A comic book, but a librarian

"So, there is only one thing I want to remind you of. No matter what choice you make in the end, do not let other people's opinions influence you...including me. You have to think for yourself and see for yourself."

Uesugi Cheng sighed.

"By the way, if you don't mind, how about coming to listen to my performance?"

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Chapter 323 The first performance and investigation begins.

"Eh? Wait, wait... But Uesugi-senpai, it looks like you didn't even bring your musical instrument?"

Goto Ichiri became a little nervous. She knew that a genius like Uesugi Sumika was probably better than her in mastering musical instruments, so she couldn't help but want to see what a true genius looked like.

"Leave it there. If you don't want to think about those things now, why not listen to me sing?"

Uesugi Cheng smiled. Music is just like painting. It must be shared to give him the greatest pleasure.

Being reborn and regaining his body did have a huge impact on Uesugi Cheng. He now felt that his emotions and thoughts were terrifyingly rich, which was exactly what he had always wanted after becoming an immortal.

"Oh... okay, so... where are we going?"

As always, there was no possibility that Goto Ichiri would refuse. After all, that was just her personality and she couldn't change it in a short time.

So she followed Uesugi Sumire to Tokyo. She had to admit that she seldom went out, and suddenly came to such a prosperous area, she was a little uncomfortable with it, especially the cold eyes of people coming and going. It almost turned Goto Ichiri, who originally felt that she seemed to have grown up a little, back into the super socially anxious person who wanted to get into the box of ripe mangoes.

"Come on, today happens to be the first performance, and you're probably the only one in the audience."

Goto Ichiri was stunned, she had never expected things to be like this. Although Uesugi Sumire was a nominal instructor or agent in the Bond Band, he was actually forming a band that had not yet debuted, and she had never heard any news about it before.

"Welcome to... the first show of the unnamed band."

She walked into the practice room and was shocked. Although it was a band that had not yet debuted, Goto Ichiri felt that these members, whether it was the guitarist, bassist or drummer, were fully capable of working as models and idols, even with the masks covering the lower half of their faces. That beauty could not be hidden even by a mask.

"And... it's amazing..."

Goto Ichiri really didn't know what to say. The attitude and momentum of this group of people were exactly like those of a professional band. She even suddenly felt for a moment that she was just a frog in a well.

"Well then, let's play the music that we finished last time... [Number One... Bankai] in its entirety now."

Uesugi Sumire smiled happily. Goto Ichiri recognized this kind of smile. It was the pure joy of being immersed in music. She would often smile like this when she was rehearsing with the members of the Bond Band.

“Are they really a band that just started?”

This question was the only one left in Goto Ichiri's mind. She couldn't understand, or she had never imagined that such a band would exist.

"how do you feel?"

"Uesugi-senpai, when do you plan to debut?"

Goto Ichiri suddenly asked very seriously, and she tightened the shoulder strap of her guitar bag.

"It just depends on your mood, right?"

Uesugi Cheng looked at the drummer and guitarist. The fakes nodded under his control, and it looked like a puppet show.

"but……"

"Goto, whether it's music or anything else, if you force yourself to do it, you will only reap pain. So the most painful thing in this world is actually work. Once you turn music into pure work, you will find that... your talent has been truly stifled."

Uesugi Sumika finally revealed his true purpose. Although he really liked the feeling of performing in front of others, the real purpose of his sudden invitation was to let Goto Ichiri understand his thoughts.

"I...I understand. So that's how it is."

Goto Ichiri finally made up her mind. Although she had lost her judgment due to the sudden pressure, she was still extremely grateful to Uesugi Sumire.

"In that case, let's go back first and remember this favor."

The cold voice of the guitarist brought Goto Ichiri back to his senses instantly. The silver-haired guitarist walked away by herself with her guitar on her back, looking extremely indifferent. During the performance just now, she was as calm as a clockwork robot, without any mistakes or deviations at all.

At this time, Goto Ichiri realized that he seemed to have asked Uesugi Sumire to do something that he didn't know how to explain, but seemed to have cost him a great price.

"I'm really sorry that you, Uesugi-senpai, have to spend so much time on favors for someone like me..."

Goto Ichiri immediately began the traditional art of bowing, kneeling and apologizing in three steps.

"Alright, alright, it's no big deal, but I hope you can keep this band's matter a secret. After all, we don't even know if we will actually perform."

Uesugi Sumire skillfully lifted Goto Ichiri up so that she wouldn't have to kowtow again.

"Okay, that's all for the psychological counseling. Next up is technical practice. You will definitely be participating in more performances in the future, so whether you are the first or the remaining three, you all need to practice twice as much."

Just one sentence made Goto Ichiri shudder, but she still mustered up the courage to nod. She decided to make changes for the Bond Band, just as her teammates were willing to slowly change her.

Uesugi Sumiko finally breathed a sigh of relief. His investment was not wasted. Then, next, he might really start preparing the sacrificial song about the Thunder Skin. After all, as far as he knew, there were some things that could only be achieved through that song.

"Then let's stop here today. Have a good rest and talk things over with Hongxia and the others. They have been worried about you."

Uesugi Sumire patted Goto Ichiri on the head. This time Goto Ichiri did not dodge, which suddenly made him feel a sense of joy of a good harvest.

……

After solving this sudden problem, Uesugi Cheng took a good rest. He packed up the things he had with him, took a few bottles of Guizi, and left his apartment at ten o'clock in the evening.

At a certain road intersection, Baoyue Yexiao was waiting for him, as well as Yotsuya Miko who seemed to have arrived a little earlier.

"Are we the only three today...?"

Just as Yotsuya Kenko asked the question, they saw two figures following them stealthily.

"It looks like there are more than one, but luckily we are just doing some basic reconnaissance, so hopefully nothing will happen."

Uesugi Cheng looked at Hotaru and Eiko who followed secretly and smiled.

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Chapter 1: Saving the Demon Mother Goddess () Lost.

Of course, the appearance of these two people was purely accidental. Baoyue Yexiao himself did not expect that he would be followed in such a situation. This was something that should not have happened.

"Actually... when you were talking about the place on the phone, Yexiaojiang, we all heard it. It was about your destination..."

Ying Duolang scratched his head and laughed awkwardly. They didn't want to eavesdrop in the first place, but they were next door when he was talking on the phone during midnight snack.

"To be honest, this matter may be much more dangerous than we expected. Do you really want to go with us?"

The moment Yotsuya Miko said this, Uesugi Sumiko felt that something was wrong. He turned around and looked at Houyue Eiko, and her sparkling eyes unsurprisingly revealed her thoughts.

"Yes, yes! Don't worry, we will follow your instructions."

Uesugi Sumiko was not worried. Although the two college students, Houyue Eiko and Gendokawa Hotaru, came to this place on their own, past experience told Uesugi Sumiko that they at least obeyed orders.

"Okay, Hotaru and Eiko, hold the dolls. Just like last time, if anything happens, they will take the damage for you first. But you must report the situation in time, otherwise we won't even know what to do."

Baoyue Yexiao gave the final instructions. As a young girl who had produced many graduates, she knew very well how strange and difficult it was to guard against the power of evil spirits, so she emphasized it repeatedly. The five of them got in the car, with Baoyue Eiko driving and Ying Duolang sitting in the front seat.

"Acheng..."

Yotsuya Miko's hand gently touched Uesugi Sumire's wrist, and she looked a little uneasy.

"I don't know why, but I seem to have... a bad feeling. I haven't had it for a long time."

Uesugi Sumire put down his cell phone and held Yotsuya Miko's hand. He didn't say anything, just held her hand, but just like that, Yotsuya Miko suddenly felt herself calm down.

Baoyue Yexiao looked out the window silently, occasionally pinching the doll in her hand. The finger that Kishimokami gave her had indeed lost its power, so she decided to come over with Uesugi Cheng to take a look. After all, Kishimokami was a serious "god" in Japan, and she shouldn't have disappeared so quietly.

The car drove towards the unsettling mountain road. Yotsuya Miko narrowed her eyes. She couldn't completely control the power of her eyes now. Perhaps using her Yin-Yang eyes was as instinctive as breathing and she couldn't control it at all. So she could only actively narrow her field of vision to avoid disturbing some existence that should not be disturbed.

"Is this the place? It really does feel a bit...uncomfortable."

Ying Duolang felt his breathing was a little rapid, not knowing why. Perhaps it was because he was also cursed? His perception of these things was stronger than many people. Of course, among the five people here, perhaps he could only rank fourth?

Uesugi Cheng glanced at Hotarou and suddenly realized that although this college student was a little stupid, the power of his soul seemed to be unusually strong. If it weren't for the layout of some special existence, he was probably born to be a good candidate for using supernatural powers.

"Maybe he can learn something... After all, people with this physique are generally... natural targets."

Uesugi Cheng walked behind and thought for a while, and in just a short while, they walked into the lush forest.

The forest seemed particularly gloomy at night, but the sounds of insects and breeze blowing through the grass made the five people feel a little more at ease. Although these sounds sounded strange and even scary, in fact, if there were no such sounds, they would have to consider how to deal with the enemy.

"There's nothing... It's strange, why is there nothing? This shouldn't be the case."

Baoyue Yexiao frowned. Things were indeed beyond her expectations. To be honest, she could never have imagined that the Demon Goddess would disappear out of thin air. There was no trace or information. It was as if she did not exist in the world and disappeared completely.

"I didn't see anything. Although the spiritual energy here does make people feel uncomfortable, this kind of spiritual energy doesn't seem to belong here..."

Yotsuya Miko used her own silence technique. She could feel from her spiritual vision that the area was so calm that there was not even a ripple, except for some ominous residual spiritual power.

But she didn't notice that Baoyue Yexiao next to her suddenly clenched her fists and her breathing became heavy.

"What did you find?"

"It's... Kongwang, the bastard who kidnapped my mother! I finally found it, even if there is only a little bit left..."

Baoyue Yexiao showed a rare angry expression. She carefully fixed the spiritual power in the form she was carrying, as if she wanted to find the location of the void through these things.

"But there are no signs of fighting... Where is the infant spirit? Can we release it so we can ask more questions?"

Baoyue Yexiao soon discovered something was wrong. Given Kongwang's malice and Guizi Mushen's personality, it was inevitable that a fight would break out when they collided with each other, but there was no trace left at the scene.

"That baby spirit... looks like it can no longer speak."

Uesugi Cheng took out the props he brought with him to place the spirit. However, the baby spirit that was still fine yesterday suddenly looked as if it was on the verge of sudden death and was about to dissipate.

But at this moment, the appearance of the infant spirit seemed to hook something, and the flow of spiritual power in the entire mountain suddenly ran wild, and the ground where several people were located suddenly began to shake, as if an earthquake had come.

"This is... No, something has been opened?! There is something more inside this mountain..."

Before he could finish his words, the five people disappeared from the spot as if they were swallowed by the mountain, leaving nothing behind. It was just like what Kongwang, who had come here with high excitement to devour the Demon Mother Goddess, had seen. There was nothing left, nothing existed.

……

"What the hell is this place... Why does it feel a bit like leap year?"

In the boundless fog, Uesugi Cheng opened his eyes. It was obvious that the mountain where Kishimojin was located had something even more ancient and mysterious, but they only now realized that perhaps only the corresponding key could make it show its true appearance.

So Uesugi Cheng walked forward, his feet stepping on the cobblestone road, looking like a lost traveler.

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Chapter 325: Meeting the world.

"where is this place……"

When Yotsuya Miko woke up, she saw a huge torii gate with a plaque engraved in the middle. Yotsuya Miko did not recognize the words on the plaque, perhaps because that kind of font was not used by living people, or perhaps because she simply did not learn Chinese characters well.

But the moment she saw the plaque, she understood what it meant.

'Feng Shi'

Although she didn't understand its meaning, she was able to pronounce the name in a language that she herself didn't understand.

The moment she pronounced the word, the surrounding fog slowly dissipated, revealing the road behind the torii. A path paved with stone slabs looked somewhat sacred under the cover of torii gates spaced three to five meters apart.

Apart from the stone slabs, all Yotsuya Miko could see was endless water. She didn't know where she was, but the bottomless blue water made her too afraid to test the depth, so she decided to just walk on the stone slabs and keep walking forward.

……

"Kids, what are you doing here?"

Uesugi Sumira was walking on a river beach, or rather, he was walking on a huge river beach, but he finally reached the shore. The dark river water was flowing quietly. Although it did not look dangerous, Uesugi Sumira knew that this might be the most terrifying thing for these spirits.

Two girls were squatting on the ground, building a small tower with stones. They both looked young, but one was extremely thin and the other had half of her head missing.

"I'm sorry... I'm sorry... Mom..."

The girl did not answer, but just cried silently. Uesugi Cheng sighed. He now knew where he had been. During this period of time, he had made up for a lot of Japanese folk legends and knowledge.

After arriving at the River Styx, children who died young will be punished for their premature death and inability to support their parents. They need to build a tower with pebbles on the riverbank of the River Styx. Only when they complete the tower can they be liberated and become Buddhas to start their next life. However, every time the tower is half built, an evil ghost will come out and push the stone tower down, and this cycle will repeat over and over again until their "sins" are redeemed.

"Well, can you help me find some rocks? I'm almost there... I'm almost there, but I can't leave. If I leave, that big guy will... I'll have to start all over again."

One of the girls looked at Uesugi Sumire with a pleading tone in her voice. Uesugi Sumire looked at the tower in front of her, which was indeed only missing a few stones on the top, and suddenly understood something.

What she was waiting for was not a stone, but forgiveness, or in other words... building a tower was not to eliminate the resentment of the children who died young, but the guilt and longing they had for their parents' love. Only when they completely forget their parents can the guilt and longing completely dissipate.

"Okay, I'll help you find the stone."

Uesugi Cheng nodded. Since he had come to this place where life and death met, he had to explore more and see if Kishimogomi had come here. The girl in front of him might be a good entry point.

"But you have to tell me where this place is, and have you ever seen... a very powerful mother?"

"Mother……"