I’m Really Unnerved In Tokyo

"Hiss, Leng Leng Leng Leng Leng Leng Leng Leng Leng Leng..."

On the stairs, Takumi Fujiwara, who was still panting, was shocked by the icy snow that suddenly penetrated into the back of his neck, and jumped up from the ground.

"I've been feeling weird since I came out of the station..."

He stretched out his gloved hand to catch a falling snowflake, with a look of inquiry in his eyes: "Do you think that the snow in Hakodate is a bit too cold?"

Although he doesn't like to go out, he grew up in Tokyo and is no stranger to snow.

In front of him, the hexagonal diamond-shaped snowflake in his palm didn't show any signs of melting, and it looked unexpectedly "firm".

"Songsuke, look..."

He turned his head to look at Sousuke Araki who was standing side by side, as if he had discovered something, he stretched out his hand to grope back and forth on the other person.

"Hey, what are you messing with, I don't have this hobby..."

"What's wrong, why are your clothes so clean?!"

"Aren't these new clothes? Isn't it normal to be clean?"

"Snow, I mean snow!"

Obviously, they purchased the same type of cold-proof clothing together, but Fujiwara Takumi already had a lot of cold ice crystals hanging all over his body at this time, and it felt a little wet to the touch.

But Araki Sousuke's body, not only did not see a trace of whiteness, it was as dry as new.

"This snow was 'purified' by you?!"

As the distance approached, Fujiwara Takumi noticed that the heavy snowflakes in the air, as soon as they approached within a centimeter of Araki Sosuke, instantly melted into water droplets and fell to the ground...

It was as if there was an invisible flame on his body that evaporated the snowflakes.

"No, in the snow..."

And at the moment when the snowflakes melted, wisps of fluffy, imperceptible black air quietly penetrated into Araki Sosuke's body.

"... There is resentment!"

Seeing the abnormality, even Fujiwara Takumi, who believed in "more things are worse than less things", couldn't help frowning.

"As expected of the god son of Meiji Shrine, he discovered the clues of resentment in the snow so quickly."

A middle-aged man wearing a priest's robe and a black hat came out from the hall, and bowed to Fujiwara Takumi: "Hakodate Hachiman Shrine Priest Kono Ichiro, I have seen Fujiwara Priest...according to the contact information yesterday. Time, I guess your Excellency should arrive at about this time."

Although he called himself a "priest", his burly physique that couldn't be concealed by the priest's uniform and the stubble on his rough chin gave him an air of a samurai.

"This time, I have to ask Priest Kono to take care of me."

With a little embarrassment, he withdrew his indescribable hands from Sousuke Araki, patted the snowflakes on the hem of his clothes, and Takumi Fujiwara saluted.

"Who is this one?"

Priest Kono narrowed his eyes slightly, looked at Sousuke Araki beside Fujiwara Takumi, and asked softly.

"Ahem, this one is Onodera of the disaster prevention mobile team who is in charge of assisting me this time."

"The newly established disaster prevention mobile team, just anyone has such momentum, it is worthy of being the elite transferred back from the Middle East..."

Priest Kono nodded politely.

"Hey, don't be in a daze, say hello to Priest Kono."

Finding that his friend was still admiring the scenery below the stairs, Fujiwara Takumi quietly tugged at the corner of his clothes.

"Over there... where is it..."

At some point, Sousuke Araki had already taken off his sunglasses, and looked straight at the sky above the dark cloud-covered city of Hakodate.

In his left eye, clusters of black gas are hiding in the dark clouds, faintly converging into a huge vortex around a certain place...

"From here, you can see the entire city of Hakodate... I don't know, which location are you asking about?"

Kono Ichiro glanced puzzledly at Hakodate City, which was covered in thick snow in the distance.

"Zong... Onodera-kun, now is not the time to discuss scenery."

Following Araki Sousuke's gaze, Fujiwara Takumi, who didn't notice anything unusual, walked up to Priest Kono: "Principal Kono, that bus has been missing for almost 24 hours, let's hurry up and communicate about the search and rescue situation." ..."

"It's freezing outside, please tell me inside."

Looking away from Sousuke Araki, Priest Kono led the two of them towards the side hall.

"That's right, don't worry about him, let's find Xiaoniao Youshi first."

Hearing keywords such as "bus" and "search and rescue", Araki Sousuke took one last look at the strangely shaped "dark cloud" in the distance, and followed the two into the side hall.

...

"Yesterday, after receiving the news that the bus was missing in the blizzard, the Metropolitan Police Department immediately organized a search and rescue operation..."

In the old side hall, hot charcoal is burning in the square stove made by hollowing out the tatami floor.

"However, this snowstorm is too big. Not to mention the wheel marks of the bus, any traces left by creatures on the snow will be erased in a moment."

Sousuke Araki and Sousuke Araki were kneeling around the stove, listening to Priest Kono's introduction with a serious face.

"Not only that, the communication equipment, compass, direction indicator, and even the electronic control system of the vehicle all experienced intermittent failures during the snowstorm..."

On the hook hanging from the roof, the ancient iron kettle was humming with charcoal fire.

"...Even the well-trained search and rescue dogs became restless for some reason, unable to concentrate on tracking the breath."

This original tatami charcoal stove is very common in old Japanese style buildings.

Although it is necessary to pay attention to the problems of thick smoke and ventilation, it can achieve a heating effect comparable to that of air conditioners and floor heating, and solve the problems of drinking tea and cooking by the way.

"This harsh environment makes it impossible to effectively advance the search and rescue operations that have no clue at all."

Priest Kono took off the iron pot with a rag and poured a cup of hot tea for the two.

"So, is all this caused by the resentment in Snow Flower?"

Not in the mood to look at the mellow hot tea in front of him, Fujiwara Takumi asked hurriedly.

The existence of many "spiritual places" has long proved that even weak grievances, gathered to a certain extent, can indeed interfere with electronic equipment, magnetic fields, and the sanity of creatures.

"Perhaps it is. Since the "first snow" which was more than a month earlier, the activities of spirit bodies in Hokkaido have become more frequent, and many existences that have been dormant for many years are slowly waking up..."

"There are not many soul eliminators in Hokkaido, but it is said that Wannian Temple is also in trouble recently, and it is difficult to protect itself. Even sending soul eliminators to help search and rescue is not enough manpower."

Unlike Honshu, where the distribution of spirits is relatively even, Hokkaido, which began a large-scale immigration development in 1869 and took more than 150 years to achieve little results, has only Hakodate Hachiman Shrine, Sapporo Hokkaido Shrine, and Mikasa Mannenji Temple. In the place, the inheritance of the Exorcist is preserved.

The Hakodate Hachiman Shrine, located at the gateway to Hokkaido, naturally took on the responsibility of serving as a contact point for the exorcists.