The next day, Kitagawa Temple first went to Chiba Hotaru with Eri Kitagawa Eri.

Although today is not a two-day treatment day, after a day, the death qi has been integrated into more than half of Chiba Hotaru's legs, and the death qi can be used for treatment again.

While Kitagawa Temple was being treated, he told Chiba Hotaru and Eri Kitagawa who was painting while he might be out for a few days.

"Beichuan senior, are you going to deal with the four-person game of hide and seek?" Hotaru Chiba, who could barely stand up, asked.

"Almost." Kitagawa Temple withdrew his palm and continued: "So it is estimated that there will be no time to continue to treat Miss Hotaru in the past few days. ”

After hearing this, Chiba Hotaru just smiled and said understandingly: "I also want to thank Senior Beichuan for treating me, since Senior Beichuan has something to do, then of course I don't have any reason to stop you." ”

Without waiting for Kitagawa Temple to answer, Eri Kitagawa who was still painting on the other side moved his ears and shouted in surprise:

"Brother Si, are you going to go far away again?"

Kitagawa Temple went out twice last month, once in Hachiyama City and once in Ibaraki Prefecture, and now it is going out again.

This frequency is a little too frequent.

Iwate Prefecture and Ibaraki Prefecture are not too far away... But Kitagawa Temple goes out for a long time every time.

And just as Eri Kitagawa was muttering in her heart, Kitagawa Temple opened her mouth and commanded:

"I have some things to deal with, you have to be obedient in the past few days when I'm out, don't let Miss Hotaru worry too much."

“... I know. ”

Feeling the other party's gaze, Eri Kitagawa shrunk her neck.

After explaining his arrangements roughly, Kitagawa Temple said goodbye to the Chiba sisters.

Originally, Kitagawa Temple planned to visit Yorito Castle after watching all of "The Lost Mikawa", but with the help of Kamiya Miri, this process was omitted.

And Tsukishima Xian's side had already informed Beichuan Temple last night, and now he only needs to go to Yorito Castle's house.

......

Yorito Castle lives in a villa area in Chiyoda Ward, and it doesn't take long to get from Chiba's house to the other party's house.

About fifteen minutes later, Kitagawa Temple stopped in front of a mansion.

The whole mansion is in the same style, with a sloping roof, white walls and short black columns, looking at the layout of the building, there should be side courtyards between the mansions.

The owner who lives here is also very emotional, bamboo fence, bluestone slab, and a small field is cultivated next to it, and there is a small triangular fence inserted in the ridge.

Kitagawa Temple stopped, took out his mobile phone, and dialed the number of Yorito Castle left by Tsukishima String.

The phone rang and it was connected, as if the other party had been standing by the microphone.

A deep middle-aged man's voice came from the other side of the phone:

"Hello? That one? ”

"I'm Kitagawa Temple, Tsukishima-sensei introduced me to visit Mr. Yorito, and I'm downstairs now."

There was a brief silence on the other side of the phone, and it was a long time before he spoke:

"Come in."

The spacious door opened, and a cool smell escaped from it.

Kitagawa Temple looked up and saw a middle-aged man standing by the door.

The middle-aged man wears black-rimmed glasses, has a long body, and has a pale complexion, looking like a dead man.

He looked at Beichuan Temple, put down his phone, and said coldly, "Come in." ”

With that, he turned and entered the room.

Kitagawa Temple looked at the other party's back thoughtfully, and his heart moved slightly.

The other party has obviously stayed next to the cat's eye and watched him for a long time, what kind of habit is this?

Could it be the eccentricity of his famous author?

But such a manifestation of neuroticism... Is it really a habit?

Kitagawa Temple only thought about this for a while, but didn't say anything, he pulled his backpack over his shoulder and walked into the house.

"I'm Yoritojo."

The middle-aged man stretched out his hand, meaning to shake hands with Beichuan Temple, but his tone was too stiff, but it gave people a feeling of deliberately finding fault.

"Kitagawa Temple."

Kitagawa Temple stretched out his hand and shook it with the other party, so that he could observe the other party's face up close.

Lai Hucheng was an elegant middle-aged man, but his face was very bad, as if he hadn't slept well for many days, his face was pale and blue, and heavy dark circles were also around his eye sockets.

The moment it made contact with the palm of the other party, Kitagawa Temple felt as if he was holding an ice cube, and the warmth was instantly expelled.

"Mr. Kitagawa, you can walk around the living room and take a tour, I'm still writing, I'll come back to entertain you later." Lai Hucheng said in a stiff tone, yawning as he spoke.

After leaving these words, Lai Hucheng turned around and went upstairs to the study, leaving Beichuan Temple alone to stand in the entrance.

It seems that this Lai Hucheng is still a little unpopular with him for the time being.

It's just—

Kitagawa Temple's eyes twinkled.

When shaking hands just now, Beichuan Temple clearly saw the blue and purple finger marks on the other party's wrist, like a child's fingers.

In other words, the famous author Yorito Castle was also cursed.

And Lai Hucheng's face is so bad, it is probably because he often sees children's ghosts.

Being haunted by resentment will naturally lead to poor sleep quality, and the same symptoms of anger and anxiety as Kobayashi Kiyoi.

In this way, the other party is still willing to receive himself in this state, and it is estimated that it is also based on Tsukishima Xian's face.

After figuring this out, Kitagawa Temple didn't care about it and began to visit around.

It is a relatively new-style Japanese-style mansion with wooden floors in the promenade and paintings by various contemporary painters hanging on top of the promenade.

Among these various paintings, Kitagawa Temple even found a painting of Chiba Hotaru.

It was a painting of a child.

Children who fall into hell, symbolizing life, are eaten by evil spirits.

Kitagawa Temple looked at it for a while and then walked to the living room.

Although Yorito told him to visit casually, Kitagawa Temple also knew that it was just a simple social rhetoric.

The décor of the living room is relatively simple, as long as the color is black and white, black sofa, vermilion wall, black and white landscape wall and bookshelf grid.

Outside the living room, there is a stylish side yard, and there is a shallow small pond in the side yard, which is empty, and there are no fish yet.

In the corner of the living room, Kitagawa Temple finally discovered the source of the cold air emitted from the mansion.

The bottom of the round glass tank held a pile of half-melted ice, and ice water overflowed the round bottom of the tank.

Ice and icy water rob the air temperature all the time.

The strange chill in the mansion made Kitagawa Temple feel a little uncomfortable.

Can this also be considered a quirk of the author?

Beichuan Temple wanted to walk over to see the specific situation, but the voice of Laihucheng came from behind him:

"Mr. Kitagawa, I advise you to stop, for they are afraid of the cold."

'They' are afraid of the cold?

Who are 'they'? What do 'they' mean?

Kitagawa Temple looked back: "What are 'they'?" ”

Lai Hucheng walked over from behind, coughed twice, served tea to Beichuan Temple, and motioned for him to sit down.

His face became paler, but his voice was very clear: "I just saw it, Mr. Kitagawa, you should have been entangled with 'them' too." ”

As he spoke, Yorito rolled up his sleeves, revealing blue and purple finger marks, and he continued: "I originally thought that the person introduced by Tsukishima-senpai was just trying to understand my writing process, but when I saw the blue and purple finger marks on Mr. Kitagawa's wrist just now, I probably understood the reason why Mr. Kitagawa came to the door. ”

When he shook hands with Beichuan Temple in the entrance just now, he saw the blue and purple finger marks on Beichuan Temple's wrist, and naturally understood the reason why the other party came to visit.

Perhaps it is precisely because Beichuan Temple has the same experience as him, so his original cold attitude has also changed a lot, and he is now willing to talk to Beichuan Temple.

"I do want to know what happened in the small town of Mikawa before." In this kind of thing, Kitagawa Temple does not hide it.

“... I understand. Lai Hucheng took a sip of tea, and then said, "I can understand what Mr. Kitagawa means, but I also want to tell you that I created "The Lost Mikawa" by accident. ”

"I moved from Mikawa to Tokyo more than 10 years ago, and I returned to live in the small town of Mikawa last year for a while, and I stumbled upon a case of child abduction and disappearance. After that, I combined some of the sayings of the people of Mikawa, and this "Lost Mikawa" was created in this way. I didn't expect that the four-person game of hide and seek would actually attract a curse. ”

"So Mr. Kitagawa, if you want to get information from me, it is undoubtedly a little difficult-"

As he spoke, he smiled self-deprecatingly: "You see, am I not cursed too?" It's also a coincidence that you're here, Mr. Kitagawa, otherwise I'd already be planning to go back to Mikawa to find a way to break this curse. ”

This is true.

If Lai Hucheng knew the way to break the curse, he would naturally not let the curse go and let it develop to this day.

After pondering for a moment, Kitagawa Temple spoke again, "But I still have something to ask Mr. Yorito. ”

"Tell me."

"Since you don't know how to break the curse, how do you know that ice cubes can suppress those children's spirits?"

Hearing this question, Lai Hucheng didn't have the slightest intention to hide it, he said: "The time when the case of missing and abducting children occurred was winter, and it was almost the coldest time in January, according to the newspaper, and at that time, rumors of 'children's resentful spirits are afraid of the cold' have already begun to circulate. ”

According to local Mikawa culture, spirits are afraid of the season of their death, as the special weather brings back memories of their tragic deaths. I used ice cubes to create the atmosphere that winter has not yet passed, so I am still safe, and I still have many similar ice cube containers, scattered around my house. ”

"But now that the weather is getting warmer day by day, and spring is just around the corner, this method of hiding a lot of ice is probably not going to be useful anytime soon... That's why I wanted to go back to Mikawa to find a way to break the curse. ”

Yorito Castle also wants to go back to Mikawa?

This is a great opportunity.

Kitagawa Temple thought quietly.

As a famous writer who has depicted Mikawa, Yorito Castle will definitely be welcomed when he returns, and he will definitely have a lot of say in it, and he may be able to investigate the truth about what was left behind.

If you can really bring such a strong helper, at least Beichuan Temple doesn't have to worry about some trivial matters anymore.

Thinking of this, Kitagawa Temple said, "Without hiding it from Mr. Yorito, I also want to find an opportunity to go to Mikawa. After all, I'm also under a curse now, and I'm in a similar situation to you. ”

"Really?" Lai Hucheng showed a welcome look on his face: "If that's the case, I can go with Mr. Kitagawa, and the two of us can take care of each other." ”

"So when exactly are we leaving?" Kitagawa Temple asked again.

"This kind of thing is naturally the sooner the better, I have already said before, if it weren't for Mr. Kitagawa, you called me this time, I guess I would have to go."

Lai Hucheng seems to respect Tsukishima Xian, a senior in the literary world, and when he mentions him, a touch of respect naturally appears on his face.

Seeing his appearance, Kitagawa Temple just bowed his head and said, "If, as Mr. Yorido said, it is better to choose a day than to hit the sun, we can set off for Kanagawa Prefecture today." ”

Uh-

Lai Hucheng, who was still talking, was suddenly stuck.

He looked at Beichuan Temple with a strange expression.

Lai Hucheng was in a hurry, but what he didn't expect was that Beichuan Temple was more anxious than him, and he actually asked to go to Kanagawa Prefecture today.

However, Kanagawa Prefecture is already very close to Tokyo, so it doesn't take long to get there, but once you arrive in Kanagawa, you will have to head to the Tanzawa Mountains.

It's a remote place, and it takes a while to drive there.

But since Beichuan Temple has said so...

Lai Hucheng was silent for a while, then nodded and said, "I see, since Mr. Kitagawa can't wait, then I don't have any reason to refuse—and I haven't had any inspiration for a new book recently." It's also good to go to Mikawa in advance to see how things are going. ”

"Is Mr. Yorito still focusing on the creation of the Lost Mikawa?" Kitagawa Temple asked curiously.

He also saw media reports on the Internet that Lai Hucheng has been actively preparing a new work recently, and the new work is about the sequel to "The Lost Mikawa".

Yorito Cheng smiled and affirmed Kitagawa Temple's thoughts: "In my end, the hero survived. And what I'm going to write is the story that comes out of his survival, which is about the story of the city man and woman after a four-player game of hide and seek, and the male protagonist of the previous game appears in this work as an introduction, something similar to a cursed scratch. ”

He paused for a moment, his gaze a little deep: "After all... There are some things that really cannot be forgotten, and the tragedy that is forgotten is not called a tragedy. I don't want my male protagonist to be diluted by the next game, his presence is also or indispensable. ”

Lai Hucheng touched his head a little embarrassed and said: "Ah, in short, I still have to work hard, and my thinking has often been broken recently, and my inspiration is missing." ”

And Beichuan Temple empathizes with this.

He has been in a state of no skill points since the end of the last Miki Doll Factory Abandoned Incident, and he spent 10 skill points yesterday to improve the spirit dagger by one level. Only the last 2.5 skill points are guaranteed, which is indeed a bit stretched.

He was desperate to earn skill points by 'helping' the wraiths.