The closer he got to the place where the abbot mentioned by Shotaro was, the more familiar Hoshino Gen became. Even though it was his first time here, he felt inexplicably very friendly here.

Where is this place? It was obviously a place he had never set foot before.

"Here is..."

When Hoshino Gen saw an old man smiling at them at the door of the wooden house, he felt something strange about the old man.

Although it was the first time they met, he seemed to have guessed the old man's identity.

Gen Hoshino looked at the old man thoughtfully, only to find that the old man was also looking into his eyes with a smile, and nodded approvingly as if he heard his voice.

Out of politeness, Hoshino Genya nodded in response to the old man.

Seeing the old monk, Shotaro walked in front of everyone and greeted him familiarly: "Old man, I have brought everyone here. In this case, you should explain it to us carefully!"

The old monk ignored Shotaro and walked straight past him toward Hoshino Gen. He bowed to Hoshino Gen in the eyes of everyone with surprise.

"Grandpa, what are you doing?" Hoshino Yuan quickly tried to help the old man up, but the old man just raised his head and looked at him with a smile and said with a smile, "This world is in your hands."

The old monk refused Hoshino Yuan's support and climbed up with some difficulty. Then he grabbed Hoshino Yuan's hands and kept thanking him: "Thank you for your hard work. You must have suffered during this time!"

"Ah! Huh?!" Hoshino Gen responded somewhat at a loss, "I feel pretty good recently, life is going very smoothly, and I have met a few old friends in the past few days."

"Really? That's good, that's good." The old monk smiled and nodded, and then invited everyone to enter his wooden house.

During this period, the old monk kept chatting with Hoshino Yuan, asking some trivial matters in life, as if he were an old man chatting with his grandson. Even if some topics were not congenial, he just entertained Hoshino Yuan warmly.

"Has this grandpa known this brother before? It seems like they are very familiar." Ryota Sakurada asked in confusion.

"Maybe, I don't know for sure. But Gen Hoshino doesn't seem to know him." After Philip answered Ryota's question, he poked Shotaro next to him and asked, "shotaro, what is this old man like?" People?"

"Tsk! I personally feel that he is a man with a changeable personality, and I don't know him very well." Shotaro said helplessly to Phillip, "I just met him by chance. I didn't expect that this old man would treat his guests differently." It’s so troublesome to treat!”

Shotaro spread his hands helplessly and looked at the "grandfather and grandson" chatting in front of him. He only felt that his head was big.

Ryota pointed to the old man's wooden house and shouted in surprise: "There is a wooden house here! It's strange, I have never seen it before."

Sakurada Ryota's surprised voice caught the attention of Shotaro and Phillip.

Shotaro came forward and looked down at Ryota and asked in confusion: "Is it true or false? Could it be that you remembered it wrong?"

"Eh? But I have been coming here with my mother every year since I was a child. Although I rarely pass by here, I have never seen this wooden house." Ryota Sakurada pointed at the wooden house and said firmly.

"This..." Shotaro and Phillip looked at each other, somewhat unsure. In the end, Shotaro had no choice but to squat down and talk to Ryota, "In case you remember it wrong, this wooden house has a sense of age at first glance. Maybe you Maybe you really didn’t notice it, after all, you are really young.”

Ryota lowered his head and said aggrievedly: "But, I am already nine years old. I can already take a bus from the city to the suburbs alone. I am already an adult."

"Okay, Ryota is indeed an adult. After all, you came here to pray for your mother!" Philip smiled and touched Ryota's head, then turned around and said to Shotaro, "How about this, we'll ask you later Ask the old man who lives here! He must know a lot of inside stories!"

"That's right!" Upon hearing this, Shotaro looked in the direction of the old man and Hoshino Gen, but there was no one in that place at this time.

"Eh?! Where did they go again?!"

……

"Long time no see. How are you doing during this time?"

Gen Hoshino was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then immediately reacted and said to the old man next to him: "It's okay. Although everything is not going as planned, it's still a pretty good life."

"Really? What is your name this time?"

"[This time's name]!" Gen Hoshino suppressed the doubts in his heart and said to the old man, "Although I don't understand what you mean, [this time's name] is - Hoshino Gen!"

"Hoshino is my surname, and Yuan is my name." Yuan Hoshino was walking on the mountain road with the old man. He was obviously an old man on crutches, but he seemed to have endless energy and didn't seem to feel tired at all. .

"I used to be an orphan who grew up in an orphanage. My original name was just [Yuan]. But a sister named [Hoshino] adopted me, so my name was [Hoshino Gen]."

"It's indeed [Yuan]! But I didn't expect the surname [Hoshino]. She really can't let you go!" The old man shook his head helplessly and smiled, "Your sister must love you very much, right?"

"She doesn't love me very much, but she is very close to me." Gen Hoshino saw that the other party had been chatting with him about some common things. He smiled softly and said calmly, "That's enough. Who are you? ?Why do you know me, and why do you know something I don’t know?”

"Didn't you already guess it? Why do you deny that answer?" The old man stopped his crutches and said to him with a smile.

"Originally, I was very sure, but you actually said something about me, so I have some doubts about your identity." Hoshino Gen glanced at the three people in the distance who were arguing about whether the wooden house existed, and then put his hands in Kabuto pretended to be relaxed and said to the old man, "If you really want to do something, do it now! We are separated now. If you kill me, it will be easy to kill them now."

The old man raised his head and glanced at Hoshino Gen, then smiled evilly and said, "Since you know, why are you still following me? Do you want to sacrifice yourself to protect your companions, or do you want to defeat me alone?"

"..."

"I was just joking, you never cooperated with me like this."

"Is that so? I thought you would be embarrassed if you didn't cooperate." The old man coughed lightly and said kindly, "I haven't seen you for a long time. I didn't expect you to be the same as before."

Hoshino Gen curled his lips, looked at the old man and said with a smile, "Why don't you explain? Who are you?"

"Since you are so curious, I'd better explain it to you!"

The old man drew a circle in the air with his cane. Gen Hoshino looked at him in confusion, and then turned around to see that the surrounding scenery had changed.

He looked around in surprise and found that the place he was in had changed from a mountain forest to a city at some point, but the city was lifeless.

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