Since the Yumeo incident occurred, the number of spirit exterminators directly involved in dealing with the strange visitors to Yumeo from all over Kanto has reached more than 200 in the special operations team led by Juqiong Shrine.
Among them, there are more than 40 official or private spirit exterminators from all over the country who have the ability to cure dreams and ghost stories.
With more than 40 people, including Kamiyagawa, 42 action groups were formed and were active throughout Kanto.
The remaining people were organized into numerous investigation teams.
Cooperate with the actions of these main teams with the ability to eliminate and treat the incident, and conduct more detailed information collection and investigations following the incident.
But as Dream Man connects more and more macro-dreams.
Among the forty-two main teams, many people already feel inadequate.
The same goes for Kamiya.
Four days ago, Kamiyagawa, the Onizuka miko, and Tomi Nei dealt with a large-scale dream involving more than a hundred people in Kamisu City, Ibaraki Prefecture.
It took a full 25 hours.
The dream-eating tapir ate more than a hundred dream boys in one go in a day or so.
After that, he was forced to return to the shikigami statue and slept for two full days before he could resume action.
Although after waking up, the little tapir's strength has become much stronger visible to the naked eye, but the little guy has already begun to anorexia...
The home hidden in the dark is like the cook in the canteen.
The dream-eating tapir under Kamiyagawa is like a growing child that was waiting to be fed.
I heard that your son likes to eat fatty "braised pork", right?
OK
Then we have braised pork in the morning, braised pork at noon, tea in the afternoon, dinner and supper.
I can't eat anymore. The little tapir really can't eat anymore...
No matter how delicious the dream boy is to the dream-eating tapir, he can't make it like this every day.
…
The countermeasures room headquarters building in Tokyo.
Because the little tapir is still resting, the Kamiya team has stayed in Tokyo for the past two days.
Onizuka and Tomi Nie just cooperated with other teams investigating information to organize and analyze some data.
Kamiya returned home after a long absence.
In the afternoon, another meeting was held in the countermeasures room.
The thirty-odd groups of members who were still working around the clock to deal with Yumeo in various parts of Tokyo did not come back to participate, but Kamiyagawa and the others, who were taking a break, did attend.
The host of this meeting is still someone from Juqiong Shrine.
It seems that she is also a priest, Ni Yi, but Kamiyachuan does not recognize her.
Miyoshi of Jujun Shrine, whose surname is unknown, said: "We have made preliminary guesses about the reason for Yumeo's recent birth through the analysis of many materials at hand. To this end, we have also entrusted the assistance of the master of Isehara. "
None of the spiritual masters participating in the meeting had much reaction to this, and a few nodded silently.
But Kamiyakawa was a little confused.
He didn't know who the so-called "lord of Isehara" was referring to.
"It's Aoi Tou. At Ise Shrine in Isehara, there was an Aoi Tou who visited, and he established contact with the organization a long time ago." Onizuka on the side approached Kamiya River and explained in a low voice.
"Ah, a neutral demon with ties to the organization?"
"Uh-huh."
Green lanterns on Isehara.
Onizuka still knew something about this neutrality monster.
Mr. Aoi Hiroto's daily activities are only around Ise Shrine and cannot leave directly.
Sometimes, I come to reality, but most of the time I stay in the world of ghost stories.
The conditions for official organizations to reach contact with Qingxingdeng are——
The blue lantern was enshrined in Tsukiyomigu Shrine, a annex of Ise Jingu Shrine, which is the main shrine where Tsukiyomi no Mikoto is enshrined, as an offering to Tsukiyomi-san's subordinate deity.
There is a dedicated person who manages her idols on a daily basis to ensure that Qingxing Lantern can gain enough faith.
Moreover, the little miko still remembers that Miss Mary, the powerful shikigami under Kamiya, has some connection with the green lantern on Isehara.
Almost a year ago, Juqiong Shrine received news that Isehara had visited a Miss Mary with a C-level rating.
As soon as he came to reality, he was injured and fled towards Tokyo.
Afterwards, Miss Mary, who arrived in Tokyo, probably had some contact with Kamiya, and by chance she became Kamiya's shikigami.
As a result, Onizuka and Granny Gu came to Tokyo together and failed.
But there was one problem that the little witch didn't understand at the time. That is--
Why did Miss Mary choose Isehara as the place for her foreign visit?
That place is where Ise Jingu Shrine is located, and the powerful Kaidan Aoyuki Lantern, who is connected to the Countermeasures Room, guards the area.
There is absolutely no benefit from ordinary ghost stories going there.
That's exactly what happened. As soon as Miss Mary arrived there, she was seriously injured by Qingxing Lantern.
As for Qing Xingdeng's strength, why didn't he directly eliminate the C-level Miss Mary at that time?
Onitsuka Kiriho could figure this out.
how to say……
The Aoi Touhou of Isehara is a kaidan who has a neutral attitude towards human beings, but has a very weird temperament.
Of course, as a weirdo, it's normal to have an eccentric personality.
That adult likes to collect stories. The most common thing she does when she comes to Ise Shrine is to let the priests in the shrine tell her stories.
Then, Qing Xing Deng also has some... fun-loving attributes.
Normally, if you don't care about anything, you won't cause disaster, but you will basically not take the initiative to do any good things.
She deliberately let the original Miss Mary go, probably because she realized that letting Mary go would be more interesting than killing Mary, and it would be fun to see what kind of fun it would be.
The subsequent development of things is indeed the same.
Miss Mary became the shikigami of Kamiyagawa and directly participated in the story of the ghost disciples.
Qing Xingdeng should be happy to see this happen.
"If it hadn't been for Ao Xingden-sama, Miss Mary probably wouldn't have become Kamiya's shikigami, right?" Onizuka thought this way.
…
"Is there a green lantern on Isehara?" Kamiyagawa thought.
He also recalled some things.
It was probably early winter, not long after Xiaowu had just woken up at Arakawa's house.
On a lazy winter afternoon, Kamiyakawa teased Xiao Wu like a cat in the study for a while, and then had a small chat with the little girl——
Kamiya: "...Huh? You said Mary said that Isehara was seriously injured before meeting me for the first time?"
Wu: "Yeah - don't touch my head, you bastard!"
"No wonder Mary turned into a broken doll after treating Hanako, and then entered the other world and slept for a long time. Is it because her serious injury was activated after the battle?"
"Hmm... But during the time when she was in spiritual sleep in the other world, she could just avoid being hunted by the spiritual master in the real world. When she wakes up next time, she will help you kill the Pink Fairy, and by then you will have With the contracted strength of Mary, Mary has successfully become your shikigami, so there will be no more spiritual exterminators to take action against her."
"But you two were obviously born in Akihabara, right? Why did Mary choose to go all the way to Isehara for a foreign visit?"
"That's because of me. I asked her to go."
"you?"
"Yes! Mary had already become very excited during the time when the foreign visit was about to come true. Although she didn't show it very much, she didn't even know that she was excited. She only thought about the reality of the foreign visit. I went to find a friend, but I couldn’t persuade her at that time, and she wouldn’t listen to me at all.”
"Mary's perception of 'finding friends'..."
"Well, she can kill people. And once she starts killing humans in reality, she will definitely be dismissed by your human exorcists... I don't want to lose her. As early as a year before Mary's visit, I used it in advance I've had two 'future visions'. In many of the 'futures' I've seen, Mary couldn't survive a foreign visit. The only way to survive is in Isehara, and you have to go to Isehara from the beginning."
"Did Mary listen to you?"
"She said she wanted to visit the human world. But after she was able to actually visit, she was coaxed and deceived by me. Instead of coming directly to Akihabara, she chose to go to Isehara."
"That's it, thank you so much for your hard work..."
It was then that Kamiya realized that Xiaowu, who always looked like a bitch who needed to be dealt with, was actually worried about his sister.
It's hard to say which of the two is the actual "sister".
During a foreign visit to Isehara, he was wounded at the Ise Shrine, and then fled towards Tokyo, where he met Kamiyagawa who was trying to conquer Hanako.
Being diverted from Kamiya's misfortune, Mary was used to defeat Hanako.
Then Mary was injured and forced to return to the spiritual sleep in the other world. She happened to avoid the pursuit of the spiritual exterminator in the real world.
When he wakes up next time, Kamiyagawa just has the strength to contract a C-class shikigami.
Mary naturally became Kamiya's shikigami.
Throughout the entire foreign visit experience, she had not found any "other friends" other than Kamiyagawa.
I really have no chance to find it.
This is how Xiaowu tried his best to find a way out for his sister from thousands of "futures".
Kamiya's expression changed, and after pondering for a while, he reached out to touch Xiao Wu's head: "So you have entrusted Mary to me so long ago... Wu, I will take good care of her."
"What do you mean by entrusting it to you? Don't be sentimental! In the 'future vision' I opened, I didn't see Mary turning into your shikigami at all! I just knew she could survive! If I had known that Mary would turn into you Shikigami, I will obey your orders, even I will be kidnapped by you, a bad onmyoji, I will definitely..."
"Surely what?"
Kamiyagawa interrupted Satoru with a smile.
"Gu..."
Xiao Wu, who was originally filled with indignation, was inexplicably frightened when he stared at him like this. He lost his confidence and weakened his voice. He just lowered his head and pulled at the hem of his skirt.
"Satoru, I will take good care of you too."
"Wow! It's so disgusting! Aren't you embarrassed to say such things? And - don't touch my head casually with a smile on your face! Disgusting! I'm not your little cat or puppy!" Wu's face turned red, and he resisted at first, then calmed down, and muttered in a low voice, "Anyway, you'd better be... a bastard."
…
"So, Mary was originally injured by the green lantern on Isehara. Satoru's future vision did not see the person who injured Mary. When he asked Mary for confirmation, he only knew that she was injured by a powerful force as soon as she arrived in reality. I didn’t see who took action. I originally thought that the person who took action was a spiritual master from the palace or something.”
Connected.
Some of the past events and the entire development process are all connected in series.
The reason why Mary became Kamiyagawa's shikigami was because it seemed that Ao Xingdeng, who loved having fun, pushed her.
But the real driving force behind this is the weak Xiaoguai Tan Xiaowu who only wants his wayward sister to survive.
Kamiya and Onitsuka, who were sitting side by side, each thought about something in their minds, then looked at each other, then came back to their senses and continued to listen to Mi Yi, who was presiding over the meeting:
"The instigator of this Yumeo incident may have used some props to achieve this great commotion. After looking through the many information we provided, Mr. Qingxing Deng of Isehara gave the guess that 'Hyakki Deng' '."
"This is a ghost prop belonging to the Aoi Lantern. However, the [Hyakki Lantern] that may be held by the person behind the Yumeo incident does not belong to the Isehara-sama. It is inferred that it belongs to someone who existed in a longer period before that master was born. A green lantern thing."
"And with the help of the [Hundred Ghost Lantern], we may be able to take countermeasures against the promoter of the Mengnan incident and find his location directly."
This is the focus of this meeting.
With the help of foreign aid, the Countermeasures Room finally found some information related to the Uoki family.
"In addition, through the collection of many dream stories of dream boys and the interviews and investigations of rescued parties, we have also obtained some additional information clues - behind all dream boys stories, there is the same emotion as the leading factor. Dreaming about dream boys The object of the crime is more or less guilty towards someone or something.”
Guilt.
The Countermeasures Room found the logic that runs through Yumeng’s story.
Then, Mi Yi from the Juqiong Shrine projected some information clips and roughly showed some representative examples to everyone participating in the meeting.
It contains events handled by Kamiyagawa.
One is from the very beginning, Miss Chiharu Noma from Chiyoda District, Tokyo.
The dream she had was about a fire, and she dreamed that she was taken to a high building and pushed down by the dream man.
It was learned through the investigation of Miss Noma.
When she was a child, her house caught fire because of her playfulness.
In that fire, Miss Noma's grandfather died.
"Fire" is the source of guilt that will accompany her throughout her life.
In addition, there is Yuki Akiha, a little boy from Tsukiyano Town, Gunma Prefecture.
The object of this little boy's guilt is his mother.
However, what caused him to feel guilty was a small incident that happened recently:
Roughly speaking, the parents of the Akiba family had some minor conflicts recently and had a quarrel. At that time, Akiba Yushu was naughty and threw the toys in the toy box everywhere.
Waiting to see his mother wiping tears while silently collecting his toys.
The little boy felt guilty.
Guilty people are more likely to encounter dream boys.
Moreover, this kind of guilt does not matter whether it is big or small, and it does not choose the target. It does not matter if it originates from big or small things.
It doesn’t even matter whether the parties involved are right or wrong.
Screwing up a job or an exam; having a quarrel with family and friends; breaking up with a lover; a small friction with a stranger, etc. can all be regarded as sources of guilt for the dream boy.
It's no wonder that so many people in the entire Kanto region fall into strange dreams.
(End of chapter)
