This Japanese Story Is Not Too Cold

It's a deserted, run-down complex.

The path is overgrown with weeds, and the dirty and unidentifiable cloth strips hang at the branches of the branches of the dead trees. From a distance, they look like ghost claws waving at people.

The walls are covered with fine cracks and are covered with malicious and terrifying graffiti.

Behind the wall is a leaning building.

There was no glass left in the empty window, leaving only the wooden frame of the window half hanging out, as if it was about to fall but did not.

Dirty black marks lingering on the entire wall like shadows.

This building stands in front of Beichuan Temple. Under the gradually dimming sky, the whole building looks a bit ferocious and cold.

One of the doorposts on both sides has fallen down, leaving obvious traces of impact on the fallen doorpost.

"Inagaki's long house... we've arrived." Kitagawaji finished turning off the navigation on his phone and let out a breath.

He always meant what he said.

Since he promised Tsukishima Risa to come over to check on the situation, of course he had to come over in advance to check on the situation.

As for waiting until tomorrow?

It's a pity that Beichuan Temple has always regarded it as a virtue to settle things today. In addition, they all have to come here, so there is no problem in going here to investigate the situation in advance.

If nothing really existed here, then there would be no need for him to follow a group of energetic college students here tomorrow.

It's just...

Beichuanji lowered his eyes and looked at the little girl who was standing by the path, holding a lot of old cards in her hands.

The little girl looked to be only eight or nine years old. She was wearing a tattered red and white cotton-padded jacket, with braids, and droopy nose with runny nose. She looked like she was looking around.

What is a little girl doing standing in a place like this?

Beichuan Temple groaned and walked towards the other party.

The further he walked, the more he felt the temperature drop.

There seems to be such a conventional saying.

As soon as you arrive at such a supernatural place, you will feel that the surrounding temperature drops suddenly, as if the temperature has been forcefully pulled away from your body by something.

It was already five or six in the afternoon, and it was strange for a little girl to still be stranded in such a seemingly unsafe place.

While walking around Beichuan Temple, the little girl obviously also discovered Beichuan Temple.

It seemed that Kitagawa Temple's expressionless face and shining eyes scared the other party.

The little girl's rosy face turned pale, and her little body in a cotton-padded jacket turned around somewhat awkwardly, as if she wanted to escape.

Then--

Snap!

The little girl fell hard and the cards in her hand were scattered all over the place.

She got up in a hurry and was about to reach out to pick up the cards on the ground and run away.

But...

"Here you go." Kitagawaji handed the few cards he had picked up to the little girl, then stretched out his hand to pick up the other cards, and handed them all to the poor little girl.

Seeing Beichuanji's innocent look, the girl hurriedly lowered her head, took the card from Beichuanji's hand, and thanked her in a low voice: "Thank you."

"You're welcome." Kitagawaji simply replied, pulling the little girl to stand up. At the same time, he glanced at the cards in the opponent's hand.

Those are not playing cards in the traditional sense, but a traditional Japanese game song card called "Hundred One Piece".

The cards painted on the playing cards are actually a traditional Japanese painting technique called "Ukiyo-e". Next to the cards with various characters, there are also Japanese songs represented.

It's just that the ukiyo-e prints on the song cards are somewhat discolored, and the edges of the song cards are also severely worn.

"No, I'm sorry! I'm rude!" As soon as the little girl stood up, she hurriedly bowed to Beichuan Temple.

The way she bowed in her little cotton-padded jacket looked a bit bloated, and a bit clumsy and cute.

"It doesn't matter." Kitagawaji shook his head, and then glanced at the 'Inagaki's Long House' behind her.

It's almost time to go in.

But just when Beichuanji took steps, the little girl suddenly reached out and grabbed the corner of his clothes, and said with a worried look: "Big brother...it's better not to enter this place casually."

Faced with the little girl's kind reminder, Beichuanji also reached out and rubbed her head: "It's okay, I just went in to check the situation."

After leaving these words, Beichuan Temple walked into the small courtyard of the long house under the worried gaze of the little girl.

There is a flower garden running horizontally in the small courtyard, with a trail on the left hand side.

There was no grass growing in the flowerbed, and the soil seemed to have become solidified.

The path on the other side leads directly to the entrance door. The door is half open and there are some footprints on the ground. It seems that someone has visited here before Beichuan Temple.

Kitagawa Temple squinted his eyes and left.

The cold death energy danced under his eyes. As long as something dared to jump out of the darkness, Beichuan Temple would dare to hammer it to pieces.

only...

There was no trace of resentment in the empty entrance hall.

Beichuan Temple continued walking inside.

There is no trace of resentment in the shabby wooden corridors.

There were dirty pieces of paper scattered everywhere in the occupied room, but there was also no resentment.

There is no resentment in the kitchen on the first floor.

Toilet...balcony...

Beichuan Temple visited all the places he could visit, and found no trace of resentment at all.

Yes.

There is nothing here.

This is just an ordinary, empty abandoned longhouse that can be seen everywhere.

"But this is something that has been expected for a long time." Kitagawaji murmured to himself as he walked out of the longhouse again.

Indeed, where in this world can there be so many supernatural places?

So...

This must be what he thought, right?

Kitagawaji came to the longhouse path thoughtfully.

It is already seven o'clock in the evening. The little girl just now seemed to have gone home early and did not stay where she was as at the beginning.

His eyes flickered vaguely, and then he made a phone call.

After a brief negotiation with the other party, Kitagawaji called Tsukishima Risa again.

"Hello?! Kitagawa-san? Are you okay?"

Tsukishima Risa seems to have been guarding Kitagawaji's phone number. She just called and the other party answered immediately.

Because at first Tsukishima Risa and Chinatsu Chiyuki wanted to follow Kitagawaji to this longhouse building to investigate, but Kitagawaji said lightly, "Maybe we will encounter those things by then, and I may not be able to distract myself from protecting them." At your words, she and Qianxia Qianxue blushed and went home obediently.

But obedient as she was told, she was still very worried about the situation at Beichuan Temple.

"It's okay." Kitagawa Temple answered the other party's question, and then said: "I have checked the environment here in the longhouse, and there is nothing unusual. You and your classmates can come over tomorrow to explore."

"That's right..." Tsukishima Risa also breathed a sigh of relief.

While she breathed a sigh of relief, the voice from Beichuan Temple came over again:

"Of course, to be on the safe side, I'll come with you tomorrow. There are other things I'm more concerned about here."

Tsukishima Risa was a little moved when Kitagawaji heard these words.

In her opinion, since Beichuan Temple has determined that there is no problem, there should be no problem.

But the other party said something like, 'To be on the safe side, I'll come with you.'

He should consider himself a friend, right?

As for Kitagawaji's words, "There are other things I care about more," they were ignored by Tsukishima Risa.

Thinking of this, Tsukishima Risa didn't care whether Kitagawaji could see it or not, she nodded repeatedly and said: "Then I will trouble Kitagawa-san tomorrow."

"that is it."

Beichuanji hung up the phone decisively, and then glanced sideways at the fallen doorpost.

I hope everything he thinks of is just pure imagination.

Beichuan Temple shook his head, moved his feet, abandoned the longhouse building behind him, and walked towards the nearest bus stop.

...

The next afternoon.

Naturally, no one would dare to ask someone with the name of the Great Demon King like Kitagawaji to help prepare for the Kyoto Festival.

The remaining students in the class watched each other's figure leaving as soon as get out of class was over, feeling somewhat resentful.

But Beichuan Temple didn't care about this.

He quickly left Beijing and came to CURE Cafe.

Today's CURE Cafe is busier than usual.

The reason is naturally the two male and two female friends brought by Tsukishima Risa.

"Kitagawa-san." Tsukishima Risa waved to him as soon as she saw Kitagawaji, with a happy look on her face.

Seeing Tsukishima Risa waving, several college classmates next to her also looked over with curiosity.

Is this the Kitagawa Temple that Risa Tsukishima was talking about?

Tsukishima Risa has mentioned this name frequently in the past two days.

How could they not be curious about what a boy who could receive such care from Tsukishima Risa was like?

And when they were looking at Beichuan Temple, Beichuan Temple was also observing them.

"Male A, male B, female A, female B." Beichuan Temple muttered a little.

The boy wearing glasses is Boy A, and the tall boy is Boy B. The girl with long hair is Girl A, and the girl with short hair is Girl B.

The classification of Beichuan Temple is as simple as ever.

"Kitagawa-san, what did you just say?" Risa Tsukishima, who had just walked over, looked at Kitagawaji in confusion.

She seemed to have heard Beichuan Temple mutter a few words just now.

Could it be an illusion?

"It's nothing. Let's set off." Kitagawa Temple said calmly.

Having said that, Kitagawaji stepped out and planned to leave here and go to Inagaki's long house.

That look made the people behind Tsukishima Risa look astonished. It took a while before anyone among them spoke, "Wait a minute, this classmate...we haven't introduced ourselves yet."

"..." Beichuan Temple.

Beichuanji glanced at Man A wearing glasses, but shook his head in his heart.

To be honest, he actually didn't care what these people's names were. Even if they introduced themselves, Beichuanji would still call them Man A and Man B in his heart.

After all, it was these people who forcibly proposed to explore the 'Inagaki's Long House'.

Although there were no supernatural or weird phenomena at the destination this time, Beichuan Temple was still respectful and insensitive to these people who were trying to commit suicide.

So there is no need to introduce yourself without introducing yourself.

But in front of Tsukishima Risa, Kitagawaji would not say such words.

So here Beichuan Temple can only be patient and listen to their self-introduction.

After they introduced themselves, Kitagawaji took them in a car to the longhouse.

Almost twenty minutes later, everyone, led by Kitagawaji, arrived in front of Inagaki's longhouse.

This gloomy-looking building stood in front of everyone just like yesterday.

And on the edge of the trail.

Standing was a little girl with a ponytail and wearing a somewhat tattered red and white cotton-padded jacket.

She was still standing by the trail as usual, looking left and right, not knowing who she was waiting for.

Beichuan Temple's expression changed and he was about to walk up.

But the next moment, he was stopped by the man A wearing glasses next to him.

He looked at Beichuan Temple happily:

"Speaking of which, I heard Risa say that Mr. Kitagawa should be able to exorcise spirits, right? This time we go to Inagaki's long house and we have to rely on you."

After hearing what Male A said, Beichuan Temple stopped, shook his head and replied, "I won't follow him."

"Huh?" Everyone around was stunned.

Beichuan Temple replied:

"You can explore separately. If you encounter any situation, just shout loudly. If too many people enter the longhouse at one time, the scary atmosphere will be reduced, right?"

What he said was indeed reasonable.

After all, the Inagaki longhouse only has so much space, so five people can squeeze in at once.

By then, as soon as their noise subsided, it was normal for the scary atmosphere to disappear.

Then add another Beichuan Temple.

When the time comes to explore a room, I bump into my own person, laughing and joking, and there is no sense of adventure at all.

Kitagawaji could be so considerate of them... This was something Tsukishima Risa's classmates didn't expect.

"Brother Beichuan...we..." Man A with glasses was a little moved and was about to say some words of thanks——

But before he could say these words, Beichuanji stretched out his body and pulled him away from his face.

"..." Beichuan Temple.

The place where the little girl originally stood was empty, and there was no one left.

It seemed that so many people came over at once, and her timid nature got the better of her again, so she just ran away.

"never mind."

Since you can’t see it now, you can’t force it.

Kitagawaji withdrew his gaze, then walked to Tsukishima Risa and whispered: "Tsukishima-senpai, I have explored this longhouse building yesterday, and there is no resentment in it. Of course, if you really find something Don’t panic, just call me. I will solve the problem.”

What if you find something...?

Kitagawaji's words made Risa Tsukishima, who was originally confident, somewhat retreat.

"Kitagawa-san..."

"Don't worry, nothing will happen." Beichuanji waved his hand carelessly, but his eyes were already looking around.

His behavior made Tsukishima Risa a little confused and terrified.

She followed Beichuan Temple's line of sight and found nothing.

after all...

From the beginning.

The area around Inagaki's longhouse.

There shouldn't be anyone else here except them——

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