Kamiya has been busy changing houses these days, signing contracts, going through formalities, and starting to buy furniture and furnish a new home.

Although things are a little trivial and troublesome, fortunately, everything is going relatively smoothly.

Kamiyagawa is officially settled in Arakawa.

This Sunday morning.

In the master bedroom on the second floor of Arakawa's new home, four door-to-door installers are skillfully assembling a king-size solid wood suspension bed with a bit of Nordic style.

"Young man, do you need to buy a bed that big?"

"The room is big, and I personally like to sleep big."

Kamiyagawa stood at the door of the master bedroom, chatting with the masters.

When the bed was almost installed, Kamiya received a phone call.

It was Masao Nagatomo who called.

Xiao Pingtou said on the phone that he had cooperated with the Special Operations Countermeasures Office to complete all the transcript investigations, and the first physical examination and test had also been completed.

At present, he has regained some freedom, saying that he wants to invite Kamiya River to dinner tonight to express his gratitude, and asked Kamiya if he is free.

"Okay, I'll see you that night."

Kamiyagawa casually agreed.

……

Crowded train carriages.

Masao Nagatomo stood with a bag of desserts in one hand and a safety handle in the other, his body swaying with the slight shaking of the train.

From today onwards, he has regained some freedom of movement, and he does not have to stay in the special operations countermeasures room all the time.

In addition, the good news is that the application submitted by Xiao Pingtou in the hope of becoming an official soul exorcist seems to be going through.

The organization plans to let Changyou become a supernumerary spirit master first, and then decide whether to become a regular after a period of necessary assessment.

This is the normal process of becoming an official exorcist.

A situation like Kamiyagawa's is a special case after all.

Generally, supernumerary Soul Eliminators will have an official Soul Eliminator acting as a guarantor and liaison.

To Nagatomo's surprise, his guarantor was the high-ranking member of the organization, Mr. Yuuki Makenyu.

Uncle Yuuki, as a high-level member of the organization, will definitely have no problem guiding Masao Nagatomo to formally contact the soul slayer industry.

There were already a lot of supernumerary members under him, but most of them were not used, and only Kamiyagawa's name had been hanging under him until then.

And for Changyou, it is also a good thing to follow the big gangster.

It's easier to get out of the way.

After standing all the way thinking about his thoughts, Nagatomo Masao finally heard the platform of his trip to the destination-

"The train is about to arrive at Azumabashi Station, so please be careful of the gap between the train and the platform."

The train doors slowly opened.

Passengers dressed in various clothes and with different expressions hurriedly got on and off the bus.

Nagayou followed the flow of people out of the train station.

He hadn't been here much before, but this time he came to find someone.

Changyou lifted his hand and carried the bag of very light desserts in his hand, then took out the pocket of his pants and found a red string with a small bright silver sheet.

This red rope was brought back by him from Aokigahara in the inner world.

Originally belonged to a kind housewife aunt, Kitaki Daino.

That aunt entered the inner world at the same time as Changyou, but ...... She didn't have a chance to come back.

Nagatomo Masao stood at the entrance of the subway station, staring at the red rope in his hand.

"Where do you go next?"

As Changyou asked a question softly, he saw that on the silver piece hanging from the red rope, a small white shadow the size of a fingernail squirmed out.

This thing is a tiny, tiny crumb of a living soul.

Ever since the soul of the spirit slayer predecessor was entangled in his body, Changyou's sense of this kind of spirit thing has become more and more sensitive.

The people in the countermeasures room said that Changyou was originally a relatively rare "yin" physique.

After accommodating a relatively complete living soul, the potential of his body was probably slowly developed.

"She said to go left!"

The voice of the senior sounded in my ears again.

"Okay."

Nagaso looked to the side, and could roughly see an extremely mollud white shadow swirling out of his body. Maybe in the near future, he will be able to see the full appearance of this "senior" who has helped him a lot.

……

Nagatomo Masao walked and stopped under the instructions, and after walking for more than half an hour, he came to a red-walled building.

On the table at the door, the surname of this family is written-

Beihui.

"Looks like this is it."

Nagayou rang the doorbell.

After the bell rang three times, the door of the one-family building was opened from the inside, and it was opened by a casually dressed man who looked to be in his forties.

"Hello Mr. Beihui."

Nagaso politely bowed slightly to the other party.

"You are?"

"When we first met, my name was Nagatomo Masao, and Aunt Daino entrusted me to deliver something to your house."

"Who is Daino?"

The middle-aged man standing behind the door had a confused look in his eyes, and then he became in a trance, as if he remembered something, and as if he didn't remember anything.

"Daddy!"

Just as he hesitated, a very energetic child's voice sounded behind him.

A little boy wearing a baseball cap who looked to be in his early teens trotted all the way behind Mr. Beihui and looked curiously at the door of Nagatomo Masao.

"Kid, you're Beihui's pro-second, right?" Nagatomo tries to be friendly.

"Big brother, do you know me?" The little boy blinked wide.

"Hmm." Changyou nodded, glanced at the red rope in his hand, and then handed out the dessert bag in his other hand:

"This is Strawberry Daifuku, which Aunt Daino entrusted me to give to you. She said she was sorry that she couldn't give Daifuku to you personally, and she said that she hoped that you would grow up quickly and become a man like your father. ”

"Oh......"

Beihui didn't know why the eldest brother he had never seen outside the door suddenly said something strange, and he didn't know who the so-called Aunt Dai Nai was.

I just vaguely feel that the name sounds a little familiar.

But the child didn't think about it so much, and his attention was quickly attracted by the dessert bag handed by Changyou, and his eyes sparkled to take it:

"Oh! Strawberry Daifuku! I like Strawberry Daifuku the most! ”

Mr. Beihui on the side originally wanted to stop his son from accepting something from a stranger, but Changyou interrupted him with his mouth: "Mr. Beihui, this is what Aunt Dai Nai asked me to pass on to you." ”

Xiao Pingtou said this, and handed out the red rope with the silver piece.

After this red rope was brought back to reality, it was cleaned several times, and there was no obvious blood stain on it.

Mr. Beihui stretched out his hand almost vaguely and took the red rope that looked inexplicably familiar.

The moment the middle-aged gentleman touched the red rope, Changyou saw a small white shadow appear on the small bright silver sheet again, and squirmed slightly, completely dissipating as if his wish had been fulfilled.

He didn't say anything superfluous, bowed slightly, and turned to leave.

Mr. Beihui stared at the red rope in his hand with a confused expression, and he didn't know why, but he felt a sad emotion for no reason.

"Wait a minute, what the hell are you talking about...... Yono?"

When he reacted and looked up again, he found that the flat-headed young man just now was gone.

"Dad, that brother is gone." Beihui next to him said this, he raised the dessert bag in his hand and ran towards the restaurant with an excited face, "Oh! There is a great fortune to eat! ”

Ultimately.

Mr. Beihui did not stop his son from eating strangers' things, nor did he discard the red rope of unknown origin at will.

This building is in an alley outside the building.

Xiao Pingtou walked slowly in it, looking very preoccupied.

After walking a few more steps, before he could completely walk out of the alley, he suddenly tilted his head slightly, and it was the soul senior who spoke in his ear again:

"Changyou, that little piece of the living soul of Beihui Daino said before it dissipated—she thanked you very much."

……

In the evening, an izakaya called "Ito House".

With its messy wires and old wooden planks, this old-looking, slightly dilapidated izakaya is where Nagatomo meets Kamiyagawa for dinner on the phone in the morning.

Xiao Pingtou arrived about 10 minutes early.

Although the exterior of the Ito house is shabby, the interior decoration is not bad. It's not as expensive as the big stores, but it's warm and close to the people.

After waiting for a while, I saw Kamiyagawa open the curtain at the door of the izakaya and walk in.

In Japan, some izakaya do not allow minors to enter without an adult.

However, there are also izakaya that allow minors to eat skewers and drink drinks in the store, but they don't serve alcohol.

The "Ito family" belongs to the latter group.

"Kamiya-kun, this way!"

After meeting, Kamiyagawa and Nagatomo Masao briefly exchanged pleasantries for a while.

The place where they sat was the corner of the izakaya.

In addition, the sound in the store is already very noisy, and it is basically the elderly social animal uncle who drinks and brags here, making loud noises, and venting his dissatisfaction with his daily work in this way.

So Kamiya and Nagatomo's conversation can be a little more open, and the people around them can't notice what they're talking about.

Slowly, the dishes began to be served to the table by the waiter.

The two chatted while eating.

One of the advantages of eating at this small izakaya is that the price of kebabs here is relatively cheap compared to other places, and you can eat all-you-can-eat without spending too much money.

Kamiyagawa picked up a skewer of fat and thin grilled pork belly from the plate:

"So, Changyou, you really have to work in the Special Operations Countermeasures Room, and you are still a soul destroyer."

"Well, it's just a supernumerary, and it's hard to say whether it can become official."

"It works. Uncle Yuuki is willing to be your guarantor himself, and he must be very optimistic about you, and I guess he may even want you to be his assistant...... He had always lacked an assistant. And don't doubt Uncle Yuuki's vision, although he is occasionally a little out of tune, but his vision is excellent. ”

Kamiyagawa said this, thinking in his heart-

Well, that's right.

Uncle Yuuki's vision must be good.

After all, my last favorite assistant was me.

"Really? But I ......"

"Don't be confident. My subordinates said that you did very well in Aokihara, where the terrifying youkai were no match for you, and you beat them to the ground. ”

"It's not that exaggerated." Xiao Pingtou shook his head with a wry smile.

Kamiyagawa didn't continue to delve into this topic, first took a sip of oily grilled pork belly, raised his head and drank a big sip of soda, and then said, "By the way, Nagatomo, where do you live?" ”

"Well, I've always been in the Special Operations Countermeasures Room."

"I mean now, tonight. Didn't you say that you could leave there more freely? ”

"I'm going to sleep in an internet café tonight."

"That is, there is no place to live?"

"Well, it's ......"

"How much money do you have now?"

"I still had some cash with me, and I've been there since I came out of Aokigahara. When I left the strategy room today, Gen Kanazawa borrowed some more from me, and now I have about 30,000 yen. ”

"Then you want to invite me to dinner?"

Kamiya asked a few questions in quick and forceful terms, as if he had been prepared for a long time.

"There's money for this meal...... Because I want to express my gratitude to you Kamiya-kun. Although one meal is certainly not enough, at least it must be expressed first. ”

"Sure enough...... But there's no need to rush this kind of thing. Kamiyagawa reached out and pressed his temple, "Well, I just moved recently." And I rented a small apartment near Kabucho before, and I paid the rent on a quarterly basis, and it was still more than a month before this round of lease was reached, so why don't you go to stay tonight? ”

"What's so embarrassing?"

"What's so embarrassing? I'm not going back to that apartment, I was going to return the keys in the next two days. Now it's just right, it's not a waste to live with you. Also, the rent there is quite cheap. If you don't have a place to go, it's a good idea to pay for a renewal next quarter. ”

Nagayou saw that Kamiyagawa didn't look like he was lying, it should really be that there was a vacant house before the lease period expired, so he shirked it twice, and finally agreed to it with a thousand thanks.

"Originally, I wanted to thank Kamiya-kun for you, but I ended up receiving your help again."

"Don't say that, they're all friends."

Xiao Pingtou has just come back from hiding in the inner world, and he has lost his identity and past in the real world, and everything that was originally in place would be completely helpless if it wasn't for the acceptance of the Special Operations Countermeasures Room.

He has an attitude of helping Kamigu, not to mention giving him the original house to live in, that is, doing it easily.

Kamiyagawa: "By the way, except for the spirit masters, the supernumeraries in the countermeasure room won't be able to get paid if they don't go on a mission, right?" ”

Masao Nagatomo: "Well, Mr. Yuuki said that he would arrange things for me to do as soon as possible. ”

"Then before you become a regular, when you don't have a task, if you need to do odd jobs to make money. You can go to the convenience store around the corner of the school, I used to work there as a cashier, I can help you introduce you, the lady is very nice. ”

"Kamiya-kun...... I really don't know how to thank you. ”

"I said I don't need to thank you, if you need help in the future, you can also tell me."

Speaking of which, it's really fate.

Kamiyagawa is on the real world's side, and life is prosperous and developing in a better direction.

And Changyou, because he was too unlucky, went around the inner world, and when he came out, there was nothing.

I got a little help from Kamiyagawa, and maybe I will inherit a little bit of Kamiya's previous life in the future, and then I will be forced to start my life again.

The lights inside Fujii Izakaya are yellow.

Those middle-aged uncles who came to relieve the depression in their hearts were still pushing the cups and changing the glasses, and almost everyone drank until their cheeks were crimson, enjoying the short-term mental pleasure brought by alcohol paralysis and dopamine secretion.

Noisy.

Kamiyagawa drank the last sip of soda from the cup and glanced at Nagatomo on the other side.

The latter didn't know if he had eaten enough or not, he was sitting slightly stunned, perhaps affected by the surrounding atmosphere, his eyes were slightly depressed, and he looked very lonely under the reflection of the yellow light above his head.

Kamiyagawa couldn't bear to see it.

"I said Nagatomo, about Ishino'......"