Chapter 10: Mount Fuji on Fire
The bright moon finally broke through the dark clouds and peeked out from among them.

Mount Fuji, which is covered with snow and reaches the clouds, suddenly burst into flames, attracting the cold moonlight to fall.

A ball of fire was circling the forests of Mount Fuji, spreading from the belly of the mountain to the top of the mountain.

The flames eventually died down at the top of Mount Fuji.

The trees that were disturbed and touched by the flame began to burn.

Although the scale of the burning was small, the white smoke and faint flames were very obvious late at night.

In the distance, a group of photography enthusiasts who were taking pictures of Mount Fuji under the moonlight finally saw the sight of the bright moon setting.

At the same time, white smoke and flames were also captured.

Mount Fuji caught fire late at night!

After confirming that they had not taken the wrong photo, they hurriedly called the 119 fire department.

call.

Snowflakes that were imperceptible to the naked eye suddenly fell from the sky, extinguishing the sudden flames and covering up all traces of the burning.

The top of Mount Fuji, where white clouds cover the sky and snow piles up.

“Sister Snow Girl, I just met a very fierce monk. He made my whole body burst into flames. It hurts so much, wuwuwu…”

“He actually wanted to use his great magical powers to capture me through the makeshift gate to Hades. How terrifying!”

“If I hadn’t run fast, it wouldn’t just be the hem of my skirt that would have been pulled down, wuwuwu…”

A pitiful voice came from a lake formed by accumulated snow water.

She was a girl in green clothes and with white hair, holding a lantern.

She immersed her body in the lake, using the cold snow water to gradually extinguish the golden flames on her body.

call.

It is the sound of wind and snow blowing.

It shouldn’t snow in this season.

Under the moonlight, snowflakes came with strong winds, circling around the lake for several times, and a cold voice came from inside.

“This is Buddha’s fire.”

“Only a high-level monk can offer a flame.”

“You didn’t go to big temples like Toji or Horyuji and cause trouble, did you?”

“I don’t!”

The white-haired girl in green clothes hurriedly walked out of the lake and shook her head to deny what she had done.

She lowered her head slightly, looking at her bare thighs and the hem of her skirt that was mostly burned off. The wind blew and it felt a little cold.

Inexplicably, she clamped her legs together and said timidly, “I just saw someone summoning the gate of Hades, so I subconsciously took a look. I definitely didn’t go out on purpose to cause trouble.”

“I’ve told you many times not to play the game of Hundred Days Ghost Story again.”

“I haven’t played this game for a long time. It’s that lantern that’s special.”

The girl in green clothes and white hair tried to explain it clearly.

She would stay in her cave tonight, abide by the new era’s monster codes, and never go out to cause trouble.

But the gate to the underworld appeared directly inside her cave, causing her to subconsciously look over there.

Who knew that an evil monk would suddenly appear!

Without saying a word, he directly summoned the image of Vairocana Tathagata and fixed the dark void.

The Six-Syllable Mantra is chanted to illuminate everything, and combined with the image of Vairocana Tathagata to attract the Buddha’s fire.

If she hadn’t escaped quickly, she would have been burned and purified by the Buddha’s fire just like the gate of the underworld.

But the evil monk was so scary that he stretched out a Buddha’s hand and tried to pass through the gate of the underworld and capture him back.

Fortunately, his real body was not nearby, otherwise he would never have been able to escape the clutches of that evil monk.

She hurriedly closed the gate to the underworld connecting the two places, but the evil monk still touched her thigh and even pulled off a part of her skirt.

What’s even more infuriating is that the Buddha’s fire spread to his entire body wherever the evil monk touched it.

She could only quickly leave her cave and come here to use the cold snow water to remove the Buddha fire from her body.

From beginning to end, she really just took a look!

Who could have thought it would cause so much trouble.

After hearing her explanation, another voice was heard in the wind and snow.

“Just stay here peacefully and don’t go out and cause trouble. This is the best time for us.”

As soon as the words were spoken, the wind and snow dissipated, leaving only silence.

A white-haired girl in green clothes sat on the shore of the lake, gently kicking the cold water with her bare feet, staring at the bright moon reflected in the lake in a trance.

For beings like them, this is indeed the best of times.

A huge group of human beings, their souls have nowhere to rest.

The negative energy formed by various desires, despair, pain and other negative emotions is about to turn into rumbling black clouds and bury the entire sky.

They don’t need to come into contact with humans at all, just watching from a distance, they can achieve a cultivation speed several times or even ten times faster than before. Twenty years ago, there were natural anomalies, and the world was more suitable for monsters to cultivate.

To this end, some famous monsters in the monster world have stepped forward to take the lead and formulated several new-era rules for the monster world.

The first rule: evacuate all big cities and hide in deep mountains, forests, lakes and mountain streams.

The second rule: You are not allowed to go out and cause trouble, and you are allowed to practice in your cave peacefully.

The third rule: Hide your tracks and try not to attract the attention and hostility of the human world.

……

These new-age monster rules only apply to monsters that were born before the Edo period.

As for the monsters born after the Edo period, they are not included in this list because the big monsters do not recognize their existence.

Therefore, the monster world is divided into two factions, the new and the old.

The old-school monsters choose to avoid human metropolises and live in seclusion to practice.

The new monsters are led by the Seven Lords of Sin, Our Lady of Suffering, and the Twisted Lord. They live in human cities and feed on all negative emotions of humans at close range.

I heard that in recent years, several powerful monsters have emerged in the new monster camp.

The Loveless Demon Lord who feeds on indifference, the Gold Eater who feeds on the desire for money above all else, and the Void Dragon Salamander who feeds on emptiness.

She, the new generation guardian of the gate to Hades, is an old-school monster.

But she is a little special. She was born after the Edo period and did not fully develop self-awareness until the Showa era.

Since she was born, she has lived on Mount Fuji, next to Sister Snow Girl.

According to Sister Snow Woman, she was once a powerful monster, but she fell and did not resurrect until the Showa era, when she went deep into the gates of the underworld and was resurrected.

That’s why she was classified as an old-school monster.

“Evil monk, evil monk, evil monk…”

The white-haired girl in blue clothes who had been staring at the moon for a long time could not suppress the anger in her heart after all.

She stood up, holding a green lantern, floating on the lake. Using the green light as a pen, the lake water as ink, and the lake surface as paper, she sketched out pictures of her beating the evil monk.

She took note of this account!

Revenge is the way of the monsters.

I have abused the evil monk a thousand times here, and that can be considered my revenge!

……

A sneeze!

When Pinggong Chiye woke up in the early morning, he sneezed several times in succession.

He rubbed his nose and dug his ears. He felt his ears were a little itchy, as if someone was cursing him.

Could it be Horii-san?

She doesn’t seem to be such a petty person, and with her personality, she wouldn’t curse people behind their backs. If she’s angry, she’ll take it out on the spot.

Who would that be?
This is the first time I have allowed myself to have such a feeling.

Suppressing this feeling, Hiramiya Chiye finished her breakfast, took her schoolbag, and headed for the train.

On the train, Hiramiya Chiye did not read a book, but took out his mobile phone to look at the results of the article “I’ve never seen anything like this before! A cruel monster separated a pair of childhood sweethearts who had been together for 30 years!” from the night before.

Not bad, a total of 125 people paid to watch it.

125 merit points are equivalent to 12500 yen, which is a very good income.

It’s a pity that not every story is so popular.

But one thing is certain, most people still prefer more exaggerated titles.

“Last night, Mount Fuji seemed to catch fire and then extinguished itself. Photography enthusiasts witnessed this magical phenomenon with their own eyes. The reason is unexpectedly!”

A piece of news broadcast on the tram aroused the interest of Hiramiya Chiye.

You see, even news, a media that targets the general public, needs to use shocking words and exclamation marks to attract attention.

Hiramiya Chiye looked up at the train screen, ready to learn something from the new media.

In the relatively bright picture, one can see from afar a ball of fire rising from the belly of Mount Fuji all the way to the top of Mount Fuji.

The speed was very fast, it didn’t seem like natural combustion, and the surrounding fire was also very small.

After a while, the area where fire and smoke appeared was extinguished.

Could that be a burning drone?

But can drones fly that high?
Pinggong Qianye continued reading.

After the group of photography enthusiasts reported the fire, the fire police went up the mountain to patrol and investigate overnight.

Sure enough, traces of recent burning were found in that area.

But the fire was small.

The fire must have been extinguished before it had time to spread.

Finally they came to a conclusion: there was indeed a fire on Mount Fuji last night, but God bless the mountain, the fire was extinguished naturally and could not spread.

(End of this chapter)