Chapter 216: Boundary, Mist (Two in One)

"It's really hard to understand why they can curse people so easily..." Su Wu's tone was full of doubt.

It's pure love and pure filial piety...

But it's really cool to carry a special curse with you. I love it.

Even though two or three years have passed since the time travel, the middle school part of Su Wu's personality has not disappeared.

His body has grown, but the age of his soul seems to have stayed at the time of death forever.

Because of this, he can easily do many things that self-proclaimed mature people can't do, without any taboos.

So he can say the curse in an envious tone.

After all, in the eyes of decent people, this is a cult, and only the curse master would have an idea.

"Maybe... because of love?" Gojo Haru answered himself unclearly.

"This is the second time I've seen this situation." Gojo Haru pondered for a moment.

It seems that both times, it was because of love.

"This is the second time I've seen it." Su Wu's tone revealed a little subtlety.

"...Ah? You humans... can still create such a monster?" Hong Yan was a little curious.

Even if it is a dog demon, the dog is in front. In simple terms, the dog's characteristics are obvious.

Damn curiosity is not less.

"Ah, many cursed spirits and demons seem to be born because of the evil thoughts of you humans." Hong Yan muttered.

Those who don't know think that humans are the source of all evil after hearing this.

"Will there be such a thing a thousand years later?" Gojo Haru asked.

"... It seems to only happen to children. When the sorcerer was very young, he cursed his good friend, or lover?" Su Wu shook his head.

"Probably..." He touched his chin and recalled for a moment.

He almost forgot the lines of a certain crazy comic.

"Stay with me forever, or don't die or something like that?" He guessed.

"Only children can have such feelings. When they grow up, they can't give such unreserved feelings to people." Su Wu sighed.

When they were young, feelings were supreme, and when they grew up, they were weighing the pros and cons.

"So... I actually met a father and a daughter." Gojo Haru recalled and told the story.

About twelve years ago, the twenty-year-old Gojo Haru was more stable than when he was a teenager, but he was not the type to stay in the old house in Kyoto all the time, so occasionally he would take on some tasks outside Kyoto, under the pretext of patrolling the world, and then spend a month on the way back and forth, and then take a few minutes to deal with the cursed spirits that were causing trouble.

That time, the cursed spirit that needed to be dealt with was a cursed spirit that... ate half of the villagers.

Extremely evil and cruel.

But when Gojo Haru found the location of the cursed spirit with the remnants of the filthy energy, he found that his goal had changed from one to two.

The huge, bloated monster tightly grasped the skinny middle-aged man, purple mucus dripping from its mouth, and kept shouting "Hungry, I'm so hungry..."

"I want to eat..."

"Not enough, not enough, more, I want more food."

When the middle-aged man who was entangled by the monster saw Gojo Haru, he showed a sad, apologetic, and helpless smile.

"You are the adult from Kyoto, right?"

"Can you... give me a little more time?" He pleaded with his eyes.

Gojo Haru, who was absolutely confident in his own strength, was so confident that even if he let the other party run 500 meters first, he felt that he could definitely kill the other party in an instant.

He also wanted to see what the other party wanted to do.

"..." The man said a sentence in his mouth, which seemed to be a name, but it seemed to be just a meaningless breath.

"Are you still hungry? If you are not full, eat me too."

"I'm sorry for turning you into a monster." He looked at the monster, and helpless tears flowed from his eyes.

"She used to be... a very, very cute child." His facial muscles twitched.

Gojo Haru looked at the ugly cursed spirit that had absolutely nothing to do with cuteness, and remained skeptical of the man's words.

"... Father...?" The monster stared at the man with eyes like a bulging fish, and made a childish girl's voice.

"I..." More mucus was secreted from its mouth.

"... No..."

It screamed and bit off half of the man's body.

"Father......" The monster chewed and cried.

After all, it was no longer a human being and could not resist the instinct of the body.

And the man had no ability to control it or stop it.

Otherwise, he would not have let it eat half of the people in the village.

Gojo Haru did not move, but just watched the monster eat the man bit by bit, and the two merged into one.

The other party was willing to be eaten, what was there to stop?

Then he used a trick to kill the monster.

"After that, I found the survivors from their original village and asked them about the situation."

"It is said that the girl and her mother were imprisoned by the villagers and starved to death."

"She died after being imprisoned for two months."

"It is said that the mother and daughter survived for a while by eating the bugs and mice in the room. The mother couldn't bear to eat them and gave them all to the girl."

"After the bugs and mice in the room were eaten, the mother starved to death. After her death, her body rotted and maggots grew."

"The girl didn't understand the meaning of death. She just thought her mother was covered with bugs, so she picked up the bugs one by one and put them in her mouth."

When her father came back, the villagers who had forgotten the mother and daughter remembered their existence.

When they opened the door, black flies and a foul smell hit them.

It was too late.

"Why did the villagers lock them up?" Su Wu asked.

"It seems to be because...the mother and daughter can see monsters." Gojo Haru recalled the reason he heard at the time, with a mocking expression on his face.

"They have spiritual power and could have become onmyojis."

"The villagers think they are colluding with monsters to murder people."

"But the ones who appeared near that village are just some small monsters that are so weak that even ordinary humans can easily kill them." Gojo Haru said lightly.

"...Why did they only eat half of the people in the village?" Su Wu curled his lips after hearing this story.

The feudal village killed people. Wouldn't they kill the whole village?

"Because they are not strong enough? Compared to Zenin Tsukasa's mother who is directly a special grade, the father and daughter I met are only level one monsters at most, and they ate half of the people in the village. They were probably only level two or three when they were born." Gojo Haru speculated.

"What a pity..." Su Wu was shocked with regret.

"Humans... always do a lot of things that monsters are afraid of." Hongyan, who heard the story, had his hair standing up all over his body.

Locking the child and the weak woman in the room, starving them to death, forcing the child to eat worms born on rotten meat to fill his stomach.

Even monsters can't think of such a torture method.

"Indeed." On this point, Kong and Hongyan, who are both non-humans, agreed.

Humans are indeed terrible.

"But according to the existing combination, I can't get a portable curse." Su Wu sighed with great regret.

"However, when you die, I curse you?" He asked Gojo Haru with interest.

"... Verbal curses should be useless, right?" Gojo Haru was silent for a moment and began to discuss the feasibility of this matter.

It is known that Su Wu's curse power is very strong, and Gojo Haru's curse power is also very strong.

Furthermore, when a person with strong curse power curses a dying person from the bottom of his heart, it will cause unexpected results.

So... can Su Wu curse Gojo Haru?

"We meet the general conditions, but do you really have feelings?" Gojo Haru looked at the boy.

When he saw the other person for the first time, he knew that he had met his kind.

The only kind.

Since they are of the same kind, some aspects of them are naturally similar.

"... a bit disgusting..." Su Wu frowned and showed a disgusted expression.

"I can't imagine the scene of me crying and shouting in front of you who is dying, begging you not to die and stay by my side forever." The white-haired boy's expression was a little distorted.

Although he is a bit second-year, it's better not to do this.

"... I can't imagine it either." Gojo Haru also showed a subtle, faintly disgusting expression.

Because he would not do such a thing.

Even when Zenin Akira, who was regarded as a friend, died, he did not have much emotional fluctuations.

Sometimes he would doubt whether he really considered Chanin Akira as a friend.

But from childhood to adulthood, Chanin Akira was the only one who could chat with him normally.

Lord Qingming was too old, and the others were either taking advantage of or trying to please him. Lord Qing, Lord Gojo, Lord Patriarch, Lord Godson, and Your Highness were all names that belonged to him in other people's mouths.

Only Chanin Akira would express his emotions in front of him without disguising, calling him Qing or Six-eyed Boy with anger, dissatisfaction, or jealousy.

Perhaps, probably, this should be considered a friend.

Gojo Haru had never been to school, because mortals could not teach Godson.

He kept learning by reading alone.

Friend...? What is that?

"What a pity." Su Wu continued to sigh.

There are negative emotions, such as pain and anger.

As for the negative emotions about love... First of all, there must be positive love before negative emotions can be born.

And he didn't have any at all.

There is no love at all, love is the most useless.

"Your Highness——" A group of people with messy clothes and hair ran in, looking dusty, and each of them had a little blood on their bodies, pale faces, and gray lips.

It looked like something had drained their energy and spirit, and they lost ten years of life in an instant.

"Barrier! The barrier is set up!" They ran halfway, their legs were weak and they fell to the ground. After shouting the last sentence, they fainted on the spot.

It looked like a group of people suddenly died.

"... They really set up a barrier starting from the Torii... Almost half of the mountain..." Gojo Haru felt it, and his tone was full of emotion.

The key is that these people are not strong, and their spiritual power is not that strong.

Such a barrier almost consumed a lot of them.

This is what happened when they suddenly fainted. They overdrew their spiritual power and physical strength, so they fell down.

It is estimated that it will take at least a week of rest to recover.

"... It seems to be not bad." Su Wu walked out of the room, and the barrier began to operate, with wisps of white mist overflowing.

It probably won’t be long before the mountainside and above will be shrouded in white fog.

"Since they have done it, let's send them down the mountain." Su Wu said casually, and raised his hand to point at a group of people.

"One person, send them down." He pointed out the people around him who were forced to serve him by other families.

"Go down now, otherwise it will be difficult to walk when the fog is thick." He urged.

Several people from different families looked at each other, nodded, and walked down the mountain with the unconscious people.

Gradually, their backs were also swallowed by the white fog.

"Are you not going to keep them?" Gojo Haru looked at leisurely, and waited until he could no longer see them before speaking.

"There is no point in keeping them." Su Wu shrugged.

They were just spies planted to monitor him. He was already good-tempered enough to endure for so long.

"The two of them..." Gojo Haru pointed to the two girls beside him.

Although they now look very different from the traditional noble princesses, they are also from noble families...

"We don't need anyone to serve us." The two little girls spoke quickly, "We can take care of ourselves." They emphasized.

"Look." Su Wu said without surprise.

"Even the two of them don't need anyone to take care of them, let alone the others. Maro can take care of all of them." Su Wu said casually.

Maro, whose name was called, looked up proudly and said, "It's my honor."

"I hope there will be someone among them who will not give up." Su Wu pinched his chin and said, "It's just right to try the ability of the barrier."

For example... the ability to turn corpses into energy to maintain the barrier.

"There will definitely be." Gojo Haru said with certainty.

After all... among the people who were planted, there are a few who can be called dead men.

One and a half hours later.

The group who sent people back to their homes returned to Wushan again.

When they arrived in front of the torii, they saw a light layer of white fog behind them.

It's foggy...

But foggy mountains are not a rare scene.

They raised their feet without much care and stepped over the torii.

The clear and melodious sound of wind chimes rang in their ears.

The world seemed to have changed.

They were unaware of this, only that the fog on the way up the mountain seemed to be getting thicker and thicker.

Half an hour later, they still hadn't seen the shadow of the shrine.

At their speed, they should be close to the shrine on the top of the mountain in half an hour.

Only then did they realize something was wrong.

The fog became thicker, making it difficult for them to see the road under their feet or the people around them.

Behind the white fog, pairs of huge, bright eyes seemed to light up.

"Red fog..." Su Wu stretched out his hand and tried to grab a wisp of red fog that drifted in front of him.

"If there are more dead people, this mountain will not be filled with blood fog, right? It looks like the base camp of the devil..." Su Wu couldn't help complaining.

"White fog is still beautiful, with a fairy-like aura, and it is the place where the gods live at a glance."