After the car started, the driver used a megaphone to say to the whole car, "Hello passengers, because my usual partner tour guide didn't come this time, so I can only give you a brief introduction to the road, and then we will leave Tokyo along the 'sightseeing route'......"

Kazuma: "Is there any difference between this sightseeing route from Tokyo and the regular course?" ”

"The difference is that the sightseeing route takes a long detour, and you can see Mt. Fuji." The driver said simply and bluntly.

Next, he briefly introduced the scenery that could be seen along the way, and then put down the microphone and concentrated on driving.

Mikako stood up from the top of the back, leaned on the top of Wama's back, and said, "What about Mt. Fuji, did you dream of a mountain, an eagle and an eggplant this New Year?" ”

He Ma turned his head to look at her: "Miss, it's July now, do you remember the dream you had six months ago?" ”

"If it's a very important dream, of course I'll remember it, probably." Mikako said as she clicked and ate the pear, "Oh, this pear is good." ”

From the back seat came the voice of the middle school lady Xiao Budian: "Of course, this is the pear I got from the best pear farmer in the village." ”

"This isn't your pear?" And the horse exclaimed.

"My family has horses, but my father can eat well in the village and town, and it's normal to take something from other families."

He Ma frowned, and he didn't know why the impression of Sister Gan's family in his mind had become a village tyrant who started raising bamboo rats.

He looked down at the tomatoes, and felt that the appearance was okay, and the father of Ganzhong grabbed it, and it was not good not to eat it, right, so he took a bite with the horse.

The sweet and sour juice fills Wama's mouth at once, and to be honest, the taste is really good.

Mikako reached out and grabbed Kazuma's hand by neck, pulled the tomato in front of her, and took a bite of the tomato.

"Oh, yes, come and try this pear with the horse."

Before Mikako could finish speaking, she put the pear into Kazuma's mouth.

Kazuma was forced to take a bite and was chewing it, when Honami handed over a biscuit across the aisle: "Do you want to eat it?" Imported from Italy. ”

For Italian food, Wama still has a good impression, so I swallowed the pear and took a bite of it.

He deliberately bit a little further, and his teeth touched the smooth fingertips.

Honami feigned anger and patted him on the head.

He Ma Zizi turned his head to look at Tamamo, thinking that she would feed herself something, but found that she had already taken out the book and opened it.

"Won't you get motion sickness when you're reading in the car?" He couldn't help but ask.

"No, it won't." Tamamo said lightly, "After all, I used to sit on horseback and read, and that one shook even more." ”

Mikako: "The Jinguji family also raises horses?" ”

"Yes, we used to make some Chinese cakes, such as water chestnut cakes or something, so we would raise our own horses in order to get fresh horseshoe."

Mikako glared at Tamamo with a serious face: "You...... You're definitely bluffing me! ”

"She is." And the horse said.

Tamamo smiled.

Mikako was about to say something when she suddenly heard the sound of a guitar coming from behind the car and looked back.

Kazuma also turned back, but his view was blocked by a huge part, and he could only turn his head to the side to bypass the obstruction to see the end of the carriage, Haruu holding the guitar and plucking the strings.

She sang it as a light song.

It is a song that is very suitable for children's spring outing.

This song has never been heard by the horse, but it is obviously a popular folk song or children's song in Japan, and everyone in the car sang along with Haruru.

Just like this, he and Ma and his party ate hot pot - no, there is no hot pot, eating fruit and singing songs, galloping on the road out of Tokyo.

Not long after crossing the Kanagawa boundary, the driver announced on a megaphone, "You can see Mt. Fuji!" ”

In fact, at this time, everyone has already seen Mt. Fuji, which is considered the symbol of Japan.

Kazuma's earliest impression of Mt. Fuji was an imported Japanese movie he watched when he was a child, in which the villain yelled at his subordinates: "If you fail, you will go to the crater of Mount Fuji and jump down!" ”

So for a long time, Wama's impression of Mt. Fuji was that of "a place where villains failed to deal with their subordinates", and the mountain pass was full of the corpses of villains.

Later, the number of Japanese movies and dramas he watched gradually increased, which reversed this impression.

To be honest, Mt. Fuji is still quite beautiful as a view, but Wama is not Japanese, so there is no cultural bonus at all, so I think it is a "good view".

He Ma went to Tibet once in his life and saw Mount Everest from afar, which had a humanistic bonus for him.

Unlike Kazuma, Mikako, as a Japanese, obviously sees Mt. Fuji as a humanistic bonus, and she exclaims, "It's awesome, I feel like my mind has suddenly become broader." ”

He Ma glanced at her and poked his finger: "Haven't you always been broad-minded?" ”

"It's not this broad! It's inside, it's inside! ”

"What, your ribcage is over-dilated? That's a disease, right? ”

"Hema, you're always so puzzled, and the amorous score is very serious." Mikako said.

At this time, Haruru changed the song: "隠しきれない移り香が (the lingering fragrance that can't be hidden)......"

Hema complained to her from afar: "Qingliu, this is Mount Fuji, not Mount Amagi!" Why are you singing "Over Amagi Mountain"? ”

"It's all mountains! Why don't I sing you the theme song of Japan's sunken? ”

"Why, what's the connection?"

"Didn't Mt. Fuji erupt when Japan sank?"

He Ma was stunned, he didn't expect to be able to get in touch like this.

As we laughed, the bus drifted away from Mt. Fuji and through the countryside.

By this time, they had left the Tokyo metropolitan area, and the surrounding scenery was visibly "rural".

He vaguely remembers that in his previous life, he came to Japan after 2010, and the countryside around Tokyo seemed to be similar to this.

At that time, the tour guide he hired once said: In Japan, outside the city, time seems to have stopped.

You can deeply feel the separation between urban and rural areas in Japan.

At this time, Tamamo, who had been reading a book, suddenly raised her head and looked out the window.

Kazuma also looked in the same direction curiously, but didn't see anything.

"What's wrong?" And the horse asked.

Considering Tamamo's identity, Kazuma always felt that she had just felt something.

Tamamo: "It's nothing, just to give your eyes a break." ”

Mikako: "Scare me, I thought you suddenly saw some wandering ghosts on the road, Minister of the Paranormal Department." ”

"Former Minister of the Paranormal Department," Tamamo corrected, "now the vice president of the New Strange Tales Research Association." ”

He Ma raised his eyebrows: "I've been lying in the hospital for a few days, and you've been promoted?" Could it be that Sister Gan has been hollowed out, right? ”

"It's too much, I wouldn't do that kind of thing." Yuzao glanced at Kazuma complainingly, "It's because Senior Sister Gan didn't do anything in the first place, so I took responsibility." ”

He Ma and Mikako said in unison: "It's still empty!" ”

Honami looked through the aisle and bit her lip, looking like she wanted to join the conversation, but the aisle blocked her.

At this time, Gan Zhongmei came up from behind with a piece of corn: "What are you talking about?" Talking about new weirdness? ”

Tamamo: "yes, we're talking about something new. The hot spring town we are going to this time seems to be a place with a lot of folklore. Senior Sister Gan should take good materials and strive to publish herself in the journal of this year's New Strange Tales Research Association. ”

Gan Meiyu frowned: "Hmm...... New Strange Talk Research Society, do you have to write your own New Strange Talk? Can't you just read it? ”

"But Senior Sister Gan didn't write much after reading." Tamamo said.

"This ...... There's no rule that you have to write your impressions after reading, right? ”

"The student council is considering taking back the activity room of the New Strange Tale Research Society, and many of the newly formed clubs are still waiting to use the activity room. If the current president of the New Strange Talk Research Association has not published a single article, it is natural that he will be questioned whether he is doing club activities properly. Tamamo came up with the right argument.

Gan Meiyu frowned and sighed: "Okay, I'll try my best this time." Really, I'm going to be threatened with taking back the activity room, which is obviously the reason why our OBs don't give up......"

OB, which is an abbreviation for old boy, generally refers to the graduates of the school. Alumni relationships are highly valued in Japan, especially at universities, and alumni relationships are a very important interpersonal bond in the workplace after graduation.

Graduates also theoretically often go back to school to see their juniors and strengthen this connection.

Many of the graduates of the New Strange Talk Research Society don't seem to be going back to school much after graduation.

At this time, the car suddenly shook sharply, and Sister Gan was almost shaken down, but fortunately she temporarily grabbed Kazuma's shoulder.

She pulled the armrests of the horse seat apart and unfolded it into a small chair and sat down.

This time the chair didn't make any noise.

Kama and Mikako thought of something at the same time, and looked at Honami together.

Honami looked out the window at the scenery and looked like she didn't notice what was happening around her, but her reddish ears betrayed her.

Mikako: "Ah, when I get to the hot spring town, I'll take a sauna first, I can lose weight." ”

Hema: "I'll also steam one, I can lose weight." ”

Gan Mei Mei Yu looked at Kazuma and then at Mikako, with a puzzled expression: "Why did you suddenly start talking about weight loss, who is fat?" ”

And the horse shrugged.

As if deliberately diverting the topic, Tamamo suddenly said, "Ah, there's a shrine." ”

Kazuma turned his head to look out the window, and sure enough, he saw a hidden mountain road leading to the depths of the mountain forest, and several torii gates were erected on the road, and the first torii gate was tied with a rope between the two pillars, and the seal of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, and Culture was hung.

"An abandoned shrine?"

"Yes, if the last generation of gods dies, or if the gods move out of the shrine and live in a more modern metropolitan area, that's the case."

"That's ......"

"There are quite a few cases of the decline of religious corporations. It's modernized. Tamamo said.

Gan Mei Mei Yu asked very strangely: "Why do you feel like an old woman when you talk about this topic in Jingu Temple?" When I was first admitted to university, my family sent me to Tokyo, and my grandmother was in this posture, and she sighed at everything. Seeing the old wooden apartment building on the Kanda River, her old man also said: This is not good, B29 is a little bit here, and I have to rent a reinforced concrete apartment. ”

Kazuma thought to himself, so you rented an apartment managed by the old lover of Senator Asakura, which is indeed a rare quasi-high-end apartment among the old low-rent apartments near the Kanda River.

Mikako smiled and said, "Sister Gan, this time you can go home and tell your grandma that Americans don't need B29 anymore!" Now they're using the B52! And their weapons are no longer the burning wood of World War II, they have been replaced with napalm, and they are the same as reinforced concrete! ”

Gan Zhongmeiyu: "Why am I telling my grandmother this!" I'm not crazy! Why do you know this? ”

"Huh? I listen to Ma and Mao talk about the international situation every morning! I also know that the T72 is a low-spec version of the T64. ”

He Ma laughed: "Look at what you can endure." So what is the difference between the T64 and T72 automatic loaders? ”

"I don't understand!" Mikako said loudly.

Actually, Kazuma didn't understand it at first, but in his last life, he liked to play a game called "War Thunder", driving a Soviet car and flying his head all day long, so he understood.

Gan Miyu muttered: "Why are boys so familiar with weapons, and so is that guy Toda, who talks about famous knives all day long." ”

"Probably because men have been in charge of warfare for thousands of years, their dependence on weapons is engraved in their DNA." And the horse said.

At this time, Yuzao said coldly again: "Ah, fox." ”

Kazuma's first reaction was to look at Tamamo before turning out the window.

So he saw a row of headless Jizo in the woods by the roadside, and the last sculpture was not Jizo, but an abstract fox figure.

Kazuma: "Are there a lot of such things in the Japanese countryside?" ”

"Quite a lot," Tamamo replied, "after all, this was once an archipelago full of ghosts, and the power of the people of Middle-earth was too strong, and the weirdos had to flee far away. ”

Mikako: "What are you talking about?" Soil? Human power? ”

"I'm telling the story of Xu Fu's Dongdu."

"Huh?"

Tamamo smiled slightly, not careless.

Kazuma thought to herself, as a member of the "weird", the biggest sorrow for her was probably that saying weird things openly like this would only be treated as a joke.

This is probably the power of modernization.

The light of science replaces the grace of God and shines on the islands that once roamed with ghosts.

Tamamo turned her head and continued to look out the window, the book in her hand hadn't turned the pages for a long time, and the bookmarks made of flattened and dried red leaves were about to slip out of the pages and fall onto her knees.

Kazuma stared at Tamamo's side face, also a little distracted.

Mikako finished eating the pears, took out the playing cards, and patted Kazuma's shoulder: "Hema, let's play ghost cards!" ”

"How can you play this carriage when it's so narrow?"

"If you come sideways, it's over! Let's have fun! ”

Honami looked like she couldn't ask for it: "Okay! Come play! ”

Seeing Honami's excited appearance, Kazuma could only agree to join the game, and to be honest, it was a little uncomfortable to be sideways, but it was good to exercise the bending ability of the waist.

Mikako shuffled the cards casually, and then directly handed the cards to everyone's hands.

On the chairs in the last row of the carriage, Qingliu was still playing a light happy song.

The car continued on its way to its destination.

**

After passing Mt. Fuji, the car drove for about two hours and finally arrived at its destination.

The hotel rented by Sauni Music looks like the oil house in "Spirited Away", except that there is no long bridge in front of the oil house, and instead of a parking lot.

There were already two minibuses parked in the parking lot, and the horses suspected to be the cars of other staff members of Sauni Music.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the bus has reached the end of the journey, please take your luggage and get off the bus." Uncle Driver said with a megaphone.

Hema: "Uncle, you said that you wanted to replace Miss Tour Guide, but you didn't speak at all along the way." ”

"Didn't I see that you guys were chatting happily, what B52 and what T72, I didn't make a sound." The uncle turned his head and smiled at Kazuma, then suddenly remembered, "Oh, that's right, sign it!" This and this...... I'll see what to sign with, oops, when the company sent the work, I didn't say that you were going to take the car, I wasn't prepared! ”

Jinguji Yuzao took out a notebook: "If you don't want to write it on it, Uncle Driver will take it back, and tell your child that it was a notebook from Kiryu Sensei." ”

"Is that okay?" The driver's uncle was overjoyed.

Kazuma: "Of course. ”

As he spoke, he took the pen handed over by Tamamo and wrote the words "Study hard every day by Kiryu and Ma" on the title page of the notebook.

The driver's uncle took it with gratitude, and when he saw "study hard and go up every day", he suddenly frowned: "This ...... What do you mean? ”

In Japanese, "learning" is written as "reluctantly", and Ma is written in Chinese.

He Ma: "A Chinese proverb that strives to learn the meaning of striving for the top." ”

"Oh, it's actually Chinese, worthy of being a student of Dongda, knowledgeable!"

Kazuma stood up with a smile, took his bag from the luggage rack and got out of the car.

As soon as you get off the car, there is a fresh breeze blowing on your face, and there is a floral fragrance, which makes people feel refreshed.

And the horse looked in the direction where the wind was blowing.

This inn is halfway up the mountain, and the entire hot spring town is built at the foot of the mountain, and you can see it from the parking lot of the inn.

At the foot of the hill across the hot spring street from the hill where the inn is located, you can see the torii gate and flags of the shrine, and the stone steps leading to the shrine are hidden in the greenery.

Wama has heard that in this kind of Japanese countryside, as long as there are people living in it, there will always be a shrine.

Compared to the isolated and backward countryside of those Japanese horror works I have seen in my previous life, this hot spring town is obviously very modern due to tourism development, and there are modern convenience stores, public phone booths, and many cars parked everywhere within the reach of Ma Ming.

Festival flags can be seen everywhere inside and outside the hot spring town, and the festival atmosphere is strong.

So Kazuma asked Tamamo beside him, "There is a festival going to be held near here recently?" ”

Tamamo: "You ask me? I'm here for the first time. ”

Kazuma: "Aren't you super familiar with sacrifices and tributes, after all, the daughter of the Jingu Temple family." ”

"Most of these hot spring festivals are organized by the local tourism bureau to attract tourists, and they have nothing to do with the ones I am familiar with." Tamamo said firmly.

Kazuma pointed to the torii gate at the foot of the mountain in the distance, "But there is a shrine there." Do you want to say that the shrine was also built by the tourist office for tourism? ”

"It's not impossible," Tamamo shrugged, "There are quite a few such cases, and religious legal persons have to survive, and now is not the time when you can survive only with the money in the money box." You see, many shrines in Tokyo that didn't originally have the function of protecting love have also started to sell love charms, and the shrines dedicated to the god of marriage are now selling amulets for promotion and fortune. ”

Good, good realistic topic.

Jinguji Yuzao added: "Even our family, our Japanese sweets were originally only for the Chinese family, but now we have to open a store to sell them publicly." It's not easy to survive, Tamamo sighed. ”

- What the hell is that cute guy at the end?

As he spoke, Oiwagawa Houichi led two social animals in suits and leather shoes and a woman in a gorgeous kimono to run out of the hotel and greet Wama and his party.

The kimono woman looks at her age, and she should be the "female general" of the hotel.

Of course, you can also call the boss lady, but the official title is the female general.

This is similar to the sushi restaurant owner being called "Shogun".

"Kiryu-sensei, I'm sorry, but you guys came too early than expected." Oiwagawa Hou ran to a stop in front of Kazuma, and he was a little fat because he was running too fast, so he was panting heavily.

The hostess of the inn was like no one else, and she didn't even breathe quickly.

Kazuma glanced at the top of her head and found that she was the seventeenth level of the Ceres Liunagi Knife Technique, no wonder she didn't breathe.

The proprietress was also looking at the horse, and she didn't pay attention to the girls behind the horse at all.

"This is the lady of the inn Hinata So, Ms. Pudao." Oiwagawa Houyi introduced, "She came to bring the teacher and apprentices to stay. ”

Ms. Kabashima bowed to Kazuma: "Kiryu-sensei, I've heard of the daimyo for a long time, please come here." ”

Kazuma also bowed to her, and before she could speak, Mikako first asked, "Can I soak in the hot springs now?" Is it a mixed bath? ”

"There are mixed baths, as well as separate men's and women's baths, so you can choose freely. However, the hot springs are still being cleaned and don't open until 3 p.m. ”

Ms. Kabashima explained.

Oiwagawa added, "There are separate springs on the mountain, and they all have small pools made of stones, so you can soak in them by walking up the mountain and finding them. However, the water from these springs is relatively hot, and the hot springs in the inn are slightly cooler after resting. ”

Kazuma looked at the mountain behind the inn and wondered why this still has an element of exploration, is it possible to find a hot spring that will increase the speed of endurance recovery after soaking?

Ms. Kabashima smiled, "Mr. Ryunosuke Akutagawa likes our hot springs on the mountain very much, and his favorite pool is now called Ryunoike." Kiryu-sensei is also a person with the name of a dragon, so maybe you can get inspired by taking a dip. ”

He Ma nodded, and then reacted - the entry of the lone dragon should only be known to him, why did the woman say "the name of the dragon"......

So he asked, "I hold the name of the dragon?" ”

"Kiryo (Kiryu) isn't it?" Ms. Kabashima laughed.

Only then did Ma remember that his surname was pronounced the same as "Huilong", especially ryo, which is the pronunciation of dragon.

In this way, I am indeed a person who bears the name of the dragon.

During the conversation, Mikako was already impatient, she simply took her luggage and strode towards the hotel, shouting as she went: "I'm going to explore the mountains!" The hot springs on the mountain aren't always being cleaned, are they? ”

"Not really." Ms. Kabashima smiled, and then said to Kazuma, "What a young lady who is very impatient." ”

Qingliu: "She's a monkey, so the monkey is in a hurry." ”

Ms. Kabashima laughed, "Although that young lady is anxious, she still looks very dignified, isn't she a monkey...... Come with me, those guys......"

As soon as Ms. Kabashima turned around, she saw Mikako jumping back and forth between the walls of the hotel and the tree in front of the hotel with her luggage on her shoulders and going up to the roof.

Her smile froze.

The wind was blowing.