Tokyo Fall Guys beats up the supernatural

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Chinatsu Kume nodded blankly.

"Kume-kun, what you said is true here, but whether or not monsters exist is a different matter from whether or not I doubt them."

thing. "

Chinatsu Kume suddenly realized that the boy in front of her seemed more talkative than before. In the past, he was a quiet listener, but now he would at least respond to her and continue the discussion on the topics she had raised.

This response delighted Chinatsu Kume.

"I'm skeptical about monsters because we've already seen beings like Fall Guys. If bats with bladed wings can be called monsters, then can beings like Fall Guys also be called monsters?"

Chinatsu Kume thought for a moment, then pursed her lips.

Dou Tang looked at Huai Yin, who had already fallen into a light sleep. Her eyelids began to twitch from time to time, and her whole face was changing from an extremely relaxed and soundly sleeping state to a tense one. The slight muscle contractions, coupled with her light and active breathing, all proved that she was about to wake up. These were extremely subtle changes that only Dou Tang could perceive.

So he lowered his voice and brought the conversation to a close: "So I doubt, not that I don't believe what you say, but I doubt whether such things can be called monsters. Perhaps the origin of those things is no different from the supernatural... It sounds a bit like nonsense."

"But in the end, the supernatural and monsters are different. The supernatural is born from people's resentment and hatred. They are the product of the aggregation of souls and resentment, attaching themselves to different substances and affecting reality."

“But monsters are different. Monsters are born this way. They are more like life forms that grow in the gap between reality and another world. Although they are natural creatures, they are subject to many restrictions similar to those of the supernatural.”

Dou Tang smiled and turned to look at Kume Chinatsu, saying, "Of course, these are all just my guesses! Hahahaha... After all, I've never seen a yokai before!"

"If I actually see it, then I'll go and verify my theory!"

After hearing Tou-tang's idea, Kume Chika frowned and pondered.

After those razor-blade bats died, some disappeared while others did not. As for those that did not disappear... I didn't notice where they went; it seems they were taken away by the police.

But one thing is certain: these creatures are definitely not ordinary.

Thinking of this, Chinatsu Kume felt a little excited. Her youth seemed to have veered onto an unknown track. Whether it was Fall Guys or various evil spirits, they were all so exciting. The mystery brought by that world surrounded her at all times.

That's another world! And she was actually able to glimpse the door to that mysterious world, and the truth hidden beneath real life was slowly unfolding. This feeling excited her.

After her excitement subsided, she turned to Dou Tang and asked, "So, Kiryu-kun, if you're going to any more haunted places next time... could you take me with you? I'd like to help Huaiyin-nee-chan too."

"Don't worry, I have a talisman given to me by Miss Shenqian, which can ward off evil spirits. I'll be safer with it!"

Dou Tang scratched his face somewhat awkwardly.

Suddenly, Huaiyin, who was lying on the bed, opened her eyes. Sleepiness and confusion swirled in her eyes. She pouted slightly, and her voice, which had just woken up, sounded so delicate and charming.

"Mmm... Brother, hug me."

Dou Tang's eyes twitched as Huai Yin opened her arms and hugged him tightly.

Chinatsu Kume's smile froze.

Chapter 21 What's with the scary stuff so early in the morning?

Although I knew he was a siscon, I never imagined it would be to this extent...

However, Huaiyin is my real sister, so she's relatively safe, um... safe.

Kume Chinatsu blushed slightly and whispered, "Um, good morning, Huaiyin."

In her daze, Huaiyin realized there was another person in the room. She let out a shy "Ee!" and then quickly burrowed under the covers.

Her voice came through the blanket, muffled: "Why is Sister Chika in the room! Waaah..."

Dou Tang coughed twice, then reached out and pressed his hand precisely on her head through the blanket, saying, "I'm going to shoot an advertisement with Kumi. I plan to leave as soon as you wake up. If you want to go, why don't you change your clothes now?"

But seeing her in her pajamas after just waking up, Huaiyin had no intention of getting out of bed. She nudged Dou Tang's hand with her head to show her displeasure, saying, "No, is it really necessary? It's fine if I stay at the hotel... The main thing is, the main thing is that I just woke up, and washing up and getting ready takes a lot of time! It wouldn't be good if it delayed the filming!"

She suddenly realized something, poked her head out from under the covers, and looked at Dou Tang: "It won't be long, right?"

"Come back after filming. If it's late, you can have the buffet at the hotel."

According to Lu Zizhen, this hotel is also one of the exorcists' strongholds, so there is no need to worry about its safety.

"Alright then... I'll wait for you to come back."

Dou Tang hummed in agreement and patted Huaiyin's head. Huaiyin had become more and more sensible since they came out this time, which made him very gratified.

Tsukishima had been waiting downstairs for a long time. Tou Tang and Kume Chika stood up and went out. As the sound of their footsteps gradually faded away, Huaiyin finally got out of bed.

I didn't sleep well last night, and I even secretly cried in his arms, but luckily I didn't wake him up.

Wearing her pajamas, Huaiyin walked into the bathroom and began to wash up. She rolled up her sleeves and was about to wash her face when she was suddenly startled.

A faint, narrow mark appeared on her fair arm beneath the sleeve.

She quickly pulled her sleeve up further and discovered a mark on the outside of her arm, resembling a sword scar, extending from her wrist to her upper arm.

The marks on the outer side, though very faint, are definitely not from sleeping.

"What's this……"

The mark appeared to have no effect on her skin; it was like some strangely colored scene overlapping her arm, with the edges of the mark trembling like an illusory shadow.

She gently stroked the mark, her eyes filled with surprise.

She had seen such marks before.

Just as I was thinking this, the bathroom door slammed shut with a bang, even though there was no wind.

She was startled by the noise. As the door closed, the overhead light began to flicker, and the entire bathroom and shower room became dimly lit.

An eerie atmosphere spread, and in the interplay of light and shadow, her reflection in the mirror seemed to become distorted. A cold, damp aura emanated from nowhere, and she sniffed, a sense of fear welling up inside her.

what happened……

She looked at herself in the mirror, and the marks on her arms slowly emitted a faint glow.

"Zi..."

The overhead light went out, plunging the bathroom into darkness. Huaiyin was startled again and tried to open the door, but then she saw something in the mirror... and something seemed to be in the darkness behind her.

Something dark blue...

She suddenly realized what the marks on her arm were.

The reflection in the mirror showed a terrified face. Only the faint light from the marks on her arms could barely make out the outline of her body. In the darkness behind her, a dark blue creature slowly writhed, like a jellyfish in the deep sea or silk fluttering in the wind.

In her extreme terror, Huaiyin could clearly hear her own heartbeat. She tried to open her eyes wide but could not see anything more in the mirror. Something hidden in the darkness was getting closer.

The dark blue hue fluttered up and down, and a cold, aged voice came from behind.

"A girl? What are you staring at?"

Huaiyin cried out in surprise!

"Aaaaaah! Ah!"

The voice paused, then slowly spoke again: "A girl?"

But to Huaiyin's ears, it was a completely different story. A vengeful spirit, who seemed to have appeared out of nowhere, was whispering in a language he couldn't understand!

Once outside the dream world, she couldn't understand Mandarin at all, let alone her local dialect!

"Ahhhhhh!" She jumped up and down in fright, spinning around in the bathroom in terror, which gave the old man a headache.

Although I had a hunch about what was going on, the scene was still terrifying!

………………

On the day of the festival, the streets were so lively that it was almost unbelievable.

Although the low birth rate is a serious problem now, when the festival comes around, all the young and middle-aged people in Kamogawa City come out to help, and the scene is still quite spectacular.

The statue of Oyama Tsumi was placed on the altar by eight people and carried all the way to the tide-watching plaza by the sea.

Accompanying them were priests from Oyama Tsumi Shrine, as well as people from other temples and shrines who had changed into civilian clothes. Some of them had bandages on their faces, indicating that they were still injured when they went into battle. These people were the exorcists who had participated in the Siren Head incident before.

Dou Tang and Kume Chika moved forward with the crowd, with Tsukishima walking ahead of them. The young boy and girl were still quite curious about the festival, so they slowed their pace.

However, Kume Chinatsu was genuinely curious, while Toudou wanted to see if there was anything unusual about the rituals at Japanese shrines.

Among the crowd accompanying the festival, Tou Tang spotted Aida Gaku again; it seemed this guy really loved joining in the fun.

Drunk fighting, always looking for trouble, tall and strong, fighting with boxing gloves... Are you really a monk?

Following Chinatsu Kume, the three of them quickly left the festival crowd by avoiding the flow of people and sped up their pace.

Walking down the street, Tsukishima looked at Toudou and said, "Kiryu-kun, do you have any clothes you want to wear later? Will your family agree to you working as a model?"

"I have no intention of debuting; I'm just trying to earn some extra money," Dou Tang said frankly. "And my family won't have any objections."

Huaiyin desperately wanted Doutang to debut as a star; in her eyes, no amount of fame from Doutang would be too much.

But Chinatsu Kume clearly interpreted it as something else, her face darkened, and she tiptoed and whispered a few words to Tsukishima.

Tsukishima was somewhat surprised and quickly apologized: "I'm sorry, Kiryu-kun, I didn't know there was... an accident at your home."

"It's alright, it's all in the past."

Soon, the three arrived at the beach where the filming had taken place that day. Several people had gathered on the beach, and a campervan had been brought over to be used as a makeup truck.

Dou Tang suddenly thought of Lu Zizhen. Lu Zizhen also worked as a model, but she worked for that guy, what was his name again?

Oh right, Iwabuchi Mei, that independent brand creator.

I wonder how much advertising fee Lu Zizhen can get from her. Should I give it a try too?

Breathing heavily and lost in thought, Tou Tang was already being pulled onto the beach by the excited Chinatsu Kume.

Chapter 22 The Mysterious Girl Who's Afraid of the Cold

Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Hospital morgue.

Every year, Tokyo handles hundreds of cases involving unidentified or unclaimed bodies. Apart from unidentified bodies found as evidence in homicide cases, families are notified to make funeral arrangements for bodies that have been solved or are unrelated to the case.

But a small portion

The bodies, unclaimed and unrelated to the case, sometimes become cadavers for medical schools (medical teaching materials), while others are cremated at the expense of hospitals cooperating with the police department.

Ryunosuke Kanakawa, whose identity was previously confirmed, is currently having his body preserved at this hospital in Tokyo, awaiting cremation.

His entire body was charred, and a large amount of ash was found in his mouth and lungs, all of which proved that Ryunosuke Kanakawa was burned alive. But strangely, according to the traces at the scene, he did not move at all from the time his body caught fire until the flames went out naturally. He remained lying face down on the ground, as if an invisible force was pressing him to the ground and making him unable to move.

For this reason, the body had no conventional anatomical value, and naturally no medical school wanted it.

This young man, who may have only wanted to revitalize the biker gang on Oni Island, died under mysterious circumstances. He didn't even have a proper funeral, and no one came to pay their respects.

He was sealed in a cold bag and thrown into the morgue's freezer, waiting for the day when, perhaps at the end of the year or when the hospital had plenty of money, he would be cremated along with other unclaimed bodies.

To end up in such a tragic state of mind confirms Dou Tang's previous assessment of biker gangs: many of them choose to become biker gangs to vent their frustrations because they have no other choice, and they never think about the consequences.

The morgue attendant was an elderly woman in her sixties who used to be the head nurse at the hospital. However, she was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and had to retire early. After retiring, she still wanted to contribute to the hospital, so she was assigned to be the morgue attendant.

Most of the hospital is full of her acquaintances, and many of her former patients still come to visit her often, all respectfully calling her Grandma Chizai.

Grandma Chizai went to work as usual, swiped her employee ID at the time clock at the entrance of the morgue, changed into a white coat, put on her glasses, sat down in a chair, opened today's newspaper, and prepared to spend her morning like this.

She studied nursing, worked as a nurse, and then became the morgue manager. She was no longer afraid of corpses. Even when faced with a bunch of cold freezers filled with corpses, she could calmly eat her lunch and read magazines.

"Air raid sirens are being tested in Kamogawa City to build momentum for the festival... That's great. If I have the chance, I'd like to go and pray to Buddha there."

She raised her eyes, squinted, and continued flipping through the newspaper.

Just then, footsteps echoed down the narrow corridor outside the door.

The morgue is downstairs in the hospital. Normally, no one would come here intentionally to notify someone of a new body. The footsteps were hurried, but people who came to visit her would call first. At this moment, the footsteps outside the door were light and playful, like a lively girl walking on tiptoe.

There was another eerie sound that didn't sound like footsteps. The intervals between the footsteps were very long, almost every two seconds, but judging from the volume, it seemed to be moving at the same speed as the girl.

Even if someone has long legs, they couldn't possibly be that long, right?

Just as she was wondering who it could be, footsteps approached from outside the door.

There was only one person outside the door, a well-behaved-looking black-haired girl dressed in simple clothes, jeans with a gray sweater, and a scarf around her neck, looking like she was afraid of the cold.

She has a pair of clear and bright eyes, which reminds Grandma Chizai of the huge eyes of a deer in a magazine she had seen before. They are both equally bright and spirited, with a kind of spirituality that seems to be able to communicate with nature.

She knocked politely on the open door, her voice melodious and gentle: "Hello, excuse me."

Grandma Chizai put down her newspaper and smiled, "Little girl, is there something you need?"

As the girl walked in, Grandma Chizai noticed that her scarf and sweater were held together by a shiny silver badge with a dense cluster of locust blossoms on it.

She entered the house with a smile and said, "Hello, I'm looking for a corpse. I wonder if you could help me?"

"Looking for a body?" Granny Chi raised her eyebrows in confusion, then said earnestly, "Young lady, you can't just see a body whenever you want. You have to get a certificate from the Metropolitan Police Department first, and then submit an application to the hospital... The procedures are very complicated!"

"You're a patient's family member at the hospital, right? This isn't a place to fool around, go back now!"

The girl seemed a little embarrassed and awkward, and put her hands together. "Oh, I'm so sorry, I'm really sorry, but that corpse is really important to me. Could you please make an exception?"