The investigation into the hot spring monster ends with the field investigation of the three people of Soya and his unilateral inference.
Although Kawada Kiko said that not only the elderly in the village, she also met the young and beautiful woman with a mysterious temperament, she accepted this statement after Soya suggested that the other party might just be a passing college student backpacker.
"Are you backpackers?... There have been many such people here over the years. They came suddenly and disappeared suddenly. The only thing that is worth remembering in this village is hot springs."
Kawada Kiko pondered, thinking about how to make the elderly in the village understand and accept the truth of the strange story.
"As for the sudden resurrection of the 'Goddess Soup', I think it should be because the rainfall in the past few days has affected the groundwater level..."
As he spoke, Zong Gu believed it himself and knocked on the palm of his hand.
“Yes, that’s it.”
Noma Nan glanced at him.
"It makes sense."
Kawada Kiko nodded with a smile and said, "Anan and Soyao will stay here tonight, soak in the hot springs in the village, and go back tomorrow morning."
"Ah, no..." Noma Nan waved his hand, "You can take a hot spring bath, but you can't stay overnight. If you don't go home at night, the families of these children will worry, and more importantly, I can't get up in the morning."
Kawada Kiko also understood her niece's laziness, so she didn't force her.
"Then let's have breakfast... I'll go and say hello to Xiaoshan's house first."
In the deep mountains and forests, the ingredients are basically sourced by home-grown fruits and vegetables, and you can't prepare any particularly hearty dinners. However, the housewife Kawada Hiko has been deeply engaged in cooking for decades and has used simple ingredients to cook the flavor.
Very good cuisine, which made several people praise it.
At the dining table, Soya and Yoshikawa sat on the side, opposite Noma Nan and Kyoko.
"It tastes really good," Yoshikawa said.
"yes."
The delicious food was ahead, and Noma Nan was still a little regretful, "If I hadn't sent you guys back, I really wanted to have two drinks..."
I can't drink alcohol when driving, so the drinks are fine. Zong Gu got up and filled her with it.
"The car parked at the intersection, is it okay?"
"Instead of worrying about the car, Zonggu would rather worry about meeting bears and wild boars on the way past."
"...Is there any?" Soya and Yoshikawa were both stunned for a moment.
For spiritualists, ferocious wild animals are much more terrifying than monsters.
"It's not surprising to meet this kind of deep mountains and old forests."
Noma Nan picked up the drink and drank it all in one go. "I remember when I was a child, I met him a few times."
"It doesn't matter." Kawada Yoshiko smiled, "When using the flashlight, the bears and wild boars will not approach them easily when they see the light."
"No...this isn't a 'nothing' thing."
Yoshikawa shrank toward Soya, "It feels even more terrible."
He chewed wild vegetables, "I run quite fast."
She looked up at him, "Do you want to leave me alone and run away?"
"I heard that if you pretend to be dead, the bear won't... hurt."
Yoshikawa truncated his arm for a while before he let go.
"If I really meet a bear, I won't let it go."
"Then let's turn into bear's dung together..."
"Don't say this when you're having a meal!"
Holding up the drink cup, Noma Nan watched the two of them quietly, then glanced at Kyoko who was eating wild vegetables next to her, and sighed secretly.
It's really impossible to withstand the comparison...
......
Dinner was eaten early and ended early.
The few people rested for a while, and then took them from Noma Nan to the hot spring hotel.
Kawada Yoshiko had already said hello in advance, and Xiaoyama's family, which runs a hot spring hotel, was ready and warmly welcomed several people from afar.
"Auntie Xiaoshan, long time no see."
"Long time no see...I said, Anan, isn't that really a goddess? I also saw it with my own eyes..."
Noma Nan was caught by the old aunt of Xiaoshan’s family and chatted, so he asked the three students to go to the hot spring first.
Including Uenoma Minami, there are only four people. The hotel is not open to the public bath that is very troublesome to clean, but instead let them use the private pool in the hotel room.
The small hot spring pool decorated in style that was popular at the end of the century was about two meters square enough to accommodate four people - of course, there were many hotel rooms, and there was no need to soak together, and no one except Noma Nan would agree to a mixed bath.
The hot spring pool is set on the balcony of the room. The window next to it faces the enclosed courtyard outside. The view is pretty good, and the windows can also be closed.
Taking off his clothes, Zong Gu tried the water temperature and slowly sat in the pool.
“It feels so comfortable…”
He sighed with pleasure, put his hands on the edge of the pool, facing the window, looking at the hazy night outside.
The courtyard wall is tall, the courtyard is deep and secluded. Without the reflection of city lights, the sky in the countryside is dim and dark, like overturned ink.
A crescent moon is not very bright, and it is still hidden among the flowing clouds, appearing and disappearing from time to time.
After a while, in the ultimate tranquility of the countryside at night, a swaying sound of water waves came.
Zong Gu's eyes turned and looked at the wall, the sound came from the room next to him.
He just picked a room casually, but didn't pay attention to Kyoko and Yoshikawa's respective choices, and he guessed casually: "Yoshikawa?"
“…”
No response is also a response.
"No...Kyoko."
"……Um."
The two balconies were closely adjacent, only separated by a wall, while the windows were still open, and the sound was clearly conveyed. After saying hello, both of them fell silent.
[…Kyoko had a fight with her parents. Although she didn’t know the specific reason, her condition was so sluggish today, it must be related to this matter.”]
Noma Nan knew very little about this, but he heard from the other witches who had witnessed some passing by, and was very uncertain in all aspects.
["By the way...Mai also said that she heard Mr. Sugawara shouting in an angry tone, 'Don't involve Tamako too'. Soya feels, what are they talking about?"]
Where can Zonggu know?
And this is the family affairs of the Sugawara family. Whether it is comforting or persuasion, Kyoko doesn't mention it himself, and he doesn't know how to speak.
——At least you can’t go straight to the point.
“The hot springs here are really nice.”
“Yeah…is not bad.”
“…”
“…”
The conversation was interrupted again.
With his back against the smooth pool wall, Zong Gu sat down a little more and closed his eyes. The scorching spring water flooded his chest, a little stuffy, but it was comfortable to be hot.
The hot springs are so pleasant, maybe now is not a good time to talk.
He thought about this and planned to find an opportunity to chat with Kyoko after taking the hot spring, but she took the initiative to speak.
"I heard from Miss Noma that Soya got drunk yesterday... I didn't come to school this morning."
“…”
Zong Gu opened his eyes and answered the words helplessly.
"Yes. I accidentally got drunk."
"According to this...Song Gu is not old enough to drink."
"Of course. This is the result of various accidental combinations. In the end, I got drunk and didn't wake up until after 10 o'clock this morning."
"Yeah."
There was silence over there again.
Seeing that the conversation was about to stop again, Zong Gu sat upright and asked in front of the night sky outside the window:
"Where is Kyoko, what did you do yesterday?"
“…”
Kyoko leaned against the pond, raised her hand and stroked a few strands of hanging hair behind her ears. A handful of hot springs scooped up by her other hand leaked from her fingers.
"Student Zong Gu should know that Miss Huai and the others designed a sunny doll Yushou."
"I know."
In order to hear it more clearly, Zong Gu moved to the other side and leaned against the window.
"Yuyuki was called to help sell Yushou."
After being drunk all night, he didn't know if Yue Du came back last night.
"Yes. Because of the help of Lord Yuedu, the Sunny Doll Mitsumasaki sold very well."
Kyoko looked up at the dark sky.
"The more than 200 sunny dolls made in the spare time of rainy days were sold out in just one day, but there were still many worshipers who came here for the sake of the rainy days. So yesterday, everyone was in the social service whenever they had time.
The institute helps to create a new guard.”
Zong Gu understood that she would not make things happen out of nothing and would tell some lies that could be broken at once, but selectively concealing some of the things that had happened was not considered a lie.
"Is it just that?"
Kyoko pursed her lips.
He knew something.
"Also... I had a little argument with my father."
Finally getting to the point, Sonoya couldn't help but raise his voice, "Why?"
“——Songya?”
Yoshikawa's voice suddenly came from the other side, accompanied by the movement of opening the window.
"I just heard a vague sound... Are you talking?"
“…it’s me.”
Zong Gu responded.
Until he left the hot spring, Kyoko on the other side did not say a word.