Tokyo, but I'm a deceitful fox

Soon, the man and the fox booked a room...

(Please take care of yourself in the new year. For the sake of everyone’s health, I will omit the next 500 words. Don’t thank me too much~)

The next morning.

The fox opened his eyes and felt his back and waist aching, his tail cramping, and even his breathing was a little difficult... Oh, his face was buried in the valley between the mountains, no wonder he felt uncomfortable.

He pulled his head out of Ichichi Kikuri's sweet and soft embrace, shaking the latter awake from her sleep.

Ichichi Kikuri opened her eyes a little and asked dazedly, "Hmm...it's morning already?"

"Yes, luckily, I survived another night!"

"Ah... is it that exaggerated?" Ijichi Kikuri pouted and then tried to bury her head in the fox's arms.

The fox held her chin accurately, rubbed it hard and said, "It's so exaggerated! I suspected that this bed would be broken last night! I say, have you ever seriously tested how strong you are?"

Ijichi Kikuri tilted her head and said, "Last month when I went to the amusement park with Yui Sakai, I did play with the boxing dynamometer..."

"And what was the result?"

"I didn't find out because I broke it and lost a lot of money."

Good guy!

Fox, did I actually fight naked with such a scary guy all night? I am so amazing!

No, even though it hurts, I still want to show off!

Thinking of this, Hoshino Hideyuki took out his cell phone, opened Inuyama Tetsu's chat box, and typed: Although it's just dawn now, I guess you're awake, right?

Inuyama Tetsu: Bro, it's half past eight and I've been staked out here for four hours.

Hoshino Hideyuki: ...It feels like you're one step closer to sudden death. Well, I'm almost there too.

Inuyama Tetsu: How do you mean almost the same?

Hoshino Hideyuki: I encountered a terrifying female demon last night. She sucked my blood like a monster. I tried my best but couldn't defeat her...

Inuyama Tetsu: Let me ask you a question first, where did you encounter it?

Hoshino Hideyuki: Love Hotel.

Inuyama Tetsu: Ah... I saw the suspect over here, and my teammates complained that I wasn't paying attention. We'll talk later...

After that, all the messages sent by Hoshino Hideyuki were no longer read and replied to.

Hoshino Hideyuki sighed quietly, thinking that this child must be too timid. He got scared after hearing about the bloody battles between me and the enemy. He was just like a child who ran away halfway through a horror movie and didn't dare to continue.

Well, when he comes back, I have to help him build up his courage!

"fox……"

On the other side, Ichichi Kikuri saw the fox typing hard and asked in surprise, "Are you saying something bad about me?"

"I'm overthinking. I'm praising you."

"Then I want to hear it even more~ What did you compliment me on? My fair skin or my long legs?"

"Eat people without spitting out bones~"

"?"

The fox curled his lips and said, "Why do you look like that? Do you think what I said is wrong? Well, it is a bit exaggerated, but you will still vomit."

"...No, I have to use actual actions to prove that I'm not that bad!" Ijichi Kikuri sneered, supported her body with her snow-white arms, and slowly climbed onto the fox.

"W-what do you want to do?"

"want!"

"Wait! I haven't recovered from the mental trauma I suffered last night! I murdered a fox! This is a blatant violation of the Wildlife Protection Act!"

Crunch.

Just like that, amid the cries for help from the bed that no human could understand, the afterglow of Valentine's Day completely dissipated.

An hour passed, and the fox, whose hardware had been softened, refused to walk on its own, and forced itself into Ijichi Kikuri's collar and returned to the rental house.

In the next few days, the fox lived a fulfilling daily life.

Due to external pressure, he spent more time on cultivation and finding Asuka to learn about barriers than before. For this reason, he even reduced one meal a day, from five meals a day to four meals a day.

Well, hunger increased his motivation to study!

With such efforts, although there is no new sign of upgrading to a big monster, the fox's overall strength is still growing steadily.

That evening.

During the break of practice, the fox strolled to the Sunny Doll Exhibition Hall to relax for a while.

"Senior Che!"

"Toru-kun~"

Ijichi Kikuri had just gone to the convenience store, and at the moment only Yamada Airi and Sakai Yui were on duty in the exhibition hall, and they warmly welcomed the fox.

"Senior, you came just in time today!" Yamada Airi thoughtfully poured a cup of Coke for the fox, then took out a flyer and said with a smile: "There will be a super awesome band performing at 8 o'clock~"

"I am looking forward……"

Hoshino Hideyuki was chatting with the high school girl in a casual manner, and at the same time, he took out his mobile phone and checked the chat history of Inuyama Tetsu again.

In the past two days, he has not received a reply to the messages he sent to Inuyama Tetsu.

At first, the messages were read but not replied to. Later, even the messages were not read.

It’s strange. Although I know that criminal police will be very busy when they are on business trips, are they really this busy?

Or maybe just give me a call...

Just as Hoshino Hideyuki was thinking this, two young men walked into the performance hall. They were supposed to be here to watch the 8 o'clock show, but they accidentally called in too much advance.

They walked to the bar, ordered two sodas, and started chatting.

"This pension fraud case is really bizarre. Just for that little bit of money, he actually dumped his own mother's body in the basement for decades and left it there until it turned into a mummy..."

"Those people who make statistics are really stupid. There are several elderly people over 150 years old in the area. It's enough to trample the Guinness World Record under their feet. Don't you think it's strange..."

The fox nearby heard this conversation clearly.

They seem to be all young policemen.

Are you talking about the kind of cases where people concealed the death of their relatives and falsely claimed pensions? In fact, it can be considered a kind of fraud, but it is really outrageous that they could falsely claim pensions for decades (or the local civil servants were really blind).

By the way, it's only seven o'clock now. You two policemen are so happy to get off work and come here to listen to music? You don't work overtime like Tetsu Inuyama! You can tell from the looks of it that you are not fully employed!

"By the way, have you heard anything recently?" Just then, one of the young police officers said, "It seems that there is a problem in Osaka."

"I heard that in order to track down the fugitive, several people from Section 1 and Section 2 disappeared. This has never happened before..."

The fox's ears instantly perked up.

He decisively used the mirror-viewing trick, causing the two policemen to stand up in a daze and follow him out of the exhibition hall.

"what?"

Yamada Airi felt a little strange, but then she also fell into the illusion and turned back to continue wiping the counter attentively.

Hoshino Hideyuki brought two policemen to a nearby alley and said in a deep voice: "Tell me everything related to Osaka..."

"OK……"

From the two policemen's explanation, Hoshino Hideyuki quickly understood the whole story.

The person who got into trouble was Inuyama Tetsu.

He and several other Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department police officers were sent to Osaka to assist in the hunt for a man named Miyazaki Jinpachi, who had committed several kidnapping and fraud cases in Tokyo and successfully escaped from prison last year.

Everything was going quite smoothly, and after half a month of investigation, they successfully identified Miyazaki Chenpachi and were about to bring him to justice.

But the day before yesterday, two hours before the scheduled arrest, the four policemen who were following him discovered that Miyazaki Chenba seemed to have noticed something strange and wanted to escape, so they had to take temporary action, and then...

And then nothing happened. Neither Miyazaki Shinpachi nor the four policemen were heard from again.

The police who came to support them searched the place thoroughly but found no clues, so they could only temporarily classify them as missing...

After listening to the two people's stories, Hoshino Hideyuki used illusion to induce them to return to the exhibition hall, while he stayed where he was, thought for a moment, turned around and walked out.

"Hideyuki!"

At this time, Kikuri Ijichi appeared behind him - it turned out that she had just returned to the store from the back door, and when she heard Yamada Airi say that the fox came and left, she intuitively felt that something was wrong, so she chased out.

"Well……"

Hoshino Hideyuki shrugged and said to Ijichi Kikuri with a wry smile: "I'm going to be busy again..."

Chapter 249: The dog friend is missing and in danger, and the fox rushes to rescue him

Hoshino Hideyuki told Ijichi Kikuri what he had just heard, and also gave a detailed introduction to the situation on Inuyama Tetsu's side - at this point, there was nothing to hide.

He then expressed his thoughts:

"I don't know what happened to him. Maybe he was caught by the fugitive's accomplices, or maybe he encountered some monster. But since the police haven't found him for two days and he didn't call for help from me, he must have run into big trouble..."

Another possibility is that Inuyama Tetsu has met with an accident, but Hoshino Hideyuki refuses to think in that direction.

The fox exhaled and said firmly, "Anyway, I have to go help him. Let's go now."

Inuyama Tetsu is the first friend the fox made after traveling through time, and he is an inseparable part of the fox's group of friends. If anything happens to him, the fox has to save him!

Across from her, Ichichi Kikuri immediately nodded and said, “I’ll go with you!”

Although today was the first time she knew the full name of her friend, according to the fox, she was able to be saved thanks to the information provided by the other party.

To round it off, Inuyama Tetsu is half of Ijichi Kikuri's savior!

Then she must go on this trip to Osaka!

Thinking so, without waiting for the fox to reply, Ijichi Kikuri returned to the exhibition hall, and then... she heard Yui Sakai's sharp explosion coming from inside.

Then there were a few seconds of clanging and banging sounds, which sounded very lively.

The fox couldn't help but be curious and looked inside, only to see that the friendly exchange between the good sisters had ended. Ijichi Kikuri was defeated and was holding her thigh root that was pinched and grimacing, while Sakai Yui next to her shook her hair and raised her head casually and said:

"Go ahead, go ahead. I'm used to it. Tetsu-kun, please take good care of our Kikuri~"

Hoshino Hideyuki saluted decisively!

Salute to the great guardian of the exhibition hall, the woman behind Ijichi Kikuri, the boss behind the Sunny Dolls!

In this way, Ijichi Kikuri and Hoshino Hideyuki, who were given the right to move freely, quickly rushed to the station and took the Shinkansen to Osaka.

During the process, Hoshino Hideyuki also found Asuka Tendo and asked her to help find out if the Countermeasures Office had any recent intelligence in Osaka.

After more than three hours, the man and the fox arrived at Osaka Castle.

Osaka, the third largest city in Japan, has a population that is slightly more than half of Tokyo. Together with Kyoto, it belongs to the Kinki (ji) region, which is the traditional Kansai region.

Compared to Tokyo, the cultural heritage and tourist attractions here are no less impressive, and the whole city is more down-to-earth - but in the eyes of some Tokyoites this is considered vulgar.

Well, if I continue, I will have to touch upon the long history of love, hatred, and regional discrimination in Kanto and Kansai...

The fox from Tokyo and the red-haired beauty from Osaka didn't want to pay attention to these nonsense.

As soon as they got off the car, they split into two groups. Ijichi Kikuri went to find a hotel to stay, while Hoshino Hideyuki went straight to the Osaka Prefectural Police Headquarters.

When it comes to collecting first-hand intelligence, there is no better place than here.

When he got nearby, he transformed into a fly and buzzed into the building that looked ordinary on the surface but was actually the core of Osaka's security forces.

Inside the building, policemen came and went.

"The interrogation has reached a critical stage. All we need is another bowl of pork chop rice to break through the suspect's psychological defenses!"

"...He has already eaten five bowls. Could he have come here just to eat and drink for free?"

"Isn't this just a simple case of a middle-aged uncle abducting a school dropout? Why are you so worried?"

"…Because he did nothing after abducting JK, but instead forced her to take the entrance exam for a higher technical college. He just can't stand people not studying hard! Oh, I don't know how to write this report now."

Well, that's good. It seems that Osaka is just like Tokyo, with strange cases happening every day...

As expected, the atmosphere in this world is very wrong. Could it be the world of a comedy anime?

Hoshino Hideyuki curled his lips and quickly found an office by looking at the flowers in the mirror. Sitting inside were police officers from various departments who had gathered specially to search for Miyazaki Chenpachi.