Chapter 291 The Crane Returns

After getting Higashino Yu's permission, Jinguji Hiiragi carefully dressed Hanako's body and covered up the shocking remains under the clothes.

Kaori Shiori remained silent and did not speak.

Hanako stood aside, looking a little at a loss. This scene of seeing her body being restrained by others had a great impact on her soul.

"Miss Jinguji!"

The demon slayers who had just approached found this place, climbed up from the shrine, and saw a huge white fox at a glance.

What a strong breath.

The demon slayer who took the lead was clearly Jinguji Xinyi. He frowned and stopped immediately. He subconsciously touched the hilt of his sword in a defensive posture.

But then he saw that Hiiragi Kagami, Kaori Shiori and others were all safe and sound, and the shikigami Mu Ling was standing aside with his hands down, as if there was no tense atmosphere.

I also remembered that in the previous news about Higashino Yu, there was indeed a white fox shikigami.

He asked tentatively: "Is this...?"

"It's Higashino-kun's shikigami. The demons and fallen angels have been killed by him." Jinguji Hiiragi explained calmly.

Dong Yeyu stood next to her, pretending to be cool, looking majestic and silent.

Jinguji Xinyi's expression was slightly stagnant.

The several demon slayers behind them looked at each other in confusion. When they thought of the two burnt black demon corpses they saw on the road, there was also a crane corpse that seemed to have been bitten at the waist by some ferocious beast.

If it were this white fox, there would really be no problem.

Jinguji Xinyi looked at the white fox for a moment, then came closer and stared at Jinguji Hiiragi: "Don't you have anything to explain to me?"

Jinguji Nobuyoshi almost died of panic when he first learned about her decision to take her two younger sisters and the shikigami enshrined by her family up the mountain.

Because the other members of the demon slayer family hadn't arrived at that time, he chose some of his family's experts to go up the mountain to rescue his daughter.

As a result, when I looked up at the top of the mountain, there was a strange scene of lightning, thunder, and raging winds - even the night wind was gentle in other places at that time.

When he saw that a god was involved, Jinguji Xinyi's heart dropped and he was ready to collect his daughter's body.

Halfway up the mountain, a mountain fire suddenly started, and countless demons spilled down from the mountain. Jinguji Nobuyoshi led the demon exterminators to repel these panicked demons in fear, while climbing to the top of the mountain.

He was a little paralyzed when he passed the corpses of three powerful monsters, not to mention that one of them was a local god.

Even the gods had fallen. At that time, he felt that the situation seemed to be out of control, and his footsteps became more and more urgent. When he reached the top of the mountain, he saw this scene after the war. His daughter and two nieces were not even skinned.

Of course, although things ended well, such behavior is inexcusable.

Facing his father's stressful gaze, Jinguji Hiiragi lowered his eyebrows and said, "I'm sorry."

Jinguji Xinyi was stunned for a moment.

Although she usually looks aloof from the world, no one knows how proud her daughter is better than Jinguji Nobuyoshi. She will definitely think about the right and wrong of doing something before doing it.

She always made the right choice, so since she was a child, she had never heard the word apology come out of her mouth.

Jinguji Xinyi glanced at her with a complicated expression. Most of the anger in his heart disappeared, and he even started to worry for no reason.

As far as he knew, Sanae from the Tomorrow Family was also very close to Higashino Yu. Although he was a little weird, he was still outgoing and thoughtful. Can a stuffy gourd like Akira really win?

What's more, can she convince herself to compete with her best friend for affection?

Jinguji Xinyi felt a little headache and rubbed his forehead, "Let's talk about it when we get back."

Then he looked around the shrine: "Where's that kid?"

"Going to put out the fire."

Jinguji Hiiragi explained softly, and then walked out of the shrine with Hanako's body in his arms.

Firefighting? one person?

Jinguji Xinyi felt something was not right, and then noticed something in his daughter's arms. When he took a closer look, he saw that it was a corpse that had been eaten by demons.

"It's a child from nearby Hinode Town who was eaten by a demon. Please notify the local police station and let her family come and claim the body." Jinguji Hiiragi said.

Jinguji Xinyi nodded and glanced at the ghost of the girl hiding next to Bai Hu, "Didn't you have time to save her?"

"She still has an obsession. Dongye-kun wants to help her fulfill her wish before sending her to hell."

"This boy"

Jinguji Xinyi shook his head and complained in his mind about the benevolence of women. Can a ghost make the decision for salvation?

If she didn’t want to leave, wouldn’t you have recited the salvation scriptures a few more times?

There are not many demon slayers in the first place. If every dead ghost fulfills his wish like this, there will be no need to get rid of the demons, and there will be no need to practice cultivation. It is better to call it a demon slayer than to call it a house of all things.

However, this is someone else's private matter. Although Higashino Yu is nominally his junior, he is more of a benefactor to the Jinguji family.

Speaking of which, Jinguji Xinyi was a little helpless. He saved his daughter and niece with his first step, and then jumped into another fire pit with them.

Dong Ye, I really have you.

After learning that his daughter was not in danger, Jinguji Xinyi began to become calmer and gave orders.

The demon exterminators who followed him began to carry out their own work in an orderly manner. Some were checking whether there were any remaining demons, and some were using walkie-talkies to report the situation on the mountain to people down the mountain.

"Evacuate first. The wildfire will spread soon. Have you called the fire brigade?"

A demon slayer replied: "We have contacted nearby towns, but the fire came too fast and it is difficult to control. Now some shikigami and demon slayers who are good at water magic are preparing the isolation zone. We can only hope Don't let the fire spread to the surrounding mountains."

A group of people stood at the foot of the shrine and looked down. The blazing fire soaring into the sky almost illuminated the surroundings as bright as daylight. The air was dry and hot, and orange flames danced on everyone's faces.

"Why is that Crane God entangled with demons?"

A demon slayer said with emotion.

"It must have been forgotten. Although the legend of the crane has been around for a long time, there are not many people visiting this shrine now. Only some villagers at the foot of the mountain come to worship occasionally. The strength is so weak that there is even a danger of disappearing. , he becomes ill and seeks medical treatment urgently, even gods are afraid of death. "

"He Guishan is probably going to be burned down."

"The gods perished and the mountains were burned to the ground. The legend of the crane returning home will probably only be seen occasionally in books in the future."

There were many demon slayers gathered at the foot of the mountain. The cars parked on the road were lined up in a long queue, and everyone was busy.

The shikigami and demon slayers who knew how to use water magic were trying their best to build an isolation zone, while the demon slayers and shikigami who couldn't put out fires were circling Hegui Mountain looking for the demons that had just escaped.

I originally planned to form a group to fight the monster dungeon, but the monster didn't meet many powerful ones, and instead worked part-time as a firefighter.

Many demon slayers were also a little speechless. Whoever had nothing to do came to the Horn Gada to put out the fire in the middle of the night.

When Higashino Yu and others came down the mountain, the image of the white fox was really eye-catching - mainly because of its size. The white fox as big as a tourist bus was really hard to ignore.

This attracted a lot of people's attention.

Some of the demon slayers looked searching, while some looked thoughtful.

After arriving at the foot of the mountain, Jinguji Nobuyoshi looked around, "Higashiya-kun hasn't come down yet? Are you going to be in any danger?"

The fire on the mountain has reached an uncontrollable level and can be called a disaster level. Are you looking for death by staying on the mountain in this situation?

Jinguji Hiiragi took out his mobile phone, typed a few words, and then replied: "He is almost going down the mountain."

Sister Hiiragi doesn’t even blush when she lies? Kaori Shiori, who knew the inside story, glanced at the big white fox next to her and suppressed a smile in her heart.

"Really? Let him come down quickly, and then we will seal the mountain and put out the fire."

Jinguji Xinyi said that some demon slayers came to greet him. These were the demon slayers who arrived later.

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"Ajing, take your sisters and wait for Dongye-kun here. I have to deal with some things. Mu Ling, please protect them."

As one of the leaders of this operation, he had a lot to do. Jinguji Nobuyoshi simply gave a few instructions and left in a hurry.

Considering that the original form of a fox is both inconvenient and eye-catching in human society, after Higashino Yu and Jinguji Hiiragi passed through the air, they found an opportunity to sneak into the forest on the other side with their clothes in their mouths, transform back into human form, and then walk back.

But without the shirt, I had to remain shirtless.

This move did not attract anyone's attention, and some demon exterminators were just wondering where the white fox had gone.

"Nissan Higashino, it's great that you're okay."

Kaori Shiori's spiritual eyes narrowed like crescent moons, and she bowed slightly. Her acting skills were quite good. Not far away, Jinguji Xinyi saw this and nodded towards Higashino Yu.

Dong Yeyu bowed slightly and returned the greeting - he made a phone call and so many people came to him. Even though there were demons who were the demon slayer's old enemies, he had to admit it.

Speaking of which, the Jinguji family also owes me a lot of favors, and as time goes by, it feels more and more complicated.

However, favor is such a vague and specific thing. If it were measured accurately, it would not be called affection, but a debt.

The obedient Hanako stood quietly and waited. Her eyes fell on Dong Yeyu's face and looked at her. Her eyes lit up suddenly. There was some surprise on her pale face. She wanted to say something, but she hesitated.

"You can't recognize me now?" Higashino Yu whispered into the girl's ghost ear: "I am the white fox from before, Hanako."

Eh!

Hanako opened her mouth slightly. Can Fox Nissan become a human?

She remembered a heartwarming movie about monsters that she had watched before, and she felt a little complicated. She never thought that one day she would encounter the same thing as the protagonist in the movie.

Unfortunately, the person he first became friends with was not a good monster like Higashino Nissan, but a man-eating monster.

For a moment, even the surprise of recognizing Higashino Yu as the waiter at the Western restaurant where Reina wanted to go faded a lot.

"Put them on, my father's spare clothes. Since they are Yuori, you don't have to worry about them not fitting."

Jinguji Hiiragi took a piece of feathered fabric and lowered his eyebrows, not looking at his body.

Dong Yeyu thanked him and put it on his body. Not long after, the fire engine bell rang in the distance.

After the firefighters arrived, the demon slayers sent shikigami to help secretly. They worked like this for most of the night, and by four or five in the morning, they managed to control the fire to this part of Hegui Mountain and prevent it from expanding.

It's just that He Guishan can only end up with ashes all over the ground in flames. There is no way, when manpower is exhausted, such mountain fires cannot be extinguished even if modern science and technology are so advanced.

Higashino Yu and others took Hanako's body to the Hinode Town Police Station. Jinguji Nobuyoshi informed him in advance, so there was no misunderstanding. The child's cause of death stated that he was attacked by a wild beast.

Her parents have been contacted and will probably come to claim the body soon.

Police stations in the countryside do not have central air conditioning, so even though the lights in the police station are cool white, it makes people sweat even just sitting there.

The middle-aged policeman on duty in the hall was studying a chess book. He took a sip of scented tea from time to time and frowned. He seemed to be engaging in a battle of wits with something. Occasionally he looked up at the people in the hall, and then looked outside the police station. , after finding nothing unusual, he gathered his energy and continued to face the enemy.

Kaori Shiori, who was clamoring to help Hanako fulfill her wish, fell asleep leaning on the row of seats.

Hanako sat next to them, her slightly unreal body wearing a few sizes too big, her calves swaying slightly, staring at the potted plants in the hall in a daze, not knowing what she was thinking.

Jinguji Hiiragi sat opposite them and meditated with his eyes closed, Kunimitsu Isshin on his lap.

Xiuji is like a guard, alert to all the movements around him.

"Coffee?"

Higashino Yu handed over a bottle of iced canned coffee. Jinguji Hiiragi opened his eyes and was about to say something when two figures ran in from outside the police station.

They arrived in a hurry, seemed to have been running, and were breathing rapidly. They were a man and a woman, about thirty or forty years old.

"Dad, mom."

Hanako stood up immediately from the chair. She wanted to go over, but after looking at her illusory body, she couldn't move her legs.

After the two people arrived in the hall, they looked around in confusion, passing by Higashino Yu and others sitting in the hall, and landed on the policeman on duty.

The man took a deep breath, his breath trembling. He came to the policeman on duty, bowed down, and asked in a hoarse voice.

"Sorry to bother you, Okita Yasuo, could you please call me to tell me to come, come,"

He seemed to be stuck at this point, unable to say those few words.

The policeman on duty put down the chess game, looked up at the visitor, and asked for identity information. After confirming, he sighed: "My condolences. The body is temporarily placed here. Come with me."

He picked up a bunch of keys and stood up and took two steps. After thinking for a while, he said to the man: "Let your wife wait here. You can follow me in to claim the body. Because it was a wild animal attack, it may have a visual impact." relatively large.”

It doesn’t have to be Hanako, don’t be Hanako.

Okita Yasuo kept praying in his heart at this time, and even forgot to ask the reason for what happened, and numbly followed the police officer on duty to the lounge.

Dong Yeyu looked at the two figures and did not follow them. After they entered, there were a few conversations at first, but in the end there was only dead silence.