There are basically few pedestrians on the way to the shrine.

　　 When passing by the convenience store, Kazuma found that there was no one inside—the OPEN sign was clearly hung at the door.

　　 So Kazuma murmured: "This kind of convenience store is a chain, and no one at the front desk will be discovered by the head office to deduct money?"

　　 "The mountain is high, the emperor is far away." Yuzao said, "Maybe someone is replenishing the shelves..."

　　 "No, I was chatting at the dim sum shop opposite." Someone interrupted Tamamo.

　　 Kazuma followed the reputation and saw an uncle in a convenience store uniform, and a waiter in a snack shop uniform stood beside him.

The waiters in dim sum shops like Tokyo are usually girls in their 20s, and the uniforms are mostly cute dress designs. The uniform design here is in the same line as the Tokyo store, but the ones who wear it are fast forty. Aunt.

　　 After meeting his gaze, the uncle said, "The two came so early. Usually the peak season will take about a week before it starts."

　　 The waiter aunt smiled and said, "It may be because this year is very hot. I read the news and it has something to do with it."

　　 "El Nino, El Nino."

　　 "That's right, that's it," the aunt nodded repeatedly. "It is said on TV that the sea is getting hot. I guess the sea is too hot to get into the sea, so people on the beach can only come to the mountains to enjoy the cool."

　　 Kazuma was about to complain, the uncle spoke first: "How can the sea be so hot that it can't get into the sea? Are you kidding me? It's not "Japan Sinking"."

"There is no seawater in the sinking of Japan so hot that it can't get into the sea." Kazuma seized the opportunity to interject, "If the seawater is heated like that, the heat released by the world will become a sauna, and humans will be extinct. ."

　　 "Will human beings become extinct?" The aunt was startled.

　　 Convenience store uncle waved his hand: "No, no, yes, you two are going to the convenience store to buy things?"

　　 Kazuma shook his head, and then pointed to the torii at the foot of the shrine: "We have to go to the shrine to have a look. It is said that the boiled cream sold there works well."

　　 "The effect is very good. It is said to be made from kappa's scalp. It is very refreshing," said the uncle.

　　 Kazuma glanced at Tamamo.

　　 Tamamo: "Kappa's scalp died of bruises."

　　——You can wait for me!

While Kazuma was full of desires and desires, the uncle of the convenience store laughed: "What a funny girl, you will not be a college fellow? Look at your age, dress up... um, haha No doubt Tokyoites.

　　 "Last year we came here with a group of college students from Tokyo, looking for a mallet snake. There was a little girl in there who knew all kinds of monsters. She was simply ‘Doctor Youkai’.”

　　 The mallet snake is a creature in Japanese legend, also called the earth dragon. After the war, there were many so-called sighting reports but no evidence was found. The Japanese folk search for the mallet snake has never stopped, a bit like a Loch Ness monster.

　　 In addition, Japan likes to call people who know a lot more XX doctors. The doctors here are not degrees, but simply take the literal meaning of words: scholars of knowledge.

　　 Kazuma: "We are also college students, from Tokyo."

"Are you looking for mallet snakes too?" The uncle of the convenience store frowned. "Last year the group of college students were careless when they climbed the mountain. Two of them fell off the cliff. One died and one injured. The injured one seemed to have become a vegetable. Be careful. The mountain is not like a city. A small injury in the mountain may cause death due to delayed treatment."

　　 Kazuma exchanged a glance with Tamamo.

　　 "Can you tell me in detail?" As a future policeman, Kazuma began to ask for details.

　　 "I don't know the specifics. I worked in a convenience store and didn't participate in the search and rescue. Anyway, when I lifted it down the mountain, there was no one, and there was another one that couldn't move like a wood. The little girl, Dr. Monster, was crying."

　　 Kazuma raised eyebrows.

The aunt at the dim sum shop used her inherent skills to "talk gossip" and added a wave of information to Kazuma: "This matter was suppressed by those from the Tourism Promotion Association. It is said that a lot of compensation has been given to those college students. ."

The uncle of the convenience store frowned: "People are also doing well for everyone. If this is spread, I am afraid that no one will come to our hot springs in a few years. Without tourism income, I only rely on the income from the crops. , Going back to the bitter days of the past again."

　　 The aunt curled her lips and stopped talking.

　　 Kazuma: "Before tourism development, did you have a hard time here?"

　　 "Look at what you said, it really is the young master in the city, don't farmers always suffer?" The uncle of the convenience store laughed at himself.

　　 Kazuma: "The price of agricultural products in the city is so high, I thought..."

　　 "Shit, in order to maintain that high price, the Agricultural Association forbids us to produce too much. Whoever has a variety of products will not purchase his products, and will not help him purchase seeds and agricultural machinery..."

The uncle of the convenience store sighed, "We are too far away from Tokyo. Otherwise, you can try to drive to Tokyo to sell it on your own, and completely get rid of the agricultural cooperative. Although the selling price is low, you can sell as much as you can. You can make more if you include the gas money."

　　 Kazuma "Oh", he suddenly remembered the pumpkin that he and Qingliu had thrown while escaping.

　　According to the uncle, Qingliu’s Bai Summit helps farmers to sell melons. Is it a great thing?

　　 No wonder the melon farmer is so respectful to Qingliu.

Kazuma wanted to continue to ask about the mountaineering accident last year, but the uncle of the convenience store stood up and patted his butt: "Well, I should go back to work, too. I saw Grandma Noda walking this way. If you want to go to the shrine, hurry up, because Bozi has to take care of her sick grandmother, she will drive away from time to time."

Uncle 　　 said as he walked to the convenience store.

　　 Kazuma saw an old lady not far away pushing a wheelchair and walking toward this side, with a shopping basket on the wheelchair-she should have used the wheelchair as a trolley and crutches.

　　 This is probably Grandma Noda.

　　 The old lady watched her uncle open the door of the convenience store, and smiled: "Yamada, you are lazy again."

　　 Kazuma was about to say that Japan is really full of Yamada, so I heard the uncle's helpless sigh: "Just say I am not Yamada... Well, grandma Noda, you are still the same, right?"

　　 "Yes, I've always troubled you." The old woman pushed the wheelchair to the convenience store, pulled on the handbrake, and put most of her weight on the wheelchair.

　　 recommended, really good, it is worth to install one, after all, there are many books, complete books, and fast update!

　　The uncle of the convenience store whose surname is Yamada picked up the shopping basket in the wheelchair and went into the store.

　　 Grandma Noda turned her head to look at Kazuma and Tamamo, and smiled: "Oh, whose descendant is this?"

　　 As soon as Kazuma opened her mouth, the aunt of the dim sum shop snapped back: "They are not descendants from the town, they are college students from Tokyo."

　　 "Huh? Student? The students now grow so fast, so tall, and this girl, tsk." The old lady was speechless.

　　 Kazuma also glanced at Tamamo, her profile really makes people can't help but "tsk".

　　 "You are back for the summer vacation, right?" Grandma Noda continued to chatter, "We can catch a giant unicorn here that doesn't exist in Tokyo."

　　 It seems that the old lady is completely confused, and regards Kazuma as elementary school students returning to the country for summer vacation.

　　 This situation is quite common in Japan.

　　In the beginning, it was just the beginning of the economic boom. In order to reduce the burden on summer vacation, urban families sent their children back to their grandparents in the countryside.

　　 Later, Japanese scholars made up a legitimate reason for this behavior: let children get close to nature and receive education in nature.

　　 Later, this became a standard for education. Japanese elementary schools began to arrange various summer topics during summer vacation, allowing students to observe and record the flowers and plants they planted, or keep a diary of the insects they raised, as part of their summer homework.

　　This kind of thing has gradually become the Japanese "Yehqinghui", which directly gave birth to the "My Summer Vacation" series of games, and also influenced games such as "The Ranch Story" and "Pokemon".

　　 However, Kazuma glanced at Tamazo again, just how confused her curvy old lady is to treat her as a primary school student.

　　 At this time, the uncle of the convenience store took out a basket full of things and put it on the wheelchair: "Okay. See you next week."

　　 Grandma Noda took out a stack of odd bills and handed it to the uncle of the convenience store: "Thank you, Yamada."

　　 Uncle hesitated to speak, and finally chose not to complain about the old lady, accepting the money and finishing the business.

The old lady released the wheelchair handbrake, pushed her wheelchair around in front of the convenience store and completed a U-turn. When she was about to leave, she suddenly remembered something and turned her head to look at Kazuma: "By the way, my child, this is not Tokyo. It is dangerous at night. Yes. No matter how much you have fun, when you hear the horn of the village office, it starts to play that... it's da~ da~ da~"

　　 The old lady pieced together the melody with different levels.

　　 "From the new world." Kazuma directly states the name of the song.

"Yes, that's it. This kid is so smart!" Grandma Noda nodded repeatedly, "When you hear this, you must go home. The bad boy who doesn't go home will be taken away by the demon fox who lives in the mountains. Demon fox. I like to eat children the most."

　　 Yuzao smiled and said, "Okay, we see."

　　 "Especially the darling of a good-looking girl like you!" Grandma Noda looked at Yuzao and exclaimed, "She likes it the most!"

　　 "Don't worry, Kazuma will protect me." Tamamo said and waved to the old lady, "We have to go to the shrine, and the shrine will be closed if we don't go."

　　 "Well, go to the shrine and pay a respect, Master Gojashin will bless you." Grandma Noda waved, turned and pushed the wheelchair back along the way she came.

Kazuma watched the old lady walk away, turned around and said to Tamamo, "Let’s go to the shrine too, it seems that we must pay respect to the **** of the shrine, otherwise we will be eaten by the evil fox. ."

　　 Jinguji Yuzao pursed his lips and put on an awkward expression: "I can't eat it."

　　 "No? Youkai should often eat people, right?"

"No, it's not Elder Tang. In fact, there is a paradox in it, haven't you discovered it? Generally, according to the setting, the big demon can transform into a human for a long time, and the little monster can't maintain a human form. That means that it can be transformed into a human form It's more noble, so youkai will work hard in the direction of becoming human, don't they?

　　 "Theoretically, monsters shouldn't eat people. After all, no one-no monster will work hard to make it look like food."

　　 Kazuma thought for a while, it seems to be the reason.

　　As a human being, Kiryuu Kazuma does not want to be like a pork sausage.

　　 Those who want to come to the monsters can't expect to become their own rations.

　　 Tamazou changed the subject: "The college students who came here last year, I don’t know which university they are from."

　　 Kazuma: "Look for the mallet snake, and then there is a girl called Doctor Yokai in the group. It feels like a spiritual or monster-related hobby. It can't be a hobby hobby about ancient creatures, right?"

　　 "If it's a fellow club in the direction of paleontology, there shouldn't be Dr. Yokai in it," Tamamo said.

　　 Kazuma: "Maybe... it's a new strange talk seminar in another school?"

　　 "How come, this kind of strange research society shouldn't have a second one." Yuzao relentlessly complained about the society he was usurping.

　　 "But don't you think that what we are doing now is a bit like the beginning of a new strange story?"

Kazuma paused, scanned the empty streets, and continued: "A small town far away from the world, with peculiar folk customs, and incidents, and the mysterious old lady gave us something like a warning. , Qi is alive."

　　 Yuzao raised his eyebrows: "It seems... really."

　　 "There is also this cicada, which is very suitable to set off the atmosphere, isn't it?" Kazuma added a sentence.

　　 Tamamo was about to reply, but suddenly stopped and looked up.

　　 Kazuma also stopped, followed her gaze curiously, and saw the big horn of the village hall at the top of the telephone pole in front.

　　 "Yes, there are also Dvorak and "Renewed World", this is also particularly suitable for exaggerating the atmosphere of horror." He retracted his gaze and said.

　　 Yuzao: "No, I don't see a speaker."

　　 Kazuma looked up at the horn again, this time he finally noticed the crow standing on the wire that looked like a circle larger than the normal crow.

　　 The crow stared at Kazuma and was not afraid at all.

　　 Many crows in Tokyo are not afraid of people, but that is because Tokyo is accustomed to being crowded.

　　 And in theory, crows can act in groups like pigeons. A single crow falls on a telephone pole and stares at people like this, always giving people the feeling that it is a demon or simply a monster.

　　 So Kazuma asked: "Do you know?"

　　 "I don't know. The Yatengu I know was hit and killed by a ghost."

　　 Kazuma was shocked: "Wait, can Yatengu be killed by a ghost?"

"sure."

　　 "He should be a powerful monster? What ghost can kill the Yatengu?"

　　 "A ghost fighter of the Yoyogi Air Self-Defense Force."

　　 is that ghost! !

　　Tamazao's face showed sadness: "His last words before his death were:'The twin J79 turbojet engines are so powerful!'"

　　 That must be fierce!

　　 "‘I admit that humans are stronger, ah, I really want to try a flight at twice the speed of sound, Karma.’"

　　 Kazuma: "Wait for a while, what happened to this'Karma' in the end?"

　　 "His fart, try to use onomatopoeia to express the scene at that time." Tamamo said.

　　 Are you serious! Dead man-dead demon, hey!

　　 Kazuma was about to spit out, the crow on the top of the telephone pole made a croak, flapped its wings and flew away, flying away under the gaze of the two.

　　 A few black feathers slowly fell from the sky.

　　Kazuma caught a piece of feather and handed it to Tamamo, "Can you tell if this is an ordinary crow?"

"I can't see it." Yuzao replied, "I could see it before, but now even I, who will always be 17 years old, is 18 years old. Now even if I go for a B-ultrasound test, it looks like it's just an ordinary human being. . It's becoming more and more difficult to distinguish weirdness."

　　Kazuma pursed his mouth, brought the feather in his hand close to him, and carefully observed it.

　　 is indeed no different from ordinary feathers.

As long as Tamamo’s hair doesn’t return to her ears, she touches the hair of a beautiful girl who has been carefully treated~lightnovelpub.net~ Kazuma is about to put feathers in her pocket, Tamamo stops him: "Don't take this thing with you. Fortune-telling is useless now, but it's okay to find the location of your own personal belongings. I often fortune-tell where my glasses are thrown away."

　　 In Kazuma I looked at the glasses on the bridge of Tamamo's nose, and the look of Tamamo who couldn't find glasses so he had to divination-well, kind of cute.

　　 Yuzao Liu eyebrows frowned: "What are you smiling at? It's normal to not find glasses, especially when you are wearing them."

　　 is more and cuter?

Kazuma scratched his head. In order to maintain the image of Tamamo in his mind, he decided to change the topic: "This time, in this situation, should I ask Amao to send the knife over? Which knife is more suitable for cutting? Demon slayer?"

　　 "No need." Yuzao shook his head. "The strong man in humans has to kill the demon. A wooden sword is enough. It has always been the case. Only the weak have to rely on famous swords such as Anzuna Dokochi."

Kazuma was stunned. He felt that there were many stories hidden in Tamamo’s words. She was about to ask in detail, but she looked at her watch and urged: "It’s getting late, go to the shrine, and then go back to the hotel. Air conditioning."

　　 Kazuma realized that he was already sweating, and nodded: "Okay, hurry up, I'm almost dehydrated, I hope the shrine has water to drink."

　　 The two of them stepped forward again and walked towards the shrine.

　　 The big crow that had just flown away flew back and landed on the top of the horn, quietly looking at the backs of the two of them.