Tokyo: I am the Lord of All Demons!

She pointed to the side entrance of the shrine.

Shimizu Suzune shook her head and said, "No, it's not possible here. The shrine leadership has ordered that no one is allowed to approach that area."

Fujita Misaki covered her mouth and chuckled, "What kind of leader is so powerful that they can prevent the shrine priest's daughter from coming and going freely?"

Yes, my best friend, despite looking like a working girl who hitches a ride on my Cayenne, actually has quite a background.

According to Fujita Misaki, her best friend's father is the head of the Nakano Yomiyama Shrine and has a huge fortune. She was born with a silver spoon in her mouth and is a true Tokyo heiress.

In comparison, Fujita Misaki, the daughter of a nouveau riche who made her fortune selling fish, seemed rather lackluster.

However, unlike her own happy family with both parents, Shimizu Suzune lost her mother at a young age. Her father was also busy with official duties and had no time for anything else, which indirectly contributed to the young lady's unruly personality.

That's why Shimizu Suzune didn't want to mention her father to others, and retorted unhappily to her best friend, "What are you talking about, the daughter of a priest! At the shrine and outside, we're colleagues, we're in a superior-subordinate relationship."

Fujita Misaki quickly chimed in, "Alright, alright, my shrine maiden, if we can't enter the shrine, what should we do now?"

Shimizu Suzune frowned, thought for a moment, and said, "It's fine if we don't go to the shrine, let's go to another place—to search for spirits!"

Chapter 2 Urban Legends (Please continue reading)

Night falls in an apartment building.

Makoto Araki's fingertips moved across the touchpad of his laptop, browsing the famous urban legend forum 2ch to see how the online reaction was.

He's been spending a lot of time surfing the internet these days in order to earn money.

What he did was create an urban legend and then post the corresponding location and ghostly characteristics online, hoping to attract enthusiasts to try their luck, but unfortunately, he made very little money.

Recently, he has created a total of three urban legends, the most recent of which was created at the Yomiyama Shrine.

You heard right, the female ghost in Yomiyama Shrine is also an urban legend created by Makoto Araki; that's exactly the effect he wanted.

Aren't your shrine priestesses supposed to be messengers of God? Let's see if you really have the ability to destroy this female ghost.

The female ghost descended outside the cafeteria, and the first person to be frightened was Shimizu Suzune, who was successfully scarened.

As someone who was exploited, Shimizu Suzune gained not only fear but also a strange thirst for knowledge.

She actively reported to her superiors.

The problem is that since she reported the incident, the shrine leadership has organized numerous exorcism operations, using all sorts of talismans and consecrated items, but none of them have been able to harm the female ghost in the slightest.

Left with no other option, the shrine's leadership had to impose a blanket ban on anyone else approaching, including the person in question, Shimizu Suzune, directly preventing Araki Makoto from obtaining "fear" from that location.

Upon learning that the operation had been forced to stop, Shimizu Suzune, the person involved, could no longer sit still. She felt that there might be something going on and decided to report the case to the police station. The outcome, however, was already self-evident.

As the instigator of all these events, Makoto Araki naturally witnessed the entire development of the incident and also learned about the girl's impulsive personality.

Today, Makoto Araki "bumped into" her at an izakaya across from the police station and overheard her idea of ​​live-streaming her ghost hunting.

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At 8 p.m., Makoto Araki hid in a dark room, continuing to adjust the system's spider perspective to monitor Suzune Shimizu, to see where she was going to investigate ghosts, and to satisfy her needs at any time.

In their field of vision, Shimizu Suzune had already gotten into Fujita Misaki's Cayenne, and the two were driving north of Tokyo.

In the passenger seat, Shimizu Rinne turned on her live streaming equipment, not forgetting to touch up her makeup in front of the camera and watch the comments from her viewers.

This was not her first time broadcasting. Before this, Shimizu Suzune had already broadcast the daily life of a shrine maiden, so she was very familiar with live streaming.

The live streaming platform she works for is called TT Live, a global live streaming platform with a large following.

The live stream started with the title "The Shrine Maiden Takes You on a Ghost Hunt".

The live stream had just started when the chat exploded with comments—

[First! Suzune-chan is the best!]

[Eye protection mode activated! Rin-chan's barrier unfolds~]

[Charge! All the streamers in the neighboring gaming section have gone offline. All Japanese netizens are rallying for you!]

[SC Red Comment: Tonight, may the priestess also use her divine powers to heal this miserable working class!]

Special effect for rewards: Cherry blossoms fall like rain.

[The boss is generous!]

【666】

I dare not open my eyes~ I hope it's just my imagination~

Help! My mom just asked me why I was kneeling and licking the screen...

Are we having an exorcism tonight?

[Hey, there's another pretty girl here tonight! She's gorgeous too! Does anyone know who she is?]

[She's driving! So cool!]

[She seems to be the streamer's best friend?]

There were many comments, but Shimizu Rin only glanced at them and then stopped, instead looking down at her phone to search for the location of the urban legend.

There are many urban legends lately. To get the latest ones, just open Bluebird Search and the first result will be it.

The results came from the "2ch forum". After clicking into the forum, I immediately saw several newly posted posts, all of which had their addresses marked.

Shimizu Rinne randomly picked an address, pointed it out to her best friend, and explained, "Let's choose this one, The Haunted House."

Fujita Misaki stepped on the gas pedal and replied casually, "I don't care, you can choose."

"This one then." Shimizu Suzune then opened Bluebird Map and set the obtained location as the navigation destination.

The destination is Nerima, Tokyo.

Judging from the map, the place is located in the suburbs, with only a few scattered households, which fits the scene of the urban legend.

As Shimizu Rinne tapped the navigation destination, a gust of cold wind immediately swept through the car, causing the roof lights, which were not yet turned on, to flicker several times.

Shimizu Suzune looked up in confusion and murmured, "The air conditioning is a bit cold..."

“I didn’t turn on the air conditioner…” Fujita Misaki frowned, intending to manually adjust the air conditioner, but then realized that it really wasn’t on.

It's April now, far from the season for air conditioning, but Fujita Misaki deliberately opened the car window, not expecting it to be so cold.

She felt stuffy and hot in Nakano Ward, but now it's getting cold and chilly as we approach Nerima.

Could it be...?

Is it related to this destination?

Fujita Misaki looked at the navigation, and nervously swallowed as she looked at the few words on it.

Don't scare yourself!

I promised to go ghost hunting with my best friend, but we haven't even arrived yet, how can I be such a coward!

But then again...

Thanks to the spread of information online, ghost stories from various places have become common knowledge recently.

Moreover, the evidence provided by netizens seems more and more real and frightening the more you look at it.

Are there really no ghosts or spirits in this world?

Shimizu Suzune was live-streaming, and the unusual bright lights and temperature inside the car were naturally noticed.

Is the headlight broken?

Did the car lights just flash?

What's the temperature in Tokyo? They look a bit cold.

[In response to the previous post, the temperature is 26℃.]

[Could it really be a ghost?]

Maybe we shouldn't go ghost hunting.

Shimizu Suzune did not intend to respond to these fearful comments. Her decision not to add fuel to the fire was already considered merciful.

Unlike before, the purpose of her live stream tonight is to prove to the world that ghosts exist.

In her opinion, the less she interacts with her viewers, the more fear she increases their!

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It's 9 PM, late at night.

In the biting cold wind, two girls got off the bus carrying backpacks containing the necessary equipment for live streaming. The area was an open plot of land with some building materials on it.

Similar scenarios are common in Japan. For example, this vacant lot was originally intended for development or building houses, but construction was forced to stop because it was haunted.

The car lights were on, and with their help, I could barely make out the house across the open space. It was a pure white, single-family old house. The walls of the house had been in disrepair for many years and were now just ruins.

It was precisely because the old house was entirely white and shrouded in darkness that it appeared particularly eerie.

Fujita Misaki glanced at the old house, and asked uncertainly, "Are we going in?"

"When you're filming, remember to include my entire body in the shot!"

Shimizu Rin handed the pre-set phone and tripod to her best friend, then squatted down, took out an action camera from her backpack, and started the live stream in picture-in-picture mode from a first-person perspective.

Next, wear a microphone on your chest to collect sound, and attach a protective talisman around your waist. Then you can start live-streaming your spirit hunt.

Fujita Misaki took the phone, changed the front camera to the rear camera, and placed herself and the old house in the background, just as her best friend had suggested.

The comments section is already buzzing with interaction.

[It looks a bit eerie, maybe the streamer shouldn't go in.]

Rather than worrying about ghosts and spirits, the streamer is probably more concerned about whether there are homeless people or thugs in the old house...

Wait, I think I just saw a shadow. Did anyone else notice?

[Please be careful, streamer!]

The comments were hilarious, and Fujita Misaki got hooked. But then she realized things were starting to go wrong.

Her best friend had already entered the old house and was fiddling with the sliding doors, seemingly determined to break in.