfly slices, right? Hehe, when I was young, I could still swing the long handle, but not when I am old.
"Yeah."
As Honda Tadakatsu said this, his body trembled, he walked to the wall and picked up the short-handled dragonfly cutter.
really.
The lengths of the handles of the two dragonfly cuts are not the same.
Regarding the Dragonfly Kiri, there is a current theory that this legendary gun is a long-handled gun with a handle as long as six meters. However, this length is controversial, and the real Dragonfly Kiri belongs to Honda Tadakatsu’s second son Honda Tadashi.
It was lost when North Korea participated in the Battle of Osaka, and now there are only imitations of later generations' dragonfly-cut spearheads in existence.
However, the long-handled one that Tsurumi saw in his dream now was about four meters long, and the short-handled one picked up by Honda Tadakatsu was more than three meters long.
As for why two dragonfly cutters of different lengths appeared in the dream, another rumor about this famous gun is probably true -
It is said that in his later years, Honda Tadakatsu cut off part of the handle of his gun because he was no longer able to use the dragonfly cut freely due to force majeure such as declining physical strength.
Considering that the "Wushuang Dongguo" pulled him into a dream, it seemed that he was trying to pass on his skills, and also because he was old, Tsurumi had to respect his elders, so he stepped forward and said respectfully, "Please give me some advice."
, and then picked up the long-handled dragonfly cutter.
Nowadays, Tsurumi has quite good combat experience in exorcizing spirits. Even Aragami has fought with real swords and guns, and her talent is there. Her fighting skills, looking at Japan, except for her teacher Kamiyagawa,
, and few people can surpass him again.
But she was used to using long knives, so suddenly she was a little uncomfortable with a large gun.
In addition, the Dragonfly Cut is structurally a collar-mounted gun.
After all, Tsurumi’s understanding of cold weapons is based on modern thinking——
Looking at the whole world, when it comes to cold weapons and spears, most of the spears developed in most areas are gun-mounted, that is, the gun head has a barrel and is directly fixed on the gun shaft.
Only Japan is uncharacteristic. For a long time, the mainstream guns have been collar-mounted guns, that is, the stem type. The stem of the gun must be inserted into the barrel at the top of the gun barrel to fix it. A little more sloppily, like the one used by the Ashigaru at the bottom of the Warring States Period.
The long gun doesn't even have a metal sleeve. The gun head is tied and fixed with hemp rope, leather strips, etc.
If the dragonfly cutting spear head is taken out completely, it will be nearly 60 centimeters long, almost like a short knife with two edges.
Compared with bolt-mounted guns, collar-mounted guns must have the disadvantage that they are not strong enough.
However, this point is not reflected at all in the famous gun dragonfly cut.
After all, it is one of the three most famous guns in Japan, and the Dragonfly Kiri represents the pinnacle of collar-mounted gun skills.
Take a closer look at this long gun. The stem of the gun head is inserted into the metal sleeve and is fixed by parts such as the mouthpiece and reverse wheel. It fits perfectly. The gun head is carved. Sanskrit inscriptions are engraved on the gun position. The gun handle is decorated.
Decorated with mother-of-pearl and mother-of-pearl, it is radiant and gorgeous, even in appearance and feel, as gorgeous as a work of art.
This famous gun gives full play to the advantages of a collar-mounted gun. It is easy to master the blade tendons and is convenient for chopping. At the same time, because the skill of cutting stems is at its peak, the dragonfly's cutting and thrusting feel will definitely not be bad.
Tsurumi has a small hobby of collecting various weapons.
She really likes this dragonfly cut in her hand!
Tsurumi was still trying to get started with the dragonfly cut. At this time, Honda Tadakatsu, who was standing opposite with a gun, said: "Little kid, if you like it, it's not too late to watch it slowly later. We have to start quickly."
Afterwards, Honda Tadakatsu shook his body, got into a posture, his eyes were extremely excited, and coupled with the dark body, he really looked like an old and strong black tiger.
The antlers on his head are eye-catching, and the dragonfly cut in his hand is even more chilling.