The found Tuo is three and a half years old

Back to... Japan?

When I heard such a sentence from the boy's mouth, I couldn't help holding my breath.

I was even in a trance for a moment - after a moment of pause, I suddenly realized a very incredible thing.

I don’t know when, in my subconscious, the word “go home” is no longer used to refer to the land where I was born, but the cabin in the forest, but the current “home” House of the Rats of the Dead".

It’s because I’ve been away from that place for too long. I’ve spent more than a hundred years in Siberia, and I’m completely used to the people and things here. It looks like a ball.

I seem to have completely regarded this place as my "home" and Fyodor as my "family"——

But that land is indeed my hometown. At least in the 100 years since Fyodor appeared in front of me, I still think about going back and visiting from time to time.

But it's just thinking about it.

At first I was worried that I would not be able to cope with the members of the Ghost Killing Squad, so I dared not go back within a few decades. After a few decades, when those guys were probably gone, I felt that I would not go back. necessary.

— After all, there is no one I know there anymore.

I still often dream about things about Yoshiwara, things about Infinity City, the fireworks of the summer festival and the figure of Mr. Wuyou in a yukata accompanying me among the crowd.

I would dream of the flower fields and shrines on the other side, the temple of Lord Tongma, and even dream of saber ronin wearing haori in the Edo period and patrolmen in uniform in the Taisho period.

At that time, I still wanted to go back and have a look.Anyway, I was the only one left, and there was no difference between my hometown and my hometown.

It’s just that I thought about it like that, but I didn’t leave for a long time, and after I met Fyodor, for more than ten years, I didn’t even have the idea of ​​going back.

Until he just brought it up.

"Tip, do you want to go to Japan?" I tilted my head and looked up at him.

"Probably recently, I want to visit Yokohama." The boy nodded without denying it.

"Yokohama?" My eyes suddenly lit up.

I was born in Edo Castle, and later changed my name to Tokyo. After I became a ghost, I only moved around Tokyo for most of the time.

By the time of Taisho, trains and trams had already spread throughout the city, so my scope of activities naturally expanded a lot.Yokohama, which is adjacent to Tokyo, is naturally a place I am familiar with.

——I just don’t know what Yokohama has become like in the past 100 years.

"I want to go back."

The voice also became excited involuntarily.

"I can take you to Yoshiwara. I don't know if there are any girls as good-looking as Fallen Princess there. There is also the night market in Asakusa. I saw a lot of snack shops when I went shopping with adults before, but that At that time, I couldn’t taste it, but I could tell by looking at the expressions of other humans. Those things must be delicious. There are a few dim sum shops in Ginza that have good reviews. Now that I have recovered my sense of taste, I want to try it.”

"It's not yet the time when the flowers on the other side are blooming, otherwise I can take you to see-will we live there until winter? If we live longer, I can even take you to Meguro River to see the cherry blossoms. There It’s not too busy, but the cherry blossoms are beautiful.”

Those memories have been backlogged in my mind for too long, and now they are rushing out.I can't even wait.

"—so when shall we start?"

The young man held the corners of his lips, with a smile on his brows and eyes.

"It's just recently." He said, "I still have to prepare, but it won't take much time."

"Tips have become very capable." Standing on tiptoe with some difficulty, I raised my hand and patted the boy on the head.

Fyodor didn't dodge, nor did he look unhappy like he did when he was a child.

He has indeed grown into an adult who can stand on his own.

Fyodor and I went to see Tatsuhiko Shibusawa.Because he was wearing the clothes that guy sent him, when he saw me, the boy was full of pride.

——Damn it, Shibusawa Tatsuhiko has also grown a lot taller, counting Ivan who patrols outside and Gogol who occasionally comes out to brush his face, one counts as one, these little guys in my memory are all taller than me now A lot came out.

So why am I the only one who hasn't grown taller!

I am the shortest in the entire "Rat of the Dead House", and the coolie Pushkin newly captured by Fyodor recently can even accommodate two of me.

very angry.

Sometimes I even want to cut off their legs and put them on me.That way Fyodor won't pat me on the head.

And that boy actually seemed to see through what I was thinking, he chuckled lightly, raised his hand and landed on my shoulder: "Is Haruko thinking about something unimportant?"

"Oriental people are generally small in size. I heard that the main force of a local gang in Yokohama is not even 1.6 meters tall now."

"It's okay to be a little short, Haruko's strength is the strongest."

Although it feels like something is wrong, I think Fyodor should be praising me, because he also knows that I am strong, so he must not dare to talk nonsense in front of me.

So I nodded at him.

"Okay, then I won't argue with you."

Shibusawa Tatsuhiko did not come to Siberia specifically to deliver clothes to me, he came to exchange information with Fyodor.

"The boy you mentioned who can turn into a 'tiger' is indeed in the orphanage near Yokohama." Shibusawa Ryuhiko folded his hands, and his face was more amazing than before, but there was a look of disgust on his face .

"Are you doubting me?" Fyodor raised his voice slightly.

"It's not." The white-haired young man sighed: "Your information is always accurate, but sometimes because it is too accurate, it will appear boring instead."

"But that 'tiger boy' seems to be different from other supernatural beings." Fyodor hooked his lips: "He doesn't even know that he is a supernatural being."

"Maybe he will bring some surprises to your dull life."

"It would be great if that was the case." Shibusawa Ryuhiko lowered his eyes: "But Yokohama...? It does seem like an interesting place."

"Isn't there a rumor like that recently? In this world, there is a blank literary book that can turn what is written on it into reality. That book is now hidden somewhere in Yokohama."

"Hey. I've also heard such rumors." Fyodor nodded in agreement: "The news hasn't spread too widely, but this is the information read by a person with the ability to 'prophesy', so it should be reliable of."

"Does Shibusawa-kun want that 'book' too?"

"Can that book change the boring and uninteresting nature of this world?" Shibusawa Tatsuhiko asked.

Before Fyodor could speak, Shibusawa Tatsuhiko said again: "I'm not interested in that kind of thing, turning imaginary things into reality, isn't there anything in this world that can exceed my expectations? ?”

"Exactly." Fyodor nodded thoughtfully.

After a while, he said again.

"But no matter what, I'll leave it to you to go to Yokohama with Haruko."