Looking at Noma Nan's expression from seriousness to disregarding him, Soya understood that she did not take the hot spring monster that happened a few days ago seriously.
"Aunt Ji Zi, what should I have for dinner today?"
“…”
Kawada Kiko opened her mouth and then smiled.
"I have prepared a lot of dishes Anan likes to eat. But it's still early, so you can go to the 'Goddess Soup' to have a look."
Although it doesn't take it seriously, since it has arrived, it doesn't take much time to go to "Goddess Soup" to see it.
Thinking of this, Noma Nan stood up and then sat down again.
"Songya, you go and take a look with Kyoko."
“…”
Kyoko did not agree, and Soya did not object, but they were all here for the first time and did not know where the so-called "Goddess Soup" was.
Noma Nan took them out of the house and pointed to a path on the side of the yard.
"Along this road, we walked to the back mountain, with a huge rock at the end, and above it was the 'Goddess Soup'."
Kyoko nodded, and Soya looked at Yoshikawa who was still stunned.
"Do you want to go and have a look?"
"Uh-huh!"
Noma Nan held his arms and glanced at him.
"She will be bored if Yoshikawa stays here alone," Soya said.
"I can chat with her."
"It's not safe if you are an orphan."
"Zonggu Fangming, I think you want to run back with the car today."
Noma Nan didn't say much, nor did he stop him. Yoshikawa didn't find any other meanings in the conversation between the two, but he just felt happy and interesting.
Leaving the yard of Kawada's family, the three of them walked along the path to the back mountain with the eyes of Noma Nan and Kawada Kiko.
The path is winding and passing through the village. When you pass by several old buildings and houses, you can't see anyone. Even if there are some old white-headed women.
The left-behind elderly people are curious about three young and strange children. When they get closer, they will ask who they are.
Soya realized that Kyoko rarely went back today and changed into a witch suit that could tell her identity at a glance, so she followed her to participate in the action.
"I……"
Yoshikawa, who was asked, didn't know how to answer, so he simply grabbed Soya.
"I came with him!"
Kyoko, who was standing beside her, was still trying to explain her origin seriously to the old man in front of her.
"I was sent by the Kinki Lingjuezhe Agency..."
"What?"
"Kinki Lingjue Institution..."
"ah?"
"I……"
Zong Gu pulled her behind her, bent down slightly, and raised her voice.
"We are relatives of the Kawada family and want to go to the back mountain for a casual walk."
"oh."
The old man nodded and turned to say that it was too late and he should pay attention to safety when going up and down the mountain.
"Thank you, I get it."
Soya turned around and let go of Kyoko's wrist.
"Let's go."
She doesn't look at him.
"Um."
After passing through the village and coming to the back mountain, the path at the foot closed into a winding staircase covered with moss, winding into the forest.
While the sky was still bright, the three of them speeded up and walked up the stone steps.
Soon, they walked to the end of the stairs halfway up the mountain, before a huge rock.
There were a huge rock alone, three or four meters high, and stairs were carved on both sides. Soya asked Yoshikawa and Kyoko to wait below first and climb up by themselves.
The top of the giant rock is sunken, forming a large circular pit with a diameter of about two meters, which is only one meter deep, and there seem to be several holes at the bottom.
At this time, the pit was filled with clear water and turned into a pool. He leaned over and touched it, and the pool water was not hot at all.
"Hey, there seems to be something engraved here..."
Yoshikawa's voice came from below.
Zong Gu turned around and looked down. She approached the giant rock, stared at the inconspicuous lettering on the stone surface, and pushed her glasses.
"The legend of 'Goddess Soup'..."
It seems to be a stone carving that introduces the origin of this hot spring pool.
Kyoko also watched silently from the side.
She raised her head when she noticed the top-down gaze.
“…”
With eyes facing each other, she looked away silently and did not continue to look at the stone carvings.
Zong Gu sighed lightly, with a headache.
"What's on it?" After studying the stone carvings, Yoshikawa looked up and asked him.
“A hot spring pool.”
She was stunned, "There are really hot springs?"
"Now there is no more. Come up and take a look, pay attention to your feet."
Yoshikawa followed the steps up, and like Soya, she squatted down and tried the water temperature with her hands.
"It's cold..."
"Um."
Soya looked at Kyoko again. In order not to seem to be idle, she began to study the words on the stone carvings again.
"What is the legend?" he asked Yoshikawa.
"Are Soya interested?"
"Just ask casually."
She then began to explain to him the origin of this hot spring and even this huge rock.
It is said that in the late Southern and Northern Dynasties, a famous warrior accidentally discovered that there were several natural hot springs here, so healed his wounds here.
One day, while he was practicing martial arts in the mountains, he suddenly saw a huge rock floating in the forest.
The warrior was shocked and went over to check and found that it was a beautiful woman walking forward holding a huge rock.
When she stopped at the hillside and lowered the boulders, the whole mountain seemed to shake a few times.
Then, she used her palm to cut out a sunken on the top of the huge rock, and poked her jade finger and stabbed her hot spring.
The stunning beauty sat in the Rock Top Hot Spring, as beautiful as a goddess, and ignored the samurai below.
A few days later, the goddess floated away, while the hot springs continued to gush out of the rock top, which lasted for hundreds of years before they were exhausted.
"It is said that the goddess's handprints are left beside the hot spring pool..."
Yoshikawa looked around and pointed at the sunken hand at Soya's feet, "It should be this."
He looked down and compared it with his hands. After finding that his palm was a circle larger than the handprint, he smiled with a complicated expression.
"It's really the goddess's handprint..."
“Eh?”
The two quickly got off the top of the giant rock and supported each other.
Kyoko took a deep breath and planned to resolve the entrustment in front of her first, and then discuss the others.
"Did student Zong Gu see anything?"
"No."
Zong Gu already understood the whole story, but he could not tell the truth.
Come with the rain and leave with the rain, and it can temporarily "resurrect the "Goddess Soup" that has been exhausted for many years. The young woman seen by the villagers can only be the master of the underworld who is chasing the front line of the rainy season, Izanami.
She just passed by.
"The village is full of elderly people, probably because of rumors." Zong Gu said.
Kyoko wrote 99% of his inferences, and the remaining doubts were just because she had not yet walked through a process that was meaningless.
She reached out to touch her flat chest, and she suddenly paused and looked down again.
She was not wearing a witch uniform, but a student uniform...
“…”
Soya and Yoshikawa were also staring at her hands.
"cough."
Pressing his chest, Kyoko coughed lightly, then put down her hand, as if nothing had happened.
"Don't you have any talisman paper?"
“…”
Kyoko turned her face, her earlobes dripping with blood.
Yoshikawa hadn't seen her show this expression before, and he was stunned for a while before he remembered to ask:
"What kind of talisman paper?"
"The talisman paper that can reflect the traces of the spirits moving after burning." Zong Gu explained, "October usually comes to investigate the scene and always take a photo... but it's no longer available here. Let's go back."
The next sentence is said to Kyoko.
After a long silence, she sighed.
"Go back."
After working together for several months, she believed in Zong Gu's judgment, but she could not forgive herself for being in a state of disgrace.
When she returned to the Kawada family, Soya informed Noma Nan of the same conclusion, and she had no doubts at all.
"However, just explaining to me is not enough. Aunt Jizi needs to calm down..."
Noma Nan stood up and walked out, "Soya, come with me."
"Um."
After walking a distance, she stopped and looked back at Zong Gu.
"What's going on? Why do I feel like Kyoko is getting even lower? Did Soya say something to her?"
He was silent for a few seconds.
"Kyoko forgot to bring the magic talisman."
Faced with such a mistake that could not be more low-level, Noma Nan also fell silent.
After a while, she continued:
"Now Soya also knows that Kyoko's condition is really bad. Do you know the reason?"
"Maybe it's because of me."
"Uh-huh?"
Noma Nan looked at him.
"No, no. At least yesterday, not-Kyoko had a fight with her parents."