When the sunshine shone on the earth the next morning, Sakura opened her eyes and saw an unfamiliar ceiling.

The smell of ancient tatami made her rusty brain froze for a long time before she remembered that she was in a hot spring hotel with Tomoyo and Reiya.

A hot spring hotel run by ghosts.

She should have been afraid, but she wasn't afraid at all, probably because the other person was so enthusiastic, no matter what kind of ghost he was.

Even if they look weird, like frogs, newts, or giant salamanders, they still have a warm attitude that people can't refuse.

Facing such ghosts, even she who is most afraid of ghosts cannot be afraid.

It turns out that monsters are so kind and not scary at all. Fortunately, she was still afraid of them when she was a child.

Sitting up from the tatami, Sakura found that Reiya and Tomoyo had gotten up early. They were sitting on the balcony of the room, looking at the sea outside. This is a sea view room.

Ocean view room?

"When did this place become the sea?" Sakura walked to the balcony and looked out, and it turned out to be endless sea water.

The first to third floors of the oil house are for bathing, and the fourth floor is for resting rooms. Probably to suit the height of some big monsters, each floor is six or seven meters high, so looking out from the fourth floor, it is already considered

Climb high and look far.

"Well, last night." Tomoyo, who was chewing a strawberry daifuku, replied inarticulately. "I heard the monster said it rained at midnight last night, and it would turn out like this when it rained here. Ah, what a pity, it's so beautiful.

Why can’t the camera take pictures of the scenery?”

"But Tomoyo, aren't you surprised? It was still a grassland yesterday, right?"

"This is a place for monsters, what's so strange about it."

Ah, that’s right. Since we’re already in the weirdest place, there’s nothing unacceptable about being weirder.

"Compared to this, look over there!"

Because she was looking at the sea in the distance, her eyes were attracted by the vast blue in the distance. At this time, Sakura looked in the direction that Tomoyo pointed, and she realized that the small island they were on was so close.

, what you see is a sea of ​​pink flowers.

"Is this a cherry blossom?"

All around the oil house, any place with a little bit of soil is covered with cherry blossoms. They are so densely packed that you can no longer even see the street we saw yesterday.

There is only a sea of ​​flowers blooming with cherry blossoms.

"This is too exaggerated."

It's really an exaggeration. It turned into a world of cherry blossoms overnight. It turns out that the world really changes because of people's thoughts, just because they said they want to enjoy cherry blossoms?

The monsters here are also very hospitable.

"Lingya, that Granny Yu, does she know your identity?"

"Probably. However, I think she may have thought of me as someone else."

"Others?"

"The master of the Underworld, Izanami."

Ling doesn't care whether the other party has mistakenly admitted her. Even if she is considered to be the mother of the gods and the owner of the underworld in the millennium legend of this island country, that is the other party's business and has nothing to do with her.

After all, Gaia does have the power to return the souls of the dead.

"Chise, when did you get up?"

"At sunrise."

"Sunrise? Isn't that very early?"

“Because it’s rare to come to such a beautiful place and I want to see the sunrise.”

It was indeed beautiful, when the sun jumped out of the sea. At that time, Tomoyo took out the camera again without giving up, but still couldn't capture any pictures.

"What a pity, Sakura didn't see it."

It is indeed a pity, but if she has to get up after five o'clock, Sakura would rather not watch it.

"Tomoyo, is this strawberry daifuku you're eating for breakfast?"

"Yes, I also ordered other things."

There is nothing in Japanese breakfast, and even children will eat breakfast when they are growing up. When adults start working, most adults do not have the habit of breakfast due to busyness or other reasons.

This also leads to the fact that the island country has no breakfast culture. Don’t even think about small steamed buns, fried dumplings, soup dumplings, and rice.

Ling is also better. The chef at home, Shinomiya, will prepare French breakfast for her.

Even at home, Sakura and Tomoyo usually only have toast or white rice with dried radish for breakfast. So when they get up early, it’s rare to see a rich breakfast at Aburaya, so Tomoyo couldn’t help but order some.

Just as he was talking, someone knocked on the door not long after.

After getting permission, I opened the sliding door and a young woman came in carrying a tray.

"These are fresh sea bream sashimi, as well as caramelized salmon, golden herring sashimi, and this is shrimp roe and fish roe sushi. I don't know what the guests like, so I prepared some."

Because Tomoyo only said he wanted sushi, but didn't say anything specific, he didn't expect that the other party brought so much, a full tray. Wasabi octopus, conch meat, saury, all kinds of things, including tamagoyaki and bean curd inari sushi.

.

"Sorry, I didn't make my order clear."

"It doesn't matter. Guests can eat whatever they want, and just leave whatever they don't want."

But Tomoyo has been taught since childhood that wasting food is not allowed. You should order in moderation and finish all the food you order.

"How about you eat with us?" Ling also said.

"Me?" The young woman who brought the meal pointed at her nose and said confusedly.

"Yes, you are a human, right?"

The oil house is full of strange creatures, but this woman, about the age of a high school student, looks exactly like a human being.

"I'm not a human being." The woman shook her head and said, "I'm a mountain man."

Although the mountain people were born as humans, they were abandoned as babies and left in the mountains, where they were raised by monsters. They have never lived as humans, so of course they are not considered humans.

Since you think you are a monster, then you are a monster.

There were many such abandoned babies, especially girls, in the past. Most of them were taken away by wild beasts in the mountains. There were very few spirits willing to adopt them. It was a miracle that those who survived were even in the hidden land of the gods.

It's almost impossible to find the second one.

But she is of human blood after all. Not to mention how beautiful she is, at least she has the appearance of a normal human girl.

The number of eyes is no more than two, and the nose and mouth have grown into appropriate proportions and in the prescribed positions. This is very strange in a place full of monsters.

Maybe Yubaba knew last night that this great god preferred humans, so she deliberately asked this mountain man to entertain them today.

I have to say that this is indeed a wise decision. Compared with facing those weird monsters, mountain people with human blood are more acceptable.

"Sorry for making you work overtime."

The working hours of the oil house are at night, and now that the sun is rising, it is actually rest time. Sleeping during the day and coming out at night is the normal schedule of ghosts.

"It doesn't matter." The mountain girl breathed a sigh of relief.

She was quite unwilling to give her the task of receiving distinguished guests. After all, I heard that she was a guest that even Yubaba was afraid of.

It has been spread throughout the oil house. Some people say that it is the master of the great river, while others say that it is the great god of Takamagahara in the mythical era. There are various theories, and some even say that it is the god of Amaterasu.

After all, Yubaba took the initiative to make the entire Shinyakure land full of cherry blossoms in one night. This kind of thing has never happened before.

I heard that even my mother-in-law's hateful minion, Mr. Bai, was kept busy all night by her. He came back before dawn and rushed to Shikoku to catch some cherry blossom essences.

Xiao Lin originally thought that the god who was treated seriously by Yubaba was aloof, but he didn't expect him to be so approachable.

"Okay, let's take these sushi downstairs and hold a cherry blossom viewing party! I'm Oshima Reiya, what's your name?"

Suddenly being asked this question, the woman was stunned for a moment and stammered: "My name is Xiao Lin."

Xiao Lin has only one surname. Mountain people do not have names and do not need names. Including the word "Lin", there is a high probability that it is not the surname of her real relatives, but the surname she picked up in the woods.

"Xiao Lin, could you please help us take these sushi downstairs? We want to find a place to enjoy cherry blossoms."

"Of course that's no problem."

Xiao Lin quickly agreed.

But

How could it be like this?

Xiao Lin was deeply puzzled. When did she start stuffing sushi in her mouth? It’s so strange that she can’t remember it. Did the sushi pop into her mouth by itself?

Of course not.

In this courtyard where cherry blossoms are in full bloom, colorful petals are floating like rain. It's like a fairyland, like a fairy tale. Even Xiao Lin, who has lived in Youwu since childhood, has never seen such a scene.

So when the customer handed her the sushi, she forgot to refuse.

So delicious!
To be continued...