“…”

Raindrops kept falling from the gray sky.

Al, Gojo Satoru, and Geto Suguru stood together under the eaves, looking up at the sky.

People coming and going are all wearing simple kimonos and hurrying around holding oil-paper umbrellas. Everywhere you look, you can see old Japanese-style buildings.

Al: “Mistake.”

Gojo Satoru: “It was a bad idea.”

Xia Yujie: "It was a bad idea."

This is Japan at least several hundred years ago.

Al asked expressionlessly, "What should we do? Miss Renshi told us not to attract too much attention, but with our modern clothes, we can't be low-key, right?"

Gojo Satoru curled his lips and said, "Then don't teleport us to a place full of people."

Xia Yujie touched his conscience and said, "This is something that cannot be controlled. After all, where we end up depends on what Al senses. It is not the fault of the Government of Time."

Al asked, "Jack, why are you not wearing the five-piece robe today?"

“…Yeah, I was thinking about that, too.”

Xia Yujie sighed:

"Wearing five robes shouldn't be more eye-catching than wearing just a T-shirt. Wait, there seems to be a spare set of robes in Ugly's belly, but only one set is useless..."

"Do you have an umbrella?"

"Yes, there's one with Pikachu printed on it."

“…”

The three modern people were silent. If it wasn't for the heavy rain, and everyone was walking with umbrellas and heads down, their appearance would definitely attract the attention of passers-by.

Gojo Satoru sighed, "So, what about the Tracing Army?"

Al and Summer Oil Jie shook their heads in unison.

"have no idea."

The current situation is that they have been transported to Japan hundreds of years ago. The exact time and location are unknown. There is no tracing army, only ordinary people coming and going in the rain, and Japanese-style buildings that can only be seen in TV dramas.

Al complained: "If this was a TV series, the costumes and makeup would have to be perfect. It's so realistic."

Gojo Satoru and Geto nodded in agreement.

After living in modern society for more than a decade, they suddenly came to Japan hundreds of years ago. Their feelings at that time were much more complicated than they thought.

Geto Summer Oil: "...The ability to go back in time? No wonder the Time Government has declined to its current state, but it still makes the Jujutsu Association feel jealous."

Gojo Satoru: "Yeah, if they get angry, they will travel through time and come back hundreds of years ago, and set a trap so that people can't be born, and the whole person will be completely wiped out."

That sounds horrible.

Aldao: "The Spellcaster Association must be in agreement with the Government of Time's advocacy of protecting history."

"Hahahaha, that's right!"

"Great! I've traveled through time!"

"What's the most delicious thing these days? If you don't eat something, it's really a waste of your trip."

Xia Yujie complained about them: "You two, one with white hair and one with blonde hair, will definitely be mistaken for monsters if you go out, let alone eat in a restaurant."

Gojo Satoru was unconvinced and said, "Huh? You are a fake monk with long hair and earrings, what qualifications do you have to comment on other people's appearance?"

"Huh? Is this what you call gossiping? Besides, it's normal for men to have long hair in this era!"

"How can that be normal? To be normal, you have to shave your hair like that—"

Al kindly reminded him: "Hair style."

"Yes, the topknot!"

"Monks don't shave their heads!"

"Hahahaha, I'm dying of laughter. Jie, look at the way you're dressed. How do you look like a monk?"

“Tsk——”

Their voices grew louder and louder, so Al had to make a gesture to silence them.

When they looked up, they saw several passers-by looking in their direction. The three of them turned around and ran into the nearest alley.

"This won't work." Xia Youjie said, "We were teleported here because there must be something wrong here, but now this outfit is too eye-catching, and we can't take any action at all."

Gojo Satoru suggested, "If it doesn't work, just give me your five-piece cassock, and then you call out the "Incarnation of Tamamonomae" and we'll strip off its kimono."

Xia Yujie said quietly, "Be a human being. That's a lady's kimono."

Al thought about it and said, "As for clothes and money, I can think of a way."

"!"

Gojo Satoru and Summer Oil Jay looked at him at once, and Al nodded confidently, saying, "Well, leave it to me."

Gojo Satoru was very touched. He gave a thumbs up and said with emotion: "The guy who looks the most useless often has the strongest ability to take care of himself. It's true that you can't judge a person by his appearance."

It was the same this time, and also the last time when I gave false testimony as "Saito Ichi-San".

Al: “…”

Hmm, is this really a compliment to him?

Xia Yujie laughed and avenged his own heroic spirit: "That's not necessarily true. Some people are quite consistent in their appearance and inner thoughts."

Gojo Satoru: “…”

He narrowed his eyes, wondering how likely it was that these "some people" were referring to him. Al chuckled, waved at them, and left the two owners with an extremely invincible and cool back.

The rain was getting heavier and heavier, with no sign of stopping. Xia Yujie took out his ugly treasure in the alley, threw the umbrella to Gojo Satoru, and put on the spare cassock.

Gojo Satoru has no moral limit. In fact, he doesn't really need to fly an umbrella. He played with the thin and long umbrella handle and said in surprise: "Why does your umbrella have Pikachu ears..."

"Of course it was Al who bought it, because the kids were fighting to play with the umbrella, and in accordance with the principle of fairness, the umbrella disappeared forever in front of the kids."

Gojo Satoru: “…”

No one gets anything. Is there any fairer arrangement than this?

The answer is no.

About 20 minutes later, Al, wearing a black and gold hunting robe and long light green hair, came back. He was holding a kimono and three exquisite oil-paper umbrellas. Upon closer inspection, he also held a money bag.

This young man is none other than Al in the persona of Kiyohime.

He threw a men's kimono with a black koi print to Gojo Satoru and said, "Here, Go-chan, this is the only one that fits your height. I went to many stores to buy it."

Gojo Satoru's height can be considered ridiculously tall even in modern Japan, let alone in this era.

“…”

Xia Yujie looked at the black and gold hunting robe on him, then at the five-striped cassock on himself, and understood.

——My goodness, some heroes actually cut off their personalities just to save a piece of clothing!

Gojo Satoru put on the kimono without saying anything. Xia Yujie asked Al: "How did you get the money?"

Al said sadly in the strange tone of "Kiyohime": "Well, I smelled the scent of betrayal by my beloved. I followed the scent and found a poor rich woman."

Having money is the key point here.

He covered his face and said, "The man got his maid pregnant just a few years after getting married. The maid ran away with the child. His wife was furious, but she couldn't do anything about her husband. So we made a deal: I burned her wicked husband and she would give me money."

Xia Yujie: “…”

Isn't this a cult?!

Xia Yujie twitched his lips: "Where is her husband?"

Al said innocently, "I don't know. The house was already on fire when I left. If he really got burned to death by accident, I, I, ha, ha ha ha ha ha ha..."

Xia Yujie: “…”

Xia Yujie: "You are just hoping that people will be burned to death!"

"Oh, Jerry, how can you hurt me with such a thing! A man who is full of sweet words and can only deceive women deserves to be burned to death! Oh, but, a fire, a fire is a very sad thing! What did I do——"

Xia Yujie: “…”

Ah, here she is, this neurotic personality, "Kiyohime", who is second only to "Minamoto no Raikou" in terms of difficulty. Although she can communicate with you, her personality is extremely tiring.

"Didn't I tell you not to do anything that would attract attention?"

"How could that be?"

Al said quietly, "It's just a scumbag who was burned. Don't worry, a man who only cares about how to deceive women will definitely not be of any help in advancing history."

The people in the Time Government would definitely have their blood pressure soar after hearing this...

Summer Oil sighed.

Gojo Satoru put on his clothes, held up an oil-paper umbrella with a crane pattern on it, picked up the crazy Al, and said to Kagome Jie, "Let's go, Jie."

Xia Yujie also opened his oil-paper umbrella.

Al has good taste in umbrellas.

They walked back to the roof where they had landed.

This is an inn, which is an ancient hotel. In this era, a hotel of this size should be considered quite large.

The time-space converter must have sent them here for a reason.

The Panxing Cult trio straightened their backs now that they had money. As soon as they opened the door, a dark-skinned waiter came up to them and asked warmly, "Do you three need to stay overnight?"

Gojo Satoru placed the bag of money in front of him. "Yes, three people. Stay for one night."

The waiter looked at the obviously expensive clothes on them, and then at the wallets with intricate patterns, and said with regret, "What a pity, we only have two rooms left here. As you can see, it's raining heavily today, so there are quite a lot of guests staying here. But one of the rooms is quite big, more than enough for five or six people!"

Gojo Satoru said in a very polite manner, "Then let's take that one."

"Okay!"

An elderly woman came over, and the waiter asked quickly, "Madam boss, why are you down here?"

"We've been sitting here for a long time, so I want to get off and take a walk." The proprietress said with a friendly face, "If you three guests need dinner, we can provide it here."

Gojo Satoru said with anticipation, "Then we'll talk about it later."

He was looking forward to the food from hundreds of years ago, but unfortunately they had just finished breakfast two hours ago, so it was too soon to have dinner now.

If the current Al was the one with blond hair and blue eyes, they might have ordered food on the spot. Unfortunately, Al in "Kiyohime" mode is not greedy at all, and the blond and blue-eyed personality who loves to eat the most is temporarily offline.

The blond-haired and blue-eyed Al has the longest standby time and eats the most, which is euphemistically called "recharging power". Combined with Artoria's performance in "FZ", this "recharging power" refers to replenishing magic power. Al's various personalities have their own characteristics and skills, but it seems that only the blond-haired and blue-eyed Al can replenish magic power.

As for this "Kiyohime", her specialties are breathing fire and transforming into snakes, she hibernates in the winter, and hates lies. Of course, she also has the inherent skill of "reflexion", which is possessed by all Heroic Spirits.

The proprietress led them upstairs. The stairs of this inn were much higher than those of ordinary hotels. There were many figures behind the shoji doors, and the sounds of men and women laughing could be heard.

“…”

This layout, this corridor, doesn't look like the layout of an ordinary hotel. Even if it was an ancient inn, there was no need to design it in such a fancy way.

The proprietress turned around and glanced at Xia Yujie, and said jokingly: "This place is actually not very suitable for monks to live in, but please rest assured, Master, the room at the top is still quite clean."

Xia Yujie smiled thoughtfully and did not answer.

"Do you think this place looks like the teahouse in TV dramas?"

"picture."

"Yeah, it really looks like that."

To put it bluntly, a water teahouse is a brothel.

Chuckling…

Cluck, cluck, cluck——

I could hear the laughter of children. The higher I went, the louder the laughter became, and at the same time, it was accompanied by a strong sense of resentment.

Al unfolded his folding fan and smiled maliciously: "Oh, it seems we are in the right place."

There is indeed something wrong with this inn. Although there is no clue about the tracing army and Toyama Nishizawa yet, finding a cursed spirit is still a gratifying discovery.

——As long as there is something abnormal, it’s fine! The most frightening thing is that there is absolutely no abnormality!

Finally, the proprietress led them to an ordinary shoji door.

“That’s it.”

Al asked knowingly, "Hey, didn't they say our room is at the top? This isn't even the top."

He glanced up at the wooden ceiling meaningfully.

There's another floor above them.

The proprietress's smile froze, and she waved her hands and said, "Haha, that's not a room prepared for guests. It's just a storage room for some sundries. No one can live there."

"Is that so?" Al said with a fake smile, "Yeah, I understand."

The elderly landlady bowed to them and was about to leave when Al asked again, "Madam, how long has this inn been built?"

The proprietress paused and said, "Here? This is an old house from many years ago."

She hesitated for a moment and said vaguely, "If it's just a hostel, it's been open for about ten years."

"Then..." Al's golden eyes flashed with a gleam: "Before it became an inn, what was this place?"

"Hahahaha." The proprietress pretended to be confused and said, "Yes, it is somewhere. I am too old and can't remember it clearly."

She fled downstairs, leaving only the three of them standing in the corridor. After returning to the first floor, the dark-skinned waiter asked, "Madam boss, what are those three guests doing?"

The lady boss said, "One is a monk, and the other two are either Yin-Yang masters, mediums, or sorcerers... who knows? Don't tell them anything when they ask you."

The clerk hesitated and said, "Should we let them see the room on the top floor? After all, it used to be... a place like that. It's scary."

The proprietress glared at him.

"It's not easy for us to become an inn. Don't mention those hurtful things in the past! The guests think it's unlucky!"

"yes!"

Gojo Satoru pulled open the shoji door and saw a Japanese-style room covered with tatami mats. He sniffed lightly and said in disgust, "Tsk, a lingering scent of powder."

"What kind of nose do you have..."

Xia Yujie walked to the window and opened it casually. The faint sound of rain suddenly became louder and the smell of rain poured in. Gojo Satoru's expression was no longer so disgusted.

Powerful rain washed the stone road below. In the distance there was an arch bridge. Several teenagers were playing on the bridge. One of them slipped and almost fell off the bridge. Fortunately, he was pulled up by his companions.

It feels like I'm filming a costume drama...

"Let's not act rashly for now." Al said softly, "I'll go up and take a look. Wu-chan, Jie-chan, you guys wait here for my news."

Xia Youjie nodded: "Okay, I'll leave it to you."

Arla climbed up the shoji door, turned into a spirit on the spot, and flew straight up to the second floor.

The higher you go, the lower the temperature becomes, and the laughter of children surrounds you, like a magical sound.

He floated noiselessly into the room on the top floor.

The room was locked and indeed not for guests, but after drifting in, Al found that the room was frighteningly empty. It was large, but cold and empty, with several compartments with closed doors.

It looked a bit damp, and indeed no one had lived there for a long time. However, it was not used as a storage room as the landlady said.

The strangest thing was that when he entered the room, the children's laughter stopped.

"Moshi Moshi, this is the most gentle and considerate Al-chan in the world~ Wu-chan, Jie-chan, can you hear me?"

In the team channel, Xia Yujie complained to him: "Don't give yourself so many weird prefixes."

Al was hurt and said, "Am I not gentle and kind?!"

Kagome Suga's Painful Mask: "...Let's forget about the words 'Kenhui'."

Gojo Satoru suddenly had an idea: "Glass! Glass! Moshi Moshi! Calling Glass!"

There was silence in the team channel.

Summer Oil Jie also said: "Nose, are you there?"

Al also shouted, "Nitro~sauce~!"

However, the team channel was silent.

"Hmm, it seems like Nishiko-chan can't hear us."

"Well, after all, it's been hundreds of years..."

After they tested whether the Heroic Spirit chat room could connect to Glass hundreds of years later, they slowly returned to the original topic.

Gojo Satoru asked, "Al, did you find anything?"

"Woohoo, I'm not sure, but I seem to have entered the realm of cursed spirits."

Xia Yujie's eyes lit up, "Is it special grade?"

"Hmm - no, it doesn't feel that dangerous. If I were to judge, it would probably be level one."

After dealing with cursed spirits for so long, he has some experience.

"This is a big room, more than three times the size of our room, but it's very simply furnished and definitely not a storage room. As soon as I entered here, I couldn't hear the children's laughter anymore. How about you guys?"

"You can still hear it." Xia Yujie said expectantly, "It seems that you have indeed entered a special space."

Al wandered around the doors of several rooms and found a room filled with tumblers, which should be the source of the resentment. Finally, he followed his intuition and entered one of the rooms.

"ah--!!!"

As soon as he came in, he heard a woman's miserable scream.

In the middle of the room, there was a beautiful young girl lying. She looked to be about sixteen or seventeen years old, but she had a big belly and was obviously pregnant.

The proprietress of the inn - who looked much younger than she is now - rolled up her sleeves and pounded the woman's belly hard.

"I'm doing this for your own good!"

“Ah—no, it hurts, it hurts!”

"Women in brothels will not have a good ending if they give birth to children. Giving birth to a child is not just a matter of feeding it and raising it. It can kill you."

"No, Madam, Madam, please let me give birth to him!"

"No, it's too much trouble! How are you going to make money while carrying a child? Even if you give birth to a child, how are you going to raise him? You two are not destined to be together in this life, so you should just let him reincarnate as soon as possible!"

The proprietress clasped her fingers together and punched the woman hard. The woman fainted on the spot due to the pain.

In this room, the scene of the boss lady performing abortions on women is played repeatedly. Prostitutes in their teens and twenties work here. Once they become pregnant, it will not be discovered until their bellies get bigger. Then they are dragged to this room as per custom and forced to have an abortion by beating their abdomens.

The chopped-off children would be handed over to the dark-skinned associate, who would burn them into ashes himself. The ashes would then be put into the body of a tumbler and hidden in a cabinet in this room. Over time, the cabinet was filled with tumblers.

With a ticking sound, a drop of water fell from the ceiling. Al looked down and saw that a lot of water had accumulated on the floor.

He instinctively felt something was wrong.

Soon, the diligent Berserker simultaneously broadcast what he saw and heard here to Gojo Satoru and Kagome Kei.

"..."

After a while, Xia Yujie said, "They really dared to do it. The ashes of the burned fetuses were all piled up at the abortion scene. They have been there for at least ten years. The resentment and obsession of the fetuses who could not be born are enough to become powerful cursed spirits."

Gojo Satoru thought for a moment and warned, "Al, don't touch the water upstairs. It's probably the amniotic fluid that accompanies the birth of the cursed spirits. If you touch it, you will be cursed. If I'm not mistaken, the cursed spirit upstairs is most likely "Zashiki-warashi", a cursed spirit that goes around looking for its mother. It disappeared long ago in our time, but the Gojo family has records of Zashiki-warashi."

Is this what the Zashiki-warashi in Japanese stories looks like in the cursed spirit?

Perhaps this is the "Incarnation of Zashiki-warashi" similar to the "Incarnation of Tamamonomae" and the "Incarnation of Kaguya-hime"?

Al said: "...Understood."

They were silent for a while, and then Kagome said, "Let's get down first. There are no clues about Toyama Rishike yet. Let's not rush to exorcise the cursed spirit. Be cautious..."

Suddenly, a woman's hysterical roar was heard downstairs.

The three of them paused.

"Let's go down and take a look."

…

"I told you there's no room left!"

"If there's no room, I can sleep on the floor! If you kick me out, tomorrow morning, the body of me and the baby in my belly will be lying at the door of your dormitory. Is that okay?!"

"Stop threatening us here!"

"It's not a threat, it's a fact!"

A soaking wet woman with a big belly stood stubbornly in front of the door and refused to leave.

"Someone is hunting me! I can't let my child die!"

The proprietress looked gloomy and was about to think about what to do when Xia Yujie spoke up, "Someone is chasing you? Why?"

The woman was stunned. She looked up and saw a monk with long hair standing on the steps. Next to him was a young man with short white hair and a slightly strange dress.

Behind the monk, a young man in black and gold hunting clothes and long light green hair was looking at her quietly over the monk's shoulder. His expression was inexplicably a bit like a snake.

"...I am a maid in a wealthy family."

Perhaps sensing that there was no hostility in their attitude, the woman said, "I... was pregnant with the young master's child. When he found out about this, he was afraid of angering the young mistress, so he got furious and asked me to abort the child. When I refused... he sent assassins to hunt me down."

When he was pursuing her, he said endless sweet words to her and even swore to heaven that he would marry her as his concubine. However, all the tenderness came to an abrupt end when he learned that she was pregnant.

That man had no intention of marrying her from the beginning.

But she wanted this baby.

This is her only blood relative, a gift from God.

Gojo Satoru and Geto Summer Oil were silent for a while, then turned around and looked at Al at the same time.

Al: “…”

What a coincidence! I just burned a scumbag who cheated on my maid an hour ago.

Al said quietly, "Jack, tell me, should that man be burned?"

Xia Yujie sighed and agreed, "...It's what he deserves."

Al walked past him and came to the woman, and suddenly asked, "What's your name?"

The woman replied: "Shino."

"What's your last name?"

"My late father's last name was Toyama."

Gojo Satoru & Kayuki Kagome: "..."

Emperor Al, you are worthy of it!