It was freezing cold outside, but Kirino Akane, who had been staying indoors, looked pale, and her face was a bit colder than the weather at that time.

After opening the door for Zong Gu, she said nothing and turned around expressionlessly.

"Kirino?"

"...men."

"What?"

Her back was turned, and her body and voice were trembling.

"close the door……"

Walking into the warm room, Zonggu closed the door behind her back to block out all the wind and snow, and then she looked back at him.

"Sorry..." "Sorry."

They both spoke at the same time and stopped at the same time.

"..."

Akane Kirino forced a smile, and Soya picked up the bag in his hand.

"Awaited."

"It's okay." She shook her head, "I suddenly wanted to eat something from the store...come here."

The two walked to the restaurant. Soya opened the bag, took out various grilled and fried foods prepared by Kirino's father, and put them on the plate she took.

Wrapped in tin foil, the food was still hot after walking around in the cold outside, and even a little hot to the touch.

Although the room was warm, he didn't open all the food at once, so he could eat as much as he could.

"Sogu..."

Zong Gu lowered his head and tore off the tinfoil, then casually responded, "Yeah."

"Can you stay today?"

"Can...eh?"

He raised his gaze, and Akane Kirino, who was sitting opposite, stared at him intently, holding a corner of the tablecloth tightly in her hand.

"..."

She is afraid.

Zongya quickly passed the stage of surprise and confusion and realized the essence of the problem.

"Did Kirino see something?"

"..."

She didn't say anything, just stared into his eyes and glanced outside the room.

"Is there a spirit out there?"

She nodded vigorously.

"..."

No wonder he was asked to come here in the name of delivering late night snacks.

"Don't worry." Soya comforted him, taking out a skewer of grilled chicken from the tinfoil he had just opened and handing it over, "It's probably just a wandering spirit passing by."

Akane Kirino immediately shook her head in denial.

"always there?"

"Um!"

He thought of her strange appearance when she left the old house in the afternoon, and asked: "How many days has this been going on?"

"It started appearing the night before yesterday."

Zonggu was immediately surprised.

The peach wood amulet on his chest suppressed his spiritual sense and had a remarkable effect, but he knew nothing about it.

"What does that spirit look like?"

To drive away or destroy it, you must first identify what kind of spirit it is.

If it's just the two of them, or Akane Kirino can't handle it under his guidance, they might as well let the group of shrine maidens blowing wind and watching the snow on the street come over and exterminate them. After all, their job is to remove spirits...

Soya was thinking about it in his mind, Kirino Akane took the roasted chicken from his hand and looked at him for a while.

"She is the daughter of Huangquan."

...

"Akane——"

As soon as she said hello, her daughter came down from upstairs, which surprised the Kirino couple who had just arrived home.

However, the smile on her face quickly dispelled some of their doubts.

"Mom, dad."

"Akane, aren't you ready to rest yet?"

"I'm reading a book." Kirino Akane stopped at the point where the stairs were neither going up nor down, "I'm going to take a rest soon."

"Don't study too late, it's snowing outside... Sotani-kun has been here before, right?"

"Uh-huh."

Kirino Keiko patted the snow on her shoulder and motioned to her husband to take a shower first.

"Did he say anything?"

Akane Kirino thought for a while, "Prepare for the exam with peace of mind?"

"that is it?"

"Eat more."

"..."

Looking at the smile on her daughter's face, Kirino Keiko thought she might just be too stressed and needed to talk to someone.

"Really? I thought Sotani-kun would say a little more."

"He said that he had nothing to comfort my self-confidence. Talking too much might make me feel confused. Just stop talking."

"I see... he is such a mature boy."

"Uh-huh."

After chatting for a few more words, Kirino and his wife went to wash up and rest. Akane Kirino turned around and returned upstairs.

Seeing that it was her, Zonggu returned to the room from the terrace, which had already accumulated a thin layer of snow, and closed the floor-to-ceiling windows.

She closed the door and smiled.

"If it was mom who came in, Zongya would have been discovered even if he was hiding there."

He just shook his head, unable to laugh as easily as she did.

Kirino Akane walked to the floor-to-ceiling window and looked outside for a while.

It was a dark night, and the falling snowflakes could only be seen through the light from the room, but the strange figures floating in the air were extremely clear.

"It turns out that the daughter of the underworld can fly."

"..."

Zong Gu was behind her, invisible with his eyes, but very clear in his heart. He had already seen the scene of the girl of the underworld covering the sky and the sun.

"What are they doing?"

"Reconnaissance." He closed one curtain, "Or in contact with companions in the distance."

Akane Kirino raised her hand to hold the other side, as if she wanted to take a few more glances, but Soya didn't insist.

"Aren't Kirino scared?"

"Didn't Zonggu say that they won't attack me?"

In view of her previous fearful performance, she probably felt that this reason was not very convincing, so she turned around and smiled.

"With Souya here, I don't feel scared."

"I really envy you. I'm scared to death myself."

Zong Gu looked outside, "Although they didn't come for me this time."

Not only the Kirino family, but traces of the Underworld Daughters can be seen wandering around everywhere in the vicinity. This is the main reason why Kirino Akane has been so scared these two days - even if she knows that they will not hurt her, it does not affect the horror of seeing that pale face.

human level.

Combining her words with what he saw at this time, Zongya also roughly understood what the witches he met before were doing.

"These girls of the underworld are weaving a big net to detect and block all the whereabouts of the 'prey'. The location of the Kirino family happens to be a node in this net."
To be continued...