Since the Yumeo incident, the number of soul remover masters directly involved in dealing with Yumeo who visited various parts of Kanto has reached more than 200 in the special operation team led by Juqiong Shrine.

Among them, there are more than 40 official or non-governmental soul killers who have the ability to retreat from the strange stories of dreams from all over the country.

With more than 40 people, including Kamiyagawa, 42 action groups were formed, and they were active throughout the Kanto region.

The rest of the people were formed into numerous investigative teams.

Cooperate with these main teams with the ability to retreat and carry out more detailed information collection and investigation after the incident.

But as the dream man connects more and more macro dreams.

In the main group of the 42 teams, many people already feel powerless.

Including Kamiya, too.

Four days ago, Kamiyagawa and Onizuka Miko and Fu Youyi dealt with a macro dream of more than 100 people in Kamisu City, Ibaraki Prefecture.

It took a full 25 hours.

In a day or so, the Dream Tapir ate more than a hundred Dream Men in one go.

After that, he was forced to return to the statue and fell asleep for two full days before he could resume his operations.

Although after waking up, the little tapir's strength has become much stronger with the naked eye, but the little guy has already begun to be a little anorexic......

The home hiding in the shadows is like a cooking master in the cafeteria.

And the dream-eating tapir under Kamiyagawa is like a child who was originally waiting to be fed and was growing his body.

I heard that you like to eat fatty and greasy "braised pork", right?

Good.

Then let's eat braised pork in the morning, braised pork at noon, afternoon tea, dinner and supper.

I can't eat it, the little tapir really can't eat it......

Even if Dream Man is delicious for Dream Tapir, he can't make it like this every day.

……

The headquarters building of the countermeasures office in Tokyo.

Because the tapir is still resting, the Kamiya team has been in Tokyo for the past two days.

Onizuka and Fu Youyi just happened to cooperate with other teams to investigate information, and did some data collation and analysis.

Kamiya is returning home for the first time in a long time.

In the afternoon, there was another meeting in the countermeasures room.

The members of the thirty-odd group that were still working around Tokyo around the clock did not return to participate, but Kamiyagawa, who was temporarily resting, did attend.

The presiding officer of this meeting is still the people of Juqiong Shrine.

It seems that she is also a priest, but Kamiyagawa doesn't know her.

You Yi, the giant Qiong Shrine who doesn't know his surname, said: "The reason for the recent birth of Dream Man, through the analysis of the many materials at hand, we have a preliminary speculation. For this reason, the adult in Isehara was also entrusted with assistance. ”

The soul slayer at the meeting didn't react much, and a few nodded silently.

But Kamiyagawa was a little confused.

He didn't know who he was referring to by "Isehara-sama".

"It's a green line. At the Ise Jingu Shrine in Isehara, there is a Seogyo Lantern that has been connected to the organization for a long time. Onizuka on the side approached Kamiyagawa and explained in a low voice.

"Ah, a neutral demon with ties to the Order?"

"Uh-huh."

Isegahara on the Aoko lantern.

Onizuka still knows something about this neutral monster.

That Qingxing-sama, the daily range of activities is only in the vicinity of Ise Jingu, and he can't leave directly.

Sometimes, it comes to reality, but most of the time it stays in the weird world.

The conditions for the official organization to reach contact with the Qingxing Lantern are-

The Seikyo lantern is enshrined in the Ise Jingu Shrine's other palace, the Tsukiya Shrine, that is, the shrine where the Lord worships the Tsukiyomi, as a servant of the god of the Moonlit Night.

There is also a special person to manage her subordinate idol on a daily basis to ensure that the Qingxing Lantern can gain enough faith.

And the little witch still remembers that the powerful god Miss Mary under Kamiya still has a little relationship with the Seokai lantern on Isehara.

Almost a year ago, Juqiong Shrine received news that Isehara had visited a Miss Mary with a C-grade rating.

As soon as he was born into reality, he was injured and fled in the direction of Tokyo.

After that, Miss Mary, who arrived in Tokyo, probably got in touch with Kamiya, and by chance became Kamiya's Shikigami.

caused Onizuka and Granny to come to Tokyo together and pounced.

However, there was a problem that the little witch didn't figure out at the time. And that's—

Why did Miss Mary choose Isehara as the location for her visit?

That place is where the Ise Jingu Shrine is located, and there is also a powerful strange Takaya Lantern that is connected to the countermeasure room to guard the area.

Ordinary weirdos will never get the slightest benefit from going there.

As soon as Miss Mary arrived, she was severely injured by the Qing Xing Lantern.

As for the strength of Yi Qingxing, why didn't Miss Mary of the C rank be directly dismissed at that time.

At this point, Onizuka Kirita can figure it out.

How so......

The Seokai lantern on Isehara is a strange talk about a neutral attitude towards humans, but it has a strange temperament.

Of course, as a weird story, it's normal to have a weird temperament.

The adult likes to collect stories, and the most common thing she usually does when she comes to Ise Jingu is to ask the priests in the shrine to tell her stories.

Then, the green line lantern is still a little ...... Fun people attributes.

Usually I don't care about anything, and it won't bring disaster, but I basically don't take the initiative to do anything good.

She deliberately let go of Miss Mary, probably because she realized that letting Mary go would be more interesting than killing Mary, and what fun would she have to watch.

And so it did with what happened next.

Miss Mary became Kamiyagawa's Shikigami and was directly involved in the story of the onijin disciple.

Qingxing Lantern should be happy to see this kind of thing happen.

"If it weren't for Lord Seokedun-sama, Miss Mary probably wouldn't have become Kamiya's Shikigami, right?" Onizuka thought so.

……

"Is there a blue lantern in Isehara?" Kamiyagawa thought so.

He also recalled a few things.

It was about the beginning of winter, and Satoru had just woken up at Arakawa's house.

On a lazy winter afternoon, Kamiyagawa teased Satoru like a cat in the study for a while, and then had a small talk with the little girl-

Kamiya: "...... Yes? You said that Mary said that Isehara was seriously injured before she first met me? ”

Satoru: "yes—don't touch my head, miscellaneous fish!" ”

"It's no wonder that Mary, after retiring from Hanako, turned into a broken doll, and then went into the inner world and slept for a long time. It's because it's already quite badly injured, and it's been stimulated by the battle, right? ”

"Hmm...... However, during the time when she was sleeping in the inner world, she was just able to escape the pursuit of the real-world soul slayer. The next time you wake up, it will help you kill the fat powder fairy, and then at that time you already have the strength to contract Mary, and Mary has successfully become your Shikkai, and there will be no more soul slayers to attack her. ”

"But, you two were born in Akihabara, right? Why did Mary choose to go all the way to Isehara? ”

"That's because of me, I let her go."

"You?"

"Yes! Mary was already excited when she was about to make a visit. Although she didn't show much of it, even she didn't know that she was excited. She only wanted to go to reality to find friends, and I couldn't tell her at that time, she didn't listen to me at all. ”

"Mary's ...... of 'finding friends'"

"Well, it's going to kill. And once she starts killing humans in reality, she will surely be denied by your human soul slayers...... I don't want to lose her. A year before Mary's visit, I had used Future Vision twice in advance. In many of the 'futures' I saw, Mary's visit did not survive. The only way to survive was in Isehara, and I had to go to Isehara in the first place. ”

"Mary listened to you?"

"She said that she was going to visit the human world in a foreign way. But after I was able to make a different visit, I was even coaxed and tricked, and instead of coming directly to Akihabara, I chose to go to Isehara. ”

"That's what a hard time for you......"

It was only then that Kamiya learned that Xiao Wu, who always looked like a female ghost was cleaning up, actually broke his heart for his sister.

It's hard to say which of the two of them is the actual "sister".

He visited Isehara and was wounded at Ise Jingu, then fled towards Tokyo and met Kamiyagawa, who was trying to conquer Hanako at the time.

was led east by the Kamiya calamity.,Use Mary to retreat Hanako.。

Mary then pulls on her wounds and is forced to return to the inner world to sleep, coincidentally avoiding the pursuit of the real-world soul slayer.

The next time he woke up, Kamiyagawa just had the strength of a contract C-class god.

Mary naturally became the Shikigami of Kamiya.

During the whole experience of the visit, she did not find "other friends" other than Kamiyagawa.

I really didn't have a chance to find it.

This is a way for Xiao Wu to find a way out of thousands of "futures" for her sister.

Kamiya's face changed, he pondered for a while, and reached out to touch Satoru's head: "It turns out that you have entrusted Mary to me for so long ...... Satoru, I'll take good care of her. ”

"What does it mean to entrust it to you, don't be sentimental! In the 'Future Vision' I opened, I didn't see Mary becoming your Shikigami at all! I just knew she would survive! If I had known that Mary would become your Shikigami and obey you, and even I myself would be tied up by you, a bad onmyoji, I would have ......."

"Surely what?"

Kamiyagawa interrupted Satoru with a smile.

"Goo......

Xiao Wu, who was still indignant, was stared at by him like this, inexplicably, without confidence, and weakened his momentum, just hanging his head and pulling at his skirt.

"Satoru, I'll take good care of you, too."

"Wow! The flesh is numb! Wouldn't you be embarrassed to say such a thing? And - don't touch my head with a grin! Disgusting! I'm not your kitten or puppy! Satoru blushed, first protested, then quieted down, muttering in a faint voice, "Anyway, you'd better ...... Trash fish. ”

……

"So, Mary was injured by the Seokyuki lantern on Isehara in the first place. Satoru didn't see the object that injured Mary, and asked Mary for confirmation, only to know that she was traumatized by a powerful force as soon as she arrived in reality, and she didn't see who the person who shot it was. I thought it was a soul slayer in the shrine or something. ”

It's connected.

Some of the previous things, the whole development context, are all connected.

And the reason why Mary was able to become the Shikigami of Kamiyagawa seemed to be pushed by the Qingxing lantern who loves to watch fun.

But the real driving force behind it is actually a little monster who is weak and only wants his willful sister to survive.

Kamiya and Onizuka, who were sitting side by side, each thought about something in their hearts, and then looked at each other before they came back to their senses and continued to listen to the speech of the person who presided over the meeting:

"In this Dream Man incident, it is possible that the initiator achieved this big riot with the help of some props. Lord Seokedon in Isehara, after looking through the many materials we provided, gave a guess that it was a 'Hyakki-lantern'. ”

"This is a ghost prop that belongs to the Qingxing lantern. However, the [Hyakki Lantern] that the driving force behind the Yumeo incident may have does not belong to the adult in Isehara. It is inferred that it was a certain Qingxing lantern that existed for a long time before the birth of the adult. ”

"And with the help of [Hundred Ghost Lanterns], we may be able to take countermeasures against the promoters of the Dream Man incident and directly find its location."

That's the focus of this meeting.

With the help of foreign aid, the countermeasures room finally found some information related to the Ushi family.

"In addition, through the collation of many dream man dream stories, as well as the inquiry and investigation of the rescued parties, we also obtained some additional information clues - behind all dream man stories, there are the same emotions as the lead. When you dream about the object of your dream, you feel more or less guilty about someone or something. ”

Guilty.

The strategy room found the logic that runs through the Dream Man story.

Then, the giant Qiong Shrine You Yi projected some data clips and roughly showed some representative examples to the people participating in the meeting.

It contains events handled by Kamiyagawa.

One is from the very beginning, Miss Chiharu Noma in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo.

She had a dream about a fire, and she dreamed that she was taken to a tall building by a dream man and pushed down.

And through the investigation of Miss Noma's inquiry, I found out.

When she was a child, she once caused a fire in her home because of playfulness.

In that fire, Miss Noma's grandfather was killed.

"Fire" is the source of guilt that will accompany her for the rest of her life.

In addition, there is Yuki Akiba, a young boy in Tsukiyono-cho, Gunma Prefecture.

The object of the boy's guilt was his mother.

However, what caused him to feel guilty was a small incident that happened recently:

Roughly that,The parents of the Akiba family had some inconsequential little conflict recently.,A quarrel.,And at that time, Akiba Yuki was naughty.,And the toys in the toy box were thrown everywhere.。

When I saw my mother wiping her tears, she silently put away his toys.

The little boy felt guilty.

Guilty people are more likely to encounter dream men.

Moreover, this guilt does not matter how big or small, and it doesn't matter if it originates from a big thing or a small thing.

It doesn't even matter whether the parties are right or wrong.

Messed up a job or exam; had a fight with family and friends; breaking up with a lover; A little friction with a stranger, and other things can be seen as a source of guilt that attracts the dream man.

It's no wonder that so many people in the entire Kanto region are caught in strange dreams.

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