Chapter 25

The starry sky was like a curtain,

A crimson Full Moon hung high in the east.

The girl was lying on a huge branch,

The swaying shadow of the tree completely covered her short body,

After an unknown amount of time, she woke up with a gentle breeze.

The youth who had been sitting beside her saw that she wanted to sit up before she opened her eyes and almost fell down the tree. He reached out and pulled her into his arms without hesitation,

Then, he stared at her little face without blinking.

This child..,

Was really the best-looking plant-type monster he had ever seen. Even the nest of cute fireflies not far from the tree..,

There was not even a single color that could beat her.

He had always liked cute children.

"Oh... Daddy..."

"..."

The youth blinked.

This child, did she think he was her father?

Was she really a lost little demon?

A little cutie that fell from the sky..,

He thought it was a gift from the heavens to him.

This was not Daddy!

Her memory was still stuck in her father's arms. Then, her mind suddenly went blank and she lost consciousness,

When she woke up..,

She felt that she was being hugged by someone. She thought it was her father.

But the smell was not right, and the posture was not right.

Leaf finally opened her eyes.

The person hugging her was a rather delicate-looking youth,

The way he looked at her was very gentle,

Although the other party was a stranger..,

Leaf did not hate him at all,

She even wanted to get close to him.

However, she still had the rationality and vigilance that she should have.

She struggled to get out of his arms.

In the end, she was hugged even tighter by the other party.

"You'll fall,

Little guy. "

The youth's voice was as gentle as his person,

It was as light as the sound of a sparrow in an empty valley. It was worth listening to.

Will fall?

Leaf looked back and found that the two of them were sitting on a very huge tree. Their position was relatively high. If the youth had let go just now, Leaf, who was still a little dizzy, would definitely have broken two legs.

"Then can you put me next to you?"

The youth put her down where she had just been lying, but as soon as he put her down, two branches reached out from the side and surrounded her in the middle to prevent her from falling down the tree.

Leaf watched silently, thinking that this youth should not be an ordinary person.

"Hello, I'm Leaf. May I know why I'm here?"

She knelt on the thick tree trunk, her big eyes blinking as she looked at the young man, causing his heart to tremble with cuteness.

"You just fell from the sky. If I didn't catch you, you might have become my fertilizer."

The young man rested his chin on his hand as he looked at her, his eyes filled with love.

"I thought you were a treasure given to me by God, but you already have a father. Did you fight with someone?

Was he sent flying here?

You're just a tiny and adorable Grass Demon. Who was so cruel to actually hit you? "

"Also, I haven't seen anyone coming to look for their daughter. Maybe your father doesn't want you anymore. Are you willing to let me be your new father?

I will love you more than he does, and I will never let you get hurt again ~ "

The young man seemed to be a chatterbox, and a heartless one at that. He stabbed a knife into a child's heart. With such eloquence, he actually tried to abduct a child.

His ability to coax children was probably even worse than Xiao Bai's.

"…"

Leaf didn't know how to answer his series of questions. After a moment of silence, she first rejected his request to be her new father, and then asked him if he knew the Ghost Lantern.

She felt that her father's name should be known by all the demons and ghosts in the circle who were slightly more powerful.

However, the young man shook his head directly.

"I know a pair of Ghost Emissary brothers called Ghost Emissary Black and Ghost Emissary White. Also, the assistant of the Hell Demon is not called Ghost Lantern, but Judge."

"Judge?

Is this China? "

She remembered that her father had once said that the first assistant of Hell in China was called Judge. His official name was his name.

"No, this is Japan."

Leaf felt that she had to make a trip to Hell.

But before that, she had one more thing to do.

"You saved me. How can I repay you?"

"Repay?

Do you want to repay me? "

"Yes, you saved my life. Of course, I should repay you because this life is very important to me."

"Is that so …"

The young man leaned over and cupped her cheek, then gently planted a kiss on her forehead.

"My name is' Gui '. I am the incarnation of this Divine Tree."

He raised his arm slightly, and a branch and leaf stretched out under his hand. His hand easily merged with the branch and leaf: "You are the first creature to say that you want to repay me. I like you very much."

The tree had become a god for a long time and was worshipped by people.

Everyone came with wishes, praying for the mercy of the gods. After their wishes were fulfilled, they would say thank you. However, no one had ever asked him, "You helped me. How can I repay you?"

He wasn't greedy for the power of faith of humans, nor did he have any special feelings for humans. He didn't want to protect them or anything like that. He was just a tree that had lived in the forest for many, many years.

"I want to go to other places to see. Can you take me there?"

"Of course."

The young man smiled brightly.

After Leaf agreed, he gently knocked on the branch under him. The branch opened a small hole, and the young man reached in and took out many accessories.

"Each of these can become my incarnation."

He put on necklaces, bracelets, anklets, flower hairpins in her hair, and a scarf around her neck. The cute little girl didn't even realize it.

"Your strength is still too weak. You will be bullied outside. However, after being tainted with my aura, no one will dare to touch you."

"Thank you."

The young man made her stand up and spin around. He felt that this child was even cuter after being dressed up by him.

Thus, he cupped his face and continued to seduce the child: "If you don't want to acknowledge a new father, then how about a new mother?"

As he spoke, the young man's hair began to grow, and his chest began to rise. After the Adam's apple disappeared, his voice became a gentle girl's voice: "Sa ~ Mother?"

He carried the child over and buried her face in his chest.

"Is it soft?

Does it feel like a mother? "

Leaf: "…"

It was quite soft, but she felt that if she dared to acknowledge this mother today, she might experience domestic violence for the first time since she was born when she saw her father tomorrow.

Most importantly, there was a voice in her heart telling her that this god called 'Gui' was very likely to pester her father Ghost Lantern in order to become her real mother.

"You also prefer a male body, right? How about Big Brother?

Can I call you Big Brother? "

"Of course."

Leaf could finally breathe again. The flesh on his chest became less and less, and his voice returned to the way she first heard it.

"Call me again."

"Big Brother."

The young man felt happy.

He jumped down from the tree trunk with Leaf in his arms. When he landed, he didn't make a sound.

"Am I very powerful?"

He showed off a little proudly. Although he had a child's body, his soul was unexpectedly mature. Leaf felt that the guy in front of her might be the real child.

Although Gui had never left the mountain, his roots had grown very far away. Therefore, without anyone leading the way, he knew which direction to walk in to reach the human settlement as quickly as possible.

It was a fairly large town.

Gui put on a veil for himself and Leaf. It was said that this could change one's appearance. However, when Leaf looked up at Gui, his face was still the same, without any change.

"You are someone I acknowledge, so naturally you can see my true appearance. How about it, are you happy?"

"Happy."

The city was bustling with ordinary humans. Gui was interested in everything, so they walked very slowly along the way.

When it was close to noon, when the humans began to look for a place to eat, Gui rubbed his chin and thought for a while. Then he took Leaf to a remote and open corner.

"Sa, you should start eating too."

"Eating?"

Seeing the child staring at him blankly, as if she didn't understand the situation, Gui sighed and patted her head. Leaf felt that her vision had become shorter.

"Wow, I haven't seen this kind of plant before, but it's really bright and beautiful ~"

Leaf moved in confusion, only to find that she seemed to have turned into the appearance of a snapdragon. She opened her mouth to speak, but a strange sound came out.

That was the sound of a snapdragon.

"Can you still make a sound?

Call me big brother one more time ~ "

After shaking left and right, Leaf couldn't restrain her instinct and raised her head to make a sound.

Ai, it's a little shameful to make a sound as a fish. It's better to make a sound with everyone.

"Wow, this is a subtle feeling."

The young man gently touched her head, and then sat on the ground beside her.

"You're a little stunted. Even if you can transform, you occasionally have to transform into your original body to absorb the energy brought to you by the earth and the sun. Otherwise, you won't grow tall ~ You see, I'm so tall because I've been showing my original body for so many years."

The two monsters stayed in the corner and whispered, but as they talked and played, Gui's eyes suddenly sharpened for a moment, and their voices stopped.

Leaf was a little confused at first, but not long after, she saw a man in a gorgeous blue hunting suit strolling away. He wore a black tall hat on his head, had long white hair, held a folding fan in his hand, and a smile on his handsome face.

"Onmyoji?"

Gui twirled a strand of his long hair, thinking in his mind that this person was really good-looking.

"Is he still a half-monster?"

Even if his identity was pointed out, the expression on his face remained unchanged. He smiled and cupped his hands in salute, and then opened his mouth to state his purpose.

"This one is Haruaki Abe. Please forgive me for taking the liberty to disturb you two."

"Haruaki Abe?"

Gui took a few steps forward and circled around him. He felt that this man's appearance was somewhat familiar, reminding him of the Little Fox who wanted to dig a nest at his root but was chased away by him.

But if he was the child of that Little Fox Monster, and now he was an Onmyoji, that was really ironic.

Gui's rising good impression of him because of his appearance was extinguished again.

"What can I do for you?"

He stood in front of the little goldfish, blocking the stunted little grass monster behind him.

Just as he said, she would encounter danger when she went out. It hadn't been long, and she was blocked by Onmyoji.

Sure enough, she still needed his protection.

"This one has no ill intentions, but recently, the people in this city have been disappearing frequently, or there are evil spirits causing trouble, so someone asked me to come here to investigate. Just now, someone said that they saw two beautiful humans walking this way. They have rare human appearances, so this one couldn't help but come and take a look."

"As you can see, us plant-type monsters replenish our energy like this."

He pointed at the little goldfish behind him who was swaying in the sun, basking in the sun. The little goldfish, who was being watched, couldn't help but cry out again.

Haruaki, "…"

It was really subtly disgusting and cute.

For a moment, Haruaki didn't know how to respond.

After he left, Gui patted the little goldfish's head, and she turned back into her human form.

"Cough, cough."

Her throat hurt a little from crying out too much.

"Big Brother, what is an Onmyoji?"

"It's an anomaly among humans. It has great power, can communicate with Yin and Yang, knows about ghosts and gods, and can even sign a contract with monsters and make them fight for him. Little monsters like you should avoid them, otherwise, they will force you to sign a contract with them, and your life and death will be in their hands."

"…"

"But don't be afraid, I will protect you and wait for me."

The little goldfish had a head of beautiful and smooth long hair. Gui touched it again and again, and couldn't bear to part with it.

"Later, you have to hold my hand all the time, and don't let go, understand?

The Onmyoji said that there are evil spirits that eat humans. If it's true, a little monster like you with soft skin and tender flesh is much more delicious than humans. "

He said it as if he had eaten it before.

But Leaf looked at him and couldn't detect the slightest smell of blood at all. This was a good tree demon.

"Although I haven't eaten it with my mouth, people often bury bones under my tree roots. The people who buried them thought that by doing so, those humans who died tragically would be purified by my divinity, and would not turn into evil spirits and go back to trouble them."

Gui sneered and led her to the street.

"I did purify those people, after they took their revenge."

"Humans, how can they be so naive?

Aren't they afraid that I can't purify so much resentment, and eventually degenerate into an evil spirit, and then the first to destroy them? "

Leaf clenched the hand that was holding her hand.

He must not be as relaxed as he showed.

He must have been forced to become a god. With such a willful personality, perhaps it would have been easier for him to be a monster.

They walked around for the whole afternoon, and were lucky enough to see the battle between the Onmyoji called Haruaki Abe and the evil spirit.

That person was really amazing. He was beaten down, but he still didn't forget to command his Spirit-branded Retainers to cooperate with him.

Most monsters were loners, so it was also a skill that he could make these monsters cooperate with each other.

But they probably couldn't do it without him. Otherwise, he wouldn't be lying on the ground and still nagging.

Leaf felt that this person was somewhat interesting, so she secretly shook the big Leaf in her hand and gave him some HP.

"Leader, you cooperate with the food and hair, pfft —!!"

Haruaki -sama, who was pretending to be dead, directly vomited blood from this mouthful of milk.

In the end, his Spirit-branded Retainers saw that he was about to vomit blood and die, so they sped up their attacks and took down the evil spirit in one fell swoop. Only then did he prevent himself from being injured and failing his mission. This trip was all for the sake of improving the evil spirit's reputation.

After that, Leaf learned that Haruaki Abe didn't actually fail. This was only his plan. He wanted to pretend to be weak first, then give the evil spirit the strongest blow at the end.

Leaf felt that this Onmyoji wasn't a decent person to be able to come up with such a plan.

"You want to travel the world?"

Onmyoji laughed heartily after learning of their goal. "This humble one is currently traveling the world as well. Would the two of you be willing to travel together?"

"What are your conditions?"

Gui didn't immediately reject his invitation. Instead, he asked for his conditions. This meant that he was interested in his invitation.

Onmyoji cleared his throat and began to tell them his idea.

"As you can see, the strength of my Spirit-branded Retainers is …"

Before he could finish his sentence, the Hair Eater pressed his hand on his head, directly flattening his tall hat. Onmyoji didn't say anything. He coughed twice and began to change the topic.

"In short, if the two of you wish to travel the world, this humble one's identity can still be of some use. It will be very convenient for you. If you wish to travel the mountains and rivers, this humble one also knows many beautiful places."

"I don't need the two of you to do anything. This humble one will do most of his work according to his ability. If there is a time when I'm not good enough, please protect me."

The more Gui looked at Onmyoji, the more he felt that he was like the Little Fox he knew. Because of this relationship, Gui couldn't help but be more tolerant of him.

However, he wasn't a demon now.

"Sister, do you want to go with them?"

Leaf was startled by him calling her sister. She felt that something was wrong, but she couldn't tell, so she lowered her head and pretended to think.

But in the end, she trusted her intuition.

She felt that if she went with Onmyoji, she would encounter a lot of incredible things in the future.