Saotome Ai quickly climbed out of the window on the first floor and entered an alley next to a building.
It's damp, cramped, and dark here.
Saotome didn't stop for a moment and tried to escape from here.
She is quite familiar with the complex alley situation here. If she is lucky, she may be able to get rid of the people in the countermeasures room.
The walls of the towering buildings on both sides of the alley were dark, and the surrounding black wires were tangled in disorder on the heads and walls, making the already small space even more crowded.
Because it had rained during the day, there were still shallow puddles on the ground in the alley. The lights falling from the windows of the surrounding houses seemed dim here, only dividing the water on the ground into a state of interlaced light and dark.
"This way..."
Snap.
Saotome quickly stepped on the puddles on the road.
Not far ahead was the exit of the alley. She wanted to escape to the street outside, at least blend into the crowd first.
Just as she was about to leave the alley, Saotome's running movements suddenly stopped.
She saw a figure standing in front of her, a young man.
The man stood at the exit of the alley, feeling like he had been waiting for a long time.
Behind him were the bustling city streets, and the colorful neon lights were slightly blurred by the humid air in the alley, shrouding the tall and handsome silhouette with a strange hazy feeling.
Just by looking at this man's standing posture, you can tell that he is extremely strong!
The exit was blocked, Saotome faced forward and began to retreat.
The man at the entrance of the alley came closer step by step. The moment he entered the alley, he pulled out a bright and golden Nagatachi sword in his hand.
From the other party, Saotome felt an indescribable sense of oppression and intimidation.
She turned her head quickly.
But in the dark and damp alley, the appearance completely changed at this time.
The red mist that came from nowhere invaded the already crowded alleyway space in an instant.
The blood mist was boiling and rushing towards Saotome like a tide!
Deep in the mist, there was the sound of hard high heels stepping on the ground.
Ta,ta,ta.
Then came a cold, emotionless female voice: "Behind you."
Saotome saw a gorgeous red and black dress swaying out of the bloody mist, its fluffy skirt sweeping the floor and fluttering.
She heard the sound of the blade rubbing against the ground, the ethereal and childish sound of children's songs. She also heard an ethereal sound similar to the swaying and clanking of bells on the strings in a shrine.
What is blocking the retreat now is another extremely terrifying existence.
Just seeing the red and black dress swaying in the mist made Saotome feel a chill down her spine.
But I don’t know why, but besides fear, the other person’s intuitive feeling seems to have a strange and different kind of sacred feeling.
Saotome Ai was a little at a loss for a while.
At this time, the children's songs in the red mist became a little clearer.
Saotome heard the sounds of children playing, the bustling sounds of clapping, laughing and running.
From the narrow alley, in the boiling red mist, two children who looked like humanoid dolls rushed out laughing and jumping.
No, more than two!
There are also similar illusory silhouettes of children crawling on the walls on both sides.
"Hehe!" "Haha!"
They screamed and laughed, with ferocious expressions on their delicate and immature faces. In a weird and twisted posture, they crawled towards Saotome Ai quickly on their hands and feet!
At this time, Saotome finally stopped being distracted.
She made the most correct choice in the current situation——
He raised his hands high and shouted: "Stop! I surrender!"
…
The blood mist dissipated quickly.
The gorgeous dress swaying in the mist and those terrifying humanoid dolls also disappeared.
The alley returned to its original dark and crowded appearance.
At this time, Kamiyagawa was already holding Doji Kiri and walked to Saotome Ai's side.
It was not difficult for Kamiya to find Saotome's location.
After all, not long ago, she had just visited Nagaoka Kazuhiko's company and performed a spell there.
There is still a very faint aura of Saotome left in that company.
It is indeed difficult for other spirit-killing masters to detect this almost non-existent aura, but Kamiyagawa, who can skillfully use "Yun Yao", has superior perception ability.
And even if he couldn't sense it, he still had an extremely competent little old scout with excellent tracking ability.
"Oh? Is it you?"
After approaching Saotome, Kamiyagawa made a sound of slight surprise and smoothly cut the boy back into the scabbard.
In fact, when he stopped at the alley, he had already noticed it from a long distance away——
The young woman I found tonight looks a little familiar.
Now he recalled where this familiarity came from.
About two years ago, when Kamiyagawa went to the modern Betsuzi Mountain to "recruit" Shikijiro and returned to work in the Aokigahara mine of Tokai, he met Saotome Ai.
At that time, Saotome introduced herself as a spiritual exorcist with a house-traditional technique.
Moreover, she later used a gentle "talking retreat" method to end the ghostly "Headless Horseman" who wandered around Tongzi Mountain and became obsessed with becoming a Buddha.
It was because of this that Sister Obara in the hearse group obtained the ghostly relic of the Headless Horseman and unlocked the "motorcycle form".
"Ha, haha... isn't this Senior Kamiya? Long time no see."
Saotome Ai also recognized Kamiyagawa, whom she had met before, but her expression was slightly awkward.
But, okay...
Although he was caught, it turned out that it was someone from the countermeasures room who came.
That means nothing will happen to me...should.
"Did you take Nagaoka Kazuhiko and Aoyagi Junichi away?"
"right."
"Then the information related to Qingliu was also given to the countermeasures room by you?"
"right."
Considering that neither of the two things she did was bad, and she could even be proud of saying it, Ms. Saotome puffed up her chest. Doing so would prevent her from appearing so timid when facing Kamiyagawa.
Kamiya looked Saotome up and down, and continued to ask: "So in the previous incident with Taira Shomon, were you the one who helped the countermeasures room behind the scenes?"
"That's right."
Saotome Ai still nodded, and her expression didn't change much.
But she is lying.
The first two questions were fine, but she lied about this one.
Kamiyagawa can see this through her inner mood swings.
No one can deceive the master of the world who can see emotions.
"It was not Saotome Ai who was behind the Taira Shomon incident. There was someone or some existence behind her that was related to this series of events. The only thing she didn't want to say was that the identity of that person might be somewhat special.
."
Kamiya made this judgment in his mind, but did not immediately pursue the issue further.
To be continued...