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Chapter 1690 Passage (This cat will evolve into a cat tank!)

After that, time passed day by day.

New Year, another new year. Just as Duanmu Huai guessed, after the new year turned, reports on the Shibuya terrorist attack gradually disappeared from the media. Everything seemed to be back to its original appearance again. Most of the troublemakers had been killed by Duanmu Huai and other spellcasters. The remaining ones didn't know whether the situation was bad or the limelight was wrong. In short, they all hid. .

So for a moment, everything seemed to be calm again.

But Duanmu Huai knew that this was not the end. Now the subspace was too close to the area of ​​Japan. Unless the strange and cursed spirits hidden in the subspace were completely eliminated at once, it was hard to say what would happen.

Moreover, even if the curse master knows how to protect himself, the curse spirit is different.

Just like today...the student who came to the Classics Department for help.

"Huh, I'm sorry, I have something that I hope the Classics Department can help investigate..."

Perhaps because she saw Duanmu Huai sitting here with her own eyes, the girl who came for help was a little restless.

"What's the matter?"

"Yes, that's the case. I suspect that the house I currently live in...is a haunted house."

The girl is a second-year general major student named Honda. She said that last year, her parents moved due to work, so they bought a single-family building. The location of this building is very good. It is very close to the station and school. The yard is also very large and the decoration is very satisfactory in every aspect.

At that time, the family was also very satisfied with this house, and the price was cheap, so they bought it.

But after that, some inexplicable things always happen at home.

Honda's parents are both busy at work, and Honda is at home alone most of the time. But she always felt as if she was not alone at home. Several times when Honda was studying in her room, she could hear people walking around on the first floor and in the corridor.

At first Honda thought it was an illusion or a sound coming from outside, but one time she was reviewing her homework in the bedroom and suddenly heard the sound of a man and a woman quarreling in the hallway. At that time, Honda thought his parents were quarreling when they returned, so he hurried out to stop them. But when she reached the stairs, she found that there was no one in the entrance hall below.

Immediately afterwards, Honda felt as if someone pushed her, causing her to lose her balance and fall down the stairs. Fortunately, Honda protected her head at the time, but even so, she broke her leg and stayed in the hospital for several days. Although her parents believed that she accidentally fell down the stairs, Honda was very convinced that someone pushed her from behind.

And after being discharged from the hospital, Honda's feeling became stronger. Not only that, she found that her parents seemed to have changed too. My parents used to have a very good relationship, but now they have a big fight every three days and a small fight every other day. Their tempers are very bad and they can easily quarrel over the smallest things.

Not only that, Honda had an Akita dog before, and he had a very good relationship with him since he was a puppy. But on the moving day, the Akita kept barking at the house, and then ran away without anyone paying attention.

After searching for a long time, Honda couldn't find it, and Honda was sad for a while. However, just a few days ago, when Honda went out to get a newspaper, he found that the Akita dog had its neck broken and was thrown at the gate. It was a huge blow to Honda at that time, and my mother also felt weird. Only my father insisted that this was just the work of a pervert and not a ghost at all.

The angry Honda and his father also had a big quarrel, and both parties even started fighting. His father, who had never hit Honda since he was a child, was cruel this time. He grabbed Honda's head and banged it against the wall. In the end, his mother intervened to stop him.

"...In the past, the family was obviously not like this. Although the previous home was a bit shabby, everyone's relationship was very good. But since moving to the new house, this kind of thing has happened. I think...I think it must be that There’s something wrong with the house!”

Facing Honda's words, the three of them looked at each other, and then Chitanda spoke.

"If I remember correctly, the real estate company has an obligation to inform about haunted houses... Don't you know?"

"…………"

Honda shook his head.

"I went to the company that originally sold the house to us to inquire, but they insisted that it was a clean property and even showed me the rental contract signed before..."

"How long have you been renting before?"

At this moment, Duanmuhuai suddenly asked. After hearing Duanmuhuai's question, Honda thought for a moment.

"It seems like a month..."

"But why are you looking for our Classical Department?"

While Yana was eating senbei, he looked at Honda curiously, and the latter took out the magazine.

"This is... a magazine I bought before. The research on food and weird stories in it is very novel and fascinating, so I think you have a lot of research in this area..."

"…………"

The three of them looked at each other.

Nanami is very knowledgeable about eating, Duanmuhuai is very knowledgeable about ghost stories, and Chitanda is very knowledgeable about literature.

Well, that’s not wrong.

The three-in-one is also a cassette.

"Bang!"

At this moment, Honda suddenly reached out his hand and slapped the table hard!

"Don't you even believe me? I didn't lie!"

"Whoa!"

Honda's sudden outburst came without any warning. Hana was so frightened that all the senbei in her hand fell off, while Chitanda froze there, motionless. Only Duanmu Huai raised his eyebrows and did not speak, but stared at Honda carefully. The latter was pressing the table, menacingly, his eyes full of blood, glaring at them fiercely.

"Don't you even believe me? I didn't lie! Everything I said is true!"

"Okay, calm down, Honda-san."

As Duanmuhuai spoke, he exerted a breath on Honda. Feeling the pressure exerted by Duanmuhuai, Honda, who was acting like a madman, suddenly seemed to wake up from a big dream. He immediately came back to his senses and became well-behaved again. sit down.

"Yes, I'm sorry! I don't know what happened just now... I'm really sorry, I can't seem to control myself... Sorry for disturbing you!"

After saying this, Honda picked up his schoolbag, turned around and left the club quickly, leaving only the three of them looking at each other.

"Gang, what happened just now?"

Nanami picked up the senbei that fell on the table and took a bite to suppress her shock, while her eyes widened.

"I was also shocked. Honda-san seemed to have changed into a different person. It was so scary..."

Chitanda also stretched out her hand to hold her chest, took a deep breath, and then looked at Duanmu Huai.

"Xiao Ai, what did you mean by asking Honda-san just now?"

"Oh, I just want to make sure that no one has died in that house. Now it seems that there is a high probability of death."

"Huh? How did you know?"

Seeing this, Yana came over curiously. "Didn't Eru just say that real estate developers have an obligation to inform?"

"Yes, but this is only for the 'last customer'."

Duanmuhuai snapped his fingers.

"Actually, I have heard similar rumors in the industry. Many real estate developers want to sell haunted houses where people have died, but others are reluctant to live in the haunted houses. So what should I do? It's very simple. Clean the room."

"Wash the room?"

Faced with Duanmu Huai's words, the two of them were a little confused.

"Are you going to clean the room?"

"Of course not."

Duanmu Huai rolled his eyes.

"Didn't I just say that? The obligation to inform the next tenant of a haunted house is limited to the next tenant of the house. And if the tenant has no problems during the rental period, then there is no need to inform the tenant when it is rented to the next household. Therefore, many Real estate companies do this. Once a house becomes a haunted house, they will ask their employees to sign a rental agreement and let them live there.”

"Then the employees are willing to live there?"

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Hearing this, Nanami's eyes widened in surprise.

"There is no need for him to actually move in, as long as he signs the contract, and this type of rental is usually short-term. Although the contract states that he has moved in, he has not actually moved in. But after the contract expires, this A house is not a haunted house on paper, so there is no need to explain it when introducing it to customers. "

Having said this, Duanmuhuai chuckled. The Japanese actually like to engage in this kind of loophole trick, like legal gambling like Pachinko. Japanese law also strictly prohibits gambling, but as mentioned before, there are policies from above and countermeasures from below. If you don't let us engage in legal X behaviors, then we will engage in abnormal X behaviors such as voyeurism and SM to circumvent laws and regulations.

According to Japanese laws and regulations, gambling is illegal if it involves monetary transactions.

So how do the Japanese circumvent this law?

Very simple.

When you win Pachinko, you get not money or chips, but a bunch of physical prizes. For example, cigarettes, cosmetics, DVDs, various food and health products, etc. Then, you can leave the pachinko shop with this pile of goods and go to the shop opposite it to sell them for money.

It's illegal to give money directly, but if I sell the prize for money, you have nothing to do with it.

There's nothing illegal about the pachinko shop, they give you real prizes.

The store that buys the prizes is not breaking the law. They are buying goods, and they have to pay after receiving the goods.

And the customer himself is not breaking the law. You say I won a prize and got the prize, but I didn’t want it so I sold it. This is my own business. Can the law control it?

This is Pachinko's famous "three-store model."

As for whether the prizes purchased here will go back to the pachinko shop to wait for the next lucky winner, that is another matter.

Who will say that the Japanese abide by the rules in the future? Duanmu Huai slapped her in the mouth. This is a blatant attempt to repeatedly jump on the edge of the law, right? This is a rat, and if there is a hole, it will be drilled.

"Is there such a thing?"

After listening to Duanmu Huai's explanation, both Nanami and Chitanda were shocked. It was obvious that this was the first time they felt that society was so dangerous...

"So there are very few short-term rentals for single-family houses like this, so I guessed there was a problem after Honda-san said it for a month... But before that..."

Duanmuhuai looked at Nanami and Chitanda.

"What do you think? Do you want to intervene?"

"this………"

Yanami and Chitanda looked at each other, and then Yanami raised his hand.

"Of course, I didn't expect that a real estate company would do such a thing. We must make this despicable behavior public! Even if they don't break the law, I won't let them go!"

"And I'm also very curious about whether the haunted house is really haunted! I think this can become the core topic of the next issue of the magazine!"

Chitanda also chimed in and spoke.

"All right."

Duanmuhuai thought for a moment and smiled slightly.

"Then it's decided, see you then, Yana."

"Um?"

"Go and inquire about Honda-san."

Although Yanami likes to eat, she is a Yang angle and is very popular in the general department, so it is no problem to leave the investigation work to her.

"Okay, leave it to me."

Seeing that Yana finished the remaining senbei in one go, she patted her chest hard.

"What Chitanda said... Now that the direction of the next issue of the magazine has been decided, how about we just go to a few spiritual places?"

"Ah, do you want me to look for it in the literature records?"

"Yes, please."

"Okay, what about you, little love?"

"I...after Bana receives the clues, I will find someone to investigate the true situation of that house."

Real estate companies won't talk about this kind of thing.

But Duanmuhuai can go to the Metropolitan Police Department directly.

Of course, Duanmu Huai also had his own selfish reasons for doing this.

He had always wanted to find a stable passage to the subspace. Professor Ueno's house was sealed by the police after that, and the passage to the subspace also disappeared. Therefore, Duanmu Huai must find another one, and the passage connecting the subspace is usually a place where various supernatural events continue. It can be said that from this point of view, the inquisitor is more like an exorcist, looking everywhere The haunted house then exorcises the evil spirit, sealing and destroying the passage to the warp.

So when he heard this commission, Duanmu Huai had already decided on his next action.

Let’s start here.