Tokyo Ghost Diary

"Now, let me confirm it for you one last time." Gen Hoshino turned to Yu Shimizu with a smile: "Are you still willing to work here if you may encounter a supernatural being at any time?"

Shimizu Yu swallowed, her little heart beating loudly in her chest.

Her beautiful eyes reflected Hoshino Gen's face. She couldn't help but look back at the contract on the desk. Suddenly, she felt that the door on the mysterious side was waving to her. As long as she wrote down her name, that door would open. Will be open to her.

Yu Shimizu did not answer Hoshino Gen's question. In the silence, Yu Shimizu returned to the desk and sat down. He picked up the pen that was on the contract and quickly signed his name on it.

Then, he looked at Hoshino Yuan with burning eyes.

The plain smile on Hoshino Gen's face suddenly became warm, and he said in a friendly tone: "In this case, Shimizu-san, you will be a member of the antique store from now on. I suggest you read the contract carefully so that you can know what you are doing." What are the obligations and rights?”

Shimizu Yu is a person who listens to advice very much. Since Hoshino Gen said so, she guessed that there should be some special clauses in this contract that need to be paid attention to.

While Shimizu Yu was reading the contract, Hoshino Gen went over and took the bag containing the alchemy raw materials to the backyard, with Hoshino Rin following closely behind him.

The backyard is very large. Except for the part connected to the main body of the house, the other three sides are surrounded by tall walls. Two cobblestone paths cut the entire courtyard into four areas in a cross shape, including flower beds, peach trees, Pavilions, even fish ponds... In this metropolis made of steel and concrete, the beauty is like a garden outside of this world.

But such beautiful scenery did not make Hoshino Rin move his eyes even a moment. From the beginning to the end, her eyes were glued to Hoshino Yuan's body, and her strange pupils were so bright and frightening.

Hoshino Gen ignored her, as if Hoshino Rin did not exist, and walked through the cobblestone path to the stone mill next to the pavilion. This was a rather strange-looking stone mill. The strange thing was not the shape, but the stone mill. It's the material.

It is said to be a stone mill, but in fact, at a glance, you can tell that this mill is not made of ordinary stone. The pitch black surface can even reflect the surrounding things, and it looks more like obsidian.

When Hoshino Gen took out the contents of the bag one by one, Hoshino Rin couldn't help but curiously touched the black stone grinder. It felt smooth, but unexpectedly a little warm, probably because of the sun's rays and the black color absorbing heat. Because of this, but when you feel it carefully, it doesn’t feel like obsidian should have...

She was about to ask her brother, but at this moment, Hoshino Gen had already taken out a thumb-sized gold bar and stuffed it into his eyes. This operation shocked Hoshino Rin.

Gen Hoshino looked at his right hand that was wrapped in gauze, and then looked at Hoshino Rin who was standing next to him. In his sister's stupid and confused look, Gen Hoshino motioned to her at the black stone mill beside him.

"..." Hoshino Rin blinked, and then asked uncertainly: "Onii-chan... you want me to grind it for you?"

Gen Hoshino looked down at his injured right hand again.

The corners of Hoshino Rin's pink and slender lips moved. As a super popular idol, she also has an extremely good family background. She never lacks film appointments, whether it is movies, TV series, including some variety shows. She has participated in many activities, so it is not an exaggeration to say that she is an actor.

When performing roles in the play, she has done a variety of things, but to be honest, she has never experienced grinding, a job that a donkey is more qualified for than a human.

Although her physical strength is not particularly bad, she has no intention of competing with Donkey in this regard. However, facing her brother's request, Hoshino Rin pursed her lips and reluctantly reached out to hold it. Grinding rod.

She imitated the donkey she saw in movies and TV shows, and tried hard to turn the stone mill, but maybe because the gold was too hard, the whole millstone seemed to be stuck by something and could not turn. .

Hoshino Rinbai's little hand clenched the grinding rod, her teeth clenched, and she used all her strength to suck, but the stone grinder still didn't move. She pursed her lips and looked at Hoshino Yuan aggrievedly, as if to say It’s not that she’s useless, it’s just that using a stone to polish gold is unreliable...

Hoshino Gen didn't say anything. He took out a piece of bright yellow talisman paper from somewhere. He gently threw the talisman paper away, and the thin yellow paper shrank into a ball very delicately and fell into the eyes. In the next moment, fire burst out in the mill's eyes, and red light shone from all the gaps above and below the entire stone mill.

Hoshino Rin was dumbfounded and looked at her brother as if she had seen a ghost. She had already guessed that her brother might have some special abilities, and it was verified within a few minutes, but this scene still brought her a lot of excitement. Due to the strong impact of the collapse of her worldview, even though her original worldview had already been shattered once in the "dream" that night.

Hoshino Gen signaled Hoshino Rin to continue pushing.

Although Hoshino Rin had so many questions to ask and so many things to say at the moment, she said nothing in the end and silently followed her brother's instructions to push the millstone. This time, there was no obstruction or lag at all, although it required a lot of strength. It's still big, but it has entered an acceptable range.

She pushed it in circles like this. In the middle of the process, Hoshino Gen threw cockscomb blood, pigeon blood, octopus eyes, amaryllis flowers, cinnabar and a strand of his own hair into the grinding eye.

The fire in his eyes became more and more dazzling, but strangely there was not a trace of smoke coming out.

Until Hoshino Gen suddenly said "stop", Hoshino Rin stood still reflexively, and the flame that was still burning fiercely in the stone mill a second ago suddenly went out, and then, a wisp of smoke slowly flowed out from the stone mill, It flowed like liquid into the silver cup that Hoshino Gen had prepared in advance.

Such a magical scene that completely did not comply with the conservation of matter made Hoshino Rin unable to take his eyes off it, so fascinated that he even held his breath without realizing it.

Hoshino Gen bit his left index finger and whispered softly.

"The bottom is like the top, and the top is like the bottom. In this way, the miracle of Taiyi is accomplished..."

It seemed like murmuring, like praying, but it was not reciting a "mantra", but rather it seemed like he was talking to himself, reminding himself of something.

Hoshino Gen put his index finger on the silver cup filled with smoke. A touch of dark red crystal quickly gathered on the fingertip, and finally broke away from his finger and dripped into the smoke.

Nourishes—

In a burst of indescribable joy and joy, the smoke dispersed from the bowl, just like the clouds were cleared to see the sun, and in the hazy silver cup, a shallow layer of liquid red agate-like beauty appeared. .

Mesmerizingly beautiful.