I teach kendo in Tokyo

Kazuma originally thought that after cutting off this unknown thing, the scene in front of him would disappear, but it did not happen.

In other words, this illusion of a sea of ​​flowers on the other side does not rely on the other party to exist.

Is this really my imagination...or is it cooler, is this my inherent barrier or something like that?

Have I become an Onmyoji?

Do you really need to know onmyoji to travel to Japan?

He Ma stood in the sea of ​​flowers, thinking about why he gained this ability and how to exit this illusion.

The former question can be roughly guessed with just a little thought.

This scene is a scene of a fight to the death between Kazuma and Seiryu, and it is also a scene of a fight to the death between Kazuma and the KGB super soldier codenamed Yamada.

The fight to the death with the guy codenamed Yamada made Kazuma take another round of detours before the gate of hell, and he could feel that he had been sublimated after that battle.

At the end of that battle, Kazuma also saw something similar to a hallucination, and the sword skill Black Dragon also turned into a real dragon.

Of course, you have to ask Tamamo about what exactly happened.

As for the second question, how to leave this illusion, Kazuma estimates that this thing is similar to dreaming. As long as you dream about something related to water, your body will immediately wake up as a conditioned reflex.

Because dreaming of water means that you need to urinate urgently, and you will wet the bed if you don't wake up.

For adults, bedwetting is a serious matter that can lead to social death, and we must be aware of it.

Kazuma decided to think back to the last time he went to the beach to let his body wake up reflexively.

But the next moment, he found that the scene in front of him had changed. The building of Baishan Summit Headquarters and the old tree with a huge crown had disappeared, and the view became very wide.

The sea of ​​flowers on the other side receded, replaced by a clear lake, with fluorescent lights dancing on the green grass beside the lake.

There is no moonlight in the sky, and the starlight complements the fireflies on the ground.

Kazuma was stunned by this beautiful scenery, and he was stunned for a moment before he realized that he had never seen this scene, nor had he imagined it.

Something else invaded his fantasy.

While thinking this, a giant wolf with a rope hanging on its body and an unknown talisman painted on its head walked out of the woods and entered the grassland by the lake.

"Is it... a mountain god?" Kazuma asked.

The moment he spoke, the giant wolf stopped and looked at him from a distance of dozens of meters, with green light shining in its eyes.

The wolf just looked at it. After several seconds, a voice floated down the wind.

"Son of man, I have a piece of advice for you. Do not covet the power of God."

Kazuma: "Why should we covet the power of something that is about to disappear from the world?"

The giant wolf's gaze at Kazuma was filled with murderous intent for a moment, but it immediately recovered, and then a contemptuous sentence floated in the wind: "Human beings are indeed the same as in the past, not knowing the heights of the sky and the earth, and trying to master everything with human intelligence.

"You have developed science and tried to use arithmetic and science to eliminate mystery from the world. You will not succeed. One day, the science you created will come back to bite you, and your world will be destroyed in the flames of the end. , and the mystery will return.”

Kazuma was about to retort, tell this giant wolf about the scientific concept of development, the stars and the sea, and maybe talk about the Force, psychic powers, the Great Expedition and so on.

But the giant wolf didn't give Kazuma a chance to speak, and its words continued to float in the wind.

"Look at the two ironclad evidences of your sins before you."

Two big ones?

Giant Wolf: "One is a victim of the artificial god plan between Meiji and Taisho, and the other is a monster born from the combination of human science and evil thoughts."

Artificial god plan?

Did it happen during the Meiji period?

"Wait a minute." Kazuma interrupted forcefully.

But the giant wolf didn't want to listen, and its words continued to float in the wind: "After the human soul is twisted, it is born..."

Not to be outdone, Kazuma simply continued to ask his own questions regardless of what the other party said. As long as the voice was loud enough, the other party would not be able to ignore it all the time:

"What's going on with the artificial god plan? Is that white-haired child, the so-called son of the mountain god, an artificial god?"

The giant wolf still ignored Kazuma and continued to talk about his own story, so Kazuma decided to surprise him and say something that was not shocking and would never stop.

"Why are you in the form of a wolf? Is it because you don't have enough magic power to transform?"

The giant wolf became angry in an instant, opened its long wolf mouth, and sprayed green flames from between its sharp teeth: "I will not transform into an ugly human form!"

Kazuma: "But you are using human language."

"Actually, no, it was your brain that turned the thoughts I conveyed into human language without authorization! I! I have never spoken human language!"

Hey, why do you feel like this guy is so easy to fool?

Kazuma continued his attack: "Is it because you are so repulsive to human beings because you are a man-made god?"

Now the giant wolf was so angry that his fur stood on end. He looked up to the sky and howled like a real wolf. After howling, he glared at Kazuma and announced: "I am the ruler of the mountains of Hokuriku. The human Yamatai Kingdom has not yet appeared. , I will rule the mountains!"

Kazuma: "Really? You hate humans so much, why do you still have a shuriken rope and a charm on you? How do you put a shurenō on yourself in the wolf form, and how do you draw a charm on your forehead?"

The giant wolf charged towards Kazuma.

Kazuma used his knife to hold the sharp wolf claws, and at the same time sneered: "If you can't say anything, flip the table over. God, please learn to be a little god-like first, okay?"

The giant wolf grinned and breathed hot breath on Kazuma's face.

"Arrogant human boy, let me give you a personal piece of advice. No matter how strong your sword skills are or how good you are in Yin-Yang, don't offend someone who is much older than you. If we want to kill you, we don't need to do it ourselves. "

Kazuma: "I don't understand Onmyoji."

"Lying! You clearly smell like that fox. She must have taught you the art of onmyoji. After all, she once transformed into a man and opened an onmyoji."

"Wait, male?"

When the giant wolf heard Kazuma's immediate question, the corner of his mouth raised: "Yes, male. We can choose the appearance of the transformed form, and the natural gender does not need to be the same as our real gender. Regarding this experience, she did not tell anyone Do you want to tell me?"

Kazuma shook his head: "No."

"Of course she won't talk about it, because the final result is too tragic. Even after that, the fox still didn't repent and continued to mix among humans, and never mentioned that incident. Instead of talking bad about me here, why don't you ask her what happened back then? What."

Kazuma: "Of course I will ask. Now that you have said so much, why don't you just tell me about artificial gods."

The giant wolf stared at him for a moment, then finally retracted its claws, took two steps back, and sat on the ground.

To be honest, as soon as it sat like this, Kazuma's perception immediately changed, as if he suddenly changed from a majestic wolf to a husky.

Or Alaska.

"Human, your thoughts are all reflected on your face."

"Hey, really, then...I'm sorry?"

The giant wolf seemed to have gradually become accustomed to Kazuma's jokes. It ignored Kazuma's glib tone and looked up at the moonless starry sky. After a moment of silence, he said: "At the end of the shogunate period, as one of the alternative means of self-protection against the West, Led by the shogunate Onmyoliao, a military Onmyojutsu research unit was established.

"The base is in the mountains near the hot spring street. In order to create artificial monsters and gods, they need a large number of children with uncivilized minds. Fortunately, the nearby villages have always had a tradition of sending children who cannot afford them into the mountains. Those children He was taken to the base by the person conducting the research.

"They were used as experimental subjects, underwent brutal experiments, and died miserably. However, the experiments still achieved nothing until the Great Zheng Feng returned.

"With the arrival of the Meiji Era, the Army took over the base nearby and continued to promote this project as an alternative to deal with the West. At that time, no one was sure whether they could protect themselves by learning from the West, so this research became like a reassurance."

Kazuma couldn't help but interrupt: "Don't Tamamo know these things?"

"Huh, she was busy playing with Western novelties at that time. She was either doing experiments based on translated Western Neo-Confucian books or playing polo all day long. If you still want to listen to me, don't mention the fox again. "

Kazuma waved his hand: "Okay, okay."

"After the Sino-Japanese War, the military secretly transported Qing prisoners of war captured in North Korea and other places here to build a railway."

After the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, this time coincides with the time when the god’s grandfather told his father that he saw military police and Chinese people building railways in the mountains. By the way, this wolf actually used the term “Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895” instead of “Japanese-Qing War.” Is this wolf still pro-China?

Kazuma complained internally while asking externally: "Why use prisoners of war? Isn't it possible to use ordinary migrant workers to build the railway?"

"If the prisoners of war disappeared, no one would care. The Meiji government didn't care, and the Qing Dynasty didn't care either." Julang replied lightly, "Later, the Qing Dynasty sent a large number of overseas students, and some of them noticed the clues, but they were soon discovered by the special forces. Hi-tech blocks the possibility of investigation.”

Kazuma suppressed the anger in his heart.

It appears that the prisoners were massacred after the railroad was built.

The giant wolf did not notice Kazuma's anger, and continued: "And as mentioned just now, in order to create artificial monsters and gods, they need a large number of children with uncivilized minds.

“But after the Meiji Restoration, even in mountain villages like this, there were basically no families who could not afford to eat and raise their children.

“The origin of the child has become a problem, so we can only conduct theoretical research and cannot conduct experiments.

“Later, after the Russo-Japanese War ended, Japan defeated a Western power in the traditional sense, and the whole country rejoiced. Big figures in the military who knew about the existence of this project began to feel that this project was useless.

"A lot of money and manpower were wasted, but nothing was researched. Some people put the blame on this project for the fact that half of the credit for the Russo-Japanese War was divided by the navy, saying that if artificial monsters can be used to break through the Port Arthur Fortress, it will save a lot of money. In time, the Russian fleet coming from the Baltic Sea may have returned home halfway.

"Then the Navy wouldn't be able to fight the Battle of Tsushima."

Kazuma raised his eyebrows. In his previous life, the conflict between the navy and the army in Japan had always been a hot topic among military fans.

From time to time on military forums, you can see military fans teasing each other with the words "Navy, Red Deer, and Army Baga", which is very showy.

The giant wolf stopped and looked at Kazuma: "Why are you laughing?"

"I laugh at the army's lack of strategy and the navy's lack of wisdom." Kazuma didn't know where he said this.

Maybe it’s because I just thought of the Navy Red Deer and Army Baga memes? Wulu and Baga mean "idiot" and "silly".

The giant wolf looked at Kazuma strangely.

"Isn't this a line from the Romance of the Three Kingdoms?" it asked, "After Cao Cao said this, he was immediately ambushed."

Kazuma: "Don't worry, you continue."

The giant wolf shook its head. This movement made it look more like a husky.

“After feeling the pressure of survival, the research base decided to ‘go alone’.

"They began to secretly arrest children from surrounding mountain villages. In order not to be exposed, they took advantage of the ignorant and superstitious characteristics of the mountain people, put on white hair, dressed up like the legendary demon fox, and forced their way into people's homes at night to kidnap children."

Kazuma: "Is that why the legend of the demon fox that eats people's hearts and livers was formed? We have been investigating this legend for a long time, but we didn't expect it to be like this."

"Hmph, maybe the fox feels that her reputation has been damaged? It's a joke, when she eats snow girls to relieve the heat..."

"Wait a minute!" Kazuma interrupted the giant wolf loudly, "Isn't that what she was joking about?"

The giant wolf looked at Kazuma, his expression continued to change into a husky, and he felt like he was smiling.

"This is a metaphor. The fox captured the snow girl to Kyoto and used it to relieve the heat in the summer. But the snow girl needs to consume demon power to maintain her existence in the hot weather. Or to put it more vividly, the snow girl does not stay on the snowy mountains in the summer. , will melt.

"The fox put the snow girls on the roof to cool down and let them melt.

"You don't think she is a good monster, do you? When talking about her at that time, the little monsters all trembled. But she has never eaten people. Hum, she is one of the traitors among us. "

Kazuma: "Let's continue talking about artificial gods. What happened to this matter?"

Giant Wolf: "The child you see is the only successful case after killing countless children and bringing grief to countless families.

"A half-demon with solidified physiology and psychology can neither use the power of soul and courage like a strong human like you, nor can he use black magic and divine magic. In the end, he can only bully the defenseless common people.

"Everything was spent to create such a pathetic existence, so the project was naturally scrapped. It was the Taisho Era, and the Navy's arms procurement scandal had just broken out. The Army was afraid that it would fall into the same fate as the Navy, so it implemented the most stringent information blockade."

After all, Kazuma was admitted to the Tokyo University School of Law, and he memorized a lot of historical knowledge. In addition, he was a military fan in his previous life, so he was already familiar with things related to military history. He knew the arms procurement scandal that Julang was talking about, so he should It refers to the scandal involving Siemens bribing a number of senior officials in the Navy.

By the way, the Taisho era was the only era of true parliamentary democracy in Japan in the more than 100 years from the Meiji Restoration to the subsequent Reiwa era. In this day and age, elected politicians and journalists can hold the Navy Department on fire.

There is a special word for this era in modern Japanese history: Taisho Demokrasi, which was the second climax of the democratic movement in modern Japanese history.

This climax also inspired the Chinese who were seeking a path to national salvation at that time. Japan's ability to become the main overseas base of the New Culture Movement was inseparable from this.

In the context of the great political power of Democracies, the arrogant War Department would also be afraid of public opinion. It can be said that Japan at this time has seen the dawn of becoming a truly modern country and completely clearing away the remnants of feudalism. As long as this era lasts for more than ten years, the history of World War II may have to be rewritten.

It is a pity that the Great Kanto Earthquake and the worldwide economic depression destroyed the Taisho Era and led to the expansion of the military.

There was a president of the United States who rightly said, “You idiot, the problem is the economy.”

The giant wolf looked at Kazuma in confusion. It didn't know that Kazuma had made so many associations just based on his words.

But it knew Kazuma was distracted.

"Hey, listen carefully to the question you asked me!" it said, grinning and showing its fangs.

Kazuma suddenly broke out of his thoughts and nodded repeatedly: "Okay, I'll listen. The Army decided to cover up everything, and then what?"

"Then they deceived everyone involved in the project, including researchers, soldiers on guard, etc., and said they were holding a dinner party to thank everyone for their efforts and contributions before the project was cancelled."

Kazuma: "I guess the food at the party was poisoned."

"That's it, a classic strategy. The kid was also poisoned, and because they were worried that he wouldn't die, they stabbed him several times with bayonets.

"However, even though he is a dabbler and is inferior to humans and monsters in their respective strengths, his lower limit is higher than both monsters and humans.

“His spiritual power is stronger than that of monsters, and his vitality is far stronger than that of humans.

"They threw him into the same big pit with the bodies of other project personnel and buried them, but they didn't expect that he would slowly dig himself out later."

The giant wolf sighed.

"He might as well have died like that in a pile of corpses."