Thursday, April 7th, the night came exceptionally early. There was a thick layer of dark clouds rolling in the sky, and it looked like it was going to rain heavily, but it was not the rainy season.

Narumi Suzuki looked up at the sky, her hair ruffled by the wind as night fell, outlining her thin figure.

In the sand pit in the distance, two children piled up in silence in the castle, looking around, only the two children with Chengmei were left in the park, and it was even more deserted than some time ago.

The furball that lives in the park shrine has left, and the gray Jun has disappeared with Tsukasa Kurihara, so it stands to reason that this park should return to normal, however, the strange things have not stopped.

The housewife of the family living upstairs in Chengmei was taken to a special hospital because of hysteria, and at the same time that the news reached the residents, another high school boy began to have a high fever. Almost as a matter of course, he had a nightmare the next night, and the words he said in his dreams were still inseparable from the terrifying old woman.

Before high school students, all the recruits were women and the elderly, and the young adults in the community didn't think so, but some people took walks. Now a young man who should not have been infected by the "wind evil" has fallen, and the men who said that they were not afraid have also avoided the park.

Only Chengmei was left and couldn't move and took Ryogo and Nao to the park to play.

In fact, Cheng Mei was also afraid that he didn't want to come, but if he didn't come, Ryogo would keep making noise and even banging his head against the wall, and he would only be quiet when he came to the park. The same goes for Nao.

Cheng Mei can only come over hard. She saw the strangeness of the two children in her eyes, and had a bad premonition in her heart, but there was nothing she could do. The priest who had raised money to find them said that the matter had been resolved and would not ask them again, but someone heard that the priest had died, which confirmed the evil gate of this park.

Chengmei really doesn't know what to do. If you continue like this, you can't predict what will happen at all. And her Ryogo ······ Cheng Mei didn't dare to continue thinking about it.

She withdrew her gaze from the sky, walked over to the two children, and said, "Looks like it's going to rain, Ryogo, Nao, can we get here today?" ”

The first time she said it, the two children didn't respond to her, and they were doing sand piles by themselves, and Cheng Mei said it again, and it was still the same, and she said that the third time Ryogo looked up at her.

"Can I go?" Cheng Mei said with the greatest patience.

Ryogo didn't speak, and looked at a certain point next to Chengmei.

"Ryogo?" Chengmei shouted again.

Ryogo was still staring straight at that point, and his eyes were so sure that he seemed to have something.

Narumi suddenly felt a chill down her spine, and a sense of danger rushed from her tail vertebrae to her head, and she stiffened her neck and turned around a little bit along Ryogo's line of sight - nothing.

Cheng Mei breathed a sigh of relief, walked up to Ryogo and hugged him, touched his head with her hand and said, "Let's go home, Nao too." Michiko will be back later today, and Nao will have dinner with us. ”

After speaking, Cheng Mei got up and took one by one and left.

The street lights are already on, but the park's abundant trees attract most of the light, and at night it becomes even more eerie. I don't know when the fog started in the park.

At first it was a hazy layer, which gradually thickened, and strangely only the part of the park was fogged - the park was empty.

And the point that Ryogo had been staring at before, the mist wriggled more frequently, as if something was breaking out of the shell.

Perhaps that's exactly what happened.

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Tsukasa Kurihara took Katsuko's omamori back to the Fog House and went to the room to see Akane, who was still in the form of a white fox and was in a ball on the bed to recuperate. He hung the omamori around Akane's neck and touched her head to feel the soft fur before returning to the living room.

Furball, who had turned into a dog, was resting in his room, and Tsukasa Kurihara wondered if he should go for a walk. But the hairball has neither excrement nor shedding, so it shouldn't need to be strong, and the only food I like to eat is the chicken feet that Tsukasa Kurihara fed it before.

Speaking of this, Tsukasa Kurihara felt that he hadn't eaten chicken feet for a long time, so he ordered one and called Nishijima by the way.

"Hey."

"Hey."

Nishijima heard this, and immediately sat up straight: "Kurihara... Kurihara-san? ”

"Hmm." Tsukasa Kurihara replied, "Are you free?" ”

"Empty... Available. But do you have anything to do with me? ”

"I have a new story here, I think you can find a time to come over and record it."

"Ah······h Nishijima didn't expect what Tsukasa Kurihara said before to be true.

"How?"

"Nothing! When is it convenient for you? I'm available at any time. ”

"Tomorrow. After lunch, I came to the fog and walked the house. There are quite a few things that need to be recorded. ”

"Okay. I understand. ”

"By the way, do you know anyone in the publishing industry?"

"Publishing? Do you want to ·····"

"The guild book of the Fog House I talked about earlier."

Nishijima reacted to his thoughts, but he didn't expect that Tsukasa Kurihara would really make a guildbook, and he was silent for two seconds before responding: "There should be." ”

"Then this matter will be left to you, how much money is needed, you say, I will call your account."

“······ Good. ”

"Also, pick some of the stories you have recorded and focus them on in the booklet, and compile them into the first book of what you, Anda, and I told you tomorrow. We'll talk about it in detail when we meet tomorrow, bye-bye. ”

Hanging up the phone, the chicken feet ordered by Tsukasa Kurihara also arrived, and he happily went to open the door, but he didn't expect that it was not the food delivery staff who appeared at the door, but a tall man - Beiyoshi in a suit.

Tsukasa Kurihara looked at him several times to make sure that he was not mistaken, and then said, "An Yunsan, it's so late, do you have something?" ”

Beiji looked much haggard than before, the whole person was thinner, the beard on his face was also grown, and the only good thing was that his eyes were very bright.

Beyoshi took out an invitation and handed it to Tsukasa Kurihara, saying, "Hieda Shrine will hold a theological exchange meeting this Saturday, and Kurihara-san will be invited to participate. ”

"That's it." Tsukasa Kurihara took the invitation and didn't look at it, "It depends on the situation then, and I don't know if I have time." ”

Beiyoshi was noncommittal about this, and he didn't seem to care if Tsukasa Kurihara attended the exchange meeting. He came in person to say what was going to be said next.

"My father is dead."

"Condolences." Tsukasa Kurihara said politely.

Beiji continued: "We are all mentally prepared for this matter, there is nothing to say. But it doesn't seem like it's over yet. ”

"Huh?" Tsukasa Kurihara's relaxed expression became serious.

"Kurihara-san, do you remember the park where we first met? Strange events continue to occur near the park. "Bringing the residents back to normal life is something my father promised to do when he was alive. Now that my father is dead, that's my responsibility. But I'm afraid I can't solve it in my ability. Kurihara-san, can you please help me? ”