The evening skyline had a strange blood-red color.
The deserted Sasagami Elementary School stood in the afterglow of the setting sun. The large black iron gate in front of the school was locked and rattled by the noisy wind and dust.
The place no longer looks as peaceful as it was during the day, and the atmosphere of ghost stories is much stronger.
"Ah-hum-"
With a breath of Ah Hum, Tsurumi Aoi kept walking and effortlessly jumped over the front door of Sasagami Elementary School and ran towards the teaching building.
That painting was painted by Toshimichi Sugiyama.
There may be some kind of problem with that painting.
Tsurumi has sharp eyes and sharp thoughts. As a disciple of Kamiyagawa, she felt that she should have discovered and confirmed the problem with the painting earlier, instead of realizing it later.
Of course, it may not be too late now.
Tsurumi rushed into Teacher Kihara's office, rummaged through the drawer to find the pile of children's paintings, and successfully found Sugiyama Toshinichi's paintings.
This is it.
Painting about the "where" game on the playground -
Directly on the top of the drawing paper, written in unconventional handwriting, "Our Third Class, Class Two".
In the center of the picture, there are two children standing in a grid, and a group of children are surrounding the two children who are playing. All the children look very happy, although except for the two children who are playing the game,
Except for the "protagonist", everyone else is basically a stick figure, no different from a stick figure, but their mouths and eyes are represented by arcs representing smiles.
In the corner of the picture are three weasels. Depicted with thick but gloomy colors, the three weasels are all in the posture of crazy beasts, with scarlet eyes, staring at the group of children in the game.
Tsurumi's eyes narrowed and he quickly scanned the painting.
"Twenty-nine."
There are twenty-nine children in total on the screen.
Tsurumi picked up the painting and quickly left the office, heading to Teacher Kihara's class next door.
There are only twenty-eight desks in this classroom.
Tsurumi stood in the empty and dim classroom and looked again at the children's drawings in his hands.
Those twenty-nine children were smiling with satisfaction. The lines on their bodies were simple, childish, and innocent. But at this moment, they looked even weirder and weirder than the three weasels outlined in thick ink and colorful graffiti in the corner of the drawing paper.
"One more."
Toshimichi Sugiyama drew one more child.
Of course, this could just be a coincidence——
There were only twenty-eight children in Mr. Kihara's class, and Sugiyama happened to draw one more for some reason.
But what if this is not a coincidence, what if this is not a mistake in painting.
Then we have to consider who the extra child in this painting is.
"While these children were playing the 'Where' game, the Kamamaitas were hiding to scare them."
Is the person Kamaitachi wants to threaten, the children themselves, or...
Something mixed in with the child?
"Senior sister." Tsurumi walked out of the classroom holding the painting.
At this time, she returned to Kanoya of Sasagami Elementary School with her. She was standing in the corridor outside the classroom, facing the direction of the playground, her eyes closed and her small nose gently wrinkled.
Tsurumi knew that her junior sister might have made some discovery.
"Xiao Kui." A few seconds later, Lu Yewu opened his eyes again, "The smell of ghost stories here has become stronger."
"Um."
"I smell the scent of wild beasts. I smelled the scent of the lone Kamamaita in Tokyo. In the morning, I thought the smell residue here also belonged to the Kamitatsu. But... it's not like that. Now I can finally tell the difference.
——There are other smells mixed in here, and something else has been active here. Moreover, it is also a beast-type monster."
Xiaolu's discovery and Tsurui's discovery reached the same goal through different paths, and the two conclusions mutually verified each other.
There is something else in Sasagami Elementary School.
…
Tokyo.
Akimichi Nahiro ended today's club activities and was walking home with her schoolbag in hand.
"Yukino didn't come to school all day." The girl who returned home alone thought this way.
Is it because of that incident?
The weasel found in the park seemed to be a monster.
So, Yukino went to deal with matters related to weasels today, right?
Akimichi felt like he had caused trouble for his good friend again.
"well."
The girl sighed slightly.
However, Yukino is a very, very powerful spirit slayer.
"I hope everything goes well for Yukino."
While walking and thinking, the sad girl returned to the downstairs of her apartment.
Akimichi's hometown is in Aomori Prefecture, and when she goes to school in Tokyo, she lives with her brother.
Take the elevator upstairs and use the key to open the door.
"I'm back."
It was dark at home with no lights on.
My brother doesn't seem to be back yet, maybe he's working overtime again.
Akimichi was used to this. She changed her shoes at the entrance and walked towards the living room.
Bang - Bang -
There was something going on in the living room.
"Brother - ugh!"
Akimichi walked out from the corner of the entrance hall and was shocked by the sight in front of him.
The window in the living room was not closed, and the wind from the high-rise building penetrated and blew the curtains. In the center of the living room, a figure was standing stiffly, facing Akimichi sideways.
He is Akimichi's elder brother.
"Brother, are you at home? Why... don't you turn on the light?"
While Akimichi Nahiro looked at her brother, she raised her hand to the wall and tried to turn on the light.
Snap.
When the switch is pressed, the lights in the house do not turn on.
Through the light outside the window, Akimichi saw his brother holding a basketball in his hands. He put his hands on his chest and let go. The ball fell to the floor with a "bang" and bounced up again, and was caught by Akimichi's brother.
"What are you doing?"
Something is wrong.
Akimichi found his brother's expression strange.
He just stood upright like that, his expressionless face looked very pale. He let go with stiff movements and caught the ball, not caring about his sister at all.
Bang, bang.
The basketball bounced for two more rounds.
The next time he let go, Brother Akimichi opened his tightly closed lips and began to sing in a low voice.
A Temari song.
"Where are you?"
"Higo."
Bang.
"Where is Higo?"
"Kumamoto."
Bang.
Akimichi's brother was singing and shooting the basketball at the same time. When the song reached a certain ending note, he raised his feet and let the basketball pass under his body.
"Stop, brother, you scared me!"
Akimichi had experienced supernatural events after all, and she already understood that something beyond common sense must have happened to her brother.
She tried to wake her brother up, but to no avail.
She wanted to rush forward and snatch the ball from her brother's hand, but as soon as she raised her feet, a strong wind blew from the window and knocked her to the ground.
"There is a civet cat on Xianbo Mountain.
The hunter killed it with a gun.
Boil it, bake it, eat it.
Cover it with leaves."
Bang - Bang -
In the dark living room, Akimichi's brother sang, danced, sang, and danced, and the basketball in his hand was swatted faster and faster by him.
Finally, the ball was hit to the floor as fast as possible, and then jumped high again.
Akimichi didn't hear the subsequent sound of the basketball hitting the ground.
She heard a louder wind noise. The strong wind rushed into the home through the half-opened window, blowing the furniture around and smashing to the ground.
In the chaos, Akimichi could no longer see her brother. Her brother seemed to disappear like the basketball that bounced high and disappeared.
Not only Akimichi's brother, this invisible wind made Akimichi Nahiro also have no way to escape.
"嘤嘤."
Akimichi fell to the ground and felt his sleeves being pulled by a tiny force. When he looked up, he saw a pair of small round eyes.
It's that weasel.
It appeared at Akimichi's house at some unknown time, biting Akimichi's sleeve with its mouth, trying to drag her out of the wind.
The fluff on the body of the Kamaita was dancing, and the originally yellow fur had a cherry-pink sheen. There was also wind blowing out of the Kamaita's body, but the wind it could control was far less powerful than the wind blowing outside the window.
He came in so strong.
"My brother, please save my brother!"
In desperation, Akimichi Naxun turned to Kamitachi for help.
But the weasel's face was full of human-like fear, and all it could do was drag Akimichi toward the entrance.
As for Brother Akimichi, who was completely wrapped up in the wind, there was really nothing he could do.
The entrance door is getting closer and closer.
Just then——
There was a clang.
The strong security door was broken open by external force.
Akimichi Nahiro saw a figure flash past the entrance of her house.
"Prajna!"
It was a young and tall male figure, vaguely familiar. His clothes and black hair were blown by the strong wind, but he was not moved at all, exuding an indescribable and peaceful feeling.
Immediately, Qiudao saw a beautiful and cold undergarment curling up from the man's back.
Scattered and messy black lines fluttered out from the wide cuffs of the undergarment, filling the living room in an instant.
The howling wind calmed down at this moment.
The air becomes quiet.
Bang, bang bang.
Akimichi Nahiro heard the sound of the basketball bouncing on the ground.
She turned her head hard and saw her brother lying in the middle of the messy living room.
"Your brother is fine."
Akidao saw the man who broke into her house at the critical moment, holding an unsheathed sword on his waist, and stepped towards her. The slender and graceful figure with ruffles had disappeared from the other person's side.
She recognized this person.
"Are you... Yukino's brother?" The frightened girl breathed a sigh of relief.
Yukino is a very powerful spiritual exterminator.
Her brother seems to be the same way.
Although I don't know exactly what happened, I was saved.
"Well, that's right."
Kamiyakawa nodded casually.
There was a streak of brown beast hair twirling between his fingers, which was slowly turning into ashes and dissipating.
He leaned down and grabbed the sickle that was screaming and trying to escape.
Holding the weasel's armpits with both hands, he raised it in front of him and stared at it twice.
"Oh, it's still a little female weasel."
The weasel, whose fur was slightly cherry-pink, was still squeaking, swinging its limbs vigorously and struggling, but when its round eyes met Kamiyagawa's gaze, it inexplicably calmed down a little.
"Nahiro Akimichi, right? Everything is fine here. Stay at home and look after your brother. The police will come over in a while."
Kamitani didn't explain anything more to the unfortunate girl, and left with Kamitachi.
Sister Ohara was still riding a ghost motorcycle and waiting for him downstairs.
While going downstairs, Kamiya glanced at "Kaitan Monogatari".
[B-level Kaidan Feng Mata Saburo's spirit has been surrendered, and the progress of the alien visit is 97%!]
[The spiritual attachment has been retrieved - Temari's song "Where Are You".]
"Fazemata Saburo, judging from the strand of hair I just caught, the real body should be a raccoon dog... not from a foreign visit, but still coming from the spirit, so Kazamata Saburo is not actually here. The spirit descended Arakami is really
It’s rare, and the basis for the spirit’s descent is a nursery rhyme.”
"It seems that the invisible wind is attached to the invisible song."
Fuzaburo himself is naturally a monster related to the wind.
In some areas such as Kumamoto Prefecture and Fukushima Prefecture in Japan, it is worshiped as the god of wind.
It is said that in the past, in a village in Kumamoto, the villagers there would hold the Wind God Festival on June 27th every year. People would build a hut at the entrance of the village that could be blown away by a gust of wind, and let the hut be blown away by the wind.
I hope that the wind god will bypass the village when passing by.
There are also places where children in the village are organized to sing songs together when the Wind God worship is held.
Such as——
"Feng Saburo, blow elsewhere..." and the like.
Generally speaking, it is a kind of monster that needs to be appeased and is very destructive.
After understanding the true identity of the troublesome monster and combining it with the clues obtained by his apprentices in Niigata Prefecture, Kamiyagawa has roughly figured out what happened.
He looked at the little female weasel who was already at peace in his arms: "You and your companions tried to prevent Fuzaburo from visiting Niigata, right? But they were driven away by the spirit exterminators who didn't understand the situation. I guess you
When you were escaping, you were already targeted by Fuzaburo because you were weak, so it looked for people you had come into contact with."
"嘤嘤."
Kamiya didn't need to really understand what Kamamitachi was saying, he could roughly guess what it meant by understanding its emotions.
"You only realized it now? Don't be too upset, you are a good and good boy."
And my fawn is also a good boy.
You should get along well!
"Okay, I'll take you to find your companion."
Kamiyagawa turned back from Niigata and returned to Tokyo.
After the disciples finally found out about the situation at Sasagami Elementary School, they immediately called their master to report the situation.
Xiaolu felt that things in Niigata were far more complicated than expected. She originally thought she only needed to be wary of Kamaitachi, but now there was another monster hiding in the dark that hadn't yet appeared. So she made an application to her master.
, requesting that Star Bear or Golden Bear be assigned to take extra care of her friend Akimichi Nahiro until this incident is over.
Although Master said that he would not participate in the spirit removal operation this time, he still asked for help if necessary.
There is no shame in shaking people!
Kamiya naturally accepted the pitiful request from his eldest disciple on the phone.
Moreover, he himself took the ghost locomotive back to Tokyo. Anyway, the progress of the apprentices was going smoothly, so it wouldn't be much trouble for him to go back and forth.
"It's time to go back to Xiaolu and Tsurumi... Although I ordered Yatabirdi to keep an eye on that place, but now that the matter is about to end, it would be better to see with my own eyes whether those two girls have grown recently."
