Chapter 204
1.
Time, 2020.
In the lobby of Japan's Haneda International Airport, a middle-aged couple with two black-haired and black-eyed girls, carrying backpacks on their backs and pulling a small suitcase in their hands, walked out of the lobby with the crowd getting off the plane.
"Let's go straight to Wisteria Avenue. I've booked a room at a nearby hotel," the short-haired girl with glasses said competently. "Rest for a while, then we'll go shopping this afternoon."
"I'm fine with anything," another girl said. She took the other girl's arm and said, "It's my first time in Japan, so I'll go wherever you go."
But what about my uncle and aunt?"
"They won't get lost on their own, anyway. Besides, they might prefer traveling alone rather than with the two of us kids... Don't hold on so tightly, you're strangling me. Your spoken English is pretty good. Even if you're lost, you can always ask anyone on the street for directions."
"That's true, but everyone feels uncomfortable when they first arrive in a place," Qingyu complained. "It's not like you, a social expert, who dares to go abroad without even practicing your spoken English and just tell your family."
"Life always needs some excitement, right?" Xu Wen said with a smile. "Besides, if you don't take some time out during your freshman summer break, when are you going to do that? Sophomore or junior year? By then, you'll probably be surrounded by piles of exams."
"Hey! Let's go, let's take the subway directly there. Don't take a taxi. The taxi fares in Japan are terrible."
2.
"The Demon-Slaying Shrine is just ahead."
Secretly following a tour group visiting Japan to get free introductions from the tour guide, the short-haired girl gave her bestie a look that said, "Follow me, you won't go wrong."
Qingyu: “…”
Okay, okay, you’re the best.
3.
"The construction of the Mekki Shrine took place during the Taisho period..."
“…Rumor has it that a thousand years ago during the Heian-kyō period, there was an evil demon named Kibutsuji Muzan who took pleasure in eating humans.
If his blood accidentally enters an ordinary person's body, they will become a man-eating ghost like him."
"Rumor has it that Muzan Kibutsuji is brutal by nature, killing and cannibalizing people without blinking an eye. If something doesn't go his way, or if his demons can't complete the tasks he's assigned, he'll kill them all, without asking why."
"...In order to destroy him and prevent ordinary people from being persecuted by demons, a group of people whose relatives have been persecuted by demons have been fighting against demons for a thousand years under the assistance and supervision of the head of the Ubuyashiki family.
With the body of an ordinary person, I fought against those demons whose species had changed. I stepped on the road paved by my companions' bodies, and killed the demon by exchanging many for one...
During the Warring States Period, an organization called the Demon Slayer Corps produced a swordsmanship genius that is rare in a thousand years, the first person to master the initial breathing of the day - Yoriichi Tsugikuni.
Because no one can master the initial breathing, but the members of the Demon Slayer Corps have derived five demon-killing breathing methods suitable for them from this initial breathing..."
The tour guide at the front was explaining the history of the Demon-Slaying Shrine to her group in a high-pitched voice. Xu Wen, walking at the back, had a look on her face that said, "It's all a trick, I get it," and whispered to her bestie, "This is just a trick to trick those of us who don't know Japanese history. It's been so long now, and so many years since the Taisho era? Counting on my fingers, it's about a hundred years at most... What kind of tour guide would bring people here? The history is so shallow, it sounds fake."
Qingyu: “…”
Although, I really don't want to say anything, but sorry, she actually knows about that Demon Slayer Corps.
You probably won’t believe it when I tell you.
When she was still a little baby and was born from her mother's womb, she had a game backpack in her body, which was the kind that every game character in today's online games has.
However, her backpack remained sealed until she turned 15.
After she turned 15, the seal on her backpack was released.
...Then, she looked at the entire backpack full of ingredients and food that were either unprocessed, needed secondary processing, or were finished products, as well as... the miraculous experiences of her past life, her previous life, and her previous life.
Qingyu: I've lived for 15 years and didn't realize I was so talented.jpg
She used almost all of her spare time in the first semester of her third year in junior high school to secretly read all the written and visual records of her previous life without her parents' knowledge. This led to the crazy thing of traveling to Japan with her best friend during the summer vacation of her first year in high school.
Of course, she was not really afraid of getting separated from her best friend and not being able to go back. Before making this decision, she had made sufficient preparations.
"Behind the Demon Slayer Shrine is a cemetery where all the Demon Slayer Corps members who died in the battle of demons are buried."
The tour guide was still talking, but Xu Wen was getting a little impatient.
"Hey! Do you still want to listen? I want to go somewhere else." She pulled Qingyu's arm and said.
Qingyu: "I want to listen to it too. What the tour guide said is quite nice."
Xu Wen's mouth twitched. She took out her cell phone and waved it at her. "In that case, let's contact each other later."
Qingyu nodded: "Okay."
4.
After watching her best friend leave, Qingyu continued to follow the tour group and listen to the tour guide introducing everyone.
She didn't leave the group until they finished visiting the shrine and were about to continue their tour to the next place.
The cemetery behind the Demon Slayer Shrine is not open to the public. Even the road about 50 meters away is blocked by roadblocks. There are also people nearby paying attention to the situation. If anyone sneaks in, they will be asked to leave.
Qingyu stood outside the roadblock and looked inside, but had no intention of going in.
In fact, she was not brave enough to run into a cemetery in a foreign country alone, let alone one in the mountains, so she would definitely not try to commit suicide.
She stood there for a while, then took out a photo from her phone.
"One, two, three... ten, this should be it." She looked at the wisteria tree she had counted all the way to the tenth one.
I have to sigh that Japan is a country that "will not change". It has not changed much from what it was like a hundred years ago.
The photo in Qingyu's mobile phone was none other than a photo of herself and her lover taken here in her previous life before she came to Japan.
The middle-aged woman was held in the arms of a man who was two heads taller than her. Facing the camera, both of them looked gentle and warm, as if the sky had cleared after rain. Apart from the big age difference and different eye colors, Qingyu and the middle-aged woman looked as if they were carved out of the same mold.
She circled around the wisteria tree in front of her and finally stopped at the back of it.
"Ha! It's true." The girl looked at the marks on the tree trunk that were traces of time. Although she knew that she didn't do it, just thinking about it made her feel ashamed.
【Kyojuro and Aki】
…
Recalling the diary of my previous life.
Qingyu couldn't help but mutter, "Really? You all know that carving "So-and-so was here" or confessing love on trees or walls is shameful and immoral, so why don't you just not do it to me?
Or maybe, because this is the property of the Ubuyashiki family, and you know that the owner of the Ubuyashiki family is willing to follow your will, you really let yourself go."
...Have you ever thought that your reincarnation would come over to see this kind of thing out of curiosity?
Is it okay to show affection to yourself?
Anyway, Qingyu, a high school student, feels that he is not capable of doing anything.
5.
"Well, actually, when we noticed Aki-sama and Kyojuro carving words on the wisteria tree, we thought it was quite novel. Later, the people at Kanro-ji Temple followed their example and secretly found a wisteria tree and carved their names and their loved ones' names on the trunk."
"Then should I still praise her for leading the trend of the times?" Qingyu couldn't help but continue to complain.
But after she finished complaining, the next moment all the hairs on her body stood up in fear.
“Wooah.”
The girl let out a short and sharp cry of surprise, and almost rushed out from behind the wisteria tree. When she saw that the person talking to her was a very old man, she patted her chest to calm herself down.
The result of calming down was that she became confused again.
Let’s not talk about my previous complaints about my past life, but why does this old man in front of me seem to know me at that time?
No, rather than saying that he knew his previous self, the feeling he gave me from his previous words was that he seemed to know the members of the Demon Slayer Corps during the Taisho period.
"Excuse me, who are you..." Qingyu stood there not daring to move, she asked cautiously.
"My name is Ubuyashiki Teriya." The old man said in a gentle tone. By the way, he was still in the mood to joke with Qingyu. "I am an antique who has lived from the Taisho era to the present day."
Qingyu, who didn't find it funny at all, said: "..."
How many years have passed since the Taisho era?
Oh, more than a hundred years.
So, this old man in front of me, named Ubuyashiki Teriya, must be at least a hundred years old this year... What the hell!!!
Qingyu felt like she was about to die.
She looked around and didn't see anyone who seemed to be with the old man, and she became even more nervous.
She felt that she should go up and help him, but she was also afraid that he would try to scam her.
What to do if she is hit by a scam in a foreign country? Perhaps, she can only seek help from her country's embassy stationed here.
...She was extremely scared just thinking about the possible outcome.
Just when Qingyu was thinking about whether to help the old man, the old man took a slow walk by himself. The speed and the way he staggered made people worry that he would fall down at the next moment even with a cane.
"Ah, please be careful." Qingyu was simply afraid of him. She went up to him and supported him, walking slowly with him. But in her heart, she was praying that the old man's heart was proportional to his kind face.
6.
"Me? I'm a florist. Of course I was born into a florist's family."
"...It's summer vacation where I am, which is different from the summer vacation for high school students in Japan."
"Well, you can only see the contents after your 15th birthday... It's really scary to suddenly realize that you had so many things left behind in your past life... Then, out of curiosity, a friend's family happened to be planning a visit this summer, so I decided to come and take a look."
Qingyu helped the old man walk along the way and chatted with him.
She didn't know what was wrong with her. Facing an old man whom she had just met today, she spoke openly about what might be the biggest secret of her life.
Maybe this old man is poisonous...
Qingyu thought silently in his heart.
7.
The history of Demon Slayer Academy can be traced back to the Taisho period...
So, it is not surprising that this school was built after the Ubuyashiki family led the Demon Slayer Corps to eliminate Muzan Kibutsuji.
Today, Qingyu came here to visit the school at the invitation of Ubuyashiki Teriyachi yesterday.
One more thing to add: because Xu Wen was worried about being cheated, she brought her parents along on this school visit.
8.
"Umm, sorry, are you okay?"
"No, I'm fine...right?"
Parents and children have different concerns about a school, so after Qingyu was taken around by the teacher, Xu Wen took her to go shopping on her own.
But maybe I was unlucky today. When I passed a corner, I bumped into someone coming from the other side of the corner.
"No, Qingyu, your nose was hit and it's bleeding." Xu Wen, who was walking behind Qingyu and was not affected, supported her from behind. Seeing her best friend who had been knocked unconscious, she quickly held her head and tilted it up to the sky.
Moreover, it is the kind that flows continuously.
Rengoku Momojuro picked up the girl's phone, which had fallen to the ground after he bumped into her. "The infirmary is nearby. I'll take you there and let the doctor take care of it."
9.
"Um, Rengoku Momojuro, are you okay?"
In the infirmary, Qingyu, whose nosebleed couldn't stop, was lying on the hospital bed. Xu Wen went out to look for her mother.
It may sound a little funny, but Xu Wen's mother likes to travel, but she has a little lost sense of direction. Just now, Xu Wen's father called and asked her to come out to help find someone.
But after she left, the only ones left in the infirmary were herself and the boy who had bumped into her.
The young man didn't know what was wrong. After stopping the bleeding from his nose, he sat there in a daze.
10.
After visiting Demon Slayer Academy, the nosebleed stopped. He saw that the people in the photos left behind from his previous life might be reincarnations or descendants. After saying goodbye to Ubuyashiki Teriya, Qingyu left with Xu Wen and her family of three.
During the next five days, Qingyu followed Xu Wen's family to visit Ginza, Shibuya, Ikebukuro for shopping, and Akihabara to buy various peripherals.
By the way, if the place nearby happened to be one that she had mentioned in her diary in her previous life, she would go there alone, or she would take her best friend with her to take a walk and take a look.
Then, she discovered something. Although it was already the end of the semester for high school students in Japan, her encounters with Rengoku Momojuro, the boy who had caused her nose to bleed at Demon Slayer Academy, were a little too frequent in the past few days.
Looking at the person she met again, Xu Wen's mouth twitched. She put an arm around Qingyu's neck and whispered in her ear as her body leaned towards her: "My dearest, tell me, did you and that Purgatory Tao Shoulang have some bad karma in your past life? Why is it that every time you go somewhere, you always run into him there?"
Qingyu: “…”
My dear, your question is difficult for me to answer.
There is no bad fate, but it is true that I had a marriage relationship with their grandfather in my previous life.
"We're going back home tomorrow, so hurry up and say whatever you want to say." Xu Wen reminded Qingyu, pinching her cheek. "Don't bother the sunny little handsome guy... Really, it's not good for your children to be too good-looking. Look, it's just a short trip abroad, and you can still be noticed by others."
Letting go of Qingyu's neck, the short-haired girl continued, "I won't get involved. You seem to be more familiar with this place than I am. It should be fine for you to go back to the hotel by yourself later."
After a pause, she finally added in a serious tone, still worried, "We are still young and in a foreign country. Don't get carried away and find yourself a boyfriend. There are countless examples in reality that show that international relationships are successful.
...Finally, our studies are the most important thing now, otherwise, be careful that your mother will punish you."
Qingyu: “…”
Although her bestie spoke to her in flowery language the whole time, she just had a guilty feeling that he could understand as Rengoku Momojuro walked towards her.
11.
Qingyu really wanted to call back her best friend who had abandoned her without saying a word, but she was a very athletic person and she couldn't catch her at all if she wanted to escape.
"Hmm, this restaurant is opened by Ihei and Kanroji. The food is pretty good. Do you want to go in and try it?" The young man spoke, but the moment he spoke, he showed a calmness and patience that was not befitting of his age.
Qingyu was stuck for a moment. She actually didn't really believe in ghosts and gods, but when she thought about the food backpack that she had in her body after she turned 15, she felt that her understanding of the world could be expanded a little.
For example: We can slightly shift from talking only about science to not talking about science at all.
"good."
Following the young man into the restaurant where she had always wanted to eat with Xu Wen, as soon as she entered, she saw the snake-shaped ornament placed on the counter by the owner.
After trying to hold it in, she couldn't help but complain, "This snake-shaped ornament is so different from Kabukimaru. Are you sure Kabukimaru won't be so angry that he'll crawl out of his grave and bite people if he sees it?"
Phew!
The girl's voice was very soft, but it was still heard by Rengoku Momojuro who was walking in front.
He chuckled, but when he noticed the girl's gaze was drawn to him, he coughed and warned, "Don't let Yihei hear this, or he might hold a grudge against you."
"He always holds a grudge. He is so petty." Qingyu continued to complain.
"I'll find you next time" the girl's voice suddenly stopped.
Facing the gaze of the boy sitting opposite her, she shook her head awkwardly.
What can I say? Can I say that I have put myself in the shoes of my past life?
This sentence may be confusing, but it should not be difficult to understand.
But that's too shameful.
Qingyu felt like a thief.
Even if what he stole were his memories from his previous life...
12.
The food they ordered was quickly brought up by the proprietress.
It is a huge portion of tempura ramen, and the surface of the bowl is covered with various tempura of vegetables, seafood, etc.
If you want to eat the ramen underneath, you need to ask the boss lady for an empty bowl to take out the tempura on the surface and put it separately.
As a high school student who is still growing, Qingyu's appetite is not small among girls. However, this time, she ate too much.
No, it should be said that this was the first time she had come across such an affordable restaurant in her nearly one-week trip to Japan.
The meal served by the boss here is almost as good as three meals a day at other restaurants.
13.
"Are you okay?"
After lunch, Rengoku Momojuro supported the girl and walked slowly on a deserted path to help digest the food.
"No, not very good." Qingyu said weakly. She was at a loss for words and said, "I have never had a meal as bad as today in my life."
"If you can't finish it, you don't have to force yourself to eat it." Rengoku Momojuro said helplessly.
He had said this to her no less than five times in the store just now, but each time he was left speechless by the other party's twisted logic.
Qingyu said firmly: "If it's just a little bit that can't be finished, it's a waste, but I still have a lot left. That won't work. If my grandma finds out, she will beat me... I don't want to pack it up again.
If you pack up the soup noodles and eat them later, the noodles will either clump together or absorb the soup, swelling and becoming soft, and no longer taste good.
I don’t want my last dinner in Japan to be so miserable.”
"Hmm, are you going back?" The boy's attention was obviously diverted.
Qingyu's scalp tingled a little at his intense gaze, and she even stuttered when she replied, "Yes, yes, as a high school student, I have a lot of summer homework assigned by teachers. After the trip, it's natural for me to go back and do it."
Rengoku Momojuro: "Can I add a cell phone number? After the final exams, I plan to go on a flower-planting trip."
The boy was too enthusiastic, too direct, and too proactive. Qingyu, who was already thinking about the words her best friend had left before she left, was completely hooked. She was stunned and mechanically replied, "Yes, yes..."
14.
At the airport, the plane disappeared into the sky with its long tail.
On the rooftop of Demon Slayer Academy, a group of people of different ages and grades gathered together to eat bento.
"Sister Axi must have flown back to her country now." Rengoku Chijuro, who was sitting next to his brother and only today suddenly recalled his past life memories and whose current name is Rengoku Kashiwajuro, said sadly.
He tilted his head: "Brother, what are you going to do?"
Rengoku Momojuro finished his lunch and looked up: "Aki's memory doesn't seem to have returned, but I think her gourmet backpack is still with her. It contains all of Aki's things... So I plan to plant flowers this summer."
The boy fell backwards, his hands resting behind his head, and there was no trace of sadness on his face. He said, "Hmm, I want to chase Ah Xi again."
"Then let's start by being friends," said the tall young man, no longer blind in this life. "Right now, both you and Ah Xi are students. Before you graduate from university, everything should be focused on your studies."
"Also, during the summer vacation, let's go on a flower-planting trip together." The older sister of the Butterfly Sisters said, "We've known each other for so long, and I still haven't been to Ah Xi's country."
"Then let's go together." The boy with flesh-pink hair put his arm around his brother's shoulders and helped him finish his words before he could say anything strange.
Purgatory Tao Shoulang: "..."
No, I'm going to chase my wife. Why are so many of you following me?
Purgatory Kashiwajuro: Cat Sympathy.jpg
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