Web of light. Part 1. part 33

Kashi bowed in silence, and we walked on without speaking. Kashi seemed to have decided to focus on his "punishment" right now, and I was turning over in my head one thought that the Corpse Eater had suggested to me, and the longer I turned it over, the more I liked it. There are the rules of the yokai, there are the rules of the circle of exorcists, there are the rules of ordinary people. If we play by their rules with each side, we will lose one hundred percent. If according to the rules of the other side, they will be considered boundless and there will be a meat grinder without any rules. But! If we say that the special rules for the territory are universal and are not the rules of one of the groups, we can win. I acted with Ageha according to the logic of the situation, and by the standards of yokai, and by the standards of human, I was wrong. But I won because I acted from the logic of what was happening and based on my "canonical" knowledge. And who the hell is going to make me put my actions in the Procrustean bed of "it's accepted." I will act in such a way as to win! And I'll make the others! We just need to get it into the heads of our vassals and girls that we are not yokai, humans and magicians. We are citizens of Takamiya Territory, period! So, you will need to puzzle Hiroe and work with her on the civil code yourself. I'm sorry, hometown, but I'm going to have to shake up your once-sleepy world in a very specific way!

A very unkind smile settled on my face by itself.

148.

I hardly remembered the rest of the way to the saddle, overgrown with sparse fir trees and covered with a large number of cobblestones of various sizes: another rethinking of events forced me to look at so many things from a new angle that in the end, I typed the last line into my phone notebook: "enter and use the def. of wh. a reasonable being is". And here Plato's "two-legged without feathers" didn't fit at all: some people did have feathers. Damn it! I've always considered philosophy to be a kind of "relaxation zone for tired minds," and here you go: it's quite an applied field of knowledge... Okay. We've already arrived.

"They've come!" Sasa duplicated my thoughts. "Hey, Daidarabotchi, show yourself. Look! These are our new friends, and Ageha's sister told us to obey them as she did." And Daidarabotchi showed up...

Actually, after looking at the local yokai, as they say, point-blank, I began to understand a little where all sorts of spider-men and supermen came from in the modern media. And where the numerous spirits and all sorts of strange creatures came from in the anime is beyond doubt. I wonder if there's something like that in my old reality, too? Because the appearance of the spirit of the mountains was so clearly familiar that I even forgot to freeze from the grandeur of the picture. In my imagination, a sixty-meter giant slowly surfacing from a stone, with its head sunk into its body, with long arms almost reaching the ground, and with a strange pattern in the form of wide lines, painfully resembled Evangelion-01 rising on the elevator. More precisely, 00, because the color of the giant yokai was very white, and what could be considered an eye with some assumption was present in a single copy. By the way, Sasa is also a cyclops — that's such a touching friendship of brothers with a lack of eyes...

"Holy shit." came from the direction of the group of girls, it seems that even Shizuka was impressed. I chuckled, took out a laser rangefinder from my backpack and aimed a red speck at the top of yokai's head. Okay, and now to the soles of your feet. The angle, offhand... Ha! I guessed right: 63 meters, give or take a meter. I won't weigh it: if it turns out to be 1.5 kilotons, I won't even be surprised... Meanwhile, Daidarabotchi spoke... more precisely, I didn't hear anything, but a small tremor almost under my feet and the Blacksmith answering — it wasn't difficult to connect. Damn, what an unpleasant pulling sensation in my stomach! Infrasound, however. And Sasa, therefore, hears infrasounds. And Ageha, I remember, talked quite well with the giant in the manga. It seems that I need to survey my vassals for other things that they consider "common". So, write it down! And now I'll find out from Dai..The Daidor... Ugh, damn it, Dadarabotchi! I'll find out if I calculated correctly that I would be able to use this walking tower crane for work in the bay.

"Sasa, will you translate his answers for me?" I asked softly, approaching a completely happy Blacksmith, who was bragging about new clothes in front of another new listener. Da... Damn, I'm sick of it!

"Yes, of course, Amakawa-dono!" Oh! And I'm already in the report card above "little brother"?! I'm flattered, I'm flattered...

"The first question is, if I ask D... Will Daidarabotchi respond to the name "Dar", he won't mind?" A wave of elusive stone yeast: I was heard.

"He says, "I don't mind." Dar says he's bored sleeping all the time, maybe he'll play?"

"Dar, do you like to play construction kit?"

"He says, "I don't know what it is, but it sounds interesting. Will you teach me?""

"Otherwise, of course! At first..."

Phew! We barely made it in daylight. And how pleased the spirit of the mountains was! Especially when I found out that the giant can sense the magnetic field: and don't even ask me how long I took to explain to him which of his senses is a compass. Yes, and translated through a curious Blacksmith. But I was finally forgiven. When Dar, at my request, extended his broad palm to us... and he raised his arm up to its full length, and we were above the tops of the neighboring hills, almost at the edge of the low autumn clouds... and I was caught screeching in three traps from the girl's hands. And if Rinko and Hiroe were just afraid of heights (although the view didn't leave them indifferent either), then Yu... I don't even know what turned her on more: the height or the feeling of a giant doing your bidding. Mizuchi, looking around with eagle eyes, went to the center of the giant's yokai palm (yes, I'm careful and overprotective, and I don't want to check if Dar can catch me with his other hand) and hugged me from the side of my remaining free back. So we stood there, blown by an excessively fresh wind. Windbreakers didn't help at this height... and something dark, weighing heavily on as soul, blew out more and more in these gusts... Such a moment... when you realize that you are alive, and that you are just living, and not trying to catch up with the train that left yesterday... You don't make plans and you don't fight... You just feel alive...

...On the bus, Rinko settled into the seat next to me and wordlessly wrapped her arms around my left arm... And she fell asleep. And for the first time, I allowed myself to dream that one day... someday... We can all make time for ourselves to just live.