Chapter 20: Vignette

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"Apricot butter often brings me food, and I let me lead my wild cat friends to her house to play."

"Oh." I thought about it for a moment and thought it was a good coincidence, "Ah Yi should know a thunder beast, right?" It's the pet of the youkai Shancihuasen. ”

"Did you say Thunder Sauce? It came to the outside world with me, but it was born to fly, so it found a lot of fun places, and it said that when I learned to fly after I was successful in my cultivation, it would be able to take me to play with it. ”

A cat can't fly in the outside world, and I'd love to tell it that it's a height that I can't even hope for at the moment, but I've decided not to discourage it, and there are many magical spells or special abilities that can make people fly before they can fly freely - although it's not flexible and wastes energy.

"Do you remember how you got to the outside world?" I decided to take the opportunity to investigate the circumstances of the disappearance.

"Meow - I remember I was still sleeping when Rai-chan came to play with me that day...... And then、Hmm、I was accidentally hit in the head by Lei Sauce! When we stopped getting dizzy, we found out that we were in the legendary world! The outside world is really amazing! ”

“…… It's amazing, it's really amazing, huh...... You've been out in the world for so long and haven't you met anything special? For example, the mage of the demon catcher, the onmyoji or something. ”

"What's that? But there were a lot of people shouting, 'Two tails are so cute,' or something to get me back and raise me!" I'm a pet of Lord Jue, how can I be raised by outsiders, so at first I kept running away, and then I mixed with the outside cats, and outsiders didn't notice me. ”

What a wit, I thought to myself, "Your life is too dull in Gensokyo and the outside world...... but if you encounter such and such sad things when you first come to the outside world like me, the outside world is really terrible! Of course, I had to worry about my luck again, and my luck seemed to be polarizing, which was a sad reality.

There was nothing left to investigate in Ah Yi, so I told him, "One more thing, I want you to help me pay attention to it, if there is a suspicious person in the vicinity of this house who is eyeing Apricot or Apricot Mother, notify me in time." "I put the phone number into its head," and remember to call me with Kyoko's phone in an emergency...... That、Apricot knows you're a cat demon、Do you know you can speak? ”

"Okay...... Meow! Is there an idea for the bad guys to beat apricots? But she didn't know I could speak, but she wasn't as curious as anyone else was that I had two tails, and she didn't insist on taking me home and raising them. ”

"I don't insist on supporting you, so I take the initiative to run to other people's homes? It's ......" I couldn't think of how to describe it for a moment.

"Meow! Does Alice know Apricot too? It asked in hindsight.

"I don't know, I know her sister Masako, they may all be in trouble now, so you have to keep a low profile, pay attention to monitoring suspicious characters nearby, if the thunder beast comes back to you, remember to remind it not to be too public, otherwise it will attract monster hunters with ulterior motives, you will all be in trouble."

I have some suspicions that those two youkai torn to pieces by me are not necessarily hired by the Konoe family's organization on their own, and it is more likely that other masters, such as the mysterious man who rolls up the demon wind, threaten and control the youkai that have mixed into the life of human society and survive under his command, and then send them to some organizations to use for profit.

"Demon Hunter! It feels terrible! But I haven't found much these days. ”

"Just in case, besides, you didn't know that someone was eyeing this family before, of course you wouldn't think about it, let alone notice if there were any suspicious people nearby, anyway, remember my words, I'll deal with other things, you have to hide yourself first and don't expose yourself casually in front of strangers."

"I see! Something big must have happened, right? Alice is so amazing! It's the same as it says in black and white. ”

"Black and white say I'm amazing?" I was naturally skeptical, "It must be a ridiculous rhetoric, I'll go first, you can cultivate hard." ”

"Bye meow."

Bidding farewell to the colorful cats and the old dojo house, I have basically decided on the next itinerary.

It wasn't yet noon, so I first followed the nearby street number to find the elementary school where Apricot was located, and spent magic to stealthily circle around the school for a moment or two, as I expected, there were no suspicious characters, and I didn't sense the special aura of the monster. I don't have to worry about it for now, so I calmed down and called Masako and told her that the underworld forces probably couldn't take care of such a trivial target.

"Thank you Alice, I—whatever you're going to do for me!"

"You have to be able to do what I want you to do...... First, I'll go to an acquaintance and inquire about the situation. ”

"Well, goodbye." She obediently hung up the phone, not asking me who my so-called acquaintance was, who was obviously not a local.

On the way here, I randomly chose a pedestrian who looked like a college student, and I found out that Miss Aosaki's place of work, the monthly girl editorial office of the middle school building, was somewhere in Chiyoda Ward, and her rented apartment should not be far from Chiyoda Ward, and I could basically lock in one direction based on my vague sense of the dolls, so I would be looking for Miss Aosaki next, and maybe I could get some unexpected help from her.

The reason for thinking this way is because I suddenly recalled some of my speculations about her, which she did not explicitly say in the story, but I guessed from the clues that her grandfather may have come from some large family, and that her father and mother were very busy, perhaps busy with family businesses and other businesses, and if Miss Aosaki's family had some social influence as I had guessed, then I might be able to get some advice from her who was experienced or close relatives who were close to her close officials, and even if I couldn't, I was not worried about wasting my time.

It's a bit naïve and whimsical, but I'm going to do it, and if I don't try, I won't get anything. Unless I'm cornered, I'll try to get close to the Konoe house or the police station - hopefully the situation and my luck won't be so bad.

So I set out to find someone again, and besides, I had to be careful to keep a low profile, because if I brought danger to the person I was asking for, the guilt in my heart might overwhelm me, so I couldn't be too careful.

Two hours later, the sun crossed a dozen angles past noon, and I finally found an area of a large apartment building with intermittent spell contact.