Comet Dragon, breaking into the gravity field

"The forgotten mountain god has awakened, gugagugaguga..."

Ignoring the last old woman who seemed to have walked out of a folk horror game, Ritsu Narose was convinced that all the big and small events were caused by Kasumi Dragon.

According to the information he had, this Xialong should have come to this world more than ten years ago and lay dormant. At the same time, it was cheating people and eating and drinking for free under the name of "Mountain God".

He listed this special individual, Xialong, who was carrying the Mad Dragon virus, as a key observation target. In his heart, he had already attributed the source of the connection between the Toyokawa family and the Mad Dragon virus to this Xialong head.

After marking the "crime scene" mentioned by the islanders on the map, Ritsu Narose began to locate the range of Kasumiyu's activities based on his understanding of Kasumiyu.

Suddenly, a long and distant whistle sound came from afar.

Following the sound, I saw a cruise ship that looked quite impressive docked on the shore.

"That's..." Shoko Toyokawa muttered to herself when she saw the familiar-looking ship.

The next moment, she suddenly realized, and then couldn't help showing a little panic.

"It's the Toyokawa family's ship."

"Eh?" After hearing what Naruse Ritsu said, she turned to look at him in surprise, "How did you know?"

Falling into silence, Ritsu Narose didn't know whether he should tell others about his previous visit to the island.

Undecided for a moment, he simply changed the subject: "Should we avoid them?"

"why?"

"Because..." Naruse Ritsu answered as a matter of course, looking at Toyokawa Shoko, "Seeing a girl who looks like a member of the Toyokawa family appear here, it's hard not to be mistaken for one of them."

After a pause, he joked, "Maybe she'll be considered an illegitimate daughter or something."

Upon hearing this, the expression on Toyokawa Shoko's face suddenly became interesting.

The moment she thought about it, she felt embarrassed by the situation, and she didn't want her parents to have such a bad reputation.

but……

You have to find an opportunity to get blood.

Thinking about the purpose of their trip, Toyokawa Shoko knew that there was no way out.

After thinking for a moment, she walked into a nearby convenience store.

A few minutes later, she walked out of the store with her twin ponytails changed to a single ponytail, and at the same time, she put on a pair of sunglasses.

After disguising herself, Shoko Toyokawa suddenly discovered that Belmont, who had just been standing there, had disappeared.

"I gave her the approximate range of activity I located, and she planned to go to the mountain to check the situation." Seeing Toyokawa Shoko dressed in this novel way, Naruse Ritsu couldn't help but take a few more glances. "Is Shoko ready?"

"I--"

Looking at the dock where the boarding bridge had been built, Toyokawa Shoko pursed her lips and nodded slowly, "I'm ready."

"But even if you say 'ready,' we don't have a particularly good way to contact them and take their blood."

"That's right," realizing this belatedly, Shoko Toyokawa took off her sunglasses and looked at the blurry figures in the distance.

Among them was her mother, whom she had not seen for a long time and who only existed in her memories.

Her eyes suddenly felt a little sore, so Shoko Toyokawa closed her eyes and put her sunglasses back in front of her eyes.

Beside her, Ritsu Narose cooperated very well and didn't pay attention to her.

"If we were in Tokyo, we could have disguised a blood donation vehicle, and it would have been much easier for us to operate... but unfortunately, we can't."

Sighing regretfully, Naruse Ritsu began to think of another plan: "If I forcibly take blood, the operation will be too difficult. Although I am very fast, I am not fast enough to turn into a kamaitachi."

As a local legendary monster, Kamaitachi will transform into a whirlwind and cut a long wound on the skin of passers-by, but the victim will not feel any pain at all.

Ritsu Naruse didn't know the exact speed of Kamaitachi, but he knew the movement when he burst into speed and he would never be allowed to imitate the monster's actions.

More importantly, the victim's daughter was standing next to him. Attacking the mother in front of her daughter is somewhat unreasonable.

"The easiest and quietest way...hmm..."

After thinking hard, Narose Ritsu's eyes suddenly lit up and he clasped his hands together: "I figured it out!"

"any solution?"

While she was still pondering whether or not to achieve her goal by deceiving others, Toyokawa Shoko suddenly became excited when she heard these words.

"Let's drug your mom and your grandma!"

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"We put sleeping pills in their drinking water at night, and then we can take their blood when the drugs take effect and they are unconscious."

After explaining the plan he had come up with on the spur of the moment, Ritsu Naruse began to consider its feasibility: "But the problem is how to obtain sleeping pills, and how to ensure they take them..."

"I'm telling you," Toyokawa Shoko said, her tone sounding a little vague, with her eyes half closed. "Is it really okay for you to say something like that in front of the victim's family?"

"If there is a better way, I can accept it."

Spreading his hands, Naruse Ritsu asked, "Assuming we don't use drugs to incapacitate them, I can't just find an opportunity to knock them out and hit them one by one, right?"

"..."

After staring at Naruse Ritsu silently for a long time, Toyokawa Shoko finally sighed, "It's up to you."

The thought of meeting the mother and grandmother she remembered filled her heart with mixed emotions.

And when she realized that the first thing she would do after meeting them was to drug them and draw their blood, her mood became even more complicated.

Following Ritsu Narose along the road in this small town from decades ago, Shoko Toyokawa couldn't help but look at the scene that could only be seen in old photos with curiosity.

Unlike the island she had visited as a child, everything on this island now looked so strange.

After asking nearby residents for information, they soon found a doctor on the island.

Naturally, there is no hospital in this small town built on an island, and the few remaining clinics only have some medicines to deal with common illnesses.

Things like "sleeping pills" don't exist on this island at all.

With empty hands, he said goodbye to the doctor and instantly put away the listless insomniac look he had just pretended to be.

"Looks like we need to try a different approach..."

"is it?"

Nodding thoughtfully, Toyokawa Shoko then said seriously, "I'll go find a stick."

Seeing her take a deep breath and say the above words with a determined look in her eyes, Naruse Ritsu blinked and asked in confusion: "What?"

"Since there are no sleeping pills, we can only use physical means to make them lose their sense of the outside world."

"Wait, why are you suddenly..."

Holding out her palm, Toyokawa Shoko seemed to have grasped something, and said solemnly: "If this is the premise for finding out the truth about the Toyokawa family, then this is a necessary sacrifice!"

The girl waved her outstretched hand downwards again, her face solemn, and clenched her left fist. "If I offend my mother and grandmother, I will apologize later. But my primary purpose now is—"

"Stop, stop, stop -"

Clapping his hands, Ritsu Narose hurriedly woke up the middle school student Xiaoxiang who was completely immersed in the speech state.

Facing a look that said, "What more do you want to say now?", he placed his hands on Toyokawa Shoko's shoulders and spoke slowly, "What I mean is, I can go outside the island to buy sleeping pills."

"..."

Suddenly, silence filled the space between Ritsu Narose and Shoko Toyokawa.

The atmosphere suddenly fell silent. Naruse Ritsu glanced at the silent girl standing before him and continued, "If it's just to buy medicine, it won't take me long to get to a big city right now."

Raising her hand, Toyokawa Shoko seemed to be hesitant to speak.

She took a few steps to the side, then looked up at the sky. Her eyes, which had been resolute just a moment ago, were now filled with confusion and melancholy.

……

Half an hour later, Shoko Toyokawa and Ritsu Naruse set out again on the road to the forest deep in the island.

The sleeping pills needed for the night have been prepared, and the problem they have to solve now is the mysterious ancient dragon.

If we use a game analogy, they've already completed the prerequisites for the main quest, and all they need to do is wait for the next quest to automatically begin. What they're currently doing is completing the side quests on the same map.

If they ignored it, it wouldn't have much impact on the outcome of their mission. But since they were already here, they felt like something was missing if they didn't investigate.

The power of the Black Eclipse Dragon began to take effect. Even though she had never rested since coming to this world, Toyokawa Shoko was still full of energy.

Standing on the hillside of a low hill, Shoko Toyokawa suddenly stopped and looked back at the forest in the distance.

"That is……"

"It's a villa."

With just a casual glance, Ritsu Narose saw a building hidden at the edge of the forest in the distance.

If you look more closely, you can see the servants busy at work in the villa through the window.

"We're going to sneak in tonight, and then we'll ask Xiangzi to lead the way...someone's coming."

"where?"

As soon as she finished speaking, Toyokawa Shoko noticed a noise coming from the forest below.

Her right hand reached behind her habitually. When she was hesitating whether to take out the Black Dragon Greatsword with her bare hands, two short figures suddenly emerged from the woods.

——"Wait, wait for me, miss!"

——"If we don't work harder, it will be difficult for us to get home before dark!"

After running out of the forest and hurrying through the grove, the two men also noticed someone standing high up ahead.

The two girls hurriedly stopped and stood there, looking up at Ritsu Narose and Shoko Toyokawa who were standing with their backs to the light.

"They are..."

With his eyes slightly narrowed, a strange sense of déjà vu wandered in Ritsu Narose's mind.

Turning to look at the stunned Toyokawa Shoko, he pondered for a moment before suddenly realizing, "That's you, mua, uh, uh—"

The girl next to him forcibly covered his mouth, and Ritsu Narose felt her palm trembling.

Gently removing the hand that was blocking his own body, Ritsu Narose held it in his hand while looking at the two people below.

He did not look at Toyokawa Shoko's mother, who looked much younger than Toyokawa Shoko. He turned his gaze slightly and looked at the other girl present.

The short golden hair sparkled in the sunlight, reminding Ritsu Narose of a girl he had met on this island.

Could such a coincidence exist in this world?

His gaze gradually became focused, and Ritsu Narose began to carefully look at the blonde girl with a wary look on her face.

The more he observed, the more he felt that the other person's eyebrows and eyes were somewhat similar to those of a girl he knew.

“It’s like they were cast from the same mold.”

"Gu..."

Mistaking what Ritsu Narose said for herself and her mother, Shoko Toyokawa's expression changed again.

Rubbing her cheeks, she tried hard to prevent the tears from spilling from her eyes.

For the first time in her life, she felt that sunglasses were so convenient. Toyokawa Shoko tried hard to calm herself down and not lose her composure.

On the other side, seeing that they did not make any move, the two girls who were about to turn back hesitated for a moment and began to move forward along the mountain road.

After a few minutes, the distance between the two teams was finally only a few meters.

93. Can you hear it? Can you hear it? A distant roar!

Legend has it that deep in the forest of this remote island lies a forgotten shrine.

The deity enshrined in that shrine has the power to cure diseases and protect people from illness and disaster, so it was often worshipped in the past.

However, due to the investment of the Toyokawa family in recent years, the island has shown a tendency to expand its fishing and tourism industries, and the shrine built deep in the undeveloped forest has gradually been forgotten.

After all, many times, curing an illness only requires a trip to a clinic, and people don't need to travel through the forest and place their hopes on ethereal gods.

Walking on the bumpy road, Ritsu Naruse and Shoko Toyokawa silently listened to the background story told by the eldest daughter of the Toyokawa family in front of them.