I teach kendo in Tokyo

Kazuma carefully observed this modern imitation turtle sign, but there was no clue on the front.

So he asked Ohta, "Do you have any gloves?"

"Yes, yes! I always wear gloves when I go into the mountains to prevent cuts on my hands. I have a few spare ones for you."

As he spoke, the Lord God got up and went into the back room. After a brief search, he came out with a pair of brand new gloves.

Kazuma discovered that the words Sumii Machinery were on the gloves.

"What's going on with Chengjing Machinery?"

"Oh, this is the place where my son worked in the town when he was in high school. He always wanted to buy a motorcycle. It was difficult for a rural shrine like mine to save his college tuition alone, so he had to work and buy it by himself. ."

Kazuma then remembered that he still had to take the test for a motorcycle driver's license and learn to shoot to get a driver's license. These things he had wanted to do for a long time had not been done until now, and Anno Akito did not show up.

But in the end, there is probably no problem with this. Anno and the others should be very happy while brainstorming and consuming investors' investment.

"Then this glove was once used by Young Master?"

"No, no, Sumii-san will give employees a new pair of gloves every year to replace the worn ones. But most people don't replace their gloves after one year. They wait until the old gloves are worn out and can no longer be used. New gloves Just keep it.”

Kazuma nodded, took the glove and looked at it carefully.

These were coarse cloth gloves that had been sewn very carefully. They were somewhat similar to the labor protection gloves that he was familiar with in his previous life. There were no burrs or dust in the stitching areas. They looked like new gloves that had never been used once.

"Are these new gloves not good for me to use?"

"It's useless for me to keep it. Seeing it will only make me miss you more." Lord Ota showed a lonely smile, "I kept asking that bastard to write to me more, but he didn't find it troublesome and never wrote once. Before, Hantian When the Vice-Minister was promoting the tourism industry here, he also installed a telephone number for the office of my shrine. I asked someone to give the number to that guy, but he never called back."

Kazuma's face got a little hot when he heard this.

Because he was such a brat when he was in college in his previous life.

Naturally, no letter was written, and the reason is very good: who still writes letters in the 21st century.

As for the phone call, he would only make it when he needed living expenses - later on, Hema earned his living expenses by working part-time, so he didn't even make this call.

Later, with the popularization of WeChat, my parents were drawn into the online society by technological advancement, and He Macai reconnected with my parents through Moments.

As with every circle of friends in my life, the first person to like it must be my dad or mom.

Because of the experience in his previous life, the time traveler Kazuma said to Lord Ohta in a sincere tone: "How about I go to Tokyo to look for him and persuade him to come back and have a look?"

"I won't bother you anymore. He will probably come back when he gets tired." Ohta-san said with a bitter smile, "Just like 'Crazy A Yin'."

"The Story of Tojiro" is worthy of being Japan's national comedy. Even in such ravines, people know Ayin.

Kazuma followed the conversation and asked: "There is no movie theater in this hot spring street. How did you see Torajiro?"

He really just asked casually. After all, Japan is still a modern developed country. Even the villages and towns in the mountains are far more advanced than the Chinese villages at the same time. There are no movie theaters, but there should still be machines for playing video tapes. It is estimated that in the villages The public activity center.

But Ohta-san paused, a very imperceptible pause.

"Future veteran detective" Kiryu Kazuma did not miss this detail.

Although he still didn't know the significance of this detail, he still carefully remembered it in his mind.

Kazuma remembered that in a Japanese drama called "Ji Sou 404" that he watched in his previous life, the old detective said, "99% of what detectives do is useless, but the remaining 1% is the key to solving the case."

In order to catch the one percent, you must write down everything that could possibly be the one percent.

The police manual exists for this, and everything that could be a clue is written down in it.

Kazuma is not investigating a case and cannot take notes in a notebook, but he trusts his memory.

After this imperceptible pause, Ota-san answered Kazuma's question: "The village hall has a video recorder, which often plays video tapes sent from outside. Every year, after Torajiro passes the release schedule, a video tape will be sent to us. Come on, it’s a welfare program promoted by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology for remote areas.”

It sounds a bit like the movie "Going to the Countryside" from a previous life.

Kazuma smiled and said: "So, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Culture and Sports has really done a good thing by allowing citizens in remote areas to enjoy the latest cultural products."

"Yeah, yeah, I'm not saying good things about the shrine just because it's under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. They've really done a lot."

At this time, Tamamo reminded: "Don't you want to look at the turtle back card?"

"Oh, right." Kazuma quickly put on his gloves and turned over the turtle card that might be an evidence.

There was a strange pattern on the back. Kazuma always felt that the pattern looked familiar - he frowned slightly and remembered it. It seemed to be in Osamu Tezuka's "The Three-Eyed Boy", when the male protagonist Sharaku reveals his third eye. The summoned spear has similar words on it!

Tamamo shook her head: "This text is wrong. It seems to be made by modern enthusiasts."

Kazuma took advantage of Tamamo's words and said, "This should be based on the 'old characters' on Sharaku's gun."

"Sharaku..." Tamamo tilted her head, "Uh, a manga by Osamu Tezuka?"

"right."

Tamamo immediately showed his disdain for the Turtle Card: "It's so unprofessional and disqualified as a paranormal enthusiast. If you don't understand the symbols of the Yayoi period, you can just follow the Chinese oracle bone inscriptions. At least it's the same thing. Or you can use the Nordic runes."

"Well, using runes is too nondescript, isn't it?"

Kazuma complained.

Lord Ota intervened in the conversation: "Wait, what are you talking about? Is this symbol drawn according to the comics?"

"Yes, something completely made by an outsider..." Kazuma suddenly stopped, "Wait a minute, does this hot spring street sell weekly comics?"

"Yes, convenience stores will stock it, but only tourists will buy it."

Kazuma picked up the fake turtle back card with his gloved hands: "In this case, this is not done by local residents, and the three-eyed child is a juvenile-oriented comic, and young people like to read it..."

In Japan in 1981, comics covered the population of all ages. You could often see people reading comics magazines while riding the subway.

The Japanese comics industry has segmented the market for people of different ages. Comics for teenagers are generally published in various weekly magazines, so these weekly magazines are often named "Weekly Shōnen XXX".

Comics for young people are published in monthly and semi-monthly magazines.

There is a clear distinction between the two.

Comics for teenagers often have a royal romance, emphasizing passionate friendship and victory. The love themes are basically sweet and youthful fairy tales. Occasionally, there are some criminal investigation themes, and they are usually based on responses to social issues such as "Conan". .

But comics for youth are completely different. The subject matter covers an unusually wide range, including the "Island Farming" series, a series of workplace dramas for adults, and "Monster" and "Medical Dragon", which directly attack the dark side of society and human nature. The works involve love themes and are also full of elements from the adult world: cheating, extramarital affairs, etc.

Shounen comics are usually adapted into animations, while youth comics are usually adapted into live-action dramas or live-action movies. It wasn't until 2010 that this began to change. The boy-oriented Rurouni Kenshin also had a live-action movie, while the youth-oriented Symphony Lover's Dream had an animated film.

However, it is now 1981, and shounen comics and young adult comics are still distinct.

If an adult in a suit takes a copy of "Weekly Shōnen XXXX" to read at work, his boss will criticize him for being too childish and not growing up.

On the other hand, if a child holds a youth-oriented monthly or semi-monthly magazine, he will also be scolded by his parents.

Therefore, the person who made this Turtle Brand is probably a college student at the age where he can still read the weekly XXXX openly.

Kazuma raised his eyes from the turtle card and looked at Lord Ohta: "Apart from the group of students from Meiji University's Fantasy Creature Research Association last year, have any young people groups come to this place in recent years?"

Lord Ohta replied immediately: "There are you too."

"Except us."

"That won't happen. Young people are definitely more willing to go to the beach. Last year, I heard Mr. Watanabe say that many college classmates would go to Hawaii for vacation."

Kazuma thought to himself that this was nonsense. It would be normal for a family that could afford the tuition of Meiji University to go to Hawaii for a vacation.

Of course, in a few years after the Plaza Accord is signed and Japan enters the bubble era, many Japanese will suddenly find that they can afford to go to Hawaii. At that time, Hawaii will be full of Japanese during the peak tourist season.

It is now very certain that this turtle card belongs to the group of people from the Fantasy Creature Research Society of Meiji University.

However, is it normal for one or two people who are interested in fantasy creatures to be interested in ancient divination?

Kazuma put down the Turtle Card and said to Lord Ohta: "Let us keep this box of things for now. It's too late today. I'll go up the mountain tomorrow to see if I can find any clues."

"Eh? You want to investigate? So it turns out..."

"No, I don't suspect that this is homicide, I just have some concerns and want to check it out." Kazuma interrupted the Lord God, and at the same time closed the box containing these fragmentary objects, stood up with it, "Then we will I’ll take my leave now.”

"Okay, have a good night's sleep." The Lord God also stood up.

Kazuma waved his hand, turned and left the living room, sitting down in the entrance hall to change his shoes.

The Lord of God followed over: "I won't send you to the door of the shrine. You two, be careful when going down the stone steps. Every year during the festival, someone will sprain their feet on the stone steps."

Kazuma: "When does the festival start?"

"A week from now, people from the Tourism Promotion Association and the village office will come to the shrine tomorrow to decorate it. There will be many stalls in the shrine square by then."

Kazuma raised his eyebrows: "There are many stalls? I'm afraid if the whole hot spring street is not here to set up stalls, will there be anyone here to play? Is it possible that the stall owners visit each other to help each other?"

"There are tourists. With the tourism promotion in recent years, we still have a lot of people here during the peak season."

"So this festival was really started after tourism promotion started?" Kazuma asked as he picked up the second shoe.

"No, it happened before. There are just not as many people as now. In the past, people from several nearby villages and even towns would come to play."

"Hey, will it?"

"Yes, there are very few entertainment activities in this rural place." Lord Ohta said in a self-deprecating tone, "Just like what is written in Lu Xun's "Social Opera", everyone around will gather here."

He Ma didn't expect to hear the name Lu Xun here, and immediately felt his DNA moving: "I wish Han Xing could not notice it, and I recommend Xuanyuan with my blood."

"Oh, Lu Xun wrote poems to Xu Shouchang. As expected of a student from Dongda University, he can memorize Chinese poems as fast as he can."

Only then did Kazuma realize that he had memorized Chinese.

Then he came to his senses and looked back at Lord Ohta: "Master Ohta is also very knowledgeable. You can tell which song I have memorized by listening to it."

"It's just logical reasoning. I just mentioned Mr. Lu Xun, and you memorized a Chinese poem right away. So this one should be your 80% score."

Kazuma thought about it for a while, and there was indeed nothing wrong with the logic.

He put on his shoes and stood up, looking at Tamamo.

Although Tamamo didn't sit down, she changed her shoes.

"Let's go. Goodbye God Lord-san."

"Goodbye." Lord Ohta waved his hand, "If you find anything, please tell me as soon as possible."

"I will." He Ma said and walked out the door.

He first looked at the social office. Hiroko was no longer inside, the window for selling things was tightly closed, and the anti-theft iron bars were put down.

He walked toward the torii gate at the entrance of the shrine, and Tamamo's light footsteps followed behind him.

"What did you find?" Tamamo asked softly.

"I...don't know what it is yet, but something is wrong. I always feel that this Ota-san is not the "The Story of Torajiro" that I watched at the village hall."

"Is there something wrong with this place?" Tamamo was shocked. "I think his pause was just a normal reaction when encountering unexpected problems."

"You think so?"

Kazuma glanced back at Tamamo.

Tamamo has lived for so many years and also worked as a mamasang in Yoshiwara. She must be quite good at reading people. Her opinions are undoubtedly worthy of reference.

"Yes, when people encounter unexpected problems, they will be stunned for a while, but I support Kazuma in sticking to your own judgment. I don't know how to solve crimes, and I don't have the intuition of a detective."

"Don't make it sound like I have."

"You obviously have it. Weren't all the previous incidents solved with this acumen?"

Kazuma glanced at Tamamo again, thinking to himself, I originally believed that those incidents were all solved by myself, but now that you say that, I am so unsure! Is it really not you who deliberately induced me?

Is it possible that I have been eating soft food and eating hard? "You're teaching me how to do things"?

Tamamo looked at Kazuma's expression and chuckled: "Don't think too much of me. There were many things I couldn't do when I had great power in the past. Now I just have a little more knowledge and a slightly more mature mentality. Just an 18-year-old girl."

"Is your little one the scale of the universe?"

For the universe, ten thousand light years is just an "insignificant" level.

Tamamo smiled even wider.

By this time, they had already passed the torii gate at the entrance of the shrine and began to descend the stone steps.

Tamamo smiled, but when he stepped on the foot, he couldn't put it firmly, his ankle crooked, and he sprained his foot.

Kazuma grabbed her when she was about to fall, and ended up pulling her into his arms.

To be honest, Kazuma was a little suspicious that this guy did it on purpose, but seeing how she was grinning in pain, it was too embarrassing to ask "did you do it on purpose" at this time.

So he asked with concern: "How are you doing? Can you still leave?"

"Well, walking should be no problem...but..." Tamamo glanced at the long stone steps in front of her.

"I'll carry you down." Kazuma said, and then he remembered that among the things he brought with him was the plaster he just bought from the shrine, "Wait a minute, I'll put a plaster on it for you."

Lord Ohta said that this plaster is actually not that effective, but the herbs mixed with mint and applied to cool it can relieve pain and have a placebo effect.

But it's better than nothing.

Kazuma helped Tamamo sit down, and then took off the shoe on her injured foot.

Tamamo's feet are small, white and smooth with a hint of pink, and her nails are beautifully trimmed.

The flesh on the soles of her feet was as soft as the balls on a cat's paws, and it felt similar to the touch.

Foxes should obviously be part of the canine family.

Kazuma pinched Tamamo's feet just like he had indulged in pinching the paws of cats in cat cafes in his previous life.

"It's so itchy!" Tamamo patted Kazuma's shoulder lightly, "You should be more concerned about your sprained ankle!"

Kazuma then turned his attention to his ankle.

He practices kendo and has quite a lot of experience with joint sprains. He can tell the general situation by checking.

It certainly doesn't look as serious as Mikako's. It's the kind where the pain will be greatly relieved by itself regardless of tomorrow.

"It's nothing." He said, then took out the plaster from the bag, opened the package, tore off a piece, and carefully applied it to Tamamo's ankle.

Tamamo: "It's cool, and it's really comfortable. No wonder the villagers think this plaster is very effective. It relieves pain and has a placebo effect. After a few days, the sprain naturally heals. They will sigh that the Lord's plaster is really powerful, and it can cure the disease." remove."

Kazuma smiled, put the things away in his hands, then turned his back to Tamamo and squatted down.

Tamamo took off the shoe on the other foot, held it in her hand, and then put her arms around Kazuma's neck.

Kazuma confirmed that the person had been carried on his back and stood up with all his strength.

Tamamo suddenly smiled, and the wind blowing from her mouth caressed Kazuma's ears.

"What are you laughing at?"

"I suddenly remembered that when I started school at Tokyo University, it was the first time I wore high heels. At that time, I thought that if I sprained my foot, it would naturally unfold like a romantic comedy."

"Damn it, you really did it on purpose, right?"

"No. I won't use such cleverness to satisfy my own selfish desires. Kazuma, please be careful when going down the stone steps. There may be some problem with the design of the stone steps, which makes it easy to sprain your feet."

Kazuma frowned: "As the Supernatural Minister, shouldn't you say that this staircase is haunted by earthbound spirits?"

"Most of the legends about earthbound spirits causing trouble have scientific explanations.

"For example, last month's supernatural magazine said that a resident of an old apartment kept hearing children playing with glass balls upstairs. He couldn't bear it anymore and ran upstairs to protest. Only to find that the apartment upstairs was empty. After one of the residents' children died and moved away, no one moved in again.

"The magazine's psychic writer insisted that this was caused by earthbound spirits. Kazuma, what do you think the truth is?"

Kazuma answered while carefully descending the stone steps: "That apartment is a reinforced concrete structure."

"Correct, one point for Kiryu."

In reinforced concrete buildings, the internal steel materials will elastically deform due to thermal expansion and contraction, and then there will be a sound like a child playing with glass beads.

In the past - no, in 1981 it meant "now".

Current buildings have not considered these, so they basically have this problem, especially at night when a large amount of heat absorbed by the building during the day is released.

New buildings in the future will take these issues into consideration and leave room for deformation, so this phenomenon will not be obvious.

Tamamo whispered in Kazuma's ear: "Kazuma-kun, you are also one of the murderers of Zashiki Warashi."

"This is dead. Weirdness is really vulnerable." Kazuma teased, "The reason why you still exist is because everyone subconsciously hopes that the big white-haired vixen will exist in the world?"

"Maybe."

The corners of Kazuma's mouth raised, and his steps down the stone steps became more brisk.

Tamamo lay completely behind him.

Unlike when he was carrying a certain monkey, this time every nerve in Hema's back was active, turning the soft touch into bioelectricity and chemicals between synapses, and transmitted them back to the brain.

Suddenly, Tamamo whispered in Kazuma's ear: "Kazuma, how do you feel about pinching my leg?"

"Why did you ask the same question as Mikako?"

"Ah, I've been beaten first, Mikako shouldn't be underestimated."

Kazuma smiled and said nothing, pushing Tamamo's body up with both hands.

After walking a few more steps, Tamamo said again: "If I suddenly reveal my true form now, Kazuma, you will be crushed directly."

"How much did your prototype weigh?"

"Hmm... maybe a little lighter than a Maus tank?"

"That's too heavy!" Kazuma complained dutifully.

It can make Tamamo laugh like a silver bell, there's no reason not to laugh at this.

The two of them chatted for a long time, as if the mysterious incident last year had never happened at all, and they were just two carefree college students who were simply traveling.

After walking down the last stone step, Kazuma let out a long sigh of relief. Before he could speak, Tamamo slipped off his back.

"I can carry you to the hotel." Kazuma said.

Tamamo wiped the sweat from his forehead with his hand and said with a smile: "Forget it, look, you almost turned the barley tea you drank at the Lord's place into sweat. This plaster is more effective than expected. I can definitely do it." Leave by yourself!"

As she spoke, Tamamo threw the shoes she was carrying on the ground, held Kazuma's shoulders with one hand, and bent down to put on her shoes.

Kazuma looked at Tamamo. The front of her clothes was now completely soaked with sweat. It was obviously Kazuma's sweat.

Through the translucent dress, Kazuma noticed the swimsuit Tamamo was wearing underneath.

"You also want to climb the mountain and soak in the hot springs on the mountain, right?"

Tamamo smiled and said nothing.

Kazuma sighed: "Everyone has brought their swimsuits, so we really need to give them a chance to wear them. How about we go to the mixed bathing pool to have a swimsuit party at night? If we put Hanazan-kun at the door of the bathing pool to prevent others from entering the mixed bathing... "

"Kazuma, you are getting more and more accustomed to handling Hanayama-kun. But this seems to be good."

As soon as Tamamo finished speaking, Dvořák's New World rang out.

Kazuma looked up at the loudspeaker of the village hall where music was playing, and found many crows landing on the top of the loudspeaker, with no intention of taking off, as if they were used to the sound of the trumpet.

The particularly huge crow I saw just before going to the shrine was not among the crows.

Kazuma turned his head and looked into the distance. The setting sun coated the mountains with a layer of orange and red, and Dvořák's music echoed in the open fields.

The chirping of the cicadas disappeared at some point.

Tamamo suddenly said: "At dusk, this period used to be called the time of encountering demons."

Kazuma: "Please, this scene is already very supernatural, don't add any more supernatural elements."

If you add more supernatural elements, Ma and I will copy the classic soundtrack of "The X-Files"!