Fly over the densely forested mountains to Kagoshima Prefecture, the southernmost tip of Japan's Kyushu Island, and speed up your flight to Kagoshima City, the capital of Kagoshima Prefecture.

Authentic black tonkotsu-style ramen must be tasted in the city, and Japan's small size has taken the pressure off the witches from Hokkaido, Japan, to Kyushu Island.

Many witches are natural foodies, and they go out of their way to enjoy the food that pops up in their minds, riding broomsticks between Tokyo's airspace, and even visiting neighboring countries in the heat of their lives.

In recent years, the plastic surgery magic industry in South Korea has been booming, and more and more witches who are not satisfied with their appearance are making appointments for plastic surgery in an effort to make their appearance more perfect.

These are all things that the witches who passed by just now discussed.

On the night of the Red Moon, the road conditions were very good, and the number of witches in both heaven and earth was visibly reduced to one-third of the usual number, or less. The emergency notice from the Strange Talk Prevention Headquarters is effective for ordinary witches who follow the rules, close the doors and windows on time, hide in their homes, sometimes look out the window restlessly, and sometimes pace back and forth in the room.

The scarlet moonlight colors the streets of Kagoshima City in ominous colors, and there are few pedestrians on the road, except for a few daring witches flying by, discussing where to go for supper and bouncing.

As long as you are bold, it doesn't matter if the moonshine color is red or not.

Ruiji's destination is "Kagoshima Ramen Dolphin TORO" in Kagoshima City. It opened near the planetarium and was the first of all the shops of the same name to open and is also known as the planetarium main store.

The map shows that the location of this shop is 9-41 Yamanoguchi-cho, and business is usually very good, and it is often frequented by witches from the other three islands.

Japanese witches have always had a soft spot for ramen, and the thick soup base is addictive, topped with large pieces of barbecued pork and a wide variety of toppings, simple ingredients, and simple preparation methods, but to stimulate the appetite to the maximum.

Ramen shops are at their most prosperous in the winter, but in the summer, the foot traffic is relatively low, and if you encounter a red moon night, there are only a few tables of witches left in the huge store.

The scrolling billboard outside the store reads "20% off on the night of the red moon", and Ruiji likes to see the words related to discounts the most, and walks into the store with great anticipation.

Mirizuki, who turned into a human form, was with her, dressed as a fellow witch. She is very high, and ordinary witches can't see it, and even some big witches with considerable strength have been deceived by her appearance.

Mikatsuki used to do this a lot, and after being sealed, he never had a chance again.

Rydge skimmed through the menu and selected the one he liked the most.

"I want a soft-boiled pork pork Toro ramen, how about you?"

"The same old thing, a huge bowl of black pork bones."

A certain strange talk has to be justified in ordering a single order, although he doesn't have a penny on him, he is already ready to eat white food. As long as the contract is not invalidated, she can be at ease with the money of the prostitute owner.

After all, like animals, it takes more time to cultivate affection and trust, and every feeding is a process of strengthening affection.

"Okay, it's 1,800 yen in total."

The cashier witch clicked behind the counter and handed over the printed invoice. Ruiji took two pieces of 1,000 yuan in cash from his wallet to pay for the meal, and the remaining 200 yen plus two servings of barbecued pork, which was just used up.

The mention of eating for three days and the moon is very energetic, which makes people have to suspect that her identity before she became a monster like gluttony. Gluttony is a ferocious and gluttonous beast in legend, and the three days and moon are the big strange stories of the one party in history, but it is also reasonable.

"Aren't they three bowls? Why only one bowl? ”

She looked at the entry on the invoice and frowned.

"Take a bowl first, and then make up the rest when you come back after beating the strange talk, which is called installment payment."

"How dare you negotiate terms with me? Even Oda Nobunaga has to give me three points, little ghost, you're too arrogant. ”

The dignity of the three days and the moon was invisibly pressed to the ground and rubbed, and I suddenly felt a little unhappy in my heart. After all these years of getting along, she summed up a rule - the witches of the Sakuma family are not afraid of strange talks.

Strange talk about being strong or weak, they don't seem to pay attention to it, and there is a kind of innocence that is not polluted by fear.

It's really the world is declining, and people's hearts are not ancient......

It's not unreasonable for the great witch Oda Nobunaga to convince so many witches, and now the witches of the Sakuma family can't even give up ramen, which is really a bit hateful.

It's incomprehensible to earn 14 million yen in the hands of other witches and still pick the door like this.

Ruiji put the receipt in her wallet, not afraid of the threatening gaze of Mikazuki. To deal with such a strange talk that is a little difficult and can think flexibly, the witch's way of thinking is completely applicable.

Maybe it's because of the contract signed by the two parties, Sanriyue's thoughts can't be hidden from her, and Sanriyue's thoughts can't be known. Using this to control the legendary tale is a thrill to stand at the top of Tokyo Tower and look down.

Witches also love to conquer.

"The neighborhood is full of witches from the Strange Tale Prevention Headquarters, and they ride broomsticks around the sky, and if they clash with me over a bowl of ramen, you will definitely be captured and taken away by the Strange Tales Witches, and you will be subjected to some suspected inhumane research, so is that okay?"

"What the hell."

With a "click", a handful of chopsticks in the chopstick barrel on the table snapped.

The exact same line, she had heard it twenty years ago. The first person to say this has passed away, passing on this will to his daughter, who has now spoken such a great rebellion.

The evil in the bloodline is indeed inherited from generation to generation.

Richie's paternal mother is essentially a quiet, dark witch who likes to carry out her plans in secret. On the surface, she was settled by her colleagues, and in the end she had to marry each other and start a family in order to be responsible.

However, the truth is another matter.

"What do you think?"

Using restoration magic to restore the broken chopsticks, Ruiji pours a cup of free black tea for both of them.

"Judging by your expression, there should be a lot of things you want to say to me."

"Yes, a lot. Something about the previous master, if you are interested, I will tell you, and it just satisfies my desire to complain about your mother and daughter. ”

The waiter at the noodle restaurant served two plates of steaming ramen noodles that sold well. The oversized bowl of the Three Moons is almost the size of a small washbasin, and although the shape of the bowl is conical, the contents are not small at all.

In the Witch Big Stomach Contest, there was a witch who challenged to eat noodles in the bathtub, and she also fought her way out to win the championship and won a prize of several million yen. If you let the three days and the moon pretend to be a witch to participate, not to mention one pot, ten pots will not be a problem.

"Whew-"

The three days and the moon didn't even bother to blow, so they ate first as respect.

The authentic black tonkotsu soup base on Kyushu Island, which she never obsessed, has a slight difference in taste from the one she tasted hundreds of years ago, but it generally matches her impression of this ramen.

"Your father's mother, an honest and taciturn man in the eyes of everyone, is actually smarter than everyone else, and is good at disguise. It's true that she is taciturn, as she is not good at blending in with the crowd and does not like to be in the company of other witches. ”

"And then?"

"Everyone thinks that she was bullied or coerced by her colleagues at the next workplace, and had to agree to dating and marriage, and what I know is the opposite of the version circulating outside."

The strange witch surnamed Sakuma disguises herself as a weak chicken who is not strong enough to drink, and she also knows very well that the witch at the next workstation is interesting to her. It's too boring to accept a relationship so quickly, or to take the initiative to pursue each other, and she hopes for something exciting.

On the night of the fraternity, he deliberately drank a potion that reduced alcohol resistance, and then disguised himself with other potions, causing an effect of being easily drunk, and he was able to harvest a subject as he wished.

The version narrated by the three days and moons completely overturns the version in the memory of the original owner.

"It turns out that my black belly is still hereditary. Witches really can't just look at their faces, they will definitely be deceived. Miss Fujinaga's marriage partner is also human-looking, and her character is not very good, and my paternal mother is a scum-like scum, at least kind-hearted. ”

Ruiji takes off her seal glasses and wipes off the water mist caused by the hot air of the ramen noodles and the lenses with a wet wipe.

"Little bastard, you know you have a black belly? Dare to threaten the legendary monster, when my magic power is restored, I must make you look good. ”

"Thanks for the compliment, if you can do it. If we continue to grind, there will be fewer and fewer strange things that can be hunted tonight. There are a lot of weird hunters out there, and you don't want to go without food, do you? ”

The young witch was fearless and ignored the strange protests.

……

After solving the ramen in the bowl, Ruiji hurried to Fukuoka Prefecture in Kitakyushu again, first found Miyawaka City on the map, and flew to the old Inumaki Tunnel. The newly built tunnel is brightly lit, and the abandoned old tunnel stands alone between the mountains and the dense forest, and the red light of the blood moon makes the environment around the tunnel even more eerie and eerie.

The evening breeze behind my ears was cold, not as warm and hot as a summer day should be.

Its entrance was blocked by a rectangular block of stone, and a "No Entry" sign had been erected outside, but now the sign was gone, except for an iron rod that had been rusting in the wind and sun.

Vermilion rust stretched upwards from the base, and some turquoise vines spiraled around the iron, looking like a tree.

The entrance to the Dog Tunnel is covered with dead leaves, and there is a pile of garbage left by other witches when they came to check in. Food bags, empty drink bottles and glass wine bottles, a couple of rusty barbecue grills in the corners with rotting meat skewers on them.

A swarm of flies flies around the rotting food, making an unpleasant buzzing sound, and wriggling maggots crawl on the surface of the food.

A strong, damp and rotten, smell came from behind the stones blocking the door, and Ruiji landed a few meters in front of the tunnel, and Mikazuki changed from a sword form to a human form.

This is Ruiji's request, and when he goes back, he will add two more black pork chop rice from the Black Pork Chop Pavilion. The Black Tonkatsutei is located in the downtown area of Kagoshima City, which specializes in tonkatsu rice, and is highly regarded among witches who like to eat cutlets.

There are only two things that the three days and moons love most - magic and food. As long as you have enough things, it is not impossible for the witch and the monster to coexist in harmony.

"How do we get in? Split the outside stone with a knife? ”

Ruiji raised his staff and prepared to blast the entrance with a bombardment, allowing the highly concentrated fireball spell to burst through the entrance. Three days and the moon stood in front of him, his expression serious.

"Don't move. The stone outside was set by several witches who had suppressed the strange talk of Inuming Village in the past, and the only way to pass through it was to use magic that pierced through the wall. ”

"That's ......"

The raised staff was lowered, and Rydge tucked it back into her waist, observing the surroundings of the entrance.

The outer wall of the Dog Tunnel and the large stone block that sealed the entrance were painted with paint by the visiting witches, and some of the unqualified witches also wrote insulting words and phrases to vent their dissatisfaction with other witches, and some wrote "xxx came here to visit".

The scattered items are of varying degrees of newness and age, and the most recent batch is more than half a month apart from the present.

The words "Dog Tunnel" are carved on a protruding stone slab, and the gray stone walls are covered with mottled black-gray stains, of which the word "tunnel" in the tunnel is the most severely covered by stains, and it is basically impossible to read.

The street lights near the Dog Tunnel have been damaged for a long time, and Ruiji needs to use a flashlight to illuminate it.

The stones blocking the door and the gap at the highest part of the tunnel entrance are relatively narrow, and cannot accommodate two people to pass through. Knocking down the doorstone is a taboo for coming to explore, and the witches silently abide by it.

It is said that the witches who came to explore with the idea of breaking the rules had an accident and their whereabouts are still unknown.

"Ready?" Mikazuki asked.

"You're all set."

They face the deep, lightless entrance to the tunnel and use [Piercing Magic]. A circle slightly larger than a body appeared on the ground, and a string of silver characters pulsed in the air.

The body became lighter, and then the temperature around it plummeted, and the humid air hit.

Ruiji immediately covered her mouth and nose, temporarily sealing her sense of smell with a magic that deprived her five senses. She hates damp, musty smells, which are pervasive and make people feel sick to their stomachs.

The ground is uneven, and there is standing water in low-lying potholes. Water droplets drip from the top of the tunnel, making a "tick-tock" sound that echoes through the quiet tunnel.

The inside of the tunnel is not cleaner than the outside, and the garbage disposed of by the witches of the expedition can be seen everywhere. Moving around the garbage, the closer you get to the depths of the tunnel, the faster the temperature drops.

"It's cold...... For example, Tsukikito and Asahina are colder. ”

"It's a lot more dangerous here than Asahina."

Out of nowhere, Mikazuki conjured up a lantern from the Momoyama period of Azuchi, and lit the wick with magic. The light of the flashlight is eclipsed in front of the lantern, and the dim world is presented to the guests in a more comprehensive state.

The inner walls of the tunnel are covered in large quantities of dried brown blood stains, traces of fights left by magical battles, and ...... Scratches from countless nails.

The dried blood stains also included handprints and footprints, which headed towards the exit of the tunnel, stopping abruptly at some point, and the escapees disappeared as if they had been grabbed by something, leaving a long trail of bloody dragging.

The atmosphere suddenly became terrifying, and Ruiji couldn't help but feel a chill down her spine.

(End of chapter)