"He came on the moon just to find one person."
Four years ago, the Great Onmyoji Abe Seimei used forbidden techniques to suppress Yamata no Orochi in the Black Night Mountain, at the cost of losing all his memory. The only thing he remembered was the fox demon named Xiaobai and the mysterious girl Kagura he picked up from the barren mountain.
Four years later, Qingming, who was living in seclusion in Arashiyama, met the man who walked on the moon - Yuan Boya.
He is the grandson of the Emperor, with a distinguished status, but he is an upright warrior who does not know how to beat around the bush. He is holding the flute "Ye Er" given by the demon and ghost, and he is upright, but he is always at a loss in front of Qingming, blushing and heartbeating.
"Qingming, is it true that you crushed a frog to death with a willow leaf?"
"... Boya, you came all the way to ask this?"
Monsters are causing chaos, wronged souls cry, hundreds of ghosts walk at night, and conspiracies are surging. Some people are watching in the darkness, some are setting many traps, and Qingming, who has lost his memory, is being drawn into a larger whirlpool step by step.
But in this world where monsters are rampant, what scares Boya the most is never the ghosts——
It's Qingming's eyes that seem to see through everything, and the heart-pounding smile he reveals inadvertently.
"Seimei, are you a human or a fox?"
"What would you do if I were a fox?"
"... Then that's it. As long as you are still you, I will still be me."
Under the moonlight, the flute plays, hundreds of demons are silent, and thousands of people are silent.
Only two hearts, approaching quietly in the darkness.
In the two realms of Yin and Yang, hundreds of ghosts walk at night, but you are the only world I want to stop in.
Intent: Although it is based on monsters and monsters from the Heian period, the core is a philosophical work that explores human nature, destiny, cause and effect, emotion and existence. Through unit stories, it builds a world where humans and ghosts coexist and good and evil are intertwined, and asks questions in this world:
What is reality? What is self? What is good? What is eternity?
These propositions not only run through the growth and interaction of Seimei, Boya, Kagura and others, but also permeate every ghost story, making the work go beyond a simple fantasy novel and become a narrative poem full of humanistic care and philosophical depth.
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You are not alone, Jingji! Occasionally, I rely on everyone in the Demon Slayer Squad! The pillars are your strongest backing!
You are not alone, Jingji! Occasionally, I rely on everyone in the Demon Slayer Squad! The pillars are your strongest backing!