A comic book, but a librarian

"Excuse me, what exactly is that XXXX..."

"No, no, you can't call it by its name. If you do that, it will easily target you and then..."

Himeno Mikoto's words just now almost made the middle-aged man jump up in anxiety, which scared Himeno Mikoto.

"I'm sorry, I was too impatient... This matter may not be real to you, but for me who lives here..."

The middle-aged man seemed to realize that he seemed to have scared the girl in front of him. He cleared his throat awkwardly and continued speaking.

"You can't shout out the name of that monster anymore. Just know what it is in your heart... I know you're going to say you've never seen that monster... It's okay. The moment you see it, you'll know it's that thing. Now I want to ask you a question. You were caught up by the guy on the top of the building, right?"

"Is it because we saw the jumping incident?"

"If you mean being targeted by that guy, then it was probably just a coincidence, but if you mean you were chased by that guy on the roof, then yes...how could you go and see it?"

The middle-aged man looked a little sad, as if he was truly caring about the two high school girls.

"If the former gets involved with you, it will fight to the death. Our family has called it XXXX for generations, because calling it that will reduce the probability of it targeting us."

"Eh... family?"

Himeno Mikoto thought she heard something very bad.

"Yes, in fact... if you ask around here, you can hear the old people saying... don't get close to the S area. Of course, this is not the S area, but the inner S area which is even more desperate than the S area. By the way, have you heard of 'tendons'?"

The middle-aged man brought them two glasses of water and seemed to have a lot to say.

"I remember it was... the path taken by demons and ghosts, right?"

Himeno Mikoto touched her head.

"That's about it. Those who dare to live here are families that were moved here earlier and had dealings with ghosts. Then there were many people who 'suddenly didn't know what to do' and were excluded and alienated and lost their place to stay. They stepped into the S area and formed a small town together. Among them, those who stepped into the S area were dead."

"Hey, is this the...S District you mentioned?"

When Himeno Mikoto heard the statement that there was no chance of survival, her face turned pale. She could feel that there was no falsehood in the words of the person opposite her.

"Yes. In fact, I also saw the young man who jumped off the building. He was born in S District, but was entangled by XXXX and fell into S District. He finally jumped down. Speaking of this...you are the ones who hindered him and were cursed."

The middle-aged man sighed.

"Eh? What's going on? He clearly jumped off the building and died, so why would he run over to see his own body?"

"Most dead people are not aware of their own death. When they see themselves lying on the ground, they will definitely be curious and want to take a look. But you got in their way at that time, so you got entangled with him."

Yukinoshita Yukino tried hard to shake her head to make herself a little more awake.

"I'm so sorry... we just had to be there at that time."

She spoke with difficulty. At that time, they had just found the nearest building that they could enter. They had originally planned to go in and ask, but unexpectedly they just happened to see the scene of someone jumping off the building.

"It doesn't matter. As long as you don't get close to that place, it won't bother you again. If you have nowhere to go, just stay here for the night... The owner of this room is dead, he won't care."

The middle-aged man shook his head, seemed to have thought of something, and continued.

"I know you want to ask me how to leave, but unfortunately, I have never heard of anyone being able to leave the S area alive..."

Just as he said this, the ground shook twice, and the middle-aged man was so scared that he immediately opened the window to observe the situation. Then they saw an incredible scene together.

The clouds in the evening sky seemed to be twisted into a ball, and countless wails, wailings, screams and curses came one after another. In just a moment, the middle-aged man immediately closed the window.

"No...you must not go out. I don't know what happened, but the guys who died in this area have gone crazy..."

The middle-aged man gave a few hurried instructions and then left the room, as if he was going to prepare something, leaving the two female high school students here to rest.

"Sister Yukino... the phone still doesn't work. What he said is true."

"Really? Then we are really unlucky."

Finally, Yukinoshita Yukino couldn't hold on anymore and fell on the tatami, with a bitter smile on her lips.

"We can only hope, like last time, that they realize we have..."

-

"Ahem, I'm not dead?"

Hikigaya Hachiman opened his eyes with force, and the cold mist around him was like a handful of cold water hitting his face, which woke him up.

"Hello everyone, is anyone there?"

he asked.

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163

Chapter 163: Uesugi Cheng’s new toy.

When Hikigaya Hachiman opened his eyes, he always felt that there was a faint sound in his ears. After touching the incomplete scripture, he seemed to be able to hear this kind of thing, so when he opened his eyes in the hospital, his first reaction was some regret.

"If I had known, I should have put the thousand-dollar bill in my bag..."

"I think it wouldn't make much difference if you gave them a 10,000 yuan bill... How does that saying go? Numbers aren't the only way to measure sincerity. Besides, you don't even know why they're helping you. You're being too hasty."

Uesugi Sumire sat upright in a chair with his eyes closed, looking like he was sleeping, but Hikigaya Hachiman did hear Uesugi Sumire's voice.

"Don't look at it. I'm not in my body now. You should rest for a while. When everyone gathers together, we can figure out what's going on. Then we'll go in and rescue them. Yukinoshita and that Himeno-san are still in there."

After hearing this, Hikigaya Hachiman lay back down again, looked at the ceiling, slowly closed his eyes, and began to recall every detail since he entered that strange space, trying to tell all the information he could dig out in full to increase the chances of success of the rescue plan.

But soon, Hikigaya Hachiman felt something was wrong. For example, this room was extremely cold. It was not just the temperature that was cold, but the coldness that came from the heart. It was like... death was coming.

He suddenly opened his eyes and saw the door of the ward. A dark shadow was slowly passing through the door, as if trying to walk to his side. Even though he had never seen this thing before, the moment he saw it, a name emerged in Hikigaya Hachiman's mind: 'Death God'. That was the god of death who took people to the underworld.

He felt that he could not be caught up by the thing, but before he could move, the swirling grey mist seemed to rush towards the shadow, wanting to devour it.

It was at this time that Hikigaya Hachiman noticed that in addition to him, Uesugi Sumire, and Yotsuya Miko who was lying on the recliner, there was also a petite figure standing in front of the window. Although he could not see the face of the doll because of the backlight, Hikigaya Hachiman could feel the sense of threat, even though she just stood there without any movement.

But just this alone, the breath of death brought by the dead to the living is enough to make him, as a living person, feel uncomfortable.

"Sakura, wait, that thing... let me handle it."

Uesugi Cheng opened his eyes and looked at the black shadow. Then he started to move, standing between the black shadow and Hikigaya Hachiman, just staring at it.

"This is quite an interesting thing... Have you seen it before?"

"Ah, that's it... When your body was damaged, they would squat in front of your door every day to look inside. It was so annoying. Kill one and another would come."

Himegami Sakura seemed a little helpless. The combat effectiveness of these things individually was almost negligible in her opinion, but the constant harassment did make her a little annoyed.

"You should have told me then... It's strange that I didn't notice this."

Uesugi Cheng looked at the motionless black shadow, sizing up its shape with some curiosity. Looking at the black shadow in front of him, he suddenly had an idea.

"Eh, I don't know either, but those things only appear when you... aren't paying attention here. They're always when I'm helping you take care of the house."

Himegami Sakura originally wanted to mention the Silent Bookstore, but thinking that the place was in another world, she simply kept silent about it and only said that it would only appear when Uesugi Cheng wasn't paying attention.

"Excuse me, do you want to get rid of it?"

Himegami Sakura seemed to be obsessed with killing these 'death gods' who were like targets. She waved her arms eagerly and lifted up her wide kimono sleeves.

"No, I have an idea..."

Uesugi Cheng looked at the black shadow in front of him that seemed to have no instincts left and seemed to be running on a program, and stretched out his hand. Since this thing had no instincts and no intelligence, it was not so important to it who controlled it. In addition, Uesugi Cheng had just learned some skills from several of his superiors after becoming an immortal.

So, under the gaze of Hachiman Hikigaya, the black shadow suddenly ignited with orange-red flames, and the leaping flames seemed to instantly spread all over the body of the thing. Hachiman Hikigaya silently shrank back. Although that was not a flame that could ignite objects in reality, he definitely did not want to touch that thing.

Then, the black shadow gradually turned into ashes in the flames. Hikigaya Hachiman thought that Uesugi Sumire was just going to burn the thing, but then something stood up again in the flames, with a sharp momentum that seemed to stab the peeper, and stood there like a soldier, waiting for orders.

"Ah, the single-unit strength is just like this... Sakura, you said this thing is a lot, right?"

Uesugi Cheng was somewhat helpless, this kind of thing could at most bully ordinary people who had no psychic abilities or whose psychic abilities were weak. However, although it was created with the intention of taking away the souls of those who were about to die, it did not require any combat power.

"Yeah, endless. Anyway, I have never seen them die completely."

Himegami Sakura obviously has a very strong resentment towards this kind of thing.

"That's okay."

Uesugi Cheng suddenly smiled, like a child who found a new toy.

"Hikigaya, I have something else to do right now. When everyone is here, just tell me what you saw."

Uesugi Cheng's movements seemed a bit hurried. He sat back in the seat. The configuration of [Gui Zi] had entered the final stage. Precisely because of this, he would not allow any mistakes in this matter. After all, it would waste too much time to reconfigure a bottle of suitable Final Ink, and he just didn't have that time.

[The Mysterious Incident in District S]: This is a living hell composed of spiritual power that has been entangled with resentment and fear for hundreds of years. The breath of death hangs equally over everyone in the area. Now, those who are trapped in it are waiting for your rescue.

However, at this moment, a man knocked on the door of Silent Bookstore, coming for "Another Horizon".

['Daymare']: If you want, you can call her Frederick Dagma Sophia Benaina Countess of von Nagelsberg. But that's not what she wants.

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164

Chapter 164: Ms. Sun Nightmare, [Gui Zi], plan completed.

"Ms. Sunmare, unfortunately, I may not be able to spare much time to entertain you right now. How about you rest here for a while if you don't mind? I have another very important matter to take care of."

Sitting in the reception room of Silent Bookstore, Uesugi Cheng looked at the black-haired lady in front of him and seemed a little helpless. It was just such an unfortunate thing that there were people outside waiting for him to rescue, and now there was someone here who needed his help.

"I've never been to Ys. But I've always wanted to go. Maybe I shouldn't think that. I really want to go. Maybe I shouldn't think that."

Ms. Sunnight looked a little uneasy. Perhaps it was the appearance of Ysu that made her have some different desires.

"Regarding the matter of Is, I think you can find the answer in the book yourself, so I won't say any more."

Uesugi Cheng thought about it and simply took out the book "Random Poems" that he had shown to Lalachaima. Since Lalachaima could find the answer in this book, there was no reason why "Sun Nightmare" could not find the answer either.

"Oh, thank you... It seems I have come to the right place. Regarding the reward..."

Riyan seemed a little hesitant. It was not that she could not afford the reward, but she was a little surprised by Uesugi Cheng's reaction after hearing the word reward.

"Remuneration... I remember you are a night wandering scholar, right?"

Uesugi Cheng put down the book and brought up this matter.

"I'm a passable scholar of Nocturnal Magic, that's all. I know my way up and down the border, in and out. And Ys is special. That's why I need a special, good book."

Riyan responded in the affirmative. She seemed to know what the manager of Silent Bookstore wanted.

"I want you to teach me Ramsand, and there is one more thing I want to ask your opinion on."

Ms. Sunnight nodded very readily. She attached great importance to the decision of whether to go to Ys, and it was not a bad idea to pay a little more as a price for it.

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The next morning was another peaceful day. According to the questions Kawasaki Saki received from Yui Higahama, it seemed that some people in the school had begun to doubt the disappearance of their classmates. Fortunately, Hachiman Hikigaya returned alive. After showing up in the school to suppress the voices of suspicion a little, he dragged his still weak body back to the hospital.

Of course, compared to his parents who are still at work and only come home on weekends, Hikigaya Hachiman's sister, Hikigaya Komachi, has a more comprehensive understanding of this matter. She must follow Hikigaya Hachiman to the hospital to stay with him.

"She'll get a good night's sleep... Now, let's get started."

Uesugi Sumi put down the mirror. Hikigaya Komachi was sleeping soundly on the recliner where Yotsuya Miko was lying yesterday. Since there was no way to make Komachi stay at home, it would be a good choice to let her stay in the safe hospital ward and have Uesugi Sumi give her a sweet dream.

"That is to say... there are almost only evil spirits in there, and there are very few living people. There is no living person who can walk out of there... Do you feel anyone else besides you?"

"No, the compass is useless inside. If I hadn't learned something and added that..."

Everyone's eyes were turned to the page of scriptures in front of them that was stained with Hikigaya Hachiman's blood. It no longer changed and looked like an old piece of paper that might rot at any time.

"God knows what gift that was given to you, but it's just right... at least it came out of there, Hikigaya Hachiman, it's time to test your night wandering skills. Reposition the 'door' again, can you do it?"

Uesugi Cheng and Ms. Sunyem talked about many topics related to night wandering, and finally came up with this method that they thought had the highest success rate.

"If you put it that way, I have to go ahead even if I'm not sure... But even if we find the door, we don't have a way to open it, right? The spell you used last time also required both internal and external forces to barely open a gap, right?"

Hikigaya Hachiman was a little puzzled. Although it was a bit difficult to find the door, it would probably not be a problem if he tried hard. The key to the problem was how to open the 'door'.

"I have my own way of dealing with this... Don't worry, since I've said so, there is indeed a way."

Uesugi Cheng took out a bottle of purple-pink liquid from somewhere. Apart from the strange color, it looked like an ordinary liquid.

[Noble Purple]: The final ink of the Second History. The shining purple of the secret history. Noble Purple is secretly worshipped by the corresponding brotherhood of Cluny and Benedictines. (If you can provide 20 points of Moon, Induction or Initiation and no Blade, Heart, Winter, and prepare a writing material, you can use it to write a petition that can call the Labyrinth Season.) (7 Initiation 7 Month)

"This purple... looks familiar?"

Hikigaya Hachiman looked at the purple liquid in front of him and felt as if he had seen this color somewhere before.

"Tyrian purple, Byzantine purple... no matter what you call it, purple has always been a symbol of 'nobility' and 'power' throughout human history."

"Isn't this because the technology for making pigments in ancient times was immature, and purple was particularly difficult to make?"