The wind and rain sprinkled on the uninhabited mountain road, and a figure in a pure black kimono held a red paper umbrella and climbed the stairs.

The rain dripped down the edge of the paper umbrella, and the paper umbrella was gently lifted, reflecting a handsome face on the surface of the water droplets.

Dingding——!

A crisp phone rings.

The figure paused slightly, hesitated for a moment, and then took out the mobile phone from his arms and put it to his ear.

"Hello?"

"Hello?! Brother Amamiya! ”

"Little pomelo pear? What's up? ”

"I'm going to that cliff again today! Guess what I found!! ”

Hearing Yuzurina's tone so excited, Amamiya Haruki was stunned for a moment, thinking of a possibility, and a flash of hope flashed in his eyes.

"He's back?!"

"No, I found an old man!"

“……”

"This old man also floated over with the ocean current, and when I picked him up, his time was also frozen, exactly like Brother Qiye at that time!" The more Yuzurina spoke, the more excited she became, "I feel like he might be from the same place as Brother Nanaya!" ”

An old man from the same place as Lin Qiye?

Isn't that Great Xia?

Amamiya Haruki's eyebrows furrowed.

"Does he understand us?"

"I don't seem to understand, after I woke up, he has been sitting in the corner in silence, no matter how I talk to him, he ignores me."

“…… I know, when I'm done with the things at hand, I'll go to the Wind Festival house to have a look. ”

"Brother Amamiya, haven't you found the last Katsu knife yet?"

"Not yet."

"Okay, then I'll wait for you at the Wind Festival."

"Hmm."

Amamiya hung up the phone, and after walking along the mountain road for a long time, after searching the entire mountain, he sighed helplessly.

"Is the prophecy given by Shota wrong today......

He shook his head, held the paper umbrella, and turned to walk down the mountain.

……

"At four o'clock yesterday afternoon, there was another gang injury incident in Shinsaibashi, eight drunken thug residents broke into the gold store with knives, stabbed the store manager 16 times, and robbed all the valuable gold items in the store, the store manager fell to the ground and asked passers-by for help, no one reached out to help, and finally died of excessive bleeding......"

“…… As of yesterday, this week, there have been 132 incidents of malignant injuries by passers-by in Osaka, involving 1,000 casualties, and the Osaka Police Department is understaffed ...... peacekeepers.

“…… Here, Shuguang Broadcasting reminds all residents not to go out unless necessary, and if you find yourself with red eyes, insomnia, inexplicable mania and other diseases, please go to the nearest hospital for isolation and treatment as soon as possible......"

Smack——!

In the Japanese-style courtyard of the Kazematri family, Yuzurina turned off the radio and stood up from the tatami mat.

Not long ago, the [Nightfall] team slashed the [Pure Land], turned off 92% of the electronic equipment in the "human circle", all televisions, electronic large screens could not be activated, and all television stations were shut down.

"This world is really getting more and more chaotic......" Yuzurina sighed, went into the kitchen to make a cup of tea, held it in her hand, and walked to the corner of the room.

There, a gray-haired old man was looking up at the cherry blossom trees floating outside the window, stunned.

The breeze blew through the pale strands of his sideburns, and a few pink cherry blossoms fell on the wrinkled back of his hand, and he sat there dumbfounded, his eyes dull, like a stone statue of a lost soul.

In his hand, he held a mask with the word "Wang" written on it, and a fine crack opened in the center of the mask, as if it had been knocked somewhere.

"Grandpa, will you have a glass of water?" Yuzu Rena handed the teacup in her hand to the old man and said softly.

Wang Mian was unmoved.

Yuzu Nai pursed her lips, put the steaming teacup in her hand beside him, and patiently gestured with her hands, probably telling Wang Mian that this cup of tea was not poisonous and could be drunk.

After gesturing for a long time, Wang Mian still ignored her and remained motionless.

Yuzurina, who was busy and sweating profusely, seemed to be a little angry, she stood up from the tatami, her mouth curled, and muttered to herself: "Why is this person so stupid?" I couldn't understand it for a long time...... It seems that the people of Great Xia are not as smart as Brother Qiye. ”

Hearing the last half of the sentence, Wang Mian was slightly stunned.

He turned his head sharply to look at Yuzurina, opened his chapped lips, and asked in somewhat obscure Japanese, "Great Xia?" How do you know about Great Xia? ”

This time it was Yuzuri's turn and she was stunned.

"You can understand Japanese?!" Yuzu Rina was so angry that she stomped her feet, "Then I told you for a long time, why did you ignore me?" ”

Wang Mian looked straight into her eyes and repeated the question, "How do you know about Great Xia?" ”

"Because Brother Qiye floated over from the sea, and his body was frozen by time at that time, just like when you came...... Brother Qiye told me that he was from Great Xia. ”

"Brother Seven Nights?"

"It's the seven nights of the shallow feather." Yuli Nai paused and added, "His original name was Lin Qiye. ”

Lin Qiye?

Hearing this familiar name, a few glimmers flashed in Wang Mian's eyes, and he leaned against the wall in a daze, smiling bitterly.

What a coincidence......

After being awakened by Yuzurina, it only took a short time for Wang Mian to realize where this was.

As the leader of the [Masquerade] team, he knew that all the major divine kingdoms in the mist had "human circles", and some time ago he heard about the fact that [Nightfall] had just returned from Japan's "human circles", and he also probably knew the situation inside the "human circles".

On top of that, as an agent of the gods, he promised the god of time to help him take out something from Takamagahara.

In order to take out this thing, Wang Mian had been preparing for a long time, which of course also included the study of Japanese and the analysis of Japanese culture, and he knew that one day, he would embark on a journey to find Takamagahara.

It's just that he never expected that before he took the initiative to find Takamagahara, he was directly swept into the "human circle" of Japan by the ocean currents, and the first person he saw when he opened his eyes actually knew Lin Qiye......

All this is too coincidental.

If it was before, Wang Mian would have explored this "human circle" with curiosity, and by the way, he would have looked for traces of Takamagahara, but now, ...... He wasn't in the mood.

Whether it's the "human circle", or Takamagahara, or the agreement with the god of time, it doesn't matter anymore.

As early as the moment when Yuzurina was awakened by Yuzurina on the shore and lifted the state of time stagnation, the first thought in Wang Mian's mind was to immediately go back in time to before [Kamen] entered the fishing village, to stop this from happening and save his brother's life.

But he found that he couldn't......

Because

His life is no longer enough.