You say this is a love game?

……

Mizutani Makoto didn't know the specific performance of Miyamizu Inaba.

But standing in the corridor, looking at the girl's fleeing back, he could probably guess that Miyamizu Inaba's mood was definitely not as calm as she appeared.

"..."

Totally understandable.

"It's just that the style of the painting suddenly became a bit like a romantic comedy..."

If Tongzi popped up a [Favorability + N] prompt at this time, he might really treat Tongzi as a love system...

CG:【Girls’ feelings are always poetic】

Mizutani Makoto:?

You'd better not jump out.

Mizutani Makoto rubbed his throbbing temples hard a few times, and only then did he suppress his extremely angry mood.

When I turned around, Yoshiko Satori was already cleaning the room.

But there were just too many wine jars and bottles. Yoshiko's mother was looking at the mess on the floor, as if she didn't know where to start, with a pitiful expression on her face.

Mizutani Makoto cleaned the room with her.

He picked up the drunk Chidori from the floor and placed her on the tatami.

The air conditioner was turned off, the doors and windows were ventilated, and all the working fans in the apartment were turned on. The smell of alcohol that had been lingering for who knows how long was really unbearable and had to be cleaned up quickly.

I was busy like this until the evening.

In the middle of the journey, Mai Yajima sent a message.

Just like before, when the girl saw that he had asked for leave for two consecutive days, she was worried that something might have happened to him, so she immediately changed her itinerary and gave him an advance notice that she wanted to visit his house to see what was going on.

Mizutani Makoto sniffed the lingering smell of alcohol in the room, glanced at the bottles and cans of wine piled up at the entrance that had not yet been emptied, and decisively refused.

For some reason, he felt like he had become a little bit of a scumbag.

Damn, he obviously did nothing wrong.

Ignoring Mai Yajima who was noisy and fussy like a grumpy girlfriend on the other end of the phone, he carried a large bag of garbage and ran up and down the stairs countless times before finally throwing all the garbage at the entrance into the large trash can downstairs.

He was also very ashamed that the entire trash can was basically filled to bursting with him.

After dealing with these problems, the smell of alcohol was still in the house, but it was not a big deal.

Chidori, who had been lying dead for most of the day, finally woke up. He sat on the tatami as if he had lost his soul, staring blankly at the busy Mizutani Makoto and Satori Yoshiko.

Mizutani Makoto was also tired.

He had killed Gyouhuo Bird in succession, and then he had gone around the world hunting undead. In the end, he had even been dragged away by Shuten and tortured for nearly twenty hours. Now, he had swept the entire apartment again...

I have a splitting headache and feel confused and dazed.

Those few hours of nap were of no use at all.

He picked up Chidori from the tatami, put her on the floor, then lay down on the tatami himself and fell into a deep sleep.

Until noon the next day, Saturday.

Mizutani Makoto woke up and began to deal with the settlement of the incident.

[Wow: Mizutani-sama! I found a tunnel in the suburbs. That place seems quite eerie...]

Wow Yao seems to have discovered something.

It actually relayed the location of the vengeful spirits to Mizutani Makoto. If you flipped it forward, you could even see it diligently reporting the gathering of vengeful spirits. That was the moment of Mizutani Makoto's decisive battle with the Guhuo Bird last night. At that time, most of the vengeful crows scattered throughout Night Light City had been summoned by the Guhuo Bird, and now, they had all been defeated by him and Miyamizu Inaba's combined efforts.

According to Wow Yao, Night Light City became much more peaceful for a while.

While Mizutani Makoto was clearing out the vengeful spirits, he kept in touch with Wa Yao. It was also Wa Yao's idea to spread it to the suburbs later. It had felt a faint resentment in the suburbs before, and now its search circle was gradually shrinking. It was finally able to determine the location in a gloomy tunnel, so it called Mizutani Makoto to come over and check it out.

This place is the habitat of the Guhuo bird.

A little after three in the afternoon.

Mizutani Makoto walked deeper into the tunnel and looked around to find that it was an abandoned mining tunnel with dried bloodstains on the tunnel floor.

Behind him, there were eight crows in total.

After two days of standing guard, these crows haven't changed much in appearance, but their eyeballs have faded from red. Now the dark crows' eyes roll around, looking at the surrounding scene, and from time to time they call "Ga~!", just like lively children proclaiming their presence.

They now have to say "Spirit Crow", seemingly having gained special abilities, but Mizutani Makoto didn't sign a Shikigami contract with them, so he couldn't understand it in depth.

"Nothing special here..."

Makoto Mizutani stood at the end of the tunnel and confirmed this.

The present world is not a crack.

He defeated the BOSS in the crevice, and in the BOSS's guarded area, he could usually find the BOSS's small treasury, and even some props such as "diary" and "ashes" to supplement the plot. However, reality is not the gathering place of "obsession" after all. Even if he defeated the BOSS, it would be difficult for him to obtain soul-refreshing props such as [Ordinary Soul].

“Ga-ga-ga!”

But the crows will definitely not let him return empty-handed.

The crow transformed by Matsushita Yutsukiko was now pecking hard at a rock wall at the end of the tunnel. Mizutani Makoto moved closer and after a little thought, he directly grasped the Chidori Maru and called upon the Chidori Yakushin to descend. A single strike of the Eight Thunder Gods and the Great Sword slammed into the rock wall with such mighty force that the hollow rock wall exploded.

Behind the rock wall is the spirit core.

Most of them were mid-level and upper-level spirit cores. After careful counting, there were actually sixteen of them, four of which were lower-level spirit cores. Mizutani Makoto took one out and saw that the only mid-level spirit core was the [Spirit Cricket's Spirit Core].

Crow: "Caw!"

Yoshiko Satori: "Kouhuo has been here for about two years. She's killed many monsters and eaten many spirit cores... But a year ago, she seemed to have reached her limit. So, the remaining spirit cores, as well as the spirit cores of monsters she's killed since then, have been piled up to feed her outstanding crows."

The spirit core of the paper-level little demon has been consumed a lot, and only a little is left here.

Mizutani Makoto picked out two spirit cores at random and threw them to the Wow Demon behind him.

"Wow~!"

Toad spirit, crying.

Mizutani Makoto seemed to have thought of something, and then he took out some [Weak Souls] from his backpack and handed them to Wow Yao: "I asked you to help so much before, didn't you say that many monsters also helped? Please help me pass these on to them, as a reward."

Wow Monster: "Wow~"

Yoshiko Satori: "I'm Mizutani-sama's dog~!"

As soon as she said this, Satori Yoshiko realized it belatedly and covered her mouth. She glared at Wow Yao with a blushing face. "What the hell are you talking about?"

Mizutani Makoto collected the remaining spirit cores, as he had to feed Yoshiko Satori and Chidori at home.

At the same time, the eight crows following behind cannot be ignored.

He turned around and looked at the eight crows behind him, which were much larger than ordinary crows.

He received their gifts before leaving the house.

It was a bell.

[Feathers of Crows]

Description: A small bell with eight tail feathers, carrying the most sincere gratitude of children. When you shake this bell, no matter how far away, the crows who love you will feel it and fly across the sky to help you.

【Evaluation: Uchiha's summoning beast! Get!】

This is the result of their discussion.

These crows are now spirit crows, which can also be understood as simple crows that have become spirits.

Although reincarnation is possible, none of these little crows really want to be reincarnated.

They still have many obsessions.

Mizutani Makoto asked one by one, and found out that these crows are basically the souls of children, and their obsessions are all related to family. They basically want to see their parents more often, or spend more time with their family... Even in the form of crows, they want to look at their family from afar and see them live a good life.

At the same time, they all wanted to repay him.

The result of the crows' discussion was the "Feathers of Crows"

Their decision was to leave two crows standing guard beside Mizutani Makoto in shifts, just like on "duty", for him to command. This number of crows was just enough for him to scout, search for enemies, and be vigilant, while the rest of the crows could do what they wanted, without the need for eight crows to always circle around Mizutani Makoto.

Once Makoto Mizutani needs to mobilize a large number of crows, he can call them over through the [Feathers of Crows], and they will fully cooperate with Makoto Mizutani's orders.

Makoto Mizutani can communicate with them through the [Feathers of Crows] and drive them as Shikigami, but their status is different from that of Sanatori Yoshiko and Chidori. They are similar to non-staff members and do not enjoy the benefits provided by Touko.

In this way, these crows remain free, but can also serve Mizutani Makoto.

This is a very reasonable solution.

Mizutani Makoto looked at the six crows that flew away in a hurry, then exchanged glances with the two crows that stayed behind, and heard "Ga--!", "Ga--!"

After hearing the two calls, I couldn't help but laugh.

Their choices are somewhat different from Satori Yoshiko's. They are very attached to their families. Even if they collect Shikigami, the ending will not change much from now... They will definitely still choose the option of "going home often to visit."

At the same time, the two crows on guard also flew into the sky and started playing.

It's quite in line with the nature of children.

By six o'clock tomorrow evening, new crows will naturally come to replace them.

Mizutani Makoto asked, "What are your names?"

Translated by Yoshiko Satori:

"Kenji Iguchi."

"Otsuka Yukiko."

Mizutani Makoto nodded and wrote down the names of the two little guards.

He actually whispered that if he missed home, he could just go visit his house and there was no need to stay with him.

But the two little devils just started shouting "Ga ga ga!"

Xian'er: "Big Brother, who do you think we are?"

Yukiko: "I feel uneasy, as if I'm being disliked."

Kenji: "Is it because I was yelling too loudly?"

Yukiko: "No, Yukiko's voice sounds very nice."

After the two crows asked and answered each other, Mizutani Makoto gave up trying to persuade him. After all, the two little crows were quite sensible. They usually flew not far away, or stopped on the treetops or outside the windowsill. They would not directly interfere with his life, nor would they glance at him like a peeping Tom.

After all, they are here to repay a favor, not to seek revenge.

They had no intention of prying into Mizutani Makoto's life. As soon as Mizutani Makoto entered the house, they would stay outside. If Mizutani Makoto planned to do something shameful with one of them, the crows would fly away on their own and not cause him any trouble.

"Gah!"

That night, Mizutani Makoto was sitting in the house, and the crows outside the window were looking up at the bright moon.

Now, Mizutani Makoto has also received a letter from Matsushita Kei.

[Hai Shui: I'm being pestered by crows.]

Matsushita Yutsukiko and Yoshida Akira, these two crows must have gone to find Matsushita Kei.

Mizutani Makoto had asked, and Matsushita Yutsuki must have followed her silly older brother. As for Yoshida Akira, his parents were not friendly to him, and his brother had already gone to study in another province. Now he was in the stage of "waiting for his brother", so he thought of his "cheap brother", so he followed him.

[Blue-haired water monster: This is a good thing.]

It seems that Matsushita Yutsukiko has not revealed her identity.

She was probably playing a joke on her brother... Mizutani Makoto thought about it and didn't remind Matsushita Kei. Since Matsushita Yutsuki did this, she must have her own ideas. Let the siblings handle these matters themselves.

"Is it a good thing..."

Matsushita Kai looked up and saw the two big crows circling in the room, feeling complicated.

But if Mizutani said it was a good thing, it must be a good thing, right?

He thought about it for a moment and then turned to Mizutani Makoto and told him what happened today.

[Hai Shui: The previous exorcist was called Nishida Akeyu.]

[Hai Shui: He's an exorcist from Tokyo. He said I have the talent to be an exorcist... Then today he took me for a test and found out that I'm a "half-demon"...]

This matter is quite complicated.

Akiyuki Nishida initially viewed Kei Matsushita as a promising junior.