[Ghost Lamp] The dark humor of hell

"Does the reduction in the number of dead have any effect on hell?"

The bone girl who temporarily left from Toyama Hell with nothing to do on the grounds of "seeing off" sent Shuten-douji away at the gate of hell, knowing that she couldn't see the huge back, she took a deep breath and asked the ghost lamp standing beside her.

...She really isn't used to chatting with guys she knew before.

"It is reasonable to say that the number of dead has decreased, and the meaning to hell is that you can take a vacation. But in two days it will be the Yulan Festival,...the dead will return to the present world at this time, if the dead who have registered their names in hell Being eaten will bring a huge amount of recording work. The employees of the recording department have been on the verge of collapse, if more pressure is applied..."

Gui Deng frowned and paused, pursed his lips and said nothing, walking side by side with the bone girl on the path back to Yan Mo Temple.

The recording department is a department with heavy tasks in Yan Modian, and the workload is also huge. The head of the recording department, Ye Jitou, has long since lost his hair roots early because of working day and night.In this case, increasing their work... will lead to a short-term delay in work.

Knowing that it can't go on like this, Ghost Lamp thinks carefully about possible solutions to the current situation.

"Bone girl-san is familiar with Shuten-douji?"

"...No, no, how is that possible. The familiarity is an illusion created by him. Shuten-douji treats everyone like an old friend like that."

The bone girl quickly waved her hand to deny the ghost lamp's statement.

"The Yu Lan Festival is just a few days away,...Does Bone Girl Sang have any good suggestions? About solving the new problem of hell."

"...Ah, are you talking about the Hyakki Night Walk in this world?"

The bone girl lowered her head, loosened the tense muscles on her face, and walked on the small stone road made of blood-red stones.The pressure of walking with the shady hell is great. Can she stand three steps away from you... If she is too close, she may be affected by your occasional slapstick actions.

This is the experience gained from the mustard elders.

"From the perspective of the simplest solution, don't celebrate the Yulan Festival, and do whatever you want in hell, and it doesn't matter if the ghosts in this world make trouble again."

"The holiday of the Yulan Festival is a public holiday in hell. As the representative of hell, Yan Modian has no reason not to follow the rules."

"Then just go up to a higher level to ensure the safety of most of the dead... I guess it can't be done."

The jailers are all on vacation, and there is no such manpower at all.Seeing the loopholes she picked out, the bone girl sighed, and asked grimly: "Master Ghost Lantern decided... the solution from the very beginning, right?"

"...Yes, but I need the assistance of the bone girl Sang."

Not seeing the slightest embarrassment of being exposed, Gui Deng nodded calmly, pushed open the gate of Yan Mo Temple and walked inside.The bone girl looked curiously at the guard guarding the gate. It was rare for her to enter the Yan Mo Temple without being inspected, which made her a little proud.

"My assistance? Eh? Lord Ghost Lantern, you mean..."

The bone girl paused, a possibility popped up in her mind, she stopped talking and carefully raised her eyes to glance at the ghost lamp's expression, "... want to single out the Hundred Ghosts Night Walk?"

Lord Ghost Lantern, you are worthy of defeating Momotaro and defeating Yan Mo Wang in one fell swoop to become the shady ghost in hell.But single-handedly picking on the Hundred Ghosts at Night... well, it's quite realistic.

A group of drunken ghosts appeared in the mind, compared with the Ghost Lantern Master who had the name of the strongest ghost and god, it was not enough to see, even if the bone girl was a monster, she dared not deny this.

The problem is that many monsters like to hide and hide, and finding them is a problem...

"Are you free after the Sangyulan Festival? How about an extra night shift? Salary is paid separately."

Ghost Lamp stretched out his finger and suggested.

"Safety can be guaranteed. If there is an accident, you will be reimbursed in hell. In addition, the work pressure is not high. You just need to show me a way."

"...Why do you think I know where the ghosts gather?"

Her eyes were dazed and she just stared at the finger of the ghost lamp indicating the overtime salary. The big number moved the bone girl a little, resisting the desire to answer, the bone girl asked a question that sounded serious.

It would be too bad if it was considered to be in collusion with a hundred ghosts to disturb the work in hell. Refer to what happened to Qiao Ji who was on the Santu Bridge,... don't think about it.

"Bone girl-san used to be a member of the Hundred Ghosts of the Night Walk?"

The ghost lamp walked under the judgment seat in the hall of Yan Mo Temple, and the king of Yan Mo ran to nowhere. It is also expected that he would be lazy after the ghost lamp left. A pair of scrolls was taken out of the small drawer.

"Eh? No way..."

"here."

The ghost lamp spread out the scroll, and an ancient painting of a hundred ghosts walking at night appeared in front of the bone girl.The leader is the slippery goblin, which doesn't look like a catfish at all, and looking in the direction of the ghost lamp's finger, a skeleton that exceeds the normal size follows behind.

"...Master Ghost Lantern, where did you buy this painting?"

The bone girl stared at the skeleton for a long time, then lowered her head and looked at her body which was about the same size as a normal person, even shorter than the average height.

Thinking that as a ghost god, Ghost Lantern might not know much about monsters, the bone girl who found something wrong asked carefully, seeing the doubtful eyes cast by Ghost Lantern and explained smoothly.

"This is a monster created by humans in modern times. It was not born when Hua Piao was in this world, and it wasn't me....Do you mean I grew up tall?"

The bone girl looked up at the ghost lamp in protest, nearly a head taller than her.

"Modern and contemporary monsters... urban legends, right?"

"Basically, because it's spread widely, youkai will be produced, just like the human-faced dog that I don't like. But people's original intention should not be to create that kind of...youkai."

If this is the original intention of human beings...then the aesthetics are more than a little worse than the mythical beast Bai Ze in Taoyuan Township...

"So, I heard from Human Face Dog before that there are more and more urban legends, and their old monsters are becoming more and more difficult to mix in this world."

"...So it can't be considered an old monster at all!"

The bone girl couldn't help but refute the claim of the human-faced dog.

Hell, hell on the mountain of knives—

It was already time for her to get off work, but Hashihime, who was dressed in a gorgeous kimono, was still standing on the high platform, watching the other night shift colleagues working hard with unimaginable motivation in the past.

He looked gloomy.

"What's up with her?"

The unknown jailer passing by secretly asked the same time.

Although Qiao Ji is not a jailer with a special status, and even bears a huge debt from hell, she is the only employee who stood beside the bone girl during the revolution in Daoshan Hell. A very XX beauty.

"I don't know, lost love? Does the management care about her? Although she didn't affect the work..."

The employee who was asked looked around pretending to be concerned, and then continued to work.

Hashihime hasn't stopped this kind of thing since she came back from calling hell, and she was asked this time because the nameless jailer noticed that she looked down and her expression moved.Looking at the numb dead beside him, the unknown jailer curiously approached Qiao Ji and looked in the direction of her line of sight.

But before he could see anything, his foot slipped, and he fell down.

"Ah?"

The ashen-like eyes of the dead man caught by the unknown jailer burst out with hope, and suddenly he turned around and started running as if he had life force, and knocked down two jailers on the way.

Strictly speaking, Qiao Ji, who could be regarded as the instigator, just groaned twice, and turned her head to stare blankly at the chaos behind her.

"How should I put it, I feel that the working atmosphere at Houhou is not enough."

"It's Knife Mountain Hell, Mr. Dung Beetle."

"Ah, yes, Daoshan Hell, hey, people can't remember many things clearly when they get old."

"You are not human, Mr. Dung Beetle."

Two voices came from the corridor in the distance, one was the familiar tone of Qiaoji's boss who always complained calmly, and the other was sharp and thin...it sounded like a dung beetle.

"Miss Bone Girl always cares about a lot of strange things. If you continue like this, you won't be able to get married. As your senior, I used to be too... ah?!"

Mr. Dung Beetle, who is suspected to be very old, seemed to be startled by the dead who rushed down to escape when looking back on the past.Even though Qiao Ji was standing on the edge of the platform far away from the corridor, she could still hear the general idea from her tone.

Nothing but this can prevent an old man from talking about his youth.

"I'm sorry I don't want to marry, but I'm more interested in marrying."

"Is that the dead on your side?"

"...Well, it should be. The one below! Just kick him down with someone!"

From the beginning to the end, the Bone Girl has maintained a calm and unaffected mentality, at least in the eyes of Qiao Ji at this time, the Bone Girl is a figure worthy of her respect.

White mourning clothes, black short hair, short stature, often uninspired. No matter how you look at it, these make up a proper image of an otaku...do you think this kind of person is worthy of respect? Is she really broken!

Seeing the bone girl stepping up to the last step with Mr. Dung Beetle in her hands, thinking of his respect for her, Qiao Ji's expression was suddenly moved.

"Qiao Ji? Aren't you off work? But it's just right, I want to ask you something."

The bone girl bent down and put the dung beetle on the side of the ground. When she got up, she saw Qiao Ji staring at her with a strange expression out of the corner of her eye. She pursed her lips for a while and waved to her.

"……Is there a problem?"

Qiao Ji approached there with small steps.

"If you are bullied by the jailer on the other side of Hell, you can report it to Yan Modian, and don't always pretend to be depressed and stay at work. Also, you have participated in the Hyakki Night Walk in the real world before you came to Hell ?"

"Hundred ghosts at night?"

Qiao Ji stopped about five steps away from the bone girl, and repeated the bone girl's words in surprise, "The one in the present world... that chaotic Hyakki Yakō that is composed entirely of urban monsters?"

"What? Are they all urban monsters?"

After hearing the words, the bone girl opened her mouth in surprise after digesting the news in her brain, urban monsters,... such troublesome things actually make up the Night Walk of the Hundred Ghosts?