I'm a thankful fox in Tokyo

Chapter 166: God's Envoy - Shino
Xiaoli Hot Spring Hotel,

After the exorcists left, the few customers to begin with completely disappeared, and the waiters suddenly had some free time. They gathered together on chairs in the courtyard to chat.

"That guest came back in the morning covered in blood, his yukata was torn to pieces, and there was a knife on his waist. I was shocked. If you didn't know him, you would have thought he was a ronin swordsman from some swordplay movie."

"A Zhang, when you pushed the dining cart to his room later, what did you see? Can you tell me?"

The waiter called A Zhang got angry when he thought of this.

"What can I see? I only know that the customer is tall, handsome, a big eater, and very stingy. I pushed the food cart for a long time, but I didn't even give him a tip."

"How dare you! How dare you slander Master Dongye behind his back—woo!"

As they were chatting, a young man with a topknot suddenly appeared from the courtyard wall near the forest. He was wearing a simple and shabby Wu clothing and looked like the farmers in the black and white photos in history textbooks.

He looked a bit rough, with his eyes glaring with anger, holding a branch and shouting that he was going to beat up a few waiters.

What's going on? Are you cosplaying? Or are you playing a prank on tiktak?
Several waiters were stunned for a second.
"Santarou!"

"Stop talking!"

A young man poked his head out from behind the courtyard wall, covered his mouth and pushed him down. There seemed to be a few more people behind the wall, and there were faint sounds of struggle.

The young man was dressed normally, in a white short-sleeved shirt, had an ordinary appearance, and spoke very politely.

He smiled and asked, "Excuse me, does Mr. Higashino live here?"

"Mr. Dongye, who is that?" The other two waiters looked at each other.

"That guest you were asking about."

A Zhang explained that he learned the customer's last name from a conversation he heard between the customer and a beautiful girl in a fancy kimono while delivering food.

Then he looked at the young man lying on the wall and said, "It seems that he took a tour bus to Taolin with other guests. He should have arrived by now."

"I see. Sorry to bother you. Thank you!"

The young man nodded gratefully and disappeared behind the courtyard wall.

"A Zhang, this is not good? We are not getting the customer's consent..."

A waiter frowned, not agreeing with his casual disclosure of guests' privacy.

"Hey, what could be the problem?" A Zhang smiled, stretched and didn't care much.

"Anyway, I don't plan to work here for long. I'm going to Tokyo to make a living after I get paid this month. There's no point in being a waiter all the time. I want to see the wider world!"

Just then, several people suddenly heard the sound of conversation behind the courtyard wall.

"Taodong, Master Dongye has gone to the peach forest."

"Shall we go back too? Opening the gate to the fairyland requires a ceremony. If we run faster, we might be able to catch up with Uncle Wulang and the others."

"Ah."

Taodong, Santaro and the others discussed for a moment and prepared to go to the peach forest immediately.

The three waiters sat on chairs listening to the faint whispers behind the courtyard wall and looked at each other. Could it be a thief?

They walked over quietly, jumped up and climbed onto the wall to look outside, but they only saw three ridiculously large civet cats and a smaller civet cat running into the woods not far away.

What about people?

The three of them looked at each other in shock.

Fairyland,

Dong Ye Yu pushed the farmer's raccoon cat who had fainted on the ground out of the bushes. The cat rolled over a few times and lay down on the dirt road.

Jinguji and the others did not show up, so as long as Tanuki Goro and the others came back in the evening, he could show up in public.

What if he was recognized by the frightened farmer?
I just asked some normal questions in the fairyland. I can explain the reasons for doing so, or I can choose not to.

This is the authority of the great monster.

Higashino Yu then quietly came to the place where the Hiiragi sisters of Jinguji were hiding - behind a big rock.

Look at them.

"Ms. Jinguji, what are you going to do?"

According to the one who claimed to be a raccoon cat monster, if an ordinary raccoon cat wants to leave the fairyland, it must first notify the elders of the raccoon village, and then bring a lantern to the shrine in the village to worship the gods.

Use the ever-burning candles in the temple to light the lanterns, and follow the guidance of the lanterns along the road - the same road you saw when you came here just now - to the end of the white fog.

Jinguji Hiiragi Kagami hesitated for two seconds and said, "First, follow what the raccoon cat monster said and send Kaori and the others out."

Although Kaori Shiori's talent is very useful, this fairyland is quite strange and no one knows what will come out next.

It will only become more and more dangerous if we continue to stay here.

"That's a very sensible thing to do, but I'm thinking--"

Dong Yeyu said as he looked up at Jinguji Hiiragi Kagami: "How about Miss Jinguji come with us? I'll take you there."

"Ms. Kaori and Ms. Shiori need protection in the outside world. At present, we don't know whether it is Ueda Hideki himself who has a problem or the entire Ueda family, as a local boss, has a problem, so the outside world may not be safe."

"After we get out, I will escort you all the way to Inzai City Station until you get on the Shinkansen to Tokyo. Uda Hideki probably wouldn't have thought that someone could leave the fairyland so quickly, but to be on the safe side, you'd better disguise yourself."

"As for Mr. Jinguji and the others, Master Higashino and I will do our best to rescue them."

When Jinguji Hiiragi Kagami heard this, she looked at the fox with some surprise. She had been talking nonsense before, but now she had to admit that the fox's arrangement was indeed the safest.

The girl fell into deep thought. She had been in such a hurry before that she had no time to think, but now, questions popped up one after another.

Why did Uda Hideki betray? Is he related to the frequent disappearances of tourists in Momogo Town? Is he in league with the demons? What about the Uda family?

There is still a lot of information waiting to be filled in, but Jinguji Hiiragi Jing subconsciously feels that this incident may be far more serious than imagined.

"Can you do it by yourself?" she asked.

Dong Yeyu thought about it and shook his head slightly: "I don't know."

"The raccoon monsters have enshrined six great monsters and are preparing to fight the demons that are wreaking havoc on the fairyland. It will probably be tonight or tomorrow."

"I don't know yet whether the monsters we have to deal with are the ones in the white fog, but since the raccoons can summon seven great monsters at once, I think they are not those monsters with low cultivation."

"When the fight breaks out, no one knows what the outcome will be."

After he finished speaking, the atmosphere fell silent for a moment.

Kaori and Shiori, who were standing by, heard that this place would become very dangerous, and raised their heads, "Ayu, don't you want to come with us?"

"I'm leaving, what about Mr. Jinguji and the others? Even if they're not attacked by demons, they might get lost in the fairyland. Someone needs to tell them how to leave."

"And I have made an appointment with the raccoons to help them kill the demons together with the other six great monsters. A male fox is a man of integrity and cannot go back on his word."

When Kaori and Shiori heard this, they fell silent, thinking about the fact that their parents were in danger of death and really needed someone to rescue them.

But it's so dangerous here. What if the big fox A Yu gets killed if he stays here?
The two girls felt a little annoyed and guilty, and then they remembered that Dong Ye Yu was still missing, so they turned and asked.

"What about Tono Nissan?"

You two have a conscience and still know me. Dong Yeyu smiled proudly and boasted.

"Lord Dongye should be looking for other demon hunters. He has a high level of cultivation and powerful magic weapons. Even gods would be humiliated in front of him. Don't worry about him."

"Dongye Nissan is so powerful?"

Kaori and Shiori looked at their cousin in surprise.

Jinguji Hiiragi Kagami recalled what he had seen and heard at the home of the old lady named Sakurada Wakako and nodded.

"Dongye's inheritance should come from Shenzhou. It is said that some of the ancestors of Shenzhou practitioners served as immortal officials in the Shenzhou Divine Realm. Some outstanding descendants will receive gifts from their ancestors."

"Immortal official?"

“You can understand it as a god.”

"Did Dong Ye Ni San receive a gift from the gods?!"

"That's understandable."

The two little girls were in awe when they heard this and felt relieved.

Is there really a heaven?

Higashino Yu was a little surprised when he heard this, but when he thought about the fact that there were Takama-ga-hara and Kunitsu-gami on the island country, it was not surprising that there was a heaven in Shenzhou.

"Okay, time waits for no one, wait a moment."

Higashino Yu and Jinguji Hiiragi Kagami then discussed for a while what to do next.

Higashino Yu originally wanted to steal the lanterns by himself, but was rejected by Jinguji Hiiragi Kagami on the grounds that he could not become smaller and would be too big to attract attention.

Finally it was decided that Jinguji Hiiragi Kagami would steal the lanterns and borrow the divine fire.

Higashino Yu, Kaori Shiori and a fox will hide outside to provide support. If everything goes well, they will proceed as planned. If an emergency occurs, Higashino Yu will jump out directly!
After finishing the discussion, the three of them climbed onto the big fox's back again, and Dongye Yu carried them on his back and sneaked all the way to the shrine in the raccoon village.

According to the raccoon cat monster, Elder Tanuki is the priest of the shrine and is usually inside the shrine during the day. The lanterns needed to leave the fairyland are also in the shrine.

The four arrived at the woods behind the Tanuki-sato Shrine. The shrine here is also called Hishisawa Shrine, and it is probably dedicated to the water god Hishisawa.

It was the spring ploughing season, and Tanuki was the only one in the shrine.

Dong Ye Yu hid in the woods and observed an old raccoon cat wearing a hunting robe and sweeping the floor with a broom not far away.

This is a rather old civet cat with white eyebrows hanging on both sides of its cheeks and a thick and long beard on its face, like Santa Claus. The hair all over its body is withered and gray. It has a hunched body and moves slowly.

However, its cultivation is much higher than that of ordinary raccoons.

Of course, it's the difference between a mosquito and a larger mosquito.

Dong Yeyu looked for a while, felt safe, and spoke in a low voice.

"That should be Tanuki. I'll attract his attention. Miss Jinguji, you go get the lantern."

"Well, be careful."

Jinguji Hiiragi Jing nodded, put a talisman that could restrain the breath on himself and Higashino Yu respectively, bent his body, and sneaked towards the shrine quietly.

Higashino Yu carried the two pendants, Kaori and Shiori, to the other side and knocked hard on the wall of the shrine.

When Li Zhui heard the noise, he looked at the worship hall in surprise. After a moment of silence, he seemed to have figured out the source of the sound. His eyes, which seemed to be closed, opened a little wider and he raised his head to look in the direction where the sound came from.

"Who?"

As he said this, he put the broom next to the railing of the worship hall and walked towards Dong Yeyu.

The shrine is not big. After searching for a while, Jinguji Hiiragi Kagami found a pile of well-placed lanterns in a small house not far from the worship hall.

It was a traditional Japanese lantern, covered with a layer of red paper with the Chinese character "貉" written on it. There was a white candle in the lantern, and it looked like the kind you could buy wholesale from a country store.

After getting the lantern, the girl sneaked into the worship hall as nimbly and quietly as a cat.

There was nothing offered in the worship hall, only a large red candle burning quietly in the center. The bright light illuminated the entire worship hall, and the solidified candle wax almost completely submerged the base.

This should be it.

She didn't intend to waste time, so she climbed over the railing of the main entrance of the worship hall and went to borrow light with her lantern.

"A mouse actually got in."

The voice coming from behind made Jinguji Hiiragi Kagami's body stiffen slightly. It sounded like the voice of a young man.

At first it sounds very gentle and refined, and even when he said this, he only looked slightly distressed.

Jinguji Hiiragi Kagami put down the lantern, held Kunimitsu Nyudo Isshin tightly in one hand, and turned to look.

A man was standing in the corridor outside the worship hall.

He has a slender figure, a feminine and handsome appearance, and is dressed in the garb of a messenger of God. The upper body is a white large-sleeved kimono that symbolizes holiness, and the lower body is a gray crotch. A powerful sword hangs around his waist.

As he spoke, he looked in another direction, frowning, "There are so many rats, and even a wild fox? The fairyland is really becoming more and more corrupt."

The tone was like the distress that people would feel when they are cleaning at home and suddenly find cockroaches.

Then he looked at Jinguji Hiiragi Kagami with an expression as if he was looking at an ant and his voice was cold.

"I am Shino, the messenger of the water god Hishizawa. Mortals, you have teamed up with demons, trespassed into the fairyland, and offended the gods. Do you know your crime?"

Jinguji Hiiragi Kagami loosened his grip on the sword and explained seriously.

"We are demon exorcists sent by the Ministry of Religion, Culture, Science and Technology to Momogo Town to exorcise demons. We were attacked by villains and mistakenly entered the fairyland. We did not break in intentionally."

"That monster is the shikigami of one of the demon slayers, not a demon."

Then he asked again: "Since you are the messenger of Lord Hishizawa Water God, you have great magical powers. You can find out the whole story with a little investigation. Can you help us kill the demons and capture the traitors?"

"Once the mission is completed and we return to Tokyo, we will ask officials from the Ministry of Religion, Culture, Science and Technology to go to Izumo Taisha to report our achievements to you."

As she spoke, her eyes were fixed on the man in front of her, her hand was ready to draw her sword at any time, and she did not relax her guard at all.

The man in front of him who claimed to be a messenger of God had unfathomable cultivation, and the oppressive feeling he gave people was much stronger than that of ordinary big monsters.

And this messenger of God seemed to have bad intentions.

The messenger of the god who called himself Shino seemed not to hear what Jinguji Hiiragi Kagami said. He sighed and gently stroked the hilt of the sword with his fingers.

"Offending the gods is a capital crime."

As he spoke, he grasped the hilt of the knife and looked at the girl: "Kneel down, I may be able to let you, an ant, live a little longer."

Seeing this, Jinguji Hiiragi Kagami's expression became serious, pursed his lips slightly, slowly drew his sword, and assumed the middle position.

"I will not surrender."

Shino nodded and was about to draw his sword to kill the girl in front of him.

At this moment, he suddenly turned his head slightly and looked to the left with some surprise - the big fox had been standing several meters away from him without him knowing.

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