I’m Really Unnerved In Tokyo

"Um?"

Hearing the strange sound of collapse, Sousuke Araki curiously "tactically probed" behind the big tree, only to find that there was another secluded path here.

On the side of the road not far from the big tree, a wooden shrine as small as a birdcage was scattered all over the place at the moment.

This kind of crude shrine can be seen everywhere in the Japanese countryside, and most of them are substitutes for those who cannot afford to build shrines, and most of the worship objects cannot be verified.

Beside the collapsed shrine, an old woman with a kind face, clasped hands, and wearing a plain robe was sitting cross-legged with her back to someone.

A yellow stream of water coming from nowhere is slowly flowing down the roots of the tree, forming a small puddle just under the collapsed shrine and the old woman...

The "cracking" sound just now was probably the sound of the shrine falling to the ground and shattering.

"The foundation of this thing is too weak, and it will collapse after soaking in water? Wait, no...it can't be such a coincidence..."

Seeing the old lady turn her head, clasped her hands together, and nodded towards herself with a smile, the strong sense of disobedience made Sousuke Araki skillfully tear off her blindfold...

"Ha...haha, I, I knew..."

In the left eye, the mother-in-law is still the same mother-in-law, but with a layer of white light on the body surface, it looks like a beauty filter has whitened the complexion and made the complexion better.

However, on the surface of the parts of the shrine, there are countless substances like dark red blood scabs, which are dissipating as the transpiring urine turns into gray-white gas...

Around the shrine, with the big tree as the center, are densely packed with bloody hand and footprints of different sizes and shapes.

"Mother...mother-in-law... Excuse me, this bird's nest-like thing is..."

Taking a deep breath, Araki Sousuke curiously asked the mother-in-law for advice.

As soon as he finished speaking, the corner of the mother-in-law's mouth moved slightly, and before she could outline a few words, it was broken into countless light spots and drifted into the air.

"It's dedicated to you... what? Hey, can you make it clear before you leave..."

Scratching the back of his head helplessly, Araki Sousuke could only walk along this remote and dark path towards the parking lot.

Although he was already considered a "qualified and legal" spirit remover, he was caught off guard that he could also transcend spirit bodies by urinating anywhere.

"Do you want feet..."

After he walked forward for about ten meters, an old, hoarse and deep voice sounded faintly behind him.

"What?"

Walking in a quiet and deserted alley, suddenly there was a loud enough voice behind him, Araki Sousuke suddenly soaked up sweat on his forehead, and turned his head stiffly...

A short old woman with a wrinkled face, but carrying a huge shabby cloth bag several times larger than her whole body, stood behind him at some point.

She was wearing a dark red kimono that was as deep as blood, her white hair was loosely draped over her body, and on her bloodless face, the deep sunken eye sockets and fat bags under the eyes almost covered the narrow eyes that were slightly squinted because she had no teeth. The corners of their mouths together outline a sinister smile.

Behind her, the worn-out pocket made of the leather of an unknown creature seemed to contain some kind of living creature, constantly changing its shape due to internal struggles.

No way, is this what Uncle Watanabe said...

However, it doesn't look like it's running fast.

Thinking of the urban legend of "the old woman who runs fast" that he heard in the car before, Araki Sousuke did not answer the other party's question, and directly tore off the blindfold he had just put on with a blank expression.

Even though he was mentally prepared, the "grandmother" in front of him still made his heart twitch.

Mother-in-law, still that horrible-looking mother-in-law,

The only difference is the deep black resentment shrouded in mist on her body...

The huge leather bag on the granny's back has turned into an unknown mass of flesh made up of hundreds of human feet of different sizes, lengths, curly or straight, and blood-stained, wriggling painfully behind her.

『So, you run fast because you have more feet on your back than the average person, can you take a rest instead? Wait, now is not the time to think wildly...』

"Do you want feet?"

Seeing that Araki Sousuke remained silent, the mother-in-law asked again in a slightly more urgent tone than before.

"Well, it's my fault that I didn't pee in the right place. Is it strange for you old man... I will definitely come over and rebuild it for you someday..."

Looking at the mother-in-law with a lot of human feet in front of her in cold sweat, Araki Sousuke hurriedly apologized to her with clasped hands.

That shrine should be set up by people in the service area to worship these "mother-in-laws" in private, but it was "resonated" by myself after soaking in urine...

Who is going to reason with this.

"Do you want feet?!!!!"

Ignoring his explanation, the mother-in-law just mechanically, with a hoarse and sharp voice, asked more sternly.

A strange feeling flooded Araki Sosuke's heart.

This mother-in-law feels like a third kind of existence completely different from the spirit body, wraith, and strange ghost in the Suzumori Execution Ground ruins that I have encountered recently.

This seems to be a unique existence composed of extremely incomplete obsession and soul, who can only follow certain rules or instinctive actions, and even struggles to communicate without becoming a Buddha.

"Damn, at the critical moment, I just didn't feel it. I just ate so much ramen..."

Stretching out his hand to cover his abdomen, Sousuke Araki decided to "strike first", and began to brew some kind of secret technique of "removing spirits without contact".

"...Do you want feet?!!!!!!!"

After a shrill roar, the hideous lady in red didn't seem to want to wait, so she slammed onto the ground like an animal, with the "hill" made up of human feet on her back, towards Sousuke Araki. Come on.

"It seems that it's not as fast as the rumors say, is it? 』

Although her crawling speed is fast, it is only at the level of an ordinary person trotting, and it is not as exaggerated as rumored to be comparable to a car...

"Why don't you respect the old and don't talk about martial arts... Wait, give me another chance..."

Without giving him any time to vent his breath, the old woman in red had already rushed forward, tore off a curly, bloody foot from her back, and used the severed, bloody end to slap Araki Sousuke. insert hard...

Faced with this horrifying scene, Araki Sousuke didn't care too much, subconsciously sank his weight, bowed his waist and raised his feet, and kicked the old woman who had rushed forward...

Facing his swift kick, the old lady in mid-air grinned fearlessly, opened her big black toothless mouth, and bit down hard...

"Oh..."

Amidst the sour wailing, under someone's strong bombardment, the red-clothed mother-in-law shattered from head to toe into white spots of light.

And the unknown number of human feet on her back fell from the sky like rain, and stood upright on the ground...

Like seaweed swaying in the wind, those people crossed their thumbs and index fingers together, nodded slightly to Sousuke Araki, and then slowly turned into white light and dispersed.