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Is Yamanokemono not considered an evil creature? Even the Snakes that peeled off its body were so highly aggressive. If such ferocity isn't considered an evil creature, then how terrifying must the evil creatures recognized by the system be...?
Asakura re-examined the urban legend of the Yamanokemono.
It suddenly appeared in the last two years, a headless, one-legged white monster with a human face on its chest, lurking in the mountains and forests. It attacks women who get lost in the mountains, and depending on the version, there are even rumors that it can charm women, making them excited and eventually possessing them.
Furthermore, it seems to have a considerable resistance to physical attacks. In the original urban legend, the protagonist hit it with a car, but the Yamanokemono was unharmed. Later, after possessing the protagonist's daughter, it lost its physical form, making ordinary methods completely ineffective, leaving only hope in gods and Buddhas.
In the original urban legend, the protagonist took his daughter to a temple for help, and the monk there did perform an exorcism. It seemed to have some effect at first, but then it recurred.
In typical urban legends, if narrated from the first-person perspective of the involved party, no matter how bizarre or eerie the entire process, the ending is usually peaceful, at most leaving a suspenseful ending where the anomaly is still somewhere, waiting for the next person to fall into its trap.
However, the Yamanokemono legend was not like that; even at the end of the story, the protagonist couldn't get rid of the Yamanokemono possessing his daughter, and the entire story just abruptly ended.
Many people on the forum believed that this was just the original poster running out of ideas and letting the story fall apart.
But once the existence of the Yamanokemono was confirmed, that story became chilling to think about.
At this point, Asakura suddenly realized that Kagamihara Nadeshiko hadn't made a sound for a while.
"Miss Kagamihara, are you alright?"
"No... Ahh!" The girl's scream rang out, and Asakura's expression changed. He didn't care about anything else and rushed straight in.
Then he saw the pink-haired girl hopping on her tiptoes in the restroom.
Has she been possessed already?
Asakura frowned, about to try using the Magic Snake to see if he could drive the monster out of the girl's body, but before he could act, Kagamihara Nadeshiko cried out, her voice tearful: "A centipede! A huge centipede!"
Asakura froze for a moment, then looked down at the ground.
It turned out not to be a centipede, but a house centipede crawling rapidly along the corner of the wall.
Well, in a sense, the appearance of a house centipede is indeed scarier than a centipede.
Asakura walked forward speechlessly and kicked the house centipede out of the narrow, dim restroom.
It wasn't that he was afraid of the house centipede and didn't dare to step on it; it was because house centipedes eat cockroaches, making them beneficial insects from a sociological perspective.
"Actually, these things are usually quite timid; if you just shout a few times, it'll run away," Asakura told the girl.
"Is, is that so...?" The girl lightly patted her chest, finally looking relieved.
"Um... Although I didn't specifically mean to look, that pink lace fabric being flushed down the toilet bowl, could it be...?"
"Ah..." The girl's expression froze, then her whole body turned ashen: "My panties... ran away..."
Asakura had once heard the saying, 'scared the pants off me,' which is usually an exaggerated figure of speech.
But he never expected that in reality, someone could actually be so scared of an insect that their panties would fall off.
"It feels chilly..." After leaving the restroom, the girl's movements became even more awkward, and she seemed to subconsciously use Asakura as an obstacle, constantly hiding most of her body behind him.
It seemed that after losing her final line of defense as a woman, the girl's sense of security had decreased significantly.
"Are you really okay?" Asakura asked, "Don't you bring underwear when you go camping?"
"Because I only planned to camp for one day..." The girl gave an embarrassed smile: "But it's okay, my skirt is quite long, so it definitely won't be exposed that easily. No problem, no problem..."
"Isn't it already a problem to wear a skirt instead of pants for mountain camping?"
"Because I didn't plan to climb the mountain at all... I just bought a new tent and came out camping for a bit."
The girl looked a bit dejected.
"Ah, I'm exposed."
"Eh eh eh?! No way? Where?"
The girl turned pale with fright, immediately covering her long skirt.
"Those people who were driving the RV earlier are all exposed."
Asakura continued, "It seems they didn't intend to follow the campsite owner's instructions."
"...Asakura-kun, you're mean."
The girl puffed out her cheeks like a pufferfish, looking at Asakura with adorable, resentful dead fish eyes.
"It's the fault of those who come camping without being fully prepared."
Asakura said seriously.
"No one would usually think of this kind of situation…"
The girl mumbled softly.
"I have pants, do you want to wear them? Though they're just men's boxer briefs."
"Why did you say that twice?"
"Because it's important."
"Asakura-kun, you're a strange person."
"Hold down your skirt and drown in the mountain wind!"
"Awawa, I'm sorry, please lend me the pants…"
The girl hurriedly admitted her mistake in a very sincere tone.
"When admitting a mistake, you must expose your belly!"
"Eh eh eh, Asakura-kun, ecchi!"
The girl's face turned red, and she covered her clothes, looking at Asakura with teary eyes.
To the girl's surprise, Asakura nodded with a touched expression: "Exactly, exactly, this is the normal reaction!"
It seemed he wasn't too pure; it was simply that Chihaya was too open-minded.
He gave Kagamihara Nadeshiko a thumbs-up: "I'll get you the boxer briefs in a bit, just wait."
"Eh? Ah, oh…"
Kagamihara Nadeshiko was a bit confused, seemingly unable to understand why Asakura's previous sentences didn't connect at all: Is this child's thinking a bit too jumpy?
But no matter what, being able to borrow underwear in this situation was already very good.
Just as the girl let out a sigh of relief, she heard a series of strange thuds.
"Is it thundering?"
She subconsciously looked towards the top of the mountain.
Asakura, however, frowned. He always felt that the sound just now wasn't thunder, and he had checked the weather forecast before leaving; it was either sunny or cloudy, so there shouldn't be any thunder.
Then, accompanied by the feeling that the ground itself was trembling slightly, Asakura's expression suddenly became astonished.
"Holy crap! A landslide?!"
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