People in Tokyo: Time Stopped

"Having a heart-to-heart with Yuzaohu outside..."

Yaki, who appeared immediately, responded to Ji Gong Wuming's words. She looked at Ji Gong Wuming's face and asked, "Master Wuming, your face looks very bad... Do you need me to call Master Qianqiu in?"

Is it bad?

Ji Gong Wuming thought so, she touched her face, shook her head and said, "No, no need... When you say [poor face], do you mean I look angry?"

"Do not……"

Yaki replied, she shook her head and said, "It looks very fragile and needs comfort...Do you need me to say something comforting? For example [everything in the dream is fake]?"

"..."

"It's none of your business."

Ji Gong Wuming said angrily, watching Yaqi return to the shadows, but she couldn't recover from the "dream" for a long time... She had begun to understand what she saw.

The first "dream" picture is the future of the possibility that Qianqiu was met by Xia Hu after graduation...

The second "dream" is a continuation of the kind of future that he saw before recruiting Qianqiu in the possibility he is currently experiencing... that is, he was recruited by Yuan Qinglin and killed him including himself in the The future of the king of all weirdness within.

It was because he saw the last scene that he decided to take the initiative to recruit Qianqiu... If he didn't let Qianqiu come to work on his side, would it be possible for him to become like the "dream" in the future?

No matter what kind of future it is, it's just the difference between [Hime Palace Wuming · Miserable] and [World (including Hime Palace Wuming) Miserable], it seems that no matter which one is bad for her.

"..."

This time, Ji Gong Wuming, who was full of thoughts in his head, lay down for a long time, but he couldn't fall asleep anyway.

===Chapter 32 Too Gentle Qianqiu===

"Brush~"

Yuzaohu lightly jumped to Qianqiu's side, and next to Qianqiu who had already finished washing, he licked his fur like a real fox. This may be the washing that belongs to a fox.

Monsters can't lick hair, only animals can lick hair; humans can't lick hair, only animals can lick hair... This at least proves.Yuzaohu is a monster at this moment, and it is the furthest away from the monster.

While Yuzaohu was licking her fur attentively, she felt a hand grabbing from behind her... From her neck, she slowly slid to the top of her tail, stroking her back.

"Huh?"

Yuzaohu raised his head and looked at Qianqiu, but Qianqiu didn't look at her, just quietly looked at the sky where the sun had not yet risen... Qianqiu's profile was very beautiful, like a finely crafted one. jade.

However, it is not as gentle as jade, and it is not very suitable for the expression of [Thinking] that appears... This face should have a dull expression like the ice that never melts.

In other words, it should show the highness of contempt for all things, the eyes that are as firm and calm as [God]... not the current expression like [Human] who has taken many responsibilities.

It doesn't look [tired], but it doesn't look easy either.

"You woke up early...Did you have a nightmare?"

Qianqiu shook his head slightly to Tamamozen who asked this question, and he corrected him: "No, I haven't had a dream for a long time... Well, I can't say that, in fact, I only had a wonderful dream not long ago. dream, but I didn't wake up today because of a dream."

The reason why Qianqiu woke up so early was because he had already slept enough... Under the effect of the skill called [Extra Time], he got an extra four hours to sleep.

Therefore, Qianqiu, who actually woke up at 41:[-]:[-], actually got enough sleep... It's just not as long as the eight hours that normal people should get.

If counting from ten o'clock, Qianqiu only slept for more than five hours... But for some reason, Qianqiu felt that he had slept enough, and the sleep time he needed was getting shorter and shorter.

Perhaps, this is the proof that he is becoming more and more deviated from human beings... But the weirdness around him, he slept well, and also likes to eat, unlike Qianqiu's desire for food is gradually indifferent.

Although he wasn't very good at it, he always liked to buy some drinks from the vending machine... But I don't know when he started hanging out there.

It's... astonishing...

When Qianqiu was thinking this way, Yuzaohu spoke up in response to Qianqiu's words before, that is, "In fact, I had a wonderful dream not long ago", she asked curiously: "A wonderful dream? Dream to what?"

Qianqiu, who was asked like this, couldn't say a reason. He hesitated, then shook his head with a smile, and said, "Because it's a dream, I'll forget it very quickly..."

"That's right, that's why it's a dream."

Yuzaohu who was talking looked very disappointed. I wonder if Qianqiu thought of something in the words that had no deep meaning in the past... For example, understanding [dream] as [dream] or something?

However, only Yuzaohu himself knew.

"..."

At this time, Chiaki, who was sitting on the steps in front of the shrine room, stood up and stood on the road in the shrine. He patted the non-existent ashes under his butt, and said, "I'm going to have breakfast... You want a Are you up?"

"It's better to be respectful than to obey... By the way, I don't carry any currency."

"I'll pay for your share."

Qianqiu said so, picked up the jade algae fox who was looking at the slightly damp soil, patted the dust that did not exist on her paws, and let her stay on his shoulders.

"You seem to like me?"

Yuzaohu asked, and the breath that he exhaled made Qianqiu's ears ticklish. After scratching lightly, Qianqiu did not deny this, but nodded lightly and said, "Or, I like small children very much. animal."

The Tamamo fox, known as a small animal, was not angry, but waited for the following with blinking emerald green eyes.

"However, small animals are afraid of me..."

Qianqiu didn't have any idea of ​​hiding anything, he shook his head as he said that, recalling the cats and dogs that were always trembling every time they wanted to get close to animals in the previous world, he said: "So it really doesn't work, Even though I love furry little animals."

In the short words, the small animals were repeated three times, from this point of view... Qianqiu may really like small animals.

"Mmm~ Then I'll give you more touches?"

"Thank you, but...you say that, I always feel a little weird."

Qianqiu smiled and shook her head. When the small animals around her can talk, and you know that she is a person with enough intelligence and wisdom, then there will always be something strange in my heart...

"arrive."

Having said that, Qianqiu walked to the vending machine. He recalled where he drank before, so he continued to look down. He put in a coin and asked Yuzaohu: "I'm going to drink [Highland Yogurt], do you want it? "

"Well, I can... However, I thought the [breakfast] you were talking about was something you could eat."

Yuzaohu replied, and then watched Qianqiu buy a drink, put the jar of yogurt that belonged to her into a straw, put it on the steps with a slap, and sat on the other side of the steps to drink.

"I'll have some drinks first, and then I'll probably buy bread, fried noodles; I don't know what the fried noodles in the bakery over there taste like, and I don't know if it will taste good. I'm a little curious... need Buy it for you too?"

Listening to Qianqiu's words, Yuzaohu nodded lightly, not knowing what she was thinking, she had difficulty sealing the straw with her mouth, and then took a sip...

"Cough cuckoo!!"

It seemed to be choking, Yuzaohu deviates from his head, spit out two mouthfuls of yogurt while making a choking sound that belongs to a fox... Probably not used to using a straw.

"Choke? Don't be so anxious... Well, your body structure is probably hard to say about using a straw. I didn't think about it carefully. I'll find a bowl of yogurt for you later, as long as you don't dislike it. It looks real. Drink like a pet."

While Qianqiu comforted Yuzaohu like this, she gently patted Yuzaohu's back...

"Clap clap clap..."

It seemed that something fell on the ground, leaving a few drops of water stains on the ground.

"Ugh... woo woo... woo woo..."

"Eh?"

To Qianqiu's surprise, the source of those water stains was clear tears flowing from Yuzaohu's green eyes. She let out a girlish whimper and cried on his lap, making Qianqiu a little overwhelmed... …

"what happened to you?"

"You... woo woo... why are you being so nice to me?"

Tamamo-mae, who has always lived in a world where violence and power can decide everything, finally asks this question now... Like a cat abandoned by a familiar world, grabbing it like a life-saving straw. The clothes of Qianqiu.

"Woooooo...wow wow wow~"

It looks like she is crying very sad, let her cry slowly...

Qianqiu, who still didn't quite understand what happened, silently drank the yogurt in his hand, and patted Yuzaohu with his right hand... After that, I'd better ask more clearly.

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===Chapter 33 Tamamo I was born===

"..."

"Master Tamamo? It's time to leave."

"..."

Facing the enthusiastic subordinates, Tamamo Mae knew the reason for the other party's urging, because the other party couldn't wait to find fun... She felt the empathy conveyed from another body.

Even though he had already fallen into a certain degree of madness due to the manipulation of the Nordic [Dream], Tamamo-mae couldn't help but envy the other himself... Yogurt, it seems to be a very good food.

Qianqiu is really a better person...

"Let's go, let the [ghosts] give up the territory obediently."

Tamamo-mae, who said so, maintained her humanity, sitting on a [chariot] like those seen on ancient battlefields, and a few weirdos were in charge of pulling it... Tamamo-mae knew that Qianqiu did not belong to her, that kind of thing. Dreams and life also do not belong to her.

Tamamo Mae's life was divided into many parts, but she felt inexplicably... Since the separation of Tamamo Mae and Tamamae Fox, she has really started to live.

When did people (yokai) live?Maybe at birth?Maybe some other time?There is no culture in Tamamo before... But she feels that a person is truly alive when she meets the person she should meet.

That moment may be the moment when Yuzaohu and Qianqiu met.

And the life before Tamamo has never been too different from the present... They are like two people walking in opposite directions on the same road. The one who started to really live.

In other words, in fact, the former never really survived for even a second, even if it was a dream, it was just something that made her die, meaningless [things], but the latter never died...

[Encounter] is something that transcends life and death.

Thinking of this, Tamamo before, even the interest in unifying the capital has faded a lot, but when the black eyes were a little red, they were quickly covered by black... If [Crazy] is such a good thing to relieve, The kings of weirdness will not be so taboo.

"I'm sorry, Ibuki...although our personal friendship is not bad."

Tamamo, who muttered to herself, has made up her mind... Until she burns to the end, she will continue to fight until she returns to normal, or dies.

————The dividing line of the church————

The basement of the Tokyo Cathedral is a place where few people go in, but the basement has been opened several times this year... The first time was for Joshua Yukima's [source], so I forged it before coming to fetch Mr. Yukama sword.

Now for the second time, it's also to get more swords... Because of Joshua Snow's particularity, she can use many swords at the same time without interfering with each other. The more swords in [Source], the more will become stronger.

Of course, it will take a long time to integrate the use of a sword before it can be put into the [source], and then it will appear with the call of the mind, just like Qianqiusang's flying knife... at least wild The priest thinks so.

"Um...is this?"

With such a sound, Sister Shiina caught Noma's attention, and they looked at the destroyed tape recorder, the parts and tapes scattered all over the floor... The last time they came to the basement, there was no such thing.

Of course, there is absolutely no such raised platform.

"It seems that... some kind of mechanism raised the platform?"