Tokyo: My Hundred Demon Scroll

But she also smelled the aroma of food, which meant there were people inside the clock tower.

"Ah."

Chihiro, holding her mother's hand, followed Akio Ogino into the dark tunnel.

Soon, the three arrived at a place that resembled a train station waiting room, and the sound of trams whirring in their ears further confirmed their guess.

"The sound of a tram!"

Chihiro and the others continued forward, and after passing through the clock tower, the three of them felt that the view ahead suddenly opened up.

Wisps of white clouds float in the azure sky, and a gentle breeze stirs the green grass.

"really."

Akio Ogino looked at the dilapidated houses and various animal statues buried in the soil and said, "There must have been a theme park here before."

In Japan, this kind of gimmick to attract tourists is common in many rural towns and villages, and is not surprising.

"Sniff sniff~"

"It smells better and better."

"Here, Chihiro, hurry up and keep up."

"Ah, wait for me."

Chihiro notices her parents walking faster and faster. They climb a grassy slope, cross a dried-up riverbed, and at the top of the steps, a stone-carved frog faces the three of them.

Unlike her parents, who were completely unaware and simply walked past the frog statue, Chihiro stared at the frog for a long time before running over when her parents called out to her.

The word for frog in Japanese is the same as the word for 'return'.

Starting with the guardian deity statue, these sculptures have been constantly hinting to the Ogino family that they should stop moving forward.

However, apart from Chihiro, the Ogino couple seemed to be drawn by some force, completely immersed in the aroma of the food, unable to extricate themselves.

Chapter 129 Even the World's Will Has a Generation Gap

Gu Yun sat inside the divine chariot, his eyes slightly closed, focusing his mind and maximizing his spiritual perception.

'Chihiro wears the amulet I made; it retains my scent.'

Relying on his senses, Gu Yun can find the traces left by the amulet, and thus follow the clues to find its last known location.

In order to find Chihiro as soon as possible, Gu Yun even chose to have his soul leave his body.

His physical body slowed down the chariot, but in his soul state, all physical limitations ceased to exist.

The entire journey, from Tokyo to Hachikawa, took only about ten seconds.

"Is it around here? The last trace of the guardian spirit?"

As the divine chariot landed, Gu Yun began from the very beginning.

This is Chihiro's hometown. After a simple divination, Gu Yun quickly found the Ogino family's old house in the countryside.

Chihiro's grandparents' house was similar to the Iijima family's house, both being large houses with front yards and back gardens.

Because the children have all moved to big cities to develop their careers, the area around the house is quite deserted.

"This is the starting point. Chihiro stayed here for a while."

In a moment of urgency, Gu Yun entered the Ogino family's old house in spirit form.

For ordinary spirits, entering someone else's home is not easy, but that has nothing to do with Gu Yun.

For a sorcerer like him, even in an astral state, the feng shui of a small house is not even a barrier and poses no obstacle whatsoever.

"Are they Chihiro's grandparents?"

Gu Yun saw the elderly couple sitting in the courtyard drinking tea. He silently recited a spell, apologized in his heart, and then directly read their recent memories, focusing on the clue of Chihiro.

Soon, various images of the Ogino family appeared in Gu Yun's mind.

Chihiro Ogino, the drowning boy who died saving his sister, and the Ogino couple's visit to a psychic master named Snail...

Everything that happened to Chihiro, as long as the two elders knew about it, was also known to Gu Yun.

"Is Grandpa involved in this too?"

Gu Yun really didn't expect that her grandfather had actually helped the Ogino family before.

Gu Yun has watched the animated film "Spirited Away" more than once, but this world is not simply an anime world, and many things cannot be taken as a reference by the animation.

Just like in the anime, the snail and Chihiro Ogino might not exist.

Of course, for Gu Yun, Chihiro is not a character from an anime.

The girl was a real person, his classmate, not the fictional girl he imagined.

"Everything has changed, and there's no reference point at all."

When the snail intervenes, when Chihiro becomes a god, and Chihiro is once again lost to the spirit, even Kugure cannot be sure if the place she went to is still the bathhouse.

It might be a different place, or it might still be the bathhouse, but everything will be different.

"White Dragon..."

Gu Yun thought of the divine boy from her memories.

Gu Yun was quite surprised to learn that the Mr. Haku in this world was actually Chihiro's older brother in disguise.

The two old men and the Ogino couple were unaware of the relationship between Haku and Ogino Chi.

But Gu Yun understood what her grandfather meant.

The boy lost his life to save his sister, and the benevolent gods blessed him, not only giving him the body of a dragon but also transforming him into a river god.

"If we can still take the original route, that would be better."

Gods who ascend from mortals often suffer from severe memory loss to prevent them from using their power for personal gain.

Therefore, Haku must have forgotten Chihiro and wouldn't remember her identity.

However, past feelings will not disappear.

If Chihiro can meet Haku, he will definitely help her.

"But what if we hadn't met..."

Gu Yun couldn't risk the lives of the Ogino family, so he pinned his hopes on them meeting Haku and returning safely as planned.

If you do this, the result will be just as predicted by Yaobikuni.

"noob."

Gu Yun released Xiao Bai: "Can you find Qian Xun's aura?"

Having been classmates for so many years, and with Haku always by his side, he was very familiar with Chihiro's scent.

"Here!"

Gu Yun had Xiao Bai lead the way, and at the same time sent Yu Zhuan Jin, Bi An Hua, and Yu Ju Chong to the Pure World, the Other World, and the Illusory World respectively.

Gu Yun couldn't determine where Qianxun had gone.

The power of invisibility is very complex, and its scope is too vast.

Especially in a country like Japan, there are countless places of spiritual rebirth. Who knows what wrong the Ogino family took and what kind of ghostly place they ended up in?

"There is absolutely no trace of them in the Pure Land!"

Miketsu doesn't need to go back. She herself is the will of the world, so how could she not know whether the Ogino family is on her territory or not?

"Ah."

Gu Yun's current access to these worlds is basically limited to these few.

As for Chihiro's destination, he leans more towards the illusory world and the afterlife.

Since the virtual world was being searched by Chrysanthemum Insects, Gu Yun turned his attention to the next life, which had the highest probability of being found.

"This way, Master."

Xiao Bai led the way, with Gu Yun following closely behind.

Two figures moved like ghosts between the forest and the road.

Soon, they came to the end of a road. Ahead was a muddy path lined with numerous stone shrines, the very place where the Ogino family had disappeared.

"It is indeed here!"

Gu Yun was somewhat surprised because the scene before him was extremely similar to the image in his memory: "Even with my intervention, Qianxun still went there?"

Combining his memories with Gu Yun's knowledge of the supernatural, the world where the bathhouse is located is clearly the afterlife.

“There is the scent of the afterlife here. That child and her family, for unknown reasons, stumbled into that world.”

Miketsu was an expert in this area, so Gu Yun quickly asked, "How do we get to the next life? Do we go to the underworld first? Or can we open a door here like Chihiro and the others, and then go in?"

"I have never heard of a mortal being able to go to the next life."

Since the afterlife is called the afterlife, it means that it is not an ordinary place, but the lowest level of the rules of reincarnation.

Of the mysteries that occur in this world, ninety-nine out of a hundred are supernatural tales.

The remaining item is most likely related to the mortal world, the afterlife, or the pure world; in any case, it rarely involves devouring living people in the next life.

"As far as I know, unless someone in the afterlife guides you there, no one can get there."

The next life is between this life and the next life; it is level 1.5.

Miketsu told Gu Yun that such a narrow world was called a "chasm" by the gods, and the smaller the number, the more ambiguous the rules became.

"You mean, someone lured them in?"

Gu Yun was somewhat puzzled; he didn't think the Ogino family would provoke such a being.

"Never mind, let's put this aside for now."

Gu Yun asked, "If I want to go to the next life, what should I do?"

"The souls of the living cannot enter that world."

"Then let the will of the next life take me in?"