Shinomiya Kaguya, seeing Goko Ruri who had been complaining in the group suddenly turn timid, naturally became very interested in the appearance of a "youkai." She immediately went to consult the Godly Mother of Shitamachi.
"I haven't had much dealings with youkai, but in recent years, I have indeed heard many rumors about them. However, under normal circumstances, you don't have to worry too much. After all, this is Tokyo. A too-dangerous youkai won't appear."
Takeda Sae, the Godly Mother of Shitamachi, after listening to Shinomiya Kaguya's description, quickly gave her own point of view.
Shinomiya Kaguya, on the other hand, did not have much trust in those so-called official supernatural beings.
After all, Beika Town over there had already become a gathering place for vengeful spirits, and she hadn't seen these official personnel go to deal with it. Would they be so attentive to youkai?
"The attitude of the supernatural forces in the hidden world towards vengeful spirits and youkai is different. After all, vengeful spirits cannot attack people who cannot see them and can hardly affect reality."
"And these vengeful spirits are born from various places every day, and then they will dissipate through various channels or be eaten as food by other vengeful spirits, cursed spirits, or even youkai. The vast majority of vengeful spirits will not cause any impact on human life, so the attitude of the Jujutsu Headquarters towards vengeful spirits is more about control than elimination."
"Cursed spirits, as curses, do attack ordinary people, but their number is much smaller than that of vengeful spirits, and they rarely gather together. The threat they can cause is actually only slightly higher than that of vengeful spirits, and there is a Jujutsu Headquarters specifically responsible for dealing with them, so there is no need to worry too much."
"But youkai are different. Youkai have their own thoughts and can directly affect human life. And youkai also like to live in groups, and even form factions. So youkai have always been the focus of attention in the hidden world."
"If a great youkai really appeared, the Jujutsu Headquarters would probably have already noticed."
"The one at your friend's house now should just be a small, mischievous youkai that has just awakened. This kind of small youkai is still quite easy to deal with. Basically, you can send it away by offering it a few meals. If you're lucky, you might even be able to make that youkai become your family's guardian deity."
Just like the legendary Zashiki-warashi, it was a youkai that liked to go to other people's houses to play with children, and the family it stayed with would receive good luck because of it.
Because of this characteristic of bringing good luck, in ancient times, some people would even specially hire onmyoji to bind a Zashiki-warashi in their own home to monopolize this good luck.
"If you don't mind, could you tell me your friend's address and let me take a look? If it's really a Zashiki-warashi, I wonder what your thoughts are, Kaguya-sama?"
Takeda Sae asked for Shinomiya Kaguya's instructions. After all, she was now relying on her for her livelihood. If she could really get a Zashiki-warashi that could bring good luck for this young mistress, then she would definitely get more benefits.
Shinomiya Kaguya was also a little interested in the matter of the Zashiki-warashi, but she'd rather not keep one in her own home.
The Shinomiya family had already developed to its current stage. Did they still need a small youkai to bring them good luck? It was better to leave this kind of thing to Kuroneko, whose family situation was more difficult.
After getting Shinomiya Kaguya's reply, Goko Ruri let out a slight sigh of relief.
She didn't hesitate much and told Shinomiya Kaguya her address.
She herself, according to the meaning of that Godly Mother of Shitamachi, let her two younger sisters watch TV in the living room while she stood guard at the living room door, waiting for the other party's arrival.
Her two younger sisters, the younger one, Goko Tamaki, was happy to be able to watch TV so late.
The older one, Goko Hinata, on the other hand, felt a little nervous.
She had heard the phone call her sister had just made in her room, saying that she suspected some youkai had entered their house.
Goko Hinata knew that her sister was a bit of a chuunibyou. She would usually hide in her room to chant spells and draw magic circles, and would even make up a bunch of non-existent contacts on her phone to show that she had many friends.
Of course, Goko Hinata had no dissatisfaction with her sister's behavior at all. She had even sworn in her heart that, for this sister who usually took good care of her, no matter what strange actions she saw her do, she had to control her expression and absolutely not laugh.
If it were in the past, if she had heard words like "youkai" from her sister, she would definitely have thought that her sister was playing a prank on her.
But recently, her sister's behavior seemed to have started to become strange, which made her have to think a little more.
Simply put, it was as if her sister had really conjured up something.
This change seemed to have started about half a month ago.
One night, the other party had suddenly found her, looking serious as if she wanted to say something to her, but in the end, she had only talked about some household matters and then left.
Before that day, Goko Hinata really couldn't have imagined that there was actually someone in the world who could show expressions of surprise and disappointment on their face at the same time.
And so, Goko Hinata began to pay more attention to her sister.
This attention led to a great discovery.
She had, of course, known about the chat group for a long time. After all, her sister was now holding her phone and chatting with people all day. Last week, she had even gone out to a party with people, which had made her, the younger sister, a little nervous about whether her sister could get along with others.
Fortunately, when her sister came back that day, she seemed very happy and could even boast to them that she had eaten a grand meal made by a student who had graduated from the legendary Totsuki Academy in a super-large mansion that night.
But setting aside the matter of her sister finding friends, what was more noteworthy was her sister's physical problems.
She knew that although her sister was very good at housework and was very skilled in many aspects, she was completely clueless when it came to sports. Even doing stretching exercises looked like she was serving a prison sentence.
But recently, her sister's stamina and physical coordination seemed to have improved a lot.
Previously, when her sister was doing a major cleaning of her room, she would be panting from exhaustion and often had to take breaks in between.
But when she did a major cleaning last weekend, her sister had shown amazing strength and stamina. She had spent a whole morning cleaning without taking a single break, and when she was finally done, she hadn't even seen a few drops of sweat.
She had even curiously asked her sister at that time, and the answer she got was as chuunibyou as ever: "As long as you maintain the correct breathing, you won't feel tired."
At that time, that sister of hers had really wanted to teach her some breathing rhythms, but that kind of awkward-sounding breathing method had made her give up directly. She just treated it as her sister playing a joke on her.
But what was concerning was that that night, when she got up to go to the toilet, she suddenly heard a sound of electric arcs from her sister's room.
Worried that something had happened to her sister, she had secretly peeked through the crack in the door to observe her, and then she had seen that the electric arcs were actually coming from her sister's hands.
That had scared her so much that she had cried out.
Although in the end her sister's explanation was that it was magic, she was already ten years old. This kind of lie to deceive a child could at most fool Tamaki. How could it fool her?
Her sister must have really obtained some kind of superpower. Perhaps that chat group of hers was a mysterious organization formed by a group of superpowered individuals.
Therefore, when she heard something about youkai from her sister tonight, her first reaction was that her sister was joking. But after calming down, she realized that her sister didn't seem to be joking with her.
She could even vaguely hear the sound of electric arcs coming from her sister as she left the living room to check other places.
Could it be that a youkai had really entered her house?
Was it attracted by her sister? Or did it just come to her house by chance?
Goko Hinata's mind was all on that suspicious youkai, and she had no intention of watching TV seriously. She also didn't notice at all that on the cabinet behind her, a brown mouse was watching TV seriously.
Jerry was catching up on his drama recently. Because he had to come here today, he had almost missed the time.
"But this Kuroneko seems quite easy to get along with. Seeing me watching TV here, she even called her sisters to watch with me," Jerry thought to himself, looking at the two little girls sitting in front of him.
It was just that the conditions of this family didn't look very good. Let alone comparing it to Miyauchi Hikage's mansion, the place he had lived in before coming to this world was also much better than here.
He had wandered around this neighborhood for a bit and had smelled the scent of more than one of his compatriots.
It was just that his compatriots in this world seemed to be some brainless, dirty things. Not only did they defecate anywhere, but they also liked to gnaw on things everywhere and bring back a pile of parasites from outside, without any of the elegance that a mouse should have.
Jerry felt that after he finished watching today's prime time drama, he should go and teach these brainless local mice a good lesson. Since you're living in someone else's house and eating and drinking their things, you should at least have some basic manners, right?
If they refused to be polite, then he could only ask those compatriots to go elsewhere.
However, just as tonight's TV drama was reaching its climax, the arrival of an uninvited guest distracted Jerry quite a bit.
An old woman in her sixties or seventies, with some unpleasant smell on her.
"This should be that Godly Mother of Shitamachi that Miyauchi Hikage mentioned," Jerry looked at this old woman who was chatting with Kuroneko while walking into the house and sizing it up, and figured out her identity from her attire.
"Could it be that that black cat called her over to help catch me?" Jerry thought for a while and felt that the pressure the other party gave him was not as great as that blue Tom cat, so he simply didn't move and continued to stay on the cabinet watching TV.
There was still a small half of this TV drama left today. He didn't want to miss it.
It was just that he didn't want to bother them, but that didn't mean they didn't want to bother him.
As soon as Takeda Sae walked into the house, listened to Kuroneko's explanation, and greeted her two younger sisters.
She was just about to take out her own special skills and show off in front of this girl who had shown her disdain before, when she turned her head and saw a brown mouse sitting on the cabinet behind her, watching TV with concentration.
This person's house doesn't look messy, but there's actually a mouse crawling out so blatantly?
I don't know how she became friends with that young mistress of the Shinomiya family.
But since I'm already here, I should still perform well.
Takeda Sae muttered to herself, then casually took out a string of prayer beads, preparing to stimulate the spiritual power inside.
Her shop was in a shopping street, and there were also a lot of mice over there. However, these mice were much more sensitive to spiritual power than ordinary people. As long as she stimulated it a little with spiritual power, she could make those mice not dare to approach.
However, she would certainly not be so extravagant as to use her own spiritual power on a mouse on a normal day.
But the situation was different now. She was here to look for a youkai.
Using spiritual power to scare this mouse away, besides showing off in front of these few little girls, she could also, by the way, see if there were any other reactions in the room.
She crushed a few beads, and the magical power of her youth instantly burst forth from the prayer beads, quickly spreading throughout the entire room.
These prayer beads, although they can't deal with those high-level vengeful spirits, for a mouse, one is enough to scare it away. Now with three at once, that mouse should have been knocked out by my spiritual power.
Next, I'll just check if there are any other spiritual power fluctuations in the room under the stimulation of my spiritual power.
With this thought, Takeda Sae looked at the mouse's position, preparing to have Goko Ruri go and throw the mouse out.
However, in the next moment, her gaze met with the gaze of that mouse on the cabinet.
She even saw this mouse blink, as if it were expressing its confusion to her.