Chapter 35 Section five

Everyone is drinking. Qingming, Boya, Yuanzhong, and Yuanzhong's wife sat around the hearth, drinking from plain pottery glasses. Outside the hut, the noise of the storm intensified.The murmur of the Kamogawa River had turned into a rumble, coming from the depths of the darkness. Huge rocks were also washed away by the turbid current, and even the sound of rocks hitting each other in the water could be heard into the hut. Occasionally, lightning flashed across the sky, followed by thunder that could almost shake the heavens and the earth.Seimei and Boya's faces, which were faintly visible in the light of the fire, would instantly float in the darkness when the lightning flashed.

"The weather has gotten really bad," Boya said. "Shhh!" Qingming said softly. Yuan Zhong and his wife suddenly became nervous. "Here we come." Seimei said. As if to match Seimei's words, there was a low and frightening sound from outside the hut. Someone seemed to be standing outside the straw mat at the firmly blocked entrance. "Excuse me……" "Excuse me……" A thin voice came in amidst the sound of wind and rain.Yuan Zhong and his wife huddled together. "Qingming, someone is here," Boya said. "So you heard it too?"

"Ok." "Probably because of the commotion in the world, your heart is also excitedly commotion." "I'm not elated." "It's just a metaphor. Because you have ears that can hear the subtle tones of the flute and harp, it seems that your ears echo the noise of the world, so you can hear the voice outside the door." Seimei explained this, but the voices of the man and woman outside the hut continued to come in. "The great ape..." "Madam Yuanzhong..." "If you don't go quickly, you will rush away." "Rush away."

"Hurry up." "Hurry up." In line with that sound, a gust of wind shook the hut, and then there was the sound of someone peeling off the siding, and the menacing wind and rain rushed into the hut from the place where the siding was peeled off. "Oh, it's open." "Exactly the place I was talking about the other night." The voices of two people full of joy came from outside. "Tell them, get out now." Qingming instructed the trembling Apeshige couple. "Yes, yes..." Yuan Zhong nodded with a bloodless face, "Now, now, go out now." The voice was almost mournful.

"Get out now!" screamed Sarushige's wife. "Oh." "Oh." "Then come out quickly." "Then come out quickly." While listening to the voice, Qingming approached Boya and said, "You push this through the gap in the straw mat..." Qingming handed Boya the two puppets that had just been prepared. "Oh, oh..." Boya took the doll and ran to the straw mat. Two puppets were pushed out from the gap of the straw mat, and Boya took a peek outside. In a flash of lightning, the figures of the two people standing outside the straw mat were instantly suspended in the darkness.

The men and women whose whole bodies were under the heavy rain had satisfied smiles on their faces.That expression was deeply imprinted in Boya's eyes. The figures of men and women disappeared, and the two puppets in Boya's hands also disappeared at the same time as if they were taken away by someone. "It finally came out." "It finally came out." The voices of two people came from outside the straw mat. "Quick, get on the road." "Quick, get on the road." The sound was quite far away from the hut. "Bo Ya, let's start chasing him." Seimei said.

"In this storm?" "We have to see what happens to them." Qingming threw off the straw mat and ran out without a hat or coir raincoat. "Wait, wait..." Boya also ran out afterward. As soon as they got outside, they were hit by the rain, and the two of them were completely soaked. "Don't worry, we'll be back again." After Seimei gave instructions to the monkey in the hut, he walked into the storm.Behind him, Boya, a drowned chicken, followed. In the dark night, the sky and the earth rumbled. rain. wind. There was the sound of gully water in the darkness.

In the dark sky, Boya couldn't distinguish the sound of wind and rain from the sound of running water. "Qingming!" Boya shouted. "Boya, this way!" Seimei responded. Boya walked towards Seimei's voice and bumped into someone's body.It turned out to be Seimei. "Bo Ya, grab my hunting clothes and follow behind me." After Boya grabbed Seimei's hunting clothes, Seimei started walking again. It stands to reason that the two should walk on the embankment towards the lower reaches of the river, but Boya has already turned around with his head covered.

"We need to speed up." Qingming quickened his pace. The raindrops were painfully big, like being in a flood. "We're almost at the Broken Flower Bridge," Qingming said. Suddenly, Seimei stopped in her tracks. "Boya, the current is very intense..." Boya knew that Qingming was probably talking about the river water, but he couldn't see the river water. "The bridge is just around the corner." "bridge?" I couldn't see anything, only the sound of the rumbling storm and the rushing water in my ears. "Those two people are crossing the bridge." Qingming told Boya what he saw. "Then again, the current is really strong. It looks like the bridge won't be able to hold it."

"However, no matter what floods happen recently, this bridge will not be washed away." Boya shouted. "I'm afraid it can only be until tonight." Qingming cried out in a low voice, "Hey, the bridge is shaking!" "Bo Ya, the bridge is about to go away!" The sound has not stopped yet, creaking, creaking, crackling, the sound of the bridge breaking has reached Boya's ears. At this time, a flash of lightning flashed in the sky.For a few seconds, lightning illuminated the dark world. In an instant, Boya let out an "Oh" and held his breath for what he saw.

It was a strange scene.What Boya saw almost made his legs go weak.Because the Kamogawa he was familiar with had disappeared. The Kamo River that Boya is familiar with is a beautiful river that divides into several streams in the vast riverbank and flows downstream. However, the beautiful Kamogawa River has now turned into a raging and dark river. The amount of water is so large that it almost submerges the left and right embankments, and the rolling waves are taller than a person.House-sized waves, like countless sarcoids, are hitting the pier one after another. The amount of water has even increased to the bridge deck. Unable to withstand the strong water potential, the bridge has been tilted, the center has been broken, and it protrudes upwards. Moreover, on the railing near the center, two figures of a man and a woman are seen falling towards the turbid stream under the bridge. It is not known whether they jumped off by themselves or were blown down by the wind and rain. "what!" When Boya yelled, the scene had disappeared into the darkness, and then there was a rumbling thunder like falling rocks. The sound of the bridge breaking, ringing eeriely in the darkness. Soon, Boya, who was standing in the wind and rain, could no longer hear the sound. "Qingming..." Boya called out. "It's over, Boya..." Qingming said.