Kamiyagawa was wandering around the small town next to the mine with the [Thousand Silver Needles] in his pocket.

"Bie Tongzi Mountain was closed in 1973. This town seems to have been a gathering place for former miners and miners' families. If you look for the older people in the town, they might be former miners. From them, you should be able to get first-hand information about Bie Tongzi Mountain.

."

Kamiya did the same thing on Ourishima back then.

Claiming to be a folklorist, he held a small silver stick and talked to local middle-aged or elderly people.

good results.

The town is not large, and the streets are far from spacious. After walking for a while, I didn't see any suitable targets.

"Hiss...huh?"

At the corner of a certain street, Kamiyakawa's eyes were attracted by a person walking towards him.

It was a woman in her early twenties, who looked like a female college student.

Very pretty.

Kamiya's eyes stayed on the other party for a while.

The girl also noticed Kamiya and kept watching.

The two met their eyes.

"puff."

After a moment, the strange girl opposite chuckled lightly and turned her head to the side.

It seemed to be signaling Kamiya to follow.

Kamiyakawa didn't have any scruples and followed directly.

The two of them walked into a deserted alley one after the other.

"This is the first time we meet, my name is Ai Saotome." The girl turned around and bowed gently towards Kamiya, introducing herself, "I didn't expect to meet my colleagues here."

That's right, this is the opening statement.

This man is a spiritualist.

Real exorcists are always attracted to each other in the crowd.

After all, they can feel each other's aura more or less differently than ordinary people.

"Miss Saotome, right?" Kamiyagawa called the other party by her last name, "Hello, my name is Kamiyagawa."

"Kamiya...Kawa? I seem to have heard of this name." Saotome was fond of reminiscing, and after a moment she suddenly realized, "Wait a minute, you are a spirit exterminator from Tokyo? You rescued many living people of Kamigakure from Kisaragi Station, and you also

The one who solved the Wakayama whale disaster?”

Kamiyakawa noticed that the other party did not mention the treatment of the Pink Fairy, the Plague God, and the Dream Man.

Perhaps these three events were related to the time of demon sealing and involved the secrets of the countermeasures room, and Saotome Ai did not know about them.

If this is the case, this Miss Saotome should not be an official spirit slayer.

Or even if you join the official list, you have not yet entered the inner circle.

"Let's call it that."

Kamiyakawa nodded, thought for a moment, and took out the countermeasures room's ID card from his pocket.

"Eh——? It's really true!" Ai Saotome looked at the seal and certificate on the certificate, "So you are so young!?"

"Um……"

Kamiya didn't expect that his reputation would spread so widely.

Anyone who encounters an exorcist will have heard his story.

"I'm offended!" Ai Saotome bowed again, this bow was much deeper than before. She kept her head lowered and said, "Let me introduce myself again. My name is Ai Saotome. My family is Shinto. I am not yet qualified to join the countermeasures room.

, but I have been working hard, please give me your advice!”

"It doesn't have to be so formal."

"Yes, you are a senior in the countermeasures room!" Saotome Ai raised her head, "Senior, did you come to Iyo to remove spirits?"

"That's right."

It feels weird to be called "senpai" by someone who is obviously older than me.

"Ah... is it also for the Headless Horseman?" Saotome Ai looked slightly embarrassed, "Then it seems like I came here in vain?"

"What is the Headless Horseman?"

"Eh? Isn't that why you're here? It's a commission I finally received a few days ago."

Kamiyakawa thought for a while and said: "I plan to go to Bie Tongzi Mountain. What level of ghost story are you talking about about the headless horseman?"

"I guess it's around E level." Saotome Ai relaxed a little and raised her hand to touch her chin, "That's right. It seems that such a level of weird stories is far from worthy of a big shot like you coming all the way from Tokyo."

"I'm not a big shot." Kamiya shrugged his shoulders. E-level weird stories were also commissioned by others, so Kamiya would not snatch them. "By the way, where are you from?"

"He's a native of Ehime. He lives in Ikata Town. Senior can come as a guest at any time!"

"That's not necessary...can I ask you something?"

The exorcist who lives in Ikata Town is a complete local.

Maybe you can get the information you want from Miss Saotome.

"You say."

"How much do you know about Bie Tongzi Mountain? Are there any strange stories in the area of ​​Bie Tongzi Mountain? For example, Shikijiro or something like that?" Kamiyagawa did not directly conceal his purpose of looking for Shikijiro. Anyway, normal people would definitely not be able to think of it. He was looking for

Shikijiro was brought to the other world to mine.

"Shikijiro? Senior, why are you talking to such a low-level wandering spirit?"

"I have some shikigami monsters under my command, and one of them needs the materials Shikijiro may produce to cultivate."

The reason Kamiyagawa gave is reasonable.

Like last year, before the little old man was promoted to F level, the [Shadow Mass] he absorbed was a Kaidan relic produced from a very low-level Kaitan Shadow Ghost.

"Shikigami... I seem to have indeed heard about this matter of yours." Saotome nodded without raising any questions, "As for Tongzishan, let me think about it, it seems that Shikijiro exists all the time, but

Ehime’s spiritual slayers rarely go there.”

"Why?"

"Ah, because it has always been peaceful there. There is also a Betsuko Theme Park with a lot of tourists, and there have been no supernatural incidents at all in the past ten years. If senior wants to find Shikijiro, he may have to go into the deep mountain area to look for abandoned or dusty

Let’s try our luck in the mines. Generally speaking, spiritualists won’t go to great lengths to find such low-level ghost stories that have no record of harming anyone.”

"Um."

All right.

Asking is almost the same as not asking.

It is quite different from the information I judged before.

"Oh, there's one more thing I thought of, senior, about Bie Tongzi Mountain." I don't know if she wanted to show off in front of Kamiyagawa, the "senior" of the countermeasures room, but Ai Saotome seemed very positive:

This chapter is not finished yet, please click the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "This is a story I heard from my grandfather when I was a child. It is said that during the Meiji Era, a strange thing happened in Bie Tongzi Mountain for a while.

A sudden whipping wind blew up, and many miners suffered greatly from it."

"Whipwind?"

This vocabulary sounds familiar.

"Yes, legend has it that when this kind of wind blows, it will make the sound of whips and billowing dust. People and animals who encounter this kind of strange wind will get sick."

"Then what?"

"Then what happened is a bit unclear. Anyway, after a certain period of time, the whipping wind in Bie Tongzi Mountain stopped inexplicably and never appeared again. However, this is just a story told by my grandfather, and it is very difficult to tell whether it is true or false.

It’s hard to verify. It may just be a pure country legend.”

"Okay, I understand, thank you." Kamiyagawa thanked Miss Saotome who knew everything.

Whip wind...

A piece of information I don't know if it's useful.

However, after listening to Ms. Saotome's description, Kamiya belatedly remembered that when he was supplementing his knowledge on various ghost stories, he had read a record similar to Whip Wind in a certain book.

In Kagami Village in Tosa County, Kochi Prefecture, there seems to be a legend of whip wind. It is said that this strange wind can cling to cows and horses. When walking with cows and horses at night, if you are unlucky, you will encounter a whip wind with a sound. At this time,

If the cows and horses are not blindfolded, they will die in the whip wind.

There are also places where the whip wind is called "butchi". When it hits, it will make a sharp "whoosh" sound in the mountains and fields. The sand and dust carried in the wind can cut people's skin like a knife and injure people.

The two chatted casually for a while, and Saotome handed Kamiya a business card.

Kamiyakawa accepted it and said: "It's getting late, I plan to go to Bie Tongzi Mountain tonight to have a look."

"Then I wish you success in finding Shikijiro, senior."
To be continued...