End of meeting.

Everyone immediately prepared for tomorrow's action.

As the saying goes, sharpening a knife is not a mistake for a woodcutter.

Tsukimo took out his phone and left Shogo Tokiwa's room while calling Nosuke Hashinosuke.

She plans to use the power of the police to find Hidaka Hitoshi's information.

In modern society, this is almost the easiest and most efficient method.

What's more, it's not the first time they've asked Shinnosuke Tomari for help with a commission like checking people's information...... It is estimated that it will not be less in the future.

As soon as he thought of this, Yue Yu couldn't help but fold his hands in his heart and prayed sincerely:

[I hope that the eldest brother can get used to it as soon as possible.] ]

Immediately, the phone was connected.

"Hey, big brother, it's me, I'm the ...... of Yueyu"

With the sound of footsteps going downstairs, Tsukiyo's voice became farther and farther away.

The second to leave the room was Gates.

His pre-mission is to find the Demon Dragon.

The Demon Monster is a monster.

And when it comes to monsters, urban legends and weird stories are usually indispensable.

It just so happened that Shogo Tokiwa knew an expert who knew this well.

His younger sister - Yu Kinoshita.

So, what is the latest and hottest urban legend related to the mysterious disappearance of the population?

Tokiwa Shogo helped Gates make an appointment with a schoolgirl.

Gates went to the appointment.

It was Woxz who left after that.

After saluting respectfully to Shogo Tsukiwa, he kept the waiter gracefully stepping back and leaving.

Suddenly...... Convince an organization.

The task is heavy, but correspondingly, the pressure is not small.

Woz mentally counted the various unfolds after the actual meeting with the Mengshi organization, and then wrote one similar and different script after another in his mind.

Finally, Shogo Tokiwa got up, waved his hand, and used teleportation magic to clean up the furniture used for the meeting, and left the room as well.

"Kacha!"

The door is closed, and the inside and outside are separated.

There was no one in the room, it was empty, except for the advance of the clock hands on the desk, echoing louder and louder in the quiet room.

"Tick! Tick! Tick ——! ”

……

……

Outside the Earth Purification Ceremony.

For the strange forest that surrounded the Earth Purification Ritual Ground, the Mengshi Organization has never relaxed its vigilance and monitoring.

It's just that this monitoring work is not sent by the Kanto branch, but by the headquarters of the Mengshi organization, the Yoshino headquarters, to be in charge of it full-time.

Of course, since they came to the area under the responsibility of the Kanto branch, they began to be under the jurisdiction of the Kanto branch.

Therefore, the object of their work is the Kanto branch.

Then, the Kanto branch will organize the report and report it to the Yoshino headquarters.

Here's the process.

In the process, the monitoring report submitted by the monitoring personnel to the Kanto branch is a daily report.

The report compiled by the Kanto branch and submitted to the Yoshino headquarters is reported once a week.

Now, although the demonic dragons in the outside world have increased abnormally again, the strange forest that surrounds the earth purification ritual field is still unchanged for more than ten years.

There are a total of six monitoring personnel, divided into three groups.

One group during the day, one group at night, and one group on rotation.

As the sun sets, two monitors from the Day Group are retrieving the scattered disc gods and recording their observations.

One of them is responsible for playing the sound recorded by the disc god, and the other is responsible for recording it.

However, at the end of this stage of work, they were about to put the recovered disc gods back out, and then waited for the night group to rotate, and when they turned back in the direction of the forest, they found a young man full of ethereal aura standing in front of the forest......

Obviously he was standing there, but it gave people a feeling of endless distance, unattainable.

Under the influence of this aura, the scenery in front of me, which had become extremely familiar because of years of observation, suddenly became unfamiliar.

The surveillance personnel seemed to see that the space was extending infinitely, and in that endless and vast space, the mysterious and ethereal young man was not looking at a forest, but confronting each other with a behemoth composed of earth, rocks and forests.

In this confrontation, it seems that even time has lost its meaning.

Magnificent, magnificent.

The wind rose, the leaves rustled and the black knitted cardigan on the young man's body floated.

The picture of time condensed comes alive because of this, but the magnificent illusion is also shattered and returns to reality.

The surveillance personnel came back to their senses and saw that the young man raised his feet, as if he wanted to step into the strange forest, and they hurriedly shouted to stop them.

"Wait! That forest is too dangerous to enter——!

！ ”

At the shouting, the young man stopped and turned back.

"I know."

He said with a smile on his lips.

"You're the ones who monitor this forest from the Mengshi Organization."

was revealed by the young man, and the faces of the two monitors couldn't help but show a look of shock.

"How do you know ......?" They asked subconsciously.

"Don't worry, tomorrow my representative will visit your Kanto branch, and he will give you an answer."

"Who the hell are you?"

"We're - the Historical Authority."

With that, the young man withdrew his gaze, stepped out, and his figure flickered into the forest like a phantom, disappearing.

Seeing this, the two monitors who wanted to continue to ask something had to give up such an idea for the time being.

They looked at each other and immediately went into action.

One of the surveillance personnel immediately dialed the phone number of the Tachibana dessert shop to convey the anomaly that had occurred here, as well as the words of the mysterious young man, to Tachibana Shijiro to know.

Another monitor quickly released the disc gods and let them into the forest to track down the mysterious young man.

However, these disc gods are destined for nothing.

Because, after entering the forest, the young man Tokiwa Shogo, quickly stopped time.

With the sound of the clock hands moving in the void, the time stop realm unfolded, and the wood spirit puppets that were activated by the arrival of Tokiwa Sogo instantly fell silent, motionless, docile and well-behaved.

But there was a voice that was never affected by the state of time stopping.

Drumbeat!

And, in such a quiet space, the sound of the drum became more and more obvious.

"Winter! Winter! Winter ——! ”

Shogo Tsukiwa stepped on the sound of the drums, step by step past the statue-like wooden spirit puppets, and walked towards the source of the drums, the earth purification ritual field where the alien ghost disappeared 13 years ago.

Finally, Shogo Tsukiwa walked to the center of the Earth Purification Ritual Field, where the Taiko Drum Monument had disappeared, paused, closed his eyes, and concentrated, carefully perceiving the source of the drum sound.

"Winter! Winter! Winter ——! ”

The rhythm of the drums is unusually steady, heavy, and powerful.

"Winter! Winter! Winter ——! ”

Tokiwa Shogo concentrates, concentrates, and concentrates...... Finally, he felt the subtle shaking and undulation of the ground beneath his feet.

It's like a taiko drum being struck with a drumstick.

One, two, three......

"Nope! Wrong! ”

Suddenly, Tokiwa opened his eyes and lowered his head, staring sharply at the ground under his feet.

"It's not just the sound of drums, it's the sound of a heartbeat!"