My daily life of exorcising demons and falling in love with a witch.

The reaction of the chili pepper won't happen that quickly.

Therefore, Erina didn't realize at first that it was Yoshiyuki's hands that were so ruthless.

I thought it was because my eyes were too tired, so I used eye drops to moisturize my eyes and that caused the pain.

However, she soon discovered that things were not so simple.

Then, she screamed in pain while crying. It was then that Yixing realized what the problem was and quickly took her to the restroom to wash her eyes.

Because of that shout, the Yoda family thought their young lady was in danger and sent a group of people over.

Fortunately, Erina didn't reveal the truth, but said she had a nightmare, otherwise Yoshiyuki would definitely have been punished.

The two soon arrived at the convenience store that Ms. Fujimori had mentioned.

To be precise, these are two shops located together. They are connected by doors, so they must belong to the same owner.

Next to the convenience store is a Chinese restaurant.

However, the so-called "Chinese cuisine" refers to Japanese-style Chinese food, which may include dishes such as Tianjin rice that do not exist in China.

The bosses are usually Japanese.

As for authentic Chinese food, it's called "Chinese cuisine".

There are quite a few in Tokyo. Most of them are run by Chinese or people of Chinese descent. However, they mainly serve Sichuan cuisine, which gives Japanese people the misconception that "Chinese people all like spicy food."

Since there was a Chinese restaurant here, Yoshiyuki expected to see a Japanese person as the owner.

So when he entered the store and realized that the middle-aged man with the "President" badge around his neck was actually a rice bag, he was still completely bewildered.

The rice bag transformed into a rather serious-looking middle-aged man.

However, when looking at its true form through his spiritual vision, Yixing could only laugh.

This creature has no legs at all; it looks like a short, stout, ancient rice bag with two muscular, white-purple arms.

The rice bags are made of cloth.

It's white, with a diamond-shaped red paper pasted on the front, on which the Chinese character "米" (rice) is written.

They went a little closer and saw its employees.

It turned out that the employee was also a monster.

He looked like a young man.

But its true form was actually a brown wine jar with a pair of white wings.

There was also a diamond-shaped red paper pasted directly in front, with the Chinese character "酒" (jiǔ, meaning wine) written on it.

"You two aren't from Bishan, are you...?" Yixing looked at them and couldn't help but mutter to himself.

Judging from their appearance, it's impossible to tell which country's monsters they are, because many styles of rice bags and sake jars are interchangeable between China and Japan, and the Chinese characters for "sake" and "rice" are still in use in Japan today.

In fact, many monsters have fled from China to Japan since ancient times.

Including the infamous Nine-Tailed Fox, one of the three demons of Xuanyuan Tomb.

After the fall of Chaoge, the capital of the Shang Dynasty, she attempted to commit suicide with King Zhou but failed. She then abandoned the idea of ​​dying and decided to live on with her longing for him and this sin.

To escape Nuwa's pursuit, she used illusion magic to fake her death and escaped. She crossed the East Sea to Japan, where she received the protection of the ruler of the Night Kingdom—the great god Tsukuyomi—and changed her name to Tamamo-no-Mae.

Her connection with the Yoda family stems from her fighting alongside the first Yomi Shrine Maiden a thousand years ago.

Tamamo-no-Mae intervened because she had been tormented by guilt after realizing her sins and hoped to atone for them by sealing away Izanami, who was causing havoc in the world, and by helping humanity fight against demons.

Princess Kaguya, who had a good relationship with Tamamo-no-Mae, also came to the human world from the moon palace to help with Tsukuyomi's wishes.

Few people know that Tamamo-no-Mae is actually the fox demon from Xuanyuan Tomb.

She has always kept this experience a secret.

Yoshiyuki knew this because she had revealed her background to the Yoda family. Similarly, Kuroba Ryu was fully aware of it as well.

Now that demons are no longer rampant, Tamamo-no-Mae retired a hundred years ago and has adopted the pseudonym "Shimizu Tamago," which sounds like a dish.

She has done many jobs over the past century. Because of her intelligence and shrewdness, she made a fortune by investing in real estate during Japan's bubble economy in the last century. She also withdrew in time before the bubble burst, accumulating a large fortune.

She used the money for many charitable causes and also achieved great success in business. However, she later found that her high profile made it difficult to conceal her identity and she also grew tired of the business world, so she withdrew from the business community and started a private high school.

She believes that running a good school and educating people is also a way to atone for one's sins.

Erina's older brother, Yusuke Yoda, attends the high school where she is the chairman of the board.

Therefore, Yoshiyuki felt that he and the young lady would probably go there as well. This way, they could easily get protection, and the Yoda family could feel more at ease about the young lady's safety.

Yixing was very curious whether the employees of the convenience store and the Chinese restaurant were all monsters.

So he quietly went around to look around, and thankfully there were people everywhere else.

Of course, it's also possible that his disguise was so good that he couldn't tell his true identity.

"Do the police even know that the shop owner they trust is a monster?" Yoshiyuki couldn't help but mutter to Erina.

"I don't know..." Erina seemed a little speechless. "Is this shop really reliable? Even though it's impossible for yokai to work together, the shop owner and Shuten-dōji are, after all, of the same clan."

"What worries me more is that there's a sake jar demon here." Yoshiyuki glanced at the Yoda sake displayed on the nearby shelf and sighed, "I'm really worried that it won't be able to resist drinking it all by itself."

Both the Rice Bag Demon and the Wine Jar Demon are very weak. Their characteristics are also very simple.

The rice bags and wine jars have become sentient beings because they have absorbed the essence of grains and human energy over the years.

The Rice Bag Demon especially loves to eat rice, and can even swallow it raw.

Many people would consider this impressive, but Yixing thinks it's nothing special.

When training ninjas, the Kuroba school requires them to eat only a handful of raw rice and a persimmon each day, and to be able to run with heavy loads all day long.

The sake jar demon has a particular fondness for drinking. These Japanese-style sake jars typically prefer rice wine, baijiu (Chinese white liquor), and sake, depending on what kind of alcohol they were used to hold in the past.

In ancient times, although these two kinds of monsters did not attack people and were not very harmful, they were very hated.

Because food was precious back then, especially rice, which was a rare commodity. Ordinary families couldn't afford to eat it regularly.

To avoid being robbed by thieves and government troops, the rice had to be hidden, or even buried underground.

As a result, the Rice Bag Demon always managed to find and eat it.

Stealing someone else's food rations can often indirectly lead to someone's death.

As for the wine jar demon, it is less hated, but wine is made from grains after all, and good wine is quite valuable, so it is natural that people will also hate it.

Just as Yoshiyuki and Erina were unsure whether to approach her, Ms. Fujimori appeared at the back door of the convenience store, accompanied by two men they had never seen before.