I Teach Kendo in Tokyo Chapter 13: At dusk

He Ma took a close look at this modern imitation turtle-back card, but there was no doorway visible from the front.

So he asked Ota: "Do you have gloves?"

"There are some! I always wear gloves when I go into the mountains to prevent cuts to my hands, and I have a few spares for you."

After speaking, the God Lord got up and entered the inner room. After a brief search, he came out with a pair of brand new gloves.

Kazuma finds the words Chengui Machinery on the gloves.

"What is the situation of this Chengjing Machinery?"

"Oh, this is where my son worked in the town when he was in high school. He's always wanted to buy a motorcycle, and a country shrine like me can't afford to save his college tuition, so he can only Buy it yourself.”

Kazuma just remembered that he still has to take a motorcycle driver's license test, and learn to shoot for a driver's license. These things that he wanted to do a long time ago have not been done until now, and Akira Anno has not shown up.

But in the end, there's probably no problem with this.

"Then this glove was used by the young master?"

"No, no, Samui-san will give employees a new pair of gloves every year to replace the worn out old gloves, but most people don't change the gloves after a year. , the new gloves are saved."

Kazuma nodded, took the glove and observed it carefully.

These are coarse cloth gloves stitched very carefully, somewhat similar to the labor insurance gloves he was familiar with in his previous life. There are no burrs or dust accumulated in the stitched areas. It really looks like a new glove that has never been used.

"Is this new glove not good for me?"

"It's useless for me to keep it, and seeing it will only add to my thoughts." Lord Ota showed a lonely smile, "I've always asked that **** to write to me more, but he didn't write it once because he was too troublesome. When Deputy Minister Hantian was promoting the tourism industry here, he also installed a phone number for the shrine's office, and I asked someone to tell the boy the number, and he never called back."

He Ma's face became a little hot when he heard this.

Because he was such a **** when he was in college in his last life.

The letter was naturally not written, and the reason is very good: who still writes letters in the 21st century.

As for the phone call, I only made it when I needed living expenses. Later, I worked part-time with Ma to earn living expenses, so I didn't even make this phone call.

Later, wechat popularized Mom and Dad, and was pulled into the online society by technological progress, and Ma Cai re-established contact with Mom and Dad through Moments.

With every Moments in Ma's life, the first person to like it must be Dad or Mom.

Because of the experience in the past life, the transmigrator and the horse said to God Lord Ota in a sincere tone: "How about I go to Tokyo to find him and persuade him to come back and see?"

"Don't bother you anymore, he'll probably be back when he's tired." Ota-sang smiled bitterly, "It's like 'crazy A Yin'."

"The Story of Yin Jiro" is worthy of being a Japanese national comedy. Even in this kind of valley, people know A Yin.

He Ma asked along the line: "There is no movie theater in this hot spring town, what do you think of Tora Jiro?"

He really just asked casually. After all, Japan is still a modern developed country. Even the villages and towns in the valleys are far more advanced than the villages in China at the same time. There is no cinema, but there should still be machines for playing video tapes. It is estimated that it is in the civic activity center of the village office.

But Ota-san paused, a very imperceptible pause.

"The future old detective" Kiryu and Ma did not miss this detail.

Although he didn't know the significance of this detail, he was careful to keep it in his mind.

He Ma remembered that in a Japanese drama called Jisou 404 that he watched in his last life, the old detective said that "99% of what the detective does is useless, but the remaining 1% is the key to solving the case".

In order to catch the one percent, you must write down everything that could be the one percent.

The police manual exists for that, with everything that could be a clue written on it.

Hema is not investigating a case and can't take a notebook, but he believes in his memory.

After this imperceptible pause, Ota-san answered Kazuma's question: "The village government has a video recorder, and it often plays videotapes sent from outside. Every year, after Torajiro has passed the screening schedule, videotapes will be sent to him. We are here, it is a welfare for remote areas promoted by the Ministry of Education.”

It sounds a bit like going to the countryside in a movie from a previous life.

He Ma said with a smile: "So it turns out that the Ministry of Education has really done a good job so that citizens in remote areas can enjoy the latest cultural products."

"Yes, yes, I don't say good things about the shrine because the shrine is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Education. They really did a lot."

At this time, Yuzao reminded: "Don't you want to look at the turtle back card?"

"Oh yes." Kazuma quickly put on his gloves and turned over the turtle-back card that might be an evidence.

There is a strange pattern on the back. Kazuma thinks this pattern is a bit familiar. He frowns and remembers it. It seems that in Osamu Tezuka's "Three Eyes Boy", when the male protagonist Shule shows his third eye There is similar text on the spear that will summon!

Tamamo shook his head: "This text is wrong, it seems that it was made by modern lovers."

He Ma followed the words of Tamamo: "This should be based on the 'ancient characters' on the gun of Shule."

"Writing music..." Tamamo tilted her head, "Uh, Osamu Tezuka's manga?"

"Yes."

Tamamo immediately showed his contempt for this turtle-back card: "It's too unprofessional, and I'm disqualified as a supernatural lover. If you don't understand the symbols of the Yayoi period, you can follow the Chinese oracle bone inscriptions, at least like It's a good thing, or you can use Norse runes."

"Then what, is it too nondescript to use Loen runes?"

And Ma Tucao.

Ota God interrupted the dialogue: "Wait a minute what are you talking about? Is this symbol drawn according to the comics?"

"Yeah, something made by a complete layman..." Kazuma suddenly stopped, "Wait a minute, does this hot spring town sell weekly comics?"

"Yes, convenience stores will buy them, but only tourists will buy them."

Kazuma picked up the fake turtle-back card with a gloved hand: "In this case, this is not done by local residents, and Sanyantong is a juvenile cartoon, and it is young people who like to read it. ..."

In Japan in 1981, manga covered the population of all ages, and people who took the subway often saw people reading manga magazines.

The Japanese comic industry has segmented the market for people of different ages. The comics for teenagers are generally published in various weekly magazines, so these weekly magazines are often named "Weekly Shonen xxx".

The cartoons for young people are published in monthly and semi-monthly magazines.

There is a clear distinction between the two.

Juvenile Xiang's comics often have a kingly and warm-blooded development, emphasizing warm-blooded friendship and victory. The love theme is basically a sweet and green fairy tale of a beautiful youth, and occasionally a criminal investigation theme is generally "Conan". The response was sloppy.

But the youth-oriented comics are completely different. The subject matter covers an unusually wide range. There are workplace dramas such as the "Island Farming" series for adults, as well as "Monster" and "Medical Dragon" that directly attack society and society. The works on the dark side of human nature and the themes related to love are also full of various elements of the adult world: cheating, extramarital affairs, etc.

Young man will usually be adapted into animation later, while Young man will usually be turned into a live-action drama or a live-action movie. It wasn't until 2010 that this began to change. Young Xiang's Rurouni Kenshin also changed to a live-action movie, while Young Xiang's Symphonic Lover's Dream had a cartoon.

However, it is now 1981, and the juvenile manga and the youth manga are still distinct.

Adults in suits and leather shoes take a copy of "Weekly Shonen xxxx" to read at the company, and they will be criticized by their bosses for being too naive and not growing up.

On the other hand, if a child holds a monthly or semi-monthly magazine of Youth Xiang, he will also be scolded by his parents.

Therefore, the person who made this turtle-back card is likely to be a college student standing on the tail of the age who can read the weekly xxxx in an open and honest way.

Kazuma raised his eyes from the turtle back card and looked at Lord Ota: "Apart from the group of students from the Meiji University Fantasy Biology Research Association last year, have any groups of young people come to this place in recent years? ?"

Ota God Lord replied in seconds: "And you guys."

"Except us."

"Then there will be no more. Young people are definitely more willing to go to the beach. Last year, I heard Watanabe-kun say that many college students will go to Hawaii for vacation."

Kazuma thought this was nonsense. It's normal for families who can afford the tuition of Meiji University to go to Hawaii for a vacation.

Of course, a few more years after the Plaza Accord is signed, and Japan enters the bubble era, many Japanese people will suddenly find that they can afford to go to Hawaii. At that time, Hawaii was full of Japanese during the tourist season.

It is now quite certain that this turtle-back card belongs to the gang at the Institute of Fantasy Creatures at Meiji University.

However, it is normal for one or two people who are interested in fantasy creatures to be interested in ancient divination?

He Ma put down the turtle back card and said to God Lord Ota: "Let us keep this box of things first. It's too late today. I'll go up the mountain tomorrow to see if I can find any clues."

"Huh? You want to investigate? So this is..."

"No, I didn't suspect that it was a murder, I just wanted to check some places that I cared about." He Ma interrupted the Lord of God's words, and at the same time closed the box containing these bits and pieces, took it and stood up, " Then we will say goodbye."

"Okay, have a good night's sleep." The Lord also stood up.

He Ma waved his hand, turned and left the living room, and sat down at the entrance to change his shoes.

The Lord of God followed: "I won't deliver it to the gate of the shrine. Be careful when you two go down the stone steps. Every year at the festival, someone will slap their feet on the stone steps."

Kazuma: "When will the festival start?"

"In a week, people from the Tourism Promotion Association and the village office will come to the shrine tomorrow to make arrangements. By then, there will be many stalls in the shrine's square."

He Ma raised his eyebrows: "There are a lot of stalls? I'm afraid people from the entire Hot Spring Street have come to set up stalls, so are there still people here to play? Could it be that the stall owners come to help each other?"

"There are tourists. In the past few years of tourism promotion, there are still quite a lot of people here during the peak season."

"So this festival really started after tourism promotion started?" Kazuma asked as he picked up the second shoe.

"No, it used to be there too. There are not as many people as it is now. In the past, people from several villages and even towns near the festival would come to play."

"Eh, will you?"

"Yes, there are very few entertainment activities in this rural area." Ota Shenzhu said in a self-deprecating tone, "Just like Lu Xun's "Social Opera" wrote, people around will gather here."

He Ma didn't expect to hear the name Lu Xun here, and immediately felt his DNA move: "I don't care about Xingquan, I recommend Xuanyuan with my blood."

"Oh, Lu Xun gave Xu Shouchang a poem, as expected of a student of Dongda University, if you recite a Chinese poem, you can recite it."

It was only then that He Ma realized that he was reciting Chinese.

Immediately after he reacted, he looked back at Lord Ota: "The Lord of God is also very knowledgeable. As soon as he hears it, he knows which song I'm reciting."

"It's just logical reasoning. I just mentioned Mr. Lu Xun. You have memorized a Chinese poem right away, so it should be this one."

After thinking about it with Ma, there is really no problem logically.

He put on his shoes and stood up and glanced at Tamamo.

Tamamo didn't sit down, but changed her shoes.

"Let's go, God Lord Sang goodbye."

"Goodbye." Lord Ota waved his hand, "If you find anything, please let me know as soon as possible."

"I will." After talking to Ma, he went out the door.

He first glanced at the social office, Bozi was no longer inside, the window for selling things was tightly closed, and the anti-theft iron fence was put down.

He walked towards the torii gate at the entrance of the shrine, and Tamamo's light footsteps followed.

"What did you find?" Tamamo asked softly.

"I... don't know what that is, but something is wrong. I always feel that this Ota-san is not the "Story of Tora Jiro" that I watched in the village."

"There's something wrong with this place?" Tamamo was shocked, "I think his pause is just a normal reaction when he encounters an unexpected problem."

"You think so?"

Kazuma looked back at Tamamo.

Tamamo has lived for so many years and was a mother in Yoshiwara. She must be quite skilled at looking at people. Her opinions are undoubtedly worth considering.

"Yes, when people encounter unexpected problems, they will be stunned to some extent, but I support you and Ma in sticking to your own judgment. I don't know how to solve a case, and I don't have the intuition of a criminal police officer."

"Don't talk like I have."

"You obviously have it. Didn't those previous incidents be solved with this keenness?"

Kazuma glanced at Yuzao again and thought to myself that I also believed that those incidents were solved by myself, but when you say that, I am so unsure! Are you really not trying to induce me on purpose?

Could it be that I've been eating hard? "You're teaching me to do things"?

Tamamo looked at Hema's expression and giggled: "Don't think too much of me, I used to have great power and there are still many things I couldn't do, now I just have a little more knowledge and a mentality. Just a slightly more mature 18-year-old girl."

"You are slightly, is it the scale of the universe?"

For the universe, 10,000 light-years is just a "trivial" level.

Tamamo smiled even happier.

By this time, they had passed the torii gate at the entrance of the shrine and started descending the stone steps.

Tamazao smiled and stepped on her foot, but her ankle was crooked, and her foot was swollen.

He Ma grabbed her, who was about to fall, and pulled her into his arms.

To be honest, Kazuma is a little suspicious of this guy's intention, but seeing her grinning in pain, it's too unpleasant to ask "did you intentionally" at this time.

So he asked with concern: "How is it, can I still go?"

"Well, walking should be fine...but..." Tamamo glanced at the long stone steps in front of her.

"I'll carry you down." He Ma said, and then remembered that he was carrying the plaster he just bought from the shrine, "Wait, I'll stick the plaster for you."

God Lord Ota said that this plaster is actually not that effective, but the herbs mixed with mint and sticking it cool can relieve pain and have a placebo effect.

But it's better than nothing.

He and Ma helped Tamamo to sit down, and then took off the shoes on the side of her feet.

Tamamo's feet are small, white and smooth with a hint of pink, and her nails are beautifully rested.

The flesh on the soles of her feet is as soft as a ball on a cat's paw, and it feels similar to the touch.

Foxes are obviously canines.

Kazuma pinched Tamamo's feet just as he indulged in pinching cat paws in a cat cafe in his previous life.

"It's so itchy!" Tamamo patted Hema's shoulder lightly, "You are concerned about your twisted ankle!"

Kazuma turned his attention to his ankles.

He is a kendo practitioner and has a lot of experience with sprained joints. Check it out to know the general situation.

It seems that it is not as serious as Mikako, and it is the kind that will greatly relieve the pain no matter what tomorrow.

"It's nothing." He said, then took out the plaster from the bag, opened the package, tore off a piece, and carefully attached it to Tamamo's ankle.

Yuzao: "It's cool, it's really comfortable. No wonder the villagers feel that this plaster is very effective, it relieves pain and has a placebo effect. After a few days, the sprain will heal naturally, and they will sigh that God's plaster is really powerful. The medicine will cure the disease.”

Kazuma smiled, put the things in his hands, turned his back to Tamamo and squatted down.

Tamamo took off the shoe on the other foot, held it in his hand, and put his arms around Kazuma's neck.

After confirming with the horse that the man had carried it, he stood up with all his strength.

Tamamo suddenly laughed, the wind blowing from her mouth caressed He Ma's auricle.

"What are you laughing at?"

"I suddenly remembered that when Dongda started school, it was the first time I wore high heels. At that time, I thought that if I stabbed my feet, it would be a logical development like a romantic comedy."

"Damn, you really did it on purpose, right?"

"No. I won't use this kind of cleverness in order to satisfy my own selfish desires. Be careful when you go down the stone steps with Ma. There may be some problems in the design of the stone steps, which may cause your feet to cramp easily. "

Kazuma frowned: "Shouldn't you, as the supernatural minister, say that this staircase has an earthbound spirit at work?"

"Most of the legends of the earthbound spirits have scientific explanations.

"For example, last month's psychic magazine said that a resident of an old apartment always heard children playing with glass **** upstairs. He couldn't stand it and ran upstairs to protest, only to find that the apartment upstairs was empty. Yes, the previous resident's child moved away after the death, and no one lived there again.

"The magazine's psychic writers insisted that this was an earthbound spirit. What do you think the truth is, Kazuma?"

Kazuma replied while carefully descending the stone steps: "The apartment is a reinforced concrete structure, right?"

"Correct, Kiryu gets one point."

In a reinforced concrete building, the steel material inside will undergo elastic deformation due to thermal expansion and contraction, and then there will be a sound like a child playing with glass beads.

It wasn't right before, 1981 is "now".

The current buildings have not considered these, so there is basically this problem, especially at night when the heat absorbed by the building during the day is released in large quantities.

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In the future, new buildings will consider these problems together, leaving room for deformation, and this phenomenon will not be obvious.

Tamamo whispered in Kazuma's ear: "Kazuma-kun, you are also one of the murderers of Zashiki Douji."

"This is dead. Weird is really vulnerable." He Ma teased, "The reason why you still exist is because everyone subconsciously still hopes that the big white-haired fox will exist in the world?"

"Maybe."

The corners of He Ma's mouth rose, and his footsteps down the stone steps became more brisk.

Tamamo was completely lying on his back.

Unlike when a certain monkey was carried just now, every nerve in the back of the horse was active this time, turning the soft touch into a chemical between bioelectricity and synapses and sending it back to the brain.

Suddenly, Tamamo whispered in Kazuma's ear: "Kazuma, how does it feel to be pinching my leg?"

"Why did you ask the same question as Mikako?"

"Ah, I was preempted, and Mikako should not be underestimated."

He Ma smiled without saying a word, and pushed Tamamo's body up with both hands.

After taking a few more steps, Tamamo said, "If I suddenly show up now, Kazuma, you will be crushed directly."

"How heavy is your prototype?"

"Hmm... maybe a bit lighter than the Rat?"

"That's too heavy!" He Ma dutifully complained.

There is no reason why Tamamo can make a silver bell-like laugh.

The two just chatted like this, as if the foggy incident last year had never happened at all, they were just two carefree college students who simply came to travel.

Walking down the last stone steps, he breathed a sigh of relief with Ma, and before he could speak, Tamamo slipped off his back.

"I can carry you to the hotel." He Ma said.

Yuzao wiped the sweat from his forehead with his hand and smiled, "Forget it, you can see that the barley tea you drank at the Lord's side turned into sweat. This plaster is more useful than expected. I can go by myself!"

As she said that, Tamamo threw the shoes she was carrying on the ground, put one hand on Kazuma's shoulders, and bent over to put on the shoes.

Kazuma looks at Tamamo~IndoMTL.com~ Now her clothes are soaked with sweat on the front, apparently Kazuma's sweat.

Through the translucent dress, Kazuma discovers the swimsuit under Tamamo.

"You, you also want to climb the mountain to soak in the hot springs on the mountain, right?"

Tamamo smiled but said nothing.

Kazuma sighed: "Everyone has brought swimsuits, so we really have to give them a chance to wear them. How about we go to the mixed bath to have a swimsuit party at night? Put Hua Shanjun at the entrance of the bath to guard against other people entering the mixed bath. If..."

"He Ma, you are getting used to calling Hua Shan-jun more and more. But this seems to be not bad."

As soon as Tamamo's voice fell, Dvorak's new world rang.

He Ma looked up at the loudspeaker of the village hall where the music was playing, and found that many crows landed on the top of the loudspeaker.

The particularly huge crow I saw before going to the shrine was not among the crows.

Kazuma turned his head and looked into the distance. The setting sun tinted the mountains an orange-red color, and Dvorak's tune echoed in the empty fields.

The chirping of the cicadas disappeared.

Tamamo suddenly said: "At dusk, this time was called the time of the devil."

Kazuma: "Please, this scene is already supernatural, don't add any more supernatural elements."

If you add more supernatural elements, Ma and I will copy the classic soundtrack of the "x" file!