Although he was frightened by the ghost calling his name from behind, Mitarai Ichiro's body was quite honest.
He has a mission to complete.
So, Mitarai Ichiro ran without looking back, sprinting forward, ignoring whatever was being said behind him, praying that he would soon see the magnificent hot spring resort that the Faceless Demon had mentioned.
In the ghost realm, being called out by a ghost's name is bad enough; if you turn back, aren't you afraid you won't die fast enough?
Do you think he's an idiot?
Sensing the danger approaching from behind, Mitarai Ichiro mustered all his strength and charged forward headlong.
Finally, he saw a building that was about four or five stories high. The lights inside seemed to be on, and on the second floor, on the exterior wall, hung four characters in a rather unique style: "Hot Spring Town".
Mitarai Ichiro excitedly stepped forward, pushed open the door, and said, "Hello, I would like to stay here for the night."
The thing following him seemed to give up the moment Mitarai Ichiro entered the hot spring town, which relieved him and allowed him to carefully observe the place where he would be staying for the entire night.
The receptionist was a skeleton dressed in a pink and white maid outfit.
However, because it was a skeleton, Mitarai Ichiro couldn't tell its gender at all. He only felt that the blue flames burning in the two black holes in its eyes stared at him for a while before he lowered his head and took out a registration book from the counter:
"Please check in here, guests."
Mitarai Ichiro took the manual but did not immediately register his real name. Many people in Japan also had religious beliefs, which were considered superstition by the people of China, but were rich experiences for him.
Because he entered in such a hurry, Mitarai Ichiro didn't notice if there were any rules at the entrance, but he figured there probably weren't.
The names of yokai should not be revealed casually. This is mentioned in the diary at home and is common knowledge for many people in Sakura Country. Some people have even made a heartwarming anime based on this point. But I digress. In any case, even without the rules, Mitarai Ichiro knows that writing his name here is a trap.
He carefully read the messages written by the other ghosts and filled in his own information based on his memory.
Regarding the name, he filled in "Nekoya's".
Just like the other guests who filled in "Blue Monk", "Flying Head Demon", "Hundred Eyes Demon", etc., they were filling in the types of monsters they were.
"I've filled it out."
Mitarai Ichiro handed the information form to the skeleton and was about to enter the changing room when the skeleton stopped him: "You can't leave."
"Excuse me, may I ask..."
Mitarai Ichiro hadn't expected to be stopped. Just as he was wondering where he had written it wrong, he saw the skeleton extend its hand to him: "You have to pay to stay here. Do you want to enjoy yourself without paying?"
……What?!
Before this, Mitarai Ichiro never expected that in the world of a hundred demons, he wouldn't even be able to enjoy a hot spring for free; he would have to pay for it.
He was completely penniless, and besides, he had no idea what the common currency of this world was.
Is there really no other way?
Mitarai Ichiro almost instantly came up with a solution, trying his best to put on a cute expression: "Then can I work here for a day? Just one day, let me stay here for one night, even if I don't soak in the hot spring, as long as I'm near the hot spring, I'll be satisfied."
The flames in the skull's eyes seemed to have grown a little larger. Then, it shook its head: "I can't make a decision on this. I need to ask the boss. You wait here for now."
Soon, the skeleton left for a while and then returned.
This time, the skeleton held a headscarf in its hand and handed it to Mitarai Ichiro, pointing to a doorway hidden by a curtain: "That's the staff entrance. Remember to change your clothes after you go there, and then put this headscarf on. Don't take it off until you leave."
Mitarai Ichiro has always been very obedient; otherwise, he wouldn't have been selected for the white talent by the system.
Draped a headscarf over his arm, Mitarai Ichiro entered the staff room. The room was empty; the other staff had probably already gone to work.
Without anyone supervising him, Mitarai Ichiro immediately searched the staff break room and found something.
It's a familiar diary entry.
[Day 2 Night]
There is no daytime here, nor does the weather change; it seems time has forgotten this place.
[The cat said she had found other "people" like me with amnesia before, but she later regained her memory, remembered her cause of death and painful memories, remembered why she was sealed in the demon realm by the Onmyoji, and eventually lived in a school.]
But my memory is very clear, without any gaps; I am definitely human.
I'm just an unlucky human who accidentally wandered into the realm of ghosts.
The cat said I was too nervous and wanted to take me to a hot spring. I never imagined that a world of night parades of a hundred demons would have hot springs; it's unbelievable.
They seem to be living normal lives in this world.
The owner of the hot spring resort was a seemingly delicate young girl, but she was actually a terrifying yokai. She was a germaphobe and hated any yokai that polluted the hot spring water. Right in front of me, she turned a yokai who was scrubbing mud in the hot spring into fertilizer, and even asked me if I would use the toilet in the hot spring... How could I possibly do something like that!
This is such a rude question!
[There's also an employee at the hot spring who's a drowned woman. The first time I saw her skeletal remains in the water, it really startled me. But she's also quite mischievous and likes to scare people.]
According to the drowning woman, her job was to supervise whether guests were behaving inappropriately in the hot spring.
She also said that the flying head often comes to the hot spring resort, and when it gets excited while soaking, its head will fly around the entire resort. It once bumped into the Hundred-Eyed Demon and almost had its eyes gouged out.
[However, the Drowning Woman praised me for being quite lucky; none of those great demons came to bathe in the hot springs today, otherwise something terrible might have happened.]
I pressed her to tell me exactly what was wrong, but she refused to talk about it, as if she couldn't bear to mention any names.
【Another day has passed, keep going!】A person's name was written after it, but it was eventually crossed out. It seems that the author of the diary did not want others to know his name, after all, in the world of ghosts, revealing one's name is a very dangerous thing.
Mitarai Ichiro, however, had a bad feeling.
The owner of the diary was very lucky on the day he came to the hot spring town. None of the great yokai came to soak in the hot springs. However, when he registered, the booklet had more than a dozen yokai names written on it, several of which were names of yokai that he was very familiar with!
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