My tenants are monsters

"There's nothing to be embarrassed about, because during this period of time, Xiao Lin has taken care of me at school and outside the school, and has helped me a few times. As her elder, you should accept a piece of gratitude from me. There is something in it It’s just a set of care products, not some expensive brand, so you don’t have to have any psychological burden.”

"OK then."

Kawasaki Ryomi looked at Shiraishi Rin, then thanked Nogi Maki and the two, and took the things over.

The air was quiet for a few seconds, Kawasaki Ryumi seemed to remember something, and asked a few more questions about Shiraishi's apartment:

"By the way, Xiao Lin, what happened in the apartment you mentioned before the Chinese New Year, how are you dealing with it now?"

"Oh, you said that the wall that cracked a few days ago has been repaired."

Shiraishi Rin smiled: "It's actually just a small problem. After all, uncle's apartment has been built for decades, and it's normal to repair it occasionally. The operation of the apartment is pretty good now. The tenants inside are very friendly and often help each other out. When repairing the walls a few days ago, one tenant helped a lot..."

"Yes, that's fine."

Kawasaki Ryumi didn't know what happened in the apartment, so she believed it to be true and showed a gentle smile.

On the contrary, Nogi Maki and Sachiko looked at each other with a guilty conscience.

From the summer vacation in August to the present, in just four months, a private detective died in Baishi's apartment, a centipede escaped, and a new zombie who was at least [-] years old moved in. The remaining tenants Most of them are not human... Even in the world of ghosts and demons, such "friendly and harmonious" apartments are really rare.

That is Shiraishi Rin, if another ordinary person is the landlord of this apartment, even if he is not scared to death at this moment, he should consider selling the apartment and running away...

When it was almost noon, Mr. Kawasaki came back.

During the period of temporary residence before, this one really didn't like seeing Rin Shiraishi as a cousin. After all, the relationship between the two parties was a bit far away. It is a complete stranger, and it is normal for ordinary people to feel rejection out of fear of trouble.

But at least they are all adults. Even if they have opinions in their hearts, they can still maintain basic etiquette on the surface.In addition, Shiraishi Rin is now financially independent, not the little girl who lived under the fence half a year ago, so the two sides exchanged a few polite words of "closeness".

Afterwards, Kawasaki Ryumi began to prepare meals for noon.

To be exact, most of the meals were ready in the morning, because Kawasaki Ryumi knew that Rin Shiraishi was coming.

So at this time, I simply tidied up and brought them up one by one.

Shiraishi Rin and Nogi Maki also went to help.

Tempura, sushi, grilled meat, salmon sashimi, and sukiyaki—this thing can probably be regarded as the "hot pot" of Japan. Overall, the meals are quite hearty.

It would be better if Ken Kawasaki was less noisy, or if he didn't get his food all over the place when he was eating...

VOLUME 296: Chapter [-] Hinohara Middle School

After the meal was finished, Kawasaki Ryomi rejected Shiraishi Rin's proposal to help wash the dishes, and cleaned up the things on the table.It wasn't until this time that Mr. Kawasaki began to ask Rin Shiraishi how many days he planned to stay this time.

"Well...Actually, Nogi-san and Sachiko came here with me this time, and they also want to take advantage of the holiday to go out to relax and see the scenery. We have already set a few destinations. After eating later, we will first Go around the town, relax, and then go to Mount Fuji in the afternoon. If everything goes well, I may come back in two days, and then I will visit you and my aunt again.

"Is that so, have you decided where to live?"

"I have already booked a hotel in Yamanashi Prefecture. It is a regular hotel I found on the Internet. There should be no problem."

Mr. Kawasaki hesitated for a moment, and then said: "Actually, Mount Fuji is not far from here. It's okay to stay here for one night, and then go out to see the scenery tomorrow morning."

"Well, I will discuss it with Maki later."

Shiraishi Rin said perfunctorily with a smile.

After a few words of politeness, Kawasaki Ryumi came back after washing the tableware. Rin Shiraishi repeated his itinerary plan to the aunt again, and then walked out of Kawasaki's house and walked along the street to the west side of Hinode-cho .

During this process, Shiraishi Rin himself looked at the surrounding scenery with a little novelty.

Her memory of Xidama County is actually very vague, and she feels that the memory of living here is already like a thing in her previous life.But no matter whether it is the meager memory inherited from his predecessor or the scenes he saw with his own eyes, there are really no places of interest in West Tama County.

Even good-looking natural landscapes are rare.

The only thing worthy of praise is probably the "pastoral atmosphere".

After all, this area belongs to the fringes of Tokyo. In fact, there are not many connections with Tokyo, so the economy and industries in all aspects are not developed, and at most they only have a little agricultural foundation.A little farther west from Kawasaki's house, you can see patches of snow-covered farmland, and in the distance you can vaguely see a few connected hills, stretching away like earth dragons.

The air is quite fresh, and it feels a little cold when inhaled into the lung cavity.

And there are no people around, walking on such an empty street, looking forward, backward, left, and right, there is a feeling of isolation from the world.

"By the way, Xiao Lin, did you go to elementary and middle school here before?"

Nogi Maki looked back.

"No, I went to school in Hinohara City, because my family used to live there, and because of an accident at home, I was taken over by my aunt for a while during the funeral... about a month or so , I had already planned to go back, but I didn’t expect to suddenly find out that I have an uncle in Tokyo, so I went to inherit the inheritance.”

Thinking about it carefully, Rin Shiraishi felt that his experience was quite legendary.

If the world she lives in is a novel, then the identity setting like her is probably the protagonist.

"Well..." Nogi Maki pondered for a moment: "It sounds like that school isn't too far from here? How about going to have a look?"

"Huh? There's nothing interesting about this kind of place, right?"

"No, after all, it's the place where you lived and studied, Rin. There must be some interesting people and things. Besides, Rin, you transferred from here to Tokyo in the middle of the second grade. Don't you plan to meet up with your former classmates?"

"Forehead……"

To be honest, Shiraishi Rin really had no such plan.

When the predecessor was studying here, he did have a few familiar classmates, but the relationship is actually just that.They can be regarded as friends, but they are not close enough to have to meet to catch up with each other.

But since Nogi Maki said so, Shiraishi Rin thought about it, and took the girl and Sachiko to walk in the direction of Hinohara Middle School.

"That's the place in front."

Hinode Town and Hinohara Village do not directly border each other, but the distance between them is not too far, and it takes about half an hour to walk there.When walking to a certain intersection, Shiraishi Rin stopped and pointed diagonally forward: "Here, the enclosed area is Hinohara Middle School, which is the only public middle school in the entire Hinohara Village. There used to be another one next to it." Primary school, but within a few years after I graduated, the school was closed because it couldn’t recruit students.”

"Forehead……"

Nogi Maki and Sachiko opened their eyes wide and looked in the direction of Shiraishi Rin's finger.

To be honest, Hinohara Junior High School is really dilapidated. Even with the "Sister Rin filter", it can only be said to be ordinary, and it cannot be compared with beauty.There are only two or three teaching buildings, and some of the classrooms are also used as activity rooms for various clubs.In addition, the playground is also very simple, except for the standard 400-meter runway, the rest of the various sports equipment is not very complete.

Because it was a holiday, the school gate was naturally locked, and there was no one inside.

Shiraishi Rin stopped a dozen meters in front of the fence gate, turned to look at Nogi Maki and Sachiko: "Do you still need to go in and have a look?"

"……Can you go in?"

Yes, of course it is possible, the way is to use [Bouncing Power] to jump in.

After getting a positive answer from Nogi Maki, Shiraishi Rin first grabbed the girl's waist, jumped into the school, and then turned back to take Sachiko.

Sachiko was not allowed to dance by herself, mainly because Nogi Maki didn't know the little girl's identity as a monster yet, so there was no need to reveal it for the time being.However, Sachiko was very happy to be embraced by Shiraishi Rin and jumped into the school. After entering the campus, she still hooked Shiraishi Rin's neck with her hands, like a koala, a little clinging to it and not wanting to get off look.

However, after being patted on the back by Bai Shilin, the little girl still jumped down reluctantly, and walked forward behind Bai Shilin.

"Hey, there is actually a swimming pool in this middle school?"

On the other side, Nogi Maki had already walked a few steps forward, tiptoed to look around the entire campus, and said in surprise.

"Well, the swimming club of Hinohara Middle School is still doing well. Every summer, there are classes that take swimming lessons here."

Shiraishi Rin explained.

But it will definitely not work now, because the swimming pool has been frozen for a long time, and another layer of snow has fallen.Even without these ice and snow, the water temperature must be cool in this season. Unless you are a masochistic person, it is impossible for you to choose to play in the water at this time.

Volume 297: Chapter [-] will be an interesting experience, right?

Rin Shiraishi took Nogi Maki and Sachiko around the campus, during which Sachiko ran to the ice and stepped on it, and was called back by Rin Shiraishi.Afterwards, several people walked up to the teaching building, overlooking the surrounding scene for a while from upstairs.

"I've said it before. There's actually nothing to see here. They're all ordinary scenery. Maybe it's not as good as that in Arakawa District."

Shiraishi Rin said softly.

Hearing her words, Nogi Maki pursed her lips and shook her head: "No, in fact, these ordinary scenery are even more valuable. Xiao Lin, you used to be in the classroom here, right? Spring I sat here and read a book when I was young, I swam in the swimming pool over there during my summer swimming lessons, and then there were campus festivals and sports festivals...

It's a pity that we didn't know each other at that time, otherwise we might have had a very interesting experience. "

Bai Shilin didn't say a word, just followed the girl's gaze to look around the campus, and the memories of his predecessor's childhood were faintly churning in his mind.

To be honest, she didn't think that kind of life was so interesting, after all, it was just an ordinary school life of Japanese girls.But one thing is for sure, that is, if she had met Nogi Maki at that time, whether the latter came here as a tourist or a transfer student and became a classmate with her, or the two became netizens or pen pals on the Internet. Yes, it must be an interesting thing.

but……

"It's not too late to meet again now, is it?"

"...Well, that's right!"

Rin Shiraishi and Maki Nogi glanced at each other, and they both raised the corners of their mouths slightly and smiled at each other.

Sachiko next to her seemed to feel the weird atmosphere spreading in the air, and she couldn't help but tugged at the corner of Shiraishi Rin's clothes, and whispered: "My mother and I met Sister Rin, which is also a very happy event. Things, and my sister Rin and I knew each other earlier."

"is it?"

Strictly speaking, Shiraishi Rin and Nogi Maki were the first to know each other. She had already known Nogi Maki when she moved to Tokyo from Nishitama County and transferred to Tsukuba University.It's just that the relationship between the two was limited to the level of "acquaintance" at that time, and there was no more intersection. It was not until the end of the summer vacation that the two traveled together a few times, and they gradually became familiar with each other after the school started. , got to know each other.

But if it comes to the closeness and distance of the relationship, it's almost the same.

Shiraishi Rin did not correct the mistake in Sachiko's words, but just touched the little girl's head, and then said: "Okay, there are only so many things you can see, the rooftop and those classrooms are all locked. , and even breaking in is meaningless, after all, it's just a small school the size of a palm, so let's go there early.

Stay a little longer and the sun might be setting. "

According to their original plan, they were going to Yamanashi Prefecture before this evening.

If you can't make it in time, you may need to stay overnight at Kawasaki's house, and Kawasaki Ryumi will definitely not mind this approach, but it may make Mr. Kawasaki feel unhappy.It was precisely in order to avoid extra problems that Shiraishi Rin deliberately made such an action arrangement.

When walking downstairs along the stairs of the teaching building, Maki Nogi seemed to have thought of something, and suddenly turned her head and asked, "By the way, Xiao Lin, here in Nishitama County... has any supernatural event happened?" ? I feel like it’s much calmer here than in Tokyo.”

"Ok?"

Bai Shilin thought for a while, then smiled, and responded casually: "Maybe it's because the place is remote and there are few people, so the ghosts don't bother to come here..."

To be honest, she doesn't know the answer to this question either.

Although she once told Nogi Maki and others that she learned the art here in Nishitama County, and even pushed it to the "family origin", in fact, according to the memory of her predecessor, the late Shiraishi couple was just a very ordinary person. Ordinary people have not shown any special abilities, otherwise they should not be easily killed by a car accident.

But then again...

Since Shiraishi Genichiro has the identity of a folk exorcist, then the ancestors of the Shiraishi family may have really dealt with the supernatural level, and there may even be some spiritual power integrated in the blood.

However, the main part of this inheritance is on Shiraishi Genichiro's side, and because the latter has never married a wife and had children, this line of exorcist blood has been cut off in his generation.And Shiraishi Rin's parents were only collaterals separated from the Shiraishi family several generations ago, so they failed to inherit that ability, and they didn't even know the existence of this important past.

This explanation is more reasonable than Shiraishi Rin can think of.

At the same time, for the sake of safety, she also deliberately used the ability of [Fox Perception] to detect around.

Within a kilometer of Hinohara Village as the center, apart from a few things that looked like ghosts, there were no other abnormalities.

After confirming this, Rin Shiraishi felt relieved, took Nogi Maki and Sachiko around, and walked back.