Social phobia and lonely rock

Ishikawa Hayabusa immediately divided the macarons into two halves and gave her one half.

Now Hong Xia accepted it easily.

After doing all this, Ishikawa Hayabusa wiped his hands, put on his coat, pricked up his ears and paid attention to the next room. After waiting for two seconds, he lowered his body and walked out, and Hongxia followed behind him.

The two walked around and arrived at the backstage of the coffee shop, where they asked the waiter for help to take them out through the back door.

...

"Huh, escaped safely."

When Ishikawa Hayabusa saw the sunlight again without any glass blocking it, he leaped forward into the sunlight and raised his hands in satisfaction.

Hongxia looked at him with a chuckle, then said to the waiter next to her.

"Thank you."

Ishikawa Hayabusa also turned around, smiled and gave a thumbs up.

"Thanks, buddy."

"You are welcome."

The waiter turned around and went back into the cafe with a polite smile, walked to the back door of the cafe, nodded to them, and then closed the back door of the cafe.

The back door of the coffee shop faces a parking lot, which is not far from the next Hell Hot Spring.

Hongxia walked down the stairs with light steps, and when she reached Ishikawa Hayabusa, she spoke with a smile that showed more embarrassment than anything on her face.

"I feel like I'm getting worse and worse. I follow, eavesdrop, and am happy because my sister is in trouble. I've been completely led astray by Hayabusa-kun."

Ishikawa Hayabusa took her hand and asked with a smile.

"Then you'll be happy, right?"

Hongxia had a smile on her face and nodded while sighing heavily.

Ishikawa Hayabusa raised her hand high as if he was the champion and said with great anticipation.

"Then go ahead."

"No need! Hayabusa, please be more moderate!"

The two people's joyful voices rang out from the back door of the cafe. Liang and his two companions, who were preparing to slip back not far outside the cafe, and the four people who were chatting in the cafe were all unaware of this.

Then Ishikawa Hayabusa took Hongxia to see the remaining hells.

After that is the Ghost Mountain Hell.

When they arrived at the hot spring pool, Hong Xia looked at the ordinary hot spring with thick fog without quite understanding it.

“It feels like this place has suddenly become normal.”

Ishikawa Hayabusa remembered the characteristics of this hot spring, pointed behind and said to her.

"Go to the back and look."

The two continued walking forward, and when they came to a zoo-like display pool, Ishikawa Hayabusa patted Hongxia and asked her to look down.

Hongxia looked over curiously.

There below her was a huge crocodile that was twice her height.

At this time, Ishikawa Hayabusa suddenly shouted.

"Wow!"

Hongxia was so frightened that she jumped up and then threw herself into Ishikawa Hayabusa's arms. It took her two seconds to react.

"That's too much!"

She screamed in shame and slapped Ishikawa Hayabusa's shoulder hard.

After stamping the hell and coming out of Ghost Mountain Hell, the next one is Baichi Hell.

The scenery here is nice, with ancient buildings, simple green plants and shrubs, a large hot spring in the middle that is white with some green, and white mist floating over the hot spring.

The two of them strolled here for a while.

Hong Xia stared at the peaceful yet smoky hot spring with a trance-like gaze: "It feels like a whole day could pass easily if I just sit here and leisurely watch the white smoke from the hot spring."

Ishikawa Hayabusa agreed as he saw the vitality in her red eyes fade a lot, revealing a mature and steady side, and even the curves of her face showed a bit of calmness.

"That's not bad, let's stay here today."

After hearing this, Hongxia withdrew her gaze, looked at Ishikawa Hayabusa, smiled, and regained her bright look.

"Hayabusa-kun has a reservation today, right?"

"It's not that much. It's nice to sit here and stare blankly for a while before lunch, and enjoy the life of grandpa and grandma in advance."

"We are only 16 years old! This is too early."

Hongxia complained like this, but the two of them still sat here for a while.

Afterwards, they went to a nearby restaurant for lunch. Ishikawa Hayabusa didn't choose any famous restaurant, and the two of them didn't have to wait too long before they had lunch.

In the afternoon, the two did not rest, but went directly to the last two hell hot springs.

When they arrived at the entrance of the Blood Pond Hell, Hongxia thought they had to go in, but Ishikawa Hayabusa pulled her forward.

"Hayabusa-kun?"

"Come back later."

The two went straight to the final tornado hell.

When he arrived at the door, Ishikawa Hayabusa asked the staff about the eruption time of the hot spring.

"It should be soon. It's been quite a while since the last eruption."

Tornado Hell is a geyser that erupts every half an hour or so. 105° water mixed with air will spray out from the bottom. If there is no obstruction, it can spray up to 30 meters.

But I usually block it to prevent water from spraying everywhere.

After getting the answer, Ishikawa Hayabusa took Hongxia to the nearby area to buy some juice, and then went back to sit next to Tornado Hell.

"Everything is planned." Hongxia held the drink and looked at Ishikawa Hayabusa with a smile.

Ishikawa Hayabusa denied it while biting the straw.

"What do you mean by well-planned? This is all improvisation. Come over here and sit down for a while after dinner. It's also a good time to wait for the next geyser to erupt."

Hongxia recalled Ishikawa Hayabusa's various actions in the past and indeed found that he mostly acted on his own impulse.

But her female intuition made her feel that Ishikawa Hayabusa was also a person who attached great importance to planning.

As he thought about it, more and more steam came out of the geyser in Tornado Hell.

The two of them looked towards the pool.

Suddenly, in the pool surrounded by stones, a straight line of water sprayed directly onto the stones blocking it, and a large amount of steam gushed out.

Moreover, the hot spring gushing out of the pool showed no sign of stopping, but continued to gush out, with the water mixed with steam and high temperature hitting the stone slabs.

Hong Xia murmured as she looked at this natural yet quite dangerous scene.

"It's so dangerous. I feel like you can cook food on the stone slab."

Ishikawa Hayabusa's expression was a little strange, and he nodded.

"Indeed, it's very powerful. It can spray continuously for several minutes. Even if we know the principle of geysers, we still wonder where the power comes from."

After watching it, the two arrived at the last hot spring hell, the Blood Pool Hell.

This is a large orange-red hot spring.

But it was just a difference in color, which didn't cause much surprise to the two people who had been watching the hot springs for half a day.

Although the white mist floating above the red hot spring looks scary.

Ishikawa Hayabusa started playing here.

Next to the blood pool, he pulled Hong Xia and spoke with a gloomy and serious expression.

"I heard it, I just heard it, Hongxia, do you know the origin of the Blood Pond Hell?"

Hongxia knew something was wrong when she saw the expression on his face, and quickly glanced at the introduction board and said.

"Isn't it said that the hot mud of magnesium oxide and iron oxide underground was sprayed into the water to become like this?"

"That's just what we said on the surface. This story is the origin of Beppu Hell. You still remember the names of the seven hells, right?"

Ishikawa Hayabusa didn't wait for Hongxia to speak before he continued, "Onii-ishi Bouzu, the sea, Kamado, Oniyama, the blood pond, and Tornado. There is an extremely terrifying story hidden in the names of these seven hell hot springs."

Hongxia was so scared that her eyes went straight. She swallowed her saliva and pulled Ishikawa Hayabusa to beg for help.

"Stop talking, Hayabusa-kun."

When she wasn't paying attention, two passengers nearby heard Ishikawa Hayabusa's voice and stopped out of curiosity.

Ishikawa Hayabusa asked with a gloomy expression and a deep voice.

"But this is our last hell. Do we really not know the truth here to remove the curse? You know, only by knowing the name of the ghost can you drive it away."

"No... um..." Hongxia held Ishikawa Hayabusa's arm tightly with a sad face.

At the same time, the number of tourists around increased inexplicably. Five or six tourists stood by the blood pool, pretending to enjoy the scenery, but actually they pricked up their ears to listen to Ishikawa Hayabusa telling stories.

When Ishikawa Hayabusa saw that Nijixia agreed, he used his original ability as a light novel writer and said with a sinister smile.

"The story begins with a young monk who has just entered the temple. At that time, the place called Guishi was not called Guishi, but Haiya..."

More than ten minutes later.

The dozen or so people around were terrified when they heard this, but they couldn't move. Hongxia was already holding Ishikawa Hayabusa's arms tightly, leaning into his arms with her eyes closed.

"In this way, the blood of corpses gushed out, the souls struggling endlessly underground were transformed into fine wine and sprayed out, the rocks were filled with ghosts, and the ground was filled with flesh. Therefore, it was called hell."

"Wuwuwu..." Hongxia was no longer able to react and cried pitifully.

Seeing that she was really scared, Ishikawa Hayabusa quickly comforted her, pressing her back, touching her head and speaking.

"Okay, okay, it's just a story, there's nothing to be afraid of."

Hongxia mumbled for a long time before she calmed down. After a moment, she raised her head and said with tears in her eyes.

"Hayabusa, I need to go to the bathroom."

Ishikawa Hayabusa is not the kind of straight man who would just say "Okay, go ahead" to a girl when she's scared and says she wants to go to the bathroom.

But most people have no other options at this time, and only Ishikawa Hayabusa can give a different answer.

"Okay, let's go together."

His decisive answer made Hong Xia pause, and she was even no longer afraid for a moment, and asked tentatively in a low voice.

"Are you going to the ladies' room?"

Ishikawa Hayabusa answered with a very bright smile.

"It's okay, there are compartments."

Hongxia stepped on his feet and patted him on the head, and Ishikawa Hayabusa spoke honestly.

"Okay, I'll go to the men's restroom next door. If Hong Xia calls me, I'll be there right away."

"No way..." Hong Xia was about to refuse, but then she remembered the story just now and spoke in a weaker voice.

"It will cry out when it's dangerous... Hayabusa-kun must come."

"Of course." Ishikawa Hayabusa answered happily.

Unfortunately, they just went to the bathroom in a very ordinary way.

...

In the afternoon, the two visited the Beppu Observatory, went to the nearby Perfume Museum, and then took a bus to the cable car to Tsurumi-dake.

Because we had lunch late and went to two hell hot springs and two scenic spots later, the sky was already orange when we arrived at the station.

Ishikawa Hayabusa got out of the car and said to Hongxia who was behind him.

"It's that time again."

When they arrived in Beppu yesterday, it was also in the evening, but a little later than now.

As he spoke, he stretched out his hand. Hong Xia took his hand and got out of the car, then held his hand.