I'm a ghost story witch in Tokyo

Chapter 25 25. The Goddess' Sacrifice

"No, you've worked hard. We'll eat by ourselves later."

Yue rejects the girl named Asakura.

This girl also wears a witch's hat on her head, and she is a weak witch.The witch hat of the weak witch, the color of the hat circumference will be a representative light blue.The ordinary witch is a bright red full of hope, and the great witch is a noble gold.

No matter whether it was the tourist witch or the witch working in the shop, they didn't find any threat in them, and it didn't matter if they left it alone for the time being.There are two sub-branches of ghost stories, one is harmful ghost stories, and the other is harmless ghost stories.

The tourist witches and waitress witches that appear in the scene are all harmless ghost stories, and the weak witches and Naling Chiyo who died a few years ago are harmful ghost stories.

The nature of the two types of ghost talk is easy to understand, and the literal meaning is straightforward enough.

These harmless ghost stories seem to be completely ignorant of the passage of time and the changes of the times. Their time and regional ghost stories are fixed in a moment, and they move forward and backward with it.

The owner of the diary, Reimi Kusaka, also mentioned in a diary that he was called the "boss" by the employees of this Oyunomizu hot spring hotel.If this regional ghost story is regarded as a game, the dead weak witch and Naling Chiyo are the boss, and everyone else is an NPC, then the owner of the hot spring hotel is the player character.

The unlucky kid Reimi Kusaka who entered the ghost story in 2004 was a failed player, so he was trapped in the "game world" and couldn't leave, and couldn't return to his own world.

Not only in Japan, there are often news reports of witches and ordinary people "going away" all over the world.Once seeing words like Shenyin, that person basically entered the narrow room.

Rui Ji and Yue are players in a new round of "games", so they become the bosses of Oyu no Mizu.

Go to the master bedroom on the second floor to check the photos hanging on the wall. The two witches in the photos really turned into their appearance.

"I don't know how to describe my current mood. I have grown up so much, except for my sister, I have never touched the hands of other witches."

In the photo, Rui Ji was wearing a white wedding gown, and Yue next to her had a frozen face, and the black patterned haori on her body fit surprisingly well.No matter how you look at the photo, it's strange. Two witches who haven't graduated from high school actually appear in a group photo with special significance. The prank of the regional ghost talk is too strong.

"What happened in the strange talk basically won't affect the reality, unless we can eliminate it. Wake up, I won't be with a witch I haven't known for a few days."

Yue took off the frame and stuffed it into the closet next to it.She believes that as long as the eyes can't see it, it means that there is no such thing.

Go back to the first floor, the mechanical device in the lower right corner of the grandfather clock face, the upper panel jumps to the number 64.

They have 64 hours left.

Countdown can increase people's sense of urgency, and Rui Ji didn't dare to treat it half-heartedly. She wandered around the hot spring hotel, but found no valuable clues.

Yue took her to the restaurant and enjoyed a sumptuous breakfast as a hotel owner.

Japanese-style breakfast dishes are relatively rich, and unlike high school students in Tianchao who just order porridge or two steamed buns to deal with it, Japanese people eat rice as the main food, and they also eat it with several kinds of dishes and soup.

Accommodation places generally provide guests with three meals a day, and only need to add a few hundred yen to get rid of the embarrassment of eating instant noodles during travel.The food tastes good, too, even if it comes from the hands of a harmless ghost.

There are several small plates surrounded by the filling white rice, which are sweet tamagoyaki, two cloves of sesame spinach, salt-grilled salmon, natto, deep-fried tempura and a bowl of kelp tofu miso soup.

A breakfast that pays attention to nutrition and atmosphere, served in exquisite classic dishes, everything can arouse the appetite.

The witch in kimono, who is also a harmless ghost, prepared tableware for two of them.Beside them were a few tourist witches in yukata, talking about what they had seen and heard during the trip in a Kansai dialect.

This time Rui Ji lost the cautiousness she had when eating hot spring steamed buns for the first time, and picked up the food and delivered it directly to her mouth.The hot rice and moderately salty side dishes are perfect together.

"It tastes so good, I almost forgot that I was still in the ghost story."

"Countless witches have proved to us that the food in the ghost story is edible. I also know some witches who are very adventurous. The goal is to taste delicious food in every ghost story, and a book was published later."

Yue picked up the fried tempura and took a bite, the crispy skin crunched.

"Is that witch still alive?"

Rui Ji felt more and more that the witch's world was crazy.To put it boldly, all the witches may be lunatics.

"Here, not only is he alive and well, but he also often takes other food lovers to 'encounter' all kinds of strange regional stories on the night of the red moon, and after they are full, they tear open a door and come back."

"Incomprehensible."

"I don't understand either."

After a quick breakfast, Yue proposed to wander around Asahina Town.There are only 63 hours left, which seems like a lot, and the time to seriously investigate things has passed in the blink of an eye.

"It's relatively safe during the day, and it's impossible to find anything hiding in a hotel."

She took a loaded weapon and a backpack that never left her body. Rui Ji also wanted to go out with her own outfit.In order to ensure that they fit the identities of the hotel owners, they did not change the bathrobes on their bodies.

Just stepped out of the Oyunomizu Hotel, but was stopped by the waiter in the shop.

It was the little witch named Asakura.

"how?"

Light gripped one of the guns, his expression alert.

"Boss... are you guys going to the shrine?"

"shrine?"

Rui Ji and Yue asked questions at the same time.

"The mayor said before that if you continue to obstruct the ceremony, at that time... the Goddess of the Mountain will send another punishment from heaven, no food will grow in the land, and there will be fewer people in the town than now, and... our store It will also be demolished. People in the town feel that the sacrifices offered to the goddess in previous years are not good enough. If it is a witch in the city, the goddess will be very happy. The girl named Yonaling is the most suitable sacrifice. .Boss, you are foreigners and don’t understand our customs here. The mayor asked me to remind you more to keep your business out of your way...or I’ll be rude to you.”

After listening to Asakura's narration, and combining with the clues collected in his hands, Rui Ji can basically figure out what happened that year.

The last few pieces of the puzzle are still short of the complete truth, and must be obtained by visiting Asahina Town.

"We don't go to the shrine, just take a walk outside. The weather is so good today, it's a bit boring to be bored in the store."

Under the gaze of the employee witch Asakura, Rui Ji and Yue pretended to be intimate, and left the hot spring hotel holding each other's arms.Walking to the corner, they let go at the same time.

The town in front of me is a lively scene.

(End of this chapter)