Bizarre Honkai, a Wife-Chasing Crematorium

In the guest room of the shrine, a burning candle on the table barely illuminated the small house.

Li Mo did not stop this action.

He sat aside, quietly watching Kallen gobble down her food, stuffing the rice balls from the plate into her mouth.

"Mmm... so delicious! Sakura, your cooking is really... Ow, ow, ow, it hurts!"

Kallen cried out in pain as she ate.

The wound on her neck was wrapped in a bandage, so it was not a major issue.

But her shoulder and one of her leg bones were shattered. It would be difficult for her to live alone; she would need someone to take care of her.

"I'm sorry..." Yae Sakura said apologetically, carefully applying medicinal powder to the wound.

"It's okay, it's okay. I can endure this pain. Sakura, you continue. Don't stop. I can bear it!" Kallen put on a look of facing death with equanimity, then grabbed a rice ball with her still-mobile hand and gnawed on it.

Perhaps this was what they called pain and pleasure.

Li Mo's attention was not on them, but on the huge cherry blossom tree outside the guest room. It was lush and unexpectedly luxuriant.

The modeling in the game was certainly not to be trusted, but Li Mo thought that this cherry blossom tree was growing too wildly. It would probably take dozens of people holding hands to encircle it.

But what vegetation was nearby? The surroundings were all buildings: statues of gods, houses, and strange structures.

Even if it wasn't for growth, just to maintain its current state, a towering tree would surely require a lot of nutrients. So where did it get the nutrients to sustain its vitality?

He didn't know...

He didn't feel any Bizarre aura around. Could the candlelight suppress ghosts like in the previous worlds?

Or was it the blade that was suppressing the ghosts...

"Won't Mo-kun eat some?"

"I'm not hungry."

"Then... would you like something to drink? I can go make some tea."

"No need, I don't want to eat anything."

Faced with Yae Sakura's suggestions, Li Mo refused them all without exception.

Kallen, on the side, became more and more annoyed. She pouted and grabbed Yae Sakura's arm with her other hand.

It was as if she were saying: Don't pay attention to him, pay more attention to me.

Disinfection, applying medicine, bandaging.

Yae Sakura was very skilled, at least more skilled than him.

Li Mo stood up, stared at the cherry blossom tree outside the door with its constantly falling petals, and faced Kallen, saying, "It's getting late. You've already finished your meal. Now come back with me to rest."

Kallen: "I'm injured. I don't want to walk."

Li Mo: "I'll carry you."

Kallen: "No, I want to stay at the shrine with Sakura."

Li Mo: "...Fine. Then you stay at the shrine by yourself. I'm leaving."

With that, Li Mo stood up and walked outside. He only stepped out of the room after Yae Sakura had also stood up and walked behind him.

"Come back early, Sakura! I'll wait for you to come back before I sleep!"

Kallen shouted from the guest room. Yae Sakura paused for two seconds, nodded, and then trotted to Li Mo's side.

On the way back, Li Mo's hand hovered over his waist and then dropped.

The Bizarre pistol had no effect on the ghosts here...

No, it did, but the effect was minimal, and it was erased by something strange.

The nether fire had clearly ignited, but it suddenly went out. It was too strange.

Why was that?

Li Mo couldn't figure it out.

He had a few ideas in his mind, but none of them could be verified.

There was no time to deal with Kallen's matter. The top priority was to use Yae Sakura's special nature to find out what was strange about Yae Village at night.

According to Grandma Chiyo's words, and the withered peach orchard.

There would indeed be ghosts roaming the streets at night and going to the outsiders' houses.

Li Mo scanned his surroundings. The west-facing windows were still closed, but as they approached Grandma Chiyo's courtyard, some of the surrounding houses had their windows closed.

But the ghosts still did not appear.

Just as Li Mo thought they could arrive at the courtyard safely, a stern shout came from behind.

It was not calling him, but Yae Sakura.

"Sakura! What are you doing?"

Yae Guji suddenly appeared behind the two of them, his hands empty, wearing a gray yukata and wooden clogs, his brow furrowed.

"I..."

"Come back with me. Rin has a high fever and you're not by her side. As her older sister, you have failed in your duty," Yae Guji's tone softened.

Hearing this, Yae Sakura became a little emotional. "Rin again..."

She turned to bow to Li Mo. "I'm sorry, Mo-kun. I have to hurry back to the shrine."

Li Mo glanced at Yae Guji behind him, said nothing, nodded, and signaled that it was okay.

Then he immediately started running.

Yae Sakura didn't understand why Li Mo suddenly started running. Wasn't Grandma Chiyo's house not far ahead?

I'll apologize properly next time we meet.

Yae Sakura thought to herself, and followed Yae Guji towards the shrine.

On the other side, Li Mo used all his strength and crossed a distance of several hundred meters in three seconds to reach the door.

The reason he had to flee immediately was because Yae Guji's sudden appearance was unreasonable.

Li Mo had never relaxed his vigilance of the surrounding environment. A normal person could not have appeared without his perception.

Of course, it was also possible that the bizarre phenomenon in Yae Village had caused a loophole in his perception, but Yae Guji had no shadow under his feet...

Li Mo had specifically observed. His shadow was relatively incomplete, while Yae Sakura's shadow was very complete.

Combined with the previous various information, Yae Sakura could be temporarily identified as a living person protected by some rule. Then what reason was there for Yae Guji, who had no shadow?

"The Yae Guji at night is a ghost. It sent Yae Sakura away to make a move on me. I have to go back to a safe place to spend the night," Li Mo concluded the situation.

He reached out, and just as he was about to push open the courtyard gate, a strong sense of wrongness arose from his heart.

He looked back. There was nothing.

Yae Sakura had already disappeared from sight. Behind him was an empty street, with only the shop banners fluttering in the wind, like ghosts.

Everyone should have been resting, and the shops should have been closed.

But the outside was filled with tables and chairs, all neatly arranged.

"It wasn't like this when I came during the day. The positions haven't changed, but it wasn't as neat as now."

"I'll enter the courtyard first. The layout inside can help me avoid the bizarre phenomena of Yae Village at night. I won't rush to solve it this time. Before I understand the specific situation, my priority is to ensure that I still have a margin for error."

Li Mo gave himself an order, then raised his hand and touched the courtyard gate.

The sense of wrongness washed over him again.

Reason told him that he had to enter the courtyard immediately. He was already targeted. Every second he stayed outside, the danger of death increased.

But his intuition told him that he absolutely could not go in. It was too strange...

The true nature of Yae Village was still unclear. If he wasted his second chance...

"What exactly is wrong?"

Li Mo took out his Bizarre pistol and warily scanned his surroundings. It was dead silent.

Suddenly, Li Mo saw a blurry black silhouette on the house window. He couldn't see its face, but a pair of eyes glowing with an eerie green light were staring at him.

"I'm locked on. There's a ghost in the native's room."

Li Mo calmly described his current situation. Fortunately, the ghost did not ignore the obstacles and the height of the floor and directly charge at him, but turned and went back into the room.

Thump... thump...

Uniform footsteps sounded.

The ghost was coming downstairs.

The speed was uniform.

"Grandma Chiyo wasn't lying, but this number is not good."

"They have human habits. What are these ghosts? Are they outsiders who died in Yae Village? Or are they the natives of Yae Village?"

"What is the reason they became ghosts? Why are they hiding in the natives' houses?"

"..."

In a daze, Li Mo thought of that blade.

He glanced at the tables, chairs, and stalls set up on the street. The shops were all open, as if to welcome customers.

"No, they should have been on the street long ago. This place is about to become... a ghost market."

"I can't hesitate any longer."

Li Mo decisively took out a bizarre coin and pinched it in his palm, then quickly pushed open the courtyard gate and stepped in.

The moment he entered, Li Mo found that his field of vision had widened.

He could even see the scene behind him.

"Horizontal pupils?"

Vertical pupils were the eyes of a predator, more refined.

Horizontal pupils were the eyes of the prey, convenient for observing the surroundings and escaping in time.

"My identity has changed. I have become the prey."

"But I'm clearly in the courtyard. The layout here should logically be able to help me offset the bizarre rules..."

Before he could finish his sentence, a sheep's cry came from behind him.

Without any hesitation, he decisively threw the bizarre coin with his right hand.

Two seconds later, a sheep with a smiling face appeared out of nowhere, came to the coin, and swallowed it.

After the bizarre coin was swallowed, the sheep stopped smiling and also closed its lips, not revealing its teeth.

Bang—!

Li Mo immediately rushed forward to close the distance, then drew his Bizarre pistol and attacked. Five bullets, the highest degree of suppression.

The moment the bullets hit the sheep, eerie blue flames appeared, spread, and burned...

Before long, it was burning fiercely, and the nether fire engulfed the sheep's entire body.

If nothing unexpected happened, under the dual suppression of the bizarre coin and the Bizarre pistol, this sheep should have entered a state of silence, even if only temporarily.

As the fierce fire roasted, Li Mo shifted his attention, wanting to figure out what was wrong with the courtyard's protection mechanism.

"The peach orchard is still here, but... it looks the same as when I last came. When a ghost comes, shouldn't the peach orchard have consumed itself to stop it? Or... is this peach orchard fake?"

"Wait..."

Li Mo suddenly realized something. He turned his head sharply and looked at the threshold of the courtyard gate.

He had felt no resistance when he came in...

Impossible.

In his state of one death, he would feel a little resistance when entering. Then in his state of two deaths, it should logically be even more difficult.

But just now, he had not felt any restrictions or restraints.

"This is not Grandma Chiyo's house."

"This is..."

"Meeh-hee—"

A strange laugh made Li Mo's pupils contract. He couldn't help but widen his eyes and quickly turn to look at the sheep.

It was... imitating a human laughing?

Li Mo wanted to leave this place. There was a problem with his visual cognition. This was not Grandma Chiyo's house at all.

He had walked into a bizarre territory...

Just as Li Mo came to the door, the main door suddenly changed, becoming a boundless fence, specifically for confining livestock.

"The shepherd's sheep pen..."

Li Mo thought of the shepherd who had greeted him proactively. He had even enthusiastically invited him to visit: "Do you want to see the sheep pen? These sheep are very well-behaved."

Now it seemed that if he had agreed, he would have probably immediately walked into this dead end.

The cognitive pollution was probably also related to his conversation with the shepherd during the day.

"Tsk, there really is a problem."

"Jump over it."

In his current state, Li Mo could jump dozens of meters into the air with a little effort.

Bang!

He failed. His two feet were as if shackled with heavy chains, connected to the ground beneath him. He couldn't jump out at all.

"Destroy it."

Li Mo wanted to break the fence with one punch.

He could feel that his strength was not suppressed, but his fist stopped abruptly just as it was about to touch the fence.

"Meeh-hee—"

"Meeh-hee—"

"Hee—"

The sheep's cry behind him became closer and more bizarre. By the third cry, it had completely lost the sheep's timbre.

Li Mo turned around and saw a scene that he would never forget for the rest of his life.

The sheep was standing on its hind legs like a human, its front legs hanging naturally. Its head was bent at a ninety-degree angle, resting in front of its neck.

The nether fire that had been burning fiercely just now was gone, and this sheep showed no signs of being suppressed.

"Hel...lo..."

"Hello..."

"Hello."

The sheep greeted Li Mo proactively, its speech becoming more and more proficient.

I can't let it continue to imitate!

Li Mo had a premonition that once this sheep continued to imitate, when it could speak completely, it would be his time of death.

He raised his Bizarre pistol, wanting to shoot.

The next second, the pistol slipped and fell to the ground.

Li Mo looked down and found that his hands had turned into sheep's hooves.

Damn it...

Li Mo's body was out of control. He prostrated himself on the ground.

"Restart immediately..."

Li Mo bit his tongue with his teeth, wanting the bizarre healing rule to temporarily help him escape this situation.

The situation was very serious. That sheep was imitating him and turning into a human; while he was uncontrollably imitating the posture of a sheep, about to become one.

"Pistol..."

Li Mo struggled to extend his hooves and pawed the Bizarre pistol in front of him.

But in his perception, he had already lost his fingers and could not pull the trigger.

"Damn it..."

His words were cut short, and a strange feeling came from his throat.

An urge to bleat like a sheep appeared in his mind.

I can't...

I absolutely cannot make that sound...

Li Mo kept biting his lips to resist that instinctive urge.

Once he bleated, he could never go back.

"Hee hee, you're going to die~" The Misfortune Ghost witnessed it and was the first to come out and curse. Li Mo's consciousness instantly cleared.

But just like the disappearing nether fire, the Misfortune Ghost soon fell silent.

Only Li Mo was left, constantly reminding himself:

I am human...

I am human...

I am...

a sheep.

Li Mo no longer gnawed on his lips. He was on all fours, his head at a ninety-degree angle, facing the standing sheep in front of him.

He opened his mouth, his throat vibrating.

Just as he was about to let out that familiar cry, the world before his eyes turned a bright red.

The entire world seemed to be soaked in scarlet blood, a disgusting and terrifying pile of flesh, with strands of blood seeping out, becoming the most brilliant cherry-pink hair before his eyes.

A crimson blood color, slicing the ghost in two.

This time, Li Mo clearly saw how Crimson-Dyed Sakura "killed" the ghost.

Countless ghosts crawled out of the blade. The sheep's body was pulled and deformed by them, and finally became the nourishment for Crimson-Dyed Sakura.