Tokyo Fall Guys beats up the supernatural

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The night of the 30th has passed, and after midnight comes the 1st, which is his birthday.

It's good to say goodbye to Ejima Iya completely on my birthday.

………………

Lu Zizhen received a strange piece of information.

This intelligence came from some exorcists within the system. These people are responsible for mediating matters between exorcists and the secular world. Many proud exorcists call them cleaners, in other words, those who take care of the aftermath, because conflicts between the secular world and exorcists always end with the exorcists gaining the upper hand, leaving a mess for the cleaners to handle.

Recently, a lot of chaos has occurred in Tokyo, and it all ultimately leads to a strange entity.

A...strange girl.

The body of Ryunosuke Kanakawa has disappeared, the shikigami that the Onmyoji have worshipped for decades has been exorcised, and even the souls enshrined in many shrines have mysteriously vanished.

Salvation, salvation, that mysterious girl is like the ferryman of the River Styx, or the boatman of the River Sanzu, guiding all souls that do not belong to the living.

Since no one has ever returned from the other side of death, people still do not...

For thousands of years, monsters and vengeful spirits have been grappling with the question of whether or not the underworld truly exists, while the ultimate pursuit of worldly emperors and generals throughout history has also been immortality.

No one wants to die. Even if they live on as a vengeful spirit, as a shikigami of an onmyoji, or as a yokai, they are still living.

But what if there's a madman who's obsessed with performing rituals to help people pass on to the afterlife, bringing your life to an abrupt end?

That mysterious girl doesn't touch monsters, she only performs rituals to release vengeful spirits and evil spirits, as well as shikigami, because the essence of shikigami is to transfer the soul of a monster to a certain vessel, which can also be considered a form of death.

It is said that this girl told others her name, and asked the Onmyoji who had lost their shikigami to call her... Oni-bo.

"Uncle Ghost" is such a strange title. Why would a girl allow others to call her "Uncle"?

Therefore, Lu Zizhen guessed that it must be some kind of title, like an official position.

So she immediately began researching.

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"Uncle Ghost..."

Although it was difficult, she still managed to find it, but the source of the information surprised her.

"Whose land is this, where souls gather, regardless of wisdom or folly?"

"The ghost is urging us on, and human life cannot be delayed even for a moment."

—An anonymous poem from the Western Han Dynasty.

"Western Han Dynasty? Chinese poetry?" Lu Zizhen scratched his head.

"It seems...very interesting."

Without realizing it, it seems that many things are exceeding my expectations. While feeling uncomfortable, I also feel...excitement.

Just then, a phone call came in.

It is Doutang.

She picked up her phone, propped her legs up on the table, leaned back in her chair, answered the call, and looked at her newly done pink and white toenails.

"Hey, Dou Tang, what's wrong?"

"Tomorrow night, I will perform a ritual to release the soul of that person from the school, Ejima Iya."

Lu Zizhen's eyes widened immediately: "What, tomorrow? The 30th? But the day after tomorrow is your birthday!"

"Yes, I want to... say goodbye properly to Professor Jiangdao."

Lu Zizhen grabbed a strand of her hair with one hand and said anxiously, "What about your birthday? I wanted to give you a proper birthday celebration."

"It won't take long. I'll go back after seeing Mr. Jiangdao off."

Lu Zizhen clicked her tongue, but still nodded and said, "Okay, fine..."

"Oh, right," Dou Tang said somewhat embarrassedly, "there's something else. I...I damaged your motorcycle."

"Really? It's okay. Where did you park it? I'll tow it away and fix it." Lu Zizhen said dismissively.

"Uh... it's too broken to be repaired. Sorry, I've been dealing with some trouble lately."

Lu Zizhen immediately asked with concern, "Are you alright?"

"it's okay no problem."

"Alright then... no problem, I'll give you another one for your birthday, I've got plenty of money."

"No need, I have a new motorcycle, it was a gift from someone."

Lu Zizhen was immediately filled with jealousy. She seemed to regard giving Dou Tang a gift as some kind of honor, not allowing anyone else to touch it: "Huh? Someone gave you a new motorcycle? Does that person know anything about these things? What's the gift like?"

"Who is it? Is someone interested in you?"

"You're overthinking things..." Dou Tang explained helplessly, "I did someone a big favor, and their motorcycle broke down while they were running errands, so they gave me a new one."

"Who are you helping? It's not something dangerous, is it?"

"...You don't really think anything could be considered dangerous to me, do you?"

"Hmph, arrogant... but that's true. Never mind, I won't ask anymore. By the way, I'm not going tomorrow night."

Dou Tang was somewhat surprised: "Really? I thought you would enjoy joining in the fun, especially something like this."

“This isn’t just for fun.” Lu Zizhen became unusually serious, even with a hint of reminiscence in her tone, as if she had remembered something: “You went to perform a ritual to help him pass on, to send him off on his final journey. You were his friend, but I wasn’t.”

“This is his funeral. I don’t know him, so I shouldn’t go.”

"Come back soon, no, go back soon, get a good night's sleep, and we'll see you the day after tomorrow, okay?"

"Okay, so what are you doing tomorrow?"

"Do my homework. You haven't forgotten I'm a college student, have you?"

"Well then, goodbye."

After hanging up the phone, Lu Zizhen let out a long sigh of relief.

"Ah...helping someone? It's that scarred guy from the Morning Star Group, isn't it? Looks like I need to investigate him."

"Oh right, and that female ghost who looks like Sadako, her birthday is coming up soon, it's time for you to make your move."

"However, you'll have to... erase all memories of me."

She was wobbling on the table, humming "Jasmine Flower," and seemed to be in a good mood.

………………

Inside the Kiryu family apartment, Kawana was brandishing a long sword.

In her vision, a pale blue phantom stood in the center of the room, holding a long sword, its muscles bulging and its face aged.

She drew her sword and moved with the phantom, her sweat spraying into the sky, only to be cleaved in two by the sharp, cold blade, soaking the floor.

"If you want to help him, you have to become stronger!" the phantom said.

The faint resentment on the longsword rose and fell with her swings, trembling incessantly.

The tide rises and falls.

As Aida Gaku watched the ebb and flow of the tide, he adjusted his suitcase. Behind him, the monks stood at the crossroads, tears streaming down their faces.

Her eyes were brimming with tears.

"Senior brother, please take good care of yourself in Tokyo, and remember to come back and visit often!"

Aida Gaku squinted and grinned, "What are you all talking about, you bunch of bastards? It's not like I'm going to leave for distant lands. Tokyo isn't far from here!"

"I'm just going to check on that kid, Kiryu Todoroki."

"I'll come back often!"

"I'll come back often!" Ringo Kamisaki said with a smile, then said goodbye to Ji Zijun.

After talking with her father, she decided to go to the school the next night to see how the evil spirit called Bone Tengu would be... vanquished.

Before that, however, she visited Lu Zijun and the homeless with many gifts. Although these people lived at the bottom of society, they made her feel warm.

Not to mention the mysterious Lu Zijun, this kind-hearted girl intrigued her, and because of their seemingly similar personalities, she couldn't help but want to get closer to her.

Of course, I was even more curious about the person named Kiryu Toudou.

Kume Chinatsu was filled with curiosity.

She was sitting in the classroom, staring blankly at the sky outside the window. Kiryu-kun hadn't come to school for the past few days, which she missed. She had run into him once in the park before, but they had parted ways quickly.

Nagaibuki, carrying her lunchbox, sat backwards on the chair in front of her and said with a smile, "Kume-san, what are you thinking about?"

Kume Chinatsu woke up from her dream: "Huh? What? I, I'm fine!"

"I could tell at a glance that you were thinking about Kiryu-kun. Hmph... Are you two really just friends who filmed a commercial together?"

Chinatsu Kume's face turned bright red. She coughed twice and pulled out her lunchbox: "Okay, okay! Let's not talk about him anymore! Let's eat!"

"Yangping, dinner's ready."

On an abandoned construction site in western Tokyo, Yohei, who was lifting weights, put down his dumbbells, wiped the sweat from his face and head, and his bald head gleamed in the sunlight.

He took the boxed lunch handed to him by his younger brother, opened the box, sat on the cement bag, and sighed.

"Sigh, I wonder how Kiryu-nii is doing. I looked it up, and the owner of that stall the other day seems to be a yakuza!"

The younger brother standing nearby, munching on a rice ball, exclaimed in surprise, "Ah! Kiryu-nii was doing business with that guy, isn't he amazing?"

"Nonsense!" Yangping smacked his underling's bald head with his chopsticks. "That's Kiryu-nii!"

"Do you understand! The word 'amazing' is equivalent to the four words 'Kiryu Toudou'!!"

"Tongsheng Doutang..."

Kuroki Keisaki murmured the name over and over again, her voice becoming devout and calm.

She sat on the mattress, which was completely soaked, but she showed no intention of getting up. It seemed that sitting quietly like this could calm her increasingly restless heart.

Calmness... This is what she lacks most right now. Her real death is tomorrow. She wants to escape but can't. Yet, she is filled with curiosity and anticipation for that boy.

What kind of joy will he promise?

She wanted to calm herself down.

calm.

Ejima Iza felt a sense of peace.

He didn't know when he had fainted, but when he woke up, he found himself still next to the sealed-off dry well.

When you open your eyes, the whole world changes.

He propped himself up and peeked out from behind the warehouse, looking at the playground at noon. There were several students sitting together on the playground, doing something.

Those people were enveloped in a pale blue light. Ejima Iya reached out and scratched his eye socket with his finger, looking somewhat comical.

He then looked at the teaching building.

The teaching building, however, presented a different picture. He could clearly see something shimmering and calling to him from within its solid walls.

Those were his own bones.

Desire was quietly born.

"Where's Kiryu? Did he skip school again today?" This thought popped into his head for no apparent reason.

The city continued to function, and Dou Tang himself was completely unaware that many people and things had begun to revolve around him, sinking and dragging him down, making it impossible for him to extricate himself. Many people had expectations of him, but this also created an unknown entanglement.

From the moment he decided to help Ejima Iya, he may have already begun to fully integrate into this world, as himself rather than as Mr. Ren.

My computer completely broke down, so I have no choice but to take a day off from updating.

Friends in the book club group may know that my computer has been having frequent problems lately, and I complain about it in the group every day.

My old computer has been used for several years. Although I've upgraded some hardware, it's still not up to par and has finally given up. Recently, it's been restarting frequently, and sometimes it freezes while I'm typing.

Unfortunately, I could only write a chapter of the new book on my phone first. As for the old book, I don't want to squeeze out updates bit by bit due to plot issues, so I can only take a day off.

Stopping updates would damage my reputation. I know that on Shuke, people don't care about reputation, and there are even many people who abandon their posts, but I still don't want to do that. I apologize to everyone.

I'm going to get my computer repaired tomorrow. Once it's working again, I'll come back and work on it as soon as possible. I estimate I can assemble a new machine by the end of the month, and then the update speed should take off.

If you want to criticize me, you can go to the book club and say whatever you want. Don't bother.

gas.