From Earthbound Spirit to Tokyo Evil

"She can't remember these, and even if she does, it's just a dream." Kamio Hitomi said. "Hasn't Mr. Mukumi ever had a dream in which he met another version of himself before?"

"Don't test me with these meaningless words." Xia Chuan said.

"How sad! I just want to know more about you." Kamio Hitomi pouted, but soon laughed again. "I'm really curious, Mr. Mukuroki, what era do you live in? Why can't I feel the atmosphere of the times from you at all?"

"What about you? How long have you lived?" Xia Chuan asked back.

"Me? About two hundred years ago? The first human I met was a samurai from the Mito Domain. Now that I think about it, he was such a simple and passionate person."

More than two hundred years?

When did the neon revolution in this world take place?

"Mr. Mukuroki, have you ever heard of the Tengu Rebellion?"

Tengu Party?

Xia Chuan was confused.

"Haha, it's just a small matter in the Northeast. It's normal for ordinary people not to know about it. However, that was my first attempt to deceive people, but in the end it was easily suppressed. It's really sad."

"At that time, within the shogunate..."

"At that time? Should the Yinmura clan be in power? Or the Dairudo?" Kamio Hitomi pondered hard, and suddenly, she smiled: "Mr. Haibi, you really don't know these things at all."

Xia Chuan was stunned for a moment after hearing what she said, and then he realized that she was just testing him again.

But if you don’t know, you don’t know. There’s nothing you can do about it.

Facing this kind of guy, it probably wouldn't work to be mysterious like I did with Akasaka.

But at this moment, Kamio Hitomi suddenly said something even more shocking: "The so-called Skeleton Society, can't it be just you, Mr. Skeleton?"

"What did you say?!" Xia Chuan instantly felt murderous.

"Don't be so fierce! I'm just making a reasonable guess." Kamio Hitomi looked resentful, but it was obviously an act, and she wasn't afraid of him getting angry at all. "If there are other members of the Skeleton Society, then someone must know about this, right? It's impossible that all members of the Skeleton Society were born not long ago, and there isn't a single senior outlier among them, right?"

"Not everyone is as noisy as you."

"What? You really want to hear this, don't you?" Kamio Hitomi laughed again. "How about it, Mr. Mukuro, would you like to invite me to become a member of the Mukurokai? After all, I am a remnant of the shogunate era and I know a lot about ancient things. If I join, the history of the Mukurokai can be pushed back hundreds of years, and they can pretend to be more sophisticated when facing Akasaka or the Watchers. What do you think? Consider it?"

"I will really kill you to silence you."

"No, you won't." Kamio Hitomi smiled brightly, then became gentle. "You must be lonely, right, Kaiki-san? It's painful to be alone and bear so many things, so much pressure, full of doubts about the world but unable to find anyone to discuss things with. I can totally understand this pain, because I have been going through this for the past few decades.

If you want, you can tell me everything and let me share it with you."

She gently stroked Xia Chuan's face with her hand, her fingers were warm and soft, Xia Chuan looked into her eyes, full of sincerity and concern, and then her warm lips slowly moved closer...

"Just stop it!" Xia Chuan suddenly woke up when she was about to succeed and pushed her out heavily.

"Hehe." Kamio Hitomi did not fall into the sea, but floated above the sea. After a moment, a huge octopus tentacle stretched out from the sea, held her up, and sent her back to the yacht. "Why do you want to suppress yourself? Even for us, we can only exist in this world for a few hundred years at most. Haibi, you are very powerful, but don't you really feel lonely? Don't you really need a companion who can understand you, solve your problems, give you advice, stay by your side when you are depressed, and let you tell everything without scruples?"

"I don't need it." Xia Chuan replied. "Even if I need it, it can't be you!"

"Don't speak too fast and too full, Haitō." Kamio Hitomi sighed. "Do you think it's meaningless for fate to let us meet? You need me, Haitō, because only I can accept everything about you without telling anyone, and won't reveal your secrets. I also need you, because I am trapped in this body, and only you can set me free."

"What do you mean?" Xia Chuan was a little surprised.

"I will tell you the answer when you are willing to believe me." said Hitomi Kamio.

Then she got a piece of paper from somewhere and drew three women on it.

"Two years ago, she came to my concert with her human companions. I am sure she must be a miko, a real miko. However, I don't have the habit of disturbing other aliens, so I didn't investigate her identity afterwards."

"A real shrine maiden? Are you sure?" Looking at the short and fat woman that Kamio Hitomi specifically pointed out, Natsukawa's expression was a little strange.

"Why? Do you think that shrine maidens are born beautiful?" Kamio Hitomi shook her head. "Why are men so superficial and judge people by appearance? Go find her. I believe you won't hurt her. If you can give her protection, she will probably tell you what she knows."

Chapter 224 How terrible is the bored monster

This woman is lying again!

It was not until he came out of the dream that Xia Chuan suddenly figured out one of the problems.

Putting aside other things, she said that she was trapped in this body and only she could set her free.

But how old is Kamio Hitomi now? And how old is this woman?

All in all, it is impossible that Kamio Hitomi was possessed by her for a full ten years, so what happened to her before that?

Moreover, she had clearly said before that she could control Kamio Hitomi's body at any time in an emergency, so it is possible that only she could set her free.

What a liar!

But... Xiachuan couldn't help but start looking up the so-called "Tengu Party Rebellion", the "Mito Domain" she mentioned, and even looked up "Onmura" and "Dainyudo".

As expected, information about Yinmara and Dairudo is not easy to find. Mito Domain was a large domain located in the northeastern region of Japan during the Edo period, and it was even the birthplace of the last shogun.

However, what surprised Natsukawa was that the "Tengu Rebellion" that Kamio Hitomi had been talking about was not "a small incident that happened in the Tohoku region" as she had downplayed it, but an important event that shook the entire Neon world in the specific historical environment of the late Edo period, and it could even be said that it changed and determined the direction of Neon history to a certain extent.

Of course, it is impossible to verify what exactly happened in the texts he could find, but Xia Chuan can fully imagine the influence of this incident at the time.

Perhaps it was precisely because he knew nothing about this that Kamio Hitomi made such a judgment.

So, is the witch she was talking about real?

Natsukawa immediately drew the appearance of the three women and asked Asakawa Manabu and Kinoshita Takashi to investigate separately.

The police database did not find their data, and Asakawa Manabu did not find any relevant information on the Internet using his own image recognition software. They were probably the most ordinary Japanese women who had never committed a crime, nor had any news worth reporting, and they did not even have the courage and desire to share their photos on the Internet.

How easy is it to find three such people in the Tokyo metropolitan area with a population of more than 30 million?

"Mr. Haibi, I'm so glad to see you! You haven't been here for so long, I thought you had abandoned me."

"Don't make it sound like we were visiting a nightclub." Xia Chuan felt his fist itching. "Besides, it was only a week."

"Isn't a week long enough? Mr. Haibi, you are so cruel. I think about you every moment. For me, every second of waiting for you is torture."

"Can you please be more serious, get off my lap and sit across from me?"

Seeing that Natsukawa's expression showed signs of him going berserk, Kamio Hitomi finally calmed down a little.

This made Xia Chuan wonder if she had already used him as a tool to relieve boredom.

"So, what are we going to talk about today?" Hitomi Kamio asked excitedly.

"When you saw those three people, did they have any other characteristics?"

"Huh? You haven't found her yet? I thought you didn't come for so long because you were busy... Sorry, it's been so long and I really can't remember clearly." Kamio Hitomi looked innocent, but precisely because of this, Natsukawa was sure that she must be hiding something.

"We're all acquaintances now, so just say what you want to say, and don't waste everyone's time beating around the bush, okay?"

"If I tell you, will you continue to come to me?" Kamio Hitomi widened her eyes and looked at Natsukawa with a pitiful look. Although she knew that she was acting again, that look was really... Natsukawa finally couldn't bear it anymore, grabbed her head and rubbed it hard.

"You really don't understand romance!" A few seconds later, Kamio Hitomi had already flashed a few meters away, looking at Natsukawa with disgust. "I've already done that, and you're the only one who can do this?"

"Please, I really don't have the time to beat around the bush with you. Let's talk about something practical. What do you want?"

"You're so cold before I get what I want. Will you still care about me when I get what I want?" Kamio Hitomi said sadly.

"Forget it, just pretend I never heard that news. Goodbye, no, never see you again."

"Wait a minute!" Seeing that he was really about to leave, Kamio Hitomi finally shouted.

Xia Chuan looked at her silently.

"I really just want a friend." Kamio Hitomi said. "You think I'm boring? Yes, you read that right, I am really boring, extremely boring. Look at what she usually does, just staying at home and being in a daze. The people she contacts are always the same few people, either women or old men. The biggest mistake I made in my life was to get attached to her."

"But she can give you endless power of will and an incomparable brilliant stage."

"That's what I thought at first." Kamio Hitomi sighed. "No matter how much wishing power I have, I can only use so much. No matter how brilliant and dazzling the stage is, it only lasts for a few short hours. I am bound to her, and also to the stage. Day after day, year after year, I can only live in dreams."

"Didn't you choose it yourself?" Xia Chuan asked tentatively.

"I chose it myself, but I didn't expect that there would be such a mistake, which led to the current result."

"A mistake?"

"That was a long time ago." Hitomi Kamio shook her head.

"What did you mean when you said I could set you free?"

"I don't know, I just have a feeling that you can definitely help me. Haibi, you will help me, right?" Kamio Hitomi's expression became pitiful again.

Xia Chuan sighed again.

"Sorry, sorry, it's just professional habit."

"How can I trust you and treat you as a friend when you are like this? Let's talk about something practical."

"Practical? How about this." Kamio Hitomi's expression became serious for once. "As long as you promise to come and chat with me every night, I will tell you the detailed information about the miko."

really!

"That's impossible. I don't have the time."

"It's just a chat! Your subordinates were all asleep at that time, right? You didn't have anything else to do!"

"Please make some other requests." Xia Chuan said.

"One night a week?"

"No." Xia Chuan flatly refused.

"What about one hour? Every Sunday night, talk for an hour. Even if you don't say anything, just come and listen to me for an hour, that should be okay, right?"

"No."

"How can you be so cruel! This clue may be crucial to your becoming a god, and I don't need you to do anything excessive. I just ask you to spend an hour every week to accompany a poor person like me. Isn't that okay?"

Tears welled up in Kamio Hitomi's eyes again. Even though she knew that she was most likely acting again, such a request... could be said to be excessive, or it could be said to be really nothing.

Waste an hour every week listening to perhaps Japan's most famous idol speak, and there will probably be many people crying and begging to trade with him.

"Half a year." His heart finally softened, of course, this was because of the beauty of Kamio Hitomi.

If Hitomi Kamio grows up to be a "real shrine maiden", her heart will always be harder than the Antarctic glaciers.

Kamio Hitomi's expression immediately became excited.

"Also, you are not allowed to... tease me again." Xia Chuan immediately added a condition. "If you deceive me, betray me, or continue to tease me with those boring tricks, the agreement will be terminated at any time."

"That's a lot to ask." Kamio Hitomi said in a low voice. "Half a year, that's twenty-six weeks?"

Xia Chuan nodded.

"Do you promise not to cheat or find excuses to terminate the agreement?"

"I'm not your kind."

"Well, okay, deal!" Kamio Hitomi said. "Then..."

She suddenly closed her eyes and pouted her lips.

"What do you want to do?" This scene made Xia Chuan's heart, which had just been relieved, immediately become tense again.

"Don't you know? The last step for the Hebrew devil to complete the deal is a kiss." Hitomi Kamio said as a matter of course.

"Is one of us a Hebrew devil?!" Xia Chuan shouted angrily.

"That's true... But since it's an agreement, there should at least be some sense of ceremony, right? After thinking about it, I think this..."

Xia Chuan slapped her hand heavily and said, "Deal!"

"High five as an oath?" Kamio Hitomi sighed. "You really don't have any sense of humor at all."

"So?"

"So anxious?" Kamio Hitomi said. "Her name is Kiyokawa Yuriko, at least that's what she was called when she came to see my concert. At that time, I secretly looked at her ID card and the ticket stub in her bag. She should live near Chibadera Station in Chiba. As for her occupation, judging from her attire and temperament, she is most likely a nurse or childcare worker."

"Come on!" She clenched her fists and made a cheering gesture to Xia Chuan.

Very cute, but...

"Goodbye." Xia Chuan said.

"Tomorrow is Sunday!" Kamio Hitomi smiled and waved at him. "Don't forget our first date, Mr. Mukuroki. I will look forward to meeting you."

"Get out!" Xia Chuan finally couldn't help but say, and then he retreated from the dream.

Chapter 225 Disappearance of Yuriko