He Ma pondered for a while, and felt that it was useless to think about it like this, so he said to Miss Akaxi in front of him: "Thank you for the information, I will notify you as soon as I have the results here." ”

With that, he picked up the teacup in front of him and drank all the tea inside—after listening to Miss Akasai for so long, the tea was no longer hot.

"Then, I won't disturb Miss Akasai's rest." As he spoke, he and the horse stood up.

"You walk slowly." Miss Akanishi hurriedly stood up as well, "Please give Watanabe-kun and Oda-kun justice." ”

"I will. I mean, if something injustice happens, I'm going to fix it. ”

After saying that, Kazuma led Haruu out of the room.

Akanishi Kaede has been looking at Kazuma's back with a complicated expression.

**

Out of Akaxi Feng's room, Qingliu couldn't wait to ask, "What do you think, what is the truth?" ”

"I'm not Sherlock Holmes, and I know the truth all at once. No, Holmes doesn't always know the truth at once, and the description in it is that he has to smoke an all-night pipe in the living room from time to time to think of the truth, and occasionally has some ** reasons. ”

"Who cares what's going on?" Haruru waved her hand, "Didn't you already go to the shrine to investigate?" Plus this person's testimony ......"

"That's not enough, I'm going to ask Tamamo next to see what she thinks of the legend of this demon fox."

Qingliu frowned: "That legend, is it related to this case?" ”

"Maybe."

Haruyu: "Speaking of which, when I heard Miss Akanishi relay this story, I had a creepy feeling. ”

"What, afraid of having nightmares tonight? Then you can come to my room and sleep. ”

"Die!" Haruru unceremoniously kicked at Kazuma, and then was dodged as a matter of course.

**

Outside the bathhouse, Kazuma meets Tamamo who is drinking milk.

As soon as she saw Kazuma, she asked, "Aren't you going to just run to ask the new tenants about last year?" ”

"One of the new residents took the initiative to find us. Are they still inside? ”

"yes, my hair is relatively easy to wash, I don't need to take care of it, and they are still tossing conditioner in it."

Kazuma glanced at the wall clock on the wall: "It's been so long!" ”

"That's the way it is for girls." Tamamo smiled, and then changed the conversation, "So, is there any new development?" ”

"Yes, yes." Kazuma sat down on the chair opposite Tamamo and briefly recounted what he had just learned from Akanishi Kaede.

Yuzao tapped the bottle in her hand with her fingers, with a thoughtful expression: "Saw the white-haired demon fox capture the neighbor's child?" This is interesting, as far as I know, none of the legendary demon foxes in various places have done it themselves.

"In the legend of the demon fox, in addition to the former of the jade algae, it is widely spread that the house is changed by spell in the barren mountains and mountains, waiting for travelers to come and stay, and then taking out the delicacies turned into leaves to entertain guests."

Haruru: "And then ate people?" ”

He Ma shook his head: "No, it is usually the guests who fall asleep after the clouds and rain, and wake up the next day to find themselves sleeping in the deep mountains and old forests, and the quilt on their bodies is made of leaves." ”

Qingliu: "All the things are just to put the traveler to sleep?" This demon fox is too hungry, isn't it? ”

Tamamo: "Those are the demon foxes of the countryside. ”

Kazuma looked at Tamamo and said, "What will the big demon fox that lives in the human city do?" When mom san? ”

"The big demon fox that lives in a big human city doesn't have that kind of primitive impulse, and it doesn't spring like a beast."

Qingliu Fox looked at Yuzao suspiciously: "Why are you so sure, you are not a demon fox, how do you know?" ”

He Ma followed: "Yes, how do you know? ”

Tamamo smiled and brought the topic back to the topic: "Let me summarize: Watanabe-kun went to the shrine to learn about the relevant legends after finding out the news from Grandma Noda, and when he came back, he became serious and looked like he had something on his mind.

Miss Akanishi Kaede was very worried, so she sent Oda-kun to appease him, but the two of them became serious together, and refused to tell Miss Akanishi what had happened.

Kazuma nodded: "Yes, and then the next day there was an incident, Watanabe-kun died, and Oda-kun entered a vegetative state." ”

Tamamo: "Then Miss Akanishi suspected that it was the shrine's priest who extinguished her mouth." But in that case, Oda-kun is not dead, and this extermination is too unprofessional, right? ”

Qingliu: "It may also be the first time to do this kind of thing, and after doing it, I ran away in a hurry, without confirming the life and death of the two people." This should be quite common. ”

"But today I went to the shrine with Tamamo, and the god also suspected that Watanabe-kun was killed by him." He Ma paused, "It's also possible that when I was at the shrine, the god told Watanabe-kun what was a secret involving a third party, and then he was killed by a third party." ”

Qingliu: "Then tomorrow we will go into the mountains to find clues?" Go see where Watanabe-kun and Oda were discovered last year? ”

Yuzao shook his head: "That shouldn't be useless, it's been a year, and it's wild again, maybe the mountains have landslided a few times when it's raining, and you can't find anything." ”

Qingliu: "Then what should I do!" ”

Kazuma shrugged: "Maybe I can find some clues from the things that the god lord has picked up in this year." ”

"You didn't ask about the Turtleback card?" Tamamo asked.

"No," Kazuma shook his head, "this woman hasn't cleared her name, she was on the mountain on the day of the accident, so I don't want her to know what we know." ”

Qingliu: "It's the first time I've heard of this turtle back card, what is it?" ”

"A divination prop with runes on the red spear of the three-eyed prodigy. The god picked it up when he went up the mountain to collect medicine. That person seems to have been wandering around the mountains in the name of collecting medicine, looking for evidence. ”

As soon as Kama's voice fell, Mikako, Nichinan Rina, Honami, Chiyoko, and Gan Middle School Sister opened the curtain and came out of the bathhouse.

The huge space immediately became lively, and it became unsuitable for playing detective games.

So Kazuma turned to the girls, and at a glance he saw the red hair on Mikako's forehead, and said, "Mikako, don't you hide your highlights?" ”

"Anyway, it's a holiday, don't hide!" Mikako said loudly, "I'll comb my hair when school starts, and I'll hide the highlights." ”

Qingliu also turned her head to look at Mikako, and teased: "I'm a rock girl with black hair, and you, the top student who was admitted to Sophia University, actually play with highlights." ”

Mikako actually only dyed a very small bundle of hair, which could easily be hidden in her black hair.

It's just that she dyes this very bright red, and once it is placed in a place where it can be seen, it is extremely conspicuous.

Kazuma, as a lover of black long straight, originally didn't like that kind of color that was too bright, but he was completely acceptable to Mikako's highlight.

While talking, the five girls ran to the milk vending machine together to buy their favorite dairy products.

Mikako was the first to buy milk, and she ran over and sat down next to Kazuma, and asked while opening the lid, "Haruruyu, Wama, don't you drink milk?" ”

"We're done drinking."

Not only did I finish drinking, but I also went to investigate a wave of cases.

Mikako seemed to be asking like this, and she didn't really care if he drank milk or not, she lifted the lid of the milk, drank most of the bottle with the posture of a Liangshan hero, and then made a "poof" sound.

"It's so cool to drink milk after taking a shower!"

Kazuma also felt very cool when he looked at her fat that shook with her body movements.

The other girls also came over with milk.

Chiyoko asked Kazuma, "Brother, I look at the poster posted over there, it seems that the festival at the shrine can be held tomorrow." ”

Kazuma recalled what he saw when he went to the shrine today, and asked suspiciously, "Can I go tomorrow?" When we went to the shrine this afternoon, we didn't see anything from the festival shop, but in fact the shrine is empty now, so we didn't have anything to prepare. ”

Chiyoko shrugged: "Then I don't know what's going on." Anyway, the festival starts tomorrow night and lasts for two weeks. ”

"In addition to fireworks and a tour of the park at night, there are many other events at the festival, such as a portable shrine parade and various competitive competitions." Tamamo explains, "If you just want to visit the shrine stalls at night and eat snacks and catch goldfish, then just pay attention to the day when the fireworks are released, and there must be a stall at the shrine on the day of the fireworks." ”

Chiyoko nodded: "That's right, I thought it was like a festival in Tokyo, with when it started, and there was a festival to visit when you went to the shrine." ”

"Festivals in Tokyo are simplified to fit into city life." Tamamo smiled, "The Kiryu Dojo is in the Ge Clan, so I'm very familiar with the festival of the Emperor, and it was originally going to take two weeks, but now it's all the day of the festival to see the streets, and then go to the temple to worship and it's over." ”

As Tamamo's voice fell, Mikako said in the classic opening narration of the national comedy "The Story of Injiro": "My name is Mikako, I was born in Katsushika Shibamata, and I was raised by the water of the emperor, and people call me crazy monkey." ”

Kazuma: "What, Mikako, do you plan to wander around like Injiro in the future?" ”

"Haha, that's not bad, Qingliu also come along?"

"I'm not going!"

Mikako pretended to cry: "Woo was hated, sure enough, Haru Ruru looked down on me as a sister." ”

"When are you going to be my sister?"

Mikako ignores Haruru singing the theme song "Men Are So Hard" about Injiro's story, and then changes all the "sister" in the lyrics to "Haruru Ryu".

Qingliu said to her expressionlessly, "Mikako, give me your hand." ”

"Hah, what?" Mikako looked at Qingliu's outstretched palm-up hand, and covered her hand without hesitation, "Wang." ”

"Eat me over the shoulder!"

"Yikes!"

Mikako was thrown over the shoulder by Haruru, and then fell heavily on her back to the ground.

"My back, my spine must have been broken!" She yelled.

Qingliu: "If the spine is damaged, the sphincter will lose control, and the person will be stretched all over the ground, you pull me to see." ”

"Eh, why would Haruru know about such a thing? You can't have actually broken someone's spine, right? ”

Haruru looked down at Mikako who was lying on the ground, clasped her hands to her chest and did not answer.

Mikako got up in a hurry, ran to Kazuma's side, and put on a posture of using Kazuma as a cover: "Haruruyu's expression just now was so terrible, I was scared, I'm going to have nightmares tonight, so can I go to your room to sleep with Kazuma?" ”

Kazuma: "No. ”

Actually, he wanted to say "welcome, welcome, warm welcome", but that would be too obvious.

"Eh, Kazuma is so cold! If Qing Liuliu is so scared that she can't sleep tonight and comes to you, you must agree without even thinking about it! ”

Qingliu shouted: "I won't be grinning! ”

**

Midnight.

"I ...... If you can't sleep, talk to me. Haruku hugged the pillow and stood outside the door of the stable.

He Ma wanted to laugh, but seeing her pitiful appearance, he still got out of the way from the door: "Come in." Say yes and just chat. ”

"Nonsense! Otherwise, what else can you do? Qingliu rolled her eyes, "Also, I'm not scared, I'm just insomnia!" ”

"Yes, yes." He Ma went to the suite's matching pantry, turned on the switch of the electric kettle, and prepared to make tea.

Haruku: "I'm a rock girl, so I'm not afraid of those things!" Got it! ”

"Yes, I understand. You're just insomnia, bored, and want someone to talk to. Kazuma responded, deliberately ignoring the pillow that Haruru was holding.

Haruru walked over to the window of the room and sat down on a chair.

Because Kazuma only turned on the small light in the room, the light was very weak, so Haruru, who was sitting by the window, bathed in the moonlight.

"I've been wondering," she said, looking out the window, "what the hell is the story that Miss Akanishi heard from Grandma Noda." It can't be that Grandma Noda was dazzled when she was a child, right? ”

"Who knows. Maybe tomorrow after dawn, we should go to Grandma Noda and ask. Kazuma came to the door of the pantry and looked at Haruru against the door frame, "What, you just can't sleep because you've been thinking about this?" ”

"I—I'm just curious! I thought Tamamo would give a scientific explanation for this, but she didn't explain it at all. ”

Kazuma shrugged: "After all, it happened so long ago, the Taisho era, and my father was not born at that time." ”

"Hmm......" Qingliu sat on a chair and looked out the window, looking unrelieved.

At this time, Kazuma heard the sound of the electric kettle dripping, indicating that the water had reached the temperature set by Kazuma.

So he turned around and went back to the pantry, ready to make tea.

At this time, he suddenly heard Haruku screaming.

"Ahh

Immediately after that, the sound of a rough knock on the window glass sounded: Bang bang!

Kazuma reflexively rushed out of the pantry, and saw Haruyu's chair overturned, and she was lying on the ground as if she was about to escape from the window, but her hands and feet did not obey the call, and her face was full of fear.

"And horses!"

She screamed.

Behind her, the moonlight that should have been coming through the window was blocked by something outside, and someone was pounding on the glass from the outside.

He Ma grabbed the wooden knife that was placed in the doorway and the luggage, and rushed to the window.

Tamamo said that powerful humans can deal with demons and monsters with only a wooden knife.

As he approached the window, the knocking died down and the moonlight came in again.

The being on the outside had clearly run away.

He and the horse brushed open the window, leaned out of the window and looked up first—get used to it.

Then he looked around, and saw a figure jumping from the eaves of the inn to the treetops of the forest.

Kazuma: "Haruyu, you go find Tamamo!" ”

With that, he jumped out the window.

Where do you go with demons and monsters!