The Girl and Her Sword [Comprehensive + Sword III]

Whether there are monsters is unknown.

If it's just an ordinary person who is obsessed with Hyakki Night Walking, if he swears by it, few people will believe it, right?

However, what if it is a person who is haunted by a monster and stands up and claims that he can see the monster?

In any case, the things that happened to the Ogida family before were too different.

The male master died in battle, and the female master also died because of overwork. This family seems to have made a deal with the devil. It has gained a lot of wealth and status, but the number of people in the family has become less and less. Recently, the last remaining The young lady also died suddenly unexpectedly. As a result, all the property of the Ogita family fell into the hands of the young master of the family, Ogita Huazhang.

The problem arose with Ogita Hanahime's death.

A person was assassinated by an unknown person in the room, and his throat was cut off. When he found out, there was only a blood-stained knife quietly placed on the knife holder not far from the dead.

Is Fu Sangshen at work?

It is said that seeing this scene, Huazhang was so shocked that he had to receive treatment to communicate with others normally, but until the priest of Jinmu appeared and said that Huazhang was possessed by a monster, Huazhang could not communicate well. .Strangely, just after the priest of Jinmu performed a series of rituals to eliminate evil on Huazhang, Huazhang suddenly changed back.And he claims to be able to see monsters like Fusangshen.

For a time, Huazhang became famous in the circle.In an instant, he changed from a lunatic who might kill his sister to a melancholy noble son.

However, in this way, Huazhang is the only one in Ogita's family.

"It's really a deal with the devil." Qing Wu sighed after listening to Masato's report.

"That's what you said," Masato flicked his bangs, "but I think there is something wrong with that house."

It’s not that it looks suspicious—on the contrary, the main house of the Ogida family is a very simple house. If you say that it can reflect a place of wealth, it may have a beautiful garden, but the main house is still old. Heju has not changed because of the times.

"But I, when I'm close, I can't see anyone," Masato said very troubled, "There is no one in such a big house, is that young master so stingy that he doesn't even invite a servant?"

But this is not the key.The young man, a former criminal police officer and now a detective, plucked his bangs proudly, "I, when I sneaked close to that house, I felt a gaze."

It was an extremely cold gaze full of killing intent.

"It's super scary." Masuda made a trembling movement in a very exaggerated way, "It's like the kind of eyes that look at me like 'looking at a dead person' described in comic strips."

"When you say that, do you mean that Kondo has started a new series?" He Yin interrupted unconsciously.

The painter who kindly provided dried white radish at home in the white radish incident 1 before swore never to draw unconventional comic stories because of this incident.

"What's the theme this time?" He Yin asked again.

"I heard it's a manga with the theme of Shinsengumi." A man who was obviously an office worker next to him interjected. "It describes the story of a swordsman."

"Oh? Who is the protagonist?" Qingwu asked enthusiastically, "Yongcang Shinpachi? Or Okita Souji?"

"Looks like Fujido?" the man said uncertainly.

"Oh~" Qingwu nodded, "Is that the one who always felt that he was the illegitimate child of a certain daimyo because of a knife, but finally died in the war?"

"You summed it up too briefly..." the man covered his face and said. "It should be him."

"Hey, you're off topic, do you want to continue listening to me?" Masuda said very dissatisfied, "It took me a lot of hard work to get these materials?"

"Ah? I don't know who said it just now. It's no secret that the Ogida family is too famous in that circle. I pretended to be a member of the circle and got all the information easily. Oh', it’s not easy to announce my hard work again,” Qingwu shook his head and sighed, “So did you expose your own lies?”

"That's right, that's not it!" Masato said furiously like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, "That trick is not very easy to use now! I really spent some private money to win the trust of those people."

"I see. It seems that they are not stupid, okay, let's continue." Qingwu nodded and urged.

Masuda glared angrily at He Yin who was off topic, cleared his throat, and continued talking. "Anyway, that sight was really scary, so I just waited for a while, and then I was about to leave, but just when I felt like retreating, suddenly, I heard a laugh."

There is nothing more horrific than hearing laughter in an old, deserted, isolated house.

"So I jumped over the wall in a hurry and went out. When I jumped down, I looked back-guess what I saw?" Masuda said pretending to be mysterious.

"A shadow? A corpse?" Qingwu said boredly.

"Neither," Masuda shook his head, and said, "I saw a light in a certain room."

"Aside from proving that there are other people in that house besides you, what else can this explain?" Qingwu raised her eyebrows and asked.

"Anyway, it's a scary thing anyway!" Masuda said without confidence, "The windows open by themselves, the lights turn on by themselves, aren't all the plots that can only be heard in the collection of Konjaku Monogatari 2!"

"Ha," Qingwu laughed, "Do you think the other party is Abe Seimei?"

"Then how do you explain it!" Masato said unconvinced.

"Why do you need to explain clearly?" Qingwu raised her eyebrows, "There are some things that don't need to be explained. For example," she mobilized her internal energy, and suddenly, the window that was closed well was suddenly opened, and the wind outside the window blew in .

Everyone looked at Qingwu in astonishment.

"Why?" Qingwu shrugged, "I'm not some kind of onmyoji, I don't know anything about these things."

"What is that?" Masuda said enthusiastically.

"Guess." Qingwu rolled his eyes at him, "Anyway, you came back in such a disheveled manner?"

"Yes... yes." Masuda smiled embarrassingly.

"That's right." Qingwu said, "Although whether it's a monster remains to be confirmed, but it's not fruitless. Where is that place?"

"Here." Masuda pointed to a distance not too far from Tsume Shrine on the map.

"Oh~" Qingwu glanced at the place and smiled.

I don't know if it's a coincidence, but in short, Yukiko's house, Sugimura's house, and Ogita's house are all located around Tsume Shrine, all at about the same distance.

"Hey Liu Hai," Qingwu said suddenly after looking at it for a long time, "Do you think there are monsters in this world?"

"That's hard to say." Masuda scratched the back of his head in embarrassment, and said, "I'm an atheist, yes, but..."

"There are no spirits in the world, but there are spirits because of people's hearts." Qingwu said.

"?" Masato was stunned, and looked at Qingwu in confusion.

"This is a kind of 'curse'." Qingwu folded his arms and nodded and said, "Before defining the word 'spirit', the so-called ghost does not exist. After the things named monsters, there are names such as spirit monsters, 99, etc., so when the word 'spirit monsters' is said, it is a kind of curse."

"Curse?" the man in overalls repeated in confusion.

"Yes." Qingwu said, "In Shintoism, especially in the eyes of onmyojis, the whole world is full of mantras, and even exaggerating, the whole world is made up of mantras. The reason why there is a world is because The curse of the 'world' was cast on the world, and the reason why there are men and women is because men and women have different 'curses'...."

"Please don't imitate Kyogokudo to whet our appetite," Masuda said very sincerely, "Is it okay to just state the conclusion?"

"Tch, that's the conclusion soon," Qingwu said with folded arms in dissatisfaction, "so the conclusion is that Tsume and Ogita cast a 'curse' on each other, and they just used this 'curse' to trouble you."

"Be more straightforward!" Masuda was about to cry.

"Well, that's it." Qingwu shrugged, "These are all scams. It's an act of using 99 God as a cover to actually satisfy some unknown purpose of oneself."

"Those weird phenomena before that..."

"It's all a psychological effect. You have been given the psychological hint of 'spirits and monsters'. Naturally, everything is a ghost, and everything seems to be haunted." Qingwu said.

Did I fall into the trap so easily...Masuda fell into depression.

"The previous puppet was found. Although there is no way to prove the real murderer, the case can be considered closed," Qingwu said again, "So Masuda, you will investigate again. Did something happen?"

"It's like this," Masuda said very distressed, "Although the doll was found, the client was quite angry with the state of the doll. Although it can be repaired, we must find the culprit and ask him to apologize. Anyway, almost everything This is the reason, but there are a few of them..." His voice gradually lowered, "The reason for asking to find the culprit is compensation."

This reason does not seem to be a big problem.

If Masuda hadn't read Yukiko's inspection report, he would have almost missed these people.

The dolls belonging to these people are generally covered with some kind of indescribable traces. Even if the dolls are restored, those dolls are just silent and have extremely low IQ.

As I said before, the growth of the doll depends on the emotions given by the owner.

It can also be said that the state of the doll generally reflects the owner's wishes.

And this kind of puppet, the specific function of what it is used for is simply not too clear.

"What did Yukiko say?" Qingwu asked.

"The lady said, please get rid of those bastards." Masuda said.

"Hahaha," Qingwu smiled, "Tell her that people are doing what they are doing, and the sky is watching, and there will be retribution."

"Then what's next?" Yoshida asked.

"Then go catch the culprit and make him apologize." Qingwu shrugged and said.

"But where are you going?" Masuda asked again.

"The other party has already sent an invitation letter, so I will naturally go to the appointment." Qing Wu pointed to the map and said.