Truth is everywhere within range

Nagoya, Atsuta-ku.

evening.

Inside a restaurant "Peng Lai Xuan" located in a residential area.

The four of them were sitting in a private room, waiting for their food.

"This store is said to have been established for 146 years and is very popular on review software."

Fujiwara Ayano looked at her phone with great anticipation.

Ariko Asano sat next to her and looked around the store curiously.

"Miko Asano, haven't you been here before?"

Qiaoqiao felt that Asano Miko's looking around was a bit unexpected. He originally thought that Miko Asano, a trainee miko like Atsuta Shrine, would have been to famous stores in Nagoya.

"No, this is my first time here."

Ariko Asano turned her gaze, smiled, and then looked at the menu seriously.

"It's just eel rice. No matter how delicious it is, it's just eel and rice."

Kotokui Masato was quite disdainful and flipped through the menu casually, showing a slight disgust.

Qiao Qiao also looked at the menu. As Masato Kotokui said, this is a restaurant famous for its eel dishes. Its signature dish is eel rice. In addition, there are also eel dishes such as eel liver and egg eel rolls.

The cuisine in Nagoya is different from that in Tokyo. To put it simply, it is more flavorful.

Whether it's miso pork chop rice, miso oden, or red bean paste coffee, every aspect of it makes it impossible to eat without adding some ingredients.

Just like Mexicans can eat anything from tacos, as long as they are rolled into a burrito, whether they are bugs or [beep--].

Probably Nagoya people also have the same love for miso.

The four of them quickly ordered their dishes.

Eel liver for four people, a sashimi platter, an egg eel roll, a peony snakehead, and of course the signature eel rice, and finally dessert.

As a specialty of Nagoya, eel liver is cooked with special sauce. The rich sauce penetrates into the eel liver, with a hint of fishy smell of the sea. It is crispy and delicious, which is completely different from what it looks like on the outside. .

There is nothing to say about sashimi. Nagoya is close to the sea and has a port, so the taste of aquatic products will not be any worse.

Qiao Qiao originally thought that the egg and eel roll would be made in a way that the eel is wrapped in egg liquid and fried until golden brown, making the kids next door cry.

But I didn't expect that the eggs in this dish were processed together with eel, which was a little sweet, which Qiao Qiao was not used to.

Ariko Asano and Ayano Fujiwara, who were sitting opposite, enjoyed their meal quite happily.

As for Masato Kotokui, he moved his chopsticks casually at first, but after eating eel liver, his entire expression changed.

"Delicious."

Kotokui Masato couldn't stop picking up vegetables.

"Speaking of which, what is a peony snakehead?"

Asano Ariko was halfway through eating and looked at the menu hanging on the wall, curiously.

"It's also a kind of eel."

Kotokui Masato replied casually.

"Snamon is also a kind of conger eel. It is a famous food in the Kansai region, especially around Kyoto. People eat snakehead in summer. It was also written in "Man'yoshu" that eel can relieve summer depression."

Qiao Qiao thought for a while and said.

"There is also a saying that eels are the messengers of the Bodhisattva Void Bodhisattva and can bring good luck to people."

"Hey, Qiao Sang, you know so much."

Fujiwara Ayano sighed and glanced at Masato Kotokui again.

"It's not like someone who just talks and talks, but in the end it's not really good."

"!"

Kotokui Masato was poked in a painful spot, and for a moment he didn't dare to continue taking off his chopsticks.

Qiao Qiao smiled.

He did not tell the three of them that he actually read about the snakehead in a book that recorded weird things in the Kansai region.

Legend has it that there once lived a huge moray eel in the Seto Inland Sea. It lived for a long time and gained great power. It made waves in the Seto Inland Sea. The fishermen had to sacrifice a woman every year. Calm the storm.

Later, the three goddesses in charge of the ocean learned about this and came to fight the moray eel monster.

Their youngest sister disguised herself as a victim and was taken to her lair by the moray eel. After learning the location of the lair, the two sisters took action together and finally defeated the monster.

The conger eels had countless offspring. In order to punish them, the sea goddesses deprived the conger eels of their power and made them smaller. They also told the fishermen that from now on you will catch these conger eels for food.

As a result, snakehead became a famous product of the Seto Inland Sea. In order to commemorate the great achievements of the ocean goddess, fishermen built a shrine on Itsukushima, which was called Itsukushima Shrine.

The most special thing about Itsukushima Shrine is its torii gate located in the sea. After all, it is dedicated to the goddess of the sea. The residence of the god is naturally in the sea.

If these three spirit slayers knew that the snakehead they were going to eat later was actually the offspring of monsters, I wonder what they would think.

Speaking of this, Qiao Qiao has never eaten monster meat. I wonder if the monster meat will have any special taste due to the infiltration of spiritual power?

There is a legend in the country that eating piranha meat can lead to immortality, but that’s just a legend, right?

During the chat, peony snakehead was also served on the table.

The so-called peony snakehead does not refer to the species of snakehead, but a traditional Japanese cooking technique.

Chop the fish bones into small pieces, blanch them in soup stock until they are tender, and serve them on the table.

Since the bone breaking method ensures that the fish skin remains intact, under high temperature, the fish skin shrinks and the entire fish meat rolls up, like a blooming peony.

This is exactly how the peony snakehead in this shop is made.

It also comes with plum vinegar, vinegar miso, wasabi soy sauce and other dipping sauces.

This dish made Qiao Qiao quite nostalgic. In China, there is a similar method of shabu-shabu fish fillets. He picked up a piece, dipped it in soy sauce and put it in his mouth.

The fish skin is crispy and the fish meat is chewy and chewy, giving it a unique flavor.

As for the last three ways to eat eel rice, there are three ways to eat it: original, seaweed and green onion rice, and chazuke rice.

Even Masato Kotokui couldn't help but add three bowls of rice, which was enough to see how delicious it was.

And the essence of human beings is really fragrant.

After eating and drinking, the four of them briefly discussed their plans for tomorrow.

Tomorrow they are going to survey two locations.

It was a high school near Ruisui District in the morning, where a week ago there was a strange incident of a skeleton running in the corridor in the biology laboratory.

In the afternoon, it was the TV station in Showa District. Ten days ago, a resentful spirit appeared there and had been exterminated.

It's all simple aftermath work.

From what I heard from most of them, there is still no trace of Tiancong Yunjian today.

This divine sword seemed to have completely disappeared from this world, leaving not even a trace.

night.

Qiao Qiao soaked in the hot springs, put on a Japanese yukata, and walked out of the bathhouse holding the clothes.

The hot springs in this hot spring hotel are not natural hot springs, but artificial. From a structural point of view, the public bathhouse is more like a Chinese bathhouse.

Even in early summer, a dip in the hot springs can wash away a lot of fatigue.

Outside the bathhouse, there is a hall for people to rest, chat and entertain.

You can see some exorcists sitting together and chatting.

Some people simply drank some wine and told some dirty jokes.

I have to work the next day, is it okay to drink like this?

Qiao Qiao thought to himself, but did not disturb them.

At the end of June, it could already be called summer in Nagoya. The room was a little stuffy, and Qiao Qiao didn't like the wind from the air conditioner.

In this hall with the windows open, there is a cool breeze and the temperature is just right.

After thinking about it, Qiao Qiao decided to get his textbook and study here later.

Just think of those chats and gossips as exercises for your own character.

He walked past several tables and was about to leave the hall when he saw a person sitting by the window.

It's Ariko Asano wearing a yukata decorated with pear blossom patterns.