Tokyo Ghost Diary

At six o'clock in the evening, the sky was just right and the sunset was in full bloom.

The atmosphere in the backyard was already in full swing. The smell of barbecue and the refreshing cold drinks dyed every inch of the air in the yard with a sweet taste.

A game of Monopoly was being played over at the pavilion, and the loser was punished by drinking an entire disposable plastic cup of Coke in one go. Before six o'clock, Takasugi Yusuke, Asaba Shinichi, and Hoshino Gen happened to end up "bankrupt" one after another.

After drinking their respective cokes with punishing properties, the three of them got together again under the peach tree nearby.

The countdown to the top of the black website had just ended, and the top position had changed from the original countdown time number to a URL link.

After clicking in, you enter a new website. The background is still black, but some sci-fi light bars flash from time to time, giving it a hacker feel.

But these are just side details and not important. The three people under the peach tree are all focusing on the list on their mobile phone screens.

1: Chiyoho

2: Shinichiro Sasaki

3: Haruki Tsuchimikado

4: Miyamura Hayado

5: Fuyuan Jinsuke

6: Hoshino Gen

7: Asaba Shinichi

8: Takasugi Yusuke

9: Nishida wins

......

There are more than a thousand names on the list. Maybe this is the list of people with special abilities in Japan. The densely packed names are dazzling at first glance.

None of the three people was interested in reading the whole list. They only glanced at some of the names at the top of the list, and then they raised their heads and looked at each other for a few times.

Just as Takasugi Yusuke guessed, if nothing unexpected happens, this list is most likely to be arranged in order of strength. After all, the top of the list is the head of the Chiyo family in Kyoto that Asaba Shinichi mentioned before, and the following one is , is Sasaki Shinichiro, the strongest person that Gen Hoshino has ever seen in his two lifetimes, other than his master.

"There's something about this list..." The first person who couldn't help but speak was Asaha Shinichi. After he and the other two looked at each other, he couldn't help but return his eyes to the phone screen, focusing on The name of the fifth-placed person is Fu Yuan Jinsuke.

As if he noticed something strange about Asaba Shinichi, Takasugi Yusuke said: "What's wrong?"

"Dead people appear on the list... This thing should only list living people, right? Otherwise, the names at the front should be those in legends..." Asaha Shinichi's eyes behind his sunglasses had a bright look on his face. indefinite.

"What do you mean?" Takasugi Yusuke asked strangely: "Did you see the dead people appear in the list? Maybe they have the same name?"

"No, no, no." Qian Yuxin shook his finger and said: "It's not strange to have the same name and the same surname, but if this name appears in this ranking, it is unlikely that it is the same name..."

When this name appeared in front of him, it obviously had a big impact on Asaba Shinichi, and he didn't even care about his ranking.

Gen Hoshino on the side is also quite curious. He really doesn’t know much about things in Japan’s other world. In the past ten years, I don’t know whether it is because he is too mysterious and low-key, or because of bad luck, he has never interacted with people from other other worlds. He has had contact with people, and now, through black websites and this list, it is naturally the best way for him to understand the world in Japan.

Of course, there are ways to understand, but it is just like students having textbooks. Self-study may be feasible, but the efficiency is too slow after all. Therefore, the importance of having a teacher who can answer questions and solve doubts is reflected.

For Hoshino Gen, there is naturally no one more suitable "teacher" to instill knowledge about the other world than Asaba Shinichi and Takasugi Yusuke, two people who have obviously been hanging out in the other world for a long time.

Gen Hoshino followed Asaba Shinichi's gaze to his phone screen and asked, "Who are you talking about?"

"Fifth place, Tomimoto Shinsuke." Asaba Shinichi whispered: "My teacher, who has been missing for eight years..."

After finishing speaking, he murmured again as if to himself, with a deep sense of disbelief in his tone: "You are already polluted to this point, and you can still live to this day? It's unscientific..."

......

After the list was announced on the black website, Asaba Shinichi, who had always been carefree, seemed particularly worried. Therefore, the "banquet" in the backyard ended before nightfall at 6:30.

The "mess" in the backyard was naturally cleaned up by the staff. After the staff left, everyone parted in front of the main entrance of the antique store.

Asaba Shinichi, Takasugi Yusuke, Amamiya Sashi and the little girl Moritani Hoshiko left in the car. Shimizu Yu returned home alone as usual from get off work.

The Hoshino family was also not far from the antique shop, but Gen Hoshino did not go home with his sisters. Instead, he contacted a taxi and drove to the Sasaki family in the suburbs.

He had an appointment with Shinichiro Sasaki yesterday, and he would go to Sasaki's house every day to fight with Ayane Sasaki... He was not someone who gave up halfway before his goal was achieved.

When the taxi stopped at the entrance of the Sasaki family estate, it was completely dark.

Maybe it was because he came a little late. Every time he came here before, the old housekeeper would personally come out to greet him, but today there was no such courtesy.

When he entered, he was greeted by the bodyguards and guards on both sides who knew who he was.

However, Hoshino Gen doesn't care about those imaginary things. After all, it's not his first time here and he has already known the way.

Due to special reasons, there are very few people employed in the Sasaki family's manor, and basically no one from the family lives here. Therefore, Hoshino Gen walked all the way to the location of the gym without meeting anyone.

Until—a girl in a wheelchair, who was so cute and pretty that her appearance rivaled that of Ayane Sasaki, stopped in front of Gen Hoshino.

The girl looked about fourteen, about the same age as Kiryu Ruoha, who should be a junior high school student. She had a playful hairstyle with a side ponytail, her skin looked particularly cold and white in the dim environment where the sun had already set, and her facial features were slightly She looks childish, but her pretty face is a standard oval face. Her beauty reveals a childish cuteness, and her cuteness reveals an unconcealable coquettishness.

The wheelchair beneath her body and the faint hint of pathology in her skin make the girl look particularly endearing.

At this moment, the girl opened a pair of beautiful big deer-like eyes, staring closely at Hoshino Yuan's face. Her eyes flashed with a cunning and clear light, and she opened her mouth and shouted to Hoshino Yuan: "Brother-in-law?"

"..." Gen Hoshino has actually met this girl. Yes, it was at the banquet where he and Sasaki Ayane were married. If I remember correctly, the girl's name should be Sasaki Ruri, and she is Sasaki Shinichiro. His little granddaughter is also the biological sister of Sasaki Ayane.

ps: In the Book Circle - Essence, there is a big guy in [Cold Joke] who has drawn images of some of the characters in this book. Friends who are interested can take a look and give the big guy a thumbs up (???????)