I loaded the ghost talk game

In this world, at Kamiyakawa's home.

In the bedroom on the second floor, Kamiya woke up.

In the room, thin strips of petals from the other side floated and dissipated, and in a slender bright red, JK Yan Moxiang Yuexun appeared.

She was originally half a shikigami of Kamiya River, so she could appear directly next to Kamiya like Mari and Hannya.

But because only half of his body has a shikigami contract with Kamiya, he has more freedom to move around than other shikigami.

Snap.

Xiang Yuexun closed the folding fan in her right hand and gently tapped the palm of her left hand.

She looked around Kamiya's bedroom: "It's so powerful. He is obviously a stranger, but he can freely travel between the worlds of humans and monsters."

"To make Lord Yama obey my orders, I must have some special talents."

Kamiyakawa sat up from the big bed.

"Hmm..." The girl from Styx snorted noncommittally, "What day is today?"

"January 29th."

"It seems to be just in time."

"What can we catch up with?"

"Master Kamiya." Xiangyue Xun glanced at the bedroom cloakroom and continued talking to himself, "Change into more formal and serious clothes, and then go out with me."

"You can tell me what we are going to do, right?"

Although he agreed to Enma Girl's request with the intention of getting closer to the new shikigami, Kamiya still doesn't know what the other party wants to do.

"Come with me to a funeral."

"ah?"

…

In the living room on the first floor.

Luyeya was facing away from the sliding door on the side of the corridor, leaning on the coffee table doing homework.

Today was a rare day in a week when she was not assigned to perform soul-clearing homework, but that didn't mean she could be completely free. After all, she still had to complete her schoolwork.

"Uh-huh……"

The ballpoint pen stroked across the draft paper, making a rustling sound.

Only halfway through the calculations, the deer suddenly felt something, put the pen tip against his soft cheek, and turned around.

When he turned around, he saw his master, wearing a black suit, passing by the corridor.

Beside him was a completely unfamiliar girl wearing a sailor suit.

"Alas!"

The deer's pupils dilated and he exclaimed.

what happened?

Master, why did he come downstairs with a beautiful girl he has never seen before! ?

This, what should I do with Sister Ying?

Both Kamiyagawa and Xiangzuki Kaoru who were passing by in the corridor stopped.

The girl from the underworld glanced into the living room, then looked at Kamiya, and spoke in a strange elder tone: "Your daughter? She's quite cute."

"...My apprentice Kanoya Yukino. No matter how you look at it, you shouldn't think of us as father and daughter, right?"

Kamiyakawa was speechless.

There is only about three years of age difference between me and Xiaolu.

What a look!

"Oh, disciple who entered the house." Xiang Yuexun nodded lightly, then shook the folding fan in his hand and explained matter-of-factly, "Appearance and actual age may not match. So no matter what your relationship is, I will not It felt unexpected.”

"Then let me think in a more normal direction."

Kamiya felt that Enma Girl's words seemed a bit strange.

But before he could think about it, Lu Yewu interrupted: "Master, who is this sister?"

"Oh, Xiangyue Xun. As I told you before, the Yama in Santu River has just officially awakened." Kamiya introduced.

"Miss Luyewu, please welcome me." Xiangyue greeted Xiaolu quite formally.

"Gui... good afternoon! Sister Yan Mo." Kanoya stood up from the ground.

Yes, this sister Xiangyue does not smell like a human being.

"Xiaolu, please take good care of your house. I want to go out with Miss Xiangyue."

"Okay~"

After greeting his apprentice, Kamiya led Enma Girl towards the entrance.

Xiaolu sat down in front of the coffee table again, turned over the homework, and felt relieved: "It's a strange story, so it's okay."

Sister Ying can still be saved.

No...that's not right!

Why do I think it’s okay if it’s a weird story?

This must be Master's fault!

There are just too many weird stories about women around him!

…

Hachioji City, Tokyo.

Under Xiang Yuexun's guidance, Oishi Junma drove the ghost car to a relatively independent courtyard away from the center of the city.

After Kamiya and Xiangyue got out of the car, Dashi stuck his head out of the cab window: "Boss, I'll wait for you and Miss Xiangyue here."

"good."

"Thank you, young man." Xiang Yuexun bowed lightly towards Huangmao Dashi, and then walked slowly towards the other courtyard.

Wait until they leave.

Dashi, who was lying on the edge of the car window, scratched his head, his face full of confusion: "Strange, this Miss Xiangyue clearly looks like a female high school student, how come she makes pies like my grandma?"

It's really confusing.

A funeral ceremony is indeed being held over there in the courtyard house.

To be precise, “all night long.”

Funeral customs vary across Japan, with a typical funeral near Tokyo lasting two days. The first day is "all night", when family members and relatives of the deceased will hold a vigil. Then the next day is the farewell ceremony. After asking the mage to recite sutras and say a final farewell to the deceased, the body will be sent for cremation.

Xiang Yuexun, who is a Kaidan, has hidden her aura at this moment, so ordinary people cannot notice her existence.

And because Kamiyagawa was dressed in serious clothes, his appearance here did not look out of place at all.

After approaching the other courtyard, Kamiya noticed that the note hanging at the door read: [香月]

The person in charge of entertaining outside was a middle-aged man in his forties. Seeing a strange young man coming over, the man seemed a little surprised: "Who are you?"

"I am Kamiya."

Kamiyagawa first took out the "Yu Lingmae" that he had prepared in advance, which was a paper bag specially used to hold funeral gifts.

There was 5,000 yen in it.

After handing over the gift money, he gestured with his eyes to Xiang Yuexun who could not be seen by ordinary people.

Enma girl tapped her palm with her closed folding fan: "You and Xiangyue-san met in the chess hall, about a month ago."

Kamiyagawa repeated this statement without changing his expression.

The man opposite nodded with a relieved expression, first took the "Yu Ling Qian" letter with both hands, and then handed it back: "No gift money will be accepted. Thank you for coming to say goodbye to my aunt, Kamiya-kun. I have such a sensible junior like you. , I think my aunt will be pleased."

"Um……"

Kamiyakawa answered vaguely, thoughtfully.

Then, he followed the man towards the yard.

Not many people came here to pay their respects, and even after entering the door, they couldn't see many.

The men in the Xiangyue family seemed to have noticed Kamiya's expression: "Auntie, she was never married and didn't have many friends. After all, she had such a strange disease. So there were very few people who could come to see her off. Earlier, the chess club There was a representative here, but he has left now."

"sick?"

"Ah, my aunt didn't mention it to you... either." Mr. Xiangyue stopped talking.

He brought Kamiyakawa to the mourning hall, but there was no one here either.

There is a black and white portrait of the deceased in the middle of the altar, with lotus lanterns, flower baskets, flowers, and fruits on both sides, and the coffin is placed in the front.

Mr. Xiangyue arched his body towards the portrait and walked out again.

He felt very sorry for his aunt.

Such a strange disease...

At the same time, Mr. Xiangyue couldn't help but think about the boy his aunt met in the chess hall in the last month of her life.

How does the aunt view this "junior" who has the same hobbies as her?

In a sense, the two of them should be considered peers, right?

But one is young and handsome, and the other is old.

What would the aunt be thinking when facing this boy?

have no idea.

It is estimated that no one in this world can feel the same as her.

Mr. Xiangyue left, and only Kamiyagawa and the girl from the underworld were left in the mourning hall.

Kamiya shifted his gaze to the altar and looked at the portrait.

The black and white photo showed a thin but energetic old woman.

"That is?"

Kamiya looked at Xiangyue Xun beside him and spoke tentatively.

The latter was very calm and shrugged: "Yes, that's me. Most people rarely have the opportunity to attend their own funeral, right?"

"Why?"

Although he was mentally prepared, Kamiyagawa was still a little confused after hearing the exact answer.

"Why did you bring me here? I want to say goodbye to my past self and confirm some things."

"Actually, I want to ask, why are you like you are now?"

Kamiya finally understood why Xiangyue Xun, who was clearly JK, behaved in such an old-fashioned way.

And what does the sentence "Appearance and actual age may not necessarily match" mean.

Although the body has become smaller, the mind is still that of an old man, right...

"Why do I look like a girl now? I should ask you this, right? Didn't you wake me up? I thought it was your personal hobby." The folding fan patted on the young palm, and Xiang Yuexun looked thoughtful. "But maybe it's because my soul is still that of a girl?"

Kamiyagawa:?

Okay, completely incomprehensible.

But amid doubts, Kamiya still caught some clues of inspiration: "The disease that Mr. Xiangyue mentioned just now?"

"Well, I'm sick." Xiang Yuexun nodded calmly, "When I was 17 years old, I probably had just won the title of female general. It left a deep impression on me, because at that time I was very hopeful of being promoted to the top. Enter the fourth level and become a true chess player..."

Kaoru Kozuki is a talented female shogi player who appears in the world of shogi like a comet.

During his service, at the age of 17, he held four female shogi player titles: Queen, Onona Throne, Onona Shogun, and Kurashiki Touka.

Among them, the two titles of "Ononna Throne" and "Empress Kurashiki Touka", because the number of title battles won reaches the standard, they will enjoy "eternal qualifications" during their service period, which are the so-called "Empress Throne" and "Empress Kurashiki Touka" .

However, this talented shogi player was active in the shogi world more than sixty years ago.

At that time, the status of female chess players was not taken seriously.

After winning the title of Shogi Shogun, Kaoru Kaoru's name never appeared in the shogi world again.

As she said, she was sick.

An extremely weird and unreasonable disease.

After Xiangyue Xun fell asleep on an ordinary night, she never woke up again.

Like Sleeping Beauty in a fairy tale.

Of course, a more realistic way of saying it is in a vegetative state.

Xiang Yuexun, who fainted, was taken to the hospital, and there was no abnormality in her body after examination.

But she slept like that for a long time without waking up, and could only rely on medical equipment to maintain her life.

Moreover, compared to other vegetative cases, Xiang Yuexun's state is even more strange. Her vital signs are very stable, and she has not shown severe muscle atrophy despite being in bed for a long time.

"When I woke up for the first time, it seemed like five years had passed. But I didn't have any real feeling about it. For me, it was just a sleep. After a period of rehabilitation training, I left the hospital smoothly. I originally thought the situation would get better, but about two months later...I fell into a long sleep again, and it will be eight years since I came back."

Xiang Yuexun's tone was calm, not as if she was telling her own experience, but as if she was telling the story of someone unrelated to her.

Time goes around like this, waking up for a while, and then falling asleep again in a long sleep night that I don't know when it will come.

As far as Xiang Yuexun is concerned, only about a year has passed.

But several times during this year, she woke up from her hospital bed and could see her own face in the mirror, changing from a girl to an adult, then to middle age, and then to old age.

Everything happened within "one year".

For a young girl, this is extremely cruel.

She hasn't had time to enjoy her youth, she hasn't had time to become a real chess player, and compete with the top professional chess players for titles such as "Dragon King", "Rui Wang", and "Chess Saint".

Her originally splendid life suddenly jumped to a stage of exhaustion.

The last time Xiang Yuexun woke up was two months ago.

An 18-year-old young soul was stuffed into a dying old body.

Just as her nephew Mr. Xiangyue thought, no one in the world could feel the same way as Xiangyue.

Xiang Yuexun, who woke up for the last time, knew that her time was running out and calmly accepted her impending death.

Maybe it was peaceful, no one knew.

She went to have her portrait taken, contacted the funeral company to make funeral arrangements for herself, and also went to a shogi parlor several times.

In this day and age, there are many things that she cannot understand.

AI has had an irreversible impact on chess; the status of female chess players has increased to a certain extent...

In the era of Xiang Yuexun, female shogi players who debuted at around 10 years old like her were rare, but now it seems that it is not uncommon.

"Actually, I think that this era...maybe not bad at all." Xiang Yuexun said while standing in front of her portrait and coffin, "There are very few people like me who can observe the sixties with a young and curious mind. The world after 2018.”

Kamiyakawa was silent.

Looking up at the altar again, I felt that the candlelight beside the portrait made the yellow and white flowers dazzling.

"Shogi... So the inscription on your folding fan is your title?"

"Otherwise, what do you think it is?" Kaoru Kaoru unfolded the folding fan, "Yes, what is in front of you is Queen Kaoru, Onyū Shogun, Queen Throne, Queen Kurashiki Touka Kaoru of the shogi world. Oh, at the same time, she is The new master of Santuchuan, Lord Yama."

Kamiyagawa:……

What a long mouth.

Understand, it’s not that Kozuki Kaoru is a good middle school student, but the Japanese who came up with these titles are quite good at middle school.

"So your illness...?"

"I ask you to bring me here just to confirm again." Yama girl nodded, her expression still cold, "Yama's power is quite convenient, now I can be sure, I am not sick, there is a curse on me. .”

"curse?"

Kamiyachuan narrowed his eyes and looked at the coffin.

He could indeed feel a little different kind of power, but perhaps it was because Xiang Yuexun's body was dead and the remaining power was not clearly visible.

Snap.

The folding fan in Yan Mo girl's hand was struck twice between the young and elastic palms:

"Well, do you know Xiao Binze?" (End of chapter)