I’M Really Helpless In Tokyo

When sunlight entered the room through the curtains, Araki Sosuke's old-fashioned mobile phone rang as if echoing.

He struggled to stretch out his hand from the bed, pressed the hang-up button, and fell asleep again.

After a while, the phone rang again.

Hang up again.

Five minutes later, the phone rang again.

It seems that there is a very stubborn and persistent person on the other end of the phone.

"Damn it, early in the morning, which bastard..." Araki Sosuke answered the phone with big dark circles under his eyes.

"Excuse me, it's Sosuke Araki..."

On the other side of the phone, there was a woman with a clear and sweet voice, with a cowardly voice.

Woman, live, call me...

Araki Zongsuke froze for a moment, frowned, and interrupted the other party's next words: "If you don't order anything, don't take a loan, you can't afford a house, you don't confirm any courier or bank transfers, there is nothing at home that can watch HNK TV. There is no equipment for Mi Qing to donate, and I don’t want to work hard yet."

After speaking, he hung up the phone.

"Damn it, or shut it down...I'm sleepy..."

Last night, he fought the "rats" until midnight.

But the cunning group of mice seemed to have made a hole in the house, and they obviously had hit a lot of them, but they just didn't leave him a corpse.

As if it were a well-trained unit, while fighting with him, they were constantly removing the wounded from the front.

Within two minutes, the rapid telephone ringing rang again.

"It's endless..."

Sosuke Araki answered the phone angrily.

"I am Mayumi Torii, if you call me again, I will report your stealing magazine to the convenience store."

This time, the other party didn't give him a chance to speak, and finished speaking in one breath.

"The magazines were dismantled by those high school students... Toriyuki Mayumi..." Araki Sosuke pondered for a moment, and said, "Who?"

The person on the other end of the phone was obviously breathing stagnant, then took a deep breath, and said in a calm tone: "We saw the girl at the convenience store a few nights ago... It's rude not to remember the girl's name."

"Oh... it's you, a serious cosplay scam girl. How come you have my phone?" Araki Sosuke's mind came up with the image of a long-haired girl in a witch costume.

"Please don't give others such a rude nickname... I went to the convenience store, and the clerk told me that you had been suspended for some invisible matter and gave me this phone number."

"So... you have something to do with me?" Araki Sosuke held the phone between his shoulders and lit the cigarette in his mouth.

"Can you please come to Akagi Shrine in Kagurazaka, and I will prove to you my identity as a spirit remover."

Tori Mayumi solemnly sent out an invitation.

"If I don't come."

"Then I... I will go to the convenience store to complain about your harassment of underage girls in the convenience store late at night."

The girl on the other end of the phone didn't seem to expect that Araki Zongsuke would ask back in this way. After a while, she threatened with shame.

"Hey, I kindly invited you to eat meat buns that night..."

...

Kagurazaka, located in Shinjuku, is a one-kilometer slope from Waseda Street to Sotohori Street. It has always been a gathering place for famous Japanese literati and artists.

The moment he stepped into Kagurazaka bathed in the afternoon sun, Sosuke Araki felt as if he had suddenly come to the quiet Kyoto from the noisy Shinjuku.

The long and narrow ramp and the surrounding paths are covered with old gravel bricks.

Both sides of the ramp are full of traditional Japanese and European-style buildings full of the sense of the times, planted with quiet plum, orchid, bamboo, chrysanthemum and other plants, and lined with characteristic cafes, Japanese teahouses, and various old and new shops.

Obviously in the middle of a big city, Kagurazaka still stubbornly retains the nostalgic and elegant atmosphere of Japan. At night, you can even see people dressed as geishas strolling in the alleys.

The Akagi Shrine is located on this slope where the western and the ocean intersect.

After walking through the vermilion torii, you can see a small and poor silver-white cabin within a few steps, which is the main hall of this shrine.

Unlike common old shrines, under the eaves and wooden pillars of the main hall of Akagi Shrine, there is a transparent glass curtain, which looks very modern in design.

Next to the main hall is a high-end residential apartment that is unified with the style of the shrine and has a very literary atmosphere.

On the ground floor of the apartment, the cafe with the words "Aka City Coffee" written on the signboard is also designed with wood and glass as the main design style. There are crowds in the cafe and it looks very lively.

"The Akagi Shrine enshrines the god of learning Iwatou Yumei and the goddess Akagi Himime."

When Sosuke Araki was curiously viewing a manga-like flying dragon statue in the shrine, someone said in his ear.

I don't know when to stand behind him, is wearing a short skirt, a high school uniform, wearing a red ribbon on his chest, and carrying a HELLOKITTY schoolbag.

"You look like an ordinary female high school student in your dress."

After turning around the other party, Araki Sosuke said disdainfully.

"Even if you are a full-time witch, you still have to go to school outside of work. Please follow me here..."

With her schoolbag on her back, Yuma Kotori took Sosuke Araki into the apse of the shrine that was closed to visitors.

Different from the front hall with modern design, the building of the apse looks extremely old and dilapidated, and it will collapse at any time.

A handsome middle-aged man wearing a simple and simple priestly uniform was sweeping the floor in the courtyard.

"Oh, Mayumi-chan is back, did you bring friends to play?"

Seeing Araki Sosuke who was not looking like a good person following behind Yu Mayumi Torii, the man did not show any rude expressions, but smiled heartily at him.

"This is my father, Yutaro Kotori. This one, named Sosuke Araki, can easily make the spirit'become a Buddha'."

In front of his father, Toriyu Mayumi seemed unwilling to talk more, still holding a straight face, and politely introducing the two.

"Oh, then please take care of the little girl."

Holding a broom in his hand, Yutaro, who is dressed up in an ancient style, did not nod like a traditional Japanese.

Instead, he shook hands with Sosuke Araki enthusiastically and touched his fists, seeming to regret that Sosuke Araki did not cooperate with his last chest bump.

"Don't look at me in this way. It was a blessing ceremony in the afternoon. When I was young, I came back after studying in Longguo for more than ten years. It's not a stubborn old-fashioned thinking."

After a brief greeting with Yutaro Tori, Sosuke Araki followed Yuma to enter the reception room of the apse.

"This shrine was actually opened by your house? I can't tell, you are still a local tyrant."

Looking at the extremely wide apse curiously, Sosuke Araki couldn't help but exclaimed.

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