bookbashuk Chapter 808: Revenge of the Kamaitachi
Chapter 808: Revenge of the Kamaitachi
Chapter 808: Revenge of the Kamaitachi
The next day.
On the country road in Niigata Prefecture, the rugged ghost car is speeding.
Sitting in the front driver's seat and the front passenger seat were still the Kamiya family's "official drivers" Oishi Shunma and Takayama Mai.
The two apprentices of the Kamiya family, Yukino Kanoya and Aoi Tsurumi, sat safely in the second row.
There were only four of them in the car. The Mikami brothers from the hearse corps were participating in transportation operations in the Sea Kingdom as usual. As for Ohara Sami, he was left at home by Kamiyagawa.
"Xiao Kui, I heard that the hotpot here in Niigata is delicious. It's a hotpot dish made by mixing fish pieces and scallions together. If you have time, why don't you try it? Just treat it as lunch. If it tastes good, you can bring a few back for Master and everyone at home to try."
Shikanoya looked at the scenery passing by outside the window and talked to his junior sister, full of energy, as usual.
Koshiro and Tsurumi have gone on a long journey today, coming from Tokyo to the countryside of Niigata Prefecture in the north-central part of Honshu Island.
However, with the ghost car as a means of transportation, the journey doesn't take too much time.
The reason why the two of them appeared here was because of the matter of Kamaitachi.
According to the report from the little old man, his outer body had been tracking the newly discovered sickle-weasel last night. Nothing unusual happened in the first half of the night, but in the second half of the night the sickle-weasel suddenly started to run fast.
At first, the little old man thought that the kamaweed had noticed his surveillance.
Later I realized that this was not the case at all.
The sickle-weasel headed north, simply moving towards a certain destination.
The sickle-itachi was indeed a wind-controlling monster, running at an extremely fast speed. The little old man's body almost lost him several times, but fortunately, the scouts had strong professional qualities consolidated through long-term training, and finally fulfilled their mission.
He followed the kamaitachi to a primary school in Kitakamihara District, Niigata Prefecture.
The weasel arrived at its destination, but just wandered around the elementary school, whimpering, as if it was looking for something, but also seemed to be afraid of something. In short, it never officially entered the elementary school.
After staying in Niigata Prefecture until dawn, Kamaitachi finally returned to Tokyo.
Kanoyaya received intelligence reports from the scouts, so he asked for leave from school early this morning and rushed to Niigata with his junior sister.
"Xiao Kui, we're almost there. It's over there, Sasagami Elementary School."
"Ah."
Sasagami Elementary School is where the kamaitachi was wandering around last night.
Located in Sasagami Village, Kitakanbara District, Niigata Prefecture, at the foot of a mountain, the pale yellow exterior of the school complements the surrounding greenery. The school building is small, but spacious and bright, well ventilated, and equipped with complete teaching facilities.
In general, it is no different from other ordinary country primary schools.
As they were about to reach their destination, Xiaolu rechecked his equipment, incense recipes, and talismans, and took out a small object from his pocket: "Clang clang! This is one thousand silver needles. This is the item that our master lent us before we left. It will definitely come in handy later."
[One Thousand Silver Needles·Revised] has the effect of weaving lies and confusing right and wrong.
Because this was the first time that the disciples were doing supernatural work completely "independently", and the process would surely involve incident investigation, Kamiya Kawa lent this prop to the disciples.
Tsurumi also inspected his equipment.
She was wearing a pure white long-sleeved shirt today, and on the cuffs of the shirt there was a beautiful golden pattern embroidered.
"Little sleeves."
As Tsurumi called out softly, the golden lines on the sleeves shimmered. Then, two more long sleeves extended from the armpits of the white shirt, and inside the extra long sleeves, many soft and slender white wrists rustled.
Those arms were as soft as boneless, and they took out Ichimonji, Hotaru and Smiley Aoue according to the wishes of their owners, and then put the three famous swords back into their sleeves.
Just from this small action, it can be seen that Tsurumi and Kosode have developed a certain tacit understanding between them.
"Brother Junma, Sister Mai, Xiaokui and I are going to school. Please wait for our news on the main road. Keep in touch!"
Xiaolu and Tsurumi got off the ghost car, waved goodbye to Oishi and Takayama, and headed towards Sasagami Elementary School not far away.
……
"Xiao Kui, can you see anything?"
"There is evil spirit, but it's very weak. The wind here is a little strange... The evil spirit of the ghost story seems to have been blown away to the greatest extent, so it is difficult to distinguish clearly." Tsurumi looked around with fixed eyes and shook his head slightly.
Shikanoya sniffed and agreed with his junior sister, "Yeah, me too. The wind here blows away the smell, and I can only vaguely smell something similar to the smell of wild beasts."
A pair of sisters from the same school walked to the outside of Sasagami Elementary School and quickly attracted the attention of the security guard at the door.
"It's class time now, do you have anything to do?"
"We are from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, and we are here to investigate something." Xiaolu said, and the [One Thousand Silver Needles·Revised] in his palms became slightly hot.
At the same time, Tsurumi showed his credentials from the Countermeasures Room.
"Ah, you two are policewomen." The security guard looked a little dazed.
There was nothing wrong with the credentials of the two female police officers. As for the question of whether these two girls in their prime were too young to be police officers, this question was subconsciously ignored.
"Oh, you guys are here really fast." The security guard had no doubts, but was a little confused. "But why are the police from Tokyo coming here?"
Xiaolu heard something strange in the other person's words. It seemed that something had happened in this elementary school, but she did not show any stage fright. She just said calmly, "We want to meet the principal here."
"of course."
Not long after, Xiaolu and Tsurumi met the principal of Sasagami Elementary School, a middle-aged man wearing glasses.
Along with the principal was a young woman who looked like a teacher in the school.
Both of them looked a little flustered.
With the help of [One Thousand Silver Needles·Revised] and the certificate of the Countermeasures Room, after a brief introduction of their identities, they also accepted the "police officers" identities of Kodoka and Tsurumi.
"Tell me the details of what happened."
Kanoyaya and Tsurumi looked at each other, put on a mature look, and asked straight to the point.
Although she didn't know what exactly happened in Sasagami Elementary School, she would definitely be able to get some information by asking questions like this.
"It's... about the missing children in Mr. Kihara's class, named Sugiyama Toshimichi and Takase Tetsuya." The principal raised his hand to wipe the sweat off his face and signaled to the female teacher next to him with his eyes.
Teacher Kihara took over, her voice trembling slightly due to nervousness and anxiety:
"When I went to class this morning, neither Sugiyama nor Takase came. They didn't ask for leave from me, so I contacted their parents, but was told that the two children had already come to school early."
"I told the principal about the situation, and then we checked the school's surveillance together. From the surveillance at the school gate, it can be seen that the two children had indeed arrived at school early. They were responsible for cleaning the rabbit house and taking care of the animals today, so they came very early. There were not many people in the school at that time. After leaving the rabbit house, the two children went to the playground together."
"The playground's cameras had quite a few blind spots, so we could only capture the two children arriving at the playground, but not their leaving. We quickly searched the playground, but didn't find them. It seemed like they disappeared there..."
Teacher Kihara was a little unable to continue. Instead of being nervous, she was more terrified.
"The child may have climbed over the wall." The principal took over and tried to give an explanation, but this explanation did not seem to convince him very well. "However, the wall of the playground is very high. Two third-grade children... should, should have difficulty climbing out. So, we called the police."
Kanoya and Tsurumi looked at each other again.
Now, they know what happened at Sasagami Elementary School this morning, where two third-grade children disappeared from the school.
If the two little boys didn't climb over the wall and leave on their own, then their disappearance might be... related to a monster.
During the conversation, more police officers arrived at Sasagami Elementary School.
This time, it was the local police in Kitakambara County who really received the call, and the parents of the two children also rushed to the school.
When they met the local police, Xiaolu and Tsurumi still maintained their identities as "Miss Police Officers". After all, the countermeasures room credentials they both held were real.
After checking the two people's IDs, the local police in Kitakumawara County contacted their superiors to report. After about ten minutes, they received a reply from above -
They were told to cooperate with the "big shots" from Tokyo.
This makes it much easier for Kodoka and Tsurumi to act. With the police cooperating in investigating sudden disappearances, the two of them can focus more on the supernatural happenings at Sasagami Elementary School.
……
The investigation into the incident did not go smoothly.
Just like the feeling the disciples had when they were near Sasagami Elementary School, this elementary school may look ordinary, but it is always surrounded by a current of elegance that is difficult for ordinary people to detect.
Because of the wind, the evil spirits, smells and other perceptible strange atmospheres were blown away to the greatest extent, making it difficult to obtain clues about the supernatural. The little old man who followed the deer was still wandering around the playground, and it was unknown whether he could obtain further clues.
"Um, Ms. Kanaya, and Ms. Tsurumi."
Just when the disciples were at a loss, Teacher Kihara came over.
"What's wrong, Mr. Kihara?"
"There is something. I don't know if it is related to the disappearance of Sugiyama and Takase. You may find it a little ridiculous, but I..." The young female teacher looked a little hesitant and wavering.
"No, Mr. Kihara. You can tell us everything you know. It may be the key to helping find the two children."
"Well, um... Could you please come to the office?"
Judging from the internal communication among the police officers just now, the police officers who came later all respected these two young and beautiful female police officers from Tokyo.
I guess they both have the highest status.
Therefore, Mr. Kihara felt that if he really needed to explain something, he should tell them both.
in the office.
Teacher Kihara took out a stack of drawing paper from his desk drawer.
It looks like a piece of children's painting.
She handed the drawings to Kanoya and Tsurumi and said, "This was drawn by the children in my class in art class two weeks ago. The theme of their drawings was school. And this is Sugiyama and Takase's drawings, and these..."
Teacher Kihara took out six or seven sheets of drawing paper.
Children’s paintings may be good or bad, but the brushstrokes are all still childish and innocent.
The selected paintings all depict the same scene, a school playground, with children playing games on the playground. However, this should be a happy scene, but there is something extremely abrupt and incongruous:
In the corners of these paintings, there is a strange shadow.
The children focused on outlining it with very dark-colored crayons, and the interweaving of dark colors revealed an unstable emotion.
The shadow appeared to be a distorted human figure with six holes drawn in the form of black circles on its body. They seemed to represent eyes. The six eyes seemed to be staring at the children playing the game, or as if they were spying on Kanoya and others who were looking at the painting through the paper.
Also, because the children's painting techniques are immature, the combination of such innocent brushstrokes and the grotesque content makes the hideous shadow in the painting seem even more terrifying and creepy.
Among the several paintings, the one signed "Sugiyama Toshimichi", the work by the child who disappeared this morning, depicts the distorted shadow in more detail.
Sugiyama drew the humanoid shadow as three weasels stacked on top of each other.
The weasel at the bottom had a creepy sickle in its paw. The weasels were staring at the children with their scarlet eyes, as if they were threatening them or ready to attack at any time.
"Kamaitachi?"
Xiaolu and Tsurumi exchanged glances quietly.
At this time, Teacher Kihara spoke, her voice trembling and her eyes full of fear:
"It's weird, isn't it? After I got the drawings, I asked the kids privately what the thing they drew was and why they drew it. Then they told me that they didn't know what it was, but, but... it was on the playground, it was always there, watching everyone."
"I was really scared at the time. I didn't know if there was something wrong with the children in my class or if there was really something wrong in the school. I told the principal about it. The principal had some connections with the priest of a nearby shrine. I don't know how they communicated. Anyway, last weekend, a priest came to the school to exorcise the evil spirits on the playground. After the secret ceremony, the priest told us that everything was fine and the evil spirits lingering on the playground had been driven away."
"So, Miss Police Officer, is this evil spirit coming back again after what happened this morning? It's taking revenge on us, so...so it took Sugiyama and the others away?"