Whose personality mask's power comes from the heroic spirit?

The perpetrators of the kidnapping of the Mori family and Toyama Kazuha were quickly caught by the police officers who landed on the island.

But looking at the dark sea and the dead fish, shrimps and crabs that were washed up on the beach by the sea water, Hattori Heizo was so tired that he wanted to submit his resignation.

Based on his many years of experience, it won't be long before this island is used to build a 'research institute complex' and is secluded from the world.

As for the monsters running around...the relevant personnel will go to the Iwanaga family to discuss the matter.

……

"Mount Rishang, that's a very sacred mountain." On the speedboat, looking at Taichi who was asking her for information about Mount Rishang, Iwanaga Kotoko raised her eyebrows, "But since a disaster more than a hundred years ago, Mount Rishang has been closed."

"And Lingshan has also been listed as a restricted area."

“I don’t know how many people working in the paranormal have tried to explore the secrets of that restricted area, but no one has ever escaped unscathed.”

"Even monsters avoid that mountain now."

"So, why are you asking me for information about this mountain?"

"I plan to look for information about the Night Spring." Taiyi answered with an innocent look on his face, "Special channel intelligence shows that the black unknown liquid sprayed by the Ultra Beast Lorelei may have come from Mt. Higashin."

"...Is that so." Iwanaga Kotoko pursed her lips, "Take me one more?"

"Please help me find an expert who is well-versed in the study of Rishan. Then I'll have no problem taking you with me." Taiyi nodded in agreement.

"Expert? That's easy to find." Iwanaga Kotoko raised her little finger and said to Taichi, "But I can't guarantee that the so-called expert will not suddenly attack us after going up the mountain on the exploration day."

"The monsters avoid that place, so I can't collect all the information inside Sun Mountain in a short time."

"Give me a few days."

……

During the free time of these few days, Taiyi spent most of his time exercising, except for chatting with a few friends with whom he had a good relationship.

Exercising in an unscientific way.

After all, according to Mordred and Minamoto no Raikou, Taichi's body has very high potential, and as long as he is pushed a little more, he can turn that potential into strength.

Anyway, Akane Shinjo only watched it for more than ten minutes, and because she was too soft-hearted to watch it, she chose to go shopping with An Takamaki.

The Monster Spark Doll manifestation function on her phone has been taken care of by Axe.

Xin Tiao Qian had experimented several times before.

The monster's spark puppet can only be manifested for a limited time.

If it is not fighting, the monster can maintain its huge posture for less than two minutes before it turns back into an ordinary puppet due to excessive energy consumption.

But if you just communicate with the Spark Doll, it can last until the battery of your phone runs out.

Of course, the only Monster Spark doll that can currently communicate is the Ultra Beast Lorelei, whose main consciousness is Aunt Shimabukuro's consciousness.

Because Akane Shinjo allowed her to enter Shimabukuro Kimie's dream every night and dream of a mother-daughter reunion, Aunt Shimabukuro listened to her instructions very much.

"By the way, Mt. Higami is located in Mutsu City, Aomori Prefecture...if I remember correctly." Taichi took out his cell phone and found the text message that Suzui Shiho sent him before he transferred to the school.

"Sure enough, Suzui Shiho's transferred school is in Mutsu City." Taichi touched his earlobe, "I hope things won't get too outrageous this time."

……

"What a coincidence!" Just when Taichi was preparing to set off for Mutsu City with Akane Shinjo and Kotoko Iwanaga, he bumped into Anne Takamaki in front of the station.

"I was invited by Shiho to visit her new home." Takamaki An explained the reason for her presence.

"What are you going to do? Paranormal investigation?"

After all, among Taichi and the other two, there is Iwanaga Kotoko, the 'Princess' of the monsters, so Takamaki An asked this question.

"You could say that," Taichi explained, "because the previous incident revealed a possible connection to 'Hijoyama' in Mutsu City, so we're preparing to set out and get to the bottom of it."

"Ah...your life after leaving Shujin Academy is really colorful." Takamaki An sighed as she looked at Taichi with some envy.

Because of Taichi, Takamaki An had never awakened her own personality mask, so the three-person team of Amamiya Ren, Morgana and Sakamoto Ryuji never called her during their actions in the image space.

Although he thought about asking Taichi to come along, Taichi didn't have the other-world navigation app on his phone, making it inconvenient for him to move around.

Therefore, the three-person team over there decided that unless it was a major operation to change one's mind and break into the palace, any daily operations to explore the impression space would not be carried out with Taiyi.

They also told Taiyi about this decision, and Taiyi chose to accept it with pleasure.

After all, it is enough for him to have X living in his smartphone, so the pseudo-god’s door-breaking app should not be installed on his phone.

However, Yukinoshita Yukino, I don’t know what tricks the shadow Yukinoshita Haruno mastered, but he actually successfully connected to Yukinoshita Yukino’s mobile phone in the real world and gave her the password to enter his new palace.

Now and then, three girls who have a different world navigation app but have not awakened their personality masks will form a group to enter the shadow hall of Yukinoshita Haruno to expand their knowledge.

Chapter 29: Kurosawa Mika

Transfer, then transfer again.

Getting to your destination is not an easy task.

After all, the destination town is quite remote.

There are usually few vehicles passing through.

After all, there are mountains all around, and the town is firmly wrapped in them.

Because it was a holiday, Suzui Shiho had time to pick up Takamaki Anne.

Although Takamaki An had already informed her through the mobile chat platform that she would meet Taichi in front of the station and that they all had the same destination.

But when he actually saw the person, Suzui Shiho still felt it was a little unreal.

"Long time no see, Shiho." Taichi raised his hand and greeted the girl.

"Taiyi-kun." The girl smiled softly at her 'Prince Charming' with a slightly tipsy face.

"Ms. Shinjo, it's been a long time." After the Shibuya incident, she also met Akane Shinjo.

Although we are not very familiar with each other, at least we can sit together and chat about some private topics between girls.

"You look much better, Shiho." Shinjo Akane communicated with the girl without any sense of distance.

"Um, do you guys want to come to my house and rest for a while?" After Suzui Shiho met Iwanaga Kotoko through Taichi's introduction, he asked everyone what their next plans were.

"Ah, no need, we have someone here to pick you up." Iwanaga Kotoko shook her head and refused.

"Well, when you have finished your work, come to my house. I have recently learned some new dishes and can cook for you." Suzui Shiho continued to extend the invitation.

"If there is time." Iwanaga Kotoko responded with a raised eyebrow.

There are some things that An Takamaki feels it’s better for Suzui Shiho not to know too much about, so she didn’t tell Suzui Shiho much about the truth of the Shibuya incident.

Normally, if the topic between the two of them strayed into this aspect, Takamaki An would use her poor way of changing the subject to something else.

Although Suzui Shiho occasionally dreamed about the night she turned into a ghost and was quite suspicious about it, she could sense that Takamaki An avoided the topic of the Shibuya incident, so she gradually stopped discussing it.

Not far from the bus stop, a young woman in sexy attire and beautiful appearance was leaning against a car and waving at this side.

"Your Highness the Princess, right? I've long heard of your name." A royal sister's voice came out from the woman's mouth.

"I'm Kurosawa Mika, and I'm the professional who accepted your commission this time."

"However, my main job is as a manager of a coffee shop."

"In the next few days, I will serve as your 'guide to Rishang Mountain'."

"I'm Iwanaga Kotoko. I don't want to hear such a name from humans, such as princess." Iwanaga Kotoko looked at Kurosawa Mika's figure with some reluctance and replied, "And these two here are my collaborators, Naruto Taichi and Shinjo Akane."

"This is our first meeting, please take care of me."

"Ms. Kurosawa is a professional with the ability to see shadows. She can see the afterimages of people or things that have disappeared." Sitting in the back seat of the car, Iwanaga Kotoko introduced Kurosawa Mika's ability to Taichi who was sitting in the passenger seat. "She is the only person with this ability who still lives around Higashiyama. That's why I contacted her through special channels to be our guide."

"Is it really okay to casually expose other people's special abilities?" reminded Akane Nitiao who was sitting next to her.

"It doesn't matter." Kurosawa Mika in the driver's seat was quite calm, "It's not an ability that can't be seen in public, and there's no need to worry about being envied."

"Except that the relevant personnel with 'encrypted files' will refuse to visit you, there is nothing you can't say."

"However, it has been a long time since the events related to Mount Higami have attracted so much attention. In such a short period of time, two groups of people came here in succession, all of them curious about the new arrival of Mount Higami." Kurosawa Mika smiled slightly, "It reminds me of the stories I heard from adults when I was a child, about how Mount Higami was explored by psychics and folklorists."

"Two groups of people?" Iwanaga Kotoko looked at Kurosawa Mika in confusion.

"Well, the other group of people are not insiders, but a famous writer with his assistant." Kurosawa Mika explained, "They came here because they were curious about Hikariyama and wanted to use the unique "mourning photos" of Hikariyama for their new work."

"It sounds like the work is not selling well." Kotoko Iwanaga said her true thoughts very rudely.

"Well, it's true that it's not popular, and he's always procrastinating, so the work is not very complete." Kurosawa Mika nodded in agreement, "However, he has an ancestral compound eye projector that can capture the existence of 'spirits'. If the film is suitable, he can even seal the spirits in the photos."

"A camera can capture a person's soul... It seems that the person who developed that kind of projector lived not too far away from us." Iwanaga Kotoko curled her lips and said, "But, if the rumor becomes reality, there must be something strange inside the projector."

"It has nothing to do with us." Taiyi reminded, "Ms. Kurosawa, it's best not to let us get together with that group of people, otherwise they might suspect that we have bad intentions to take his projector."

"I understand." Kurosawa Mika felt that what Taiyi said made sense. After all, people's hearts are hidden, and prejudices are probably higher than mountains and deeper than the sea.

If she didn't have a projector of the same type, but the model was not as good as the one the writer had, she would have wanted to take that projector.

After all, the function of the projector is simply super compatible with the ability of "Shadow Vision".

It can turn the hidden things of God from "seeing" to "getting".

The car finally stopped in front of a shop with a sign called "Antique Cafe Kurosawa".

"Please go in through the main gate first," Kurosawa Mika explained, "I still have to park my car in the parking lot, and the small door in the backyard won't be able to accommodate my car."

"There is a receptionist in the store. Because of the difficult experiences she had in the past, she is not very good at communicating with people. But I have already told her to receive the three of you. Please don't make it too difficult for her."

Jingle Bell--

As the wind chimes hanging at the door rang, the girl who was wiping the bar raised her head and looked towards the door.

Three unfamiliar faces pushed the door open and walked in.

"Excuse me." The petite girl in the lead looked over with a cane in her hand.

“…Is it Sister Mihua’s guest?” the bitter-faced girl murmured softly.

"Ms. Kurosawa went to park the car." Taiyi, who heard her mumbling, explained, "We are the clients she drove to pick up."

Chapter 30: The secret of Rishang Mountain is still a secret

"Please..." She brought four cups of coffee brewed in antique cups to the table, and then served the coffee one by one to the four people sitting around the bar table. Fang Xili glanced at Kurosawa Mika who had just returned from parking the car, and then lowered her head to clean the coffee machine.

"This girl seems to have very nice eyes." Iwanaga Kotoko glanced at Furuo Yuri, then said to Kurosawa Mika.

"Hey, that kid's 'shadow seeing' ability is far better than mine." Kurosawa Mika looked at Furugao Yuri who was keeping her head down and said nothing, and then replied, "If she just teaches me for a while, I might be able to retire from the industry and concentrate on running this cafe."

"Well, let's stop talking nonsense and tell me what you know about Mt. Higami." Iwanaga Kotoko sniffed the aroma of the coffee, touched the rim of the cup with her lips, put the cup back on the table, and looked up at Kurosawa Mika.

"Yes... well, where should I start?" Kurosawa Mika propped up her chin with the back of her hand in some confusion, "That place is very dangerous, and this is something that everyone in the psychic world knows."

"Although many psychics and folklorists have moved into the mountain to explore it, no one has ever returned alive."

“Even if someone has investigated the cause and effect of how Rishang Mountain became what it is now, I’m afraid it has been hidden in that mountain.”

"It's not so bad during the day. It's just an abandoned mountain. Even if there are evil spirits, they won't be too aggressive. They can't even leave the dark rooms and corners. However, once night falls, the whole mountain is like a hundred ghosts parading at night. Evil spirits roam everywhere and even actively lure passers-by into the mountain to commit suicide."

"Moreover, if we enter the mountain during the day, for some unknown reason, the research manuscripts of psychics and folklorists who have entered the mountain to explore in the past have never been discovered. But if we enter at night, it will be difficult to escape unscathed."

"I once tried to enter the mountain after the Demonic Hour, but before I even reached the outermost layer, I was almost swallowed by the evil spirits. Fortunately, I was lucky and escaped unscathed. Since then, I have never entered the mountain after dusk again."

“So the true situation inside Rishang Mountain is still one of the most mysterious to this day.”

"If you want to see the Rishang Mountain during the day, I'd be happy to lead the way for you. But as for the Rishang Mountain at night, I can only advise you not to get carried away."

"...Is that mountain so dangerous?" Fang Xili, who was behind the bar, couldn't help but look up at Kurosawa Mika and asked.

When she took me to Rishang Mountain before dusk a few days ago, she didn't tell me that this was the situation there.

Although she had seen an evil spirit indoors and repelled it with a camera, she still thought it was just a special case.

"Well, it's just that Mt. Higami is very dangerous at night." Kurosawa Mika smiled softly, "But if possible, I hope that you, Yuri, don't enter that mountain without my guidance even during the day."

"After all, that mountain during the day is also notorious as a 'suicide sanctuary'. If you go there too frequently, I, as your temporary guardian, will be summoned for questioning."

"Although most of them died after being lured into the mountain by evil spirits and their minds were confused, it is helpless that people who don't know the inside story will regard it as suicide."

"Hmm..." Fang Xili nodded, then lowered her head again.

"Well, it's still early, Miss Kurosawa, can you take us to the mountain to find out what's going on?" asked Kotoko Iwanaga, pressing down her beret.