114. Oedo Onsen Monogatari

"It's finally here."

Rydge picked up the black envelope at her feet and patted it off with dust. Feng Buyue only got a live flyer from the witch in the doll costume.,It's impossible to clip things.,So the only Ling Yu assigned the task is Ruiji.。

Feng Buyue's expression was slightly disappointed, but he was still happy for Ruiji.

"Is it convenient for me to watch it together? I wondered what kind of tasks the snowy owl would give to the newcomer. ”

"Yes."

Finding a convenient place to sit in a secluded spot in West Exit Park, Ruiji magically cut open the crimson clay on the envelope and took out a folded piece of pale gold high-grade stationery.

The contents of the letter are written in black ink, and the handwriting is vigorous and powerful, and it is believed that it was written by the snowy owl himself.

[At 9 o'clock tonight, go to the single hot spring bath of Oedo Onsen Story "Golden Bath" in Odaiba, Tokyo, and someone will take you to the target person, so be sure to follow all the arrangements of the other party. After reading this letter, please burn it immediately with the envelope. 】

The contact letter did not mention anything related to the content of the mission, and the snowy owl deliberately sold it for a big time, apparently for fear of revealing the privacy of his business partner.

The task was released by the parties themselves, and the Heavenly Kingdom only provided joint information, which virtually reduced a lot of trouble and controversy.

"Listen to all arrangements...... The more you look at this sentence, the more suspicious it becomes. ”

When you are in Japan, you will associate it with the characteristics of the region. Listening to all the arrangements, the short text derives a coherent picture, such as an innocent and pitiful witch who is ordered by the Snowy Owl's employer to wear a skin-revealing costume, cheongsam or swimsuit.

Then, she was ordered to dance in front of a group of witches with bad interests, scratching her head, and the onlookers let out flirtatious exclamations, and their words were vulgar and obscene, and they looked at her with a fiery and revealing gaze and an attitude of appreciating the goods, and took out large sums of cash from storage and purses and threw them at the witch's face and body.

Although this way of making money is a bit sacrificing one's own image, it is essentially not stealing, robbing, or betraying discipline, but only makes the precarious moral bottom line more shaky.

It seems to be pretty good.

"It's very suspicious. I don't know why, but I was excited when I looked at the letter that the snowy owl gave you. ”

The picture tracing in Feng Bu's mind is richer than Ruiji's, including but not limited to dancing, and there is more powerful content. As for how powerful it is, you have to refer to some books and videos that are forbidden for underage witches to buy.

"Wake up, nothing in your fantasy can happen."

Ruiji uses the fireball technique to ignite the letterhead, completing the instruction to "burn it after reading", causing the golden letterhead to turn into countless flying ashes with the jumping firelight. After processing the contact letters, tonight's plans had to be readjusted, and the dinner venue was changed from Ikebukuro to a restaurant near Oedo Onsen Monogatari.

Oedo Onsen Monogatari is a large-scale comprehensive leisure hot spring inn in Odaiba, Tokyo, where the functional areas, shopping streets, and guest rooms are all designed and built in the style of the Edo period in Japan, and the witches who work in it must also wear costumes that match the era, and the retro atmosphere is blowing.

Odaiba is located in Minato-ku, one of Tokyo's 23 wards, and the hot spring inn is built on a man-made land in Tokyo Bay, making it Tokyo's newest concentration of entertainment venues. The name Odaiba has a long history.

According to the "History of Japanese Witches", in 1853, the American witch Perry led the airship fleet to Japan across the ocean, and Tokyo was still called Edo at that time.

Odaiba is home to countless restaurants and large commercial districts, and is home to some of the world's best witches, and is known as the "vice center of Tokyo's waterfront city," and some witches like to call it Odaiba.

With the development of the times, Odaiba has gradually become a must-visit place for overseas witches.

Odaiba of the Witch World Line, Ruiji is also the first time to come. The legendary Oedo Onsen Story has several super-large floating hot spring islands in addition to the part built on man-made land.

The Kogane-no-Yu Hot Spring Pond is located on a floating island on the far right, far from the ground, away from the main body of the hot spring inn, and is a secluded place suitable for plotting. The farther away from the ground is the higher the price of the hot spring island admission ticket, and the more distinguished the status of the guests you will entertain.

Shopping in the shopping street of the hot spring inn is inflated, and Ruiji doesn't want to spend more money, so he can't enjoy a freshly made Hokkaido ramen at a privately owned boat restaurant.

You can get a dinner for a few hundred yen and enjoy the evening view from the edge of the boat that sails in the shallow sea.

The cost of a candlelight dinner with a sea view is much lower than that of a high-end Western restaurant in Odaiba opposite, and it is slightly more atmospheric than a small roadside restaurant.

The meal was over and ready until eight o'clock in the evening, an hour before the sky island met with the mysterious mission-publisher. It's rude to step on the spot, at least half an hour in advance.

Let's go now, take a stroll around Oedo Onsen Monogatari, and then appear unhurriedly on the hot spring island of "Golden Bath", which is worth the trip.

Even though the hot spring inn is a mission location, the mood for sightseeing is not affected at all.

"Let's go inside?"

Ruiji points to an Edo-period style palace on man-made land in the distance.

Two white cylindrical lanterns with a red clover pattern hang at the entrance of the store, as do the dark blue curtains at the two entrances to the main entrance.

A plaque of Oedo Onsen Monogatari hangs directly above the entrance, and the lobby that receives visitors is lit up, and there is an endless stream of witches who come to soak in the hot springs. The witch at the reception desk was almost stiff with laughter, and led groups of guests into the door, setting up flying brooms and belongings for them, and was dizzy.

"The plan to teach you alchemy tonight has been postponed, so it doesn't hurt to go in and play. I have a member of this store, and I get a 20% discount on hot springs, do I want to prostitute for nothing? ”

Feng Buyue took out a distinguished gold card from the business line, and the membership level was black gold.

"Why do you have VIPs everywhere?"

"Good stuff from my sister. My sister's three views are still in the shaping period, and she is not hostile to me, so she can get her hands on some snacks from roadside stalls. ”

"The bookstore too?"

"That one is my own. Miss Rij, I must follow you to the island of Koen-no-Yu tonight, pretending to be a guest in the hot springs. You can't face the unknown alone without ensuring the security of the mission object. ”

"I'm tired."

The promise of her companion made her feel reassured. On the day he promised to participate in the Olympic Alchemy Contest together, Ruiji treated Feng Bu Yue as a companion, and the attitude of Feng Bu Yue was the same.

The friendship between the two grew at a steady and healthy rate, and soon developed into closer comrades and comrades-in-arms.

When he came to the door of the hot spring hotel, Ruiji specially paid attention to it. Go in alone first, act separately from Feng Buyue, and pass through the front hall from different entrances, so as not to be discovered by the stalking witch.

The witch who is watching is an imaginary enemy, but she has to be on guard.

After a little speculation, Riki came to the conclusion that the snowy owl wanted to observe secretly.

There is no hint or help for the new Ling Yu, there is no task guidance, and all the factors are combined, which is equivalent to a closed-book exam, which tests the mentality and ability of the subject.

Thinking of a better life in the future, Ruiji is looking forward to the content of the mission, and shows the witch at the reception the admission ticket she just bought. Admission after 6 p.m. costs 2,000 yen for general admission.

She purchased the add-on service of the Golden Bath single bathroom for an additional 1,500 yen with a one-hour massage. It is not known whether the content of the massage is serious or not, and whether it includes peach service.

3,500 yen to come in and take a shower, it's quite expensive. Originally, there was a free Oyunomizu hot spring inn in the regional bizarre, and the hot spring inside was a little smaller, but it was very comfortable to soak.

At a famous Japanese restaurant like Oedo Onsen Monogatari, there are dozens of witches soaking in a pool, and it is true that you can enjoy the graceful bodies of witches with different looks and figures, and you can feast your eyes on it, but from the personal experience, the comfort level has plummeted, and the overly dense population can easily cause the pool water to become turbid, and the environment is noisy, which is equivalent to the tourist attraction when tourists flock to the tourist spot during the peak tourist season.

"There's no going back."

Ruiji lifts the curtain of the official entrance and walks into the dreamlike hot spring town.

The style of the Edo-style market has a roof style that is a bit like that of gassho-ya in Sakifu Prefecture, and it is smaller than the roof of gassho-ya. The buildings are all made of wood, dark brown or light brown logs and planks, which form the skeleton and exterior walls of the building, and there is no shadow of reinforced concrete in sight.

Magically reinforced wood is a hundred times stronger than ordinary wood, and even if there is another major earthquake in Tokyo, or a space earthquake, or a recreation of the "Black Airship Coming" event when American airships invaded Japanese airspace in 1853, these houses will not be as vulnerable as the building blocks built by children, at least they can withstand a few rounds of shelling, so that the witches have enough time to find a safe escape route.

Maybe it happened to be the first day of summer vacation, and there were a lot of students and witches who came to soak in the hot springs, and the streets were overcrowded. Each witch wears a kimono yukata and geta, and dresses up like a person from the Edo period.

There are many types of yukata provided at the hot spring inn, but Ruiji chose a black yukata with the most modest color, put it on with costume magic, and then stored the changed clothes in the locker to complete the scene.

"Next ......"

Turn on your mobile phone, call up the electronic map of the hot spring hotel, first browse the overall structure of the hot spring hotel, and then learn more about the traffic routes, in case you want to run away later, it is easy to get started.

From the Edo-style market to Kogane-no-Yu Onsen Island, there are two main modes of transportation. One is to fly up on your own broomstick, and the other is to take the air rail cable car on the internal line.

Small airships and flying cars are available to the public, but they are expensive.

Witches who like to slide all the way from the ground to the floating island with a sling will choose to push the limits, and witches who can turn into flying creatures will fly up on their own, without relying on broomsticks.

Excluding any mode of transportation that is not suitable for him, Ruiji chose the most robust cable car. The cable car is slower, 300 yen each way, which is considered the lowest cost.

"In terms of transportation, additional money is also charged, and the heart of the capitalist witch is really darker than the night."

The ticket price is more than the average hot spring inn, and it doesn't even include transportation expenses, and the other services inside also need to pay far more than the amount of the ticket, and some bad reviews under the ticket booking page are enough to explain the problem.

Witches who like it here and don't care about a little money don't care about the bad reviews on the homepage, they just enjoy it.

Ruiji sent a message to the seal who was temporarily splitting up.

[Did you come in?] 】

[I shared a floating taxi with other witches and prepared to go to the hot spring island of Golden Springs.] What's going on over there? 】

I sent a photo from the inside of the car window, and the overhead view of part of Tokyo's Minato Ward and the Oedo Onsen Monogatari was taken from the right angle.

[Still waiting for the cable car.] 】

She took a picture of the cable car station and sent it over.

There are many witches waiting to ride the cable car, and most of them are too lazy to go to the storage area to take out the broom, and by the way, you can experience the feeling of taking the cable car to see the night view, so you can simply buy it for an extra 300 yen.

First of all, Rijki does not want to turn back, fearing that it will waste time, and secondly, there is no other mode of transportation. The waiting time was difficult, and the witch couple in front of her sat into the cable car arm in arm, and it was her turn to take the next cable car.

[I'll wait for you at the tea room on the island of Koganyu-no-Yu first, be careful on the way.] 】

[Hmm.] 】

The solo gondola ride is a bit boring, and the witches who come to play are basically in pairs, and there are also groups of people who come to play in groups, and there are almost no solitary witches like Ruiji.

The one-person gondola is spacious and cool. Without the hindrance of another person, not only can you blow the night breeze 360° into the mountains, but you can also occupy all the viewing windows in the cable car alone.

Pairs of witches crammed into a small space will only feel stuffy and breathless, and they will not experience the beauty of a single ride. Not envious of those guys at all.

As the cable car climbs to a higher level, the floating hot spring island is revealed.

The ecology and topography of the hot spring island are all in line with the conditions for the hot springs to be produced, and there is a vague smell of sulfur in the air. Each of the hot spring islands is hundreds of square meters in size, scattered throughout the airspace above Oedo Onsen Monogatari, and there are special teleportation channels between the islands, similar to the magic of the Return Gate.

After passing through the portal, you will arrive at the floating island you want to go to in the next second.

Each floating island is basically similar in structure, with a large open-air hot spring pool, plus a resting area, restaurants and entertainment venues similar to a hot spring inn, so that the witches can rest and play nearby, and disperse some of the crowd.

The advantage of the open-air hot spring pool is that it is convenient to see the entire Minato area from above, and you can see even further away with the magic of enhanced vision. If it happens to be a summer festival, taking a bath under the fireworks in the sky is also very flavorful.

If there is no snow owl mission today, Ruiji must be very interested in enjoying the hot springs.

The closer the cable car got to Kogane-no-Yu Onsen Island, the more nervous I became, and the hand that grabbed the hem of the yukata became tighter and tighter.

(End of chapter)