I’m Really Unnerved In Tokyo

"Dear audience, did you blink just now? In just ten minutes, Ghost Rider dispelled the 'hidden energy field flames' that swallowed the entire Otsuka shopping street, solved the flame-type 'hidden energy field life forms' entrenched in it, and saved There are a lot of survivors! Those who forgot to blink, please take eye drops like me..."

In Akagi Mitsui Apartment, Koida Moto stared excitedly at the black locomotive speeding on the screen, dutifully performing the job of "Narrator".

"Like your never-ending gift, Ghost Rider is now rushing non-stop to the next disaster location, Sugamo District!"

In the live broadcast room, the audience who had witnessed the whole process of "Otsuka Shopping Street Spirit Removal Service" had no longer any doubts, and the anxiety in their hearts gradually extinguished along with the flames of the shopping street.

"The strongest knight, see see!"

"Take them to barbecue tonight!"

"Make all these damn things out of print!"

"Full fire! Full fire!"

At this moment, they, who were sending out the barrage of bullets and gifts, only wanted to witness how Ghost Rider would punish these "hidden energy field life forms" next.

"During this period, broadcast an emergency notice! If you are near Tokyo in front of the screen, please be sure to follow the 'escape route' on this map, and move to the outer area of ​​the Yamanote Line according to the instructions of official agencies."

"Please keep in mind that although these routes are guarded by official forces and have a relatively high degree of security, they must reach the area outside the Yamanote Line to be at ease. People who choose other routes to transfer by themselves should not approach the subway stations along the way anyway. , sewers and other underground facilities!"

"Old sister, the information obtained by Mr. Erqian has been shared with Section 9. Now, the Metropolitan Police Department is expanding the evacuation area, urgently closing the subway lines inside the "Tai Chi Yin Yang Array", and reducing the unknown train as much as possible. range of activities. "

When Oida Moto helped the Metropolitan Police Department broadcast the evacuation announcement on a voluntary basis, the "director" Hou Hailudou on the opposite side took off his hat and wiped his sweaty forehead.

"Also, the Metropolitan Metropolitan Police Department has synchronized the monitoring authority of the subway stations in Tokyo... However, there are tens of thousands of monitoring points inside the subway line alone. At present, we can only count on the information team to send more people to search Look for the trail of the black train."

Because the information that Ryoma disclosed on the phone before the second was too sensational, he immediately informed the information team of the ninth lesson and worked out the next response plan intensively.

"Damn it, there are still too few manpower. Araki-kun, as the only 'mobile force', must give priority to dealing with problems on the ground..."

However, Mai Hanyu who was sitting across from him rested his chin with one hand and said nothing, so all his complaints fell on deaf ears.

"Old sister, I'm talking to you, as a 'genius', shouldn't it be at this time..."

"Shh, don't make noise... It's the duty of you foolish people to deal with the 'appearance', but what I have to do is to direct my heart..."

"Idiots, idiots? ! 』

She propped her chest on the table, typing on the keyboard, and suddenly slapped the desktop excitedly: "I found it! There are quite a lot of things related to 'Hyakki Picture Scroll' and 'Tosa Mitsunobu'..."

"Hundred Ghosts Picture Scroll? Is it what you mentioned before Er, the grievance that spreads on the roof of the train, sacrifices human organs, grants 'miracles', and gives birth to 'perfect' ghosts?"

Hearing this, Hou Kai Lu Dou got up nervously and came behind Mai Hanyu.

"That's right, the picture scroll that can convert 'sacrifice' into 'power', and even summon ghosts, is exactly the 'transformation mechanism' that supports the operation of Aum Truth that I have been speculating on!"

On the computer screen, inside the photo printed with "Dadetoku Temple Zhenzhuan Archives", there is a picture scroll about ten meters long stretching out.

On the inside page of the picture scroll, the casual and majestic brushstrokes outline a series of black and white paintings with the theme of ghosts, demons, spirits and monsters.

At the beginning and the end of the picture scroll, there are the title of "Hyakki Yako picture scroll" and the signature of "Tosa Mitsunobu".

"Hyakki Night Walking Picture Scroll" Daitoku-ji Shinju-an collection, created by Mitsunobu Tosa, a famous Yamato painter and founder of ghost paintings in the Muromachi period, was lost in a fire 20 years ago at Daitoku-ji Shinju-an in Kyoto."

"However, no matter how you look at this thing, it doesn't look like what Mr. Er said before it can cover the entire roof of the train..."

"It's true that the lengths don't match, but besides this one by Tosa Mitsunobu, there are many similar things."

As the mouse scrolled, picture scrolls about ghosts kept appearing in front of the two of them.

""Hundred Ghosts Walking at Night", "Pictures of Hundred Ghosts from the Past and Present", "Hundred Ghosts from the Past and Present", "Pictures and Hundred Utensils in Vain Bag", completed by the ukiyo painter Sano Toyobo in the middle of the Edo period seven years before his death, internal collection The Ukiyo-e painting with 207 images of ghosts and ghosts established the tone of modern Japanese monster archetypes... It was originally kept in a Tokyo museum, but it was accidentally stolen fifteen years ago."

""Hundred Monogatari", created by Katsushika Hokusai, an ukiyo-e master in the Edo period, in his later years. It was exhibited at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts 20 years ago, and its location is unknown..."

"A series of paintings such as "Birds and Beasts Playing Paintings, Cats and Raccoons", "Tea Party of Skeletal Bones", "No Kyogen Face Scroll", "Ghost Picture" and so on are all created by Kawanabe Xiaosai, a genius painter of monsters at the end of the Bakumatsu period Chuang, most of the original copies were lost in the war.”

""Hundred Tales of Monsters" and "New Form Thirty-Six Monsters" are famous for including hundreds of horrifying scenes of ghosts eating people. They were written by "the last unscrupulous painter" Yoshinen Tokugawa. It is said that the original copy is lost In the Battle of Fushimi Toba... However, according to Sleeper's "Sendagaya Tunnel Mission Records", many similar paintings were buried under the collapsed tomb of Senshouin. Unfortunately, the timid Yinyang Liao I dare not touch the ancestral grave of the Tokugawa family..."

Looking at these dazzling ancient paintings about "hundred ghosts", Hou Hailudou scratched his hair in distress: "But old lady, if you really want to look for them, there are too many such ancient paintings about monsters."

He really couldn't imagine how such a seemingly "ordinary" ancient painting could "swallow" human flesh and blood and give back "ghost power".

"Well... don't you think it's a bit too coincidental?"

"From Tosa Mitsunobu in the Muromachi period to Kawanabe Xiaosai in the late Tokugawa period... There is no clear lineage and family relationship, and the painting genres and techniques are also very different, but there are always talented painters in the past dynasties. In studying 'Yokai-e'."

Mai Hanyu rubbed her brows lightly, showing a smile of unknown meaning.

"The works they have inherited have similar names and similar content, and even the images of ghosts are the same, without originality. There are even so many works that they have created their own genre called 'Yokai Painting'."

"Moreover, judging from the timeline, the most representative works of this series all disappeared more than ten years ago due to theft, fire, war and other reasons. Is it possible that there is an individual or organization secretly deliberately How about collecting these 'youkai paintings'?"