The rain was pouring down on the ground, and even though it was already spring, the air in Ikebukuro was still cold. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

In the van on the side of the road, Kadoda and the others are idly waiting for dinner time, Saburo Watarusa, who is sitting in the driver's seat, is watching Ruri Saintebe's concert with headphones, while the otaku otaku duo Yumasaki Walker and Erika Kazawa, who are sitting in the back, are together flipping through a denki library and whispering from time to time.

Kyohei Kadoda, who was sitting in the passenger seat, opened the window a little, and the moist and somewhat cold air cheered him up slightly, and then lit a cigarette, and was immediately besieged by Yuma and Kazawa, who were sitting in the back seat.

"It's rare that Menda is actually smoking—hasn't it been a long time since he quit smoking?"

"It's still mint smoke, which doesn't fit the manly setting of the Menda Japanese group at all."

"Right? Mint smoke makes people feel a little girly. ”

"Hey, don't just add people to me. Also, it's best not to let Shizuo hear you, this cigarette was given to me by that guy. ”

Although there was a protest, as always, Yuma and Kazawa didn't know which street they were going to.

"Look, look, that girl is wearing a Tokiwadai uniform."

"Where, where—oh, it's perfect, the fabric looks very high-end, and the leather shoes, which seem to be handmade...... Uh-huh...... And she herself looks like she has the temperament of a lady, cos's is perfect. And where were those cat ears customized? It looks the same as the real thing. ”

"Right, right? Although Tokiwadai's school uniform is not very high-tech, this coser has worked the details! ”

"But I don't know who cos it is? Is there a cat-eared character in the Forbidden Magic? Or is it a character set in the game or on the official website? ”

"I don't know, but I think it's an original character!"

"COS of original characters? It's very unpopular. The details are awesome though! I think she must have a lot in common with us! ”

The two of them looked out the window for a while, and they kept admiring.

Kyohei Menda looked out the window in the direction of the two of them, and just saw a photographer in a brown pleated skirt in a phone booth not far from the roadside, looking from the back, the figure seems to be quite elegant, but two cat ears are piercing out of her hair, and they seem to be shaking flexibly like real cat ears, which seems to indicate the owner's impatience.

Influenced by Kazawa and Yumazaki and read a lot of light novels, "Catalogue of Forbidden Books of Magic" is one of them. And the dress on the girl's body, although there are some slight differences from the image in the illustration of "Demon Forbidden", but at a glance, it is clear that it is the school uniform of Tokiwadai.

The girl waited for a long time with the phone, but she didn't speak, and it seemed that the phone couldn't get through. Then she shrugged her shoulders a little helplessly, then looked through the glass door of the phone booth again, and then ......

Turned around and pulled out an umbrella?

Wait, where did she conjure that umbrella from? No matter how you look at it, there doesn't seem to be a place on her body, and Menda is sure that she hasn't put it in any inconspicuous place in the phone booth before, and it is completely the girl's hand that turns and an umbrella appears directly in her palm.

Magic? Magic? Distraction?

Before Menda could figure it out, the otaku duo sitting in the back seat had already pounced quickly, and when Menda got closer, the two had already surrounded the coser girl and asked about the messy radio waves, and Kazawa had even begun to manipulate each other's cat ear headdresses by taking advantage of being women. It was a girl with straight black hair, and it seemed to be the eldest lady of some family.

"Little sister, what grade is Tokiwadai? Does Mikoto Misaka know? ”

"This cat's ears are soft and feel so good! Where to buy it? By the way, you must know the last piece of the hemp, right? ”

“”

Menda, who arrived with an umbrella, could only sigh helplessly and spit out unconvincing words from his mouth.

"These two people are just overexcited, we're not bad people."

"No, that ......" The girl also seemed a little confused, but she didn't seem to be bothered by Yumasaki and Kazawa, "You are from the boy of Uejo...... Friend? Also,The phone doesn't seem to be able to get through in the school city.-I mean,It seems that the area code doesn't exist anymore.,Has anything happened to the school city lately? ”

“……”

After a moment of silence, Yuma and Kazawa erupted in a cheer of unknown significance, as if praising the coser's professionalism, and Kadoda pressed his forehead hard.

***

At the same time, Ikebukuro.

A teenager slowly walked out of the alley.

It was a thin teenager with horribly white hair and skin. His white is not the kind of white that is reminiscent of cleanliness and cleanliness, but an extremely dirty white that makes people feel uneasy at first glance, as if he has put a protective color on himself in order to reject everything around him.

"Really, it's a big job to find someone out of the huge Ikebukuro." He stomped his foot as hard as if to determine if the ground was solid, and at the same time, several stones around him jumped unnaturally. The young man's blood-red pupils scanned back and forth, and then easily put his hand in his pocket, "The other world looks no different from Japan, and I wonder if I can experience the exotic atmosphere." Really, that troublesome guy - where did he go? ”

"That's not my concern, anyway, the Governing Council doesn't give orders to [the group] as a whole, and I don't like that guy very much after all." A cold voice came from the headset, "However, if you need support, you can contact us - of course, only friendly prices." ”

"You look down on me too much, anyway, as long as you see that guy, I'm not a NO.1 who only fights and kills. And when it comes to finding someone, it's not necessarily me who goes to her, and letting her come to me is also a way. Fang Tong turned his head to look not far away, a group of delinquent teenagers were crouching together, not knowing what to say, "For example, the last news article is a good idea - well, I'm already kind of grateful that this other world is a modern society." ”

Before taking a step, he took one last look at the photo in his hand, and showed a somewhat impatient expression.

In the photo, a cat-eared girl wearing a Tokiwadai school uniform is smiling with a V.

PS: After struggling for a long time, I still use the van foursome as the starting point. I really want to die. Speaking of which, Kyohei Kadoda gave me the impression that he smoked, but I didn't actually see him smoke...... In addition, the cigarette that Shizuo Heiwajima smokes does seem to be mint cigarettes, which are generally only smoked by girls in China...... It seems that a little different abroad?

PS2: I suddenly felt that the people who had seen Persona the Headless Horsemann weren't as many ...... as I thought? In short, there is actually an official linkage between Headless Horseman Persona and Demon Forbidden, and the authors of the two works, Hippo and Narita Yoshigo, each wrote a part, describing the interaction between the two worlds, so Tsukimiyama crossed over here to fully conform to the official setting. If there are still people who don't understand, I have to say: Tsukimiyama has traveled to the world of Persona of the Headless Horseman this time.

PS3: I'm going to write this volume a little lighter...... Vacation mode on!