The face was right in front of him, but what Nakahara Chuuya felt more was the icy aura that came from him.

"Hey, you..."

Nakahara Chuuya could hear the sarcasm in his words.

"Hmm?" Axue decided to stop while he was ahead. He smiled and took a step back to put some distance between himself and the gravity that was ready to unleash.

A gust of snow and wind came, and the young man in white clothes rode on the wind and disappeared without a trace.

He also said lightly:

"Don't worry, I'm a 'snow man', even if I want to kiss someone, I'll choose a pretty girl."

Nakahara Chuuya, who was feeling a little embarrassed, was reminded of a frivolous partner in the past after hearing these words.

My mood instantly became worse.

"…When did all these weird guys appear in Yokohama?"

After calming down, he started making phone calls to his subordinates to send these unconscious members back to a safe place.

We can't just let them lie out in the open all night, can we?

After the responding people arrived one after another to clean up the scene, Nakahara Chuuya took the initiative to make another call, which was to contact someone related to the spell. Based on his insights and knowledge in this area, he concluded that it would be more appropriate to leave it to professionals.

After leaving Chuuya Nakahara's perception range, Xue also began to look for the whereabouts of her companions.

The man with the slit had already cleverly run away when he appeared and froze everyone.

Axue looked at the forks in the road and the containers that blocked her view.

"...So where did that idiot with a split mouth go?"

…

…

With Kuen in command, Xue soon arrived at the abandoned factory where the man with the slit mouth was hiding. He was dressed in white and looked out of place in this dark abandoned place. The young man in the snow-covered coat covered his mouth and nose with his sleeves and stared at the man in the distance.

"Although I already knew you were a guy with no class, but you're living like a stray dog ​​in an abandoned factory... No matter how depraved you are, there should be a limit, Rift-kun."

Compared with her gentle and elegant appearance just now, Axue behaves in a completely different manner when she is not in front of others.

When the Slit-Mouth Man is not emotionally unstable, he looks particularly lazy and very unmotivated.

Jiuyuan thinks that using modern buzzwords to describe him, he should be described as a lazy cat-type boyfriend.

Ah Xue took a few steps forward, leaned out, and teased, "Are you calm now? If you're not calm yet, I don't mind helping you cool down."

After saying this, he exhaled a breath of cool air towards the man with the slit mouth.

The latter turned his face to the side, then stretched out his hand and put it directly on Axue's face to push him away: "...Don't get so close to me."

Axue was not annoyed by being pushed away, because he already knew the other person's temper.

"You look healthy, I feel relieved." Axue said with a smile, "I heard from the head of the family that you seem to have received some news you wanted."

"...name." He said slowly: "Someone in the Port Mafia knows me and knows my name."

"Oh? Hiraguchi-kun's name? It can't be Yamada Taro or something like that, right?"

Ignoring Axue's habitual jokes, he replied bluntly: "Hyakuya, Yamashiro Hyakuya, this is my name."

"Momoya-kun...what a cute name. How about calling you Momo-kun? Oh no, doesn't that sound even cuter? How about Xiaobai?"

Seeing that the other party had no reaction, Axue also dropped her cheerful tone.

"Forget it. It doesn't matter what you call me." He waved his sleeves. He didn't really want to tease the other person, and the reactions of the man with the slit mouth were always boring.

Axue looked around.

"By the way, do you really intend to stay here forever?"

"It doesn't matter to us where we live."

"It may not matter to Xiao Bai, but I can't stand it. Moreover, for the sake of the long-term future, we can't live in such a shabby place, right?"

…

…

It was not easy to find a hotel at that time, so the two of them went directly to a love hotel.

Axue was very humble and she charmed the front desk staff with her pretty appearance. After completing the formalities, the two of them entered the room.

This is an ordinary double room.

The man with the slit mouth looked around the room curiously, then asked Xue, "What should I do when I check out?"

They don't have any human currency.

Ah Xue fell on the soft bed, buried her head in the pillow, and then turned over lazily——

"As for the money, the master of the family will solve it for us - look, isn't it coming now?"

The toilet door was opened and Hanako walked out with a cold smile.

"Here." He threw the envelope containing the money, which was easily caught by the man with the slit mouth.

Axue jumped up from the bed, put her sleeves over her lips, and looked at the opened envelope.

After seeing the money inside, I smiled happily——

"The master of the family is so generous. I was just thinking of changing into a new set of clothes, and this is really a timely help."

"It's strange to hear the phrase 'help someone in need' coming from a snow woman." Hanako pulled out a chair and sat down next to her. "I came here to run errands, and I don't even get a cup of tea?"

After hearing what he said, the man with the slit mouth took out a cup of Coke from the small refrigerator in the room, then considerately opened it for him and passed it to him.

I got an appreciative look from Hanako.

Then, Hanako coughed lightly and began to speak like an adult: "You all know that our master's financial situation has been rather...difficult recently. These funds are rewards that you have earned with your own reputation. The master did not keep any of them for himself, but gave them all to you."

"This is the starting capital," he said. "The next step is to find a way to make money on my own."

"Ah, I had roughly thought of this when I was called to rescue this idiot." Axue rubbed his eyebrows, "In other words, we were kept as pets by the master of the family."

"Master means that it would be more convenient for us to divide our forces into different groups. This way, we can get information from multiple channels and not worry about being blinded by others."

Axue smiled and said, "To put it in a way that even that idiot with a crack mouth can understand, we have to pretend that we don't know you and pretend that we are two completely different forces. I understand. Anyway, all the benefits will go to the head of the family, so we must be left to do the dirty work. Ah, it hurts——"

His hair was held down and rubbed hard, and instantly turned into a pile of messy dandelions.

"Ah Xue." The man with the slit mouth sat down next to her, "Don't keep saying bad things about me, and don't say bad things about the master of the family in front of me."

When he is not crazy or shy, the slit-mouthed man still has a more stable side.

"...I will do what the master wants. If Xue doesn't want to, I will force him to do it."

Hanako took a look at their interaction and said nothing more.

He picked up the bottle of Coke and walked to the toilet door.

"I'm going back now." Before leaving, he added, "Remember to help promote the intelligence agency of the master of the family."

"Bye-Bye--"

"Have a safe trip."

…

…

Jiuyuan's initial plan has already had a direction. He intends to establish a neutral force centered on himself and Hanako. This force should focus on intelligence collection and exchange to provide convenience for his other aliases. In short, it should be like a brain.

What's more, with Hanako's ability to "come and go freely in the toilet", Jiuyuan doesn't even need to expose his true form in many situations, and his safety index is full.

As for the man with the slit mouth and the snow man, let them hide in the darkness of the city. With their abilities, Jiuyuan believes that they will not be in trouble.

What's more, the main mission of the man with the rift, his wish, is related to □□, so it is better to let them continue to take root in the dark of the city. After all, for the monster born in the human heart, it makes him feel comfortable in the dark.

Although the Snow Woman doesn't have this kind of fetish, but... he has a bad personality and just wants everything to be interesting.

Moreover, when Kuen looked at the panel, the wish of the Snow Woman could be said to be very abstract.

"I want to see what true love is."

"You probably won't see this kind of thing if I'm around you." Jiuyuan thought, "But, the darker the muddy, the brighter the love might be. Maybe there will be unexpected gains."

Just as he was thinking about how to arrange the next actions of these two, Hanako also came back.

He also brought back the bottle of Coke in his hand. Jiuyuan asked knowingly, "Where did you get the Coke?"

"Xiaobai gave it to me." Hanako had already naturally started to call the slit-mouthed man by his new name.

Jiuyuan lowered his head to look at his phone again and said, "Drinks in the hotel outside will be charged extra."

"……so?"

Without even looking up, he said, "It will be deducted from the money you make in the future."

At this moment, he felt the subtle silence of Hanako's consciousness.

"Hey, look at this." Jiuyuan shook his cell phone and asked Hanako to come over.

He posted a thread on the forum last week, telling everyone from a first-person perspective, as if he was doing a live broadcast, about how he "met Hanako, a fierce girl who would tell people about their luck, in the toilet."

Before he knew it, he had climbed several thousand floors. The temperature was even higher than he had imagined.

“This is a story I heard from my sister.”

"You need a full apple."

"In a quiet environment, knock on the door of the third cubicle in the men's restroom—"

"——Hanako-kun, Hanako-kun, are you there?"

"——If you were here, the apple would be for you."

"If Hanako-kun heard your request, he would open the door of the compartment."

"Tell me, what do you want to know?"

In the second half of the post, he pretended that he really got the answer from Hanako-kun.

"Hanako-kun told me that my confession would be successful. So I plucked up my courage and confessed to the girl I liked that afternoon..."

“Of course it was successful.”

"So I asked Hanako-kun again: 'Hanako-kun, will I get the desired score on tomorrow's exam?'"

“This time, he gave me a positive answer.”

“After the results came out, I got what I wanted.”

After that, the OP made several more attempts.

All the answers that Hanako gave clear answers to came true.

The original poster also felt scared during this period, but he asked Hanako-kun: "I come to you every time to take the rotten meat, don't I have to pay any price?"

Hanako just took a bite of the apple he handed over and told him, "Hasn't the price already been paid to me?"

The OP looked at the apple in his hand and breathed a sigh of relief.

After that, he tried to make some suggestions, but the content of these suggestions gradually deviated from simplicity.

The author wrote at the end:

"This is the last time. After this, I won't need to come to see Hanako anymore [picture]."

The picture shows the lottery number selection.

Although he gained a lot of benefits from Hanako, he still didn't want to get too close to such ghostly things.

If Hanako could make him rich this time, he might never come to him again.

But who can say for sure? When all the money is gone, can he resist the urge to stop asking Hanako for a share?

——Probably not.

But this message is the last.

The host never spoke again.

Someone in the post re-read the post and found the problem——

"Hanako-kun, it seems that he never mentioned what the price was. He only said that the owner of the post had already paid the price. We all thought he meant apples, but Hanako-kun never confirmed it."

No one knows whether his wish came true.

Perhaps his wish was not fulfilled and he fell silent from then on.

Another possibility is that his wish was indeed fulfilled, but at an unbearable price.

Seeing Hanako coming over to look at the content on the screen, Kuen gently stroked Hanako's head as if she were petting a cute cat.

"It's time to get to work, Hanako-kun. But before that, please do me a favor."