Chapter 39: From C to A-
Aya Sonoda woke up from her sleep, and she opened her eyes, and there was not the slightest hint of pus in her eyes that she should have woken up.
She's become a youkai, and she's a youkai that doesn't need sleep, but as a human, it's still her habit to lie in bed after dark and close her eyes.
I took the small sleeves and the scarlet hakama from the side and put them on my body, put on the foot bag, stepped on the grass shoes, and after a while, Aya Sonoda became a shrine maiden dress.
She's been a shrine maiden at Todai Shrine since three days ago.
It sounds a little strange for a youkai to be a shrine maiden of the gods, but since the gods and youkai have no opinion, there is nothing to say.
What's more, this seems to be the best ending for her.
With the protection of the Todai mountain god, she is just an innocent girl possessed by a youkai, and if there is no Todai mountain god behind her, she will become a youkai who brutally slaughtered hundreds of people.
It doesn't matter if it's her own hand or not, the important thing is that some people want to control her.
After the temptations and temptations of certain forces, whether overt or covert, these days, Aya Sonoda is now extremely sure of this.
Life on Mount Todai is very comfortable, if there is any dissatisfaction, it is probably that she misses her home a little, and in addition, she also misses school a little.
Although I always dislike it when I stay at home and at school, I don't want to stay there, but when I really leave for a while, I miss it inexplicably.
In the past few days, she has still met with her family via video, but for the school, she has completely lost contact.
Because she died inexplicably and became a monster inexplicably, she still hasn't adapted to her identity.
This also made her a little unsure of how to face other classmates, after all, the changes in her body and appearance can be easily seen by anyone who knows her, and she can't just tell her classmates that she has become a monster, right?
Aya Sonoda stood in front of the mirror and looked at herself in the form of a shrine maiden.
The face that could only be regarded as cute and beautiful is now a little addicted to even looking at it herself, it is even more perfect than the idol she once pushed, not only some changes in her facial features, but also changes in her skin, all the blemishes are gone, if it weren't for the slightly pale complexion, it would be perfect.
Think about the Snow Maiden and the demon sword woman who calls herself the Ghost King, it seems that the humanoid monsters are both beautiful and shocking.
If modern girls knew about it, they would definitely do everything possible to find a way to become a monster.
Looking at herself in the mirror, Aya Sonoda couldn't help but think.
If I had to say that I have any regrets
That's probably because the figure is too skinny.
Originally, she could still be called a small and large-scale boobs, but now she is flat.
This should be a unique trait of the Bone Girl, but this trait makes her very sad.
Whether it's the Snow Maiden or the Ghost King, it's clear that their scale is not small.
After a little complaint, Aya Sonoda still dressed up for herself.
Today is a special day.
A few days ago, because she was worried that she would be forcibly taken away by some forces, she has not left the confines of the Todai Shrine these days.
But from today onwards, she could even go back to school – a new school, of course.
Because the shrine and the Metropolitan Police Department have established a cooperative relationship, the shrine will send personnel to the Metropolitan Police Department to serve as advisors to assist the Metropolitan Police Department in handling certain special events, and the Metropolitan Police Department will provide various benefits and benefits to the shrine and the dispatched consultants.
The real count of Todai Shrine is actually a total of three people, including the god master, the god and her shrine maiden, and the Metropolitan Police Department did not hesitate to poach two-thirds of the personnel from their shrine, leaving only one god to guard the shrine alone.
Obviously, the details of the cooperation were discussed only yesterday, but the Metropolitan Police Department's car had already parked at the foot of Mount Todai before dawn today, and they were waiting to move these two transcendents to the Metropolitan Police Department as quickly as possible.
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Metropolitan Police Department.
With all the heads of departments and above in the Special Section, plus the real high-level members of the Metropolitan Police Department, a new meeting has begun.
Ayako Todai shrank back and wiped her face a little depressedly.
The special class meetings have not stopped these days, especially for them as the management.
The newly established department had too many issues to negotiate, and the personnel transfers that had been made in a hurry left many problems.
The refamiliarization within the department is one thing, the division of responsibilities between departments is also the other, and there are all kinds of small problems, and these ordinary police officers below are not qualified to ask, so all the affairs are all on their heads.
They're busy enough, and those abominable monsters don't know how to stop.
In just a few days, they have been given a series of major events that shocked the Internet.
The death of hundreds of people, the slaughter of humans by youkai, the existence of gods, are expected......
There are also various statements on the Internet questioning the government's concealment of information and doubting the ability of the Metropolitan Police Department.
But what can they do?
They've worked hard to kill dozens of youkai, but can the rest of them really be defeated with conventional weapons?
The Metropolitan Police Department has received a large number of resignation applications these days, all of which are elite police officers who faced the battle of the gods and demons in Zhongzhu Street that day.
As long as people who saw the war that day would not think that they could compete with those beings with firearms, of course, the senior management of the Metropolitan Police Department also knew this, so they were so attentive to woo Todai Asako, the daughter of the mountain god, and Ayaya Sonoda, the bone girl.
"Now that the staff is there, let's start the meeting."
The first few bigwigs nodded in agreement, and then an analyst stepped forward.
The big screen lit up.
"First of all, it's about why the yokai appeared, and the only useful clues we've got so far are the words that Todai Yamagami once said, 'All the gods are asleep,' and the female youkai with the demon knife said, 'I'm just trying to see how far the recovery has gone.'
If what they say is true, then it can be judged that the gods and youkai were real hundreds of years ago, but for some reason they fell into a deep sleep.
And now they are there because they are gradually waking up from their slumber, and in the future, more gods and yokai will awaken one by one, appearing in Japan and around the world. ”
"By the way, the judgment of the time of the yokai's existence is based on the age of Todai Shrine's existence, and we judge that the first appearance of Todai Shrine is between 400 and 300 years ago.
Since the god Todai was once worshipped by Todai Shrine as a deity, and he left behind a magic weapon containing divine power, he must have existed at that time.
In other words, gods and yokai were possible until the Azuchi-Momoyama period and even the early Edo period, but we have no clue as to the end of the mythical age. ”
"It's a pity that the wild shrine originally enshrined at Todai Shrine is gone, otherwise we can tell a more accurate date."
The analysts all said with regret.
If the original Nojin shrine of Todai Shrine still exists, they can determine how old the wood was based on its growth rings and carbon-14 measurement.
If the altar where the Exorcism Blade was hidden could be left to their own devices, they would be able to determine the age of its construction in a similar way.
He still regrets the lack of clues, but everyone here doesn't care, they just need the results and the answers.
"Why did youkai and gods wake up in Tokyo in the first place?" A senior executive of the General Affairs Department asked with some headaches, "No matter what you think, these things should be the most abundant in the Kyoto area, right?" ”
He is in charge of online public opinion affairs, and the recent trend on the Internet can be described as extremely unfriendly to the Metropolitan Police Department, almost all condemnation and suspicion.
All sorts of problems weighed on his head to be solved, so much so that he sometimes complained to himself about why this happened in Tokyo in the first place.
The analyst pondered for a moment and replied:
"There is no valid evidence to judge this for the time being, but we have a guess that the legend is that the yokai rely on the 'fear' of humans, and the gods rely on the 'faith' of humans. Both are inseparable from humans, and Tokyo, as the most populous and densely populated area in Japan, naturally generates the most 'fear' and 'faith', so we suspect that the gods and yokai in the Tokyo area will be the first to awaken. ”
"Just guessing?"
"Just a guess!"
"And what about the motive for the yokai attack? Why did youkai attack the Yakuza organization's location? Is it possible to determine the identity and whereabouts of the leader youkai? ”
Another big guy asked.
It's impossible for youkai to disappear in normal times, and it's very likely that they're hiding somewhere, so if you can get track of their whereabouts, the Metropolitan Police Department won't be so passive anymore.
If you can further grasp the logic of the monster's actions and judge their next move, the Metropolitan Police Department can even turn the passive into the active.
"There is also insufficient evidence on this point, so we can only make some guesses on our own volition, and according to the legends of the Snow Maiden and the Bone Maiden, we guess that the reason for the destruction of the Nakago Group is probably because of their trading.
Whether it's the Snow Girl or the Bone Girl, in the legend, they are monsters that specialize in hunting thin men.,In addition, there is a bride.,But the characteristics of the bride are obviously not consistent with the female monster holding a demon knife.。
Demon Knife, Twelve Singles, Women, it stands to reason that these characteristics should be very distinguishable, but we have not found similar records of monsters in the classics, and we can only think that this is an unknown powerful monster.
Of course, we also have a judgment, based on her clothing, hairstyle, and makeup, we guess that she should also be a monster transformed from a human, and it is very likely that she is the daughter of a high-class Chinese family or even a royal family. ”
The characteristics of the bride are spider women, which is obviously inconsistent with the woman holding the demon knife, her ability is all reflected in her demon knife and slashing, and it has nothing to do with the spider, obviously it can't be the bride.
But such a powerful youkai, and even with well-known youkai such as Snow Girl and Bone Maiden as its subordinates, why would it be unknown?
Hearing analysts' speculation about her identity, everyone in the room felt as if they understood something.
If she had been the daughter of a dignitary, but had been implicated in scandals involving the Chinese and even the royal family, then the lack of documentation about her seems understandable.
Erase the information plus blocking, they are familiar with this.
Another big guy asked, this is a supervisor sent directly by the cabinet.
"As for the Bone Maiden, I want to know how she became a youkai, you must have communicated with her."
His focus was obviously different from that of other Metropolitan Police Department executives, but the others just looked at him with an unexpected, reasonable expression, and they were not surprised.
No one questioned his motives, after all, there were a few old things who were going crazy to keep their lives going, and whoever dared to hinder them a little bit at such a time might be out of class tomorrow.
Everyone at the Metropolitan Police Department held their breath in unison, but the analyst didn't care at all.
"We did ask her about the Bone Maiden, or the girl who had obtained the Bone Maiden's power inheritance, but she didn't know much.
All we know from her is that she was already dead, but the Bone Maiden passed on her power to bring her back to life.
Bone Maiden's obsession is to kill all of the Exodos of the Resident Society, so she used her body to kill all of the Exodos present while in the LUST Building, and then vanished. ”
Hearing that Aya Sonoda died and came back to life, the big guy's eyes lit up, but the next words can be said to have no useful information.
"Nothing else?" The big guy frowned and asked.
The analyst shrugged his shoulders: "There is a speculation, if the bone girl's obsession is the resident society, then it means that she has an intersection with the resident society, combined with the legend of the birth of the bone girl and the main business of the resident society, we guess that she should have been forced to do that kind of thing and then killed, so she became the bone girl."
In other words, even the original Bone Girl is not a Bone Girl who has awakened from history, but a Bone Girl who was born recently. ”
"You mean that humans can become youkai if they meet certain conditions?"
"It seems like it should be like this at the moment."
"Is the condition proven?"
"Unprovable."
Hearing the analyst's words, he leaned back on the back of the chair and rubbed his eyes a little weakly: "Try your best to find out the ways and conditions to become a youkai or gain supernatural powers, you know, it's important to us." ”
He glanced at the analyst meaningfully.
The analyst was a little helpless, but there were people who he couldn't afford to offend, so he could only reply: "We will do our best." ”
As the meeting continued, analysts stood in front of the screen answering question after question, and from time to time Takaoka and other heads of special classes took the stage to explain.
Ayako Todai also stepped forward to explain the progress of the Metropolitan Police Department's cooperation with major shrines and temples, and because of Todai Shrine, she was chosen to be the person in charge of this project.
After all, this plan is now specially prepared for Todai Shrine, and there is no reason to let her go of the police department surnamed Todai.
Feeling a little tired, she returned to her seat, and she wished that someone would interrupt the meeting.
"Section Chief!"
"Bang!"
The door to the conference room was suddenly pushed open, and a panting police officer ran in in a bit of panic.
Everyone frowned and looked at this officer, here is all the high-ranking people of the entire Metropolitan Police Department, if he can't give a reasonable explanation, I'm afraid his career will end here.
Gao Gang Xiongdou looked at this old subordinate of his own, he knew him very well, if it wasn't really a big deal, he wouldn't be so flustered.
I'm afraid something happened!
"Calm down, Ito, what's going on?"
"Hey!" Ito Liang subconsciously replied, and then his face immediately became ugly.
"The second mobile search team has reported that a youkai has been found in Meguro Ward, and it has been confirmed that about 100 people have been killed, including four members of the search team!"