"Ah......h

How do you describe the grinning girl in front of you?

Kenya looked at the door.

Even if the weather is a little dark and the clothes are soaked by the rain, it still does not affect the bright black and white colors on the girl's clothes in front of you.

Beneath the long black and white dress and black wizard's hat, reminiscent of a maid's outfit, was the girl's long golden hair that was as bright as the sun and a long whip tied to her left ear.

Even if she is a little embarrassed at the moment, her golden pupils always reflect infinite vitality that cannot be concealed.

It's just the first time they meet, and Kenya realizes that the girl in front of him must be full of spirit and enthusiasm, and belongs to the type that will unconsciously drive the people around him - like the warm Asahi.

Thinking like this, the other party began to take the initiative to greet Kenya.

"Yo! you've woken up, the big pervert who did it to the tree!"

She tilted her head, watched her palm touch the sword on Inu's neck (her angle), her face revealed a sense of understanding, and then suddenly gave a thumbs up to Kenya with a very admiring expression.

Thumbs, super warped, super standard.

"I just woke up... No...... Is this over, boy, you really have DA☆ZE!"

…… What does it end?

"So, that's just the beginning?"

…… No, we're just cooking and waiting for you to come back.

Seeing Kenya's eyes, the face of the girl named Marisa Kiriyu suddenly turned red.

Then he turned around at a rapid pace, covered his face with his hands, and said with trembling shoulders as if he was shy.

"Wait, wait for me, is it difficult, is it...... Are you planning to be three of you together!?"

Don't think that if you cover your face, I won't be able to see your expression!

Just when Kenya felt helpless about this, it was Inugotsu's calm, steady, reliable voice that interrupted this brief farce.

"Marisa, just enough is enough. Mr. Kenya is not that type of person. 」

"Cut~ boring people. 」

As if her face had changed, the originally shy girl's expression disappeared in an instant, and she happily took off her soaked shoes and threw them into the pile of debris at the door, as if she didn't care about how to find them later.

No one else shook his wet hair, and the floor of the hall was everywhere.

When passing by Jianya, she also knocked Jianya's chest with the back of her hand, and said in a very sad and regretful, old-fashioned senior taking care of the junior.

"I thought you were a good man...... Tsk, it's a pity that you have such a good face, go back and practice for another ten years. 」

She comes from the heart.

Although I don't know what Mancai is, Jian Ya, who has a slight twitch in the corners of his eyes and a rainy face, can feel that this person said this sentence from the heart.

She's, absolutely, definitely, definitely the type who often causes trouble to others.

Marisa didn't feel anything wrong with her actions, and threw a bag of things on the table, then sat down in a chair with her feet crossed, grabbing the freshly heated bread with one hand and wiping her hair with a towel with the other.

"That's all I can get around, and if I go any deeper, it's all miasma, and I can't get in. 」

Inugotsu checked the contents of the bag and nodded.

"Thanks, that's enough for me alone. 」

After finishing speaking, he noticed Jian Ya's frowning brows, smiled embarrassedly, and said to Jian Ya.

"Mr. Kenya, let me introduce you to the official, this is Marisa, a famous magician in this forest. 」

Then, she pointed another finger at Kenya and said to Marisa.

"This is Mr. Kenya, a human from the outside world. 」

"Greasy ~ Consumed~. 」

Marisa, who was chewing on the leftover bread from the morning, puffed out her mouth full of food and said a vague word, which was considered to be a greeting.

Then, Inugotsu pointed at herself.

"I'm Inugo, from the Monster Mountain, belonging to the White Wolf Tengu clan, and I'm on the run. 」

Kenya frowned.

- On the run?

Speaking of which, after yesterday's fight, Inugotsu did introduce himself like this.

What exactly does that mean?

Sensing Kenya's puzzled gaze, Inugotsu just shook his head flatly, and then asked Marisa.

"Marisa, what's wrong with the other thing that asked you?"

"Ah, Rinnosuke's business?"

Marisa, who had simply filled her stomach and was blowing her hair with a strange octagonal object, said.

"No, it's the beginning of the month, and he seems to have gone somewhere to buy it. I asked about the harpys nearby, and they said they hadn't seen him in a few days. 」

"Then there's no way. 」

She sighed helplessly, then looked up at Kenya.

"Mr. Kenya, do you have any plans for the future? Do you want to go to the world and stay and live like this, or do you go to Hakurei's shrine maiden and return to the outside world directly?"

"Me?"

Kenya was a little hesitant, to be honest, there wasn't much difference between the two options for him. Because there is no relationship with past memories, whether it is the so-called outside world or the world, it is too strange place for him.

The most important thing is that neither of these choices is like the one he wants to make the most in his heart.

"I haven't figured it out yet......

After a moment's hesitation, he said.

"Why don't you think about it......

When Inugotsu heard this answer, he didn't seem disappointed.

"That's right, it's too early to decide. It's better to wait for the memory to recover a bit, and then it's not in a hurry...... I won't hide it anymore, but I actually have a very urgent and dangerous matter that I want to ask Mr. Kenya to do. 」

She looked at Jian Ya's eyes seriously, even if the other party had the slightest hesitation, she would give up letting the other party do it.

However, he didn't.

"Miss Tsubaki, but it doesn't hurt to say it. Whatever I can, I'll do my best. 」

Even if he didn't know what Inu Gochu wanted to do himself, he didn't hesitate and simply agreed.

There was no hesitation in the clear eyes.

"I haven't said yet...... You said yes. 」

A warm smile rose on the corner of Inu's mouth.

The tengu themselves are a group of youkai with extremely eccentric personalities that are extremely difficult for outsiders to get along with. While there is an extremely harsh social relationship between superiors and subordinates, there are independent and divided forces and groups. No matter how enthusiastic they are on the outside, they always remain arrogant and indifferent to others, especially when they grow up in this environment, they rarely make any friends from outside the mountains.

However, at this moment, Jianya's refreshing action made Inugo, who rarely goes down the mountain, have a good feeling.

Inu, who has been listening to Jianya's heartbeat since he went downstairs, can naturally clearly judge that the person in front of him is not pretending to be respectful and courteous, and his decisiveness is by no means hypocritical, but genuinely from the heart.

At this moment, she bears a lot of things on her body, and whenever she thinks back to her duties and the dozen or so lives of her subordinates in the heavy rain, the heavy pressure even makes her sometimes unable to breathe.

However, Jian Ya's etiquette and promise, which seemed a little pedantic to others, suddenly made her heart feel some warmth.

……

……

Marisa, who was eating, glanced up at Kenya's side face, and there was an inexplicable look in her eyes.

Others may not know the dangers, but Marisa does. Whether it is the beasts scurrying in the forest or the miasma that has been raging in recent days, it all reveals that the forest has not been peaceful in the past few days.

The other party is also a person who has experienced the dangers of this forest - even if he was forced by the dog to walk, Marisa once helped Kenya bandage it with his own hands.

The surface of his body—the front, the back, the arms, the countless scars and bruises—just looked at it and made it hurt.

He doesn't care, he really doesn't care.

Such a person is either a fool who is stupid to the extreme, or a fool who is incurable.

But—

Marisa bowed her head and drank the hot soup in her bowl.

Although it was only the first time they met, she did feel that the person next to her, Kenya, was indeed a little bit of an outsider who had entered into other fantasies...... It's hard to say different.

An indescribable, a difference that she appreciated.