[Noragami] I was not there

Are there monsters eating people in this hospital?

...That's not the case, it's still human souls that are eaten by monsters.

But is this really a monster?

Although it was a little blurry, the outline of the black figure in front of him was still in the shape of a human being, and it was not in the shape of an adult, but more like a child or a haggard old man.

Kanagi didn't take a closer look, because the black shadow in front of him had already thrown off his arms, and landed on all fours, as if a large reptile crawled towards him at an extremely fast speed, and it only took a moment to grab it. caught her ankle.

"hungry……"

It was only one word, but Soi Ying's voice was sharp and piercing, as if squeezed out of his throat, making it very uncomfortable to hear.

Kannaki trembled a bit, feeling as uncomfortable as climbing a sticky, wet and cold snake on his back, raised his leg without hesitation, and stepped down hard on the head whose neck was already attached to the calf.

"Puff—"

Even Kanaki himself didn't expect that his heels without shoes would be so powerful, and he stomped that head down with one foot. The touch was like stepping on an overripe watermelon, which was inlaid with shattered watermelons. Like gravel and gravel bones.

Kanaki's scalp went numb for a while, and he pulled out his foot and took a few steps back, while the black figure that should have been trampled into mud was lying on the ground, the liquid dripping from his face, his breathing became thicker and stiffer. The neck stretched tremblingly towards her, and the long arms kept groping backwards.

... not good.

Kanaki certainly understands that the thing in front of him cannot fall to the ground just by kicking him fiercely, but he never thought that he would use this method to stick back his trampled head——

The black shadow crushed all the creatures that had long been out of shape and paste them on his face, and forced them into the shape of a head, and then made another gurgling sound from his throat, which was probably his unique laughter.

Kanaxi turned around and ran out the door, but the concrete floor under her feet suddenly became like a swamp, and she couldn't move at all after a few steps, and the cold arms had tightly wrapped around her neck from behind, and the smelly smell was still flowing. The liquid mouth had reached her bare neck.

One bite was enough to break her neck.

What a joke... Even if it's a dream, she doesn't want to be eaten up by a monster at all.

Kanaki smashed the monster's head again, and I don't know why only that part of him is particularly vulnerable, and then ran out with all his strength, but the arm holding her neck did not let go, and she fell to the ground with her pocket The bag of cattail pollen that Yato had given fell out, and a large area of ​​pale yellow powder spread all over the place in an instant.

But the precious powder of the God of Medicine Ancestor didn't seem to like that black shadow. With a scream, his skin covered with powder seemed to be corroded, but the severe pain didn't make him leave, but made him fall into the trap even more. In a state of berserk, the black limbs directly pressed the hands and feet of the girl above and below her, and her head, which was raised to the sky and screamed, finally drooped.

Can't break free.

The rapid breathing sound of the black shadow due to the pain was getting closer and closer to him. Kannaki was horrified to find that there was only a pair of scarlet eyes staring out of his eye sockets in his field of vision, but he didn't even have the courage to close them. .

to be killed.

"……hungry."

The moment the sharp sound pierced the eardrum, Kanaki finally cried out uncontrollably——

"don't want--!"

………………

"Snapped--!"

She was slapped severely on the face, and the burning pain brought Kanaki's consciousness back instantly. Before her eyes was the familiar white ceiling, without those inhuman blood pupils, and the smell she smelled was also morning sun And the fragrance of the bouquet of flowers and the faint smell of disinfectant, the stench of death is also nowhere to be found.

"Axi! Axi! Wake up!"

Her eyes continued to look down, and it was Yato's face, pinching her own face anxiously at the moment, while the other raised hand seemed ready to slap again at any time.

But her beating heart seemed to be slowly calming down after seeing this familiar face. When she realized it, she had already sat up, hugged the person in front of her tightly, and expressed her catharsis. Tears followed closely and fell from the sockets of eyes.

The person under him was visibly stiff, and it took a long time before he raised his hand to pat her on the back, and then turned his head and said in as soft a tone as possible: "It's all right now."

Kannaki wanted to say something, but his throat was so dry that he couldn't even utter a single syllable, so he could only bury his head on his shoulder and nodded.

Xue standing on the side wanted to say something, but Hong Yin behind her pulled her shoulders——

It's better to let her calm down now.

……

It took Kanaki less time to calm down than she thought, because she noticed what she had been clutching tightly in her hand——

"...Pollen from cattail pollen?"

And the powder inside is obviously less.

Kanaki froze for a moment, she had more important things to do than continue to wipe her tears here——

"Night Fight!"

Yato was obviously taken aback by Kanaki who suddenly slipped out of his arms: "Huh?"

"I saw it." Kanaki rubbed his face against Yato's handkerchief that he was reluctant to change, and regained his energy, "The monster hiding in this hospital."

<<

Kanaki remembers very clearly how to walk to that room from the place where he fell in the dream, and kept going down the stairs until the first basement floor.

This time she was not alone, with Yato, Hirone, and Yuki beside her, but the closer she got to that place, the more her body trembled instinctively, and a huge uneasiness enveloped her, more than ever before. Sheng.

What... is she afraid of?

"Don't be afraid." Yetou naturally sensed her uneasiness, walked to her side and said softly, "We are all here."

Kanagi froze for a moment, then nodded: "Yeah."

In the spiritual field of the dream, I ran all the way down without encountering any obstacles, but the reality is another situation. When I stepped into the target floor, Kanaki saw the sign blocking the intersection——

"Entry prohibited."

Hongyin looked around, and his gaze finally settled on the plastic sign on the wall: "Ah, the front is not a good place."

The other three followed Hongyin's gaze, and there were a few words on it——

"The morgue."

There was a chill in Kanagi's heart, no wonder he was so dead just now.

"Well, there must be someone watching inside, I'll go and lure them away first." Hongyin walked in first.

A few minutes later, after he made a gesture at the end of the corridor, Kanaki and the others walked over, and she was sure that the gray door in front of her was exactly the same as the one she saw in her dream——

"right here."

After getting an affirmative reply, Yato opened the door, but the scene inside was not what Kanaki saw, there were no torn creatures, no monsters devouring souls, let alone things that would turn into swamps and quagmire. On the floor, only the entire cabinet where the dead bodies were refrigerated exudes cold air, and this cold air can freeze to the bones of a person.

"I really saw...that girl's soul was eaten right here." But facing everything in front of her, she wondered if she was really just having an extremely real nightmare, "...or Am I really just dreaming?"

"It's not a dream." Said Yato, who was squatting on the ground, picked up some powder from the ground with his fingertips and brought it to the tip of his nose. The smell is unmistakable, "It's cattail pollen."

No matter how you think about it, the Pollen Pollen of the Ancestral Medicine God would not appear in such a place casually.

Yato stood up and patted the pollen off his hands, looked around and said, "It seems that I underestimated this place."

……

And the evidence doesn't stop there.

Yato and Hirone stayed there to continue looking for clues, while Kanaki and Yuki went back to the ward first. After all, she was still a human being, and Yuki was just an undead.

On the way, she would pass by the department ward downstairs. She saw the nurse rushing back to the duty room, so she went to call her family to inform the girl who had just died of cardiac arrest in the intensive care unit.

"She... died."

Kanagi knew that the one who died was the girl whose soul was eaten by a monster and who had a red string tied around her right wrist.

If I could be like Yato, Hongyin and the others, I would be able to save her, but she is just a human being, and with limited power, I can't even protect myself.

"Axi." Xue worriedly called the girl's name.

"I'm sorry, Axue... I don't know what to say at this time." Kanaki lowered her head and said softly, and the sound of the electrocardiogram leveling out in the distance seemed to penetrate countless walls and go straight into her eardrum, echoing. It has not stopped for a long time.

Kanaki turned around and was about to leave, but unexpectedly bumped into someone, and the name tag "Kawamura Yousuke" on the chest of the visitor was right in front of him——

"Night tours are prohibited in the hospital, Miss Kanna."

Kanaki raised his head and met the eyes of the young man, his serious face looked so cold that there was no warmth at this moment.

<<

In the early morning of the next day, Kanaki called Hikichi and told her not to come to the hospital for the next few days and promised to find out the monster hiding in the hospital. This is the only thing she must do now Although in the end she still didn't have the courage to tell her that the girl was dead.

Although Yiqi Hiyori was very worried, he finally agreed and promised that he would be obedient at home.

But in fact, the hospital has not made any real progress. After one night, there is very little news, but the only thing that is certain is that the movement of the monster last night was not small, and it was not just the girl's life that was eaten. , and all kinds of undead wandering on the first and second floors, but none of the other undead noticed these things.

And the monsters hiding in this hospital are obviously not in the mainstream, they didn't harass humans to lure them to the other side, and they didn't cause any modernization phenomenon. What's more frightening is that apart from him, there isn't even a little monster in this hospital, it's like being booked out same.

After Yato finished speaking, he also grabbed a lot of hair from his head and floated on the bed.

Depressed like him, he finally jumped up from the bed, dragged Hongyin who had only rested for half an hour, and killed him again, saying that he wanted to search the building from top to bottom, every room was not spared, Anyway, if the monster hides again, it must be in the hospital.

Hongyin grimaced bitterly, but he had no choice but to follow Yato honestly.

Kanaki and Yuki stayed in the ward to sort out the known information, and the information provided by Hiyori was very little, even she couldn't remember clearly, and there was no real help.

But since it's a monster hiding in the hospital, it's impossible for him not to show his flaws at all. There must be something strange happening somewhere.

"咚咚-"

At this moment, there was a knock on the door suddenly. Kanaki thought it was Yato who had gone and returned, but he didn't expect to be called by a vigorous female voice as soon as the door was opened, plus a hug, and first Step up to your own round belly——

"Miss Itagaki?"

"Fufu~ It seems that Axi hasn't forgotten me!" Across the belly in the middle, Itagaki Yuu hugged Kanaki's head and rubbed it again and again.

"...It's only been two days." Kanaki moved her lower body back sadly again, and this mother's movements were so thrilling every time.

"I'm sorry, I wanted to come to you to play with you yesterday, but after I went back, I was sued, and Yusuke gave me a hard time, so I had to be obedient yesterday." Yuu Itagaki let go of Kanaki Made an apologetic gesture.

"Yusuke is..." Kanaki subconsciously turned her eyes to Itagaki Yuu's stomach.

Itagaki Yuu nodded vigorously with a smile, and touched his stomach again: "Yes! It's Chiharu's father!"

Kanaki showed an expression of "That's true", but in the next second she was dragged back into the room by Itagaki Yuu, and she realized that she had brought a bag full of things.

Well, should it be said that you are a loyal fan of Mr. Hong Yin, the little meow pot?

Kanaki just watched Itagaki Yuu take out a whole set of novels from the bag, as well as comics adapted from the first two volumes, as well as magazines and peripherals of various author interviews. Couldn't help wiping away the sweat.

Itagaki Yuu also knew that he had brought a little too much, and stuck out his tongue a little embarrassedly: "Because I was hospitalized for a long time, I accidentally piled up all these things."

By the way, Itagaki Yuu said that she has been in this hospital for several months, if it was her, she might know something.

Kannaki thought of this, and asked Itagaki Yuu: "Miss Itagaki...do you know anything strange happened in this hospital?"

"Strange thing?" Yuu Itagaki frowned and asked after thinking for a while, "Are you referring to the pervert who has been rumored to be haunting the women's toilet recently?"

"Stranger than this... probably the kind that science can't explain."

"Ah~" Itagaki Yuyu showed a suddenly realized expression, then tapped his chin with his index finger and said, "Think about it carefully, there are indeed a lot of weird stories in this hospital."

"Like?" Kanagi asked.

"I seem to have heard that at the end of the corridor on the third floor, there will be a head rolling over like a bowling ball at twelve o'clock. There will always be a shadow of a person in the bathroom on the sixth floor. He has a neck twisted like a spiral surface. Where There was a suicide incident in the toilet in a ward, and it was said that the spirit of the deceased was sealed in the toilet. Ah! And that old lady who said that she ate her family..."

As if the floodgates had been turned on, Yuu Itagaki couldn't stop talking about all kinds of strange stories. Kanaki didn't have time to remember, so he could only wink at Yuki, who was invisible to the naked eye, and let him take a paper and brush beside him Brush to write.

Tired of speaking, Itagaki Yuu took a sip of water, exhaled again, waved his hands indifferently and said: "Actually, I'm not that scared. Instead of caring about these non-existent things, I think toilet perverts are more hateful. And Qianchun and I are not the same I went to the shrine to worship, and I also asked for the guard, and the gods will definitely protect us!"

Thinking of Yato's face of swearing not to give up, Kanaki couldn't help but nodded with a smile: "Well, God-sama will definitely protect us."

……

After that, Kanaki chatted with Itagaki Yuu for a while, but because she was asked to go back within two hours, she finally packed her things in a hurry.

"Miss Kanna, I'm coming in." When Yusuke Kawamura came in, he saw such a scene. He couldn't help but frowned, put the pen back in his pocket, and said to Kannaki, "I told you that Kanna What Miss needs is rest, I don't want to tell Mr. and Mrs. Shenna about the night tour last night."

"Ah, it's Dr. Kawamura, long time no see." Itagaki Yuu spoke before Kanaki.

Kawamura Yusuke cast his eyes on the pregnant woman next to him, looked at her face and thought for a moment before saying, "Ah, Miss Itagaki, it's been a long time... But from the doctor's point of view, I don't want to see you in internal medicine at all. The ward saw you."

After saying this, he turned his eyes away, walked to Kannaki's hospital bed, picked up the medical record board and looked through it, and after confirming that there was nothing abnormal, he said to Kannaki: "Seeing Miss Kanna's lively appearance, I should not feel uncomfortable , I hope I can see you who are really 'quietly' raising the house next time."

Kawamura Yusuke turned around and left after saying this, his style of doing things was really just like his face, not humane at all.

Kanaki and Itagaki Yuu breathed a sigh of relief at the same time, and the latter forced a smile and patted his chest——

"Mr. Kawamura is still so scary."

"But I didn't expect that Ms. Itagaki and Dr. Kawamura still know each other. Are you very familiar?"

Ms. Itagaki quickly waved her hand: "Actually, I am not very familiar with Dr. Kawamura. It should be said that I am more familiar with his father. His father actually works in this hospital."

"Ah... Dr. Kawamura from the emergency department?"

"It seems that you know it, Axi."

"Well... because I met some things before, but it's not a good memory."

"What a coincidence, my memory isn't that good either." Itagaki Yuu sighed, and when he came back to his senses, he found that he had passed the time limit, so he hurriedly pulled the bag he had packed and walked out quickly, "Axi, I I won't talk to you anymore, I will contact you later!"

"Miss Itagaki! Be careful! I told you to walk slowly!"

Itagaki Yuu, who refused to take the elevator and said he wanted to exercise more, arrived near the stairs. Kanaki saw her back after walking away and realized that his forehead was sweating again.

Alas, if we stay with her for a few more days, she will probably lose her hair from melancholy, no wonder Qianchun's father is so worried about her.

Kannaki wiped off his sweat and was about to go back when he saw an acquaintance coming from the opposite side: "...Mr. Hongyin?"

Hongyin hunched over and walked over: "Hey, Axi, I'm here to kick my ass, rest for half an hour and continue digging the turf in the garden outside."

The corner of Kannaki's mouth twitched: "...You guys have worked really hard."

His eyes passed over the girl in front of him, he was stunned for a long time and let out a long cry: "Hey~~~~"

"what happened?"

"Ah...that lady——" Seeing Yuu Itagaki's back disappearing on the stairs, Hong Yin narrowed his eyes slightly, and his ending sound rose strangely.

Kanagi glanced suspiciously at Hong Yin who was stuck on the phone, and then he took the next half of the sentence leisurely——

"It's my type."

"..." Kanagi squinted and glanced over, "You are enough, everyone is a mother now."

Hongyin hurriedly laughed and explained: "I'll just say that, so I won't have any thoughts about dirty things."

But if there is something to say, it is probably——

It looks familiar.

Hirono thought about it for a while, then scratched his face and followed Kanaki who had already left, thinking about what excuse he should use next time he discussed with Yato about taking a vacation.