Miss Field [Comprehensive]

The girl hung up the phone after she finished speaking.

Sato held the phone in a daze for a moment.

When she reacted, her whole body began to tremble uncontrollably.

Because she remembered who Fujiko was, and also remembered an urban legend about dolls.

It is said that once a young woman who lived on the thirteenth floor threw away the doll that her grandmother gave her when she was a child.

Then the doll named "Mary" called the woman.

The first call was an exasperated confrontation in which Mary asked the young woman why she was throwing herself away.

Five minutes later, the second call became - "Mossi Mossy, this is Mary, and I'm at the door of your apartment right now."

Then 5 minutes later, a third call came - "Mossi Mossy, this is Mary, and I'm on the 2nd floor of your apartment."

Another 5 minutes, it turned into—"Mossi Mossy, this is Mary, and I'm on the third floor of your apartment."

In this way, Mary made a call every 5 minutes, step by step from the door of the apartment, up to the thirteenth floor, and finally stopped at the door of the young woman's house...

Recalling the urban rumor of "Puppet Mary", and then contacting her own actions, Ms. Sato almost fainted.

But the strange thing is that she didn't receive the next call from "Fujiko" after she was in a daze for 5 minutes.

Miss Sato stayed up all night that night, but she didn't wait for the next call.

Miss Sato took a fluke mentality and comforted herself that the call was just a prank by a friend, because she didn't receive a call the next night.

Just when Ms. Sato thought it was really just a prank, Fujiko's second call came on the third night, and the time was exactly the same as the night before: "Moshi Moshi, I'm Fujiko, I'm at The door to your apartment."

Since then, every other night, "Fujiko" will make a phone call like Mary in urban rumors, announcing her location.

"I tried to find friends to come over for the night, change places to live by myself, and even called the police, but it didn't work!"

Miss Sato let go of the teacup in her hand, hugged her arms tightly, her teeth chattering: "I know, I know...she won't let me go."

Qian Naimei frowned, and asked, "Will you call tonight? Where should you go according to the order of the rumors?"

Ms. Sato raised her eyes and looked at the door of her house with bloodshot eyes full of fear.

At this moment, the hands of the wall clock on the wall pointed to seven, and Ms. Sato's cell phone rang.

The call came from a number that was not displayed.

According to the sequence in the urban rumors, the location of the doll this time should be right at the door.

Under Chinami's gesture, Ms. Sato opened the locked screen with trembling fingers and turned on the speaker.

Immediately, a childish and sharp voice came from Yang Sheng's mouth: "Moxi Moxi..."

At the same time as the voice sounded, Chinami also stood up and took the sword from the doorman.

She spoke as she walked towards the door.

In the end, Chinami's plain voice overlapped with Fujiko's voice on the phone——

"I'm Fujiko, and I'm at the door of your room now."

"Fujiko, just stay where you are and don't move."

The two female voices with different tones ended at the same time, and the door of Ms. Sato's room opened, and there was a doll about [-] centimeters tall standing outside the door.

White skin, black hair, red lips, wearing an old and somewhat faded red kimono, a deep black crack spread from the neck to the doll's face.The neck and face are glued together with yellow washi tape, making it look weirder than ordinary dolls.

Seeing Chinami holding a dagger in her hand, a piercing scream erupted from the doll's slightly opened mouth, making Miss Sato and the gatekeepers in the room dizzy for a moment.

However, Qian Naimei seemed not to be affected at all, she raised the knife and dropped it.

A ray of white light cut through the darkness in the corridor, and the screaming stopped abruptly.

After a while, Qian Nai returned to the house with a female figure with her body and head separated, and closed the door when she entered.

As soon as she saw the "Fujiko" doll, Ms. Sato covered her mouth.

From the look in her eyes, it was hard to tell if she was trying to stop herself from screaming or crying.

Chinami threw the doll on the floor, stepped on the doll's body with one foot, held the head in her left hand, and the tachi in her right hand had not been sheathed, which looked particularly intimidating.

This deterrent effect obviously appeased Miss Sato.

She slowly put down her hand, and her frightened and distorted face slowly returned to normal.

At this moment, the puppet kicked in the left hand by Chinami suddenly opened its mouth and said, "Satou, Sato, why are you doing this to me? It hurts so much."

A sobbing sound came from the puppet's mouth, and at the same time, two lines of blood and tears flowed from the dark pupils.

"It hurts, it hurts... Sato, I hurt so much. I just want to be friends with you, why are you hurting me like this, Sato."

Miss Sato slumped on the chair and couldn't get up, her face that had just recovered calm began to twitch again: "You, what are you talking about! It's you..."

"I didn't hurt you at all." The puppet Fujiko cried, "I just want to come back to you. I don't want to be separated from you. Aren't we good friends?"

Looking at the pale face of the doll that was almost split in two, Ms. Sato was in a daze.

She suddenly recalled how happy she was when she first got "Fujiko" when she was a child.

She named it and shared her favorite Huahua hairpin with it.Every night, I will hug Fujiko to sleep, and before going to bed, I will share with Fujiko the happy and unhappy things of the day.

Even when she fell in love with the first boy, Sato would share her thoughts with Fujiko.

The 13-year-old Sato was lying on the bed, holding Fujiko and stroking its hair and promised: "Fujiko Fujiko, we will be good friends for a lifetime."

"Sato Sato, didn't we agree to be good friends for life?" Fujiko cried with his head, the corners of his mouth that were originally upturned turned into a downturned shape, and the blood and tears on his cheeks were still rolling down.

"I'm in pain, Sato, can you hug me, I'm in pain."

Ms. Sato, whose legs were weak, somehow gained the strength to stand up and move forward: "Okay... let's be friends. I will never abandon you again..."

The puppet laughed.

The corners of the downturned mouth rose again, and even the dark pupils curved into two crescents: "I'm so happy, Sato. We're reconciled again, I'm so happy."

"I'm very happy too..." Sato murmured, reaching out his hand to Fujiko.

But before he touched Fujiko, he was stopped by someone.

The man in the suit who had been sitting aside to protect Sato had stood up at some point, and it was he who blocked Sato's hand: "Miss Sato, please be sober. No matter what the body of this monster is, it has become a monster. It’s impossible to have kindness towards humans.”

Sato, who was in a trance, suddenly woke up.

She withdrew her hand like an electric shock.

At this moment, Fujiko spoke again: "Satou, don't listen to other people's nonsense. They are monster extermination masters, and they are full of prejudice against monsters! Don't you know how harmful prejudice can be? When you were in middle school, you were discriminated against. isolated from other girls.

I am your friend, your puppet, how can I hurt you!

I'm still your mother's birthday present to you, just to protect you from disasters.Don't you remember that when you were a child, you almost drowned, and you were rescued in the end, but I was found falling into the bath?That's what I'm blocking for you, because we're friends! "

When it said this, Sato's heart was shaken again.

She was about to reach out again when she heard the female high school student who was holding Fujiko's head and stepping on Fujiko's body say coldly: "When death is imminent, how dare you confuse people's hearts!"

"wait wait wait!"

Sato wanted to stop it, but the hand he stretched out was a step too late, and Fujiko's head, which was already shaking, was thrown to the floor.

Then white light flashed several times, and Fujiko's head and body were torn apart in front of Sato's eyes.

A paper talisman fell on the shattered body of the puppet, and the wood fragments turned into a plume of black smoke and quickly dissipated into the air without a trace.

Sato was stunned, her outstretched hand was still in the air, and two lines of tears rolled down her cheeks.

She... really forgot.

all forgotten.

It is precisely because he was excluded and isolated by other girls in junior high school that he has no friends, so he can only confide his thoughts to Fujiko.

And when she was in elementary school, she went to her grandmother's house in the countryside for the summer vacation. She fell into a pond and almost drowned. Fortunately, someone passed by and rescued her.After returning home, I couldn't find Fujiko everywhere, and finally found Fujiko in the bathtub full of water at my grandmother's house...

Fujiko was right.

They have always been friends.

Fujiko even saved Sato's life.

Sato forgot Fujiko.Not only broke Fujiko's head and threw Fujiko away, but even invited a demon master to completely destroy Fujiko...

"Miss Sato."

Sato, who was kneeling on the floor, looked up in a daze, and the beautiful female exorcist was sheathing her sword and said to her, "Don't be fooled by the monster. The reason why it said that is because it wants you to beg for mercy. Let me let it go. If you are really tricked by it, keep it around and you will be replaced by it in no time. That's what it's really about."

Sato's lips squirmed slightly, unable to make any sound.

Her heart was completely confused, and she didn't know who to listen to.

Seeing this, Chinami walked over, squatted down, and covered Sato's hands that were pressed on the floor: "Didn't you notice that during the days when it called you, you were losing weight rapidly. Negative emotions such as fear will Accelerate the speed of the ghost attack, the more you are afraid, the stronger it will be. If you don't contact us, tonight, at the latest the day after tomorrow, you will be completely replaced by it."

"But..." Sato realized that he could finally make a sound, but his voice was very hoarse, "But Fujiko was right...it did help me prevent disasters. You are exorcists..."

The gatekeeper beside him frowned.

Qian Nai gave him a look of "Be safe and don't be impatient", and continued to reason calmly: "It is true that it has warded off disasters for you, but as my companion said just now, no matter what the body of the monster is, when it is After it turns into a monster, it has self-awareness. It is impossible for a creature with self-consciousness to be willing to continue to be your substitute and protect you from disasters. Be it monsters or evil spirits, compared with humans, they are always Aliens, all aliens will not allow human life to override their own lives."

"Is...is that so..." Sato looked at Chinami with empty eyes.

Under her mirror-like pupils, Chinami nodded slowly but firmly: "A demon is a demon. That's why we need the existence of demon extermination."

Sato fell silent, as if convinced.

***

It was almost nine o'clock in the evening when I came out of Sato's apartment building.

The gatekeeper was in charge of driving, while Qian Nai was sitting in the back seat holding her weapon and meditating.

The doorman still had a heart for Sato's suspicion just now: "These ordinary people are always deceived by monsters so easily, and only after they are really deceived do they realize that they are afraid of regret."

Qian Naimei came back to her senses, and said lightly: "That's why we are needed. Don't talk about ordinary people, even if you are a demon master, you will be bewitched by monsters. Even compared to ordinary people, because we often contact the creatures of that world, we are more likely to develop affection for those creatures."

The doorman disdains: "A demon master with a firm will and a strong heart will not be shaken. Just like the head of the family and you, only humans can use the ghosts, and they can't be controlled in turn. By the way,"

He thought of something, and asked cautiously, "Did you still not see the puppet this time?"

Chinami was too lazy to answer this question, she sat in the back seat and shook her head silently.

The doorman smiled wryly: "Aren't you planning to use shikigami in the future? Or you can always find the type you want, with the strength of the Chang family."

"No need." Qian Nami refused, "Compared with monsters and ghosts, I believe in my own power."

The master in the previous life trusted monsters too much, so...

Thinking of unpleasant things made Chinami feel even worse.

The doorman who drove the car checked his words through the rearview mirror, and immediately changed the subject: "Speaking of which, there is still a doubtful point about this commission that I haven't figured out yet."

"what?"

"Since the puppet has stayed with Ms. Sato for so many years without causing trouble, why did it suddenly become a monster this time? Could it be that being abandoned can really make a puppet explode with such great power?"

"Who knows." Qian Naimei raised her hand and yawned lazily, "Sometimes, inhuman obsessions are more powerful and terrifying than human ones."

That's why there are all kinds of monsters, gods, spirits and ghosts in this world.

Even in this country, it is impossible to wipe them all out if all the players try their best.Even because of this, some demon masters believe that monsters, like humans, are one of the necessary factors that constitute this world.

monsters and people...

Qian Nai looked down at the fingerprints on her palm, thoughtful.

She could not escape the fate of being entangled with her for two lifetimes.

...Since you can't escape, you don't have to.

The car stopped slowly in front of a huge Japanese mansion. The gate of the mansion had been opened, and the main house inside and the roadside leading to the main house were brightly lit.

Chinami got out of the car, and as soon as she stepped into the gate, two rows of doormen on both sides of the road bowed their heads in unison: "Miss, welcome back!"

Behind them, there are black masked shikigami invisible to ordinary people. These shikigami, like his masters, are saluting Chinami.

This is the field one.

They belong to the top family among the demon extermination masters.

Thinking of her relatives in this life, Qian Naimei's eyes softened: "Well, I'm back."

***

Although ordinary people are always easily bewitched by monsters and panic after seeing their true colors, human beings are curious from the bottom of their hearts about these creatures hidden in the dark.

This, past and present, will never change.

From ancient times to the present, all kinds of strange stories have been prevalent, and many monsters have frequently appeared in the mouths of the public.Some are facts, while others are nonsense, and there are also ghost stories that first appeared, and the corresponding monsters were born later.

For these various monsters, if you want to hunt them down one by one, let alone a single player, even if you unite all the monster extermination masters in R country, you can't kill them all.

Therefore, most monster extermination masters adhere to two principles: don't kill unless entrusted, and don't kill unless you hit them.

The Chang family is no exception.

After handling the commission of the doll Fujiko, Chinami was free for two days.

While she was waiting for the next commission that required her own help, a rumor about monsters gradually became popular in the Romance Academy.

Speaking of this monster, the students are no strangers to it. Like "Puppet Mary", it is one of the old urban legends.

The reason why it suddenly became popular in the entire academy was because some students claimed to have seen the rumored protagonist, the Hachisha-sama.