Katsuko Okami came this time to hand over the contract drawn up by the lawyer to Tsukasa Kurihara for signing, as for Akane—

"I'm really sorry for Akane's rude behavior before, Kurihara-san." The great god Katsuko bowed his head slightly and apologized to Akane, "This time, in addition to the contract, there is another thing that needs to trouble you. ”

Katsuko said, "Akane may not be suitable for her to stay at the shrine right now. Because of the supernatural event of a thousand people some time ago, the shrine in Tokyo ushered in a new wave of worshippers. Akane has a peculiar personality, and some of her actions are biased in the face of the public, if Kurihara-san doesn't mind, can you let her temporarily live in the Fog House before the Qingqiu envoy visits? ”

Tsukasa Kurihara put down the contract in his hand, looked up at Katsuko Okami first, and saw the sincere pleases on her face, which reminded Tsukasa Kurihara of a lot of mother's roles. In a sense, Katsuko Okami is indeed Akane's reborn parent.

After watching Katsuko Okami, Tsukasa Kurihara looked at Akane again.

When Tsukasa Kurihara turned his face away, Akane immediately looked away, turning his head sideways, not knowing what he was looking at, and not daring to look at Tsukasa Kurihara.

The current scene is like a child in trouble apologizing to the head teacher under the leadership of his mother.

Thinking of this, Tsukasa Kurihara's expressionless face became a little lighter. He took the pen next to him and signed his name in the name column of the contract, in duplicate, and handed one of them to the other party when he was done, and replied, "Okay." ”

Such a refreshing answer made Katsuko stunned, and Akane next to her widened her eyes.

What does he mean by that? Want to torture me? Akane thought to herself, no. It's so easy to say yes, it's not like his style.

Katsuko quickly reacted: "Thank you very much, Kurihara-san. ”

"It's fine." Tsukasa Kurihara replied, "One is also a belt, and two are also belts." ”

After speaking, Tsukasa Kurihara opened the manual that Katsuko Ogami had carefully bound for him, flipped to the table of contents, and said to Katsuko: "Ogami San, can you please add a strange remark to the manual of Inari Shrine." ”

"Huh?"

Tsukasa Kurihara called out to the hairball lying next to him, and the hairball walked to Tsukasa Kurihara with his feet stretched out and was a little confused.

Hairball originally thought it was just a beautiful girl who appeared out of nowhere.,Maybe it's the one who got her wish come true.,But chatting about what it felt was wrong - these two people are from the shrine.。

It's nothing to talk to the people at the shrine on an equal footing.,Now do you just sign a contract and make a deal? That's too strong, isn't it?

"The hairball is my style god, and I saw that there was no record in the manual, so I thought maybe I could record it as an expansion."

"Furballs?" Katsuko looked at the furball in confusion.

"Priest, it's me!" The hairball responds.

Now Akane finally found something to see.

Is this also a strange story? What a strange look. The weird talk seems to look weird.

Akane hadn't seen much of the strange talk, at most it was a spirit left in the world. Because of resentment, or other unknown reasons, the human soul will exist in the world for a certain period of time. As a shrine messenger, Akane saw this kind of thing the most, and she looked confused as she followed the people who came to worship, as if she didn't realize her death.

Seeing the hairball, Katsuko agreed: "Of course you can." But we don't just need to record the names, we also need to have the source of the strange story and the solution to it. Can you tell me? ”

"Hmm." Tsukasa Kurihara nodded, and then asked the furball to tell Katsuko his story.

The furball hadn't figured out the situation yet, but with Tsukasa Kurihara's approval, he subconsciously told Katsuko his story.

After saying that, Katsuko asked it what its weaknesses were.

Furball thought carefully and shook his head: "It's nothing. In fact, as long as the other party has no distractions, I have no choice at all. ”

"That's right." Katsuko smiled and said, "If you are weak, what you hate, how you can't meet it, these are all counted." You can't kill ordinary people, you just need to protect yourself. ”

"I see." Furball nodded.

"But where did the name Furball come from?" Katsuko asked.

"Because of this shape. At the beginning, I didn't have a lot of vocabulary, so I called myself a hairball. ”

"Okay." Katsuko also made a note of this and asked, "Would it be any good if I had you?" ”

"The benefits? I don't know. But life was smooth when the kid didn't have so many distractions in his heart, and most of the people who were able to pick me up and have me after that were also like that. Although you will not be rich, you can live in peace. I think at the time of the Shogunate Rebellion, but I helped hide several civilians. "Furball has a little pride.

Katsuko praised it: "It's really good, hairball-san." ”

Katsuko's chatting and questioning are very comfortable, and Furball is willing to talk to her, and she is the type to answer questions. Katsuko asked carefully, and it had nothing to hide, so it said it all.

"Alright, that's it." Katsuko finished the questioning and said to Tsukasa Kurihara, "When I get back, I'll keep the hairball-san in the book." Is it okay for her to come the day after tomorrow? ”

"Hmm."

After talking, Katsuko and Akane left, and Maoqiu excitedly said to Tsukasa Kurihara: "It turns out that the priest is not so terrible, it's all a trivial matter." ”

"Why don't you go to Inari Shrine and see it yourself?"

"Ah, that's not necessary." The hairball immediately wilted, "It's too much to go to the shrine without the permission of the owner's family." ”

Tsukasa Kurihara smiled and flipped through the manual given by Katsuko.

After returning to the shrine, Katsuko did not break her promise, she immediately took out a pen and paper and wrote the story of the hairball on white paper with the information she had just gotten in handwriting.

The handbook of Inari Shrine is owned by each Miyaji, and it is placed in order in the storage room closed by the shrine. Not only to record strange stories, but also to record events that the palace secretary felt necessary to record. After the records are completed in the palace secretary's manual, the strange talk can be entered into the special strange talk manual.

It was already evening when the recording was finished, and the elderly Katsuko took off her glasses and rubbed her eyebrows.

Akane appeared behind her, and Akane looked at Katsuko's tired back, turned into a white fox and jumped on Katsuko's lap and lay cross-legged on Katsuko's lap.

Katsuko felt Akane and touched her fur lovingly, quiet and peaceful.

"Miyaji-sama." Akane's voice was muffled, "I don't feel good about that person. He ····· Makes me scared. It's not like you're scared when you first faced Miyaji-sama, and it's not like you're facing a monk. He scared me, just, scared when he was going to kill me. It's true! The kind that is life-threatening! ”

Speaking of this, Akane looked up at Katsuko, very aggrieved.

Katsuko gently stroked her head, looked at her and said, "Well, I know. After all, it was something that came out of prison. ”

"Miyaji-sama, he's really dangerous, so I still have to go over?"

"Akane, if you think it's dangerous, doesn't that mean that the people who came to pick you up also feel dangerous?"

"However, he made me feel different from other people, very different."

"That's why I'm going to let you stay with him. It's hard for me to protect you on my own. Katsuko said, "Whatever he is." Akane, as long as you can be well, it doesn't matter. ”