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Jiuze didn't know whether there was any 'demon' on Earth before Bermula first came to Earth six years ago, or whether the stories recorded in the classics were just stories after they were mythical.
"Demon" may just refer to plague, miasma, etc. In the past, the shrine maidens had some medical knowledge and could use herbs to treat diseases, so it is reasonable to say that they can exorcise demons. So the Four Souls Jade and the Yellow Spring Naraku are probably just made-up stories. The so-called Four Souls Jade may just be a big pill.
But Ling is undoubtedly worthy of the title of "Sunday".
The horrific insect plague in the Firefly Plains was eliminated by her without a trace. This is not a myth; Kusei saw it with his own eyes.
She had already written that incident into the "Grand Chronicle" of Izumo Taisha Shrine.
The "Grand Chronicle" of Izumo Taisha has been continuously compiled from ancient times to the present day, and the earliest can be traced back to more than 900 years ago. This is also one of the evidences of the long history of Izumo Taisha, which is why it can use black torii.
The person responsible for compiling the great chronicle is the head of each fasting house.
Originally, although the exorcism of the Firefly Plains was a grand event, it was not their Izumo Taisha who actually contributed, so Huayin was embarrassed to write about it. But now that Ling has also joined the Izumo family, there is no scruple.
Haha, the Sunday priestess of Izumo Taisha Shrine fights against fireflies...wait, the battle against fireflies seems to lack a bit of momentum compared to the battles against Yomi and Naraku written by our predecessors.
Never mind, Naraku and the like are all fake, superstitions, myths. What I saw with my own eyes is real.
Today is Tuesday. I didn’t expect the ceremony to end so soon. I thought it would take several days, so Ling also took a whole week off.
But she had no plans to go home immediately. Just kidding, the leave application had been approved, so how could she go back on her word?
"So you're still going to come back on the weekend? Ling is so bad." Tomoyo on the other end of the phone pouted.
"It's a rare vacation."
Although the summer vacation has only been over for more than a month, old lady Lingye is also very busy.
Normally, there are classes in school, even in elementary school, it is quite hard to maintain the third place in the grade. Otherwise, the teacher would not have such preferential treatment. How can ordinary students ask for leave just like that? Of course, her last name "Oshima" may also have a little insignificant relationship.
Then there is the choir after class. She does not regret leaving the "Go Home Club". Although it is a bit busier, singing with classmates is not a boring thing.
And there are super beasts, which is why she came to this world. To resist the invasion of alien planets and dimensions, and to protect the earth and mankind.
So she is 007? How could she be so miserable?
I am moved.
So since we are so busy all the time, it’s okay to take a break once in a while, right?
Lingye, who was chatting with Chiyo on her phone, was watching the night view in the mountains of Izumo again, still on the sacred tree. Huayin was not there, and seemed to be writing "Izumo Chronicle" or something. I don't understand, but she was making up a story anyway. So this place became her secret base.
That is the satellite phone she used. The commercial synchronous satellite leased by the Daidoji Group was hanging high above her head. Otherwise, even after another twenty years, there would be no base station signal in the mountains of Izumo.
I chatted with Chise casually. There was nothing unusual in Tokyo these days. It was a peaceful scene. There were only some trivial matters.
For example, there is a thief in Sakura's class.
Yesterday, Xiaoying's homework book was stolen. I thought it was lost on the way to the office by the monitor, or it was bitten by a naughty dog. But this morning, someone came to steal Xiaoying's things again.
What was stolen was the "dark key" that she had put in her schoolbag, which was the keychain that the prop uncle of the crew had given her before.
Although Sakura is no longer so entangled with the magic of magical girls now that her "mother" is back, she still likes this keychain very much. It is a model exactly the same as the one in the TV series. There is no mention of "peripherals" yet. This can be said to be the only peripheral product of "Cardcaptor Sakura".
So the cost is not worth anything, but the value is hard to say. Once the copyright is taken into account, there is no way to tell.
Sakura always carries this keychain with her. Since the school does not allow students to wear jewelry, she puts it in her schoolbag when she is in school.
The incident happened before the physical education class. All the students left the classroom to go to the playground, but the boy named Kangfu sneaked back to the classroom. When he was searching for Sakura's schoolbag, he was caught on the spot and told the teacher.
The person who discovered it was not Sakura, but Squad Leader Nibutani who noticed that the other party was following him stealthily.
"Then, in the desk of the boy named Kangfu, we found the homework book that Sakura lost yesterday."
"Hey, there is such a thing."
Ling also listened, and put herself in Sakura's shoes, thinking about it, it was really scary. Her homework book was stolen, and the next day her keychain that she always carried with her was stolen.
"So I say, if we let Sakura transfer to our school, she won't be bullied anymore," Tomoyo suggested.
This is not the first time that Tomoyo has made such a suggestion, but Ling is not optimistic about it.
Perhaps Tomoyo herself didn't feel anything, and didn't quite understand the significance of 'Tomoeda Elementary School' being called an aristocratic school. Sakura's father was a college professor, and the family lived in a small house in the center of Tokyo, so they were considered wealthy anyway.
But their "wealth" really has different meanings. As good friends, the three of them usually ignore this point when they get along with each other, but once it comes to reality -
You know, in their elementary school, there are students who, in order to keep a low profile as their parents usually tell them, write things like "My family is very poor. My housekeeper, cook, and servants are all very poor. The water in the swimming pool in my garden is only changed once a week."
This happened in Reiya and Tomoyo's class. The two wanted to laugh, but most of their classmates didn't think there was anything wrong.
Because without any other experience, changing the water in the swimming pool once a week in the summer is the life of the poorest family they can imagine - it is so dirty that they don't want to go in the water.
Although Reiya and Tomoyo are not such children, they would not be out of place in such an environment because the Oshima family and the Daidoji family are representatives of the top wealthy families.
Even if they drink instant coffee bought from a convenience store, their classmates will think it is the most fashionable drink that is extracted and concentrated into coffee powder after 99 processes. They don't even need to extract coffee beans, they can drink it by just soaking it in water, and it may even be considered some kind of high-tech.
But what about Sakura? Can she fit in to this school and this environment?
"Wait until junior high school. Then we can go to the same junior high school together, okay?"
"Okay." Tomoyo on the other end of the phone smiled happily.
She didn't want to go to any aristocratic school for junior high school. Just an ordinary middle school with three people together was better than anything else.
"That boy, did you tell me why he took Sakura's homework and keychain?"
"Well, it was said that his neighbor didn't believe that 'Magical Girl Sakura' was his classmate, so he stole the homework book. He had seen the keychain in Sakura's schoolbag before, and in order to prove her identity as a 'magical girl', he planned to steal the 'dark key'."
This reason, well, is actually quite normal.
As I grew up, probably by the time I reached junior high school, I no longer believed in magic or fairy tales. I also knew that Santa Claus did not come from the North Pole, but was my dad who wore a red cotton-padded jacket and secretly came to give me gifts at night.
The reason I'm trying so hard to prove it is simply because I still believe, deep down in my heart, that magic exists.
"Besides, if he was a bad kid, the stolen textbooks should have been thrown away as evidence, right?"
Yes, if the textbook was thrown away as evidence, no one would know about it. But he kept it and brought it back to school, and put it in the hole of the desk, probably because he wanted to return it?
Although it was just an unfounded guess, Ling also felt that this should be the case.
Kangfu, who used to be often called a 'liar', now has the added title of 'thief'.
Today, the teacher made him stand at the door of the classroom for the whole afternoon as punishment. This was because the person involved, Xiaoying, did not want to pursue the other party. Otherwise, if he was discovered stealing, he might be ordered to attend a parent-teacher meeting or even be suspended from school.
On the way home, he felt a little listless.
"What's wrong, Yasuo? You said yesterday that Kinomoto Sakura would lend you her transformation key. Did you get it?"
It's like when it rains it pours, and he happened to meet people he didn't want to see. They were Zenta and Jiro, and it was to these two neighbors that he made the promise yesterday.
Kangfu shook his head.
"I told you that Kangfu is just a liar. Your mother is obviously a noodle vendor, but you refused to admit it last time and said that you opened a big Chinese restaurant. You're just bragging. I saw your mother's ramen stall yesterday."
"Kanfu is a liar. Let's not play with him."
Kangfu didn't really want to play with the other party, at least not today, he just wanted to be alone for a while. But being squeezed by others always felt uncomfortable.
He couldn't refute it, because what Shan Tai said was right, his mother was a noodle stall owner, a small ramen stall, which she pushed with a cart at any time. Sometimes he would push the cart for his mother.
Kangfu always felt that this was a shameful thing. He was afraid that others would laugh at him, so he lied and said that his family opened a Chinese restaurant.
Of course he knew that lying was wrong, but sometimes he couldn't help it. He didn't want others to look down on him. He always felt that the real him was worthless, so he couldn't help but tell lies one after another. However, after the lies were exposed, he was looked down upon even more.
How great would it be if he knew magic? Like on TV, he could be a hero who saved the city. Even if he couldn't save the city, he could save a small town, a village, or even just a few people.
This way people won’t look down on you, right?
Kangfu did not go home, he came to a forest not far from his home, there was a banyan tree of some age, the top of the tree was his secret base. Usually, he would hide in the tree alone.
Hiding here, I won’t be laughed at and can do whatever I want.
However, at this moment, when he climbed to the top of the tree, he saw something unexpected.
The sky opened up, and not far away from him, within his sight, a large amount of water suddenly gushed out from the ground, like a huge fountain. The next moment, the water condensed into the shape of a huge monster.
"Ah, it's the Ultra Beast!"
Chapter 125: Liar
“Here, right here!”
After getting off the Black Panther, Beidou followed the boy's instructions and looked at a villa in front.
The villa is not Japanese style, but a large Western-style house, but it looks quite old. The originally snow-white walls are a little mottled due to the traces of time, and it is at least 40 to 50 years old.
Were there Western-style houses like this in Tokyo forty or fifty years ago?
It's hard to say, maybe it was left by the "foreign masters" back then. After the Black Ship Incident, this place became the back garden of the foreign masters.
"Are you sure there are super beasts here?"
The villa in front of me looked like a wealthy family. It stood out among the low-rise houses and occupied a large space. Such a house should be in Setagaya, where many wealthy merchants and celebrities lived, and should not be in this neighborhood of ordinary people.
It is amazing that there is such a large garden in the city of Tokyo. Not to mention, looking through the bronze iron gate, there is a swimming pool and a golf course in the garden! Except for the Oshima family with its own castle, this is the most luxurious villa Beidou has ever seen.
The appearance of the TAC team attracted some passers-by to watch.
After receiving the alarm call from Kangfu, the TAC team came with Beidou and Yamanaka.
"I say, if there really is a super beast, this place should have been crushed long ago, right?" Yamanaka said unhappily.
It is not uncommon for the TAC team to receive false alarms. Sometimes it is because citizens are too sensitive and mistakenly think that any slight movement is a super beast, but sometimes it is just mischievous children who deliberately make false reports.
In Shanzhong's opinion, what they encountered this time was undoubtedly the latter. Not to mention that the TAC team's radar did not pick up any signal, it was incredible to think that a super beast weighing tens of thousands of tons appeared here without any trace.
This is not a deserted mountain area, but the bustling Tokyo!
Compared to Beidou, Shanzhong doesn't look at children differently. In his opinion, children are synonymous with being naughty, lying and causing trouble. He really doesn't understand why Beidou often believes these little brats.
After receiving such a call, Shan Zhong thought that coming to check was unnecessary. If it wasn't Captain Long's order, he would have hung up the phone.
"But I really saw——"
Kangfu, who was speaking, was also a little unconfident. The peaceful scene before him made him wonder if what he just saw was an illusion.
"I say, your name is Kangfu, right?" Beidou lowered his body and looked at the boy level, "Did you really see the super beast? Can you describe in detail what you saw?"
"It's like this. Half an hour ago, I was sitting on the banyan tree in the woods in front. That's my secret base. Then I saw a spring suddenly gushing out from the ground. The spring water took the shape of a super beast and made strange noises. Finally, the super beast turned into a swimming pool. That's the swimming pool!" Kangfu pointed to a swimming pool on the large lawn behind the bronze door.
The swimming pool is not a standard rectangle, but looks like a naturally formed pond, covered with tiles, and it also looks quite old.
But, the super beast turned into a swimming pool?
"Did you say there was a strange noise?"
Beidou asked the passers-by around him, but no one else heard it. Some people who were watching the fun left directly after being questioned by the TAC team.