End of the meeting.
Everyone immediately made preparations for tomorrow's action.
As the saying goes, sharpening the knife will not waste time chopping wood.
Tsukuyomi took out his cell phone and called Tomonosuke before leaving Tokiwa Shougo's room.
She plans to use the power of the police to find information about Hidaka Hitoshi.
In modern society, this is almost the simplest and most efficient method.
What's more, it's not the first time they've asked Tomonosuke for help with tasks like checking people's information... and it's probably going to be the same in the future.
As soon as he thought of this, Tsukuyomi couldn't help but clasped his hands in his heart and prayed sincerely:
[I hope Brother Jin can get used to it as soon as possible. ]
Immediately, the call was connected.
"Hey, brother Jin, it's me, I'm Tsukuyomi..."
Along with the footsteps going downstairs, Tsukuyomi's words became farther and farther away.
Gates was the second to leave the room.
His preliminary task is to find the demonized sprite.
The demonized rhinoceros is a monster.
When talking about monsters, urban legends and ghost stories are usually indispensable.
As it happens, Tokiwa Shougo knows an expert who is well versed in this.
His school girl——Kinoshita Yu.
So, what are the latest and hottest urban legends related to the mysterious disappearance of people?
Tokiwa Shougo helped Gates make an appointment with a school girl.
Gates went to the appointment.
It was Woz who left after that.
After he bowed respectfully to Tokiwa Shogo, he backed away gracefully while maintaining the waiter's grace.
Suddenly...convince an organization.
The task is heavy, but correspondingly, the pressure is also high.
Woz kept calculating in his mind the various developments after the actual meeting with the Meng Shi organization, and then wrote one similar but different script in his mind.
Finally, Tokiwa Shogo stood up, waved his hand, used teleportation magic to pack up the furniture used for the meeting, and left the room as well.
"Kacha!"
The door is closed, dividing the inside and outside.
There was no one in the room, and it was empty. The only sound left was the advancing sound of the clock hands on the desk, which echoed louder and louder in the quiet room.
"Tick-tock! Tick-tock! Tick-tock—!"
…
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Outside the Earth Purification Ceremony.
The Mengshi organization has never relaxed its vigilance and monitoring of the strange forest that surrounds the Earth Purification Ceremony Site.
However, this monitoring work is not done by the Kanto branch, but by the Yoshino headquarters, the headquarters of the Menshi organization, who is responsible for it full-time.
Of course, now that they have arrived in the area under the responsibility of the Kanto Branch, they begin to be under the jurisdiction of the Kanto Branch.
Therefore, the person they report to is the Kanto branch.
Then, the Kanto branch will compile the reports and submit them to the Yoshino headquarters.
This is the process.
During the process, the monitoring reports submitted by monitoring personnel to the Kanto branch are reported daily.
The reports compiled by the Kanto branch and submitted to the Yoshino headquarters are reported every week.
Nowadays, although there has been an abnormal increase in the number of demonized demons in the outside world again, the strange forest surrounding the earth purification ceremony site has remained unchanged for more than ten years.
There are six monitoring personnel in total, divided into three groups.
One group during the day, one group at night, and one group on rotation.
The sun is setting in the west, and the two monitors of the day team are recovering the dispersed Panshiki gods and recording the information they observed.
One of them is responsible for playing the sounds recorded by Pan Shigami, and the other is responsible for recording.
However, just when this phase of work was over and they were about to release the recovered Pan Shikigami again and wait for the night team to rotate, they turned back toward the forest and found a young man full of ethereal aura standing there. In front of the forest...
He was clearly standing there, but it gave people a feeling of being endlessly far away and just out of reach.
Under the influence of this aura, the scenery in front of me that was already very familiar due to years of observation suddenly became unfamiliar.
The surveillance personnel seemed to see the space extending infinitely, and in that endless and vast space, the mysterious and ethereal young man was not looking at a forest, but was confronting a huge thing composed of earth, stone and forest. .
In this confrontation, even time seems to have lost its meaning.
Magnificent, majestic.
The wind picked up, making a rustling sound from the leaves, and also floated the black knitted cardigan on the young man's body.
The time-condensed picture came to life as a result, but the magnificent illusion was also shattered and returned to reality.
When the surveillance personnel came back to their senses, they saw the young man raising his feet, as if he wanted to step into the strange forest, and they quickly shouted to stop him.
"Wait! That forest is dangerous, you can't go in--!
! "
Amidst the shouting, the young man stopped and turned around.
"I know."
He said with a faint smile on his lips.
"You are the people of the Mengshi organization monitoring this forest, right?"
When the young man revealed his identity, the two surveillance officers couldn't help but show a look of astonishment on their faces.
"How do you know...?" they asked subconsciously.
"Don't worry, my representative will visit your Kanto branch tomorrow and he will give you an answer."
"Who are you?"
"What we're waiting for is the Historical Administration Bureau."
After saying that, the young man withdrew his gaze, took one step forward, and his figure flickered into the forest like a phantom and disappeared.
Seeing this, the two surveillance personnel who wanted to ask more questions had to give up the idea for the time being.
They looked at each other and immediately took action.
One of the surveillance personnel immediately dialed the number of Tachibana Dessert Shop to inform Tachibana Sejiro about the abnormality that occurred here and the words of the mysterious young man.
Another monitoring officer quickly released the pan-shiki gods and let them enter the forest to pursue the mysterious young man.
However, these pan-shiki gods are destined to achieve nothing.
Because after entering the forest, the young man, Tokiwa Shogo, quickly stopped time.
As the sound of the clock hands resounded in the void, and the realm of time-stopping unfolded, the wooden spirit puppets activated by Tokiwa Shougo's arrival instantly became quiet, motionless, docile and well-behaved.
But there is a voice that is never affected by the state of time stopping.
drum!
Moreover, in such a quiet space, the sound of the drum became more and more obvious.
"Winter! Winter! Winter—!"
Tokiwa Shougo followed the sound of the drum, stepping past the sculpture-like Kodama puppets and walking toward the source of the drum sound, the earth purification ceremony site where the alien Hibiki disappeared 13 years ago.
Finally, Tokiwa Shogo walked to the center of the Earth Purification Ceremony Grounds, where the Taiko Stone Tablet disappeared, stopped, closed his eyes, concentrated, and carefully perceived the source of the drum sound.
"Winter! Winter! Winter—!"
The rhythm of the drums is extremely stable, heavy and powerful.
"Winter! Winter! Winter—!"
Tokiwa Shougo concentrated, concentrated, and concentrated again... Finally, he felt the undetectable vibrations and undulations of the ground beneath his feet.
It's like a taiko drum being struck with a drumstick.
Once, twice, three times...
"No! No!"
Suddenly, Tokiwa Shougo suddenly opened his eyes, lowered his head, and stared sharply at the ground beneath his feet.
"That's not just a drum sound, it's a heartbeat!"
