Why are there only loser heroines around me?

Although buying monsters sounds outrageous, the fact is that many people in the circle are interested in such items. As Yanami just said, the government has now started selling monster pets.

Since there is a market for those cute and adorable monsters, there will naturally also be a market for some monsters that look ferocious, ugly, disgusting, and can attack and hurt people at any time.

Just like some people like to keep cats and dogs, some people prefer to keep large grassland predators like leopards and cougars.

Ukyo stared into his employer's eyes and said, "The yellow paper inscription on the bronze coffin is well drawn, but spells also rely on logic, just like circuit diagrams, they need switches, light bulbs, and power supplies, and they also involve series and parallel connections. You drew many pentagrams commonly used in Platycodon seals on the yellow paper inscription, but unfortunately, you only have a superficial understanding of Chinese spells. Platycodon seals are not used there."

"There's no [Talisman Head], the title of the deity being requested is scribbled randomly, the decree is written in the style of Harumi, there's no binding rope, there's no Earth Pillar or Sky Pillar, there's no request, there's no Talisman Core, and the Talisman ends with the Genji God Control Talisman. For an exorcist, you've learned quite a variety of things."

Volume 103: Chapter 6 Why Are You All in Massachusetts? (5K)

"Also, the yellow paper you're using is too new. Did you buy it last week?"

At this point, Ukyo's eyes were already showing a hint of anger.

"——Bang~!" He suddenly kicked the bronze coffin open, startling Yanajian, who was still a little confused about the situation. The bronze coffin lid flew far away. Yanajian's eyes followed the lid down, and his mouth opened slightly into an "o" shape. Although this thing is not old, it is also bronze!

The Yunnan Dabona bronze coffin is about two meters long and weighs about 250 kilograms.

The bronze coffin here looked to be about two meters long, and the devil Ukyo actually kicked the coffin lid open so easily?

She regained her understanding of the demon Ukyo's "great strength", although after the revival of the supernatural, many people have experienced a slow increase in strength, especially practitioners of professions such as swordsmen and martial artists.

But isn’t Youjing’s growth rate a bit too fast?

As soon as this thought popped up in his mind, Yanami felt relieved immediately. He was originally very strong, but for a man who could tear open a Ferrari door with his bare hands, if the previous Ukyo was used as a reference to compare with the current Ukyo, then his growth seemed to be within the normal range.

"Well, I guess so..."

......

...

The bronze coffin was empty. Not only was there no sealed demon, there wasn't even the most common rat in Fengqiao.

There was no need for Ukyo to say anything, Yanami had already learned to call Mori on her own initiative. Poor him, he had to run around for the two of them again today.

This kind of counterfeiting related to supernatural events is a new type of crime. Youjing didn't know how to sentence it, nor did he know whether there was relevant content in the relevant laws and regulations. However, the other party had pointed it out before committing the fraud, so he actually saved his employer's life. When he arrived at the police station, he was only given a verbal education at most.

"Mr. Ukyo, could you please consider that this is my first offense and we are all colleagues..."

"Don't tell me this. Tell the police."

The employer looked a little pitiful.

"Mr. Ukyo, I'm running out of money to build the shrine, so I've resorted to this desperate measure. Could you please..."

Building shrines is a job for the wealthy, usually "rich people" who want to expand their social influence and build shrines for people to worship in their local area. Or some businessmen use shrines to boost the surrounding commodity economy in order to make a profit.

This was the first time Ukyo had seen a shrine built specifically to enshrine a sacred sword, like his employer.

He would not sympathize with the other party, let alone give him a break. Ukyo would only tell him to receive education in the police station and try to get out as soon as possible.

Also, settle the commission fee.

I have issued you the appraisal certificate. It is a fake. According to the initial agreement between the two parties, he cannot escape the commission fee of 2 US dollars.

......

...

On the way back, Yanami walked in front of Ukyo and stretched. In the video of the relationship blogger she was watching, there was a part about "showing your body to your secret crush and observing the other person's reaction."

Maybe it was because the weather was very cold today and she was wearing too much, so the stretching action failed to show off her beautiful figure. It may also be that Ukyo was not interested in her, but... it is worth mentioning that Yanami seemed to see that Ukyo's eyes did linger on her waist for a few times.

"Does he like waists?" Yana thought.

It seems that I really need to control my diet in the future. After all, the waist is the hardest part of the body to lose weight, and every time I gain weight, it always grows on the waist first.

"Gurgle gurgle~" Just as I was thinking about controlling my diet, my stomach started to growl.

Forget it, I’ll control my diet tomorrow!

Seeing that he wanted to cry but couldn't, Yana rubbed his stomach, tugged at Ukyo's sleeve and said, "I'm hungry, let's go eat some pork bone noodles!"

Ukyo remembered that he had eaten fried udon with Yanami not long ago.

Is it carbs again today?

Ukyo suppressed his urge to complain, he already knew that he was not good at complaining about this in front of others. Carbohydrates are carbohydrates, and pork bone noodles... he also likes them.

.....

...

The wind whipped up a frenzy of fallen leaves. A girl slurped noodles at a tonkotsu ramen stall, her sunglasses pushed up high above her forehead. Her long, silky blue hair took on a deep golden hue against the setting sun. Yanami had seen her fellow Exorcists wearing sunglasses in their LINE posts, as if sunglasses were standard Exorcist gear. So she bought some too, Ray-Bans. She'd asked Arthur which brand was best, and he'd kindly sent her a link to the official Ray-Ban website.

The old exorcist immediately saw through the mentality of Yanami, a "junior" who had just entered the industry. When he was young, he was also obsessed with sunglasses and thought they were very cool. This mentality continued even after he was 30 years old.

After clicking on the link, Yanami found that what Arthur sent her was the couple's version from the official website, the women's version for $988 and the men's version for $1088. Yanami made up her mind and bought both. She was obviously a wealthy woman now, but for some reason, when the money flowed out of her account, her heart still felt a pang.

This happened a week ago.

Another pair of sunglasses that Yanami bought was lying in the drawer of her desk. She had always wanted to give it to Ukyo, but she never had the chance.

Yanami thought like this...If eating something handed to him by a girl is within Ukyo's acceptable range, then accepting a gift from a girl might be a bit beyond his scope in his opinion, so even if she gave it to him, Ukyo would most likely not accept it.

But I can’t just leave my sunglasses in a drawer gathering dust, right? They cost $1088!

Today seemed like a good opportunity. Ukyo had been very tolerant of her attempts, both big and small. Although there had been a few minor disagreements regarding the commission, she had received the full commission fee, hadn't she? And there hadn't been any fighting; the whole process had been quite relaxing.

Yanami moved the chair towards Ukyo. She saw that Ukyo had already eaten the pork in his bowl. The remaining large bowl of noodles would inevitably taste a bit monotonous, so Yanami put the meat from her own large portion of tonkotsu ramen into Ukyo's bowl and said with a smile, "The meat in my bowl seems to be particularly delicious. Try it!"

Although Yanami has a big appetite, he is never reluctant to share food with others. Ukyo didn't think there was anything abnormal about this behavior, but when he saw Yanami gave him the last piece of meat in his bowl, the originally non-monotonous super-large portion of pork bone ramen now seemed monotonous.

Ukyo thought about it in the direction of "emotion", but the most fundamental reason for this phenomenon was that there was not enough meat in the extra-large and medium-sized portions of noodles, so Ukyo raised his hand and asked the boss to add a portion of meat. This made Yanai, who originally wanted to control her weight, start to turn pale.

"We..." Yanai saw that his speech became a little hesitant.

"What's wrong?" Youjing asked subconsciously.

"Let's not take the tram home. Let's walk. I suddenly feel like walking more."

"But I don't really want to leave." Ukyo raised his left hand, glanced at the time, and said, "I don't want to break my schedule again. It takes more than two hours to walk from here to my house, but it only takes 20 minutes by train. If we walk that far, you might as well have a late-night snack when you get home."

With Ukyo's insight and understanding of Yanami, how could he not know that the other party wanted to use walking to burn calories?

If he had no special plans today, You Jing would be happy to accompany her for a walk after dinner, but according to his original schedule, today he wanted to read books related to "Horror Hunter", Luo Lao's "Dreaming of the Secret Realm of Kadath" and Reds' novel "The Lurker in the Portal"

He recently set aside time every night to "imprint" the relevant information of these creatures in his mind, so as to ensure that when he encounters related monsters, he can quickly know their weaknesses and countermeasures.

To put it simply, he would summarize the contents of these books in a concise manner, then memorize them, store them in his brain like a spare hard drive, and take them out when needed.

Just like an investigator would set a "safe word" in his mind to ensure that he could successfully find himself when he fell into the mind control of some strange creature, Ukyo also designed a "safe word", which was also used to escape the mind control of certain creatures, and could also be used to awaken his memories imprinted deep in his brain.

He knew that some dragons had extremely strong alchemical fields that could completely erase a person's existence from the world. The purpose of doing this was to prevent similar things from happening after the revival of the supernatural.

The safe word must be something he can remember even in extreme situations. For example, Toby's safe words are the Statue of Liberty and cranberries, because he lives near the Statue of Liberty and can see it every day, and cranberries are his favorite fruit. He eats them almost every day when cranberries are ripe, and there is always cranberry jam in his refrigerator in other seasons.

Ukyo's safe words are "Yanami", "Junyan", "Su Xiaoyan" and "Tang Guihua". He sees Yanami almost every day, so if he falls into a certain spiritual realm, the probability of remembering this word is the highest. Needless to say, the other words are all things that have left a deep impression in his memory. The number of safe words varies from person to person. He set five, and at the same time tried to avoid names that would make him feel "sad" when he thought of them.

Sadness is a negative emotion that will make you sink deeper and deeper into the spiritual realm, so the safe word should be something ordinary and make the person feel warm, such as Toby's Statue of Liberty and cranberries, and his Yanami and Su Xiaoyan.

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The trams are a bit crowded at night.

He and Yanami were stuck at the 18 p.m. rush hour, and the train took more than ten stops to reach their destination. It was already eight o'clock when they got off the train. Yanami really wanted to give her sunglasses to Ukyo, but Ukyo would definitely not take the long way to walk to her house and wait for her to take off her sunglasses, so today was not the opportunity to give her sunglasses.

They parted ways at the end of the platform.

Yanami looked back as she walked, hoping that one day she would look back and meet Ukyo's eyes in tacit understanding, but she looked back five times in total and Ukyo never looked back once. In the end, she could only watch his back gradually disappear at the end of the platform.

I secretly took out my cell phone and pressed the shutter button of Youjing's leaving back.

She always secretly recorded these little things between her and Youjing, because Youjing didn't want to have his photo taken, and most boys didn't want to have their photos taken. Even couples who knew each other very well were usually perfunctory when they appeared in each other's camera.

For boys, they usually only choose to take group photos when facing major events in their lives, such as the last group photo with roommates before graduation when they are about to go their separate ways.

Their requirements for photos are very low. As long as the person can appear in the camera frame, nothing else matters.

Ukyo's requirements for photos are the same.

So he doesn't mind Yanami taking the initiative to take pictures of himself, but Yanami may take pictures, but he won't cater to the camera and make scissors hands or something like that. This makes all the photos of people in Yanami's phone look very natural, and at the same time carry a bit of inexplicable pain of adolescence, such as this photo of "Platform Back View"

But in fact, Ukyo also looked back, but their eyes did not meet. When he was leaving, he saw Yana's lips moving, as if she wanted to say something, so he thought about looking back and asking, but the only time he looked back, the distance between them was already very far. Ukyo thought it didn't matter whether he said it or not, because they would meet again someday.

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One day later.

noon.

Night Watch Channel

White Horse (IP address: Massachusetts): "Have you heard about the recent disappearance of the exorcist in Massachusetts?"

Kotoko Iwanaga (IP Address: Florida): "I heard that he went to investigate a missing persons case at a church near the Miskatonic River, but ended up being a missing person himself. Arthur said on the channel yesterday that he's going to Massachusetts after the auto show. I wonder if he's going there too."

Mao Li (IP address: Fengqiao): "What are you talking about? Why haven't I heard anything?"

Iwanaga Kotoko: "@Ukyo, can you please kick out that old, useless detective? Talking to him is a bit of a drain on my brain."

Maori: "Nu Nu! (Emoji: Going to work!)"

Yanami squinted in front of the screen and held the phone farther away. She found it hard to imagine what Maori was thinking when he uttered the word "angry".

Why does it feel a bit sad to see an old office worker who works all year round trying hard to fit in with the young people?

Ukyo saw Iwanaga Kotoko's tag. Why did she and Hakuba both go to the United States?

Bai Ma and Arthur are both "wild detectives", the type who follow the case and it is normal for them to appear anywhere.

But Iwanaga Kotoko and Daoye Jiang are the kind of exorcists with "regional blessings". If Iwanaga Kotoko leaves Japan, the local monsters in other regions will not listen to her, the "Japanese Monster Princess". Similarly, Daoye Jiang's Taoist magic can mobilize the spiritual energy of the earth veins near Taihang Mountain. Once he leaves Taihang Mountain, his magic power will be greatly reduced.

Carrying a knife but no umbrella on a rainy night (Ukyo): "@Iwanaga Kotoko, why did you run to Florida?"

Iwanaga Kotoko: "I was originally planning to go to Massachusetts with Kuro...but I received another request along the way and was forced to change my schedule. Now we are on our way to Massachusetts."

Bai Ma: "Are you here for that missing person case?"

"Yes," Qinzi said softly. "They paid a commission of 150 million yuan, and even took a 50 yuan deposit. Who would be reluctant about money? I've never been to the United States, so I'm just treating it as a trip."

Massachusetts...Ukyo was very familiar with this place name.

The fact that he had lived in the United States was only one of the reasons. The more important reason was that the place name Massachusetts had appeared many times in different Massachusetts novels. Many novels written in the 50s and 60s were set in this continent.

Back then, the United States was not as developed as it is today. Massachusetts was sparsely populated and had incomplete infrastructure. While it was densely wooded, with numerous intricate trails in the woods, it was a naturally eerie place.

Of course, this situation was only limited to the 1950s and 1960s. Now the area is quite well developed, but the rural suburbs far away from the city have not changed in terms of being "unfrequently visited".

After the revival of the supernatural, that place became a disaster area full of ghosts and monsters. Many supernatural detectives and exorcists were keen to go there because they could get business.

White Horse (IP address: Massachusetts): "Arthur and I had a pretty good relationship. The day before he disappeared, he complained to me about that place. He said his employer asked him to destroy a photo. The photo looked scary, but it didn't bother him at all. He cut it up and soaked it in holy water. Not long after, the photo melted away. But a few days later, he suddenly sent me a distress signal, just an SOS."

"And... I don't know if you've noticed, but all the electronic files on my phone related to the Cthulhu Mythos have disappeared. Also, the shelves at home where Cthulhu Mythos or related journals should have been are now filled with other books."

Yanai was stunned when he saw the message.

She also has a Cthulhu work, "Call of Cthulhu", which was easily available on Amazon before the government banned the Cthulhu mythology on the entire Internet. She was still reading it before going to bed last night.

"Hmm?" Yanami, lying on the bed, scratched her hair. She remembered that she had placed it on the bedside table after reading it yesterday...

"Did I throw it into the drawer?" She opened the drawer under the bedside table and looked inside. Her hairbands and hairpins were scattered in the drawer, and the "Call of Cthulhu" in her memory did not appear.

Maybe under the bed...

Yanami lay down and saw the cat mandrill taking an afternoon nap under the bed. It had a struggling mouse in its mouth and its belly was slightly bulging, as if it had eaten too much. Yanami squinted her eyes and felt that the cat mandrill seemed to have grown twice as big. Should she control the amount of food her little pet ate every day?

"Eh?" Yanaijian was suddenly startled. What was she about to do just now?

I feel like I suddenly forgot something very important.

She picked up her phone idly and planned to check the Night Watchman channel. The people in it were discussing the hit movie of the season, "Where the Death God Sinks". The Death God in the story was a monster that looked very much like a low-level demon. The locals in Massachusetts called it "Death God". Anyone who made a sound after nightfall would become the target of the Death God.

This movie is advertised as a "new-age adventure film", but it is actually a horror film.

Psychic detectives are all worried that the things described in this movie will invade reality due to the influence of the revival of the supernatural. The "Grim Reaper" described in the movie is extremely fast, and ordinary pistol bullets can hardly penetrate its muscles. Moreover, its speed in the dark night is as fast as a ghost. If this thing comes, it will definitely cause trouble for them, the demon hunters.

Governments around the world have clearly issued mandatory bans prohibiting the production of horror films, but this movie skirted the "adventure" theme and was successfully released.

It has been in theaters for seven days now, and the box office in the United States alone has exceeded 3 million US dollars. The audience is very curious, and the lack of horror movies in recent times has made all horror movie lovers look forward to this new movie.