As a general, she cannot be a good daughter of Kage.

It seemed that she was right to believe the other party... So, she really wanted to compete with him on their chess skills.

"Linghua, there are no forks in the road over there, just a few baskets of potatoes."

Xiao Gong came back from the fork in the road and reported to her.

"Well, thank you for your hard work, Miss Xiaogong... let's look for it from the other side."

"Okay~"

The two left the place.

"...?"

Xinhai raised his eyes and glanced at the far corner, narrowed his eyes slightly, then lowered his eyes to look at the general who was breathing evenly in his arms, and smiled fondly.

"Are we still looking?"

The general asked muffledly against her chest.

"Yeah - it's optional... you can look for it if you want... it doesn't matter if you don't want to, I'm not interested in the prize."

Xinhai replied.

"Then let's go find it?"

"sure."

Xinhai let go of her and stood up from the steps. The general also stood up again. After looking at the fork in the road at the moment, the two of them chose one at random based on their common feeling and went there.

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Chapter of Qiu Jin ~ Time passes easily, and life is like dew: Chapter 31 The flying violet

Although the dare test requires a certain amount of traps to be arranged to scare the participants,...sometimes some traps are particularly humorous. She doesn't know whether the organizer did it deliberately or if the aesthetics are so weird.

For example... what appeared in front of them now... these floating in the air and emitting will-o'-the-wisp... violet melons.

Huhu~

These flaming melons appear in the air from time to time, and occasionally teleport between two people or above their heads. Overall, if they were replaced with something more atmospheric, the effect would be much better than it is now. , otherwise, just looking at these cordials would look very dramatic.

"Is this... a violet melon?"

Xinhai raised his hand and touched the food floating in front of him without fear at all, his tone was a little uncertain.

"probably…"

she answered.

"The person who created this layout is really... fantastic."

Xinhai, with high emotional intelligence, made critical comments on some of the people who asked the questions.

"I think it's okay for you to just say it."

She narrowed her eyes and took down the violet melon from the sky and held it in her hands.

"This is not okay. If the other party hides and checks, then I will offend someone."

Xinhai smiled and shook his head with concern, not sure if he was joking or making fun of something.

"...You actually think about it so much."

"It should be a habit...but, having said that, this cordial has neither ropes nor other mechanisms, so how does it fly?"

At this moment, Xinhai subconsciously raised her chin and began to think about it. The sweet voice like a clear pond was filled with a little doubt. She was a rational person. At this time, she would subconsciously think about the principle instead of thinking that it was some kind of ghost for the first time. cause trouble.

"It's demon power."

the general replied.

"...Demon power? Ah, it seems that there is indeed some demon power in it."

Xinhai came back to his senses and noticed a strange smell on it. What's going on?

While she was thinking like this, she followed the general again and walked into the deep open space. The moonlight couldn't shine in here, so it was darker than outside and the atmosphere was weirder.

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At this moment, several statues with civet cat figures in front of them were slowly turning towards the two of them, looking directly at them. All the statues looked over for a while.

"...This one is much better than the previous one."

Seeing this, Xinhai commented on her, and then took the initiative to raise his hand and touch the head of the civet cat statue in front of him, while his eyes explored the rear and its shadow.

"Well - there should be a mechanism. I found it... Look, General, there is a bearing here."

After finding it, Xinhai raised his eyes to greet her and let her see.

"..."

She glanced over silently, and then stared at the back of the girl's head.

"What's wrong? Ah...could this be...not allowed to be touched?"

Xinhai looked a little puzzled when he looked at her, then thought of something and immediately stopped his hand and stood up.

"Aren't you afraid?"

she asked.

The reactions of the other party and Ayaka on this point are simply two extremes.

"The living goddess witch occasionally has some work to remove spirits. Apart from these... I am also a rational person, and I am not very interested in these things."

Xinhai explained.

so...

No wonder...from the beginning to the end, the other party didn't show any signs of trouble, but seemed to be at ease with it.

"Not so Linghua. At times like this, she would have been hiding behind me because she was scared."

Thinking of the cute way the other party had been hiding behind her and following her, she couldn't help but curl her lips and smile.

"This kind of thing... needs to be divided among people. Maybe Miss Kamisato likes to have fantastic thoughts in her heart, and her imagination will be richer, so she will be more sensitive to some ghostly things. This also shows that Miss Kamisato still maintains Rare innocence."

Generally speaking, people with richer imaginations are more likely to be frightened...

Xinhai didn't laugh at the other party, he just used his own understanding and thinking to help the other party. Even though Linghua couldn't hear it, maybe he was sneezing at this time?

"Ok?"

At this time, Xinhai's sharp eyes saw something in a crack in the stone wall in the far corner. She was stunned for a moment and then walked to the stone wall alone, squatted down and took out something inside.

It’s a traditional fan painted with fireworks patterns…

"What did you find?"

When the general saw her like this, he followed her, leaned down on his knees and asked softly.

"Is this it? It's what the miko lady asked us to find."

Xinhai handed her the fan.

"Are these...fireworks?"

After taking it, she looked at the beautiful patterns on it and murmured.

"Well, it feels like a celebration, so that's right."

Xinhai stood up and nodded.

Moreover, the item that the miko originally said she was looking for was also a fan, so it was just right and everything fell into place.

"Finding this means we won the second round, right? Do we need to take it to the miko lady to report?"

Xinhai suggested.

"That's all. Let's go back first."

"it is good…"

In this way, the two of them returned along the original path, but... during the process, she heard a distant sound...

(Run quickly——!)

(Hahahaha! Let you run away! There is nowhere to escape now!!)

(Woo-oh——!)

Yes, there was a chase-like conversation coming from somewhere in the distance, and there were children in the voice, and the other voice seemed to be... Arataki Ichito?

If she heard correctly...

"What happened over there? Do you need to go take a look?"

Xinhai also stopped and asked curiously.

"Huh... I'll go take a look, Xinhai... just take the fan in your hand and find the witch, otherwise it will waste time."

She looked at a place in the distance and sighed slightly, then suggested this to the girl in a warm voice.

"I know, you have to be careful."

Xinhai did not refute, and did not forget to give a warning before leaving.

"Um...nothing."

She nodded and was about to leave...

"S-Xiao Mio..."

At this moment, she heard the call of the person behind her... She stopped again and looked back. What caught her eyes was the ethereal sea of ​​​​heart wrapped in silver gauze under the moonlight. There was some vague hesitation on the other person's face, and he took a step forward on his toes but... Backed away.

"what happened?"

she asked.

"...I will not participate in the third round of the game."

Xinhai said.

"…Why? Are you going back?"

She turned around and walked up to her and took away a trace of hair from the other person's forehead.

"Well... Goro should also prepare a boat."