A record of employees smashing walls in the underworld

Could not bear to refuse the old man's kindness, but also to investigate some information, the three finally stayed in the teahouse.

Ah Wu is not interested in intelligence, but she is a girl, and if she rashly separates from the other two and enters the mountain alone, it will arouse suspicion from others.

There is no way, just one night at a time, after all, we have to take the two of them to the shrine together, so we can't leave them here.If the Laoshizi monster was alarmed and something went wrong with the pillar of the ghost killing team, Ah Wu himself would not forgive himself.

However, staying overnight was not without its disadvantages. Elder Tanabe seemed to be worried that the three of them would be cheated in the future, so he talked to everyone about things other than the living sacrifices by chatting at night.

The whole picture of the legend of the water god also completely appeared before the eyes of the three of them.

In fact, at the beginning, there was no such thing as "the water god used his divine power to save the lives of believers".The offering of sacrifices is only to appease the dissatisfaction of the gods and ensure the lives of most people who depend on the lake for a living.

Until three years ago, an accident happened.

In the village where the old Mr. Tanabe lived, there were two children who ran to the lake to play because of their naughtiness, but they did not return overnight.

Although at that time there were rumors that the gods would hide the gods, but the two of them were young after all, and it was not time for sacrifices at that time.One of them had serious congenital defects since he was born, and the father of the other died in the lake. The villagers set out to the lake the next morning to look for the two boys.

In the end, everyone found the children unconscious in the deserted and abandoned mansion by the lake.

The two had no obvious skin trauma, but they couldn't wake up no matter how much they screamed, and it was useless to go back to the doctor for diagnosis.It took three full days for the two of them to wake up from their lethargy.

The awakened children told everyone a strange thing.

Half asleep and half awake, they saw a beautiful fairy living in the lake.

At first, the villagers didn't believe it. After all, if there really are immortals living in the lake, why not only they don't appear, but they keep causing disasters?

But some time after the two children woke up, a miracle happened.

The little boy who was originally born with a congenital deficiency and was weak was no longer sick.

"Master Shenming said, I won't be in pain anymore."

Of course, everyone's doubts will not be reduced because of the child's words, and everyone was still skeptical at first.Until a family in a neighboring village had a seriously ill child, they decided to take the dying child to the abandoned house by the lake and take a gamble when they heard the news.

And this time, a miracle happened again.

The same situation, the same stupor, and finally, the awakened child recovered from his illness and uttered the same words.

The saying "Water God Appears" has truly spread in this surrounding area on a large scale.

The old man Tanabe picked up his teacup, looked towards the kitchen, and said with a complicated expression: "That frail and sick child... is Shinosuke from the Xing family."

It may be because the son and daughter-in-law are busy preparing the ingredients for the store opening tomorrow in the back kitchen, and have no time to take care of it, so he speaks more casually.

"Our family, Manzi and Xing, have had a good relationship since before, so we firmly believe in the water god...but..."

The old man hesitated to speak, Purgatory and Tomioka didn't look very bright, and Ah Wu tried his best to restrain his desire to roll his eyes.

What kind of "miracle" did you say that the child was rescued by the gods? What nonsense!It's all bullshit!No wonder Minamoto Yoshitsune was so angry. Apart from the villagers who were eaten by the mother spider, these children must have become the granary for its children!

"Then Mr. Tanabe..." Suppressing the discomfort, the girl also glanced at the kitchen. She remembered that Mitsunosuke Tanabe's son was an atheist. "And your son, why do you reject this legend so much?"

"Hey, the old man grew up listening to the legend of Master Yimulian, so he naturally didn't believe it." The old man pulled the corner of his mouth and tried to show a smile, but failed. "As for Ahe... probably because of Yiye."

This strange name caught the attention of the three of them.

Ikeda Otoyo, like Mitsuko Tanabe and the woman named Xing, are girls who grew up in the village.In terms of blood relationship, she is still a relative of Mr. Tanabe's family.And her son was another boy who did not return that night like Shinnosuke.

But unlike the Shinnosuke mother and daughter who were "saved" by the gods, a terrible tragedy happened to the Ikeda family.

"That child... a year ago, he went crazy for no reason."

It may be because the bottomless lake once snatched away her beloved husband, or it may be because the widowed self, as a woman, is gradually overwhelmed by taking care of her son while bearing gossip from fellow villagers. One day a year ago, I fell into madness.

"I still remember the sunset that day..."

Tanabe Mitsunosuke said, looking at the flickering candles in the room.

On that day, because he was worried about his niece who was getting worse and worse, the old man Tanabe handed over the work of the tea house to his son's family, and he set foot on the road to his niece's house at dusk.

When he was about to reach the other party's house, he heard a shrill scream.Reflexively, the old man ran to his niece's house, but saw a scene that he would never forget.

He saw the thick smoke gradually drifting up, the wooden house shrouded in flames, and the niece kneeling in front of the house, holding a kitchen knife, covered in wounds, and even her clothes were stained red with blood.

Ikeda Otoha, killed his own child with his own hands.

"...Miss Ikeda, how is it now?"

Under the dim light, the old man Tanabe glanced at Purgatory Xingjurou who asked the question, and sighed: "Missing."

After the fire was extinguished, the police and other villagers who arrived found the charred body of the boy inside the house.The woman who was knocked down by her relatives at the scene of the crime, was chased by the villagers, and fled into the mountains in a panic, and has never seen anyone alive or dead.

"Probably because of his relationship with Yiye, Ah He never believed that his sister would go crazy for no reason to the point where she could even kill her own son..." As he spoke, the old man lit a cigarette in his hand with the help of a candle . "Well... the old man doesn't believe it either."

"In short... If you are here for the water god, you should stop as soon as possible and leave here at dawn."

The smoke screen blurred the old man's face, but his eyes, which were not muddy due to aging, shot directly at the silent Ah Wu through the curling white smoke.

"Especially you, little girl, although I don't know where you come from, but... the three of you, aren't you in the same group?"

... Tsk, this old man, who looks talkative and hospitable, unexpectedly is quite smart.

However, the old man Tanabe who broke the relationship between everyone did not get to the bottom of it. "If you insist on getting to the bottom of it... don't blame the old man for not reminding you." After finishing speaking, he patted his knees that were sitting cross-legged on the ground, and stood up holding the cigarette stick. "Okay, it's getting late, guests should rest early."

However, when he turned around and was about to walk towards the door, Ah Wu suddenly said:

"Did your niece act strangely before she ran away?"

The old man stopped.

"……Why do you ask?"

After a while, Mitsunosuke Tanabe said amidst the crackling sound of the candle.

"Because it's weird. If that Ikeda-san is really crazy, logically speaking, she should say some weird things, right?"

The flame of the candle shook violently, and Mitsunosuke Tanabe stood motionless on the spot, neither opened the paper door nor turned around.

"And...although she set fire to her own house and killed her own son, she didn't attack you, did she?"

"...Be careful with Shinosuke."

After speaking, the old man opened the door and left the room used to entertain the three without looking back.

After the old man left, the house was quiet for a long time.After making sure that no one was nearby to eavesdrop on their conversation, the girl let out a long breath, and said in a soft voice: "Well... after hearing such a long story, don't you have any thoughts?"

"Something's wrong." Tomioka Yoshiyuki remained expressionless as always, "Whether it's the legend of the water god, or that crazy woman." The black-haired young man paused, "Mr. From what I saw today, I can deduce that her son should not be too old."

No matter how desperately a child under the age of ten resists, it is impossible to cause great harm to an adult.Not to mention that Miss Ikeda is not only a widow who has lived alone for many years, but also the biological mother of the dead boy.

"I also think so."

Purgatory Xingshourou also put away his smile in a rare way, sat cross-legged on the tatami with his arms crossed, and looked at Ah Wu.

"There is also the water god... Although Ms. Suzuna said that this matter has nothing to do with ghosts, but... it is not a problem that can be solved easily?"

As expected of a member of the Ghost Slayer Squad who often comes into contact with ogres with strange powers, she doesn't need to explain the ins and outs in detail, she can find the key point first.

The girl nodded, but when she was about to briefly describe the matter of the spider spirit to the two of them, out of the corner of her eye, she caught sight of a shadow in the corner of the house, as if something was about to move.

Ah Wu immediately shut her mouth tightly, her body didn't move, but her eyeballs turned to the dark corner of the ceiling.

Under the dim light of the fire, with a girl's eyesight, she could clearly see the small spider web in the shadows, and the little spiders with black and white patterns hanging on the web.

In an instant, the anger that had been suppressed in the girl's heart rose again.

Good guy!How dare you spy on her? !

"Miss Suzuna?"

The girl stretched out her index finger to her lips, signaling the two not to speak.She reached into her pocket, took out a small coin, and flicked her hand——

"Boom!"

Accompanied by the muffled sound of coins embedded in the ceiling, the little spider that had been entrenched in the corner of the room was split in two and fell onto the tatami with a clatter.

Purgatory Xingjurou, who was closest to the corner of the room, turned his head and happened to have a panoramic view of the spider's corpse in half.

"……spider?"

"Hmph, how dare you eavesdrop." A Wu stood up, gritted his teeth, walked to the spider's corpse, picked up the remains from the ground, and held them in his hands.After confirming that there was a faint, monster-specific aura on the corpse, the girl opened the corners of her mouth and smiled angrily: "You're not so brave..."

She thinks she has a good temper and is willing to reason with these monsters, but that doesn't mean that the other party can jump on her face openly!

There was a rustling sound outside the window, like the breeze blowing the bushes, and the soft sound of friction between the branches.

But in the room, the expressions of the three of them changed at the same time.

Ah Wu threw the spider's body into the fire with his backhand, and quickly squatted under the window, putting his hand on the window sill.

At the same time, the two youths changed their postures at the same time, and stretched out their hands to hold the handle of the knife.

The rustle became bigger and bigger, the girl and the two looked at each other, nodded, and then opened the window suddenly——

"Wow--!!!"

Accompanied by a scream, a small black shadow rolled into the room.

By the light of the fire, Ah Wu saw a chubby little monster in a kimono.