"No, you've worked hard. We'll eat it ourselves later. ”

Tsuki rejected the girl called Asakura.

The girl also wears a witch's hat on her head and is a weak witch. The Witch Hat, the color of the hat will be a typical light blue. The ordinary witch is a bright red with hope, and the great witch is a noble gold.

Whether it's a traveler witch or a witch who works in the store, they don't find any threat in them, and it doesn't matter if they leave it alone for the time being. There are two sub-branches of weird talk, one is harmful weird talk, and the other is harmless weird talk.

The traveler witch and waiter witch who appear in the scene are all harmless weirdos, and the weak witch who died a few years ago and Chiyo Naling are harmful weirdos.

The nature of the two types of bizarre stories is well understood, and the literal meaning is straightforward enough.

These innocuous tales seem to be unaware of the passage of time and the changes of the times, and their time and regional tales are frozen in a moment together, moving forward and backward with it.

The owner of the diary, Reimi Hisakata, also mentioned in a diary that he was called "the boss" by the employees of the Oyunosuzu hot spring inn. If you think of this regional weird tale as a game, the dead weak witch and Chiyo Naling are the bosses, and the others are NPCs, then the owner of the hot spring inn is the player character.

In 2004, the hapless kid who entered the weird tale is a failed player, so he is trapped in the "game world" and cannot leave, unable to return to the world that originally belonged to him.

Not only in Japan, but also around the world, there are often news reports of witches and ordinary people "hidden". Once you see the word Shenyin, that person basically enters the narrow room.

Ruiji and Moon are players in the new round of "games", so they become the bosses of the Mitsumi of the Bath.

Go to the master bedroom on the second floor and check the photos hanging on the wall, and the two witches in the photos have indeed changed into their appearances.

"I don't know how to describe how I'm feeling right now. I've grown so big, I haven't touched the hands of any witch other than my sister. ”

In the photo, Ruiji is wearing a white and innocent wedding dress, and the moon next to her has an ice cube face, and the black pattern Fu Yuori on her body is surprisingly fitted. It's strange how you look at the photo, two witches who haven't graduated from high school actually appeared in a group photo with special significance, and the pranks of regional weirdness are too powerful.

"What happens in the weird tale doesn't affect reality until we can eliminate it. Wake up, I'm not going to be with a witch I've known for a few days. ”

Yue took off the picture frame and tucked it into the closet next to it. She believes that as long as the eyes can't see, there is no such thing.

Back on the first floor, the mechanism in the lower right corner of the clock face of the grandfather clock, the upper panel jumps to the number 64.

They had 64 hours left.

Countdowns can increase a person's sense of urgency, and Ruiji doesn't dare to treat it with a half-mentality, she walks around the hot spring inn and finds no valuable clues.

Yue dragged her to the restaurant and enjoyed a hearty breakfast as the innkeeper.

The Japanese breakfast dishes are more varied, and unlike the high school students of the Celestial Empire, who casually order porridge or two steamed buns, the Japanese eat rice as the staple food, and eat it with several dishes and soups.

Accommodations usually provide guests with three meals a day, and you only need to add a few hundred yen to get rid of the dilemma of eating instant noodles during your trip. The food tastes good, even if it's the work of innocuous weirdness.

The filling white rice is flanked by several small plates of sweet tamagoyaki, two cloves of sesame spinach, salt-grilled salmon, natto, fried tempura, and a bowl of kombu tofu miso soup.

A nutritious and moody breakfast, served in exquisite classic dishes, has everything to whet your appetite.

The miscellaneous witches in kimonos, who are also harmless and weird, prepare cutlery for two people. There are also several traveler witches in yukata next to him, talking about what they saw during the trip in the Kansai dialect.

This time, Ruiji lost the caution he had when he ate hot spring steamed buns for the first time, and picked up the food and sent it directly to his mouth. The piping hot rice and the mild side dishes go together perfectly.

"It tastes so good, I almost forgot I'm still talking weird."

"There are countless witches who have proved to us that the food in the strange tale is edible. I also knew some adventurous witches whose goal was to taste delicious food in every weird story, and later published a book. ”

Tsuki picked up the fried tempura and took a bite of it, and the crispy skin rattled.

"Is the witch still alive?"

Riji increasingly thinks the witch's world is crazy. To be bold, the witches may all be crazy.

"Here, not only do I live well, but I often take other food lovers to 'encounter' all kinds of regional weird stories on the night of the red moon, and then tear open a door and come back after eating."

"Incomprehensible."

"I can't understand it either."

After a quick breakfast, Tsuki proposed to go to Asahina Town for a stroll. There are only 63 hours left, which seems like a lot, and when you really want to seriously investigate the matter, it will pass in the blink of an eye.

"It's relatively safe during the day, and it's impossible to find anything out of hiding in a hotel."

She brought a loaded weapon and a backpack that never left her, and Riji did the same, bringing her outfit with her. In order to ensure that they fit the identity of the innkeeper, they did not change their yukata robes.

The front foot stepped out of the Oyu no Mizu Hotel, and the back foot was stopped by the waiter in the store.

It's still the little witch named Asakura.

"How?"

Tsuki held one of the guns with a wary expression.

"The owner...... Are you going to the shrine? ”

"Shrine?"

Ryji and Moon questioned at the same time.

"The mayor said before that if you obstruct the ceremony again, the time will be ...... The goddess of the mountain will send down the heavenly punishment again, there will be no food in the land, there will be fewer people in the town than now, and there will be ...... Our stores will also be demolished. The people in the town felt that the sacrifice offered to the goddess in previous years was not good enough, and if it was a witch in the city, the goddess would definitely be very happy, and the girl named Yo Naling was the most suitable sacrifice. Boss, you are a foreigner and don't know our customs here, and the mayor asked me to remind you not to meddle in your business, otherwise ...... I'm not going to be kind to you. ”

After listening to Asakura's narration, combined with the clues collected in his hand and reasoning a little, Ruiji can basically figure out what happened back then.

There are still a few pieces of the puzzle left to piece together the complete truth, which must be obtained by visiting the town of Asahina.

"We don't go to the shrine, just go outside for a walk. The weather is so good today, it's a bit boring to be bored in the store. ”

Under the watchful eye of the employee witch Asakura, Ruiji and Tsuki pretend to be intimate and leave the hot spring hotel holding each other's arms. Go around the corner and let go.

The town in front of me is a lively scene.