Chapter 3 Open the door and check the water meter! (Please recommend for collection)
"Daily news, today's special report, the Taishi Bureau's spirit elimination team recently broke into the great rivers and mountains, and eliminated the descendants of the great demon king Shuten Tongzi who was entrenched in the depths of the great rivers and mountains..."
"Recently, the National Advanced Sword Wizard Trial and Assessment was held in Fukushima Prefecture. The genius sword wizard Nakagawa Yu of the Miko Organization successfully eliminated fifty radiation-mutated wraiths hiding in the underground pipelines of Minamisoma City, Fukushima Prefecture.
Won the first place in the assessment..."
"The Great Onmyoji of Onmyoji Abe Hayata has already set off for Hokkaido, preparing to strengthen the whaling barrier in the waters around Hokkaido to attract more whale monsters. It is expected that the fishermen's income will double this year...
"
Haoren: "..."
The news being broadcast on TV made Haoren's hands and feet feel cold and his neck stiff. His mood that had just calmed down became unstable again.
In fact, this is just the daily norm in this parallel world.
In this world, humans are strong and demons are weak, and demons can only hide in the shadows and tremble, and they must always be wary of being hunted by humans.
Originally, Haoren, who had lived in this world for seventeen years, was already used to all this.
But since the accident a year ago, he could no longer calmly face the news about monster hunting and killing, which was normal in the past. Every time he heard it, he couldn't help but feel worried, worried that one day
The monsters reported in the news will become themselves.
This is why he squatted on the ground and kept shouting "white teeth, white teeth" as soon as he entered the door.
Because, if you are not careful, you will reveal the fact that you are a monster.
Then, his end will probably be blood splattered three feet away!
Thumb thump thump!
It was also at this time that Haoren had just recovered from the shadow of the news reports. Before he could breathe a sigh of relief, the sound of the doorbell made him tense up again.
"Open the door, and the Shadow Guards will check the water meter... Oh, no, it's time for the Shadow Branch of the Taishi Bureau's monthly door-to-door inspection.
We will conduct a comprehensive investigation of demonic energy in your residence. If we find any little demons or new sources of demonic energy that have slipped through the network, we will eliminate them as soon as possible. Please rest assured!"
Haoren: “┮﹏┭”
As soon as he heard this sound, Haoren's big golden plush tail suddenly became furry.
"It's broken, it's broken! Why did the Taishi Bureau come at this time? If this allows them to come in, they will definitely find out that I am a monster. Then I'm afraid... Gudong~"
Haoren swallowed hard, subconsciously grabbed his furry fox tail, stroked it against the hair, and said worriedly:
"Ah...this world is really too dangerous!"
The Taishi Bureau, together with the Miko Organization and the Yin Yang Liao, are the three official demon extermination organizations of the island country.
Compared with the ancient witch institutions and Yin Yangliao, the Taishi Bureau has absorbed more spirit slayers and demon-fighting experts who combine modern technology and take the scientific route.
The Taishi Bureau is an agency directly under the government of the island country. It goes deep into the people and helps the people deal with all kinds of demonic and supernatural events they encounter every day.
This kind of regular monthly door-to-door inspection of evil spirits is one of the tasks that the Taishi Bureau is responsible for.
In the past, Haoren had long been accustomed to things like checking the water meter at home, and he even became familiar with the Taishi Bureau staff who were in charge of this residential area and were later transferred.
But now...
"Ya Bai, why did you come at this time!"
Pulling his fluffy fox tail, Haoren jumped up from the tatami.
Although he has been accustomed to this kind of life for a year, he is afraid that he will be discovered by a spiritual exorcist one day and will be purged, and he lives a life of worry and fear every day.
But because Haoren has a strong sense of crisis, he has always hidden the fact that he is a monster very well, so it has basically never been exposed.
But today...
If you don't come early, you won't come late, but you choose to come at this time, now you will be in big trouble!
You know, right now, he is in a state of revealing his demonic appearance, and there is no way he can recover in a short time.
The so-called revealing the monster's appearance means revealing the monster's true appearance, which is Haoren's current fox-tailed state.
His body has become like this since he received Tamamozen's inheritance.
Although according to the notes left by Tamamo-mae, monsters with Daiyou bloodline can voluntarily restrain their demonic appearance, and he also learned from his notes how to restrain his demonic appearance - the Fox Hidden Technique.
But this fox concealment technique has a drawback - it lasts only 72 hours, and after restoring the demonic form, you need to rest for half an hour before you can continue to use it.
In other words, every three days, he must let out his hidden tail for air.
This is quite reasonable, just like adolescent men, who usually keep their tail between their legs.
But every morning, there is always a short period of time when the tail will be raised involuntarily.
This is why Haoren was in a hurry to return home from school. It was not because of a part-time job, but because the duration of the demon phase was about to end.
"Half an hour hasn't passed yet. Once someone from the Taishi Bureau comes in, they will definitely find this tail. What should we do?"
The tail is secondary. The most important thing is that after revealing his demonic appearance, it is difficult to conceal the demonic power in Haoren's body.
Although you can try to suppress the demonic power on the surface of the body and prevent it from leaking out, even so, you can't escape the detection of the Taishi Bureau's sophisticated demon-searching equipment.
And once someone from the Taishi Bureau discovers that he is a monster, the horrific and bloody Incident 404 will really happen in Room 404!
"Why don't we just pretend that we're not at home? Well, let's do that. No matter how good the people from the Taishi Bureau are, they won't be able to break in through the door, right?
As long as you can retract the fox tail after half an hour, everything will be safe."
Soon, Haoren made up his mind and decided to pretend that he was not at home.
The knocking on the door did stop after a while.
However……
boom!
After a moment of silence outside, the unlocked door was suddenly kicked open with a loud bang.
One man, two women, and three members of the Taishi Bureau's spirit-removing team wearing black uniforms and holding spirit-removing pistols barged in directly.
"Captain Hoshino, just now the instrument suddenly detected the reaction of demonic energy, right here...ah, captain, look, that's..."
One of the women with short hair, holding a small sensor-like instrument in one hand and a gun in the other, walked at the front.
After crossing the screen at the entrance, she soon noticed Haoren in the hall and hurriedly reported to the young woman behind him called Captain Hoshino.
The two people behind the short-haired woman also noticed Haoren and his fluffy long golden tail...
Damn it, why did they just break in!
Haoren never expected that the "water meter checker" in this world would not follow the routine and break into his home directly.
It's over now!
After seventeen years of traveling and reliving, are we going to pounce here today?
After traveling to the parallel world of Tokyo and becoming a monster, Haoren faced his first crisis among monsters!
I read in the comments that it should be done in advance or at night. The plot always needs to be unexpectedly advanced!
It was clearly written in the article that I couldn’t hold it in any longer before I released it. It must have been an unexpected situation. It’s also my fault that I didn’t write more words (╯-＿-)╯