After the morning exercise, Eriko Ito, Suzu Ito, Rena Ito and Aye returned to the house one after another, and each went back to the bedroom to clean up.

A moment later, Eriko and others who had finished washing gathered in the big room again, sitting in front of a table filled with food, clasping their hands in front of their chests and saying in unison, "I'm starting!"

"Oops, I forgot to ask Ah Cheng to get up for breakfast." Just when everyone picked up their chopsticks and prepared to eat, Ya Ye suddenly exclaimed.

"What? Is Acheng back?" Eriko asked in surprise after hearing Aye's exclamation.

"Yes, Auntie, Ah Cheng came back around 2 o'clock in the morning." Yaye explained.

"Oh." Eriko nodded and said, "Then don't worry about him. Let's eat first. When he wakes up later, I'll heat up the food for him."

"Yes." Yaye responded and started eating with everyone.

When the meal was halfway through, Ito Cheng, whose hair was a little messy, walked out of the back room leisurely. After seeing the four people who were dining, he said hello, "Mother, eldest sister, second sister, Aye, morning."

"Morning, morning" the voices of Ito Suzu and Ito Rena sounded almost at the same time.

"Yes." Eriko responded, as there was food in her mouth and it was difficult to speak.

"Good morning, Ah Cheng." Ya Ye greeted.

"Sit down and eat." Eriko said to Ito Cheng after swallowing the food in her mouth.

"Okay." Ito Cheng nodded and agreed, then walked to his own seat at the table and sat down.

"I'll get you a meal." Yaye put down the bowls and chopsticks in his hands, got up and walked to the kitchen.

"Why are you back so early?" Eriko asked.

"I investigated some things, but I don't understand them, so I came back to see if you know, mother." Ito Cheng said, "But we'll talk about this after dinner."

"Okay, let's eat first." Eriko agreed.

"A Cheng, here you go." At this time, Yaye also came out with a dinner plate, which contained a bowl of rice, a large bowl of clear soup, and two fried fish.

"Thank you." Ito Cheng reached out and took the dinner plate from Aye's hand and said.

Then the family quietly finished the Japanese-style breakfast, cleaned and put away all the tableware, and sat down in the hall of the main house.

"Tell me." After Ito Suzu made a cup of tea for everyone and distributed it, Eriko said.

"Let's start with what I have seen and heard along the way." Ito Cheng picked up the tea cup in front of him and took a sip of the tea in the cup. He held the still warm tea cup in his hand and said, "Starting from Motoyama, there are many other things along the way. A few buildings can still see one or two residents living here and there, but other buildings have completely turned into empty houses and ghost buildings. Low-level demons are overflowing on the streets, and purebred demons have also begun to appear among them, and many pure demons have begun to appear. Every kind of monster is surrounded by low-level monsters in varying numbers, and they form gangs and dominate the territory just like in the Edo period."

"Is it already this serious?" Eriko asked with a frown after hearing Ito Cheng's description.

"Fortunately, after all, the residents have almost fled. Now the low-level monsters can hardly find humans to kill, and they have begun to kill each other." Ito Cheng comforted.

"That's not bad." Eriko nodded.

"However, correspondingly, the evolution speed of low-level monsters has been accelerated in the killing. Coupled with the catalysis of the filthy gas, I believe that it will not be long before an evolved body that is comparable to the real monsters will appear." Ito Chengdao.

"Next, let's talk about the situation in downtown Tokyo." Seeing that the others didn't have anything to say, he continued. Then he asked Eriko, "Mother, do you know that there is a city barrier in Tokyo with xx town as the boundary?"

"City barrier?" Eriko frowned and thought for a while, "I heard from your grandfather that when Emperor Meiji moved the capital to Tokyo, he mobilized a group of Ise Shrine members to set up a barrier in Tokyo. As for whether it was you I’m not sure about the city boundary I’m talking about.”

"That's it." Ito Cheng nodded thoughtfully and continued, "Using the xx town I just mentioned as the boundary, the demons outside the boundary are more rampant and organized into gangs as I just said. But The situation in downtown Tokyo within the barrier is very different from that outside the barrier. Normal order has been completely restored. Even if there are still demons, they have almost weakened to the point where three or five ordinary people can defeat them with a little effort. .”

"It seems that a lot of efforts have been made to save the environment." Eriko admired. Although Shinto and the Ministry of the Environment do not deal with each other, the two sides are basically unified on the issue of monsters. Eriko cannot but appreciate the results of the Ministry of the Environment's action.

"Yes, it's just that I'm worried that Director Kobayashi of the Second Office of the Ministry of Environment will take advantage of the situation and try to target us again." Ito Cheng said.

"You don't have to worry too much about this. Kobayashi from the Ministry of Environment is not a person who only pays attention to immediate interests. I believe that the other party will not make plans for us when the situation is unclear." Eriko comforted.

"But mom, what if?" Ito Suzu, who had been listening, suddenly asked.

"Me~" Eriko was stunned by the question, lowered her head and began to think deeply. After a while, he said helplessly, "It would be great if your grandpa were here."

"Acheng, go on." After a moment of silence in the room, Eriko suddenly remembered that Ito Cheng still had something to say, so she spoke.

"Oh." Ito Cheng nodded and continued, "Because I am curious about the current situation of the Ministry of Environment and want to find out some of their situation. I also want to see if I can get some useful information from them, so I So I found an opportunity and sneaked into the office building of the Ministry of Environment..."

"You actually sneaked into the office building of the Ministry of Environment?" Eriko said with surprise on her face and anger in her voice.

"Yes." Ito Cheng said.

"Don't you know that is the headquarters of the Ministry of Environment? Aren't you afraid of dying inside after entering? Why can't you get information and have to infiltrate! Have you ever thought about us! Have you ever thought about Ya Ye!" After Ito Cheng admitted it, Eriko immediately exploded and blamed him with anger. But Ito Cheng can clearly feel the deep care and fear from Eriko's words.

Ito Cheng accepted Eriko's scolding honestly without any rebuttal until Eriko had scolded her enough.

"Go on." Eriko, who had been scolding for a long time, looked at Ito Cheng's appearance and found it difficult to continue scolding, so she could only snort.

"I saw an order from a certain office." Ito Cheng didn't dare to say that he got the order from the office on the floor where the first room was located, and just said vaguely.

"What order?" Ito Suzu asked curiously.

"The emperor and the cabinet jointly ordered to search for hundreds of 18-year-old virgins born in yin year yin month yinriyin, as well as an 18-year-old virgin who has cultivated spiritual power." Ito Chengdao.

"What!" Eriko's face changed after hearing this order, and she stood up from the ground and exclaimed.

"What's wrong, mom?" Ito Suzu was startled by Eriko's reaction and quickly asked with concern.

"What are the cabinet and the royal family doing? Aren't they afraid that the summoned things will get out of control and become a big problem?" Eriko ignored Ito Suzu's inquiry and just stood there muttering to herself.

"Mother, what's going on?" Ito Cheng asked loudly with a frown.

"Hey!" Eriko, who was awakened by Ito Cheng's voice, sighed, sat down again, looked at the inquiring eyes of Ito Suzu, Ito Cheng, Ito Rena and Aye and said, "You should know the Yin and Yang technique. There is a way to use it - Shikigami."

"Yes." All four of them nodded.

"There are two ways to obtain shikigami, capture and summoning." Eriko explained, "The so-called capture style is to capture powerful ghosts or kill monsters and steal their souls to make them. Summoning is done through A special method is used to summon designated powerful ghosts and gods at a special time, and make the other party a shikigami by agreement or force."

"Except for a few special cases, the shikigami obtained by the capture style are generally relatively weak, but they are relatively simple to obtain and easy to control. They were the first choice for yin and yang masters in ancient times to make shikigami. Although the summoning shikigami are all They are powerful ghosts and gods, but each one has a distinct personality and is not completely controlled by the summoner. Moreover, the summoned shikigami have many requirements and are difficult to raise. Generally speaking, those who are not powerful cannot afford to raise such shikigami. Shikigami. But correspondingly, as long as you get such a shikigami, both you personally and your family will definitely immediately become the top force at that time, the representative of which is Abe Seimei..."