I'm raising a fox fairy wife in Tokyo

in particular.

No matter which direction you drive your car in, the map will eventually show that you are heading towards Asakusa.

And soon after, it began to cycle back and forth on one of the streets, with no change in the buildings on both sides, and no matter which way you drove, you would always end up back here.

On the map, the small dot representing oneself disappears suddenly just as one is about to leave the long street, and then returns to the starting point a moment later.

A maze of ghosts.

Similar stories and legends exist all over the world, and they all originate from people's fear of getting lost in the mountains or wilderness.

But Gaochuan Long knew.

A powerful spirit does indeed possess this ability; once a spirit has chosen a target, it will be unable to leave that target's "territory."

Just like the previous "Self-Slaying Child," the girls were suddenly taken to the ruins of Hachioji Castle by her, and they were not allowed to leave until the "visit was over."

So, just now, without even realizing it...

He and two girls were all targeted by some guy in Tokyo who, like that child, was a sadist?

Is it intentional?

Was it an accident?

"Takakawa, look at that!"

As Kaguya Shinomiya spoke, Takagawa Takayuki also noticed a girl in a red raincoat standing by the long street in the distance.

Under the pale streetlights and the surrounding darkness, the blood-red raincoat stood out starkly.

He seemed to be holding something that looked like a flyer.

When I approached her.

It is clearly visible that he is reaching out his hands, as if he wants to hand over the flyer.

The car continued forward, leaving the girl in the raincoat far behind.

but.

Not long after, she reappeared in front of them.

The same streetlights, the same girl, the same girl trying to hand over the flyer.

There is.

Behind it, there was an identical abandoned hotel.

Upon arriving here, Takagawa Takayuki finally seemed to have figured something out. While driving, he had Shinomiya Kaguya and Hayasaka Ai, who were sitting in the back seat, take out a rather old-fashioned laptop and floppy disks from his guitar case.

"Takagawa-kun, your computer is over ten years old, isn't it? Is it even usable? As far as electronic products go, it's practically an ancient treasure!!"

"There's nothing we can do; modern computers don't have floppy disk drives!"

"..."

It really is.

At the boy's request, the laptop was turned on—it took at least a few more minutes—and then a floppy disk was inserted, from which a small document was retrieved.

"Don't read it aloud, just read it yourself, or you'll be cursed."

The floppy disk contained, of course, the newly released "National High-Risk Paranormal Locations Map - Tokyo Edition," updated this month by the official "Non-Human Crisis Countermeasures Department."

Subsequently.

Both Kaguya Shinomiya and Ai Hayasaka found their goals within the piles of words they wrote.

Address: 7-12-5 Higashi-Asakusa, Taito-ku, Tokyo

Hazard level: S~

Description: Outside a completely abandoned love hotel, a girl in a red raincoat stands. If you receive her flyer, you must enter the hotel or you will be killed.

Tip 1: As long as you don't attack the girl in the raincoat, she is "completely harmless".

Hint 2: Only gangsters and delinquents will see the girl in the raincoat and receive flyers after midnight.

Recommendation: Since it seems to target only gangsters and scoundrels for revenge, its social harm is extremely low and there is no need to worry about it.

Related events: The love hotel was originally controlled by a violent group that exploited high school girls for compensated dating activities, ultimately leading to a large-scale death incident and the hotel's abandonment.

Floppy disks have a very small capacity.

lead to.

The content is very limited, and it looks suspicious no matter how you look at it!

How could a girl named Ling, who seeks revenge against gangsters and scoundrels, be dangerous enough to be classified as an "S~" level?

Furthermore, what exactly happened in that vague account of the incident? How could a hotel used for escort services have experienced a large-scale death incident?

It is clear.

There's more to the story than meets the eye, and the authorities haven't revealed it!

As Gao Chuanlong drove, he took the laptops handed to him by the girls, glanced at the contents, and confirmed that his memory was correct.

I found it very strange at the time.

Probably.

The authorities believed that the girl in the raincoat was only killing gangsters and delinquents, and that she posed no threat to society; in fact, she was even "beneficial" to some extent. Therefore, no detailed investigation was conducted.

But it's also possible that the authorities are hiding something truly terrifying...

I've wandered around this street countless times, and I don't know how many times I've passed by that girl in the red raincoat.

It seems there's no other way.

Finally, Gao Chuanlong stopped his car in front of the other party.

The girl rolled down the car window and handed in three flyers with her pale, slender hands.

Gao Chuanlong glanced at it.

It's just a regular flyer for a "Japanese language tutoring" shop, featuring beautiful girls in JK uniforms, prices for set meals, and suggestive promotional slogans.

After handing the flyer to himself.

The girl in the raincoat ran behind a streetlamp and hid in the shadows, her head down, her bloodshot eyes wide open, staring straight at her.

If I don't enter the hotel, will she curse me to death?

Gao Chuanlong thought for a while, but still didn't intend to attack the girl in red in front of him directly, because...

Pointless.

I only realized this after I received the flyer.

The girl in the raincoat seemed strong, but not dangerous to me. The place emanating the strongest, most malevolent aura was that hotel…

……

"Let's go inside."

Gao Chuanlong got off the car and beckoned the two girls to come with him.

"You all need to stick close to me."

"Ok!"

The three of them walked toward the abandoned hotel. From the outside, it was an unremarkable six-story building with a small footprint.

Push open the glass door, which is covered in dirt and grime.

Not long after I entered, I heard the sound of a lock being put on behind me.

Look back.

A girl in a red raincoat stood outside the glass door and locked the hotel entrance.

"???"

At the same time, she lowered her head, pressed her face completely against the glass door, and coldly looked at herself, Kaguya Shinomiya, and Ai Hayasaka.

He kept muttering something to himself.

[Go to hell, go ...

The girl smiled in a twisted way.

Beneath the red raincoat, several pairs of eyes, like insects, trembled and crawled across her pale face.

Chapter Sixty-Nine: The Spirit of a Compensated Dating Girl

spider?

Looking at the terrifying face of the girl in the raincoat, Takagawa Takayuki now understood why she exuded an aura that even he felt was dangerous—though it was only a little bit.

He's a guy who's gone mad and lost his humanity, a guy who walks on all fours.

It seemed she couldn't stand being stared at by herself anymore.

The girl muttered to herself, puffed out her cheeks, and then suddenly turned and ran away, returning to the long street in the distance.

I guess they'll go back to handing out flyers.

"Gao Chuan, this lock..."

"It's just for show. Of course, ordinary people, and even those in the same industry who aren't particularly strong, can't break through it."

It is possible to forcibly destroy it.

But not necessary.

Because doing so could very likely trigger the [spirit] to go berserk.

No matter what kind of "spirit" it is, it has its own set of logic and rules. The more dangerous it is, the less you should try to destroy it with force, otherwise no one knows what the consequences will be.

This job requires using your brain; it's a mentally demanding job.

He called out to Kaguya Shinomiya and Ai Hayasaka, and they began to explore the hotel lobby.

Do not know why.

The hotel in front of me gave me a rather mysterious feeling; what was happening inside was definitely unusual.

The hotel lobby was pitch black.

There were signs of disorder everywhere, with knife marks and dark red bloodstains scattered about, as if a massacre had taken place here.

Using the light from her phone, Kaguya Shinomiya quickly discovered that the phone was working properly.

So, the girl contacted Shijou Maki, Fujiwara Chika, and Minamoto Chizuru at home, explained the situation, and asked them to help her find "information" about the hotel.

[Understood! Detective Fujiwara, dispatch immediately!!]

With the girl's reply and that "saluting" expression, Kaguya Shinomiya pursed her lips, thinking to herself, "Is Fujiwara at least somewhat reliable?"

And the other side.

Takagawa Takayuki and Hayasaka Ai had already toured the entire hotel lobby.

"The elevator still works..."

The entire hotel was pitch black, as if there had been a power outage.

But strangely, the elevator was still running, emitting a dark green, eerie light from inside, which looked terrifying no matter how you looked at it.

Other than that.

The stairwell, intended as an escape route and for staff use, was completely enclosed, and through the gaps in the iron gate, one could see piles of rotting corpses behind it.

Under the light of the phone.

The highly decomposed corpses, yet each one wore a half-mask, layer upon layer, like a mountain of corpses blocking the entire stairwell, terrified the girl's pretty face.

"So, we'll have to take the elevator then?"

"Ah."

Gao Chuanlong nodded, and then quickly led the two girls to the elevator.

Inside the tightly closed elevator doors, a chilling, pale green light emanated through the gaps.