I'm a ghost story witch in Tokyo

Chapter 40 40. Weeping Mountain

"It is a road map that can avoid the eyes of the shrine. You also know that the weak witch's memory and lifespan are similar to those of humans. At my age, I will always forget some things. I can only write down what happened with paper and pen. .

This route is a little special. Everyone in the town thinks that the mountain is shrouded in an ominous atmosphere. People often disappear, and no one is alive or dead.

Every night, the witch passing by on a broom will hear someone crying and screaming. Over time, no one dares to fly to the airspace over there. The people of Chaobinai named the mountain "Mountain of Weeping". , because it often makes a sound like a woman weeping.

A few years ago, a few ordinary tourists went to Weeping Mountain to test their courage. They were all young people who did not know magic and did not know the heights of the sky and the depths of the earth.They only asked for a guide from the town to accompany them, and they disappeared along with the guide. "

While making tea for them, Mrs. Yoshino told the story of the mountain behind Asahina Shrine, making this hot afternoon "cool and pleasant".

"Sure enough, weird stories are easy to happen in the mountains. Is there a follow-up to this story?"

Rui Ji felt a chill down his spine, but was curious about what would happen next.

"Of course, I'm not done yet."

Sprinkle a handful of tea leaves into the purple sand teapot, cover the lid, and Mrs. Yoshino continued to tell.

"In 1989, which was also the last year of the Showa era, I went to the mountain to collect silver bells that grew between the cliffs. It was a rare material that was shaped like a wind chime and could be used to refine potions. It's just that the Weeping Mountain It is dangerous, and everyone is reluctant to go, so the number of silver bells is very large. I took the idea of ​​trying my luck and went to the mountain one evening."

A gust of sea breeze blew the Japanese-style wind chime hanging outside the wooden house, causing Rui Ji's hand holding the rice ball to tremble suddenly.

This kind and weak witch can always surprise her.

Yue has been silently holding the food in the lunch box, cooking carefully, and her every move is in line with her image of a cook.The stories Mrs. Yoshino told are very suitable for dinner. Instead of feeling scared, she has more and more appetite.

"Silver bellflowers can only be seen when they are picked at night. During the day, the silver bellflowers will appear in an almost transparent state. If you don't look carefully, you can't find them. When you get to the middle of the mountain, the sky is completely dark. Guess what? What happened next?"

Mrs. Yoshino deliberately stopped at a wonderful place, and filled three purple clay tea bowls with golden tea soup.

"Encountered a terrible strange story?"

Rui Ji picked up the tea bowl, scalded his tongue by the hot tea, stuck out the tip of his tongue like a cat, and blew cool air on it forcefully.Horror stories always make people nervous, even if it is still broad daylight outside, there is an illusion of wind blowing from behind.

It was getting cooler in the cabin.

"That's not a strange story at all, but two witches. One is a weak witch from our town, and the other is a witch from Nagoya, a beautiful urbanite."

"elopement?"

"It's just elopement. The atmosphere in Asahina is weird and depressing. More and more young people don't want to stay, but the mayor is a ruthless person. She knows that the witches who want to escape will end badly. She thinks that people born in Asahina Should stay here forever. So young people who can't bear it will leave with the strange tale of Weeping Mountain."

Although the reversal of the story is a bit clichéd, it is also reasonable.

Strange tales can hide the truth behind them, so the legend of the Weeping Mountain was born to help the young witches who were imprisoned in the cage to escape their shackles.

"Did the pair of witches be found in the end?"

Now Rui Ji's focus has changed from strange stories to the ending of the pair of elopement witches.If the elopement fails, the story becomes a Bad Ending.In any case, she still hopes that lovers can get married in the end.

"Don't worry, they went down the mountain smoothly and got on the ferry leaving Asahina under my watch. I decided to go with them from the moment I met them, so as not to have no one to take care of them when I met people in the town, and the journey was safe and sound Fuck, some witches knew that I was collecting medicine, because they didn't have a good relationship with each other, and they didn't bother to talk to me, at that time, the two children were hiding in the grass next to them, their faces were livid with fright."

Hearing that the two elopement witches left smoothly, not only Rui Ji, but also Yue, who was cooking silently, breathed a sigh of relief for them.Hearing about other people's tragedies during times of stress can only make your mood worse.

The topic finally came to the key part, the previous story is equivalent to creating momentum for the most critical content promotion.

"You can make good use of the strange stories about Weeping Mountain to attract people's attention. Many young people who have 'mysteriously disappeared' have used it to successfully leave and never came back. In twos and threes, they used the excuse of going up the mountain to collect herbs and successfully disappeared from everyone's sight. After climbing to the top of the mountain, and then hiding in the shadows and flying to the back of the shrine, the patrolling witch would never have thought that someone would take this path."

The climbing route map of Weeping Mountain is drawn on the folded kraft paper. Mount Weeping is more steeper than Mount Akabane where the shrine is located. Climbing purely by physical strength without relying on brooms is a test of the witch’s physical and mental strength. It is a kind of self-training. The way.

This evening happened to be the best time to preview in advance. Only by being familiar with the rescue route can we be able to do it handily and calmly deal with everything that is about to happen.

Rui Ji had never participated in such a special rescue operation before, and after looking at the map several times, he found something was wrong.

"You mean, we climb up from the north slope where there is almost no foothold?"

"There is a way up the mountain on the south slope, but the possibility of someone passing by is not ruled out. You are all witches, not weak witches like us. How can this small hill several hundred meters high be difficult for you?"

"Having said that...is there no safety cable?"

"No, the whole journey needs to be climbed with bare hands, please make good use of the advantages of the blood of the pure blood witch."

Mrs. Yoshino shatters her last fantasies straight to the point.

The training mission in the afternoon was temporarily changed and turned into a more thrilling and exciting pathfinding mission.What I have to face this time is a mountain several hundred meters high and a group of superstitious and weak witches with sinister thoughts.

Although the broom is not used temporarily during the climbing process, it has to be carried instead of carrying the weight on the back.The motorized broom cannot be folded, which is a test for climbing skills.

This incident once again proves that the witch world is crazy.

Yue has become accustomed to freehand rock climbing, and she even plans to challenge the world's highest peak - Mount Everest on the border between China and Nepal when she has time.

"Going to climb Mount Everest, are you serious?"

"When I was in junior high school, I had already climbed to the top of Mount Fuji, and Mount Everest is nothing."

The indifferent pink-white long-haired witch tied her hair into a neat single ponytail, put on gardening gloves picked up from the hotel gardener, and opened a bottle of strangely colored transparent green potion.

"We each drink half of it."

(End of this chapter)