This Japanese Monogatari Isn't Lame
Chapter 219 - 186. You said this world has... (8000-word goal achieved!)

Chapter 219: Chapter 186. You said this world has... (8000-word goal achieved!)

Since business wasn’t doing well, Qiushan Caiyin simply invited Mr. Beichuan to the counter, "Actually, Mr. Beichuan, you’ve come to the right person about this matter— as I was one of the parties involved in the case of the missing children."

One of the parties involved?

Beichuan Si glanced strangely at Qiushan Caiyin.

Weren’t all the parties involved missing? How could there be another party involved suddenly appearing here?

Qiushan Caiyin realized she had misspoken. She cleared her throat and vigorously waved her hand, "That’s not what I meant, Mr. Beichuan. I’m just saying, back then I also played games with Hazawa and the others... you see, that hide-and-seek game."

Beichuan Si’s expression changed, he said with a hint of surprise, "Miss Qiushan, do you mean to say that you also frequently sneaked out at night to Yuchuan Elementary School with those four missing children?"

"Um..."

Qiushan Caiyin unconsciously lowered her voice, "Actually, only my parents knew about this. It was the very night Hazawa and the others went missing. That night when I sneaked out of the yard, my dad caught me, they beat me severely and locked me up at home... after that, I heard Hazawa’s parents contact my parents asking for help—"

"After all, our town is much more secluded than the outside world, everyone was quite familiar. When something like this happened, of course, they would help."

Qiushan Caiyin rubbed her temples, "The incident left a deep impression on me, so I still remember it clearly. Luckily I didn’t go out that day, otherwise I believe I would have become one of the missing."

"By the next day, resident after resident gave up, only Hazawa’s parents hadn’t given up."

"Afterwards, the police came and searched for three more days, eventually declaring the search a failure, and Hazawa and the others were officially declared missing."

"Subsequently, near the already abandoned Yuchuan Elementary School, incidents of children going missing began to occur frequently, right?"

Beichuan Si suddenly spoke.

Qiushan Caiyin looked surprisedly at Beichuan Si, she hadn’t expected him to have investigated so thoroughly, "Yes, just as Mr. Beichuan suspected, after the incident of the children’s disappearance, several elementary school children who frequently passed by Yuchuan Elementary School also mysteriously disappeared, then the adults brought in high monks, I heard they even sealed Yuchuan Elementary School, filled the school’s main gate with all kinds of talismans."

Just as Qiushan Caiyin was about to say something else, Beichuan Si asked,

"Before the disappearance cases, didn’t any other unusual events occur in this town?"

"Other unusual events...?" Qiushan Caiyin appeared pensive, she muttered uncertainly, "Now that you mention it... there indeed was a strange incident... but I don’t have a very strong memory of it, so I forgot, but it seems to have been related to our locally famous ’River God’ Yuchuan God."

Yuchuan God? Again Yuchuan God?

Beichuan Si’s expression changed.

He had thought Yuchuan God didn’t exist, but Qiushan Caiyin’s words had once again led the somewhat clear chain of events back into the mist.

Qiushan Caiyin secretly glanced at the pondering Beichuan Si.

The more she looked, the better-looking Beichuan Si appeared, truly handsome.

She bit her lip as though she had made up her mind, "If Mr. Beichuan doesn’t mind, once I finish work here, I can also take you to see the already abandoned Imperial School."

Uh—

Beichuan Si was taken aback, showing a somewhat unexpected expression.

What’s with this girl?

Hadn’t he just met her recently? How could she suddenly volunteer like this? That was quite straightforward.

He shook his head, casting out the distracting thoughts, then continued, "If it’s convenient for Miss Qiushan, that would be most excellent."

This was an opportunity not to be missed.

And Beichuan Si considered himself not a bad person; it didn’t matter if Qiushan Caiyin wasn’t very guarded around him.

"Um... I get off work around seven o’clock, about an hour from now. Mr. Beichuan, you could take a walk around other places first, and I’ll send you a message when it’s time," Qiushan Caiyin, seeing that Beichuan Si had agreed, paused to think and then said.

"That’s of course, I plan to go check out the town’s library in the meantime."

"We’ll get in touch later then."

"Good."

After agreeing with Qiushan Caiyin, Beichuan Si left the Wagashi shop carrying a small wooden box.

...

The journey to the library doesn’t need to be detailed; following the map, Beichuan Si arrived at the town library.

Seeing the purely wooden-constructed library that looked rather historical, Beichuan Si’s mind stirred.

Maybe he really could discover some clues from back then here.

And about the Yuchuan God that Qiushan Caiyin mentioned... what did that represent... could it be that deities and spirits truly exist in this world?

With that thought, Beichuan Si entered the library.

The library was divided into two floors, and the librarian was a bald-headed uncle.

This town library probably hadn’t received new books for a long time, as Beichuan Si casually pulled a book from the shelf, noticing the pages had started to oxidize and turn yellow, and the writing was only just legible.

"Excuse me, where is the newspaper news area?" Beichuan Si approached the bald-headed uncle to ask.

"Go up to the second floor; they’re in the row at the very back," the bald uncle looked up and continued after giving Beichuan Si a glance,

"Are you a visitor to Yuchuan?"

"Yes."

"If you’re a visitor, I recommend the guide on the first floor."

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