travel frog

Pushing Akai Shuichi away a little, Gin took out the pigeon spirit Kaito from his bosom, and was about to introduce him, when Kaito exploded angrily and pecked hard on his hand.

"hiss--"

Akai Hideichi shook his hand violently, gasping for air in pain: "Where did you get such a fierce pigeon? You can't... You bought it on the plane?"

"I picked it up on the side of the road." Gin calmly raised his hand to hold Kaito's head who was still about to attack, then bent down to pick up Tamamo and put it back on his shoulder, "It's the same as it, it's a monster."

"You... cough cough cough!"

Akai Shuichi choked on a brief explanation of what Akai Hideichi wanted to say, and was caught off guard and coughed non-stop due to choking on the saliva, so he had to cover his mouth and stop talking.

"As for being so surprised? It's not the first time I've seen you." Gin Jiu was puzzled by his reaction.

"...As expected of a person who has died once, he is calmer than ordinary people when things happen." Akai Shuichi breathed calmly, probably influenced by his attitude, and looked at Yuzaoqian and Pigeon Jing, and he was also quite calm, "Are you going to take them in?" ?”

"Temporary admission." Qin Jiu emphasized the tone, emphasizing the word "temporary", "Let's go, go back first."

Akai Hideo nodded and followed his footsteps.

As soon as the two of them took a step, Yu Zaoqian said, "Wait."

"What's wrong?" Akai Hideichi looked down at the little fox squatting on Gin's shoulder, and asked jokingly, "Did you find a new kind?"

Yuzao's eyes flickered, and she suddenly smiled, with her tail wrapped around the back of Gin's neck, Shi Shiran said: "Yes, I did sense the breath of a strange monster, this gentleman wants to go and see with us ?"

Akai Shuichi: "?"

Not only Akai Xiu was dumbfounded, but Gin also asked strangely: "What did you say? Strange monster?"

"Yes, a strange monster, but it should not have been born in this era. Its aura is mixed with an ancient charm."

Yuzao remembers that Akai Hideo just threw him away, deliberately squinted at him from the corner of his eye, and said with a smile: "Could it be that this gentleman also discovered the same aura just now, so he hugged him so anxiously, and asked him Is there something wrong?"

"...Not really." Yuzao's tone was teasing, but he couldn't hide the hostility in his words. Akai Shuichi realized this, and suddenly stretched out his hand, wrapped his arms around Gin's shoulders generously, and pulled his tail down , "I know he went to confirm Minamoto Raimiko's identity this morning and was worried about his safety, so he was in a hurry."

"Ah... so it is."

Tamazamo elongated the ending sound meaningfully, flicked his tail, and "snapped" his hand away pretending to be inadvertent.

"Since Mr. doesn't understand monsters, and can't perceive our aura, it won't help him, and maybe he will drag him down when he meets us, then you might as well stop following us."

Tamazamo used a well-meaning "persuasion" to hurt Akai Hideichi again, but he still had a gentle and polite smile on his face, and his tone and wording were not sharp, making it impossible for people to refute.

"Thank you, Mr. Fox Demon, for your concern." Akai Hideichi rubbed the back of his hand that hurt from being slapped, and said with a smirk, "But don't worry, I won't drag him down. We used to be rivals, but also heart-to-heart companions." , if he is in danger, I can at least buy him a little time to escape."

Yuzao didn't change his face: "Then I'll wait and see."

The man and the monster kept fighting with each other, but they all tacitly avoided Qin Jiu, who was at the center of the turmoil. The scene once pretended to be very harmonious.

Qin Jiu's eyes turned back and forth on the two of them, with a look of confusion.

Only Kaito, who was ignored by the three parties, saw through everything, raised his wingtips to caress the red hair on the top of his head, and let out a vicissitudes of sigh: "Googoo..."

- man...

According to the sensing direction in front of Tamamo, Ginjiu and Akai Shuichi came to a restaurant at the corner of the street, and when they looked up, they could see a plaque with the words "big bone soup with rice".

"Here?" Gin Jiu squinted his eyes against the sun, and couldn't help complaining: "If the monster you mentioned was here, it might have been cooked by now."

Yuzao couldn't help laughing: "It hasn't reached that point yet, but it is indeed in the kitchen, I can feel it."

"How many?" Akai Hideichi asked abruptly.

Yuzao tilted her head to look at him: "Sir, do you feel something when you ask this question?"

"I just think that the prototype of monsters that can appear in restaurants is not the kind that can appear alone." Akai Shuichi put Gin's shoulders, the corners of his lips slightly raised, "Big bones...Usually made of pork bones It’s too late, the monster you’re talking about can’t be…”

Yuzao sneered: "Sir, do you buy live pigs to cook bone soup?"

"That's not true." Akai Hideo touched the tip of his nose, glanced at Kaito basking in the sun in his arms from the corner of his eye, and said, "However, soups such as pigeon soup and chicken soup may be freshly killed. .”

Kaito was wrapped in a gin scarf, taking a nap comfortably in the sun, when he was suddenly cueed with a gun, and a row of question marks suddenly appeared above his head.

exist?Why connotate me?

"Sir, it's a pity that you became a human being." Yuzao smiled and licked his paws, "You are more sour than a kimchi jar that has been cultivated for thousands of years."

Akai Shuichi thanked calmly: "Thank you for the compliment."

Gin couldn't help but rolled his eyes, and threw Tamamo-mae off to Akai Shuichi, then strode into the restaurant with Kaito in his arms.

"Cuckoo!"

— Well done!

Kaito applauded his move by flapping his wings.

One of these two is a thousand-year-old monster, and the other has lived for decades. When they quarreled, they were estimated to be less than three years old. If you stay with them for a while, you will feel that your IQ has been polluted and plummeted.

Hideo Akai caught Tamamo before subconsciously, looked at it for a moment, and showed a smirk in unison.

Walking into the store, Gin looked around, only to see bright and clean windows, similar to ordinary restaurants, but empty, not even a waiter.

But soon, the door of the kitchen was opened, and a middle-aged man wearing a chef's hat came out in a hurry, and greeted with a smile: "Sorry, guest, our waiter has something to ask for leave today, what do you want to order directly with me?" Say, I'll fire it up and do it for you."

Qin Jiu raised his eyebrows, and asked: "Can big bone soup be boiled now?"

"Oh, no, no, the soup has been simmering in the pot, and the rice has been steamed in advance, but the side dishes need to be prepared fresh." The chef said while taking a menu and handing it to him, "The side dishes are all on top, the guests Take a look."

Gin scanned the menu at a glance, and saw that there was an obvious new addition at the end, the ink was still not dry, sour bamboo shoots, shiitake mushrooms and pork ribs rice. Thinking of what Yuzao said before, he pointed to this side dish.

"Two servings, medium bowl, packed."

"This..." The chef scratched his head in embarrassment, "Customer, I'm very sorry, there is only one serving of shiitake mushrooms left in the shop, would you like to order another side dish?"

Only one left...

Gin closed the menu, and was about to find an excuse to go into the kitchen to have a look, when Akai Hideo came in holding Tamamo with both hands, his indifferent expression showed some imperceptible dislike, and Tamamo also had the same expression on the front.

Seeing this, Gin turned to them, winked at Yuzao, and then looked at the chef next to him.

Yuzao nodded her chin slightly, raised her head to look at the chef knowingly, her pupils turned deep purple.

The chef also saw Shuichi Akai and Tamazamae, and hurried up to greet him and said, "Customers, we don't allow...pets...in..."

Before he finished speaking, his feet fluttered as if he was drunk, and he turned around a few times before falling to the ground.

"Okay, I've cast a spell to make him fall asleep, let's go into the kitchen and have a look at this time." Tamazamo said, stepping on his feet, jumping from Akai Hideo's palm to the gin.

——Caught by Akai Hideichi halfway, and took him back.

"Let's go in together." He smiled at Gin and looked down at Yuzao again.

Tamazamo was caught off guard, and stared at him expressionlessly with one ear dropped.

In the next second, its voice sounded in Akai Hideichi's mind: "Let me go back."

Hideo Akai smiled back and put it on the table.

Yuzao Mae:? ? ?

Is it because I don't have the majesty of a big demon?

Uncle Fox thought so in his heart.

While the two were chatting here, Gin had already walked into the kitchen and looked inside and out.

The kitchen is extremely clean. Except for the soup that is simmering on the stove, the rest of the kitchen utensils are neatly arranged on the cooking table, and all the ingredients are placed in their own places, but they are all fresh fruits and vegetables that have been processed, and there are no living things.

"Cuckoo..."

Kaito stretched his neck to look left and right. Although he didn't see any creature that might be a youkai, he felt inexplicably uncomfortable.

There was an aura that was difficult for humans to detect floating in the air, or more properly a smell, Kaito could smell a little, and that alone was enough to make him dizzy.

Gin circled around the kitchen, letting the system scan the surrounding monsters in his heart, and stopped in front of the cutting board half a minute later, looking at the basket on the right with vegetables such as wood ear mushrooms.

System: The monster is a mushroom in the basket.

"In these days, not only pigeons can become spirits, but mushrooms can also be monsters."

Gin shook his head, reached out to touch the basket, rummaged through more than a dozen mushrooms, and grabbed the smallest shiitake mushroom.It seems to have been sun-dried and covered with water, shriveled into a ball, and there are some dark purple spots on the dark umbrella-shaped crown. If you look closely, you will find that this is not a shiitake mushroom, but some unknown wild mushroom.

"Is this the monster?"

Akai Hideichi suddenly poked his head out from behind him, and along with Tamamo, two heads, one large and one small, looked over his shoulders at the shiitake mushroom in his palm, with similar curiosity in their eyes.

Qin Jiu responded, and poked the mushroom: "Wake up, don't pretend to be dead, if you don't want to be blamed, just say a word to prove your identity."

Hearing this, the shiitake mushroom rolled a few times without anyone moving it, and the curled up body stretched out as if it was full of water, and the color of the body also changed from black to light purple, only the umbrella cover The spots on the dots haven't changed.

In almost a few seconds, it changed from a skinny shiitake mushroom to a plump, juicy...ordinary mushroom.

Mushroom jumped up, stood on the palm of the gin, raised the canopy to reveal the dark eyes underneath.

It timidly glanced at the front of Yuzao, turned its body and lowered its head, and said tremblingly: "My lord, I... don't want to be in the pot..."

"Forget it, let's go out first."

Gin was not stupid enough to question it directly in the kitchen when the chef would wake up at any time, so he put it in his pocket, turned around and pulled Akai Hideichi out.

Akai Hideo looked at their handshake, in a good mood, and trotted two steps to walk side by side with him, not forgetting to talk provocatively to Tamamo:

"It's a pigeon spirit and a mushroom demon again, next time we won't encounter pickle essence and coriander essence, right?"

Yuzao smiled slightly: "No, next time we will meet a kimchi jar spirit."

After speaking, it squinted at Akai Shuichi, and immediately pretended to be surprised: "Ah! I see you!"

Akai Shuichi: "..."

Gin and Kaito chuckled together.