Chapter 9: Rumors
"Wow ha-a beg," Arima was very familiar with this nobleman, "I remember that you also drank a lot of wine and didn't sleep at home?" ”
"I've slept all day. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info "Ah Qiu's tone was awkward, she was sent home by Miss Shotimaru after almost going crazy due to excessive drinking during the banquet all night plus the morning, and it seems that she still has some memories of what happened to the banquet.
"Suzu went to the backyard." I told her.
"But you left your customers in the store? As the heir to the bookstore, how can you be so reckless? ”
Ah Qiu and the daughter of the bookstore rental have a lot of opportunities to deal with each other on weekdays, and Xiao Suzu also admitted that she has a business partnership with the barnyard family, and their relationship is probably close to or even more than the level of best friends, I think so.
"Don't blame her, it's actually us who bothered Xiaoling."
"Huh? Could it be ......," Aqiu's mind spun surprisingly fast, "have you found a strange demon book?" So come and ask her to identify? ”
"That's it."
She suddenly looked worried: "Recently, there have been more demon books. ”
"You seem worried? But I don't think the Demon Book is the bad thing that others think it is. ”
"That being said," she said, finding a chair and settling down, "Miss Lovely Lisy doesn't look at things from the standpoint of ordinary villagers. ”
"Originally, as a qualified shrine maiden, I should really understand the mental state of the villagers, but even if I wanted to do that, I didn't know how to start to make my thoughts consistent with the villagers, maybe I was too lazy, right? Could it be that the Demon Book has caused any bad effects? ”
Ah Qiu smiled softly, "Compared to Reimu, Miss Alice is not irresponsible. In fact, the demon books themselves do not hurt people, they are just strange words, and if they are translated into words that everyone can understand, the content is not much different from the books that people read every day. ”
"yes, so why bother?"
"Speaking of the cause, Miss Marisa has to be involved." Ah Qiu said seriously.
"Huh? What's the matter with her? And the books she often reads aren't for ordinary villagers, right? What kind of connection does it have with the villagers? ”
"A few months ago," Aqiu recalled, slowly, "it was the time when Suzu told me that she could learn yokai writing, and one day I was returning a yokai book to Suzu and happened to be bumped into by Marisa, so she and Reimu also learned that Suzu was collecting all kinds of demon books and could read them. ”
Marisa will most likely know about some gossip as soon as she learns, and even I often get the first time about some of the information that will be published in the news.
"That's when I heard about it, and then what? Did Marisa do something bad? ”
"It's not a bad thing, she doesn't know where she heard the rumors of the Demon Book, she thinks that many Demon Books are magic weapons that seal some monsters that have been very dangerous since ancient times, although in the long history there are indeed a few magic weapons used to block or destroy enemies in the form of books, but ......"
"I see, I understand," I nodded knowingly, "generalizing is a common problem among magical apprentices. "Although I've only known from interviews with Patsy, I've almost never met a magical apprentice in the true sense of the word.
"Alice Alice, don't you also have a magic book with grimoireofalice on the cover?" Before she got completely drunk last night, she probably saw me directing Shanghai to write a new doll design idea that popped into my mind while I was drunk, so I knew that I had a book, "Can it also be used as a weapon?" ”
"That, that's, uh, it's a notebook like a scholar's note, it's the fundamental method recorded in the study of magic, and although it can be used to attack in order to ensure the safety of the notebook itself, I can't bear to use it as a weapon unless necessary, just like no one would want to transform the Large Hadron Collider into a human cannon! Not only would that outweigh the losses, but it would also be foolish. "I educate villains.
"Yes, is that so......" Arimakimaru was impressed by my momentum, and she looked at the purple witch on the side.
Patchy nodded to her for me.
Aqiu continued, "That's it, anyway, so I told Marisa not to spread rumors outside, and she solemnly promised not to mess around......"
"She wouldn't ignore Miss Aqiu's advice at all, would she? Although a little willful, Marisa is not such a disproportionate person. ”
"Well, how can I say it, it's a coincidence, when Marisa came to Suzu to ask for the novel content of the demon book, it was hard to guarantee that she wouldn't be bumped into by the villagers who borrowed the book unexpectedly, even if they had taken precautions and used the existence of the demon book as a foreign foreign book, but such a rumor spread among a few people back and forth."
"What kind?"
"'The rebellious witch of the Kiriyu family enters and exits Suzuna-an with a book that transforms into a dangerous youkai.' Rumors like this. ”
"Wow, it's excessive, it's not unthinkable."
"For now, thankfully not many people believe it, and nothing bad has ever happened, so similar rumors are limited to bedtime stories. Suzuna-an was also not attacked. ”
"Miss Barnyard Field," Patchy said suddenly, "with your profound knowledge, even if you don't have much contact with foreigners, you should have some understanding of such a group of magicians. ”
"Ah, I don't dare to say that I understand," replied Aqiu carefully, "I only know some of the accounts of others, and from my superficial opinion, in terms of the actual work I do, I think that many people can be classified as magicians." ”
"I'm not trying to test your knowledge, I want Miss Barnyard to tell me what is the attitude of Marisa's father, the master of the Kiri Rain family, towards the magician?"
Ah Qiu wiped his forehead in embarrassment, "This, this, I don't know more than others, and I have no reason to pry into other people's private ......"
"I'm sorry, but my question was too abrupt."
Aqiu doesn't know more than we do, and I believe it is, and she has no reason to relax her work and focus on a large family in the village, and what we know about Marisa and her father's relationship to the family is limited to "discord" and "running away from home".
"Patsy," I said, "do you suspect that the Marisa family is the one who spreads the rumors?" "I was careful not to use the words to point directly at Marisa's father.
"It doesn't matter, since there are no adverse consequences, and now the rumor center has temporarily left Gensokyo, as long as Miss Xiaoling pays attention, it will be fine." The witch who is as knowledgeable as the aristocratic maiden makes such a judgment.
"You're thinking too much," the villain flew up to Ah Qiu and nodded between her eyebrows, "Even a new villager like me, who has lived underground for many years, knows that people are more concerned about people and events that can bring entertainment effects, and just plausible and rootless rumors will not make people feel the panic that they were so easily raised a long time ago." ”
I couldn't agree with the villain king's opinion: "Didn't Miss Remilia make a lot of trouble, don't worry too much." There are so many demon books, they used to be too scattered, but it was only Xiao Ling's sudden burst of interest in collecting them that made the demon books appear to be more concentrated. ”
"Well, I still have to keep an eye on that reckless guy from time to time."