I'm raising a fox fairy wife in Tokyo

"That's pretty much it."

Dozens of families still live in the apartment building, as if all the things that happened before had no impact on their lives at all.

And while some residents continue to go missing, new residents are constantly moving into the apartment building.

"This is also very abnormal."

"Ah."

Putting away the intelligence and data in his hand, Takagawa Takayuki nodded to the girl and said.

"Then let's go too."

"it is good!"

The two are currently playing the roles of a young couple who are about to move into an apartment. Kaguya Shinomiya feels quite uncomfortable with this, but upon closer inspection, it seems that there is indeed nothing wrong with it!

In order not to arouse suspicion, they all disguised themselves.

Gao Chuanlong combed his usually messy silver-gray hair into a mature style, and put on a suit, tie, and black-rimmed glasses.

In an instant, it gives people a sense of maturity and reliability.

Kaguya Shinomiya also wore a thin gray sweater, a beige wool skirt, and black tights, with her hair tied back and, like Chika Fujiwara, a red ribbon.

Compared to her usual long, black hair and cold expression, she definitely looks much cuter.

Leveraging their financial resources, the apartment was rented by the afternoon, and the furniture and luggage had been moved over by a moving company not long ago.

It was 9:21 p.m., which was the time for the two of them to get off work and go home together.

The night was cold and desolate.

I don't know if it was just my imagination, but the clouds in the sky were terrifyingly dark, with only a small gap revealing the edge of the moon.

In some of the chaotic long streets, the streetlights would flicker from time to time, making the apartment buildings not far away eerily quiet.

Kaguya Shinomiya held the boy's arm.

Feeling the solid, reliable touch and the genuine warmth of the other person's body calmed me down somewhat.

From time to time, the loud, noisy sounds of dogs could be heard in the distance.

There were also the cries of children, motorcycles speeding across the road, and the shouting and yelling of delinquent teenagers.

Fushimi Ward has the highest crime rate in Kyoto.

Since Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who replaced Oda Nobunaga and became one of the most powerful men in Japan during the Sengoku period, built Fushimi Castle here, it has always been a famous "castle town" in Kyoto, where ordinary citizens have lived for hundreds of years.

Chaos always breeds evil.

Upon arriving at the apartment building, Gao Chuanlong swiped his card to open the iron gate. He then had to walk along a narrow alleyway that used to be planted with something, but was now filled with all sorts of garbage of unknown origin.

Walk around the outer wall until you reach the other side of the street, and you'll find the narrow staircase leading up.

There isn't even an elevator.

The eleven-story apartment building has only a few such small, dark stairwells, and the stairwells are quite narrow compared to the building's massive size.

It may not be wide enough for two people to walk side by side, and its height is less than two meters.

Upon entering, the stark white light created a cramped atmosphere, showcasing the classic charm of Japanese house design.

Each floor above.

You need to go through two iron gates on the left and right sides of the stairwell to reach the corridor on the same floor of the apartment.

"Our rented apartment is on the eighth floor."

[806] The family of three who originally lived in this apartment disappeared four days ago, and their whereabouts are unknown.

for a long time.

Finally arriving at the floor marked "8F," Takagawa Takayuki, with Shinomiya Kaguya in tow, pushed open a side iron door and entered the apartment's corridor.

The place was completely empty.

It has rather strange corners, like a maze, whereas a corridor should logically be a straight line.

But the corridor in front of them blocked the way to the apartment door with the 801 metal sign hanging on it.

Then, it abruptly turns left into the interior, and the sides are still very narrow, just like the stairwell, allowing only two people to walk side by side at most.

Kaguya Shinomiya hugged the boy's arm tightly.

Continuing forward, at the end of the corridor not far away, is the door to room 802 again. Then the corridor turns right again, and at the end of the corridor, about ten meters away, is room 803.

This is so strange! This layout is bizarre!!

Moreover, once you walk in, there are windows of other apartments on both sides, so you can see inside as soon as you turn your head!

Suddenly, Kaguya Shinomiya!

Then he noticed someone watching him from inside the window of apartment 803.

It was a middle-aged woman with a sallow complexion. She stood in front of the window, staring at him with wide eyes.

"!!!"

The residents in this apartment building seem a bit strange!

But having experienced so much of Kaguya Shinomiya, she wouldn't be so frightened as to scream out loud.

Instead, they continued to silently follow Gao Chuanlong, passing several corners in a row—after going deeper inside, the corridor became more complicated, turning from one-way corners into options with left and right directions.

If you have a bad memory, you'll definitely get lost here, right?

Who designed this?!

Finally, the two arrived at the door of apartment 806, where the nameplate that used to belong to the family of three still hung.

【Ota Shingo】;

【Ota Oriyuki】;

【Mio Ohta】;

It was stained with dark red blood and had messy knife marks, and there was also a strange sticker stuck to it.

It's like... a triangular, slanted human face.

Gao Chuanlong stared at the sticker for a long time before tearing it off. But at that very moment, a loud chorus of curses came from the depths of the distant corridor.

The girl turned her head to look.

They turned out to be several pale-faced children, muttering something incoherently with distorted expressions.

Upon making eye contact with itself, it immediately turned and ran away.

But the image of those evil, dark eyes in the child's eyes lingered in Kaguya Shinomiya's mind.

"Click".

Gao Chuanlong seemed completely unconcerned, simply taking out his key to open the door and then speaking to himself.

"Let's go home, Kaguya."

The boy seemed just like a husband who had just finished get off work and was returning home with his wife.

just.

As she was being pulled into the house, Kaguya Shinomiya could clearly feel countless gazes directed at her from behind and around the corners of the corridor, accompanied by barely audible whispers...

What are they all talking about?

The girl's heart suddenly began to pound violently, until...

"Snapped"!

The door was closed, shutting everything out.

world.

Finally, things quieted down.

Chapter 125 [The First Night]

The house is like a dull coffin.

With a "click," the boy turned on the pale white light in the entryway, instantly dispelling the darkness inside and making Kaguya Shinomiya feel slightly uncomfortable.

"what……"

It let out a small, startled gasp.

Before me were rather ordinary gray and white walls, and a black wooden door that was impossible to ignore.

Right across from the entrance hall, less than two meters away, is the bedroom of this apartment. Pushing open the door reveals a square, black space.

There were no windows, and the room was surrounded by walls on all four sides, with only a small ventilation window on the top of one wall. If it weren't for the relatively normal interior decoration, the girl would have almost thought it was a prison cell.

What kind of design is this...?

On either side of the bedroom are corridors leading to the left and right respectively. One side leads to the living room and kitchen, while the other side leads to the bathroom and toilet. That's all there is to the apartment.

Compared to the bedroom.

The living room is a completely open-plan space.

There are windows of all sizes everywhere, and they all face the outside corridor.

Kaguya Shinomiya even had the vague feeling that people were standing outside the window looking in from all directions, but there was clearly no one outside the window in front of her.

Perhaps it's not just my imagination?!

Behind me, or outside the window to the side, in a place I can't see, there is someone standing there.

"Let's draw all the curtains."

Takagawa Ryu had already taken action, and soon all the windows surrounding the living room were covered, which made Shinomiya Kaguya breathe a small sigh of relief.

Therefore, continue to observe the surroundings.

The living room is very large, even abnormally large, and together with the open kitchen, it probably takes up more than half of the apartment's area.

But the decoration is very simple.

There was a three-meter-long fabric sofa, a coffee table, several cabinets against the wall, and a TV mounted on the wall. That was all.

The two's "pretentious" luggage was piled up in cardboard boxes on one side—in reality, it contained various foam models, some food, and a change of clothes.

Since I'm not really going to live in this apartment, of course I won't actually bring any furniture in.

Actually.

This place should remain as it was when the family of three lived here.

Suddenly, Kaguya Shinomiya looked up and noticed a strange and eerie attic above the living room.

Located on both sides of the house, connected by a horizontal beam in the middle, which is probably not even 30 centimeters wide, calling it a "passageway" is simply absurd.

A ladder is needed to get up there.

However, after going up to take a look with Takagawa Ryu, Shinomiya Kaguya discovered that the attic was less than a meter high, and even an adult would find it uncomfortable to sit up.

And there are no guardrails. Wouldn't you be worried about falling off at night if you slept on it?!

I really don't know what it's used for.

It can't be released...

……

After wandering around the living room, I checked out the toilet and bathroom. Apart from being so small it was uncomfortable, there was nothing wrong with them.

In particular, it's incomprehensible that a bathroom that's only five or six square meters would have a small single bathtub.

"This house is so strange..."

"what."

Modern apartments in Japan look like this, and there are even more bizarre ones, as Takagawa Takayuki saw many when he worked there.

"Moreover, it might have been distorted."

The presence of a spirit can cause anomalies and even alter the physical world.