Otsutsuki Yuta roughly explained the predicament of Nobumoto Riko on the phone, but because the child was still young, his logic was not very clear, and Gojo Satoru and others were confused. In the end, they only heard the most important point.

"Rixiang is sick, but her grandmother won't let her out."

Sick? Refusing to let out?

Gojo Satoru tilted his head: "Is this illegal detention? I say, kid, if it's illegal detention, call the police."

In this regard, the police are much more useful than these shamans.

"I've reported it..." Otsutsuki said dejectedly, "After the police came to see her, they also helped send Rika to the hospital, but the doctor said that Rika was fine, and they went home soon. I want to go see Rika now, but Rika's grandmother doesn't agree."

Gojo Satoru understood one thing from his words: "Oh, it was you who called the police before?"

"……Um."

"What about her grandmother? Her granddaughter is sick. What's the cause of her illness? Doesn't she want to think of a solution?"

Otsukotsuki Yuta replied: "I don't know what happened to Sarikatsu, but I heard from Sarikatsu's grandmother that... Sarikatsu's father and mother were cursed to death by Sarikatsu, so she hates Sarikatsu and hopes that Sarikatsu..."

The little boy bit his lip and hesitated for a long time before uttering those two words: "Go to hell."

“…”

Gojo Satoru groaned. This is such a familiar scene. It seems that since they left the technical high school, the chances of encountering such unreasonable incidents have skyrocketed.

Okkotsu said in despair, "As expected...it still doesn't work?"

Gojo Satoru said calmly, "Address."

The little boy on the other end of the phone was stunned, "Huh?"

"Your home address."

Okkotsu Yuta came to his senses and quickly gave his home address.

Gojo Satoru asked Kagome Toshi to write down the detailed address, and finally told Otsukoku Yuta: "Wait, we will call you when we arrive."

The little boy was immediately overjoyed: "Yes!!!"

After hanging up the phone, Gojo Satoru asked Al, "Al, are you going?"

Al said without hesitation: "Of course."

They had been going on all the recent missions together. Although they were a little lacking in interpersonal skills, they could still handle most situations after discussing it with each other.

Gojo Satoru concluded, "Anyway, there's a little girl who's sick. The hospital can't diagnose the cause. It's probably a cursed spirit, but her grandmother is preventing the little girl from being saved."

Al unfolded his folding fan and said with a smile, "Woohoo, got it. Then go burn her grandmother to ashes."

Xia Yujie: “…”

Is this how you usually "discuss" and solve problems?

Gojo Satoru was stunned. "Ah? Not so good, right? In my opinion, a beating will be enough. Well, burning a person to ashes is illegal in the city."

Xia Yujie: “…”

Thank you for having this great common sense, but burning a person to ashes is against the law, even in the countryside!

Al said, "No, Go-chan, as long as we do it secretly, the police won't be able to find us. Look at the Holy Grail War, who even sniped the enemy lord directly? That was sniping in the city."

Xia Yujie: “…”

But there is someone who is responsible for cleaning up the aftermath of the Holy Grail War. Do you have one? No, wait, this person who is responsible for cleaning up the aftermath can't be him, right? !

Gojo Satoru stroked his chin and thought for a moment, then said readily, "Yes, sure."

Xia Yujie: “…”

Hey, no "yes"! Give me a little more stubbornness!

Al skillfully conjured up two legs for himself and was about to go out with Gojo Satoru when Geto suddenly sat up from the sofa.

"Wait, I'll go too."

He didn't want to see shocking reports like "The Panxing Cult mascot burned a septuagenarian in Sendai."

“…”

Al and Gojo Satoru tilted their heads, then huddled together to whisper.

"What's going on? Hasn't J-chan been staying at home recently?"

"Well, maybe he just wanted to take a break. After all, there are so many messy things going on. It's normal to want to find an excuse to run away."

"Oh, Wu-chan, you can't think so badly of Jie-chan. Maybe he just wants to watch the roasted monkey?"

Xia Yujie: “…”

Xia Yujie said angrily: "Can you guys whisper a little louder? And, Al, you are the one who thinks the darkest of me."

Sendai, where Otsutsuki Yuta and Kimoto Rika live, happens to be Kaguru Gakushi's hometown. Kaguru Gakushi is very familiar with the roads in Sendai, so the three of them went out directly on the Flying Curse Spirit. An hour later, they stopped in front of an ordinary house according to the address provided by Otsutsuki Yuta.

Since hanging up the phone, Okkotsu Yuta has been squatting in front of the steps of his house. He waited and waited until his neck became long. Suddenly, the three people from the Pansei Cult appeared above his head and landed in Okkotsu Yuta's yard.

"!!!"

After not seeing him for a year, Yuta Otsutsuki has grown a lot taller. Although he is only two years older than Nanako and Mimiko, he looks like a big kid.

When he saw the manta ray curse, he hesitated a little, but still stood there waiting for them. It was not until he saw Al and the other two coming down and taking back the manta ray curse that Okkotsu Yuta's eyes lit up.

——He finally saw hope of saving Riko

Gojo Satoru waved at him: "Hey, kid."

Kayuki put his hands in his sleeves and smiled friendly: "Long time no see, Otsutsuki-kun."

Al looked at Yuta Okkotsu thoughtfully, almost putting his face close to Yuta Okkotsu's nose: "Hmm~ I haven't seen you for a year, and I feel like you're very different."

Yuta leaned back subconsciously to avoid his gaze, but was slightly startled when he heard the words, "Who are you?"

Xia Yujie smiled and pointed at the boy in the black and gold hunting clothes: "Al."

Al?

A blond-haired, blue-eyed boy immediately emerged in Okkotsu Yuta's mind. Of course he remembered Al. At that time, he ran out of the dessert shop with Rikka without caring about anything and was almost hit by a car. It was Al who came out to save them.

Yes, and there was also Ieiri Shoko, who treated his wounds. Afterwards, these people took them to eat delicious desserts, told them what a sorcerer was, and exchanged phone numbers.

But... um... Al?

Sensing the doubt in Otsutsuki Yuta's eyes, Gojo Satoru patted Al's head and said something nonsense: "This guy dyed his hair."

Otsutsuki Yuta: “…”

Is hair dyeing so powerful? His whole temperament has changed. No wonder his parents always teach him not to learn bad things (bad things include hair dyeing).

In Okkotsu Yuta's impression, Al was taciturn and lazy, and seemed to be unmotivated, but the man in front of him... was obviously full of energy.

Al circled around Yuta Otsutsuki twice and asked suspiciously, "What's going on? I always feel like I have a crush on this black-haired oriental boy. Strange, is it an illusion?"

Gojo Satoru rolled his eyes: "Really? But I don't see you having any affection for Fushiguro Shiori."

“…”

Al thought hard for a while and muttered to himself, "It's a question of temperament."

With a click, the door behind them suddenly opened, and a young woman in an apron poked her head out and asked warily, "Mrs. You, who are you talking to?"

There were three tall young men in their yard: Al in a black and gold hunting robe, Geto Suguru in a five-strip cassock, and Gojo Satoru in five-strip robes. When the three of them stood in the yard, there was an illusion that they were blocking out the sky and the sun.

Yuta Otsutsuki was stunned for a moment, and was about to stutter out an excuse when his mother showed a shocked expression: "Did I appear in "Paranormal Activity 2"?"

Panxing taught three people: "..."

It's no wonder that "Paradox" is full of ghost stories and yet it has even filmed a second season. Its popularity among the public is really too strong!

Director Ishida is so strong! They underestimated Director Ishida before!

Gojo Satoru said confidently: "Yes, it is us."

Otsutsuki's mother immediately said enthusiastically: "Alai's Godly Episode is really good, it's the best episode of the second season. My husband and I watched it two or three times over and over again! Yesterday, Yuta accidentally saw it..."

Oh no, no wonder Okkotsu Yuta thought of asking them for help, it turns out the hidden hero is here.

She looked at Al, her eyes brightening: "That's the master, right? It was so satisfying when you turned around and spit fire at that house!"

Gojo Satoru and Kagome Ken looked at each other silently.

They understood.

Isn't this what happened? A kind NPC who is willing to help them get to the bottom of the incident! And it's because of Al! Al is really an unparalleled European emperor!

Al was stunned for a moment, not knowing what they were thinking. Then he said sadly, "Actually...fire is a sad thing."

Gojo Satoru: “…”

Xia Yujie: “…”

That's not what you said when you said you wanted to burn people to ashes, you fickle berserker!

"I see. My apology is wrong." Otsutsuki's mother apologized, "I am sorry for what I said, but... why did these masters come to my house?"

Xia Yujie touched Yuta Okkotsu's head.

"It was Yuta-kun who asked us to come here for a child named Kimoto Rika."

Okkotsu's mother was stunned for a moment, then looked at Okkotsu Yuta with a wry smile: "You kid..."

Okkotsu lowered his head and said, "I'm sorry, Mom."

Kagome said, "Although Otsutsu-kun asked us to come here, he doesn't seem to know exactly what happened. Mrs. Otsutsu-kun, if it's convenient, can you tell us what happened to the child, Rika Nobumoto?"

"……All right."

Otsukoshi's mother said helplessly, "That's also a poor child. Come in and talk."

The Pansei Cult trio entered smoothly. Mrs. Otsutsuki served each of them a cup of coffee and sent Yuta back to her room. She sighed and said, "Since her mother passed away, Riko has been living with her father. In just one year, she has become much more depressed. I often tell Yuta to go and play with Riko more often."

She paused and lowered her voice, "But just a month ago, Mr. Qi Ben suddenly took Ri Xiang with him to climb the mountain, and he didn't come back for a week."

She looked a little guilty.

"Because it was a father and daughter going out together, we didn't think much of it, but Yuta was very worried about Riko, saying that Riko had told him before she left... that she didn't want to go out with her father, so Yuta was very anxious that week."

Otsukotsu Yuta is a very sensible child and would never cause trouble to his parents for no reason. But during the week that Riko went missing, Otsukotsu Yuta kept repeating this to the couple and begged them several times to contact Mr. Kimoto to confirm Riko's safety.

But after all, they were someone else's family, and they were not very familiar with Mr. Kimoto, so it was not convenient for them to do such a thing. It was not until Otsutsuki's father was no longer able to worry about him that he called Mr. Kimoto, but no one answered the call.

They were worried about Li Xiang, so they called twice at different times, but found that no one answered each time. A day later, no one answered and the phone was turned off.

The Ok-bone couple became increasingly worried.

The bridge that Qi Ben's parents climbed has often had accidents. Last year, a woman who was climbing the mountain was bitten by a very strong insect and died shortly after being sent to the hospital. The year before last, an elderly climber found a pile of plastic bags on the mountain. When he opened them, he found dismembered bodies inside. There was a lot of uproar.

Gradually, fewer and fewer people went to that mountain.

Besides, it’s not necessary to climb the bridge all the way!

After discussing it, the Okkotsu couple decided to call the police and said that Qiben's parents had not been heard from for a week after climbing the mountain, and they were afraid that something had happened to their neighbors, so they asked the police for help. After the police arrived, they found Qiben Riko in a small wooden cabin deep in the mountains.

The little girl lay quietly in the cabin, without any personality response to anything in the outside world, neither crying nor making a fuss nor talking, while her father was completely missing, leaving behind only a mountaineering bag.

Gojo Satoru asked: "Has her father not been found yet?"

Otsutsuki's mother shook her head. "No, now Rikko lives with her grandmother. They moved to a place a little far away."

However, this "far" could not stop Yuta Otsutsukoshi from visiting her often.

Al was curious, "What happened during the week they climbed the mountain?"

“…”

Okkotsu's mother hesitated for a moment and finally shook her head.

"Her father was missing and she refused to talk about it. So none of us knew what happened, although... there were a lot of speculations among the neighbors, but they were just speculations after all."

Kagome asked, "So, Otsutsuki-kun said that the child was sick, what's going on?"

This disease doesn't sound like it can be diagnosed by hospital equipment. Combined with previous events, it seems more like Rixiang's "heart" is sick.

Otsutsuki's mother said tangledly, "It's hard to say... I think the child has some psychological problems. After all, she just lost her mother a year ago, and now she has lost her father. In addition, her grandmother is not very kind to her. It is reasonable for her to have psychological problems... Well, it is reasonable for her to have psychological problems."

"No!!!" Otsutsukoshi Yuta opened the door and denied: "Rika is not having a psychological problem, she is really sick!"

Otsutsuki's mother asked in surprise, "You're too worried?"

Otsukoshi Yuta, who had been eavesdropping on their conversation in the room, said anxiously, "Rika is really sick!"

"Otsutsuki-kun." Kagome waved at him, "Don't worry, we believe you. But you have to tell us, what is wrong with Rika?"

“…”

The little boy opened his mouth and hesitated for a long time before he said, "Half a month ago, I went to visit Ri Xiang's grandmother, but Ri Xiang told me...that the kitchen was terrible."

Okkotsu Yuta was only a seven-year-old boy. When he heard Riko say this, he was also scared, but he felt that besides Riko, there was only her grandmother in Riko's house. If he didn't go to see her, there would really be no one else who could go.

With such a heavy sense of responsibility, Okkotsu Yuta mustered up the courage to walk into the kitchen, but found that everything was fine except that the kitchen was a little messy.

Just when he breathed a sigh of relief, Qi Ben Li Xiang stood outside the kitchen and said faintly: "Yu Tai, look at the pressure cooker."

Okkotsu Yuta stood on tiptoe, picked up the lid of the pressure cooker, looked inside, and was almost scared to death.

"!!!"

In his panic, he knocked over many bottles and jars.

Because the pressure cooker in the kitchen is full of sparrows!

No, it's strange to say it was a sparrow. To be more precise, it was a cooked sparrow... its feathers and bones. The meat had been eaten by humans, leaving only some residues, and the gnawed bones were also very shocking, as if they had been gnawed by wild beasts.

Okkotsu was shocked: "Rixiang... is this what your grandma eats?"

Noriharu shook her head and whispered to Yuta Otsutsukoshi: "Yuta, I think I ate this."

"!!!"

Otsukio Yuta didn't understand what Riko was talking about, but he still felt a chill running up his back from the soles of his feet. It was a nice day, but he couldn't help shivering.

That day, Otkotsu Yuta said goodbye and left in a hurry, and Rika Inori stood in front of the window, watching him leave in silence.

After returning home, Okkotsu Yuta thought of the sparrow corpse in the pressure cooker, and then thought of Riko standing at the window and watching him go. He was afraid and guilty. He simply got up in the dark, took a flashlight from the drawer at home, and quietly ran to Riko Kimoto's grandmother's house without telling his parents.

This is the most daring thing Yuta Otsukotsuki has ever done.

It is also... the most terrifying thing I have ever experienced.

When Okkotsu Yuta ran to the old residential area, there was no one on the street. He walked towards Riko's residence with a flashlight, but unexpectedly met Riko.

Qi Benlixiang walked out of a small alley barefoot, holding a shivering black cat in her arms.

"Ri Xiang!"

Okkotsu Yuta called her, but Qiben Lixiang seemed not to hear her and walked towards her home with the cat in her arms.

The streets were very quiet at the time and the distance between them was very close, so it was impossible for Rika Inori to not hear it, so Otsutsuki Yuta just took it as a sign that Rika Inori was still angry and hurriedly chased after her.

But Qi Ben Li Xiang never paid any attention to him.

They walked into the house in the dark. Okkotsu Yuta watched Urika walk into the kitchen with envy, put the trembling cat into the pressure cooker, covered the pot with the lid regardless of the kitten's screams, and then turned on the fire.

"!!!"

Otsutsukoshi rushed over in shock, turned off the fire, took off the lid of the pressure cooker, and shouted in disbelief: "Rixiang, what are you doing?!"

The soaked black cat meowed and ran out in terror, knocking the pressure cooker to the ground and spilling water all over the floor.

Rikka, who had been silent all the time, turned her head, looked at Okkotsu Yuta with a very strange look, and started to giggle.

In the darkness, Rika Inori's smile was so strange that it made Yuta Okkotsu's scalp tingle.

Their noise finally attracted the grandmother who was a little hard of hearing. She walked into the kitchen, looked at the messy stove, and immediately started scolding Rikka. Otsukotsuki Yuta wanted to explain, but Rikka walked away indifferently, went back to her room and locked the door.

“…”

Al leaned over to Gojo Satoru and whispered, "Why does it sound like he's possessed?"

Gojo Satoru nodded, his expression unusually serious.

This story of Okkotsu Yuta... is much more creepy than his incoherent narration on the phone.

Otsutsukoshi Yuta said: "After that, I asked Riko, and she said she didn't remember what happened that night. She asked me not to tell anyone... because since she was rescued, the adults around her always looked at her with strange eyes, and always gathered together to talk about her."

This was the first time Ogkotsu's mother heard of this.

She was obviously terrified, and couldn't help but say, "Kid, why didn't you tell your family about this? You are not allowed to go out alone at night. Do you hear me?"

Okkotsu shuddered, "...I know."

But anyone with eyes can see that this kid is a typical fearful and brave boy. He did everything, including leaving home in the middle of the night, calling the police without permission, and contacting the Pansei Cult. As long as things continue to get into trouble with Rikka, Otsukotsu Yuta will continue to be "brave".

Xia Yujie rubbed his brows and asked, "What happened when we called the police to send him to the hospital?"

"Rixiang had a high fever and had nightmares for several days. No medicine worked..."

Otsutsuki's mother knew about this. She added, "When we went to see her, she was... very strange. The sound coming out of her mouth was like a man's voice, repeating over and over..."

She glanced quickly at Yuta Okkotsu, wondering whether to say such things in front of the child.

Gojo Satoru asked, “What did you say?”

"Say 'I'm going to kill you.'"

“…”

The three members of the Panxing Sect looked at each other in bewilderment.

Al narrowed his eyes and said, "Wu-chan, Jie-chan, is this child cursed by a cursed spirit?"

"Very likely."

Otsutsuki's mother sighed, "We asked whether we should send the child to the hospital, but Ri-ka's grandmother said... no, if the child died of the disease, she would deserve it."

Al raised an eyebrow.

Xia Yujie asked: "Can I ask why the guardian dislikes Rika so much? They should be the last relatives in the world, right?"

Since they are the last relatives who can depend on each other, shouldn’t we cherish each other and support each other to get through the difficulties?

Otsutsuki's mother smiled bitterly and said, "A year ago, Rixiang's mother died, and a month ago, Rixiang's father also died. Her grandmother asked someone to tell her fortune, and the fortuneteller said that Rixiang had killed her son and daughter-in-law."

“…”

High, blood pressure starts to rise again.

These stupid, damned monkeys scattered everywhere -

"I see." Gojo Satoru stood up and brushed off the non-existent dust on his body. "I understand the whole story. Let's go, Yuta, lead the way to Rikari."

Otsukoshi Yuta was stunned for a moment, then said happily: "Yes!"

A'er said sympathetically: "Use my great fire to burn away this stupid feudal superstition."

Xia Yujie: “…”

No, wait, their Panxing Cult is a kind organization that helps the masses, not an evil organization that breaks into houses with violence.

Xia Yujie took a deep breath and said calmly: "... Let's talk about the reason first. Do you understand?"