roccoschili Chapter 122: Lifting the Heart Curse (1)
Chapter 122: Lifting the Heart Curse (1)
Although very reluctant, Tsukuyomi Tsukumi still went to the outside world under Tianyuan's urging and disdain.
If we say that Ryomen Sukuna took him to see the world, it was to lift him up, allowing him to see a wider world, see the magnificent mountains and rivers, the beautiful scenery, and broaden his horizons.
Then Tianyuan's action undoubtedly pulled him down from the bright and clean platform, and he actually fell into the mud, to experience the lives of ordinary people as humble as ants.
He set off south with his packed luggage, a small team of only four or five people in a car.
He is a "servant" sent by the Gojo family and the Zenin family.
They are all the top fighters of the three great families. They were selected from the branch families since childhood to be the "assistants" who accompany the future "head of the family".
Especially those sent by the Gojo family,
They are no longer swords waiting to be sharpened, but weapons stained with blood and freshly retreated from the front lines.
The bloody blade is still clanging.
The Gojo family was originally the head of the three great families. Once the order to withdraw from politics was issued, there would be a lot of fighting. Naturally, there was no time to spare. More importantly,
——The Zenin family was disobedient and their opinions were subtly different from his.
This also means that the internal exchange between the three families has begun.
The wind is surging.
*
After leaving Heian-kyo, the towns along the way are not prosperous, and can even be described as shabby.
It is rare to see wooden structures; most of the houses are made of earth and are in a dilapidated state.
But no matter where they stopped, Tsukuyomi was well taken care of. Even if the inn was dilapidated, there would be someone to help her arrange everything.
The softest exotic animal blanket, the cozy and warm fur quilt, the curling sandalwood fragrance rising from the incense burner...
However, all of them were rejected by Tsukuyomi Tsukumi. Whenever he entered the house and found that the style did not match the decoration,
Turned around and left
"Master Tsukuyomi, don't you live here?"
"No, don't do this again in the future."
If it were him in the past, he might have accepted it as a matter of course, used to Li Mei's meticulous care, and would have taken other people's kindness for granted, but it was different now.
these days,
Tsukuyomi Tsukumi walked through one village after another,
I also learned to trek through mountains and rivers as I did before.
They are the majority, dressed in rags and with scars on their knees.
Poverty breeds crime, and sorcerers are needed here more than in Heian-kyo—but they obviously have no way to do anything about it.
A second-level cursed spirit could destroy most of their ancestral heritage. They could only think of it as something supernatural, but there was nothing they could do about it.
Sacrifice, relocation, marrying into a disaster...
Tsukuyomi personally witnessed them tying six or seven-year-old girls to the sacrificial fire rack, under the pretext of "appeasing the anger of the mountain god."
The cursed spirits will not give up, as they are clearly just a group of greedy creatures who don't know how to give in and are filled with negative emotions.
How could he be so merciful as to give up the fat meat in his mouth?
Perhaps it was because his childhood experiences were too similar to those of the girl, or perhaps it was for some other reason, but Tsukuyomi was unusually angry.
People are so stupid.
But the nature is not bad,
There are many factors that drive them to extremes, including poverty, power, natural disasters, and man-made disasters...
Tsukuyomi Tsukumi was regarded as a "true god" by them
He himself doesn't care about these things, but... the "guards" around him will not miss any opportunity to make him famous.
They went to many places, and wherever they went, they dealt with the cursed spirits, of course, in secret.
But he does not want to attract everyone's attention and does not want it to affect the lives of ordinary people.
Under the oppression of this world of petty intrigue and despicable deeds, survival has exhausted all their energy. It is difficult for them to barely survive by fighting against disasters and imperial power.
It’s hard to mention anything else.
Although this puzzled the guards, in their view, doing good without asking for anything in return was incomprehensible. They were accustomed to such cruelty and naturally had no other reaction. However, the sensitive and fragile nerves of the people were indeed in danger...
The last straw is about to break the camel's back.
"So be it"
Don't worry too much about anything, there are many things that are meaningless.
If you want to do it, just do it.
Any rewards or good reputation are a burden to him, a burden that restricts his own nature.
But reality is always contrary to what he thinks.
The news that the "kind-hearted gods" could drive away evil spirits for people spread quickly.
Zenin Kazuhiko thought this was the right thing to do.
*
I don’t know when
The people believed in this rumor without a doubt, "It is a god who came down from the moon", "white hair and red eyes", "seeing the master on a moonlit night"
Every household spontaneously erected statues to worship the "Moon Goddess".
For these people, faith cannot bring them anything practical, but it can bring them some special hope.
About the hope of life.
The group of cursers headed by Ryomen Sukuna remained silent. They were not clear about the relationship between Tsukuyomi Tsukumi and Ryomen Sukuna, but being repeatedly used as a negative example was annoying enough.
It is clearly "making clothes for others to marry",
Now Tsukuyomi has fallen out with Ryoumen Sukuna and has switched to the opposing camp of the Three Great Families...
"What a bullshit god, isn't he just a thing raised by Lord Sukuna? Now that he has lost Lord Sukuna's protection, I wonder how long he can continue to be so arrogant."
"Sukuna-sama has already ordered that we must not clash with these believers, including himself."
"That was all in the past! I heard from my seniors before that this brat had clearly broken off relations with Sukuna-sama! Otherwise, why do you think we haven't heard from him recently?"
"If you ask me, I think it was still free to do whatever I wanted, just like Sukuna-sama, without any restrictions."
Actually, he had his eyes on a famous beauty in this area, but his whole family worshipped the statue of Tsukuyomi Tsukumi, and Ryoumen Sukuna had previously ordered that he should not attack these people.
But that was in the past.
His silence is the best evidence.
*
During the more than six months that Tsukuyomi has been traveling, he has always stubbornly chosen the most difficult environments and done the most difficult things.
His body is getting healthier.
During his travels, he kept in touch with Tian Yuan intermittently, and they were more like close friends who could talk about anything than a master and a disciple.
He knew nothing about too many things in this world, but Tianyuan was a good listener, and their relationship became familiar without them realizing it.
"The New Festival is coming soon. The Emperor will pray to the gods of heaven and earth for a good harvest. Do you want to come back and see it?"
The efforts made by Gojo clan members in the past six months are very impressive. The three families are gradually distinguishing themselves from the nobles.
The Zen temple family has a lingering connection.
Noso became a retainer of the Zenin family and also held the idle position of a teacher in the Kamo family.
Before Tian Yuan successfully assimilated with the astral plasma, they could not fully trust her.
Tsukuyomi hesitated for a moment before agreeing.
*
Hearing that a powerful cursed spirit was causing trouble in the suburbs of Kyoto, Tsukuyomi Tsukumi rushed over immediately after receiving the news.
Unexpectedly, the so-called "cursed spirit" is not someone else
But it was Ryoumen Sukuna who had just escaped from the encirclement of the sorcerer.
"Long time no see, kid."