I'm raising a fox fairy wife in Tokyo

He wore silver-rimmed glasses that were completely out of character for a gangster, but beneath those glasses, another pair of eyes were open.

And clearly, you can see another mouth on one side of its cheek.

A black curse mark covered his face.

His face was strangely calm yet insane, as if two faces existed simultaneously.

"So it was a four-legged beast."

Erlang's other mouth emitted an arrogant voice as he commented on the girl in the raincoat not far away.

Uninterested in someone who had completely lost his humanity, he looked away and gazed at the hotel in the distance, bathed in the night rain.

"Let's go, there's definitely an interesting atmosphere inside."

and……

There was also a certain air of expertise about it.

"Then, Miss, please."

After the man named Jiro got out of the car, the leader of the Shibata group jogged again and stopped in front of the car at the very center of the convoy.

Then he respectfully opened the car door.

Inside, sitting alone in the back seat, was a beautiful girl with long silver-gray hair and cat-like ears, dressed in a gorgeous kimono.

"Princess Kaguya, are you sure that thing is in the hotel..."

"That's right, that's why it turned out this way~"

Princess Kaguya smiled.

Her eyes were slightly curved in a mischievous way, like those of a playful and adorable young girl.

"Once you retrieve it, the guys at this hotel won't bother you anymore."

"Many thanks."

"Oh, it's okay, don't worry about it, I've got your back."

The girl got off the car briskly.

Humming a tune, she walked ahead towards the hotel, noticing the Mercedes that had arrived first by the roadside.

The game has begun, big brother! Let's see who finds the secret treasure first!

Princess Kaguya raised her head and looked towards the sixth floor of the hotel. As the instigator of everything tonight, the girl's face was now full of an innocent smile.

As our groom, dear brother, you must win all the games!

……

Vaguely.

Takagawa Ryu seemed to hear some distant flute music coming from outside the hotel, but the girls around him seemed not to hear it at all, which made the boy turn his gaze away.

now.

The three were conducting an investigation in a hotel room.

"The situation here is very complicated."

The room was decorated in a rather luxurious love hotel style. Kaguya Shinomiya didn't understand the waterbed, nor did she understand the various "strange toys" placed in the glass cabinet on one side of the room.

Even though the furniture inside was already rotten, it was still possible to tell.

They are all quite valuable items.

Wooden table, mirror, television, curtains, carpet, mattress...

Having received "aristocratic etiquette" training from her family since childhood, Kaguya Shinomiya immediately recognized it as a small hotel room of only twenty or thirty square meters.

The cost of its renovation will not be less than ten million yen.

This is just one of them; the other hotel rooms are almost all the same.

Even a five-star hotel is probably only this much, right?

But this hotel was actually an obscure place controlled by gangsters, where high school girls were imprisoned and forced into prostitution.

They've only made a little money so far. With such a luxurious renovation, when will they ever recoup their investment?!

Not right.

Something's completely wrong, even 100% wrong!

The hotel was filled with an "abnormal" atmosphere.

And sure enough.

With the secret information delivered by Fujiwara Chika and Shijo Maki.

Takagawa Takayuki and the two girls finally learned a little bit, just the tip of the iceberg that had surfaced from beneath the surface.

The so-called "compensated dating" is merely the most superficial aspect of this hotel's business.

Besides that, there is also...

[A place specifically for the wealthy and certain government officials, used for a special kind of entertainment.]

It's quite obvious; those paintings on the corridor walls are examples.

And deeper still.

There is a secret room in the hotel, used by a certain cult for sacrifices and various strange rituals.

And one of the rituals.

Just

【The Punishment of the Woman Who Returns to Her Home】.

Chapter 71 The Altar, the Secret Treasure, and the Door

Because it was related to the exposed case, Shijou Maki and Fujiwara Chika obtained the records of the ceremony through internal means.

"Jorōgumo is a legendary female spider demon, usually described as having the upper body of a woman and the lower body of a spider, a beautiful yet terrifying creature."

"It will seduce men, remove their heads and eat them while they are asleep, or suck their blood."

"And in this ritual called the 'Jorōgumo no Kamae' (or 'Jorōgumo's Punishment')..."

Hayasaka Ai murmured softly, recalling the messages sent by the girls in her family.

"Put the spider into the girl's mouth and make her swallow it, while at the same time making the girl take some kind of drug."

"If the swallowed female spider successfully lays eggs inside the girl's body and then crawls out, it means the ritual was successful, and finally..."

[It will give birth to a brand new life].

That's what the surviving members of the religious order who were arrested at the time said.

"So that's it..."

Takagawa Ryu seemed to understand something.

No wonder I felt this hotel was quite special; it turns out the hotel's "spirit" wasn't just one, but multiple.

In short, it's an "ecosystem" made up of many different kinds of things.

The girl in the raincoat outside.

It should be the spirit that the girl who died because of the "Jorōgumo punishment" transformed into. According to the police investigation records sent by Shijō and Fujiwara, the girl died from a drug overdose.

He also suffered a great deal of torment before his death.

This caused her to lose her humanity and reason after transforming into a "spirit," becoming a "four-legged being" who hunts down gangsters and thugs by constantly distributing hotel flyers.

Simultaneously.

There is also a group of JK girls whose "spirits" are also seeking revenge, constantly searching for gangsters and delinquents in the hotel, thus forming a kind of "cooperation".

"But neither of these is the key."

The raincoat girl and the JK girl are just the surface; something else is hidden deep within this hotel.

Because this alone is not enough to be officially rated as an "S~" level.

and.

Why didn't the girl in the raincoat go into the hotel?

"It's an altar! Something used in the previous cult's worship and sacrifices!!"

Kaguya Shinomiya immediately thought of it.

However, Shijou and Fujiwara have not yet figured out exactly what it is.

"Yes, we need to find that place first."

The altar is located in a secret room inside the hotel, a place accessible only to special "VIP" guests.

have to say.

Gao Chuanlong remarked that with these guys helping out, the investigation had indeed become much easier.

The daughter of a former prime minister and the heiress of two super conglomerates, she can obtain a great deal of intelligence and necessary information from various sources, both in politics and business.

If it were me, putting everything else aside, I definitely couldn't get the architectural floor plan of this hotel.

This is what the girls meant by division of labor and cooperation.

So now the problem is very simple.

Where exactly is that secret room with the "altar" located, and how do you get in?

Suddenly.

hurried footsteps echoed in the hotel corridor.

The door to the room was suddenly pushed open, startling both Kaguya Shinomiya and Ai Hayasaka. Then they saw two "compensated dating girls" walk in expressionlessly.

They seemed to be looking for something.

His body and the knife in his hand were stained with fresh blood.

This sudden scene sent a chill down the spines of both girls, but Gao Chuanlong remained calm, shielding them behind him.

Watching the "compensated dating girl Ling" search the room—the bathroom, the toilet, under the bed, the closet…

The technique was quite skillful.

They seemed to be looking for someone who was hiding, and were still ignoring our side. At the same time, a man's screams came from outside the room.

"Ah ah ah ah ah ah!"

Are other people arriving at the hotel, or is the scene repeating itself?

Takagawa Ryu gave Shinomiya Kaguya and Hayasaka Ai a subtle look. Then, the three of them left the hotel room and discovered a long, fresh bloodstain in the corridor.

Follow all the way.

Soon, around the corner of the corridor, they saw [Rei, the compensated dating girl] dragging half a corpse and slowly walking towards the elevator in the distance.

The man was dead. He was wearing a black suit, but the skin exposed on his neck revealed that he had a large area of ​​tattoos on his back.

His body was torn in half at the waist, his internal organs spilled out onto the ground, and his chest was covered in knife wounds.

and……

"It's still hot."

"!!!"

Kaguya Shinomiya and Ai Hayasaka were both stunned!

Because Gao Chuanlong actually dared to run up to the man's corpse and touch it with his hand!

"It wasn't a reenactment; someone entered the hotel, probably a gang or something, and was killed by these high school girls."

They quickly made the right judgment.

Subsequently.

Then they saw the girl drag the man's corpse into the still ghastly green elevator.