My tenants are monsters

silence.

Before meeting this time, Rin Shiraishi had actually thought about many questions, about the ghost clan, about Wuyue Ji, about the rebellion of Hei Shomon, the melee of the Warring States Period, and even about the Asakura Shrine... But Because there were so many things she didn't understand and wanted to ask, she didn't know where to start.On the opposite side, Asakura Izayoi seemed to be struggling too.

After a while, I heard the girl cough lightly, and said, "Then let's start with the agreement between humans and monsters."

"Last time I told you that it was not until 60 years ago that humans and ghosts and demons officially signed a peace agreement and reached a compromise under the impetus of a certain opportunity. constraint.

For humans, the price to pay is mainly a batch of land, that is, a total of more than a dozen areas of different sizes, including Huyin Mountain, have been assigned to ghosts and demons for reproduction. Under such circumstances, human beings are not allowed to trespass, let alone intervene in the affairs of the ghost group.

As far as ghosts and demons are concerned, most of their activities will be confined to this area, and they can no longer use their own demonic power to run amok in human society.

These two are the most basic clauses, in addition to which there are many other additional items.

For example, in the urban area of ​​Tokyo and Kyoto Prefecture, there are places designated for the residence of ghosts and demons. When they come to human society for activities, the special class will help make various materials including identity certificates, and Give certain conveniences; in turn, they must also accept the supervision from the special class, and provide cooperation when certain supernatural events occur..."

Asakura Izayo had obviously made sufficient preparations for this meeting long ago, and he had drafted what he wanted to say in his heart, and at this moment he spoke in a very eloquent manner.

Bai Shilin didn't interrupt her, but just listened silently.

Several doubts in my heart before have been explained one after another.

VOLUME 349: Chapter [-] Regulars of Kabukicho

The so-called "designated area" is nothing special.

It can be simply understood as some "autonomous regions" that ordinary people do not know.

After all, ghosts and monsters also need a place to survive. Except for ghosts that can float in the void every day, other ghosts need space to survive, and it must be a large-scale space.If even this most basic requirement cannot be met, then there is no point in signing this peace treaty.

Although the ghost and demon world is a whole in name, its composition is also very scattered just like human beings are divided into various countries and power organizations.For example, the tengu clan is too lazy to care about the life and death of the ghost clan, and the ghost clan will not go to war for other monsters. Even most of the monsters are actually lone rangers, and only a few of them will gather together to form tribes.Therefore, there is also the feasibility of divide and conquer at the theoretical level.

All in all, since that opportunity 60 years ago, several groups of ghost forces headed by the ghost clan and the tengu clan have died down one after another, and they no longer oppose humans.

That's why the special class can devote its main time and energy to catching those fish that slipped through the net and make trouble wantonly in the city, such as dog gods, such as footwives.

at the same time……

And because ghosts and demons need someone to monitor them when they come to the human world to act, and those who appear in human society are often relatively powerful individuals, so the outstanding human beings like Asakura Izayoi are basically Responsible for the stalking task of one or several monsters, usually most of the time is busy with these things, and has no time to deal with ordinary trivial matters.

As a result, powerful big monsters and top exorcists don't show up often, but ghosts and demons of medium and low strength are more active in human society.

Of course, if a ghost with serious troubles is encountered, those powerful exorcists will still be dispatched, just like the Tianmu master from Sensoji Temple before.

The few doubts that Bai Shilin had always had in his heart were finally explained.

"...The ghost girl Hongye is a kind of monster. Unlike many monsters who hate humans or have an arrogant attitude, she especially likes to contact human society and learn about the rules and ideas of human society through various activities. , and all aspects.

For example, a few years ago, she even opened an entertainment company with a few ghost subordinates of her own, and actually launched several idol teams.

In addition, she used to be a frequent visitor to Kabukicho in Shinjuku District. For a while, she lingered in the various custom shops there, embarrassing the members of the special class who were in charge of monitoring her for a while. "

"?"

Rin Shiraishi opened her eyes wide in surprise, not knowing how to comment.

Can't tell, the ghost girl Hongye is quite good at playing.

Even if other monsters pretend to be ordinary people, they basically live by the rules and avoid being exposed to the public.But the leader of the ghost clan seemed to be very interested in being in the limelight, wishing to stand under the spotlight and receive all the attention.A character like this is indeed an outlier in the ghost world.

more importantly……

Custom shop?

Could it be that the ghost girl Hongye went to find the cowherd?This hobby is indeed a bit peculiar, it is hard to imagine that it is something that a thousand-year-old monster can do...

"This one……"

The expression on Asakura Izayo's face became a little strange: "Actually, the employees in those custom shops she went to were all women..."

"??"

"The second chome in Kabukicho is for male customers with special needs, and the third chome is for female customers..."

Asakura Izayo explained a bit vaguely, with an embarrassing expression on his face: "In short, the ghost girl Hongye's behavior has always been so reckless, no matter what she does, it is not surprising. The senior was defeated in the first battle, I am afraid that he will definitely not be so honest now.

However, in recent years, Senior Sana is getting old and can't easily make a move, and her niece, Senior Qiu, is still young. Although she is not afraid of the ghost girl Hongye, she is not yet able to be like Senior Sana back then. , has a dominant deterrent effect on the entire ghost world.

Therefore, it may be precisely because no one can restrain it that Hongye, the ghost girl, has become active again in recent years.Like the two times when I went directly to Mount Fuji without communicating with the special class, and came to Tokyo quietly, it was the same.Another example is that I want to rent a house from Xiao Lin on a whim, and it's the same. "

"Well, I can see..."

Shiraishi Rin nodded and thought for a moment.

She did know that some ghosts like to rob young and beautiful human women, such as Shuten Doji from Oeyama.But Shuten-doji is also a "male" anyway, and the ghost girl Momiji is obviously a ghost "female", but she also has this bad habit, which makes people feel a little dangerous.At this moment, Rin Shiraishi felt that there was still room for further improvement in his vigilance towards the ghost girl Hongye.

Izayo on the opposite side didn't continue talking, as if waiting for her to digest what she just said.

After being silent for a while, Shiraishi Rin started the next topic: "Then, where is Wu Yue Ji?"

"Mayue Ji's situation...is actually a little bit special."

"Her special feature is mainly in her life experience. Although her temperament is not as unpredictable as the ghost girl Hongye, it is not that simple."

Asakura Izayo paused for a moment, as if hesitating how to explain to her:

"Little Rin, you should have read the records in the "Ancient Matters". It is said that the blood of the Emperor's family originated from Amaterasu, so he replaced Amaterasu to take charge of the human world. Therefore, among the later members of the royal family, occasionally There will be some people who are born with powerful spiritual power. Like Minamoto Raimitsu from Kawagenji, and Taira Shomon, it's all like this.

That's why Minamoto Yorimitsu was able to lead his men to exterminate the Dajiangshan ghost clan with a human body, and that's why Ping Jiangmen was able to cultivate his body to the point of "invulnerability" in the legend. "

"As the daughter of Ping Jiangmen, Wuyue Ji also inherited her natural spiritual power and practiced spells since she was a child. She personally participated in the conspiracy initiated by her father. Later, Ping Jiangmen was defeated and killed by the imperial court. Ping's subordinates also became traitors and were wanted. Most of them were beheaded, and a small number were wandering outside with unknown whereabouts.

May Hime belongs to this latter part.

There are rumors that the ghost girl Hongye has taken in some of the remnants of the Ping Clan, and the imperial court sent someone to ask for it, but they were turned away, so there was a lot of twists and turns..."

VOLUME 350: Chapter [-] The Legend of the Country of Underworld

"I see……"

Rin Shiraishi nodded slightly, trying to digest the information he got from Izayoi.

The amount of information contained in these words is still very large.

Moreover, this explanation coincides with what the ghost girl Hongye said to Ping Wuyue as a "savior".

——It is estimated that among the group of remnants of the Taira clan that the ghost girl Hongye took in at Togakushi Mountain, there was likely to be Wu Yueji herself, and then the two parties parted ways after a short cooperation, but May Hime probably left alone , the remnants of his subordinates were left on Mount Togakushi, so May Hime, who reappeared later, became a solitary existence.

However, after thinking for a while, Shiraishi Rin soon had another question:

"Didn't it mean that Ping Jiangmen turned into a powerful vengeful spirit after his death and continued to make trouble? Then he now..."

Is it still "alive"?

"The matter of incarnation as a wraith is true."

Asakura Izayo nodded lightly: "In other words, for those human beings who are born with powerful spiritual power, the death of the physical body may not be the end, but may cause their spiritual bodies to change to some extent, from the battlefield Absorbed a large amount of blood and hostility on the body and turned into a more terrifying wraith than before.

For a long time after Ping Jiangmen's death, supernatural rumors about him were spread all over the sky, even those great onmyojis in Kyoto at that time could hardly tell the truth from the fake.

At present, there is a relatively unified statement that Ka Moo Tadayuki, who was in charge of Yinyangliao at that time, took his disciple Abe Seimei to the Kanto in person, and fought with Heijiangmen in Tokyo, which was still a barren land at that time, and sealed it. There is today's Ping Jiang Menshou Tomb.

But there are also rumors that Ping Jiangmen did not really disappear, but was exiled to a place isolated from the world, which is the so-called...

'The Land of the Underworld'. "

"The land of the underworld... is the place ruled by the legendary mother goddess Izanami?"

Bai Shilin frowned slightly, and interjected.

She still knows this. In the legends of Japan, the ancestor gods of mankind are brothers and sisters Izanaki and Izanami. The two once married and gave birth to many gods, but they broke up due to some accidents. In charge of the human world and the divine world called "Takamahara", while Izanami is in charge of the underworld called "Nation of Underworld".The position of the former was later passed on to Amaterasu.

But this kind of legend is too old, it is difficult to distinguish the true from the false.

Shiraishi Rin originally thought that he could get confirmation from Asakura Izayo, but the latter also shook his head:

"I am not sure as well."

"The existence of 'Yellow Spring' is just a legend. Although many people claim to have seen it, and described scenes such as Santu River, Naihe Bridge, and even the Eighteenth Floor of Hell, there is still no definite evidence. Even Those old monsters who have lived thousands of years ago to the present don't know much about it.

Maybe there really is such a mysterious place that can absorb and seal up all the dead souls and even the resentment and hostility overflowing from the world, but its existence is invisible to us, and it is almost invisible to us. No human or monster can go there and come back. "

"almost?"

Rin Shiraishi caught Asakura Izayoi's words.

There is nothing wrong with this statement itself, because there is no way to directly say dead things like this kind of unknown answer.It can only be judged from the existing experience that the probability of existence is infinitely close to zero.However, it cannot be concluded that there must be no.

"Well, because there have been a few exceptions."

Asakura Izayo nodded: "For example, Qingxingdeng, this monster has been circulated since the Heian period, and the original source is no longer verified, but there is no reason for such a well-known monster to be born out of thin air.

In the Edo period, there was a generation of shoguns who organized major shrines and temples, spent a lot of time and energy to check the files stored in them, and found that there were indeed several mass disappearances of a large number of people with unknown reasons in history, before and after the incident. All the signs are very consistent with the legendary "Hundred Stories".

At that time, a group of priests and onmyojis who were aware of the strangeness chose the time and place to try "Hundred Stories" after careful consideration, but they all disappeared as a result.

Whether it was their parties or the sergeants provided by the shogunate for protection, nearly a hundred people disappeared collectively, and none of them came back.After that, the game 'Hundred Monogatari' was considered taboo and no one tried it again. "

Of course, even in the Edo period, no one had ever seen the true face of "Ao Xing Deng".

Those who knew the truth of the matter were all missing.

Therefore, it is still not conclusive evidence that proves the existence of "Huangquan", it can only be said that the probability of existence is very high.

but it does not matter.

This kind of thing is not the point.Even if Ping Jiangmen really went to "Yellow Spring", it was a matter of the Heian era. After so many years, he would not come back suddenly at this time.

"No, that's not necessarily..."

Asakura Izayo pursed his lips lightly, with a subtle expression.

"Ok?"

Rin Shiraishi slightly raised his eyebrows, and looked at Izayo Asakura on the opposite side with some doubts.

The latter's face has become dignified, and he said slowly:

"After Hirashomon disappeared, Mayakihime also disappeared for a long time. At that time, because there were many more powerful and terrifying monsters than her, such as the famous Tamamo-mae, the big tengu who was the incarnation of Emperor Sutoku, and There was Shuten-douji who once shocked the whole of Kyoto, and even the famous Onmyoji family Kamo clan was helpless at that time, so not many people deliberately paid attention to the whereabouts of Itsukihime.

All I know is that she led a group of remnants of the Ping family and has been evading the pursuit of the imperial court and the major families.

Many years later, the chaos caused by the Pingjiangmen rebellion gradually subsided, and Wu Yueji appeared several times one after another, killing a group of descendants of the families that participated in the suppression of the rebellion, but they were all small troubles. , had a limited impact on the entire Japan, and she left immediately after doing it, so few exorcists were able to trace her exact whereabouts.

There was only one time when the commotion was particularly loud, that is, during the Warring States period, Wuyueji once promised to help Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi to win the world, and asked them to help launch a killing operation against Buddhists, causing quite a lot of casualties.