Those days in Honmaru

Although the retreat was blocked, it didn't affect everyone's mood. After all, they were already fully prepared when they came here.

As usual, Maitreya calmed down the frightened woman smoothly. The woman blushed and pulled the child while walking while looking back, with a look of reluctance.

Maitreya also waved his hands at the woman with a smile on his face. After the woman's figure disappeared completely, he suddenly lowered his face and walked back to the crowd. With a smile on his face, Qing Jiang glanced at him, folded his arms and asked, "Do you have any questions?" What's coming out?"

Maitreya spread his hands and said helplessly, "Unfortunately, I didn't find any flaws. Her reaction was the same as those girls I met before."

After a pause, he asked, "What about you, after watching for so long, did you see anything?"

No one else answered, except for Hidekiri with a natural smile on his face and said: "Not at all~"

"That's right, if it's so easy to find the problem, then we have to doubt it." Maitreya sighed, rubbing his chin, and looked around.

Because they stayed near the city gate for a long time, they have already attracted many people's surprised gazes. Kagemaru looked around and suggested in a low voice: "It's useless to stalemate here, or we should disperse the collection first." intelligence?"

"Oh~ that makes sense~" Higakiri turned around and wanted to leave after hearing this, but Kemaru hurriedly grabbed him, "Brother, it's better to act with me!"

"Oh, you don't have to watch me so closely, that..." Higakiri raised his head in the middle of speaking, and Kemaru added helplessly: "Brother, my name is Kemaru."

Putting aside the daily conversations between the two brothers, Mikazuki Munekin agreed with Kagemaru's idea. He nodded and said, "It's true that it's more efficient to act separately. There's just one place I want someone to check first." He said As he spoke, he looked at Fudo Xingguang.

Fudo Xingguang noticed Sankai Yuezong's close gaze, and immediately took a step closer, and said, "Is there anything I can do?"

"Isn't it the castellan's mansion?" Tsurumaru leaned aside, met Mikami Tsukimune's gaze, and said, "I can't think of a place that is more of a base camp for the so-called monsters. Also, in the castellan's mansion Humans don't know whether they are dead or alive."

"As His Highness Tsurumaru said, I'm full of curiosity about the current situation there." Mikazuki Zong patted Xingguang's shoulder close up, and said to him, "We are all at ease if you are in charge."

He looked at the smiling Qingjiang again. The other party seemed to know that Sanriyue Zongjin would talk to him a long time ago, so he took the initiative to say: "I will go with Fudo, the two of us can take care of each other, and I have a helper here .”

Smiling Qingjiang reached out and tapped his right eye, Tsurumaru raised his eyebrows to remind him: "Now is not the time to scare them, remember to tell Miss Phantom, don't be noticed."

"Don't worry, she knows."

Seeing that the two of them seemed to be planning to leave now, Shan Shan stepped forward and said, "Please let me go too."

Fudo Xingguang and Smiling Qingjiang looked at each other, a little hesitant, Shan Shan said confidently: "At any rate, I am also a demon extermination master who has been trained since I was a child, and I am not a problem with stealth combat and simple first aid."

Sanriyue Zongjin made a decision on their behalf, and said, "Since Ms. Coral has said so, then please. Later, we will meet outside the city lord's mansion."

After the three of them left, the rest of the people also scattered in different directions. Naturally, Katsumaru took his elder brother and left together. Mitreya waved at Inuyasha and Kagome, signaling them to act together, leaving behind Tsurumaru and Mikazuki in the end. Zong Jin and the two looked at each other in blank dismay.

Mikazuki Zongjin smiled slightly at Tsurumaru, and said, "It seems that you are going to leave with my grandfather."

Tsurumaru raised his eyebrows and said, "We are about the same age, are you taking advantage of me?"

Sanri Yuezong walked a few steps forward with a smile, and said meaningfully: "Hahaha, I thought you would call me like the Lord, or did I guess wrong?"

Tsurumaru followed, touched his chin uncomfortably, and said, "...you really see through everything."

Compared with the other two groups, who chose to walk in a place with fewer people, Tsurumaru and Mikazuki Munekin were bold and bold, and walked straight along the main road towards the city lord's mansion.

Logically speaking, these two people who stand at the pinnacle of appearance are walking on the road together, no matter what, they should attract a few more glances, but what is interesting is that with so many pedestrians coming and going on the road, almost no one pays attention to it. to both of them.

Sanri Yuezong remembered this strange phenomenon in his heart and did not make a sound.

Although Tsurumaru was also checking the movement around him, Mikami Tsukimune felt that most of the other party's attention was on him, thought for a while, and said, "Could something happen to me in this operation?" so that you are so worried about me?"

Tsurumaru shook his head and said, "I said that I don't know what happened here, but I have to make sure you are okay, so that it can match the scene in my memory."

"That is to say, history will converge into a circle at that time, right?"

Tsurumaru didn't answer, Mikami Tsukimune smiled, "Then I have to be careful."

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Kemaru and Hikari headed towards the Santo's Mansion, they found a place not too far away from the Santo's Mansion, where they could see the situation of the Santo's Mansion at any time.

Mustache looked at his younger brother with a smile, and said, "Is it your idea or a reminder from the former master that you proposed to act separately?"

Kagemaru replied solemnly: "Both aspects."

After he finished speaking, he said to Mustache: "Brother, from now on is the most critical moment, you have to get serious."

"Of course, I won't say anything at this time. It doesn't matter. I don't want to lose the name of Genji." Mustakiri put the main body knife in front of his eyes. Behind the knife is the City Lord's Mansion. Picking up the corner of his mouth, he said, "Wait a minute, whether it's a ghost or a knife, they will all be chopped off."

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Maitreya led Inuyasha, Kagome, and Shippo around the path, and finally hid in an alley near the commercial street.

Inuyasha squatted against the wall, folded his hands on his chest, and eagerly nodded his arms, looking at the entrance of the alley from time to time.Qibao sat next to him, resting his head in boredom, counting the ants crawling around on the ground with straight eyes.

Because of the monster's appearance, both Inuyasha and Qibao were ordered by Maitreya to stay here and hide, and the information collection was handed over to Kagome and Mitreya.

Kagome and Mitreya pretended to be a couple and walked on the street. Mitreya even bought a small accessory. At first glance, it looked no different from ordinary passers-by. In fact, Mitreya did not miss any chance to look around. .

Kagome looked around and whispered to Mitreya, "...is it almost there?"

This is the first time for Kagome to do this kind of thing. Although most of the work is handed over to Mitreya, it is enough for her to speak in accordance with Mitreya's words, but this town with a strange atmosphere everywhere gave her great pressure Kagome always felt that everyone around her was looking at her when she was walking on the road, and there was a coolness coming from the depths of her body.

Maitreya kept calm all the time, smiled at Kagome, stretched out his hand to hold Kagome, winked at her and said in an unusually gentle tone: "What's wrong, beautiful lady, are you too tired?"

Goosebumps all over Kagome's body after hearing this, the corners of her mouth twitched, and she looked at Mitreya speechlessly, even though she knew that Mitreya wanted her to relax, but this way she really... couldn't stand it.

Mitreya pretended not to see Kagome's expression, smiled to himself, and led Kagome towards the alley where Inuyasha and Qibao were staying, and said as he walked, "If you are tired, I will take you to find a place Take a break, I know a nice place."

Kagome tried hard to control herself not to complain about Maitreya when there were outsiders, followed silently to the alley, looked back, and after confirming that no one was looking here, she breathed a sigh of relief, and then said to Maitreya: "How can I I feel like you've been acting like a liar just now..."

Mitreya stroked his hair and said with a smile on his face, "Is there any? It's so strange, so many girls like to hear these words."

Inuyasha didn't want to hear the two of them talking about these topics, so he quickly stood up and walked to them, asking, "Hey, do you see anything?"

Qibao also jumped over curiously, and naturally jumped onto Kagome's shoulder to hang it.

Kagome smiled a little awkwardly, looking at the sky and not looking at Inuyasha: "Well...haha..."

Inuyasha leaned in front of Kagome and looked at her with vacant eyes, and said, "You probably didn't find anything, you really can't do it."

Qibao patted Inuyasha on the head, "How did you talk!"

Then he turned around and gave Kagome a stab: "So, what happened?"

"I...I..." Kagome didn't think of how to answer for a while, so she pushed Maitreya and said, "Dang...of course I found out, right, right! Maitreya!"

"That's right." Unexpectedly, Mitreya nodded, and he said, "There is something that Ms. Kagome may not have noticed."

Kagome stared blankly at Mitreya, not quite understanding what he was talking about.

Mitreya took out the things he bought earlier from his arms and spread them out on his hands, while the other three people went over to look at them together.

"Is there something wrong with this hairpin?" Kagome tilted her head. She is considered a half-princess after all. Naturally, her ability is not as good as Kikyo's, but she doesn't have any evil spirit or filth when looking at it. It's pretty simple.

What Maitreya bought was a delicate and small flower-shaped hairpin. It was not very expensive, but it was very beautiful. No matter how you looked at it, it was just a fairly ordinary accessory.

"Oh, this one, there's no problem at all. I bought it for Coral. It's very suitable for her." Mitreya said with a smile that it was easy to be beaten. Dangerous look.

Kagome also glared at Mitreya and said, "Quickly get to the point!"

"Ahem, the point is, there is something wrong with the person who sells this accessory." After sprinkled a wave of dog food happily, Mi Le put away the hairpin and continued, "Since I saw this seller, he has been Repeat the action of arranging the positions of the goods, even though the positions of those things have long been neatly arranged, but the man has not stopped these actions."

"Not only that, but before we went to buy something, there was a person who repeatedly walked into the store, walked around without buying anything, and then walked out." Mitreya laughed and complained: "This seller is What a good mentality it takes to tolerate such a boring person."

Kagome touched his arm, feeling the chill rushing up again, and said, "Doing the same thing over and over again...it's like a robot..."

"Robot?" Inuyasha and Shippo asked together, and Kagome simply replied: "Just treat it as a kind of puppet that acts according to established procedures."

"This analogy is quite appropriate." Maitreya leaned against the wall, completely lost the playful smile he had before, and looked at the passers-by outside the alley seriously, and said, "Those people are just ordinary people. Common people, if you don’t observe carefully, you can’t see anything unusual on the surface, but every one of them is like a controlled doll, as if they have no self-awareness.”

Inuyasha raised his voice a little and said, "Wait a minute, controlled puppet! Isn't that Kagura's move?"

Qibao asked puzzledly: "But I remember that Kagura only controls corpses, right, and it's far from being able to do it like this?"

Kagome suddenly thought of something, and said softly: "What if... the soul is controlled?"

After she finished speaking, she felt that her guess was right, "Natsume-san also lost a lot of souls, if that monster can still control these souls..."

Kagome also looked outside, "The people here are only a small part of the whole town, if the people in the whole city are in this state..."

Maitreya closed his eyes and said, "Then the enemy we are going to face is a whole town, ordinary people who cannot be attacked."