The consignee - I recall a little bit that Edogawaichi revealed to me not long ago about his investigation of the Tokyo cult - that person seems to be a regular expatriate of the behind-the-scenes organization, the status of the organization is unknown, but it is definitely not low, from the eyewitness reports, one of his jobs is to collect valuable and rare items from contacts or cult leaders, it is likely that he is part-time in the treasure business, and the meaning of cargo transfer is secondary, I think the real purpose of the consignee is to protect the safe arrival of the goods to the treasure house of the organization behind the scenes, as for the contact, It's just an ordinary person, although he may be trusted, but the organization behind the scenes can't rest assured that all the goods will be handed over to him. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

In addition, because I have been offline for too long, I almost forgot whether I pointed out the obvious fact that the organization behind the control of the cult groups in Tokyo and the yokai mutual aid group that almost succeeded in capturing the pet of the Earth Spirit Temple, Aichi, are the same thing, and there is no need to even guess, Chiba Shinji has already revealed everything by the shock of my tiger body, and he even expects me to forgive the Golden Brother for the offense of the sword wielder, and Miss Alice, who is neither small nor generous, has magnanimously agreed to him- The premise is that the behind-the-scenes organization no longer fights Aichi's idea, but unfortunately although Chiba Shinji knows this premise, he can no longer tell his accomplices.

After all these thoughts in an instant, I forgot to think about how to explain these things to the curious Miss Maruko, and since I had already planned to conceal information about the organization behind the scenes and Edogawaichi for security reasons, it was naturally inconvenient to explain to her the correctness of my suspicions about the suspected deputy behind Hojohiko.

I decided to be vague: "The well-informed Ground Snake told me that this person is indeed a youkai, and that it has something to do with some youkai organization lurking in the shadows of Tokyo. ”

"Is there anyone like this in Tokyo?" She was surprised again, but was she surprised by the head snake or the monster official? "Miss Alice is better at navigating this complex society than I thought, and that snake character must be difficult to deal with, right? No, it's hard enough to know where such people are. ”

It seemed to be the former, and I thought to myself, "You don't seem surprised that youkai are infiltrating the human government?" ”

"This ...... When I knew that there were a group of monsters in the world mixed with human society, I thought that no matter what kind of urban monsters talked about strange things, it was not surprising, and compared to demons who have a lot of time to accumulate experience, ordinary people do not have an advantage in being managers. ”

"Miss Maruko is so relieved......"

"It's not that I'm relieved, it's that they're too far away from me." She tapped at the keyboard and said, "Even though I just said that, if Miss Alice told me that there were youkai in our editorial office, my jaw would drop." ”

I began to seriously recall the staff I had seen when I visited the Junior High School Building yesterday morning......

"No, didn't you really make a discovery? Oh, please don't tell me, or I'll be struggling with how to deal with my colleagues. ”

"Ahem, I don't dare to assure you that there are no demons among your colleagues, but since Fran-chan, who went to work with you for two days, didn't remind you, it seems that Miss Maruko doesn't have to worry about not knowing how to face her colleagues."

“……”

Fran-chan snorted cooperatively.

"Even if there are such colleagues, I think with your optimistic personality, you don't have to worry about facing the colleagues who get along with you day and night with a different attitude, you should be more concerned about what the people around you are doing, rather than where they come from."

"Miss Alice always makes sense."

"Aha, ha, I think so, too."

Fran gave me a grimace as if to mock my brazen boasting.

"But to be honest, if I think about it, there is nothing terrible about youkai," said Miss Maruko, "what is terrible is the folk tales, and the demons and monsters described in the folk tales. ”

"Huh?"

"For example, the long-haired monster, the life-seeking water ghost, the rain girl, the snow girl, the bridge girl, the bone girl, the flying head, or something......"

"Uh...... Hashihime has seen one, but it seems that there are always some discrepancies with what is said in the story, and most of the things that people are afraid of actually belong to the category of scaring themselves with false rumors. I said, "Miss Maruko can understand with a sober logical thought, if the society of ancient times was really full of strange ghosts and demons as described in folk tales, would it be possible for people to survive?" Japan should have become a hell of death without a living person. ”

"Huh...... Too extreme, right? ”

"No, it's not extreme at all, the lessons of history tell us that no matter how chaotic and dark the social environment is, there must be an order that allows people to survive and continue, and if you blindly mess with the darkness, the extinction of the ethnic group is absolutely inevitable. If the terrible ghosts, which have no possibility of communication and whose purpose is only to destroy and destroy, really exist, will people still have a chance to survive in an environment that is both against their own people and preyed upon by terrifying foreign objects? ”

"That makes sense."

"Ah、But although the folk tale is apocryphal...... there is a prototype basis after all, just take the horror monster cat car that I was popularized not long ago "I told me about the trip to the underground, the comparison and connection between the cat car in the folk tale and the flame cat group that really existed in the underground world, and the possible reason why the former gradually distorted in the legend and finally came into being, and finally concluded, "So the terrible things don't necessarily don't exist, but in fact, most of them are the products of scaring themselves." ”

"Ahem, I feel like I've gained a lot of knowledge," said Maruko, "but after all, just because the terrible things in folklore don't exist doesn't mean that there aren't terrible things in the world, is there anything real?" ”

"Yes, isn't it a monster who works for the underworld forces and uses magical spells to make survival capital?"

"......," she nodded, and shook her head again, "no, I'm talking about the kind of uncommunicable horror monsters that exist only to create panic. ”

"Hmm...... There may be a lot.,I know one of the legendary Hashihime.,But it's different from the legend that kills people who cross the bridge for the purpose of survival.,That Miss Hashihime probably fell into a strange paranoid mental state because of her practice.,It's a very dangerous monster for others.。 ”

"Is it a Gensokyo resident? Well, it seems to be scary, too, and it's a good thing that I didn't encounter it. ”

"That's true, but if you get lost in Gensokyo two days earlier, you might run into it."

“……”