There seems to be some kind of deal between Kanoya Yukino and Lord Hachishaku.
The hand-drawn drawings in her bag are probably the bargaining chips used in the transaction.
Hearing Kanoya's promise, Master Hachisha showed an expression of satisfaction and expectation: "I liked the book you drew last time. I'll wait until you finish drawing this time before I read it. Please be quick."
"good."
JC's little painter nodded. It was obviously not the first time that she had been prompted by strange stories. She did not show much surprise and continued the topic: "Have you visited the boy from the Asakawa family? What's his condition?
How about it?"
"He is hopeless." Master Bachi said calmly.
"What...what do you mean? I saw him during the day, and I didn't think there was much abnormality about him. Although there is still a strange aura about him that is concerning."
"The red stingray's cavity had been embedded in his body, and the boy had become a zhiji. When I went to see him at night, I saw that his soul was riddled with holes. Although he was still alive, he had become the same as the dead.
It makes no difference, and your body will completely fail before long."
"how so……?"
Kanoya showed a sad expression.
Although she and Asakawa Hanpei lived in the same town, they were not familiar with each other.
However, it was hard for Kanoya, a kind-hearted person, to accept the news that a boy who was only an elementary school student was in danger and was about to die.
"Then Master Hachisha, what should we do?"
"What should I do?" The eight-foot girl turned sideways, reached out to brush down the high-slit white skirt, and slowly squatted down.
She kept bending over in this entrance hall, which made her very uncomfortable.
Along with the movements of the eight-foot girl, you can smell a mature and bold woody fragrance on her body. The smell is long, deep and alluring.
"It's the red ray, how should we deal with him?"
"Deal with him? Why should we deal with him? We have already obtained the Zhi sacrifice, and recently received a lot of incense sacrifices again. That Lord Red Ray should be able to live in peace for a long time."
"He is an evil god who harms people's lives."
"Yukino, I think you made a mistake." The eight-foot girl brought her face closer to Kanoya, her black and white eyes were charming and gentle:
"I am also a weirdo who may kill people. Relying on the cartoons you drew for me, I have never done anything to any tender and juicy little boy on this island. I am expected to go with the original place here.
Isn’t it a little too naive to think that the Aragami Red Ray is an enemy?”
"Then I can draw more for you! As long as you want to see it, I can draw more. As you said last time, I have already thought of a good plot based on you as the protagonist! I will draw three copies for you.
No, five servings!”
"I'm sorry, Yukino. I can't promise you, no matter how many copies I draw, because I'm not necessarily Red Ray's opponent. It won't do me any good to openly be his enemy."
"But, but..."
Kanoya became anxious, but he hesitated and could not say more.
"No more excuses, Yukino. Let's do it, good boy." The eight-foot girl smiled softly, stretched out her cold and soft hands, and gently touched Kanoya's smooth cheeks and chin, "You and your mother are really happy.
Like, if she were still here, she would be proud of you."
Lu Yewu lowered his head and remained silent.
Lord Bashiku is unwilling to deal with the evil god Red Ray.
Kanoya had no other solution to this problem.
All along, her relationship with the eight-footed girl has been one of worship and prayer.
Kanoya couldn't forcefully force the Hachisha girl to do something.
Seeing the depressed attitude of the little JC painter, the eight-foot girl gently withdrew her hand and talked about other things: "By the way, there is something you should pay attention to. When I just noticed you near Asakawa's house, you were always being
A strange story follows you. Maybe that strange story has been following you for a long time."
"Strange story? I, I don't feel anything."
"He is a weak but very strange ghost. He has a strong ability to hide his own aura. From the current point of view, he has no ill intentions towards you."
"What about the weird story now?"
Kanoya hurriedly tried to take out his bag, but stopped after a moment.
Master Bashiku is in front of you now, and he will definitely not let anything happen to him.
Moreover, apart from being able to use a pendulum and use tarot cards for divination, Kanoya does not have any other special skills.
So, when I met Kamiyagawa on the street just now, this little girl had already demonstrated everything she had learned throughout her life.
"He's no longer here. He must have kept a long distance from us. I can't feel him for the time being." The eight-foot girl shook her head.
"But why do strange stories suddenly appear on the island?"
"Did you meet anyone or anything special today?"
"A special person? That reversed wheel of fortune..."
"Huh?" the eight-footed woman said in a gentle tone.
"That's right, he was a college student who came to the island to study red stingray folklore. He asked me a lot of strange questions, but I didn't answer them all. I saw the aura of evil spirits in him at first, and I reminded him."
"He is able to make strange monsters do things for him, and he still appeared on the island at the time when Lord Chiray was enjoying the sacrifice in previous years. It's hard to say why he came. I'm afraid that the so-called college student is not that simple. Don't talk to him again in the future
If we make contact, he may be a dangerous person."
"Ah? He's driving Kaitan? Mr. Hachisha, you said that man is dangerous...well, but he looks..."
Kanoya chatted with Kamiyagawa for a long time tonight. He felt that there was something strange about the other party, but it was far from dangerous.
"That's it, Yukino, it's time for me to rest. If you encounter anything strange again in the future, remember to come to me. You know where to find me. In addition, give me the drawing you have as soon as possible. This
This is the reward for my promise to you to see the little boy of the Asakawa family. I hope I can see it next time I wake up. If the submission is late, I will not be happy."
"I see."
Kanoya bowed slightly to Lord Hachisha.
The latter stood up again, raised his hand to hold down his white round hat, his white skirt and black hair fluttering.
The next second, the eight-foot girl disappeared.
Together with the round-headed and smiling Jizo statue at the entrance of Kanoya's house, he also disappeared.
…
The whole night, Lu Yewu didn't sleep well.
My mind is in a mess, thinking about messy things.
About the evil god Red Ray, about Lord Bashiku, about the reversed wheel of fortune...
Kanoya is only 14 years old this year.
She didn't know much about the island's wild god, the red ray, before. After all, the last red ray festival on Ouri Island was already 30 years ago.
I only heard it occasionally and sporadically from adults.
From what the adults said, the red stingray god seems to be a benevolent god who protects harvests and catches.
Kanoya also recently noticed something unusual about Asakawa Hanpei, and after contacting Lord Hachisha, he finally learned that the so-called "benevolent harvest god" was actually a great evil god who demanded human sacrifices and ate people without spitting out their bones.
Then there's Hachisha-sama.
Kanoya has known this man since he was very young.
For a long time when she was a child, she didn't even know that this gentle sister who was very beautiful but unusually tall was not human.
The relationship between Hachisha-onna and Kanoya's mother seems to be very good. In a sense, Kanoya is Hachisha-sama's junior.
When he was about 11 years old, Kanoya learned from his mother that Hachisha-sama was actually a very powerful monster.
In the past, there had always been some kind of deal between my mother and Lord Bashiku.
that is……
Kanoya's mother would mail-order some comics with special themes for adults, as offerings, and submit them to Hachisha-sama on a regular basis.
And the result of doing so is——
Master Bashiku promised not to attack any little boy on the island.
All this time, this weirdo-sama has indeed kept his promise.
When my mother was still alive, she also said that the promises made by monsters were often more trustworthy and reliable than those made by humans.
In short, Hatachi-sama... seems to have a strange, almost innate need for little boys.
It’s just that I have been using strange novels, comics or animations as meal replacement restraints.
When Kanoya was 12 years old, his mother died of illness.
Her mother has always been in poor health, and it may be that she has long realized that she is not going to die soon, so her mother told her daughter everything about Master Hachisha.
After my mother passed away, the responsibility of worshiping Hachisha-sama so that Hachisha-sama could continue to suppress and restrain his natural desires naturally fell on Kanoya.
Kanoya's mother secretly left her daughter a large amount of money, as well as a large inventory of graphic novels that fit the hobbies of Hachisha-sama.
It is enough for an eight-foot-long adult to use for a long time.
Later, Kanoya opened the door to a new world in those comics not suitable for children, and discovered his own talent in painting.
I have to say, she draws really well.
Both the plot and composition are excellent.
Hatsaku-sama's evaluation of the individual hand-drawn drawings she drew is even higher than those popular on the market.
In addition, Master Hachisha's state has never been right.
Especially one year after his mother's death, every time Hachisha-sama went out for activities for a period of time, he would be forced to return to the Ksitigarbha statue to hide himself and take a forced rest.
The rest period may be a few days or more than a month.
The reason why Kanoya is like this is not yet clear to her, as Master Hachisha has never told her.
Even though Hachisha-sama's condition is not stable, Kanoya has always admired her since she was a child.
I thought that Master Hachisha was already invincible.
But today, when I heard the eight-foot girl say from her own words that she was not necessarily the opponent of the evil god Red Ray, to be honest, Kanoya was a little disappointed.
There is a feeling of disillusionment...
Finally, it’s about the reversed wheel of fortune that suddenly appeared on the island.
Lord Hachisha said that he can conjure strange ghost stories.
He even followed me with ghost stories.
So, is this the reason why he has the aura of evil spirits on his body?
Master Hachisha said "Wheel of Fortune". Although he has not shown any ill will toward him yet, he is probably a dangerous person.
It appeared on Ourishima Island during the Red Stingray Festival in previous years.
Are you here specifically for the Red Ray Evil God?
The real purpose is not research, but something else?
"If his true purpose is to deal with the Red Ray Evil God, then he must be a good person? Ah... maybe that's the case, and Master Bachi may have noticed it. So he doesn't want me to have too much trouble with that person.
Keep in touch, you don’t want me to get involved in what may happen in the future.”
Luyewu realized in hindsight.
…
Early the next morning, Kanoya got out of bed in a daze, put on his school uniform, and went to school listlessly.
She didn't even listen to the class well today.
She was still thinking about the things that happened on the island these days, things that she had no ability to participate in.
And, I briefly thought about the next plot of the comic at hand.
After all, I promised that I would draw it carefully.
Even if she delays the manuscript, Master Bachi will not actually do anything to her.
But Kanoya is still very responsible.
And Hachisha-sama needs this thing.
My confused brain has been at school all day. After school today, I am on duty at Kanoya.
She carefully cleaned the classroom and when she went out to take out the trash, she found several men in her class talking in the corridor.
"...Isn't it? Who said that?"
"It's Nishui and the three of them."
"Shikanoya looks so cute, is she really like that in private?"
"Looking cute doesn't mean anything, right? She dresses like a tomboy, but secretly she's actually a pornographic girl who loves to read those kinds of comics. So, don't make fun of me about the last time I confessed to her and was rejected.
It’s me. It’s not my problem at all. I’m obviously so handsome, but that guy from Kanoya doesn’t like normal people at all.”
"Hey, keep your voice down, she's out."
"..."
The boys shut up, but a few were looking over with strange eyes.
Kanoya just heard a little bit of their conversation.
The speeches of these people seemed to be completely disrespectful, especially the one in the lead, a boy who once pursued him but was rejected outright. He spoke very loudly, and he didn't know if he was deliberately trying to make himself heard.
Kanyeya didn't pay much attention to them.
He just rolled his eyes and continued to do his own thing.
She really has no interest in these naive peers, and she doesn't really make friends with them in school.
Relatively solitary.
It's up to you to say whatever you want.
I'm different from you stupid guys. I know more than you, and I even taught myself pendulum and divination.
Moreover, I have always been protecting you people.
If it weren't for me, you boys would have been given a long time ago by Master Bachi...
In short, I am a very powerful person and always have important things to do!
I don't care what these stupid guys think of me!
Kanoya thought this way, and felt much better because of his spiritual victory.
By the time she finished her duties, there was no one in the classroom.
Kanoya picked up his bag and turned to go to the toilet at the end of the corridor.
Flush and wash hands.
Just as she was about to leave, she saw someone coming in outside the toilet.
It's three girls.
The girl in the lead is called Nishui Miki.
He's a nasty guy.
When Kanoya was in physical education class two days ago, he took some time to hide in a corner and draw a draft of the manga he wanted to give to Hachisha-sama.
Because I was a little immersed in the idea, I didn't notice what was around me.
The sketch she drew at that time was seen by Miki Nishui.