When Qianye took the train back to Yokohama, it was already evening, and now he was standing at the gate of the station, flipping through the ledger, remembering that he had summoned (hired) Sakunosuke Oda today, and wanted to do something extra to thank the other party.

Oda Sakunosuke is a good ghost who is very talkative, efficient and doesn't talk much, and his principle of not taking human lives is very compatible with Qianye's three views.

As a person who was born to stand at the junction of black and white and draw a place to shelter in a narrow and gray area, Qianye's idea of valuing life actually doesn't match the main tone very well, and it is too difficult for a person with an ability to not kill people for the rest of his life.

Although the Aliens are a hidden group, their position is common in the hearts of the top leaders of various countries - weapons.

To put it bluntly, there is no military weapon on the surface.

But no matter how difficult it is to operate, Qianye doesn't want to kill.

After all, he planned to settle in this city, and Chiye also learned the basic situation of Yokohama from Kunikida. Yokohama has a peculiar phenomenon in which the day is divided into day, dusk, and night, which are managed by the Extraordinary Secret Service Section, the Armed Detective Agency, and the Port Mafia.

It is also named the Three Moments Concept, which refers to these three time periods.

Qianye: It sounds like pulling over the separation of powers in foreign countries and then modifying it according to its own environmental conditions.

But no matter how it happened, there were still about forty-six minutes before the sun had completely set, which was a lot of time for him.

Qianye booked a car in advance, and he didn't pick up the car until tomorrow, so he went to a nearby convenience store to buy a few packs of snacks that children like, a few small toys, and a bunch of white daisy cranes and a little incense candles, and took a taxi to a cemetery.

It's a cemetery, and because of the relationships that are regularly taken care of, it doesn't look down. He uses his ability to summon Sakunosuke Oda.

Probably because the reason for this summoning was not for work, Oda was dressed in home clothes, with an apron tied around his waist and his hands still stained with flour.

What Qian Ye wanted to say, after seeing his outfit, his eyes stayed on his hand, and his expression was a little ...... Complex.

Oda: "Only the dead who are stranded in hell and have a job need to eat. ”

Qianye: "...... I remember those kids didn't have jobs. "They shouldn't need to eat.

Oda: "Well, I'm teaching them how to make soba noodles. ”

Qianye looked at Oda's serious appearance, and silently swallowed the spit back. He doesn't feel like he's the kind of person who is good at complaining, but the dead he met ...... Most of them have a little bit of a desire to complain.

Not wanting to discuss such a homely ethic with the deceased, he pulled out the plastic bag containing snacks and small toys in his hand and showed it to Oda.

"Last time I said yes, give some gifts to the children. I bought it at a convenience store, and I hope they don't dislike it. ”

Oda's eyes softened as he looked at the plastic bag and said, "They won't dislike it." In hell, these plastic mass-produced toys are scarce. ”

Small toys that are worthless in the present world are not available in the hell without industrialization. Hell is the place where the dead live, and even though the world has become industrialized, the pace of hell is slow.

Maybe this is also the concept of the ghost lamp - hell is not a resort sanctuary, if you follow the current world, make a bunch of humanized convenient equipment, do you have to introduce some ideas such as the concept of human rights?

To put it bluntly, it's just a transit zone for human reincarnation.

When Qianye saw him say this, he didn't think much about it. Let Oda lead the way in front.

The sunset shone on the ground, and Qianye's shadow was dragged for a long time, but the red-haired man walking in front, he had no shadow, and he couldn't even hear the sound of footsteps.

Oda naturally knew where he was buried, even though it was his first time in this place, and there was a kind of traction invisibly.

Qianye lived in England before, Oda did not have the opportunity to return to Yokohama, but maybe after the death of a person lost interest in many things in the world, he did not look around with curiosity or nostalgia, but walked forward with a firm step.

He said very little, and probably didn't know what to talk about.

Qian Ye was holding a plastic bag in one hand and a white daisy in the other, which were gifts for the deceased, which could not be contaminated with the breath of the deceased.

So he needs to carry it all the way.

Qianye said: "Speaking of which, isn't there an uncle? As you said, it's a delicious uncle who makes curry rice. ”

Oda had already found the tombstone on it, and he said, "Well, he went to the night market to open a curry rice stand at the festival a while ago, and the children went to help." ”

Qianye: "Did you make any money?" ”

Oda: "No, it's not to the taste of the inhabitants of hell. ”

Although some were sold, it could only be regarded as a loss, the races in hell were complex, not only the human dead, but most of the dead who stayed in hell did not have time to participate in this kind of festival.

Oda: "Uncle went to reincarnate yesterday. After thinking about it, he added, "I said that I have already experienced it, and my children and I have adapted to it, and he should go on a new journey into the unknown." ”

Qianye nodded: "What an open-minded uncle." ”

Qianye knew that Oda also had five children, which he adopted when he was alive, but after death, these children were still unwilling to be reincarnated. They wanted to spend some more time with Oda.

Oda was a killer during his lifetime, and although he later stopped doing it, he didn't do much to offset it, but the sentences in hell were not so rigid, and the judges considered the employer who hired the killer to be the main one compared to the killer.

So Oda stayed in Hell to work, and because although the children didn't have to go to school, eat, etc., they still had to wear clothes, buy some toys, and take them to play, etc., so the economy was a little tight, and it wasn't until he signed an employment cooperation with Qianye that he became rich.

Even......

Oda stands in front of his tombstone, which is located on the top of the hill with a nice view, and next to a large tree with dense branches.

There was no name engraved on the tombstone, it was blank, and he pointed to the bottom and said, "It should have been made by Dazai, and the ashes of me and the children were put together." ”

Dazai was a friend of Oda's life, and that's what Oda said anyway.

Qianye put the offering (snack toy) on the table, lit three sticks of incense, and instead of praying with his hands folded, he looked up and asked Oda, "Can you receive it like this?" ”

"Well, the offerings of the living, the gaze of the dead, after the incense is halfway burned, the sacrifice will appear in hell, and then you just need to go to the relevant department to receive it."

Qianye: "I used to think that as long as I made an offering, the deceased would receive it. "If it weren't for that adventure, I really didn't know that I needed the gaze of the dead at the same time.

However, it is very difficult to fulfill these conditions, and the deceased must not stay in this world for a long time, otherwise it is easy to degenerate into a lonely ghost or even a ghost.

So far, I'm afraid only Qianye's ability can make the dead evade this rule.

The incense is very thin and not long, Qianye sits under the tree, takes out his mobile phone and reads the local news, while Oda is standing in front of the tombstone without knowing what he is thinking.

When the incense was halfway burned, he said coldly, "It's okay." ”

Qianye looked over, and sure enough, he saw that the offerings slowly became transparent, and finally the snack toys and flowers disappeared, only the three incense sticks were still smoking.

This picture is still a little weird, Qianye touched his chest: "......" Forget it, I don't bother with this.

Oda scratched his head, as if he had something to say, but he didn't know how to speak. Touching Qianye's puzzled gaze, he looked away and said, "I asked Lord Ghost Lantern, and he asked me to ask you." Excuse me...... Are you interested in starting a new business? ”

The last sentence uses honorifics.

"For example?"

"I wrote a novel." Oda pursed her lips, "I want to give it to my two friends." ”

Qianye: "...... Let me get it to them? ”

"No, you don't." Oda shook his head, "It's sent to the publishing house." If it can be published, the proceeds will be reduced from the employment fee to you...... Please donate to a reliable foundation to help children. Orphans, seriously ill children...... It's okay to donate to orphanages, I don't know much about this kind of thing, and I have to bother you. ”

Qian Ye suddenly realized: "Do you want to accumulate good deeds through this kind of behavior?" ”

Oda hesitated for a moment, as if he didn't think this inference was very correct, but nodded and said, "I can say the same, can I ask you?" ”

"Naturally. After all, this was proposed by Mr. Oda, and it is not an impossible thing to do, and as a friend, I will definitely help. I don't have to pay the commission, and Mr. Oda also helped me read the manuscript and guide me in writing, so I don't have to be too clear about helping my friends. ”

Chiye's straightforward words made Oda a little uncomfortable, and every time he heard Chiye say something similar, he always seemed to show such an expression.

It's not that it's embarrassing, it's not that it's incomprehensible, it's ...... A complex emotion that Qianye doesn't quite understand.

At the end, Oda smiled at Qianye: "Well, I'm very happy to have such a friend as you." ”

After a brief discussion, but in fact, whether it is Qianye or Oda, they are not very familiar with this area, especially since this is still a very strange city to Qianye.

At the end of the conversation, when he found that the two of them were inferior to novices in this area, Qianye said embarrassedly: "Let's wait until I understand it before talking." ”

His face was already red.

Oda was kind enough not to expose this and returned to hell first.

By this time, the sun had completely set. Qian Ye looked at his watch, and it was now seven :05. Although Yokohama stipulates that the night is controlled by the port mafia, in practice it is not very dead.

Generally before 9 p.m., law and order are still guaranteed.

So he left the cemetery in a calm mood, took a taxi back to the hotel, and returned to Japan on his first day, even if it was the end of the curtain.

What Qianye didn't know was that in the afternoon in the bookcafe where the murder occurred, in the building where the yellow warning strip was drawn, there was a man in a business suit, who was sitting where he was standing before.

His right hand was on the ground, his head bowed, no one knew how long he had been sitting here, the moonlight shining through the window on his body, and the reflective lenses could not see his face.

Only the heavy sadness covering him makes people feel sad for no reason.