Noma Nan looked ahead and grasped the steering wheel: "You should also know what happened recently. In addition to Kinki, there are daughters of the underworld searching for something everywhere, which makes some spirits very nervous, and they mutate when they are nervous.

There is nothing wrong with Kinki, but a lot of free staff have been transferred to Gifu, Aichi and other places to solve the problem... I don’t know when this state will last."

Soya and Kyoko looked at each other.

Long before, the two had the same guess about the abnormal movements of the daughter of the Yellow Springs, and both thought that this would not happen in a day or two.

"I didn't bring any weapons." Soya said again.

Since you have to deal with evil spirits, you have to make some preparations.

Noma Nan didn't care, "I'll just go to Nagahama and borrow a handful of it at the local shrine."

"All right."

"At the same time, has the Shenshi Department investigated something recently?"

"I don't know." Zong Gu shook his head, "They will ask me some questions occasionally and never reveal the results of the investigation to me."

“This salary is so easy.”

"Teacher Noma can also follow the Section Chief Mizuru and say, you have met that Mei Yin Xie before. Anyway, no one has seen her, so you can make it up as you like."

"Forget it, I want to live a few more years."

Noma Nan looked at him from the rearview mirror, "If it were someone else, it would be fine. I wouldn't dare to say anything about the only living god."

Zong Gu smiled and said nothing more.

He leaned back to the back of the chair and looked at the lake outside the window, and he held Kyoko's hand again.

“…”

She struggled a little and then he held it.

With his fingertips against the smooth back of his hand, he slowly squeezed out the palm of her hand, stretched out the gaps of his fingers, and clenched her ten fingers.

The way of holding couples.

Sleeping deep in his wide palm, Kyoko looked out the window and said nothing.

It's been more than a month...

Walking along the lakeside, after more than an hour, the three of them finally arrived at the other side of Lake Biwa and arrived in Nagahama City smoothly.

While slowing down, Noma Nan looked at the rearview mirror in the car again, and Kyoko leaned against Soya's shoulder, her eyes slightly closed.

“We’re here.”

She opened her eyes and sat upright immediately.

Zonggu yawned and his eyes moved from her face to the window.

“Where is this.”

“Changhai City.”

“Say something useful.”

"Respect seniors." Noma Nan turned around and glared at him, "This is Kawakuna Shrine, get off the bus."

Another colleague who was supposed to take a ride didn't appear at all.

The three got out of the car and left the parking lot.

Looking at the stone tablet with the [Kawanan Shrine] written at the intersection, Soya thought for a moment and vaguely remembered that he seemed to have solved some trouble for them, but he just couldn't remember exactly when it was.

Passing through Torii, entering the shrine, a witch comes to greet her.

"Team leader Nan, long time no see. I'm really bothering you this time."

"Long time no see, Hexi."

After saying hello, she introduced the two helpers she brought to the other party.

"Kyoko, you should know this person next to him, is the general of the first group of the special operations team of our headquarters."

“…Please give me some advice.”

"Really?" Miss Hexi was very happy about this, "I will feel much more at ease."

After she explained it again, the three of them realized that the actual situation was more complicated than what they had known before.

“…Yes, there are more than one spirit body that is causing trouble, or in other words, a group of about ten people, who are now driven to the back mountain.

Team Leader Nan said that he would bring the strongest combat power. I thought that all the spiritual masters of your society would come... But it is not a problem to have Mr. Zong Gu from the special operations team here."

"It's really no problem," said Noma Nan, "but according to Hexi, the bigger problem now seems to be how to catch them all in one place."

"Mr. Soya..."

"No matter how powerful he is, he is still a human being. If the evil spirits escape in scattered, he would not be able to kill them all in an instant. If he escaped from the back mountain and chased him, it would be troublesome."

Zong Gu said at this time: "How many spiritual enlightened people can be mobilized nearby now?"

"There are only four witches from our Chuannan Shrine." Miss Hexi said.

"How big is the range of the back mountain?" he asked again.

The witch described it roughly.

"That's the case..."

Zong Gu thought for a few seconds, "Then please go up the mountain from the other side, and use the momentum of encirclement to drive the evil spirits to me, and I will deal with it alone."

Noma Nan looked at him, "Is it okay?"

"The only problem is that you may not be able to kill, there will be omissions, and self-protection is no problem."

"Since that's the case, let Kyoko and Soya go to stop the killing together."

Kyoko nodded. She had already planned to stay on the front and deal with the evil spirits with him.

Soya has no objection either, and Kyoko is more at ease with him.

"Then just hurry up and organize the action while it's not dark."

When he learned that there was a real sword in the warehouse of the Kawanan Shrine, Soya asked for the weapon. Compared to the bamboo sword, the real sword feels more suitable for him.

As for Kyoko, Noma Nan brought her magic-breaking bow when she came from the shrine.

We came to the bottom of the hill near the shrine and met with the witches who were left here. Soya and Kyoko went up the mountain in front of them, and the four witches from Noma Nan and Kawakunam Shrine were walking around the back of the mountain.

"You two should be careful." Despite their confidence in the two, Noma Nan still gave another explanation.

"I understand. So are the teacher."

Watching several witches disappear on the path, Soya looked at Kyoko, "Let's go deeper."

"Um."

The back mountain is a bamboo forest, green and green, and the part near the top of the mountain has been dyed with golden sunlight.

Walking into the bamboo forest, Zonggu chose a relatively flat place, pulled out the samurai sword, and tried the blade with the surrounding bamboo.

"Fortunately, there are all finer Hsinchus here."

He cut a circle around him, and the bamboo and wood fell down, and the surroundings became much wider, making it easier for him to swing his knife.

Kyoko looked at the bamboo on the ground, and Soya said, "I asked, this mountain is the property of Kawanan Shrine. I just cut a few bamboos, and I don't think they would care."

"Um."

Looking at the magic-breaking bow and quiver on her back, Zong Gu selected the bamboos on the ground for a while, then chose one of them, and used a samurai knife to cut off the hardest and straightest part, then left the handle, break the remaining part, scrape it, and cut it into a simple bamboo knife.

“…”

Taking the bamboo knife, Kyoko waved it twice.

“How is the hand feeling?”

"fine."

Although I don’t use many knives in normal times, if I just use them to protect myself, there is no big problem.

“Do you like me a little more?”

“…”

Kyoko glanced at him and turned her head before her smile appeared.

"Although I won't let them get closer to Kyoko, it's better to be prepared for any eventuality."

"Um."

"Kyoko doesn't have to worry about me later, just shoot arrows, I will avoid it."

"I know it in my heart."

Zong Gu nodded and then began to look at the environment in front of him. He expected that when the battle occurred, there were some things to pay attention to and what places to use.

Kyoko was holding a bamboo knife and also looking at the dense bamboo forest, but her eyes slowly shifted to him.

"Student Fangming."
To be continued...