Night Raid? ”

Ariko thought of some passages in works that were not suitable for reading in front of the public.

"No, how can you let the teacher fall into the hands!"

Let go, let me come!

Yariko jumped up directly from the quilt.

"Stop, this stealing cat...... Hey? ”

She only saw that the woman was the same person who had led them to the village chief earlier.

It's just that the half-dressed Kamijo Hibiscus also looked confused.

Because in the quilt that was lifted, there was no trace of Qiao Qiao, there was not even half a person at all, and there was not even a pillow used to disguise that someone was lying inside.

What about such a big person in the quilt?

"Miss Uejo is looking for me for something?"

When the two girls looked at each other, from one side, in the shadow of the house, Qiao Qiao's voice came.

He was well-dressed and was sitting cross-legged in the corner, as if thinking about something.

"I—I'd like to see how the two of you are resting, and if you want to help or something."

Kamijo put on his kimono and said a little shyly.

"Grandma said that as the daughter of the village chief, she should entertain guests well or something......

"Thank you for your concern, we don't need anything to help with."

Qiao Qiao said indifferently, which made Kamijo shiver a little, picked up the belt on the ground and left the house.

"Didn't the teacher just lie down?"

After Kamijo left, Yariko looked at Qiao Qiao's bed with some curiosity.

"Well."

Qiao Qiao raised his left hand, and blood flowed from the wound on his fingers.

The blood flowed down the ground, burrowed into the quilt, inflated like a balloon, and gradually turned into the appearance of Qiao Qiao.

"Just like that, you can quietly disguise yourself as if you're sleeping, and if you encounter a sneak attack or something, you can fight back at the first time, which is a useful use that I have recently researched."

“？”

Although she knew that the teacher was such a person, Yariko still felt that it was a little too exaggerated when she listened to Qiao Qiao's explanation.

"Then again, that woman just now actually wanted to attack the teacher at night, it's really obscene!"

Ariko said indignantly.

Mud stick cat!

"Is this a tradition in Yamanashi Prefecture?"

Qiao Qiao touched his chin.

"No, no, no, this kind of tradition can only be seen in "Fast O Day".

Ya Lizi waved her hand vigorously.

"But it's a strange village."

Qiao Qiao looked out the window.

The snow has stopped, and in the silent world, only the moonlight leaves a large area of clear light on the snow, and the whole mountain forest is silent.

"It's not reasonable to be in the mountains and forests where the old gods were sealed, but they don't seem to be affected in the slightest."

It's like the only pure love opening work in a magazine full of heavy O flavor and O hand themes.

Looking at pure love, it may actually be more open than anyone else.

If you don't pay attention, you will fall into the abyss.

"The teacher's metaphor is not understood by the children."

Yariko complained.

"In the afternoon, when we were walking in the mountains, did you notice the trees next to us?"

Qiao Qiao asked.

"It's just an ordinary tree, and it doesn't seem to be anything special."

Yariko didn't quite understand.

"No, the growth of those trees has been distorted."

Qiao Qiao took out his phone and opened the album.

The first page is Suzuka's Christmas outfit, with antlers on her head and dressed as a reindeer.

I remember that this was supposed to be taken at Christmas, playing a punishment game.

“？”

A question mark popped up on Yariko's head.

"Ahem, it's not this."

Qiao Qiao flipped through the photo album, and a photo of Sayoko wearing a New Year's kimono and exhaling into her hand popped up.

“？？”

There are more and more question marks on Yariko's head.

"Strange ......"

Qiao Qiao flipped again.

This time, it's a photo of a foggy night with a bad expression on his face, and it's better than a V-shaped hand.

"Wait a minute, I definitely didn't shoot this."

Qiao Qiao's question mark on Yariko's head turned into an exclamation mark in time for the photo to be deleted.

What is this vampire doing with someone else's phone?

Qiao Qiao carefully flipped through the photo album, found the photo taken during the day, and put it in front of Ya Lizi, who puffed out his cheeks.

"Look, these trees were supposed to grow straight, but now they're twisted by some force."

The trunks of the trees in the photo are bent and the branches are twisted, presenting a sense of inversion and confusion, which makes people feel dizzy after looking at it for a long time.

Even just looking at the photos, Ariko can feel the madness contained in them.

"These trees ......"

The earth that has been affected by the strange is naturally a strange tree.

And how can the animals that depend on these trees for their livelihood, and humans, be normal.

Therefore, this weeknight village, which seems to be very normal, may actually be the craziest.

That's when it happened.

Suddenly, there was a strange sound outside the window.

It's like the screeching sound of a fingernail scratching a blackboard, and it's heart-wrenching.

Knock –

Something creature tapped the window edge.

Whew—

Another shrill sound rang out from the other side of the wooden wall.

There seemed to be a dark shadow sweeping through the window, and it seemed to be just a simple tree shadow.

"The flow of yin qi has changed."

Qiao Qiao said.

He could see from the Blood's perception and his own psionic vision that outside the house, twisted and struggling spirits and evil spirits were trying to break into the house.

It's just that they seem to be too weak to find a gap.

Qiao Qiao was about to clean up these resentful spirits when a person appeared outside the house.

Kamijo Hibiki is dressed in a red and white shrine maiden costume and stands in the courtyard.

"This is not the place you should be."

She held a strangely shaped imperial coin in her hand, like a hanging silk thread, and when she waved it, those resentful spirits and evil spirits seemed to be extremely frightened, and quickly disappeared into the wind and snow.

"Mikoto?"

Qiao Qiao frowned slightly.

I didn't feel much spiritual power on Kamijo's body just now, and in the process of removing the spirits, the spiritual power released between the imperial coins didn't seem to be enough to destroy these evil spirits.

Is it not simply to expel evil spirits and not to destroy them completely?

Qiao Qiao thought and opened the window.

"Miss Uejo."

He stopped Kamijo, who was about to leave.

"Ah, Master Soul Eliminator."

Kamijo in the snow has a crimson face, and it seems that he is not used to appearing in front of strangers in such a dress.

"What was the situation?"

Qiao Qiao asked.

"This ......"

Kamijo hesitated for a moment.

Then I walked through the courtyard and came to Qiao Qiao and Yariko's room.

She looked at the two of them, knelt down, and bowed.

"The two Soul Master, in fact, Pingye Village has always been plagued by monsters, but they can't tell outsiders, I just hope that the two of them can help us and drive away the evil."

Kamijo said solemnly.

“？”

Ariko felt a little strange, since she had encountered a strangeness, why couldn't she tell the others?

"It's no secret, there is a curse in Weeknight Village."

Kamijo Kushiro saw Arriko's doubts and explained.

"If you learn the secret of Pingye Village, then you can't leave here, and if you leave, you will be punished by the god of the mountain and die, and after learning the secret, if you don't return here within half a year, you will also be cursed."

"In the past, we used to ask for help from the soul slayer, but they couldn't solve the problem and died because of the curse, and later, the people of the village gradually cut themselves off from the outside world to prevent the curse from spreading and hurting more people."

"However, the power of youkai has become stronger and stronger recently, and I can't resist it alone."

"Please, save this village."