Tokyo Ghost Diary

Just like what she said, Chiyo Uzuki seemed to be just here to get to know each other with Gen Hoshino and Yusuke Takasugi.

And her goal was indeed achieved, but after a few brief chats, she had already left a sufficient impression on Gen Hoshino and Yusuke Takasugi.

But this is obviously not a place suitable for chatting. The whispers among the witches over there were just based on the movement caused by the appearance of Hoshino Gen. Then one of the witches who looked the oldest coughed twice. , the palace instantly became quiet.

Chiyo Uzuki also smiled at the two of them and said, "Then let's wait until the matter is over before we talk. Can you add your contact information?" She took out her mobile phone and asked.

Takasugi Yusuke had no objection and took out his mobile phone to exchange contact information with her. When Chiyo Uzuki looked at Hoshino Gen again, Hoshino Gen just gestured to Takasugi Yusuke beside him: "You can contact me through him."

Chiyo Uzuki didn't care about Gen Hoshino's behavior of rejecting people thousands of miles away. She just smiled and took back her phone, then turned around and walked back to where she was before.

Time passed slowly in this quiet atmosphere.

Late at night, the shrine maidens also began to take turns to rest. Some went to sleep in the quiet room where Hoshino Gen took his afternoon nap, while others simply pulled out their bedding and spread it directly in the main hall.

As a result, this place is obviously not suitable for men. Gen Hoshino and Yusuke Takasugi left voluntarily a few quarters of an hour ago. At this moment, the two of them are sitting on the roof of the palace, and the other is leaning on the huge cherry tree next to the palace. The branches of the tree are still within the protective circle of the "enchantment" outside the palace.

Sitting on a branch, leaning against the main trunk, Hoshino Gen put one hand on Tamamo, who was sleeping in his arms, and put the rice ball provided by the shrine to his mouth with the other hand and nibbled on it.

Listening to the rustling bamboo forest beside his ears, he couldn't help but look up at the sky. The dark clouds had dispersed at some point. The sky tonight was as dark as water, especially the moonlight shining through the ripples of the bright moon. The barrier spills in, and the real brilliance flows, like a dream.

If he were not at a point where such a crisis could break out at any time, Hoshino Gen felt that he could sit here and happily enjoy such a beautiful scene all night long.

"Hoshino-kun."

Takasugi Yusuke, who was sitting on the roof, called him.

Hoshino Yuan retracted his gaze towards the sky and looked towards the opposite side.

"Have you received any information about Shinichi since you came to Kyoto?" Perhaps out of concern for Tamamo Mae, who was sleeping in Hoshino Gen's arms, Takasugi Yusuke's voice was not loud enough for Hoshino Gen to hear clearly. .

"No." Gen Hoshino told the truth, and then he asked: "Do you know where he is?"

"I don't know." Takasugi Yusuke shook his head: "In fact, after I came to Kenmi Shrine, I asked many people about it, but no one knew where Shinichi disappeared or how he disappeared. He seemed Suddenly the world disappeared without leaving any trace."

Hoshino Gen took another bite of the rice ball and looked outside the barrier. There were now a lot less people outside. At least compared to the number of people he saw when he came over in the afternoon, it was only about one-third of the number at that time.

I don’t know if those who left felt the increasingly dangerous atmosphere in the air and left on their own, or if they found a place to rest and recharge their batteries.

But those had nothing to do with Hoshino Gen. He just looked at those people, chewing rice balls in his mouth, and said calmly:

"Before he disappeared, he left a message like, 'Don't approach Takemi Shrine for three days.' Although we don't know why he said that, we can roughly judge from this sentence that he most likely disappeared in this shrine. , and nothing should happen for at least three days."

"And in three days..." Hoshino Gen chuckled: "The smell in the air is getting stronger and stronger. No matter how you think about it, Qian Yu's disappearance must be related to the incident we are about to face. Three days later, this incident will Regardless of the outcome, it should be over."

Takasugi Yusuke breathed a sigh of relief and said nothing, perhaps acquiescing to Hoshino Gen's words.

......

Tokyo.

After taking a shower, Hoshino Rin, wearing loose pajamas, hugged his knees and sat alone on the sofa at home quietly watching the news on TV.

If there is any big event happening in Japan recently, it must be the earthquake in Kyoto.

Perhaps because I was "just in this mountain", when I was in Kyoto before, I didn't have a particularly clear understanding of how powerful the intermittent earthquakes were.

It was only at this moment, through the news reports on TV and the videos shot from above, that Hoshino Rin realized what Kyoto had been destroyed into.

Houses have collapsed, the ground is cracked, and roads are blocked, making it difficult for people outside to get in and people inside to get out. The engineering team is still clearing the roads, but because the earthquake may happen again at any time, the process is slow. At present, supplies are mostly dropped by helicopter.

ding dong~

The mobile phone placed on the desk in front of the sofa suddenly rang. Hoshino Rin quickly reached out and grabbed it. Since arriving home, she has sent a message to her brother almost every few minutes, but he has never replied. Although the news Kamiya said that the earthquake caused some accidents at the Kyoto signal base station, but she still had some expectations.

However, what disappointed her was that the notification sound was not due to a message reply, but just a self-media news push from the mobile software.

But as soon as she glanced at the news headline, her finger couldn't help but click on the news item.

The reason is simply that this news is also about Kyoto.

What the news said was that someone discovered through drone aerial photography that an area of ​​about ten kilometers in southern Kyoto was blocked off by armed men.

The content of this self-media news more or less involves conspiracy theories. Therefore, many netizens in the comment area said that this was a secret experiment conducted by the Japanese government there, and that this earthquake was caused by a secret experiment. After all, where could it be? The earthquake shook so strangely? I shake it every few hours, and it gets stronger each time...

Hoshino Rin just glanced at the content in the comment area. She was more concerned about the news itself. A large area in southern Kyoto was blocked... The south. Before she left Kyoto, the direction her brother was frowning at seemed to be the south. .

So, is this blockade related to the incident that my brother is dealing with? Are my brother, Jiujiu and the others in that blockade area now?

Hoshino Rin exited the news interface melancholy, then turned off the phone screen and put it back on the desk. Finally, he continued to hug his knees and stared at the TV screen blankly.

The central air conditioner was blowing cold wind. In the empty home, Hoshino Rin hugged himself a little tighter. He felt so lonely without his brother and Jiujiu's home.