“po~po~po~”

This strange sound forcibly interrupted Hanpei Asakawa's terrifying dreams and pulled him back into reality.

Hanping woke up in the room.

His mattress was already wet.

The terrifying experience in the dream just now made 11-year-old Hanpei Asakawa directly incontinent.

Even when he woke up, his heart was still beating wildly, and he was afraid that Ji would not be able to move.

After a long time, Asakawa Hanpei finally came back to his senses, and his originally sloppy eyes slowly focused back.

"What to do...... I'm wetting the bed, how do I tell my mom and dad about that? ”

Hanpei first turned on the light in his room, then curled up on the bed, bothered by what was embarrassing in front of him.

Before he could figure out a solution, he suddenly heard a familiar voice in the room.

It was like the sound of someone sucking and releasing their lips.

“po~po~po~”

It wasn't loud, but it rang out unusually clearly in the otherwise quiet room.

The voice......

Isn't that the kind of voice I heard in my dream just now!?

Asakawa Hanpei's brain froze, and an emotion called "fear" climbed along his spinal cord to the top of his head like an electric current, causing his back and scalp to tingle and chill.

What's going on?

What the hell is going on?

Is it because you are still having nightmares and haven't woken up yet?

Whew-

The night breeze blew in through the half-open windows, blowing the dark curtains.

However, before going to bed tonight, Asakawa Hanpei obviously closed the window.

He subconsciously looked towards the window.

Between the fluttering dark curtains, Asakawa Hanpei saw a figure standing there quietly.

Whew-

The night wind blew harder, blowing the curtains apart completely.

There was really a person standing still outside the window, and by the light in the room, Asakawa Hanpei could see each other's faces clearly.

That's a big sister.

She wore a long, flat white hat, and she couldn't see what she was wearing, because only half of her body could be seen through the window.

But it seems to be a white slip dress with a slightly transparent texture.

The big sister outside the window has beautiful and silky straight black hair.

White dress and black hair fluttering in the wind.

Her complexion is very white, her face is beautiful, her eyes are black and white, her eyes are bright and warm, and her gaze seems to be drawn.

On the right side of her mouth, beneath the slanted corner, there is a beauty mole, which is a red color. It's small, but it's conspicuous, and it adds a different kind of charm to her.

The big sister stood out the window with a smile on her face, staring at Asakawa Hanpei.

She sucked the two plump lips tightly and released them, and a sound sounded between the perfectly curved lips:

“po~po~po~”

Asakawa Hanpei was inexplicably attracted by the woman outside the window, and the whole person was slightly stunned.

But after a few seconds, the feeling of fear that had been temporarily forgotten because of the appearance of the woman in the white dress exploded in his mind again.

This woman ...... She, why was she standing in front of her window?

Here, it's obviously the second floor!

Hanpei Asakawa finally realizes that something is wrong.

The woman outside the window, she was too big, too big in every sense of the word.

It's unusually big.

"Ahh

Asakawa Hanhei finally couldn't bear it anymore and screamed.

His scream drew his parents downstairs.

However, when the adults of the Asakawa family hurriedly pushed open the door of their son's room, they saw that the windows in the room were ajar, and the dark curtains were still swaying back and forth in the wind.

As for the woman by the window, she was long gone.

……

The woods on the east side of Oguri Island.

The mountains and forests are silent, and insects and birds are dormant.

This is where the Red Stingray Shrine is located.

Although the mother-in-law of the inn kindly reminded me that the road was slippery in the dark at night, so don't come here.

But Kamiyagawa still came.

The time of the Red Stingray Festival was only a few days in mid-December, and he felt that now was the most likely time to find the Red Stingray, and he had to make good use of it.

The woods are dark at night, but with the vision bonus provided by the [Autumn Slash] technique, Kamiyagawa may still be able to see all the details around the woods clearly.

Under the guidance of the little old man's body, he soon found the Red Stingray Shrine.

The shrine is built in a clearing near the outside of the woods, and there is a slightly deserted path leading directly to it, so it's not too difficult to find.

The shrine is not large, but it is a very small kind.

If the Giant Qiong Shrine where the little shrine maiden lives on the onitsuka is compared to a regular temple, then the scale of this red ray shrine standing in the forest of the island can be almost compared to a village land temple.

Slightly desolate and decaying green tiles, mahogany, and withered buildings.

A white, yellow-sole, old-looking rope hangs at the door of the shrine, shaking slightly.

Two broken stone statues stand on both sides of the shrine.

The shape of the stone sculpture is somewhat peculiar.

On the stone pillar below, the characters [Na] and [Feng] are written on the left and right. On the stone pillar, the shape of a flattened fish is carved, which is a stingray.

"The shrine does not have the name of the object of worship. And as the innkeeper said, the shrine looks like it's been abandoned for a long time, but it'......"

Kamiyagawa stared at the Red Stingray Shrine with his eyes in the eyes.

Although this small shrine does look deserted, there are some traces of recent cleaning and worship.

There are some remnants of incense ash around.

"It seems that someone has just worshiped Lord Chi Ma in the past two days, and if you look at the traces, it is estimated that more than one group of people have done this."

Kamiyagawa wasn't too surprised by this.

He, a foreigner, had just come to Oguri Island for a day, and he could really feel that this island, which makes a living by going out to sea to fish, will probably have a very difficult time this winter.

Today's catch income is poor.

The islanders are worried.

In the minds of the people of Oguri Island, Lord Red Stingray is the god of abundance who can bless the harvest of fish.

"Although this shrine looks like it has been abandoned for a long time. However, this year's catch on Oguri Island is scarce, and in this case, it is estimated that some people think of this former fishing rich god. So come here to worship the gods. ”

After a few laps around the edge of the Red Stingray Shrine and staying for a while, Kamiyagawa found no additional discoveries.

In the end, I could only return to Oguri Town with a little regret.

……

Kamiyagawa returns to town.

The people on the island rest early, and there are hardly any people on the road at night.

Kamiya walked from the east side of the town towards the inn of the "Middle House".

The road was dark, and between the street lamps at intervals, there was a heavy shadow like a curtain.

Didn't walk for a few minutes.

A crimson, blurry red light leaped out of his side.

The blurry shimmer contracted, and slowly turned into a strange little beast the size of a Shiba Inu, with a bear's trunk and short white fluff.

"Tapir?"

"Poof-poof!"

The dream-eating tapir flicks its long nose and points in a certain direction.

Because he has become more and more accustomed to communicating with Shikigami who can't speak, Kamiya spent more than half a minute roughly figuring out what tapir meant.

It said that in the direction it had just pointed with the tip of its nose, it felt a very strange nightmare aura.

It's different from ordinary dreams.

"Got it, let's take a look."

Kamiya nodded, and motioned for the tapir to lead the way.

Originally, he had come to investigate Lord Chi Tingling, and he didn't want to let go of any abnormalities that happened on Oguri Island.

"Poof! Poof! ”

The dream-eating tapir moves its limbs and trots in front.

Kamiyagawa followed closely behind.

A man and a beast ran for a while, and the tapir in front of him suddenly braked suddenly.

"What's wrong?"

"Puff ......"

The tapir turned his head and winked at Kamiyagawa with a little guilt.

Kamiya, who is an onmyoji and owner, can roughly understand what it means-

The nightmare I was looking for just now is gone.

I can't find it.

Kamiyagawa made a "wait a while" gesture towards the tapir, and Yu Yuan stood still and narrowed his eyes slightly.

Using the eyes of "discerning every detail" and being able to see through all the smallest details, he saw a strange and evil atmosphere in this street and alley that did not belong to him.

It was a trace of black gas, sticking to all parts of the street, and some of the black gas floated high and writhed like a veil.

It's very thin and will dissipate at any time.

It's inconspicuous, not as close as it is now, and it can't be observed.

Kamiya estimated that if he was thirty or forty meters away, he would not be able to detect the existence of these evil auras at all.

"These ...... What the weak monster talked about? No, it's more like a powerful strange talk that has restrained the breath. ”

Kamiyagawa still knows a lot about the atmosphere of weird talk.

After all, spend all day with a whole bunch of different weird talk.

The breath left by the real weak monster talk should be like the day and the fang, and the dirt tastes them, small and thin, but at the same time, the amount is relatively small.

It won't be like what you see on the streets now, where a thin evil aura sticks everywhere.

It's okay to deceive ordinary soul slayers with this method, but you can't deceive Kamigu.

And judging from Kamiya's experience, the strange talk that can take the initiative to restrain his own aura will not be weak.

Under his command, only B-class Mary and C-class Prajna could do this. Even the Dream Eater Tapir at the midstream level of the D-rank, and the dog god at the upper level of the D-rank will not do this.

"So, what was it that was ever here? Lady Akama? ”

Kamiyagawa didn't dare to jump to conclusions.

He made another serious exploration around the alley, but it didn't come to fruition.

The thin black gas had begun to dissipate, and there was no trace to be traced.

The strange talk that has been active here must be a strange visit, and after taking a turn around the neighborhood, I entered the inner world.

"If Lord Red Stingray is a foreign visitor, should I directly use the [Blank Divine Coffin] on Oguri Island? If you enter the inner world, it will be safer. However, the current situation is uncertain, so it is better to be cautious and collect more information on the island to take a long-term view. ”

Kamiya had just arrived at Oguri Island this evening.

Not even half a day has arrived, and it would be too arbitrary to use the [Blank Divine Tree] directly now.

And now it's not entirely certain that the powerful alien who has been active in this street and alley must be Lord Red Ray.

In addition, Kamiya has not yet fully figured out the details of Lord Red Ray.

I don't know what kind of weirdness this is.

But if the red ray is indeed a benevolent and kind Aragami as the innkeeper said, it is the god of abundance that will bring a good harvest to the islanders just by worshipping it.

That Kamiya really couldn't find any position to retreat him and seize the red stingray.

After all, as the co-owner of the growing ghosts and gods, he definitely doesn't have to start doing it when he sees strange talks.

Kamiya, who is trying to become the co-master of ghosts and gods, will not deny the existence of strange talkers.

Where is there a king in a world where there is no strange talk?

Some valuable, communicative, and non-evil weird talks, Kamiyagawa prefers to gather them around him.

Like their own Shikigami monsters, like the craftsmen on Takamagahara, like the rabbit pills in paradise......

"If Lord Red Stingray is just a neutral and kind weirdo, then I'm here all the time, and I definitely can't run away in vain, I have to try to win him over and see if I can get any benefits...... As for Mary's shrine, it may really have to be made with [Empty Grain Ear Pole] as a secondary one. ”

Wandering around the street twice more with the dream-eating tapir, there were no follow-up clues to the nightmare and unknown visits.

At this time, a purple ghostly aura swirled out from Kamiya's side.

Another strange story of his own side has taken the initiative to appear.

"Aba! Aba! ”

The little old man hurriedly began to report.

"Ah...... Did you say that jc that peeked at me in the evening? She's around here? Something really wasn't quite right with this girl, wandering out alone at such a late hour, and still on the edge of the neighborhood where the stranger had come - take me over and see what she was up to. ”

"Aba!"

……

"Didn't you mean tonight? Why don't you respond to me......"

Kanoya Yukino walks back and forth in the dimly lit streets.

He looked anxious and didn't know what he was waiting for.

"It's better not to try again."

Just as she was about to call the adult again, she suddenly heard a slightly teasing voice behind her: "Try again, what?" ”

"Yikes!"

Like a cat with its tail stepped on, Kanoya Yukino jumped on the spot and shrank back.

She turned around and saw someone standing behind her.

It's the outsider who came to the island, and Shikanoya asked the middle-aged mother-in-law who opened the inn before. The mother-in-law said that this person was a foreign college student, majoring in monster studies, and he was half a folklore scholar, and he came to the island to study the red stingray and do learning.

"You, what are you doing here?"

"I should ask you that, right?"

Kamiyagawa looked the girl in front of him up and down.

It's really in the afternoon, and it's right to hide in the back corner and peek at her own female junior high school student.

But now instead of wearing a uniform, she wears a thick sweatshirt, a blue bread suit, and a black handbag.

The girl had very short hair, like a tomboy.

Her complexion is not fair, but it looks smooth and delicate up close.

The jet-black eyes are very bright and shining.

Even if it's a tomboy, it's also a tomboy with a very cute appearance.

"I'm not doing anything here." The girl avoided Kamiya's gaze, took a small step back, and moved the bag in her hand behind her.

Kamiyagawa clearly watched her small movements, but instead of pointing them out, he asked, "What's your name?" ”

"Kanoya Yukino...... No, why do I have to tell you! ”

Because of her nervousness, the girl subconsciously reported her real name, and then realized that she should be more cautious when dealing with strangers, especially in the current environment.

Kamiyagawa: ......

This kid doesn't seem to be very smart.

"Kanoya, huh? I ask you, why did you follow me in the evening? Kamiya moved a little closer to Kano House.

The child was so frightened that she continued to shrink back, but there was a wall behind her, and there was really no way to retreat.

"I'm here to help you!" Kanoya subconsciously raised the bag in his hand to his chest, in order to cut off the distance between himself and Kamiya River, "It's to save you, it's to save you!" ”