Chapter 378-1 Let’s Travel Together
"Master Shion, you're out again. These are the fish I caught this morning. Take one back to try."
"Master Shion, I am well."
"Master Shion..."
Gaara has stayed in the Demon Kingdom for a long time, and occasionally he would see the Demon Kingdom priestess walking out of the shrine and strolling on the street.
Every time when facing Shion's arrival, the villagers of the Demon Kingdom appear very enthusiastic.
It seemed that in their eyes, the miko Shion was sacred and the guardian who protected them.
But strangely, all Gaara saw through the eyes of these villagers was wariness and alienation;
Moreover, Shion responded to the villagers' greetings with a smile, but that smile was just superficial.
[…Is this an illusion? ]
Gaara shook his head and chuckled, thinking that he was still too sensitive.
He was traveling, and the Land of Ghosts was just a small stop on this journey with an unknown end.
When you've had enough of the tour, it's time to leave.
So today is the day that Gaara decided to leave the Land of Demons and continue his unfinished journey.
Shion gradually walked away, and Gaara was about to turn around and leave.
But at this moment...
“Her eyes… are like the eyes of the god of death. They make people feel scared,” a villager whispered.
"Yes, every time I see her, I feel like my life is being devoured," another villager echoed.
"But, after all, she is the priestess of our Ghost Country, and we cannot show any disrespect to her," an elderly villager reminded.
Gaara turned his head and found that the villagers' eyes were no longer filled with admiration when they looked at Shion's departing back, but were filled with fear and dread.
When Gaara heard these conversations, a strong resonance surged in his heart.
[Sure enough... Is that girl also an outlier? ]
Gaara suddenly didn't want to leave for the time being. He wanted to...
……
Late at night, at the witch shrine.
[Mom, why can't we live with everyone else, but have to live in this lonely shrine? ]
[Mom, why doesn't anyone want to play with me...is it because I can see their deaths?]
[Mom...where have you been? Mom...]
"what!!!"
Shion uttered a cry of surprise and sat up suddenly in bed.
This was the nth time she had woken up from a nightmare.
As a shrine maiden of the Land of Demons, this identity gave her a far more noble status than ordinary people, but behind it...
Eyes that can see through death, wind chimes that sound like the knell of death, predictions of death that never go wrong...
Everyone who tried to get close to her ended up dying because of her.
The villagers respected her and loved her, but more than that they were afraid of her.
Shion once asked her mother why they had to bear all this?
My mother’s answer was: “This is the fate and curse of being a witch.”
Then one day, my mother suddenly disappeared.
From then on, Shion was the only one left in the shrine, bearing the tragic fate of a miko...
Tears rolled down my cheeks without me noticing.
Every time she woke up from a nightmare, it was the most painful and happiest time for Shion.
Because as a shrine maiden, she could only hide in her room alone in the middle of the night and cry like a child.
"Just wipe it."
Suddenly, a strange voice came from her ear, and a tissue was handed to Shion by a hand with slender knuckles.
Shion was stunned for a moment, then slowly raised her head. Through her blurry eyes, she saw the owner of the hand in the faint moonlight - Gaara.
(To be honest, Gaara's serious but expressionless look made Shion wonder if he had facial paralysis when they first met...)
Shion: (??∧??)……? ? ?
[This boy actually handed me a tissue, he was pretty nice...
and many more!
Who is he? Why did he suddenly appear in my room?!
And wasn’t it him who made me look so embarrassed when I was crying…】
The sudden change made Shion no longer able to cry, and instead...
"what!!!"
The girl's scream almost pierced Gaara's eardrums, and her waving hands also knocked the tissue out of Gaara's hand.
But at the moment when Shion's palm touched Gaara's fingertips, the wind chimes placed beside the bed rang leisurely, and Shion felt a familiar palpitation in her heart.
Then, Shion saw Gaara standing in front of her, with his chest pierced by a hand...
The death prophecy took effect again, and Shion saw that... the boy in front of her would die in the future because of protecting herself.
A sense of loss suddenly welled up in her heart, and Shion, who was about to ask Gaara why he broke into her room late at night, remained silent.
I don’t know how long it took...
“…Whoever you are, please leave immediately.
Don't come near me from now on, I will bring you misfortune."
Shion was in an unusually low mood when she said this.
However, Gaara seemed not to have heard it at all and continued talking to himself.
"If you could travel, where would you like to go?"
Shion: ?_? ? ? ?
"What did you say?"
"I mean... um, I want to take you away from here and travel together... so is there anywhere you want to go?"
"Ah?!"
(ー ー゛)……
There was suddenly a hint of pity in Shion's eyes when she looked at Gaara.
"…I'm not a doctor. You've got the wrong person."
A man who has never met her broke into a girl's bedroom in the middle of the night and asked her to go on a trip... Doesn't this look like a psychopath? !
"Can you go?"
Shion: (ー_ー)!!
"Sorry, I refuse."
Gaara ignored him and just turned and walked out of the room, leaving behind a sentence:
"Hurry up, we should set off."
Shion: ?_?...You didn't listen to a word I said.
……
“Who are you?! How could you… bastard! What did you do to Lady Shion?!”
Outside the house, there were shouts from Zuho, followed by the sounds of fierce fighting.
Before Shion could react, the sound of fighting gradually subsided.
[Not good! Zuho and the others...]
Ziyuan came to her senses and quickly jumped out of bed and ran out of the house in a hurry.
"live……"
Shion didn’t have time to say the word “hand” because the situation at the scene seemed a little... different from what she imagined?
A group of disarmed shrine guards sat on the ground with bruised faces and noses, but they couldn't hide the smiles on their faces.
When the shrine guards saw Shion appear, they all raised their fists and shouted:
"Master Shion, let's go on a journey together!"
They, who had received favors from the previous miko, finally waited for someone who dared to take Shion away from this invisible cage... That's great.
Shion: ⊙_⊙? ? ?
The guards of this miko have just... betrayed me?
