I’m Really Unnerved In Tokyo

"Tonight, Yoshihara, the fire is burning. If you like it, please buy me."

The quiet and pure shamisen, the simple and melodious sound of big and small taiko drums, accompanied by a long song expressing sorrow and sorrow, drifted into the ears faintly.

"Outside the eaves, cherry blossoms are in full bloom, and my heart, which is drenched, is burning with fire."

"Is this music, Kabuki?"

When the two of them were still listening intently, searching for the source of this leisurely singing...

Figures of people coming and going, like mushrooms after a spring rain, appeared without warning on the originally empty long street.

"My lord, do you want to use a car?"

"This store has a new tea, please don't miss it when you pass by."

"Brat, you stepped on my shoes..."

The streets that were originally lingering in the flames and burning quietly became bustling with people without warning, but naturally.

Tsukiyo head, samurai in sleeveless top...

The townspeople who wear feathers over kimonos, help out in front of the store, and pull carts...

Women who are combing balls, wearing kimonos and short skirts are selling pastries in the meatball house...

A kimono with long sleeves and a "gown" with a skirt trailing the floor.

These huge "crowds" that suddenly appeared around the two of them symbolized the distinctive characteristics of the different costumes of the various classes of "scholars, farmers, businessmen" in the Edo period.

As if in a lifetime, and as if waking up from a dream, Abeji and Kato Junko were so suddenly lost in the bustling Yoshiwara Long Street where the flow of people could not be seen at a glance.

"Boy, don't get in the way, and delay uncle's romantic happiness!"

A wealthy businessman with rough behavior hurriedly passed by Abeji Temple and strode into the nearby shop.

"Zheng."

Abe Temple had two sabers at his waist, and they immediately unsheathed themselves, hanging in the air to cut!

If you only look at their clothes, words and deeds, these "people" in simple clothes, walking, talking and laughing are no different from ordinary people...

But their faces and bodies are all like corpses that have been burned by flames, presenting a dark, cracked, shriveled texture like carbon, not to mention the charred black faces that are bloody and bloody, and even the teeth and whites of the eyes are hardly visible .

From time to time, flames gushed out from the large cracks on the body surface.

If it weren't for the strange fire lights on the surrounding Edo buildings and the constant reminders of the charred corpse-like features of these "people", the two of Abeji would really think that they have gone back in time and traveled back to Yoshiwara Yukaku in the Edo period.

"Wait a minute... These earth-bound spirits are paralyzed by lust and immersed in the memories of their lives, and they are not aware of their abnormality."

Kato Junko reached out and pressed the hilt of the sword in Abeji's hand, with a look of compassion in her eyes: "I just said, where does such a huge desire come from... Maybe, it's not just a one-to-one reference, in a sense, here It's the former Yoshihara Yukaku..."

"It's just that, using the desires of these earth-bound spirits as a guide and memory as a basis, in the burning endless fire of desire, Yoshihara Yugao was constructed!"

"……Feel sorry."

Hearing her words, a drop of cold sweat rolled down Abe Temple's forehead.

If Kato Junko hadn't stopped her "No Thought to Slash" just now, once such a large number of earth-bound spirits were alarmed by her "non-standard" despiritualization, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Fortunately, the surrounding earth binding spirits who were enjoying themselves on Yoshiwara Flower Street in a calm and lively manner did not notice the subtle movements of the two of them.

They just seemed to regard these two "uninvited guests" as beings like themselves, and did not show any abnormal reactions.

"This hidden place seems to have just been opened, and the existence of the seal has not yet fully recovered..."

In the line of sight of the two, figures with scorched flesh and entwined flames continued to increase along the endless long street...

"Hee hee... This guest, look over to the servant's house, and secretly show you something nice..."

"This young man is so handsome, why don't you come and settle down in the shop?"

"I recently mastered the 'Thirty-Six Forms in the Room' through the 'Spring Painting'. If you can persist until the last form, the tea money will be free..."

The originally empty and blazing "Younyoya" was filled with a woman dressed in a kimono and wearing a Hyogo bun at some point.

Their bodies were scorched black and shriveled like carbon, and their faces, which were empty except for a ferocious giant mouth, were covered with a thick layer of white powder.

It seems that they are very confident in their "peerless appearance". They hold pipes, sit lazily, crack the black teeth in their huge mouths, show "charming" smiles, and greet every passing guest attentively.

"It's really free?! I will take off my clothes and come to compete with you!"

From time to time, guests who couldn't stand the "provocation" stepped into the house through the main entrance without any concealment.

"Master Samurai is necrotic, and he showed his weapon before entering the door!"

After a while, there was a reverie-inducing humming in the room, and rhythmic fires erupted. It was obvious that a fierce battle had just begun.

"These are the black-toothed girls..."

Looking at the women in the fence, Kato Junko folded her hands together, and lowered her head unbearably.

"It is said that it was transformed after the death of a woman who longed to get married but could not find happiness in her life."

"Yoshihara Yanshang really deserves his reputation..."

The four words on the torii came to mind, and Abe Temple seemed to realize something.

As the saying goes, in ancient times, there were four major gals in Key Club's spring, summer, autumn and winter, and now there are four major gals in the animation circle.

"Inflammation", in today's Japan, is an Internet term to describe the outbreak of a large number of negative comments on things.

But in fact, this word comes from the "Shangshu·Hong Fan" of the Dragon Kingdom, "Water means to moisten the lower, fire means to burn up, wood means straightness, gold means to follow the leather, and earth means to grow crops".

After being introduced to Japan, in the Edo period when fires were frequent, it meant "burning" and "a big fire".

Yoshihara Yanshang, that is, the Yoshihara Great Fire.

During 1768, 1787, 1816, 1835, 1845, 1862, 1864, 1866, and 1911, there were many large-scale fires in Yoshihara Yukaku, causing countless deaths and injuries.

But among them, the "Yoshihara Fire" in Meiji 44 is the most famous...

The long street with red lights hanging high, beauties laughing, benefactors throwing thousands of dollars, and the scene of darkness and ugliness intertwined under the bright appearance must have been ruthlessly swallowed by sudden fires countless times, and then revived soon after.

"Is it because Yoshihara has accumulated too many grievances from several fires and earthquakes that are difficult to deal with, so the shogunate ordered the Tsuchimon Shinto, who was in charge of Yinyangliao at that time, to set up the "Four Arrays of Ripa" in the name of building the Yoshihara Shrine. With the obsession and memory of these earth-bound spirits, did you construct this hidden place? ! "

Thinking of the souls whose lives ended in the Yoshihara fire, they could only linger in the time that was frozen by the flames in the hidden place...

"Suppress all these resentful spirits who cannot rest in peace in this "Yoshihara Yanshang" hermitage, and hope that one day they will be wiped out in the burning desire..."

Abe Temple suddenly understood the compassion in Kato Junko's eyes.

"What is the difference between such self-deceiving behavior and man-made endless purgatory?!"