After entering the door, Hanako muttered, "...How strange."

Xia Yujie: "What's wrong?"

"There are more than one person, but... they gathered together to summon." Hanako frowned, "It seems that they are a group with no conflict of interest."

However, we still have to wait and see what the facts are.

After activating the teleportation within the store and arriving at the nearest building, Hanako asked Geto to help bring those people over.

“It’s really annoying not being able to leave the building,” the boy complained.

It was very interesting to be brought here by Kagome Kyo. Among them were both ghosts of monsters and humans. After listening to their narration, Hanako finally understood.

They were a group of good friends in their lifetime. After going to a haunted place to commit suicide, two of them turned into monsters. The others also failed to escape the curse and became ghosts. Then they reunited again.

Although the two who became monsters have low power and are considered the lowest among monsters, protecting the other ghosts is no problem. However, just a few days ago, they accidentally discovered the private transaction of several other monster organizations. In order to protect their companions, they suffered considerable injuries.

"We are here to exchange for goods in the store." One of the girls said, "Excuse me, can the monster candy in the catalog heal Takeda-kun's injury?"

She looked at her injured partner with concern. The other party was already at the end of his strength. If it weren't for this opportunity right in front of them, they wouldn't have rushed over immediately.

The girl quietly looked at the two people in the store: one was a boy who looked young and cute, but the demonic power in his body was real, and he was ranked as the most powerful among the monsters she had ever seen.

But why is the boy wearing a fox mask next to him... only the black one?

Where did the white one go?

Not knowing that the girl was wondering about something related to herself, Xia Yujie stepped forward to check the monster's injuries.

It can be seen that although he was seriously injured, his vitality was extremely strong. There must be some important belief that allowed him to continue to persevere.

"I want to check it out," he said. "Can I?"

After getting consent, he put his hand on the monster's shoulder. After feeling the capacity of the monster's demonic power in the other's body, Xia Youjie made a judgment. As someone who had used monster candy before, he clearly understood how much demonic power the candy replenished. The man in front of him only needed one candy to pull him back from the brink of death.

So he nodded to Hanako.

Hanako smiled and placed the scale on the table, saying, "It can be saved."

The injured man's companions were visibly relieved.

The reason they are so anxious is because they want to seize the initiative. They are at the bottom of the society and don't know much information. But anyone who has lived in this area for a long time knows it.

However, they guessed that the person in front of them was new to the area and the information was still valuable to them, so they rushed here as quickly as possible. Otherwise, if someone got there before them and delivered the information to the store, they would no longer have any bargaining chips.

Hanako also guessed their intention, but in his opinion, this information was worth a piece of candy, and he didn't mind using this little bit of bargaining chip to exchange with them. If he could make them feel grateful, they would continue to provide him with useful information in the future.

"Please." He tapped the scales gently.

Having a scale that can measure whether the values ​​given by both parties are equal means that Jiuyuan will never be deceived in a transaction.

The girl glanced nervously at her companions, and they encouraged her with their eyes.

After taking a deep breath, she said, "…It's about the monsters in the Kanto region. This place is said to be the base of the Nura clan, the largest monster faction in Kanto."

Then, the other party told him some things he knew, basically information about the Nura Group, a major organization in the area.

Hanako perked up and looked at the scale. Sure enough, the girl's side had begun to sink.

"…That's it." The girl observed Hanako's expression, but she was still looking at her with an unfathomable smile.

This made her unconsciously say a few inflammatory words: "...But, their young master doesn't seem to have any intention of inheriting the family business, so now many monsters have begun to expand their territories wantonly, and the living space for small monsters like us is getting smaller and smaller..."

"So...if that's what you mean..."

Xia Yujie frowned as he listened nearby.

That's not quite the right thing to say.

"...Heh." Hanako smiled softly, "I'm just a nobody who's in charge of looking after the store. It's useless for you to tell me these things, girl."

After saying that, he took out a candy and placed it on the scale. The scale on Hanako's side immediately fell down.

The two sides are not equal.

The girl's face turned even paler and colder.

"That means..." she shuddered.

"Unfortunately, your information is not enough to pay for this candy."

Hanako said this, her fingers already pinching the candy, ready to take it away.

"No! I have other news!" the girl said quickly. She had put away her thoughts and racked her brains to pour out all the news she could think of: "Yahara! There is a boy in Yahara who can control monsters! I think his name is Natsume... Yes! Natsume Reiko! She has a friend's book full of monster names. If you can get that friend's book, you can control all the monsters in it!"

This piece of news seemed to be of considerable value, and the balance shifted again. This time, the candy side only sank a little.

Seeing victory in sight, the girl took advantage of the situation and told a lot of news she knew, but the news was too fragmentary and contained a lot of false information, so the scale moved very slowly. It was not until she talked until her mouth was dry that the scale finally balanced.

Nura Group, Night Parade of One Hundred Demons, Onmyoji of the Hanakaiin Family, Headless Knight, Demon Sword, Pansei Cult...

Jiuyuan had never imagined that the people in the Kanto region were living in such dire straits.

Seeing that the deal was done, Hanako nodded calmly and took the candy down and gave it to her.

"We follow fair trade, which is a fair remuneration."

After receiving the reward, the girl immediately gave the medicine to her companion, who showed visibly improved condition.

After their injuries healed, they thanked Hanako and Geto Suguru gratefully, then left without looking back.

With that said, the next goal is very clear. Tomorrow, let Yukio and the others go to visit the Nura Group and see what the situation is like in the Kanto region. After all, they are local bosses, so there is no harm in getting in touch with them.

But Yahara was very far away, so he had to go there in person to verify whether it was true.

One more thing.

After Hanako felt the call just now, she found that there were many faint sounds after it. Different from the call of desire, Hanako immediately recognized that these might be people trying to apply for the job.

But it takes too much time to apply for each job one by one.

Jiuyuan immediately began to discuss with the system how to change the strategy.

"System."

【System: What's going on? 】

"Please add one more invitation for me." He rubbed his forehead, "...For those who want to apply, let them line up at the designated location. Let's set the first recruitment time for tomorrow afternoon."

【System: I understand. What about the location? 】

"Just find an abandoned construction site," he said. "Just tell me where it is when you find it, but it has to be a suitable place for Hanako to be transported to."

【System: OK.】

…

…

After the group of customers left, the store became quiet again.

Hanako put his hand on the scale and pressed it down, like he was playing with a finger seesaw. He looked at Kagome with a half-smile: "... Kagome-kun, you were once a cult leader."

Although the girl didn't know the details, her scattered intelligence did involve the Panxing Cult and mentioned the name of the founder.

Xia Yujie rubbed his forehead.

Having lost his memory, he lacked a sense of reality about the things he did afterwards. Now that Hanako had pointed it out to him, he found it rather strange.

"But I think you must have followed this line of inquiry yourself."

"Well," he said with a wry smile, "nothing."

"Hmm... I do have a guess. Do you want to hear it?"

"Please go ahead."

"The body and the soul are not two completely separate entities as people say. There are many connections between them, but no one can explain the mystery... Your soul may have changed after long-term contact with the curse, and the connection with the body has also changed."

"...What do you mean?" Geto Suguru seemed to understand what Hanako wanted to say.

In the past few days, he has been tracing back along the possible trajectory of his past life, trying to stimulate himself to recall his memories, or to dig out clues to the missing part of his soul.

However, after Hanako said this, he realized the possibility that he had overlooked.

"…Although I am only giving a possible suggestion, it may not really work. However, there may be no harm in giving it a try."

Hanako smiled and said, "Suyu-kun, do you... want to go and see your own body?"