PFC Chapter 356: There is a Fox on the 8th Mountain
Chapter 356: There is a Fox on the 8th Mountain
Yaeyama, late at night.
The full moon hangs in the night sky, pouring down moonlight and the frost looks like white snow.
The Milky Way is vast and dotted with stars.
The breeze blew, causing the leaves in the forest to sway.
The chirping of summer insects echoes in my ears.
The gurgling water adds to the silence.
In addition, there is——
"Wuwuwu... No one will come... It's so late... No matter how you think about it, there's no way anyone would be near the shrine... Wuwuwu."
The sad crying sound of a pink loli girl.
In this state, if no one goes with her, she probably won’t go back. The little witch simply hugged the tree and cried: “Wow… What is going on? Why did I walk so far down the mountain and still return to the shrine…”
At this moment, a pink girl who was about the same height as the loli priestess came in front of her. As soon as they met, she covered her thin lips lightly and pretended to be surprised.
"Are you...the shrine maiden? Hello."
“Wuuuuuuuuuuuuu! I’ve been recognized! You…you don’t tell anyone that I’m lost. It’s so…so embarrassing!” Unexpectedly, the witch Loli suddenly hugged her head and burst into tears, her voice so loud that it almost echoed throughout the mountains and forests.
"If you tell others, my story will definitely be included in the title of [Yae Kaidan], and then it will be left as evidence and laughed at by future generations!"
"Isn't it that I'm afraid of meeting someone in Yaeyama in the middle of the night, but this...?" Rin's mouth twitched slightly.
It was almost as Jiang Ming expected. This petite witch was completely unguarded against outsiders.
"Rin, what happened?"
Jiang Ming and Xia pretended to hear the sound and hurried over.
The shrine maiden was still mumbling: "Although I often mistook the middle of the mountain for the foot of the mountain when I first came to the shrine, I have clearly memorized the mountain roads here... I will definitely not go wrong... If I can't remember the roads here after being an assistant shrine maiden for so long, I will never be able to become a formal shrine maiden..."
As if her own words had hit a sore spot, she sat down on a stone along the road, crossing her legs back and forth, and the sand and soil that rubbed against her made an irritating "squeaking" sound.
If I leave her alone, she might sit there for a whole day.
Jiang Ming and Xia exchanged a glance, and then the latter walked up to the assistant witch and asked softly in a gentle tone: "Miss witch, what is your name? Where are you going?"
The assistant witch was silent for a long time before she answered: "Um... My name is Theresa, I'm going down the mountain to buy - no, I can't tell you why I'm going down the mountain!"
"Theresa? That's a very unique name."
Xia blinked slightly: "I guess Miss Theresa came down the mountain to buy bitter melon juice?"
"Bitter... I want to buy bitter melon juice too... But I can't leave the shrine now... But no matter what, just let me leave here first..."
"This is not the real shrine. To ensure your safety, you cannot go down the mountain now. We can take you back to the real shrine." Jiang Ming said.
But the girl who called herself Theresa showed a hesitant look. "But if I don't go down the mountain now, it might scold me..."
Theresa bit her finger and looked away. It seemed that there were other beings in the shrine that frightened her. After thinking for a while, she sighed again: "Forget it...it will forgive me..."
Theresa muttered something, stood up, dusted herself off, and looked at Jiang Ming and the other two: "Then I'll trouble you..."
"Haha, just follow closely behind us."
Xia walked in front of the three, Theresa followed closely behind her, Jiang Ming and Lin walked behind Theresa's left and right respectively, to ensure that Theresa would not be in any danger.
But along the way, Theresa would look at the pair of slender pink fox ears on Xia's head from time to time, intentionally or unintentionally.
Jiang Ming saw all of this, so he asked, "Miss Miko, do you have any problem with my wife's ears?"
"Ah? You...your wife? No no...no...no, they are a pair of beautiful ears." Theresa was shocked for a moment, then quickly waved her hand to apologize and didn't say anything else along the way.
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After two quarters of an hour, the four of them arrived at the shrine smoothly.
Years of habit and tasks made Xia look around subconsciously. Unlike what she had imagined, this shrine was not dilapidated, and there were even few normal marks left by the years.
However, Jiang Ming and Lin had different feelings about this shrine - it was too familiar.
This is because this shrine is exactly the same as the Yae Shrine in their world. Whether it is the structure, decoration, or the parts of each room, Lin knows it clearly in his mind.
"Huh... I'm finally back... By the way, I haven't asked for the names of your saviors yet."
Theresa breathed a sigh of relief, then looked at Jiang Ming and the other two and bowed to express her gratitude.
"Just call me [Xia]."
"...Ming."
"My name is Rin (ゝw?′★)"
Theresa: "......"
"Xia's outfit...is she really a ninja? These should just be your code names, right?" Theresa suddenly asked.
All three of them remained silent, but silence was the best answer.
Seeing that none of the three of them spoke, Theresa had no choice but to continue: "You don't have to answer me. You must have a mission to accomplish, right...? But you were disturbed by my appearance. I'm really causing you trouble..."
Then he changed the subject, seeming a little happy, but also a little confused: "I originally thought that ninjas were mysterious and scary - assassination, stealth, everything. I didn't expect there were people like you... forming a family of ninjas, acting together as a family, it must be some important mission, right?"
Jiang Ming: "......"
Yae Rin: "Uh..."
Should I say this girl is innocent? She seems to know a lot about ninjas.
Should I say this child is smart? She said this in front of the ninja family in front of her.
Xia thought to herself: "This is necessary in order to carry out the mission." Although she wanted to say this, she chose to remain silent. She planned to leave the negotiation matters to Jiang Ming and Lin.
Seeing that Jiang Ming and the other two were suddenly silent, Theresa realized that she might have said something wrong, so she could only apologize: "Sorry, I said something irrelevant..."
"In order to repay your kindness, shall we rest at Yae Shrine today?"
This was exactly what they wanted, so Jiang Ming quickly nodded in agreement: "Okay, then I'll trouble Miss Miko."
Theresa, however, showed a look of "as expected" when she heard this: "You... are foreigners, right?"
"Oh?"
Seeing that Jiang Ming and the other two really didn't understand, Theresa continued, "The residents here are very secretive about the Yae Shrine and avoid talking about it. Those who have no reaction to the name of the Yae Shrine can only be foreigners."
"......Why?"
After a long silence, Jiang Ming asked the question. He had a feeling that this was a good opportunity to obtain intelligence and make inferences.
Theresa narrowed her eyes: "Because the fox demon back then had an inseparable connection with the Yae Shrine."
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