My tenants are monsters

"The 'Gate of the Underworld' leading to that world actually refers to the passage between the present world and the 'Nation of the Underworld', and its main part is located in the 'middle area'. And Shiraishi Isshin and Baishui Sana's seniors back then were precisely The sealing formation is set in this area, so those who have no ability to open the passage can't even see the formation with their own eyes. Is that so?"

Rin Shiraishi roughly analyzed it in his heart, and looked up at Hongye, the ghost girl opposite.

The latter nodded: "Almost."

"……understood."

Bai Shilin nodded slightly, then looked down at his own reflection on the surface of the teacup, pondered for a moment, then spoke again, and asked in a cautious tone: "I probably understand about the 'Nation of Underworld', then... ...May I ask Sister Hongye some more personal questions, such as...are you really the legendary Demon Lord of the Sixth Heaven?"

This question is a little more sensitive.

After Shiraishi Rin asked, she kept staring at the expression on the ghost girl Hongye's face, ready to withdraw the topic at any time.

But the expression on the ghost girl Hongye's face made people a little unpredictable what was going on in her heart.After a long while, I heard the woman speak slowly:

"Well, how should I put it..."

"You should have seen those Buddhist legends from various books. The Sixth Heaven Demon King really appeared in the history thousands of years ago, although the image is slightly different from the myths and legends circulating in the human world. , but generally there is not much difference. He has existed in the world since a long time ago, and he is also a very powerful demon god. What he likes to do most is to arouse the inner desires of humans or other biological groups in various ways , and then provoke them to fight each other until the blood flowed like a river.

This kind of existence was not uncommon in ancient times, and it was also the case with many evil gods who accepted obscene sacrifices. "

The ghost girl Hongye said in an understated tone: "It's just that the Devil King of the Sixth Heaven is one of the more powerful ones. In the end, the Buddha himself took action to solve the problem, so it played a very important role in Buddhist mythology."

but……

These are all things that happened to the Demon King of the Sixth Heaven, and have nothing to do with me now. "

"?"

Baishi Linxin said that you yourself are the incarnation of the Sixth Heaven Demon King, and it is okay to separate yourself from the Sixth Heaven Demon King. Could it be that the pen name and real name can still be counted as two people?

In addition, think of the stories about the sixth-day demon king recorded in mythology, and look at Hongye, the ghost girl who is now peacefully staying in human society and looks like a happy person. The comparison between the two is indeed easy to give birth to some wonderful things. thought.Perhaps, we can only use "transition" to explain the reason for this phenomenon.

Shiraishi Rin naturally didn't say this kind of thought.

But her current expression management ability, after all, has not been cultivated to a high level, so even if it is only a small change in her eyes, it is difficult to hide it from the eyes of the ghost girl Hongye.The latter shrugged: "I know that you may not understand it for a while, but if you say it differently, it may be simpler and clearer."

"I remember, the human girl who went to Mount Fuji with you, Rin, likes playing games, right?"

The ghost girl Hongye looked at Shiraishi Rin and said word by word.

"……how do you know?"

Hearing these words, Shiraishi Rin's heart skipped a beat, instinctively showing a look of vigilance.

When on Mount Fuji, the ghost girl Momiji did see Nogi Maki, but Nogi Maki did not see the ghost girl Momiji, because the existence of the latter was deliberately covered up by Shiraishi Rin.As for returning to Tokyo, there is no record of Nogi Maki and ghost girl Hongye appearing in Shiraishi's apartment at the same time. If the leader of the ghost clan wants to see Nogi Maki, it can only be when Shiraishi Rin does not know .

if that's the case……

It's not a good thing.

Seeing the vigilance on Shiraishi Rin's face.The ghost girl Hongye smiled slightly: "Well, I did observe you and that girl secretly, but don't worry, I didn't go to that girl, so she didn't know my existence. I just want to borrow a video game Let me explain to you my relationship with the Demon Lord of the Sixth Heaven."

"What do you mean?"

"It means that when you play a game, the first thing you do is to create a character, right? After this character appears, you control him to wander around in the game world and do various things. So... ...Is this game character and you the same existence?"

"Ok?"

Bai Shilin was slightly taken aback, a vague thought flashed through his mind, but he was a little uncertain.

The character in the video game and the controller behind it are of course the same person, because the character has no life.

Can……

What if there is some opportunity to give him life?

For today's humans, this kind of thing is still impossible. Even the best artificial intelligence is essentially just a bunch of code logic, the product of the efforts to simulate human thinking.But for "gods", it's different.A god with sufficient strength can create a life from scratch!

In other words, before the ghost girl Hongye was the human body of the Demon King of the Sixth Heaven, she was first of all a life created by him!

"That's right, theoretically I am a clone of the Demon King of the Sixth Heaven, which is what you call a 'human body'. When the elderly couple prayed to the Demon God, he stripped a part of his consciousness , was put into the present world by special means, and only then did the child named 'Wu Ye' in the Heian era come into being.

In order to prevent the existence of the "human body" from being exposed prematurely, the Demon King of the Sixth Heaven has set up layers of restrictions on the separated consciousness, which need to be untied slowly over time.This is a very long process. During this process, I opened my eyes to see the world as a human being, got in touch with and understood the various rules of human society, and then slowly comprehended them and formed my own concepts. "

When talking about "myself", the ghost girl Hongye bit the accent.

indeed.

Although the ghost girl Hongye's initial consciousness was separated from the main body of the "Sixth Heaven Demon King", from the moment of separation, these two parts of consciousness are actually different things.It's like a tributary diverged from a river, no matter how many memories of the original body it carries, but from the moment it becomes a tributary, the path it passes through is already its own path.

So……

"What if this branched off river doesn't want to go back to the river it used to be?"

"?!!"

Bai Shilin's pupils trembled, and he opened his mouth subconsciously, but he didn't know what to say for a while: "You mean...as the human body of the 'Sixth Heaven Demon King', you have actually been living in the world for a long time. formed an independent consciousness, so...do not want to follow the original mission and release the Sixth Heaven Demon King from the kingdom of the underworld?"

"..."

long silence.

After a while, the ghost girl Hongye nodded: "Although you may not believe me when I say this, in fact, I quite like the current world.

Although most of the human beings who dominate the world today have various disadvantages, some are greedy and cowardly, some are hypocritical and despicable... But it is precisely under such circumstances that human beings have established such a brilliant technological empire. , isn't this a very interesting thing?Rather than simply destroying and destroying, I want to stay here for a long time to see what the world will look like decades, hundreds, or even thousands of years from now.

And this kind of idea can only be realized if the devil king of the sixth day does not return to the present world. "

"..."

Shiraishi Rin was silent again.

She never expected that she would hear such words from the mouth of the ghost girl Hongye—as the incarnation of the "Sixth Heaven Demon King", she did not want her own body to come to this world.

Do not……

It should be said that this possibility sprouted from Shiraishi Rin's heart a few days ago, but it was just regarded as a wild idea by her, and even she herself found it absurd.But now it seems... this may really be the truth.

Based on Rin Shiraishi's intuition with a high rate of accuracy, there is a high probability that what the ghost girl Hongye said is the truth.

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For a while.

Only then did Bai Shilin try to ask again: "Then... the Demon King of the Sixth Heaven has tried it before, did he come back from the 'Nation of Underworld'?"

Counting the time, the ghost girl Hongye was born in this world as a human "Wu Ye" in the early Heian period.That is around 900 AD.More than 100 years have passed by now.Since the purpose of the Demon King of the Sixth Heaven's throwing the ghost girl Hongye into the present world is to return to the present world through her return from the "Nation of Underworld", then there must have been attempts in the past 1000 years.

And on the other hand...

Although the ghost girl Hongye said that she didn't want to help the Demon King of the Sixth Heaven achieve her long-cherished wish, but this kind of thinking certainly didn't appear from the beginning.If that was the case, the Devil King of the Sixth Heaven would not use this method to create his own human projection.

Perhaps, a few years ago, the ghost girl Hongye once obeyed the wishes of the main body.

It's just that due to some reasons, the Demon King of the Sixth Heaven failed to come to the present world in the end, and Hongye herself gradually changed her mentality and thoughts because of the things she experienced in her long life, and she began to not want the latter to come .

Shiraishi Rin's idea was quickly confirmed from the mouth of the person involved——

"of course."

The ghost girl Hongye nodded: "The different space where the demon king lives in the sixth day is far away from the present world. There is even a considerable difference in the speed of time between the two, which is not so easy to overcome. So the sixth day In the history of more than 1000 years, the Demon King has made more than one attempt, especially the one during the Warring States Period, which caused the most disturbance... You should know some of it, so I don’t need to repeat it.”

Shiraishi Rin is quite familiar with this period of history. Although some details were not explained by the ghost girl Hong Yezi, Oda Nobunaga died in Honnoji Temple, and Buddhist monks called Nobunaga the "Sixth Heaven Demon King". adopted this terminology.Based on what the ghost girl Hongye said, I am afraid that this scuffle between daimyos from various countries was actually organized by the ghost girl Hongye with the idea of ​​opening the "Gate of the Underworld" and releasing the Demon King of the Sixth Heaven.

With the ability of the latter, this can be made bigger.

but……

The description of the ghost girl Hongye is still going on:

"But all these attempts have not really succeeded.

In other words, the Demon King of the Sixth Heaven did not really come to the present world, but the distance between him and the present world is getting closer and closer.To make matters worse, He has already noticed the activities of Ping Wuyue over there in the past 30 years. Maybe soon, He will find the two entrances that Ping Wuyue passed through when he entered and exited, along the top of Mount Fuji, or this building. The 'Gate of the Underworld' in the apartment came to the present world.Once that happens...

I'm afraid no one will be able to stop him anymore. "

"...You can't either?"

"Of course not."

Facing Shiraishi Rin's question, the ghost girl Hongye's answer was very straightforward: "Didn't I just say that my consciousness is just a part separated from the main body, and it is still a small part, maybe even one-tenth of it. None. Even in the past 1000 years, I have had some chances in this world one after another, but the power I get from this world where spiritual power is scarce can never be inferior to the complete body. Therefore, it is not enough to make up for me and the body. huge gap between.

Even that Baishui Sana from Chiba County...

Her strength is indeed ranked among the top among all human exorcists I have ever seen. Although she is still inferior to a peerless genius like Abe Seimei who has been promoted for 1000 years, she is already very strong. She can suppress my peace alone. Join forces in May.But even with such strength, there is still no chance of winning against the complete Sixth Heaven Demon King. "

"understood."

Shiraishi Rin nodded,

This situation is actually conceivable.

Since the main body of the Demon King of the Sixth Heaven is trapped in the "Nation of Underworld", ordinary people can't even touch it, and can only come to the world in the form of projection, so the scale of separation consciousness that He can project must be quite large. Limited—otherwise, it may not be easy to judge which of the two consciousnesses is the main body.

However, Shiraishi Rin is actually more concerned about another issue——

The ghost girl Hongye is just a part of consciousness separated from the main body of the Sixth Heaven Demon King. Even if it is the most optimistic estimate, its strength is only equivalent to one-third of the Sixth Heaven Demon King's main body.And even such a ghost girl, Hongye, is still firmly standing in the first echelon of the ghost world in Japan, so it is a bit hard to predict how powerful the complete Sixth Heaven Demon King will be.

Come to think of it, even with the most conservative estimates, it should be no less than Tamamomae and Yamata no Orochi in the past.

——Although Daitengu and Shuten-douji are also regarded as the top monsters in Dongpu, if they really fight, they may not be enough to warm up Tamamo.As for Yamata no Orochi, in the legend, it has a body like a mountain and a personality of the level of a demon god. If a ghost king like Shuten-douji is placed in front of him, it may be difficult to even break the defense.It should be reasonable to imagine what kind of existence the Sixth Heaven Demon King is based on the positions of these two in the myth.

"Looks like it's going to be a lot of trouble..."

Shiraishin rubbed the center of his brows, feeling a little headache.

Then, she looked at the ghost girl Hongye on the opposite side: "Since you, sister Hongye, are related to the same root and origin as the Devil King of the Sixth Heaven, then if he finds the entrance to the present world and wants to come from the kingdom of the underworld, you You should know immediately, right?"

"……Does not."

The ghost girl Hongye shook her head slightly, and then explained: "There is a barrier between the present world and the kingdom of the underworld. Even if it is just to transmit some small sounds or images, it takes a lot of spiritual power. So usually only the main body actively sends me messages. , and it is almost impossible for me to reversely detect the situation in the country of the underworld, at most I can only feel a little bit vaguely. It is this feeling that makes me draw the conclusion that he is getting closer to the present world."

"Ok."

Bai Shilin thought for a while, then changed his mind and asked another question: "Then, does Sister Hongye know how to enter the space where the formation is located?"

"do not know."

This time, the ghost girl Hongye still shook her head.

"...30 years ago, when I found this apartment, Ping Wuyue had already left this world through the 'Gate of the Underworld', and the seal that Shiraishi Yixin and Baishui Sanaibu put down was after I left... think If you think about it, you know, it is impossible for them to do this in front of me. Therefore, I don't know the process of their formation.

During the period after I came to Shiraishi's apartment, I was actually trying to find that formation, but I found nothing. "

Speaking of this, the ghost girl Hongye paused, and there was a hint of aggression in Shiraishi Rin's sight: "To be honest, when I met you on Mount Fuji before, I thought you were personally selected by Shiraishi Genichiro Heir, I originally thought of taking you back to inquire about the whereabouts of the 'Gate of the Underworld', but I didn't expect the fact that this is not the case...