Volume 8 Chapter 8 (1/2)
Chapter 8: The Peaceful Rest in the Hostel
Atlantis5:25 PM
When I walked down to the second floor, that large hall frorant smell of food
”Nn? I was just about to call you guys down to get ready It's al in the wake of the hot steaht in front of reeted me as soon as he saw me
Take a deep breath Don't be afraid You're only asking him a very set chopped off
”That, senior Gasai, can I ask you a tiny little question?” It doesn'tto die anyway, so I directly charged over to him and asked
”A question? Sure” Senior Gasai was still wearing the same smile, ”What do you want to ask?”
”I want to ask you about the o, when the Yukino Clan received a half-rotten corpse and a bottle of white fog” I couldn't think of any better adjectives so I simply worded it that way
In that second, Gasai was co time
I just knew that this wasn't a question I could ask!
Ah, Chifuyu, if I get ”this” and then ”that” and ”this” again and finally with a ”kacha,” I becoo home due to this question, you had better wait until you can properly compensate me
”You heard this from Chifuyu, didn't you?” Unexpectedly, Gasai didn't instantly try to finish ined Instead, he very elegantly finished placing the pot of soup on the table, before taking off his oven gloves ”Was it his idea or your own idea for you to come here and ask me?”
Uh…Is there a difference?
I felt that if I answered incorrectly, there ht be two different results
”That…Chifuyu wanted to know, but I also really wanted to know, so I suppose that could be my idea as well” I sed and carefully answered
He wouldn't directly pick up the pot of soup and pour it over ht?
The reason I was so wary is that someone had once poured it over me before But it was an unfamiliar passerby whose hand slipped, and then just like that, the unlucky ot sent to the hospital for three days
Gasai pondered for a while, ”Chifuyu doesn't know about this matter?”
”He doesn't He said he was just half-a-month-old at that time and only heard about it later from other people” I repeated what Chifuyu had told me to him
”Nn…As a matter of fact, I did hear about this matter when I was about thirteen years old in the Yakushi+ji Clan, not in the Yukino Clan”
”Eh? Isn't this the Yukino Clan's secret case?” I was stunned for a ht that Boss Gasai had heard this from somewhere else
”That's right, it is their secret case However, that year, the one who analyzed the white fog was from the Yakushi+ji Clan All the results of the analysis were recorded, but due to a certain matter later on, the Yukino Clan didn't come to retrieve the analysis results I suppose it's because of this that he was unaware of the matter”
So that's how it is I suddenly felt that Chifuyu saying Gasai would knoas definitely because he are of the circumstances around the analysis
”Then do you know the results of the analysis?” I pursued the main point
Like we all thought, sure enough, Gasai nodded ”I know Almost everyone in the Yakushi+ji Clan knows about this” He placed the oven gloves on the table too, and his expression beca it, the analyst discovered that the thing inside the bottle wasn't white fog, and nor was it so like water vapor Instead, it orms”
”Worms?”
For a second, every hair on me stood up
”Did you ever hear about a swarave me an example, ”Locusts are able to devour an entire rice paddy in an instant It's pretty , but the difference is that the locusts' target are the rice paddies whereas the white fog's target is animals”
This example really does make one's skin crawl
”Are there actually such worms?” It's not that I doubt it, but this state one to not really believe it
”Yes, it's called a blood snake It's so small that it's nearly invisible to the naked eye, but when it appears in a large cluster, you can clearly see it as a white fog” Very certain as he toldthat time, after the analysis was finished, the Yukino Clan set aside this case, and later on, the white fog never appeared again”
[T/N: It's a kind of mythical poisonous snake]
If Gasai knows this…I can suddenly understand how Xiao Ting had known that the fog couldn't be touched
Perhaps even Senior knows about this matter, which could be hen he saw the video, he said that everyone in the town had died in such a certain tone
”Senior knows about this matter?”
”Nn, he does” Not avoiding the topic at all, Gasai very honestly told me ”Before we arrived here, he'd already asked about the things regarding the white fog and also made several related preparations”
I just knew that it was iht into the drainage channel It turns out he was already prepared
”That fog…and this fog are the saertips, I started worrying a little about whether there were still some bloodXworms left inside
”Without analyzing it, we can'tHowever, the records didn't , so we don't know about this And, as for where the wor about thehtful glance in the direction behind et ready to eat dinner soon Yido is almost done over there too”
”Oh, alright”
Wait a minute?
”You guys”?
I instantly turned around and near the staircase, I seeuely seen Chifuyu's shadow
Sure enough, he still followed me here
Dinner was a very normal five-dishes-with-one-soup
This made me feel an unliredients for these dishes?
We pushed the tables in the hall together, and a few of us sat in a circle around the low table
”Dinner wasa couple of big bowls as she ran back and forth to fill them up with rice, and then she laid therateful~ness and eat it all up!” Next, she even threateningly flicked out her snake tongue
So byto say that those who don't gratefully eat it all up will be gratefully sed into your belly in the next second, right?
”We knoe know We'll definitely eat it all up gratefully and then drink the earthwor into his ear, ”From the kitchen just then till now, you've already said this three hundred times Isn't your mouth tired?”
I think Xiao Ting probably doesn't understand what earthworm soup means
[T/N: It's a traditional soup that really does have earthworredient…]
”It's been three hundred ti foolishly looked at hi out her fingers, ”Once, twice…” She counted as she walked away
Once again, I seriously doubt this snake's head
”Let's eat while it's still hot Who knohether we'll be able to eat any more hot food tomorrow” Yido sat down at the side, and the twins sat down next to him, in a synchronized manner
Uh…He spoke as if he didn't knohether we'll be alive or dead tomorrow, but this does seem to be the case
The last one to arrive (I suspect he did it on purpose), Chifuyu looked around before sitting down on the e on his knees with such a straight posture Seeing hi him from behind to see if he'd hit the table
There wasn't a big variety of dishes on the table, but there was very much in ter at the here has an appetite several tier than me
I don't know if it's because everyone all felt a sense of acco, there was actually not even half a person who spoke Even the normally very noisy Leido had also obediently buried his head as he crazily ate
The dining table was filled with a hard-to-explain heavy atmosphere
It is at a time like this that I would suddenly realize that they're really from another dimension from me
After we finished eating, the empty plates and bowls on the table were taken away by Yido, while Xiao Ting was still crouching in the corner and counting on her fingers
”We've decided to go into the drainage channel with Mr Gasai tomorrow” Yido issued the first sentence that broke the silence, ”There seee channel, so we felt too uneasy to let Mr Gasai go down alone”
Ehh…So to speak, about half of us would be heading into the drainage channel?
Then wouldn't only Chifuyu and I be left above?
”Due to safety considerations, Chifuyu and Yang Yang, what do you plan to do?” Yado said, and then turned around to ask us ”If you stay above, you ht not And if you go doith us, that wouldn't guarantee absolute safety either Neither is an absolute guarantee, so what do you plan to do?”
What do we plan to do…
I sneaked a glance at Chifuyu
If he wants to stay above, then based on morality, it see Chifuyu alone at a ti to do either It's just that I don't knohat he's going to decide to do
Gasai didn't say anything
I guess, if Gasai said the word, then Chifuyu will definitely follow him There's no reason why, it's just that I had this kind of thought
Chifuyu looked like he was thinking it over