The hotel that Shiraishi and Tsukishima booked is located in a town and is surrounded by lively commercial streets, which can give young women a sense of security.
Deciding to take a vacation in the mountains and living in the mountains are two different things after all.
They were hungry, so after putting away their luggage, they immediately ran to eat Akita Prefecture's rice stick pot.
"Autumn rice is really great, Tsukishima, remember to carry two bags with you when you go back."
"You carry it yourself!"
The female teacher put down her usual calm and calm attitude and choked back without hesitation.
"What a willful woman."
Chizuru Shiraishi accused in a mature tone: "Stay at home all day long, neither cooking nor helping! I really don't know what the point of raising you is! How will I get married in the future?
Those two embarrassing things are so bright that they make people dizzy!"
This is the tone she imitated from her grandmother, especially when scolding herself, she imitated it perfectly.
Tsukishima curled his lips and sneered, used his chopsticks quickly, and while Shiraishi was performing passionately, he picked out all the chicken and beef in the pot.
"ah!"
"Tsukishima, you guy!"
…
When leaving, Shiraishi looked up and suddenly caught a glimpse of a black cat sitting on the roof of a low house. The cat seemed to be staring at her.
Its hair is quite soft and it doesn't look like a stray cat at first glance.
That elegant posture gave Shiraishi a very familiar feeling, but because the distance was too far, he couldn't see it clearly.
Her heart beat suddenly, and her body reacted before she even realized it.
"yuki?"
"What?" Tsukishima didn't hear what she said clearly.
"Ah...nothing."
Shiraishi suddenly turned around with a guilty conscience, and laughed a few times perfunctorily. When she looked at the roof over there again, the black cat had disappeared.
The female doctor looked at the empty roof with a sense of loss.
"What happened to you suddenly?"
"They said no, I just saw a black cat, so cute."
"Am I as cute as I am?" the female teacher asked arrogantly.
"Huh?" Shiraishi was stunned for a moment when he heard this, then pointed at Tsukishima's nose and laughed.
"Tsukishima Tan, you are the cutest in the world~"
…
In the evening, Qing Keisuke came to the library smelling of alcohol, holding a cloth bag in his left hand, which also contained several small bottles of sake.
As for most of the other purchased wine, it was sent directly to the apartment in Shinjuku via express delivery.
In order to avoid trouble, he directly cast a small spell to enter the library while avoiding other people's eyes and ears.
Later, in a secluded corner on the second floor, the girl who buried the case was found in front of a square desk. She was currently looking through the list of past victims of Yuzawa. There were also geographical records, newspapers and magazines and other materials on the side.
"Did you find any information?" Qing Keisuke sat down next to her, picked up the geographical journal and looked through it.
"Well, twenty-one years ago, there was a flash flood in Osawa Mountain, and a village on the mountain was washed away." Hoshino said without looking back.
"oh?"
Hoshino opened a page and placed it in front of Qing Keisuke.
Some of the words on it were blurred, and some simply turned into confusing words, or changed into the words □□村.
"Most of the materials have been destroyed. If it was man-made, it would be a bit exaggerated."
"Obviously it's a method of occultism." Qing Keisuke took the record and flipped through it gently.
"Can it be done to this extent?"
"After all, he is a god..." Qing Keisuke smiled.
Hoshino glanced at him twice, then looked away, and asked: "Can gods distort people's cognition?"
"Of course...it's okay, otherwise how can I go to the museum to drink openly in the afternoon?"
"It's really disgusting."
Qing Keisuke didn't know whether she was talking about this ability or the fact that he went drinking and having fun when he was under twenty years old.
He snapped his fingers suddenly, and his spirituality instantly turned into a frenzy, and then suddenly condensed into one point, bursting out like thunder.
"Boom!"
The deep knocking of a copper bell rang in Hoshino's ears, and she saw light like drizzle falling onto the pages on the desk, and then it seemed as if a pouring rain instantly soaked her body, making her feel as if she had fallen into a deep lake, unable to escape.
breathe.
"Please listen to me..."
The low murmur sounded again, and this time, even Qing Keisuke heard his voice.
The geographical list that was laid out was fragile and fragmented, but it was instantly put back together by Qing Keisuke.
At this moment, two forces collided and shattered invisibly, and then Qing Keisuke's big hand came down to eliminate all the aftermath.
"Hmm...it's interesting."
Hoshino noticed that his face was a little pale, but he still smiled after meeting her gaze. The young man pretended to be mysterious and said:
"The next step is magic time——"
He slowly moved his palm away, and in a small area covered by his palm, a faint white light "bang" spread out, followed by the faint fragrance of ink.
Hoshino Fujiko couldn't help but look down. In that small area, Aoi Keisuke had regained its original appearance.
She took a deep breath to cover up the shock in her heart.
It was a newspaper reporting that a flash flood had hit a mountain village, and the title at this time included the name of the village:
"The proprietress of Hetang is also named Ozawa?"
"Um."
Qing Keisuke knew what Hoshino meant.
They have encountered enough coincidences on this journey, haven't they?
"Have you heard the sound just now?" he asked.
"I heard it in my dream." Hoshino had no choice but to confess at this time.
"It seems you are on the journey He expects."
Hoshino was silent, now it seems that is indeed the case.
But that's not necessarily the case, otherwise the information she found shouldn't have been erased.
There are still mysteries that need to be solved by her.
"Are you ready to go back, or should you go back after dinner?" Qing Keisuke stood up and stretched.
"Go back to Hetang first. I'm already tired today."
"OK."
Aoi Keisuke took out his mobile phone and prepared to call the hired driver Sawaki Otomo.
Hoshino took a photo of the newspaper modified by Aoi Keisuke, then folded it and secretly put it into his bag, and then put the remaining information back to their original places.
"Let's go."
"Waiting outside the library?"
What Aoi Keisuke meant was whether getting on the bus here would offend Otomo Sawaki's nerves.
"Well, we gave him plenty of time to hesitate. He has two options..."
Hoshino smiled faintly, then quickly suppressed it.
Needless to say, there are two options. One is to immediately report to the relevant personnel on Daze Mountain to disrupt their possible subsequent investigation; the other is to help them hide it regardless of whether they really have no intention of asking questions.
As long as it is the second situation, it means that he is a target that can be achieved.
Considering the many chance encounters during this trip, Hoshino is looking forward to what information he can really get from Otomo Sawaki.
Aoi Keisuke nodded upon hearing this, but remained doubtful as to whether Hoshino had come up with this plan in the morning.
He always felt that the "no plan" his president admitted in the Komachi Hall in the afternoon was true, just because it would make him look more handsome to say this now.
While he was thinking this, he was glared at by Hoshino Fujiko.
"What's wrong?"
"The alcohol smells very strong, stay away from me."
"How cold, President."
They left the Yuzawa City Library and stood at the bus stop next to the highway. In the distance, a rock band was performing in the park.
They were preparing to attend the Fuji Rock Festival, which they had been attending for a while, and now they arrived early to warm up their band and attract the audience.
The lead singer is a young girl with a high-pitched and powerful voice that is very recognizable.
She is also dressed in black, but compared with Hoshino next to her, she can be said to be "hot, sexy, and individual".
The rest of the musicians are male, and generally speaking, they are quite "rock style" characters.
They seem to be singing their own title song now:
"Want to go over and have a look?"
Hoshino instinctively hated places where crowds gathered, so he decisively refused.
Qing Keisuke stood beside her, just watching from a distance and humming the melody of the song softly.
——If they were in Yuzawa and could take advantage of the situation and change it to Song of Yuzawa, for example, changing the location here, and replacing Tokyo Bay with the Omono River flowing through Yuzawa, they might be able to win more support.
Hoshino just looked at it for a while, then raised his head and looked at the sky with pale eyes, as if counting how many stars there were.
Qing Keisuke suddenly felt that she seemed to be one of them, but it was dim and could not even transmit the refracted light to the earth.
"What are you looking at?" he asked.
"Sirius."
"Ah...the brightest star at night?"
"Brightness brings disaster."
"At least it's a star and won't fall to the earth."
"..."
Hoshino pursed his lips and ignored him.
After a long time, the car lights came on at the end of the road, and it was Otomo Sawaki's car that had arrived.
Aoi Keisuke reminded Hoshino Fujiko, and then said with a smile: "Does this count as us watching a concert together?"
"It doesn't count."
The girl immediately showed disgust after hearing this, and then answered decisively.
"That's it."
Lord Demon King hummed as expected. In fact, he just wanted Hoshino to show this expression. After all, she looked too lonely looking at the sky.
But he didn't think it was accurate to say that it was completely lonely.
"Mr. Zeshu, here!"
Otomo Sawaki's old-fashioned car slowly stopped beside the two of them, and the hood blew up a burst of heat. Hoshino subconsciously took a step back, then frowned and climbed into the back seat.
As usual, Qing Keisuke sat in the front row.
"Why did you come here to play?" Otomo Zeshu asked with a hint of uneasiness.
Qing Keisuke glanced at Hoshino and saw that she had her eyes closed, as if she was ready to rest, so he answered by himself: "I heard there is a performance here, so I came over to take a look."
"Ah...ah!"
Zeshu Otomo breathed a sigh of relief: "Is it from the park in front?"
"Yeah, girls sing rock and roll."
"That's pretty awesome!"
When the car started, Qing Keisuke noticed Hoshino opening his eyes and glanced at him, probably blaming himself for not showing off his cards directly, so he gave her a smile in return.
In short, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to make the first day of the trip back a little quieter, right?
Qing Keisuke chuckled and hummed the song performed by the rock band just now. The wine bottles in the bag gently collided with each other, making a crisp sound, but no one in the entire carriage cared.
The mountain road at night is a bit eerie, with only a symbolic streetlight far away. If a person is driving alone, it is easy to have a dark psychology.
Fortunately, Otomo Sawaki is a frequent traveler on this road, and Aoi Keisuke and Hoshino Fujiko are far from ordinary people. If Tsukishima and Shiraishi were to travel by car, they would probably be so scared that they would scream.
"What are you thinking about?" Hoshino suddenly asked.
The reason why she asked this question was not to dispel Qing Keisuke's doubts about herself, but because she really couldn't hear anything from Qing Keisuke's heart.
"It's a kind of relaxation to let yourself go and think about nothing."
Hoshino is silent, saying that he is letting go, but who can really make everything clear?
Otomo Sawaki concentrated on holding the steering wheel, trying not to listen to the conversation between the two.
"I think you are drunk."
"Haha, that's okay. Do you want to have a drink together later?"
"No need."
"President, when will you let go of your unnecessary defenses and open your heart to me~"
Aoi Keisuke said this sentence in a rock and roll singing style, and its content completely reproduced Hoshino's classic saying.
"If you try to get a girl drunk late at night, even a crawler on the ground will know what you are thinking." Fujiko Hoshino mocked unceremoniously.
"Then you'd better drink boiled water."
"Just because I said this doesn't mean I'm ready to go."
"That's a shame."
Qing Keisuke clearly had no regrets, but he still smacked his lips. At this moment, Hoshino clearly heard what he was saying.
She simply closed her eyes and prepared to rest and go to the hotel.
At this time, Zeshu Dayou glanced over secretly and coughed twice: "Brother Qinggui, are you going to drink tonight?"
"yes."
"How about I have a couple of drinks with you?"
He subconsciously thought that Qing Keisuke and the two were adult college students - even if they were not adults, he just pretended not to know.
"Okay, that's perfect."
Qing Keisuke immediately agreed and agreed to call him over later.
Otomo Zeshu was overjoyed. He never drank alcohol when he was in the car. He was supervised by his family when he came home. It was a rare opportunity for him to take a few sips.
"By the way, President, how about hiking up the mountain to watch the sunrise tomorrow morning?"
"not so good."
"Mr. Sawaki, you said a girl asked you to go on a trip, but she didn't agree to anything. What does that mean?" Qing Keisuke asked Sawaki Otomo in a falsetto voice.
Otomo Sawaki laughed, but still did not interfere in the relationship between the two, nor did he follow Keisuke Aoi's wishes to persuade Fujiko Hoshino.
One is because he is a little afraid of this cold girl, and the other is his professional ethics.
He only regarded it as two people talking about love in their own way, so he answered Qing Keisuke, "I don't know either."
Then he shared with the two of his loving daily life with his wife - although no one seemed to want to hear it.
It wasn't until he talked about the birth and naming of his first child that the car finally parked in the parking lot outside Hetang.
“Smooth arrival!”
The middle-aged man gave the two of them a thumbs up energetically.
Hoshino had a sullen face. The reason why this man is so excited is most likely because Qing Keisuke asked him to drink!
