cat blues

Fushimi Inari Taisha Shrine is a shrine dedicated to the Inari gods headed by Yuga's soul god, and it is also one of the most fragrant shrines in the Kyoto area.The dense vermilion "thousand torii" behind the main hall of the shrine is one of the most representative landscapes in Kyoto.

When Dazai Osamu and Nakahara Chuya came to Fushimi Inari Taisha Shrine, the sky was just past three o'clock. It should have been bright at three o'clock in April and spring, but today was clearly sunny and there were not too many cloudy clouds in the sky. The sunlight was not very bright, and it seemed strangely dim.

"Hey Dazai, are you so sure that the monsters will come to us?" Walking between the long thousand torii gates, Nakahara Nakaya asked the people around him in a very soft voice, "Is this a tourist attraction? Why are there so few people?"

Although there have been unexplained disappearances of young girls recently, and the number of disappearances is increasing day by day. In fact, just before they arrived in Kyoto, there were three more reports of disappearances. The number of missing people is far more than these few.

In fact, the Kyoto Metropolitan Police Department also knows this, and because of this, they will make great efforts to send the news to various agencies that they can get.

"Chuya, how many times do you want me to say it? It's really not good for your head to always be so empty." Osamu Dazai made a seemingly helpless voice, "Let's not talk about the one in your body, just the amount we ate Naturally produced fruits and vegetables are enough to make us shine in the eyes of monsters, right?"

Zhongyuan Zhong also only felt the veins on his forehead twitch, but he suddenly calmed down, and replied in a breathy voice: "Is this the conclusion you got from the previous time travel?"

Osamu Dazai got stuck for a rare moment. Yes, he discovered in the previous time travel that the curse spirits seemed to favor them. At that time, he realized that they had eaten a lot of good things. In the eyes of human beings, they are different. Although they may not be regarded as sweet pastries, they are still good things.

So he was sure that those monsters who were hunting people everywhere saw them, and they would come and catch them impatiently.

As for Chuya, since he and Huangbatu went to hell, Huangbatu seems to have completely stabilized, probably because he didn't want to be caught as a laborer in hell. A very convenient and good thing, at least he is more comfortable using supernatural powers, and it seems that no one will notice any abnormalities in his body.

However, who is Osamu Dazai? After being choked for a moment, he immediately realized, and said in a slightly ambiguous voice: "It's disgusting, Zhongzi, you really—"

"What the hell is neutron! Didn't you say we are foreigners?" Nakahara Zhongya almost couldn't catch his breath, and said in a low voice, gnashing his teeth.

"Hey, doesn't Zhongzi like this Japanese name? I think it's pretty good—" Osamu Dazai said even more vigorously, and even trotted forward two steps.

To be reasonable, if it weren't for the extremely inconvenient women's kimono he was wearing now, Nakahara Zhong was sure that he would definitely jump up and give him a flying kick in the next second, maybe he would have kicked him a few meters away kind of.

"This is really a good prey. I want to take it back to Mr. Yuyihu." Just when Zhongyuan Zhong also felt that his anger value was about to reach its peak, something different finally came up around him, and he stretched out his hands. It also exuded a weird atmosphere, and made a gesture similar to embracing, as if determined.

Chuya is not stupid, and right in front of him, Osamu Dazai immediately set a correct example. This guy fell to the ground directly, looking as if he was in a coma, and he immediately followed suit. Come in a coma.

These monsters who came to catch people seemed really stupid, they actually believed that, without checking or taking any other precautions, they picked him and Dazai Osamu and flew towards the sky.

Tsk, cheap Dazai guy, actually enjoying the feeling of flying in the sky in person.

Such an inexplicable thought flashed through Nakahara Chuya's mind for a moment.

But Osamu Dazai doesn't think so, in fact he is vomiting to death now, his dream is to fly with the beautiful big sister, who wants to fly with a monster, and she looks so ugly!

Tsk, why is my supernatural power unqualified in the human world, but useless against monsters? The name of this supernatural power is too real, right?It only works on humans, so it can also work on the negative products of human emotions?But it has no effect on non-human forces?Tsk, since it is nullified, can't the coverage of the effect be wider?

Osamu Dazai muttered inwardly.

"Brother, don't these two stay here?" One of the two monsters who led the two fake women asked curiously the elder brother who was walking in front.

"Idiot! These two are of such good quality, how can you put them together with those defective products! Of course, you must immediately offer them to Lord Yuyihu!" The monster brother saw wood with his rusty saw. said the voice.

"I know, I know big brother!" The two monsters cheered up immediately, "I'll throw people in right now."

After the two were roughly thrown into a certain room, the thick wooden door was closed again, and Osamu Dazai turned over from the ground and got up. He had been secretly opening a gap before, and opened the door where they came. After seeing it clearly, it's just that he really didn't expect to be transported here, which is too outrageous.

When the monsters left, he got up immediately, only to see that they were now in a dark room with only a high place with a ventilation hole, and besides them, there were other human voices in the room.

He got up and took a glance at the light coming in from the ventilator, and he judged that there were seven other people in the room besides the two of them, and all of them were very depressed and looked terrified.

There was also a teenager hugging his knees and weeping very softly, "Woo, mom, woo."

"Don't even let the children go?" Zhong Yuanzhong also got up, and he also saw the young man with the hedgehog crying softly, crying until he almost choked up, and frowned immediately.

"It's a monster after all." Dazai Osamu patted the hem of the kimono, and walked towards one of the women.

"Miss, may I ask how you were caught here?" Osamu Dazai walked up to the woman and asked softly in a false voice, "We lost consciousness for no reason when we were visiting Fushimi Inari Taisha Shrine. , and was caught here.”

"I, I was walking on the road..." The woman seemed to have thought of something terrible, and shrank a little.

"Hey, you..." Chuya Nakahara was about to stop Osamu Dazai from speaking when he heard Dazai say in his own voice, "Okay, can you stop pretending? After all, we are all here to investigate the disappearance. Man, are you from the Kyoto Prefectural Police Agency? Maybe you have something to do with Onmyoji."

The woman paused and frowned, "Who are you? Why..."

Zhong Yuanzhong was also a little surprised that this woman came to sneak in and search like them, but he was not at all surprised that Osamu Dazai saw through other people's disguise at a glance.

"Oh, we are investigators of the Yokohama Armed Detective Agency." Osamu Dazai took out a mobile phone from his sleeve pocket, and showed her the photos on the phone, "I just received the news this morning, and I came all the way from Yokohama. "

After finishing speaking, he waved his hands a little depressed, "Did you know? Because I heard that the missing are all young girls, we have to change into this female attire."

How can you have to... Zhongyuan Zhong also gave him a look like a shameless person.

The woman seemed to be in disbelief that the handsome guy in the phone photo was the same person as the beautiful woman in front of her. She looked at it several times, and finally decided to give up and return the phone, "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have doubted you in the first place, after all……"

After all, it was a monster who was arresting people, and those who were taken out must have been eaten without a doubt, and they were all in the monster's den. Who else would want to do something undercover?

"Well, after all, we often cooperate with the police, so after confirming each other's identities at this time, everyone can feel more at ease." Dazai Osamu's slightly raised voice made other people in the room look at him.

"Are you... detectives? You came to look for us?" Another girl asked in a low voice.

"Yes, we are detectives, and we are here to find your traces." Osamu Dazai found that even after he said such words, although the people around him were agitated for a moment, they did not rush forward to ask for help. It looked like even the crying child just looked up at them with a look of surprise.

It was a bit of a surprise, obviously facing such a dangerous situation, but the people here kept their minds sober, and they didn't have the slightest idea of ​​making trouble out of no reason.

"I'm Kamimoto Rika, a policeman from Kyoto Prefecture." The woman raised her hand as she spoke, and both Dazai Osamu and Nakahara Chuya saw the golden light shining from her fingertips.

"You are..." Nakahara was also a little surprised, but after thinking about it later, it seemed that the golden clan spread all over Japan from all walks of life. It would not be more reasonable to have a golden clan in the police.

"Yes, I saw your permission to open the business." Shangyuan Lixiang nodded and said, and then retracted the golden light on his fingertips, "The police in Kyoto Prefecture actually noticed the problem two weeks ago. Especially those like me, we all discovered the unnatural surge of evil energy in Kyoto, after contacting Huakai Yuan’s family many times to no avail, we started our own investigation, but before the investigation came out, the disappearance happened.”

Shangyuan Lixiang had a headache, "Then I volunteered to try to see if I could fish for law enforcement, but unfortunately, as you can see, I was also caught in."

"By the way, what is that feathered fox they are talking about?" Zhong Yuanzhong also frowned. Now he really regrets that he didn't read more classical scripts before, but he only read them. A book of "Stories", at least he should have read Toriyama Shiyan's works!

"Yuyihu, the legendary big monster." Shangyuan Lixiang smiled wryly, "There are rumors that it has been entrenched in the capital since ancient times, and it is the only monster among monsters that can control humans in the world."

"Huh? What kind of messy description is this?" Zhong Yuanzhong also said that if you speak, can't you speak more clearly?

"I also know that what I said is messy, but... But I really don't know much about this monster as I am not an orthodox Onmyoji." Shangyuan Lixiang was extremely helpless, "I only know that this monster named Yuyihu is still alive. There are a lot of subordinates, in short, it is a very powerful big monster. We are arrested, and it is said that we are all going to be fed to the feather fox."

Seeing that the atmosphere in the room turned bad again, Osamu Dazai patted his palm lightly, "Thank you for telling us about the feather fox. I also have something to tell you." He said in a very affirmative tone: "Our current location is in Erjo City."

"This is impossible!" Shangyuan Lixiang raised his head in surprise, "Even though Erjo Castle is still open to the public!"

"This should be the power of monsters." Osamu Dazai looked sideways at the vent, "We were also attacked at Fushimi Inari Shrine before, and at that time, Chuya, we didn't see tourists, It's because tourists don't see us."

Zhong Yuanzhong also reacted immediately, "Have we entered the enchantment of monsters?"

"That's right, that's it." Osamu Dazai nodded.

"Second, where is Nijo Castle...?" Just when everyone was surprised that the place they were in turned out to be a famous scenic spot in Kyoto, a weak voice asked.

Dazai Osamu and Nakahara Chu also looked over curiously, and saw the teardrops on the face of the crying boy holding his knees, and saw someone looking at him, wanting to shrink back like a small animal, "Yes, I'm sorry, I... I have been in Bingsheng before, and those who have never been to Kyoto say..."

"Well, good boy, with this big sister over here, everything will be fine." Osamu Dazai suddenly leaned over and rubbed the boy's fluffy hair, and said comfortingly.

After the boy was violently attacked by Osamu Dazai's beauty, he heard his male voice again, but he was not surprised too much, but was calmed down obediently, "Thank you, I am Sawada Tsunayoshi, this morning's I just woke up and found myself here, woo."

The boy sobbed again, obviously very uneasy about his current situation, "If mom hasn't seen me for so long, she must be very worried, right?"

"Be good, be good." Dazai Osamu rubbed the boy's head with a smile, feeling that the boy was as soft and cute as his appearance, and really kind.

"Haven't you ever thought about escaping?" Nakahara Nakaya turned to look at Shangyuan Lixiang over there.

Shangyuan Lixiang is helpless, she is really just an ordinary policewoman, even if she is from the Golden Clan, but her ability is partial to support, how can she run away after being caught!

"There are no food residues or toilets in this room, so you must have time to go out. How is the security situation outside?" Zhong also seemed to realize that the lady opposite him was not a combat type, so he quickly changed the subject .

"I don't know..." Another girl leaned against the wall and said, "I've been here the longest, I came here three days ago, all the girls before me were taken away, and never came back. "

She sighed a long time, "When it's time to go out to eat, those monsters will open the door and let us go out. But after we go out, except that the monster who opened the door is a very tall and big guy, the rest of us I haven't seen any monsters before."

"The weather outside is always dark, and occasionally there will be fog, so we don't know what monsters are in the fog." Uemoto Lixiang added, "But judging from the strong sense of oppression, They must all be hiding behind and watching us!"

Seeing what they said filled with righteous indignation, Chu could not help shaking his head helplessly, "Dazai, what should we do next?"

"Do you still need to ask? Just use the one you are best at, and make a big fuss." Osamu Dazai said with a smile.

"Huh?" Chuya Nakahara was a little confused by Osamu Dazai's response, "Hey, let me tell you, you're the one who came here to collect information, right?"

"Didn't you already get the information?" Osamu Dazai pointed to Rika Kamimoto over there, "And you also got the information about Last Boss directly."

"You mean the feather fox?" Nakahara paused as he untied his hair, "Of course, we didn't know anything about this kidnapping incident before, but now we not only know where the other party's lair is, but also Knowing her name, so the next thing, of course, is to escape with someone." Osamu Dazai hugged the brown-haired boy named Tsunayoshi Sawada into his arms, "Okay, Nakaya, Come on!"

"Shut up, I'm not your dog!" Zhong Yuanzhong said unhappily, "But are these two points really enough?"

"Enough is enough. After all, we are detectives. Detecting cases is our job. Catching monsters is not our business. Do you think that the president's stay at the police station in Kyoto Prefecture is to serve as a needle in the sea?" Osamu Dazai thought The child in his arms was too young, he weighed the boy twice, and asked curiously: "Xiao Gangji, how old are you this year?"

"13, almost 14..." Tsunayoshi Sawada looked dazed when he was hugged like this as if weighing his weight.

"You are too light, you need to eat more and exercise more, otherwise you will not grow taller in the future." Osamu Dazai said seriously.

"Yes, yes..." Tsunayoshi Sawada was still quite puzzled.

On the side, Shangyuan Lixiang showed a somewhat strange expression, "That..."

"Come on, everyone gather." Osamu Dazai clapped his hands suddenly, motioning everyone to lean towards him, "Don't worry, everyone, we are a regular detective agency and we won't hurt you. Chuya's ability can easily This "Nijo City" has been turned upside down, so don't worry everyone, please gather here, I will take everyone away! "

"Hey?"

"really?"

"Can you escape?"

The other girls on the side also gathered around, and everyone looked at Chuya Nakahara over there with some anxiety and anticipation at the same time. At this moment, they finally had the energy and mood to see clearly, this person named Chuya , is really a super beauty!

Seeing that everyone was approaching, Nakahara Chuya was about to take off the kimono that was getting in the way, but he remembered that this seemed to be the earliest experimental product of Yukichi cat's sewing work. Seeing Yukichi cat so preciously put these two sets The clothes were hidden, and one can imagine how important these two clothes are to Yukichi the big cat. He clicked his tongue in displeasure, and finally confirmed with Osamu Dazai: "I really made a big fuss."

"Let's make a fuss, the bigger the fuss, the better." Dazai Osamu gave him an OK gesture, "Oh, by the way, when Chuya and you attract the attention of the monsters, you can try to go to the basement of the castle. Leave it to me here."

"Underground?" There seems to be no underground buildings in Nijo City, right?But since it was Dazai's judgment, there should be no mistake.

Zhongyuan Zhong also came to the front of the thick wooden door, stretched out his hand and just touched the door, a dark red light flashed around him, the wooden door fell straight down, fell heavily on the ground, and made a roaring sound .

"Wow, that's amazing!"

"It's really amazing."

The girls hiding behind Osamu Dazai exclaimed one after another. Seeing the unshakable "woman" wearing a cumbersome kimono over there made such incredible movements, the desire for life in their eyes strengthened again, and they could live Who would want to die, let alone the reason of feeding monsters.

And that loud noise naturally ushered in the nearby guards, and all kinds of monsters turned their attention to this side. A monster with a piece of wood stuck in his face took the lead and asked, "What's going on over there? That's An important ration for Lord Yuyihu!"

"Go and have a look." Another monster stood up immediately. She was petite, like a little girl, but she was holding a dangerous skull in her hand, and there was a snake inside the skull. Swimming past the two eye sockets, the girl-like monster's face was full of surprise at this time, and she ran towards that side with all her strength, "Sister Yuyihu's food, we can't let them escape!"

After Chuya Nakahara pushed the door open, he didn't see that the people inside had any intention of coming out, and he didn't mind, as long as Osamu Dazai was sure.

He raised his head and glanced at the first thing that rushed over, probably a monster like a guard. He didn't even make any extra movements, and he "lifted" the gate on the ground, and slammed it hard towards the guard. , the monster flew back as if hit by a shell, and smashed all the little monsters behind him to the ground.

"Well, what are we going to do now?" Lixiang Shangyuan couldn't help asking, repeating again, she was really just an ordinary policeman!

"Well, there is Nakaya looking after him outside, anyway, even if he really can't beat him, it's okay for him to run away." Osamu Dazai looked sideways at the vent again, "As for us, this is fine. "

"Hey?" Just when everyone didn't understand what he meant, they suddenly heard other people exclaim: "How many people suddenly appeared in the empty room in Erjo City!"

"Didn't I say that? That's enough." Osamu Dazai said calmly.