"Back to the point, whether it's the outside world or Gensokyo, today is an ordinary weekend, so Miss Aozaki didn't travel through time, ah, it's a cold joke, please don't mind. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoNothing else worth noting other than going out and throwing away garbage bags? ”

"If you have to find a different situation, there seem to be a lot fewer wild cats near the recycling station," Miss Maruko Aozaki narrowed her eyes and tried to recall, "but the mobility of stray animals in that area is quite large, and sometimes when you go to work in the morning, you will find that many foreign cats have occupied the area near the recycling station and the lawn of the community, but sometimes you can't see a cat for a few days." ”

Speaking of cats, it naturally reminds me of the flame cat Ah Yi who was taken out of the purple pit, but the fluctuations in the flow of wild cats in a small area do not indicate whether the flame cat is active nearby, and there is more than one stray animal, "What about dogs?" I asked.

"It's the cat party for the time being!" Miss Aozaki propped up the table and said seriously, "Well, so, I don't usually pay much attention to the movements of wild dogs, but if you dig a little bit into the impression of this morning, you can still conclude that the number of wild dogs has also dropped a lot." ”

"Wild cats and dogs are a lot less than usual?" I thought for a moment and said, "Maybe it will be a clue, but I can't figure it out for a while, maybe the stray animals have just found a new place to feed in large quantities." ”

"So this situation is quite normal, and it has nothing to do with my sudden arrival in the forest, right?"

"Is there anything else you can recall other than the daily movement of the animals?"

There was another period of silent contemplation, but the result was not gratifying, "It's the same in the morning, in advance to last night, it's only a few hours away from now, I don't think the memory will be so easy to lose, I've tried hard to remember, but I'm sure I haven't encountered anything special or anything other than my daily activities." ”

Ah...... "A once-in-a-hundred-year -- in my case -- the investigation of the lost is so easily found in an embarrassing situation where there is nowhere to be done.

"Alice, don't you think there's a problem with the direction of attention?" Miss Witch interjected.

"Huh?"

"In many cases, what happens in a moment is not necessarily entirely related to the environment in which we live." Patchy said something that sounded ambiguous.

“？”

"How do I feel like you've gotten so dull after a morning? Did the Honju Kosuzu case and the joint signature make you use up today's intelligence point stock, no, the guy who signed a big name will also lose intelligence points has no intelligence points at all," she criticized unceremoniously, and before I could refute two sentences, she continued, "For example, one day, Yasuo was beaten, and the reason may be that someone passing by decided to beat him up temporarily, or it may be that he was too disgusted by his classmates in the past days and was finally beaten on this day, and if you want to find a reason, the latter is obviously more convincing." ”

Yasuo is so unlucky! The guys passing by are so strange and boring! Students are so planned! I almost complained. Speaking of which, if the reason is the former, it is just a small probability episode that makes no sense, and if it is the latter, the classmates have to swallow their anger and plan to beat him up, which seems to show that Yasuo is a very powerful guy in every sense of the word.

"And this morning's Suzu case, if it weren't for the fact that she had a bit of a criminal record, and almost all of them were revealed to us by Marisa, can you immediately associate a criminal plan with a well-behaved girl? If she is an Anfen girl who never makes strange incidents, of course she will not be suspected by you all at once and maliciously speculate on the truth. ”

"The truth of malicious speculation has a rich sense of irony no matter how you think about it...... I understand, I understand," I quickly stopped her from talking, "It's an easy truth to see, it's too high-end to be said in such a high-end way by the witch lady's example, it's worthy of being a nobleman in magic." After teasing, I continued, "You mean that the lost people of Gensokyo may have gone to Gensokyo not only because of a coincidence at the time, but also because they may have done regular things in the past or met some regular people who led to the consequence of crossing, right?" ”

"Basically." She nodded in satisfaction, and did not continue to sarcastically mock my sluggishness, not because I had not thought of it, but because the lost had nothing to do with each other, at least on the surface, and could hardly find a regular commonality.

"But!" I said, "Since ancient times, ah, no, let's just count it from a hundred years ago, you can't find a specific pattern from the outside world to Gensokyo, although there are more lush vegetation areas such as the Tsukasa Magic Forest and the Bamboo Forest, but any place in Gensokyo can have an inflow of the outside world, so it can only be said that the multiple locations are more attractive." ”

"And what about the lost themselves."

"If there were common characteristics among the lost, the rumors would have spread long ago, and they wouldn't have waited until today," I thought about it again, "Ah, if you have to find common ground, a large part of the lost people in the outside world are Japanese, but Gensokyo was originally built somewhere on the island of Japan, and even if the capture range of the purple barrier covers the whole world, it is not strange that most of the lost people come from closer places." ”

"Well," Miss Aogasaki said cautiously, "I almost didn't understand what the two were saying, but if I had to look for the unusual encounter I had earlier this morning, I might be able to recall something." ”

"Oh! That's it.,I just had a daily bar with the purple witch.,It's all about not much nutrition.,I hope Miss Aogasaki won't be surprised.。 ”

"Oh no, I can see that the two of them are quite close and not surprising, that, the witch is?"

Although this is true, where does she see intimacy? I said, "Don't look at her as thin as a purple bean sprout, this librarian is actually a great magician with a lot of knowledge and deep thinking." ”

“？”

"If you don't understand, don't delve into it, there are too many strange people in Gensokyo, and female magicians are referred to as witches, in short, it is a very complicated profession, and I can't explain it clearly for a while."

"Oh......"

"Hmph." It was Patsy's grunt of discontentment.

"Miss Aozaki, if you have encountered something unusual in the past, please feel free to tell me, we are both relatively idle, and it is good to listen to gossip."

"Eh, I did mention it to my colleagues as a gossip, and even the gossip people thought I was hallucinating from overwork."

"We deal with illusions a lot, so don't worry, we can't tell the difference." I told her in a big way.

"In that case, I'll tell you about the strange thing I encountered a few weeks ago."

The witch and shrine maiden took a posture of listening attentively.

"Here's the thing," she began to recount, in a peculiar tone that no one else could imitate, exuding a sense of mystery and liveliness, "and it was late one night a few weeks ago, and I was walking down an alley, which was a short way to the apartment, and the moonlight could see half of the alley, and some of the telephone poles saw owls with shiny eyes......"