Tokyo: The evil god doesn't want to be the top star

"Your 'sin' now manifests as acute gastric bleeding caused by excessive drinking..."

The woman was not affected by the bloody scene at all.

"Thanks to the God of Amabie, who foresaw the sin in you and guided us to meet..."

She slowly squatted down and hugged Shibata Makoto in her arms. Her white skirt absorbed the blood and turned bright red.

“May Amabie cleanse the world of all diseases.”

After solemnly reciting something in her mind, she lowered her head, touched Shibata Makoto's lips, and drank the blood gushing from his mouth.

"I...I am..."

After a few seconds, Shibata Makoto felt the abdominal pain disappear and the blood in his throat stopped flowing.

"Just now, I borrowed the power of Lord Amabie to help you temporarily suppress your sins..."

"Come with me. Only in the "Healing House" can the sins in your body be completely cleansed..."

The woman helped the unconscious and weak Shibata Makoto up and left the blood-stained toilet.

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Chapter 184 RPG Real Estate

2024-07-13

The next day, Arakawa District, RPG Real Estate.

"I've already told you that I'm a real estate agency now and I don't sell arms any more. Not to mention RPGs, I can't even get you ordinary pistols and bullets..."

"RPG means rent, plan and guide. It is not some weird role-playing game, nor is it a rocket-propelled grenade..."

"You idiots who only know how to fight and kill, you should sign up for English tuition classes as soon as possible and keep up with the times!"

In a shabby and narrow shop, a short, muscular middle-aged man with a shiny slicked-back hair hung up the phone cursing.

"Sorry to have kept you waiting... Mr. Xia, right? You just said that you were introduced by Higashino Yoshihide?"

"The one called the Yokohama Two-Headed Dragon and the Human Weapon, Tono?"

His expression changed, and he smiled flatteringly, looking at Xia Fan who was sitting across the table.

"I think it's the same person. I'm not sure about his nickname..."

Xia Fan curled his lips, shifted his gaze away from the real estate agent, whose body shape resembled that of a masked wrestler who was good at the "619" finishing move, and wandered around the shop.

This narrow shop, which can only accommodate five adult men, is filled with documents in a mess, and the bookshelves have scars that appear to have been caused by knives and smashing.

There was even a rather suspicious hole with burnt marks on the table in front of him...

"I'm getting old. It turns out that Jiying has retired one day. I really miss the days when we fought side by side."

Diao picked up a cigarette and lit it, and the boss handed another one to Xia Fan.

"Sorry, I don't smoke."

"Well, Uncle Higashino said that you are a real estate agency. If this is a mistake, I will leave right away..."

Xia Fan clasped his hands together, bowed and declined.

Whether it was the store environment or the boss's appearance and conversation, they all exuded a strong smell of crime, which made him want to turn around and leave immediately.

He now seriously doubts which "industry" Uncle Higashino refers to when he says "quite reliable in the industry".

"You're not in the wrong place. You're looking for a house, right?"

"Let me introduce myself. I'm Tetsuo Saejima, the owner of this "RPG Real Estate", specializing in real estate agency business. Whether it's a safe house, a dark warehouse, a graveyard, a meat storage house, or a vault, I can find them all for you..."

"Not interested? By the way, recently the Inagawa Group, the illegal labor agency in Tokyo Bay, and the human traffickers in Yokohama were all wiped out by the police, leaving behind a large number of 'anonymous warehouse blind boxes'. The prices are very reasonable. If you are interested..."

The boss who called himself "Tetsuo Saejima" had already grasped Xia Fan's hands and began to introduce the business enthusiastically.

"Well, what I want to inquire about is a 'single-family house' that can accommodate a family of three, has independent land ownership, and can accept personal housing loans..."

The meaning of the other party's words was unclear, but the "business" that sounded increasingly bad made Xia Fan even more certain that he had definitely come to the wrong place.

"I want to buy a house for a family of three, a single-family house..."

Perhaps because the business content was too "normal", Tetsuo Saejima was stunned for a moment...

"Finally, some decent business has come to us!"

The next second, his eyes were filled with tears and he smiled brightly.

"What's the budget? What are the requirements for region, area, apartment type, and age of the house? Can you provide a reference for my personal credit and tax payment status..."

Tetsuo Saejima took out a dusty laptop from under the table, and started typing on it, cigarette in hand.

"As for the house type and area, a normal 'single-family house' will do. The land must be permanently owned, the house should be newer, and the area should be within Tokyo's 23 wards, and the closer to Ikebukuro the better..."

"Of course, if there is suitable land, we can demolish the old site and build a new house, and the overall price is acceptable, we can consider it."

"Personal credit and tax payment status are here..."

"As for the budget, the higher the cost-performance, the better..."

Xia Fan described the general needs and handed his basic information to the other party.

His requirements are simple: a large enough area, land ownership, as convenient as possible for his parents' commuting, and a reasonably priced house of the same quality.

"Well, I think I understand your needs..."

"Is Xia Jun working in the entertainment industry? No wonder he's so handsome. This line of work seems to be quite lucrative."

"Based on the tax payment of you and your parents' income in the last six months, there should be no problem in getting a loan. The down payment ratio is about 20%-30%, and the interest rate is about 0.5%-2%."

"I asked someone to hack into the systems of several real estate agencies and found that there are several houses that meet your requirements currently on sale. Let's go and have a look."

In less than ten minutes, Tetsuo Saejima finished registering his information, printed out several lists, and stood up.

"The word 'hacking' sounds bad... Wait, we're going to watch it now?"

"So what are you waiting for? Time is money, my friend."

Xia Fan turned around and saw Tetsuo Saejima pointing at a mini truck parked at the door, then stood on tiptoe and began to pull down the rolling door.

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Thirty minutes later, the shabby mini truck stopped in a dilapidated industrial area in Higashi-Ikebukuro.

"Here we are, the first property we're going to look at."

Tetsuo Saejima squeezed his burly body out of the car and pointed to a house in front of him.

"This one? It looks quite bad..."

Xia Fan, who got off the car behind him, looked in the direction he pointed and a three-story wooden house that looked quite old came into view.

This house has its own entrance and is surrounded by desolate green space on both sides. Other houses can only be seen more than a hundred meters away.

The design of the house still retains the style of the last century. The antiseptic wooden body is covered with moss and is obviously completely moldy.

The open space in front and behind the house is also overgrown with weeds and filled with garbage illegally dumped by others.

"According to the seller's registered information, this old house was left by his grandfather. He doesn't have the time to take care of it. He has to pay a lot of fixed asset tax and urban planning tax every year, so he is willing to sell it at a discount."

"Don't just look at the exterior of the house. It's true that no one has maintained the house and it's fallen into disrepair. It's no longer habitable. But what's really valuable is this piece of land!"

"This is a Feng Shui treasure land! It has its own gate and is surrounded by many small parks. Not far away is the famous Gokokuji Temple. This place is adjacent to Higashi-Ikebukuro. It takes 15 minutes to walk to the subway station and half an hour to drive to Ikebukuro Shopping Street. The location is very advantageous!"

Tetsuo Saejima flipped through the information and introduced it in detail.

"The point is, this plot of land is a full 30 square meters, but the price is % cheaper than the surrounding plots, just under million."

"Just demolish this old house and build a new one. The total price will not exceed 50 million."

"The overall conditions fully meet your requirements, Mr. Xia."

In the eyes of real estate agents, the value of a piece of land is based on only three factors: location, location, and location.

"No, I didn't mean that..."

Xia Fan stared blankly at the house that looked like it was about to collapse at any moment, and swallowed his saliva with a pale face.

Chapter 185 Tomb View Room

2024-07-13

In the 60s, against the backdrop of the economic boom in District , the government put forward the slogan of "one household per family, one room per person", and the "one-household building", a small wooden building with a separate courtyard that was between a bungalow and a small Western-style building, came into being.

Today, even though many single-family buildings are too old to be lived in, due to the rapid rise in land prices, many people choose to buy old houses and then entrust construction companies to completely demolish them and build new ones.

Therefore, the "advantages" of this property that Saejima Tetsuo just mentioned all make sense, except for one thing...

Looking through Xia Fan's [Divine Eyes], the surface of the house, and even the yards in front and back, were all covered with densely packed black hand and footprints of varying sizes.

According to the information in Lesson 9, evil spirits born from obsessions will naturally dissipate even if they are not nourished by foul air, but the traces of their past activities, which can only be seen by psychics, will remain for several years.

Occasionally, Xia Fan would see one or two similar traces in the environment where he lived, and he would choose to “turn a blind eye”.

But at the moment, this large-scale "hand and footprints" that cause people to suffer from claustrophobia can only mean that a large number of evil spirits have been active here in recent years. It is unknown whether they have dissipated.

"There are so many traces of spiritual activity. Is there something special around here?"

"Wait, the direction of the hand and foot prints is moving towards that direction..."

After observing carefully, Xia Fan suddenly noticed that most of these hand and footprints were pointing in the same direction.

He walked in that direction, into the weed-covered yard, and along the collapsed wall, came to the back door of the house.

"Um, Mr. Saejima, behind this house..."

Xia Fan pulled aside the grass that was as tall as a person, took a look outside, turned his head stiffly, and looked at Saejima expressionlessly: "...Why is there a cemetery?"

At the back door of the house, in the open space beyond the weeds, tall and short pagodas and wide and narrow tombstones stand in an orderly manner, like an endless desolate stone forest.

The surfaces of tombstones and pagodas also have the same hand and footprint prints as those on this house.

It seems that these traces were left by the evil spirits in the cemetery when they came to "visit" over the years.

"Ahahahaha, I just didn't have time to introduce it to you in detail..."

"Didn't I just say that this piece of land is a Feng Shui treasure land, a perfect room with a cemetery view!"

Tetsuo Saejima was stunned for a moment, then burst into awkward laughter.

According to the regulations on private land ownership, cemeteries are private property of the people and the government cannot move them at will.

With the development of population and city, houses can only be built around the cemetery wherever there is space, so the scene of residential areas surrounding cemeteries is actually very common in District 11.

Moreover, because of the belief that "all things have spirits", in the eyes of the people, the souls of ancestors will be sublimated into gods to protect future generations, so the residential areas next to cemeteries are known as "feng shui treasure lands" and are not too taboo.

"It's fine if it's next to the cemetery, but the scale of this cemetery is quite large..."

Xia Fan sighed helplessly.

There are usually only a few tombstones between ordinary houses, but this cemetery separated by a small path in the backyard has at least hundreds of tombstones, which is extremely spectacular.

"Let me see. The information says that not far from here was once a place of execution during the Edo period. The people who were beheaded were buried in a pit dug in this cemetery... ahem..."

"The more tombstones there are, the more ancestors there are protecting our descendants, and the better the feng shui is..."

Saejima Tetsuo forced a smile, but his voice of explanation became weaker and weaker.

A strong wind blew by, and a dark cloud blocked the sunlight above their heads, and the temperature around them dropped sharply.

Inside the cemetery, translucent, headless figures began to crawl up from the shadow-covered ground.

"Evil spirit..."

Xia Fan narrowed his eyes and took a step back cautiously.

These evil spirits seemed unable to see what was around them. They just twisted their bodies silently in pain, hideously and ferociously, and flew around the cemetery like headless flies.

"I see. Their consciousness is still at the moment before death?"

"Because he was beheaded, he has no head and cannot 'see' the outside world..."

"Because of the 'pain' deep in my obsession, I will helplessly grasp the things around me, leaving deep hand and foot prints..."

Staring blankly at these confused spirits, a hint of pity flashed across Xia Fan's eyes.

According to the records in Lesson 9, this kind of "earthbound spirit" is the most common type of evil spirit. It cannot ascend to heaven due to its obsession and is bound to a certain area, constantly looping the memory of the moment of death.