Nishino Renne walks with Nakaka on the noisy shopping streets of Nakakyo Ward.

It's late in the evening, and there are more and more pedestrians on the road, but Kyoto's urban planning is very good, and all the streets are flat and straight, and there are few traffic jams.

The two female high school students who were passing by were talking and laughing, and when they saw them, they immediately showed strange looks and whispered - a neatly dressed male high school student and a little beggar in tattered clothes, what kind of strange combination is this?

Both of them are very good-looking, one is handsome and handsome, the other is immature and cute, could it be that some long-lost brother has just recognized his relatives? I feel like I can make up CP!

Ignoring the two girls with strange expressions, looking in the alleyway on the street, Nishino Renyin soon saw a ramen shop with the word "饂饨" written on the door curtain, nine times out of ten it is an old shop specializing in udon noodles - the ancient udon shop door is written with dumplings, but because the pronunciation is too similar to うどん (udon), the curtain of the new store is basically written on the udon.

"That's it." Nishino Renne asked for advice with his eyes, and when he saw that Nakaka had no opinion, he walked in with him, sat down in the corner on the side, and immediately asked the shopkeeper for two bowls of udon noodles and paid for it.

Udon noodles, soba noodles, and green tea noodles are the three major noodles in Japan, and they are the undisputed protagonists of any ramen shop.

The soup base for udon noodles varies from region to region, and the Kanto region, represented by Tokyo, generally uses a soy sauce soup base with a thick soy sauce, while Nishino Renne's city is Kyoto, which is naturally the practice in Kansai, which is usually a kombu seafood soup base with light soy sauce.

However, Nishino Renyin's taste adaptability is quite strong, at least the ramen soup base here in Kansai he thinks the taste is okay, while the owner is busy, his eyes are also locked on the owner's movements, which can be regarded as learning the practice of udon noodles - he has learned a lot of cooking messy, there are common dishes in izakaya, there are Chinese cuisine, and he learned a lot of noodles and sweets in the cooking research society, but the cultivation of ramen is not deep enough, in case the theme of the preliminary round of the God of Food Contest at the end of January is ramen, then he estimates that he will choke enough.

So while the king of the master is now watching, maybe he can learn some hidden skills from the black iron rookie.

The speed of the shopkeeper is still very fast, and it didn't take long to wait for two bowls of noodles, Nishino Renyin retracted his gaze, stopped looking, took two bites seriously, felt quite satisfied, and then asked: "Zhongzhong, where do you usually live on weekdays?" ”

This little Fu mourning god doesn't have such a thing as a mobile phone, so if you want to find him, you can only ask for your address. Last time, the two were not familiar with each other, so he didn't ask, but this time he figured out that he had a foundation of favorability, so he should be able to cheat it.

"I live behind the Izumo Road Riverside Park." Nakachu hesitated for a moment, but this time he said honestly, "Do you want to go?" But there's nothing interesting about my house, and you'll be disappointed when you see it. ”

Behind the park...... That's probably a homeless camp? Looking at his miserable appearance, it is estimated that the grandfather in his mouth is an old tramp, so he took him in?

Nishino Renyin thought about it for a while, and guessed that it was because he was too young and no one wanted a part-time job, so he could only follow the homeless man to pick up some things and sell them for money to make a living - Japan is different from China, begging is illegal and will be fined, so picking up garbage is the only means of survival.

However, this kid is very respectful of his grandfather, and it is estimated that he has a deep affection, and at this time, even if he proposes to find him a family that is willing to accept him as an adopted son - for example, there are quite a lot of empty rooms in the Nishino family - he is probably not happy.

After eating the noodles and toppings, and then drank the ramen soup cleanly, Inoue subconsciously rubbed his swollen and soft little belly, revealing a satisfied expression. But he's obviously still a little unsatisfied, and if it's not too unsightly to attract attention, he can hold the bowl of ramen soup and lick it again to make sure there's nothing left.

"Thank you for your hospitality." Zhongzhong said a little embarrassed, probably recalling the noodle eating posture he had just gobbled up, and felt a little ashamed.

Although a monster like him whose body is a sword can't starve to death, it doesn't mean that he won't be uncomfortable, and if he doesn't replenish food as energy for a long time, he will probably not be able to maintain his transformation posture and change back to his original state - the kind of cultivation exercises that are getting stronger and stronger in fantasy novels don't exist at present, and many monsters don't know how they "cultivated" into demons, let alone what the whole exercise came out, most of them are resigned to fate, and whether they are powerful or not is purely a matter of face.

"It's okay, can I follow you to your place in a while, I don't mean anything else, I just want to know how I can find you in the future." Nishino Renyin asked as he walked out with him, "Don't hide it, I appreciate your sense of justice when you see injustice, I want to be friends with you, if you need help in the future, I can also stick a knife in your ribs." ”

"Two-ribbed knives?" Nakachu looked at him in surprise, "You're going to insert me?" ”

Nishino Renyin: "......"

He was speechless for a while, and could only explain the meaning of this Chinese idiom to Zhongzhong, and Zhongzhong was also embarrassed, after all, he was a little monster, no guardian, no way to register his address, and naturally he couldn't go to school, and he didn't expect to make a fuss in terms of cultural knowledge - at this moment, he suddenly felt a little like going to school, after all, other children go to school, and always feel that going to school must be a particularly beautiful and happy thing!

"If you want to be friends...... No, no, no. Carrying the sack and the bamboo sword, he walked forward silently, and said with some hesitation, "But wait, you should think about it seriously, and I have to think about it too." ”

He and Nishino Renyin only met for the second time today, even if they have a good impression, it will progress too quickly to become friends all of a sudden, at least everyone should be more familiar with each other, understand each other a little better, and if you don't know each other, you say that you want to be friends, that kind of friend is too superficial, and it is not a superficial brother to say that it is a superficial brother.

And he felt that when Nishino Renyin saw where he lived, he wouldn't want to have any contact with him anymore - not that he had low self-esteem, but that he had been disliked before.

The riverside park on the Izumo Road side is next to the Kamogawa River, and it's quite far from the shopping street on the Nakakyo side of Nakagyo Ward, so it takes an hour to walk there.

Nishino Renyin looked at the time for a while, and found that it was a little late, unless he took the train to the southern district immediately, he was afraid that he would not be able to catch up with the opening time of his grandfather's side, so he decisively asked for leave - there was Kyoko in the store to replace the work of the Snow Girl, and the battle-hardened veteran of Grandpa himself was not short of helpers, and the impact of his leave would not be great.

The old man quickly agreed, but he was a little unhappy emotionally.

No way, during this time, more and more customers have come to dine because of the legendary title of "Pleasure Food Magician", if Nishino Renyin is in the store, he can make a little side dish with mind interference skills to meet the needs of the guests, and then the old man who shoulders the title of "Phantom Knife Guest" is responsible for higher quality dishes. But if Nishino Renyin doesn't come today, the guests will have some complaints—even if it's just a few guests complaining, it will hurt the old man's fragile and arrogant self-esteem.

After about an hour, Nishino Renon and Nakaka finally walked to the inaccessible Izumo Road Riverside Park.

At this point in time, there are no people on the road near the park, and it is dark and even a little gloomy, and I feel that the probability of hitting ghosts in this neighborhood is higher than that of ordinary people.

"I'll go in first and talk to Grandpa." As he spoke, he walked in with his things, and he had sold about 2,000 yen of recyclable garbage in the sack on the way, which was a "bumper harvest", and he was in a good mood.

Nishino Renyin nodded, and didn't plan to follow up. Homeless people are a discriminated group in Japan, and they are very fragile, and he is worried that he will disturb them if he goes in without greeting.

However, he does not discriminate against the homeless, and many people now think that the reason why the homeless are homeless is that they are lazy and unwilling to work, but in fact this is not the case. Ninety-seven percent of the homeless in Japanese society are elderly men, and the reason for the collapse of the bubble economy in the last century and the heavy debts of many families are due to the fact that the husbands of some families have resolutely divorced their wives in order to enable their wives and children to live a normal life, and choose to bear everything alone.

Most of the homeless people's gathering places are also places like parks, because they can provide clean water and maintain their last dignity.

Nishino waited quietly at the entrance of the park for a while, and suddenly had a feeling of hair all over her body, as if she was being targeted by something terrible.

He felt a little strange in his heart, and quickly looked around, and his gaze quickly froze - under the lamppost on the other side of the path outside the park, the Ibaraki boy with the evil spirit servant was standing there, looking at him directly, and stretched out his white little hand and waved, as if to greet him in a friendly manner.