The day when I was favored by my brothers

There was a big monster who wanted to swallow her up, and an onmyoji who wanted to make her a shikigami and do hard work.

Xiao Mo was so frightened that he cried and almost melted, but he still stood up tremblingly and waved his claws twice in the air in a demonstrative manner: "You, don't come here..."

It's a pity that she said such words with the pitiful expression on her face, which has no intimidating power at all.

The next second, she felt her body become lighter, as if someone was gently holding her waist and lifting her up.

...Are you going to be eaten?!

She subconsciously covered her eyes, but her body did not feel the pain she imagined.

For a long time, she peeked out through the gap between her fingers and saw only a pair of sharp golden eyes, which seemed to be staring at her carefully.

This big monster looks really fierce!

Xiao Mo quickly covered his eyes again and let out a frightened "squeak".

But she suddenly felt the latter putting her up high. In order to prevent herself from falling, she subconsciously clenched something beside her to maintain balance.

When he opened his eyes again, Xiao Mo was stunned.

Because this scary big monster actually put her on his shoulders and sat on it, and the support she just subconsciously found and held tightly turned out to be the other person's ghost horns and his fluffy hair.

"Aaahhhh! I'm sorry, Mr. Monster!"

Xiao Mo was frightened and turned into a stick figure again. She quickly let go of her hand holding the corner and curled up into a ball, not daring to move.

"..."

The latter looked at her carefully for a while, then turned to ask Qingming: "Hey, Onmyoji, what's going on with my sister?"

"From the exchange with her just now, I can tell." Qingming unfolded his folding fan and shook it gently: "It seems that all her memories of us...have disappeared."

"..." Ibaraki Doji was startled for a moment, then became furious and shouted loudly: "What on earth is going on?"

Xiao Mo was frightened by the terrifying surge of demonic power, and shrank into a smaller ball, trembling.

"Ibaraki-douji, you scared her." Seimei's expression showed some agreement: "So far, I haven't been able to find out the reason. One thing is certain - that is, we are not interested in her now.

The words are all characters that appear in dreams."

"...dream?"

"This has something to do with her unusual physique, so I won't go into details." Qingming said, "You can put her down first, this child is frightened by you."

Ibaraki Doji, the straight man from Heianjing Steel, stared: "She used to love sitting on my shoulder and looking down at everything!"

Qingming: "...that was also after getting to know each other. Now you are just a strange monster to her. She will be instinctively afraid of you, so it is natural."

Ibaraki Doji and Abe Seimei looked at each other in confusion for a while, and then he looked at the poor little girl shaking like a dice on his shoulder. Finally, he gave in, squatted down, and carefully put her down.

Although it is a powerful ghost hand that can kill people at any time - it can make such gentle movements gently.

Xiao Mo finally understood that this scary monster was not here to eat her. After calming down, she carefully glanced at the monster in front of her through her fingers.

...Him, his eyes are really scary qaq.

Looking down, Xiao Mo suddenly spotted the empty cuff on the other side and was stunned.

...could a seemingly powerful monster suffer such serious injuries?

It must be very painful to lose one of your arms, right?

While thinking this, Xiao Mo slowly lowered his hands covering his face and looked at him blankly.

Overall, his appearance is actually scary. Not only is he not scary, he is also good-looking. What is really scary is his momentum and eyes.

Looking at it this way, Mr. Monster, who seemed to be rushing to eat her at first glance, didn't seem so scary anymore.

After staring at each other for a while, she suddenly noticed that the other person's gaze was piercing again, and she was so frightened that she sat back, fearing that she had done something wrong again.

"These injuries..."

"Huh?"

"Who did these injuries? Is it an Onmyoji?" A ball of purple demonic flames appeared on Ibaraki Doji's ghost hands. He gritted his teeth and said, "I must make those bastards who hurt you pay for their blood."

Pay!"

Xiao Mo was almost petrified. She realized that as long as the demonic flame in Ibaraki Doji's hand touched her, her body would be destroyed and she would be burned to ashes within a second. Tears suddenly filled her eyes again.

But he didn't dare to fall.

In Ibaraki Doji's eyes, this becomes "my sister is crying as she recalls the sad past and recalled the Onmyoji who hurt her."

He was furious: "Is it Genji?! Don't be afraid, tell me boldly! My brother will crush them to ashes today!"

Xiao Mo felt that she was almost getting used to being frightened by this big demon who was so easy to control at once. She stared blankly at Ibaraki Doji without saying a word, probably because she was scared to death.

"Ibaraki-douji." Seimei said helplessly, "This is probably something she experienced in another world. Even if you crush Genji to ashes, you won't be able to help her."

"..."

The steely straight man Ibaraki Doji was stunned again and again, looking at the poor little boy on the ground with a naive and motionless expression, and thought about the way human women comfort children.

He collected the demonic flames, held the trembling little Mo in his arms.

Xiao Mo only felt a thud on his cheek, hitting the extremely hard breastplate, his head was dizzy from the impact, and there were special effects of birds chirping around his head.

"Don't be afraid!" the latter said in a loud voice, "I'm here!"

Qingming: "..."

Now he finally understood what it meant, as long as the monsters in the country took care of their children.

The ghost general next to the Oni King, the monster Ibaraki Doji from Oeyama, admires the strong, hates weak monsters and looks down upon them. This is an undeniable fact about the monster clan.

Until a certain day of a certain year, a certain month...a little monster fell from the sky and landed in the mountains and rivers.

The demonic power of the little monster is close to zero, and at first glance, it looks no different from humans.

She looks young, and she is still a cub among the demon clan.

The little monster was like a golden ball of hair. It rolled up in front of Ibaraki Doji who was practicing sorcery in the forest and stared at him stupidly for a while.

She didn't know if she broke her head when she fell from the sky. She stretched out her hand towards Ibaraki Doji and said in a soft and waxy voice, "Brother... I want a hug."

This soft and waxy sound was so irritating that it jumped from head to toe, making Ibaraki Doji's whole monster's hair explode.

"I'm not your brother." Ibaraki Doji said fiercely as he backed away: "Go away! Go away, go away!"

But the latter persevered, stumbled forward, and clung to his thigh, hugging him tightly, unable to pull him off no matter how hard he pulled.

...and couldn't pull it off, mainly because he didn't dare to use too much force and was afraid of hurting her.

Although Ibaraki Doji has always looked down upon the weak, this meant that he would argue with a tiny cub out of impatience.

He had a hard time wandering around the country with this leg pendant.

This place is full of spiritual energy and is the most suitable place for the demon clan to survive, so the golden hair ball gradually degenerated into a silver hair ball, and the blue eyes turned into golden beast pupils, turning into her demonized form.

The ghosts coming and going were shocked when they saw Ibaraki Doji: "That cub looks like Ibaraki-sama! Could it be Ibaraki-sama's daughter?"

"What?! Lord Ibaraki Douji has a daughter!"

"What? Ibaraki Doji-sama is happy to be a father!"

Rumors like this are becoming more and more popular. Ibaraki Doji was confused when he heard this. What is this?!

He wanted to disturb his best friend because of a little cub, so after much deliberation, he decided to go on his own and personally deliver this demon cub with a well-established background to the most nosy Onmyoji in Heianjing.

That guy would definitely sit back and watch, it would be better than leaving her in a big country where any monster could crush her to death.

However, the journey to Heianjing was extremely difficult.

"Get off my lap." Ibaraki Doji said solemnly.

Hairball shook his head vigorously and hugged his thigh tighter.

Pedestrians coming and going looked sideways when they saw this scene.

Ibaraki Doji: "...Damn it!"

He turned into a human body just to attract attention. God knows that this little ancestor is so difficult to serve, and he has been attracting people's attention and paying homage to her along the way.

Ibaraki Doji took a deep breath: "...Get off my lap, I will hold you."

Maodan's eyes suddenly lit up. She let go of her hand, raised her head again, and opened her arms towards him.

Her eyes were sparkling, as if stars were twinkling in them.

Ibaraki Doji had never seen such pure eyes on any monster's face. He was stunned for a while, and then he picked her up as he was told.

For Ibaraki Doji, who only had one arm, the action of "hugging" was extremely difficult. He held the little monster that was so light that it seemed weightless, fearing that he would accidentally crush her to death.

...How could there be such a fragile and small thing in this world?

The cub noticed his difficulty and obediently climbed onto his shoulder and sat down.

This is much easier than the "hug" action.

So Ibaraki Doji continued to take her in the direction of Heian-kyo.

‌Whether it was intentional or unconscious, he had never shown such a bottom line to any demon clan.

"Hey! Please scratch my hair!"

"...You are not allowed to touch my neck!"

"Don't even touch my ghost horns!"

He said that this was not allowed and that was not allowed, but he did not take any practical actions to stop the cub.

You are not allowed to pass through human towns on the way, and the streets in the early morning are especially busy.

The cub looked at the candy apples on the stall, his eyes motionless, and he made a "sucking" sound from his mouth.

Ibaraki Doji: "Don't look at it, I won't buy it for you."

The cub stopped looking at the candy apple and stared at him instead.

Ten seconds later, Ibaraki Doji surrendered. The cub was holding a candy apple in his hand, with joy written all over his face.

The road from Dajiangshan to Ping'an Jing is extremely long.

When they finally arrived in front of Abe Seimei's Onmyo dormitory, Ibaraki Doji stood silently at the door for a while, never knocking on the door.

Abe Seimei pushed open the door with a creak, and saw Ibaraki Doji standing outside the door without saying a word, holding several large bags of children's favorite things in his hands, and sitting on his shoulder was a rattle that was shaking curiously.

Silver hairball.

Qingming was stunned for a moment, then subconsciously asked: "...your daughter?"

"Yes!!!" Ibaraki Doji hurriedly denied it, with an angry look on his face.

Abe Seimei: "..."

He always felt that this was a deliberate denial as if to cover up something.

"……elder brother."

The demon cub carefully took a bite and shouted sweetly.

Abe Seimei understood clearly, and asked curiously: "Sister? But I don't know when you had a sister."

Ibaraki Doji didn't answer. He clutched the little monster on his shoulder and handed it to Seimei. Then he threw the big and small bags in his hands at the door of Onnyangryo, strode around and left.

"???Hey, do you really want your sister?"

Qingming asked questions behind him.

Ibaraki-douji walked far away before he heard the cub uttering a pitiful and timid question: "...brother?"

…

Without the difficult cub to take care of, it only took him half a day to return to Dajiangshan.

His best friend Shuten Doji, the ghost king who stood at the pinnacle of the ghost clan, was rarely interested enough to pat him on the shoulder and ask him to join him for a drink, but he was not interested from the beginning to the end.

There is no other reason.

The cub's last "brother" sound lingered in his ears like a spell and disappeared for a long time.

"hateful!"

He threw the wine cup heavily on the table, startling the little monsters around him.

I thought this matter had been settled, and the weak cub would stay well with the nosy Onmyoji.

A month later, Ibaraki Doji, who was practicing demonic flames in the forest as usual, saw a gray ball of hair rolling towards him from a distance.

The hair ball rolled to his side, and its dirty little hands seemed to want to reach out and hug his thighs, but they did not dare to do so, and hid their hands behind their backs in frustration.

She raised her dusty little face, and her eyes were still frighteningly bright.

"elder brother?"

she shouted tentatively.

No one knows how she came all the way from the distant Heian Jing, how she avoided the sight of the cunning Onmyoji along the way, and how she traveled thousands of miles and traveled to the mountains and rivers.

...Ibaraki Douji couldn't explain what kind of emotion he was feeling at this moment.

He remembered.

...A long time ago, when Shuten Doji said to him, "The battle between close friends is over," his heart seemed to be filled with this strange emotion.

But at that time, he stiffly rejected Shuten Doji: "I am your best friend!"

Maybe he could repeat his old trick and shout bluntly to the cub in front of him: "I am your brother!"

...but he didn't do that.

Ibaraki-doji lowered his head and looked at the gray and dirty cub for a long time, as if it had just rolled in the mud. Finally, he leaned down and stretched out his only remaining

His arms held her tightly in his arms.

"I'm so ashamed to be my sister."

he said.

When Xiao Mo opened her eyes, the onmyoji teacher who just asked her to call Qingming brother was still sitting next to her.

"Are you awake?" Abe Seimei put down the picture scroll he was flipping through, looked at her gently, and asked.

Xiao Mo wrapped the quilt tightly around himself, wrapping it into a caterpillar, forming an indestructible quilt barrier, and then nodded cautiously.

"Are you still afraid that I will capture you and make you a shikigami?"

Xiao Mo nodded cautiously, then realized something was wrong and quickly shook his head.

Qingming said "poof" and couldn't help but laugh again.

"Then, can you tell me something?" He looked at Xiao Mo quietly: "About what happened to you."

Qingming is born with the ability to give others a wonderful feeling.

How should I describe that feeling...?

"Just believe me, don't be afraid of anything." Abe Seimei is such a person who can make others trust and trust him unconditionally.

Naturally, he did fulfill all the promises he made to others.

When her mood calmed down, Xiao Mo clearly told everything she had experienced in the Ogata family, word for word.

Although it was just an understatement and childish words, Abe Seimei's expression darkened slightly.

There was also a strange rustling noise coming from outside the door.

After a long time, Qingming sighed and reached out to touch Xiao Mo's head.

"From now on, you must learn to protect yourself, and you must continue to trust humans unconditionally." Qingming added: There will be monsters who will teach you to control the demon power in your body, and I will also teach you to control your body.

The power of.”

"I..." Xiao Mo looked at the Great Onmyoji in front of him with a timid look on his face: "Then... can I still go home and see my brother again?"

"This is natural." Qingming replied: "When you successfully learn to control your power, you can go home at any time, and you can come to see us or your other brothers at any time."

Xiao Mo opened his mouth wide and said "Wow": "Really?"

Qingming shook her fan and smiled: "This is natural."

"Really, really, really?" She jumped out from under the quilt, opened her arms and cheered: "Then I have to learn now! I have to learn how to control my power!"

"Good! Very energetic!" Ibaraki Doji outside the door affirmed in a loud voice: "You are my sister!"

Xiao Mo, who was still cheering just now, suddenly lost her momentum. She looked at Qingming half-heartedly and took two timid steps back.

"Did Xiao Mo know Mr. Monster before?"

"Of course." Qingming covered her lips and smiled: "Not only did you know him, you called him brother when we first met, and you stuck to his side. You were willing to let go, straddling his shoulders and holding his horns with both hands.

He was still shouting, "Drive, drive, drive."

Xiao Mo: "..."

She was wrong, she shouldn't think Mr. Monster's temper was good.

If Mr. Monster really had a good temper, he should have slapped her into pieces when they first met. How could he allow her to be so bold and do whatever she wants?

Xiao Mo asked again: "Then... was Mr. Monster the same at that time as he is now?"

Qingming shook his head: "At that time, Mr. Monster had a very good temper, and he was even more unwilling to admit that you were his sister."

Xiao Mo was dumbfounded.

She is guilty. She actually completely forgot what she did to Mr. Monster at that time, which caused the majestic Mr. Monster to become what he is now.

At this moment, the door was pulled open with a loud bang, and Ibaraki-douji, whose head almost hit the ceiling, walked into the room in a hurry, and his sharp golden eyes locked on the poor little boy huddled in the corner, shaking and shaking in a second.

"Let's go." He took a step forward and picked up the huddled Xiao Mo like a cat: "Brother, I'm going to teach you how to control your own power."

Xiao Mo was even more stupid.

Although she said she would start studying now, in fact she was just talking.

Just like when her elder brother taught her swordsmanship, she would fall asleep hugging the sword after only wielding it for an hour, without any willpower.

But her brother never talked about how he forced her to study and practice hard, so he had no choice but to pick her up while she was dozing off and fish, and put her in his fluffy tail.

But, but, but.

The Ibaraki Doji-san in front of me can be seen at a glance that unlike her brother, she is a youkai who cannot allow her to fish!

If she practices hard enough, will Mr. Ibaraki Doji slap her until she is willing to work hard?

Xiao Mo was lifted up in the air by Ibaraki Doji. He used his hands and feet to paddle through the air like a puppy, then turned around and cast a pleading look at Seimei.

The latter lowered his head and continued to turn over the picture scroll leisurely.

Although Mr. Seimei calls himself an elder brother, he does not protect his shortcomings like his elder brother.

Xiao Mo could even clearly see that the corners of his lips curled up in a slight arc, as if he was gloating about his misfortune.

Wow! Brother Qingming, he is so awesome!

With his inner slander towards this new brother, Xiao Mo bulged his mouth and was carried by Ibaraki Doji to a heavily decorated mansion.

"This is the first lesson for my brother to teach you how to become familiar with your own demon power." Ibaraki Douji touched Xiao Mo's head, but the strength was not strong enough, and he almost slapped her down. He retracted his hand, cleared his throat, and pointed.

The gate of the mansion in front of you: "Did you see that gate covered with enchantments?"

Xiao Mo nodded obediently.

"As a great monster who is upright and indomitable, you must have the spirit and courage to fight against the Onmyoji fearlessly." Ibaraki Doji said: "Now, you will regard him as the Ogata family who killed a thousand swords, and use all his strength.

The demonic force condensed and struck with a materialized blow, blowing away the barrier on the gate."

Xiao Mo: "...But that one is the Ogata family, and that door says Genji."

Ibaraki Douji's tone became more serious: "Now, if you think of yourself as the Ogata family who killed a thousand swords, blow away the barrier on the gate. My sister should be able to do this easily!

"

...It's a bit like a clear threat.

Xiao Mo was so frightened by Ibaraki Doji that her eyes burst into tears again. She raised her hand tremblingly, materialized her demonic power according to the words, and gave a fierce blow to the door.

The dazzling golden demon power condensed into a ball of light, and the earth began to tremble.

Not only the barrier on the door, but also the entire magnificent door collapsed completely, being blasted to ashes by the ball of light, and a huge crater appeared on the ground.

The burnt black plaque with Genji written on the door fell to the ground with a clatter and shattered into pieces.

Xiao Mo was dumbfounded. She retracted her hand with a look of horror on her face: "Yes, I'm sorry!"

Ibaraki Doji was stunned for a moment, and then patted Xiao Mo's shoulder twice. At this moment, he said one sentence with a thousand words: "You are so ashamed to be my sister!"