Tokyo: I was tricked into marrying a yandere ghost

Seeing Kiyokawa Kiri's pained expression, Kawakami Tomie immediately frowned.

Unlike the other person, she didn't hear any breathing in the darkness, but she could sense something unusual about her surroundings—she also wanted to get the answers she was looking for from the witch at the crossroads, but the ritual seemed to be performed by only one person.

After a moment's thought, Kawakami Tomie did not act rashly, but instead helped Kiyokawa Kiri, who was about to fall.

The latter recovered slightly, shook his head with difficulty, and finally stopped the images flashing through his mind.

"What did you see?" Tomie Kawakami quickly asked.

"I......"

Kiyokawa Kiri glanced at her reflexively, then opened her mouth, but couldn't utter a single word.

He did get an answer from the Witch of the Crossroads, but it wasn't the answer he wanted—the Witch of the Crossroads only showed him an event that had happened two days earlier, a scene of him standing next to the subway exit, talking to himself in the air.

Then Kiyokawa Kiri saw himself turn around and run in another direction of the subway, and then the scene repeated endlessly.

Clearly, the Witch at the Crossroads didn't know exactly what had happened.

She could only tell Kiyokawa Kiri what she knew.

The good news is that there's finally a clue about the amnesia; the bad news is that the clue doesn't seem to be of much use.

Kiyokawa Kiri suspected that the reason she was talking to herself back then was likely because she was talking to the girl in her mind, which meant that the other person had been living in symbiosis with her before she lost her memory...

That guy claimed to have also lost his memory, but it's hard to say whether that's true or not; we'll just have to investigate slowly.

At least now we have a general direction.

Kiyokawa Kiri regained her composure and did not answer Kawakami Tomie's question. Instead, she looked warily at the pitch-black darkness.

He has obtained the answer to the question, and according to the rules of the psychic game, it is now time to pay the price.

Kawakami Tomie clearly realized this as well, so she immediately picked up the knife and mirror from the ground. However, before she could hand them over to Kiyokawa Kiri to complete the payment, a strange sound came from the pitch black.

That sounded like something falling to the ground.

Kiyokawa looked down instinctively and saw that a card holder had fallen out of the darkness and landed right at her feet.

He hesitated for a moment, but still picked up the wallet and opened it, only to find it full of rice coupons, clothing coupons, etc., issued by the Japanese Agricultural Cooperatives...

These commodity coupons are a unique product of Japan during this era. After World War II, Japan entered a society under a "commodity control system," and the large number of coupons issued by agricultural cooperatives became essential daily necessities during this period.

The wallet contained no Japanese yen, but it was overflowing with all sorts of coupons, including soy sauce coupons and cigarette coupons...

Besides countless tickets, there was also a junior high school student ID card in the wallet.

The little girl on the ID card had a very bright smile and a lovely name: Asagiri Yuko.

"It could be a relative of hers," Tomie Kawakami leaned closer and said softly, "but the document expired twenty years ago."

"Student IDs existed more than twenty years ago?"

"It existed as early as the 19th century... It was officially popularized during the Taisho era. After the Great Kanto Earthquake, in order to strengthen student safety management and post-disaster identity verification, the government issued a policy to accelerate the implementation of the student ID system in schools in Tokyo and other areas."

Kawakami Tomie looked at Kiyokawa Kiri with disdain and said in a low voice, "What do you do during class?"

This is definitely not exam content!

Kiyokawa's eyes twitched slightly. He had entered the school on a full scholarship, so how could he not remember the exam content?

Seeing Kawakami Tomie's smiling face, he became even more certain that she was just playing with him, so he simply ignored the wicked girl.

He looked into the pitch-black darkness, rubbing his cardholder as he cautiously asked, "So you mean I should go find the girl on the student ID... uh, auntie?"

If this were twenty years ago, the little girl in the ID card would probably be in her thirties now.

Tokyo is so big that trying to find someone with just a student ID is like looking for a needle in a haystack.

As if sensing that Kiyokawa Kiri understood his meaning, the breathing in the darkness suddenly stopped, then quickly dissipated like a tide. The streetlights on both sides of the road lit up one after another, and in the blink of an eye, everything returned to its previous state.

Watching the witch leave the intersection, the two people left behind looked at each other in bewilderment.

Tomie Kawakami was the first to react. She rolled her eyes and said speechlessly:

"What do we do now? It's better to pay with blood. How are you going to find the person on the student ID?"

"Isn't the school's name already there? We can just ask someone later."

Kiyokawa ignored the other person and focused on examining the student ID in her hand.

Compared to other, more severe costs, this one was undoubtedly more acceptable—he probably didn't get any useful answers himself, so the Witch of the Crossroads couldn't force herself to pay an excessive price due to the rules of the psychic game.

It may seem like a wasted effort, but at least it proved the feasibility of the psychic game.

The crossroads necromancy didn't work, but there were other psychic games.

We can try them one by one and eventually find out the truth.

"Looks like tonight's over."

Tomie Kawakami forcibly erased a section of the small white circle with the tip of her shoe, thus disrupting the ceremony.

Tonight's psychic game was very rewarding for her—as long as she mastered the technique of the Crossroads Spell, she could perform it again. Although she wasn't sure what the success factors were, she had plenty of time to slowly try to replicate it.

Even without Kiyokawa Kiri, she will be able to figure out the secrets surrounding her.

"Speaking of which, thank you for earlier..."

"What?"

Tomie Kawakami slightly raised her eyelids, looking at the other person with a playful expression.

Kiyokawa felt a little uncomfortable under her direct gaze. He put away his wallet and said casually, "It's nothing, it's just about you blocking my way earlier."

"Is this how you express gratitude to your girlfriend?"

Seeing his reaction, Kawakami Tomie immediately became interested.

She suddenly put her hands behind her back, smiled and leaned closer, tilting her head to look at Qingchuan Wu.

"Have you ever really had a girlfriend? Who thanks you like that?"

Being so close, Kiyokawa Kiri felt a faint fragrance of snow buds wafting over her face, as if she would fall into Kiyokawa Kiri's half-smiling eyes if she lowered her head.

He paused, then after a long silence, said in a low voice, "How should I thank you?"

Tomie Kawakami did not answer him, but simply closed her beautiful eyes and then gently touched her lips with her index finger.

It's like a hint, or perhaps an invitation...