The second day of the New Year.

Cold rain and a bit of a low temperature.

The streets on the Arakawa side are also decorated with New Year's picture boards, feather boards, kites, red, green, and green, and the front of the shops along the street are dotted with red and white cocoons that resemble rice balls.

Originally, it was quite New Year's flavor, but the rain fell in the morning, diluting the atmosphere of the New Year.

Kamiyagawa sat in the warm living room and had lunch with Hannya and Zashiki.

Mary, who had no desire to eat, sat on the edge of Kamiya, raising her hand to fiddle with the origami bird with an expressionless face.

Today's lunch was red bean rice cake soup, and I liked it very much.

In front of the TV on the other side of the room, the members of the hearse group took Xiaohua Whale to watch the replay of last night's Red and White Song Battle.

Japan used Chinese culture to celebrate the Lunar New Year, but after the Meiji Restoration, under the influence of Western thought, the "New Year" was changed to the Gregorian calendar, that is, New Year's Day.

However, the custom of saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new has still been preserved.

The decorations on the streets, the rice cake soup, and the red and white song party are all cultural symbols of the New Year.

After eating the rice cake soup, Kamiyagawa received a phone call, which was from JC Kanoya.

"Master, I'm here!"

Kanoya said hello in advance and said that he would come to Tokyo today.

"Where's the station? I'm going to pick you up? ”

"No, no. I'm at your door! ”

"Huh?"

Kamiya got up and went to the entrance and opened the door.

Outside, it was cold and rainy, and the sky was dark.

And Shikanoya Shin was standing at the door, with a suitcase and a small bag standing beside him, and a large bag on his back.

He is holding an umbrella in one hand and sorting out his clothes with the other.

She came alone.

Seeing the door open, Luyeya raised his head, and a smile as well-behaved as possible appeared on his clever little face: "Master, Happy New Year!" I brought you a New Year's gift! ”

"Come in." Kamiya was a little helpless, this kid has been calling himself Master since he learned that he could come to Tokyo to study the law, "Although you have been calling it that recently, I am actually not your master." Your magic cultivation is not taught by me. ”

Luyeya, who was still elated just now, flattened his mouth slightly in frustration.

After experiencing the events on Oguri Island, she adores Kamiya very much.

Little JC stood his umbrella at the door, dragged the big suitcase into the hallway, and his expression was a little aggrieved: "But...... But Lord Eight Feet said, even if I don't study the Fa with you, I can call you Master. Lord Eight also said that because you are my master, she will try her best to help if you need anything in the future. ”

"What did you say?"

"I said, Eight-Foot Lady, she ......"

"No, last sentence."

"Ugh. Happy New Year, Master...... Huh? ”

"Well, Happy New Year, Yukino."

Kamiyagawa doesn't hate the kid Shikanoya, and it doesn't hurt to verbally reach a cheap master-apprentice relationship.

You can also maintain the connection with the B-class weird eight-foot girl by the way.

Anyway, as I said before, he wouldn't teach Shikanoya anything directly, but simply used human favor to put little JC on the side of Honganji Temple to learn basic techniques.

In fact, in this way, in a sense, Kamiyagawa's rounding can also be regarded as half of her master.

Very reluctantly.

And after what happened on Oguri Island, now Kanoya and Kamiya have another layer of relationship.

She is the only living person who knows some of the secrets of the Kamiya River.

Kanoya knew that Kamiya could enter the world of weird stories through the way of "stand-in".

There is this factor, if you can use the identity of the cheap master, let her obey and become her own person, it will not hurt.

"Oh, slippers."

Kamiyagawa took out a pair of slippers from the shoe cabinet.

Shikanoya put down the bag on his body, and then squirmed and stood in the hallway.

A patch of mud could be seen on her body, especially on her pants, which was wet and wet.

It's the same with shoes.

"How did you do this, you won't be bullied again, right?" Kamiya asked her.

"Not really." Shikanoya lowered his expression slightly, and argued in a low voice, "When I walked from the tram stop to read the navigation, there was a car on the road that was driving very fast, and the muddy water splashed on me from the car driving past the puddle. It's so unqualified. ”

"Then you go to the bathroom and change your clothes, it's in the hallway."

Kanoya blushed slightly: "Mine, my socks are dirty too." ”

"It's fine."

"Oh......"

Little JC bent down to take off his shoes, thought about it and took off his white socks soaked in muddy water, and stepped on the floor barefoot.

But even so, it still left a not-so-looking footprint on the spotless wooden floor.

"Hmm......"

Master's house was a little too clean.

And I soiled the floor as soon as I arrived.

What a shame......

Feeling the heat on his face, Luyeya hurriedly said, "I, I'll help Master clean it up later!" ”

"Don't worry, you go to the bathroom first."

"Oh......"

Shikanoya stood on tiptoe carefully, and only took two steps forward, and saw a wooden basin on his head, wearing a yukata, looking like a big chinchilla, and he didn't know where it came out.

The "big Totoro" held a rag in his hand, hunched over his round, hairy body, and snorted to wipe the dirty footprints she had left behind.

When he wiped the floor to reflect the light, he withdrew his hand with a relieved face and breathed a sigh of relief.

"Squeak—"

It's good to be clean, I'm comfortable.

"It's ...... What? Is it weird? Shikanoya stopped and turned his head curiously.

"It's dirty, and it's responsible for the daily cleaning of the house." Kamiyagawa introduced with a smile.

"Squeak!"

He stood up and waved the rag in his hand to greet Kanoya.

"Oh oh, hello!"

Little JC hesitated for a few seconds, then his eyes lit up.

Master's home, it's amazing!

……

Living room.

Kamiyagawa gathered all the strange gossip in the family here.

Only Satoru didn't go downstairs because he was still live broadcasting.

This winter vacation, Shikanoya will live here in Kamiya, and it is necessary to introduce her to the strange talkers.

"This is Oshi, Takayama, Ohara, and the two brothers Mikami. Usually when I'm not around, I just look for boulders and mountains when I have something. ”

"Hello, I'm going to bother next, please take care of me!"

Shikanoya, who had changed his clothes, bowed seriously to the hearse.

"You've seen it, this is Rihefang, and there is also color weaving."

"Please take care of me!" Little JC still bows.

Not......

It's a lot of weird talk.

It's the first time I've seen so many.

And they all listened to Master's words.

took Shikanoya to recognize a circle of people, and Kamiyagawa finally added: "There is also a troublesome girl in the study upstairs, named Xiaowu." She has a very awkward personality, so try not to provoke her if it's okay. ”

"Uh-oh."

After a brief meeting with the house monsters, Kamiya led Kanoya to the large bedroom at the end of the corridor on the first floor, a room with tatami mats.

"This winter vacation, you can live in this room."

"Thank you, Master!" Shikanoya put down his luggage against the wall, and then picked up the small bag again, "I brought you a gift, my father bought it." Our specialty over there is a sea urchin. This one was delicious, and I had it in my arms on the way over, so it didn't get wet. ”

"I have a heart." Kamiya didn't refuse Little JC's gift, "By the way, didn't the eight-foot girl come?" ”

"Lord Eight Feet said that when the evening comes, she will take Master's train to Tokyo in the world of strange talks."

"Okay."

Kamiya nodded.

Actually, it doesn't matter if you let Shikanoya live at home.

This little girl's feelings for Kamiya are basically worship, and she is young, so Mary and Prajna are not hostile to her.

But the eight-foot woman...... If you are like a wolf and a tiger, then it's hard to say.

I hope this B-class weird can be a little more restrained when he stays at his own home. Otherwise, Mary and Prajna might have fought her in a united front.

However, it is not a big problem in the short term.

Because when I have to assist Juqiong Shrine in investigating Dream Man and Feng Demon, Kamiya should be running around recently, and he is relatively busy, and he may not be able to live at home on weekdays.

And considering that the Utoki family, it may cause some kind of riot in Tokyo like Kabuki and breeders. An eight-foot woman with B-level strength came over, just enough to help with the housekeeping.

"Yukino, you pack up your things and go out with me, and I'll take you to Honganji Temple to meet with Master Kanazawa. This winter vacation, you mainly practice in the temple, and everything is arranged over there. ”

"Oh, good." The little apprentice nodded obediently.

"Also, I have something to do tonight. After the practice at Honganji Temple, you can call your landline at home directly, and Oishi will come and pick you up. They control a ghost car, which is very fast, and it is a matter of ten or twenty minutes to travel through the whole of Tokyo, so they don't want to take the train by themselves. ”

"Uh-oh." Shikanoya nodded, and then seemed to remember something, "That, Master......"

"Huh?"

"And when are you coming back tonight?"

"It's hard to say, it may be late, or it may not come back."

"Then if you come back, I'll give it to you...... That is, wash your feet. ”

Shikanoya squirmed again, blushing and rubbing his hands together.

Slender toes curl up and gently tap the floor.

"Huh? Why wash my feet? "Kamiyagawa doesn't know why.

Little JC covered half of his face with the bag in his hand, and his voice was weak: "That's it, that's it." Lord Eight Feet told me that the disciples who entered the room should be obedient and obedient, and they should be filial to the Master, and then they all have to serve the Master to wash their feet. ”

"You're not my ......"

What Kamiyagawa wanted to say, he choked up in the middle of saying it and swallowed it back into his stomach.

He looked at the luggage on the wall of the room, and then at the deer field house where Tingting was standing in front of him.

Belch......

Like, can she really barely count me as a disciple now?

As a result, Kamiya could only change his rhetoric: "You don't need to wash your feet, you just have this heart." Also, if you make a lot of money by drawing books in the future, don't forget me. ”

"Don't, don't talk about this!"

Kanoya's face became even redder, and he couldn't care about filial piety, so he impatiently confronted his master and interrupted Kamiyagawa's speech.

Seeing her anxious and embarrassed look, she almost jumped up and covered her master's mouth.

This child was born on an island, and she was the daughter of the sea. But the personality is like a Nara deer......

……

Like a parent who sends his child to school, send the fawn to the Pure Land Shinshu Minamihonin Temple.

After meeting with the "Koren teacher" Master Kanazawa and handing over a few words, the tired Kamiyagawa then took a ghost car to the Special Investigation Countermeasures Room building.

Today, on the side of Juqiong Shrine, Onitsuka and Granny Blind will also come to the treatment room.

Dream man's affairs, you have to figure out more clearly.

Maybe I'll have to meet the four parties who have encountered the dream man again to see if I can get new clues.

Kamiyagawa came over two hours earlier than they had agreed with Granny Yu.

Taking advantage of the lack of time, he went directly to the general archives department of the countermeasures room, where he was warmly received by a supervisor with thinning hair.

"Hello, I submitted a request for dossier access in the morning."

"Ahh Hello, hello, Mr. Kamiya. Yes, I've already looked at your application and want to see a specific profile, right? There is also the guarantee of Mr. Yuuki and the priest of Juqiong Shrine. The above has agreed, you come with me. ”

The Director brought Kamiya to the archives.

There was also a male clerk in his early twenties.

Kamiya looked at this clerk a little familiar, one of the people who came out of Aokihara in the inner world, and because the encounter was relatively special, he was absorbed into the organization.

The Aokihara file that I had seen before had a one-inch photo of him and personal information, and it seemed that his surname was Yamashiro.

"Mr. Kamiya, sit here." The director treated Kamiya very kindly, "Yamashiro, don't be stunned, go to the office and pour a cup of tea for Mr. Kamiya." ”

"Don't bother, I'm not thirsty."

"Okay."

The director took Yamajo to search for the locked file cabinet number in the huge archive room, and it took a while to finally pull out several boxes of materials and hold them on the table.

"Mr. Kamiya, the files you want to consult are all confidential documents, and they are not allowed to be copied or taken away, so they can only be consulted here."

"Okay."

Kamiya nodded and opened a file box.

The dossiers he applied for access to were all related to the Demon Time Organization.

While he was looking through the files, the director and Yamashiro didn't leave, just standing on the side.

This should not be for the sake of hospitality, but to ensure that important files are not lost and leaked.

Kamiyagawa didn't care much about this, and took care of himself and carefully flipped through it.

In terms of time, the earliest record of the organization of the Demon Time in the archives of the countermeasures room occurred in 1809 and was recorded by the Onmyo-ryo of the Edo period.

[In 1809, members of the self-proclaimed Ho Shi Demono Organization appeared in Kamakura, causing a riot of considerable proportion......]

"Has this organization been around since 200 years ago? Who started it? ”

Keep flipping.

There were not many activities during the Edo period, and there were only occasional records of the Meiji, Taisho, and Showa periods.

However, in modern times, especially in the last sixty or seventy years, there has been a marked increase in the number of records about the time of encountering demons.

[In 1999, the architect appeared in the Ehime Prefecture area of Shikoku Island and was sniped by the countermeasures room for an operation......]

"The code name of the one I killed was Kabuki. When a member of the organization dies, it will continue to recruit new personnel to replace the vacant position......"

"How do you feel that the people of this organization are constantly creating harassment, and then going forward to die. What is the purpose of this? ”

There are a lot of files related to the time of the demon.,I can't finish it for a while.。 However, according to the application submitted by Kamiya in the morning, he can continue to come here to view the archives through the personnel of the comprehensive archives department in the future.

Not a big problem.

About an hour and a half later, Kamiya's cell phone rang, and it was a call from Onizuka.

"Kamiya, are you in the countermeasure room building?"

"Well, I'm here in the archives."

"Then, come to the conference room on the third floor, it's a dream man's business."

"Found a new dream boy again? The fifth case? Kamiya listened to Onizuka's somewhat anxious tone, and he could roughly guess what was going on.

"Hmm. But it's not just the fifth...... There are a lot, and suddenly there are a lot. ”

(End of chapter)