Kyoto Shenyin Love Story

Chapter 9 Snow Night

It was freezing outside, but Akane Kirino, who had been staying in the house, was also pale, and her face was a little colder than the weather at this time.

After opening the door for Soya, she turned away without saying a word.

"Kirino?"

"...men."

"what?"

With her back turned, her body and voice trembled a little.

"close the door……"

Walking into the warm room, Sogu closed the door with his backhand to keep out everything like wind and snow, and then she turned to look at him.

"Sorry..." "Sorry."

The two spoke at the same time and stopped at the same time.

"..."

Kirino Akane forced a smile, and Soya lifted the bag in his hand.

"Awaited."

"It's okay." She shook her head, "I suddenly want to eat something from the store... Come here."

The two walked to the restaurant, Soya opened the bag, took out all kinds of grilled and fried food prepared by Kirino's father, and put them on the plate she brought.

Wrapped in tin foil, the food was still hot even after walking around in the cold outdoors, even a little hot to the touch.

Although the room was warm, he didn't open it all at once to eat as much as he could.

"Songya..."

Sogu lowered his head and tore off the tinfoil, and responded casually, "Yes."

"Can you stay today?"

"Can... eh?"

He raised his gaze, and Akane Kirino, who was sitting across from him, was staring at him intently, holding a corner of the tablecloth tightly in his hands.

"..."

She is afraid.

Soya quickly passed the stage of surprise and doubt, and realized the essence of the problem.

"Did Kirino see something?"

"..."

She didn't speak, just stared into his eyes and glanced outside the room.

"Is there a spirit outside?"

She nodded vigorously.

"..."

No wonder he was asked to come here in the name of delivering supper.

"Relax." Soya comforted, took out a skewer of grilled chicken from the tinfoil that had just been opened, and handed it over, "It should just be a wandering spirit passing by."

Kirino Akane immediately shook her head in denial.

"always there?"

"Ok!"

He remembered her strange appearance when she left the old house in the afternoon, and asked again: "How many days has this happened?"

"It started appearing the night before yesterday."

Soya was taken aback immediately.

The mahogany amulet on his chest suppresses the spiritual sense, and the effect is remarkable, and he knows nothing about it.

"What does that spirit body look like?"

Whether to drive or eliminate, one must first identify what kind of spirit it is.

If it was just the two of them, or Akane Kirino could not deal with it under his guidance, then let the group of witches who were blowing the wind and watching the snow on the street come over and suppress them. Anyway, their job is to eliminate spirits...

Soya was thinking in his heart, Akane Kirino took the grilled chicken in his hand, and looked at him for a while.

"She is the daughter of Huang Quan."

"Cy—"

As soon as she greeted her, her daughter came down from upstairs, which surprised the Kirino couple who had just arrived home.

But the smile on her face quickly dispelled a little doubt in their hearts.

"Mom, Dad."

"Akane, aren't you ready to rest yet?"

"I'm reading." Akane Kirino stopped at a place where she couldn't get up and down the stairs, "I'll take a rest soon."

"Don't study too late, it's snowing outside... Soya-kun has been here before?"

"Uh-huh."

Kirino Keiko patted the snow on his shoulders and signaled her husband to take a bath first.

"Did he say anything?"

Akane Kirino thought for a while, "Prepare for the exam with peace of mind?"

"that is it?"

"Eat more."

"..."

Looking at the smile on her daughter's face, Keiko Kirino felt that she might just be under too much pressure and needed to talk to someone.

"Is that so, I thought Soya-kun would say a little more."

"He said that he has nothing to comfort my self-confidence. If he talks too much, it may make me feel confused. Just stop."

"So that's how it is... really a mature boy."

"Uh-huh."

After chatting for a few more words, Kirino and his wife each went to wash and rest, and Akane Kirino turned back upstairs.

Seeing that it was her, Sogu returned to the room from the terrace covered with a thin layer of snow, and closed the French windows.

Closing the door, she smiled.

"If it was mother who came in, Soya would be found hiding there."

He just shook his head, unable to smile as easily as she did.

Akane Kirino walked to the French window and looked outside for a while.

The night was dim, and the numerous snowflakes could only be seen when passing by the light from the room, but the strange figures floating in the air were extremely clear.

"It turns out that the daughter of the underworld can fly."

"..."

Zong Gu was behind her, he couldn't see it with his eyes, but he knew it clearly in his heart. He had seen the scene of the daughter of the underworld covering the sky and the sun long ago.

"What are they doing?"

"Reconnaissance." He closed one side of the curtain, "or contacting a distant companion."

Akane Kirino raised her hand to hold the other side, as if she wanted to take another look, but Soya didn't insist.

"Aren't Kirino afraid?"

"Didn't Soya say that they won't attack me?"

In view of her frightened performance before, she probably felt that this reason was not convincing, so she turned her head and smiled.

"With Soya here, I don't feel afraid."

"I really envy you. I'm scared to death myself."

Soya looked outside, "Although they didn't come after me this time."

Not only Kirino's house, but the daughters of Huang Quan can be seen wandering around everywhere, which is the main reason why Kirino Akane has been trembling these two days-even if she knows that they will not hurt herself, it does not affect the shock of seeing the pale face suddenly. human level.

Combining her words with what he had seen and heard at this time, Soya also roughly understood what the witches he met before were doing.

"These daughters of the underworld are weaving a big net to detect and block all the whereabouts of the 'prey'. The location of Kirino's house happens to be a node in this net."

The cold atmosphere of Huangquan condensed into groups around it, even affecting the weather.Putting on such a big battle, it should be that they found the trace of the most powerful ominous spirit;
The daughter of Huangquan and the army of Huangquan from the other world can only act according to instinct besides obeying the command of the master. Although the goals of the two sides occasionally reach agreement, the only thing the shrine can do is to cooperate with them.

Both sides are making big moves, and that peerless ominous spirit is likely to be caught this time... No, it should be wiped out directly;
Except for him who used the amulet to hide himself, the rest of the evil spirits who were not in good standing could not escape.

This also means that when the turmoil completely subsides, a large number of daughters of the underworld wandering around the Kinki area will return to the other world-he will also be temporarily free.

"Don't look at it."

Kirino Akane also closed the curtain on the other side, went back to the door, and locked her own door.

"Sorry, Soya will be here for one night."

"fine."

She took out a quilt from the closet and spread it on the floor of the room. This is where Soya rested tonight.

"Can I turn off the lights?"

"Close it."

The two got into their respective beds, Kirino Akane turned off the light, and the room suddenly became dark.

The wind and snow are rustling, there is a faint light outside the floor-to-ceiling windows, and there is a faint fragrance on the bedding.

I don't know how long it took before the silence was broken.

"Soya, are you asleep?"

"No."

There was a rustling sound from the bed, and the girl lying flat turned over, facing the quilt on the floor.

Her eyes had already adapted to the darkness, and she could vaguely see what was on the ground.

He also turned around.

"Soya seems to know something."

"..."

He was startled, and it took a while to realize that what she was talking about was what was happening outside.

"Just a little guesswork."

Soya told what he saw on the street at night, combined with his guesses.

"I see……"

After listening to him, Akane Kirino's voice revealed a trace of relaxation, "I really hope everything goes well."

"Feel sorry."

"Hey, why are you apologizing?"

In the darkness, Soya touched the bulge of his chest, "If it wasn't for lent me the amulet, Kirino wouldn't have to worry about it."

Even in order not to embarrass him, she pretended to be nonchalant two days ago.

"—In my opinion, the invisible horror is more terrifying."

"yes."

"Yes."

She answered affirmatively, "Even if Soya returns the amulet to me now, I can't help but take it off... After all, I'm still a 'newcomer'."

"..."

From "invisible" to "visible", she is indeed a newcomer.

To make matters worse, her curiosity was still strong.

"Although I still feel scared when I see it." Akane Kirino continued, "But after Soya explained it, I felt a lot more at ease... Sure enough, the main source of fear is the unknown."

Sogu felt that her arrival had broken the peace, and plunged her into a complicated vortex of curiosity and fear, and she didn't know how to respond for a while.

She didn't wait for his reply for a long time. Although she cared, she didn't ask any more questions, and changed the topic again.

"By the way, has Soya been able to see spirit bodies since he was a child?"

"That's right. Except for Kirino, all spiritual beings are like this."

"That's why you know so much?"

"Do not."

Soya took a long breath, "In the past, I only knew that I could see things that others couldn't see."

"People like us are even rarer than Kirino imagined. Unless we are discovered by the same kind, it is difficult to have the opportunity to realize the true appearance of ourselves and the world."

"Everything I know is learned from the mouths of various spirits I met after I was in the underworld."

"Eh?"

Akane Kirino was stunned for a moment, "It turns out that spirit bodies can still communicate with people?"

"Yeah, but it's the kind that doesn't lose consciousness too much. They tell jokes, throw tantrums, and try to shed tears when they cry."

"..."

She looked at the ground, and Soya in the quilt remembered something, and fell into a long silence.

After a while, he was the one who broke the silence.

"Except for the spirit bodies born under the will of the creator gods, such as the daughter of the underworld, the rest are all kinds of supernatural beings called 'ghosts', 'ghosts' or 'monsters' by ordinary people...the original names are all" Humanity'."

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