I'm raising a fox fairy wife in Tokyo

"Let's go then."

"Eh?!"

"Let's get this over with quickly so we can rest and go home. Um, I'm going out for a bit. Chizuru, I'll be home tonight."

"..."

The big fox nodded silently, then went back to watching TV.

[Can these two really communicate? That's amazing!]

With these thoughts in mind, Kaguya Shinomiya stood up and followed Takagawa Takayuki out of the shrine.

“There are no evil spirits or anything like that in this world, so it’s probably just your imagination—well, even so, that’s what we do in this line of work, you know, it’s like psychological massage…”

The boy, dressed in a plain black vest and gray shorts, continued to say the same thing.

however.

The two had just walked up the long stone steps outside the shrine's torii gate and onto the street when a sudden chill made Kaguya Shinomiya seem to sense something and look to the side.

Across the long street.

A girl dressed in pure white clothes with waist-length jet-black hair is diligently pasting papers covered in bloody words onto the wall.

Blood continued to flow.

From the walls, from the pages of paper, and from the girl's own...

Neck.

What is that?!

Kaguya Shinomiya stared wide-eyed in disbelief as she saw the girl across the street slowly turn her head.

That's something no human could do; it's a common scene in horror movies.

My head rotated 180 degrees.

So beautiful!

The girl did indeed have an extremely beautiful face, but blood was trickling from her dark eye sockets and slightly open mouth.

!!!

Without a doubt, it's an evil spirit!

And you keep telling me to believe in science! Do you have an evil spirit living next door to your shrine?!

Chapter 3【霊】

"what."

Takakawa Ryu clearly saw the other party as well.

"That's a poor girl working late at night to earn money for her studies. This world is really terrible. It's already midnight, and she's still out handing out tourist flyers. Those damn capitalists..."

"???"

That's completely self-deception!!

This is hardly a pitiful girl... Ah, no, she does look pitiful, though, her mournful aura is almost enough to blot out the heavens and the earth!

But no matter what, they didn't come here to work and study, did they?!

White teeth, white teeth, white teeth...

It's still bleeding! The clothes are all stained red, and the ground too. The blood keeps flowing, it's almost seeping over here!

Even if they have absolutely no interest in "supernatural" things.

Kaguya Shinomiya was also terrified at this moment.

not to mention.

The boy next to me doesn't seem quite right either!

"Well, it's nothing unusual. You'll encounter things like this when you're walking down the street late at night..."

This is anything but ordinary!

Or is your definition of "ordinary" wrong?!

The biting cold felt like it gripped my heart, freezing all the blood in my body.

Until.

I heard Gao Chuanlong's calm and gentle voice.

"Let's just pretend it doesn't exist and go."

You're just fooling yourself!

wrong.

Kaguya Shinomiya was shocked to discover that Takagawa Tatsuma turned and left without the slightest hesitation.

!!!

The girl could only follow silently.

The cold sensation actually disappeared instantly.

Eh?

Kaguya Shinomiya quietly turned her head and noticed that the girl in blood across the street was no longer looking this way, but was continuing to put up her flyers.

[It actually works!]

The Takagawa family really knows their stuff; they truly deserve to be the heir to the top spot in the industry!

call.

Kaguya Shinomiya couldn't help but think this with a sigh of relief.

Even so, I still feel uneasy. Does that girl really just leave her like that? What is she doing, sticking things on the walls, even lampposts and trash cans…?

Bathed in the soft orange glow of the streetlights.

Kaguya Shinomiya, with her excellent eyesight, clearly saw the contents of the page.

[Shiratori Castle! "Japan's No. 1 Castle"!! A historical site you absolutely cannot miss, a World Heritage Site with a history spanning thousands of years, the best-preserved mountain castle ruins in modern times, and a sacred filming location that fans of Taiga dramas must visit...]

So it really is a travel flyer?!

Kaguya Shinomiya stared wide-eyed in disbelief.

Then, belatedly, it occurred to me.

White Bird Castle?

What is that place?

Does Tokyo have a place like that? No, not even the whole of Japan.

and so.

"Where is White Bird City? I've never heard of it before..."

Suddenly, someone covered his mouth with their hand.

This sudden contact startled Kaguya Shinomiya once again, followed by extreme shame and indignation—the eldest daughter of the Shinomiya family had never before had physical contact with a man!

But that's clearly not the important thing right now.

Because, in that very instant.

Kaguya Shinomiya saw that the blood-stained girl who had been standing across the street had turned her head to look at her again.

And, unlike before,

She was walking towards him, step by step, through the thick, bright red blood.

"Immediately, right now, whatever I say, you say it out loud, understand?"

The boy's rapid-fire voice came to my ears again.

"Shiratori Castle is a historical and cultural site located in H Park, Tokyo. It has been ruled by dozens of daimyo over the past 1,200 years. The main symbol of the castle is its pure white exterior walls and winding eaves, which resemble a white bird about to take flight. It is a World Heritage Site and is one of the three great castles of Japan, along with Himeji Castle, Matsuyama Castle, and Wakayama Castle..." (X2)

repeat.

Kaguya Shinomiya loudly repeated the words the boy had spoken.

I just subconsciously felt that there was something wrong with what he said.

What does it mean that "it is one of the three great connected hilltop castles in Japan, along with Himeji Castle, Matsuyama Castle, and Wakayama Castle"?!

Now there are four!

It should be the Big Four, right?!

But the other person stopped. The girl, whose pure white dress was now completely stained with blood, stood there, nodding repeatedly at what she had said.

finally.

He smiled with satisfaction—though it was still quite frightening, as blood was still gushing from the corner of his mouth, like a completely broken faucet!

The other person turned around again and went back to posting her small advertisements.

"Phew... I finally managed to get away with it."

"very scary……"

"Yes, you almost got arrested."

"Eh?!"

"If you are captured, you will be forced to tour White Bird City. It will probably take two or three days to walk around inside. Even if you are hungry or need to go to the toilet, you can't. You have to behave properly and thoroughly explore White Bird City."

Oh?! I see!

"Otherwise, what do you think would happen? She's a good girl; she just wants others to know more about her hometown."

"That's it..."

He is indeed a pitiful child, although his appearance is quite frightening.

"So I told her that my area is super popular, and if we put up small ads here, there will be as many people as we want to go to White Bird City."

"That's why they post these things in the middle of the night."

"Then every day just before dawn, I would go and tear down all the small advertisements so that no one would see them."

That's absolutely awful! You're practically bullying a stupid, poor kid!

wrong!

In a sense, the boy "sealed" this terrible child away.

This way, the child won't affect others.

It could be described as inexplicably gentle...

And isn't this something they're not very good at handling?

Then why deny the existence of evil spirits from the very beginning, and shamelessly spout things like "believe in science"?

There are such terrifying children outside your shrine!

And they clearly know each other very well!

Isn't that just...

"It's not an evil spirit."

Stop deceiving yourself!

"Shinomiya-kun, I want to correct your mistake again. It's not an evil spirit or a vengeful spirit."

Takakawa Ryu's serious expression.

Suddenly, Kaguya Shinomiya felt that there was something different about the boy in front of her.