After searching for Nana Nishimura's information and videos, Huang Se admitted that her singing was indeed very good.

She had an innocent personality, a sweet voice, and a cute appearance. Her debut three months ago had already caused a heated discussion. Her representative works had been at the top of the monthly music charts for a long time. Her impeccable fashion sense had also been praised by fashion magazines.

This month, she had appeared on the cover of several magazines in one go and was called the "Most Ideal Beautiful Girl Girlfriend of the Modern Era."

What beautiful girl … Huang Se looked at the exquisite and beautiful face and felt that little Hyuga with her half-closed eyes was cuter.

Using the excuse of being haunted by 'monsters' as an excuse, he asked Nana Nishimura out for a chat. He wanted to find out more information about Nana Nishimura's ex-boyfriend.

Huang Se chatted with Nana Nishimura intermittently. His mind had already drifted to god knows where.

"So Kun Hwang and Miko-san know each other?" Nana Nishimura smiled and seemed to be very curious about Kanna Hyuga.

"That day, Miko-san left without saying goodbye. I'm really … so sorry."

"She won't care." Thinking of Kanna Hyuga's resolute action of not taking him out to play, Huang Se looked sad.

"Whether she cares or not is another matter. She saved me, so I should thank her."

Nana Nishimura pouted and was a little distressed. "I still don't know which shrine Miko-sama belongs to!"

"She …" Huang Se paused and showed a distressed smile. "That day, she also left directly. I don't know which shrine she belongs to."

"Speaking of which, Nishimura-san, have you ever thought about where zombies come from?" Huang Se asked with an innocent face.

Nana Nishimura seemed confused and shook her head. "About this, Miko-sama asked me about it that night as well. I don't know either."

"If that's the case — then there's no other way." Huang Se smiled and got up to get the coffee for Nana Nishimura.

The handsome blonde boy attentively brought the coffee and placed it in front of Nana Nishimura. After the girl thanked him somewhat awkwardly, he revealed a confident smile: "It's my honor to serve Nishimura-san."

Nana Nishimura blushed. Huang Se handed the sugar jar to Nana Nishimura and asked curiously, "I heard from Nana Nishimura that Nishimura-san broke up with her boyfriend last month?"

"Ah — yes, yes!"

Hearing Huang Se's words, Nana Nishimura seemed to be scalded. She lowered her head with a red face and stammered as she nodded.

"Actually, Matsuda-kun is very good. It's just because of me —"

She paused and suddenly raised her head with a panicked expression.

"I, I remember now. The zombies attached themselves to me when I left Matsuda-san's house!"

"And Matsuda-san, I haven't heard from him for five days!"

Bingo!

I was waiting for you to say that!

Huang Se immediately asked worriedly: "Are you okay?

Do you need help? "

Nana Nishimura's face was pale as she stammered: "I, I'll go to Matsuda-kun's house now!"

"You're going alone?

I'll go with you?

What if you encounter zombies again? "

Although he was happy in his heart, Huang Se still comforted Nana Nishimura considerately and said that he was worried about a girl going alone. He had to go with her to take a look.

Nana Nishimura laughed: "It's okay even if we encounter them. It's almost impossible for zombies to transform during the day unless it's at night. It's fine to find Miko-san before it gets dark."

But she couldn't resist Huang Se's insistence, so she had to agree to go with Huang Se.

Huang Se, who was anxious to see Kanai, paid the bill and was about to leave. When he opened the glass door, a haggard middle-aged woman came in. Huang Se, who had been absent-minded the whole time, directly bumped into the woman.

"Wah, that was close!

I'm really sorry! "

Relying on her outstanding motor skills, Huang Ase apologized as she bent down to help the woman pick up the flyer that had fallen on the ground.

"It's okay." The woman's face was haggard, her eyes were dark, and her voice was very hoarse.

"I'm really sorry." Nana Nishimura returned the woman's flyer and smiled apologetically at the woman.

This time, the woman's greenish-black eyes stared fixedly at Nainai Nainai's face. It was as if she had been possessed and was in a daze.

That focused and somewhat scary gaze made Nana Nishimura instinctively shrink to Huang Se's side.

"Auntie?" Wah, those eyes are scary … Huang Se forced a smile and returned the flyer to the woman.

The woman stared at Nana Nishimura in a daze for a while before she came back to her senses as if she had just woken up from a dream: "I'm really sorry." She seemed to be a little sad as she pursed her lips: "I'm really sorry."

She repeatedly apologized and handed one of the flyers in her arms to Nana Nishimura: "Excuse me, have you seen this girl?"

The flyer was printed with a beautiful girl wearing a high school uniform with a bright smile and a tear mole at the corner of her eye.

"This, this is my daughter.

She went missing three months ago on the way to school. "The woman's breathing was a little rapid," She should have been wearing her high school uniform when she went missing, with her hair down. "

"Excuse me, excuse me, have you seen her?"

She stared at Nana Nishimura and asked again.

"Excuse me, have you seen her?"

Facing the haggard woman, Nana Nishimura looked troubled. She thought for a while and shook her head: "… No."

"I'll keep an eye out for you." She looked at the woman seriously and promised.

The woman didn't know if she was disappointed or used to it, but she calmly nodded.

"If it's convenient, you can call this number." The woman handed the flyer with the phone number printed on it to Nana Nishimura. Seeing that she accepted it, she sighed in relief.

Then she bowed and thanked the woman.

"Your eyes are very similar to my daughter's."

After saying this to Nana Nishimura, the woman bowed to the two of them and walked into the coffee shop.

Huang Se walked out of the coffee shop with Nana Nishimura and heard the woman ask again and again:

"Excuse me, have you seen my daughter?"

*

When Kanna Hyuga woke up in a daze, she happened to see Shuweng standing in the corner of the bed with a strange expression on his face.

— — Did he get beaten up?

He definitely, definitely got beaten up, right?

Looking at Shuweng with a black eye over his left eye, Kanna Hyuga was speechless.

"Are you awake?"

A familiar voice sounded beside the bed. Kanna Hyuga quivered and jumped up from the bed.

"Aunt Shiyin!"

Yukimura Shiyin who was sitting beside the bed smiled and rubbed the girl's long hair. She put on a jacket for the girl who sat up.

"A few days ago, a troublesome demon broke into the land of Usen. It wasn't easy to get rid of it yesterday."

Yukimura Shiyin said, "Your uncle Ryōshou is still in Usen to deal with the aftermath. I was worried about you, so I came to see you first."

Yukimura Shiyin was a famous barrier master and the 22nd head of the Yukimura family. Coincidentally, her husband was the head of the Yukimura family's enemy, the Kumura family's head, Kumura Yoshimori.

Because of this, Yukimura Shiyin didn't change her surname after marrying Ryōshou. She was still carrying out her duties and responsibilities as the head of the Yukimura family.

What made the couple even more troubled was that the seal that their son, Kimura Umoru, used to prove his lineage as a barrier master, was on his left chest instead of his right palm. This meant that Kimura Umoru should be the next head of the Yukimura family.

Because of this, the elders of the Yukimura family almost quarreled with each other. The elders of the two families almost turned against each other because of this.

=)

At the critical moment (?)

The birth of Kanna Hyuga saved the marriage of the two elders who were almost forced to divorce.

Kanai's mother, Hyuga Guardian Star, was Kumura Yoshimori's sister. After giving birth to Kanna Hyuga, she soon discovered that her daughter's right palm had the seal that symbolized the rightful head of the Kumura family.

With this, the heirs of the Kumura family and the Yukimura family were finally settled. Kumura Yoshimori finally got rid of his wife's cold face and family's pressure. He turned his attention to snatching the child from the Sunset Shrine (?)

Fortunately, Kanai's father, Hyuga Kusanagi, was a very gentle and ordinary person. Her sister, who had powerful spiritual power, ran to the Warring States Period and married a demon. Ryōshou could finally teach the next head of the family how to use a barrier. The process was filled with blood and tears.

But no matter what, Kanai's surname was Hyuga.

Ryōshou and Shiyin couldn't help but indulge this diligent and talented girl a little more.

"… But indulging doesn't mean that I won't beat up your Spirit-branded Retainer!"

Yukimura Shion, with her cold eyes and powerful aura, coldly glared at the book elder who had an innocent look on his face.

In the face of the powerful queen, the weak silver-haired demon helplessly stretched out his hand and shook it, silently indicating his surrender.

Yukimura Shiyin stopped correcting the demon who wasn't pure in nature and stared sternly at Kanai. "Kanai, do you still remember what I told you a long time ago? The forbidden area of our Shinto is absolutely, absolutely forbidden?"

Kanna Hyuga's face suddenly became hot and red.

"Can't … can't kill people with techniques."

In the rules of Japanese Shinto, the most basic and most important rule was that one couldn't hurt people, couldn't interfere with the real world, and only cared about ghosts and gods.

Adhering to this rule was the guarantee for the stable development of Japanese Shinto.

"Then tell me, what were you thinking just now?" Yukimura Shiyin said sternly.

"I, I …" Kanna Hyuga's eyes reddened, she bit her lip and looked at Shiyin who was usually gentle to her, and cried, "I wanted Shuweng to kill that murderer."

"I saw what they looked like when they died."

"I can feel their pain."

"I heard their cries when they were locked in there, it was so despairing."

In front of Yukimura Shiyin, Kanna Hyuga, who had no scruples, cried and hiccuped, her face full of embarrassment.

"If we hand it over to the police, to the law, even if it's a death sentence, so what?"

"I, I just want him to taste the pain of those victims, it's only fair!!"

Standing in the corner, Shuweng looked at his child with a complicated expression.

Just now, when Shiyin barged in and beat him back and forth with a barrier, he didn't feel much pain. At most, he felt a little embarrassed.

Now, looking at his child crying herself hoarse, Shuweng felt a dull pain in his heart.

"Do you want to destroy her?!"

Pressed to the ground by the barrier, Shuweng heard Yukimura Shiyin's cold rebuke, but he wasn't angry or afraid. He raised his head and looked firmly at the powerful barrier master: "We, Spirit-branded Retainers, will do everything in our power to help Master. If Master has orders … no matter what order it is, we will do it."

As long as Kanai wanted it, no matter what it was, even if it was the stars in the sky, they would give it to her.

If she wanted to do something, so what if she fell into hell and was forbidden by the Shinto?

In the next second, a light green barrier appeared out of nowhere. The huge force knocked Shuweng, who was already weak among demons, to the side.

"You don't understand at all." Yukimura Shiyin looked at Shuweng disappointedly.

"You don't understand at all. As a human, there are things to do and things not to do."

Don't understand …

How could a demon understand?

Yukimura Shiyin finally couldn't help but hug the wronged little girl tightly in his arms.

"Kanai … Kanai, Kanai …"

"Good girl."

Shiyin gently hugged the little girl and patted Kanna Hyuga's back with his right hand.

"I know what you're thinking. I understand.

This kind of thing … I've seen it before. "

Yukimura Shiyin had taken on the responsibility of a barrier master since the age of eleven, taking on the responsibility of protecting the land of Usen.

She and Ryōshou had destroyed the great demons that were exiled from the Demon Realm, made friends with half-demons, and entered the Demon Realm to challenge the Black Light Tower. She had also seen humans who were even more evil than demons.

"There are thousands of ways to kill people in this world. If you use spells to kill someone who has committed a heinous crime, even the Shinto won't look too deeply into it."

"But, my Kanai, to make someone stop breathing and end their life … it's not something that can be done with just a word of mouth or a command."

"I know you have Shuweng, Red Leaf, and many other great demons who are much stronger than me as your Shikigami."

"However, once you take this step, once you start this precedent, what will you become?

Once you do it, there's no turning back! "

"How can that kind of person be worth dirtying your hands?"

*

"That … is this road really in the direction of Matsuda-san's house?"

Sitting in the taxi, Huang Se's heart was pounding as he watched himself getting further and further away from the city.

Looking at Nana Nishimura who was smiling obediently at him, he couldn't help but feel a chill run down his spine.

It was as if something in his mind was screaming at him, telling him 'Don't go, idiot!'.

Huang Se was a bit scared.

"It's indeed this way. His house is in the suburbs, so it might be a bit far." Nana Nishimura glanced at Huang Se. "Kun Hwang … you're not afraid, are you?"

In an instant, Huang Se recalled the tragic past when Kanna Hyuga gave him the cold shoulder and didn't want to play with him. He puffed out his chest and said subconsciously, "Why would I be!"

In any case, Kanai should be there as well. What's there to be afraid of!

"That's good … Actually, every time I go to Matsuda-san's villa, I also feel a bit creepy."