My tenants are monsters

After such a busy life, it's getting late.

Rin Shiraishi threw the pale figure to Hanakura Asakura to take care of, and originally wanted to go back directly, but Maki Nogi warmly invited her to stay and have dinner together.And Shiraishi Rin was indeed a little hungry at the moment, and his stomach started to growl, so he agreed half-heartedly, intending to fill his stomach before going back.

When I followed Nogi Maki downstairs, I heard a sound of keys opening the door from the direction of the entrance.

"Someone is back?"

Bai Shilin's eyes moved slightly, and he looked down the stairs. Under her gaze, he saw a tall woman in overalls opened the door and appeared in the living room. While changing her shoes, she looked up into the room Come over: "Hey, Maki, is there a guest at home?"

"Ah, yes, it's my classmate Shiraishi Rin. I told you, mom, before."

Nogi Maki responded, turned her head and smiled at Shiraishi Rin, and introduced: "Little Rin, this is my mother Nogi Yuko."

"Hello, Aunt Xizi."

Shiraishi Rin had already arrived at the stairs with Nogi Maki at this time, bowed politely, and greeted the woman in overalls.

VOLUME 177: Chapter [-] Nogi Xiko

This is the first time Shiraishi Rin and Nogi Yuko have met.

It has to be said that Nogi Maki's appearance is still very similar to her mother, and because of the good family conditions and good maintenance work, Nogi Yuko's appearance looks like she is in her early thirties.Judging from her demeanor, she seems to be no stranger to Shiraishi Rin's name:

"Oh, so you are Xiao Rin. I often heard Maki mentioning you at home before, saying that you were her best friend at school. It turns out that I am such a cute girl. You probably haven't had dinner yet. Right? Do you want to stay and eat together? The chef I hired at home is quite skilled."

"Mom, I have invited Xiao Lin before."

Nogi Maki responded with a smile.

"Oh, really?"

Nogi Xiko smiled slightly: "That's great, there should be a while before dinner time, let's sit down and chat for a while."

"it is good."

Shiraishi Rin glanced at Nogi Maki, and the latter pulled her sleeves to sit down in front of the sofa in the living room, and then Nogi Yuko also signaled the servants at home to bring a few cups of tea and pre-dinner snacks, and greeted Shiraishi Rin to drink.

When he came here before, Shiraishi Rin already knew that there were two servants in Nogi's house.

One is in charge of cleaning and washing, and the other is mainly responsible for cooking.If it is really a professional-level chef, the hired salary will definitely not be low, but as Nogi's father, as a senior executive of the Imperial Bank, this salary is just a small amount of money, and even two servants are a little less for the Nogi family. The families of the upper-class people basically started with two teams of maids...

After Nogi Xiko came back, the part-time chef came to the living room and asked if he could prepare meals.

And Shiraishi Rin sat in the living room with Nogi Maki and her daughter while waiting for the meal to be served.

If it is an ordinary female high school student, in this situation facing the parents of her classmates, she may feel a little restrained.

But after all, Shiraishi Rin has the identity of a time traveler in two lifetimes. Even if he was just an ordinary worker in his previous life, his experience is not at the level of a high school student, so he doesn't have any stage fright and behaves very calmly.

Nogi Xiko is also obviously a talkative personality. After all, this person is a manager in the banking industry, and his level must not be too low. Because of the attributes of his profession, he will definitely not be an overly introverted person. Rin's basic situation is clear, and he talks to her very familiarly:

"Oh, so Rin transferred from Nishitama County? Maki's father and I have been to that place before, and it's a very nice city.

It must be very hard for me to go to school in Tokyo alone, right?If you need help anywhere, you are welcome, you can tell Maki or me, and we will try our best to help you. "

Although she is 40 or [-] years old, Nogi Yuko has no pretensions of elders, and she treats Shiraishi Rin very kindly, and occasionally jokes a few words about her own daughter:

"Speaking of which, Maki, my family, often mentions you, saying that you are versatile, and your academic performance is also at the top of the class. I also listened to the song "Moonlight" that you performed at your school's campus festival a while ago. It is really outstanding. In your To be able to achieve such a level in this age group must have put in a lot of hard work, right? Unlike Maki, who just lies in the bedroom and plays games when she has nothing to do, it would be great if Maki could work half as hard as you."

"No, it's Aunt Xizi who praised you."

Shiraishi Rin smiled and said softly:

"Actually, Maki is already very good. She has to study hard and take care of various affairs in the class, and also participate in club activities. I am also learning from her in many aspects."

Although he didn't know whether Nogi Yuko's words were true or not, Shiraishi Rin still had a business exchange, and then glanced at Nogi Maki next to him.

The latter seemed to have been exposed by his mother's "true face", his face was a little red, and he immediately retorted:

"Ahem, Mom, don't talk about everything. I also play games to relax after I finish my homework. How can I play games in the bedroom every day... Also, Xiaolin, I didn't talk to you before. You showed my mother the video of the campus festival when you said hello, so she knew you could play the violin, I'm really sorry."

The second half of the sentence was said facing Shiraishi Rin.

When talking about this, Nogi Maki's tone was slightly more apologetic.

Strictly speaking, this kind of behavior does have a slight suspicion of violating privacy, but as long as it is not made public on the Internet or elsewhere, it is actually a very common thing to watch videos in private, so I don't take it to heart at all. necessary.

"Ok?"

Bai Shilin waved his hand, and said lightly: "There is nothing to apologize for this kind of thing, it is not a secret, and Aunt Xizi is not an outsider."

After a few more polite words, the servant just now came out to report that the meal was ready.

Nogi Yuko nodded, then stood up: "Come on, Rin, Maki, go and see how the food tastes today."

Naturally, there is no need to talk about the process of eating.

It may be because there are "guests", so the chef of Nogi's family made a few more dishes.

Shiraishi Rin thanked a few more times during the dinner, and then praised the taste of these meals in a fancy way.

The whole dining table is full of cheerful air.

After the meal was finished, it was almost eight o'clock in the evening, and Shiraishi Rin couldn't continue to disturb Nogi's house. After saying hello to Nogi's mother and daughter, he was ready to leave for home.Naimu Xizi gave a few more words of "be careful on the road" and "come to play more in the future", and ordered her daughter to see off the guests.

"Then, I'll go back first. Aunt Xizi and Maki don't need to send them off anymore. The temperature outside is quite cold. It's not far from the station, so I'll just go there by myself."

"Well, goodbye then, I will play more in the future."

In fact, according to Nogi Yuko and Maki herself, she wanted to send Shiraishi Rin to the station and come back, but she persuaded her to go back with the reason that it was already dark and the night road was not easy to walk.After Shiraishi Rin turned and left for a distance, she could still see Nogi mother and daughter standing at the door of the villa, waving goodbye to her.

That night.

After Rin Shiraishi returned home, he glanced at the time first, then threw the pale figure to Hanakura Asakura to take care of it, and ran directly to 103 next door, knocked on the door and found Yoshie Ogino who was cooking.

VOLUME 178: Chapter [-] Obsession Aggregation

"Electronic ghosts that can travel along power lines and network lines?"

In the living room of Ogino's house.

Ogino Yoshie, who was wearing an apron and holding a spoon in his hand, blinked, and listened to Rin Shiraishi's general account of the matter, with a slightly bewildered expression on his face:

"Ahem, that, Xiao Lin, you suddenly said that, and I can't react...Although I have indeed seen some special ghosts before, but like Xiao Lin you said, they can survive in online games. It's the first time I've heard of the obsessive body, and I can't imagine what kind of ghost it would be..."

"Actually, I'm just guessing, because its ability is too weird, so I can't be sure of its details, but I just made a generalization based on my observations."

Shiraishi Rin added a few more words.

She didn't expect that even Yoshie Ogino had never heard of a pale human figure. It seems that she really caught a rare species this time. If you judge it according to those card-drawing games in China, it is probably at least an SR?

On the other side, Yoshie Ogino pondered for a while: "Theoretically, as long as they are spirit-type ghosts, they generally have some similarities in common. If you don't mind, Xiao Lin, I can go over and have a look and try to help. Check it out. But I’m not sure if it can help you, you need to read it to know.”

"Of course I don't mind, then please trouble Aunt Fanghui."

Naturally, Shiraishi Rin readily accepted this proposal, which was the purpose of her coming to Ogino Yoshie.

Soon, the two returned to the living room of 101 and began to study the pale figure controlled by Huali Asakura.

——Ogino Yoshie did not know the existence of Asakura Hana, but the one who knew the existence of the latter was Sachiko.However, after experiencing the Inugami incident, the mutual trust between Shiraishi Rin and Ogino mother and daughter has been very high, so there is no need to deliberately conceal this kind of thing, so seeing Asakura Huali at this time, Ogino Yoshie did not Not surprised.

In addition, Sachiko also followed enthusiastically, and followed her mother to watch the excitement.

After coming to Room 101.

Yoshie Ogino looked around the pale human figure first, then grabbed its wrist, released its demonic power to sense it for a while, and then retreated slightly hesitantly: "This guy...may be a kind of obsession aggregation."

"Aggregate?"

Bai Shilin was slightly taken aback.

"Yes."

Yoshie Ogino nodded, and then explained:

Spiritual ghosts are generally divided into two categories.

The first type is the kind of ghosts that are generally understood. To be precise, they are actually "ghosts", that is, ghosts formed after the death of humans or other creatures because of persistent obsessions.This kind of thing generally needs to meet the three necessary conditions to appear, that is, obsession, emotion, and resentment. If the purity of any of these items is not enough, it will not be able to form a real resentment, but only in a short period of time. Dissipates into nothingness after time.

——For example, the female teacher who was killed by Kumamoto before, after witnessing the death of her enemy who killed her, her obsession was resolved and quickly disappeared without a trace;

The second type is aggregates.

The difference between this type of spirit body and the former is that they often do not simply come from a specific individual, but an aggregate composed of multiple obsessive bodies.

And these "obsession bodies" as assembled parts may be a large number of human remnants such as Kumamoto and the female teacher, or they may be purely some kind of collective obsession, which is formed by chance and coincidence.

A typical example of the former is the "Drowned Daughter". It is said that this kind of monster is formed from the entangled souls of a large number of drowned people, which is a typical aggregate.

Typical examples of the latter are some urban legends, such as "Gap Girl", "Hanako" and so on. At first, they may be just some ordinary ghosts, but after a large number of people spread word of mouth, they formed an urban legend that everyone fears. After the legend, it absorbed the obsession and hatred from different groups of people instead, and became an existence that harmed people everywhere as in the legend, a kind of "aggregate" that also belongs to "aggregate".

——This kind of statement sounds a bit idealistic, but it is actually very easy to understand.

Some ghosts feed on human flesh and blood, while others feed on human negative emotions.Fear, panic, tyranny, hatred... All these emotions can flow into the bodies of those ghosts with the yin qi, be absorbed and digested by them, and thus grow stronger and stronger, and finally form an increasingly terrifying Urban ghost stories.

——This is also one of the reasons why the existence of the special class is not made public, and not even known to everyone within the police system.

Because no one knows, when everyone is clearly aware of the existence of the supernatural dimension and the fears in the hearts of thousands of people are mixed together, will more urban legends be born, and even more urban legends than those fierce ghosts and monsters will be born? To scary monsters.

This kind of situation has precedents in the history of Dongpu. It is said that the big tengu in Baifeng Mountain has this ability to swallow fear, so he can quickly improve his strength to shoulder-to-shoulder despite the age difference of several times. Nine tails and Yamata no Orochi.There is also an earlier [Slayer Ghost], who is said to have been born in a mass grave in ancient times, absorbed the resentment and hatred of tens of thousands of people, and also possessed inexplicable strength...

Closer to home.

If Yoshie Ogino's judgment is correct, then...

"Could it be that this white shadow is a kind of aggregate born of the obsession of a large number of 'Internet addicts'?"

"No, it may also be 'Internet Addiction Girl'..."

Yoshie Ogino glanced at the gender characteristics of the pale human figure: "This kind of obsession aggregation is actually gender-neutral. It may be because it happened to appear next to your classmate. Out of imitation or other ideas, I put myself Simulated as a ghost with female characteristics.

Because the components of this kind of spirit are relatively mixed, it is not easy to form a unified and complete spirit, so there is no way to communicate like ordinary ghosts.

The one you caught, like Xiao Lin, is a typical aggregate of low-level obsessions. Otherwise, with its ability, it can easily shuttle in the online world and quickly learn about the various rules and secrets of human society.

I have met such an obsessive conglomerate by chance in other places before. She is a shikigami of a shrine in Chiba County, and she was once in charge of the power of Shiyunbuyu. to human wisdom. "

"yes……"

Shiraishi Rin is skeptical.

VOLUME 179: Chapter [-] Three Ways