Kawaguchi City, Hazelmatsu Town.

Lost Island Ai wears thick glasses and carries a plastic bag in her hand.

In the plastic bag was the dorayaki she bought from the store, Morinaga Confectionery.

"Wouldn't it be too disrespectful to visit with such a cheap thing." She was up and down, but she couldn't afford more expensive things, so she could only use a gong to burn it.

The price is cheap and the quantity is large, so it makes people wonder if Morinaga confectionery made by making this kind of dorayaki can make money at all.

Pout, bow your head, and walk briskly through the streets.

Her rustic appearance is ...... from the countryside of Saitama Prefecture Not at all.

No matter how rural Saitama Prefecture is in the eyes of Tokyo, it can be ranked on the local contempt chain, and in the eyes of the citizens of Saitama Prefecture, the real countryside should go deeper into the west or north.

The eyes under the bangs swept the house number she walked by, this was the first time she had come to such a 'far' place alone.

Although it is only an hour or two away by JR, it is a broadly speaking, but it is a big adventure for a lost island that is limited to the area around home and school.

Moreover, unlike ordinary people, there is only a 'very small probability' that ordinary women will encounter danger when they go to a strange place alone, but they will encounter danger 100% when they lose their islands.

Strange monsters in a strange environment, if you are not careful, you will touch some terrible taboos.

Even the home that I am most familiar with and live in on a daily basis is an unsafe place, let alone in the distant prefecture of Saitama.

If you can, you won't go out, and if you can reduce travel, you can reduce travel.

It's best to plan your route before you go out, take some streets that you are already familiar with, and never get into the lanes.

"Terrible." Lost Island remembers the scene when he was sitting on the train and passing a river.

The Kuroshio surging in the river, and the dismembered corpses were crowded one by one, both humans and animals, but without exception, these corpses all had satisfied smiles on their faces.

Terrible world.

"This is Mito-san's home...... Is it? ”

Lost Island Koi tilted her head to look at the shrine in front of her, and she took small steps to check the house numbers around her to make sure she was not looking for the wrong place.

Arrai Shrine.

"Mito-san's family is really running a shrine."

A few days ago, Mito went to the apartment to 'remove the spirit', and he still had the imperial coin in his hand, and he guessed in his heart that Mito was probably a priest or a rare onmyoji.

This time, it was determined.

But what is the main priest of this Arrai Shrine?

There is a river in Tokyo called Arakawa, so could it be that it is the god of Aragami?

And...... Why have I never seen the light peculiar to transcendents in Mito-san.

“……”

Lost Island Lian turned his back to the street, used the black screen of his mobile phone as a mirror to tidy up his hair, and breathed a sigh of relief: "No problem." ”

Tokyo girls learn makeup when they are still in high school, and there are junior colleges specializing in beauty.

In society, if a woman goes out without makeup, it is considered rude.

But I don't even have lipstick on my lips - poor.

She is too poor to afford any cosmetics, but even if she has money, she probably won't buy those things, and she wishes she was a transparent world that wouldn't attract the attention of anyone or creature.

But even if you don't wear makeup, you can't go to meet Mito-san with frizzy hair.

"Step."

She strode up the stairs, but stopped halfway through.

Without.

"Huh?"

Lost Island looked around blankly, and then touched his ears.

The shrine's trail is empty, except for the trees that have survived the winter quietly withering.

In winter, the forest is silent, the leaves have fallen from the trees, and only the bare trunks hide the surface, and occasionally birds land on the treetops and then flutter their wings and fly away.

But the strange things that are 'familiar' with the lost island love are not found in the mountains and forests.

It seems that they have been cut off by the torii gate at the foot of the mountain.

She had been to Sensoji Temple, Meiji Jingu Shrine and other religious places to seek peace, and there was a sacred place where the transcendent was located, and sure enough, there were no resentful spirits, evil spirits, and earthbound spirits that could be seen everywhere outside, but ......

But there are also some strange things that inhabit the sanctuary.

She had seen the unspeakable object in Kudanzaka, and the priests and pedestrians were still unaware of the passage through the unnameable object.

Since then, she has understood that she is lonely, and that the transcendents advertised on TV can see and destroy spirits and demons, while she can see something deeper.

Just like the icebergs in the Arctic Circle, the icebergs on the surface of the sea may only be forty or fifty meters high, but when you look at the sea through the light, you can see that there are dozens of meters of ice under the surface of the sea.

Ordinary people see icebergs, and transcendents see ice bodies visible in the sun under the surface of the sea.

But is that all there is to the iceberg?

Below the darkness, which is invisible to the naked eye, how big is the iceberg.

It's the world you can see.

"Here...... Nothing ......"

But there was nothing in the desert island shrine, no resentful spirits, no strange things, and no noisy sounds.

Lost Island took off half of her glasses and looked around cautiously.

It's quiet like the world that normal people live in.

She stood on the steps of the shrine in a daze, for more than ten years, there had never been such a quiet time, not even when she was sleeping.

Sanctuary.

This is a true sanctuary!

If only I could stay at this shrine forever...... It took a few minutes before I woke up.

I'm here to deliver something to Mito-san.

But if you can stay in this shrine forever......

If you look up, you will see a second log-colored torii.

The person who was trapped in purgatory walked out of Rashomon for the first time.

…………

Mito Hayato looked at the lost island and stood on the mountain steps in confusion, what happened?

After using the ability to predict the future a little, there were no surprises in the lost island love.

Fortunately, a few minutes later, Ai Shijima finally went up to the mountain gate with a little panting, she was holding a plastic bag in her hand, and when she first saw Mito Halfato, she immediately held her hands in front of her and bent over slightly.

"Water, Mito-san, good afternoon."

"Good afternoon." Mito Hayato was still wearing his everyday clothes, his eyes narrowed with a smile, a little like a fox, "I'm here, what else do you bring?" ”

As he spoke, Mito Hayato greeted him.

But the lost island on the other side stood in a daze, as if he was stunned on the mountain steps just now.

And a pair of slightly upturned eyes flowed tears.

Bean-sized tears slipped down his cheeks, and the tears were connected into silk threads on his face.

"Lost Island-san? What are you crying about? ”

Seeing the lost island love crying out suddenly, Mito Hayato instantly panicked.

He hasn't had time to do anything, what is the island crying about?

"It's nothing, it's nothing...... "Lost Island Ai wiped the tears on her face, her voice slightly choked, "That's it...... So happy. ”