19. The water of the hot spring
Ruiji originally wanted to refuse, and find a place to live with a strange girl she had just met, in case January coveted her beauty......
On second thought, it seems more dangerous to wander around in a place full of strange things at night than to live with a strange girl. For the sake of the good growth of the month, it is not impossible to form a team.
The pink-and-white long-haired witch who walked in front was more beautiful than Chiyo Naryo who had become a weird talker. The latter is at most a relatively handsome girl next door, and her appearance has not reached the level of stunning her and enough to impress.
She didn't mean to step on the two of them, in all fairness, Yue's appearance has surpassed 99% of Japanese high school witches, and she is the second most beautiful witch in Japan. As for the first, it must be herself, and even if Mt. Fuji becomes an extinct volcano, it will not change this fact.
Although I hate to admit it, this is an indisputable fact.
With the house in sight, Ruiki follows Tsuki onto a neat row of stepped rakon, which is gently built and ends on a wide platform with a classic Edo-period style wooden house.
From the foundation to the roof, the materials used are all wood, and the structure is sturdy, and the imaginary dilapidated houses that are loose and easy to be damaged in an earthquake are two different concepts.
This house is not an ordinary private house, and there is a sign on the outside that reads a hot spring inn. There is no name on the signboard, only a few words about the hot spring inn, as if someone had deliberately erased it.
From a distance, this hot spring inn is not very large. When I got closer, I found that the land covering an area of several hundred square meters next to it belonged to it. The hot spring pool, which is dozens of square meters large, is surrounded by green trees and rocks, and there is a row of three-meter-high wooden walls on the outermost side, which are made of stout logs to enclose the hot spring pool.
Ruiji turned on the flashlight and walked into the lobby of the hot spring hotel with the moon first.
Inns built in the countryside cannot be compared to the most famous Kobe Arima Onsen. Arima Onsen is the oldest hot spring in the Kansai region of Japan, and has formed a complete industrial chain to build a hot spring theme park, and the area of this hot spring may only be a few hundredths of others.
Although the area is small, it also has a lot of facilities.
The lobby is small in size, with a wooden bar counter with brown wood floors on the floor and a sky-blue curtain at the door with a large black word "soup" on it.
Other than that, there is only a shelf for drinks and hot spring steamed buns, a few chairs and a wooden table.
The lobby also has two doors that lead to the other side, one leading to the central open-air hot spring pool and the other to the indoor hot spring, and the accommodation area is next to the open-air hot spring pool, and there are quite a few rooms.
"You're really good at picking places."
This is the first time that Ruiji has come to a hot spring inn in the true sense of the word. The ones I went to in my previous life were not authentic, what is the difference between wearing a swimsuit to soak in a hot spring and going to a swimming pool? It's just a place with hot water, and it's pointless.
"My eyes tell me that this house can be lived, there are no strange and distorted magic fluctuations in it, and the power of Naling Chiyo has not affected it for the time being, so it doesn't matter if I live for the time being. This hot spring inn doesn't even need to be cleaned, so it looks like it was specially prepared for witches who come to Asahina Town. ”
After observing the first floor, they stepped on the wooden staircase to the second floor. On the first floor there are only three rooms, two utility rooms and a bedroom. The bedroom is supposed to be the bedroom of the two owners of the hot spring inn, and there are wedding photos of the two hanging on the wall.
The two witches in Japanese-style wedding dresses, one wearing a pure white white and the other wearing a black patterned Fu Haori, both wearing the iconic witch hat on their heads, looked pretty good, and stood together very well.
The bed and bedding in the bedroom are neatly stacked, and the items are not messily stacked, everything is in order.
It's just that for some reason, the owner of the hot spring inn is missing. In the real world, the disappearance of the innkeeper must be very concerning, and since it is a regional weird story, everything you see with your eyes may not be real, and maybe the person in the photo does not exist at all.
Yue searches around the room and finds a string of copper keys. There are 31 keys strung together by a sturdy iron ring, and the handle of the key is engraved with the corresponding rooms, such as the warehouse and room 101.
The corresponding key can open the corresponding door, which is simple and rude, and there is no need to try one by one.
Everything in Asahina Town has been preserved as it was 30 years ago, with few modern facilities, not even power poles, and many houses with no electrical distribution boxes in sight.
The hot spring inn they chose was one of the few buildings in the town with electricity, with cylindrical white paper lanterns and polygonal chandeliers hanging throughout.
Ritch groped in the darkness and found something that could be pressed downward, suspiciously a light switch.
There was no abnormal reaction to the mana in the body, and the magic orb used to detect it was normal.
"There's a switch here."
"Open it and take a look."
Tsuki is less cautious than she is, walking around bedrooms and other rooms in a bold and exploratory style, touching various objects. After walking around the main building, I didn't find any valuable clues.
Getting a glimpse of a pink corner peeking out from under the pillow and opening it to reveal a diary underneath.
The diary is usually an item that contains important clues, and she takes it and goes downstairs with Tsuki, through a Japanese-style viewing corridor in the lobby called "Oyu no Mizu". In the center of the cloister is a rockery, cascading on top of black and gray rocks, and clean water flows out of the crevices into the small pond below.
There is a small reddish-brown wooden bridge in the middle of the pond that guests can walk through. Both of them had a tacit understanding, and specially bypassed the wooden bridge and walked on the gravel road next to them. The pond is bottomless, no one knows what's underneath, and the safest thing to do is not to go close.
At the end of the cloister is a natural open-air hot spring, the core service of this hot spring inn. Before entering the main building of the hotel, Ruiji had already climbed up to a high place by stepping on a nearby tree, and had already made a cursory observation.
The floor and walls of the pool are paved with cut marble slabs, and a circle of larger, variously shaped rocks surround the top, giving the pool a more natural look than a man-made one.
There is a wooden sign next to the hot spring pond with an introduction to the hot spring pool.
"The water of Oyu was discovered in 1916, the fifth year of Taisho. This hot spring is 107 years old, which is quite long. ”
Richie tosses a new magic ball into the hot pool.
The misty water of the pool, under the light and red moonlight, ripples of gold and blood, the two colors collide with each other, cut, and finally merge, and it is inseparable.
When the surface of the water is still again, it's as if nothing happened.
The crystal clear sphere floats in the crystal clear water, and the surface layer is contaminated with a layer of water vapor, and there is no change on the inside. Reki retracted the ball, crouched down on the edge of the pool, and reached into the hot spring.
The gentle warm current passes through the fingers, which is particularly pleasant.