Chapter 12 Chapter 12 Trip to Yokohama
"Damn it, where is Kirimeng School? It's clearly in this direction on the map..." Goto Rika looked around with the map in her hand, scratching her head.
Saionji Tamon patted her shoulder and said, "Goto-san."
"What are you doing?" Goto Rika turned back impatiently. "Didn't I ask you to ask for directions? Did you get any results?"
Yuyin smiled and said, "I asked how to get to Tongmeng Middle School, and passersby said we were going the wrong way."
Goto Rika was surprised: "What?!"
"Actually, the last passerby heard it wrong and was pointing in the direction of Tongyin University. Tongmeng Middle School is actually here." Yuyin pointed her finger at the other side of the map, which was obviously not close to them.
"Damn it!" Goto Rika glanced at her watch. "There are less than thirty minutes left until the group draw begins..."
"We're still in time," Yuyin said as she pulled Goto to the train stop. "If we take this train quickly, we'll be there in fifteen minutes."
Goto Rika looked at the bus stop sign on the map for a long time and had to admit that Saionji Tamon was right. She couldn't help but wonder, "How do you know so much about Yokohama's transportation routes?"
Yuyin smiled and said, "I used to come to Yokohama Chinatown often to eat and drink, and I even studied the route."
Just kidding, after Kyoto and Tokyo, Yokohama is the third city where she has lived the longest. If she wasn't unfamiliar with Tongmeng School in another world, she would have found the right place without asking anyone.
Just then the train arrived, and Rika Goto didn't suspect anything and hurriedly pulled her onto the train.
After returning home from training yesterday, it was already dark, so Yuyin could only postpone the visit to the Chang family until the next day.
As the junior sister of Deba Jingji, Yuyin naturally knew the location of the Deba family. She chose to confirm the location of the Deba family first because compared with other worlds, her relationship with her senior brother was closer. Although her senior brother was black-bellied and didn't know how to speak well, unlike working for government agencies or associations in other worlds, her relationship with the Deba family was not a simple employment relationship.
Looking at her own reflection on the window glass, as the train swayed forward, Saionji Tamon suddenly recalled what happened back then.
Traveling through time and becoming an orphan was not a rare thing for her, as she had experienced it three times.
But like this time, facing the tragic scene of blood and flesh at the beginning was still a bit shocking to Saionji Gyoon.
After looking around the blood-splattered room, she was about to sit up when the middle-aged woman's soft body slid off her. She subconsciously wanted to hold her up, but felt a warm hand.
I raised my hand and saw that my palm was bleeding.
The fatal wound was on the middle-aged woman's back. With the depth and amount of bleeding, she was beyond saving. Yuyin still tried to feel her pulse at the neck before reaching out and sighing, closing her eyes that still revealed panic and worry.
"It seems I'm still late."
Hearing this, Yuyin looked up and saw a handsome young man slightly older than her standing by the door with an unstable breath, obviously he had just arrived.
This was the first time Saionji Gyoon met Deba Shizuji, at the scene where her parents in this life were murdered.
Afterwards, Yuyin learned that Dechang Jingsi came here following the evil spirit, and that she and he had some relationship with their ancestors.
Her mother, the woman who died defending her from a monster attack, was from a distant branch of the Chang family. This branch had lost all spiritual power two generations ago, thus detaching itself from the Chang family and the monster-hunting world. To prevent monster retaliation, the Chang family secretly cared for these disaffected branches. However, as time passed, even the monsters knew little about her mother's Chang family bloodline. Until she awakened her spiritual power, attracting monsters to seek revenge. Ultimately, protecting her, both her parents were killed by the monsters. This sparked a surge of spiritual power in her, destroying the attacking monsters.
Because of this relationship, it was natural for Yuyin, who had awakened her spiritual power, to return to the Chang family, and Chang Jingsi, a young man who was only one or two years older than her at the time, naturally became her senior brother.
The days at the Tokuba family were the first time that Yuyin learned how to use spiritual power and how to deal with monsters. Even though she was the heiress to the shrine who would inherit the shrine, it could not change the fact that in her original world, she had only received etiquette training such as archery and Kagura dance. In the Blue Clan and the Special Ability Department, she practiced a mess of supernatural powers. In the world of cursed spirits, things were even more bizarre. It was the first time she knew that there were separate categories of cursed spirits, and the techniques she learned in the Jujutsu High School were also different from the ones she learned now.
She was already good at archery, and after learning various spells and how to use spiritual power to attach, she quickly became the second best master of the famous demon-killing family, the Chang family.
The reason why she is second is because the title of first belongs to her senior brother, Chang Jingsi, the head of the Chang family.
Yuyin is not a complete monster killer, but it must be said that she came from the world of cursed spirits and witnessed many monsters doing evil with her own eyes. Her attitude towards monsters is not really friendly, until she met the young man, Natsume Takashi.
"Let's go! Time to get off!"
Rika Goto's reminder interrupted her memories. Yuyin came back to her senses and responded, and they hurriedly got off the car together.
"Great, I didn't find the wrong one this time!" Goto said happily.
Looking at the plaque of Tongmeng Middle School, Yuyin sighed silently. Things like drawing lots were originally the responsibility of the captain and vice-captain. If it weren't for something urgent happening at Xingzi's family, it wouldn't have fallen on her.
Forget it, I can still come to Yokohama to observe the extent of the world's integration, Yuyin silently comforted herself.
The draw was held in the auditorium of Tongmeng Middle School. The champion of the previous Kanto Conference, Tongmeng, was number one, and the runner-up, Hyotei, was number two. However, as seeded teams, the two were directly divided into two opposing groups and would only meet in the final.
"Okay, there will definitely not be a bye..."
Before the draw, Yuyin heard Goto cheering herself up, hoping not to get a bye, because the total number of teams qualifying from all regions of the Kanto Conference is an odd number, and one school will definitely have a bye in the first round. For weak schools, of course they would like to meet a strong opponent as late as possible, but for a passionate girl like Goto, she can't wait to meet the defending champion Kirimeng in the first game and send them back home directly.
Unfortunately, she immediately heard the organizer announce, "Number 2 Ice Emperor, a bye."
Goto Rika walked off the stage dejectedly. Yuyin patted her shoulder comfortingly: "Look at the bright side, at least we can watch Kirimeng's game in person, right?"
Goto quickly recovered, clenched his fists, and said with great determination: "Alright! Let's see how much the defending champion has left!"
Athletic girls are so easy to please.
Yuyin held her chin up and thought about it. She turned a blind eye to the commotion they caused, especially the angry glares from the members of the girls' archery club of Kirimeng Middle School (after all, they were the host country and there were more players present).
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"The terrain has changed so much... Can't the people living here feel it at all?"
Tamane bit into a crepe and strolled through the streets of Yokohama, actually observing Yokohama.
After the lottery, she said goodbye to Goto on the pretext of going to Chinatown.
Obviously, the current Yokohama has changed a lot compared to what she saw last time in this world. A lot of land and buildings have been added. Coincidentally, these lands and buildings belong to the dark underground forces that she was familiar with during her years in the Special Ability Department.
Of course, the largest share of them is the famous port Mafia.
In that life, when she was in school, all the citizens of Yokohama were trembling in fear of the bloody rule of the leader of the Port Mafia. It was completely unimaginable for her to happily eat snacks on the roadside like she was doing now, because you had no idea where a group of people would appear from next moment and shoot at each other with submachine guns, or which building would suddenly disappear with a BOOM, or you would be inexplicably hit by the skills of the psychics in a fierce battle.
As she walked step by step towards the Leibo Street in her memory, the surrounding buildings became visibly more dilapidated. Finally, when she took the last bite of the crepe and walked to a high platform, the whole panorama of the slums came into view under the railing.
"Ah, so it is..."
Yuyin clapped her hands, crumpled the tissue paper containing the crepe into a ball, and threw it into the classified trash can, muttering.
"Should I go get a cab right now and see if the Kagudu Crater is still in the same spot?"
However, before she turned around and took three steps, she was surrounded by three or four hunched men.
The leading man, holding a dagger, approached fiercely and said, "Hand over your wallet and valuables!"
Yuyin brushed her bangs helplessly. "Ah, ah, the security situation in Yokohama today is just as bad as ever..."
*
"...Do you remember that you were going to the slums today to ask for clues to the case? I wasted so much time trying to get you down from the telephone pole safely. It completely messed up my plans!"
Kunikida Doppo scolded his partner angrily while frantically revising the schedule in his notes. The person he was scolding, Dazai Osamu, just waved his hand leisurely and said "Hi, hi!", showing no sign of remorse at all.
"Dazai, are you even listening?! Don't try this again next time. I don't want to challenge high-voltage wires again..."
"Shh!" Dazai Osamu suddenly reached out to stop him, "Look ahead."
Kunikida, who was still chattering, was startled when he saw several people in front of them who were obviously thugs, surrounding someone.
"Oh no!" Kunikida, filled with righteousness, immediately put Dazai down and rushed forward, shouting, "Hey! You guys..."
However, before he could finish his words, the group of hooligans had all fallen to the ground, groaning. The girl who was obviously the target of the robbery was holding the dagger in her hand, stepping on the back of the man who had just threatened her, and then casually threw the dagger to the ground, which went straight into the man's cheek.
"Uh, are JKs so powerful nowadays?" Kunikida was stunned.
*
When she heard that sentence, which she wasn't sure whether it could be considered a compliment, Saionji Tamon subconsciously wanted to retort, "Uncle, I can't be considered a JK yet."* However, when her eyes fell behind the person who had obviously come to help, she stopped the words that were about to come out of her mouth.
Osamu Dazai.
How did that super famous, youngest Port Mafia cadre, and friend of her workaholic boss Ango Sakaguchi during his undercover period, appear here?
Her thoughts raced, and the words she spoke became: "Uncle, it's because it's too dangerous outside these days that girls need to learn some self-defense skills." As she said that, she stepped hard on the man before retracting her foot.
The villain screamed, but Kunikida was completely oblivious. "Uncle? Do I look that old…"
This was the first time that the always energetic and idealistic young man was addressed like that by a young girl, and he felt quite shocked.
"Since you are here, please help me deal with these people. You can call the police or just let them go. I want to go back." Saionji Tamane shrugged and prepared to run away.
However, her escape was just beginning when she was stopped midway. What greeted her was Dazai Osamu's smiling face, "Beautiful lady, have we met before?"
"Hey, Dazai, no matter how much you try, you can't be so rude to a female student you just met..."
Upon hearing the familiar opening words, Kunikida thought that Dazai Osamu had suffered from his old illness again and immediately recovered from his lost state.
Dazai Osamu smiled slightly, turned around and waved at Kunikida: "But I really think she looks familiar~" Then he turned back to the girl, "Or~ Miss, do you have any sisters who look similar?"
"I'm sure, sir, we haven't met before," the girl calmly pushed her glasses up in the face of Dazai Osamu's attack of beauty, "and it's wrong to look for a substitute. I suggest you go and confess to the real person."
Dazai Osamu turned into a beady-eyed man: "Huh?"
*
After the girl had left for a long time, Kunikida finished calling the police and continued to lecture Dazai: "It's okay for you to ask someone to commit suicide for love, but you can't ask a female student who is still in school. She is still young and in the prime of her youth..."
Dazai Osamu squatted in front of the dagger stuck in the ground, and suddenly looked up and asked, "Kunikida-kun, it's impossible for sisters to have the same fingerprints, even if they are twins?"
"Yeah," Kunikida answered smoothly, then froze, "Why are you asking that all of a sudden?"
Dazai Osamu wrapped a handkerchief around the handle and pulled out the dagger.
"Nothing, just want to verify a guess..."
The author has something to say:
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It's so funny, but Dazai doesn't have the fingerprints of that "Saionji Gyoon".
Ding ding ding ding~ Unexpectedly, the first person to suspect the heroine's vest was Dazai~ The information he remembered as a Mafia cadre and his extraordinary memory are the reason why Dazai remembered the heroine, not because she was an acquaintance
Note: JK means female high school student, but the heroine is only in the third grade of junior high school.
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