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Chapter 1690: Passage (This Meow will evolve into a Meow Tank!)

After that, time passed day by day.

New Year, another new year. As Duanmu Huai guessed, after the new year, the reports about the Shibuya terrorist attack gradually disappeared from the media. Everything seemed to have returned to normal. Most of the curse masters who caused trouble had been killed by Duanmu Huai and other curse masters. The rest, either because they saw the situation was not good or because they were not in the right spot, hid themselves.

Then for a moment, it seemed that everything had calmed down again.

But Duanmu Huai knew that this was not the end. Now the subspace was too close to the Japanese area. Unless those strange and cursed spirits hidden in the subspace were completely eliminated at one time, it was hard to say what would happen.

Moreover, even if the curse caster knows how to protect himself, the same is not true for the cursed spirit.

Just like the student who came to the Classics Department for help today.

"Sorry, I have something I hope the Classics Department can help investigate..."

Perhaps because she saw Duanmu Huai sitting here with her own eyes, the girl who came for help was a little restless.

"What's the matter?"

"Yes, it's like this. I suspect that the house I'm currently living in is... a haunted house."

The girl is a second-year student of general studies, named Honda. She said that last year, her parents moved because of work, so they bought a single-family building. The building has a good location, close to the station and school, and the yard is also large. The decoration is also very satisfactory.

At that time, the whole family liked the house very much, and since it was cheap, they bought it.

But after that, something inexplicable always happened at home.

Honda's parents were very busy with work, so Honda was alone at home most of the time. But she always felt like she was not the only one at home. There were times when Honda was studying in her room and could hear people walking around on the first floor and in the corridor.

At first, Honda thought it was just an illusion or a sound coming from outside, but one time when she was reviewing her homework in her bedroom, she suddenly heard a man and a woman arguing in the entrance. At that time, Honda thought it was her parents who came back and were arguing, so she hurried out to stop them. But when she walked to the stairs, she found that there was no one in the entrance below.

Then Honda felt as if someone pushed her, causing her to lose her balance and fall down the stairs. Fortunately, Honda protected her head, but even so, she broke her leg and stayed in the hospital for several days. Although her parents thought she fell down the stairs accidentally, Honda was very sure that someone pushed her from behind.

After being discharged from the hospital, Honda's feeling became stronger. Not only that, she found that her parents seemed to have changed. Originally, her parents had a good relationship, but now they quarreled every three days and had small quarrels every two days. They were very irritable and would quarrel over the slightest thing.

Honda had an Akita dog before, and had raised it from childhood to adulthood, with whom he had a very good relationship. But on the day of moving, the Akita dog kept barking at the house, and then ran away when no one was paying attention.

Honda searched for a long time but couldn't find it. He was very sad for a while. However, a few days ago, when he went out to get a newspaper, he found the Akita dog with its neck twisted and thrown at the door. Honda was very shocked at the time. His mother also felt it was strange. Only his father insisted that it was just the work of a pervert and not a ghost.

Honda was so angry that he had a big quarrel with his father, and both sides even started fighting. His father, who had never beaten Honda since he was a child, was ruthless this time. He grabbed Honda's head and slammed it against the wall. In the end, it was his mother who came out to stop him.

"…It wasn't like this before. Although our previous home was a little shabby, we all had a good relationship. But since we moved to the new house, this kind of thing has happened. I think…I think there must be something wrong with the house!"

In response to Honda's words, the three of them looked at each other, and then Chitanda spoke.

"If I remember correctly, real estate companies have an obligation to inform about haunted houses... Don't you know that?"

"…………………"

Honda shook his head.

"I went to the company that sold the house to us to inquire, but they insisted that this was a clean property and showed me the rental contract that was signed before..."

"How long did you rent it for?"

At this moment, Duanmu Huai suddenly asked. Hearing Duanmu Huai's question, Honda thought about it for a while.

"It seems like a month..."

"But why are you looking for our Classics Department?"

Yanami was eating senbei while looking at Honda curiously, and the latter took out the company newsletter.

"This is... the magazine I bought before. The research on food and ghost stories in it is very novel and fascinating, so I think you are very knowledgeable in this area..."

"………………………"

The three of them looked at each other.

Yanami is very knowledgeable about food, Duanmu Huai is very knowledgeable about ghost stories, and Chitanda is very knowledgeable about literature.

Well, that’s not wrong.

Three-in-one is also a cassette.

"boom!"

At this moment, Honda suddenly stretched out his hand and slammed the table hard!

"Even you don't believe me? I'm not lying!"

"Whoa!"

Honda's sudden outburst had no signs at all, and Yana was so frightened that she dropped the senbei in her hand, and Chitanda was frozen there, motionless. Only Duanmu Huai raised his eyebrows, and did not speak, but stared at Honda carefully. The latter was now pressing on the table, with a fierce momentum, his eyes full of bloodshot, staring at them fiercely.

"Don't you even believe me? I'm not lying! Everything I said is true!"

"Okay, calm down, Honda-san."

As Duanmu Huai spoke, he exerted a breath on Honda. Feeling the pressure exerted by Duanmu Huai, Honda, who had been behaving like a madman, suddenly woke up as if from a dream. He immediately came to his senses and sat down obediently again.

"Yes, I'm sorry! I don't know what happened just now... I'm really sorry, I can't seem to control myself... Sorry for disturbing you!"

After saying this, Honda picked up his schoolbag, turned around and quickly left the club, leaving the three of them looking at each other in bewilderment.

"Gang, what happened just now?"

Yanami picked up the senbei that had fallen on the table and took a bite to calm himself down, while his eyes widened at the same time.

"I was also shocked. It was as if Honda had become a completely different person. It was so scary..."

Chitanda also reached out and pressed her chest, she let out a long breath, then she looked at Duanmu Huai.

"Xiao Ai, what did you just ask Honda-san what did that mean?"

"Oh, I just want to confirm whether anyone has died in that house. Now it seems that there is a high probability that someone has died."

"Hey? How did you know?"

Seeing this, Yana also came over curiously. "Didn't Eru just say that real estate agents have an obligation to inform?"

"Yes, but that's only for the 'last customer'."

Duanmu Huai snapped his fingers.

"In fact, I have heard similar rumors in the industry. Many real estate developers want to sell haunted houses where people have died. However, people don't want to live in haunted houses when they hear about them. So what should they do? It's simple. Clean the house."

"Washing the room?"

Faced with Duanmu Huai's words, the two were a little confused.

"Do you want to clean the room thoroughly?"

"of course not."

Duanmu Huai rolled his eyes.

"Didn't I just say that? The obligation to inform the next tenant of a haunted house is limited to the next tenant of the house. If there are no problems with the tenant during the lease, then there is no need to inform the next tenant when renting or selling the house. Therefore, many real estate companies will do this. Once a house becomes a haunted house due to a death, they will ask their employees to sign a rental agreement and let them live there."

"So the employees are willing to live here?"

Hearing this, Yanaijian widened his eyes in surprise.

"He doesn't need to actually live in the house, he just needs to sign the contract. And this is usually a short-term rental. Although the contract says he lives in the house, he doesn't actually live in it. But after the contract expires, the house is no longer a haunted house on paper, so there is no need to explain it when introducing it to customers."

At this point, Duanmu Huai chuckled. The Japanese actually like to play tricks like this, just like legal gambling like Pachinko. Japanese law also strictly prohibits gambling, but as I said before, there are policies from above and countermeasures from below. If you don't allow us to engage in legal sexual activities, then we will engage in abnormal sexual activities such as voyeurism and SM to circumvent laws and regulations.

According to Japanese laws and regulations, gambling is illegal if it involves monetary transactions.

So how do the Japanese circumvent this law?

Very simple.

When you win at pachinko, you don't get money or chips, but a lot of physical prizes, such as cigarettes, cosmetics, DVDs, various food and health products, etc. Then, you can leave the pachinko shop with these goods and sell them for money in the shop opposite.

It is illegal to give money directly, but you can’t do anything about it if I sell the prize for money.

The pachinko parlor is not breaking the law, they are giving out real prizes.

There is nothing illegal about the store that buys up the prizes. They are buying goods, so they have to pay for the goods.

The customer himself has not violated any law. You say that I won a prize, but I don’t want it so I sell it. This is my own business. Does the law have anything to do with it?

This is the famous “three-store model” of Pachinko.

As for whether the prizes purchased here will flow back to the pachinko parlor to wait for the next lucky winner, that is another matter.

If anyone says that the Japanese follow the rules, Duanmu Huai will give them a slap in the face. They are blatantly jumping on the edge of the law. They are like rats, they will crawl into any hole they find.

"Is there such a thing?"

After listening to Duanmu Huai's explanation, Yanaijian and Chitanda were shocked. It was obvious that it was the first time for them to feel that society was so sinister...

"So for single-family homes like this, there are rarely short-term rentals. So when Honda-san said one month, I guessed there was a problem... But before that..."

Duanmu Huai looked at Yanami and Chitanda.

"What do you think? Do you want to intervene?"

"this……………"

Yanami and Chitanda looked at each other, and then Yanami raised his hand.

"Of course, I didn't expect a real estate company to do such a thing. We must expose this despicable behavior to the public! Even if they are not breaking the law, I will not let them go!"

"And I'm also curious whether the haunted house is really haunted! I think this can be the core topic of the next issue of the club magazine!"

Chitanda also interrupted and spoke.

"Ok."

Duanmu Huai thought for a moment and smiled slightly.

"It's decided then. See you in Yana."

"Ok?"

"You are responsible for finding out about Honda's situation."

Although Yanami likes to eat, she is a Yang-type person and has a good relationship with people in the general department, so there is no problem in leaving the investigation work to her.

"Okay, leave it to me."

Yana ate the rest of the senbei in one go and patted her chest vigorously.

"Chitanda...Since the direction of the next issue of the magazine has been decided, how about we just go to a few more spiritual places?"

"Ah, do you want me to look for it in the documentation?"

"Yes, please."

"Okay, what about little love?"

"As for me...after Yanamin receives the clues, I will ask someone to investigate the true situation of the house."

The real estate company will not tell you about this kind of thing.

But Duanmu Huai can go directly to the Metropolitan Police Department.

Of course, Duanmu Huai also had his own selfish motives for doing this.

He had always wanted to find a stable channel connecting to the subspace. After that, Professor Ueno's house was sealed by the police, and the channel connecting to the subspace disappeared. So Duanmu Huai had to find another one. The location of the channel connecting to the subspace is generally where all kinds of supernatural events continue. It can be said that from this point of view, the Inquisitor is more like an exorcist, looking for haunted houses everywhere, and then expelling evil spirits, sealing and destroying the channel connecting to the subspace.

So when he heard this commission, Duanmu Huai had already decided on his next course of action.

Just start here.