"... let's not. I'll do anything, so let's not do this, shall we?

In the middle of the mountain, Sai and Sinji were walking on mountain roads that each person could pass through.

Only on the path through which a man passes does the ground appear, and the light leaks from while the trees thrive.

Against that soft, warm wooden leak day, Sei speaks to Syndicate's back with a face that looks sincerely unpleasant.

"Yes, no, no."

Syndicate refuses Sai's request with a full grin.

"... ha"

Since entering the mountain path of Hakkiyama, where Sai's home is located, he has repeated it many times, pleading.

He continues to refuse the plea, and Sei finally gives up and bows his head.

"Why are you going to my house... I said, right? There's nobody in my house. If you were there, your life would be in danger."

Sai's family is just as fierce.

It's a bunch of fierce people.

That group, too, would be away from home on guard duty if they were alive, and if they were dead and dead, that would only be a threat.

When I tried from Sai, Syndicate's behavior as she was about to go to Sai's house just seemed pointless and risky.

If you die in the hands of your own family, no problem, but if someone in Sai's family is dead and Syndicate is killed by that person... imagine the situation and Sai shivers.

That's all I wanted to avoid at all costs.

"Why, Mr. Changchun's house also runs a security company, right?

Leaving room for Sai's worries, Syndicate keeps walking in front of Sai, looking at iGOD with a swallowing look as if she really enjoys hiking.

"Yes, not for the general public, but mainly for the protection of dignitaries and the security of large companies…"

"TSC, Evergreen Security Company… a security company that boasts some of the best in the country, such as overseas presidents, who are also entrusted with some of the protection of dignitaries in the national guest class. Minority elitism, small number of employees, every one of them is one of the best martial artists in Japan."

Even, looking at iGOD, Syndicate says.

"... Huh?

"Hey, I looked it up. I don't know if it's the right information."

Syndicate shows Sei her iGOD.

"Walking down the road, just a little bit."

dust, and proudly Syndicate makes Sei laugh.

"From now on, if you think you're looking at iGOD... you can do that, too"

Sai looks at Syndicate as if he was frightened.

"Well, if it's my iGOD. By the way, what do you say? Do you have the information I told you?

Sai answers as he leaves his lips tucked away.

"... right. Maybe you're not so wrong, are you? I'm not familiar with my grandfather's work, either."

"Hmm. Well, I'm rich,"

To Syndicate's abrupt question, Sai puts his neck up.

"Huh?... Well, I don't think he was as wealthy as he was rich"

"All right, let's go!

Suddenly, Syndicate walks faster.

"What!? Why... ah! Could you, seniors, give me the money that's in my house...!

Sai catches up hastily to the paced Syndicate.

"Hi-ha! There's got to be a lot of money!

"None! It's not such a wealthy house. My house! Normal! Normal!

A strange syndicate of tension and a say that can't keep up with that tension.

The two climb mountain roads more and more.

"Let me tell you something good for Evergreen"

Walking on his fast feet, he sets his index finger and says Syndicate.

"What, what is it?

"Rich people brag about who they are."

Laughing, Syndicate proceeds.

"Ugh... already! Please walk a little slower!

Sei, who could not successfully argue with Syndicate's words, followed Syndicate as he was.

"Ha-ha-ha... but let's settle down a little bit. What are you going to do if something demonic comes out or something? If you bowl in with my grandfather's dead ghost, you're really gonna die, aren't you? My house is already right there."

Sei sits on a rock that crosses his middle belly and was halfway down the road.

Next to it, Syndicate also sits.

Just take a short break.

Syndicate is also scratching sweat on her forehead.

"It's okay. There are no dead ghosts around here. Maybe."

Says Syndicate, drinking the water removed from the item box.

"How do you know that? There's a lot of trees and a lot of blind spots here, right?

Sai looks around.

At the minimum necessary, the forests of Happy Qingshan, with few people's hands, except the paths through which people pass, are disturbed by trees and plants, like a half tree sea.

Because of this, people who climbed this mountain were sometimes shipwrecked before they built mountain roads.

Also known as "Weird Mountain"

The mountain of mystery, the mountain of the Spirit, which is hidden from God, and the mountain of Happy Qing, they used to say.

"Here, take a look"

Even though he's in such a mountain, Syndicate, who was lookin 'at the iGOD screen, tells Sai to look at that screen.

"This is a map, is it?

The screen Sei saw was green accounting for most of it, with a noose and brown line running between it.

In the center, only two blue circles exist.

Things like the high-performance 3D maps that major IT companies often provide for news and more were displayed on Syndicate's iGOD.

"Yes, the ability to display the traveler's skilled 'Earth Map' super-performing map."

Syndicate touches the iGOD screen to move the map shown on the screen.

The screen that had been enlarged was reduced and the range shown was wider.

"This map, like the info I was saying about Changchun's parents' house, also contains more information about mountains and buildings, but what's even more awesome is that it tells us where the dead ghosts and demons are around"

In addition to the blue ○ of the Syndicates, the red ○ dotted as if surrounding Happy Qing Mountain on the map, which was reduced and shown in a wider range.

"The range is about a kilometer. I don't know the specifications yet, but I don't think there's any Death Ghosts in Changchun's house anyway."

Syndicate puts iGOD back on hand.

"... Could it be that on the road, all I encountered were demons and I never met a Dead Ghost..."

"I've been avoiding it. As far as possible, I've come down a path with no reaction from the Dead Ghost."

To Syndicate's answer, Sei puts on a disgruntled face.

"... if you have such a handy thing, did I need to be on my guard?

Not only while Syndicate was collecting money from vending machines, Sei has always been on the lookout for his surroundings from banks to this point.

If Syndicate had known the location of the demon beforehand, then Sai's vigilance should have been unnecessary.

Yet, because Syndicate left it to me, and the sei I was straining, is it not as if it were a dogma?

"I needed it."

Syndicate answers when Sei's dissatisfaction begins to turn into pity and embarrassment.

"Mr. Changchun's vigilance was, and will continue to be, necessary"

"Why not?

If you know where the demon is, you shouldn't have to be on guard.

"Demons and dead ghosts aren't the only things you need to be alert to. And people."

"Ah..."

Syndicate tells me and Sei realizes it too.

The enemy is neither a dead ghost nor a demon.

The most alarming thing is people.

"This screen shows me and Nagaharu in blue O... you don't know what will happen to the others"

"Huh? Normally, it appears..."

"Hmmm...... what do you think?

Syndicate twists her head to the side.

"It may or may not appear. I wish I had tried it when I was at school..."

"Didn't you?

"Yeah. I forgot."

Haha laughing Syndicate.

Other than that, he is the man who is missing.

"... and this is still being verified, and maybe the demon conditions on this map are actually pretty limited."

"Exclusive?

"Yes, first of all, you don't see bugs or the death ghosts of small creatures. Later, things that can't move or are locked up, they don't seem to show either. For example, a dead ghost trapped in a bank safe."

"Even at the bank, did you use it?

"Yeah. This map didn't respond to the Dead Ghost who was in the safe, did it? That's why I was surprised when I opened the safe."

Sai reminds me of what's going on in the safe.

Sai only looked inside the vault for a moment, but surely the dead ghost of the woman who was inside wasn't in such a condition that she could move.

"Maybe, but this map just visualizes my senses"

Syndicate continues his reflection on the map.

"Visualization?

"Yeah. Sharpen my senses and turn them into images. So this map doesn't respond to insects and other creatures you're not usually aware of, and you don't need to be alert to trapped or immobile dead ghosts, so it doesn't show up."

Syndicate looks into Sai's eyes.

"So I knew I needed to be vigilant. It's possible that enemies I can't perceive won't appear on this map. If there was a" man "trying to get rid of the signs and attack us."

Sai nods to the highlighted words of 'man'.

Speaking of which, just now there were no dead ghosts on this mountain.

"Dead ghosts have been fighting all over the place. Even without this map, I can somehow see the signs... and even people with strong families in Evergreen won't erase the signs if they become Dead Ghosts. It moves with desire."

If you die with a desire to erase the signs, I don't know.

However, if you die with such desire, you will probably continue to hide, without attacking anyone.

Either way, it's not a threat.

"Well, my family..."

"Isn't he alive? Me and Evergreen are the only creatures around here that have reactions. At least it doesn't feel like there's a ghost."

When Syndicate says so, Sei's face suddenly brightens.

"... Really?"

"Maybe. In order to make sure of that, should we go? It's not that far anymore, is it?

"Yes!"

Sai rises from the rock he was sitting on and starts walking himself.

I found that my family was likely to be alive.

When that happens, I'm still happy, and you want to be sure.

Seeing the back of the sai that began to move on, Syndicate also stood up and followed the sai.

Standing in the opposite position from earlier, Syndicate smiles unexpectedly and speaks to the walking Sai.

"Speaking of which, it goes on..."

The voice, Syndicate stopped on the way.

From what I saw on the map, Syndicate thought the place the Syndicates were resting in seemed like a really short distance to Sai's house.

Turn around the corner and climb the stone stairs ahead to get there.

Syndicate spoke to Sai just when he turned that corner.

Turning around the corner, the sight with the stairs leading to Sei's house waited as if to refuse visitors.

A stone staircase that continues uninterrupted, even feeling oppressed.

I don't see the end of the stairs.

There are five hundred steps lightly.

The surrounding woods lined up as if covering the stairs.

"Oh, comma be."

In front of such a vicious staircase, a small white dog sat correctly in his posture.

The size is about the size of a small medium sized dog.

She's a cute dog like a white mameshiva, uncomfortable when she says puppy.

To the dog, Sai rushes over, calling his name in affection.

This dog has been a keeper at home since Sei was born.

His name is Yongchun Koma. Yeah.

To reunite with her own family for a long time, Sei hugs Komabe with her face down.

"Komabe, it's been a while. Good. Safe. Weren't you lonely? You got any rice? Are you eating? I'm sorry I left you alone."

Indulging in fluffy hair, Sei spoke to Komabe.

Komabe is basically an abandoned dog.

He was a clever dog who sometimes disappeared from the grounds of the house but never stepped out of the mountains and still sat on the stairs leading to the house as if to protect it.

The sight alone impresses Sei so much that her chest is about to rip open that tears are going to flood her eyes.

"All right, shall we have dinner when we get home? Come, comma be."

Sei grates Komabe to the ground and tries to climb the stairs as if nothing is going on.

Five hundred are on a stone staircase, a little white breeding dog.

The sight was a normal routine for Sai and nothing uncomfortable.

So Sei walked out, as usual.

"Wait, Mr. Changchun"

Even though Syndicate is confused.

"Huh? What's going on? Senior?"

Sei looks back strangely at Syndicate's, somewhere tense voice.

"Uh... maybe you were surprised by this staircase? Everyone who's new here, they're surprised, aren't they? Indeed, there are rarely any long stairs to this point."

With a bitter laugh, Sei looks up the stairs to her own home.

As a matter of fact, there are quite a few prospective introducers coming to the dojo run by Sei's parents.

But most of them quit as soon as the day came.

The reason for this is this staircase.

The stairs that cross five hundred lightly, the ordinary just walk and climb, they are out of breath and exhausted.

Even though you have to walk down a mountain road on the road, most people break their hearts and quit going through the tightness of this staircase, which continues further.

"But if it's seniors strength, it's not that tight..."

"No. I'm not."

Syndicate, with a vigilant face, sets up a double sword between the Ethereal Deer and Zhuma.

"... seniors?

"I told you, didn't I? The only sign of the creature around me right now is me and Mr. Evergreen's stuff. So, what about Soitz?

Syndicate, behind the sei, points to the stairs.

"Huh?"

For those who pointed out Syndicate, a bright, fluffy, furry little dog who had climbed about ten steps up the stairs at some point.

Komabe was sitting down.

"... well, not by the looks of it, smart, kid"

That, from Komabe, I hear a voice that makes me feel majestic somewhere.

"... comma be?

"Back off, Mr. Evergreen"

To that voice of the first breeder I heard, Sei stepped back without having to be told by Syndicate.

As if to go with that step, Komabe's body starts making snoring noises.

"Come on!"

In a hurry, Syndicate ran over to Sai and let Sai back behind his back.

"It's not bad. But it's not a good time."

As the sound rings, Komabe's body changes.

Big. Huge.

"Choose, kid"

The sound, it ends.

When it was over, there was a giant dog in front of the Syndicates.

Lion, tiger.

Passenger car. Light truck.

Even compared to those, too big, white dogs.

Just for him to be there, ten will fill the stairs and be invisible.

Having finished the change, Komabe has intimidated and pressed against Syndicate, as if it were a giant advertising celebrity affixed to the station.

"Leaving or dying"

Mandatory two choices.

Syndicate breathed.